Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1933 — Page 6

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CLUBS BATTLE FOR 18 INNINGS Yankees And White Sox Play IN Innings To 3-3 Tie Score New York. Aug. 22— (U.R) —The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox today held the distinction of having equalled the American league’s longest tie game. IS innings, in addition to having play ed one of baseball's most peculiar contests. After they battled for four hours and 11 minutes at Chicago yester day. Vmpire Harry Helsel called the game because of darkness The score was 3 to 3. They play the game over in September in New York. This contest equalled the alltime American league record for tie games held Jointly by the Chicago and New York clubs of 1903 and Detroit and Waslhngton of 1909. It equalled also the season record of IS Innings set by the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals on July 2. The elapsed playing time was eight minutes longer than that of the Giants anti Cards. Both clubs played errorless baseball. but neither was able to obtain an extra base hit. The totals tor each club were the same, three runs. 11 hits and no errors. Both were held scoreless for eight innings; then each tallied in the ninth and each made two runs in the 11th. Each club used two pitchers. Charley Devens, the Harvard product. was replaced on the Yankee mound in the ninth after he allowed a run. and his successor, the veteran Herb Pennock, went 10 innings. Milt Gaston started for Chicago and was taken out for a pinch hitter in the 11th and replaced in the 12th by 45-year-old Urban Faber, who allowed only two hits in seven innings. Because of a bad ankle Babe Ruth was not in the Yankee lineup. Since the game was tied, the Y'anks remained eight and a half games behind the leading Washington Senators who were idle. Third-place Cleveland gained on the Yanks when Monte Pearson, rookie right hander, pitched his sixth victory since joining Hie Indians six weeks ago, as Walter Johnson's outfit crushed the Boston Red Sox 10 to 1. for a sweep of the five-game series and its seventh straight victory. The Indians combined seven hits, two walks and an error for eight runs in the eighth. They collected a total of 11 hits off Bob Weiland while the Red Sox made nine off Pearson. Bill Cissell made a Cleveland homer in the first. Boston contributed four errors. Philadelphia snapped out of a six-game losing streak by beating I -troit. 12 to 7. after collecting 17 hits off Anker, Frasier and Hogsett, while Barrett and Coombs allowed the Tigers 11, in-c’n-ling Hank Greenberg's homer in the sixth witli a mate aboard. Cramer and Higgins led the A's attack with three hits each. They were the only American league games scheduled, and rain washed out all National circuit contests. o HOME RUNS Foxx. Athletics . 36 Ruth. Yankees 28 Klein. Phillies ... .. 28 Gehrig, Yankees 22, Bet ger, Braves 21 >

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YESTERDAY'S HEROES Urban Faber and Herb Pennock, their tight relief pitching Jor White Sox and Yankees, respectively re I suited in is-inntng tie Evar Swanson. White Sox, tied score in 11th with single when bases were loaded, driving in two runs. Monte Pearson. Indians, held Red | Sox to one run. distributing his ' nine lilts effectively. Rog Cramer and Frank Higgins, i Athletics, led attack on Tigers with three hits each. STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Washington 77 38 .670 i New York 68 46 .596 I Cleveland 62 59 .512 1 Detroit 59 60 .496 Philadelphia 56 59 .487 Chieag > 52 63 .452 Boston 49 66 .426 St. Louis 44 76 .367 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 68 43 .6121 Pittsburgh 62 52 .544 I Boston 63 53 .543 St. Louis 64 54 .542 ‘ Chicago 62 53 .539 ■ Philadelphia 48 64 .4291 Brooklyn 46 65 409 I Cincinnati 44 72 .379 f AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Columbus 85 44 .659 Minnesota 75 60 .556 St. Paul 69 66 .511 : Indianapolis 65 64 .504 Toledo 63 69 .477 ■ Louisville 62 68 .477 Milwaukee 58 75 .435 Kansas City 51 82 .481 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League Philadelphia, 12: Detroit, 7. Cleveland. 10; Boston. 1. New York, 3; Chicago. 3 (tie, ; called end eighteenth inning, dark- I ness). I Washington at St. Louis (played | as part of double-header Sunday). I National League Cincinnati at Philadelphia, rain. Chicago at New York, rain. Only games scheduled. American Association Minneapolis. 5; Toledo. 4. Louisville. 9; Milwaukee, 1. Columbus at St. Paul. rain. LEADING BATTERS Player Cut G AB R H Pct. Klein. Phillies 112 450 75 168 .373 i Foxx Athletics 113 438 97 158.3611 Simmons, W.Sox 116 492 75 171.348. Davis. Phillies 104 370 36 127.343Terry, Giants 85 327 51 112 .343 — —o Tennis Tourneys Reach Semi-Finals Play in the men’s city singles ■ and doubles tennis tourney lias pro-1 grossed to the semi final round. ' with the exception of one quarter- | final singles match. In matches | p'ayed Monday. Reynolds defeated Dailey. 6-2. 6-1; and Ed and James t Engeler defeated Holthouse and , Townsend. 6-1. 10-8. In the singles, Engeler and Reynolds will meet in one semi-final. | witli Ho thouse meeting the winner , | of tlie Parrish-Worthington match i iin the other semi-final. Doubles | semi-finals will pit Parrish and j Reynolds against Laurent and j ' Strickler, and the Engeler father i and son combination against Hoffman and Prugh.

BAPTISTSAND ! LUTHERANS WIN Defeat Methodist And Union Chapel Softball Teams Monday Tlie Lutheran and Baptist teams i improved their standings in the Decatur Sunday School softball league Monday evening by defeat-- : Ing the Methodist and Union Chap , iel teams, respectively. Both games i | were decided by 8-6 scores. Tlie laitherans scored in every I inning but the third to down the, Methodists, obtaining eight hits, ■ while tlie losers committed five err-1 ors. The Methodists collected seven hits. Score by innings: Methodist 002 022 —6 7 5 Lutheran 230 21X 8 8 3i Smith and Fenimore; Zwlck and; Conrad. Tlie Baptists scored six runs in the first two innings and added two more in the fourth frame to down : Union Chapel. Each team gather!od seven safeties. Union Chapel ■ scored four runs in the fourth inning. Score by innings: l'..<pi.>i 330 2m> 8 7 2 Union Chapel . 010 410—6 7 9 Strickler and Baughn; Fleming and Brown. The Evangelical and Lutheran teams will meet at 5 o’clock this | evening, with the United Brethren and Baptist teams meeting in the nightcap. The league will lie brought .to a I close Thursday evening, when the I Baptist and Lutheran teams will : play at 5:30 o’clock. o Postpone Hearing For Polo Player Chicago Aug. 22 —(UP) —Hearing of attack charges filed against Cecil i Smith. Texas captain of the western ’ 1 all-star polo team, may not be held : until late in tlie week, it appeared j ' today. Miss Eugenia Rose. 23-year old : Evanston nurse who said Smith at-1 tempted to attack her last Friday I night failed to confer with assistant i state's attorney Eugene Wachowski - on the cas-. Wachowski said several attempts to reach Miss Rose had ' failed. Although the hearing was , I scheduled for today. Wiacliowski ' said it may not be lield until Friday when the $5,006 bond Smith posted i is returnable. o— . - - -— Briefly Told A man sooner finds out tds own I foibles In a stranger than any oth 1 er foible — ' (

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TROPICAL GALE IS THREATENED Storm Warning Issued on East Coast; 70-Mile Gale Forecast New York, Aug. 22 (U.R) Coast guard stations along the I Atlantic seaboard massed all i available craft today to save lives ; , and shipping endangered by a i tropical gale sweeping up from I Bermuda. 1 Storm warnings were up from , I Cape Hatters to Boston. A 70-1 mile gale was forecast. Rain, low : visibility and moderate seas men-j aced smaller boats. Atlantic City. N. J . felt the early strength of the storm, with a 40-miie wind lashing the coast | I in that vicinity. Rainfall reached 2.7 indies for the 24 hour period. I Samuel Dietch. U. S. meterologist there, warned that the wind would increase this morning. An off-shore wind was reported i at Rockaway Point, N. Y’..

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dawn, with heavy rain The coast guard station there doubted if tinfull fury of the storm would reach so far north. Word from other I stations along the Jersey coast indicated the storm was abating,: "or Its course was changed snore: to seaward. • The destroyer Hunt headed the coast guard patrol off tlie Jersey coast. Other craft remained clos!er in-shore as they patrolled a wide area sailed by small fishing , ' lioats and cabin cruisers. Giant combers hammered the ' shore throughout the night. At i South Beach, N. J . several houses were undermined and were in danger of toppling into the ocean. I [ A new moon tide sent rollers over ; many beaches, damaging bulk heads. Seamen called it the heav-1 ' lest storm tide on the Jersey I coast in years. Tlie gale sweeping in from Bermuda today came on the heels of j a dry northeaster which took toil of at least eight lives, wrecked scores of small boats and periled ! hundreds of others. More than 200 persons had been rescued by Hie coast guard in the last 48 hours. The tropical disturbance with its accompanying gales, centered'

I about 220 miles southwest ot ' Bermuda, ths weather bureau said. ; It began moving northwestward I yesterday afternoon. It was lie- ; j ileved Hie center of the disturb-1 ance would pass north ot New j; York City and thut it would eX- ; 1 pend much ot its force before it : ; I struck the eastern seaboard. 11 — o — Continue Hearing r ] To September < Chicago, Aug. 22 -IUD-Hear- , 1 ing on the removal warrant of - Lois (Doc") Staccl, wnntisl in Kansas City as a suspect in tlie , I Union Station massacre in which ( i five portions were killed, was con- ' tinued today to Sept. 7. The contin- j, ■ uance was granted on the request 'of the government for additional i time to prepare its evidence. —o — Lindbergh Begins Another Flight Reykjavik. Iceland. Aug. 22 —(UP) ; —Col. Charles IA. Lindbergh, mapp-. ■ ing the airways of prospective i northern Atlantic routes, left Reykjavik at 1:20 A. M. SCT today, for [ an unannouiM-ed destination.

MONROE NEWS Mi and Mrs. John Floyd. Mr. and Mrs. John Crist and Mr. and Mrs. Ktivmond Crist and sons Quentin and K "»» utt' ixied the Crist .reunion at Wabash. Ind.. Sunday. Mrs. Viola Longai re of Cleveland. Ohio, and Mrs. Ella Hocker of: Berne visited relatives and friends , in Monroe Thursday. Elmo Stucky of F’ort Wayne! spent the w.-ek with his parents Mr. and Mrs. William Stucky. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hendricks of; Jackson. Michigan spent Hie week-' end with Mrs Hendricks' parents. I Mr. and Mrs. J N. Bulkhead and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. E Bahner and daughter Ruth. Mr. and Mis. Jacob S. herer and Mr. and Mrs. herd! Smith of Auburn spent Sunday in | Fort Wayne, the guests ot Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Scherer and family. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stucky are spending the we k at Lake Wawaseo. William Pittingerof Bowerstown, Ohio, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jim A. Hendricks. Mr. and Mrs. R. J Meers spent —— —— “■■■“ ■ ■ “

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