Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1929 — Page 8

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PURDUE LOOMS AS DftRK HORSE OF CONFERENCE Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan And Wisconsin Are Considered Strong UP Staff Correspondent Chicago, Sept. 26 — (U.R> -Big Ten football teams rapidly are rounding into shape for a season which apparently has in store as many surprises as last year when four universities were in the championship running almost up to the end of play. Right now four teams appear to be favorites. They are Illinois, Minnesota. Wisconsin and Michigan, but two or three “dark horses" believe they can upset early predictions. Already Coach Bob Zuppke at Illinois with a two times champion team is making changes from what at first, was regarded as Mb regular lineup. I Zuppke has shifted Stan Bodman. a reserve fullback of last year, into a tackle position and it appears he will bring Fritz Humbert from end to fullback. Zuppke s main need seems to be good ends. He is trying hard to

get them and it appears he has found a good man in Cart Fergeson. Coach Harry Kipke at Michigan has his team performing in secret practice. Kipke plans to hold no more scrimmages this week, it was said, and reports were that he has uncovered several youngsters who are expected to add strength to the veterans of last year. Coach Doc Spears at Minnesota believes he has a fast team and for that reason the aerial style of play has been stressed 1 . Pete Somers has proven to be a fine passer and Lek sell and Munn also have been heaving the ball. Minnesota has several men on the injured list, including Barnhart. Brockmeyer. Emlein and Burdick, but all are expected to be back in the lineup soon. At Wisconsin. Coach Glen Thistlethwaite has had the team in hard scrimmages, and it begins to appear that three boys from one town are going to take down the backfield glory. Gloom Glen has Harold Rebholz. his brother Russell Rebholz aud Bill Sheehan. all from Portage, Wis., going through the regular drills and all look good. Coach Alonzo Stagg at Chicago has been hampered by injuries. Right now about one-fourth of his promis-

ing regulars are out because of injuries and Stagg had a mighty slim turnout to work with in the beginning. The two dark horses. Purdue and Northwestern, appear to be going along in great style. Welch and Harmeson have looked great in Purdue’s backfield. Ohio was hurt by the early season apparent loss of Holman. Fouche and Simpson. Holman and Fouche were out with injuries and there was a rumor that George Simpson, one of the fastest sprinters in the world, intends to go to Australia for track competition. Coach Pat Page at Indiana was reported to have uncovered several good sophomore prospects. These include Hansen and Zeller, ends; Baer, halfback; Joyner, tackle; Dauerr and Leonnig. halfbacks, and Antonni,

guard. Page also has several veterans he expects to start against Wabash in the opening game. At lowa. Capt. Willis Glasscow is going great at a backfield man and Mike Farroh. a veteran of last year, also is working in fine form. Coach Ingweresen apparently will start Farroh. Glassgow. Jensvold and Hagerty in the backfield against Carroll college in the opening game Saturday. Watching The Scoreboard Yesterday s Hero— George Pipgras. pitcher for the New York Yankees, who struck out seven in the list four innings and enabled the New 1 ork Yankees to clinch second place in the American League race. The Yanks came from behind as er they had learned of the death of their manager, Miller Huggins, to defeat the Boston Red Sox 11 to 10. After Earl Whithill had held the St. Louis Browns to two hits in eight innings. he weakened, and the Detroit Tigers lost, 3 to 2. Glenn Hyatt's homer in the ninth gave the Cleveland Indians a 9 to 7 victory over the Chicago White Sox. The Cleveland catcher scot ing two men ahead of him. The Phillies came close to supplanting the Brooklyn Robins at the top of the second division in the National League wining two games from their closest Rivals, 10 to 9 and 8 to 5. Chuck Klein of the Phils hit his 40th and 41st homers, leaving him one behind Mellott of the Giants in the race tor national league home tun honors. "Shanty" Hogan’s double and Andy Cohen's singles sent the Ndw York Giants to victory over Che Boston Braves, 8 to 4. Al Grabowski, Rookies southpaw of t he St. Louis Cards, rang up his third victory in four starts and his 25th consecutive scorlcss inning by shutting out the Cincinnati Reds. 8 toO.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Boston. 4; New York. 8. Brooklyn, 9-5; Philadelphia. 10-8. Cincinnati, 0; St. Louis, 8. Only games scheduled. American League New York. 11; Boston, 10. Chicago. 7; Cleveland. 9. St. Louis, 3; Detroit. 2. Only games scheduled. American Association Columbus, 2; Kansas City, 8. Toledo. 5; Milwaukee. 2. Indianapolis. 6-0; Minneapolis, 3-3. Louisville. 18-2; St. Paul. 9-2. (Second game tie, called, darkness). —• o MILLER PICKS STATE WINNERS Dick Miller UP Special Correspondent Indianapolis. Sept. 26. (U.R) — Forecasting the results of early season games is a ticklish job. Although it is generally known that the larger schools plan on making their first games easy ones and the smaller schools expect lickings, past experience teaches that upsets in initial games are numerous. However, pre-season dope would indicate these results for Indiana college teams in Saturday games; Indiana university likely will defeat Wabash three touchdowns and Ohio

university more. Butler will be meeting one of the strongest of the minor Illinois colleges. Still Butlei should win handily, say four touchdowns if Coach Potsy Clark so wills. De Pauw will be experimenting with a new line using no doubt many men in the forward wall. Ttye galazy of backfield men should pile up three or four touchdowns on Manchester. A battle to the finish is expected when Rose Poly and Franklin clash at Franklin. Victory by points by either team is the forecaster's view. Indiana central will have a hard time keeping within two touchdowns of Muncie Normal at Muncie and Earlham will likely find Miami at Oxford. 0., a tough opponent to hold under 25 points. Bethel and Evansville renew hostilities at Evansville. The Kentuckians usually give the “Aces" something tough to handle. Not much is known of John Carroll at Cleveland but as Valparaiso is not considered strong, the Ohio team will probably emerge victorious by a wide margin. As Dayton university is known to be strong this year they are conceded a two or three-touchdown margin over Central Normal of Danville at Day. ton Saturday night. Danville at that is very strong this year and therein looms one of the best chances for an upset.

Along the Sidelines —<U.R>— * * Princeton. N. J. —(U.R>—Absence of seven prominent Princeton Tiger footballers has slowed down practices here almost to a snail’s pace. Whyte. Wittmer, Caldwell. Vogt and Scarlett, who have been away on a geology trip, were due back today. West Point. —John Murrell, fullback, and Chr.s Cagle, halfback and cap- . ain of the Army football team, are feature performers in the current Army practice sessions. Murrell ripped off some great gains in a stiff I scrimmage yesterday. Another hard practice was set for today, with a letup on Friday. Boston university will furnish opposition in the opener here Saturday. Annapolis. Sept. 26. — Signal drills held attention of Navy’s varsity squad yesterday. While experiments are still being made in the backfield, four men appear to have the edge for starting on Saturday against Denison. They are Joe Clifton at fullback, Joe Bauer and Jack Castree at halves, and Johnny Gannon at quarter. Pittsburgh — Ted Rosenzweigh, star end, has returned to Carnegie Tech scrimmage sessions after a lay-off due to, injuries. He is expected to start Saturday against Bethany. Lincoln. Neb. —A choice selection of frosh scrimmage fodder for Nebraska's varsity worked out weary mus- ' cles today after a baptism in battle against veterans yesterday when ’ Coach Bible observed them and picked the 40 best yearlings for the 1929 squad. The varsity and frosh drilled ' today for their annual game Saturday. ! Clair Sloan, star backfield man, was injured Wednesday and will be out of play until Friday. Manhattan, Kas. — Coach McMillan was expected to take his -squad behind locked gates today in preparing them for their coming game with Pur- ' due at Lafayette, Ind. Reserves used 1 passes of the Ohio school against the 1 varsity squad Wednesday, completing some of them for large gains. o • i Millers Raisin Bread for sale Wednesdays and Saturdays each weeK at all grocers. 192

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929.

tgs The boys of the west suburn won't agree to a truce even during street fair week-and they keep hammering away harmlessly about what the TIGERS would do, If they were a good team. "What a treat we observed Sunday when we hippened to go to Decatur and saw the INDOOR BASEBALL team in action —Kay in Sport RoundUps, Bluffton Banner. I Yes sir, Kay, we can imagine that after living in Bluffton as long as you have coming to Decatur to see anything would be a treat. And then Kay says —"Footibawls. i come over Ft id <y—we ll meet ydu Ini front of the monkey tent —Wear a red

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tie no we'll know you." And we'd be glad to come Kay, but we don't know how to tell when we're In front of the MONKEY TENT when we get to Bluffton. • Pete the motorman driving "GridGabs" around Wells county for the j Bluffton News, is certainly living up i tq the high rtandatd off journalism I that his "Bess" uses. No klddln' Pete, I «e rvally like your column- all excep i the start-otf allhl about your star be--1 Ing out of the game next Friday I Just forth it Central probably will spot you seven or eight touchdowns —Any way we hope Gerald Penrod is hack in the lineup October 25 —. WE STILL BELIEVE THAT OFFICIALS SHOULD CARRY RULE ; BOOKS WHEN THEY OFFICIATE AT ATHLETIC EVENTS "Crcwds" in the Huntington HeraldPress says “The week's best joke goes to the Bluffton News Columnist (then i we ll eliminate a lot of complimentary adjectives) who said 'Any foo.pall earn wanting to win a game is asked to communicate with Columbia City— Even Decatur beat them.' ”. Yes-air, we can sit here at our desk and imagine "Crowds" going into hysterics after reading tha'. w,se-crack.

| In fact if our football team had been j over powered and smeared all over a 1 new athletic stadium all season—most ’ anything could bring a snicker from 1 our vocal cords. Mr. Crowds. BUT DECATUR CAME BACK AFTER A BAD START- which goes to show that ii lot of nearby villages i are wondering how it's done. The game which will ho worth seeing this fall is November a at Huntington when the two scoreless wonders of the world, the Huntiugtiyi Vikings and the Bluffton Tigers meet on the foothall field. It Is a good bet that if you want to see every play of that gins’ vou'd better get a seat right on the aO-yaid liae It's doubtful if either team will get much farther than the center of the field. S ill we'd have to pick the Vikings to win. “Kay" in the Bluffton Banner must he going home early these evenings to manufacture his "wise-cracks. He's certainly let loose some tough ones the last few days. Pete Reypold's Grid Gabs in the Bluffton News was all dressed up Thursday. The top of the column wis a picture of a depressed Wells Countyresident after any De< atui -Bluf |on

athletic event, apparently thinking up a good alibi Then on down the column was a life-sized photo of Roger, lo< king through an official's rule book WHICH THEY DON'T CARRY IN NORfTHEASTEItN INDIANA. Maybe Pete will loan us the “art work" to reprint in our column. Th-- Ju ketmen went through a long practice last night and Coach Kidd announced the drills would taper off tonight with u lot of kicking and tackling practice- and tomorrow's the , first BRAYN day for Decatur since 1#96. Brat 'em Yellow Jackets, the whole town is still with you—and we know you’ve got the stuff to beat most any team. Since Friday is Football day for the Jackets, and there won't be a lot cf news for the column. FOOTBAWLS, the weather willing, Is planning a trip to the BLUFFTON STREET FAIR TONIGHT—and if he ge s back, all well and strong—you'll know what it's like tn the west surburb. Footbawls has been collecting data on ru'e books from wellknown colie giate officla's —and we STILL BELIEVE THAT NORTHEASTERN INDIANA OFFICIALS SHOULD CARRY RULE BOOKS

Ix»t'a take 'em ns they . BEAT BRYAN. S'i, . Ahd now Yellow Jackets-!, just plav like you dbl | ls| L.. .'’’" You can't help hu win THAT hi/ AN GAME. At B »VThe Game staita at Br yan a . , clock (daylight saving time V? Daily Democrat will get the ~, he the game at about 5:30 o'clock * ” one wishing the score is ackea after 5:30 o’clock. ° MII ’ rr ” ———o—-... r HOME RUN ( U p 4 ♦ LEADERS Ruth. Yankees 7* Ott. Ciants Klein. Phillies L. Wilson. Cubs Hornsby. Cubs Gehrig, Yanks Foxx, Athletics Simmons, Athletics O’Doul, Phillies Hurst. Phillies Yesterday's homers: Klein. Phil|| H 2; Hurst, Sigman and O Dual, Phillies Herman. Dodgers; Dunlap. Braves and Myatt. Indians, one each. Totals National League' American League Grand otal 131 -