Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1931 — Page 3

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| DEC ATUR WINS I LEAGUE OPENER IT FROM AVILLA ju . Urriiwn Score 4-3 Win I In Twelfth Inning of I | Great Ball Game Wabash Valley entry pulled a thrill-.l-1, the ,irst -V««terday and won the openJBinfflyaine of the league play Avilla at the West Ad,.i reel diamond, 13. It ..tur’s old timers that ■ Kc rallieswhieh eventmarked up a win and ■■ the Baxtermen in the K 1 ,(H [) column. v W *■* la lean! played a great nJ pitching of SchneidJ ?r |r |i. < .Hur. Croy for Avilla, was thrill of a great game, was able to get a > home plate and the tenth both teams f three in the twelfth, when the settled down to a long asCochran, veteran of the I ■..JKh.uurocks. pasted the hall far I into rivid field and Shorty Way ■ nil ii. from second base to score marker. I In tl," early innings, Schneider r,o h, id opponent batsnfen to B tW' 1 ' 1,1 oUts and now and j a scratch hit. Schneider al-> won i he game for Decatur when he cracked out a ■ tip* i " hit. In the first inning another Shamrock vet- -■ ' OUt at 1101110 l ,1:lte 1,1 a I! decision. le whole game was a thriller,) enough hits to keep the crowd ) •ested and good enough base-I to keep the players op both ) is interested. the tenth inning, Manager I er's Avilla players got busy. l by Meyer, Diehtn and Walt and i Decatur error accounted for j j runs. Schneider was replacthe mound by Witte, a great On the second Witt" Wmli:' n doulile play which retired it'oked not so good fori ■ Matur. Corson died out. Coffee, B Mclod ,1 three-bagger and scored' ■ RWuvs double. Horton went to B M when he was hit by a pitched ■ M. Way stole third and scored 9 ■Cochran’s out. Horton went to B Horton tied the count '■ whbn llurk Baxter, who with Coffee ■Bl 1 represented the old I HUm:o< i is organization in the mw ®fED I |l 500 LAWN MOWERS I I to Sharpen I I Also Acetylene Welding I ■ and Blacksmithing I I Frank Schmitz I ■ Cor. First & Jefferson sts. I L,. .

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0— A • HAS NEW BOSS George “Shorty’’ Laurent, Decatur Catholic high school basketball coach was passing out cigars today verifying the rumor that there is a new “bead coat h ’ at the Laurent home. ) Marlene Helen, weighing seven 1 1 pounds was born Sunday morni ing to Mr. anti Mrs. Laurent at the Adams County Memorial hospital. The mother and babe are reported to be getting along fine. It is the first child In the ' Laurent family. I I 0 1_() team's lineup, cracked out a single 1 to right field. Baxter was out at second on Bell’s grounder. Witte retiued the Avilla batters in a row in the eleventh and twelfth. In the last half of the 1 twelfth, Way singled and went to 1 second on Horton's grounder. Hez 1 Cochran banged out a single over ; the right fielder's fence and Way 1 crossed the plate for the winning run. 1 Schneider and Croy each got 10 1 strikeouts and each passed three batters. Witte got two strikeouts. It was a great game and the 350 Decatur fans stayed until the last score was pushed across the plate. Manager Baxter stated today that there would be a practice in uniform next Friday night at which time two local teams would play a 5-inning game at the West Adajns 1 street diamond, starting at 5:45 i o’clock. 1 The local team goes to Columbia I City next Sunday for the first out-of-town game. Prospects are bright for a good local team and the players were well-pleased yesterday with the 1 support. The Avilla team brought ! about 25 fans with them. From early season indications it 'appears that the Wabash Valley league was headed tpward a sue|cessfiil season. Clarence Moulin of | Fort Wayne is president of the J league and was instrumental jn its i organization. Following is the lineup of Sunday's game: Decatur (4) AB R H I Corson, 2b 60 0 I Coffee, c ............. 512 Way, cf 6 2 3 i Horton, If 310 i Cochran. rs. 60 1 Baxter, lb. 5 0 1 1 Bell. 3b. 40 0 R. Ladd, ss. 0 0 0 Snyder, p 3 0 1 Witte, p 1 0 0 Totals 43 4 8 Avilla (3) AB R H Diehn, 2b 6 11 Lobdell, cf 6 0 1 Koons, lb 4 0 0 Walt, rs 5 0 2 Richards, c. 5 0 1 Vanderborsch, If 1 0 0 Thompson, rs 3 0 0 Tutirs, 3b 5 0 1 Meyer, ss 5 1 2 Croy, p. 5 11 Totals 45 3 9 Score by innings. Total Decatur .. .. 000 000 000 301 4 Arvilla 000 000 300—3 Umpires: Peterson, Decatur: Walt, Avilla. Q. I Get the Habit —Trage at Home.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, MAY IX, 1931.

TWENTY GRAND SETS NEW MARK I Louisville, Ky., May 18.—(U.R)i — Twenty Grand, winner of the fastest Kentucky derby in history, seemed headed today for the 3-year-old championship of 1931 and a place in the turf world’s permanent hall of tame. In winning the 57th edition of the historic race at Churchill Downs Saturday before 60,000 spectators, including Vice-President Charles Curtis, Twenty Grand set a new derby and track record of 2 minutes, 1 4-5 seconds for the mile and a quarter route. The time lowered by 1 3-5 seconds the former record ot 2.03 2-5, n*.idd Lj ...... i in 1918. Until Twenty Grand stretched his . long legs around the Downs’ oval Saturday, the derby had been run under 2:07 only twice since 1896 when the distance was shortened from a mile and a half to a mile and a quarter. Outside of Old Rosebud's mark. Bubbling Over’s time of 2.03 4-5 is the only other closely approaching the Greentree stable colt's new record. Average time for derby winners at the present distance is well above 2:07. Gallant Fox won in 1930 in 2:07 3-5, Clyde Van Dusen in 1929 in 2:10 4-5 and Reigh Count in 1528 in 2:10 2-5. Os course, these races were run on muddy tracks. Twenty Grand has started three races as a 3-year-old, and has won two of them and placed second in the other. Mrs. Payne's Whitney’s bay colt won the Wood Memorial at Jamaica, placed secund to A. C. Bostwick's Mate in the Preakness, and then won the derby. Before shipping Twenty Grand back east, trainer Jim Rowe indicated that tlie son of St. GarmansBonus would start in the Belmont stakes June 13. If successful in this mile and a half test, the chances are that Twenty Grand will be shipped west to run in the American derby at Washington Park a week later. He is almost certain to run in the Arlington classic at Arlington later in the season. The smashing superiority of Twenty Grand over the 11 colts I that started in the derby with him I proved almost beyond doubt that he deserves to be ranked well up with such great thoroughbreds as Man O’War, Old Rosebud, Exterminator, Sir Barton, Gallant Fox and others. Racing luck had much to do with Twenty Grand's defeat in the Preakness. He was justled badly at the start, but challenged going into the stretch only to be blocked by his stablemate. Surf Board. Even then Twenty Grand was coming on fast at the finish of the Preakness. In the derby, Jockey Krutsinger of Louisville profited by his Preakness mishap, and prevented any such thing happening again by swinging Twenty Grand wide on the first turn. Twenty Grand stayed on the outside unti lhe passed Charles T. Fisher’s Sweep All entering the stretch, and then Kurtsinger moved him over to the rail. At the finish line Twenty Grand was four lengths ahead of Sweep All, a better colt than any one imagined before the race, and going away. Mate, third, was seven lengths back of the winner. Spanish Play was fourth, and Boys Howdy fifth. Only twice did Kurtsinger pit the whip to Twenty Grand, and that was in the back stretch and not known to the majority of the crowd until the Louisville lad mentioned it later. “I just tapped him lightly to let him know we were ready to go after them,” lie said. “It was the fastest and one of the easiest rides of my career." 0 EIGHT MARKS FALL AT MEET Lafayette, Ind.. May 18.— (U.R)I — Eight new track records were made during the big state track meet here Saturday, a checkup of officials’ records revealed. Jones, Ball State, cleared the high jump bar at six feet, five and fivesixteenths inches, the old mark being six feet, five inches, made by Murphy, Notre Dame, in 1922. Notre Dame’s strength in the dashes and middle distances gave them 49 3-5 points, enough to win the championship for the twelfth time. Indiana, closest competitor, finished with 44 3-5 points. Butler University, the dark horse in the meet, showed unexpected power to gain 33 points. Purdue | was fourth with 17 3-1. Other schools' totals were Ball State. 10: DePauw, 6 3-5; and Earlham, 3 3-5. Indiana failed to break into the scoring. The mile relay, won by Indiana in record time of 3:20.7, was the closest event of the day. Hatfield, Indiana, made a new state mark to win hurdles in :14.8. Burns, Bdtler, ran t(ie 220-yard dash in :21.4. eclipsing the old time by more than half a second. Drocksniith. Indiana, lapped half his held to win the two! mile run in record time of 9:32.8. Records were also set by Bailie, | I

Notre Dame, low hurles, :24.2; Johnson, Notre Dame, pole vault, 13 feet, five and three-eighths inches: Crouch, Indiana, broad jump. 32 feet, ten and one-halt inches. o STANDINGS National League W. L. Pct. St. Louis 15 5 .750 New York. 15 8 .652 Boston 14 10 .583 Chicago 12 10 .545 Pittsburgh 13 13 .500 Philadelphia 10 15 .400 Brooklyn 10 16 .385 Cincinnati 6 17 .261 American League W. L. Pct. Philadelphia 16 7 .696 N’uw Tct'k 15 10 .600 Washington 17 12 .588 Detroit 16 14 .533 Cleveland 12 15 .444 Boston 11 15 .423 Chicago 11 15 .423 St. Louis 7 17 .292 American Association W L Pct. Columbus 16 9 .640 St. Paul 15 9 .625 Louisville 13 13 .500 Milwaukee 13 14 .481 Kansas City 12 13 .480 Minneapolis 11 14 .440 Indianapolis 11 15 .423 Toledo 10 16 .385 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League St. Louis 6; New York 1 Pittsburgh 5; Boston 3 Cincinnati 7; Brooklyn 5 Only games scheduled. American League St. Louis 7,2; Washington 1, 4 New York 8; Detroit 5 Philadelphia 15; Cleveland 10 Chicago 2; Boston 1 American Association Indianapolis 9,5; Louisville 6, 9 St. Paul 6, Minneapolis 2 Kansas City 10, 5; Milwaukee 5, 5 (second game tie, 12 innings, darkness). Columbus 2,6; Toledo, 1.5, (each game 10 innings). GYM EXHIBIT IS TONIGHT A physical education demonstration will be given by the pupils of the three ward schools tonight at the high school gymnasium, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Coaches Jeanette Clark. H. L. Curtis, and Burchard Horton are in charge of the demonstration. The program tonight will be given by the primary pupils of the ward buldings, and a similar demonstration will be given by the Central school and high school pupils, Tuesday evening. Various drills, dances, and exercies taught during the year in the physical education classes will be given in appropriate costumes and parents and patrons are urged to attend to derive an idea ot what the physical education department is doing in the pubic schools. An admission ot' 15 and 10 cents will be charged to cover the cost of the expenses of the two programs. The program tonight includes a number of dances, drills, and exercises and the public is invited to attend. o The Great Arthur Again Kansas City, Mo., May 18.—<U.R)' —Arthur Shires and Garland "Gobs” Buckeye, former major league stars took part Sunday in a riot which developed after pitcher Jack Knott of the Milwaukee Brewers knocked out Bill Plinlap, Kansas City Blues first baseman, with a pitched ball. Dunlap had singled, doubled, tripled and hit two home runs in his first five times at bat and when he was knocked out by a fast ball in the eleventh there were shputs that Knott had‘hit him intentionally. Manager Dutch Zwilling of the Blues began punimeling Knott when Shiies rushed from first base displayed some of the things he learned when he was a prize fighter and quickly subdued Zwilling. A fan hurdled a gate and started at Shires. Buckeye jumped suddenly from the dugout and knocked down the fan. For the following few minutes pop bottles were thrown at random and more than 300 fans swarmed onto the field to take part in the battle. Police quelled the disturbance and the game was resumed. Dunlap recovered quickly and said he felt all right, but would not I play again for a few days. NOTICE—The district manager oT the Kalamazoo Stove Company will be at our store Saturday afternoon, May 16. He will have furnaces and ranges on display, selling at factory terms and prices. Saves you one-third to one-half why pay more? Sprague Furniture Company 3rd door west of postoffice Phone 199. 115-3 t BARGAINS — Bargains In living room, dining room suite, matstresses and rugs. Stuckey and Co., I Monrce. our Phone number in 44 168-ts i

EAST BETTER IN AMERICAN New York, May 18 —(U.RJ— Strength in the National league appears to bh evenly divided this ■ season between east and west, but 1 Atlantic coast teams hold a wide ! margin of superiority over their 1 western rivals in the American ' league. 1 With four days of play remain--1 ing in tlie opening intersectional 1 series of the year, eastern and western National league clubs are on an even basis witli ten victories each. In the American league, ■ eastern clubs have won 23 games ' with the western teams winning 1 only eight. ' Records of tlie individual clubs 1 in intersectional play are: American League I Team Won Ixist I Philadelpliia 7 0 I Washington 7 2 New York 4 2 Boston 5 4 Detroit 5 4 • Chicago 2 5 i St. Louis Iti I Cleveland 0 8 National League I Pittsburgh 4 1 > New York 3 2 I Boston 3 2 i Cincinnati 4 3 Brooklyn 2 3 Philadelphia 2 3 St. Louis 1 2 Chicago 1 4 The world champion Philadelphia Athletics kept their intersectional slate clean yesterday by defeating the Cleveland Indians. 15 to 10. It was the ninth straight victory for Philadelphia and the ninth consecutive defeat for Cleveland. Home runs by Foxx, Simmtons and Cochrane featured Philadelphia’s 18-hit attack. Washington’s six game winning • streak was shattered in the first game of a double header witli St. > Louis, the Browns winning 7to 1, i>ut tlie Senators came back to take the second game, 4 to 2. Sain - Gray held tlie Senators to eight scattered hits in tlie opener and George Blaeliolder was in a fair way to du-plicate the feat in the second game, until homers by West and Bluege gave Washington i three runs and a victory in the ninth inning. The New York Yankees won an 8 to 5 slugging tree from Detroit to give the east the advantage for the day. with Chicago scoring the t west’s second victory, defeating Boston. 2to 1. Tommy Thomas allowed Boston only five scattered hits, one of them —a home run , by Webb— tieing the score in the ninth. Singles by Gisseil and . Jolley gave the White Sox the . winning run in the last half of . the same inning. ; Western teams made a clean - sweep of the day's play in the National league. St. Louis drubli- - ing the New York Giants, 6to 1; s Cincinnati defeating Brocfclyn, 7 1 to 5; and Pittsburgh beating Bos--1 ton, sto 3. > Burleigh Grimes held New ! York scoreless except for a homer i by Johnny Vergez, while the Cards drove Fred Fitzsimmons from tlie 1 mound witli four home runs to : give him the first defeat of the ■ year. 1 Cincinnati bombarded five ’ Brooklyn pitchers for 13 hits and ’ clinched tlie game with a five run Attack in the first. The Robins rallied to drive Rixey from the game with four runs in the eighth but were unable to overcome the early lead. Pittsburgh piled up a five run i led off Socks Seibold in the first i five innings and pulled through with a victory despite Boston's I three run rally in the seventh, i Chicago and Philadelphia were not scheduled. Yesterday's hero: Burleigh ! Grimes, St. Louis Cardinals, who I held the New York Giants to eight ; hits while the Cards won the game 6 to 1. o COURT HOUSE Marriage License Albert Korb, 3116 Lafayette , street, Fort Wayne, printer, to Theresa Appelman. 122 North i Seventh street, Decatur. Kennel Ii Ohler, route 3. Decatur, i farmer, to Ruth Hoile, route 3, Decatur. Real Estate Transfers Charles B. Niblick, inlot 11, 12, Decatur, to Vernon J. Niblick, for JI.OO. | Q DEATH SUMMONS ALBERT GRABER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) , superintendent of tlie Adams County Infirmary for sixteen years, leavi ing in 1901. The deceased taught > school in several ot the Adams County schools, and following his marriage to Miss Laura Steele of this city, moved to Decatur. His wife died September 11, 1917. He ; was a life members of the Ben Hur • Lodge. , Surviving are four children Opal ! of Fort Wayne. Mrs. L. C. Smith, i I Detroit, Michigan; Richard, Deca-

tur; and Gaynel, Chicago. One son died In infancy. Two grandchildren also survive. There are two sisters and two brothers of the deceased: Mrs. Lucy Hlrechey and Miss Elizabeth Gru>lier of Berne, Joseph Graber, Berne, and Henry Graber, Decatur. Funeral services will be held at the Henry Graber residence in Bellmont addition Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, (D.S.T.) and at 2 o'clock at the Zion Reformed church. The Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann will officiate and burial will be made iu the Decatur Cemetery o ARMY AIR SHOW IS IN ACTION (CONTINUiD FROM PAGE ONE) tected from invasion. Thus, he said, the creation and training of its giant army air armada is Im- ' portant. Gen. Foulois, staunch supporter) of a powerful air defense, said the government’s aerial division should be stronger than that of any other nation or alliance of nations. This, he said, Is the underlying motive of the maneuvers —a series of tests that develop and improve tactical theories in connection with a general defensive program. The tests, he said, reveal defects in the present organization, show how equipment should be handled and reveal what supplies are needed, in what quantities and how they must be transported. They also supidy statistics of tlie minimum .staff rlequired for the successful direction of Hie army in Hie air, serve to better methods of land-air communication, especially through radio control, and finally, keep the army’s airmen in training. The maneuvers bjxmght every one of tlie army's airworthy planes here —more than 658. Os this number 552 could be used in actual combat, Gen. Foulois said. The remaining ships are type's used by headquarters staffs and for other official purposes. According to press dispatches from Washington, the present aerial spectacle will cost the government $3,008,000. A giant review of the armada was scheduled today. The review will consist of approximately 600 planes stretcliimg into a line 50 miles long. A review of tlie planes yesterday was witnessed by 100,000 persons. The planes represented every branch of the army. o Mr. ami Mrs. George Shaffer of ) Geneva visited here and attended to business.

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SEVEN KILLED IN AUTO CRASH Sunday Joy-Ride Fatal to High School Pupils In lowa Calamus, la., May 18. — (U.R) — A Sunday afternoon joy-ride was turn-1 ed suddenly into tragedy for four girls and three boys of high school | age when Walter Mumford, 17, of Detwitt, drove his car into the path ' of a fast Northwestern passenger train and he and his six companions were killed. The dead, besides Mumford, were Martha Berner, 20; Medona Bern-) er, 19; Bernadette Berner, 16; Monal | Berner, 15; Arnold Berner. 13; and) ) Mildred Beyers, 16, of Dewitt. Tlie Berner boys and girls all lived at I Toronto, a few miles from here.) They were all of one family and; were cousins of Mumford. The passenger train was west I bound. Mumford waited at the crossing for an east bound freight; to pass, then drove his car, witnesses said, directly into tlie path) of the passenger trafn. The auto-1 mobile was carried a block and' bodies of the seven young persons, all killed instantly, were hurled along the right-of-way. o Highest Law The highest law is often the greatest roguery.—Terence. i

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Woman Is Not Guilty Rockville, Ind., May 18MU.R>IA jury here returned a rsrdiit of not guilty in favor of Mrs. Iba I Sbadley, 53, tried on u charge ot murdering her husband, William Ishadley, 74, whose body was found )in the barn at their home near here. Only one ballot was ttlkeii Iby the jury, it reported. , The state attempted to prove that the head wound which caused Shadley’s death, could not have been caused by a fall. Two physicians . were the only defense witnesses. o ,— ■ Desert Once Blooming The Gobi desert, now one of .the most desolate places of the earth, was once a center of .abundant plants and animal life. o INOTICE —on the job agpln to do electrical wiring, painting and i papering. Prices reasonable. Call iat my new location. Phene 8,35-C. George H. Sqtiier. 114-6tx (om nt unity auction sale Decatur. Saturday, May 23. Bring in your livestock and ' whatever you wish to turn into cash. It , AUTOS | Ro-financed on smaller pay- E menta. Quick service. R Franklin Security Co. £ Phone 237 I Decatur, Ind land'