Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1934 — Page 6

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GREAT RACE IN JUNIOR LEAGUE Detroit And New York Staging Great Two-Team Duel For Honors N’uw York, Aug. 6 (IT! 1 )- Detroit's Tigers uid Now York's Yankees ar staging the greatest twoteam duels in ru ent years. They race stride for stride toward the 1 finish of the Anierl an L ague flag Chase. Since the MJ'dle of July when the Yankee; began their spurt.to! catch the Tigers. Col. .Ink Ruppert’.s riflemen have played .722 ball, winning tit games and losing j five, while the Tiger* have scored 1 11 and six at a .647 clip. il-ast w ek the two swung into the hnckstouh in a headlong burst of speed that distanced their nearest rivals, neither giving an. inch in pace. Detroit kept the lead by a I single game, winning five and Irop-j ping one, while the Yanks, a stride behind, held the same pace. While the pack, remains clustered in the rear, expecting one of the other to era? k, the two leaders up ! pear to be getting stronger. Yester- i day Tommy Bridges, for the Tigers j and lefty gometz for the Yanks,. turned in two superlative pitching i p- nformam es, the port-side fireball j ace of the Yanks clanking the Ath- 1 ietes with a one-hit game that I missi'l being perfect by a single | swing of Jimmy Foxx’* heavy war- j club —a double in the third. I,ou Oehrig's power-house bat , led the attack with four lilts, includ-1 ing his 36: h homer, pitting him, two ahead of Foxx, as New Y’ork

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won. 3-1. . tDetruit won b hind BrU.lges, who smtt out the Chicago Whit Sox, 7 0. i II ink Behringer's homer spearheaded the T!ger attack, i I 'leveiand stayed four games behind the lealler, beating the St. I.nui Browns, 5-4. Hal TroskyV ; lu.mcr won the game In the fourth. B .sion -split with Wa iliiugton, Kd Link -beating Fred Ostermueiler In a pitching duel aa the Senators took tile opener, 2-1, While BUI Weber's tiwo doutvlea put the Bed Sox over in the nightcap, 7-3. I The New Y'opk 01 ante a Jded a half game to their lead, making it three games over the Cull's. They It it ttie Chillies, 74. while Chicago | . dit. Bill Terry got four hits, taking Hie National League butting lend away fn.in l’tul Waiter of the Ciratie .by one l point. Mel Ott hit , his 29th home run. , il’anl Deerlnger shut out the Cubs 1 in the first game, 4-0, only nine Chicagoano getting on Ixise. Clnoinn iti lost the nightcap at Lon t Warueke won hie 16th game for 1 the Cutixs, 41. iPittif mrgh whipped I S4- Louis, ! twice, sla nun lug Into Paul Dean, at e righthander of the Cards, for the first. 6 4. Waite Hoyt won the nightcap, 7-2. Brooklyn and Boston split, the Braveu winning the first in the 1 ninth inning with a three-run spree | 74. Uite rallies gave the Dodgers : ihe second game, Ray Benge chalking up his C nth victory 5-3. STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Detroit 65 37 .637 i New Y’ork 63 37 .630 j Cleveland 56 45 .555 i Boston 54 50 .519 Washington ... 47 54 .465 St. j Philadelphia 38 59 .392 | Chicago 36 68 .346 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. ! New York 66 38 .635 I Chicago 62 40 .608 St. Louis 58 43 .574 Boston 52 52 .500 Pittsburgh 48 51 .485 j Brooklyn 43 57 .430 Philadelphia 43 60 .418 Cincinnati 35 66 .347 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pet. Minneapolis 59 48 .552 I Indianapolis 59 49 .546 Columbus 58 51 .532 Milwaukee 57 53 .518 Louisville 54 54 .500 Toledo 53 58 .447 j Kansas City 49 60 .450 j I St. Paul 46 62 .426 i YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League New Y’ork. 3; Philadelphia. 1. Detroit. 7; Chicago, 0. Washington, 2-3; Boston. 1-7. Cleveland, 5; St. Louis, 2. National League New Y’ork. 7; Philadelphia, 4. I Boston, 7-3; Brooklyn, 4-5. Cincinnati. 4-1; Chicago, 0-4. Pittsburgh, 6-7; St. Louis, 4-2. American Association Indianapolis, 13-5; Kansas City, 3-3. Columbus, 7-4; Minneapolis, 6-8. Louisville, 4-4; Milwaukee, 3-2. Toledo. 6-8; St. Paul, 2-5. . o YESTERDAY'S HEROES Lou Gehrig, Yankees: Hit four hits in four tries, including 36th i home run. Bill Terry, Giants: Had perfect day, four singles in four trips. Bill Werber, Red Sox: Stole j three bases and hit three doubles j in two games. Lefty Gomez, Y’ankees: Pitched one-hit game. LEADING BATTERS I Player Club <1 AB R H Pet. j Manush, Senator 96 393 73 153 .389 j Gehrig, Yanks 100 384 92 146.380 Terry, Giants. 104 403 87 148.367, Behringer, Tig. 102 393 101 144 .367 P.Waner, Pirate 97 402 75 147.356 o HOME RUNS Gehrig. Yankees 36 Foxx. Athletics 34 Ott, Giants 29 Johnson, Athletics 28 Berger. Braves 25 i o i Get the Habit — Trade at Homt

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GIVE PLANS FOR STATE TOURNEY Eight Districts Listed For State Softball Tournament Shelbyvllle, Ind., Aug. G--(U.R)-Sites fur etght district tournaments which will determine entrants ill the state softkull meet were announced today by officers of the Indiana Recreation Association. Managers of the tourneys and counties allotted to each center also were announced. The district tourneys will be held Ai g. 24-25 and the finals will the conducted here Aug. 31, Sept. 1-2. Doth the finalists in the district I tourneys will be eligible to compete in the state tnept. District 4 -At Huntington; \\. G. Miller, manager. Counties: Wells, Whitley. Allen. Miami, Wabash. Huntington, Ada ms , Grant. Blackford, Jay, Delnwai* and Randolph. o Decatur Cardinals Heat Convoy Sunday The Deatur Cardinals defeated Convoy. Ohio, Sunday on the local j diamond. 9 to 6. Decatur made 11 hits and committed four errors, while Convoy hit safely five times and made six error*. Paul Conrad, hurling for Decatur, fanned >2 men | and Btzler struck out four. Decatur is now leading the Luth- 1 eran le igue for the second half. Convoy won the first half. The Cardinals will play at Hoagland next j Sunday, August 12. Portland Golf Team Is Winner The D Deatur golf team was defeated by the Portland team in an j inter-city game at Portland Sunday, j 23-20. David Bauman of Decatur shot the low score oif the day, a 78. Bill Monks of Portland was low for the Portland team with an 80. o Tocsin Wins The Tocsin Merchants defeated 1 Petroleum Sunday, 5 to 4. in 10 | innings. With the bases lull and one out, IMc.lntieh's third hit of tin* game drove in the winning run. The I’nion Ales play at Totem next i Sunday. Petroleum . 001 901 200 C —4 7.7 Tocsin . 200 01X2 900 1-5 13 2 : Bierie and Bediwell; C. Myers. R. j Myers an 1 Murray, M. Ladd. INDIANAPOLIS MAN SELECTED i CONTINUED FROM PAOR ONEI • •••••»»»»»*»*• ed. Fox said. The date and meeting place of the winter meeting will be selected at a meeting of the board of directors at Bloomington. o Split Two Games The Phi Dells split a double header soft ball game Sunday as-! ternoon. with the Decatur Floral team. The game was played on the West End diamond. The Phi Delts won the first game 4-1. The batteries were: I Phi Dolts. E. Merlca and G. Meri- j ca; Decatur Flora!, Brokaw and Eady. The Decatur Floral team won the second game 3-2. The j batteries were: Phi Delts, Wynn ; and G. Merlca; Decatur Flora!, | Brokaw and Eady. Wednesday evening the Phi Delts will play the City Confee- 1 tionerv at the West End diamond j at 6 o'clock.

Net Star Poses With Fiancee Fred Perry , British tennis star who made a grand slam in net titles during the current season, is pictured in London with his fiancee. Miss Mary Lawson, British actress. The marriage is scheduled to take place after Perry’s forthcoming barnstorming tour of the United State* and Australia.

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INDIAN BRAVES TO WASHINGTON Niagara Falls, N. Y\ (U.R) — ! A band of 12 Tusearora Indians | soon will start on a non-stop reI lay race across three states to dei liver to President Roosevelt by ! courier an invitation to attend the | Four-Nation Celebration at Old | Fort Niagara, Sept. 3 to 6.. The 12 braves were chosen as 'the best runners from 40 volun- ! leers to the posts. They will pariticipate in one of the longest over- ' land courier relays on record, i Tlie Indians will invite the President to witness the dedication of the rebuilt fort, returned to its 'l7th Century picturesqueness as- ! ter seven years of construction j work ami ceremonies commemol rating the century of peace between Canada and the United States. The braves will run continuously in one hour relays until their 1 destination is reached. While one Indian is carrying the message hy foot, the others will he transported lin a bus to relieve him at the j end of the hour. They expect to ' make an average of seven miles an hour on the run. Friendly coinpej tion among the Indians has led to I several wagers as to which will | cover the most distance. A tentative route will take the ! runners from Old Fort Niagara, through Niagara Falls, Ruffalo. East Aurora, Leicester, Waylond. I Bath and Painted Post, N. Y’.; | Mansfield. Williamsport, Northumberland. Clarks Ferry, Harrisburg and Y’ork Pa.; and Towson, Baltimore and I-aurel, Md., to , Washington. Two Wounded In Kentucky Election Frankfort. Ivy., Aug. 6 — <U.R) — Kentucky began today tabulation ; of its primary vote after balloting : Saturday in which two men were wi unded in a dispute m I’ike I county. Guns were brought into a dispute in Paw Paw precinct, Pike ; county. Isaiah Wolford. 24 and ! his brother, Wayne, 21. suffered I flesh wounds in a quarrel which j became general and led to the | firing of approximately 190 shots, 1 according to officers. Several I arrests were made, j Bal’ots were cast in the state's I nine congres lional districts, with

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