Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1937 — Page 6

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BRADDOCK IS underdog in BOUT TONIGHT Heavyweight Champion Meets Joe Louis At Chicago Chicago June 22 — (UP) — Heavyweight champion James J. Braddock weighed in today at 187 pounds for his first title defense against Bomber Joe Louis at Comiskey Park tonight Louis, 23 year o'd negro challenger, weighed 197J/4 Chicago, June 22 — (U.R) — Box-' Ing’s two Cinderella men — Cham- I piou Jimmy Braddock and Joe : Louis—will battle for the world s , heavyweight championship tonight tn the first mixed title bout In America since Black Jack Johnson knocked out Jim Jeffries at Reno 27 years ago. Cinderella Jim, who jabbed his way off relief and outpointed * — Last Time Tonight — I FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS “SHALL WE DANCE* E. E. Horton, Eric Blore. ALSO—Cartoon. 10c-25c * WED. & THURS. First Show Wednesday Night at 6:30. Come Early! Thursday Matinee at 1:30 Box Office Open until 2:30 Murder set to music | io bring you enter- [X E tainment that thrills! L n | AM c - Mala \ * —o Fri. 4 Sat.—Patsy Kelly, Lyda Robert!, “Nobody's Baby.” —o Coming Sunday — Joel McCrea, Miriam Hopkins, “Woman Chases Man.” (■■■■■■■■■■ram - Last Time Tonight - “The 13th Chair” Lewis Stone, Mad-re Evans & “NOTORIOUS BUT NICE” Marian Marsh, Rochelle Hudson. Onlv 10c-20c o—o Fri. 4 Sat. — BUCK JONES In “SMOKE TREE RANGE” ■ o—o~ Coming Sunday—“CLOISTERED" 2000 Years of Mystery Revealed. 4 Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, in "Don’t Tell the Wife.”

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Maxie Baer for the championship |in 1935, will enter the ring at i Comiskey Park the first underdog I chumpion. Odds are 2H to 1 | against his winning. The odds meant nothing to Bruddock. He'll carry off at least $300,1*00 tuflf the net receipts | regardless of the outcome. Louis will receive the usual challenger's I share of 17*4 per cent. ! Perfect fight weather was fore- , cast. j The brown,skinned bomber, | I hardest puncher his race has pro- | duetd. was at the peak of another i Cinderella career. In three years ) crammed with sensations, he | slashed his way through the 1 heavyweight division. knocking I out three former champions — Primo Camera. Baer and Jack Sharkey on his way to the top. It was Louis, whipped only once in his professional career, who i brought out a crowd expected to i reach 65.000 or more The million I dollar gate advertised freely by * eo-promoters Mike Jacobs of New York's 20th Century Club and Joe Foley of Chicago, actually will hover around SBOO,OOO unless a tremendous surge of ticket sales boosts the pot at the last minute. Jacobs, shrewd “Uncle Mike" who maneuvered the bout into Chicago after Braddock. had 'agreed to meet Max Schmeling in New York June 3, was the only lone who still believed he had the I first million dollar gate since Jack I Dempsey and Gene Tunney fought j for the second time here in 1927. He based his prediction on the huge last day sale for that fight , and the fact Chicago fans still I haven't stormed the box office. I Almost 80 per cent of the sales are front outside Chicago. The puzzling workouts of both I boxers kept betting at its lowest I figure for a major heavyweignt fight Braddock backers — and there were plenty with money to bet—sought odds of 3 to 1 since Jim has been out of the ring during the two years since he captured the title. Louis bettors would give no more than 2’a to 1 after the bomber's dismal training efforts at Kenosha, Wis. In fact, Louis looked so bad in his final drills, that there were. demands for even money bets. ) Jersey Jim revealed he could be | hit hard and often with either, hand in his eight weeks of training at Grand Beach. Mich., but the ' superb conditioning of his 31-year | old legs made his backers believe he could stand up under the brutal i jabs and left hooks of the challenger. He appeared to be in far better condition than he was the night he won the title. At least, he didn’t have the cracked ribs he received |in training shortly before the | Baer match. Louis has been slow-footed and ' wide open in his drills, but his ' trainers insisted he is in perfect condition, as good as he ever has been and far better than he was when Schmeling knocked him out a year ago. Both Confident Chicago, June 22— (U.R) -—Prefight statements of the principals | CORT - Last Time Tonight - * “CAFE METROPOLE* 7 ”* Loretta Young Tyrone Power I ALSO — Fox News and Good Comedy. 10c-25c WED. - THURS. THEY'RE RUNAWAYS FROM ROMANCE...BUT THEY CAN'T TRAVEL FAST ENOUGH/ A/- / / ( \\ 0* > CLAIRE TREVOR X .' MICHAEL WHALEN \ (r&W-f# JOAN OAVIS dfeM. oougias rowiev BENNIE iaitiitt Sunday—“ The Go Getters.” |

!in tonight'i heavyweight chum1 pioushlp bout: Champion Jim Bruddock "I'll i win this fight any way I can. it j may be a knockout and a great i buttle, or a slow fight going to a | decision. Hut you can be sure that I’ll still have my title when | 1 leave that ring" Joe Louis "I’ll win this one and - the title just as quick us I cun. 1 won't name the round but it won't be long." Joe Gould, manager of Brud- 1 ' dock "Jim is in perfect shape ; He’ll beat Louis, maybe knock him out." Julian Black, the challenger's - co-manager "Joe Louis is the hardest puncher I’ve ever seen. He can't miss knocking out Brad I dock." John Koxborougii, the other co- ' manager—"l'll be mighty surpris- I -<l if Braddock Is able to answer . the bell for the sixth round.” CHURCH LEAGUE GAMES PLAYED St. Mary’s And United Brethren Teams Win Monday Night Play opened Monday night in the Decatur church softball league, with the St. Mary’s and Unit-, ed Brethren teams turning in victories. St. Mary's came from behind in the sixth inning to score three runs and nose out Zion Reformed in the opening game. 6 to 5. Three hits gave St. Mary’s a two-run lead in the first inning, but Zion Reformed came back with three in the second on a hit. a walk and a pair of errors. St. Mary’s tied the score in the fourth, with Reformed coming back in the first of the sixth fbr two runs and the lead St. Mary’s then produced the winning rally, scoring three runs on four hits and one error. United Brethren downed Union Chapel, 6-1, in the nightcap, the winners scoring four times in the sixth to put the game on ice. Union Chapel scored its lone tally in the seventh frame on a hit and an error. R H E Reformed 030 002 o—s0 —5 6 1 St. Mary's 200 103 x —6 8 3 Reed and Brokaw ; Andrews and W. Baker. RHE Union Chapel. 000 000111’ —1 G 4 IU. B 100 014 X--6 4 1 Everhart and M. Ladd; Farrar 1 and J. Kaylor. ’ Scheduled Games Tonight's games are: Merchants vs. Decatur Castings; General Electric vs. Hosiery Workers. Church league games of June 14, postponed because of rain, will be played Friday night. St. Mary's will meet Union Chapel in the opening game, followed by United Brethren vs. Zfon Reformed. The Central and St. Joe league games, postponed yesterday afternoon because of wet grounds, will be played Wednesday afternoon, o ♦ ♦ I Today’s Sport Parade (By H»nry McLemore) ♦ « Chicago, June 22.—(U.R) —Armed with a mad dog and an Englishman 1 went out into the noon-day sun today to talk to the famed "man in the street" and get his opinion of the Braddock-Louis fight tonight. All my life I have read about the “man in the street" and was very anxious to make the acquaintance of the gentleman whose I thoughts carry such weight with ' the editorial writers. This same man can stay in the house, the pool room, the barn, or the solarium. and his opinion isn’t worth a darn. But just let him wander out into the street and he automatically becomes a powerful influence. It was blistering hot in Chicago's loop when the mad dog, the Englishman, and I started our search. He wasted no time after leaving the hotel, but plunged directly Into the street. This cost us the Englishman, a heavy sedan hitting HOW YOU CAN GET A LOAN Thousands of families throughout the State are now using our convenient —LOAN SERVICE —and find it just what they need to take care of their money worries. You too will find it EASY to QUALITY with us to obtain a ready cash loan up to $300.00 on your own signature and security. LOANS ON YOUR OWN NOTE, FURNITURE, AUTO AND OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY. To apply —come to onr office, phone or write. Every request will receive our courteous attention. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incorporated 105% North Second Street • Over Schafer Store Phone 2-3-7 Decatur, Indiana

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him adtnidships as he leaned down I to button a spat. Undismayed, the dog and I plunged on, but we had not cover- ■ ed half a block before I realised that unless I got rid of the mad dog there wouldn’t be any "man in the street." One glimpse of the I dog and all the men in the street gave yowls of fright and took to I cover. But what to do with the dog?' It Isn't everyone that you can walk up to and, handing them a leash with a mad dog, troth attach-, ed, on the other end of it and ■ say: “Hold him a little while, will; you?" I was within speaking distance ( of wit’s end when all my problems : were solved by the sight of a street sweeper, unconcernedly pushing his cart along the gutter My heart leapt with joy. for I realized that in the street-sweeper , I had the ideal "man in the street" —one who is in the street from I morn ’til night. The dog charged him straight 1 aways and attracted his attention I by snapping him three or four brisk snaps on the ankles. With magnificent presence of mind the , fellow grabbed the dog by the ‘ 1 throat-latch (it always hangs out and is easily recognized by the word “welcome" printed on it in large letters*, shoved him into the cart, and slammed the lid For several minutes 1 had a difficult time getting the fellow to talk of the Braddock-Louis tight. He was extremely anxious about his ankles, and wanted to know if the dog were really mad. 1 calmed him by explaining he wasn't mad in the accepted sense i of the word, but only a bit daffy from the noon-day sun and constant companionship with the Englishman. "What Englishman? he demanded suspiciously. "The Englishman that just got hit by a heavy sedan while buttoning a spat,” 1 explained. "Don’t you bite me!” he answered. Finally I got around to asking him about the tight and he had no

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I opinion. "Didn’t even know they was having a light," he said. "Must be a ■ coupla bums.”This reply stunned me. I could feel the heavy chills that always precede chronic disHlusionmen*.Was it possible that the “man in the street" didn’t have an opinion? He insisted he didn't, so I turnled away. Then a thought seized ! me. As soon as it had relinquish- ' ed its grip I grabbed the arm of a blonde who was passing. 1 wotild scoop the world and get the • opinion of the “woman in the I street.” But her yell of “officer!” panicked me. so I made off. I can't help but wonder what j the street-sweeper did with the i mad dog. Or, what the mad dog j did with the street-sweeper. Be-1 ‘ cause he realy was quite a mad dog. you know. (Copyright 1937 by UP.) o 1 Major League Teams Resume Play Today New York, June 22. —(U.R)—After a day of armistice, major league I ! basebal Iteams resumed intereeetional warfare today with eastern ‘ National league clubs battling in ; the west, and the western half of the American league invading the east. Most important game today is at Chicago where the Cubs defend their one-game National league lead against the New York Giants. If the Giants should win and the St. Louis Cardinals should defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, a virtual three-way tie for the leadership would result. o Softball Managers To Meet Wednesday Managens of all teams in both the church and city softball leagues are requested to meet at the Cen- ; tral school house Wednesday even- , ing at 8 o’clock. A schedule of exhibition gamed w-:l] be arranged for the second half of the season. o Trade In « Good Town — Decatu*

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NIGHT GAME AT CINCY JUNE 30 Pirates To Play Night Game At Cincinnati Next Week i Cincinnati, June 21. Final ar rangements for “Brookville Night' have been completed and Indiana baseball fans traveling to Crosley Field Wednesday night, June 30, !to pay tribute to Pie Traynor, I sterling leader of the Pittsburgh i Pirates, will see more than the usual display of "night game preliminaries.” Celebration of "Brookville Night" will really start Tuesday night, June 29, when a special radio broadcast, scheduled as “The Pie ' Traynor Surprise Party” will be i sent over the air from station WSAI, Cincinnati, between 7 and i 7:30 p. m. Manager Traynor will appear on this program and give • it the added personal touch. On Wednesday night the park gates will he thrown open at 6:30 and from then on until the Clni cinnati Pittsburgh game is over, i Indiana fans will be thoroughly en- ' tertained by one of the most elabI orate and crowded night game pro- ' grams ever prepared for Crosley Field night game patrons. A spectacular display of fireworks has been especially prepar- ' ed in honor of manager Traynor - and the people of Brookville. Although fireworks are always one of the highlights of night baseball | in Cincinnati, this unusual "fire works show" will stand out among the most ostentatious ever display- • ed at Crosley Field. Four well trained bands, three of them from the Brookville locality, will thoroughly entertain fans during the earlier part of the evening. As an added attraction Sebastian Linehan, nationally known heel and toe artist, will stage a relay race in which members of his trope will participate. AUTO RACES AT < WAYNE SUNDAY Automobile Races At Ft. Wayne Speedway Next Sunday Fort Wayne, June 22. —The second auto race of the season will be held at the Fort Wayne Motor Speedway on Sunday. June 27. Six events are on the program with al Heading drivers of the central states racing association competing. Time trials will be called at 12 o’clock noon on day of race, with the first event at 2:30 p. in. (CST). Work on the Fort Wayne Speedway’s five-eighth mile oval for automobile racing has been progressing rapidly lately and will be completed well in time for race day. With the asphalting of the track held up for the first race be- , cause of inclement weather in May. Frank. Funk, the promoter, feels sure that the track record and probably some world marks will be broken by the field of drivers that will come here for this race. Depleted by the tragic accidents

! that took the lives of Gale Lower !of Fort Wayne on the last race here and Red Campbell of Indian-, 1 apolls, killed on the Funk’s motor speedway one week later and with Art Lyons seriously hurt at the 1 Jungle Motor Speedway last Sun duy, will bring several changes in the line-up. Al Hammon of Fort: i Wayne will be in the Merkler I Special car that was driven by the late Gale Ix*wer. Along with Everett Saylors, the leading driver of the C. S. R. A., Clay Corbitt of Columbus. Ohio, an old favorite, I will be at the wheel of the Vance Special. Several changes in the line up of this race were made be-

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