Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1933 — Page 6

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Decatur Athletic Club Plans Baseball Team This Seasol

DECATUR A. C.'S WILL PLAY AT SCHOOL FIELD Club Plans Home Game Every Sunday Afternoon During Season Dr. .1. G. Neptune, president of the Decatur Athletic Club Association, announced today that the association will sponsor an independent baseball team in Decatur this season. This announcement will come as welcome news to baseball fans in this city and surround-1 ing territory. Every effort will be made to huild up a team th it will pro-' vide interesting and entertaining baseball. Most of the team mem-| hers will be obtained from local i talent, while good pitching and i catching talent probably will be secured to make the local team one of the strongest independent teams' in this section of the state. All home games will he played at 1 the new high school field on West Adams street. Present plans call for all home games during the season to he played on Sunday afternoons. Hez Cochrane, veteran semi-pro, player of this city, has been chosen

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as manager of the team. Anyone ' interested in trying out for the Iteam is asked to get in touch wit It i Cochrane as practice sessions will 'start as soon as weather conditions tare favorable, l The athletic emit plans to erect ■ ('bleachers behind home plate and (along the third base line. The duh I will assist the local high school 'team in getting the playing field [into the best of playing condition, 'i before the season starts. 1 Only a small admission charge! iwill he made far these games. I i merely enough to defray expenses of putting a team in the held and obtaining suitable teams for corn-' petition. Efforts will be made to I (have a home game every Sunday j ■of the season. Dick Engle has been selected as j [booking agent tor the team, which | I likely will go under the name of i I the Decatur A. c.'s. Teams inter-1 jested in obtaining games with the I 'Decatur team, are asked to com-1 i inunicate with Engle or the Deca-, tor Athletic Chib Association. o Leave For Try-out I ____ Ralph Braun, left handed pitcher I (front Berne, left Thursday afternoon for Norfolk. Virginia, where; he will report at the training cimp, of lite Albany International League : baseball te.im. Braun lias pitched several seasons in semi pro hall ini this section of the state. o William Geake of Fort Wayne i , was a business visitor rn. this city today.

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FIVE INDIANA TEAMS WINNERS Chicago. Mar. 24.— (U.R) — Two i first round games and a complete ; second round schedule in the national Catholic interseholastic basketball torrnament at Loyalo university today will cut the field competing for parochial cage honors i to eight quintets by tonight. Tlte last two games in the first round open today's program in the first. De La Salle of Minneapolis meets Trinity high of Bloomington, ill. St. George of Evanston, ill., faces St. Mary's of Morris, Minn.. to complete the second round bracket. The eight second round affairs will he started with St. Patrick's

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|of Chicago. defending champion, i meeting St. Xavier, of Louisville, former Loyola titleholder. St. Xavier proved by its first gjttne that it rates as one of the titular threats... ’ Thus far by their play. St. Xavier of Louisville. St. Rita of Chi- , cage, Cathedral higlt of Indianap- , olis. Augustinian Academy of Carthage. N. Y„ and Central Catholic high of Fort Wayne appear the (leading teams in the tournament. - [ With fourteen of the scheduled <il6 first round affairs settled, Indiana cage quintets are .leading all t other states, with five out of six > entered emerging victorious in in- < itial contests. Representations by states remain- . ing in the play follow: Indiana five; . Illinois three; New York two; - Pennsylvania one; Minnesota one; i Ixtui-siana one; Kentucky one. q 0 • Get the Habit — Trabe at Hume

FRANCE BUILDS SPEEDY PLANES FDR NEW RACE New Air Trephy Contest Is Set For May 28 By Ralph Heinzen : United Press St iff Correspondent Paris I UP) Thirteen bullet-{ shaped, high speed airplanes are heiug constructed here to race May 2S for the Deutsch do la Meurtho tup in the first contest for that; speed rophy. It has replaced the j i Schneider Cup as emblematic of the world's air speed ch >mpionship. : This race will be entirely Fre:ch. ■ [for no other nation could afford to 1 build special planes for the contest, j It is doubtful if all 1:1 will be | ready in time, for the regulations 'require the planes to pass a test flight at least 15 days before the rice, beiterr.g 200 kilometers an hour over an 100 kilometers course. The Aero Club de France lias announced th't a definite course now has been laid out. near Etampes, Inst soutlr of here. The Schr.eider

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I Cup races, in which speeds up toj I ::!>:> milw an hour were reached, j were flown over water. The course lies between Etampes ISevntn. Moisy, Charles and Elam-j tpes. Each plane will fly around the I 'course tin times o.t two different , ;Hights and the average time will; jjie taken. The new limitation is to i ;a single motor of eight litres cly- . tinder capacity. The Delage-Kellner Ben< hereatt | plane neirly is completed, the bill•[ I let shaped metal laxly being just i 'large enough to hold the pilot, his [ ; motor and sufficient gasoline tot tfly 200 miles. There is no room for , i any instrunie.ds other than those ‘ , required for actual flight. The wings , and lx>dy are metal welded together I at the semis, so that the plane is jreally a flying tin-ean. The Delage 12 cylinders are ar- i rar.ged in V-.t.ipe. 3,800 revo'utions a minute to provide a speed of 400 j i kilometers. The motor weighs 792 1 , pounds. Four Gang Members Have Been Identified Indianapolis. March 24 -(UP) — Four members of the gang held as suspects in the murder of Sgt. la-s ‘ ter Jones. Indianapolis policeman, have been idti. tified by 35 wif nesses as participants in six major

■holdups here, police annoupced toiday. Two automobiles and nearly $lO,|(W)0 cash wjs obtai.iwl in the role ; lieries. Those identified were Al Thompson. George Schwartz. Edward Miller, and Fred Adams. Police said they were convinced tint ThompIson is Ernest (Red) Gibherson. Attaches Property New York, March 24—(UP) —The i sheriff's office late yesterday at-

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