Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1929 — Page 6

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SPORTS

G. E. CLUB WILL PLAY ROCKFORD HERE TONIGHT Large Crowd Expected to See Contest at I). 11. S. Gymnasium The Decatur General Electric club basketball team, after a week’s rest will meet Rockford, Ohio, Red Men netters in a hardwood tilt al Decatur hijfh school gymnasium at 8 o’clock tonight. The gymnasium has been closed for cleaning for the last several days and during that time the local Inaenendent aggregation has been drilling at Decatur Catholic high school gymnasium. Tonight’s game Is expected to he an interesting contest. Both teams have good records for the season and Rockford has lost hut one game sofar. The Electricians have not played Rockford yet this season. A preliminary game between two local teams has been arranged and will start at 7 o'clock. The big game is scheduled to get underway at 8 o'clock. Tickets may be secured at the doors before the game starts. Manager Carl Smith of the local club's team stated today that his squad was in good condition for the tilt. It is probable that the lineup will be altered some for tonight's tilt. The lineup was not announced and Smith stated he would not decide who would start the game until just before the game starts. Rockford has had a net squad for many years and several veteran hardwood artists will be seen in action tonight. — o O'DQUL NAMED BATTING CHAMP New York. Dec 26 —<U.R>—Frank J. (Lefty) O'Doul, Philadelphia outfielder, was named batting champion of the National league in the official averages released today. United Uress averages issued at the close of the 1929 season ind'eated that O'Doul had an average of .400 and the official records cut two points from this figure. O'Doul, who started his baseball career as a left handed pitcher and who had been cast off by sev ■tai major league clubs, including the New York Giants and Yankees, is the first Priladelphia player to win the National league batting championship in 20 years In addition to taking the hitting championship with a 17-point lead over his nearest rival. Babe Herman of Brooklyn. O'Doul set a new major league record for the number of hits during a single campaign, clouting 254 safe blows, four more than the previous high mark set by Rogers Hornsby in 1922 The Phillies gardener barely missed another honor, tying Lloyd Warner of the Pirates in singles with 181. Other new hitting records included : Most runs scored. 156, made by Rogers Hornsby, exceeding the mark of 144 made by Hazen Cuyler witli Pittsburgh in 1925. Most home runs, 43. made by Charles Klein in the Phillies, exceeding the record of 42 made by Rogers Hornsby in 1922. Most two-base hits, 52. made by Johnny Frederick of Brooklyn. Further indication of the aid given hitters by the lively ball was offered by tlye fact that the league established six team records for hitting—in home runs, 754, more than 100 over any other year; in a league average of .294 for the eight teams; in hits, with 12,668; with total bases on hits, 18,321; in runs scored with 6,609; in twobase hits with 2,258, which was 138 more than the record of 2,210 made in 1925. Sixty players hit for .300 or better, 13 more than in 1928. There were few surprises in the way the batting leaders finished the season. After O’Doul and Herman came Rogers Hornsby of the Cubs with .380; Bill Terry of the Giants, with .372 and Riggs Stephenson of the Cubs with .362. Os the five leaders only Stephenson had to put up any sort of a fight to squeeze his way into the select group. Some of the most interesting “mosts” Os the season were: Most total bases —Hornsby, Cubs, 410. Most triples—Lloyd Waner, Plr-

I ates. 20 Most 'sacrifices — Fred McGuire, Boston. 26. Most times at bat Lloyd Waner. Pirates, 664. Most stolen bases- Hazen Cityrler, Cubs. 43. Only five players engaged in all the games their clubs played. They were: Hornsby of the Cubs; Sisler of the Braves and O'Doul. Whitney * and Hurst of the Phillies. Far up at the top of the list of hitters appeared the name of Harry (Hank) Gowdy. veterSn Boston player and coach. Gowdy played in only ten games but showed his eyes are still keen by poundt 1 Ing out seven singles In sixteen - times at hat for an average of . 1.438. o 1 : KIRKLAND TO PLAY TUESDAY Central Catholic high school has-j iketball team of Fort Wayne will .meet the Kirkland Kinagrooa at '■Kirkland gymnasium. Tuesday nigh , December 31. at 8 o'clock, it ' was announced today. The gampreviously had Iteen arranged for last Saturday night hut the inele- • n nt weather c used postponment Cental Catholic is said to have □ne of the best net teams in northern Indiana and has not been de- , seated ths season. The Central . team his won several important victories. Coach Bill Bryan stated his Kirkland aggregation looked the best t has so far this season and he predicted a close contest next Tuesday. A preliminary gune will start it 7 o’clock and the big game will get underway at 8 o’clock. Tlie Kirkland Monroe game which has been tentatively scheduled for next Friday night has been changed to January 18, it was announced today. Will Not Contest Tunney Counter-Suit Hartford. Conn., Dec. 26.— (U.R) — '"’ol. Lewi’ L. Field, attorney so" ; Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty in the Texas woman’s $500,000 breach >f promise su't against James u : (Gene) Tunney. said today would nat appear tomorrow in Fair ield countv superior court to contest Tunueys motion for judgment in a counter suit. Field admitted his inaction would permit Judge Carl Foster to issue in injunction forever barring Mrs. Fogarty from bringing suit on an alleged claim that the former heavyweight boxing champion tromised to marry her. o PLANS WILL BE SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS SOON — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) “From contact with the department over a per.od of years, 1 can state that there never has been greater zeal and activity in the enforcement of law than at the present time.’’ Doran likewise defends his dry igents and observed that Senator Borah's charge "is most unfortunate and bound to have a disheartening effect upon the morale of the tervice.’’ Admitting that the enforcement j: ganization had it's weak spots. Doran said, “to say that prohibit on can not be enforced with the present personnel comes perilous- ' ly near to saying it cannot he en.'orced at all.’’ After reviewing efforts to strengthen the enforcement ma■hinery, Doran’s statement said: “All agencies in the executive service having any part in ent'orc- ’ ng prohibition, have been too conscious of determined and unceas tig I pressure from the president for ' sntorcement to leave any room for ' indifference. Such deficiencies as ’ exist in prohibition enforcement > are not due to lack of will to en- ' force the law either at the top or “ at the bottom.’’ Senator Harris, Dem , Ga., an 1 ardent dry, agreed today with the ■ views expressed by Senator Borah. ’ He declared more money was need- ) ed for prohibit'on enforcement in order that a higher type of man • could be employed. The recent report from Secretary s of Treasury Mellon on the activ--1 ities of the prohibition unit under ■ the additional appropriations voted 3 by congress for the current year s was not entirely favorable, Harris - contended. f “The : eport shows they haven't 3 done as much in the last six • months in some places as they did t before they got the additional appropriation,'' Harris said. ? o HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 26— . The Washington State football team defeated Honolulu yesterday, '■ 12 to 0.

DflSKEjffiiAWL'. | LfgK p h ! And now that it was a Merry Christmas the next big holidays will be this spring when the Yellow Jackets win the regional and the Commodores win the state Catholic title. — 000 — Coach Olen Marsh will send his Jefferson high school netters against Pennville high school basketball team at Berne Friday night. It’s tlie only high school game in tlie county Friday night and many Inns from all over the county are expected to attend. oOo — The Marshmen have been going good this season and a victory is expected Friday. — 000— The Jeffersonians have long been rivals of the Pennville aggregation. and a delegation of fans from Jay county have reserved seats at the tilt. —oOo — The entire Jefferson student body always attends its teams games, and a big crowd is expected. --000 — Coach George Laurent will take his Commodores to Lima. Ohio, to meet St Johns high school netters. St’ Johns is said to have a good balanced net team this season. —oOo — While St. Johns is not as strong as St. Rose, there is little difference between the two schools and a great game is expected Friday. —oOo— Coach Laurent has sent his Commodores through a series of hard grinds since the St. Rose disaster .nd a better defense has been worked out. A victory for the Commodores is expected Friday night. —oOo— Coach Herb Curtis will return tonight from the hills of Brown county to start the Yellow Jackets in preyaration for the Huntington gams here January 1. —oOo— The Curtismen should win tin January 1 game by a comfortable matgin. but Huntington always stages a real battle against De catur. —oOo — The Vikings haven’t fared so well this season, and several weak teams have bumped them on the basketball nose — The last few weeks a new combinat on has been showing some class and a recently victory over Auburn at Auburn is the latest Huntington boast. —oOo — Now that the snow is being packid down and the rural commonties can be heard from, look out or Mr. Out of Bounds in the Blnffon News-Banner. —oOo — Buck has been taking a few lays off to thaw out since the recent series of defeats his Tigers lave suffered — but Buck always las a tew remarks left in his ‘re-’eree-minded” head for the Curtis.n’en. — oOo — The Decatur net fans have classed northeastern Indiana basketball teams about like th s. First grade: Decatur and Fort Wayne Central, and New Haven. Second grade: Oarrett, Kendallville, Columbia City and Angola Third grade: Bluffton, Auburn. Huntington, Berne. Kirkland, Ossian, and Lancaster. Fourth grade: all others. —oOo — Basketbawls would like to change his own first selection slightly and add Kendallville in place of New Haven. Washington seems to be the class if southern Indiana right now, but a lot of net teams down there are slow starters and Herb Curtis’ other team at Martinsville, which he coaches by proxy through his brother G.en, always is a good finsher: as are Vincennes, Bedford. Central of Evansville, and several Mhers. —oOo — Horace Mann is touted as one of the best teams in northern Indiana, but it wouldn’t be a bad bet right now that the Gary team will have a tough time, w.nning the sectional and regional. —oOo — That Gary sectional is a bad one and for years has been known as the Upset Section. The Peru Tigers have a clean record so far this season—but

DItCAtUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1920.

the Tigers stay out of northern Indiana as much as they can. -000 — Wr’te still holding tight on the RULE BOOK business - 000— COMMODORES. BEAT ST. JOHNS. - oOo — JEFFERSON, BEAT PENNVILLE. ■ 000— YELLOW JACKETS, BEAT HUNTINGTON. HEAVY STORMS LASH EUROPE Costal Cities Swept by Severe Gales and Renewed Tempests London, Eng., Dec. 26. — (U.R) — Tlie coasts of tlie B itish Isles, France and Spain, only two weeks ago swept liy itales of a week's duration, witnessed renewed tempests over t'hr stmas. Considerable damage was done to shipping although the only loss of lite was confined to one disaster. the sinking of a Norwegian steamship off Bayona, northwest•i i Spain, with 22 of Its crew The steamship first was reported to he the Asland but later advices led to the belief it was 990 ton Eeizer Aslaug, enroute to Vigo. Spain, wth a cargo of codfish from Iceland. It sank after being driven aground by terrific gales. Fishermen ashore saw the Aslaug’s first distress rockets. The fog was dense and the storm so severe that many fishing smacks hi the inner harbor were damaged but crews of fishermen struggled to aid the battered vessel. After two hours they managed to approach within 700 yards but could get no closer. The ship broke up and sank Four bodies were washed ashore’ all wearing life preservers. Letters and documents, practically illegible, ind rated the vessel carried a crew of 22. Marine authorities round no survivors. Heavy storms also swept the English channel forcing many vessels to seek port. A squadron of Soviet cruisers, damaged in tlie •arlier stoims, attempted to leave he ba.bor at B.est, France, but he storms were so severe that hey leturned. Two schooners cr~ blown on the rocks off Porpol. France. The Italian vessel Maria wa. Liven a shore on Corsica although ts crew of six was rescued. Four other small sail ng vessels ere 'lashed against the French ■oast. First warnings of the renewed empest came fiom Hipperary, Ireand. which reported storms of groat violence throughout south?’n Ireland with streets, towns and villages littered by fragments tile and slate blown from house hoofs. Hundreds of trees were up Opted. France, with the exception of he upper Alps and Pyrenees, had '. snowless Christmas with springike temperatures which ranged as high as 72 degrees in Paris. The sunshine on the Riviera was so warm tliat many remained indoors Br<est, France, Dec. 26.— (U.R) — Sever storms hampered shipping today, driving two schooners on to the rocks off Porspol and delaying the departure of Russian cruisers which were damaged two weeks ago in the severe channel storms. Paris. Dec. 25 —(U.R)—With the xreption of the upper Alps and the Pyrenees, France had a snowless Christmas today with Paris celebrating in spring-like tempertures. The thermometer in Paris rose to 72 degrees. Sunshine prevailed >n the Riviera while the casinos at Monte Carlo, Cannes, and Nice en oyed the greatest business in ’hristmas history. o Mrs. Alger Spends Christmas In Jail Wabash. Ind., Dec. 26—(U.R)— Mrs. Josephine Alger sat in the Wabash county jail here today, where she spent Christmas, and denied that he had been near the scene of the Lafontaint Bank robbery. in which it is charged she aided her husband, Gene Alger, now in the state reformatory. An attempt by her father, Runnels Miller, Jeffersonville, to reduce her $15,000 bond so that she might spend the holidays at home, was unsuccessful. The young woman, who is said to have driven the car for Alger n various robberies, denied her husband’s guilt of the crimes attributed to him. She said she had never seen Lafontaine until Tuesday. She admitted coming with her husband to Wabash soon after their marriage, to visit relatives, but said they remained only a short time.

GRID PENATLY BY PREP STAR BRINGS SCORE “ — —■ t Columbus Youth Stages Ruse That Nets a Touchdown ('olum)nn ()., Dec. 23 —(UP)—; Since Ohio State University"s eleven met wtlh only mediocre success' during tlie past season and Wesley ' Feasler. All-American end of 1928. , failed to gain that distinction this, year, the job of securing national recognition in the football world fori Columbus rested on the shoulders ] of a Prep school youngster who ( turned tlie trick with one of tlie, most unusuil plays of the year. Captain Spanner, quarterback ot the St. Thomas parochial school, discovered in tlie middle of the •hird period of a game with St. • Francis eleven, that the score was ' tied and something hid to be don'* 1 , n a hurry. When his team mates huddled to discuss the next play he announced it was time to pull their trick play. The players returned to their posi- ; tions and Spanner strolled up to the i center, took the ball and announce I i loudly, to St. Fr incis team, that he ; was penalizing them five yards for offside. i The St. Francis players were tak- < en by surprise and looked on in •stonishment as Ciptain Spanner' stepped off five yards, counting ' each step in a measured voice, when lie had completed the fi>e i yards he cleared the St. Francis ' i secondary defense and he broke in- ; I to a run with the pigskin tucked I tightly under his arm. || He dashed 55 yards before being brought down by a fleet St. Francis back. St. Thom s won the game 18 to 6. Spanner’s play, coaches said is deserving of a place in the lull of fame with Glenn Warner’s wing hack system, Uncle Fielding Yost's “Old 33“ and other tricks. President Hoover Spends Quiet Day Washington. Dec. 26. — (U.R) — Pres dent Hoover’s Christmas was t qu ft one, its cheer unmarred by a fire the previous evening. The president spent most of the day esting with his immediate family •>nd a small circle of friends. In the evening he was host to chilIren o r cabinet members and their aides. Only the president, Mrs. Hoover, heir son Allan, home from Harvard. and a few friends and rela- ’ vfs were at the tahje for Chr'stnas dinner. The Hoover's had their own private Christmas tree in addition to he one in the east room of the executive mansion where the chlliren’s party was held. The president spent some time nspeiting the ruins of his personal offices, in the west wing, which were destroyed by fire Christmas I eve. After consulting with building experts he decided to order immediate reconstruction and ex>ects to have the wing in use igain within 60 days. The outer walls will remain, it was decided, although some of the nterior partitions will have to be ebullt. The president in the meantime plans to use liis study, i n the main wing of the mansion, 1 ">r receiving callers, and for per-1 onu! executive work. Tlie office staff will be quartered ■mpoiar ly in the state department luilding. —_—o RESTRAINING ORDER ASKED (CONTINUFD FROM PAGE ONE’ 1 ■annot hold a public office. Johnson maintains that a parion from President Coolidge clear-' d him of all stigma and rendered 'he Indiana law' inoperative. Hay has been in office but ten lays, having succeeded Mayor j Floyd C. Williams, resigned. His suit attacks eligibility of both ■Tohnson and White to be mayor, ■sserting that the former is barred because of his prison record and ‘he latter because he failed to re- 1 -elve a majority of votes In the I November election. " It was also alleged by Hay that should either Johnson or White' assume office Jan. 6, the city's i financial status would be jeopar-' dized. He said in order to meet ’he city ipayroll. carrying about 300 persons, it had been planned 'o issue short time warrants pend-, big receipt of the first tax money Installment in the spring, but expressed doubt that =uch paper could be issued, •should either contestant assume office. o CHICAGO, Dec. 26—Bud Taylor, of Terre Haute, Ind., and Karl Mastro, Chicago boxer, tapered off today in preparation for their I second meeting here tomorrow ■ night. Mastro ruled a favorite I over the Indiana blonde.

| Elaborate Plans Made Eor Rubio Washington, Dec. 26. (U.R) Elaborate preparations have been i made lor ent-rtalrimeut of I’wsi j dent elect Oritz Rubio who was due |lo arrive today from Baltimore with Senora Ortizo Rubio and their party. Tim United States government .’inpoTtr ly In the stat ■ department three days, treating h m as an outward symbol of good will and an indication of American confidence in tlie present Mexican regime. President Hoover will brink witli tradition later today to make a personal call upon tlie Mexican statesman nt tlie embassy here. No oth“r president-elect has been so honored by an American president. I i'/s atteir| m h j»rto lias been reserved for actual heads of governments. Dwight W. Morrow, ambassador to Mexico and Hie American most directly responsible for improved elutions witli onr neighbor will have an important part in the ceremonies here ft Three Are Heid In Peru Bank Case Peru, Ind., Dec. 26 (U.R)—Three Lafayette men. arrested Sunday and held here in connection with the $93,000 robbery of tlie First National Bank of Peru. Oct. 18, will be questioned today by Chicago and Indianapolis private detectives. The men are: John D. Nolan, 39; J. W. West. 30; and Harry Cook, 19, all of fxifayette. They wore arrested at Lafayette at the request of South Bend authorities who wanted them in connection with minor offenses com-

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