Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1927 — Page 6

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BLUFFTON NINE DEFEATS 0,0, U.S, Tigers Score 134 Victory Friday; Meyers Fails In Iron-man Stunt (Special to Dally Democrat) Bluffton. May 2S Bluffton's bihh school baseball nine proved strong enough to defeat the Decatur Catholic high school Commodores in a game flayed at the Jefferson Park baseball diamond Friday afternoon by a score of 1;’. to 4. Friday's defeat was the second for the Commodores this week-j They bowed 1o Central Catholic, of Fort Wayne, in a game played on the Decatur diamond Thursday afternoon, by a score of 5 to 0. "Red" Meyers, Decatur's regular t wirier, who struck cut seventeen batters in the Fort. Wayne-Decatur game Thursday afternoon, tried the iron man stunt, but was worn out by the close! of the this 1 inning. He remained on the mound until one was out in the fourth, when he was taken from the box and placed at second base, later' going to third base where he remained j dining the last three ft nines. "Hocky" Mylott was placed into the box for, Meyeis and he pitched good ball, proving that he will be able to fill Meyers shoes next year. Numerous errors on part of Decatur, players gave Bluffton several advances | that eventually scored runs. Emshwiller made Bluffton's only error when he dropped the ball in the first of the eighth inning. I Bluffton scored thiee runs in the first inning, and were then held scoreless until the fouith frame when they scored six runs without a single hit.! In the fourth frame. Meyer walked six of the ten Bluffton batters who' faced him, walking in thtee of the six runs. Bluffton scored in the last two frames. G. Heller, who had pitched a no-hit-no-run" game until the seventh inning, was taken from the mound by Coach Lewis Means and Pyle was placed in the box. Heller played at second for in inning, going to the out field in the last inning. BluPton's oncoming. ’ pitchers, Pyle, Prottgh and Sparks. . were given a chance to show their "stuff" in the last three innings. Decatur started their scoring in the seventh frame, when Junk and Smith ctossed the home plate as Mylott tapped the ball for a single. Meyer. Decatur’s second man to bat in the last frame, clouted the ball for a three bagger. He scored F. Mylott, who had obtained first on a nice single. Box Score Bluffton ABRH POAE Emshwiller If. if 4 12 t) o 1 Waugh if 000 000 Crosbie lb 2 2 0 10 0 0 N. Bazter c, 3b 3 2 1110 0 Ellenbergei 3b 3 11 0 0 0 Prcueh p 000 0 0 0 Sparks p 000 000

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Pyle 2b, p 4 2 1 14 0 Richey ss 3 2 2 1 3 0 Redding cf 4 1 0 0 0 0 Tyler cf 0 0 0 o 0 0 Ashbaucher rs 2 10 o 0 o , Hehl leber rs c too 100 G. Heller p. 2b, If 4 1 0 3 1 0 | Totals 31 13 7 27 8 1 , Decatur AB R H PO A E F. Mylott ss. c 4 0 1 3 0 1 J. Mylott 2b. n 4 0 0 1 3 0 A. Wemhoff c, ts .... 4 1 2 0 3 2 Meyer p, 2b, 3b 4 11 0 6 1 B Wemhoff lb 4 0 0 11 2 0 R. Miller If 2 0 0 0 0 0 Foos rs 1 0 0 0 0 0 Junk cf 4 1 0 3 0 0 Smith 3h. 2b 2 0 0 0 2 3 A Miller, rs 1 0 0 00 0 Sorg 2 b 11l 000 Totals 31 4 5 24 16 7 Score by innings Decatur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2—4 Bluffton 3006 0 11 2 *—l3 Summary: Two base hit —Richey. Three has: hit- Meyer. Sacrifice hits— Foos. N. Baxter, Residing. Stolen bases A. Wemhoff, Etnshwil'er, Crosbie 2. N Baxter 2. Pyle, Redding, Schrieber. Double plays — Heller unassited. Left on bases —Decatur 4. Bluffton 9. Base on balls — off Meyer 6, off J. Mylott 3. eff G. Heller 2. Sparks 1. Strike outs By Meyer 4. by Mylott 2. G. Heller, 9. Pyle 1. Prottgh 1, Sparks 1. Hits eff Meyer 3 in 3 1-3 innings, off G. Heller none in 6 innings, off Pyle 1 in 1 2-> innings. ITough 2 in 1-3 innings, off Sparks 2 in 1 inning. Hit by pitcher By Meyer Ashbaucher, Crosbie. Ellen berger. Pass ball A. Wemhoff. Balk,. Meyer. Loosing pitcher Meyer. Winning pitcher G. Heller. Empire—Leßoy Hedges. Grand Circuit Races At The State Fair In the twelve early closing events 547 entries have been made for the grand circuit races at the Indiana S. Fair, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 3 tn 10, 1927. Entries closed on May 7th with the largest list of entries ever received. Last year 381 entries were made, 166 more this

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year than last. Twenty-two is the smallest entry made for any one race and 72 the largest, against 35 I the largest number in any one race last year. Horses arc’ entered from seventeen suites and Canada. With the late closing events there will be 23 races during the 1927 fair. Following are the early closing events with number of entries and purses: 2:05 trot, 22, 12000 ; 2:10 trot. 52. $5000; 2:16 trot. 72. $2000; two-year-old trot, 64. $1000; three-year-old trot. 59. $1000; 2:06 pace. 22. $2000; 2:10 pace. 37, $5000; 2:12 pace, 54. $1000; three-year-old pace, 36, $1000; Horseman futurity, three-year-old pace. 48. $5000; Horseman futurity, I three-year-old pace. 20, $3000; Frank' B. Fox, two-year-bld pacing stake,' Gl. SISOOO. *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ *♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦ Six runs scored on faulty pitching and infield support gave the Cleveland Indians a 7-3 win over the St. Louis Browns. Sam Jones walked; four men in the third, forcing in two' runs. Hotjapp's homer was the only' earned run the tribe scored. The Boston Braves captured both | ends of a doubleheader from the Phil-j lies, 8-1 and 13-5. Both Smith pilch-' ed a six-hit game in the opener, while 1 Larry- Benton simply breezed along behind an eight run lead in the sec-: ond game.

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♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * BASEBALL STANDINGS ♦ National League W L Pct' Pittsburgh -22 11 .667 Chicago 21 13 .MS' New York 19 15 .55!) ( St. lam s • 19 15 .545, Fhiladclph a . 16 17 .4691 Brooklyn 17 22 .436 Bost on .429 Cincinnati 11 26 .297 American League W L Pct. ' New York 23 12 .657 1 Chicago 24 15 .615 Philadelphia . IS 17 .514 Washington 16 16 .500 Cleveland . . 18 20 .471 St L.'tls 17 19 .472 Detrot 15 20 .429 Boston 9 21 .300 American Association W L Pct. Toledo 21 10 .677 Minneapolis . 21 15 .583 Indianapolis 18 15 .545 St. Paul 19 17 .528 Milwaukee 19 18 .514 Kansas City 18 19 .486 lamsv De 14 24 .368 Columbus 13 25 .342 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS I'— National League Boston 8-13; Philadelphia 1-5. St. Isritis 7; Pittsburgh 8 Cincinnati 2: Chicago 3 New York 3-1; Brooklyn 5-5. American League Chicago 3; Detroit 1 Washington 7-0; New York 2-5 Cleveland 7; St. Louis 3 Philadelphia-Boston, rain. -■ - American Association Indianapolis 8; Columbus 3 Toledo 8; Louisville 3 Minneapolis 14; Milwaukee 10 Kansas City-St. Paul. rain. Tommy Thomas. White Sox southpaw. hung up his eighth victory of the , season when he defeated Detroit, 3-1. Thomas lias allowed two runs in the | ;.st 35 innings he has pitched t *|

Fort Wayne Central $ Beats Muncie, 2-0 ' Fort Wayne. May 28 The Central high school baseball team defeated Munyie nt Lincoln Life field yester'day afternoon by it score of 2 to 0. | This was the final home game of the season for the Tigers and was the must interesting played here this year. Dodge was on the mound for Central and was given air-tight support by the rest of the squad. Steinhoitser was i it the receiving end. Entry List Complete For Winchester Races Funk's Speedway, Winchester, Ind., May 28.—The entry list is now com-' plete sot the racing at the local Speedway May 20. When the starter's flag drops at 2:15 p. m.. ten hot. roaring •motors will be off piloted by such daredevil speed demons as Shorty Caution, of Dettoit, .Michigan, Louis Snyder, of Indianapolis, D. I). Morris of Chicago, Jack Nichols, cf Chicago, Ralph Echstiom, of Chicago, 11. M. Lewis. of Lyons, 111., Glen Fits, of Chi-

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