Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1930 — Page 8

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DEMPSEY MUST ANSWER QUERY Chicago. Feb. 20 (UPi Busi' news assoclati.s of Juck Dempsey | a,e awaiting eagerly the formeheuvywelgh champion’s reply to i.lje N« onal Boxing Association’ demand that Jack answer the que» [ uj,n of wiiethei it' Intends to fight ■ nuin. .. According to Leonard Sacks. Dempsey's business manager, the' X. B. A. has interred tiiM.lt wants I to know whether Dempsey will fight I again before It takes a stand on i recognizing a heavyweight chain | pion. Dempsey himself was vacationing j somewhere in California hut Sacks i said he anticipated an answer soon | Th, X. B. A. lUOVe e.io tUA' il to I have reference to the Phil ScottJack Sharkey fight in Florida and any other heavyweight contender. ] Jacks attitude is problematical. | The last time he was in Chicago he was evasive regarding his plans ■ ,;f returning to the ring. lie told this writer "maybe I will) and maybe I won't but you know tjie amoun. of money offered will have a lot to do with it." Since then Sacks has said that D.nipsey can get »7G'».000 for another fight, but he would have to neglect his manifold business affairs. Those business afairs are stage work, refereeing and making ap pearanees at various places where j lie can charge for his presence. He . got $2,300 per day 'or a recent six 1 dav stay at a theater. — o *“baseball briefs * (U.R) San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 20 —(UP) Three members of the New York Giants squad were excused from yesterday’s practice because of injuries. Pitcher Ralph Judd has art infected heel, while Frank McCul lough. Rookie infielder, is nursing a split finger and Leroy Parmalee, ex p -naive rookie pitcher, wrenched his ankle. San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 20 —(UP) — Donie Bush sent his Chicago

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UTS 1 White Sox squad through a strenu ous workout yesterday while awaitI ing the arrival of Art Shires, who Is expected Sunday. Shirts Is seeking. ,i $25,000 salary, but officials here ! with the club say there is no chance „f bls getting that much money. New York, Feb. 20 (UP) All ' of New Yolk Yauke s except Babe Until anti Tony l.azzeri are under contract for the 1930 season, Secretary Ed Barrow announced today.! ' l.azzeri has accepted terms and his i signing contract Is exp eted soon Brooklyn. Feb. 20 (UP) Ivy I Olson, former star shortstop, will return to the Brooklyn Dodgers this season as coach. Olson played with ‘tile Dodger* from 1915 to 1924 and was the sparkplug of Brooklyn's 1192(1 Pennant winning team. -.-j.. SPORT TABS j Chicago, Feb. 20.- Nels Norgren | Ilian bel li appointed baseball couch j lai the University of Chicago,’sue | i ceed ng H. O. Crfsler, who has been ' [appointed athletic director at the | University of Minnesota. i Logansport, Ind. A fracture of I the skull, received in a basketball game, proved fatal to Herbert Shanks. 17. Naperville, lif. North Central college has announced that it already has raised $210,000 toward the erection of a new $350,000 field louse, to replace the one which burned some time ago. Quebec. Que Fifteen entrants I rushed out of Quebec today for the I first lap of the annual thiw- da.i [ | dog derby. Leonard Seppala of i i Fairban's. Alaska, winner of the' j 1929 race is favored to repeat. Newark, N. J. — Miss Catherine Donovan equaled her own world’s record of :08 for the 50-yard low hut dies in the feature event of the women’s metropolitan A. A. U. championships at Newark armory last night. New York. — Ferenc Holuban, Hungarian wrestling ,j;hamplcn, threw George Hagen. U. S. marine champion, in three minutes of a finish bout at Ridgewood Grove sporting club last night. I c o | I COLLEGE BASKETBALL ♦ i « Army, 49; Carnegie Tech. 29. Navy, 37; Georgetown. 29. Duke, 28; Washington and Lee. 26. Columbia. 41; Cornell, 31. Carroll, 23; Lawrence. 22. Valparaiso, 35; Mount Morris. 21 Eureka, 28; James Millikin, 2l). Denison. 48; Oh o Wesleyan, 27 o Ma’s Husband Seeks Texas Governorship Austin, Tex., Feb. 20.—(U.R) In i much the same manner that he emerged from obscurity to the political spotlight 16 years ago. Japie: j E. “Farmer Jim" Ferguson returni ed from private life today to again bid for the governorship of th I state, still pleading the cause of 11he "dirt farmer.” ■ Convinced that the stigma of a | ‘ormer impeacment will not block I the way. Ferguson expressed cor. I fidence the people of Texas will I recall him to the office which was held for one term by his wife, Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson. "Came home coughing their heads off— Yet both my boys are hale and hearty in two days! George and Al went out to play football. They came borne in the rain, both with a very bad cough. Believe me—l was scared, particularly for Al —he is not very strong.lmmediately I putthem to bed. Immediately I gave them a dose of Smith Brothers’ Cough Syrup. i “Both boys slept line that night In two days they were well again—even Al didn't have • trace of cold.” Mrs. A. Stone SMITH BROTHERS Triple Action couch w ; syrup I-

> iDfISKgB&WIT Mg#,; ° h i i , [ With rumors, reports and threats lof spring being just around the | corner, you can here and there ' Lear a f-w of the more restless i souls talking baseball, track, spring football and other spring sports. —o()o —- Decatur Catholic h-gh school will have a spring athletic program, including as usual baseball and possibly track, it was learned today. The Commo hores have had a good baseball team for several years, and it is reported that another good team will be on the field this year. —oOoDecatur high school will start I spring football as as the state 1 basketbull tourney is written into history theji after a few weeks of gr diron activity, track and base ball will assume the top of the list of activities. of)o — Prospects are bright for a good track and baseball team this season. —o()<>— But then it’s almost too early to talk anything but basketball. —oOo— Both the Commodores and the Yellow Jackets have tournaments ahead of them and both have excellent opportunities of being pace-setters in their re specJve tourneys. 000— Baskeniawls doesn't mean tn be little Berne Bears or any other Adams county t arn, when he says it believes Bluffton w.ll win the West S'lbttrb sectional. And we would much rather see an Adami county team win the Bluffton see tional. —oOo— Bat that doesn't seem probable. Berne, Jefferson. Hartford. Geneva or Kirkland could win the toum»y —Berne defeated a lot of good earns last year to win the tourney — but it just seems very very prob tide that Bluffton will comi, hrough for a win. —oOo— Word comes to Bask tbhwls, from , .n unofficial source that the state hawings have been made for the I. H. S. A. A. tournament and that the winner of the Foit Wayne Regional will play the winner of the Frankfort regional. 000— This runmor ca mW from Fi .inkfort—and if it is true it is certainly very unfair for the Frankfort team to know who it w II play at the state tourney before the other probable teams are informed. — oOo — If the d awing- have been made —and the schedule has leaked out —it will be ablack eye for the association. which always has been first to sing FAIR PLAY TO ALL —for the sake of the I. 11. S. A. A Basketbawls hopes it is just a rumor. —oOo— Ft day night, while the Commolores are scrapping it out with "haminade at Dayton, Ohio, the uit smen will be playing their last regular schedule game of this season. —oOo— It's the last time Carl Gerber, Dick Engle, Curly Reynolds, and Harry Hebble will play in a Decatur gymnasium, carrying, the purple and gold colors. —oOo — A crowded gym is expected to si, me l.iiui game of the season and see these four veterans play Ithe.r last home game for Decatur ' high school. - oOo — Word from Bluffton says that Pyle and Myers, two Suburheri ~ho ran into et ch other here last r’riday night and were hurt, will lie ready for the sectional tourney. —oOo— Ths boys weren't hurt as bad as first reports indicated, and the Decatur fans are glad. —oOo— After a conference of physicians, who are caring tor Bill Bell, it was i announced tliat he was recovering — Howe ver the recovery is slow, i and while the physic ans are opti-l mistic, there is still some danger felt. —oOo — Baskethawis is hoping that when he's sitting in the North Side gymnasium in a couple of weeks watching Decatur walk away with regional honors, that B.l! Bell will be seeing the same game— . The General Electric club basketeers will meet the All-Star girls [team here next Tuesday night. Re-1 ports today were to the effect that most of the tickets had been sold tor the game—there was a clamor for fust row seals—ar.d we’ll bet that most anyone could officiate I t ! that game, for the fans who attend I ■»

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that game won't just be altogether [ watching the referee. -000 Hockey Mylott Is captain of the G. <8 club team and he'll get to shake hands with the visiting captain — shake hands we said. 000 — I COMMODORES, BEAT CHAM I INADE. o()o | YELLOW JACKETS, BEAT I GARRETT. —o Says Farm Bureau Campaign Was Financed Washington, Feb. 20. 'U.R) The! American Farm Bureau Feder-1 utlon's publicity campaign endors-1 ing the American Syanlmld <An pany's bid for operation of Muscle Shoals was financed by the Cyan!mid company, the senate lobby committee was told today. Chester Gray, Washington representative of the federation, testt;ied the company paid for publicity circulated to papers throughout the i country under the name of (lie federation by tile National Agricui-1 tural Publ shing company. o Women Scatter Their Winnings in Streets Nice, France. Feit. 20. (U.R) — Shouting crowds scrambled in tin streets today for a small fortune Hung to them from hot I windows by an American and an English woman who hud won heavily at Baccarat and were seized with a siidden irresistible impulse to catter thousands of dollars to the wind. The women were Mrs. Philip T Farling of St. Lou's, Mo., and .Mrs. Robert G. Hardy of Nottingham. England. Mrs. Farling won 400,000 > rancs (n arly $16,0001 and Mis. Hardy. 2000.000 francs, playing. Dacca: at at a 2.000 franc limit. Their hotels are in different parts ; >f the city, yet they were taken : vith the s ine idea at tlie same | time, and open-d their windows to I iling thousands in paper money to | niiling. sigh ing crowds below. I’ollve interfered when qr.owds begat) trying to steal ' from q.'ie another's pockets. Police gßhered as many as possible i of the hills and returned them to i the winne s, suggesting a t'otmal contribution to the city's poor fund > it they did not desire to keep their | w?in ngs. Eidson’s Body Found Nome, Alaska, Feb. 20. (U.R) — The body of Carl Ben Eielsoit. aviator who was 1. st Nov. 9. 1929. lias been found. A radiogram from the rescue ship Nanuk said the lardy was, found in the wreckage of the Eidson plane about 911 miles south-i ...st ol North Cap- 1 . Siber.a. o SOI I COHNS Moone's Emerald Oil Quickly Does Away With All Soreness and Pain Get a bottle of Moone's Emerald Gil (full strength) and put an end > an Hi - pain an ! soreness and do away with the corn itself. Never mind the cause, how long you ve had it or how many other preparations you have tried. This powerful penetrating o l is the one | piepaiatlon that will make your painful aching feet so healthy and ree from corn and bunion troubles that you'll be able to go anywhere, and do anything in absolute foot comfort. So marvellously powerful is Moone's Emerald OU that thou-- ! ands have found it gives wonderful results in the treatment of dangerous swollen or varicose 1 veins. Leading drugg sts are sell ng lots of it. r Low Rate EXCURSIONS Eveiy Sunday via Nickel Plate Road Round Trip Fares Front DECATUR 82.75 TOLEDO Consult Ticket Agent CHICAGO AN,) return Every Sunday Lv. D*eatur 2:24 A M., C.S.T. Ar. Chicago 7:20 A.M., C.S.T. Returning leave Chicago on all regular trains to and including train No. 8, 10:20 P.M. on date of sale. H. N. BLAIR, Ticket Agent ERIE RAILROAD SYS T E M

Byrd Starts Jlomcward New York. Feb. 2u (U.R) The I.New York Times, the S(. Unus Post Dispatch, and newspapers ntItlllluted with them In publishing ! .eports from Rear Admiral Richard 18. Byrd's Antarctic expedition hiive announced that Byrd mid bls com-, panions have broken camp and ‘-.ailed homeward aboard the bmd, "The Cly of New Vm k'' V'ter spending more titan it ion th ice barrier in the Rose’ w-tt , .the expedition sailed at 9:3t) a. m.. I yesterday, Antarctic time or up i i proximately 4:30 p. m.. New York i time. The adventurers tire bringing I back essential papers, but Jhe announcement said it had been m ces [vary to leave their airplanes and much other material behind oBelieve Attempt Planned To Aassissinate Hoover Mexico City. Feb. 20. (U.R) Preparations f.or an attempt on tie i nie or President Hoover, similar |to that in which President Ortiz

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