Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1940 — Page 6

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REPORT SHOWS CHICAGO AIDED MODE ATHLETES Griffith Reveals Chicago I,ed All Other Big Ten Schools Chicago. Jan 10 t'J.P) Commissioner John I. Griffith revealed today that th<- I'nlvomity of Chicsgo. now the missing 10th of theBig Ten football roster. had led all western conference universities in giving athlete* the only form of assistance which thev are permitted scholarship*. loan* and campus Job*. Ho said report* submitted by the tiniversltle* showed that Chicago had spent 634.559.34 on athlete* during the *c bool year 19'tx--39 and IH.lMtat during the 1937 3* term Scholarships and campus jobs constituted the largest |w>i •ton of thl* assistance- Northwestern I’nlverslty tanked second each year with assistance worth I'll 373.4a In I‘tTK .’t and |1« C! 4" In 1947-34 Northwestern's assistanew was riven chiefly in the form of loans. Chicago withdrew from inlercdIcglale footfall In December by action of Its trustees After the withdrawal, a »fakc-«m*ti for the trustees was quoted a* saying that th-- trustees had decided the university could not continue to play Illg Ten football and letualn honest'* and that the unhersity could no' hope Io find suitable football material without resorting to sitbsidlraiion Chicago lost six of its eight football games last year, defeating, only Oberlin college and Wabash , The university, however, had pie-, •anted a better record in other forma of Intercollegiate athletic I competition and the trustees .retained the Illg Tell membership to permit continued participation in these sports Griffith defended the total sum extended athletes In the 10 school* through scholarship* with the explanation ihat th* percentage of athletes holding scholarship* was almost identical to the total male; enrollment "Probably nothing in Inlercol-i iegiaic aihii tics is so milt h dis cussed or ha* led to more mlscon- ’ eeptlon* than the nature and propriety of flnatii ial assistance to the individual athlete by the university." Griffith said "The basic principle of the < westerni conference I* that the athlete 1* entitled to every consideration which might lie accorded a non athlete by the university but nothing further "Scholarships run highest In amount* at endow-d schools where tuition i* necessarily high-

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Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams • « Tuesday * [ Yellow Jackets at Hartford City | Kirkland at Bertie Friday Leo at Yellow Jacket*. ) Commodore* at St Hose, Lima. ! Ohio Berne at Bluffton. Kirkland at Monmouth Geneva at Albion. Hartford at Fieaaunt Mills I Saturday Monroe at Waterloo. Jefferson v*. Bryant at R» me. fr" ho «ald Both Chicago and Northwestern are endowed schools. Chicago's 1 scholarships to athlete* totaled »17.V»!6<t in 1934-39 and 42:1 347 59 the previous term. Northwestern scholarship* to athlete* were worth 65.525 last year and St.ilaO In 1937-34. The Northwestern athlete*, however, received loan* of fir.oKs in 1939-39 and 617.640 in 19:17 19 Total dollar value of assistance given athlete* by other Big Ten sc hoofs during the 19'19 39 term Was lowa f.’l'ml 47; Michigan 624.I«:iu Illinois, 617.462 41 Wisconsin. H7.MD7.7d; Indlan.-i. Il7.ltt.tt: Purdue tl-1.464; fill io fltale. 67.744 13. and Minnesota. 65.909 47. Griffith said athletes had tecejved 115 of the 4.475 scholarships I awarded Big Ten student*, and I last year IMS athlete* In the Big Ten held jobs. Inc lading NYA. Iscard work and concessions. on the • onfereiii c- camplUM-s The reports reflected the- estimate of a Big Ten university president that one half the student J Imhllc-* "enjoy some help from the , school oi are partially self *U|r > porting.'' Griffith said — o •Sellout Crowd For Indiana-Purdue Tilt Blomington. Ind. lan 39 -H'PI A sellout c rowd of 6.500 for the Indiana-Purdue game Feb in was announced today by Hoosier officials a* two Indiana Sophomore eager* and a Big Ten wrestling champion were declared ineligible for further competition following semester examinations John Trophy of Bedford and Ed Newby of Indianapolis. both re-a-rve* on the hardwood team, were ruled ineligible. Third vic tint of the blue books was Angelo latzxara of llau>tnoiid. Big Ten mat titleholder In the 155 pound class. — O— —— — _ TODAY'S COMMON ERROR « lh> not say. "His father demanded John to leave the room", say. ‘demanded that John leave the room " • •

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McCOY SIGNED BY ATHLETICS Philadelphia Pays $45,000 For Rookie Freed By Landis New York. Jan. 30 - <U.R) ■— Evefi al 77 a pennant ran still beckon a lona, lean old gentleman tn a blur serge suit anil a hard collar hiding weather-beaten wi inkle* That’s why Connie Mack outbid nine other major league clubs for Benny McCoy, pride of the 91 baaehall slaves freed by Comtnisaloner K M Landis Mack tracked for McCoy and toot him Hui he want* to build one more pen-nant-winner and even the "Os Jedge" couldn’t »lde<rack him Rida and counter-bids were met and topped until the xero hour ar rived and even the other* who nought McCoy had Io agree that hi* future would licit be served by signing with the grand old man With the young, hard hitting McCoy to play *e<-<»nd hose. the Athletic* have made one step toward the shimmering goal Ma.k seeks. McCoy can hit and he can hull together an Infield that creak.-d (round the keystone sack last season Three National league clubs — the Red* Dodgers and Pirates — .■■" "... JL !'■_ CORT i i — Last Tima Tonight — * “SOS TIDAL WAVE" Ralph Byrd, Kay Sutton 4 "GIRL FROM RIO" Movita. Warren Hull Only toc-20c * WED. & THI’RS. * I ACC'OtNTs! 7*€ -afIAS STUART* IRWIN MARJORIE WEAVER Patrl* Bnssriss > Bussell Nicks Jack Cesses • Heber, Ce.eeeegh done Gala • 1. I. Clive .tatantahw ONLY lOe-lSr —o—o— Cemmg Sunday—“ Legion of Leet Flyers" A "Mickey the KU."

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' went the limit for McCoy but they i would not go as far In cash or | promises as Mack. They all had | their chance* but ll’.ooo and t l two-year contrail at lio.ooo was r too much for them With McCoy in hl* camp. . Mack'* clnh Isn't to bo laughed • off. lie ha* punch In h!s outfield with Roh Johnson. Wally Mose* and the up-and-coming Sam Chapman. Frank Haye* I* the No 2 catcher of the league behind Rill ( Dl< key. Skeeter Newsome at I short Is a fielding marvel Joe > Pantenbeln can handle third First I base Is still a problem The A’* t pitching staff Is a mystery. If Mack should come up with a couI pie of strong-arm pitcher*, the A'e r might create norne fun around a ■ circuit that's always yelling • "break up the Yankee* • I McCoy, with IkS.orm m hi* kick. > can take a Itow a* the highest • paid baseball player for the IBM season Hank Greenberg has sign-1 ed for 135H00 and Joe DI Maggio; i may get as much but no one else even comes < lose , I o 1 t Today’g Sport Parade * By Henry McLemore Loo Angeles, Jsn. 30 <U.R> - Rut a butterfly net in his hands and you'd swear he was a young pro- . feasor hot on the trail of a brotsocallta truftillanna S»at him In a library and* you'd think he was an aspiring PhD. deep in research for hla thesis Put him in a baseball suit. shove a bat in his hand*, and you'd Imt •II you had he hit behind the pitcher In a decadent twilight league. I deep in Arkansas. I Hut you'd be wrong-and de#, nltely Recanse the young man I speak of is Dominic DiMaggio, the • young outllelder that the San Fran cisco Seals sold this winter to the Boston Red So* for a sum that made even Tom Yawkey call up the hank to see If hla balance was in good order. > He'll he In center field when the Red Sos open the American league season this spring and the man who found him. developed him, and sold him la-sty O'Doul—says he will be in there when the season closes, hitting, fielding, and running bases with the touch of hla celebrated older brother, Joe. If O'Doul la right, and there are few better judges of baaehall ivory In the country than the ptanager of the Seals, then looks certainly are deceiving. Dominic Is light In build He couldn't stand much more than five feet nine and 170 la a close guess at his weight. Hs wears siasses. too. and be never takes them 08. O’Doul says he pay* so little attention to his glasses that after seeing him a few times the Boston tans will forget that he wears them. "I have never seen him touch them.' O'Doul says, "either to adjust them or wipe them 08. He bits the dirt on bead first slides as if he didn't know he has them on.” One look at Dominic, sad If you know anything at all about baseball (and I do. having been a scout for the House of David for the past three years, and responsible for the signing of Orson Welles) your Bret question is certain to be: "Can he hit in the big leagues’'' O'Doul says he cm- that despite hla also he has enough power to belt the ball la the majors. "Hs hit .IM in tbs Pacific coast ■ league, an dthere Isn't enough difference In the pitching here and 1 In th* majors to ent him down a * great deal Hell get enough base | knocks to keep him wall above the B -3M mark, and he baa other vir-

f tOM that will make that .MO or I better a hlg average." I asked O'ftoul to list Dominic's virtue*. . i "Well, for one thing, he can go and get a fly ball a* well a* Joe. And you know what that means. It ju»t mean* he can get his hands on anything inside the park And when he gets It he can throw It. There isn’t a better arm lit the majors today than Itomlnl, has. 1 lie'll throw strike* to any base. I and from anywhere. And Dominic can run the base* He'll run them better than Joe, much better. He : stole something like 40 base* for me last year, and he never went down except on my order Turned loose, he probably would have stolen fifty or sixty” It Decatur Bowlin? League Results I ♦ j Mann led the Central Koya lea 1 gue tn total pin* last night with a 593 and hl* 225 was also high ! single game >. . . Wheeler posted a I 214. Heller a 215 and Cowan a 202 Ito round out the double century counts among the keglets Expenses Heller 215 170 178 Howe 140 147 145 Anderson 125 169 15* Corson IK3 154 151 100 100 100 | Totals 703 740 735 j Miyers Sheets 151 135 1351 Archer 162 13! 150 J Little ... 122 145 154 Hawkins 130 109 139 Banner IX6 176 157 Spot 10 10 1 9 Totals7kl 711 751 Maintenance Wheeler 145 211 156 Bowman . 107 116 143 'Chapman 146 176 |6l winteregg 124 152 135 E Ixhman 142 147 150 Totals M7 *O4 775 Truckers Roop 154 173 147 Harris 140 156 113 B McMillen 92 127 104 100 100 100 spot — 27 27 27 Totals<23 <53 591 Office—Girls Ixamard 125 122 1H Woodward 117 IK 106 Klrthnsrlo7 127 124 Kellinger 9« 107 127 Klepper ... 114 112 110 Rffi’t 11 61 51 Totals <lO <35 <24 Office—Men Townsend 116 107 i<4 Hprunger IM jjg t& g 11! M IIS Cowan 202 127 I<2 Duncan <1 117 13 Totals _.BM 670 MO Laboratory Mann 175 226 193 Townaend 11l 112 172 Cook im 134 161 Finlayson 114 115 IM Msby ng 1M m Sb"' 47 <7 47 Totals 7M 7M 513 Solvent Plant Brown 121 164 141 Black 89 149 126 1 RAU’-h IM 134 143 Merriman IM 114 127 Tewpie in ng ]n | |N t, „ — , .. Totals <2< 721 711

DEC ATUR TEAMS! WIN NET TILTS, Sons Os Uicion And Cloverleaf Teams Arc Winners Monday Two Decttur team* were victorI ious in u double header Monday night at the Lincoln school gymnasium. In the opening game, the Son* ot the U-glon. making their first start, defeated lh«- Wren. Ohio Independents. 34’4 In the windup tilt, cloverleaf downed Albion. I 41-36. Son* of the lag ion took an early lead In their game and held a 20 l« margin at the half Stapleton was the leading scorer with five field goals and six free throws for a tola) of 16 point*. Clifton led Wren with eight. Cloverleaf held a 23-11 margin over Albion at the half and the via- 1 itor* could not overcome this lend .Murphy led Cloverleaf with 14 l>oints. followed by Prior with 10 Welter and Taggart each scored I? (mints for Albbm Sons Os Legion FO FT TP Gehrig f 3 0 4 K. Sthnepp t 3 o 6 B Sc hnepp c 4 n S Stapleton K 6 4 14 G. Huffman g 0 o o llebble f O 0 0 I. Huffman f 0 0 •• Owen* c 000 Eley g 0 0 0 Totals 15 <’■ 34 Wren Mo-c-r f 14 6 McClure f n o 0 Callow c 3 0 4 Clifton g 3 2 4 Steel g 3 0 6 ... Totals 10 4 26 Cloverleaf FC FT TP Wynn f 3 2 4 Stapleton f 2 0 4 Gay c 102 Murphy g 6 4 14 Hebtde g 113 Prior f 5 o 10 Schnepp c 000 Smith g 000 Totals 17 7 41 1 Albion Davis f „ 2 16 i Weber f 6 0 12 Taggart g 5 2 12 Huntsman c 10 2 Butler g 2 0 4 ! Clouse f 0 0 0 Smith f ... 0 0 0 I Totals 14 3 35 STEINER PACES DUTLER VIITORY Former Berne Star Cases 19 Points In Win Over I*oyola Indianapolis. Jan. 3o — (U.P) - Hoosier college eager* chalked up three vh-tories over out of atate team* last night a* Butler, unde felted leaders in the race for the state college conference title, won a major content with Uiyoia at Chicago. 43 to 39. In other games Evansville- romped to its highest total of the seasson. whipping through 40 point* against Loulfville* 43. and Ball State downed Illinois State Normal. 46 to 33. Tonight Butler travel* to Frank- ' I Hamner Feed Grinding Costs w/au* B* am to *•« thia araaatlonal mw kind of hammer mill with the downbeat safety hammers. It run* slow, er, grinds faster — cost, less to operate and U built to laat a life, time. Come in and neo it. New low price* —. liberal term*. No other hammer mill ha* Fluik And yon don't want a mil without tt. " | ( raigville Garage Cralgvllle. IM. p h . nf M

lit; to r-ugngc the GrlSS.ll*** 111 n college conference- match, the semiwindup for the Bulldog*. Mnnche*ter c-ntc-riuin* WeMoni Michigan State- Miami. <» . plur" •• Rarlham pnd Tri State play* al Olivet Captain Jerome Steiner was But |.-r * driving force last night, loop Inr. IH point* for the- Bulldog* to lend both team* 0 Itottner, in hl* first game for Ixtyola, paced the Chlcag«*n« with 14 counters. Th«- score wa* lied 21-all at the half. Ball State- handed Illinois Normal a scant three point lead a* th<- game <»P* ned la** night and then roared into form to take a 22 to 11 lead -it the* half. Ashley • eountc-d 17 faint* for the Cardinal* while Bryne scored eight for I Illinois Normal. . LAI N(’H TICKET viwTtNtTtn fko*i raoi mta their regular weekly meetings. Ticket* may Ih* obtained from mrintH-r* of the banquet commit- ! tee, which include-* Mr. Calland. Mr Schmitt. Adolph Scham**tloh. I nion township: Winfred (lerke.l Hchci township: Oscar Ewe-I. Preblel <own«hlp: Homer Arnold. Kirkland township; E L Harlacher.l Washington township (outside of! Ibs-atur); lithe* Ihiniel*. St.| Mary's township; Inland Ripley,

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