Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1927 — Page 6

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ORGANIZE CITY BASEBALL LEAGUE Four-Team Loop Formed At Meeting Held Last Night; Another Meeting Monday At a meeting held in the Daily Democrat office last night, plans wore formulated for a city baseball league. Indications are that the league will I be composed of four teams and a schedule of ten games will be played. Representatives of the General Electric factory, the Postoffice, Rotary l Club. Lions Club and the railroad employes were present at the meeting last night. It was decided to have < four teams playing under the names of tile General Electric, postoffice, railroad employes and Ca Italic high school. The Ca:hollc high school team will be the same team that represented the Commodores this spring. Several Decatur high school players will play on the postoffice nine. Memhi rs J of the Rotary and Lions clubs decided not to select teams from their * clubs, but several members of each 1 will probably play with either the ‘ nostoffke or railroad teams. * j Another meeting will be held Monday night, at which time the msnag- U ers of the different teams will certify f a list of fifteen players from which j 1 their teams will be selected. The ' schedule will be drawn up Monday 1 night, also. The South Ward diamond 1 will be used for the game and an ‘ effort will be made to obtain one more ‘ diamond. The games will be played ' on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. ( it is thought. _o I ♦ ♦ + + ♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + 4 « WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ + + + + + + + + -i‘ + 4- + + + , {- + (By United Press) r Yesterday’s hero — Ray Morehart, | young Yankee second baseman, whose home run within the park in the 7th ] inning ruined a close game be .wi i n ; New York and Chicago. It was the third straight victory for the league | leaders over the White Sox. The final - score was 8-3. ( The Chicago Cubs won their 7th I consecutive victory over Brooklyn t the third of the present series 3-2 as t result cf an eighth ining rally. ( While Fitzsimmons was toying with I the Pittsburgh Pirates his mates on i the New York Nationals were ham- t meting the offerings of Hush, Yde and Cvengros to all sections of the park, i The final count was 12-tl in favor of] McGraw’s team. Jess Haines was credited with hi | ninth victory of the season as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated Boston, 6-1. In the first four innings the Cardinals touched Robertson for eight hits. With the count tied in the ninth Wrightstone tripled to score Williams and the Phillies defeated Cincinnati, 6-5, The Reds in the sixth had made a four run rally to even the score. The Philadelphia Athletics won their fourth straight game when they bounced two St. Louis pitchers for 16 hits and a 9-3/victory. Walter Johnson was unable to hold the Cleveland Indians and the two men who succeeded him on the mound were not much better. Cleveland won over Washington, 7-1. The Indiasn got six hits off Johnson in five innings. Four runs in the ninth inning gave Detroit a 6-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Fothergill was the ace of the Detroit attack, with a perfec day at bat. He had a home run. a double, two singles and a sacrifite fly in five trips to the plate. Q BASEBALL’S BIG FOUR (By United Press) Hornsby kept his big four batting lead by singling twice in four times at bat. Cobb’s day was an exact duplicate of Hornsby's. Babe Ruth hit a triple in two official times up. Speaker went hitless in three attt rnpis. AB H PCt F HR Hornsby 'l7l 66 .386 .962 10 Cobb 171 65 .380 .991 1 Ruth 180 61 .339 .976 18 ■ Speaker 170 54 .318 .978 0 : 0 Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kunkel, of Bluffton, visited friends here ycsterday afternoon.

YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League Boston. 1; Si. Louis, 6. Brooklyn, 3; Chicago, 4. New York, 12? Pittsburgh. 1. Philadelphia. 6; Cincinnati, 5. American League Chicago, 3; New York, S. St. Louis. 3; Philadelphia, 9. Cleveland. 7; Washington, 1. Detroit, 6; Boston, 4. American Association Kansas City, 4: Toledo. 6. Minenapolis, 9; Indianapolis, 2. Milwaukee, 14; Columbus, 4. St. Paul, 0; Louisville, 4. PLAY IS STARTED IN BOYS' LEAGUE Tigers, Cardinals And Black Devils Tied For Lead; Blues Are Trailing Six games have been played in the boys' baseball league, which is being sponsored by 11. I.» Cur.is. athletic director of the Decatur public schools. There are four teams in the league I and three are tied for the league, with two victories and one defeated each, at present. The Tigers, Bia k Devils and Cardinals are tied for the league leadership, while the Blues have lost each of their three games. The Blues are being strengthened, however, and are expected to offer s iff opposition for the other teams hereafter. Games are played on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday forenoons. On Monday and Friday forenoons, Coach Curtis will have basketball games on the I Central school grounds for the boys. The members of the different baseball teams are as follows: Cardinals —Drake, Brown. Reynolds, Lose, Moser, Brodbeck. Williams, Ford j and Burgess. Tigers—Eng’e, Moses, McNeal, Ulman, Stoneburner. Smith, Metzger, Ritter, Moore, J. Hill, and Ogg. Blues—Bly the, Ladd. Roop, Marsh, Kolter, Hoffman, Myers, Sh?e s, Stoakes, Bitsick and McCrory. Black Devils — Feazle, Handler, C. Hill, Johnson, Burkhead, Hoffman, Trim, Elzey and Hebble. The Black Devils defeated the Plues, 10-7; the Cardinals defeated the Tigers, 7-2: the Tigers defeated the Black Devils, 9-7; the Cardinals defeateel the Blues. 14 4: the Black Devils defeated the Catdinals, 5-2; and the Tigers defeated the Blues, 6-2. G.E,HAS GAME HERE SATuHDAY Electricians Book Game With Fort Wayne Celt: For Saturday Afternoon The General Electric baseball team has scheduled a game with the Fort Wayne Celts, to be played in this city tomorrow afternoon. The game will bo caj ed at 2:30 o’clock. An effort was being made today to get permission to play on the old diamond on Niblick field, just east of the river, where the G. E. grandstand was built a few' years ago. If the permission is obtained, the diamond will be placed in playing -condition tomorrow morning and the game will be played there. Otherwise, the game will be played on the South Ward diamond. o AMERICAN LEGION TO HOLD DISTRIST CONFERENCE HERE (COXTIM ED I-K0.,1 fV.E OMD quested to notify the loca.l post, either Commander Paul Graham or Adjutant Loo Ehinger, so that a place can be reserved. The local post has secured the privileges of the local country c ub (or the day. and the entire building will be turned over to the war veterans for their annual conference. This is the first time since the organization of the Adams Post of the Legion that this city has had the privilege of entertaining the district Legionaires, and the entire post is working to make the day an enjoyable 'on. Many features, not yet announced, will be announced in the. next few' I days, and it is expected that more , than 200 war veterans and their , wives and sweethearts will attend ithe reunion.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1927.

Elizabeth Ryan Loses In Semi-Final Round Beckenham, Eng., June 10—(UP) An American and mi Englishwoman will fight it out for the Kent county tennis champion it became certain today when Mrs. I. A. Godfree, the former Kitty McCane, defeated Miss Eli- , ibeth Ryan. 2-6. 63. 6-2 in the semi finals. Helen Wills and Mr- Molln Mallory were to meet in the other semi-final and the winner will play Mrs. Godfree for (he titie. COURT HOUSE Files Suit For Divorce A suit for divorce was filed in the circuit court late Thursday afternoon by Virgil C. Lai-nre, of Monroe township. against Avminda B. Laisure. Mr.

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