Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1936 — Page 6

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Mutschlers Score Shutout Victory Sundlai

HUNTINGTON IS DEFEATED HERE SUNDAY, 7 TOO Effective Hurling, Perfect Support Earns Shutout Victory With Earl Hannon and Molly Mies pitching airtight ball In the pinches, and backed by errorless Eupport. the Decatur Mutscbiers scored a sparkling 7-0 victory over the Huntington Schacht Rubber company team Sunday afternoon at Warthman Field. Harmon allowed only four hits in the first six innings and Mies ajlowed three in the three innings he hurled. Riven perfect support by their mates, the local twirlers were not seriously threatened at any time. Meanwhile, the locals bunched eight of thalr 10 hits in two innings to make telling advantage of their safeties. The most damaging blow was In the eighth frame, when Al Schneider tripled U> the tight field corner with the bases loaded to drive in three runs and put the game on ice. Decatur tallied twice in the fourth frame. Englehart. new first sacker, singlet! to right center as the lead-off man. After Rollie Ladd filed to center, Schneider singled, advancing Englehart to ithird. Schneider taking second on . the throw-in. Both men scored when Chandler also singled. Hai >

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mon gronded to the first baseman for the final out. As the first hitter in the eighth, Mot Ladd was given a life when Pilfer dropped has easy pop fly. Klein and Mihalic singles!, lauding the sacks. Englehart popped foul to N. Skyo*k but R. Ladd singled, scoring his brother and leaving the b.see full. Schneider then drove a low liner down the right field line, scoring Klein, Mihalic and R. Ladd. After Chandler fanned, Schneider tallied on Mies' line single to left. G. Skyock and N. Skyock were the only Huntington batters able to solve the Decatur hurlors tu any degree, each delivering a single and double. The Huntington safeties were kept well scattered. R. Ladd and Schneider each drove out two safeties for Decatur. Box score and summary: AB R H PO A E Bell, 3h 6 0 1 2 2 0 M. Ijdd. 2h 3 10 10 0 Klein, cf 4 110 0 0 Mihalic. If 4 11 4 0 01 Englehart. lb 4 11 11 0 01 R. Ladd, ss 4 1 2 0 4 0 Schneider, rs 4 2 2 2 0 0 Chandler, c 4 0 17 10 Harmon, p 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 Mies, p 2 0 1 0 0 0 Totals 30 7 10 27 10 0 Huntington Hoover, p 3 0 0 1 0 o! Pisser, 3b 3 0 0 11 1; M. Skyock, cf 4 0 17 0 0 1 G. Skyock. ss 4 0 2 0 1 0 Hummer, rs 4 0 110 0 Kramer, c 4 0 0 7 2 o Casper, If 400001' N. Skyock. lb 4 0 2 7 0 1 Rudig. p 3 0 1 0 2 0, Totals 33 0 7 24 6 3 ; Huntington 000 000 000--0 : Decatur 000 200 05x —7 Two-base hits — Englehart, G. I j Skyock. N. Skyock. Three-hase hit—Schneider. Left on liases— Decatur 6, Huntington 8. Bases lon balls—Off Harmon 1. Strikeouts —By Harmon 4. by Mies 3, by Rudig 6. Hita —Off Harmon 4 in 6 innings. Umpire—Blackburn. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct.' St. Louis 21 11 .656 I New York 21 12 .636 I Chicago 16 16 .500 Pittsburgh .... 16 16 .500 | Cincinnati 17 17 .500 i Boston 16 18 .471 : Brooklyn 14 21 JOO ■ Philadelphia 13 23 .361 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. I New York ... 25 11 .694 Boston 23 14 .622 Detroit 20 16 .556 : Cleveland 19 16 .543 Chicago .... 17 15 .531 Washington 19 18 .514 Philadelphia 19 23 .303 St. Louis 8 28 ,222 I AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Kansas City ... 23 11 .676 Milwaukee 22 13 .629 St. Paul 23 15 .605 Minneapolis 21 14 .600 I Louisville 15 22 .405 Indianapolis 12 18 .400 Columbus — 15 23 .395 | Toledo io 25 .286 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League New York, 13; Philadelphia. 5. Brooklyn. 11; Boston. 2.. Cincinnati. 12; Pittsurgh. 1. St. Louis. 7; Chicago. 1. American League Chicago, 7; St. Louis. 5. New York, 25; Philadelphia, 2. Cleveland, 7; Detroit, v. Washington, 12; Boston, 4. American Association Minneapolis, 18-5: Milwaukee, 7-3 Kansas City, 3-9; St. Paul, 14. Columbus, 8-1; Toledo, 6-6. Louisville, 7; Indianapolis, 3. o LEADING BATTERS Player, Club GAB R H Pct. Terry, Giants 20 55 10 25 .455 Sullivan, Indians . 23 73 9 30 .411 Medwick, Cards.... 32 136 21 54 .397 Di Maggio, Yanks 19 91 22 36 .396 Lewis, Senators .... 32 143 21 55 .385 o HOME RUNS Foxx, Red Sox 11 Trosky, Indians 9 Dickey, Yankees 9 Lazzeri, Yankees 8 Ott, Giants 7 J.. Moore, Phillies 7 — o Donkey Baseball At Hoagland Friday Donkey baseball will be played at Hoagland Friday night at 8 o’clock, CST. The Hoagland team will play St. John’s Admission prices will be 25 cents for adulte and 15 cents for children. o— I Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

KENDALLVILLE WINS N.E.I.C. BASEBALL TITLE Comets Defeat Decatur And Hartford City For Championship The Kendallville Comets won the annual northeastern Indiana conference baseball championship, defeating Hartford City in the final game Saturday afternoon at Bluffton. 7 to 3. Kendallville advanced to the , finals by nosing out the Decatur Yellow Jackets, 9 to 8, in 10 innings in the morning contest. Hartford City defeated Bluffton. 5 to 11. holding the Tigers to only one hit. The score reported tb the Democrat Saturday morning by telephone' j from Bluffton, was erroneous, stat- ' Ing that Decatuf had defeated Kendallville, 8 to 4. Hartford Chy got away to an early start against Kendallville, scoring three runs in the first three, innings. The Comets rallied, how lever, to tally six times in the fifth * land sixth innings to win. 7 to 3. Walks, coupled with extra base, hits, were the downfall of the Yel-. low Jackets in the morning en-| counter. Decatur held an 8 to 3 lead go- j ing into the last half of the sixth* I inning. Curie opened with a single.' After one man had been retired. Davey walked. McMarrel fouled | to the catcher but Eickelbaugh I also walked. Rupp then connected' ■ solidly for a long home run, cleani ing the bases. In the seventh frame, Herendeen walked and stole second and third while the next two hatters were being retired. With two strikes on Misselhorn. Herendeen attempted to stel home and scored when Hitchcock dropped the hall. In the 10th inning, the first two Comets were retired. Eickelbaugh then walked and scored the win- | ning run when Rupp tripled. Decatur outhit Kendallville. 13 'to 6, but committed six errors to Kendallville's three. Decatur box score: Decatur AB R H PO A E , Macklin. 2b 6 0 0 4 2 1 , Hitchcock, c 6 2 3 71 01 Reynolds, ss, 3b 5 0 1 2 2 41 Ritter, 3b, ss 5 1113 0; Highland, rs 5 0 2 0 0 0 I Worthman. lb 4 2 2 10 0 0 [Zimmerman, If . 3 2 1 2 0 0 ; Bleeke, If 10 0 10 0 L. Huffman, cf 4 0 1 2 0 0 G. Huffman, p 3 12 0 11 Totals 42 8 13 29 9 6 Kendallville AB R II PO A E Davey, 2b .. 5 11 5 0 0; McMarrel, c 4 1 0 17 1 0 j j Eickebaugh. rs 2 3 0 0 0 0

Ivill Their Records Become Ancient History? ?V ■ T **' ‘ fit 1 Jr • 4 f A lima MMw// J/ . \.*2L. / \ I* ' \ / W- \ I ' \ Year Driver Timo Average Speed 1931 Louis Schneider 5:10:28 96.629 m.p.h. 1932 Fred Frame 4:48:03.79 104.144 m.p.h. 1933 Louis Meyer 4:48:12.75 104.089 m.p.h. 1934 Bill Cummings 4:46:05.20 104.863 m.p.h. 1935 Kelly Petillo 4,42:22.71 106.240 m.p.h. Above are the winners of the last five Memorial Day Races at Indianapolis. Lon Meyer, who won the race in 1923, is the only driver to score twice. From the left, they are: Louis Schneider (1931), Fred Frame (1932), Lou Meyer (1933), Wild Bill Cummings (1934) and Kelly Petillo (1935). Below is a chart of the last five races, with the time for the 500 miles and the average speed.

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i plosion and fire at the new Ori pheum theater. i Approximately 150 patrons in the I theater escaped without Injury. 11 Seven automobiles were destroytied and another was damaged bad- | ly when the tire spread to an ad--11 joining cement City Motor com- ; ‘ pany building. ; The tire was started when a film I caught fire while being run through the projector. Clyde Tidd, the operator, was burned in attempting to extinguish the blaze and HowI ard Saunders. 14. who was in the projection booth, suffered a lacerated arm when he broke a window . in the excitement. o Present Athletic Awards Tuesday Athletic awards will be preaent- ' ed to the lettermen of the Decatur ; public high school Tuesday evening. The meeting will be held in i the school auditorium at 7:30 p.m. letters will be awarded for aH sports and trophies will be presented to the outstanding athlete in each sport. All lettermen, ex1 lettermen and others interested are invited to attend the meeting. I o Canada Has Fewer Ships Ottawa. Ont. — (U.R) —Canada's ‘ ocean-going ship tonnage has dropped by one-half in the past 50 years. Fred Bridges. Sorel, Que., • port warden, told the Engineering i Institute of Canada at a meeting ■ here.

TONY LAZZERI HITS 3 HOMERS Yanks Second Baseman Sets Two New Slugging Records TONY LAZZERI New York, May 25.— lU.R) Two new records were written into Am erican league books today and beside each entry stood the name of Tony lAtzzeri, New York Yankee secund baseman. who was tagged •'washed up" by the baseball scribes when the 1936 season start ed. The 32 year old Italian whom the Yankees bought from the San Fran cisco Seals in 1925 for 5,000, lianged out three home runs and a triple, driving in 11 runs, to break the record of nine for the junior circuit, established by Jimmy Foxx in 1929. “Sunny" Jim Bottomley set the world record of 12 runs in the seasou of 1924. Lazzeri also hit three circuit blows and a double-header Saturday, bringing his total to six for three games and breaking the major league record of five held jointly by Babe Ruth, Chick Klein. Jimmy Foxx and a half dozen others. The other two members of the Italian trio that San Francisco has sent to the Yanks, also had a good hand in New York's 25 to 2 massacre of Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. Joe Crosetti slammed two home runs, and Joe Di Maggio, playing his first season in a Yankee uniform, hit one in addition to a double and a single. Including I,azzeri's 11 the trio batted in 17 runs Monte Pearson, who held the A's to seven hits, drove in two of the Yank scores with three singles. New York added 19 hits to 16 bases on balls in amassing their huge total. It was a day of huge scoring in both Teagues, however, with the majority of victories being decided ; by seven and eight run margins. The second place Boston Red i Sox were swamped. 12 to 4. under I a barrage of 16 base hits by the ! Washington Senators. A two hit masterpiece hurled by Lloyd Brown enabled the Cleveland Indians to shut out the Detroit Tig- ; ers, 7 to 0. Trosky's homer was one of the Indians' dozen safeties that sent Schoolboy Rowe to the showers. Chicago's White Sox won from ' the St. Louis Browns, 7 to 5, when | Luke Sewell hit a four-bagger in ; the ninth with a mate aboard to break a 5-5 deadlock. Leroy Parmelee came through

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I with a five hit performance us the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs, 7 to 1, to hold on to their first place position In the 1 1 National league. H The New York Giants buttered the Philadelphia Phillies, ringing up 21 hits to win, 13 to 5. Sam i i Leslie allowed the way with a homer, triple, double and two singles. A 12 to 1 decision over the Pitts burgh Pirates by the Cincinnati ( Reds pushed the Reds Into a three way tie (or third place with the jCubs and the Pirates, All have a .; percentage of .500. , Van .Mungo was in form, scatter . i ing seven hits to the Boston Bees Jas the Brooklyn Dodgers won, 11 to 2. Yesterday’s hero: Tony Lazzeri, of the New York Yankees, who knocked out his sixth homer in two days and drove in 11 runs as 1 the Yanks defeated the Athletics. ' 0 INFANT FOUND /CONTINVED FROM PAGE ONE) on. Newspapers in the bundle ! were dated April 26 and 29. ■ j The author-sculptor denied she was the mother of the child. ■ Sheriff Hilbert J. Wacknitz said •' the car had remained in the garage from Tuesday until Saturday ; when the body was found, and that 'the doors of the machine were locked. Coroner C. E Linton of Pulaski i county wHI conduct an inquest into 1 the death tomorrow. Mrs. Pen well is being held in Fulton county jail . at Rochester. The woman was taken to Indian--1 apolis late Saturday and submitted L to a lie detector test and a physical examination. Lieut. Don Hook--1 en ot state police said "she did not ' clear.” Mrs. Penwell is estranged from her husband who was believed liv- : ing either in Indianapolis or Logansport. They have a six-year-old child.. o Ralph Gates Plans To Force Early Action •; Indianapolis. May 25.—<U.R>— Suc- ; cessful in a fight for a second re1 organization meeting of the RepubI lican state committee, Ralph Gates, ■ Columbia City, fourth district chairi man, planned today to force imi mediate action on his demand. i Gates seeks to succeed Don Irwin, Frankfort, as state chairman. i ■ A petition for a new meeting ot i the state committee signed by 13 i county chairmen and vice chairi men, enough to overthrow the Irwin leadership, was presented to i J the state chairman Saturday and

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i Mars OulrliyiJ WORjJ r THAN WAR WARS J.Jo3 AUTOS mJ In many resigns tinjJ automobile accideiaiJ war. Uuring the htiliJ number of deaths Itmim accidents in this couc<M proximated 4WMBttM 15 years constitutiaittetM of time ot all the waisiM country as a nation im M gaged, the number HMM died of wounds reeeiniii has been less than total war dead isetntttM cent by the record otiM streets and hlghwaytinMl years. ] In the last 10 yeaatstl the Travelers InsunuM deaths from autoickiM increased from ll.illifl mere than 36.000 forWHJ 67 per cent Gur.ngtLitßM the number of 'irsotwl creased only 31 per mm population cf the coaiblM only 11 per ce.it, Da«j twice as much as In use and six times increase In p* pulatiw. ■