Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1937 — Page 6

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JACKETS LOSE OPENING MME OF THE SEASON Decatur High Loses To Bryant Friday Afternoon, 7 To 3 (By Bob Shraluka) Combining costly Decatur errors I with timely hitting, the Bryant Owls defeated the local Teltow Jacket nine in the season opener at Worthman Field Friday afternoon. 7 3. An inexperienced Yellow Jacket nine watched the Owls push over, runs in each of the first, fourth,! fifth and seventh inning and three: in the third frame, while able to get only six bingles off the Decatur twirlers. Bryant scored one in its half of the first on an error, a fielder's choice, a stolen base and a single. McConnell scored for the locals when he banged out a clean double, which Brodbeck followed with a' sharp single into center. Neither! team scored in the second frame. 1 In the third the Owls pushed over three runs. A double by Haffner, coupled with two local errors, two hit batsmen and a wild pitch accounted for the tallies. I The best the locals could do in ' their half was console themselves with Brodbeck's double and seeond hit of the game. In the fourth a single by Ninde with a stolen base and a wild pitch enabled Bryant to tally another.: Decatur tailed to hit in its halt. In the fifth the Owls again scored on a single, a fielder's choice and a hit batsman. In the Jackets I balft, Beery, relief hurler scored • after Brodbeck garnered his third ■ hit. a clean single. With no scoring in the sixth, the Jackets threw ■

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a little scare into the visitors in i the final stanza when Heller scored after getting on base with a fielders' choice, and maned up with errors, but there the rally ended. Zimmerman started on the mound for the locals, pitching three innings, allowing four runs, two hits, striking out two and hitting three men. Beery allowed I two hits, struck out four, hit one , and issued two free tickets. Hoff man. who finished, allowed one run | and one hit and struck out one. Macklin and Abbott for the visitors struck out 14 local men be tween them. The locals will have a busy time next week. Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock they will play a return engagement with the Owls on the, Bryant diamond. On Tuesday as-, , ternoon they will meet Roanoke on the local diamond and on Fri day play Berne, also at home. Box score: Decatur AB R II PO A E i McConnell, ss. 2 112 0 4 Brodbeck. c. . 3 0 3 71 it 'Gaunt. If 00000 o Highland, lb. 2 0 0 4 0 0 Bleeke. cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 Worthman, 3b 2 0 0 1 0 1 Macklin. 2b 3 0 0 5 2 0 Freidt, cf 2 0 0 0 0 (I ; Zimmerman, p.lO 0 0 1 0 I Beery, pllO 0 0 0 I Heller, ss 110 10 0 Schuepp, r£ 1 0 0 0 0 o 22 3 4 21 4 5 Bryant AB 11 H PO A E 'Bennett. If 5 2 0 0 0 0 Ninde. lb 4 0 T 4 11 Macklin, p 4 1 0 0 4 0 ; Haffner. 3b 41210 0 I Campbell, rs 400 0 0 0 Bone, c 4 2 2 15 1 2 , Keller, ss 400 0 0 0 RettZ, cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 i Swittzer, 2b .210100 Gerhard, lb 10 10 0 0 | Abbott, plOO 0 0 0 36 7 6 21 6 3 o * Decatur Bowling League Results • —• WEEK'S SCHEDULE Minor League Monday— Ford-Lincoln vs General Electric; Monroeville vs St. 'Mary’s; Cloverleaf Creameries vs Kuhn Chevrolet; Riverside Garage j vs Decatur Castings. Merchants League • Tuesday— Douglas Company vs | Green Kettle; Mies Recreation vs ; Schafer Company: Gerber Meat Market vs Auto License. Major League Thursday— Adams Theater vs Cort Theater; Moose Lodge vs Saytors Garage. STANDINGS Minor League W L Pct. Castings 29 13 .690 Kuhn 29 13 .690 Riverside 26 16 .619 Cloverleaf 24 IS .571 St. Mary's . 18 24 .429 Monroeville . 16 26 .381 G. E 14 28 .333 Ford 12 30 .286 Merchants League Douglas 23 10 .697 Schafer ... . 21 12 .637 Kettle .. 17 16 .515 Mies 16 17 .485 Gerber 13 20 .394 Auto License 9 24 .273 Major League Cort 52 35 .598 Moose 49 38 .563 Saylors 40 47 .460 Adams 33 54 .379 Major League Moose Lister 200 141 213 150 150 150 Bonifas 134 173 136 Mutschler . 190 161 159 Stump 181 143 193 Totals 855 768 851 Adams Theater Briede 166 155 208 I Green 165 180 198 'Strickler 163 138 140 Gallugly 159 167 117 Ladd 146 189 198 Totals 799 829 861 Cort Theater , Spangler 150 192 164 Ross 176 174 148 | Young 172 195 185 i Schultz 178 201 158 Lankenau 147 172 195 Totals 823 934 850 Saylors Hoagland 172 148 188 Gage 225 183 135 150 150 150 Mies 154 176 169 Frisinger 167 182 171 Totals 868 839 813 SENIOR SCOUT (CONTINUED FRO» PAGE ONBi make the banquet an annual event, at which time new names will be added to the roll. The officers of the organization are; Lewis Smith, president; James Ehlnger. vice-president; Dick Girod, secretary-treasurer and Monroe Fuhrman, sergeant-at-arms.

CENTRAL WINS ! FIRST TILT OF ANNUAL SERIES 11 1 Defeats St. Joe, 7-2. In First City Softball Series Game r - - , Central won the first game of the I annual series for the grade school I softball championship of the city • Friday afternoon, defeating St Joe, 7 to 2. at (lie South Ward diamond i The second game of the series . will be played at the same field . Friday afternoon, April 23. St. Joe gave Central a tough battle for six innings, which ended with the teams knotted at 2-2. in the seventh frame, however. Central combined four hits with a ~ pair of St Joe errros to tally five runs and sew up the ball game. Two singles and a triple gave St Joe its only runs in the first inning The losers garnered only one more hit after the first inning, a single by l iman in the seventh. The lineup: Central AB R H Fuhrman. 2b 3 2 1 Cherry. 3b 3 0 2 Davidson, c-- 3 0 0 Chilcote, p 3 1 2 Eady, lb 3 11 Spencer, cf 3 1 2 K. Sclmepp. is 3 1 0 M Andrews. If. 3 1 0 L. Schnepp. rs 3 ft 1 ' Krick, rs 3 9 0 TOTALS 30 7 9 St. Joe Bolinger. 3b 3 11 McGill, lb 3 11 I C. Lengrich. c 3 0 0 Hackman. p 3 0 1 Miller, Is 2 0 0 Rumschlag. is 1 0.0 H. Lengrich. cf 3 0 0 Ulman, if 3 0 1 Baker, rs 3 0 0 Terveer. 2b 2 0 0 j Holthouse, rs 2 0 0 TOTALS 28 2 3 Score by innings: R H E St. Joe 200 000 o—2 4 2 Central 000 101 5—7 9 1 i o EXHIBITION GAMES Detroit 1, Cincinnati 0 (13 innings). Boston Red Sox 5. Holy Cross 0. St. Louis Cards 11, Portsmouth 0. Baltimore 7. Philadelphia As 6. Chicago Cubs 9, Chicago White Sox 8. Brooklyn 8. New York Yanks 1. Cleveland 8. New York Giants 4 Pittsburgh 10, Hutchinson 2. American Association Toledo 11. Louisville 0. Minneapolis 8, Kansas City 3. Milwaukee 10, St. Paul 5. o HUGH BARNHART CON TINVKP vised the control system. A threemember board was created and Fry retained as excise administrator. In his letter of resignation to Gov. Townsend, Fry wrote: “I would like to be relieved of my private business after devoting four years to state service.” Fry is a Linton automobile dealer. MRS. LOOP TO ■’OX . I r. . r ' . ■ v Members of the club are urged to use their guest tickets as this is the last public program of the I year. Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art supervisor of the Decatur schools, is chairman of the program with the following committee assisting her: Mesdames L. A. Cowens. RcVert Zwick. and J. T. Myers. Preceding the program Mrs. Loop will be entertained at the James Elberscn residence in this city. Following the program Mrs. Loop and Miss Thatcher will be guests of Mrs. Chalmer Schafer in Fort Wayne. JOHN J. RASKOB ... iNKI based upon the contention that the two men entered into an agreement to attempt “to create fictitious losses for the purpose of understating their net taxable incomes.” The treasury claims that Du pont deducted alleged loses of $3,120,646 as a result of the transactions and that Raskob deducted $4,375,524 from his assessable income. Both men denied the losses were “fictitious.” , . o GUNMEN CAUGHT . FTOM -*'IF OWW! , them had suffered, and continued their flight in the doctor’s bileW. W. Baker, the federal officer they wounded, lay near death in a Topeka hospital today with five . bullet wounds. The by-etandere were only slightly hurt. [ The prisoners admitted they were Lewis and Suhay. Sunhay was wounded in the arm. They were I wanted for taking $18,402 from the . North Westchester bank at Katon-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. APRIL 17, 1937.

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This interesting series of camera shots takes you behind the scenes in New York as Lou Jacob, circus clown, goes through his dressing room stunt before bowling them over around Um sawdust ring.

THREE DAMAGE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONlt)_ also alleged that he suffered much puin and that for a week he was compelled to limp. He complains that several of the injuries may be permanent. He is asking sl,-’ 000. The General Exchange Insurance corporutiun, which insured the Conrad car, is asking SSOO for damages to the car. Notices were ordered returnable April 28. - o RAILROAD STRIKE (CONTINUKD ONK) received the following telegraju from Premier Hepburn: Would urgently request that you attend along with your counsel Cohen conference in my ofnce tomorrow morning. Am also inviting Car michael and Highfield to be pres ent.’ "This invitation was dealt with nt a membership meeting We are accepting it. and Cohen will attend with Millard on behalf of th' union.” Hepburn, vigorously opposed to

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: the committee for industrlul organization, of which (he auto workers' union is un utfllliite. did not invite Martin or Thompson to attend his conference. “They should retire gracefully and get out ot the country." he said - -o Suspect Escapes From Police Trap Washington. Ind.. Apr. 17.— Leonard C. Jackson, 24. sought by Indianapolis police as a suspect in the robbery slaying March 22 of Clayton G. Potts, Indianapolis Foundry company executive, escaped from a police trap here last night in a running gun battle. Russell Coons, state police detective. said he fired twice at Jackson and the fugitive fired at him three times. o —— Seek Hitchhiker As New York Murderer Springfield. 111.. Apr. 17.—<U.R> Illinois state police searched southern Illinois today for a "hitch hiker" whose description closely fits that of Robert Irwin. New York sculptor, wanted in New York in

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