Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1930 — Page 8

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TWO RECORDS ESTABLISHED New Yotk, Muy 23. U.R) - Home I run history had to be re-writt.-n today to include the biggest outburst o' four-base hits In major league I annals. Two records wore smashed and five equalled in yesterday's big letigu,' l home run hippodrome which produced 26 home runs, and saw tlibe Ruth continue the greatest streak of home tun hitting of all time. * Hitting six home runs in two days. Babe Ruth went into a deadlock with Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs for the major league heme itin lead, each with twelve, and passed his 11127 schedule when he set his mark of 6() homers in <ne season. Ruth is now six days ahead of his 1927 schedule, when It did not get No. 12 until May | 28. Ruth set one record and tied one it; the two double-headers between! the New York Yankr-es and Philadelphia Athletics at Shibe park Wednesday and yesterday. Ruth hit 6 home runs in two: days (new record I. Ruth hit 6 home runs In four consecutive games (equals record). Rut hit 5 honv runs in three eotis cutive games (equals record). The other new major league rec<rd set yesterday was 26 home runs for all clubs in both leagues in one day. hr aking the former mark of 23 made in 16 games-(8 doubt -headers) on July 4. 1925. The new record was made in only seven games, as three games yesterday w ‘re without home runs. Three other records were tied yesterday as follows: 15 home runs for one league in one day. 10 home runs for both clubs in one game. 3 honti? runs by Lou Gehrig in one game. Thert were 15 home runs hit in tb,r> American league yesterday, 14 of them in the two games between the Yankees and Athletics, four in the first game and ten in the second. The Yankees made nine and the Athletics five in both games, each getting five in the second game. It was the second time Ixnt Gehrig lias madp three home runs' in one game, having accomplished the feat the first time on June 23, 1927. Ruth's two-day record follows: | Wednesday First game—3 home runs. Second game—none. Thursday First game—2 home runs. Second game—l home run. Ruth's six homers cost the Yankees $346.28 each on the basis of his wage of 1519.42 per game or SBO,OOO a season. Ruth's wage for playing the two double-headers t mounted to $2,077.68. The 26 home runs yesterday were made by the following playt rs: American league (15) —Ruth, 3; G hrig, 3; Foxx, 2; Pipgras, Laz-1 tferl. Chapman. Simmons, Dykes, L nshop, Jolley. National league (11)—Hurst, O’Doni, Klein. Leach, Ott. Lindstrom, I Hoinsby, Hartnett. Suhr, Heilman, Wright. o * SPORT SHORTS I M—- M Lincoln, Neb., May 23. — The greatest array of track and field athleti-s in Missouri valley history will participate here tixlay and Saturday in the annual big six championship meet. Preliminaries in all events, except the distance grinds ! and two relays, will be run off to-1 day. Saturday will be given over to the finals. Grinnell. la., May 23.—Track and j field athletes from five Missouri | valley conference schools began comp tit ion today in the annual two-day meet. Grinnell was the lavorite to win. Cleveland. 0., May 23. — Johnny' Kilbane. former world's champion featherweight pugilist, aspires to political fame. Kilbane has filed his petition in the d-mocratic print, ries for nomination for state senator. Decatur Victor In Two Tennis Matches Decatur high school tennis team won two matches this week. The local tennis players defeated Wincirester Wednesday afternoon at; Winchester, 3-2, and Thursday the local team whipped Garrett 5-0. Decatur has won 5 matches this season and lost one, that to South Side of Fort Wayne there last week. 0 Dance to Hoosier Eagles Orchestra Saturday. Jake and Mildred Sunday night at Sunset.

STANDINGS Central League W. L, Pct. i Erie 13 8 .619 1 Canton 13 8 .619 t Springfield 11 10 .524 ( Fort Wayne 10 12 .455 | Dayton 9 12 .429 | Richmond 7 13 .350 v National League \ W. L, Pct. v St. I Ollis 19 13 .594 J Brooklyn 18 13 .581 , Pittsburgh 16 13 .552 i New York 16 14 .533 Chicago 18 16 .529 , Boston 15 16 .484 < Cincinnati 12 18 .400 < Philadelphia 9 19 |321 ’| ' r American League t W. L. Pct. ■ i Washington 24 10 .706 Philadelphia 20 12 .625',: Cleveland 17 14 .548 t N w Y’ork 16 14 .533 v ■St. Louis 13 18 .419 i , Chicago 12 17 .414 t 1 Detroit 13 21 .382 a I Boston 12 21 .364 I 1 American Association . W. L. Pct. j ! Louisville 21 8 .724 H i Columbus 16 11 .593 < St. Paul 15 11 .577 Indianapolis 14 12 .538 i Toledo 14 13 .519 , Kansas City 12 15 .444 . Milwaukee 10 20 .383 ) Minneapolis 8 23 .258 > YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Central League ' > Erie. 10; Fort Wayne, 9 (10 innings). || Canton, 6: Richmond. 5 (10 in- , nings). 11 Springfield. 9: Dayton, 4. National League j Philadelphia, 10; New York, 8 ( (12 innings). || Boston. 6; ty-ooklyn, 5. Chicago. 12; Pittsburgh. 5. ,] St. Louis, 4; Cincinnati, 2. < American League New York, 10-20: Philadelphia. 1- ( n. ; Washington, 3-13; Boston. 2-1. , St. Louis. 3; Cleveland, 2. , Detroit, 6; Chicago, 2. American Association Columbus, 11; Indianapolis, 6. Louisville, 6; Toledo. 1. Milwaukee, 16; St. Paul, 3. Minneapolis, 10; Kansas City. 4. River And Harbor Bill Expanded by Committee ■ Washinton, May 23 —(UP) —An expanded rivers ami harbors bill carrying $125,000,000 or $14,000,000 more than was provided by the bouse awaited action in the senate today. With its broad provisions are included authoiization for waterway and port projects in virtually every sectidh of the nation. o — Young Rum Runners Are Held In .Jail Crawfordsville, Ind. .aMay 23 — —(UP) —The two youngest rum runj ners ever arrested in Crawfordsville are held in Montgomery county I jail today. They are Dean Brown, 19, and Clyde Moore 16 areola. 111., Both youths admitted they had been engaged in the liquoi traffic .or lour months. Brown, the older said he is married and lias a small child, and that he entered the business to support his family. Police said they confiscated 12 pints of whiskey from the auto. — -o Dynamite Discovered Beneath School House Delphi, Ind., May 23—(UP)— A near duplicate of the Bath, Michi- ; gan school house dynamiting in which Andrew Kehoe lit the fuse i that took two score lives, was re■aled when George Kbimpp, Janitor for Deer Creek schoolhouse, found 49 sticks of dynamite and a bottle believed to contain nitro-gly-cerin, beneath the building. A fuse 500 feet long had been partly burned, and it was believed that b'-oken bottle of fluid had ex tinguished the flame, thus preventing a terrible disaster. , ie person who placed the explosive, had been found but it was believed the work of a |ol'oll. o Superior Folk It is ensy to pick out superior ' folk. They are the people who don’t leave their car parked In the driveway used by two homes. —Little Rock Arkansas Democrat. o_ Tribute to Fair Sex I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.— Samuel Johnson Where It Is Worse Good fortune is comparative, and on the dreariest day you can find satisfaction In the report of worse I weather somewhere else. 1

TRACK STARS ARE GATHERING Evanston, 111. May 23. (U.R) Primed for another assault on existing records, western conference track am! field performers met today in tlie tnuls of the 3()th annual Big Ten outdoor championships at Dyche stadium, Northwestern University. Competition in preliminary events was schedul'd Io begin at 3 p. m. with the finals tomorrow afternoon. More than 200 athl tea were entered. representing, the 10 conference' univ rallies. Coaches and other track followers hailed the assemblage us on°! o' (he greatest fields in the history of the midwest collegiate athletics. I Tit y said at least six conference |i records and perhaps one or two more marks would be endangered in the 16 events. Michigan. Illinois and Wisconsin appeared as the strongest cont' ndeis for the 1930 championships, with Ohio Stat.- and Indiana promising to gather up enough points to make the meet a nip and tuck affair. The international amateur athletic fed ration recently recognized a mark of :09.5 nrlue by Tolan in tlie e ntury, but rejected Simp-' son's unofficial record of .09.4 be- i cause he used starting blocks. G Fast time is expected in the high hurdles where Lee Senunan. Ulinids run and jump exp-rt, will meet such speedsters as Sailing of la.;|i Rockaway and Black of Ohio State.: Zi se of Wisconsin; Haydon of Chicago, and Rodgers and Etnyre: of Illinois. Senttnan and Rockaway ai<- expected to provide another thinler in the low hurdles. Rutt Walter of Northwestern is legal ded as an almost certain point winner in the 440. which he 1 won with ease the past two years. ; Orval Martin of Purdue was ent red in tlie half mile, mile and two mile runs. He was expected to run in only two of them and win both. Tlie field events line up as follows : Shot put—Sammy Behr of Wisconsin and big Wayne Munn of Minnesota each will make distances ot about 48 feet. Discus — Brooks and Sanderson of Michigan against Behr and Simmons of Wisconsin. Pole vault — Tome Warne of| Northwestern favored over McDermont of Illinois and Canby of la. ! High jump—Ted Shaw of Wis-

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consln over Carr and Miller ot Illinois. Broad jump Ted Shaw oS-DMGIU Broad jump—Gordon of lowa by u foot. Javelin Weldon of lowa against the fl Id. Hammer throw — Campbell of Michigan. , Indiana nnd Michigan probably i will fight it out in tlie relay and, finish ahead of Northwest rn, Wls cousin or Chicago. q —... i , —......— — -...— ■ i l BASEBALL BRIEFS < St. Louis Cardinals today wenperched atop tlie National league, having climbed from last to first I place In the brief span of 16 days. The Cardinals climaxed th ir sensational spurt yesterday by defeating th' Cincinnati Reds, 4 to 2, for i their 13th victory in 14 starts and I took the lead with a half-game margin over Brooklyn. Socks Seibold knocked the BrookI lyn Rollins out of the National lea--•u lead, 6 to 5. Seibold pitched ' he entire th ■ Brave s and ’ drove in tlie wining run with a single tn the ninth. Walter Johnson's fast stepping Washington Senators Increased their American league lead to 3 full games, defeating Boston in both games of a double header, 3 to 2 and 13 to 1. Bump Hadley bested Milton Gaston in a burling duel in the opener, and Linke held the Red Sox to 6| hits in th' afterpiece while his mates pounded out 18 safeties. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig laid . down a home run barrag which' : enabled the New York Yankees to defeat the Philadelphia Althletics; in both games of a doubleheader, J 10 to 1 and 20 to. 13. Chuck Klein's homer with Thevj enow on base in the twelfth inning 'gave the Philadelphia Philli s a 10 io 8 victory over the New York Giants in a loosely played game. I George I'hle pitch- d and batted the Detroit Tigers to a 6 to 1 victot y over tlv Chicago White Sox.' Uhle held the Sox to 6 hits. The Chicago Cubs slammed five ; Pittsburgh pitchers for 13 hits ancß defeated the Pirates, 12 to 5. The: Cubs were aided by the wildn-ss' of Pirate pitchers. Tlie St. Louis Browns rallied in the seventh inning to give Rip ColI lins a 3 to 2 pitching victory over’ Clint Brown of the Cleveland In- ; dians. — Yesterday's hero: Babe Ruth, whose big bat lifted three home ' runs in two games against the Aths to set a t new major league'

record of six home runs In twoli days and to tie the major league 11 lecords of live home runs in three 1 cofisecutive games, and six home runs in four consecutive games. HARTZ IN RACE t Indianapolis, May 23. Hurry , | Hartz, one ot the three American' speedway champions who will com- , i pete In the 590-mlle race for SIOO,-' I oot) nt th ' Indianapolis Motor |Spe dwuy Decoration Day, who has plot ridden u race since the full pit 1927 when az ruling cliampion , he suffered an accident which sent him to the hospital for a year. Is I enthusiastic over lilh return to tlvi truck. “G<" . it feels just like old times, "i he beamed as he rolled into the pits after his first ride in the eight idindef, front wheel, two sealer Miller Special h will drive in the lace. "I felt right at home. I was! afraid maybe the long layoff might bav * shaken the neives. But those 'coiners don't look any sharper now phan they used to.” Hartz, a youthful vet ran at thirty-thiee, has been second three pimes and fourth twice in six i ■starts at Indianapolis. Champion ! in 1926 lie will lie riding this y ar against two. two time champions I.ouis Meyer, 1928 and 29 champion and sim-mile race winder in 1928 and Peter De Paolo, 1925 and 1927 champion and 1925 Indianapolis lace winner. He is a figure in , any race in which he titers. It was in a race at Salem that I Haitz was injured. Riding fast in .second place to th l late Frank; 'Lockhart. Hartz attempted to I avoid Leon Duray's mount which' i took a wide slide upwards on the ' board track. Caught sideways of the t.ack. Hartz was nicked by' Peter De Paolo who could not drive . out of his way. 1 I’he car turned over three times,' ' throwing Hartz fifty feet the last I time over and when he regained ' consciousness was sitting beside the track asking his mechanic, ■Riley Brett, "what happened?" ( ; Hospital investigation developed a ' broken right leg and a hide full of splinters. "But the mechanics who lined up the break didn't use exacting racI ing specifications and it was out of lin- a couple thousandths of an inch,” relates Hartz, “and that's what caused all the trouble." Racing wis-acres declared that a year In the hospital, with plenty i of time for meditation, would place Hartz on the sidelin s forever or that if he did attempt to drive, his nerve would fail him. ‘ Bit again tl»«‘ talkativ- track

side spokesmen are wrong. "If I didn't feel that 1 could give the | car a good rid', I'd turn it over to, somebody who could,” remarks! Hartz seriously, after Ills first ride' around the truck. "This race car, has to pay those hospital bills, you know. And If 1 feel I hut 1 can’t j drive It into the money. 1 want| somebody on it who will." Hartz came here many yarn, ago as riding mechanic for Eddie Hearne. He latsr taught Harlan Fengler the tracks of speed, when FenglPr was his tiding male. Suh-| sequently Fengler brought Tony ■ Gulotta, another driv, r In the race, to the track. Motorist Strikes Girl Marjorie Miller, daughter of Mr: . David Adams was truck and knocked down by a “hit and run" automobile driver at the corner of Mi.inoe amt Ninth streets In the west part of tlie city last night. Tie driver of tlie automobile f::i’ d to stop at the red light signal and struck the little girl, knocking her to tlie pavement. She was n t seiiously injured. It was stated today that two women near tiie scene of tie accident obtained tl license number of tile automobile. Autoist Is Injured Indianapolis. May 23 — (UP) Ernest Straub. 24. was alive today, altho gh s'.ilfering from a probable skull fracture and internal iniurie Rier his light auto was crushed leneath tiie wheels of a liacKimr switch engine last night. Trainmen who pried the motorist fr< m his wrecked ear believed him dead, but 15 minutes later he wut able to tell liis name and address. Witnesses said Straub drove through the crossing despite operating warning signals.

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