Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1932 — Page 6

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FIGHT PROGRAM COMPLETED FOR • FRIDAY NIGHT Hicks And (’onrad Ready I For Battle Here; Firemen Selling Tickets - The Program Tarran Hicks, Pennsylvania vs. Potty Conrad, Decatur. (Heavies.) j Al Arney. 125 vs. Bunk Malott. 125, both of Fort Wayne. Vaufan Snedeker. 148. vs. Chuck • Yerick, 150. Kid Burkhead. 150. vs. Don Clint. 148. Doyle Smith. 122. vs. Ralph] Jones. 123. Thurman Rohl, 165. vs. Battling Schunk. 165. Elton Archer, 155. vs. Dale 1 Death. 158. Popeye Patterson, 112, vs. Archie Noll, 115. Final arrangements are being; made for the fight program to be] staged here next Friday night under pre auspices of Decatur’s i volunteer firemen. The contests are being organized by Doc Snedeker.- locajl sport promoter and bid, fair’to he the best boxing matches', ever staged in Decatur. Tickets for the tight went on ■ ale today with all members of the local fire department selling the t aid boards. The location of the; open-air arena will be announced Monday. Several lots are available and a committee has been appo'nted to select the location. \ large canvas wall will be constrncted and 950 seats will be arranged. Two hundred of the seats will be ring side and the rest wdl be bleachers. Tickets are , selling for 35 cents and 15 cents vx'-> For ring side. The main go will lie between ; Ttrzan Hicks. Pennsylvania heavyweight and Polly Conrad, local ; fighter. Both men have been training for several weeks. Con-r.-d has established headquarters here tn I'eca'ur and Hickses working out at Pleasant Mills. The two men are regarded as being al but even. Hicka is a 'it tie better on defense out Conra.l is much more aggressive. Local i fans in general predict that Conrad will win, but that he will have a battle on his hands. Other ob-l servers say Hicks is a dangerous man and in a few years will be one of the leading heavyweight fighters of the country. The first fight will start at 8 o'clock. Floyd Hunter will referee the fights and a board of judges will se selected in a day or two.

THE CORT SUNDAY - MONDAY - TUESDAY . Matinpe Sunday 2 P M. Evening. 6:30 —lO c • 35c S 5 A Conquerer of Men — Tamed By Love! The mysterious depths of the fathomless seas this ruthless raider ruled—were far. far less .. jF Jfr impenetrable than the depths of this woman's heart m <4 i ■ — ROLAND WEST'S corsmb .CKSIfR MORRIS ffe> IF-w" ALISON IOYD A Liberty Maga- \ Q _ jFJv "A zine’s Sensational yi~ty y w»M»-—U M wit Si. b ’ \arosninsncwu ADDED—COMEDY - CARTOON - NEWS TONIGHT-TOMORROW—"DARING DANGER,” A Western action dran’a, featuring TIM McCOY. Also a Good Comedy and Cartoon. 10c - -25 c •

Sarazen Wins Tourney Sandwich. Eng.. June 10.—(U.R) -| Gene Sarazen of New York today won the British open golf champ lenshlp. His rounds of 70 and 74 today gave .him an aggregate of COLLEGE STABS IN TOURNAMENT Chicago. June 10 —(U.R)— The battle for Olympic berths start“d today at Stagg field among 372 athletes from 72 colleges who will participate in the preliminaries to the 11th annual National Collegiate A. A. track and field meet. ’When the finals are completed tomorrow between 15 and 20 col-! lege stars will have qualified to compete in the final Olympic tryouts at Palo Alto, Calif.. July 15 and 16. The first three men to finish in each event will be eligible for the Olympic finals, but necessarily will not te picked unless their performances warrant their selection. The team championship which has been won the past two years by Southern California will be overshadowed in this year's meet by the individual competition. The Trojans will not defend their title, remaining at home to defend their intercollegiate championship in the 1. C. A. A. A. A meet at Berkeley. Calif.. July 1 and 2. Michigan. Big Ten champion. Ohio State and Indiana promise to be the leading contenders for the team title. Ohio State, nosed out by Michigan in the western conference meet, will rely on Jack Keller, hurdler, and Don Bennett, sprinter, to give them a flying start. Preliminaries were scheduled to- 1 day in all track events except the mile and two-mile runs and in all field events except the po'e vault and high jump. Two special Olympic events, the 440-metre hurdles ami the hop. step and jump, have been added to the program but these points will not be counted. The dashes will bring together a field of fine sprinters from every .-ection except the east and far west. Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette University negro, Don Bennett. Ohio i State sophomore, and George Smutney Nebraska, three of the nation's fastest men. will compete in the 100-yard dash. Jack Keller, who ran the 120yard high hurdles in 14 seconds with the wind in the Big Ten meet, and George Saling. lowa. wi.'l reI new their keen hurdle rivalry. Saling beat Keller in the 220-lows in the conference meet when the Ohio ; State star was forced to quit'with 1 a muscle injury.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JUNE 10. 1932

MEL OTTGETS TWO HOMERS New York. June 10. — (U.R' Mel, Ott. one of baseball's children who developed into a big-leaguer as protege of John J. McGraw, former manager of the New York Giants, seems destined to glorify McGraw s successor. Bill Terry This diminutive New Orleans slugger blasted out two home runs yesterday to give Terry anothei much-needed victory, as the Giants downed the Cincinnati Beds. 3 to 2. They were homers No. HI and 11 for tlie season. Two four-baggers from Ott's bat on Tuesday started the Giants' rise from the National league cellar. Ott. only 23, i;4 the leading hitter of the Giants with an average of .354 He has changed to a lighter bat. using a 36-ounce stick instead of his usual 37 or 38-ouncer Last year he hit only .292. His average for 193.1 was .349. When Ott was 16. he left high school at Grena. La., a suburb of New Orleans, and joined the Giants. McGraw told Ott to throw away his catcher's glove, and converted him in outfielder. He taught him to hit. and hired sprint stars' to teach the sluggish chap to run ■ bases properly. Ott's first homer yesterday, in the second inning, tied the score, and his second, in the sixth inning, broke up a pitching duel between Owen Carrol! and Tom Mooney. Mooney a lowed the Reds four hits, one of them Grantham's home run ia the second inning. Carroll yield-; t-d five. Bobby Brown dropped his first game in six starts as the Boston Braves lost to the St. Louis Cardinals. 2 to 1. Hack Wilson's 11th home run with the bases loaded enabled Brooklyn to defeat the league-lead-ing Chicago Cubs, sto 2. Hartnett' T'.omered for Chicago in the second inning with Moore abroad. , The Pittsburgh Pirates scored ! two runs in the eighth inning to defeat Philadelphia's Phil'ies. 4 to Q Detroit's Tigers rose to third place in the American league by beating the New York Yankees. 5 to 4. It was the Yanks’ first defeat by a western chib this season. Danny MacFayden yielded Detroit 'll hits and all their runs. Cleveland downed the Philadelphia Athletics. 9 to 8. dropping the A s from third to fifth place, and tilt Washington Senators nosed out the Chicago White Sox. 6 to 5, aided by three Chicago errors. George Blaeholder pitched the St. 1.-yuis Browns to a 2 to 1 victoryover the Boston Red Sox. Yesterday's hero Me! Ott. who i drove out two home- runs to give the N'ew York Giants another vic,tory. " - THE BIG FIVE By United Press Babe Ruth singled once, accounting for one run. in three times up. Lou Gehrig made three singles. | accounting for three runs, in five I tries. Al Simmons made a home run in I four times at bat. Bill Terry went hit.ess in four times up. Hack Wilson made a home run and a single, accounting for five runs, in four times up. o Dance Saturday and Sunday nights at Sun Set. 1 Adult, 25c; 2 Adults, 35c Children. 10c—Tonight THE ADAMS Sunday, Mon., Tues. (&■“*) hopkins / / Mtghty fisted leader of \ / a red revolution! Set- - ring souls a tremble \ with his new found ] Added - - A BOY'S FRIENI Comedy and Whippet Racin; TONIGHT and SATURDAY Richard Arlen. Jack Oakie and Robert Coogan in “SKY BRIDE” Added.—Rin-Tin-Tin in “Th, Lightning Warrior" an < ■ Flip The Frog Cartoon.

DRIVE STARTS FOR MEMBERS IN ADAMS POST (CONTINUED FROM war veterans. To explain the nation-wide sys tern of the American Legion through which the la-gion helps the service man obtain the rights and benefits to which he is in titled. Along with the final membership drive, pamphlets are living circuuted containing a complete explan i.tlon and also containing a membership app.lcatlon blank. Adams post is regarded as me of the strongest organizations in the state and the membership committee is anxious to enlist all exservice men in the local post. .... ■ --() —- Bandits 1 ry New Trick Rock Kami. ill . June 10. 'U.R' — Bandits abducted Treasurer E. Clifford Hall of Rock Island county from his home in Moline today, brought him to the courthouse here, compelled him to open the vault in the treasurer's office and rifled it of SI,OOO. Bank Is Liquidating Chicago. June 10. (U.R) —The I copies Trust & Savings Bank, a 25 million dollar Michigan Avenue institution, today became the fourth Chicago bank to quit business and tell depositors to come and take their money away. Directors of the large downtown bank said they had decided operations were no longer profitable

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and there was no reason for continuing business under present con editions. , THEFT SUSPECT HANGS HIMSELF (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON«C1 ' been , remised Immunity In Blackford county by former s ivrlff Ira Bi.ton. Barton was convicted and Is serving a 21 year penitentiary , sentence. Several other members of i the gang uso a e In prison after I their confession- named Barton. They were arrested in connection with the Dunkirk. Ind., state bank , rabbet y ust Ch.isttuis eve. o- — Legion Attorney Dies Indianapolis. June" lb. (U.R) — iH. Mclntosh. I", regional attorney ■ for the Indiana veterans bureau. died at his home he e tod >y after a week's illness of pneumonia. Mclntosh was head of the Indian, legal department since 1927 end had been associated with the veterans bureau since 1919. being ’ transferred here from Cincinnati in 1925. o ■ —— Noted Historian Dies .Remo City. Ind.. June 10. (U.R) ■ Millard Fl more Owen, 81. regardi id as an authority on local and In- ■ diana history, died at his home i here. I Owen, a native of ILigland. opcr- • ated hotels here for 35 years and Started the island assembly organi ization from which developed the ■ second chaulauqua organized in the • United States.

M. F. RIPBERGER expires CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ~~ ' Ralph of Columbus. Ohio; tour I sisters. Mrs. Andrew Gorst. and J Mrs Charles Ferguson of Tipton. Pauline and Emily, nt home at i Tipton. I The deceased was a member Os; the St. Mary's Catholic church. And also a member of the K. of i (Tipton council!. The body was brought to the S E. Black l unei.il; Parlors and will be taken to the home Saturday where friends may view the" remains after 7 o’clock Saturday evening. I Funeral services will be hold Monday morning at p o'clock at (he St. Mary's Catholic church. Burial will be made at Tipton. —— o- ■■ - Hungarian Work Exhibited Pa is (UP) — Mrs. May C. Thompson, of California, was invited by t o French Government to ex- : hibit the work of 55.000 Hungarian ■ women at the annual Foire de Paris : which lias just el sed here. Since i 1919. Mis. Thompson has been aidi ig ,'lun.artin poc:- and even has ; suffered the 10-s of her right hand. : due to an aei cideut. in tendering aid to'them unfortunate women. ■ ■--'■■■ -o— ■ — Graf Brought Rare Plants Friedrichshafen. Germany (UP) . -Tra i-portation of rare I epical plants fc t ansplnntin: in Gormin botanical gardens, formerly impos--1 sible due to the long steamer trip. ■ now is possible by the Graf Ze)>, e- ■ Un's three-day schedule to Brazil - Among the plants now- being grown for the fi-st time In Germany, a

I two unusual varieties of tnayacca, I land a >♦;>»•• !»•» f genlLc.i, inseetiI vorotis plants. Cop's Wife Wins Bet I ißudapest —tUP) Ihe wife of a I police officer won 13.628 pengoe o I .1 five peiig m double lotalisutor hi t ; I here. Her winnings amounted to ] about s2.(Hie. The "tote double” i a Jbet In which the bettor seeks to | I ph k the winner ot two races which the track has parlayed for the day. —<) - Wolf Eel Captured Marshfield. Ore. (UP)- A wolf j ,r sea serpent, rare In Pacific ] watei', wti- caught in a crab .ot ; ! by William Durant aid Bernard j Seven, crab fishermen. The six-foot i tighter 'ave the men ,i stiff battle. ; ! The eel s head leseH.bled that of a | ' bulldog. - .... Room for Expansion The addition ot numerals to the old telephone designations In .NewYork city will allow for expansion of 154 years without making any change in the <-»t«lngnlt»» svstem. ——— n ’’Victorian” The Victoria period in furniture extends from 1827 to lUtMi .Midvietorlan is iihoiit the time of the Civil war, and Is usually the time associated with plush covered atrocities ami poorly designed imichinemade furniture Wife's Sense of Humor If the w ife laughs at your J >kes you can be sure either that you know some good ones or yon have a good wUe I Vll '.Oe- lillios I o i Iron loses magnetic qualities at > red heat.

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