Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1929 — Page 8

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YELLOW JACKETS WORKING HARD Decatur high school football candidates were given a hard work-out last night by Coach Max Kidd amt at Undid of the two hour drill, optimism ran high for a successful arid season, The Yellow Jackets actually looked and acted like a football team. Two full teams were in the field and In the scrlmmuKe. end runs and line plays were carried out for long guilts by both teams. Forward passing, an Important phase of football long neglected by local teams, was one of the highlights of yesterday's dtill. There are eight candidates for hackfield positions and all are conceded a chance at regular berths. Captain Gerber, Deßolt, Green and Haiti were lined up on the first squad in yesterday’s tilt, but their places are not secure. Coach Kidd indicated. 11l the line there is a wealth of heavy material, and there are a half dozen candidates for end positions. The average weight of the local team this year will hit around the 170 pound mark. A better idea of the strength of the local team can he secured Saturday when the Jackets will stack up against the Alumni team The Alumni griders are composed of stars of the last five years anil they have a real organization, that will not be easy to stop. The game will be open to the public and will he called Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Country Club field. Coach Kidd stated this morning that he was undecided who would start for the Jackets, it depending on their showing in further practices this week. Practices are held each afternoon at 3:45 o’clock and so far all practices have been open. Several local fans, who have been attending the drills regularly say that the 1929 edition of Yellow Jackets is a near duplicate of the famous “state champ" team of several years ago. o Berne High School Net Schedule Is Announced Berne, Sept. s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The basketball schedule for the Berne Bears was announced yesterday by Coach Harold Johnson. Mr. Johnson announc'd that there will tie twelve home games and 8 road games. The first game will be played with the Jefferson high school. The Bears have some fine material for next year and chances for a winning team look very bright The complete schedule follows: Nov. I—Jefferson,1 —Jefferson, here. Nov. B—Madison8 —Madison township, here. Nov. 15 —New Haven, there. Nov. 22 —Petroleum, here. Nov. 27 —Montpelier, there. Dec. 6—Union City, here. Dec. 13 —Decatur, there. Dec. 14 —Lancaster, here. Dec. 20 —Kirkland, here. Jan. 3— Lancaster, there. Jan. 10—Upland, there. Jan. 11—Andrews, here.

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By George Kirksey United Press Soprts Writer Why Blame McGraw? Always a gambler at heart, John J. McGraw, manager of New York Giants since 1903, has pulled more spectacular trades than any other major league manager. In his young days, McGraw made a reputation as one of the fastest spenders along Broadway, He has even played the racetrack and still spends his winters in Havana to be near the bangtails. When major league managers gather to trade or sell players, McGraw usually is in the midst of the group, asking something like. "What am I sffered or bid for So-andsSo?” It doesn't happen exactly that way, as trades are frequently consummated by telephone or telegraph. Anyway, that’s the way a melodrantic stage manager would have it happen. So would I. McGraw has made many successful trades, hut baseball fans right nowcan only remember three transactions he ever made because those three happen to prevent the Giants from winning the pennant in 1928 and 1929. The three transactions In question are: 1. Burleigh Grimes of Pittsburgh for Vie Aldridge in the spring of 1928. 2. Rogers Horsby to the Boston Braves for Frank Hogan and Jimmy Welsh, January 10, 1928. 3. Release of Hack Wilson to Toledo In 1925. To keep the records straight, McGraw had no more to do with the first two deals than I have of running the New York Giants. In the instance of Hack Wilson, McGraw was justified in sending him to Toledo, It was somebody else’s fait that Wilson didn’t

Jan. 17 Hartford twp., here. 'Jail. 18 Uockereek. here Jan. 24 Monroeville, here. Jan. 31 Kirkland, there. Kev. 8- Uoanoke. here. Feb. 14 — Hartford twp., there. Feb. 21 Monroeville, there, Feb. 28 New Haven, here STANDINGS Central League W L Pet. Canton 78 56 .582 Kile 75 60 .556 Fort Wayne 67 66 .504 Dayton 64 69 .481 Akron 58 73 .443 Springfield 57 76 .429 National League W L Pet. Chicago 87 42 .674 Pittsburg . .73 54 -575 New York 68 60 ,531 St. Louis 62 64 .492 Brooklyn 62 66 .484 Philadelphia 57 72 .442 Cincinnati 54 74 .422 Boston 50 77 .394 American League W L Pet. Philadelphia 90 11 637 New York 74 54 .578 Cleveland .68 59 ,436 St. Louis 67 61 .523 Detroit 6t 72 .459 Washington 59 70 .457 Chicago 51 77 .398 Boston - 50 77 .394 American Association \V L Pet. Kansas City 93 47 .664 St. Paul 83 56 .597 Minneapolis 76 64 .543 Indianapolis 65 75 .464 Columbus 64 76 .457 Louisville 63 75 .45? Toledo 57 82 .410 Milwaukee 57 83 .40, YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Central League Fort Wayne 14; Springfield 4. Canton 1; Akron 4. Erie 11; Dayton 10. National League Chicago 8-8; St. Louis 14-3. Cincinnati 5; Pittsburgh 4. Brooklyn 4-9; Philadelphia 3-7. Boston 8; New York 7. American Leagre Boston 5; Washington 1. St. Louis 7; Chicago 2. Cleveland 7; Detroit 2. Only games scheduled. American Association Indianapolis 6; Columbus 5. Kansas City-St. Paul, postponed. Milwaukee-. Minneapolis, postponed Only games scheduled. Epicurean Shark In the capacious interior of a sixfoot man-eating leopard shark, caught at Miami, Fla., a taxidermist found a porcupine fish, two leather-jack fish, six rabbit feet, six chicken tegs and a sprinkling of feathers, two pigeons, handed on the leg numbers, six an ehovies, a cowfish, a lizard fish, a sabre fish, a toad fish and a variety of unidentified specimens.—New York World Magazine.

come back to the Giants. Since somebody hud to take the blame for these three blunders, it wts natural that the man who manages the Giants should get the rap. • McGraw has often been-pictured as the “LPtle Napoleon" of baseball. It would surprise a great raanv baseball funs to learn really how little McGraw has to do with important decisions regarding the Giants off the field. As far as running the team on the field is con cerned, McGraw is the boss. It's something else again in the business office however. It has been said that McGraw op posed the Hornsby trade until the bitter end, and submitted only because he was powerless to do otherwise. McGraw owns stock In the Giants but not enough to dicate to the big owners. The Grimes-Aldridge trade was arranged while McGraw was in Havana. He would never have sanctioned it. McGraw let Wilson go when he was hitting .239. Any other manager would have done the same. When Hack hit .343 for Toledo the next season, the Giants through an error in the business office failed to claim him before the Cubs drafted him. Any one of these three players probably would have given the Giants the necessary strength to win the pennant this season as well as last. Hornsby bad vindicated himself with the Cubs. Grimes was the bpst pitcher in the National League until his thumb was hurt. Wilson belongs In any all-star outfield picked this year. In place of these three stars, the Giants have Frank Hogan, a mediocre catcher, and Eddie Farrell, a substitute infielder. Hogan has not lived up to his promise. McGraw had to fine him once this year. Aldridge Is In the minors. Welsh Is back with the Braves.

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?\T PAGf i Kicks That Mean Scores Only two types of .kicks may count for scores in u football game. They are the field goal kick, which counts three points, and the kick for the extra point after touchdown. Decades ago the kick was the only way that a playet could score. Modern football teams, however, depend for points largely on touchdowns rather than on field goals. The new rules placing the goal posts ten yards behind the touchdown line lias made the field goal almost obsolete. Three points, however, are not to lie over-looked when the opportunity presents itself. As many as five field goals have been made In one college game. The kicker, in making a field goal, must aimi the hall and kick before the opposing linemen come through to block him. This takes steady nerves and much practice. Fiosty Peters, of Illinois, gained a lepulatlon as a drop kicker. He made many diop kicks from difficult angles of the field. The placement of the hall must he judged to the ninth degree. The kicker’s rytlun must be well timed as the ball is dropped. Place kicking for a field goal requires perfect coordination of the kicker and the man who catches the ball and holds it inposition. Much credit should go to the holder of tile hall in a kick from placement. Much depends upon his ability to receive the hall and place It in the right angle ‘before the opposition reaches him. After a touchdown is made, the team is allowed to make an extra point either by kicking a field goal, or by rushhg the ball across the goal line. Until this year, the ball was put into play for tile extra point on the three-yard line. This year, however, the rules tequire the ball to be placed on the two-yard line. This new ruling may make the kick for goal more obsolete than ever. If the team has a good bucker, it will try to rush the ball across the line for two yards rather than risk a kick. Editor's note: Tomcrtow Pat Page will talk on the punt.

PORTER LEADS IN GOLF FINALS C. O. Porter, captain of the Decatur Country .Club golf team and tanking player of the city, is leading*Ed Engeler in the city championship golf tourney 7-up at rhe end of the first 18-holes I of play, it was announced by Club Officials today. The final 18 holers will be played in the next few days and indications are| 'hat Mr. Porter will win the city title by a comfortable margin, unless h f s opponent show s a decided change in form. Mr. Engeler and Mr. Porter have battled back and forth duting the season as lead off men for tourneys. Both have played in the thiitvs several times this season and a largo crowd is expected to watch the final 18 holes of play. The time will be announced in a day or two. o Football Practice Is Starting In The East New York. Sept. s.—(U.R)”Football practice is underway at a dozen or more eastern colleges, with the re-, maltjcer making preparations to hold j their first workouts within the next 111 days. Vide. Harvard and Princeton —the j last three eastern schools to commoi'ce training—will not assemble (heir gridiron squads until Sept. 15. Although he has lost such stars as M Passman, Ed Hill and Ken Strong, the latter an all American back, Coach Chick Meehan believes New York University will be as strong this season as last when the Violets beat Carnegie Tech after the Plaid had conquered Notre Dame. Bevyl FoGe-U probably will draw Ken Strong's place and do most of the ball-carrying for the Violets. Lack of outstanding material is handicapping Coach Bill Ingram in getting the Navy 11 into shape. Coadi Biff Jones will build the Army tefim again around Chris Cagle. The little blonde bullet from Louisiana. Coach Loti Young is looking forward to a powerful Pennsylvania It this season built around Opekun and Gentle. Jack Cannell, who succeeds Jess Hawley as head coach at Dartmouth, will continue to use the Hawley system. Thirty-eight candidates have reported to Young Joe McKenny to try for places on the undefeated Boston co-’legp 11. Columbia University had its first practice scheduled today under head coach Charlie Crowley. The first training casualties of the season hit the West Virginia squad when Abe Haddad, 190-pound guard, dislocated an elbow und Ed Howard, end, received a cut on the chin. o - — Anaconda Fertilizer produces results. Decatur Produce Co. can supply you. 3-5-7

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