Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1938 — Page 8

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JOE LOUIS TO DEFEND TITLE NEXT JANUARY Heavyweight Champion To Eight John Henry Lewis New York, Nov. 3 (UP) — Jon Louis signs articles today to defend dis world heavyweight championship against the light-heavy titleholder, John Henry Lew’s "Bad Boy” of boxing and just about the toughest opponent Joe could have chosen for a mid-winter tuneup. Louis and Lewis, with their man agers. meet promoter Mike Jacobs in the Hippodrome at noon to sign , contracts for a 15-round fight in Madison Square Garden Jan. 27. It will be the first all-negro heavyweight title bout ever held in the Americas and the first in the world since 1913 when Jack Johnson defended his crown against Jim John-] spn in Paris. The match came as a distinct surprise to fight followers, because Lewis and his manager, gus Greenice. failed to fall in line when Ja-! cobs came into promotorial power.! Also. Lewis has a SIOO,OOO damage suit pending against the New York Athletic commission for vacating his title in this state. At first the match looked like a ] conspiracy between Jacobs and the commission to rid themselves of "the pest” by letting champion Louis belt John Henry into the petunias. But upon closer inspection, it assumes the aspects of a battle. Lewis is a rough, ring-hardened warrior who never has been knockfIT • JK-AA— m Tonight, Fri. & Sat. » S A « J THE PICTURE THAT MADE THE WHOLE COUNTRY TALK! A’ /Ml ABsHSSaESOMfI Printed by j THE AMERICAN COMMUTE E | I ON MATERNAL WELFARE, Im. I See the most soulill stirring drama the I screen has ever pre- K | scnted. A drama not acted but lived ... as you sit in ■ awesome wonder E ! before the dawn- r. | ing of a life. “Set and dignified I presentation of mater* i nity and childbirth.*' —<M*cmnoli Port « I ’There hat never before | tbeen a picture like The | Birth of a Baby*.'* —teportor. Spencer, lowa fc 1 **The Birth of a Baby’ a huge hd.** - WwkM/i O J H Y Dorfy Mvrror mmaJ ... ji This is the same picture that ran for 3 solid weeks at the Apollo Theater, Indianapolis. Approved and endorsed by Indiana State Medical Association. ALSO — Musical, Popular Science, Novelty <&. Latest News. All Seats 25c o—o Sun. Mon. Tues.—Big Special Hit! “TOO HOT TO HANDLE" Clark Gable, Myrna Loy gHemaEHssaenHasmsaeaEe * LAST TIME TONIGHT | “SOULS AT SEA” Gary Cooper, George Raft I ALSO — “Secrets of Treasure Island.” ONLY 10c FRI. & SAT. TEX RITTER in ‘‘Starlight Over Texas” Also 3rd dipt. “The Lone Ranger” ONLY 10c O—o Sun.? Mon. & Tues.—2 Big Hits! “BAREFOOT BOY" & “IN EARLY ARIZONA"

Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams > ♦ Thursday i Jefferson at Petroleum. Friday Hartford at Berne. Monroe at Kirkland. Monmouth at Geneva. Saturday Pleasant Mills vs Jefferson at ] Commodore gym. cd out. and he packs the punch to ..ayo the glass-jawed champion. Joe. with a 20-pound pull in the weights, undoubtedly will be a heavy favorite. However, in John Henry he is meeting a man no older than himself and one who is a I better boxer. Jacobs and the Louis camp re-1 gard the bout in the nature of a ; tuneup. a chance to pick up some i.isy change before a big outdoor] title defense in June. But, are they 'forgetting that Joe grows notoriously loggy with idleness? He has ! not had a fight since he kayoed; Max Schmeling on June 22. The lone obstacle is that the com-! mission might withhold approval of the match unless John Henry j agrees to withdraw his SIOO.OOOI damage suit and abandon the light-1 heavyweight crown. Lewis might agree to the latter, because he announced after his sue- ! cessful title defense last Friday! night that he would prefer to campaign in the heavy ranks because there were no opponents in the 175-1 pound division would draw big mon- 1 ey. The fight crowd still is laughing about the "peanuts” John Henry ] got for risking his crown against Al Gainer before less than 3.000 persons at New Haven. He had trouble . paring down to 175 for that fight. Lewis expects to scale 185 or 186 for the Louis match while the champion probably wil Ihit 204 or 205. John Henry is the best boxer, above the middleweight division today. In eight years of professional lighting, there is not one knockout j against him while his own winning record is studded with Kayoes. In nearly 100 bouts, he has suffered only seven defeats, and three ot them were at the hands of former light-heavyweight champion Maxie Rosenbloom. Lewis won the title from Bob Olin in 1935 and has defended it five times. o Decatur Bowling League Results | MINOR LEAGUE Gambles R. Woodhall 116 200 157 I Moses 146 146 Tutewiler 175 181 191 I K. Woodhall ... 192 168 170 , Zelt 150 137 186 i Arnold 154 Totals 779 832 858| McMillen’s E. Schultz 176 149 159 | Brewer 160 190 182 1 Bucher 166 127 171 Gallogly 199 174 196 G. Schultz 162 193 180 LOANS $lO to S3OO On Your OWN Signature No Endorsers Absolute privacy. No questions asked of friends or employer—No embarrassing inquiries. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incorporated Rooms I and 2 Schafer Building Dtcatur, Indiana Phone 2-3-7 ■ ■! I J | CORTI - Last Time Tonight - THRIFT NIGHT COUP L E One Adult— 25c Childrenloc WILL ROGERS in “LIFE BEGINS at 40” ADDED — Fox News and Comedy. Sunday—“ Hold That Co-ed.”

GRIFFITH GIVES LIE TO CHARGES • Big Ten Conference Commissioner Defends Football > Chi< \ ■ QUO Maj ! Jonn L Griffith, Big Ten athletic . commissioner, today answered j critics ;>f intercollegiate football ; who insist it’s necessary to sub- ! sidlze athlete i to produce winning teams. Writing in November’s Athletic! I Journal, Griffith cited Minnesota’s i sensational success in recent con--1 ference football campaigns as his I number 'Hie example. 1 , He revealed how much money; ! Minnesota football earns, how it’s spent, where Bernie Bierman’s material come.-, from and how the players earn their keep while they’re trying to keep the trophy ! room filled. “Those who have indicted coli lege football invariably fail to name the institutions that allegedly have adopted Illegal practices." the commissioner said. “With that in mind, the ’ writer has made a study of the football I and athletic situation at the University of Minnesota and x x x| | those who study the facts must 1 agree it has conducted its program so as to merit the respect I of educators and also of the geni eral public.” 1 Giiffith said Minnesota was! selected because of its success in 1 the last five years and because I it’s the nation’s fourth largest ; institution. “Some think bigness and badness are correlative terms," he added. | His chief argument was the fact I that in five years, only 27 of the ' 241 men who have participated for Minnesota on the football field came from other states. Only three were from states other than] those boidering Minnesota and in ! ; each ca-e investigation showed ' 'they entered Minnesota of their' i own accord and not as a result, of any aiutnni activity. Regarding jobs: “One star football player in 1937 earned $324 working 15 hours :, a week at the Minneapolis Ath-i letic club. Another earned s36o' las sales representative of a nat-' ionally known gum and confec-1 tionery company. Still another I earned $450 with an advertising concern. one earned his board waiting on tables in a sorority I house. "None of the athletes had so-1 called easy jobs." i Scholarships: "All conference schools have I scholarships available to athletes I and non-athletes alike. It is sig- ! nificant that in 1937-38 not a j single athlete at Minnesota reI ceived a scholarship of any sort.” | Giiffith revealed that although | Minnesota's 1937 football receipts i were $327,211 24. approximately ' $227,000 was paid out for coaches j salaries. equipment. travelling, i for other sports, intra mural athI letics. physical education, main- ! tenance and care of physical plan's and playing fields, athletic I Spot ' 27 27 27 Totals 890 860 915 Cloverleaf i Frisinger 161 255 133 Thoms 168 212 1521 C. Farrar.. . . 173 158 149 : Hooten . . 133 186 125 A. Farrar 168 213 180 Spot 3 3 3 I Totals 806 1027 792 Kuhn Chevrolet Green ... 180 132 Hobrock 163 155 201 Mutschler 162 170 180 F. Ahr 185 203 200 Lankenau 134 179 Briede 155 198 Totalsß24 815 958 Casting Co. i Spangler 152 206 177 Hoagland 155 182 183 Ross 162 201 146 Young 177 184 171 Totals7B9 965 857 Burke’s Hobbs 183 187 212 Burke 127 137 129 Keller 180 175 157 ; Johnson 155 193 158 Stump 178 168 158 i Spot 22 22 22 Totalsß4s 882 836 • Mies Recreation Lyons 190 161 158 Gallmier 191 182 157 Schleman 168 175 201 Richards - H 5 181 163 5 Mies 219 167 149 Totals..’Bß3 866 828 Hoff Brau Appelman 184 217 150 Brunnegraff 117 181 152 DeVoss 139 213 168 Reynolds 176 177 147 Schneider 165 161 146 Spot 16 16 76 j Totals 797 975 779

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administration and ticket offices. In addition, football receipts art financing two major research ■ projects and have contributed SIOO,OOO to help finance a new I union building. "Perhaps aome institutions I place an undue emphasis on the I profit motive,” he said. "To allege that college athletics in general are conducted in this spirit is analogous to saying all bankers are corrupt because some have abused their trust." | Today’s Sport Parade |, By Henry McLemore Baltimore. Md.. Nov. 3. — (U.R) —| Charlie Howard will tell you that • the greatest two-horse race that Seabiseuit ever won was not The one of Tuesday when he came pounding down the stretch to con- ' quer War Admiral before 40,000 hysterical spectators and stamp himself as the country's finest thoroughbred. Charlie Howard will tell you that the gamest, most courageous race the Biscuit ever won was at Saratoga two years ago, in a claiming race, and when his foe was not mighty War Admiral but Treford, an animal remembered only in the record books. Seabiscuit was just the workhorse of the Wheatley stable then Just a horse who, raced 35 times as a two-year-old. was on the verge of breaking down from weariness and a bad knee. But he went out against Treford. picked up his weight, and. with Howard's glasses between ten to fifteen lengths in following his every step, made up the stretch and won. Howard knew heart when he j 1 saw it, so a few days later hi' handed Ogden Mills a check for SB,OOO and Seabiscuit changed stables. Walter O'Hara could have had him the day earlier had he not balked at the price. O’Hara offered $7,500 ajjd would not go a penny higher. Since then Howard's castoff has banked $310,000 i tci him. j Seabiscuit's new owner had vets | look him over and they pronounced the three-year-old “serviceably ! useful," and that's all. They didn’t , ! like the looks of his left knee. • Well, he still has a crazy knee. It's | big and knotty and gives him a peculiar stride, but it doesn’t stop him from running like a runaway ' locomotive when the wire’s tn : sight and It’s time to turn on the i power. Sitting in a hotel roomTuesday night, only a few hours after the Admiral had been conquered, Howard had difficulty controlling his voice when he spoke of the happenings at the head of the stretch when Seabiscuit simply ran away with the race. “There never was a gamer horse, so help me,” he said. “If he didn't have all the heart tn the world wasn’t made out of pure iron. Jie would be dead now. Just think of it, 84 races, and he made the 84th one in record time, against a horse most people thought * could beat him going away.” Sitting around talking, Howard told how the match race between Seabiscuit and Admiral was made. It started a year ago when he sugguested to Alfred Vanderbilt here that such a battle would be a great thing for Pimlico. Samuel Riddle, the Admiral's owner, didn't think much of the idea and indicated that i he didn’t consider the Biscuit in the Admiral’s class. It was Van-1 derbilt's mother who really made I

the race possible. Working through ! j Joeph Widener, who, in turned, j i worked on Riddle, the race began ! to take shape. Three times the two rivals were . on the verge of meeting, and on each occasion it was Seabiscuit I : who failed to meet the issue.! | Howard believes that he waa un-1 i justly criticized for these failures. ! The Biscuit didn’t meet the Ad-! I miral at Laurel because the track { | was bad. “Would you run your horse on I I a track that you knew ruined his ! j every chance?” Howard asked. Seabiscuit broke down six days ! before the Belmont SIOO,OOO race ! was scheduled to be held. The Bis- ; cult was in such poor shape at Bel- . moat, worked so poorly, that the ! officials called off the race without even making Biscuit give them I a secret workout, which Howard ] offered to have him do. “Their dockers had told them how miserable he was,” Howard said. "He never did work a mile

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! in better than forty-two." Seabiscuit was scratched at the I last minute at Suffolk Downs bej cause his legs went bad a trouble j that wasn't discovered until just | before race time when his bandages were removed. “If I had raced him that day I i would have broken him down for | good." Howard said. “I would I have been a fool to do that, no ' matter what was said about me. The old boy had taken enough ] punishment in his lifetime withI out me piling any more on." Seabiscuit will continue to go ■to the races. Howard doesn't know where his next start will be. but it will probably be right here at Pimlico where he is entered in several stakes. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) Hen Egg Duck Shaped Rice Lake, Wis. — (U.R) — Wend Stefl’s hen is suspected of being a freak. Stefl is exhibiting an egg laid by the hen. It is shaped like a duck, even to the bill and neck.

FORMER OWNER OF CUBS DEAD Charles H. Weegham Dies Wednesday In Chicago Hotel Chicago, Nov. 3. (U.R) — Funeral j services will be held Saturday for | Charles 11. Weeghman, 64. oneitime waiter whose ability made! him lunch-room king of Chicago and eventual owner of the Chicago | I Cubs baseball club. He died late yesterday in a hotel where he had been stopping for a rest during a journey from Hot I Springs. Ark., to his New York home. He suffered a stroke Tues-' day and did not regain consciousness. His first job was as a waiter in . a "loop" restaurant for $lO a week. [ He saved his money, opened his , own restaurant and featured quick service with the one-arm chair sys- ] •tern. Before long he was operating a chain and had expanded to i ] theater intersts. He became known las “Lucky Charley." In 1914 be backed the Federal 1 baseball league which had been organized to compete with two es- ! tebllshed leagues. It collapsed and he bought the Cubs from Charles 1 P. Taft, a brother ot President

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