Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1929 — Page 6

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SPORTS

YELLOW JACKETS ARE READY FOR BLUFFTON GAME Two New Men Report For Practice And Hopes For Win Are High Right through the rain, Decatur high school Yellow Jackets are preparing for the Decatur-' Blutfton football game Friday' afternoon al 3 o’clock at Coun-J trv Club field. Coach Max Kidd stated today that all mem-1 Iters of the sound were in goo<l] eondiiton with the exception ofj Musser and Schnepp. first string linemen. The .!;•< ketnien braved flip wind and rain last nivht and went through a long drill. Thp Kiddnien looked th > best they have this season and chances for an easy win over the P’rlor City gridders appear good. George Itoop. who left the squad several days ago because of after school job. h.is returned until after the Blufttnn game. Pick Engle, star of last year’s team has reported for service for the rest of the sei son Engle has been out all year with a minor injury, which he feared might be made worse by football play and keep him from playing basketball. lb i p and Engle both are backfield men t nd are dangerous open field runners. Carl Gerber who has been out of tbe tiaeup for several games is in goo I condition and his physician stated today 'hat it would be safe for him to play in the Bluffton game. Debolt, who suffered an Injured leg two weeks ago also reported Tuesday! in good condition. With the return of these four stars hopes soared for a victory over the Tigers. Coach Kidd stated that the squad would practice until dark tonight and that only a light workout would be 01: ' the program for Thursday. It is understood that the high school hand will attend the game'and indications ate that at least 2.000 people will witness the annual feud bet ween thi ' two schools. 1 That a victory is almost assured for ' the Jacketmen if they continue to play i the caliber of football they have been 1 playing was evidenced in lust night’s drill. The second team was unable to gain an inch through the line and the first string bucks tore through for score after score. The game is called promptly at 3 i o’clock Friday afternoon, and the general admission charge will be in effect. ' o— CARNEGIE OUT . I FOR THIRB WIN I New York. Oct. 23. — (U.R) — The Skibos of Carnegie Tech are the only football aggregation in the country ' able to point to a record of successive I victories over Notre Dame during the last few seasons. Moreover, the Skibos are going out Saturday afternoon to try to run their string up to three straight. Now three straight over a Knute Rockne eleven is something just about ’ unheard of in recent years, but the facts remain that Carnegie Tech has the only ball club with a chance to bring it off this season, and Yunnier things than that have happened. The idea that there is a college' team which has decisively defeated Notre Dame on the occasion of their last two football engagements will come as something of a surprise to gridiron fans generally. But the Skibos turned the trick, much to the dismay of Knute Rockne. No one who was watching ever will forget the look on Knute’s face when he heard the news about the 1926 game. "Rock" had gone to Chicago to see the Army-Navy game, sending his Irish over to Pittsburgh in charge of an assistant with the admonition not to lie too rough with, those Carnegie Tech boys. It was in the press box at Soldier Field that Knute heard the news. Carnegie. Tech had risen unexpectedly and slaughtered the Irish by an overwhelming score, 27-13, or something of the sort. \ Shortly after that arose the rumor that Rockne. on the sidelines, was the most valuable player on the Notre Dame team. The Skibos and the Irish did not meet the following year. In 1928, however, it was 27 to 7 in favor of Carnegie Tech. Captain Harpster, all-America quarterback, led a team of fighting Scotchmen, including Rosenzweig, Karcis, Highberger and Flanagan, which was much 100 strong for the Irish, who had only Carideo, Vezie, Niemtec, Chevigny and Leppig to fall back on. Knute Rockne didn’t take that beating quite so much to heart. It lacked the element of painful surprise which accompanied the upset in 1926. This year, on the current season's record of the two elevens, it looks doubtful that Carnegie Tech can repeat. Notre Dame has an eleven

which combines the customary Rockne efficiency with dash and drive. Nor does it need its coach right at hand, for Rockne has been laid up in bed for a fortnight. Notre Dame opened the season by beating Indiana, 11 to 0. The next week, the Irish knocked off the Navy, 14 to 7. and followed this up by displaying a fast backfield and flowing attack to crush Wisconsin. 19 to 0. Carnegie Tech defeated Betlumv, 21 to 0. Thiel 26 to (l. Western Re serve. 33 to 6. and then was held to a scoreless tie by Washington and Jefferson last Saturday. SH A WKEY SICNS YANK CONTRACT New York. Oct. 23.—(U.R)—Robert J. Shawkey—Bolt the Gob signed his name on a dotted line today ami became the manager of the New York Yankees. Rack from a hunting trip in the Canadian woods. Shawkey conferred with Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Yankees, and Secretary Ed Barrow regarding efforts to rebuild tlie Yankees for the 1930 pennant race. Three of the most important matters confronting Shawkey were: Strengthening the pitching staff. Rearranging the Yankee infield. Finding a successor for Bob Meusel. Thirteen years a mainstay of the Yankee hurling staff liimsdlf,- Shawkey undoubtedly will devote a large share of his attention to bolstering that department. With Herb Pennock, Waite Hoyt and Tom Zachary in the uncertain class, the Yankee pitching prospects are none too bright. Pennock appears almost through. Hoyt showed signs of faltering last season. Zachary. despite his weird record of 12 victories and no defeats, has been cheating the minor leagues for two years. o Along the Sidelines —(U.R)— | Lafayette, Ind.. Oct. 23—(UP)—The boilermakers wallowed over a slushy field in a grim tussle with Frosh gridders yesterday, determined to prevent a repetition of the 1927 rout at the hands of Chicago. Maroon plays were used by the yearlings wi;h soma es- ] feet. Speed was to be the order of events today, but the quagmiie that awaited the gridiron march was not conductive to flashy running. Crawfordsville. Ind.. Oct. 23 —(UP) 1 A long drill in the mud was conducted by Coach Vaughn yes erday to prepare his Wabash College gridders for ' their clash with Nortwestern at Evans- ' ton Saturday. Another stiff piactice ' was on (lie pan for today, with taper- 1 ing off drills mapped out th -ncaforth ' until the departuie for the opponent's camp Friday. Blocmington. Ind., Oct. 23 — Some ' 800 be-whiskered Hoosier fratmen. worn by all the solemnity of college cows, not to .-have their whiskers un 1 til Indiana University wins a football ' game, looked forward in forlorn ho|>e i today as their pigskin jugglers prepar- i ed for the tilt with Ohio S ate Satur- I day. Pat Page pushed his charges through the bog yesterday and today not too confident in the hope that perhaps the ■ change of climate might alter the score sheet Indianapolis, Oct. 23 —(UP) —All of Butler varsity obeyed the whip of Coach Potsy Clark ye terday, in their determined effort to renew general , confidence in Bulldog football ability, when they clash with New York University on the visitors' field Saturday. —o “No Women Allowed’’ Is Golf Club Slogan South Bend, Ind., Oct. 23.—(U.R)Women will be barred from playing on a golf course being laid out near South Bend. Tlie links are being made on a 205 acre tract of land. Backers are business and industrial leaders of South Bend. They include A. R. Erskine, head of the Studebaker corporation, Vincent Bensix, of the Bendix Aviation corporation and J. M. Studebaker, Jr. "GoU for men and men for golf,’’ is the slogan of the Robin Hood club, which is constructing the course. o Anderson Man Heads State Masonic Order Logansport, Ind., Oct. 23. — (U.R) — -Delegates to the grand council and grand chapter of Indiana Masons in session here selected officers for the coming year. The selections were: Most Illustrious Grand Master, Richard Downard, Anderson; Deputy Grand plaster, Will F. Crabill, South Bend; Grand Principal Conductor of Work, George R. Gause. South Bend; Grand Captain of the Guard, John Wyttenbach and Grand Conductor, Warren. Sousley. Grand treasurer Vestal W. Woodward was re-elected and so was Grand Recorder Robert A. Woods.

BEAT BLUFFTON. Yellow Jackets, if every game was as easy as the coming encounter we'd be batting 1,000, wouldn't we? Tlie Bluffton sport guns are looming away at the Friday game and the west suburb is planning on sending n big delegation to Decatur. Decatur will have a big delegation there too —including a fighting mad football team which by all dope ought to mangle Bluffton hopes for a victory in the first’ few minutes of play. Yellow Jackets, there never has been a Bluffton athletic, team superior to a Decatur team—let’s continue a precedent established a quarter of a century ago. Beat Bluffton. Penrod. star backfield man of the Bluffton Tigers will be out of the 'ineup next Friday, because of injuries sustained in a recent automobile mishap. And all dressed up in sealing-wax and other decorations, the following letter came to our desk this morning: “Well! Well! Footbawls, where is Indiana this year, your old favorite school? I have noticed lately you have been rooting for Purdue, my favorite. Keep it up. They are the best team on the Big Ten list. Say, what’s the big idea of hollering about officials not carrying rule books? Can'cha keep your mouth shut, they don’t know any better. Don’t say we are going to Beat Bluffton, we are going to knock the tripe out of them. Ask Flossie M., she knows, because she told me so. You will hear from me soon.” "A cancelled tvwo-cent stamp." 1 Oh my. Oh my, why did we ever ask for contributions? Coach Bill Bryan of the Kirkland Kangaroos is preparing his net aggre- ' gation for the opening of the season ' at Kirkland Friday night. The Kangaroos tackle the Geneva Cardinals, runners-up in last year's district tourney. Beery, one of Kirkland’s stars wi!l' ( be unable to start Friday night because of an injury. Season tickets for the Kirkland 1 high school home basketball games | are on sale by members of the squad and high school pupils. Several front rows in the Kirkland gym have been reserved for season ticket purchasers , —There are 11 home games—and the school officials say that already the j sales have surpassed last year’s total. Season tickets for the Decatur Catholic high school’s home net schedule went on sale Tuesday afternoon at Baker’s restaurant. During the first day 65 tickets were sold and it is predicted that by the end of the week, more season cards will be sold than all last year. With the addition of several hundred seats to the Catholic high school gym it is expected that larger crowds will attend the home games. The gym now can accomodate about 1.500 people. And now let's get back to football —Two new players, Roop and Engle . are out for practice again. The local injured list is slowly shrivelling—and it looks like nothing could keep the Yellow Jackets from turning in a victory Friday afternoon. We can just see the disappointed Bluffton fans after the game saying "wait until the croquet season starts." BEAT BUFFTON. , —o Authorities Probe Finding Os Body Lebanon. Ind.. Oct. 23—(UP) —The badly decomposed body of an unidentified 75 yeiOrs old man found dead near here was the subject of an inves tigation by authorities today. it was found about two miles wes* of Lebanon by John Jamison. The body lay on its back. The skull had a bullet hole above the left eye and the head had rolled a little from the Torso. Near the right hand was a ] 38 caribre revolver with one cartridge exploded. The man's right arm was! tied to a small tree with a rope. Under the body was another .38 calibre revolver fully loaded and a razzor. The gun under the body was tied to the man’s left aim with about three feet of rope. A hand mirror was tied to a neai by bush. Another razor, a dollai tn change a dollar bill, silver watch and bottle of pills were found in the coat pocket. A paper laundty l>ag with the name of Hotel Lincoln, Indianapolis, printed I on It was found near the body. — . - o — I Francis Noack motored to Fort Wayne last evening.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1929.

PANTAGES TAKES WITNESS STAND Says Girl Accuser Tried I “Badger Game” Without Success On Him IjOs Angeles, Calif., Oct. 23. —(U.R) * Whether Alexander Pantages will escape a sentence of one to 50 years 'll the penitentiary appeared today to rest on n jury’s opinion of the weight to be lent the story of his accuser, Eunice Pringle, and his denials. The 17-year-old dancer's account of her experience in the theater mini•late’s “conference room" was turned around when Pantages appeared on the stand yesterday and accused her of employing tlie "badger game" to compromise him. Pantages said a series of unavoidable circumstances led him to show Miss Pringle into the conference room and that once there site closed the door, made advances, screamed and tore'his ’slothing, while he fought to keep lier away from him. and inaily forced her outside. When the theater man leaves the stand, sometime today, and the defense rests its case, the prosecution intends to call several witnesses to testify that his courtroom version of what occurred differed from what he told police just after he was arrested. Testimony disclosed that Pantages, who tan a Klondike stake into a $20,000,000 fortune and prided himself on his friends' opinion of his "show sense,” could not read "very well.’’ District Attorney Fitts had to read Pantages from the play, "Prince of Hollywood.’’ which Miss Ptjngle tried to book on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. Pantages had testified he rejected the play "because it was suggestive." “I’m just a bit of dandruff trying.to get ahead" and "Park your hips, your honor" were two of the lines that Pantages termed "suggestive.” Another highlight was Pantages’ reenactment of the way he said he pushed Miss Pringle out of the conference room. Representing his own actions, he wrestled with an imaginary girl for a minute before he fell to the floor before the jury. Then posing as Miss Pringle, he threw himself out of the door. "1 can’t say I’m a good judge of theater talent, but iny friends say I’m the best in America," he remarked i at one point. — ■ Woman Believed To Be Mentally Deranged I New York. Oct. 23.—(U.R)— Mrs.] Gertie Burke strolled into police] headquarters last, night to clear up any stray murder mysteries that hap pened to be on the docket. She began by announcing: "I shot Arnold Rothstein.” "Why’.’’ asked a sergeant. Mrs Burke then related that Rothstein had stolen her daughter’s birth certificate from Joseph Elwell. Roth stein, it seemed, shot Elwell in the heat of a struggle for the document. Rothstein, she said, also killed DorIh gTiT UDIMPLES: t BN ature’a warning help nature clear w your complexion and paint red rosea ji< w in y° ur callow cheeks. Truly w wonderful results follow thorough H colon cleansing. TakeNß — jf NATURE’S REMEDY-to regulate > and strengthen your eliminative orM gens. Watch the transformation j — Try NR instead of mere laxatives. J Mild. safe, pwrely vegetable —at dr mists, only 25c f FEEL LIKE A MILLION. TAKE Were You Wishing ■ I for Driving Comforts Today? Todav was just a “sample’’ of what you may expect throughout the winter months to come. Driving a car in this weather without the proper precaution is dangerous and anything but pleasant. Drive around and let us after suggestions and supi)lv your wants for winter “driving comforts.”

lothy Keemnn beennae th*’ "Urondw.iv, Butterfly’’ blocked his escape vvlth| "the p«|H*rH.” The next scene found Rothstein In 11 Mrs. Burke's hotel room, having the I ] birth certificate and menacing her. "So,” she said, "I plugged him." After thinking things over, police II hazaided the opinion that Mrs. Burke] ! I was temporarily deranged. <> — Logansport Banker Is Held On Shortage Charge ( Logansport. Ind.. Oe 23 I UP) Authorities here today wer • holding, I Raymond Slagle. 30. teller of the Loganspilt State Bank, whose accounts ' were found $25,000 short. Charges may .. ,)»■ filed against him today. The tell 'i did not return from lunch yesto’day and hank sfficfals notified their insurance company. Aceountan s * found tlie shortage in the boohs later In the day. 1 Sheiiff William Z.tbe arrested th- j teller at a small town about 14 miles from here. When questioned lie admitted having played horse rae h. He told I another story to account for the shortH age, however, and office:s are invest!1 gating it. The teller had been with j the bank eight years. Freighter Is Grounded Buffalo. N. Y. Oct. 23 (UP)— ''w i coast guild patrol boats were dispatched today to the aid of a stiicken freighter grounded est Point Pelee on Lake Etie. 28 miles from Lorain, Ohio ecast guard headquarters announced oday. The ship's name was unknown. The coast guard boats were sent from Trenton, Michigan base. , The boat is believed to have a crew of 23. No More Gas • In Stomach and Bowels If yma wish to b« permanently rwMeved of gat in stomach and bowels, take Baalmann's Gas Tablets, which are prepared especially for stomach gas and all the bad afiecta resulting froas gas pressure. That empty, gnawing feeling at tho pit of the stomach will disappear; that anxious, nervous feeling with heart palpitation will vanish, and you will again be able to toko a deep breath without discomfort. That drowsy, sleepy foaling after dinner will be replaced by a desire for entertainment. Bloating will cease. Your limbs, arms and fingers will no longer feel cold and ~go to sleep” because Baalmann's Gas Tablets prevent gas from interfering with the circulation. Get the genuine, in the yellow package, at any good drug store. Pace SI. Always on hand at Holthouse Drug Co. Assessments DUE assessments on city improvements Street Sewers Sidewalks and Curbs are due and payable. They will become delinquent after Nov. 1 unless they are paid. Call at City Treasurer’s Office City Hall

HIGHSCHOOL .DANCE PLANNED Annual Football Dance Is Scheduled For Masonic Hall Friday Night Pluim ure bolug made for the aniiiiinl Football Dance, Friday evening, I which Ih being given by tlie Decatur Ihigh school, under the auspices of] the Pep Champs, at tlie Masonic! Hall. True Fristoe. well-known musician. and Itis G. E. Rhythm Kings will furnish tlie music for tlie affair, and at this event will make their first tippetirnnee in this city. .Mr. Frlstoe hits played tlie piano and directed | orchestras many times in Decatur. Festive decorations will convert tlie dance hall into a foot hall field, with goal posts draped with colors, -rationed at each end of the room. Fall leaves and effects will be used throughout the entire hall, and a corner has been reserved for the orchestra, which will be fashioned in an original manner. Specialty dances have been originated, in keeping with the football] element, among which will be the Touch Back and the Touch Down dances. -A prize will be given for the latter event. Other special features will be the Balloon Dance, in which a prize will also be given the person I who succeeds in keeping a balloon in the air the longest, and moonlight ' waltzes. Pop and candy will be sold by the ! Pep Champs during the dance, and i will also be sold at the football

Your Fall Sliooitin4l Not only in the field but also in choosing your outfit hero. We’ve made a special effort to stock lines popular with sportsmen who come back with lull game bags. % An All Around Favorite The Ithica Double barrel, 12 ami 20-gauge is a popular field gun. Big enough to be effective, yet pleasant to shoot all day. Nicely figured and check wamut stock. Full safely features. A lot of dependable and SO desirable gun for- . . ’ * ’ Singles for sl2 and up. > You can .ga reiy u p° n rV«7| peters friW Shells |j| IJ-W Avoid misfires by drawing on our ‘■—-•h stock. You’ll find your old . favorites here in black and smoke- Special \aiue I ss. Also the new su]>er loads and Hunting ' i Cut non-corrosive primers that reduce for ne ii r water- '■ enning proof aril Nak proof pockets. Lee Hardware Co. « JJt - Ll? 2 . - ———— 1 ' Careful People | would as a rule rather have a B good check than cash. It both ( •’ proves and protects. It puts through the payment. It travels light, travels safely and returns a record. We render this profitable i service. j I Capital and Surplus Indican# i

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