Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1937 — Page 6

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ROG HORNSBY SMACKS HOMER TO AID BROWNS Veteran Leads Team’s Attack On White Sox Hurlers New York, April 22—(UP) —The bewhfskered old nian with the scythe who’s been chasing Rogers Horsby for six years to mark "finis - ' i to his major league baseball career had better put on a sprint if ihe expects to catch him this season. 1 The St. Louie Browns opened their season yesterday and routed Chicago White Sox, 15-19, but that wasn't the important thing about! the day's only game. Hornsby, who’ll be 41 years old 1 next Tuesday, started his 23rd year ' in the majors at second base for the ' Browns. The same Hornsby they j were saying was through as far ! back as 1932 when he started to' slow tip with the Cubs played the entire 2 hour and 29 minute game. I The remarkable thing was that' iHorneby not only played, but that J he smacked out three hits, more

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than .he did during the ent-ire 1935 'season, and handled three chances perfectly. One of Hornsby's hits was a home run. Not an ordinary homer -a drive of more than 430 feet into the center field stands at Sportsman's park. His other two hits were singles, one of wli«ch 1 drove in a run. Horsby has trained hard for this 'season to crash into the circle of players who've made 3,04)0 hits durI ing their major league life. Ty Cobb I tops them al! with 4191. Others to make 3,000 hits were Tris Speaker, Hans Wagner, Eddie Collins. Nap Lajoie and Cap Anson, the first to turn the trick. Hornsby's lifetime major league average ta .359. The Browns crashed out 22 hits yesterday, driving Vernon Kennedy, a 21-game winner last year, to cover 'in the fifth inning after making 14 hits off him. They continued to pound Dugan Rigney, who relieved him. Oral Hildebrand gave up 17 hits i but kept the White Sox in check 'until the eighth when they staged ' a fi-run stampede. The Browns’ leading hitters were i Karland Clift, who got “5 for 5,” Knickerbocker, who slugged out four hits and Rollie Hemsiey. who also got 4. Joe Vosmik was the I only Brown who went hitlees. 1 Yesterday's hero —Harland Clift, El Reno. Okla., boy of the St. Louis Browns who jumped into a tie with ' Gerald Walker. Detroit, for the lea- ! gue batting lead with a homer, two doubles and two singles in five times at bat. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Philadelphia 2 0 1.000 New York 1 0 1.000 St. Louis 1 0 1.000 ■ Pittsburgh 1 0 1.000 i Cincinnati 0 1 .000 I Chicago 0 1 .000 it .ok- n ... 0 1 .000 I Boston .... 0 2 .000 AMERICAN LEAGUE — W. L. Pct. Boston '. 1 0 I.OVO Detroit 1 0 1.000 St. Louis 1 0 1.000 Philadelphia 11 .500 Washington 11 .500 Chicago 0 1 .000 New York 0 1 .000 Cleveland 0 1 .000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Milwaukee 4 0 1.000 Louisville 3 2 600 Indianapolis 2 2 .500 i Columbus 2 2 .500 Minneapolis 2 3 .400 Toledo 2 3 .400 St. Paul 1 2 .333 ■ Kansas City 1 3 .250 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League All games postponed, rain. American League St. Louis, 15; Chicago, 10. All other games postponed, rain. American Association j All games postponed, rain. o Conservation Club Plans Trap Shoot A trap shooting event, sponsored by the Country conservation blub, will be held Sunday on road 27, : about six miles north of Decatur.

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DRAKE RELAYS OPEN FRIDAY Seventy-Two Schools Entered In 28th Annual Track Event Des Moines, la.. April 22 —(UP) — 1 The 28th annual Drake relays will ' get off to a flying start tomorrow ' with finals in seven events eched--1 tiled for the opening day. Seventy-two colleges and univer- ’ sit lee in 20 states are entered in the meet, the most representative ' Held in the history of the "Olympics of the west.” In addition, 112 1 high schools, junior high schools and grade schools will participate. Eina'e w-'ll be held tomorrow in ' the two-mile run; university sprint medley relay, collegiate sprtnt medley relay, collegiate SSOvard relay, university distance medley relay, broad jump and discus throw. The university sprint medley, a new event this year, is expected to produce a new national collegiate record. The present mark of 3:27.4 is held by Northwestern. All teams entered in the event have been flirting with Northwestern's mark. They are Ohio State, Texas. lowa, lowa State, Drake, Michigan State and St. Lou-Is university. The university distance medley final also may produce new record holder. Several of this year's enteries, including Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Nebraska. Drake, Ohio State, and Purdue have been timed within fractions of the 10:15.3 mark set by Purdue in 1934. A new two-mile champion for the Drake relays Is eure to be crowned tomorrow because the defending champion Don Lash of Indiana, will not compete. He ran the distance in 9:10.6 last year. Today’s Sport Parade | (By Henry McLemore) ♦ ♦ New York. Apr. 22. — <U.R) —The rain beat down on the roof of the Lincoln hotel. 1 knocked on the door of 1730 and a voice said, “come tn." 1 went in and shook hands with Tiny Parker, youngest and smallest umpire in the National league. The last time I had seen hitn he was working behind the plate in the exhibition baseball game at the Olympics at Berlin. "The Giants and Dodgers are I rained out today, all right,” he i said, looking out the window into the wet, outside world. “Don't know how I'll kill the time. Glad you dropped in.” 1 had never thought much about it-r-what an umpire does on a rainy day, but here I was about to find out. It won't take long to tell you what he does. Nothing. That is, he doesn’t do things like other people do. Go to the movies, fr instance. That's bad fr the eyes and you need good eyes when guys like Hubbell and Blanton and Mungo have all their stuff and are nicking the corner. Have a few drinks? Not for an umpire, Parker said. It might make them jittery and they have to do quite a bit of hopping around, on those close plays at second. Nobody can see through a cloud of dust when he has a head the size of Gehrigs batting average and hands that are wobbling like a Fitzsimmons knuckle ball. There's another reason lor an umpire not drinking, Parker explained. A hangover would make him doubt himself, and if he loses faith that leaves exactly nobody with any faith, because the ball players and the fans consider him a blind robber from start to finish. Few friends drop in on an umpire on his days off. Because of the nature of his work his acquaintances mostly are ball play-

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937.

Nabbed Thugs Who Shot G-Man

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Sheriff Homer Sylvester of Cass County, Nebraska, and his brother. Deputy Sheriff Cass Sylvester, are shown in this soundphoto after running to earth Robert Suhay, and Alfred Power. The desperadoes, said to be the Katonah, N. Y., bank bandits, were caught in Plattsmouth after blasting their way out of a trap in Topeka, Kansas, and shooting a G-man and a bystander.

ers —and ball players and umpires don't mix. There's actually no I rule against it. but the unwritten law of the diamond says that when ! the game is over the players must ( go one way and the men in blue l the ther. They don't even stay at , the same hotels when they can help it. What I've always wondered is what the players say to the umpire when he calls a strike on them and they turn around and start jabbering at him. “Sometimes," Parker said, “they are beefing at me. If they smile when they call me what they sometimes do call me. I don't chase 'em. But if they got a little bit j of a snarl i nthe voice I shoo ’em. to the clubhouse. You know how ' it is—you've got to judge each case | on its merits. "But here's a funny thing. Lots of times when the batter turns around and sticks out his jaw he says something like this: ‘well, that was the payoff pitch all right; a perfect strike; I could have rid-! den that into the stands; kick me in the pants after the game, will you?' “As soon as a player starts talk ing to the umpire, though, the fans figure he is giving me the works and they start yelling for him to pour it on.” Parker told me something I had never thought of before. Presidents have been impeached, judges have been removed from the bench; governors have been oust-

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ed and ball players, themselves. J are sometimes crooked (you remember the Black Sox, of course?) f I But never in the history of the major leagues has an umpire ever* I even so much as questioned conI cernlng his integrity I ' "We're proud of that," Tiny I said. (Copyright 1937 by UP. I Initiation Tonight At K. Os P. Home First rank initiation will be held tonight at the regular meeting of the Knights of Pythias at 7:30 ! o'clock in the lodge home. All I members and the rank team are ■ urged to attend. o Arraign Ross For Murder Os Girl New York. Apr. 22. — (U.R) — Mischa Ross, silent and dejected, i was arraigned in general sessions court here today on an indictment charging him with the hammer slaying of violinist Tania Leelova. but pleading was postponed until Monday at request of his counsel. The attorney said he needed time to prepare important motions and remarked also that he had information "stool pigeons" have been planted in Tombs prison where Ross is jailed. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

if Decatur Bowling League Results J !♦ — — —• MERCHANT LEAGUE Gerber's Gerber 1« Hi »20 R Woodhall 144 154 159 |B. Woodhall 150 98 139 Peterson 197 160 145 K. Woodhall Total 734 666 710 Auto License Ehler 137 132 133 Marbaugh 133 182 159 DeVoss H7 146 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Total 570 631 638 Mies Recreation Macklin 139 133 Liechty 140 124 153 B. Hunt 148 124 . Keller 144 208 142 Strickler 158 144 125 P. Hunt 125 161 T0ta1.".729 725 754 Schafer E. Schultz 160 141 170 Fleming 121 203 119 Tope 159 129 IM 100 100 100 I ~~ T' Total 640 673 670 Douglas Co. Baker 90 126 ' Lose 138 151 162 Reed 164 157 1821 Gilliom 137 151 122: Reynolds 130 168 134 Fuhrman 144 Total 659 781 726 Green Kettle Brunegraff 113 170 162 Lyons 131 150 135 Hunter 123 113 140 Murphy 174 154 212 Total 641 687 749 Q Sinking Os Titanic To Be Shown Here Just 25 years after the sinking of the S. S. Titanic, which occurred April 14. 1912, Walter Wanger, famed Hollywood producer brings to the screen in “History is Made at Night," a pictorial replica of that terrific disaster. The huge luxury liner of a quarter century ago was on its maiden voyage when it rammed an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank within two hours. In “History is Made at Night”, to be seen Friday and Saturday at the Adams theater, actual conditions aboard a doomed vesesl were j approximated. The drama, the terror, the heroism —all are stark-

■ ly portrayed In a climax that Time Magazine calls more spectacular than the earthquake acene in San' Francisco. While the iceberg collision scene marks one of the high points in' the picture, it is not devoted ex-| clusively to the sea. It is packed with light-hearted comedy, gay romance and exciting adventure. I i Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur, have the leading roles and comic relief Is furnished by Leo Carillo. U Murder Suspect Shot To Death By Officers Uniontown, Pa.. Apr. 22 (UP)— Hamilton Lestwieh, negro murder suspect, was uhot to death and state trooper Joseph Hoffer, 32, was wounded critically today in a threehour gun battle at the mining town of Filbert, seven miles from here. Barricaded in a mine houee. LeetWlch, fugitive from the Fayatte county jail, shot Hoffer, then fought two hours longer before he was killed by machine gun Lu’l.-ts. “LaCROSSE TF -• r-.r-lz (VW. Mills, on March 8. 1934. and the robbery of $3 06 from Henry A Briener. postmaster at Peterson on January 5, 1934 LaCrosse, a former semi-pro baseball player, testified that he once tried out for a position with the Chicago White Sox. He de- ; dared on the witness stand that he was in Rushmore. O„ at the time of the Peterson post office robbery. He said he was return- | ing from Miami. Fla., where he

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