Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1932 — Page 6

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LOCALS LOSE TO PORTLAND The first of the inter-city baseball games in the Junior Loop was played in this city yeste day afternoon when Decatur played Portland, the locals losing by a score of 4 to 1. The Decatur team composed of picked player- from the four De atur teams participating in the Junior League presented a for-n-idable lineup. The team will represent D.catui as its city team and undoubtedly games with oih'.T cities will be b.oked. The Portland t.-am w I also composed of picked men from the Portland teams and was much bigger and . racier than the locals. Jt was nearly the same team that won the Sth District Championship in this city last summer. Portland scored one run in the Hist inning nd neither team scored until the fifth, when the visitors again scored three more runs. Decatur’s lone tally eame in the seventh inning. Hits by Keller ami Strickler were the only two hila registered by the Decatur team. CITY TEAM WINS TENNIS MATCH Th ■ Decatur City tennis team won Its fifth consecutive mutch yesterday by defeating the Winchester Street team 4-1 in games played on the Clov rleaf courts. Engeler, of the Winchester Street team defeated Stoneburner 6-4, 4-6, 10-8. rn the next mat.-h Par ith f I the City team beat Somers 6-3, 6-3 In the la t of the singles matches | Strickler of the City team beat I

“Big Poison" of Pirates By HARDIN BURNLEY DkOllgOH AUU«”* ■ I RATES/ |ig' | Paul Waner -•pttsslisghs famed Ofr HITSMtTH, WHO IS AFTEI2 -• J | THE ALL. BATTING £ creowN ✓fin Jt 7M<S /iVlk JI Yeas/ ik X \/ JMp JEIt * // \ Ap.VurtY M <rs > ll\vx /// , " I9>? K.nc Iramrn Syn<k..e, tnc. Great Rrira.n rights rrerJr

ii-'Tn AKE tho Waners out of 3 the Pirate lineup and the -*• Bucs would be a pushover,” said Rogers Hornsby recently while discussing the strength of various western clubs. And there’s much in what Hornsby says, particularly in the case of Paul Waner who is batting at a .375 clip and appears to be slugging his way to the National League batting championship, ar. honor he has coveted since he topped the league in 1927, his second season in the big show. The sudden surge of the Pirates in this year’s pennant race has been due in part to Paul’s hitting comeback. Last year his batting fell off to a dangerous degree. His slump was blamed by ( many on the belief that Paul, always a student of pitching, was trying to outguess the enemy hurlera. Paul denied

'Huffman 4-6. 10-8, 6-3. In the first one of the doubles matches Stomburner and Pirrlsh II of the City team beat Engeler and Frisinger 6-D, 6-2. in the lust match Cowan and Handier of the City l am treat Moser and Huh 6 1. 6-2. Sunday, the Decatur City tennis team will meet the undefeated Winchester team here. Th ■ matches ' will be pl.yed at the Hospital and j North Ward courts. TOURNEY GAMES AT FORT WAYNE The first round schedule for the American Legion Junlo League . baseball t urnamynt which ia,to be . played at Fort Wayne, will open , Monday morning, according to ar- . rangoments made at Fort Wayne last evening. The terms entered are , all from the Fourth District, the winner to represent the district at . the state meet which is scheduled at a later date. Decatur’s -entry will lie the Juni io: team that is com , used of pick- . ed players from the four league team - and that lost its first game to i Portland yesterday Tternoon. All games will b played at League Park. Fort Wayne. Les laigan , and Gunna Elliot of Fort Wayne i and Earl Blackburn, of this city I l will take care of the officiating. The schedule for the 4. urnament I is us follows with the time being , Day Light Saving time. Monday 10:00- (Archer Truckers vs 'Bluff-’ l ton Tigers. 1:30 Albion vs. Garrett. 3:3o—Auburn vs. lie ne. Tuesday 10:00 —Lagrange vs Monroeville. I:3o—Decatur vs. Angola. 3:30 Kendallville vs. Cities Ser-1 | vice. Geneva draws bye.

this, saying that he was in there taking his cut as always, but was just j n one of those slumps which all hitters experience occasionally. Anyway his comeback has been a boon to Manager George Gibson who has had his troubles this year. ’ Since the training season Gibson has been forced to do some tai] experimenting and has faced various handicaps. But despite all that he and his Pirates have progressed. Getting back to “Poison Paul,” this young man has had a remarkable batting record since his major league debut with the Pirates in 1926. He came to Pittsburgh from, the Pacific Coast League in a deal which also included Hal Rhyne, now playing shortstop for the Boston Red Sox. Since his first year as a regular Paul has a grand batting average to date of over .350. In 1926, he poled oat 180 hits, the

CAREY TO RAGE 1 AT WINCHESTER Wlncheste’, Ind.. July 9 tSp "lai) Hob Carey one of the leading pl- | lot - and an old time favorite at the Funk's motor speedway will pilot a Miller sou cylinder in the coming race o-ird to b held at the speedway n Sunday. July. 10th. Two years ago Carey set a new ! track record here In one of the Vance Specials. Although piloting, a Mille Carey hopes to again low -r the track reco.d which was broken Iby Rose who now h lids the official record for half mile with the ! time of 22.9 or an iverage of 79 miles p?r hour. Carey now holds the record for 100-mlle with the time of 1:65:43, and aso set a new World's mark for rive-eight- mile at the Fort Wayne Spe dway. June 12th, with an official time of 26.2. Carey finished fourth in the 500-inile classic at Indianapolis, May 30th. die also won the 1 o-mile c a.npionship eird at Detroit. .Mi. h:’ on June sth, and held first positioii at the championsh; race card at Chicago, June I 19th. Ca y will be pushed t.) the limit with such driver:- as: "Wild Bill" Cummings, Howdy Wkcox. Ira Hall. M.curie Ros?, Al. Tiiei on. Clay Corbitt and Kelly Pulets of i Los A geles. Calif., and Al. Miller lot’ Detroit who have entered the fiv. event program. o THE BIG FIVE ,-> . —J *. Ball ■ Rulh singled in four times I t’P. ] Lou Gehrig singled in two trios. Al Simmons homered, singled and waked in seven times at hat. recounting for live runs. Bill Terry mad.- three singles in live times up. accounting for one run. I Hack Wi'son made three singles jin five tries, accounting for six runs.

• following year he had 237; in 1928 ! > his total was 223; 1929 it dropped i i to 200; in 1930 it jumped to 217 • and last year dropped to 180, his i mark of 1926. i Paul won’t have any cinch grab- . bing off the batting crown this , i year, despite his hitting streak. ; There are several others who have i their eyes focused on that crown. . Chick Hafey, last year’s champion. I is right up there and judging by ■ the way he is hitting ’em he"will i stay there. Hurst and Whitney, of . the Phillies; Critz, of New York and Collins of St. Louis, are tail- I 1 ing along close behind the leaders. It’s going to take a real batting champion to stay on tup with these ’ wallopers shooting for the big prize, but with “Poison Paul” hitting them again who is to say that he won’t go on to win his second batting crown ? • CopynLUt. IOT2. Klm Byadk&te, Im.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. JULY 9, 1932

* LEADINGBATTERS < j Player. Club G AH R H Pct IP. Waner. Pir. 71 300 56 113 .377 Foxx. Athletics 78 292 80 110 .377 , Hurst. Phillies 77 295 57 109 .369 ' Lombardi. Reds 6u 217 34 78 .360 iKlein. Phillies to 341 88 122 .358 HOME RI NS Foxx. Athletics 30 Klein, Phillies 25 Ruth, Yankees , ... 23 G-dirig. Yankees' t 19 Simmons. Ath'otlcs 16 YOUTH S CHUM HELI) IN CASE CONTINUED FROM PAGE? ONE ! i investigation was held secret. It' probably will be impounded im- | mediately after conclusion of the’ investigation expected today. The! jury did not plan to resume its: j session until 11 a. m. The Broadway star said she had , : a brief "menial flash" Wednesday j morning the morning her hus-, I band was shot but with that ex-1 1 (-option knew nothing of what happened for hof'rs before and - I after his death. That left Walker, so far as is; known, the only guest of the lively I j party tv the Reynolds estate thatj night, who knows what happened before Smith Reynolds left him

and went upstairs to Mrs. Reynolds. Walker, so far as Is known, is tlie only member of the household that night who knows just where and when his chum was shot, where Libby Holman was at the time, where the gun he used was' found, and what was done and said prior to the wounded heir's arrival at the hospital where he died four hours later. The fact that Walker was under ; guard did not become known for some time, and then only by acci- 1 dent. A negro noticed the Reynolds motor car in front of the jail.. It was learned then that members of the Reynolds family sought Walker's removal to the hotel where deputies were placed on' guard. The strain of the events this week had left Libby Holman grief! stricken and a nervous wreck, and tor that reason, the coroner ordered she be questioned closely by Solicitor Carlisle Higgins and Earl McMichael, assisting Coroner W. N. Dalton. REUNION - CALENDAR Sunday July 10 Annual Bierdg reuniorj Legion I Memo ial Park. Sunday, July 31 Fuhrman reunion, home of Geo. j Meyers. 1 mile west :f Monroeville. : Borne reunion, Sunset Park, rain or shine. Annual Cowin reunion, Sunset Park, southeast of Decatur Mye; s reunion, rain or shine,' Sunday August 7 Grimm reunion, Sunset Park' southeast of Decatur. Annual Oettinger reunion, rain or shine. Sunset Park. Schafer reunion, Sunset Park, southeast of Decatur rain or shine. Sunday, August 14. Rellig and Reohm fimily reunion, Sunset Pa k. southeast of Decatur. Hower reunion. Sunset Park. The annual reunion of the Bienz family. Sunset Park, Decatur. Sunday August 21 Butler family reunion, Sunset Park, rain or shine. Ainnua! reunion of the Smith fa-1 mily, Sunset Park. Decatur. Kemmer family -eunion, Sunset' Pirk, southeast of Decatur. Annual Hakes reunion. Sunset I Park, Decatur. Sunday August 28 Annual Kortenber-Hackman re-! union. SunlSet Park, rain or shine.' Urick reunion, Sunset park, Decatur. September 4 Annual Brown reunion, Sunset Park, Decatur. Labor Day, September 5 Lenhart annual reunion. Sunset Park, southeast of De.atur. Reuni u of .Millinger fatni'y, Sunset Pirk Decatur.

FAST becoming known as I UUUCHIH . A SPORTING CENTER! J A Good Bal! Team - Good Boxing Bouts I A S W ELL AS OTHER SPORTS B Next Scrap Friday, July 15 a TARZAN HICKS vs. BIG BOY COX 2 Weight 185 lbs. Weight 210 Jbs. g 6 — Other Sensational Bouts — 6 PLUS BATTLE ROYAL—OW-WOW’ y JOE WALCOT—THE BLACK DEMON. IS I SISTISsUT The Jarniaca Kid-Knocked Dempsey R U*U 1111 ii i Down - CHtcK COLEMAN, TOMMY L Q O’CONNELL—And OTHER BIG SHOTS Svpro t jw v Programs and I’ll give E You the Best! • Snedeker. S

OLYMPIC GAMES ARE ASSURED Los Angeles, July 9- dJ.R) — The 1932. Olympic games have come > upon happy days. With the opening of the tenth j I Olyinpald only three weeks away. | the ticket sale has picked up, eliminating the last dark cloud. Six months ago, three months, ago and even two weeks ago there were many local sports observers 1 who predicted the July 30 to I August 14 competition would flop It was claimed that the world-] i wide depression would prevent, ! foreign countries from sending j ath'e es here. If the athletes did come, it was held, they would play to empty seats because of that 1 same depression. As if to support the first pessij mistic prophecy, France. Great ' Britain. Germany and many others spoke of eliminating or curtailing 1 their teams. But one by one they fell into : line until now one of the greatest j athletic migrations in history is ! under way. A migration that I eventually will place some 2.000 j mon and women, representing 58 countries, into competition. The arrival today of the Philippine Island delegation boosted to 14 tlie number of foreign countries

i that already have men on the ! ground. Tlie ‘‘empty seat" prediction be-1 gan to falter as railway, steam-1 ship and airplane agencies report-] ed greatly increased reservations ' for rhe period just preceding the 1 Olympics. The Automobile Chib ; of Southern California announced requests for auto travel routes to, Los Angeles were double the usual 1 I number. Today the Olympic games com-i mittee stated that between 850,000! . and 900.000 seats already have been disposed of for the 137 i events of the competition. Especially pleased was the committee because tickets were ( being bought at twice the rate they were last week and there still were three weeks to go. The fourteen countries that nowhave Olympic entries on band are Argentina. Austria, Colombia. France. Germany. Haiti. Holland. India. Japan, New Zealand. Philippines. Uruguay, Sweden and Switzerland. I • — —o HANDLE FACTORY TO RESUME WORK NEXT MONDAY ( FROM PAGE ONE I plant superintendent announced. ! The Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., j plant is one of the busiest places . in the l city. Employment is at a peak and plant operations are steady. During the summer the plant operates at night and with ■ tlie opening of new branch plants 'and sales territory, operations have (increased during the past year. LIBERALS TRY TO ORGANIZE CONTINVED Flt Oft PAGE ONE i afternoon. Becaus? many of the leaders wish j to avert placing the league behind ' , a personality, it was believed gen- I I erally that the convention would n t s lect one of its gioup as a ! Presidential nominee in this year's I camp.ign. Instead, it was expected I to swing its support behind Norman i ] Thomas, socialist nominee, but the ! ] socialist . latfo m will not be a- • ! dopted. The League has its own , program, ku. wn as the "Four year - I Presidential plan," dealing chiefly I with proposals for progressive leg- | . islation so: unemployment, taxation ( t riff, unemployment relief, power I and utility regulation. I Ml issues will be sidet acked during the sessions for the debate n economic questions. Little time was expected to be spent on the matter of endorsing a nominee.: Even the prohibition question ; which caused bitter fighting in the 1 recent republican and democratic! nati nal conventions, will teceiv 1 scant attention. The organization's platform dis- ! —

Poms ot the liquor «o«ti<m i’'"' ll ' It point" out thal pr° hiWt,vn , ", 11 not be honestly settled at a : egular: election nor legally settled by a referendum and the only recourse - to call a constitutional convention In the costltutional convention,] the platform states, the delegates must (ith r uphold the 18th amend- , ment as it stands, or under an a-, I nendment t - the constitution, iel< | gate to congress the regulation I and control of liquor. Congress , would then be in a position 'o mak>I any changes tin' country w.s’<'!,, i (lie plun sets out. Much of the time of the convention was expected to -be devobu' | to discussion of the unemployment I problem. In this respect, the lea i gue’s tentative platform provides I for federal appropriations for dir Ject relief and hr a gigantic Publi ;\Vorks program. It provides also, for uneni'i loynimt insurance, abolition of child labor and old age pensions; and six-hour day without' wage reductions. ——o — WAR DEBT BILL SIGNED BY 14 ALLIED N ATIONS - - i CONTINVED FROM PAGE ONE i a w ,rld f amework.” “It Is no goiHl collecting sums I from one government, or any coun- ! try, which disturbs world trade," Ma Don d said. "The I'nited Statethe country most fitted to withstand j economic shocks, is now as severely hit as any european country.” “We have opened a new book, j there a e no more reparations. I Those great payments sums whkh represented no transfer ot goods, ! have not been a punishment to one I nation but ah affliction to all" The Prime Minister said. MacDonald announ. ed after the | signing that the commissions on i non German reparations and central eu op an problems would be--1 gign work after the end f the reparations conference. The seal used on the treity was first us;d December 1925 to seal a

“Hare of the Pampas' 1 By H\R|)|\ Bl RNLEY— ——-I JUAN 1 CARLOS || 1 ZAb- z^ ; />4 4 Zi wM OFSOUW AMEIBICA? v > WHO is MOW <'N THE / Y US., T(3A|/MIAJG Fo(S. THE OLYMPIC L • X H D/STAAICE EVEArtS-/T ' HE 3f2Oj<g Zx ’ " \ THE J.s. MAieks / / \ X\\ Fo(2 BOTH THE /U j/ \ (QOOO METERS J-'' I jfly "31 K w 7 And 15 / \ V ''---- vX’-H A AnjTelops -.. z t / J spo(zt - ) hb oU<? '

JUAN CARLOS ZABALA! Sounds like the name of a gay Lothario of movieland or the name of one of those good fragrant Havana cigars, doesn’t it’ But it is neither. It is the name of the newest sensation of the running track. “The hare of the Argentine Pampas,” is the nickname aptly applied to this twenty-year-old youngster who recently treated American track enthusiasts to the niftiest distance running they have seen since Paavo Nurmi raced to fame some years back. Two American records have gone by the boards in the face of the relentless speed and stamina of this frail-looking racer from l South America. Joie Ray’s 10 000 metre mark of 31 minutes 28 2-5 seconds was the first to fall when Juan streaked over the distance in 31 minutes 26 3-5 seconds. And j incidentally his mark bettered that made by Nurmi when he won this

between Beratf, Fribourg. uusanne. MacDonald ■We ar> wasting money, we are Growing it into armanMmta.- the P-ime Minister continued. 'lf tw could only pluck f-ar from «“«■ hl . artß , W(. ,’OUI'I reduce .nd reduce |, lt iy a moral as wll as a material ' MacDonald concludwl by appeal- | mg for relief of EurSpean tension 11( f t eater friendship among nati(S.,s especially between France and Germany. In answer tc questions, a state| department spokesman said yes-1 terday that the Vnited States, ifj approached singly by its creditors, j was now ready to discuss the' debts. This statement merely | .confirming the understanding reached last fall by President' Hoover and Premier Laval of. France and did not imply that the United States had changed its I basic attitude toward war debts. , o

Hutton-St. Pierre Case Goes To Jury Los Angeles. July 9—(U.R>— The Hutton-St. Pierre 8200.0(H) breach] of promise suit was placed in the | hands of a superior court jury | here today by Judge Lester Roth.! The jury was to decide whether David L. (Ironman) Hutton, husband of Aimee Semple McPherson ' betrayed Myrtle St. Pierre, attractive Pasadena nurse under protnI ise of marriage. Boy Makes Visits Habitual Stockton. Cal. -(UP)— Either i Louis Ariola. 9, is fond ot nurses , | at the emergency hosipital or he is ■ just plain unlucky. His fingers were ■ severely mangled when he dropped a cement bench and was treated - at the hospital. He reported to the i, hospital for two weeks to have his ■| fingers d.essed. Hut the day before -ihe was to come tor the last dressing he broke a finger and mangled another in a chicken feed grinding mill, theteby a«""-ing himself of i several mo:e visits to the .iospital.

res event in the Olympics in 1920 ’ wid [ e t -ey U ed n c C h? r,oS Z^bala . ine eyed Chicagoans the fastest -les ever run in AmS 1 1:20 -A? p l '. 6 '; l b ' s 'hstance was tablished in London by F Apnlebv Juan missed the record by tSe sli™ ' idelTf SIX minutes after the fl f ? • Juan. Pau] De Bro™c{™ ted i £ ar ft h ° n u king Boston classic, f® It was a great bit of ronnimr by virtue of his fcro £ baJa has assumed a premier run"*" of the

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to land on the . ~: ls sov. repair tlieii m.,, (■outinue. At t!..,' ■-■ . over l'i hours al.. :( 1P llieworld flight ■ ~r , j \\ iley Post and I ...; i; aI( , H| The fliers san! . >.. to be plenty of s| ;, ir lauding on the ed ■ ■ || l( . 25.000 persons. u , r , at night and in b;.-i .o .di, r ever. They brought '!,.-ir .town easily on be a level surf.ee r a peat bog. Tin < ~n , u r Progress" sunk . - in the swamp, can,. ar. halt, and nosed o\ : u 'h a Thus ended tic ." :i;.tioM : around the world H — — o ■ Bull Battled Mad Dog H Dothan. A x (U P- A r.caalß was killed in a pasture hc-re iB impaled on the he: cnM bull, which, with s veral gH cows, had been bitt. . Park Plan Dance. Satiufl and Sunday. SI NSET. |H

•served _ X two American appearances, should come close to capturing 10,000 meters at Los Ang e Nurmi is the only one of the 1 • temational champions who « ! stepped the 10,000 meter distan in better time. , . If America was astounded . , the speed and stamina of this I® man from the Argentine, r- ur “ was even more startled on the < casion of a recent trip abroad ma \ by Zabala. In races over there repeatedly showed his hee.s to ' stars of the Continent, many i whom are slated to represent u> countries in Los Angeles. Zabala, a former newsboy, I the idol of his countrymen. I are anxious to see him mat , strides with Nurmi and otner liant runners of foreign la® And they are certain that he • 1 carry the Argentine colors to ’ tory in at least one distance e at Uss Angeles. i 1 OorrtcM. IMS. KIM SMMrw •aS*"**’