Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1930 — Page 8

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BASEBALL GETS SHARE OF FAME Des Mofnca. la.. May 3.—<U.Rb— !• America's most popular pastime - , basehull had b- < ome a com pel tor; of the -theater. the boxing ring and , 1 the bulk room today in the race for 1 nmuslWnt dollars that are spent 1 after the sun goes down. While prominent figures it thc| baseball an d < lectorlcal world! watched the spectacle, night baseball was inaugurated here last ; night when the Des Moines club 1 of the West rn league defeat d’ ‘ Wichita, 13 to «. A record breaking throng watch-1 ed the players of the two teams ' perform under the brilliant floral of light radiated from a plant of more than m.ttoo.uoo candle pow r of arti- 1 filial illumination. The six elec- 1 trie beacons surrounding the play-1 ing field paled a bright sirmmer! moon into insignificance without dazzling the players. Even when the batters lifted the ball high in the air the light cast by the beacons enabled the fans to I watch the path of the horsehide. Excited fans found enjoyment in < rrining new phrases to hurl at err- t

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Ing players and umpires whose decisions were unpopular. "We’ll just have to forgive them this tine-. They haven't got used to th- lights yet,” one disgruntled fan remarked as three Wichita hurlers essayed to stop the Des Moines club in the first inning. Three runs were fqieed in by walks during th" frame. Across the infield the brightest lights were focused and at home plate, the batter, the catcher and the umpire were directly between two of the giant beacons, each of which was topped with a myriad of flood lights. z It wus the opinion of notables who attended the game, that th)* first official league baseball game at night was a lrug< success. They predicted that the experiment would extend to other minor league cities within the near future with major league club owners adopting the plan should it continue to be as satisfactory as it was last night. _ . , O——— ——— BASEBALL BRIEFS ' Philadelphia's Athletics and the Chicago Cubs, pre season p- nnant favorites, were faced with the difficult task of overtaking fast stepping opposition as major league teams continued intersectional com-

petition today. The Athletics, fourth In the Am- | erlcan league, two anil one-half I games behind Washington, have i be»-n able to defeat all opjwrnents except the Senators, who handed I them -I of their 5 defeats, and remain th popular choice for Amer(lean league honors. Absence of Rogers Hornsby and . I.estßell In early season games i handicapped the Cubs but with these stars back in the game the ; Chicagoans are playing improved I ball and are conceded a good chance to overhaul their rivals. ,I'llo Cubs are in third place two and one-half games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. Joe Cronin led the Washington Senators to a 13 to 5 win over the i St. iainis Browns Friday. He connected for two doubles. a triple and a single in 5 times at bat, driving In I runs and scoring 4 himself. Although he pllowed his old teammates 15 hits. Hal Carlson pitch'd the Chicago Cubs to an 11 to 8 victory over the Phillies. The two teams made 23 hits, including 10 doubles and two home runs. Je-s P- tty's courageous relief pitching gave Pittsburgh a 3 to 2 I triumph ever the Boston Braves. The New York Giants lost their fourth cons c.utive game and the National league lead, dropping a 9 to S contest to the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds pound d Fred Fitzsimmons and Ralph Judd for 7 runs in the second inning. Rube Walberg let the Detroit Tigers down with 7 hits and his mates, led by Mill r. Foxx and Simmons clubbed out a 9 to 2 win. Brooklyn scored the east's only victory, in the National leagu", defeating St. Izouis S to 4. It was William Wa'son Clark's first victory in four starts. Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox turned in his third victory of tlie year. Io to 1. allowing the NewYork Yankees only 6 hits. Bud Clancy, substitute first baseman, (hove in 6 runs with two homers, a triple and a single. Weslev Ferrell p icked the ('leve" land Indians to an easy S to 3 win over the Boston Red Sox. Sev n home runs were hit in the eight games. Clancy getting two 1 and Todt of the Red Sox. Tprry of the Giants. Klein and Sigman of the Philli s and Bissonette of the Robins one each. Yesterday's hero: Joe Cronin, Washington shortstop, who drove in four runs and scored four himself in the Senaor's 13 to 5 victory over St. Louis. Cronin hit two doubles, a triple and a single in

DECATUR DaiLY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1930.

STANDINGS I- —■ (- ■— f central league I — W. L. Pct. ” Erie 2 0 1.000 I: Canton 2 0 1.000 •, Fort Wayne 11 .500 Richmond 11 .SOO Dayton 0 2 .000 I Spi iugfitold 0 2 .000 s . Central League >' Fort Wayne, 8; Richmond, 2. '! Erie, 7; Springfield, -I. II Canton, 22; Dayton, 17. 11 NATIONAL LEAGUE v a W. 1,. Pet. Pittsburgh 10 4 .714 ’ New York 7 4 .636 a Chicago 9 8 .529 • Boston 6 6 ..500 • Brooklyn 6 ' 7 .462 • St. Louis 6 9 .400 '• Philadelphia 5 8 .385 I Cincinnati 5 8 .385 r 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE f* - ? W. L. Pct. Washington 11 3 .786 f ‘Cleveland 9 4 .692 -' Chicago 7 4 .636 i Philadelphia 8 5 .615 r ist. Louis 6 8 .429 ’ Huston 5 9 .357 1 Delimit 5 .294 ' New York 3 9 .250 I AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. • Louisville 11 4 .733 ’ St. Paul 7 5 .583 ’ Toledo 7 6 .538 Columbus 8 7 .533 1 Indianapolis 6 6 .500 Kansas CRy 6 7 .462 ’ Milwaukee 6 8 .429 Minneapolis 4 12 .250 — r YESTERDAY'S RESULTS f National League ' Pittsburgh, 3; Boston. 2. ' Chicago, 11; Philadelphia, 8. • Btooklyn. 8; St. Izniis. 4. , Cincinnati. 9; New York. 8. American League 1 Washington, 13; St. Louis. 5. Philadelphia, 9; Detroit. 4. Chicago. Hi; N- w York. 1. 1 Cleveland. S: Boston. 3. fl . . * American Association [’ I St. Paul, 7; Indianapolis, 6 (11 ? . innings >. Louisville, 15; Minneapolis, 6. Kansas City, 6; Toledo. 4. ' Milwaukee. 2; Columbus, 1. OHIO RELAYS 1 START TODAY Ohio Stadium. Columbus 0., May 3—(U.R) —More than 1.000 track and field c lebrities. carrying the colors of 55 eastern and mid-western universities, today opened their attack on cinder path records in the final day of the seventh annual Ohio relays. A fast track coupled with favorable wind conditions heralded serious contention against former records. The east is represented by strong relay teams which seek revenge for the overwhelming defeat at the hands of midwestern schools last year when Chicago, Illinois, Purdue and Ohio State captured first honors in all seven relay events. Thiee of last year's winners, Ohio, Illinois and Chicago, are back again with powerful quarters and are strong favorites in the quarter, half mile and mile events. Ohio State's speed demon, George Simpson will defend his 1929 title! in tlie special liMI-yard dash against a select field of etatters in what is xpected to furnish tlie featurerace of the day. Simpson won in ; !).5 seconds last year. A capable field of weight men will vie for traithion honors. Anderson, Cornell, won the event last year amassing 2,592 points. Outstanding on yesterday’s open-1 ing day program was tlie perform-! ante of Johnny Wonsowiez, Gary, Indiana high school youth who set a new national interscholastic pole vault record. He cleared the liar at 13 feet 4 indies, topping tlie former record by 13-16 of an inch. Another feature of the interscholastic division was the mile relay .or preparatory schools won by Newark iv. J , in the record-lying time of 3 minutes 26.7 seconds, which also stands as a national interscholastic record. o— Pirates Will Play First Game Sunday The Decatur Independant Pirates A_-nu-pro team of Decatur will open lie season at Zulu. Indiana Sunday day 4. Manager Glen Martin stated ■ hat he expected his team to play a ,ood opening game. The starting lineup for Decatur is 4 as follows; Bell, 3.d base, Snedeger. SS; G Laurent 2b; Fanning lb, A. E lineider p; C. Busse cf; Acher? .on if; Eagle if. The utility men for he game will be McWhinney, o’Briend and Qeary. , The Decatur team has been practicing three nights a week and is in zood condi ion for the game. o— , Dante SUNSET Sunday.

i FIRST ADAMS COUNTY HOME IS LOCATED BY ' (CONTINUED'FROM PAGE ONE), I I zs-ZVz- ' zvl > seventeen in what is now Wulgish 1 township. Perhaps you would be ( Interested in knowing a liltli* about ( 'that trill. All over this region wore trails made first by the anli mals and used by th-* Indians. You see the animals Instinctively knew | how to fftid the best way, using the high ground, missing the bogs and swamps and swales and making a path that at all seasons of tlie year was usnhl". Wei), such a trail ' came up through Jay county, made , a circle afound (lie IJmb Host ’ swamp and struck tlie Jay-Adams ( county line just west of the old ' Loblolly swamp, then on in a ' northeasterly direction towards the W.ibash liver fording that river ' near tlie center of section seven- ' teen in what is now Wabash town- | ship, then on northeasterly a short .distance south of Berne until it reached the southwest end of what ; is now known as Thompson's ’ Prairie then skirting that muck ' swamp along its northern bord -r ' on still in a northeasterly direc- ' lion until ft reached what was at- , terwards known as the Wayne Tract' in Allen county. This is the route that no doubt Henry took, and when lie reached the ast end of Thompson's Prairie ! he hit high ground, fine soil and a magnificent forest. He evidently ’ then scouted around, found the ’ solitude enchanting for it is near- ' est neighbor as far as we'can learn Tony Rivard, the half bre-d Indian. ! who had his tepee on tli> reservation granted to him by tlie White Father and located several miles north and who had camped on his landed possession the y -ar before. "Here is where I settle" Henry * have said and by gosh he settled and immortalized himself as the very first starter of Adams county civilization. Henry asked no permission of any one, for there was no one to ask. He made no land entry, asked for no patent from tlie government (one S. Rogers long afterwards in 1836 patented the land) and notifi-d all and sundry, which meant the Red gentlemen, that that particular spot was hfs own and he could prove it with liis long barelled shooting iron. So he proceeded to build a cabin, used oak and walnut logs, nearly twenty fe’t long, saddled and notched them so they would lie as snugly as possible, chink and daub with mortar to keep out the wind and lain and cold, laid a ' | puncheon floor, fixed his roof of ■ poles from gable to gable and shingled with clapboards fasts ned l with weight po!?s, built his chimney on tlie outside, boulders tor a base and sticks laid up cobhouse style, th" rest of the way beautifully chinked with mud. How in . tlie world he erected that building we do not know. It was some chor* to fell the trees and xroll them to the p.-oper place and put them in place. Henry must have pressed some of his Indian friends into set vice. But anyway, he built' i th- cabin. He cleared up a patch of ground, planted a little and’ hunted more and whether lie was married or single we do not know. Henry had lots of Indian callers; and though they were by the year' 1819 friendly as a rule yet H nry was no doubt fore?d into becoming an accomplished diplomat. Tlie exact spot of this cabin was on the east side of another trail that ran nortli and south and was in what ' is now section twenty-nine in Blue, I Creek township, Adams county. Indiana. aliout sixty tods south of the north line of tlie southeast quarter 1 of the southwest quarter of that j I section and about thirty rods east l a- g A new and better dry cleaning service for you here. The kind you've always wanted. Cleans clothes perfectly — new and spotless — never a thread harmed—never a button removed. And you'll find it speedier and courteous, too Cail early and be assured of prompt delivery. Ww ■ I 1 I I Phone 134 4 - : DECATUR LAUNDRY n j “The Farr Way Means » Clean Clothes.” 8

(Os the lilghwaj ns the highway Is : now located. But alas, the site is nil that is left for the old cabin has gone the way of all flesh. It has long been known that Lowe was the first s ttler in Adams county. Snow's history tells of him hut It has been interesting to locate the exact spot and to verify that location by living witnesses. 1 have found four men, now living, who remembered tills old cabin ami who had many times been within it. One is Joseph J. Dailey, an old pioneer of 81 years, who was born in section nine in I he adjoining township of St. Marys. Another John W. Merriman, also 81 years old. who at four months of nge commencing his pioneering with liis father and mother on section s ven in Blue Ci" ek township just a few miles north of tlie old cabin. George Schrank, who fiftyfive years ago worked as a "hand' on the Heating upon which Henry [.owe s bit of architecture had commenced to crumble, wli u the land was owned bv th ■ Prudens’ and tlie fourth man John Tyndall, who was born less than a mile away. These men remember the old cabin well. 'I hey say it w is a one story affair with no loft and of one room about IS or 2'l f et square. Tlie historic o'd home was abandoned during th Civil War. when Jesse Dicky and his brother built a two story ; <:■ <ci aie rods away and us -d the old cabin as a shelter for their domestic animals. This is tlie year I:>3H. one hundred and elevfti yea s have rolled by since the welkin rang to Henry lame's axe and curious and silent Indians watched or helped his pioneering efforts. C<URepp rt and the writer made a visit to tlie old spot and piloted by Frank Merriman whose farm home is less than 100 rods away we stuck a stick in tlie ground on tlie site and expiessed the hope that

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ssome day n marker would be plai'ed there to tell the world of the i white man's first home In Adams I county. If is to wonder what shall be the architecture of a thousand years hence and how large a num i her of homos and other buildings i

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