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YOUNGSTERS TO REPRESENT 0, S, "New York, April 10.- IJ.R? The United States' slim 1931 Davis cup hopes rest squarely on the should-j ets of two young Now Yorkers Sidney Wood, a flaxen-hatred strip-1 Hpg of 19. and Frank X. Shields, dark-haired, 20-year-old stalwart. . The two New Yorkers, newcomers to international play, have been named by the United States Lawn Tennis Association as the nucleus' tor the Davis cup team in compel tition with Mexico, Canada and the: South American finalist. If suc-| cfssful in these matches they are expected to team with George Lott and John Van Ryn, veteran cup competitors, in European competition. Bill Tilden and Frank Hunter,! Davis cup aces of former years,! have deserted amateur play and with Johnny Doeg and Wilmer Allison unavailable for foreign service, Lott and Van Ryan are the, only veteran internationalists re- i maining for this year's play. Lott and Van Ayn will not compete in American zone matches. They will sail for France May 1 to represent the United States in the French championships and to prepare for the European zone Davis cup matches, in the event the United States comes through in this zone. Allison has been named to team with Shields and Wood in the games with Mexico, at Mexico City, May 1,3, and 5, but is not expected to be available for the matches with Canada and the Amemican zone finals with the South Amer-WEEK-END SPECIAL Roses, 85c per doz. 2 dozen $1.50 DECATUR FLORAL COMPANY Phone 100

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I lean finalist. Doeg, 1930 outdoor champion and ' No. 1 ranking player, has announced that he can not take the time 1 from his business affairs to comi pete In Davis cup matches, marking the first time the United States’ national champion has not been included on the Davi? cup team since competition was inaugurated in ; 1900. Clifford Sutter of New Orleans, I Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. Greglorj* Mangin of Newark and Berkeley Bell of Austin, Texas, have been named as candidates for the team and reinforcements for Woods and Shields will be picked from Ithis group on the basis of their I play in forthcoming southern tourn- ; aments, , Shields and Wood are ranked i second and fourth respectively in national ratings. Shields has been regarded for several years as the heir apparent to the American throne, while Wood was unknown until last season —his first of maj|or competition—when he won four i tournaments against first-rank competition. He is looked upon as one of America's coming stars and is ranked by Vincent Richards as the i best tennis prospect of recent' ! years. RENIER RUMORS OF DISSENSION Chicago, April 10.—As the Chicago Cubs move nearer home for the opening of the major lea-, gues baseball season Tuesday ' against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the 1 question “is there dissension in the j ranks of Hornsby's team?" becomes I more insistent. The Cubs have been made favorites to win the National league pennant, but not on their form in exhibition games. In 30 games played up until today the Cubs have won 15 and lost the same number and haven't shown a flick,er of championship merit. The club seems to be physically I fit. but sadly lacking in their playI Ing' against minor league clubs, i The pitching has been almost anything but of big league calibre. There is no ground for the belief that Hornsby hasn't the Cubs well under control. He demon-

strated that when he dismissed Jess Petty, veteran southpaw, in Los Angeles. After releasing Petty.] Hornsby remarked: “No player is going to make his pwn rules on this club." Hornsby gave another demon-1 Stratton that ho will not tolerate| haphazard efforts on the playing; field when he sent Pat Malone to; the showers when the latter forgot himself long enough to wind j up with men on first and second I bases and permit a double steal at! . Fort Worth. The loss of spring exhibition games seldom means much. The results of these practice games are not true indicators of the strength of a team. The New York Yankees, even when they dominated the baseball world as no club has before or since back in 1927 and, 1928, always lost a majority of their games in the spring. Another great ball club which is having trouble in its spring exhibition games is the world champion Philadelphia Athletics. Thus the two clubs picked to meet in the world series are among the worst teams on the eve of the' pennant races. Veteran ball players seldom bear! down in the spring. The risk of, iinjury is one of the many reasons] for the lazy attitude of established j I stars. They don't start leveling! until the games start counting and their pay checks come rolling in. | Hack Wilson, Woody English. and Pat Malone are the three members of the Cubs who have been most disappointing in spring training. Wilson is batting only .302, English but .233 and Malone has lost two out of three games. i ■ One of the brightest spots in the I Cubs' dismal spting showing is the I work cf Lester Bell, who seems to j* have recovered from his arm ail- f ment of last year. He is leading; s the Cubs' regulars in batting with '• an average of .452. Hornsby js just i' behind him with .428, followed by ’ Kiki Cuyler with .418. ° ! “Three in One” Legs ■. Stigler. Okla., April 10 —(UP) — Three legs in one gives a calf owned ’ ’ by a prominent dairy farmer near ( . ere the distinction of having seven I legs. From the right shoulder of the , - calf there grows a large leg about ‘ ; the size of a cow’s leg. At the end ■ of the leg are three senarate and i.dinstmct feet with divided hoots.! ■ hones and joints.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, APRIL 10. 1931.

Life Story of Knute Rockne ■ Leading Exponent of Sport • • • • • • On the Autumnal Winds of 1924, Blazing a Trail of Victory, under the Guiding Hand of “Rock,” Rode His Memorable Quartet —“The Four Horsemen.” i 1 -— — i to : P, y_-J* ? 'A - ■ Hill |HK o g *tM P ckSEMEM I /f n\ r ; WVW V . N Jr—// 1 111 "— _ But ON THE U|W|_„a X. wxlsr Carnegie- /id ' Jr Jr HK Tech game- y/ [Tgi J nw* 1 W WW2i \l -al®!; A Rockne Demonstration 22 ' 1

CHAPTER V. * | 1 f South Bend. Ind.. April .. —Knute Rockne’s last decade (the football [ f seasons of 1921-30, inclusive) was ( shadowed with a few darkly dis-i ( appointing defeats, but blaxingly i • illuminated on the whole with a ; -erics of victories and three super- f teams that were, and are. the rave t ot fans everywhere. A perfect cli- 1 max was reached last fall when < Rockne’s Roamers" ranged the f ■football scene, winning all its t n , games throughout the most diffi- , cult schedule ever attempted by a l , I major team. ‘'Rock's'’ last gang deserve to he known as "The Ini vincibles." It was in most respects l | the most versatile and powerful j machine he eve - built and directed •, in action. It was his sup.erne mas-, | terpiece! |- I But new for the earlier years. In , 1919 and 1920, Notre Dame won s eighteen successive games, not . even a tie interrupting. “Rock's" ■, boys added two more victories (starting in 1921, thus running their total string to twenty straight — j their record victory streak thus far. And then came a dose defeat. lowa jwinning by a field goal, 10-7. Notre i Dame beat their ten other opponI ents that season, most cf them by [crushing scores. In 1922, Army held “Rock's" charges to a 0-0 score, and Nebraska beat ’em. 14-6, in the final game I—the 1 —the only spots on an eight-victory i record. Again, in 1923, Nebraska proved Notre Dame’s Nemesis, this time sullying a nine-win record! i with a single 14-7 set-back. And then rode in “The Four, Horsemen.” On the Autumnal winds of 1924 they swept—Miller. Laydon, Crowley and Stuhldreher —as smooth, as swift, and as effective a backfield quartet as footi ball fans may ever marvel over! They earned that vivid Biblical soI briquet during Notre Dame’s third [successive triumph that season when they seemed to whir from the pages of the Apocalypse to shower destruction itself on a top-notch Army array at New York’s Polo ' Grounds. i Victory’s magin was a tone touchdown. but the 13-7 score inadequately conveys the sheer class of "Rockne’s greatest backfield” that day when riding 'gainst a truly great defense. And Army had that. I They slaughtered Yale the following Saturday. No wonder “Grant” Rice, famed scribe, delved into Holy Writ itself to conjure up the figure of the four mounted agents of earthly destruction. “ And those "Four Horsemen” be-

I hind an equally admirable line, featuring Adam Walsh at center, continued to ride roughshod over I all other opposition—Princeton, 12- [ 0 (a breather?); Georgia Tech j (“Fightin’ Irish” and “The Klan”?) ■ 3<3: Wisconsin ("Poor Badgers!”) , i 353; Nebraska ("The 01' Neme-( sis!), 34-6; Northwestern ("always, 4 tough" I. 13-6; Carnegie Tech t (“Itish" vs. “Scotch”), 40-19; and I Stanford ("Western Football”) on t the Pacific coast, 27-10. in th<>';' season’s finale. Prior to that Army t class, "The Four Horsemen" anlj; their seven "Mighty Mules” of the line had warmed up on Lombard,, 40-0, and Wabash, 34-0. This writer will always hold the impression that, if "Rock” had any| one favorite team, the unit for i which the “Four Hors'men” rode I : was it. And yet, there are two oth- ' er t?eams which have played for ' Knute since that challenge the|[ supremacy of those 1924 “Mules”: and “Horsemen ” In the meantime, “Rock” had al-,' most a re-building job on his hands with the departure ot "The Four ; Horsemen" and most of their potent pals. His next team was beat-, en by Army ("horrors!”) 27-0 and Nebraska (“Nemesis again!") 17-0 in 1925, and Penn State got a tie. 0-0. The "Roamers" did win seven games but—4t was a shock, two defeats in one season! It would have been another No- ! tre Dame 10-game sweep in 1926, , except for an amazing upset achieved by an nispired, Howard-Harpst-I ered Carnegie Teach team late that season. "Reck” took that day off! > to see the Army and Navy play in ‘ Chicago, while the Skibos bounced his boys for a 19-0 loss. The following Saturday “Rock” had soj hauled his "Roamers” out of the] dumps that (hey journeyed all the I way to the coast and nosed out a[ crack Southern California array. 7-6. In 1927, Army walloped Notre Dame, 18-0, the week after Minne- ! sota battered the “Rocks" in a gruelling 7-7 tie. The "Roamers", won their seven other games that I season. And then came the deluge! Knute’s own lost four times in ’2B —to Wisconsin, 22-6; Georgia Tech, 13-0; Carnegie Tech, 27-7; and Southern California, 27-14. They did win five games but — some thought Rockne had run into, a series cf long, lean years like Connie Mack did after breaking Up his invincible Athletics in 1914-15. A few even hinted there must be something wrong, after all, with “The 01’ Man's" system until —

Tile season of 1929 restored the winning streak of Notre Dame, "Rock's" pupils defeating ninep teams with no “set-ups" or "breath-, ers" among them, and then came the Rockne apotheoslsr-his 1930 “Invincibles" — which won ten' straight games on "the hardest of all schedules." Thus Notre Dame has run up nineteen successive vie-. tories. Details of the 1929 and '3O I are too fresh In fan mind for re-1 petition. Suffice it to note Hint for most : of the 1929 season, Rockne w.is ln-i valided with a bone disease which I completely crippled one of his legs and affected his entire physique. He was unable to attend oust of; the games but he kept in direct telephonic contact with bis assistant coaches and many of the players. Last summer, "Rock" was much; improved. He seemed tu be well] on the way to a complete cure! when the original horse from the, Apocalypse rode that passenger! plane to the ground and ploughed Kansas plains with it on March 31. In tomorrow's concluding chapter of this brief series— sketching , sailent features and incidents in the life of the Norwegian immi-j grant child who rose to the very 1 pinnacle of prestige and power in a strictly American game a summary of his main achievements and characteristics will appear. "Rock" the man was an even greater personality than “Rock" the coach! o EXHIBITION SCORES Detroit (A) 6; Pittsburgh (N) 4. Cleveland (Al 1; Birmingham (S A) 0. St. Louis (Nl 2; Memphis (SAI 1- i New York (Nl 7; Chicago (Al 6. Boston (A) 10; Columbus (AA) j 4. Boston (N) 9; Baltimore (IL) 2. Brooklyn (N) 12; Hartford (EL) 8. Washington (A) 10; Philadelphia (N) 5. New York (A) 17; Asheville (P I.) 4. o Cub President Looks For Big Opening Crowd Chicago, April 10— (UP)—William Veeok, President of the Chicago Cubs said he excepted a crowd of 45,000 to see the opening game of the baseball season here Tuesday between the Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates providing the weather did not interfere. More than 17,000 of the approximately 2'3,000 reserve seats already have been sold. rro r { — Resume Practice At Notre Dame Today South Bend. Ind., April 10 (UP) Spring footfall practice was resumed at Noire Dame today under the direction of coaches Hartly (Hunk) 'Anderson and Jack Chevigny, assisants to the late Knute Rockne. The |p notice will continue the rest ot the month. Suggestions to call off spring practice because of the death of the late Norte Dame coach were vetoed I by Mrs. Rockne and school officials. ANNUAL ( LASS PLAY IS GIVEN (CONTINUED FROM P\GE ONE) whose business is waking up towns, breezes into Eureka, just when 'things are the most quiet, and then the excitement begins. Jimmy is called a human alarm and even claims the distinction of having awakened old Rip Van Winkle. Peggy Acton, played by Miss Louise Haubold, who arrived in Euresa three months before, has a prominent part in the excitement which follows and assists Bob in throwing off Wargrim's yoke. ! Jud Fenton, a town character who has si rup! js against working, after long years of laziness finds himself j capable < t actually hurrying in the wakening up of Eureka. Gerhard Schultz as Jud is a typical sleepy town character, whose chief diversion is to watch the flyer pas a through the town. Jud furnished many laughs as he I argued with Mrs. Nelson-Dodd, president of Eureka’s Uplift Society about the uplifting of Eureka. Miss Ruth Winnes played the part of Mrs. Nelson-Dodd. , Miss Mamie Niblick as Virgy Mannion, Bob's snappy sister, who also works on the Eureka News is seemingly the only wide awake person in the town and has many snappy answers to Samson's wonderful stories about ths works of "Bickley"

Fsmed Girls’ School to Quit New Orleans, April 10 (UP)- - < "Miss Lottie’s" or to the nninltiate the Miss Lottie Miller’s School for j Young Ladles is to close Its doors to the daughters of New Orleans’! 'and Louisiana's aristocracy this I spring. For more titan a quarter of a century it has been one ot tho ifew "right places” for young ladies. | -- - — • ■——

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