Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1931 — Page 6

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N.O. COACHING I STAFF NAMED Uhiew*. April 21 J.R Notre I T)uni<* Ims completed its organization to 'carry on the work >f th-* 1 late Knuto K. Rockne with the up 1 p intrflCnt of Jesse (', Harper a ! ! director, of athjetics. Ilarpef, who was head fjotoHi' coach al Notre Dame lor five yeirsi before Rockne succeeded him, will take over his new duties May 1 He wilt do no coaching, but will ’ supervise the direction of all ath-l letics. Tlie coaching Jobs will remain in tlie hands of the men already select-I ed: football, Ileartly (Hunk) .Anderson. senior coach, and Jack t’hev-I igny, junior coach; basketbill and baseball, George E. Krogan; track.! John P. Nicholson. Harper has not been in direct ■ contact with athletics since he resigned at Notre Dame in 191 s. but be always maintained u keen interest in them. He always was a keen student of football, and he] tried to keep up with Rockne's development of the game at Notre Daa.Rockne admired Harper perhaps as much as lie did any man. and on many occasions sought his ad • ice before making an important decision. Rockne always informed Harper on •'inside" happenings at Notre Dame, many of which never were made public. During the last football season. Rockne and Harper were perhaps; closer together than fcr a number of years. Harper attended the Note Dame-Carnegie Tech football, game at South Bend as Rockne's guest. Afterward he Jokingly re-1 marked: “Knute, you make me look worse ' every year." It was Harper who first brought .

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the shift to Notre Dame when he i became head coach in 191:!. He learned the shift from A. A. Stagg when he played halfback at the I of Chicago. It was Harper who introduced the forward pass into the game as a real offensive weipon. Harper's lint Noire Dame team, with Rockne us captain and end and Charles Duals as quarterb lek, won the first major intersoctional victory for tlie wist over the east by defeating Army, 35-13, in 1913. In fivt years as football coaah Harper's teams won 33 games and lost five. Army and Nebraska be lt the Irish twice and Yale cnee during Harper's regime. When Harper retired he wanted either Rockne or Dorais to succeed him. The pair planned to settle it by tossing a coin, but Rockne martied and Dorais gracefully withdrew from the running. Harper was graduated from Chicago in 1904 and was football coach at Wabash College. Crawfordsville, Ind., for three .years before going to Notre Dame. During his five years at Notre D ime Harper coached football, baseball, and basket ball. He also coached the track team in 1913 but turned that job < vef to Rockite in 1914. Harper left Notre Dame to take over his ranch interests at Sitka, I Kan., near Wichita, and less than Ifil) miles from where Rockne me’ his death last month in an airplane | accident. Notre Dame officials had codsi l-i erable trouble persuading Harper I to return to bridge the gap after j Rockne. He wanted to take over' the assignment on a part time has-1 is, but eventually gave in to the ( entreaties of Notre Dame men from all parts of the country. It is understood that he will re-: ceive a salary of $15,000. although the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, president of tlie university, did not mention salary or terms of contract in making the announcement.

o BOX!NG SHOW DRAWS CROWD Ah inter-county boxing tournament between Adams and Wells counties may be the outcome of <he Adams post. American I.egion hoxinc tournanjent held at f’athn”c h>h school gymnasium Mondav night and attended by 40()l boxing fans. Eleven contests were held in the tournament and much interest in the f’stic art was shown by i both f.'ghters and fans. Close scraps, maaiy of which were forced , into an extra fourth found, featured the program. Tiie tournament culminated a two-week series of practices held under the ausipices of the Legion boxins committee. It is highly r Iflble tliat negotiations will start Immediately for an inter-! county tournament. HOME RUNS firth, Yankees 3 Stone. Tigers 3 Klein. Phillies 3 ■ Gehrig. Yankees 2 Berry, Red Sox 2 He man. Robips 2 Hornsby. Cubs 2 Makes Thrilling Rescue — Iz.’rtro.i, Ind., April 21—(U.R)— A thrilling rescue, reminiscent of a past era, was effected at Fayette, a Lebanon suburb, late yesterday, when James Girt, restaurant owner, pulled the three-year-old son of Fletcher Brume from a wagon drawn by a run-away team of horses. A moment after Girt ran beside the wagon and clasped the child in nis arm?, the wagon was (lashed against a farm instrument and demolished. Girt was thrown to the ground as he pulled the child from his | precarious perch on the wagon, but neither was injured. I< ■ ■■ Wl I I-1 -OTB

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MAJORS FINISH ’ OPENING WEEK New York, April 21—(UP)- Tim 1931 Major I.eame races entered ' their second week today with Washington, New York and St. Louis at the head of the national. The opening week of competition ( idosed yesterday a< Brooklyn and I Cineinnati won tin it 1 first games of I ihe season. The Robins von from ‘’the. Philadelphia Phillies. 10 to 5. while the Reds' defea.ed Pittsburgh i7to r. | Joe Shaute. formerly wit i Cleve- , land, made his National League dei but for the Robins and held the i i idi’Uies to 11 scatered lifts; Brooklyn pounded four Philadelphia | moundsmen for >5 hits. Nick C (Hop's home run with two Un, two out and the store tied at j : ree all in the filth inning, featiir- j i.d the Reds first victory of th? I • year Two errors by Regan gave the I I ile,ls their first three runs. The New York Giants and the I i Boston Braves played the fir,-.’ I I double header of the season, the I ! Giants w inning the morning game I 4 to 3 and the Braves the afternoon I contest. 1 to 0. Terry's triple, foili >wed by a wild pitch, scored tin | | winning Gian; marker In the open-j The second game was an old 1 i fashioned hurling duel with Socks i I Seibold l.estiiu Carl IHtbbel. Bos-1 1 ton made sevi n hits and New York ' I six. Spohrer’s long fly with the j I bases filled in the ni: t i brought in ' the on y tally ot the contest. Jim Bottomley's sixth inning. I h me run provided St. Louis with winning margin in a 3 to 2 game with the Chi. ago Cubs. Grimes oatpitched Bob Smith and capped the performance of striking out Hack i Wilscn in the ninth. Bale Ruth was the outstanding hero of Yesterday's plav. His two] I home runs, each with a mart on base : gave the New York Yankees a 5 to 1 14 victory over Philadelphia. Tr. • |Athk i<s ■ ot away to a four run; lead over Henry Johnson but could ; I do not Ing with the offers of his s cce.mrs, Vernon Cornea and I'd i Wells. Earnshaw went the route tor I the World Champions. The Boston Red Sox shoved the Washington Senators into a threeway tie for the American League ' lea le. ship by pounding out an 18 to I 3 victory. Boston got IS hits off Was in.ton pitchers after | Crowder had proved invincible the I .irst six innirgs. The Red Sox (knocked Crowder from the box in i the seventh when they scored seven 11um. i Cleveland breezed to a9to 3 vic tory over Detroit in the only other I I game played in the Junior Loop, i he India s collected 14 ..its off Hoyt and Hogsett while Hudlin kept l.’l iger hits well scattered. The Chicago-St. Louis game was , postponed because of Rain. Yost relay's Rero — Babe Ruth ! whose two home runs gave the New I io': Yankees a 5 to 4 victory over j i he World Champion Philadelphial ! At ietics. Ruth is now tied with! i Chuck Klefn of Hie Philadelphia i and Johnny Stone of De-| hroit Titers for the Major League! I home run leadership with three ; each. Seek Ogden’s Opinion * Indian ol's, April 21. —(U.R) Ute opinion of James M. Ogden.; attorney genetai. is being sought' regarding authority of the stat£! l-oard of education to abolish the 1. H. S. A. A., basketball tourna•ments, it was announced by W. A. I 1 Wirt. Gary, member of the coin-j m ttee investigating alleged im-; ; morality at the last annual tourney. • Ogden's decision also will deltas power to call witnesses in its termine whether the state board investigation. Wirt said. 0 Phil S hieferstein of Root township visited in this city today and looked after business.

DECATUB DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY. APRIL 21. 1931.

ROOKIES LEAD MAJOR BATTERS New York. April 21’.—>U.R? Three 11 rookies were among the five leading major league hitters at the (dose of the first week of play in ; the 1931 pennant campaigns, stajtistics compiled today by the T'nitied Press revealed. • I The first week ot competition |closod yesterday with J o Vosmik, j2O-y< ir-.dd Cleveland outfielder, ileiding the batters with a percentI age of .C3C>. Vosmik, whom the InI dians picked up from the Cleveland sandlots, has hit safely fit times in his 22 trips to the plate. Included among bls hits are five !doubles, two triples, one home run ! and six singles. Janies Levy, shortstop for the! St. Louis Browns, and Harvey Wai-< ; ki r. Jletroit outfielder, are the oth--er men facing major league pitch,-1 ing for the first time who finished i among the first five. Levy, who was with Wichita Falls last season, hits an average of .4501 for third place. He has been at, , bat 2i) times and lias nine hits to his credit. His batting has been the feature of Hie Browns' p'ay thus far. Walker, who pluy>*(J with Evans (ville in the Three-Eye league part of last season, has a mark of .444 for a tie fcr fourth and fifth place 'with Oscar MellllO cf the St. Louis i Browns. Walker has hit safely I eight times in IS times at bat. Charles Berry. Boston Red Sox (catcher, ranks second to Vosmik. ! He is hitting for an average of .529. He lias been at bat 17 times and lias rapped out nine hits. Levy is tied with five other players for first place in the number of inns batted in with eight. The oth'er men are Spencer, Washington; ili. Sewe’l, Cleveland; Sheely, Boston Braves; Hartnett. Chicago t'ubs; and Wilson, St. Louis Card(inals. In addition to leading the batters, i A'osmik tops the list in number of i hits. His 14 safe blows gives him an advantage of two over Lindstrom of the New Yo/k Giants and Gebringer of the Detroit Tigers. Following statistics compiled by United Press include games of | Monday, April 20, 1931: Leading* hitters: ! Player, Club G AB R H Pct. V‘ srnik, Indians 5 22 6 14 .630 ( I’ -rry. Red Sox 5 17 6 9 .529 : Levy, Browns 5 20 3 9 .450 Melillo, Browns 5 18 4 8 .444 | H.Walker, Tigers 4 18 2 8 .444, , o / STUTZ ENTERS CAR Indianapolis, April . ' — Racing -(hosts of t e first 500-mile automobile race ever held here in 1911 slut-: i tered ou; ot speed's-memory closet today when a Stutz Bearcat, an ofi.ial factory semi-stock entry was made for the International Sweepstake to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 30. The car entered by the Stutz Motor Car Company of America, lne„ if Indianapolis will be drven by L. L. Corum, who started the race in (he car that the late Joe Boyer drove to a sensational victory her?] |in 1924. It recalls the first Stutz of history , —the car that was built, for the | first 509-mile race here It finished < jin the 1911 race, was named ‘the l I car that made good in a day" by a | pleased public and was the liegini'ing of a big automobile factory. "We don't expect to win the race” President E. S. Gorrell of Stutz | said, in making the eptry. “It is ! not reasonable to expect that a , stock car, built both for speed and ‘roadability, could compete success- | fully win highly specialized racing i cars built for speed only. Vut we I to know this: That our entry will Lie so near a standard iar that we lean take it right off the race course (and mn it on ti e road in comfort. We are making the entry because we feel the Indianapolis race will (be the source of considerable help to our engineering department. We also believe that the public will appreciate the fact that if Stutz make. 1 , a good showing in tlie race it can be attributed directly *o the ■.oundness of our engineering and •onstiuction principles. We know 1 that we have certain features in our <ar that are valuable both on the road and on the track. One of these is our low center of gravity mil safety .made possible by our double drop frame, which in turn is possible because of our worm drive, ’j “The motor we will use in the I Bean at will be our DV-32, our new eight-cylinder engine ith four valves per cylinder and double overhead camshaft. This new construction has resulted in increased horse power, which is reflected in higher speed, with consequent acceleration hi the touring ranges. “Last year there was a Stutz roadster entered in the race by one of our owners in Cleveland. It was made to conform to racing rules in our factory under the supervision of Bert Dingley, vice-president in charge of productlo nand a former well-known racing driver. Mr. Dingley will supervise the preparation of the Bearcat. L. L. Corum', the pilot, is a member of the Stutz experimental engineering staff, will drive the car. We expect the Bearcat will exceed the average of 85.3 4 miles an hour .which Corum set with the Stutz in last year’s race. We consider that mark a very good

Alfonso's Hope ■■Ba ■ i * Junn de l« Cicrva. staunch supporter of King Alfon-o of Spain and father of the inventor of the • autogyro, stepped into the breach of Spain’s political crisis following , the resignation of the Aznar < nbi net, due to the success of th* Re publicans at the recent 'one for a stock engine, when it is remembered that it was set in a 200 lap race over a track with four j corners to the lap.' —.-— MAYOR WALKER REPLIES WITH NEW CHARGES — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) float ion or detail, vague, indefinite: propaganda, upon which a previous I political canjpaign had been wag-] ed, and based on incidents not within tlie administration for which Walker was responsible. After answering in detail the items as listed by the reform commLttee, Walker’s answer urged: “In dismissing charges filed last month against another elected official of Now York. Comptroller Charles W. Berry, you wrote: “It is the governor's responsibility to determine whether or not Hie nature and source of the charges warrant executive action."

I_. — M .. the United Press is your Eye-Witness WHEN THEY BATTLE FOR BOBBY'S CROWNS tOS \ Ire IF • I B M 1119 k ' y 1 ML h Expert United Press Ag Mn sports, writers will w report and analyze the play in the great 1931 golf classics. ||W / By/ U Their accurate, vivid descriptions BM / of the game on tee, fairway and ■ | tg green will be presented to you in W > this newspaper. * M 'jT / JM 1 jF’ wr < I O g X/ / *’ MF - rirnyffew The American and British open and amateur championship tourneys will make fascinating gX reading for the golf fan, United Press stories of the tournaments will be found in Decatur Daily Democrat 1 . —- . — ~

•The city affairs comniittw Is nothing more than an annex of] the Socialist party, masquerading, under a name ingeniously contrived to deceive the public. The] alm thereby Is to gain prestige | which might advance (>lO political fortunes of a group that has boon repudiated rejieatedly and decisively ly *he electorate. Holmes and Wise are hoth enrolled Socialists. Holmes was the campaign (hairman of the Socialist (andldate for mayor in 1929. “Auotner vice chairman of the committee bus been- a chronic office seeker tinder the Socialist emblem. He was Socialist candidate for governor in 1924. for. mayor In 1925. for president In | 1928, for mayor in 1929 and for congress in 1930 (Nor tn a n Thomas). The executive board Includes among others active in the Socialist movement. the. the Socialist candidate for gover-1 nor in 1928 and 1930 (lamis; Waldmann) and a Socialist candl-1 (date for congress .in 1930 (Hay-' wood Brown).” Walker's entire answer, while r.-parently refuting bit by bit all charges, pointed out what be termed malicious misstatements. He cited ceoes in which the accusers erred in names of individuals direct'y concerned, errors Walker; 1 said that indicated carelessness I ■ with facts. ' Walker positively refused to dis-. I .b-irr» tl”-pe ((ty employes, who.se' records, he said, were (dear, and j hich included not only aide and 1 efficient service to the city, but I ('so service with American armed forces during the World War, The answer was regarded as representing ah the adroitness with which h’s political allies and adversaries have credited him. He I appealed to the feeling obvious in . some sections of the country against “Socialism." He "waved i the American flag." He defended the men under him, striking at I their accusers in away intended 1 to hold their unwavering support; | included records, letters, court decisions, and sections lifted from the statute books in support of, the legality of every move he personally lias made as mayor.

College President Hurt Sidney, Ind., April 21 —((JR) -I Serlom* but proHibly not critical

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