Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1929 — Page 6

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SPORTS

NEW BASEBALL RECORDS MADE New York. Aug. 12 -<U.R) Two in tereating marks have been net up by two of the national pastime's most interesting characters. Babe Ruth yesterday lilt the 500th home run of his American league career, while on Saturday old Grover Cleveland Alexander established a new National league record by pitching his 373rd victory. Baseball is a game built largely tipon statistics, but it is safe to say that it will be many a year before others approach the marks hung up this past week-end by the Babe and “Old Pete." There is small satisfaction for prohibitionists and other pursuits in contemplating the private lives of these two outstanding characters of baseball who have established such remarkable records. Neither Ruth nor Alexander has been noted for exemplary conduct off the ball field. Their lapses from grace have been spectacular at times. Two more popular ball players never worse major league uniforms. Ruth, whose 500th homer — exclusive of his terrific slugging in world series and exhibition games—came in the second inning of the New YorkCleveland game Sunday, is so far out in front of other circuit ciouters that it is doubtful if he ever can be overtaken. Moreover, the Babe gives every indication of being able to make it six or seven hundred before he jogs around major league base paths for the last time. The Babe's nearest rival in the matter of total homers is old Cy Williams of the Phillies, who has been in the majors two years longer than the Yankee slugger, but lias only about half as many home runs to his credit. Moreover, during the first five years of his career in the major leagues. Ruth was a pitcher. It was not until 1919, when lie hit 29 homers, that the Babe attracted attention as a slugger and went to the New York Yankees to become the “home run king." Today, 10 years later, Ruth is hitting home runs at a faster clip than ever before. His soorti was the sixth in the past seven games. His total for the season is 30, the same as Hack Wilson and Mel Ott and three less than Chuck Klein of the Phillies. The Babe was so tickled over hfs 500th homer than he sent out to get the ball, which had cleared the right field barrier and landed at the feet of Jakie Geiser, New Philadelphia, Ohio. Ruth paid JaJkie S2O for the souvenir and gave him a couple of autographed balls, as well. “Tell the boys I ain’t through hitt- i ing 'em out yet,” the Babe growled ; happily, “tell Ruppert, too.” The question of the slugger's 1930 : salary comes up for discussion at the ,

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Rookies Who Made Good The six best young players who broke into the major leagues this season appear to be Roy Johnson, Detroit outfielder; Dale Alexander, Detr.it first baseman; Earl Averill, Cleveland outfielder; Bill Diekey. New York Yankees catcher; Johnny Frederick, Boston outfielder, and Evar Swanson. Cincinnati outfielder. Up to now the competition for the honor of being the outstanding rookie of the year has been largely between two players who played side by side in the San Francisco outfield last year —Johnson and Averill. Both have kept their bathing aver-, ages consistently above the .300 mark and both have fielded brilliantly in their first year in the big show Especially is tlie latter true of Averill, the curly-haired Snohomish, Wash., product who has been covering center field for the Indians like nobody since the days of Tris Speaker. If Lhere’s any doubt whether Averill can go and get 'em, ask the New York Yankees. Averill has pulled several of the greatest catches of the year against the Yanks and just when they hurt. Alexander, the big 200 pound Detroit first baseman, has made good with the Tigers. He has driven in around 100 runs and hatted above .300 all season. Miller Huggins thinks Billy Dickey is just about the best youngster of the season, and rates only Muddy Ruel ahd Mickey Cochrane above him among the American League receivers. The National League is without a teal sensational first year man this season. Frederick and Swanson look like the two best youngsters, but neither is another Chuck Kle it, the prize of last season. Swanson is having trouble hitting National league pitching but be is a great fielder and one of the fastest

dose ot the season, and Ruth will bid for SIOO,OOO. He is worth it. STANDINGS — CENTRAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Erie 61 47 .565 Canton 60 48 55.; I Fort Wayne 54 52 .5091 Akron • 52 52 .5001 Payton 48 56 .4621 Spring field 42 62 .104 i — NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct . I Chicago 70 32 .686 Pittsburgh 63 41 .6061 New York 60 48 .556 St. Louis 54 53 .505 Brooklyn 46 60 .434 [ Cincinnati 41 61 .410 Boston 43 63 .406 Philadlephia 41 63 .394 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct Phlladlephia 78 31 .715 New York 65 39 .625 Cleveland . 56 51 .52'1 St. Louis 56 52 .519 Detroit 52 55 .4861 Washington 52 55 .4861 Washington 44 60 .423 Chicago 43 65 .398 Boston . 32 73 -3Q5 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Kansas City .... .. 77 37 .675 St. Paul 70 45 .609 Minneapolis 65 48 .575 Indianapolis 54 61 .470 Louisville 52 62 .456 Columbus 50 66 .131 Milwaukee 43 68 .404 Toledo • 41 69 .373 LESTERDAY’S RESULTS Central League Akron. 10-9: Fort Wayne, 7-6. Canton. 9: Payton, 2. Springfield. 4; Erie, 1. National League Pittsburgh, 3; Brooklyn, 5. Chicago, 3; Boston, 1. Cincinnati, 1; New York. 6. Only games scheduled. American League New York. 5; Cleveland. 6. Philadelphia 8; Detroit 9. Boston. 3; Chicago. 6. Washington. 7; St. Louis, 5. American Association Kansas City, 8-12; Toledo, 4-10. Minneapolis, 3-0: Louisville. 4-6. St. Paul, 2-5; Indianapolis, 1-11. Milwaukee. 11-4; Columbus. 9-5. FORD HELPS VICTIMS Marlboro. Mass.. Aug. 12. — ;U.R) Hetity Ford, in his shirt sleeves, I assisted with the rescue work after a quadruple motor vehicle collision I in which two persons were killed and 1 two others were perhaps fatally in- 1 jured late last night. 1

men in the majors. He is giving Cuyler a run for major league stolen base honors. An All-Rookie Team The following all-rookie team was named by "Bob’ iVlusel, not the ball player, but a U. P staff assistant, who is something of a judge of ball players himself: First base Alexander. Detroit. Second base—Ken, White Sox. Third base —Lary, Yankees. Shortstop —Natlesky, Red Sox. Let, ifiexl —Fitedertdk, Brooklyn, Center field —Averill, Cleveland. Right field —Johnson, Detroit. Catcher— Dickey, Yankees. Pitcher — Ferrell, Cleveland Pitcher—Wells, New York. Pitcher—Me|ne, Pirates. Ed Wells, the Yankee southpaw has had several trials before in the majors, but this is his first season as a regular. He is 28 and hails from Birmingham. Misdeals Two of the biggest trades of the . winter have turned out tc ; be phoneys. . it’s hard to tell which club got the worst of the Jess Pet’y-Glenn Wright trade. Petty, veteran southpaw, has ( been almost useless to the Pirates, . and Wright, who played in only a few j games, has a dead arm. Brooklyn < tossed in Harry Riconda for good ( measure, but he was only, excess baggage. It now appears that the Pirates and Robins each tried to slip one over on the other, and got a Mexican standoff. ' The Senators gave five players to the Red Sox for Buddy Myer who ! hasn't at all helped Walter Johnson’s 1 club Myer was about the best third 1 baseman lu th" American League ini 1928. but he’s taken an awful tumble since then Out of Gillis, Reeves, Li- ■ senbee, Bigelow and Mil on Gaston, > only the latter has proved of much i value to the American League tailenders.

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"■ W. .——■ —HI ■!!■! — - ■■ I — NEW YORK MAY BAR SCHMELING New York. Aug. 12. — (U.R> — Max Sehmeling, the most promising and most colorful heavyweight to attract attention of fight fans since the retirement of Jack Dempsey as mi active contender for the champion , [ship, may be barred forever from | boxing in New York state, an anu nouncement today by James A. Farley. chairman of the local athletic I commission, intimates. Farley's statement comes at a time i when Max and his manager, Joe Ju | cobs, are reported returning to New l York to make their peace with the i boxing board and sign for a bout Kith ■ Phil Scott in Humbert J. Fugazy’s private elimination tournament, Sept. 4. “The state athletic commission and j the boxing fans of the state of New [ York can get along without Schmeling and those who are handling his interests. not only now but for all time," Farley declared. The German heavyweight’s license, together with those of Jacobs and all boxers under the latter’s management, was revoked recently by the state athletic commission. Farley's announcement intimates that the ban may become permanent. o Watching The Scoreboard Yesterday's hero: Rogers Hornsby, who drove in all his team’s runs as the Chicago Cubs increased their lead in the National league race to eight full games by beating the Boston Braves, 3 to 1. "The Rajah” did it with a homer, a single and a double, while Root was toying with the tribe. As the Pirates lost to the Robins at Ebhets field by a 5 to 3 score, the distance separating them from the Cubs lengethened by an entire game. Everything appeared to be nicely set for a Pittsburgh victory, too, as they were leading 3 to 1, in the eighth, with two out. Frederick then hit a homer, Herman doubled and Hendrick and Bissonette followed with homers, much to the distress of Remy Kremer who was on the hill for the Corsairs. Carl Hubbell, slender Giant southpaw. let the Cincinnati Reds down with five scattered hits, and would have shut them out but for Andy Cohen's error in the ninth, New York winning handily, 6 to 1. Tire New York Yankees blew a lead compiled on Babe Ruth's 500th homer and Lou Gehrig's 27th of the current season, tossing away a ball gameand a chance to gain on the Athletics by making four errors which helped the Cleveland Indians to beat ’em, 6 to 5. The Mackmen also had an excellent chance to win in the west, but a four-run rally in the last of the ninth and Roy Johnson’s homer inside the park m the 11th gave the Detroit Tigers an unexpected 9 to 8 triumph. With Ermshaw pitching the A's were getting along nicely until the ninth, when Red Hargrave hit a homer with two on. John Picus Quinn was rushed to the rescue, but Cronin’s wild heave paved the way for another run which tied the score. Al Thomas allowed the Boston Red Sox five hits, the White Sox bunching their seven off Ruffing for enough runs to achieve a G to 3 victory. The Washington Senators dragged the St. Louis Browns out of third place, allowing the Indians to move up, by winning a watery ball game, long delayed by rain, 7 to 5. The Bi owns staged a three-run rally in the ninth, driving Burke from the l»ox, but couldn’t catch up. The Indians are in third place by half a game, with the Detroit Tigers now only three and one-half games back of the Browns. Fresh Killings Reported Along Manchurian Border —<u.R>Fresh killings reported along the Manchurian-Siberian boarder today made more acute the trouble arising from Chinese seizure of the partly Russian-owned Chinese eastern railway. A dispatch to Tokio said two Chinese soldiers were killed and many wounded in clashes with Russian outposts near Manchuli. The fighting followed killing of two Russian soldiers and wounding of eight ( others by Russian “white guards ’ along the Amur river Saturday. Chu Zao-Yang, former Chinese representative at Moscow, was reported still at Manchuli trying to negotiate a settlement with M. Melnikoff, soviet plenipotentiary. He was said to be willing to restore the railway to joint control of Russia and China but demanded that two ousted Russian heads of the railroad be replaced by other Russians. At last word, Melnikoff was refusing to negotiate on this basis, and Chu Zao-Yang was planning to return to Harbin. Leo Karakhan, acting Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, told the United Press in Moscow that the situation was “very grave." He said China must meet all Russian demands unequivocally before negotiations were possible. Meantime Baron Kijuro Shidahara, Japanese foreign minister, was reported trying informally to bring about a settlement of the controversy. o, liet tne Habit—Trade at Home, It Payr

Champ and Runner-Up 1 v .Hi j J 1 , /H ■ • jl i L • ——<_ -J Fred Lyon of Pontiac, 111. (right), is the new western junior champion as a result of this victory over William Redmond (left) in the final at the laiGrange (Ill.) Country Club. Lyon was the medalist and played superbl--1 tive golf throughout the tournament. Lyon, who is a sophomore at the University of llineis and Redmond a junior at Notre Dame, thus year will pass the maximum age limit —19 —in the junior division.

TENNIS TOURNEY ' STARTS TODAY Culver, Ind., Aug. 12. — <U.R) — The • annual national junior and boys' ten- ' nis tournament opened here today. ' with 10 Oplayers, including the best in the juvenile ranks, competing. Yearly a mecca for the best of the young players, the tournament this year has drawn numerous state, sectional and municipal champions. Among the best of those entered were Keith Gledhill, the Santa Bar- ' hara. Calif., youth who recently won the western championship: Elsworth Vines, runner-up to Gledhill in the western tournament; Jay Cohn, Pacific coast boy champion, and Charles Hunt, next to Cohn, considered the best boy player on the west coast; Richard Hebard, White Plains, N. Y., | present boy champion; Walter 0.l Hines, southern junior champion;! Kendall Cram. Nashville, Tenn., nat- ■ ional boy indoor champion; and Geo.

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Boynton, Atlanta. Ga„ southern boy champion. /Play will continue throughout the week. o i Pantages Faces Life Term If Convicted Los Angeles, Aug. 12. — .U.R; —Alex- . under Pantages, millionaire vaudeville circuit owner, will face two charges of criminal attack brought by Eunice Pringle. 17-year-old dancer, when he is arraigned here Wednesday. Pantages, who is at liberty on $25,000 bond faces lite imprisonment in the state penitentiary if tried and convicted on testimony of the former University cf Southern California coed. He contends the girl "framed" him I when he refused to give her employment. Miss Pringle ran screaming ! from the theater magnate’s office FriI day night claiming he had attacked ' her. I , o David Cramer visited with friends in Foit Wayne yesterday.

HUNDREDSWANT TO MAKE TRIP Many Last-Minute Requests For Gftif Zeppelin Tickets Are On File Friedrichshafen, Germany. Aug. 12 (U,R) — Hundreds of lust’iwlnutA applications for passage aboard the Graf Zeppelin flooded into the offices of the ZeppeMn works here today as the giant air liner was being tuned up and refuelled for continuance of her round-the-world adventure Wednesday morning. Would-be participants sent in their applications by letter, by cable and by telegram, many of them sending the large sum of money the journey would cost. Success to the Graf in crossing the Atlantic from Lakehurst, N. J„ to Friedrichshafen in record time has encouraged even those who at first felt somewhat timid about making such a hazardous journey. All the new applicants were turned down. Not even one more application by the company, it was stated by Zeppelin officials today. It was understood that some of the younger officers o( the Graf were perfectly willing to take along a few more than 22 passengers, the number that came from Isrkehurst, but Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran commander of the dirigible, has given the project his veto. ('apt. Hans Schiller, one of Dr. Eckeuer’s aides, told the United Press today that the commander has ordered rejection of all new applications for passage because of the necessity to

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conserve weight and space which will be used for extra fuel llh(1 .J last. Because of the lack of meteorolog ical facilities over Siberia and M * churls. where the Graf will pass ' route to Tokio on the second leg „ f Hie Journey, Dr. Eckener Is taking « treme precautions. Exira passengers would add to the hazard of th,. t r j n Dr. Eckener said, and he is v,... y U| J' ions to avoid even the slightest unnecessary strain on the ship — —o HOME RUN CLUB —(U.K — Leaders Klein, Phillies ;( j Wilson, (’libs 3q Ott, Giants ~ 3() Ruth, Yankees jq Gehrig, Yankees Foxx, Athletics eg Simmons, Athletics 26 Bottomley, Cards ... 25 Hornsby. Cubs 2 5 Hurst, Phillies 24 Yeterday's Homers Hornsby, Cubs; Jackson. Giants: Frederick, Brooklyn; Hendrick. Brooklyn; Bissonette, Brooklyn; Ruth. Yankees; Gehrig, Yankees; Rothrock, Boston Reds; Miller, Athletics; Hargrave, Detroit; Cronin. Washington, and Johnson, Detroit, one each. Total National League 537 American League . 449 Totals 1036 ■ — ■ —a Enjoying Outdoor Meeting Berne, Aug. 12—(Special)—The Junior and Senior Christian Endeavors of the Berne Reformed church united in a special outdoor meeting at Lehman Grove here last night. A fine program was enjoyed and a good attendance was reported.