Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1931 — Page 6

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DECATUR MAY JOIN LEAGUE Baseball Managers Here to Determine Advisability of Diamond Group Clarence P. Maulin, pre*: Jen! of lho Fort Wayne Macabee Athletic: Association and several other northern Indiana baseball fans wore in Decatur Wednesday afte”-] noon Investigating the possibi'ity | of a Decatur independent has dell . teain entering a northern Indian i baseball league. Nothing was decided on. but the i men stated that they would return , next Monday. The north Indiana | league at present has teams at , Fort Wayne, Columbia City, Auburn, Angola. Markle and probably I Huntington. Wabash and Peru. The games Under the league man agement are played on Sunday afternoons. Maulin stated, and much interest has been shown in the various cities where charters have' been issued. Whether Decatur joins the new league rests largely with local fans! and players, it was intimated. The idea is that the new league team would take over last year’s independent team and would also purchase the 7>l<l uniforms and equipment. Mr. Maulin was unable to communicate with William Bell, manager of last year’s team, because the Latter was out of the city, but ] a conference is being arranged for I next Monday at which time a de-; cision will be reached. That Decatur baseball fans are l anxious to enter such a league wa.y shown by the interest shown Lj many fans who were interviewed yesterday by the visitors. o Boxers Continue To Workout For Contests More than 35 Decatur young ■uen are training each night at 7 ; ■lock at Decatur Catholic high abool gymnasium, in preparation 'or the American Legion boxing Tontest which will be held here 'ater in the spring. The work-outs under the auspices of the AdReal Estate Man Gets Quick Relief From Stomach Distress thousands Recommend Tha* You Give This Rentarkab’e Medicine A Trial For Gas Pains. Sour Stomach, Nervous Indigestion. Time after time this new scientific discovery has conclusively demonstrated that it will bring you relief from digestive disturbances.; nervous exhaustion, sluggish and , mn-down conditions or general fa-1 tigue—often where the use of other remedies failed. Thousands have : ? ■■ .. a ne’, W it’ WWWrm ft - JAMES DAILY 20 E. Edgar St,, Evansville, Ind. found Syenol opens the road to j health and happiness. Take for instance the case of Mr. James Daily, who writes the following: “I suffered from gastritis something fierce. I would become so bloated with gas that I could hardly breathe and had to get up nights and take soda water for temporary relief. Then Syenol was recommended to me for this trouble. What a blessing this was. It reduced the bloating and gas in my stomach and made me feel like a different man. Syenol gave me good results and I sincerelv recommend that anyone suffering like I did, give it a trial and be convinced." The experience of Mrs Dally is typical of the relief Syenol can i bring you. Start today with Sven- ; ol! Its herbs and medicines arej, 1-nown to accomplish the most I gcod, and it contains no opiates, narcotics or harmful drugs. So , you can take it with confidence. Syenol can be secured at Holt- ■ bouse Drug Co., and other good I drug stores. , I

ams post American Legion com-1 m tti 1 on boxing ami the public! I is Invited to attend. 11 A.’out 15 more entries are ex-I I pert cd tonight and Friday and it Is J thought there will be more than 55 entries when the deadline arrives. I next week. All young men. inter- ! , ste<| in boxing are Invited to come ! ]to the work-outs elicit night and i l lake part. Q EXHIBITION SCORES Chicago (N) 8; Fort Worth tTLi \ S trailed in StlN to allow Cubs to I j catch train). Chicago (A) 12: New York (N( ; 9. Birmingham (SA) 4; Cleveland ‘t A) 3. Detroit (A) 7; Pittsburgh (N) 4. St. Louis (A) 11: Wichita (WL) : 9. Boston (A) 11; Columbus (AA) ‘ 6 - Washington (A) S: Boston (N> Philadelphia (N) 6: Philadelphia i (A) 2. New York (A) 11; Asheville (P ; L) 3. Hartford (EL) 5; Brooklyn (Nil I Cincinnati (N) 5; Louisville (A I AI 4. , 1 St. Louis (N) 4: Huntsville 3. t Indianapolis (AA) 13; Toronto I (lid 12. < o ; i WORLD CHAMP CATCHES TRAIN Chicago. April 9. — <U.P„ — The 1 world's champion girl sprinter dis- ‘ ' covered that she was a runner of 1 more than average ability by rac- 1 ing for a train —and catching it. Miss Betty Robinson, c. 19-year- 1 ■ old sophomore at Northwestern " , University, runs the 50-yard dash ' , in 5.4 seconds, just one-fifth of a ' i second slower than the men's rec- ! ord. An Olympic champion in the 1 100-metre dash, she is the only co- ' jed to train with members of the Northwestern varsity track squad. .Miss Robinson attributes her "discovery” to Professor C.B. Price, her biology instructor in high ' school at Riverdale. 111. "Professor Price saw me running ( ] after a moving train in March. 1928.” she said. ”1 caught the train • after a dash of about 70 yards. He ( ; seemed impressed with my running and persuaded me to enter , the Bankers’ track meet in Chicago . two weeks later. He trained me,, ( showed me how to start, breathe,,] and move my arms. Two weeks ( n'ter my race with the train I raced , 50 yards against Helen Filkey. an , Olympic runner, and was beaten ■* by inches. Three and one-half months later I won the 100-meter dash in the Olympics at Amsterdam in 12.1 seconds." After the Olympics. Miss Robin- < son continued her track work. She ran under the colors of the Ulin- j I ois Womens’ Athletic club and bei gan to set records. In a track J meet in Chicago recently she tied [ the worlds record for the 50-yard < i dash, and set new records in the , 60 and 70-yard events. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and ? weighs 130 pounds. She has green- 1 ish-gray eyes and is a blonde. Her I complexion is fair. She is soft-- ; spoken, has a hearty laugh, and | walks with a light, quick step. Shell is popular with both sexes. Four times during the interview ■ she was called to the telephone on : the second floor of het 1 sorority: house. She wore a red dress and| , from a chain around her neck hung [a small, gold track shoe with a dia- < | niond set in the toe. She got that i I for defeating Stella Walsh, of < i Cleveland, in a 50-yard race. I ( She had bobbed hair. She likes to dance. She neither drinks nor ] < ! smokes, and gets at least eigh* i: I hours sleep every night. Her 1 scholarship is above the average]' and she has hopes of attaining 1 Phi Beta Kappa. She is studying . physical education and intends to 1 coach after her graduation. 1 “Track is the greatest thing in ( the world for women.” Miss Robin- i son said. “It is a healthful sport and it teaches a girl sportsmanship. I Most girl athletes are good losers ! > —if they have to lose—and mod-' ' cst winners.” I She is a slow starter but usually ] I is leading the pack after the first j I 25 yards. She is training now for| the 200 meter dash and hopes that I ’ event will he included in the 1932 Olympics at Los Angeles. ( Miss Robinson's records includs ' 6 seconds for the 50 yards indoors, end 5.4 seconds outdoors; 6.9 seconds for the 60; 7.0 seconds for the 70; 11.1 seconds for the 100; and 12 seconds for the 100 meters. She does not use starting blocks. In adition to being a track star, Miss Robinson swims, plays baseball, skates, and is a member of j i ! the rifle team at Northwestern.

TEAMS EMERGE FROM TRAINING New York, April 9. —<U.R> — Injur|ies sustained during the spring I training season have wrecked the championship hopes of many ball I clubs in the past but when the 16 1 major league teams line up for their opening gestures of the 1931 ] pennant campaigns next week only I three teams will be without their ' full strength. A United Press survey today disi closed that Adolph laique, veteran pitcher of the Brooklyn Robins, Harry Hellmann. Cincinnati Reds outfielder, and George Pipgras. I pitcher for the New York Yankees, are the cnly three players counted I upon as regu.ars who will not be I ready to help fire t.j opening guns. Luque, who did much to keep Brooklyn in the National league I race last season, is suffering from a dislocated thumb on his pitching hand and probably w ill not be able to take his turn on the mound for another month. Hellmann is suffering from muscle ailments that likely will keep him out the entire season while Pipgras is recovering from an operation for the removal of his appendix and probably will not be available to Manager Joe J McCarthy until sometime in May. There have been the usual number of minor injuries during the exhibition game season but none cf them will handicap players to such an extent that they will not be ready for the season's opener. Sore arms and legs are a common ailment this time of the year but the condition of none of tLe victims is serious. Travis Jackson, star shortstop of the New York Giants, has a sore arm that has kept him on the bench the past four days but after a short rest he should be able to re-1 sunie competition. Harvey Hend-, ricks. Brooklyn utility man, prob-, ably will he incapacitated until Monday with an injury received when struck over the eye by a batted ball. ’ Not only has the spring training, season been devoid of serious in-' juries but it has seen the come- j back of two men who played through the entire 1931) seasen with sore arms. They are Tommy i Thomas. Chicago White Sox pitcher. and Lester Bell, whom the Chicago Cubs counted on heavily last season at third base. Both Thom-I as and Bell have displayed their, old time foim this season and will be ready for the opening games if! called upon. o MONROE PLANS COMMENCEMENT • CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE): Vocal Music. Sermon Rev. Robert W. Rash Vocal Music. Benediction. Commencement Program March Delores Longenberger ! Prayer Salutation Doyle Hoffman ! Music Orchestra Address . . ... Dr. L. C. Hessert, Music Orchestra Valedictory Lois Hoffman Presentation of Class Awarding Liplomas Co. Supt. C. E. Striker Benedit ton. o — MRS. LONGWORTH MAY BE CHOSEN .(XhvTINCUn CROM PAGE ONE) elected speaker in event the republicans retained control or min-" ority leader in event the deniociatsy organized the house. Longworth's death makes the, count in the house stand now 216 republicans, 215 democrats, one farmer-labor and three vacancies. Two of the vacancies were left byrepublican deaths, those of Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin and Longworth, and the other from a normal democratic district, that created by the death of James B. Aswell, of Louisiana. Democrats will make a strong, fight to win the seat left vacant in Cincinnati by Longworth, who was re-elected by the uncomfortably small margin of 3,507 votes in that district last November, with a total vote of 97,455 cast. If a democrat were elected ‘to the seat held for 26 years by Long-w-orth and Wisconsin and Ixmisiana returned a republican and democrat, respectively, as expected, to the house, then pie two parties would be tied with 217 members each, with the decision as to organization resting upon the powerful young shoulders of Paul Kvale, i farmer-labor, of Minnesota. o Cafeteria Supper. Reformed i Church. Saturday, 5-7 p. in. 85-2 t

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, APRIL 9. 1931.

i Life Story of Knute Rockne Leading Exponent of Sport « * * • • • After Four Years as Mail Sorter, “Rock” Headed for South Bend, Where He Secured Part-time Job as Janitor, Working His Way Through 1 College Whose Colors He Made Famous. -j* iellM 'I i—■ " I » a I DoSus Kuo YE AS A High 1 School GtSADUATE fl I Jesse 1 iwli gn Haweev| 1

CHAPTER 111. | South Bend, Ind., April 7. — The four years between graduation from high school and his matricu-, lation at Notre Dame constitutes, perhaps, the most critical period in! Knute Rockne's career. He had been brought to this country from 1 Norway in his sixth year, he learn-1 I our language among other things ; during his eight years in grammar ! school, and he was graduated from | high school with a good record in ; I his nineteenth year. From June, I 11906, to September. 1910, he work- | ed in order to raise’ funds to go to, : college. Many myths have been spread! concerning those four years whin ’’Rock” was out of school. Leg-, ends had it that he hardened him-; i self for football as a lumberjack l in the Canadian woods, as a sailor| :on the Great I, kes. as a tailroad; jgang laborer, and as a stockyard stevedore. But they are only colorful imaginings. Indeed, during inearly all that critical period Rock]ne was a U. S. mail employe—a I sorter and distributor of mail from ! a Chicago postoffice. He played I little or no football during those four years, hut he did exercise regularly in gymnasiums and was good enough to qualify as a halfmiler with the Illinois Athletic! Club. Ro.ane always had fond recoi l lections of his postoffice fellowworkers. though he was never en-| thusiastic over his experiences with the civil service system, “uneven and unfair”, so he declared. Famed for his meme.-y, he cred ' ited considerable of its develop-! ment to his practice of memoriz-i ing all the mail distribution points ] and train schedules south of Chi-, cake. “It was rather easy for me :to remember intricate details of i various plays after the post of : fice experience,” explained Rockne ' in later years. i On a salary of aoout $lO9 a month, the thrifty Knute saved

about SI,OOO in four years aiid.il 1 finally, he seemed “all set" to real-il ize his ambition of entering the Uni- 1 versity cf Chicago. But inquiry 1 showed living conditions were high i i there and also at Champaign, 11’... I when he turned towards Illinois,! University. He could not obtain assurance-1 of outside work in either place. I Finally, he Jearned through two 1 pals that there was a good chance 11 of being able "to work one's way” 1 i through Notre Dame. And so he j i ! headed for South Bend, Ind.,! where he obtained a part-time job, as a janitor in the school's chem-j leal laboratory, in which, a few ] vaafh latpr Hp was tn fnnpfinn an

years later, ne was to r unction so well as an instructor in chemistry. I Now Knute was in his twentythird year when he entered Notre I Dame, the age at which most stu-l dents are seniors there. When the; fall term opened in 1910, the uni- 1 versity had about 400 undergraduates on its rclls (there are more than 4,500 students there now), and Notre Dame had hardly any football prestige. , i “Shorty” Longman, former Michigan star, was in charge of gridiron activities and he was the first varsity coach “Rock" ever met. Knute joined the squad but it was not until the middle of his sopho-

I more year that he got a chance to play, and only for a short time. I against Pittsburgh. As Knute later: .(admitted, he was not so hot that I .day, being blocked out of play and , his end turned on several occas- j ions. But he was learning and in ■ the fall of 1911 he became chumrtiy with another future star. Charles “Gus" Dorias. That was 'he .start of one of modern football’s most brilliant combinations — the Castor and Polhtx of Notre Dame’s glorious grid future. They played well on a fairly good varsity in 1912. Rockne was elected captain I for 1913. i During the summer of #913, Rock- 1 !ne and Dorias got jobs at Cedar I Point. 0., a Lake Erie resort on ’ the beach of which Knute and I “Gus" practised forward passing (With a football during most of their ; daylight off hours. There was ger-1 . minated the gridiron s “Air Age!" There was born the prime element of Notre Dame's future fame. There was formed one of the greatest twoman combinations in American annals. That fall the season’s biggest i upset and thrill was furnished by I Notre Dame when Dorais-to-Rcck-l ne routed a strong Army team, 35-1 113, in the most glittering display! ( of forward passing ever seen at; , West Point or on any other east- j lern gridiron. The next day, and I for weeks thereafer, the press acj | claimed a great new power in football. Notre Dame's star had risen, with Dorais and Rockne as pilots iof the game's air age. That was the year of Jesse i Hawley's debut as Notre Dame’s | coach. He had succeeded Jack Marks, who, in 1911. had taken (“Shorty" place. Rockne always had a particular liking for] Marks, even though the latter had j , tried him out as scrub fullback I '! where the 150-pound “Rock" re- ; ceived many a battering from such physical giants as the plunging 1 Eichenlaub and the concussive

Bergman. Marks finally dropped! Knute from the regular squad to a | hall team, but his methods had. hardened “Rock" until he was| about as tough as they come at football. And finally he made the team as an end. In the winter of 1912-13 Rockne's father died and, though he made the track team that spring as a half-miler, Knute was on the point of abandoning college when he! heard that another coach was to [succeed Marks. However, when he ( met Hawley at the South Bend , railroad station, they "clicked" ; from the start. Furthermore, Rockne and Dorais had norfprtpd thpir naßsine' tramp

nan perrectea tnetr passing game. | and Hawley gave free reign to that genius of his enterprising | "airmen.” Their triumph over the : Army was so impressive that the iWest Point footbaH authorities se-l I cured permission for Rockne and Dorais to stay a week near Storm King to teach the Cadets passing , technique. They were apt pupjls. ! When Navy met the air-minded i soldiers in their climax game ■ Pritchard and Merrilat overwhelml ed the Middies in Dorais-RockneJ : j fashion. That brief session with the Ca i dets was the first actual coaching • experience for both Rockne and

1 (orals. It was epochal so far as the open, passing game is concerned. It set the seal of genius on Notre Dame toutball and was the leal start of the so-called "Rockne system" that has evolutionized high <lass gridiron tactics and strategy.; What happened to "Ruck" after I being graduated and attached to the Notre Dame faculty a* an assistant chemistry instructor up until the time he became head coach at South Rend will bo described in (he next chapter of the Norseman Who Discovered American Foot ball as it is today. a. o ( HARLEY COVERDALE IS HOME FOR BIRTHDAY CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) oi.‘lm (.till travel and a-ranged to be here at this time so that ho can enjoy his three-score and tenth anniversary in his old home town.

The party for that event on April 15 will be planned and executed vith assistance of his two sister.--Mrs. George Dutcher of tins city and '*>•«. Alle<-ar of Marion. Indiana. Charley doesn't 100 kseventy. has; excellent heal.h and the old smile] | whi< h made him a famous life insurance man. The Daily Democrat congratulates I yon, old man, on your achievements financially, physically and tor your good sense in stopping 'n time to erfov li'e instead of trying to accumulate all the money in the world ’ (Hope you live seventy more. 0 To Limit Broadcast Indianapolis, April 9. — <U.R> — Radio broadcast of the 500-mile j race at the Indianapolis motorspeedway May 30 will be limited I ] to the last hour of the race, it was j I announced today by the speedway | management. ; Graham McNamee will take the , microphone as the race approaches ; the finish and describe the final le-'< tails over a nation-wide network.: In previous years tlie entire event < have been broadcast. ]

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ATHLETICS ARE 1331 CHOICE New Yolk, April 9.—<U.R>—The ' Philadelphia Athletics, winners of two consecutive world champion ! ships, are heavy favorites to win \the American league pennant for! I the third successive year, a poll of (he eight United Press correspon-] |dents attached to the various teams lin the junior loop revealed today. Five of the eight correspondents who have been'with their respective clubs sit:-i“ the start of the training season, picked the Athletics for first place while the other thiee picked Connie Mack’s protege's for the runer-up position. Here are the way the clubs will 1 finish in the opinion of the correspondent? Philai’- i, Washington, New York. Cleveland, Detrclt, Chicago,

St. Louis, Boston. This, save that the St. Izniis Browns finished ahead of Chicago, is exactly the way the teams stood at the close of the 1930 race. O Faces Murder Charge New York. April 9. —<U.R)I —Harry Stein, 32, known to police as a Broadway racketeer, dope peddler, I and petty thief, was charged today] with the murder of Vivian Gordon. The charges were placed against I him after police questioned him i thoroughly on the strange slaying |of the red-haired woman. REV. SCHULTZ GIVES ADDRESS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON'Ei temporal things means dishonor and punishment, however this is the punishment which follows unfaithlulness in the administration of the divine mysteries of God." A number of fine thoughts were expressed by Rev. Schultz who complimeflted the efficien.y of the

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