Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1931 — Page 6

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Independent Baseball Team To Play Three Game*

FORT WAYNE TO PLAY LOCALS HERE SATURDAY Butler Coming Sunday For Double-Header at High School Park Decatur’s independent baseball team has a busy schedule ahead of it over the holiday and week-end. Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock the local team plays Fort Wayne at the Decatur diamond on West Adams street and Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock the locals will tangle here with Butler in a double-header. The Fort Wayne team which comes here tomorrow gave Decatur its fl rat trimming of the season and the Baxtermen are prepared to even the count with the visitors. Manager Buck Baxter said today that the starting battery for tornorQ>w probably would be Cochran ami Coffee. Admission to Saturday's game will be 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children over 15 years of, age. The same prices will prevail for the double-header the following! |!hy. Tomorrow's game will start, promptly at 3. o'clock and the first sjinie of the twin bill will start Sun- 1 day afternoon at 2 o'clock. The | ffrst game will be a regular nine-1 inning affair while the nightcap will be cut to seven innings. The local team has been strengthened by the addition of two new players and three good games are premised to local fans. o TEAMS PREPARE FOR STRETCH New York. July 3.—(U.R) —When the Fourth of July dawns tomorrow, Philadelphia and St. Louis will be in first place in the American and National leagues, respectively, and I if one of baseball's oldest traditions rings true those two clubs will meet in the 1931 world series. With very few exceptions, the team which holds the leadership on July 4 usually has gone through to win the pennant. That was the case last year as far as the Athletics were concerned, but the tradition didn't mean much in the National league. A year ago tomorrow the Brooklyn Robins headed the parade with the St. Louis | Cardinals fourth, six and one halt'! games to the bad. Last year on Independence Day the Athletics held a three-game lead over Washington. This season they will hold a three and one half game margin. The Cardinals have an

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edge of one and one halt contests lon the second place New York Giants. While the margin is a I slight one, it is enough to indicate (that the Cardinals are the team to I beat for the National league flag for they return home July 9 for al l 25-game stand. ' | St. Louis has an opportunity to I increase its margin today by beatling Philadelphia in a double headier. They are the only games on I ' I the major league schedule. i The Giants crept up to within a {game and a half of the leadership yesterday when they defeated the (Cardinals, 3 to 2. Hogan's home | irun with two men on base in the '(fifth inning brought about the! ' downfall of Hallahan. - i Chicago also closed in on the I league leaders by turning back! ? Philadelphia 2 to 1 in 11 innings. -.Two singles and an error gave the • j Cubs the run which broke up a (' pitching duel between Bob Smith ' and Ray Benge. The Brooklyn Robins made their | > five hits off Silas Johnson count to .defeat Cincinnati 4 to 3. The Rob-1 J ins bunched three doubles with al I base on balls to score three times! '' in the sixth inning after Bisonette’s ' triple accounted Mora run in the ; second. i Pittsburgh shut out Boston, 1 to , 0 in the other National league con- ,, test. Heine Meine allowed the ' Braves only five hits. II Washington gained a game on the ;! Athletics by defeating St. Louis, 13 |to 5 as Philadelphia lost to Cleveland, 12 to 4. The Senators pounded three Brown hurlers hard while Crowder, I who bad relieved Burke in the third, held St. Louis at bay. Hudlin allowed 13 hits in hurling the Indians to victory but managed to tighten up with men on bases as his mates hit Walberg, Earnshaw and two Athletic rookies hard. New York closed its second western invasion of the year with a 13 to 1 decision over the Detroit Tigers. Home runs by Ruth and Chapman featured the Yankees attack on Tlhle and Hoyt. Ruth’s homer was his 19th of the season. Tommy Thomas shut out Boston with three hits as the Chicago White Sox won 2 to 0. The White Sox bunched two hits with a sacrifice to score one run off Kling, Red Sox rookie in the first, and scored (the other tally in the eighth on a single, an error, and Grube's double. Yesterday's hero: Shanty Hogan, New York catcher, whose home run with two men on base enabled the Giants to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals. 3 to 2 and advance to within a game and a half of the National leagtie leadership. LIONS IN WIN OVER MOOSE League Standing W. L. Pct. Lions 6 1 .857 Moose 4 2 .666 Lincoln Life 4 3 .571 Winner Brand ,3 3 .500 Legion 2 4 .333 notary 6 6 j.ihi The Lions and the Moose, leaders in the Junior baseball league staged a ball game last evening at the West Adams Street diamond that was well worth attending and which resulted in a win for the Lions and setting them in first place. The game started off in real league fashion, neither team being able to score in the first three innings. In the fourth the Moose pushed across the first run of the game only to have the Lions come back | in their half of the same inning to tie the score at 1 to 1. In the fifth, the Moose issued five walks and two hits that gave the Lions four runs. The Lions scored two more in the sixth, shutting the Moose out the rest of the way the final score resulting 7 to 1. Glendenning and Schultz formed the battery for the Lions while Ritter, Wvnn and Strickler worked for the Moose. Games next week, July 6 Moose and the Lincoln Life at Berne; Tuesday, July 7, Rotary and Legion at Decatur; Wednesday. July 8, Lions and Winner Brand at Decatur. Friday July 10 Rotary and Lincoln Life at Berne. —— COURTHOUSE Real Estate Transfers Everett & Hite Co., inlot 1, Decatur to Elton C. Duguid for SI.OO Peter I). Roth. 5% acres in Monroe township to Menno S Hirschy for SI.OO. Marriage License Hiram Nussbaum, Berne carpenter to Esther Leona Mettler, Berne. NOTICE—-Dicing Month of July only: Rapid Shelton Permanent wave, $6.00; Wavosheen wave, $3.00 Mrs. Gaylie Hoagland. 157-7,t

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i . i I Schmeling. the first heavyweight to win the championship on a I foul, will be fortunate if he fights at even money. I The miles under which the bout I will be fought still are vague, and : I a last-minute conference of the I ! boxing commission has been call-1 ed for noon today in an attempt | to clarify them. If Stribling emerges as the new! champion, the vanquished Schjnel;, ing’s present manager, Joe Jacobs., will have an interest in him,! according to persistent reports. Less than 5(1.000 persons will see the 15-round bout in Cleve-I land’s new $3,000,000 lake front stadium, and the g oss receipts will I hardly reach $400,000. Although , lioth fighters are taking a per-1 centage, the expenses will reach 1

! aUout $375,000. Stribling, the challenger, continued to rule a favorite! today at 10-9 and 6-5, with even money likely to prevail when the two fighters answer the gong between 110 ami 10:15 (EST). Very little I betting was in evidence. The Cleveland boxing commis-1 ( sion’s rule that no.contest can be i won or lost by a low punch has not ; been clarified to complete satisfac- ( i tion. Claiming foul, he would be j counted out and then given a | maximum rest of five minutes and I if he refused to continue he would I be declared the loser on a knockout. If, however, either contestant I lands several intentional low i blows, Clulee said he would lay himself open to disqualification. '

I; was expected that George Blake of California, the referee. I would be givetl supreme authority : to handle the bout, and make all rulings on low blows and othel foul tactics. Two judges, who with Blake will give the decision, if the bout goes the limit, will not be named until the fighters enter the ring. For the first time in ring his-1 tory, the two principals were not ( actually weighed in last night. Schmclings weight was officially accepted at 189 on the word of his manager. Joe Jacobs, and Stribling's weight was accepted at 186>/._. on ths word of “Pa” Str.bling. When they appeared to weigh in, it developed that the scales didn't balance. After Stribling

I stepped on the scales. Joe Jacobs I saw that they didn't balance, and shouted: “Balance those scales Stribling stepped ofi. and laughed as he flecked Jacolts' neckt e jin his face with a twist of his i finger. , I “Hello there, governor. said (strib, "how are you?" Jacobs was too dumbfounded I to reply. When the fighters came into the I room. Schmeling was unlacing his (shoo and Stribling immediately walked up to him and said: “Hello Max. ' "You fly?” asked the .German, referring to Striblings airplane; I visit to his camp Tuesday. I Yeh. i ll take you up with me," | said Stribling. 1 “No, me no fly

When the weighing in ended m a flop. Stribling S -°J Max: "Well, what difference doe, make what we weigh? go ng to fight anyway ' Both fighters appeared in 8W (physical condition. SchniHb body was a deep brown, anj said he was in better shape n when he fought Jack Sharkey; year and won recognition as J pion by a foul. o j Get the Habit—Trade «t h m o — I BARGAINS — Bargains in n n room, dining room suite, , tresses and rugs. Stuckey and | ( Monroe, our Phone number i, |