Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1937 — Page 6

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TIGERS TAKE TOP PLACE AS YANKEES LOSE Gerry Walker Leads Tigers; Pirates Displace Cards New York. May 3—(U.R) Mad I cap Gerry Walker, whose base-I pa'h buftonry need to keep him in the Detroit doghouse more often ; than in the lineup, has taken a new lease on brains and has spark-plugged the Tigers to the I top of the American league. The 28-year-old outfielder who found it easy to get on base, and do nothing right once he arrived. , finally has hit his stride and can I do no wrong. His work yesterday in pacing! the Tigers to a 65 win over th"! Chicago White Sox was a sample, j His home run in the seventh j broke a 5-5 deadlock that gave the l Tigers victory. It was his third hit for a perfect day at bat. His I other two safeties were singles. ' He drew one base on balls, stole • one base, scored three runs and ! drove in two. HiS batting average of .588 tops! every other major league player. His 20 hits and 12 runs thus far lead all players in both leagues. ■ With 11 runs batted in Walker is; topped only by Johnny Mize of 1 the St. Louis Cardinals with 12.1 and his three home runs are one less than the quartet of circuit , clouts collected by Bob Johnson ■ of the Athletics. The New York Yankees dropp-! ed from the lead before the larg-i est crowd of the major league season, 52,150. They took a 5-4 licking from the Boston Red Sox. . Broaca's fumble let the winning | run come home in the ninth. A . five-run rally in the ninth inning ' gave the Washington Senators a ! 10-7 decision over the Philadel- i phia Athletics. Cleveland at St. ! Louis was rained out. The Pittsburgh Pirates took over first place in the National league by handing the Cinicnnati Reds their eighth defeat in nine s'arts, 7-2. The St. Louis Cards lost their second straight to the A

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i Chicago Cubs, 41. Bill Lee turn I ed back St. Louis with three hits. Van Mungo also twirled a three- ! hit game, striking out nine Phlla- | delphia Phillies while the Dodgers I triumphed. 51. Rookie Cliff MelI ton fanned nine, and allowed the i Boston Bees but four safeties as i the New York Giants won, 3-1. Yesterday's hero: Gerry Walker, ' the boy who used to do everything wrong, did everything right to put ! the Tigers in the American league lead. 1 STANDINGS | NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. i Pittsburgh 7 2 .778 St. laiuls 7 3 .700 New York 6 3 .66. ' Philadelphia 5 5 .500 i Boston 5 6 .455 i Chicago 4 6 .400 Brooklyn .46 .400 ! Cincinnatil 8 -ID AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Detroit 6 2 .<SO New York 6 3 .66. Boston 4 3 .571 ; Cleveland . 4 4 -500 I Philadelphia 4 4 .500 ! Chicago 3 5 .375 St. Louis 3 5 .37.> i Washington 3 7 .300 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. 1 Milwaukee ,- 8 4 .66. Minneapolis 8 5 .615 . Louisville 7 6 .538 I Indianapolis .... 7 6 .538 i Toledo . 77 .500 I Columbus 5 7 .417 j St. Paul 3 6 .333 Kansas City 3 7 .300 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League New York 3. Boston 1. Philadelphia 1. Brooklyn 5. Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 2. St. Louis 1. Chicago 4. American League Boston 5. New York 4. Washington 10. Philadelphia 7. Chicago 5. Detroit 6. Cleveland at St. Louis, postponed, rain. American Association Louisville 9-0, Indianapolis 6-6. Toledo 3. Columbus 2 (13 innings). Milwaukee 4, St. Paul 0. Milwaukee-Kansas City, rain. ' o MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS ■ I Player Club G AB R H Pct. G. Walker, Tiger 8 34 12 20 .588 1 I it. Ferre:!, R. Sox 7 24 4 12 .500 ! Travis, Senator . 5 16 1 g .500 1 Brack, Dogers .. . 9 35 3 17 .486 Demaree, Cub 10 41 7 19 .463 ° . 1 HOME RUNS Johnson, Athletics 4 Ott, Giants .. 3 Walker, Tigers 3 Manush, Dodgers 2 Whitehead, Giants 2 Mize, Cardinals 2S o Indianapolis Player Sold To Washington I Indianapolis, Ind., May 3—(UP) I —Sale of catcher Johnny Riddle th the Washington Senators in a deal for catcher “Shanty" Hogan wae announced today by officiate of the Indianapolis American Association ball c.’ub. tAn undisclosed amount of cash was involved in the transaction. Hogan, who bate and thrown righthanded. was recalled to the major League late last year after a season in the International league. He hit .323 for the Senators in 19 games. o Notre Dame Varsity Beats “O’.d-Timers” South Bend. Ind.. May 3—(UP)— Outplayed for the first half, the University of Notre Dame varsity scored in the f-inal period on a lateral to defeat an “old timer” team, 7 to 0, in a football game yesterday hororing Johnny O Brien, varsity end coach killed In an automobile accident March 12 -in Chicago. The varsity scored when Motts Tonelli, fullback, drove off tackle i for 18 yards and lateralled to Bunny McCormick, right half, who ran 15 yards for the touchdown. A crowd of 10,000 saw the gameo Trade In a Good Town — Decatur Farr-Way CLEANERS

U. S. TENNIS TEAM VICTOR Sweep All Five Matches With Japan; Meet Australia San Francisco, May, 3—(UP) — ! Despite the ease with which tha United States Davis Cup tenn's team swept Japan out of the picture, tennis critics today were far from sanguine of success for the Americans in their future matches. The American team, victorious five matches to none over the Japan se, meets Australia at Forest Hilte, N. Y„ .'ate thte month In the finals of the American zone competition. Their chances rest solely upon J. Donald Budge, the Oakland redhead who is supposedly on the way to; lecoming the world's greatest player. Budge was good enought to blast two Japanese opponents off the courts in the matches concluded here yesterday but there were de- j sects -In his game. Don's backhand deserted him three times during the three matches in which he participated. And not until his last match, and the last set of that, did he appear to have control of his blinding service. Jiro Yamagishi. a little Japanese who <te the Orient's Fred Perry gave Budge a lot of trouble in their sing'es match with cross-court shots to Don's backband Twice Yatnagishi won the opening game of a set. Three times in the final set he broke through the (Budge service to win with well-shot placements. Don finally got the fireball working and he finished the third set, the match, and the < up tie dramatically by blasting a service ace for the deciding point. He won 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. with Yamagishi coming' eloser each set. Another month of work may clear up the defects in Budge’s game before he is ca'led upon to face Jack Crawford, Vivian McGrath or John Bromwich of the Aussies. Unites Budge can win both singles from the men from down under there doesn’t seem much hope for j the United States advancing beyond the American zone finals. Frankie Parker played the No. 2 singles for the Americans on the Lakeside courts of the Olympic club, defeating Yamagishi and Fumiteru Nagako by the same kind of Tactics which ke.p Bitsy Grant up near the top. Parker contented himself with returning everything Yamagishi fired at him Friday. The Japanese kept forcing the offensive and committed 102 errors, giving parker the match. Yamagishi won the second set. however, for the only set victory the Japanese scored. Against Nagako yesterday. Parker started out playing the same kind of a game and won the first two sets, 6-0 6-"3. With victory in his grasp he suddenly assumed the ottensive and took the set, 6-3, by registering love victories in the .last two games. In the doubles Saturday Budge and Gene Mako of University of Lou Meyer Tries For Fourth 500-Mile Win fours INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —The “Flying Dutchman of the Roaring Road” is ready to ride again towards a record which may not be possible in a generation—four victories in the Indianapolis 500rnile race. Louis Meyer, who started young to win in 1928, and won again in 1933 and 1936 to become the only three-time winner of the world’s greatest speedway race, will be back at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday, May 31st, no less a threat than he was last year when he headed a brilliant field in the gruelling grind. The most consistent pace-driver of all times, Meyer drives every ; race to the schedule he selects to ! win and if his calculations are correct, and they have been in the past, he is certain to be close to i victory in the last 100 miles. This year Meyer will have Wild Bill Cummings, 1934 winner and Chet Miller, who finished fifth last ; year, as team mates running un- ! der the colors of Mike Boyle of Chicago. The Silver Anniversary of the 500-mile race promises to be the most interesting in 25 years of racing history.

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Southern California overwhelmed YamagAhi and Nagako by aheer power. —o * Today's Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) New York, May 3.—-QJ.R) —I was too sure of my judgment. I said Pompoon. son of Pompey dammed by Conagh, would finish third in the Wood memorial stakes at Jamaica. Pompoon ran fifth and was lucky to do that well. He proved, much to the disappointment of those that followed him, that he was a chip off the old block. His old man started grabbing his side after one mile, and that was just what Pompoon did when he had to pick up a man's weight and carry it a , man's distance. I don’t want to gloat (and when I say I don't want to gloat I do want to gloat frightfully much) but 1 told you. after Pompoon had won the Paumonok stakes, that lie was a fancy dan and coulufi't go past the ep; int route. To be honest, 1 didn't know that he couldn't when I told you that but that's the way he looked to me. When he won the Paumonok he looked like an old English sporting print, his neck was like a ganders —he was reaching for every inch. He was being whipped for all the pockey had. In short he ! was shooting from taw. When the company got” tougher his neck wasn’t long enough, his legs weren't strong enough and his heart wasn't big enough. So, once again, the Kentucky derby winter book has been proved the biggest gamble, the silliest gamble, since Aaron bet eight to four the Red Sea would open. Two days ago when you mentioned Melodist, people said, “do you mean that remarkable horse with four legs and a tail?” And now they’re saying Melodist, owned by that needy couple. Mrs. H. S. Phipps and Ogden Mills is one of the finest thoroughbreds ever to put foot in spiked shoe, or am I confusing this with baseball. WCNt 1 am trying to tell you is this: 1 know nothing about horses and yet I know enough to know that Pompoon couldn’t go a distance. Yet there are tens of thousands of people in this country who, every day, bet according to the opinion expressed in print by paid horse handicappers. The majority of these handicappers named - Pompoon to win this race. Not one of them selevted Melodist. Moral: Nobody knows what in

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the name of Heaven a horse will do when released from what I choose to cal Ithe barrier. Now in the next two or three days you will undoubtedly hear or read that War Admiral is a cinch for the derby. On paper War Admiral is a cinch for the derby. But he won't win the derby. Some long, knock kneed witch that you never heard fessional handicappers never heard of or I never heard of or these proof will swoop down from the cumulus clouds and cart away those devalued dollars. I am going to see the derby this year. In fact I am leaving tomorrow by burro pack. But I will not flash you the name of this cumulus cloud witch until two hours before post time. Thus, if you will delay more than two hours in getting to your bookmaker it will save you money. (Copyright 1937 by UP.) TWO DECISIONS BY ' flß*.**! raGK UNK< national government was supreme and that the public policy of NewYork state could not prevail against the exercise of this power. The court failed to present its decisions in the pending cases testing constitutionality of federal and state unemployment laws. TRUSTEES MEET tCONTINI'KD KKOM PAGr rivr. ! office carries a four-year term. C. E. Striker, incumbent superintendent; R. J. Mann, Hansel Foley and Russell Steiner are candidates for the position. Youth Is Drowned In Creek Sunday Indianapolis, Ind., May 3—(UP) — Paul Land, 12. son of Mr. and Mrs. JoJhn A. Land, was drowned in IS feet of water yesterday when he slipped and lost his balance while playing on the banks of Eagle creek. The boy, accompanied by Norman Norrte, 13. was throwing sticks into the water for his dog to return when he slipped from a log extending from the bank. The body was recovered later by police. o Evangelical Board Will Meet Tuesday The official board <>f the First church of this citywill meet at the church Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. All board members are asked to attend.

SHEEP DIPPING OUTFIT STARTS County’s Portable Sheep Dipping Outfit Starts Season Adams county's portable sheep dipping outfit begins its season this week. This outfit was finunc ed through the resettlement office under the direction of Charles Poe, and was built to aid in the eradication of sheep scaTT" that was quite prevalent in Adams county a year ago. This outfit is operated by Virgil Draper of near Decatur and Mr. Draper will start the . season in Hartford township. This sheep-dipping outfit last year was out of four in operation in Indiana and it apparently was one of the most practical working units of this number. During the winter representatives of the sheep interests of ten or more counties have inspected the outfit and oh- I tamed ideas to help in getting such a movement started in their respective counties. While sheep scab apparently is not so prevalent In the other counties, the shsep men generally recognize the fact ■ that it pays to dip sheep annually to combat ticks and lice. It is estimated conservatively by shecpme nthat the suppression of ticks and lice will add a pound of wool to the shear annually, which makes dipping very profitable from I this one angle alone. It is known that ticks leave the older sheep as soon as they are shorn and get onto the lambs. It > is surprising the number of ticks . that can be found on the lambs from this time on. These are blood sucking insects and they pull down the vitality of the lamb and make much slower gains; therefore eradication of ticks will make for better gains in lambs, provide for better utilization of feeds and increase the grade of lambs. o SEEK SLASH IN RELIEF FUNDS — House Drive Opens To Cut Work Relief Appropriation Washington. May 3. — (U.K) — A house urivo opened today, seeking to cut the president's $1,500,000,000 I work relief appropriation proposal by $150,000,000 in order to help continue the public works admin-' istration for Pwo years. The new fight over the PWA and Harry Hopkins’ work relief program came as Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes went before a house appropriations sub-commit-tee to urge extension of the public works administration for two years. Chairman Clifford Woodrum, D., 1 Va., said that the extension tneas-1 ure would be acted on separately from the work relief bill, hearings on which are due to start Wednesday. Woodrum predicted that a reduction of as much as $500,000,000 , in the work relief appropriation was possible due to the present economy drive. Rep. Alfred F. Beiter, D., N. Y., leader of the PWA bloc said that ’ at least 227 members of the house were backing his proposal to earmark work relief funds for public works. The PWA now has a revolving ’ fund of about $150,000,000 permitt-' ing continuation of its projects. ! While Ickes and assistant PWA I administrator Horatio B. Hackett declined to discuss the matter it was learned that th’e two did not plan to urge on behalf of the administration the increased funds I asked by Beiter. Woodrum said he believed that the sub-committee would make every effort to keep the work relief and PWA problems separate, j The bill considered today was ap- ! proved by the president several ! weeks ago as a simple extension I measure. On XVSuneSTlay woilss progress j administrator Harry Hopkins was I I due to appear at another executive I session of the group to discuss the $1.500,000.006 work relief appro- ! priation of the president. o Prominent Indiana Manufacturer Dies Haggertown, Ind., May 3 —(UP) j —Charles N. Teetor. 66, president! of the Perfect Circl piston ring Co. | died at b-'.s home hgre yesterday ! after a brief illness. The Indiana manufacturer who ; has plants located in New Castle, ! Haggerstown, Tipton, and Toronto, Canada, was actively engaged in his automobile .Interprises until a ! week ago. The Perfect Circle company was formed in 1926 from the Indiana I Piston Ring Co. Both companies were an outgrowth from one of hie i earlier adventures, The Railway Cycle manufacturing co., founded In j 1895. |

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LOYAL TROOPS ATTACK REBELS Loyalists Claim Rebels Defeated On Fronts Near Bilbao Hendaye. French-Spanish FronI tier, May 3 —(U.R) Basque loyalist ! militiamen, reinforced by thou- ! sands of seasoned men and a fleet of airplanes, attacked at three ■ vital points east of Bilbao after i weeks of retreat and threw back ! the nationalist horde;: pressing on j the city, dispatches from the loyalist front said today. At Bermeo, on the sea. opposite ' ! Guernica, to the east of Bilbao ; and before Amorbieta to the smith- , east the loyalists attacked with : the ferocity of desperation. They, claimed important gains on their line of attack, 15 miles from end to end and some 12 miles east of Bilbao. United Press dispatches from Bilbao quoted loyalist headquarters as asserting that the nation- < aiists, including Italians, were ! thrown back in a retreat that at . points was disorderly, and that ' tanks and motor trucks were , taken. Dispatches from the nationalist . side toid a conflicting story of new gains particularly in the BerI into area but indicated that Gen. | Emilio Mola, the nationalist commander in chief, had slowed up the attack in preparation for a ; final assault. While nationalist planes attacked Bilbao the new loyalist planes raked the nationalist bat- ; tie lines with bomb and machine gun. From the sea, in the Bermeo! | area, newly arrived loyalist war- ! j ships cooperated with the land and i air forces in a heavy bombard- ■ ment. Detailed dispatches from the loyalist side indicated that the nationalists might at some points have advanced too fast in what

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