Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1929 — Page 3

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AUBURN trims yellow jackets IN GRID GAME Opening J’eriod A plucky bund) of Auburn hiflh school football players X*<i aw:,v u 23 '° ~r<? Sorv over Decatur hifih S Yellow Jackets at the fSrv (:iui> in A thiß c,t X Slav afternoon. A crowd r i 00(1 fans watched the Yelt tak.ls (old (heir tents i.r holding a big edge oyer in the first 10 minU H S wi feat foothall and th * •* ! hl(c h school cheering section. ,1 bv 35 members of the Pep Champs." a girl's pep manufacturing organization, refused to give up until i„„g after the faltering Jackets had Xn torn open and dissected by the visiting aggregation. In the preliminary fray between two "Ukl ’ b l ®’. ,11P North Sixth Street gang and the North End Red Skins the latter team headed by Harold Blythe, Sonny Ehinger and Bob Magley. won a 7-0 declsionover the Sixth Streeters. Kolter, Worthman'and Art Heller did a lot of fighting for the losers, but the weight and strength of the opponents were too great to overcome. A large crowd gathered for the preliminary and when the big game started one of the largest crowds ever to attend a football game here was on hand. Auburn chose to defend the east goal in the opening quarter and Decatur received. After a series of line plays, the Jackets made two first downs and had the ball in Auburn territory. It looked like nothing could stop the local aggregation and the cheering section went wild. Suddenly someone fumbled and in a few minutes the tide of battle changed. Decatur managed to hold the visitors scoreless in the first period and made several brave and successful attempts on the few-inch line. At the opening of the second quarter Auburn scored a safety and with only a few minutes to go, the visitors rallied and carried the bail over for two touchdowns., Neither attempt; for point after touchdown counted. When the half ended the hundreds of local spectators failed to give tip and refused to be discouraged. The Jackets came back with a frail effort to score in the third quarter and after several bad fumbles the visitors scored a drop kick from the 20yard line. Early in the final quarter of the game the Auburn team recovered a fumble and on the next play carried the ball 30 yards for a counter. The attempt for point after touchdown again failed. Cosch Zeke Young, taking advantage of the 23-point lead sent in a comjfletely new team and the Jackets failed to gain much on the second stringers. It wa.s a complete reversal of the form shown all week by the local team, and many fans diagnosed the case as a lack of a "football heart.” The Jackets worked fine until she first break of the game went against them, and then at times it was pitiful. A few encouraging plays were made by the local team and Debolt, Brown and Hain were in the thick of the battle at all times. In the first half, Hain intercepted a forward pass and ran 40 yards deep into Auburn territory. The Jackets, however, fumbled on the next play and the threat to score faded away. Coach Kidd indicated that several changes would be made in the local lineup in the next few days and while the Saturday game was a crushing defeat, no one was badly injured in the game and plans were immediately made for the next game with Columbia City. There is a strong belief among local tans that the team has the weight and knowledge of the game but lacks the nerve to carry the ball over the opponent’s goal. Gilbert, Elliott and Tudor, all of Fort Wayne, worked the game as umpire, referee and head linesman respectively. Several rulings were made by officials, affecting both teams, which the crowd failed to understand. ulqeup: Auburn, 23 Decatur, 0 W«#toan l. e Shoaf ' ro,cu P 1.1 Musser J’Mtnlar 1, g Schnepp *’»P9klnd x! Williams y'ance r.g Zerkle r.t Hearst Hathaway r . e Brown „ tefiD £ q.b Green ” llnler .. .l.h Hain ' h °mpson f.b Gerber “•VWson Ah Debolt Substitutions: Auburn—J. Davidson T °r Freeman; Timberlln for Hunter; twmmong for Hathaway. Decatur ~"Reynolds for Debolt; Parrish for bohnepp; Heller for Green.

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STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Chicago 93 47 .664 Pittsburgh 79 59 .569 New York 75 62 .547 St. Ixmis 68 69 .496 Philadelphia 62 74 .456 Cincinnati 60 78 .435 Brooklyn 55 74 .426 Boston 51 87 .370 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Philadelphia 96 42 .696 New York 80 59 .576 Cleveland 73 64 .533 St. Louis 71 66 .518 Detroit 66 77 .462 Washington 62 77 .446 Boston 55 82 .401 Chicago 54 83 .394 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Kansas City 101 51 .664 St. Paul 90 60 .600 Minneapolis . 81 70 .536 Columbus 69 73 .486 Louisville 71 79 .473 Indianapolis . 71 81 .467 Toledo 62 89 .411 Milwaukee 60 92 .395 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Chicago, 13; Brooklyn, 4. Boston. 13; Cincinnati, 6-4. New York, 4-4; St. Louis, 0-6. Only games scheduled. American League Cleveland, 1-10; New York, 1-0. Chicago, 4-3; Boston. 5-2. Detroit, 16-3; Washington, 2-3 (second game, 8 innings, darkness.) American Association Indianapolis, 2-8; Louisville. 3-4. Milwaukee, 7-8; Kansas City, 9-0. Toledo, 3-4; Columbus, 0-1. St. Paul, 5; Minneapolis, 8. 0 —— SATURDAY’S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 0; Chicago 3. Boston 2; Cincinnati 3. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh postponed. rain. American League Detroit 2; Boston 1. St. Louis 12-2; New York 3-4. Chicago 0; Philadelphia 5. Cleveland 4; Washington 1. American Association Indianapolis 6; Louisville 3. Toledo 5-6 Columbus 6-7. Milwaukee 2; Kansas City 7. Minneapolis 7-0; St. Paul 12-8. 0 [«all The Center Trio Rating material is one of the first and most important jobs of a coach. In rating line material, a coach must find three men who would .form a well balanced center ttio. The center and and guards of any team are the bulwark of the line. Big, heavy linemen are used in close line play. The rangy type are best used in the open. They depend upon their reach for their prowess. Short stocky men go well as interfere™ for the backfield men, but must have speed and cleverness. The center has full charge of the ball on the offense. It is his job to see that each play is put under way with as much speed and as little delay as possible. He must be an accurate passer using various types of handbacks. He must be a master of the floater, the lob, the lead and the speed pass. After passing, he blocks or gets the secondary defense. Handling a wet ball is his hardest job. » On the defense, the center should use his hands, playing with freedom either in or out of the line. He should follow the ball on every play except the sweeping end runs. He should use his own judgment in intercepting his opponents’ passes. Against shifts, he must command his line to meet various attacks. Open field angle tackling should be his hobby. Offensive guards work in a low plane, either driving ahead and cross blocking, or rounding the end for interference. The guard must be a sure blocker in protecting the punter and passer. The work of the guards requires that they play low when on the defense. They must get the jump on their opponents, especially on the heavy drives through the center of the forward wall. A guard must be careful about slicing and getting caught out of position. The center and the guards must work In unison to make a perfect center trio. Editor’s note: Watch for Pat Page’s article tomorrow oh the tackles and ends. NOTICE The Hoagland Switch Board Association will receive sealed bids for a switch board operator until October Ist. The position is for one year from November 1, 1929 to November 1,1930. Charlee T. Witte, Secy. 11-14-16 Hoagland, Indiana

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1929.

FOOTBALL GETS STARTED TODAY By Bert Demby, VP Staff Correspondent Chicago, Sept. ]6 —qj.p)—The midwestern football season got under way officially today as Big Ten conference teams began their first practice. Handicapped slightly by the western conference rule which prohibits practice before Sept. 1, the Big Ten games, as in past years, are confident that ther football will be on a parity j with the rest of the country and at least four of them expect to be distinctly in the running for national honors. , While they realize that they have formidable opposition in all sections, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota believe that their teams this year will he able to make a good account of themselves against any opponent. The four are conceded favorites for the Big Ten championship. Illinois, winner of the title in the past two years, has 17 lettermen to draw from. The Illinl lost a great player in Nowack. a tackle who probably can’t lie replaced. However, Coach Bob Zuppk*e has an excellent nucleus in Captain Crane, Wietz and Gordon in the line and Mills, Timm, Peters, Walker and Humber in the backfield. Minnesota has 14 veterans, including Tanner, probably the best end in the conference and Brockmyer, a back who looms as a terror for opposing teams. The new Gopher material is said to be only average but Coach Doc Spears has a great group of veterans to build around and his team doubtless wil ibe in the running all season. Wisconsin lost heavily by graduation last year and Backus, Blnlsh, Connor and Wagner will not be back. However, Coach Glenn Thistlethwaite still has a fine backfield and his hopes were enlivened when several new candidatees for the line showed great promise in spring practice. It is safe to say that “Gloomy’’ Glen will have his team in the running from the start. Michigan, coached for the first time by Harry Kipke, one of the greatest backs ever developed in the Big Ten. needs but to live up to the promise it showed late last year to be in the running this year. The Wolverines started poorly last year but wound up i na blaze of glory and no doubt they will be heard from during the 1929 season. Northwestern looms as the dark horse of the conference, Brure. Griffin and Calderwood lead a group of seasoned backs and Coach Dick Hanley is reported to have uncovered several line surprises, (f Hanley has strengthened the line, the Wildcats may go a long ways. The other teams appear to he outclassed. Purdue is a problem as is lowa. Each of these may show unlocked for power but Indiana, Ohio and Chicago appear to have poor prospects.

Fight Ends Dance A fight, Saturday night, 'at a local dance hall, growing out of a controversy over who wan to dance with a young lady, ended in a “free-for-all” and incidentally called for “Home Sweet Home.” by the orchestra. The incident occurred late Saturday night and before the fighters, most of whom were visitors at the Decatur Street Fair, could be separated, a number of attendants at the dance had become unruly. The dance was finally stopped and the rioters dispersed. o ~ . Decatur And Bluffton Play Golf Wednesday Golfers of the Decatur and Bluffton Country Clute will meet here Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock to settle the question of supremacy for the year 1929. Each club has won one match and this is to be the third and deciding match of the series. Bluffton will send oyer 30 or 35 players and the local committee is anxious that every player here show up so that no points will be lost by forfeiture. Play will start at 1:30 o'clock daylight saving time. o SATURDAY’S H. SFOOTBALL SCORES Horace Mann of Gary, 13; Roosevelt of East Chicago, 0. South Bend. 45; Warsaw, 0. Wabash, 14; Crawfordsville, 7. Shelbyville, 24: Greenville. 6. North Side of Fort Wayne, 7; Huntington. 6. Newcastle, 20;' Rushville, 0. Sheridan, 12: Mishawaka, 7. Lindblom of Chicago, 7; Emerson of Gary, 0. Monticello, 21; Attica, 6. Hammond, 20; Shortridge of Indianapolis, 7. —. o GENEVA WINS GAME Geneva, Sept 16 —(Special)— The Geneva Independent baseball team trimmed its ancient rival. Portland here Sunday afternoon 10-8. The game was filled with thrills aud a good-sized crowd watched the home team win over the visitors. Nelson and Fravel formed the Geneva battery. o Dick Graber of Fort Wayne, spent the week-end visiting in this city.

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A TEAM WHICH GIVES UP WHEN THE BREAKS ARE AGAINST THEM NEVER WILL WIN. It takes a “football heart" to win football garnet, Anyone can put on a uniform and line up on a team, but the team that won't give up it the team that wins. Os course Footbawls is still for the Yellow Jackets —and believe me( this humble writer will kick to the boys, girls and the teachers of Decatur high school. They were util ’cheering and urging the team on. long after the JaJckets had given up. sui*rendered, saluted and suflk. The HUNTINGTON VIKINGS dedicated their new Krieghaum Field Saturday in a disastrous sort of away— In the last two minutes of the game in which the Vikings had held the edge most of the time theJNorth Side Red Skins came to life, and the final score was 7-6 in favor of tlie Fort Wayne team. The Yellow Jackets played good ball for fully 10 minutes of the first quarter in the game Saturday and had the game well under control. This playing was mechanical and the team was optimistic. When the breaks got bad—the team got uncontrollable and went completely to pieces. Coach Zeke Young of Auburn has a fine team. The players are alert all the time and not a man gives up when the breaks go the wrong way. It looks as If Auburn would win a lot of foot ball games this year. Supertindent M. F. Worthman, who has done a lot for Decatur schools and Decatur school children for the last—we don't know how many years— has come to the rescue again with the announcement that he, personally, was planning the organization of six "kid” football teams in Decatur. We believe that we voice the opinion of the majority when we say that we’ve got the best schools and the best school superintendent in the state of Indiana. When kids like Harold Blythe, Sonny Ehinger, Bob Magley, Art Heller Johnny Hain, Bobby Worthman, Harold Kolter and the rest who played

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football in the preliminary Saturday get Into high school, local sport writers won’t have to worry about how to fill the column after every game. When a judge sits on a bench In court he has thousands of reference books around him. When a preacher is in his pulpit the Bible is within reach. When a hunter goes hunting, he takes a gun—still officials of the Northeastern Indiana officials associa tion refuse to carry rule books with them for the silly reason that they feel it will lower their status as an official. It appears to the writer of this column that the ruling which officials of this part of the state have passed refusing to bring their official rule books with them to games is silly, stupid and undemocratic. All through history, there has been but one Man who made no errors. We believe that if the principals, school officials and sports writers would rally to the cause and at least investigate the why and where of this ruling, something could be done. What would the official at any athletic event think if the home team didn’t have a ball with which to play the game, what now does that same official think we think when he comes to govern that same or any athletic event without a rule book. Another thing which seems feasablq and workable is a plan suggested that sports writers of all papers in Northeastern Indiana be permitted to attend the rffficials’ meetings—not as active members of the association, but Ito deliver their decisions to the public, through the press, so that a better understanding might be given to all interested people of the official interpretation of the rules by those who are to officiate athletic games. Northeastern Indiana is decidedly fortunate in having good, fair, honest and clean officials like Elliott, Geller, Cleary, Tudor, Welbourn and the rest and we believe that the people of this part of the state are sufficiently interested in their interpretation of various rules that they would be glad to know through the press just what these decisions are. There's one more thing worrying

this bright tidy and that Is the fact that ‘’Handsome" Mr, Kilgore of Rlufftop called on us long enough Saturday to inform UH that Bluffton hail the best football leant 111 its history. That ought to be "gas” enough to make every Yellow Jacket mad enough to bite miles —to think that BLUFFTON has such a good team that it is possible they might make It tough for the Jackets, Let's look to the future with a fearing eye. The winner of the guessing contest conducted by Foot bawls will be announced Tuesday. He wil receive two free tickets to the Decatur-Columbia City game next Friday. In the meantime send in your guesses for the llrday game—and we’ll start the contest all over again. HOOVER LINKED WITH PRESENT TARIFF BILL (CONT.NUEB FKUM PAGK OBB| congress. At that time Mr. Hoover ■ said tariff revision must lie confined to those industries which have suffered bonafide depressions due qo Influx of foreign goods. Mr. Hoover asked “a limited revision." Smoot and Watson claim their bill is limited. o TWO AVIATORS SEEK RECORD FOR ENDURANCE (CONTINUED FHOM PAGE ONE! “Everything going fine. Motor splendid. We hot It fepl great, and are determined to get the record." » d Harry Wills Loses To Spanish Fighter Mexico City. Sept. 16. —(U.R) - 01’ |lar’ Wills just naturally seems to have hard luck, no matter where he goes. Whether stevedoring or pursuing his trade as an itinerant heavyweight, the only negro heavyweight, who once was called the “Black Menace” —to Jack Dempsey’s peace of mind, at least —just can’t eeem to get a break from Lady Luck. Harry was earning himself chile con came money Sunday, toying with a Spanish heavyweight named Andres Castano in the bull ring which the I Mexicans call the national stadium. The Spaniard was (lisplaying some signs of collapse from freight in the first round, but Ol’ Har' wasn’t treating him too roughly when, toward the end of the first round, the referee broke the death clutch which Andres was maintaining on Wills’ neck. As they broke. Wills shot a left to

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the jaw and the Spaniard flopped on his face, unconscious. Then It developed that the bell signaling the end of the round had l>een tingling faintly for some time. No one had heard It, leant of all the contestants, but the referee, apprised of the circumstances, raised the hand of the still unconscious Castano in token of victory on a foul. - O’”’ 1 " HOME RUN CLUB LEADERS Ruth, Yankees ... . 44 Klein, Phillies 39 L. Wilson, Cubs 39 Ott, ((Hants 38 Hornsby, Cubs 37 Foxx, Athletics . ... ... 32 Gehrig, Yankees 32 Simmons. Athletics 31 O'Doul, Phillies 3(1 Boitomley. Cards 29 Hurst, Philips 29 YESTERDAY’S HOMERS Hornsby, Cubs 1 Frederick. Dodgers, I( High. Cardinals 1 Hargrave, Tigers 1 Hauser, Indians .'. 1 TOTALS National League 708 , American League 563 Totals 1.271 •• ■ " O“ 1 "**' 1 * Couple Married Second Time At Anderson Anderson, Ind., Sept. 16.— (U.R) — Samuel Neff. Indianapolis salesman, and his divorced wife. Mrs. Fannie Neff, were reunited when F. M. Van Pelt, 80-year-old justice of the peace, officiated at a curbstone wedding. Too ill to stand, Mrs. Neff remained in the 1 automobile with her husband while the aged official spoke the words of the marriage ceremony. ALLEGGED AID SURRENDERS Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 16. —(U.R) — Nick Sudovich. alleged aid of Al Capone, gang leader, at East Chicago, has surrendered to Lake county authorities after indictment by the county grand jury on a charge of murdering Urosh Marovich.

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