Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1934 — Page 6

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PAUL WANER IS BATTING CHAMP Pirate Outfielder Leading Hitter Os National League New York, Dec. 26 (U.R) For the second time, Paul Glee Waner, "Mg poison" from Ada, Okla., is the National league batting champion. In hitting .362 last season, the brightest star of the Pittsburgh nut- 1 field outdistanced Memphis Bill ■ Terry of the New York Giants, who ( hit at a .354 dip. Paul, more robust anti effective ; member of the brother act which / includes Lloyd (little poison * Wan-; er. further scored 122 runs and made 217 hits, leading in these departments. His liftein major league batting average of better than .350 did not I suffer as he climbed to the familiar I ground at the peak. Paul was up there for the first time in 1927 when he riddled pitchers to com- 1 pile a .380 to help pull the Pirates ; into the world series and to earn . the most valuable player award. ; Among his other accomplish ‘ ments last season, official averages ■ released today reveal: 16 triples,' j 14 home runs and 42 doubles for | 323 total bases. Terry, besides clinching runnerup honors, also accumulated the ' ( most one-base hits, 169. Hazen ; Cuyler of the Chicago Cubs was in ■ ( third place in batting with a mark j j of .338. j. Jim Collins of the St. Louis Card- , ) inals hit for the greatest number ;' of total bases. 369. and tied with , ‘ Mel Ott of the Giants for home |. runs. 35 each. Cuyler and Ethan Allen of the , Phillies tied for two-base hitting I honors with 42 each, and Joe Medwick of the Cardinals made the, , most triples, 18. Pepper Martin | , again was the leading base stealer. , . The famous wild horse of the world I champions stole 23 sacks, three I less than in 1933. when he also led I the league. In scoring six runs in a single ( ( game last season Ott set a new- ■ modern National league record. ! 8.1 l Urbanski of Boston equalled . another in drawing four bases on j balls and tacritieiug twice for no |CORT| ■■ 11 " Tonight - Thursday Don’t Fail to See “HAPPINESS AHEAD” Dick Powell. Josephine Hutchinson. Frank McHugh. Allen Jenkens. -PiusJ. Harold Murrav. Bernice Claire "WHO’S THE GIRL” A Broadway Brevity and Little Jack Little Song Hits. 10c-25c Coming Sunday, Monday, Tues. — "FLIRTATION WALK" Dick Powell. Ruby Keeler. Pat O’Brien West Point Cadets & 100’s of Girls • Filmed at West Point. ... uummi liMgftiataawj w ——wmim " Tonight & Thursday | IRENE DFNNE and JOHN BOLES in “THE AGE OF INNOCENCE” Edith Wharton’s Famous Pulitzer Prize Novel! You’ll be stirred in this glamorous p'eture of America in “THE AGE OF INNOCENCE’’—the story of a rebel heart in a world of sham! 'tided — A Clark & McCullough Comedy and Cartoon. 10c -15 c (Sponsored by ‘THE TATTLER' Staff) Fri. & Sat. “LIMEHOUSE BLUES’ with Geo. Raft, Jean Parker, Anna May Wong, Kent Taylor. ACTION-PACKED DRAMA. 10-15 c Sun. Mon. ONLY—GRETA GARBO in “THE PAINTED VEIL” with Herbert Marshall and Geo. Brent. DON’T FAIL to ATTEND our NEW YEAR’S EVE FUN FROLIC.

official times al hat In u nine-inn-ing game. Miller Huggins set the record in 1910. — o City Experiences ( old Weather Today The thermometers In the city to-. duy at noon registered between 15 and 20 above zero as the city experienced one of the coldest days of the year. It was several degrees warmer Christmas day. Most of the streets and roads in the city and county were in fair | condition today. The frozen snow. ( however, lias made careful driving ! a necessity. — o— ■■ ■— Mittens 40 Years Old Independence. Mo. —(U.R) — Reese • Alexander is wearing a pair of mitjtens 4(1 years old. They wore knitted for him by an aunt, Mrs. Sue Kerley, who has been dead 20, 1 years. The only hole in the mittens was made when Reese lent them to a friend who was loading some rock. —o Tap Rooms Bring Jail Liberal. Mo — (U.R) Business originating in tap rooms close to the Missouri-Kansas line has necessitated construction of a city jail here, the first this town has had in a decade. The bastile in use ten years ago was converted into a tire station after it had been in disuse for some time. May Regain Law Rites Cleveland. — (U.R) — Thomas W Fleming, former city councilman, released recently from Ohio peni tentiary. Columbus, for accepting a bribe, will probably be reinstated to practice law, the executive coinmittee of common pleas court in dicated in announcing it would recommend the Journal entry disbarring Fleming be modified. o Dean of Women Moves TIFFIN. Ohio (U.R) — Ona Wagner. dean of women at Heidelberg College here, has resigned to i become associate dean at the University of Nebraska. Lincoln. ' o Rutgers. W. J. Face Marietta j MARIETTA. Ohio (U.R) — Two eastern colleges. Rutgers and j Washington and .Jefferson, will , appear on Marietta College's 1935 football schedule. Athletic Director Frank L. Hayes has an- ] nounced. I (J ; , Gets 1.000 Aces at Pinochle CONNEAUT. Ohio (U.R) — Emil Isoma reached that almost in:- ; possible goal of all dyed-in-the 1 wool pinochle players when he < drew 1,000 aces in a three-handed • game here. Isoma was playing , with George Ahlberg and Arthur i Antilia. I 0 Find Industries Need Credit : CI I VELAND (U.R) — Many wellmanaged industrial concerns in the nation still need credit, it was disclosed her" at a two-day . conference of Federal Reserve District officials and industrial advisory committee representatives. Seven Sets of Twins at School BENTON. Ark. (U.R' —Seven sets of twin.- attend the Bryant consolidated school near here. They are five to 17 years old. There are four sets of boys, two sets of girls and the oldest pair are Carl Er- > est and Emma Anna Lenz.

-AROUND TISE STATE-jSPfcL TONY' MIN KLE j'£ Butler University Basket 1 sail Mentor y Below is printed another in the series of articles -wJ l<>ing writ,en for the I*catur Daily Democrat by L. vL.frjgj? Pari ‘Tony’ - Tinkle, athletic director and head . s b’.ketball coach at Butler University. These articles will appear week during the basketbail season and will deal principally with 'lfe Indiana high school basketball. Recently I watched an exhibition game in Kansas, the purpose of which was to experiment on elimination of the center tip-off and raising the basket to twelve feet. These contemplated changes tn rales would eliminate the effectiveness of the “big man” in the game both under the basket and during the tip-off. It is interesting to look in»o the “big man” in basketball. Is hasketba’l becoming a game of big men who will eventually eliminate the sma’ler man from competition? Personally lam not cnno=ed to rule changes. I think every cbanee during vears post has been for betterment of the game. However. I believe it is impossib'e for anv rule change to destroy the effectiveness of a big man. In almost every game, the play of a big man is better than that of a smaller man if both are of eoual ability. Tn tennis. Tilden and Vines are both big men. In football, the best teams have big men. In basketball. I be'i“ve-ft is true that a man who has the advant-a-e n r wnfgh* ana wi’l control himself better and be more effective on the floor. Elimination of the center t>p-off will not eliminate the effect ivonerq n f the big man. The center iumn in a basketball game is probably < plv one-tenth as f-eouent as iumn balls during a game, so elimination lof the one-tenth wil’ not rectify the advantage of the nine-tenths in which the large man is still more effective. Held bells can never bo eliminated, so the future for big men in this particular part of the game is bright. Raising the basket to twelve feet io supposed to make the tall man less effective under the basket, and destroy the accuracy of tip-in shots. Possib'v the chance would do this, but it will also dostroy the effectiveness of the little man's run-in shote since he would have two feet farther to jump for a successful shot. Elimination of the eenter tin has been discussed for years. Personally I think it wise to forget about trying to destroy the effective-nes-t of the big man 'in basketball. It never can be done. So. with no offense to the little man In the game,—Yours for Better Basketball.

With the excitement and anticipation of Christmas Day now a i matter of history, high school basketbull players can get back to work. We hope none of the boys over-indulged in Christmas "goodies", or that first after-holiday practice may cause some discomfort. --000— Most of the Adams county teams are making the vacation period a real holiday. How- | ever, there is no rest for the | Decatur teams. —oOo — The Commodores face a heavy schedule in the next seven days. Thursday night the Commies will j entertain Catholic Central of Hammond. Friday they will journey to Berne to battle the Jefferson Warriors and next Tuesday. New Year’s day. they engage in the HARD tourney at Huntington. -000— The Yellow Jackets also are in for a heavy week-end. The Jackets entertain the South Side Archers ■ from Fort Wayne here Friday night night and Saturday will battle in a four-team blind tourney at Fort WUyne. —<>()<>— Hammond and the Commodores should stage a real battle Thurs- | day night. In a previous game this season between the two teams. Decatur nosed out a 22-19 victory through superlative foul shooting ! In that game, the Commies had I eight attempts from the free throw i line and cashed in on every oppor- i tunity. As a preliminary game. 1 the Commodore seconds will play ' the Pleasant Mills varsity. —oOo— Jefferson is also doped to give the Commodores a real fight Friday night on the Berne floor. While the Warriors can show only an even break in eight games played to date, they have three veterans in Foreman, Baker and Bollenbacher who are capable of making the going tough for the locals. —oOo —• The Yellow Jackets, unsuccessful I in stopping the winning streak of one of Indiana unbeaten quintets, will face another undefeated team Friday night. Last week the Berne Bears remained in the always victorious class by nosing out the local five. — oOo —■ South Side of Fort Wayne, opponents of the Yellow Jackets here Friday, have yet to taste the dregs of defeat this season. The outstanding achievement of the Archers is the stinging defeat they handed the Bluffton Tigers. After trailing at the half by nine points, the Archers came back to win that game easily. Saturday afternoon and evening the Yellow Jackets will compete with Central and North Side of Fort Wayne, and Valparaiso in a blind tourney at Fort Wayne. Two games will be played in the afternoon, with the losers and winners battling at the evening session. —oOo— Wells County Standing 'V. L. Pct. l Bluffton 71 -875 Petroleum 7 2 .778 Rockcreek 6 3 .666

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■ Chester 5 4 .556 Ossian 6 5 .546 Ijlierty 4 5 .446 1 Union 2 7 .2231 Lancaster 2 8 .290, State Court Clerk Appoints Assistant Indianapolis, Ind.. Dec. 28 —(UP) I iGe rge Rabb, former St. Jo«e h ' county treasurer, was appointed! | ohief assMtant deputy • lerk of the ’ i supre ! e and appellate courts today by Paul Stump, Crawfordwill ■. I Newly elected clerk. o Highway Commission Will Provide Work Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 26 —(UP) I —Hundreds of men. many of them I taken from relief rolX will be pro-1 vkled employment during t':e win-j ter months on highway constrw tion

Earned $111,235 for Her 1 rgc —TiFS JiEI 4M JggT wM Biggest money winner on the American turf for 1934 is Cavalcade, shown with his owner, Mrs. Isohel Dodge Sloane, whose Brookmeade Stable leads all in winnings. Cavalcade’s purses total $111,235 and Mrs. Sloane’s stable won a total of $251,138. A very profitable year! Rat Gnaws Hole in Baby’s Head k -J B yftyfi&aL. -6 SI ' m '****""■ ■ / Physicians at Cumberland, Md., fought to save the life.Oi the five-weeks-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wharton after a rat gnawod a hole in the soft tissues of the baby’s head and pierced the i brain Thia photo shows the infant after an operation was per- . I formed in an effort to save her life.

Ja reu D. Adams, chulnrca f the highway commissi n a id today. I 'Highway, grading, bridge ant! .grade separation projects, now in! progress have an e<t mated cost of; i tl.ot) .biHi. An additional |500.0U) ■ is r • dy to he placed under comract I within a few weel.e, Adams s id. I Most of the work be'ng done now j te of emergency nature sin e the] clltnate during December and Jan-1 ■ nary does not permit gen ral high-, ; wav w rk, Adams uai... o Wildcat Shot in Ohio — Ixirain. Ohio. — (U.R) —A 13-pound ! wildcat was shot and killed near ’ I here by L. G. Tuttle, a state game warden, he reported. The Ixirain- ’ ■ ian said he believed the animal was , , at least 350 miles from its home. I probably in Canada or the Pennsylvania Alleghenies. i o Get the Habit — Trade Home

MAN SKIN TO GET INSURANCE Youth Confesses Plotting With Woman To Kill Her Husband Chicago. Dec. 26 (UP) l’oi<<' I to ay turned Jam « Sonece over t ■ I the state's attorney for q ie-tloning latter obtulnitig w’tal they tie uri'ced uh «i com. lete confmslon to th** ! murder of George Erickson. i As described by police th* conj fessi.m of S**n**se, 19 year old model I youth, related h >w he plotted wi.b [Erickson’s wifi* to • arry out the murder for |5 0. EricksenV IB” I w s injured for 12.500. A ,< cond confession was made | by Elmer Krueger. 21. w <> said he wau present at the slaying and had been promise 1 $250 by Senes** for j helping. Mrs. Erl Itsen, mother of six i children, ha c been h Id by police (since the day of the .slaying. When c onfronted by her ac usere s'he de-, ' nied their st Ties. Police first believed th- murder! (bid been c:mmi;teed by robbens. > Ericksen’s body was discovered in the rear of his Southside home. Senese said he at firet objected ■ when Mrs. Ericksen approa hed I him. but finally agreed to underI take the kill! g for SSOO of the* $2. j 1 500 insurance on Erickson’-» life, i Sencue linked Elmer Krueger. 21. j with Mrs. EHcksen and himself in . the plot saying he likewise was to get SSOO but ran oway when it ca r.e | time to d> the actu. 1 shooting. Senese said he had kti wn Mrs. i Eric-keen for two years and plotted (the killing while drilling coffee in the airport grill Ericksen operate !. I Special Services At Union Chapel Church Special mid-week services will I j be held at the Union Chapel U. B. church tonight. At 7:15 o’clock a ( musical program will be presented. The men and women of the church will hold individual wor- ' ship services at 7:30 o’clock. The mid winter evangelistic services will beg,n December 30. BeI inning December 31, Evangelist R. C. Haycock will lx* present at the church. o Cited For Failure To Pay For Support Merle ChrLsaan wiis cited before j Judge Huber M. DeV ss to’ay in the Adams circuit 00111*1 this .fternoon. Chrisman is charged by the attorney for his former wife, Gladys Chrisman, with being guilty of n- ' teiu,;t of court in that he is arrears 1 lin support payments for hie child, i Chrisman stated that be has been (out of work for six weeks and un I ■ able to make the p yme.T.s. Judge 1 DeVoss continued the case until (January 9 when Chrumian has been I ordered to report his succeas in I finding e.ri.-loyment or money to I make support payments. O All Christmas Mail Delivered Monday ’P stma-'l-r L. A. Graham announced today that all Chrlutncs ’m, il and p.t.kagos received by the I local postoffi e before Christmas were elivered by 3 o’clock Monday i afternoon, it was necessary for the | 1 employes to work overtime to retI der this service. Any Christmas .rail whk.h arrives late is the fl.jlt of the « ipper, o_ Enraged Man Slays Three, Kills Self .— | Tv- cola. 111., Dec. 26 —(UP)— 1 I’earl Ford. 45. uh t and killed Mr. , (and Mrs. Willard Harris end t’aelr daughter today and then committed suicide. Ford was said by auihorities*to have become enn ged after the calling oft of a Christinas parly a: the Harris home. The four bodies were foun I in the home. i Those killed were: Hi'rris, 50; his j wife. Wilma Pearl, their six-mouths Id daughter. o Fowls Worth $3.40 Each 1 Springfield. Mo.— (U.R>—A jury re- | cently found Deward Dean, of Ash ■

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