Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1932 — Page 8

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TERRYTAKES OVER GIANTS New York. June 4 - (U.R) Big Bill Terry, dark haired, slugging first baseman of the New York Gi nts, has announced in typical s outhpaw fashion that hereafter the Giants Will be allowed to think, and will be managed as John J. Mr Graw, the little Napoleon of basetml . never managed them. Terry succeeded the rough riding. autocratic McGraw yesterday -succeeded the nun who onee protested on the held that “there's too much thinking on this ba 1 club." McGraw, it was. who did the thinking -so tar as his orders were cone rned. The players. Terry indicatid, will do their own thinking from now on. Terry's leniency and plans for individual thought will replace McGraw's rigid discipline and military order- and maybe by this sudden leversal of policy the Giants can be lured from the N.tional league cellar into a first division berth. The venerable, square jawed McGraw stepped down from the man- : —nr-hin after three decades of con stant battling for victory, during w ,och he won ten pennants, three word championships, and finished in first division every year save I wo. But now, at 59, completing 41 yeais of active connection with I. seball, he leaves the Giants I'oiinilcring in the same last place i w here he found them in 1902. The gr atest little fighting man who ever drew on spikes promised a couple years ago that he would neve.- quit until “they carry me elf the field.” The fire-ball manager became i’l '

“Wild Men *’ of the Big Leagues By HARDEN BURNLEY *WDLB>'' HlilN) OF THE PITCHING MOUMD/ vß| I ‘WILD WILL 0 HALLAHAN- • "WHO EQUALLED iPE BIG t.l LEAGUE record op BF 3 WILD PiTcHEg IN ONE IMM IMG RECENTLY? ©AGMINGTON WaT LEAST" 1 W Mfeß PITCHERS THEY AIN'T S VSr y'--‘ GAVE OUT V$ GETTI-N D W ~ 16 WALKS <x\_H<TS'>/ IN A RECENT „ X SSL ’V GAME-THE c? WILDEST PITCHING X SS <S\ seen in z .\ A I & YEARS / S' S. ! \ \\ \ SPoczT 3§, ■ V/- S? cZ \ I BUG. V M W SoUTHPAwS ARE SUPPOSED To 0E LEF7V G/2OVEWILDER, THAN "LIKE many 7mT l& RIGHTHANDERS SOUTHPAWS * - YET PENMOCK; GROVE WAS VERY /vf\ / >ANk SOUTHPAW, ' ™ / IS THE GREATEST FIRST CAME UP/ MASTER OF CONTROL £ ©'MX kmg Feature, Synd.eate.lne.. jreat Britain right, reserved.

, CTiIEN someone says “Wild Vv' Man.” scholars think of ' Borneo. But baseball bugs react to stimuli much nearer home. The wild men of baseball have long had their proper part in the national game But not in a long time have they grabbed off the spotlight as they did in the early weeks of this current baseball crazy quilt. In one game, between the Seniors and Yankees recently, the Washington pitchers handed out sixteen bases on balls. This was dismissed by the fans as smart strategy, since the big guns of the Yank attack. Ruth, Gehrig. Dickey, Lazzeri and the others had been hitting everything that had been served up to them. This was one way to make sure that they got no more than one base at a time, anyway. But in St. Louis, the famous “Wild Bill” Hallahan, 1931 World Series luminary, • a rued the

during the club's recent western trip, and he saw his hist full game on May 10. A severe attack of I sinus trouble afflicted him. Only when ■ physicians decided McGraw no longer could accompany i the chib on its trips, did he decide to resign. "I don't believe in long-distance management." the "master mind” , explained. Terry, the Memphis slugger, is faced with the same problems and has the same opportunity which greeted McGraw when he took over the team 30 years ago. He is young, only 34. He is possibly the best first baseman in basebal'. unequalled as a fielder, also National league batting champion in 1930 with a percentage of .401. Lasst yea. Chick Hafey beat him out for the title by a fractional margin. This season he has aver-, aged 311 "Memphis Rill" has been with the Giants steadily since the fall of ! ' 1223. In the latter part of 1925. he succeeded Long Geor.e Kelly as t le I team's first baseman. Born in Atlanta, Terry played sandlot ball tin-1 til he broke into the organized game with the Atlanta Crackers in 1914. lie then shifted to Thomasville, Newman and Li.th' Rock. In 1922. the Giants purchased him i from Little Rock. He managed the I Toledo club for part of the 1923 I season, then was recalled by the Giants. I Terry was a persistent holdout during the spring of this year, objecting to a cut in his 1931 salary. '<,f $24,000. He was brought to terms after a personal conference! with McGraw in New Orleans. His' salary this season is understood to be about $20,000. The new manager explained that McGraw had first approached him I with the proposal of taking over 'the club on Thursday, adding,.

I clown’s cap and a place in the I biAiks by equalling the record for wild pitches in one inning. No less than three times Binghamton Bill heaved the pellet far out of reach of Jimmy Wilson, the Cardinal catcher. Even airtight, extra-inning games have been decided this year by wild heaves on the part of the pitchers. Lefty Bill Walker of the New York Giants lost a 10-inning thriller a few weeks ago by the simple expedient of combining a wild pitch with a subsequent heave into the stands behind first base. Analyzing the statistics—without bothering to reprint them here —it is obvious that the chief offenders in the matter of wildness this year have been left-handers. This conforms to the usual notion. Left-handers are supposed to be eccentric on the field and off. Yet even here we find contradictions. While Lefty Grove and Vernon Gomel, the two outstanding pitch-

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• when I agreed and lie decided to . resign, he looked like a man who i had had u 40-pound weight lifted I from his head." McGraw was working on a fiveyear contract with the Giants, having signed for this feitn in 1930 at tji annual salary estimated to be about $75,000. McGraw will continue with the Giants as vice-president ami general advisor, although Terry will have complete say as manager. McGraw's own methods as manager are best illustrated by the story of the hitter who was orderid to bunt, but instead hit a home run. Tlte hitter crossed the home plat, a great smile of satisfaction wreathing his face. "That home run," McGraw thund- ' cred, "will cost you just SIOO. I - told you to bunt. There is entirely ' too much thinking in this club." 1 BRYAN TO GO TO ROANOKE William "Rill" Bryan, coach of the Kirkland high school Kangaroos for the past five years, has accepted a position as coach of the Roanoke high schol athletics', for next year, it was learned here I today. Mr. Bryan has produced some good teams while at Kirkland high school and was admired and respected by the members of his teams. He was considered by some as one of the best coaches that ever taught at a county high scho 1. Mt. Bryan's enthusiasm and determination was a winning factor with his teams. Albert Coppess, a member of the Kirkland high school faculty, will fill the position as coach of I, Kirkland next yoar. Mr. Coppets formerly played with the Monroe high school.

lers in the American League, 'nad practically no control at all when they came up (being groomed along only because they were lefthanders and therefore supposed to be wild, anyway) the greatest master of control in baseball is a lefthander, still going strong after about twenty campaigns. The twirler referred to, of course, is Herb Pennock, the cunning old Master of the Yankee staff. And Roy Parmelee, who came up with the Giants a few seasons ago with great hopes, molded his curves and his steam with h ; s ri"ht hand and passed out of the big show last Fall simply because he lacked control. was even wilder than the southpaws! But the passes don’t come so frequently after the hot weather sets in in earnest, and the “wild men” of April and May, will probably be the shu.cut masters of June, July, August and'September. That’s the way it frequently works out. CupyrW. l>3i. KUx raauu-a* HjuJlou*. Ina.

GEHRIG HITS FOUR HOMERS New York, June 4 (U.R) —"What n man” Gehrig has gone wild with his bat, thereby helping the NewYork Yankees to shake down some brand new hitting records, including his of four home rums in consecutive times at bat In one game. In yesterday s amazing game at Philadelphia, wherein the Yanks defeated the Athletics, 20 U> 13. slugging Lou In du Iged In an orgy of heavy hitting und two modern records were chalked up. two alltime records were equalled and one I American league record was brokI I n. Gehr!g> four home runs equalled the all-time record and set a : new modern record. The Yankees . hit seven home tuns, equalling the .all-time mark of aggregate homers for one team in one game. Thd 5 anks, witli their 23 hits, also set' 'u new modern record for total ] I bases with 50, which eclipsed the | previous modern mark of 46 for club batting in one game. Both club's total of 77 liases also i set an American league mark. In addition Babe Ruth hit his I fifteenth home run of the season; Jimmy Foxx his nineteenth, and Gehrig's string was run to 11. Gehrig b asted out his homers in the first, fourth, fifth and seventh inbings. thereby beating the modern record for consecutive home runs in one game, held by such modern hitting stars as Babe Ruth. Carl Reynolds, Goose Gosjin. Mel jOtt and Earl Averill. He equalled the all time record for consecutive' homers seti by Robert Lowe of I Boston in 1894. before the major I leagues were formed. Babe Ruth got his four-bagger in 'the fifth, and Earl Combs did likewise in the same frame. Tony Lazzeri drove out a homer in the ninth. Foxx made his circuit drive ia the ninth inning for Philadelphia and his teammate Mickey Cochrane garnered one in the first.

The Yanks topped off the slugg ing bee with a six-run rally in the ninth inning. A’.len, Rhodes, Brown and Gomez performed on the Yankee mound, while Earnshaw. Mahaffey, Walberg, Krause and Rommel pitched for the A's. Cleveland took both ends of a ioubleheader from the Detroit Tigers. 3 to 1. and 10 to 7. Wes Ferrell homered in the fifth inning of the opener with Montague on base. Bruce Campbell and Goodse Goslin drove out four-baggers in the first and tenth innings respectively as the St. Louis Browns nosed out the Chicago White Sox. 2 to 1. Washington at Boston was washed out. In the Nation >1 league, the Boston Braves nipped the Brooklyn Robins. 6 to 5. after Red Worthington doubled in the ninth to score Urbanski and break a 5-to-5 tie. Hack Wilson made his eighth home run in the third inning. Piet s home run in the eleventh, gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 6-to--5 victory over the Chicago Cubs Philadelphia’s doub'eheader with ihe Giants was washed out. as was Cincinnati's game at St. Louis. Yesterday's hero: laiu Gehrig who drove out four successive home tuns in one game. o THE BIG FIVE By U’nited Press. Babe Ruth drove out a home run and a doub’e. accounting for two runs in five times up. Gehrig made four homers, accounting for six runs, in six times at bat. Al Simmons scored twice on "passes in four trips to the plate. H ck Wilson made a home run and a single, accounting for two scores, in five times up. Bill Terry was idle. SIXTEEN GET DIPLOMAS AT COMMENCEMENT (CONTINUED FROM PAH"' <tNI

opening remarks said, "Let me say at the very outset that the thoughts I have to express are not new. neither do I indulge the hope of embellishing them with any novelty of interpretation. And so this evening let ns simply recall some of the old thoughts which seem to warrant repitition on this glorious occasion.” Speaking on parochial schools and Catholic education. Father Schmitt remarked. "To us education implies the harmonious development of all the faculties of mind, heart and body, with special emphasis upon man's two greatest faculties, namely his intellect and his will. The purely secular school must necessarily confine its activity to the development of the intellect. It cannot train the will of the child beca’use it dare not introduce the one thing required to train the will, which is religion. You cannot have a well trained will.' you can-|-o f have sound morality without the motive power of religion." "You graduates can never thank God sufficiently that you have been well grounded in these religious principles of which the Father of

our country and many of his illustrious successors in the White House, as well as distinguished men in ull walks of life, have spoken of so eloquently." ' "The great cry in the church today. Is for Catholic action, Catholic lay apostleship. Catholic lay leadership, if you sixteen young men and women were to become. - rial leaders in your community,' real apostles of the faith, real exponents of Catholic lay activity, leal living examples of Christian morality and Christian intellectuality. there is no telling how much good you would accomplish. It Is well always to remember that a good Catholc must be a good citizen and the more faithfully you practice your religion the more loyally will you serve your coun-i try,’ admonished the speaker. Father Schmitt concluded his; address with a word of praise for the parents for sacrifices made in making possible the education of i .heir children. The high school graduates are: Charles Omlor. Joseph Vogle- | wede, Robert Klelnhenz. James' I Fisher. Carl Lose, Mary Colchln, I I Thelma Cook. Naomi Faurote. Mary Wertxberger, Patricia Holthouse. Mary Miller, Salome. Schmitz, Geraldine Wait. Frances' Lengerich, Catherine Schumai-ker, Barbara Jane Keller. WOUNDS GIRL; ENDS OWN LIFE (CONTINUED FORM PAGE ONE.' blonde, told police. “He was just a friend—not a sweetheart. last night he came to me at the exhibit and asked me to go away with him. lln insisted I couldn't. As I started to walk away, lie fired." o MESSENGER BOY AIR PILOT NOW

London (U.R) — The World's first I messenger boy airman has qualified for his pilot’s "B" license. He is Robert MacCona d, 17, cm I ployed as a uniformed messenger* in the chief London office of AH'; America Cables, and was chosen as being the most likely airman ' from among 40 of his colleagues,) who formed their own aviation club. I Robert is tall and straight. During his three years service with the company he has distinguished himself in many ways and he has become a most familiar figure to those whose duties demand thefr. attendance at important internation ; al conferences and sports meets j where the cable company installs i telegraph lines. In between.' deliveries of mes-• sages. "Mac" goes down to the ' Croydon airdrome for instruction ■ in both ground work and actual ■ flying. Under these circumstances he is considered to have done remarkab y well to pass the tests and examinations in a compare- 1 tively short time. EX-SLAVE NEARS CENTURY MARK Mexico. Mo. (U.R) — Martha Gar- i rett, former slave, doesn't know how old she is, but she's an author- I ity on local history. Martha thinks she's". Most a hun- I died years old." She isn't sure, but I she does know she was grown when : a survey was made for the North ; Missouri Railroad, now the Wabash ; several years before the Civil War. It was a long time before that, i that Martha was sold at auction ’ here. With a group of slaves, she I accompanied her master here on I i an ox cart journey from Franklin County Kentucky. Then the mas-| ter died and his slaves were sold, when the estate was settled. One by one they were led out I to view on the court house square , But Martha cried so loudly and ; created so much disturbance that ' the auctioneers decided to sell her 1 with her mother. At her mother’s death she was i married to George Lewis, and the I couple bought a farm. George died ! a few years ago, but Martha lives ! on. happy and healthy, and a good Methodist. p Depression Aids Education Harrisbuigh, Pa., —(UP)— The J depression is a boom to higher education, according to the Pennsyl- ' vania Department of Public Instruction. State records show that industrial employment this year is taking less than half the number of pupils from their desk than was the case two years ago.

THE BIG GAME DECATUR SUN., June 5, 2 p.m. Snedeker’s DECATUR TEAM vs. SOUTH BEND with STANLEY COVALESKI Seats for 300 Adm: Ladies 10c, Gents 25c.

FRENCH WATCH HITLER'S MOVES OVER EUROPE • Loss of Prestige And Trade Agreements Feared By Samuel Hushiell ( United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS 'U.R) The phenomenal 1 ! rise of "Hitlerism and revenge', throughout central Europe has put', France on the alert; the present political forecast for Europe indlj cates a titanic battle between i French prestige and the culmin-j ating rush of the Nazis, whose cry; is. "Rid Europe of the French and the Jews." France has awakened to the fact that Hitler is organizing in Central Europe, and since the elections when Hitlerism swept] Prussia, tlie French Government has taken a noticeable turn away I from the bland pacifism of Briand L toward a watchful policy of polit-l ical and military preparedness. France's ten year conquest of Central Europe through governmental and private loans, culminating in many favorable trade' agreements, is threatened with collapse unless the power of French wealth and French military protection can be forced into]; ascendancy over Hitler. Following Br'.and's persistent i' attempts to organize a Pan-Euro-|' pean Union, in which France i would naturally have taken a ' leading position; and coming on the heels of Tardieu's less ambitious scheme of a Danube Federa- i tion, the Nazi onrush is regarded wl'h the utmost alarm in the Qua! d'Orsav. where every move of the Hitlerites is watched and recorded. i and frequently registers its nat-l ural reflection in the French < press. Ii

4 Aew Punch in Redland! - By HARDIN BURNLEY I chick HAFB4rC?X7 I’ THE 12 EC’S -^ E porSMEE / / z Z > 'tx \ t A BATMM G £ ST- LOUIS' / / / )\ \ P2JAJCH' SLUGGED / ] 1 HAS ADDED / ZW ~ UAIE-UP.’ I —- 1 ©RANTMAM and // I LOMBARDI, ACQUIRED IM TRADES, ARE TWO . ’ // 7 // BATTERS/ -SABE-$ W \ ■Herman- e -•EX-BROOKLYN BELTER, WHO AJOIaJ oaje of thh sig gliass of CINC/NAJATiS new MURDERERS SOW/ 1932. Kinu Features Syndicate, lnc M <»rrat Britain rights rcscr'etl. ‘ .l-,4 a

Cincinnati, a hotbed of base- j ball enthusiasm, finds itself all in a lather because the Reds seem headed for somewhere 'in that National League race. And this metamorphosis of a sixth place team into a potential winner came about through trades! First was that big deal with the Brooklyn Dodgers which brought the heavy-hitting Babe Herman, and Ernie Lombardi and Gilbert to Cincinnati. Another trade brought Gra vtham and then came the big break when Chick Hafey, batting ehampion of the league last year, , refused to agree on salary terms with the Cardinals. The Reds gladly handed over a few players and a bundle of cash for Hafey’s contract, thus rounding out a real “murderer’s row." Rignt soon base hits began rattling off the bats of the new Red sluggers and pretty soon the team moved up and up

Trio of Old Bells In University Tower St. Louis (U.R)—What are said to be the three oldest church bells west of the .Mississippi River are In the College Church of St. Louis University, where they have rung lor almost a century. The bells, believed more than 150 years old, were cast in Spain und originally were installed l in I Spanish churches. Named after saints, they are known as Jerome. I Augustine and 1-F‘iicis. The largest, Francis, was broken ' during the French bombardment of I Cadiz, in 1812, and later was recast. Later, when church property ' was being confiscated in Spain,' the bells were smuggled to Ger-; many. MONROE NEWS The Lidles Aid Sooiety of the chu: cliMonroe M. E. church met at the home of Mrs. Jvhn Floyd Thurs day afternoon. 'Mrs. M. F. Parrish and daughter Ma- y of Sturgis, Michigan visited Mrs. Ida Bollinger and friends tor a few days. Mrs. J. R. Haynes of Van Wert. ' Ohio is visiting her fiister Mrs. Jim A. Hendricks and family. Mr. ami Mrs. Enos Lehman and family f Fort Wayne visited Miami Mrs. J. F. Hocke. Sunday. INoah Hewit living near Plea- I sant Mills is spending tlie week ! with his daughter Mrs. T. J. Rayl | and family. Mrs. Martha Lai hot cf Hartford City visited La Wagoner and grand , daughter Lois Hoffman Friday. Mrs. Mina Albaugh of Dennison, ' Olli Is visiting her b. other Jim A. Hendricks and family. Mr. S. A. Lahr of Huntington is spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Rayl and friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Crist visited Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Crist and daughter at Winchester Satu- day. Miss Martha Hossman of Rente ci lied on friends in Monroe Friday afternoon.

until it was threatening the league leaders. And the strange part of it is that the tea,., is still up there and booming along like a potentional champion. For the first time in years the Reds are displaying one of the best hitting outfields in the league. In place of Roush, hitting .271 last year; Crabtree, batting .268 and Heathcote, a .257 hitter, the team boasts two of the heaviest hitters in the National. Smart trades certainly did bring a needed punch, and the once lowly Reds have suddenly become a power in the old , circuit. While Manager Dan Howly had to part with two splendid players in Joe Stripp and Cuccinello to get Herman from the Dodgers, he felt that, inasmuch as he was fairly well equipped with infield material, the sacrifice was worth while. With Grantham, Gilbert and Durocher holding down the infield berths in

WATER dispute NEARS ER Topeka. Kan. (up>_ A controversy between g? Colorado over the u.„ ' from the Arkansas R lVe .f ” ent y near a climax a ” Millen S. Supreme Court, has 1 W j™ an imping .2 ’stS. r,>PreWMl '* ‘he! .States Supreme Court and dta |sed without prejudice In ter the court had ruled S', | water of interstate stream, ' ,be apportioned among ,t at '2 ugh which the J*" Later suits were begun by a gallon companies | n Kan.,.’ gainst similar companies in ro ado. In the current case, (dolias asked that Kansas be restr ed from starting litigation7" | Colorado concerns Kansas ati neys have answered the suit . I also filed a counter claim i now asks that the court adh I cate the water properly uslb £ both states under terms of the 1' i ruling. j Rice Growers War on Mud Hens from WILLOWS, cal. <u.PJ - | i growers of this district hare b i forced to adopt modern meth | of warfare in their battle sga the increasing invasions ot i hens. An airplane carrying a i skilled In the use of a shotgun been employed and the plan so lias been a huge success. Some such method was ae sary. as the mud hens were stroying many of the rice crop Glenn and Colusa counties. * Dance. Tonight, Sunset,

great style things have worked out Cincinnati fans are still to get their breath since thf change, and they seem to further surprises. 1 nere now of trades winch w much-needed pitching ‘ g un der the team. Negotiation.» way, report has it, . Reds will get the CubJ pitcher from the Chi cag Redexchange for an outfielder the land fans are wondering an j outfielder might be M f al Herman, of course, ar bpre as a trade is concerned but are a few other worthy Roettger and Crabtree figure in the deal. v aI)( j With the added new P hing the possibility of new y strength the other Nat on»l U g teams may growing cry— 41a », <*