Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1931 — Page 6

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LOCAL BOXERS ARE VICTORS IN TOURNAMENT Decatur Scrappers Win 6 of *he 7 Inter-County Boxing Contests Decatur amature boxers, competing in the American Legion Decatur-Bluffton boxing tournament at Decatur Catholic high school gymnasium last night annexed six of the seven bouts and showed a swneriority in training and ability. ~ A crowd ct .'.gilt fans attended J tjje contests, maned somewhat by . the refusal of two or three qf the; Uniting scrappers to enter the ring inter witnessing the punishment ■ taken by ether members of their . team. ' In the first scrap, which was a bantamweight argument between Glen Martin of Decatur and Davidson of Bluffton, Davidson was given the decision. The winner outweighed Martin by more than 15 pounds, '

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land the Decatur boxer showed a lot of gameness. Doyle Smith, a young Decatur ! school boy. tossed both gloves into Thurber, Bluffton, a much heavier {opponent in the second three-round ! scrap and won the hearty applause of tlie fans by giving his bigger but not smarter opponent a good I lacing. In the next contest Fanning, 12s. pound local scrapper almost tied Flowers, his Parlor City opponent in knots. Fanning showed his ability at hiding out from his op-1 ponent and then he would rush in at crucial times,and sweep the big-1 ger Flowers completely off his| I feet and almost out of t' ■ : h.*.' He I was awarded the decision a big i margin. A young fellow by the name of [ Mock almost joined the Rip Van Winkle fraternity and was so close Ito going to steep after a couple of I smacks from the gloves of Lobsiger. ;3X pounder, that the latter was awarded a technical knockout before the first round bell sounded. I Lobsiger was pounding lefts and' I rights into his opponent with a I dizzying strength when the sudden | end came. Eddie Anderson. 157 pound scrap-1 per won a technical knockout from ' Pennington. 16b pounds, of Bluffton at the close of the second round.l Pennington suffered a broken thumb

and was unable to finish the third and last round of the contest. He had taken a terrible lacing up to i the time but had showed unusual gameness. Burkhead defeated Louzer, a Huntington boy who was used to till in the Bluffton lineup, in a good three-round contest, Burk- ’ head had a slight edge In two of the three rounds and the other round was a draw. Polly Conrad, heavyweight, defeated Babe Curly in tin* final threeI round contest. Curly was outweighnl several pounds but managed to stay with the Decatur scrapper un 1 'til the end. Conrad, who has had ! considerable experience in the ring ' won all three rounds and had Curly | down twice for the count of nine, i : Curly came back both times, how-| ever with a determination to stay I until the end. oNegro Is Identified Indianapolis, May 12. — <U.R)t —[ I Mrs. Bertha Wayne. IS. Evansville, 1 today identified a negro held by ■ police as the man who robbed and attempted to attack her. Mrs. Wayne said she and her IS months l i old baby were seized by the man l she knocked at the door of a rooming house here after riding frem I Evansville on a truck.

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; HORNSBY SEES ‘BETTER DAYS' J New York, May 12.- tU.R>- RogI ers Hornsby is convinced that his I Chicago Cubs are the class of the J i National league aud believes they • will beat St. Louis and New York II after a hot three team fight for the 1931 championship. , i “As 1 see it, we have the best i hitting club in the league,” Horns Iby told the United Press. "Our pitching has been good and 1 believe will compare favorably with I that of any other team over the 15-i-gnme stretch. , Hack Wilson. ..Gabby Hartnett. Kikl Cuyler and) Woody English are the best men' ‘ln the league at their respective J positions. We haven’t a single really weak spot in the lineup and we have excellent reserves. Why | shouldn't we win?” Hornsby admittedly is disappointed by the Cubs’ weak hitting to date but is confident the team soon will shake off the hitless I slump. He has no intention of tnaking drastic changes in the. lineup or benching his stars, as I was reported in dispatches sent 1 out by correspondents with the team yesterday, although he plans to give his reserves occasional workouts when veterans tij- ,i rest. “The report that Hack Wilson and Gabby Hartnett were to be benched was just one of those rainy day pipe dreams." exclaimed Hornsby. “When major league I 1 teams have an off day the correspondents sometimes become imaginative or inadverdently misinter- ■ pret remarks and someone starts a wild report.

| “1 certainly have no Intention of I benching Wilson or Hartnett. They lave the real punch of our team and ■ I will be In the lineup every day ’ they are able to play. Certainly they an- more apt to overcome a hitting slump at the plate than on the bench. Hartnett, of course will get an occasional rest — he ] ' can’t be expected to catch every - ‘ game—but Hack will be in there every day." ‘ Hornshy explained that he thought the baseball writers had been more than kind to him regarding his hitting and managerial i ability, but that he believed they were mistaken about his lack offielding talent and his reputed 'trouble making’’ proclivities. 1 "1 don’t worry about it,” he said. - "In fact I don't often read base-j I bail yarns except to find out what! ! our rival teams are doing, but 1I don’t like to have these stories of I dissention on our club. I haven't! had a bit of trouble and the play-1 | ers all are giving their best efforts, (whether they like me personally! isn’t important.” Other opinions expressed by the' Cubs manager included: That the Cardinals ami Giants are the Cubs’! most dangerous rivals; that pitching over the entire circuit this! spring has been exceptionally' good; that the elimination of the, sacrifice fly is a big factor in re- ‘ duced batting averages; that the 1 Brooklyn Robins will shake off their slump and cause trouble but will not be a real flag contender; that Bill Jurges, Cubs rookie infielder, is an unusually gcod prospect, and that the Cubs are the I I fines! organization in the world to wo ik for. “Lack of hitting has kept us from looking good so far," Hornsby said as the interview ended, "but we’ll get going and then watch our smoke. They say we're slow because we hit into a lot of double plays, but the fact is we merely have been hitting the ball down to the infielders too fast. When we begin getting our hits we won't .ook slow.” YANKS LEAD i JUNIOR LOOP New York, May 12. — (U.PJ —The! [American league’s 1931 pennant 'campaign apparently is justifying the pre season opinions of baseball . experts. ’ | As the fifth week of the race started the tour teams regarded as 'the strongest in the circuit are ! holding the fi:s>t division berths' 'though the Philadelphia Athletics, favorites to repeat their championship performances of 1929 and 1930, still are a game from first place. Although their margin over the second division clubs is sma 1 and indicates that the race will not be the runaway predicted, the New York Yankees, Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians are 1 sharing the first division places. with the Athletics. The Yankees; in first place hold a one-game advantage over the Athletics and Indians who are tied for second while Washington in fourth position is a game and a half frem the league leadership. When the season started Philadelphia was the favorite to win first honors with Washington a close second and the Indians and Yankees battling it out for third and fourth places. al league contest of the day. Maine

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' Washington advanced to fourth place yesterday by defeating the Detroit Tigers, 14 to 4 in the only American contest played. The Senators clinched the game by scoring . six runs in the first inning. Rain and cold weather forced , postponement of the Boston-Clave- >| land. Philadelphia St. Louis and ’ New York-Chicago games. The St. Louis Cardinals, who also have lived up to pre-season predictions by building up a substantial lead against the western National J league clubs, began their intersecitional competition by dropping a 2 to 1 decision to the Philadelphia I Phillies. Phil Collins, ace of the Phillies' hurling staff, held the Cardinals to seven scattered hits The Phillies got hut five hits off I Bill Hallahan and Lindsey but ( bunched two of them in the sixth ! inning for two runs. Chuck Klein's [sixth home run cf the season tied i the score and Halton's double 1 brought in Arlett, who had walked, ■ with the winning run. Heine Meine pitched the Pittsi burgh Pirates to a 4 to 2 victory over Brooklyn in the other Nationiallowed but five bitt, three of them [coming in the fourth nning when I the Robins scored their only runs. |l'azzy Vance yielded the blows I Four of them the Pirates combined I tor three runs in the fourth inning I (while they registered their other marker in the first, largely because of Vance's poor fielding support. The New York-Chicago contest was postponed because of cold weather while the game scheduled between Cincinnati and Boston will • Ibe played as part cf a double header today. Yesterday's hero: Phil Collins, who pitched the Philadelphia Phil- i lies to a 2 to 1 victory over the St. | Louis Cardinals. Collins allowed ' j tht Cardinals only seven hits and [ was invincible in the pinches. 0 Famous Grid Player To Marry Saturday 1 ♦— -4 | Terre Haute, Ind., May 12. —<U.R) ; —Don Miller. Cleve'and, 0.. attor- [ ney and one of the “Four Horsemen |of Notre Dame,” the most famous football backfield ever coached by the late Knute Rockne, was expect- ! ed to arrive here tonight, preparI atory to his marriage Saturday to Miss Mae Lynch, Terre Haute. Harry Stuhldreher, Philadelphia; Eimer Layden, Pittsburgh, and James Crowley, Lansing. Mich., who I with Miller became famous as the “Four horsemen” when they played through an undefeated season in 1924, will be ushers at the wedding, i o Former Maid Questioned Marion, Ind., May 12 — (UP) — ' State and local autorities were to- ! day questioning Edith Wood. 26, Negro, former maid in the home of i Milton Matter, wealthy Marion resident concerning the extortion ! letter mailed Matter last week demanding $4,500. Strong evidence- was said to be (in the hands of authorities that the ' letter was written by the maid, whose home was said to be in Kokomo. • f) Truck Driver Killed East Chicago Ind. May 12 —(UPt —Peter Probixasnke 24, Foyt Wayne, was killed instantly here when his truck collided with an auto. Fiobigasnke's brother, John suf ‘.-red an arm fracture.

DERBY FANS START MARCH Louisville. Ky., May 12.—<U.R>~— The annual migration of the sport- : ing world to historic Churchill 1 Downs In the foothills of Kentucky was in full swing today. As the advance guard of the 100,000 persons expected to witness the 57th annual running of the Kentucky derby Saturday came to Louisville, all but ono-spf the three-year-olds expected to go to the! barrier for the classic were on the| grounds. j The lone absentee was Ben Block's Morstone, the eastern horse regarded so favorably until beaten at Jamaica yesterday. The other eastern candidates, headed by Mate, Preakness winner, arrived yesterday from Maryland, In addition to Mate the group included Twenty Grand, runner-up In the Preakness, Ladder, Surf Board, Anchors Aweigh and Equipoise, one of the early favorites for the derby title whose hopes received a ' severe setback when he failed to place in the Pimlico classic Saturday. With the arrival of the eastern entries, speculation as to the probable winner continued with the general consensus among horsemen that the race this year would be more of an open affair than ever before.

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