Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1937 — Page 6

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CARDINALS ARE FAVORITESIN SENIOR LEAGUE Giants, Cubs, Pirates And Reds Seen As Distinct Threat huj'tona Beach. Fla . Mar SI (U.F> -The National league's ratio this season is on a 5 to 3 basis that ia. five contenders and three clubs Jett over to battle for what's . left. The live lop teams are the Giants, Cubs, Cardinals, Pirates and Reds There's no standout among them. The Cardinals have • been made the favorites in the betting books, with the Cubs second choices, and the champion Giants third choices. Actually, the Cardinals are loaded with more problems than any one of the five contenders. They're strictly a gamble. Much depends on Paul Dean’s attempted comeback. He may be the key man in the National league race. The Cubs look life the "solid” team. They led the league last ; year in fielding, tied for the club batting title with Pittsburgh and were well-equipped with pitchers, i They foundered for lack of an ex- ’ tra base hitter who could drive in i runs. They have him now in Rip . Collins, obtained from the Cardinals. They gave up Lon Warneke, | a 16-game winner, hut got Roy Parmelee, an 11-game winner in the bargain The Giants have had to revise their championship team, and will start with new men at first and third and Hank Leiber In center instead of Jimmy Ripple, an important cog ir. last year's winner. Bill Terry says his present team is the best he's ever managed but a lot of people want to wait and see. Pittsburgh carries enough guns to win the title, but the Pirates seldom ever live up to their expectations. The club's main problem now is to get Paul Waner, National league batting champion and a stubborn holdout. In the fold. Without Paul the Pirates aren’t the same. Cincinnati has come on fast, probably showing more improvemen£Jjtan any club but the Reds may still lack the attack to blast their way to the pennant They seem certain, however, to hustle their way into the first division. Below these five, we have the Dodgers, Bees and Phillies ready to put on a triple-header scrap for sixth place or the cellar, as the case may be Sketches of the eight clubs follow; Giants—Will again rely on pitching and tight offense. Question whether McCarthy will fill first base job and Chiozza at third has to prove his fielding ability. Problematical whether benching of Ripple for Leiber will help. Still have Hubbell, and that means trouble for all. Cardinals — Gambling on Paul

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Dean's comeback, an Inexperienced ! infield and a kid catching staff. ! If all come through gashouse gang J will again be tough Warneke figures to help pitching stuff but has been slow rounding into form , Cubs League's beat Infield and * I strong pitching Outfield hinges ot: i | Galan's comeback and ability of I Rookie Joe Marty to make good | | Banking heavily on Collins giving : team needed extra baae punch. Pirates Potentially a champion. ; I Lefty Brandt promises to Improve pitching staff and Lee Handley may help at second Have league's J | best punch. If and when. P. Waner j ■ deserts holdouts May be Pirates' I year Reds--Improved enough to crash into first division if any of leaders 1 slip even slightly. Great young pitching staff Need one power , hitter. Team hustling like it's go- 1 Ing places. Bees Banking on a veteran : pitching staff. Weak on left side i infield, with weak-hitting shortstop and iVme Dimaggio, n rookie out ; fielder, at third. Trying hard hut I will have job Io hold sixth place. | Dodgers Daffy days are over, j Burleigh Grimes has instilled new spirit into team, but rebuilding hampered by lack of material. Catching weak defensively. aud outfield a problem, outfielders who can hit can't field and vice versa \ > Mungo's arm biggest asset. Phillies Not as bad as last i ' year, but no marked improvement i Three rookies iu regular lineup I Pitching fair but dub lacks punch 'of old days. Must get a new first ' baseman if Dolf Camilli continues I to holdout o | Decatur Bowling League Results | • + MINOR LEAGUE Cloverleaf Frisinger 246 171 177• Thoms 210 182 1371 Kaylor 126 164 166 Hooton 118 194 153 Farrar 184 171 189' Total .883 882 822' General Electric Brown 176 153 199 Lankenau 123 169 132 Busse 121 212 140 Gage 171 150 166 Melutoah 170 176 159 > Total 761 860 796 St. Marys Ulman 125 169 162 Briede 182 156 158 Green 177 152 204 Gallogly 184 237 179 Ladd 163 207 199: Total 831 921 902 Riverside Zelt 146 138 158 Cherry 137 156 126 Miller 220 148 209 Mutschler 195 195 174 Stump 233 147 214 Total 931 784 881 Ford-Lincoln Lister 186 185 158' Schehnan 144 176 158 . 140 140 140 Total 750 7SI 736 Decatur Casting Spangler 214 137 219 Ross 198 214 169 Cline 147 123 128 Strickler 129 176 191 Young 179 185 148 Total 877 835 855 Monroeville N. Richards 133 141 187 Zimmerman 143 100 124 J. Richards 145 136 125 Bucher 169 134 151 Total— .765 686 762 Kuhn Chevrolet Zehr 167 155 157 Reed 131 167 179 Cline 147 136 122 Mies - 183 167 169 Lankenau 198 173 Total76B 823 800 o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur 3' WAYS TO GET MONEY CONFIDENTIAL DEALINGS 1. PHONE our offlce. Uli twos your money needs. 2. CUT thia »d out- write your name and addroM on it and mail to us 3. CALL at ofllne-coo rm lent 1> located. Private consultation roums. You can uae any of tbeae thrve way« and you are under NO OBLIGATION If you do not accept our tiervice. You can ra?d)y stance a loan ON YOUR SIGNATURE, fuiiture. auto or other personal property. Also Auto and Mw-rbandl-M Ftaanctni with or without down payment. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incorporated 105'4 North Second Street Ovor Sc hat er Store Phono 2-3-7 Docatur. Indiana I I leu— II .mJ,

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A . - + I i At the Training Camps | By United Press I Reds |< Tampa. Fla.. Mar. 31.—(U.PJ- The Cincinnati Reds released infielder ( Ed Miller to Syracuse today, sub | ject to recall on 24 hours notice. Manager Chuck Dressen said that lif any big league club wanted to make a trade for Miller he is ready , to listen but that no cash offers would be considered. Rain kept the Reds off the diamond yester day tor the first time since they 1 began training March 4. Cubs Ontario. Cal.—The Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles coast league came here today for another exhibition. lairry French and Roy Parmelee 1 threw the Cubs to an 11-8 victory 1 i over the Angels yesterday in Los Angeles. The coast league team scored four runs in the first inning. Pirates Santa Monica. Cal. —Pittsburgh's i Pirates bunched seven runs in the : sixth inning to beat Seattle of the i coast league, 12-8 yesterday. The I Pirates were outhit and made three I misplays buP Swift and Weaver < saved the game in critical min ’ utes. ! I White Sox ; Pasadena. Cal. — Indicating that f young Steve Mesner hasn't made ! the grade. Jimmy Dykes said today \ he will be at third base when the ( Chicago White Sox play the Cubs t Friday at Yuma, Ariz. The Sox | and Pittsburgh Pirates were salt- j ed -for an exhibition today. ° J' ! Today’s Sport Parade I (By Hanry McLemore) ♦ « < Jacksonville. Fla., March 31 — (UP)—“A few more of theee exhibition ball games.’’ the man said,:' "and I'll be screwy, and ready for a trip to the forgot factory." The man took a pu'l on hte beer, let the smoke from a two-for-fifty! cigar idle through his nostrils, and gazed sadly at the celling. "Yes tin" he said, "They’re driving me I nuts.” The sad man ta a betting commis-' sioner. and it'd his business to lay , the odds on anything from midget ■ motorcycles to the grand national.! Rgiht now his customers want to I bet on the baeeball games—the ex-: hibition games of the Grapefruit league. And he says they can't be! figured. "Those screwball managers juet don’t make sense,” he moaned. “They won't let the lineups alone. You lay 8 to 5 on a club, expecting it to be something like the one that playe d the season last year, and i the manager rune in a bunch of fuz-' zy-aared farm boys who couldn't 1

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hit a curve with a broom, and couldnot field a grounder with a basket, or . soon ae a team gete a few runs aghead. and you're figuring on the dough you're gonna collect, the manager puts in a pitcher who couldn't fan me." The sad gambler told a harrowing tale of his experience in Daytona Beach last Sunday when the Cardinals locked horns, to use an old baseba! lexpreenion, with the Detroit Tigers. The gambler had |l.-’ 500 riding on the cards and wae mentally thumbing its bright green 1 crispness when the Tigers went to i bat in the last of the ninth, trail- ’ ing 4 to 7. "It was a pipe." the gambler said. “Just time more gitye to get out. and this \\ in ford, the Cards pitcher had been knocking off those Tigers like flies. Then that Freisch had a >rainstorm. For some reason nobody but a crazy man will ever •know, he shooed Winford off the hill and bawled to the hull-pen for something named Ira Smith. I asked the guy next to me who this Ira business was and he said he was a rookie from Shabbon, or something like that, lllionis. White, the first guy up. knocked the first ball down the middle for two. and when Walker followed with a single to left I called that Frisch things nobody ever called him before. I could feel that $1,500 climbing right out of my pocket. I didn't rea-'ly suffer, though, till Gehringer walked, filling the bases. Guess how I felt then? All I had was a grand and a half riding, and there the bases were filled and the Greenberg up- And all 1 had out there between me and a licking was that Ira Farmer." The man started shaking so, just from the memory of the horrible moment, that he had to stop for another beer. As it turned out. he didn't lose his money. Greenberg hit into a doub’e play, and two playe later Terry Moore made a perfect throw j from center to nail Simmons, with the tying run. at the plate. The commissioner eaid the minor league chibs gave his bankroll fits. "You gotta give odds when those I minor guys play a major team, but I down here they look just as hot ae ’ the big leaguere. Most of the minor i teams get in shape in a hurry, and. i do they shoot the works trying to • beat the big guys.” (((Copyright 1937 by United Press) i o Tilden Scores First Victory Over Perry — Pitteburgh, March 31. —(UP) — Big Bill Tilden, 44-year aid tennis veteran, last night scored his first victory over the youthful Fred Perry i whipping the English professional 1 by a decisive 6-2, 8-10. 6-3, 6-3 score before 3.208 cash customers.

I above, he proved that his ability was not confined | to the mound by pobng out one of the Tiger offerings for a smashing lina drive.

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YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING GIHL Admits Buffalo Killing; New York Search Continues I Buffalo. March 31 —(UP) A| I "model youth." who <piU school ><’ | care for his wodow«d mother, who I never drauk nor smoked and who 1 preferred to stay at home rather than go out with girte. was chargjed today with slaying 18 yearsild I Mary Ellen Babcock Police eaid that the youth, Tho- ' man Smith. 18, signed a confession I that he stabbed and beat the girl i to death because ot an "uncontrollable impulse that comes over m* once in a while," but he denied that j lie criminally assaulted her. I Young Smith allegedly admitted the slaying after he was trapped into drawing a picture of the knife found with Mtea Babcock’s bruised body in a vacant lot seven weeks , ago. Medical examiners said she had 1 died in a futile attempt to defend ; her honor. ; Smith first was arrested for iiueetioning by officers investigating the stabbing Saturday night of H-year-old Frances Fitzgerald. Originally she claimed she slipped ani tell on the ice pick but later she «aid Smith terrorized her into attempting to conceal the tact that lie stabbed her. He had persuaded her to take a ride with him. Smith admitted the attack on the Fitzgerald girl and then a detective eaid to him. ‘ Draw me a picture of the knife found under Mary Ellen Babcock.” Smith, police said, calmly eketch-: ed an exact likenees of the weapon | He told officers that he met Miss ; Babcock when he was walking home the night ot Feb. 6. ”l'd never seen her before” he was qouted ae Baying, "but I turned 1 and fo'lowed her. When 1 got behind ! her. I grabbed her. She started to • fight and I dragged her across the street. Then 1 stabbed her and threw her down the bank into th* lot. She still fought with me so I beat her with a rock and stabbed I her some more. 1 don't know why I ! 1 did it except an incontrollable im-, i poise comes over me every once In I a while." Between the attacks on the two girls. Smith acted in a normal way, police said. Question Four I New York. March 31—(UP)—The

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