Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1932 — Page 6

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HICKS TRIMS POLLY CONRAD IN FINE SCRAP Local Heavyweight Falls In Third Round For 10Count; Hundreds Attend Tamil Hicks. Pennsylvania .henvvweight, knocked out PoHv Conrad in the dosing seconds of the final round of their headliner fight at the arena on First street Fridav night. The entire card was interesting and a

capaeitv crowd ja mined into the open air pa\ i lion. Conrad was game ami showed a lot of punch Hicks took things; ease until the final round and then had Conrad on the canvas twice. ItJcks is a comer and carries a dangerous short jab. The first round was almost even. with Conrad driving in most, of (he time. In the second round Comud ' showed his strongestj pfffiCh and he backed Hicks into a couple of corners. Hicks would always cover up and come out in good shape. The fight was anything but a set-up and both men exchangedi blows the way the crowd likes 't. The big crowd was on its feet all the way through the closing fight. Al Arney lost a close decision to Bunk Malott in the semi-wind-up. Both fighters are from Fort Wayne and both had won deci- 1 Mens over the other before. Arney played the ropes a lot and got; in a lot of close jabs, but Malott, gave the most punishment and was awarded a close decision. Two Lee boys, 9 and 11 years

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AS THE great crews of the country await the Poughkeepsie classic on the Hudson. there is a feeling among those who follow the shells that this 1932 race will be the daddy of them alt And there are reasons a-plenty. First, there is the presence of a Yale crew which has already represented old Eli as no eight ever represented old Eli before. A blue boatful, in fact, which has gone it® record-breaking way on all the watercourses of the Elast. To be specific, this Yale contingent whipped Jim Wray's Cornell oarsmen «on Lake Cayuga in ten minutes and thirty-one seconds for the two miles, and a new record. This was the race, fans will remember. in which it took a referee’s decision to pick the winner,

THANK PUBLIC — Local Firemen today expressed thanks to the public who i i attended their benefit fight | program lust night. The local association cleared consider- | able money in the venture. ♦ - * jof age respectively opened the scrap with a three round show. The boys exchanged punches on several occasions and drew a big hand from the crowd. Kilgore of Bluffton, well known I fight official worked several of the scraps and Floyd Hunter of Decatur worked the last three * contests. Doc Snedeker who sponsored th M show for the local Volunteer Firemen, was the an-

nouncer This man Snedeker. | who is a new sports promoter in Decatur, is working hard to create I some clean sporting shows for the. fans., On week-ends Snedeker has a baseball team which has built up i a good record. The boxing show.. which was purely amateur, was , the second venture and the only one which broke even financially. Snedeker promises some more good shows and it was announced from the ring last night that the firemen would be the beneficiaries | of another event in two weeks at the same arena. 1 In the second contest Loyd Con ' rad. Polly's kid brother, beat Saw-' yer of Fort Wayne by a long count. Conrad was aggressive an I had Sawyer almost to a point of! I surrendering on several occasions.. Dale Death beat Archer on a foul in the third round of 'their scrap. Archer had a wide margin. ;! on Death, but when ' the latter went to the canvas in the third i round. Archer struck before he got up and Referee Kilgore did i the only thing he could under the

since Cornel) also broke the record ; and finisher! several fractions less than a nose behind the Blue. And besides Yale—there is certainly Syracuse. The octogenarian Jim Ten Eyck has done it again, and put a championship crew on the water. For shortly after Yale nosed out Cornell in that historic finish, the proteges of Ten Eyck whipped the Ithacans by three-quarters of a length, achieving what was, on paper at least, an even greater victory than that of the New Haven stalwarts. The Syracuse crew is stroked by the 200-pound Tom Lombardi. Old Man Ten Eyck looks on this husky as the greatest stroke-oar tn years and points for justification to the record-breaking mile and threeSuarters of a few weeks ago on te Charles, when Syracuse raced

circumstances. Buck Rayl of Decatur beat Battling S. hunk of Celina without I much trouble in another threeround affair. Doyle Smith, another Decatur product, who learned his fighting I from the American Legion train- | ing quarters, trimmed Ralph Jones lough little Fort Wayne boy. In a ; close contest. Young Bulkhead of Decatur had I little trouble beating Clint of Foit Wayne. Clint broke bi\ hand in the second round, and was ineffective after that. j Yerick of Fort Wayne bested I Vaufan Snedeker of Decstur. ' Snedeker went into the ring with I a broken nose and after showing I a lot of gameness he got a punch on the nose in the last round which put hitn out of order. He , finished the round however, but was forced to cover up. - For the next program. Snei'e- , ker announced the arena’would be enlarged and 200 more seats would be added. 0— :

NEGROTEAM COMING HERE Fort Wayne’s Colored Gir.nts. well-known Independent baseball tem is coming to Decatur Sunday afternoon. The Giants will stack up against Snedeker's Decatur team at West Adams street athletic field at 2:1 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Though a commission system of ! scheduling games, the local management has been able to bring 'the semiipro outfit to this city at id advance in prices of admission The regular 10 and 25 cents schedI ule will be maintained. The visitors have played a number of big league teams in the last three yeais and their 1932 edition of Colored Giants is reg rded as the strongest since the o ganization of the team. The game will sta t promptly at : 2:30 and Frank Peterson will um- ! pire behind the plate.

I home ahead of Cornel) and Harvard in 8:48 2-5. Os course, there are a few other crews who have no intention of letting the laurels on the Hudson next week go to Yale and Syracuse ;by default. Rusty Callow, who directs his oarsmen on the placid Schuylkill, hard by the campus of Penn, is bringing a shell up to Poughkeepsie. “Kentucky” Albright started some days ago with his Californians. And there are really tangible threats—there have been all season — from the direction of the Cornell, Columbia, Navy and Washington boys. Shades of the Indians with their birch-barks, and the ghosts of Hendrik Hudson and Rip Van Winkle! There is going to be a race! OowtUM. im W KIM TMMna WaSlrala. Um

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. JUNE 18. 1932.

FIGHTERS IN FINAL DRILLS New York. June IS. —(UP) —Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey put on their gloves today for a final session of serious training while the ballyhoeeyed controversy over a, leferee and "ill the big" charges' was allowed to soak in among the I so-called followers of the boxing ' game. Schmeling planned four or five! irounds of light pasting at his King ' ston camp, while Sharkey at I Orangeburg, was listed tor halt aj dozen rounds. The German also had some so- i cial ob igations. The varsity crew’ of the University of Pennsy’vania, 1 in training nearby for the Poughkeepsie regatta of Monday, was I scheduled to call on Schmeling as did the Naval Academy oarsmen a j ■ couple of days ago. The referee ’’controversy" was an almost one-sided affair today., l but echoes of charges made by Joe Jacobs, manager of Schmeling. • were expected momentarily from the Sharkey camp. Thus tar the incident has been confined to some statements by Jacoba that are "knockouts” as sport page headlines, and an econ omy of comment from James J. Farley, chairman of the New York! slate boxing commission. Jacobs has asserted that if the I commission names one of several | members of the official referee; staff he will not allow his charge . to enter the ring. He said that; ugly rumors of the fight, being “in | the bag" for Sharkey had caused j the decision. No raferee has been , announced. Jacobs said the commission would have to abide by his decision because it will uot dare disappoint the expected c:owd by declaring the fight forfeit. Farley dismissed the matter with one sentence to the effect that the

I commission will select the referee as it has in the past. If this is ;<lone Farley will notify at least two, | anti possibly four referees to reI port at the scene of the fight next Tuesday, but the man to handle the 1 fight will not be selected until a ' tew minutes before the boxers enter the ring. Jacobs has not implied that Sharkey's camp is involved with the rumors of fight fixing, but it's a certainty that some pointed comment will be coming from the Orangeburg camp before fight night. It was recalled today that rumors of “in the hag" were heard all over Cleveland on the day of the Schmel-ing-Stribling fight last summer. There was. however, nothing "queer" about the conduct of that I fight. Sharkey will remain at his camp • until Tuesday morning when he I will come to New York for weigh- ■ ing in. St hmeiing may come down on Monday afternoon and would remain overnight in a midtown hotel. Sharkey wouldn't dare attempt such a thing. He lias difficulty sleeping in a strange bed. Schmeling could sleep bn a p'.ank. _o

DIVERS WORK AT OIL TANKER , ON riNL'EM FROM t-AUtC UN El plosion followed, tearing the ship, almost in half. The third blast, came in a huge burst of flame | | and deafening roar, totally wreck-1 ing the tanker and the dry dock. MISHAP TOLLS SHOW DECLINE Indianapolis. June 18. —Sharp decrease this year in the toll of death in automobile accidents in Indiana is largely attributable to the continuous patroling of Indiana roads and extensive checking of automobiles by the State police, with splendid co-operation of local authorities. This statement was made here today in an interview by Chief Grover C. Garrott, who heads the state police under Secretary of State Frank Mayr, Jr. Automobile fatalities in Indiana tor 1932 so tar have fallen off 15 I per cent from the figures for 1931, Chief Garrott reported to Secretary of State Mayr on the basis of a survey just completed. The country as a whole, he con

t'nued, has shown only half that decrease, or 8.15 per cent. Intensive patroling of the roads by the state officers has caused better and more careful driving and is forcing old junker cars more and more off the roads. To the latter result prevailing economic conditions are also contributing. In May the state police. Chief Garrott said, rode for 175,748 miles !on the roads of the state. The tojtal for the first five months of the year -was 824,723 miles, as against 968,000 miles for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1931. Constant checkover of automoi biles on the highways for mechanical defects and improper licensing is also a big factor, in Chief Garrott’s opinion, in increasing safety

on the roads. > During an Intensive phase of this campaign state police, with splen jdid support from the general pub- | lie and fine co-operation from sherjiffs, police departments, town marshals and constables, checked In five days 18,665 automobiles and sent 7,788 in for repairs of various types. Eleven arrests were made Chief Garrott explainer! that the department's policy is to make arI rests in these chei kovers only in extreme cases where drivers are not willing to co-operate for safety. o Judge Says A Word New Yo.fk. June 18—(UP)—A witness, describing a visit to the apartment of Horace Liverlght. publisher, said he found "A lady clad only in undergarments In one room. (And at that point In the undefended divorce yit brought by Elsie Birtlett Liver lght. actress. Judge John M Tierney, referee, intet upted: "This is not an admonitation but a suggestion. A woman is the proper name o the female of the species. and is so described In the bible. Such persons as Henry VIII and Louis XIV had mistersses called 'ladies' but this is not the custom in America. 'ln Ame lea, a lady is a .person who has performed some disting- ■ uished public service. I object to the use here o the word 'Lady.'" So the story of the "woman" in the undergarments was continued. BROWNS MAY GET NEW HOME New York. June 18 —That j exhibition ball game at Milwaukee j yesterday, in which the Brewers | defeated the mighty New York; Yankees, may have been the semi- . official test' of Milwaukee's possi ' bilities as a new home for the St. . Louis Browns. More than 10.000 fans, the big- j gest crowd of the season, filled the stands as the Brewers nosed out the leaders of the American League. 10 to 9, in 11 innings. The defeat of the Yanks by an! American Association club was of I no great importance; the New Yorkers must be regarded as a pretty fair team, nevertheless. ' But the size of the crowd was I significant. ! For some time. Milwaukee fans I have been hoping that their city will supercede St. Louis in tlje i American League, and with good ‘ reason. Milwaukee is proving the 1 most prosperous stand in the American association. St. Louis , is one of the weak sisters ia the . American league. Phil Ball, president of the Browns, also is owner of the Milwaukee club. The Browns are

proving too costly a toy for him. He appropriated approximately $440,000 to support them last year. Because he owns both clubs, it wbuld seem a simple matter to substitute them. Milwaukee has been in the major leagues before. It was in the old National league, and it was a member of the Western league, the predecessor of the American

league. In 1902. Robert Hedges bought the Milwaukee franchise and moved it to St. Louis. No games were scheduled in the American league yesterday, and all National league games were rained out. 25 Yeai-s to Publish Song Green Bay, Wis. —(UP) —Roland ‘ J LeMieux, Green Bay, one of the . country's f<> emost composers of popular songs and music for bani jos, nnndolins and guitars, tried for 125 years before one of his compo- ' sitions was published. During the I past 10 yeats he has had 600 songs .some of them in text books for teacheis of string instruments. o Rain Ruined Imported Pants Dublin, — (UP) — Pointing out ‘that of Irish woolen would I still be available -to poor (persons , in the Free State, despite the cusi toms duties on ready-made goods, | the Minister of Commerce stated in the Dail recently that he had seen specimens of Imported trousi ers which would be ruined by one , shower of rain, which obviously I wouldn't do in Ireland. Unearth Indian Skeletons — i' Deerfield. Mass, —(UP) —Three I i Indian skeletons have been unlearthed in this town in recent I months. The latest specimen was - that of an adult male. An Indian • pipe made of white sandstone was : found nearby. t | 0 Wasp Wins Tarantula Battle J Kyle, Tex.. —(UP)— <A large j' wasp known In this section as a t "tarantula hawk" was victory over -a tarantula in a battle witnessed by Abel Sion of Kyle. After several i- vicious passes the wasp suddenly i- stung the large spider just behind g the bead, Sion said. The tarantula collapsed and was dragged away to y, the wasp’s nest. ' i

BOATSWAIN IS DERBY CHOICE Chicago. June 18 -«U.R>— The ; historic American derby. Chicago s. oldest horse race, promised to nominate a new contender for the 3 year-old championship |t its 24tl> renewal at Washington Park to-| day. Fourteen of the best 3 year olds | left In training were named over-, night for the 850,000 added, mile; and a quarter race. A crowd of 35.000, largest of the Chicago , racing season this year, was expected to witness the race which was inaugurated in 1884 and renewed in 1926 after two lapses. With Burgoo King. Kentucky derby and Preakness winner, nursing injuries which may keep him out of training the rest of the year, and other 3 year old stake winners out of the race for. one reason or another. Boatswain, son of Man O' War. was the ante-; post favorite. He was quoted at 31. Buddy Hanford was named to, ride Boatswain. Boatswain, owned by Walter M Jeffords of New York, son-in-law of Samuel D. Riddle in whose silks Man O' War raced, won the With ers mile at Belmont Park in which Burgoo King finished out of the money. In the Preakness Boatswain finished third Ik'hind Burgoo King and Tick On. Those two races alone —the Withers and Preakness — stamped Boatswain as a formidable contender for the 3-year old title and ; if he triumphs today he will be I the only other 3-year old besides I Burgoo King with two important | stake victories to his credit. Boatswain drew top weight of 126 pounds, and outside post posl-

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IN A SLEEPY little camp, high up in the mountains near Kingston, N. Y., Max Schmeling, heavyweight champion of the world, is winding up the training grind for his meeting with Jack Sharkey next Tuesday evening. Some miles to the south, at Orangeburgh, in an equally quiet Book, Jack Sharkey, surly and trained to the minute, waits the call to leave for the battle ground. What a contrast to those training I'ampa of other years on the •ve of a heavyweight championship figfctl Remember Dempsey's eamp at Atlantic City, when he was training for his first fight with TunneyT Remember the hordes •f special police and regulars surrounding the camp to guard the champion from annoyance by proces serrern, pests, etc? Remember the special appointments for the comfort and recreation of the visiting scribes? Remember the buzzing activities of Tunney’s eamp, even though Gene himself kept as nißch as possible in seclusion? Or do you remember the my-tery surrounding the training

I tion, No. 14 Two or three i . scratches were expected which will help the favorite's post posl- ! tion. ' Second choice was Stepenfetch- ■ it. Mrs John Hay Whitney's colt, | which has not started since he' ! finished third in the Kentucky! derby. Alfred Robertson, one of | the east's leading jockies. has been brought here to ride the ; horse. , If Boatswain or Stepenfetchlt Isn't the winner, then the AmerlI can derby, famous for its thrilling j finishes and upsets, will turn the I turf dope upside down once more. Mate, last year's winner, barely .lasted to belt Pittsbu'ger, an outsider, and two years ago Reveille ! Boy. a 100-1 shot, came galloping! home in front. The west's two leading contend-! I ers were Adobe Post, owned by Knebelkamp and Morris, and Martnion. owned by C. B. Shaffer. . I Adobe Post, quoted at 8-1. has a ' lot of early speed but may not be able to stay the distance. Martnion at 12-1 has been brought along slowly from sprint races especially for this raqe. The east has another good horse > in W. R. Coe's Osculator, which ran second to Boatswain in the Withers and second to Falrneo in the Belmont stakes. He was 5-1 , In the morning line. The other entries w ere Big iI Beau, Rowdy Boy. Our Fancy. I > Say. Minton. Prince Hotspur. Gus- . to. Sunmelus and Yonkel. 1 Say. . only filly entered, and Minto were doubtful starters. » o Marries Yacht Master i J Pasidena, Calif., June 18—(UP) j Mrs. Grace Scripps Clark, daugiit ter of the Laie James Scripps of Detroit, and Johan G. Johanson, f so. merly master of her yacht, were - mar:led in Minden, Nev., last Sun-

activities of Gorgeous Georges Carpentier when he was preparing for that first battle of the Century? Os course you do. But here it is less than a week from actual fight night and the respective camps of the two contestants are as quiet as a church festival. What has happened to the ballyhoo? Neither Sharkey nor Schmeling has saved a child from drowning in neighborhood ponds. Neither of them is training secretly, late at night, perfecting a mystery punch which will annihilate the opposition. Something is wrong, or else the ballyhoo boys have lost their punch. Just imagin'* this. Max Schmeling, during his stay at Kingston has been busying himself tending a small rock garden! Violets and buttercups! What would John L. Sullivan say to all this if he could come back and take a peek around? Well, we’ll leave that one with you. However, Max has been doing some serious work, too. His sparring mates will vouch for that. The champion is undoubtedly ready for the test of his career

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despite an interest in flo '*^ n be “n| golf And he will need to be mJ first-class condition forth ■ ‘/I and he knows it. Two passed since he took that ■ round shellacking dealt°u._-) ■ Boston Sailor —but the • ’ I lingers on. . I At Orangeburgh, Sharkey ■ working savagely and plans * I tinue until time to lea i ’ 4,' . Lo-I York. Jack is peeved. That I year run-around didn t impn I liking for the German. And W"! the concessions he had to m I get this shot at the “burned” him up. He has ref?«“ to interest himself ,n ~a n\ a n v . I that might help along the , hoo, and he is just waiting to u moment when he against the German. It should a real fight I Squawks about the prices resulted in a change of benefit W the fans. While the top remain at $23 the other seats have bee scaled down to as low as The new Garden Bowl will ses close to 80,000, and here s hoQ that it will be filled the n’g*\ , the fight, for a goodly sh^ r . hat the “take” will go famous Free Milk Fund f“X,L Uomirti. uu w kam w