Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1931 — Page 6

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GAME STARTS AT 3 O'CLOCK a* Decatur and Avilla independent ttneeball teams will meet here Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock on the West Adams street baseball lot in pie opening game of the Wabash Valley baseball league season. The ’©acatur-Butler game scheduled for last Sunday was postponed because es rain but tickets purchased for last Sunday’s game will be honored at tomorrow’s opening. Maaager Buck Baxter stated today that his entire squad was in Wood condition for tomorrow’s game ynd he stated that he was sure the Decatur team could hold its own against any of the other five teams in the league. Several shifts will be made in the Sunday lineup, Baxter said and an effort will be made to ascertain the strongest Combination. There are a number of candidates for | Tegular places on the team who jyill be given an opportunity to display their art Sunday. ' Tickets for the game can be obtained at the feld tomorrow for 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children over 15 years of age. Child ren under 15 years of age will be admitted free. OLDFIELD IS STARTER Indianapolis. May 16. — Barney Oldfield, speed’s trademark in America, will be the official starter! who will send away the field of cars' in the 500-mile race at the Indian-1 apolis Motor Speedway, Saturday.. May 30, it was announced today by | the speedway management. Oldfield will be waving the wand . over one of his keenest rivals ofl his racing days—Ralph De Palma.' the only pilot who drove in the first j 500-mile race in 1911 who is entered in the coming contest. Barney is not as broken financially as was indicated in recent news dispatches. This information is contained in a message to the speedway management in which the famous advertisement for cigar stumps, now on a tour of the United States by automobile, violently but pleasantly decries the intimation that it is poverty that is renewing its interest in the sport in which he tyecame famous. “It’s true,” declares Barney, ‘ that the stock market crash sent me to the pits for adjustment of my monetary system. But with the aid of ray crew of dollar mechanics I rode back into the race of life with more gold in the tank than 11 had when I deserted the automobile 1 business for the stock market. "That means that 1 beat the market. But I’m not bragging about tjial for the margin of victory was so close that many an old timer fould call it a dead heat. However, I have more financial fuel flran I had when I entered that whirling dervish called the marked sw'eepstakes and I don’t want my friends to get the impression that I'm selling apples, oranges or pencils to keep me in cigars.” Oldfield, despite the gray in his hair is in better physical condition

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I than he has been for many years, i But he does not envoy De Palma, * his age old rival, his ride against , ' speed’s youngsters. it would be an exciting scene to b [ witness Oldfield, the grand old master of speedway racing, sitting in the pits, dispatching his old foeman, De Palma, the two and onehalf mile track flanked by the hottest competition in two continents. ' . Oldfield is a master of strategy ' and knows every trick ami angle of ’|a sport that is as hazardous as it lis spectacular and interesting. He I has forgotten more psychology ol l the speedway than most of the I I youngsters driving today ever will I I learn? Today speedway racing is fasten than it was in Oldfield’s day and[ I the man with the fastest car and I the will to drive it wins the con-1 test it’ his mechanical creation remains together. In Oldfield's active racing time, i strategy was just as important as, driving skill and speed. Races frequently were won by slower cars I I manned by smarter drivers. Old timers declare it would be a treat to see Oldfield practice some of his almost forgotten strategies, through a team of daring young-* sters mounted on a group of fleet cars. o STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct.[ : St. Louis . 1 4 4 ~‘ 8! I New York 14 7 -66 • ! Boston 13 9 .591 I Chicago 11 9 I Pittsburgh 12 12 -500 | Philadelphia 9 14 .391 I Brooklyn 9 15 .375. [Cincinnati 5 16 .238! , | AMERICAN LEAGUE — W. L. Pct.! | Philadelphia I’4 7 .667 I [ New York 14 9 .609 .Washington. 15 11 .577. I Detroit 15 13 .536, ■Cleveland 12 13 .480 .(Boston 11 13 .458. • ’ Chicago . 9 15 .375, ' St. Louis .... 6 15 .286, f ...» AMERICAN ASSOCIATION I W. L. Pct. St. Paul 14 8 .636 j (Columbus 13 9 .591 Milwaukee 13 12 .520 i Louisville 12 12 .5001 Kansas City 10 13 ,4351 Toledo 10 13 .435 Minneapolis 10 13 .435 Kansas City 10 14 .417 j YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Brooklyn, 6; Chicago. 4. Pittsburgh, 3; New York, 2. Cincinnati, 10-7; Philadelphia, «-5. St. Louis at Boston, rain. American League Philadelphia, 4; Cleveland. 0. Detroit. 2; New York, 0. Washington, 8; St. faouis, 5. Boston. 12; Chicago, 8. American Association Minneapo'is. 10; St. Paul, 4. i Milwaukee, 11; Kansas City, 7. i i Only games scheduled.

LOUCHRAN IS GAINING FAVOR New York, May 16 —-tU.R) —Tom-; my Loughran, Philadelphia Isixing. master, stood today in the path of> Jack Sharkey. Max Schmeling, Young Stribling and other aspirants to public recognition as world's heavyweight champion. Loughran may not be the world’s ! | best heavyweight, but the 10,584 spectators who paid $37,183.91 to! ! see him hand Victorio Campolo of i the Argentine a decisive drubbing !at Madison Square Garden last i night are convinced that he is not . far removed from that ranking. Schmeling, Stribling, Sharkey ' and Camera may go through with ; I their scheduled bouts for the [ I ‘world's championship" but until . Loughran is eliminated there are . i many followers of boxing—includI ing the writer —who will regard the titular issues as unsettled. I Loughran’s victory over Campolo [ was a boxing masterpiece. The i retired undefeated world’s light heavyweight champion turned in the most impressive fight of his, I long and sensational career and* 1 won by a wide margin. He not. .only made the giant Argentine , , look like a novice so far as box-|, ing skill was concerned, but he j J actually outpunched his opponent, i. ■ who had been touted as one of the ( heaviest punchers in the division. , The Philadelphian, working', ! under the handicap of a seven inch ■ disadvantage in height and a 184 j, ‘to 232% pound difference in , i weight, won eight of the ten I] * rounds. He lost the first, when hej| i was "feeling out” h's opponent.j; ■ and the eighth when he was rest-'] ! ing to have his strength for a, 1 fast finish, but won every other j I session bv a wide margin. , ■ Camnolo carried out his an- , ' non need intention c,f forcing thel ! fighting, but his rushes were L checked ly Loughran’s accurst * ( punching Tommy evaded the [giant’s wild swings and moved in-( ; side Campolo's flailing arms to ! lenr] hard left jabs and jolting* I left and right hooks to the jaw.l ! Rated a« a cream puff puncher I who couldn't break an egg Toinrnv I I staggered the Argentine on ha’f- ■ n oocesions and had him*' j bleeding f rom nos?, mouth and ear. | Throughout the fight Campolo., * I hog-fat and slower than an army j (tank, lumbered after Loughran. I ; Tommy (lanced away, scoring fre-1 I quently 'from long range, and | ‘ effectively tieing u" his opponent in the clinches. Occasionally he I cut loose and outslngged Campolo lin the close-in battling. The Ar-1 I gentine's only effective punch was , a hard right to the kidneys, while Tommy scored with every blow in j the book. The defeat effectively eliminated Campolo, regarded generally ns | the best heavyweight invader of recent years, from titular consideration. Ijoughran. who has been! attempting to secure a return | match with Jack Sharkey, who knocked him out in his first start as a heavy two years ago, now is! i in direct line for a title chance. Sharkey has shown no anxiety* to meet Loughran but can noI longer evade the issue if he hopes I to earn general recognition as champion. ■ o j THOUSANDS TO ATTEND DERBY I ■ CONTINUED EROM PAGE ONE) i lower in the mutuel betting. Mate, conqueror of Twenty Grand lin the Preakness at a mile and three-sixteenths a week ago, ruled a second choice at 5-2. Barring last minute withdrawals, 115 horses will go to the post. I Scratch time passed at 7 a. m. and Up, Don Leon, The Mongol, Anchors Aweigh. and Prince D’Amour, previously listed as doubtful starters, still were among the entries. Owners were allowed until 45 minutes before post time to make withdrawals. It seemed likely that Up, I Don Leon and Anchors Aweigh would be dropped. Fort the first time in five years a fair day seemed assured. At daybreak the sky was clear and the thermometer stood at 63 degrees. The track was fast. • Outside of the two favorites, the outstanding contenders were Equipoise, a question mark because of the uncertainty of Ms condition; Pittsburgher, the west's chief hope; Ladder, which ra nthird to Mate ' and Twenty Grand in the Preak

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I'lie Bi" Day is here! Interest of the turf world is centered f in Louisville where the best of Xmerica's thoroughbreds face 1 the barrier in the Kentucky Derby. Favorites of the Fast 1

ness; and Boys Howdy, favorite with the long shot players. Those who believe in the law of averages think that an outsider will! come thundering: down the home' stretch to capture the mile and al quarter grind. It has been seven years since a long shot won the [ derby, and five of the last seven years the favorite has come home in front, and in the other two years the second choice was victorious. Zev, paying 19-1 in 1923, was the last lon gshot winner. The opinion of most horsemen, however is that c'ass will tell and Twenty Grand and Mate will stage their Preakness duel over again. "I have only Twertty Grand to beat," said "Big Jim" Healy. Mate’s trainer. * “Mate was going handily at the finish of the Preakness, and I see ino reason why he shouldn’t rel peat," said George Ellis, who will, have the leg cn Mate. “We experienced quite a bit of: trouble in the Preakness," said i Jockey Charley Kurtsinger. who ; will ride Twenty Grand, "and 1 am sure that Twenty Grand is the [best horse. With better luck and [the longer distance I am confident. | Twenty Grand will do it.” i “Mate and Equipoise are the only I two horses we have to beat,” saidj Jimmy Rowe. Greentree stable’s! trainer. , Derby devotees who have had I I thousands of dollars worth of fin|ery ruined during the rains of the I past, five years on the day of the [race, looked forward today to par-, ading once more in brilliant sun- ; shine. The landscaped lawns at ; Churchill Downs were gay with a ' [colorful throng. Late arrivals today came by train, plane, steamboat and auto-* I mobile. Preparations were made, I’o handle more than 75 airplanes at' . Bowman field. An autogiro was to be flown here from Cleveland by Miss Blanche' Wilcox Noyes. Steamboats, with [ their shrill whistles adding to the din, crawled up the Ohio river, bringing additional hundreds. Nine governors were among the personages. Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City was expected and Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago was an early morning arrival. Getting hack to the race, here are some of the things you hear: 1. —A horse with two names will win because six of the last seven winners have had double names (Black Gold, Flying Ebony. Bubbl-

ing Over. Reigh Count, Clyde Vanidusem Gallant Fox ) Nine of the J 15 named to start have two names. ■I in eluding Twenty Grand. * J 2.—Equipoise will be either the! • biggest surprise or the biggest dis- . appointment of the race. If Equi-j • poise does not win or make a • creditable showing he will be re- , tired until the Saratoga Springs, N. iiY., meeting. No one seems to know for sure just what Equipoise's cons dition is. 3.—That Earl Sande, who will . s broadcast the race, would mean; . certain victory for either Mate or Twenty Grand where he is the sad- > die today instead of in a little press ■ coop on top of the stands. The cons sensus is that the crop of jockeys ; is poor and that poor riding may ; cost semebody the race. , \ O k- Dance—Sunset tonight.

LEGION PLANS I' BOXING SHOW Another amature boxing tourney <, will he sponsored by the Adams > post. American Legion, it was announced today by the committee in , charge of athletics. The meet will j ,be with an amature in charge of ath- , i letics. The meeting will be with an amature team of Fort Wayne under . the tutelage of Nick Little of the Fort Wayne Works of General Elec- , (trie and will be held at Decatur [ Catholic high school gymnasium ( next Friday night. ![ T' e Fort Wayne team boasts four Golden Glove scrappers and the .Decatur boxets will start training | 1 next Monday night at Legion hall. , All members of the Decatur team i are asked to report Monday nigh* * [at 7:30 o’clock at Legion hall. Several feature matches are be-' ng planned and boxing fans are 1 promised the greatest card ever arranged in this city. Tickets will go. on sale next Wednesday. It is understood that a number of fans from Fort Wayne will attend the. affair. q o I Yellow Jackets Win 11 Decatur high school baseball , , team came from behind in the last I inning of a baseball game with Columl'a City yesterday and won , 6-5. The Yellow Jackets trailed until the final frame. [ Marion Feasel scored the winning run, with two down in the seventh. Pete Reynolds cf Bluffton umpired. After getting off to b.id start, Harmon, local twirier, * 'settled down and held the visitors! ' at bay. o— —— HORSE EXPERT TO VISIT HERE, /rnVTtNFFn PAGF onv> 1 * saving time, in the Chamber of Commerce room at Decatur. Mr. Brown, at this meeting, will tell ! the horsemen of progress made ' by breeders in other sections of, ] the state and will give them an] opportunity for a discussion of j theib problems. * All farmers Interested in better | 1 horses are invited to attend this, 1 meeting.

There has been some discussion! lately among the horsemen of the county about the advisability of forming a local horse association so that meetings might be arrang-1 ed with some regularity in which problems could lie discussed and mpre interest aroused in purebred animals. Enrollments in the 4-H Pig and Corn Club will be accepted until June 1 it was announced today. lAt that time enrollment will be I closed. Considerable interest has ; been shown in the work this year and it is expected that a large corn and pig chib will ife enrolled. o Genius Seldom Inherited Talent, living In the understand Ing. is often Inherited; genius, being the action of reason or Imagination. rarely <>r never.—Col eridge

are Equipoise and Twenty (.rand, while the West's tiopes rest with Spanish Play and Insco. 50,000 turf fans from all parts of the country will witness the classic.

IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE FORMS NEW CHAPTER' (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ZSZ,-** highway from Rome City running: south to Florida, to be kpown as I Limberlost highway. Senator Thurman Gottschalk, • who for years has been interested in conservation and who is espec-j tally interested in the proposed Adams county project, delivered an address. Among those .from Decatur who attended W’ere Harry W. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Mills, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Archbold, French Ouinn and Judge and Mrs. D. 8.. Erwin. The Geneva chapter started im-i mediately with plans to sponsor a state park and artificial lake in southern Adams county to be dedicated to Gene Stratton Porter. o WARNS AGAINST BANK SLANDER •. i ’.-kom ■'nei Stalnaker gave assurance that there was no basis for the alleged rumors. "We have a fixed policy for helping each other," he said, i "and are determined that the law' relating to slander of financial in-1 stitutions shall be enforced." I o Heavy Fighting Reported London, May 16.—(HR) — Heavy ■ casualties in fighting which has i broken out in southern China! around Canton were reported by a I Hongkong dispatch in the Daily i Herald today. The dispatch said that 100 had j been killed and 300 wounded when I the Cantonese forces under Gen. | Chen Chi-Tang attacked troops jlcyal to the national government at , Nanking, in an action at the Wham- | poa Military Academy outside CanI ton. The rebel forces used airplanes and machine guns in their attack. The Cant mese were reported to have captured and disarmed a regiment of Nanking troops. DEPRESSION IN EUROPE IS BIG PROBLEM i (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE) J minister, entered the discussion by saying that “customs are not the entire problem.” ! "Customs are not even the cause, but rather the effect of the problem to be considered." Briand said, “and once regulated, the funda1 mental problem will still remain. J The trouble with past efforts was that we have been too ambitious, endeavoring to settle the whole problem immediately instead of by ■ successive, separate steps. i "The historic effort to establish ■ a Franco-Belgian customs union , raised such universal opposition , that France understood she had no l right to undertake action which ■ might prove harmful to Europe as i a whole. j "Likewise, today we cannot per- : mit any action violating treaties ! and rot to the interest of all Europe.”

His last remark was construed as referring to the proposed Aus-tro-German custcms union, which France opposes. « An abrupt encounter between Briand and Curtins occurred when Curtius. in a second speech, curtly disputed Briand’s implications that | existing international agreements i forhadd an Austro German customs i union. Curtius recalled his previous address had avoided specific discuss- , ion of the AustroAlerman plan and added “the council session Monday will ass rd an opportunity of showing that our plan coincides with international agreements.” o Realtors Attack Group I Indianapolis, May 16. —<U.R) —1»diana.nolis realtors in a special meeting here attacked the state highway commission for its neglect of roads in Marion county, in view of the large improvement program in northern' Indiana. > The protest pointed out that ! since September contracts aggre- < eating $857,711.94 had been let in Lake. Laporte, Porter and Elkhart counties. Lawrence G. Holmes, i executive secretary of the real | estate board, was appointed to i learn from the commission why I Marion county roads were not inI eluded in an improvement pro- * gram. A letter to be sent the commisi -ion said that “unemployed in Marion county deserve the same ! assistance given idle in the Calni met district by highway improvement work.”

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