Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1930 — Page 8

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SCHMEI.ING TO I FISHT SHARKEY Chieu m, D' • 11. -d.R) Reports | that Jack Sharkey has agreed to | te:ms for it championship tight vlth .Max Sehmeiing at New York rext sumtn r arouaod inion st to . i t!(ty at the training camps of young; ' Stribling and Tuffy Griffiths, rank-.' i teg heavy weight contenders. who} m et Friday night at Chicago staI cii tn. "They’re count tig me out of the' ! picture, but they'll have to change ; th sir p'ans after tomorrow," siyid i Griffiths. “I'm out to beat Strlbl-i ing and tak the top ranking. The] ts say Sharkey is willing to' meet the survivor of a Carn.rtl-- | P'rthling bout and then take on I Max. but I notice he hasn’t said he, vns willing to fight me. lie ducked me Inst winter because he kn w' i bo" couldn't whip me and h 'll try; I to do It again. However, if I heat 1 S’ , r:b’ing and I'm confident I will - -he won’t be able tc dodge the [ Issue 1. cause a Siiarkey-Scbmeling return bout wouldn't draw ex-j Iras s unices Sharkey first dimin-; nted all worthy contenders." Stribling disagreed with Tuffy I regarding the outcome of tumor-1 I -t iw's fitht, but joined in the cpn-l , 1 n that the survivor would hav 1 < inside- aide to say about the next ' vyweight championship fight. “So Shark y has agreed to fight S hmelitig!” Stribling commented v ith a grin. “Well, he won't have t bother if thev carry out .Madis-'

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11 n Square (laid n's announced pro- | gram of having Jack qualify for } the i hane ■ by fi-st meeting the ( w nner of it 15-round bout bet we n I Primo Camera and me. ‘Of course it makes it nice for ' Sharker to avoid meeting Griffiths and Camera twt cont ndera lie has dodged previously. lil -tak' care of Tuffy tomorrow and Pve proved my ability to beat Camera, If they want to put Sharkey In the semi finals without fighting I supi pose they'll do it, but I'll guarantee ( he'll g t no further. "Sharkey has been given a Id ,of .championship (hancts on a s'l ; ver platter end fouled his way out. I The boxing public will not support I -him again unless he proves his I I right to the chance." ' Stribling and Griffiths were both; 'resting today for their fight tc-l morrow and both app ared in topj ion lit op. Griffiths weighed 188 pounds when he completed his I workouts Wednesday with Stribling three pounds heavier. Stribling remained a 2 tn 1 favlorlte in the betting, hut ther was plenty of G ifl'iths money in evi-; d nee and a reduction in odds ap-l j .-ared probable. o St. Jospdli Team to Hav at Ohio City ‘ Coa.h Hockey Mylott will take his St. Joseph Eighth grade basket- . ball team to Ohio City Friday night I where the local team will meet the I Eighth graders of that town. Coach Mylott stated today that his aggre-j cation would be bard to beat this season.

PURDUE, IRISH .| GAME PLANNED I* i I —— ■ .. —— ■ —■. >—- -I- -« *■ 41 I NET TICKETS ■ Because of the unusual interI est that has bo it un used in J the I’urdue-Notr Dame basket- . bail gnme Monday night, arrangements have been made to shift the site of the game from M mortal gymnasium at Purdue to the Jefferson high | school gymnasium in Lafayttte which will accomodate close ti: f»,oo<> fans. Plenty of reserved seat tickets for the game will be available up tin- i i til game time, according to I ticket manager C. S. Doan. ♦ ♦ Lafayette. Ind., Dec. 11. (U.R) — ' Purdu- 's rebuilt Big Ten basket- : hall championship quintet has been' working ovort'me this week in' I preparation for its open rof the season here Monday night against l , the strong Notre Dame five that ■ op-tied the season Monday with a ; decisive victory over Kalamazoo. - Minus the Murphy-Harmeson- ; Poots tri that s curely enshrined i Purdue's teams of the past three ears in basketball's hall of fame, ' Ward Lambert,' th ■ Bqjle’.maker I hardwood genius, faces a tremetmot’s task in attempting to frame i his title d fenders around two! i regulars from last seasi n. John i \ Wooden. All-American fluor guard, | land Hairy Kellar, clever floor ; working forward. Brand new sac s are bound to

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| appear in the hulk of the posltlcn.-i when the Bdlermnkers take the i court against the Irish, for iatmI bert is forced to depend almost enliitdy on sophomores in filling the places left vacant by graduation. Hi h Pornte. of Fort Wayne; Hay Eddy, of Columbus; Stewart, of Attica; Snyder, of Kokomo; Miner. of Fort Wayne, and Paul Moss, of Terre Haute, are among the soph mores who may break into the lineup. . o COLLEGGE BASKETBALL By United Press Indiana, 26; D pauw, 18. Earlham, 1,8; Miami (Ohio), 16. Oakland 27; Rise Poly, 16,j o Indiana Beats DePauw Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 11. —(U.R) An auspicious opening (if the basketball s ason was registered by Indiana university's quintet, when I defeated Depanw last night, 26 to 18. Both teams showed up in eaily s ason fortn. with c< nslderable lagged work, but with fiasho.4 of' the speed and agility which may b ■ expected consistently later in ' the year. Last year Depanw defeated the. I. U. t am. 26 to 24. Veller, Indiana guard, and Rags I dale. Depanw forward, topped the; scoring w ith eight points each. I Deller, Indiana forward, and Eu-1 bank. D pauw center, came close to them with six p- hits each.

Mixtine of Language* “Afrikaans” is the mime given to the language spoken and written hi the descendants of Dutch. French and German eotonists who settled In South Africa prior to the P.ritisn occupiition of |sti(i. |t is also known ns ('ape Diltcli Afrikaans, developed from the Seventeenth century din lects of tlie province of Holland. o Success Recipe N’o workman need he ashamed ot his calling. It is a divine decree tliat "man must live hy Hie sweat of his brow." But we are not for hidden to mix a little brain work witli <mr perspiration, and the com bination is that much desired thing success.—Grit. o Police Use Airplane* Airplanes re now a part of the equipment ot the police department of Paris, amt ire to be used, when the necessity arises, fol patrol work over the city, watching the traffic and giving notice of any threatened disturbance of the peace Early Advertising The first American advertise merits appeared in 17SS in the New Englund Weeklx .Iniirmil. being an nouncements relative Io books coffee, slaves and arrival anfi de partiire of ships; magazine adver tlsements began with Scribner's monthly in IS"<t o Minute That Seems a Year A day on lhe newly found planet Pluto is the equivalent to 2;'(i years on earth So we Imagine a Pin tordan could grow a beard and raise a family while awaiting the return of the gent whose signs says. “Bad in Ten Minutes." Why Not Experiment? It Is a fact that a chord played on a violin in one room can draw a sympathetic note from another In strument or even a tumbler in a different room. It Is all a matte' of vibrations of the atmosphere. o Soup for the Invalid Before serving soup or beef tea to a child or invalid, take a piece of tissue paper and draw it two ot three times over the top. This will remove every sign of fat. which is usually so oblectlonahle to Invalids <>■■ Big Choice of Rel gion* Tile I'nlted States al the present time has more than 212 religious de nominations with 2.'l2.t*'Ki places ot worship and nearly 4.*i.trioina mem hers There should be no ditlicillty about finding a form of worship f<suit any taste. Railways Found Want.ng In 1825 t was stated in the Brit Ish house cl commons that the ex pertinent ot coin eying goods on a railway mid been tried and had completely failed lite best loco motive that could be found had beep selected, and rhe average rate on t plane surface was less tluni three and three-quarters miles an horn, which was slowet than citlilll conveyance.—Detroit News. o Useful in Canning Pectin in preserves is a substance which appears in nmny vegetable tissues as a constituent of the sap or cell wall. Third, tart, ripe apiiles or oranges mid lemons are usually used In the making of pectin. Apples need not tie fieeled. T'ne outer yellow riltti of oranges or lenmrfs Is not used, nor the edible fruit. Tile white peel is the part used. o Leap Year Di:-c.irded The calendar adjustment device of a leap year was introduced Into Egypt in 2fiß B- but wits later (Iropped

DnSKMWL d h. ». ——l Friday's drawing near. oOo — Boat St. Rose. —oOc — I Beat South Side. —oOo — All the two Oscatur teams have to do to win Friday night is ta play the kind of basketball they've been playing the last few games. —oOo — Buck, who organized the Suburb I alumni team for the charity game i 'ast Tuesday night praised highly the officials, lh j teams, etc., etc. —cOo — And the spoils writer of the I Muncie Press says in commenting lon D cr.tnr humbling Huntington, | 'Whoever heard of Decatuf.” —oOo — Which makes our blood boil to various temperatures—The CurtLmen in the last five years, year in and year out, have played a harder i than the Muncie aggregation and have lost fewer games. —oOo — From now on, we’re dead set against Muncie basketball teams. —oOo — Anyway, Huntington has heard pbnty of Decatar the* last five years. —< Oo— BEAT SOUTH SIDE. —< Oo—BEAT ST. ROSE. —-i Oo— The Rump Parliament, which meets at Joe’s place every morning and night to determine the big questions of the diy is basketball-ically inclined these days—since the footDali season is over—and the gene al opinion is that the Yellow Jackets have one cf the test net clubs Decatur high school has ever had. —oOo — Os co” s the season is young—and even the best chinaware can hut last week-end was a tough test for the Curtismen and they came tniougb in great style.

—oOc —- The two Hill boys, Jake and Vernon, while not relatedcertainly; are athletically ielated and they wo;k together like a couple of twins — —oOo*— The G. E. net aggregation this year is playing real basketball. The local independ.nt team has a great schedule, playing teams t’rcni Michigan, Ohio and Indiana — —oOo — Manager Carl Smith stated that thj team this year was the best the club has ever had. —oOo — Carl is a hard working manager, but he has a lot of boosters who help him out with the seat sale, etc. —oOc — The G. E. club team even finds time to help out the Good Fellows club, and nxt Thursday night that team will meet Kirkland Whippets ! n a charity contest at Decatur high school gymnasium. —oOo — If other D’catur people paid as much held to the Good Fellows appeal as do the members of the G. E. club, the fund would be well over the thousand dollar mark, —oOo — EEAT ST. ROSE— . BEAT SOUTH SIDE. —oOo — Tonight Notre Dame welcomes home its championship football tram with a banquet —The banquet will be served by a number of freshmen football playets. Petie Mylott, son of M'. and Mrs. M. J. Mylott of Decatur will be one of the freshmen servers. —oOc— But that's not all we’re going to hear of Petie at Notre Dame—Our guess is he’ll be playing Irish basketball before many winters roll around. —oOo — And the Notre Dame football team certainly deserv-s all the praise its fellow students can give—for really and truly the Rocknemen went over the rough football season, as no team evsr did. ■ o Longest Rivers The ten longest rivers In th* #orld are: Amazon, 4,000 miles: i Nile. ft.re.X); Yenisei, 3,200; Yang tse, 3.100; Congo. 3.000; 3,000; Missouri. 3.000; Amar, 3,000; Mekong. 2.800; Nile, 2,000. Nation’s Currency All the paper currency of the United States is made at the bureau of engraving and printing at Wash Ington. coin money only being made at the mints la various sections of i the country. I

Picture Is Withdrawn 1 Berlin, Dec. 11.—(U.R) -The war film, "All Quiet on the Western Front," which has ja tsed u stoim of protest and tms* rioting dur-i ing its Showing here, was voluntarily withdrawn today by the producers. They acted without awaiting the verdict of the censor, who was cotiHid ring what course to take after tlie etildiiet hud viewed the picture, —o r- v Visiting the Sick Don't laugh. I”ke and hold loud converaiitloii In tlie room of tlie In valid unless he is practically well. ' Otherwise your trying to be funny i will only make him very nervous. Be cheerful, hut In n nice qule’ way. Cro-Magnon People Four skeletons were discovered In the Dordogne ares <rf the Cro | Mugnon cave, near Les Eyzles. i France. In 18(18. They Indlcnted thut a till! people with large skull* —larger than those of modern msti —hud In habited tluil part of the world. “Coffin” or "Ca»ket” ? Coflln Is the generally accepted term in use today to designate the box-like receptacle in which a body Is placed, and this use dates from the Sixteenth’ century. The term casket has been In use In tlie Failed States Apr coflin only since 1870.— Literary Digest. Human Desire for Change In the American Magazine. Ralph L. Polk, publisher of city direc tories says that (15 pet cent of the people in cities chiinge Iheii home or business address yearly Even ' Including the country, not one per son In a thousand avoids some sort of change every five years. c Relieving the Weary In olden days a convenient rest was provided on a London street ' for packmen and peddlers. It still | stands In PieciidlUy near Park lane i The rest Is a horizontal plunk j plnceit shoulder high on two u;s rights and lust rigid tor the weary peddler to back up to It to rest anti shift the weight of his l<>nd. o Time Added to Value Samuel Johnson got only living expenses out "f Hie seven years he spent compiling his famous diction ary. But a short time ago it single page of definition in his liandwrit Ing brought SII.(KH) at auction — Golden Book. Cleaning Leather Leather picture frames and port I folios may be cleaned with benzine Ap|>ly il with a soft cloth and h ; the benzine removes the laillsli np ply the well beaten white of an egg ————o Ancient Well Still Used Excnvntbuis Hl Pompeii-’br.nielit to light an arleslan weH vith a number of cotuieelliig pipes It still furnishes a hme qmimity ot wutet ! which is used to simply the form j tains that linv“ been i' -e>irth<-d o Influencing Friend hip There is [terhaps no time at wltici ; we are disposed to think so hlghh i of a frienff ns when we find him , stand'ng htghe. than «> ovei-tef’ in the i steem ot ythers S'-olt. 0 Poor .('nd of Invention "Speakin of Inventions.’’ salt’ Unde Zhen “de nsin dal puts n his time ircent’n' nuliin but ex crises don’t stand much show" Washington Star — o Stocking Substitute Women In oriental countrie stain their feet with henna some times binding their legs with rib bons sandalwlse before ap|tlylng tic dye in order to nroduce h nntterne effect. Dried Up Lemon* If lemons t.ecnme hard, souk thei for a half an liimr In warm wate and they will yield much more fulci than if soiieezed when they wer hard and dry o ( Word* Each word in a book is a magic finger that sets a fiber of our hniti vibrating like a barpstrlng and sc evokes n note from the soimdin-j board of our soul. -Anatole France i RUPTURE I E. J. MEINHARDI, of Chicago tho well-known Rupture Shield Expert, 1 is coming here again. He will personally be at the Anthony Hotel, 1 Fort Wayne, Ind., on Monday only, i December 15th, from 10:00 A. M. to 5:00 P. M. SPK( lAI, NOTICE— All euetemvrs ChHi he ha- fitted lure during the Inirt ten yearM are Invited to call for ißMpeetion. AH other* are luvllrd toi <-nil and InveNtlgate. There i« no! rhurire for coiiNiiltatim. Come in and talk with theme former cuNtomerN r«gnrdlng their experience with thin applinnee. Tlilm vixit Im for men only. Mr. Meinhardt says: r i he 'Meinhardt Rupture Shield” not only retains the Rupture perfectly but it also contracts the opening- in ten days In the average case, regardless of the size or location of the rupture. ’rhe “Meinhardt Rupture Shield" has no understraps. It is perfectly sanitary, practically indestructible, and may be worn while bathing. Rupture often causes Stomach I Trouble, Backache, Constipation, Nervousness, and other ailments which promptly disappear aft r thei .Rupture is properly retained. Ihou-! sands of deaths from rupture can I be avoided. Pleawe note the above date* and office hour* carefully, un lie will not viuit any other city In thl* nectiou nt tbl.4 time, t rills visit In for white people only)—nE. J. Meinirirdi, Ilomel Office, 1551 N. Crawford Ave. Chi- * cago. Advt <

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