Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1931 — Page 6

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JUNIOR LEAGUE SEASON DRAWS NEAR TO CLOSE Lions Annex League Title Without Trouble; Season Was Success The Adams county junior baseball league, sponsored by 'Adams post, American Legion, will close this week. De-| catur Liens club entry, county tourney champions have cinched the league title and will close tonight with a game at Berne with the Lincoln Life team of that town. The Junior league has created | much interest this season, and through tile aide management of Albert (Abe) Miller. Adams post ( athletic officer and his assist nits I the league has grown to be part of | the life of every boy in the county I and hundreds of grown-ups. The league this season had six teams entered. Each team carried 15 players, and every team made al good showing during the season, ) The Lions club team was undoubt-1 edly the outstanding team of the league. There will always be some question of doubt as to which team in the league was second best. Both Berne entries, Lincoln Life and Winner Brand and the Decatur Moose had fine teams. None of the three was quite as good as the Lions, but because the Moose defeated the Lions early in the season, many Decatur fans are of the opinion that the P.axtermen were second best. At any rate these three teams are bunched to-

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| gether for second best. | The other two teams, Legion and i Rotary played great baseball at | times and then would drift down |to mediocre fielding and batting I work. Dave Campbell’s Rotary | team got off to a bad start, but the last two weeks the Rotary boys | have been making it tough for all , the teams. Hex Cochran's Legion aggregation !! had its troubles too. Spitty Myers, pitcher, suffered a broken arm, and | various shifts in lineups told on ' the team. Abe Miller, who has faithfully ’ carried on the work of managing the league, with,probably as many problems as a major league, deserves more credit than anyone for i the great success of the league i this year. The 90 boys who have played on the six teams have learned a lot of 1 baseball and every one of them is I anxious for next summer to roll j around. The umpires, composed of DecaI tur and Berne men, survived the , season and managed to keep the good will of a majority of the fans. I As a whole the umpiring was excellent and tin* boys and fans abidled by the decisions. O O Here’s What A Fan Thinks; The Lions Had A Great Team o o Here's a roster of the Lions club junior baseball team, one of the greatest kid teams ever organized in Adams county. The team had two coaches. Herb Curtis. Decatur high school athletic director and William (Bill) Bell. Bill Linn acted as official scorer for the team. LAKE (WHITEY) GLENDENNING, who joined the hall of fame in baseball by pitching a non hit game early in the season was without doubt the greatest pitcher in the league. Whitey can do a lot of tricks with a baseball and we’re liable to hear a lot from him on the baseball diamond. CHARLES (SONNY) EHINGER whom someone said in referring to his size is seven or eight chips off the old block, played in the outer garden and besides making a good < record on defense was one of the batting powers of the team. HAROLD BLYTHE played third base and was one of the best hotcorner artists in the league. He had an uncanny habit of reaching down and stopping fast ones and when he found an opposing pitcher he made whoopee. HARRY SCHAMERLOH, infielder and utility pitcher did lots' of things with a bat. His hobby was to smack the first ball fired at him for a base hit, which isn't such a bad habit. ELMER (RED) SCHULTZ was the back stop, who got sore hands and fingers from stopping Whitey’s fast ones. He covered the ground around and behind of home plate in fine style. IGNATIUS HERNANDEZ played second base l and had a lot of ability on the keystone sack. Hernandez enters Decatur high school this year and promises to be one of the outstanding athletes. He was born in Old Mexico, but his sportsmanship and Americanism certainly can’t be questioned, according to his teammates and the hundreds of fans. WILLIAM (BILLY) DAVIS, outfielder. can throw a baseball from left field to home plate in a fashion that would make some of the big leaguers hurry home for more practice. DALE MYERS, utility player, fitted in the pinches and next season I is going to make a strong bid fori a regular post on one of the teams i CHARLES BUSSE was another utility player who was handy with the bat and filled in most any place on the team. WILBUR BLAKEY, outfielder was handy with the bat and could judge a fly ball as good as any player in the league. “ZEKE" SUMMERS, was the first man there for every game and could catch the ball with one eye shut. He pinch hatted on several occasions. SEPHUS JACKSON, who learned his baseball from his daddy ‘‘Hex’’ Cochran, was one of the most promising rookies. He's young yet and will be one of the regulars before long. EDWIN (SPOT) KAUFFMAN played first base and was one of the strong men on the bat. Spot was dead on grabbing the high ones at first and saved his team mates a lot of errors during the season, by long-arming a lot of far throws. WILLIAM (BILL) COFFEE was perhaps the best utility player on the club. He could hit the ball and was always sure to play grade A ball in the infield when called on. o Mesdames Ed. Miller, Lena Martin, and William Shoaf and Miss Madgeline Miller have returned from a week's motor trip to Oak Harbor, Toledo. Port Clinton, Ohio, Catawba Island, and Monroe, Mich igan.

CUBS TO FACE I TOUGH TEAMS J — I New York. Aug. 19—(UP)—Rog- ! ers Hornsby let! his Chicago Cubs . into New York today for an eight ‘ ' day visit which is expected to de-j , termine the Cub’s final standing in the 1931 National League Pennant race. Trailing the St. Louis Cardinals by nine full games, the Cubs must make a clean sweep of their 11 games against Brooklyn and New York if they hope to overtake the leaders. A 3 to 2 defeat by Boston yesterday cut the Cub's lead over New York to .002 points. Fred Frankhouse allowed the Cubs only five hits and won when Worthington singled with the bases filled in the ninth. Chuck Klein, Phillies outfielder, hit his 28th and 29th homes of the season off Spencer of Pittsburgh, but the other Phillies batsmen were inoffensive and Pittsburgh won 14 to 5. Paul Waner led the Pittsburgh i attack with five hits in six times at bat. No other games were scheduled in the National League and only two were staged in the American I circuit, Detroit defeating New York ;5 to 4 in 11 innings and SI. Louis I whipping Washington 4 to 2. Charley* Gehringer led Detroit to victory, starting the Tigers three run rally in the fourth, driving in the tieing run in the ninth and batt-1 ing home the winning run in the! eleventh. i Dick Coffman pitched nine hit | ball in defeating Washington for a j third successive victory. — Yesteiday’s hero: Charley Gehringer, Detroit second baseman who I collected four hits in six times at 1 bat to drive home two runs and score another in the Tigers' 5 to 4 11-inning triumph over New York. I —o STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Tct. I St. Louis 74 42 .638 I Chicago 65 51 .5691 New York 63 50 .558 Brooklyn 60 58 .5081 ■Pittsburgh 55 60 .478' ton ... 51 io .17) Philadelphia ... 48 69 .410 Cincinnati , 43 74 .368 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Philadelphia 81 31 .723 Washington 70 43 .619 New York 65 48 .575 Cleveland 53 59 .473' St. Louis 48 65 .4251 Chicago .46 68 .404 Boston 46 68 .4011 Detroit 44 71 383' AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. St. Paul 76 48 .613 Indianapolis 65 59 .524 Kansas City 63 62 .5041 Louisville 62 63 .496, Milwaukee 61 62 .496 Columbus 60 64 .4841 Minneapolis 59 65 .476 Toledo 53 74 .417 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Boston, 3; Chicago, 2. Pittsburgh. 14; Philadelphia. 5. Only games scheduled. American League Detroit, 5; New York, 4 (11 innings). St. Louis, 4; Washington, 2. Only games scheduled. American Association St. Paul. 14; Indianapolis, 7. ■ I Toledo, 7; Kansas City, 5. Milwaukee, 8; Columbus, 2. ■ I Minneapolis, 10-17; Louisville, , 8-4. , o Miss Kathet yn Korh of Columbus, . Ohio is spending several days visitI ing her brother and sister-in-law, . Mr. and Mrs. Al Korb of this city.

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1 As Army Tried to Sink Ship LA vfeXysl- > F I l. git® Kg K 10 These three pictures tel) the story of the bombing of the transport Mt. Shasta by ten U. S Army bombing planes from Langley Field Xa. The Army fliers, although they s.ored two direct hits, failed to sink the craft while the Navy is- reported to have snickered and the (oast Guard actually sank the transport by gunfire Top picture show.- Bomber Charles F. Clemens at the sights ready to drop 100 pounds ofdestruction on the Mt. Shasta Center picture shows a bomb as it fell toward its mark far below Bottom photo depicts the same bomb falling wide of its mark. The aerial attack took place off the Virginia Capes.

Major League Leaders The following averages compiled ; by United Press include games of August 18. • Leading hitters: Player Club G AB R H Pct. I Simmons A's 112 452 98 174 .385 Ruth, Y's 106 398 108 150 .337 ' Morgan I's 99 356 60 126 .354 Gehrig Y’s . 114 452 120 158 .350 I | Davis Phil. .93 300 22 105 .350 Hmoe Runs Ruth, Yankees 33 i Gehrig Yankees 32 | Klein Phillies 29 Averill Indians 24 Ott, Giants . 22 TWO WIN TRIPS TO STATE FAIR (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE' — four new members this past year. (She has given two club talks, has j won Purdue round up trips- in can ! ining and clothing. This year her j grade in the canning project was over 95 per cent, and in sewing 97 per cent. Miss Frisinger has been in club work two years, attended a total of 116 meetings fn sewing and eight in canning; has been president of her] 'dull the last two years; has had 1 I part in three demonstration teams. two judging teams and secured I two new members the past year.

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I She has written one newspaper article; given two club talks and won a trip to the 4-H club round-up in clothing. Her grade this year in sewing was 97 per cent, and canning 96 per cent. August Heimann, proprietor of the Peoples restaurant, will finance one 01 these t’Z.is to the stat fair 1 school of Home Economics, the oth-1 er trip will be taken care of tlnougli the general 4-H clnb fund. County awarcls in 4-H club work will be announced as soon as the date is compiled. o Lumber Camp Hero Paul Bunyan Is a mythical hen of the lumber .amps of the 7,'ort> I west. The legend Is snl.j to have begun In the Papineau r hellion l<> t'lin.ida in 1837 and it then spread throughout the Northwest, being colored by S< andinnvian myth In Minnesota and by Indian legends I further west. It was the American : loggers, just below the bordrr. who established the myth and gate I’ much of l». or.lor Man’t Earliest Occupatlor Agriculture Is belli '.ed to be the •arliest occupation of man. It can be traced back to prehistoric times, when primitive man began to select particular plants as prefc-ible to others for his use ns food. Records on ancient monuments have enabled us to trace the history of agriculture In Egypt b a .k to el least 30'10 R c.

FLIERS FORCED TO LAND NEAR KETOI ISLET (CONTINUED FHOM PACE ONE) port. Later the station corrected its announcement to read that the fliers were circling t,he island seeking a-rent in the fog curtain, j The Kuriles are a long string of j “Hairy Aintis," extend like a necklace athwart the Pacific under an almost perpetual haze. Flying conditions are nearly uniformly bad. although c lear days are known 0 / cassonally. To Kuriles arc a long string of tiny islands. 32 in number, stretching from Kamchatka toward Japan proper. Their combined area is only 6.159 square miles. Slmusir . is one of the largest of the group. The islands are cf active vol- ' canic characters and are named as- 1 tre the Russian word moaning "to ! smoke.” See weed surrounds the islands | and presented an added peril to' tiio aviators. Millions of birds nest about th-ir' shores. Total population of the group is , 4.490. of which about 600 are Ainu | “Hai'y Mon"—halt civilized ah- ' origines who live in caves. The Lindberghs had completed | more than half their flights from Petropavalovsk to Nemuro when ; forced to turn ack. Slmusir is about halt way between the two points on the 900mile projected flight. Make Final Pleas — Los Angeles .Aug. 19. —(U.R)— The final plea of the State that David H. Clark be hanged for murder was all that remained of his trial today after a stormy session during which attorneys shoute-l bitter words and shook their fists at opponents' faces. Prosecutor oseph Ford said that in his final plea he would ask the jury o fseven men and five 'women ‘o send <'la r k to the eallows for ki'ling Herert Spencer, a magazine editor Spencer and Charles Crawford, politician. ,were killed during a political campaign in which Clark was a candidate for municipal fudge Clark testified he shot them in self defense. Accusations were made that all the men had underworld connections. DISAPPEARANCE OF CHINESE MERCHANT REMAINS MYSTERY CONTINUED FROM PACK’ ONE) saying. "And I saw a form in Mr. Fujimura's bed. Two hours later I was awakened by the steward, who told me my employer was missing. “I got dressed and we searched all over the boat." Both Feinstein and Fuj inura’s

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