Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 161, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1931 — Page 5

jatur team repares for SECOND HALF Hunter Elected I’resij dent of Booster Association baseball association with! ,h Hunter, Frank Lynch, u H. Myers as officers j leen organized to lend aid 1 catur’s independent basesun and to stimulate in- i t in the Wabash \ alley all league in .this city.; be first meeting, plans; discussed for the second of the league season h will start in another 1 new organization, which will nwn as the Independent BaseLssociation, will he a non-, making and non assessable j ization. Joe Hunter was nam j •esident of the group and , Lynch was chosen as treas- j Herman H. Myers was chos-j i chairman of the board of i nors. > board includes besides the | rs and members of the base-! team the following men: i Farr, Harry Knapp. Wiley ’ n, C. F. Fanning, Herman (>m-: loyd Hunter, Keitli Davis, Joe j i, Dr. Burt Mangold, Will; I, Gus Wei.mover, Albert Mil-j ■erd O’Brien. Burl Johnson, Dr. 1 rt Daniels. Ralph Yager. Perry j , J. L. Khler, Bun Keller, and ger Charles Baxter, ers said lie would call a meet-' n the next few days to make lete plans for the second half igue play. Decatur's baseball

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team Includes IT, players and at the [ organization meeting it was deeid-| ed to add several more to the second half roster. •Belief was expressed that with] the new additions, Decatur can win I the second half of the season’s play. A new system of collecting j j tickets at the games will be start- 1 led at the next home game and there will be several ticket sellers scattered along the field. ——o Poker Golf Makes Hit On Banff Golf Course — | Banff, Aita., July !*. — (U.R> — Poker- i golf is the latest popular and unj popular game on the golf course I here. Each member of the foursome ; {contributes to the pot old knives, ties, tees, 1. (). U.'s, etc., low ball iand high ball drawing first at ' each alternate hole front a deck stripped to the ten spot. No play-, ler can draw more than live cards. Last hole gets the joker and, of! [course, best hand gets the pot. 1 This game started with a bang until one guest discovered that in {some mysterious way nine of his choicest halls had found their way into the pot which was won by his : bitterest golf enemy. • —— o- — Anderson Has Operation • Rochester. Minn., July 9 —(UP) —| ■ Heartily "Hunk" Anderson, football ! coach ai Notre Dame, today was re- ■ ported recovering from an appendlj citis operation performed at the Mayo Clinic following a sudden a:- ' tack. Anderson, who is taking treatments for meningitis, was stricken ! with acute appendicitis Wednesday and I#r. Waltman Walters removed ■ | the appendix. j Severe headaches which caused the coach to seek aid here have almost disappeared under the treat-' ment for meningitis, it was said.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931.

BALL CAUSE OF LESS HOMERS New York, July 9. (U.fi) The j new hall lias curtailed home rut: production in the major leagues to a considerable extent but Babe Ruth still hopes to come near tlie record he set in 1927 when he poled out 60 circuit blows. Although he is behind the pace [lie set in his record year, Ruth is tied with Chuck Klein of the Phil- | adelphia Phillies for the major lea{Kite home run leadership. Each has J crashed out 21 homers, one more ; 1 han Lou (Jelirig, Ruth's teammate, on tlie New York Yankees. A year ago today when Ruth and I the Yankees met the Detroit Tig-| ers, the Rahe had 27 homers. That' j afternoon he addislftwo more to his’ total. At his present pace Ruth! w ill not hit over 45, but he be-1 lieves that his home run range is j now at its best and that he will I Pit* up some of the ground he lost' early in the season. Even if r.uth doesn't near record, he stands a good chance of! recapturing the laurels he lost last year to Hack Wilson of Chicago. Wilson appears to be out of the | running this year, leaving only ■ Klein and Gehrig as Ruth's form-1 idable rivals. Baho Kot his 21st yesterday as | the Yankees defeated the Boston! Roil Sox in a double header, 13 to 3 and 9to 4. Sharing the spotlight with Ruth in the contests was Ben j Chapman, Yankee outfielder, wito stole two Liases, including home, to ■ bring his total thefts for the seas,on to 31. Lefty Grove registered his 17th {victory of the season in hurling the Philadelphia Athletics to a 6 to 3 ' verdict over the Washington Senators. Grove allowed 11 hits but

outside of the sixth inning, when lie lost his control, he was invincible in the pinches. The victory in- | creased Philadelphia’s lead over ! Washington to six And one half ! games. | llndlin pitched and batted the Cleveland Indians to a 10 to 6 11innlng victory over Chicago. Hudlin replaced Brown in the seventh and held Hie White Sox in check while his single in the eleventh played a part in the Cleveland ral-1 ly. A seventh inning attack on : Bridges that netted five runs gave the St. Louis Browns a 7 to 1 victory over Detroit in the other American league contest. j The St. Louts Cardinals, Nation|ai league leaders, were idle but their leadership was increased to three and one half games when the second place New York Giants lost a 5 to 4 decision to Philadelphia.! Terry’s wild throw allowed Friberg. who had doubled, to score the win-! ning run in the ninth inning. Pittsburgh defeated Chicago. 51 to 2. and shoved the Cubs back in- 1 ilo fourth place. Heine Meine shut j ! out the Cubs for the first eight innings hut weakened in the ninth. I He allowed only six hits. Brooklyn’s scheduled contest ; witli Boston was rained out but the j Roliins advanced to third place, .only .003 percentage points behind , he Gians when New York and Chi- ! cago lost. Cincinnati and St. Louis were ; not scheduled. ! Yesterdays hero: Babe Ruth, ( who got four hits, including his I 21st home run of the season, in six [times at tiat as the New York Yan{kees defeated the Boston Red Sox ■ in a double header, 12 to 3 and 9 ]to 4. Ruth drove in five runs and [scored three himself. o Lions Win Rail Game Tlie Lions defeated Winner Brand I 4-3 in a junior league baseball game ; at the high school baseball diamond j Wednesday night. The Lions team [continues to hold the league lead with the Moose second, a game behind. V Chinese Fond of Noil* , Firecrackers In China are used ’ > not only on holidays, hut during ‘j weddings, funerals, anniversaries 1 nn«l sirniln? orrnsions

WORLD TITLE ' SCRAP PLANNED. < New York, July 9. (U.R) — With 1 Hie completion of arrangements for a bout between Max Scltmeling and ! ! Primo Camera, two world heavy- | weight championship fights, one of | ’ i them official only insofar as tlie;' [New York state athletic eommis- ■ f sion is concerned, are on die pro- ‘ gram for tlie outdoor boxing season ’ within the next few months. Tlie first of the "championship" 1 affairs, arranged by the New York f body alter dethroning Mux Schmei- 1 ing of the heavyweight title, will 1 take place at Elihets Field, Brookjlyn. July 22 with Jack Sharkey and ' i Mickey Walker as the principals. 1 I Outside of the members of the New ' [Y'ork commission, the winner will 1 j not be recognized by anybody as * ■ die heavyweight title holder. 1 Tlie other bout, bringing Schntel[ing, present champion, and Camera [together probably will be held in September at Jersey City. Arrangements for the fight were completed yesterday. The Madison Square Garden corporation of Illinois will promote the battle. Philadelphia and Chicago also have been included in the list of probable sites for the SchmellngCarnera go. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. St. Louis 46 30 .605 New York 41 30 .5771 Brdoklyn 42 33 .560 Chicago 41 33 .554! Boston 37 36 .507 Philadelphia 33 42 .440 Pittsburgh .30 41 .423 Cincinnati 26 49 .347 AMERICAN LEAGUE ‘ W. L. Pet. 1 ! Philadelphia 53 21 .716 | Washington 49 28 .636 1 New York 41 31 .569 I Cleveland 38 37 .507 Ist. Louis 34 41 .453 j Boston , 30 41 .423 ! Detroit 28 48 .368 Chicago 27 47 .465 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pet. St. Paul 46 33 .582 Louisville 40 38 .513 | Milwaukee 38 37 .507 I [Minneapolis 39 39 .500 I [Toledo 40 42 .488 j! Columbus .... 37 40 .481 j j Indianapolis 35 40 .481 j | Indianapolis 35 40 .467 j I; Kansas City 35 41 .461 { YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League * Brooklyn-Boston, rain. II Philadelphia. 5; New York, 4. 1 Pittsburgh, 5; Chicago, 2. 2 Only games scheduled. American League I Cleveland, 10; Chicago, 6. I St. Louis, 7; Detroit, 1. I Philadelphia, 6: Washington, 3. I New York, 13-9; Boston, 3-4. American Association St. Patti, 10-5; Columbus, 0-3. Indianapolis, 17; Milwaukee, 8. Louisville, 2; Kansas City, 5. Toledo, 11; Minneapolis, 7. Noted Fighter Dead New York, July 9.— (U.R) —Magnus "Wolf" Larsen, 30, one-time opponent of Gene Tunney, winner over Battling Siki in 1919, and once an amateur light heavyweight champion of America, is dead after two years of life in jails, breadlines, missions and hospitals. “A fine man when he was right," John Olsen of the Bethseda Mission said. “Cook, night watchman, carpenter and handy man he was for four months until last New Year eve when he went off again. 1 saw a fellow he hit the night before he went to the hospital and the fellow was still bent over, a cripple. That was tlie Wolf Larsen of tlie New York water fronts. “He won many a decision, but more cf them were against cops than against prize fighters," Tom O Rourke and Jim Buckley, who once managed the Wolf, recalled. “When hi s freight schooner touched Holland back in 1919 he already had a reputation aboard ship. He was matched with the Senegalese, Battling Siki and won the decision in 10 rounds. “Then he came to New York, studied reading, writing and arithmetic, as if they'd help him along n the world, and became amateur hampicn of his class in America. Lost 20 Lbs. of Tat In Just 4 Weeks Mrs. Mae West of St. Louis. Mo., writes: "I’m only 28 yrs. old and weighed 170 lbs. until taking one box of your Kruschen Salts Just 4 weeks ago. I now weight 150 lbs. I also have more energy and furthermore I've never had a hungry moment." Fat folks should take one hair teaspoonful of Kruschen Salts in a glass of hot water every morning before breakfast—an 85 cent bottle lasts 4 weeks—you can get Kruschen at Cutsliall's Cut Rate Drug Co., or any drug store In America If not joyfully satisfied after the 1 first bottle—th.ney back.

0 0 SPEAKING OF SPORTS By DIXON STEWART UP Staff Correspondent ♦ — 4 Old Golf Ball in Use Despite the edict of the United States Golf Association that golf simply isn't golf unless it is played with the new "balloon" ball introduced at the start of the present season, thousands of players still are using the heavier and livelier Dull of previous years. The new balloon ball is highly unpopular with average players, even though the professionals and top-flight amateurs find that it makes little difference in scoring. The “dull” players, who make up 90 per cent of the golfing populace, find the new ball a distinct handicap and many of them have returned to the old ball. Players Vote For Old Ball Two New York clubs, Siwanoy

OVER 5 MILLIONS IN SAVINGS TO ELECTRIC CUSTOMERS More than five million dollars a year is the saving which electric companies in the Midland United Company group have made possible for their electric customers in Indiana. It is the policy of the companies in this group to supply their services at the lowest possible rates consistent with good service. In line with this policy Midland subsidiary companies have voluntarily reduced rates whenever possible. This policy has been consistent from the time of the beginning of the formation of this group of companies in the summer of 1923 down to the present day. It will continue to be the policy in the future. The savings to electric customers in 1930 totaled $5,301,807.77. This represents a reduction of approximately 22 per cent, compared with rates in effect in 1923. This saving is based upon the difference between the actual amount charged for electric service during the year 1930 and the amount which would have been charged had the average rates per kilowatt hour charged in 1923 still been in effect last year. It either represents a direct saving to electric customers or has made it possible for them to use more electricity for the same amount of money. These rate reductions have affected all classes of customers. Residential and commercial electric customers have benefited to the extent of $2,921,250.66, while industrial power users have had an estimated saving totaling $2,380,557.11. Such a program of voluntary rate reductions has been made possible only by the merger of many small companies into larger companies, the joining of communities by transmission lines and the supplying of electrical energy from large, centrally-located generating plants instead of from small local plants. The management of the Midland United Company’s group of companies realizes that service must be reliable, and rates must be attractive to customers in order that they may use the service to a greater extent. Electricity is the modern servant in the home, shop and factory and reasonable rates result in its greater use. 1 ) 11 Thii ii the third of a series of advertisements published in the interest o a better understanding of principle! governing operation of public utilities. Midland United Company PRINCIPAL OPERATING SUDSIDIAUIES: Northern Indiana Public Service Comp ny . . . Gary Railways Company Public Servic Company of Indiana . . . Indiana Service Co- oration Chicago Sou’h Shore and South Bend '.Uilroad . . Indiana Railroad Indiana Electric Corporation . . . Wabr.lt. Volley iiectric C '■mpany Northern Indiana Power Company , . Gary Heat, ight & Water Company

and Green Meadows, took polls and found that more than 95 per cent of their members favored the | old ball. Directors then decided! that the clubs should be run for ■ i the pleasure of the members rather than to suit the whims of the j j U. S. G. A., and approver! the ttse I of the old hall in all club eompeti- [ i Hons. Green Meadows went even I further and plans an invitation’ . tourney in which tlie old ball wlllj L he the approved spheroid. |! Many other clubs have contin • ued to use the old hall without any “ballyhoo, 1 ’ and tlie Central Ohio , Gold Association notified the U. S. 1 [G. A. that its member clubs were I ignoring the official ruling making [ the “balloon ball" the onlv legal 1 hall. > ! All of the prominent manufactur [ - jers discontinued making the old l ; ball under an agreement with the | • U. S. G. A. the increased profits [on the sale of new equipment which' players were told was necessary to I secure maximum results with the! , new hall more than offsetting the

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expense of changing their ball manufacturing machinery. Further Change Likely Many small manufacturers, however. are ‘‘bootlegging" the illegal golf ball, and with the demand for their product increasing daily it is expected that the larger manufacturers also will make balls of the old standard size and weight available. Further change in the ball is believed certain before next season. The U. S. G. A is reported to be ready to hack down on its edict and already is experimenting with many new types of ball. It is expected that the 1932 hall will incorporate the best features of the "balloon" ball and its predecessor, being as large as the present ball and as heavy as the lively ball of previous years. —o — High Univerdty Building The cathedral of learning at the University of Pittsburgh it 88 stories. 500 feet high.