Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1939 — Page 6

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LOUIS WALLOPS JACK ROPER IN OPENING ROUND Aged Second-Rater No Match For Heavyweight Champion Loa Angeles. April IS 'U.R> 1 Joe Ixitiia called In the nintik urlat today to tile down a broken thumb nail, ant! she should get a nice tip bOganSe Joe earned about 145.000 In crashing that claw against Jack Roper's head The heavyweight champion toyed with the ancient studio elecI rician for a couple ot minutes! and then let him have a right on the chops that put him to sleep la-tore a crowd of 25.000 in Wrlg-1 ley Field last night. It was Call tor II la's first heavyweight championship tight in 30 years, and lasted two minutes and 3<» seconds, which was something i 4 a disappointment to tight fans who had predicted that Ixtuls| would break the two minutes and four second record hr set In knocking out Max Sthmeling last ( year " The gate was estimated at lIM.OM by Promoters Mike Jac- - ol>s of New York and Tom Gallery of Ixw Angele*, and Joe's share of the awag was 45 per cent That la at the rate of nearly *30.000 per minute Not a had scale in ‘ any union, but much less than the |200,u00 a minute he earned i against Schmeling. Roper. horn IS years ago in Magnolia. Mias. was counted out 1 while Nat on his face in his own corner where Joe had chased him after a flurry lu mid-ring He tried once to get up. but his legs were paralysed and Referee George Blake tolled off “10" and

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I they dragged him to hla stool. Joe wasted slh.ui •« seconds before sending out a feeling left jah. I Koper let go with the ties I punch I in his repertoire, a left hook. and it landed flush on the champion's ' jaw. It was hard enough to sting 1 1 Rut the roar from the throats of I Jack's Hollywood pals Was cut ‘ shot i by the sliding barrage of i rights and lefts that began whist i : ling from the champion's shoulders Jack tried to back up. but Louis 1 caught him with a hard right that spun him half around and opened 'a <UI over the left eye Roper stumbled hackward into his own I I corner where Joe measured him. | i then drove another right to the jaw Roper wilted Into the ropes.' tried to hold on for a moment! | then fell face forward ”1 was conscious as I went ■ down.*' Roper said in his dressing room. “but my legs seemed para-. ' lysed, and after I hit the floor I j tried to get up. but my muscles! : just wouldn't work." Units said the usual thing: I I "Roper is as game as they come.", Asked if the left hook landed hy' Ropar had hurt him Joe said. "Well. I know I felt It." 1 It was Joe's sixth successful title defense since he won the ! crown front Jimmy Rraddock in I June 193*. and his third straight first frame knockout. He put i away John Henry Lewis in two | minute* and 29 seconds in January. I . In a year. Joe has fought a total of six minutes and 5.1 seconds and been paid nearly half a million dollars He got |4M.004t for beat- , Ing Schmeling and 147,469 for , Lewis He will meet Tony Galento In I June aud his purse should lie close ! to 1400 ,0M "it took a champion to knock I me out for the first lime since I j started fighting in 1933." Roper said "I've lost fights by technical knockouts but never on the floor. Rut. 1 landed one left htaik that I know he felt I know he felt It because I could feel him wince. Then he swarmed over me and connected with a tight to the jaw I that floored me " .... i o — MRS. SCHAFER •' ■ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE> member of the Fort Wayne Country club, the Woman's club and of the Tippecanoe Country duh. liesides the husband. Mrs •Schafer is survived by two nephews. Earl and Charles Hill so San Antonio. Texas and Loa Angeles. | Calif., respectively. — O- ■ Fire salvage Sale while stock lasts. Miler's Grocery. Adam> Street.

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PIRATESTAKE ' OPENING GAME AGAINST REDS Weather Permitting, All Major League Teams J*lay Today New York. April l« flj.R) Wart and rumors of wars were only ’ whispers in the distance. European troubles seemed farther than in months, for today the major league baseball season be--1 gins A fellow can get out in the open I air. teat his lungs and forget all about his and the world's probI lem'a. That's why baseball is emI barking on its second century to- , day. And approximately 250.M0 tana, unless the weather interferes, ' are expected to pile Into eight I major league parks. The Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reda jumped the gun yesterday at Cincinnati despite threats ' ' of flood waters from the nearby < Ohm river. A crowd of 3«.ti44 saw ] ‘lie Pirate* come from behind to I win. 7-6. 1 For the flrat time in several • years •’resident Roosevelt won t see an opener. Wet grounds prevented the Yankees and Senators from putting on the usual preview at Washington, and previous en gagements prevent the president from attending today's game. Cincinnati's pre-opening game was one of the features of baseball's centennial year. The first professional team in America was ' formed at Cincinnati in IM*. After whining three straight American la-ague pennants and three , world championships- a feat never before accomplished by any team — the New York Yanka appear to I be headed for a repeat. Jack Doyle. Rroadway betting commissioner, quotes the Yanks the shortest priced favorite tn baseball his- ; tory at 2-5. Top game today brings together the Yanks and thwrs most dangerous rival, the Roston Red Sox. before an expected 45.M0 al Yankee stadium. Lefty Gomes or Red Ruflhtg. who is nursing an injured foot which may deprive him of the honor of pitching the opener, was expected to face Jack Wilson. Red Sox. The National league has promise of another one of ita knock-down-and-drag-ont affairs. There's even talk of a seven-club race. That's stretcMhg apoinl somewhat, but at least tour or Hve clubs have definite pennant possibilities. Even the fau*. gamblers, managers and experts are having trouble getting together on the favorites. Cincinnati didn't open the season like a pennant-winner. They not only loot the game, but had their shortstop Incapacitated and two of their pitching beauties. Johnny Vand-r Meer and Bucky Walters, were hit hard. Going Into the eighth the Reds led. 5-2. The Pirates scored four Cy Blanton’s steady pitching. Billy , times and went on to win behind Myers. Reds' shortstop, wag knock- ' ed unconscious by a hall thrown for several day* at least. Without by Bill Brubaker Ha will be out ] him. the Reds' regular second base combination is IM per cent missing Second baseman Fannie Frey , has an Injured hand. Vander Meer, who started, was wild, and relieved hy Bucky Walters In the third Walters held the Pirates at hay until the eighth when they batted around against 1 him and Peaches Davis. Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemeea New York. April U -<U» -Beveral decade* ago Phineaa T. Barn um sat himself down with a tablet and pencil and figured out that there was a sucke nnorn evety minute. Last night, in Wrigley Field at

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Loa Angeles, he was proved to be one of the world's worst mathemattciana when thousands of persons paid serious money to see the joke fight between Joe Louis and Jsck Roper. Every man. woman and child there was a sucker They didn't lay their money on the line for tickets blindly They had been | warned In every newspaper. Weekly and daily, for months, that Roper didn't have a chance, that he was a veteran who had le-en no x<>od In his prime, and that he didn't belong tn the same alate, much leas the name ring, with the heavywieght champion of the world. The events of the night proved . the critics correct. The echo of the opening bell still was ringing I through the park when Joe bopped i Roper on the profile and sent him down for keeps The time was 2 minutes and 20 seconds ot the first round and the only reason it lasted as long aa that waa because Roper, staggering from the first punch the champion landed, waa an elusive target. Listening to the fight over the radio I heard Lonts, after the knockout, announce to the world that he was lucky. He never spoke truer words. He is the luckiest heavyweight champion who ever lived, and for this reason: There isn't a man living who can give him a decent workout, and all he haa to do to buy another annunlty is slip off his bathrobe, shuffle out. and throw a punch or two. He picked up another chunk of money last night, and early tn June will pick another fistful by hitting Tony Galento In his beer-ridden atom-J ach. Galento la another Roper, but the public won't Ylelleve It. There

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will be upwards of a million dol- ' lars In the strong nox when Galerno struts in for the slaughter. Tony will be lucky to last two minutes. Before the •*BgM" started last night an announcer said that Mrs. -toper, who was I nthe crowd, had told him that she could always 1 predict the result of her husband a fights after the first round waa completed. •'Let me see one round." she was outed, "and 1 can always tell how Jack Is going to do." rnfortunately for Mrs Rn]*r's prophetic talent, there wasn't any round after the first. This was remindful of the time Mercer ' Beasley, a tennis master mind, accompanied the American Davis cup 1 team to England. When the boys - went out to engage the British at Wimbledon. Heaaley sat in the stands and took 10,000 notes, which he planned to use during the intermission. But he never got to use them The British knocked off our boys in straight seta, aud Beasley was left with more useless Information than a circus pony could jump over tn three tries. After last night's fiasco In Loa Angeles I can see but one solution to the heavyweight situation, and that la for Louia to fight two or three opponents In one night. Let him take on Galento. Baer, and Nova in succession. I'll bet you he wouldn’t be worse than even money against all three. (Copyright 1939 by VP.j FOR SALE — New Form of Affidavit of Mortgage Indebtedness, 2 for 5c or »1.25 for 100. The Decatur Demncrat Co. ts

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PRIEST FREED •CONTINUED FROM FAGE ONE> church, who said they loved Father Simnn too much to let him leave, freed the priest only after his superior. Bishop Joseph Plagenta of Marquette, sought a court injunction ordering the church member* to cease the picletlng It was Bishop Plagvns order that started the controversy He sought to transfer the priest last summer. but the parishioners protested. They guarded the rectory through rain and snow and bitter cold and on one occaston repulsed with their flats a band of raiding churchmen from another community who nought to free Father Him on by force Before Father Borkowski left his "prison." Bishop Plagenta said he would placw no obstacles In the priest's way and wished him MM* cam In his new pastorate O' • Admits Attacking And Killing Giri Crown Point, Ind April Ifi — (U.B - Harry W Schurg. 38 year old operating electrical operator, today confessed he attacked Frefda Borman, and left her dead In a Held near Brifflth last fall, the aherift's office reported » Rchurg's confession came after mor»- than 34 hours of ourstt-ming by Chief Deputy Stulls of Lak» county, whose men arrested Schurg Sunday aa he left a sanitarium Where he went April 1* after a nervous breakdown He is married and has two children. —-■ O' ■ ' ■ Wags ta A RaaO Tawa — IMea'a*

ASSAILS ICKES ; (CONTINUED PRuM FACIE ON*> | lu go even tnriher in hl* hffgrwfl- | slve break with our traditlwnal 1 foreign policy •'ll was perfectly clear lo the ' White House circle sag that I these development* would bring ‘ n storm of protest The newspn per* would tie the truthful and only reporters H<> what was more clever than to let down an advance barrage of poison gas against thoM newspapers?** Mrs Patter»<ui entitled her remarks "The jawbone of an acidulous man." “New deal leaders fear only the press as the revealer of their err ora and accidents." she aald "The radio la licensed by the government. The newsreels Impart gov ernmental goodwill only the press x x x la wholly free of the restricting hand of politicians im i power. What. then. Is more natural than that men who love, power and want to keep It should attack the press for discovering and publishing the trutlm which foreshadow the loss of that pow erT' ————- 49 ■ —— Ask Investigation Os WI’A Irregularities Washington. April IR — <u.Rj — Reputlican members of the house from Indians In a joint latter to WPA investigating committee, ashed todsy a "careful, aearchlng and honest" investigation of alleged Irregularities in Indiana WPA. They also asked Inquiry into charges hy Raymond Willis, defested Republican candidate for the seaate. that WPA workers were coerced and intimidated tn the last election The letter was accompanied by affidavits, newspaper articles and letters from relief workers II was signed by Reps Charles Halleck. Robert A. Grant. George W. I Gillie. Forest A. Harness. Noble |J. Johnson. Gerald Landis and Raymond H Springer

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