Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1937 — Page 6

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JUNIOR LEAGUE RACE HOLDING HIGH INTEREST Connie Mack’s A’s Maintain Slender Margin At Top New York. May 24.-<U,R)-Wheu ever the Philadelphia Athletics suffer a set back the experts wag their heads and say "well, they’ve finally hit the toboggan,” but Connie Mack’s young men keep bouncing back to the top to make the ' American league race a baffling marathon.Before the season opened, the A’s were 100-1 shots against winning the pennant chase. Kight American league managers picked the club to finish in the cellar. Yet today, five weeks after the starting gun. the A’s have been on ; lop of the league standings more I than any other club, including the I New York Yankees, the even money favorites named by seven managers of the junior circuit to cop ' the ganfalon. The Mackmen have been resting titop the heap 14 days this year Compared to 10 for the Yankees' and eight for the Detroit Tigers, ■ general favorites for American lea gue runner-up honors. Cleveland ’ has been up there on four occasions and Boston twice. How Cornelius McGillicuddy, the 74-year-old president, treasurer and manager of the Quaker City ball plant, has masterminded his club into a contender is something of a mystery since the A s are next to the bottom in team batting with a mark of .262, and sixth in fielding at .063. Pitching might be the answer of the "lean leader,” for he has a pair of young rookie hurlers in Lynn Nelson and Almon Williams who are still in the 1.000 column with two victories each and no defeats. His big winner, however, is Harry Keiley, 31-year-old recruit from last year, who has won five and lost three. George Caster, the Pacific coast rookie, is near the top with four victories against two Tonight & Tuesday Stirring drama of the air! “THE WOMAN I LOVE’’ I’aui Muni - Mariam Hopkins. ALSO—POPEYE Cartoon & Musical Revue. 10c-25c —o Wed. 4 Thurs.— “Let’s Get Married" Ralph Bellamy, Ida Lupino, Walter Connolly. First Show Wednesday Night at 6:30. O—O Coming Sunday — LAUREL & | HARDY in "Way Out West.” Tonight & Tuesday Two Marvelous Features! FOUR MARX BROS, in ‘•HORSEFEATHERS” & “NIGHT KEY” Boris Karloff. Jean Rogers. Only 10c-20c ——O—O Fri. 4 Sat.—Kermit Maynard in “Valley of Terror.” O—O Cominn Sunday — 2 More Hits! John Wayne, "California Straight Ahead” 4 John Beal “The Man Who Found Himself.” | CORT Tonight - Tomorrow “FIFTY ROADS TO TOWN” An outstanding thriller with Don Ameche - Ann Sothern Sam Summerville. Added — Comedy, “Lifers of the Party,” and latest Fox News. 10c -25 c Coming Sunday — “Prince and the Pauper.”

I defeats. Kelley has won two games in the last two days, in a relief role Saturday and over the full distance yesterday, when he doled out six hits to defeat St. Louis, 6-2. The New York Yankees kept within striking distance, 10 per- ! centage points behind, by walloping the Cleveland Indians, 7-3, before the largest crowd of the maj- , or league season 59,492. Red Ruffing scattered 10 hits for his I second straight victory. A game lund a half behind the Yanks, the Detroit Tigers walloped the Wash- | ington Senators, 13-3, in a game ended by rain after eight innings. Chicago climbed from seventh to sixth with a 6-4 decision over Bos ton in ten innings. In the National, the New York Giants bumped the leading Pitts burgh Pirates. 6-5. with a four-run barrage in the ninth, the St. Louis Cardinals gave Dizzy Dean his ! sixth triumph of the year. 6-2. over j the Philadelphia Phillies. Charley Root pitched fixe hit ball while the Chicago Cubs smashed Boston, 111, and Brooklyn was on the short ' end of a 5-2 score with the Cincinnati Reds. Yesterday’s hero: Harry Kelley, who in the majors less than a year, won his second game in two , days to keep the Philadelphia Atht letics at the head of the American | league parade. 0 > STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Pittsburg •19 8 .704 St. Louis 16 12 .571 New York 16 13 .552 ; Chicago 15 13 .536 Brooklyn . 12 15 .444 I Boston .... -11 15 .523 I Cincinnati 10 16 .385 ; Philadelphia .. 11 18 .379 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Philadelphia 15 9 .625 I New York 16 10 .615 ; Detroit 15 12 .556 Cleveland 12 10 .545 ■ Washington 13 15 .464 i Chicago 11 14 .440 ■ Boston „. 10 13 .435 ■ St. Louis 8 17 .320 J AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. ' Milwaukee 23 9 .719 | Minneapolis 17 15 .531 Toledo 17 16 .515 St. Paull3 15 .464 Louisville 14 17 .452 Kansas City 12 15 .444 Coiutnbus 14 18 .437 I Indianapolis 12 17 .414 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 2. Chicago 11, Boston 1. New York 6. Pittsburgh 5. Cincinntai 6, Brooklyn 2. American League Detroit 13. Washington 3 (called end of eighth, rain). New York 7, Cleveland 3. Chicago 6, Boston 4 (10 innings) Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 2. American Association Columbus 7-6, Milwaukee 1-5. St. Paul 7-2, Indianapolis 4-7. Louisville 5-5, Minneapolis 3-1. Toledo 6-10, Kansas City 3-13. Q HOME RUNS Bartell, Giants 10 Medwick, Cardinals 8 Selkirk, Yankees 7 Kampouris, Reds 6 Johnson, Athletics 6 Greenberg, Tigers 6 Bonura, White Sox „ 6 Q Trade in a Good Town — Decatui Dance at STATE GARDENS Middlebury. EVERY Wed., Sat. and Sun. Better Beers, Wine, Sandwiches. Mixed Drinks. SORG’S MARKET SPECIAL FOR TUESDAY BEEF BOIL I Plate or Brisket “ BEEF VEAL STEAK STEAK 191 c 13c FREE PHONE DELIVERY 95 or 96 I

MORE QUALIFY FOR SPEEDWAY . More Than Half Os 33 Limit Are Qualified For Long Race j Indianapolis. May 24— (U.R) — 1 ' More than half the starting field 1 for the 500-mile race May 31 was completed today as drivers entered their final week of preparation. Six drivers passed the 25-mile qualifying test yesterday to increase the tentative assignment of * | positions to 18. The fastest 33 * I cars on ten laps of the brick oval * I will be permitted to start. ’i Chest Miller, Detroit, posted the best time of yesterday's qualifiers at 119.213 miles an hour. Others were Billy Devore, Los Angeles. 1 Cal.. 117.546; Floyd Roberts. Van Nuys. Cal.. 116 9976; and Louis Tomei. Los Angeles. 116 437. Jimmy Snyder. Chicago, who set i a one-lap record of more than 130 1 , miles an hour Saturday night, 1 made another run at 128 miles an '{hour Sunday but still was not ’ ready to qualify his six-cylinder ' I Spqrks Special, conceded the fast- * jest car at the track. Despite predictions of drivers ; ;that unprecedented speeds could ■ be anticipated as result of cash I prize offerings for qualifying ' speeds, the record of 123 445 set by "Wild Bill" Cummings, Indiani 1 apolis, in winning pole position a i week ago still was the best. Drivers said today that at least i 18 of the cars still untested can exceed 117 miles an hour for the qualifying distance. Trials will be resumed Wednesday afternoon. o + 0 Today’s Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) Pittsburgh, May 24 —<U.R) —Like 1 the mouse who, given a swig of ' the corn that cheers, reared up on ' his hind legs and challenged the ' neighborhood tomcat to a bare ' ’ knuckle fight, the New York ' Giants have gone toughey. after '! their free-for-all decision over the I j St. Louis Cardinals. The Giants are here for a series with the Pirates, and even their best friends wouldn't know them i They are wearing chips on their ' i shoulders as big as the epaulettes 1 ' on Pershing’s new uniform, flow- ’ | ering their language with sailorI I sized cuss words, and chewing ' j real tobacco. The little Lord 1 i Fauntleroys of the National league >: a week ago. they have cut off their ' j curls and gone strictly tenth ave-1 Inue. The rights and lefts they bounced off Dean’s chin, and the elegant black eye they hung on Gutterridge, gave the Giants a taste of riot and disorder, and they love it. Sport has never witnessed a more amazing transformation. For years the Giants never raised their voices, much less their fists. On the ball field they were as quickly efficient as bank clerks, j and when the game ended returned to their hotel for an evening of industry at their knitting, needlepoint, and quilting. Just what came over them at St. Louis no one knows, not even the New York baseball writers, who are closer to them than Boswell was to Johnson. One writer told me that, seeing trouble was brewing and a fight sure to come. ' he wired his office in New York as early as the third inning and urged preparation of at least ten Giant obituaries. “We all felt," the correspondent related, “that when the fight started the Giants would be trapped in their dugout and butchered by the St. Louis ruffians. But when Ripple bunted that ball toward first the mice became men , and, as if propelled by springs, roared into action, fists swinging Chiozza flattened Dean with a honey of a left. “Papa” Luque clipped Gutteridge with a right that had all of Havana behind it, Schumacher hit everything with a red bird on the chest, and Mancuso hit the ground with Mickey Owen. It was very beautiful." The Giants anticipate with plea- ! sure the arrival in New York of the Cards. Especially those Giants who, because of the general contusion during the "battle of St Louis", did not see front-line action. The handiest guy with his fists on the team. George (Kiddo) Davis, did not have an opportunity to land a single punch, and Is said to feel cheated. Davis plans to warm up for Dean by reporting to Madison Square Garden bowl on the night of June third when Max Schmeling is scheduled not 1 to fight Jim Braddock for the heavyweight championship of the I world. “I did not get a chance to fight Dean,” Davis said, “so this looks like a golden opportunity to me to fight for the phantom-ship of the world.” Those who know the Giants feel the St. Louis battle gave them the hypodermic needed for a successful defense of their National league title. Certainly, since that fight they have been doing things { they never did before. They won I here yesterday with four runs in j the ninth; they knocked off the Cards Thursday with a similar

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stretch rally, and they dusted the [Cubs with a banging uprising. I Copyright 1937 by United Press I DRIVER KILLED i AT FT. WAYNE Fort Wayne Race Driver Is Killed As Car Leaves Track Fort Wayne. May 24 —Gale Lower ' daring Fort Wayne race- driver rode to his death at the Fort Wayne speedway yesterday before he had a chance to achieve his life's ambition —to drive in the Indianapolis 500-mile classic. Lower was killed when his car hurtled off the track at the northwest curve just as he had victory within his grasp in the feature 25-' lap race. He had only three more 'aps to go and had a fairly secure lead over his nearest competitor, Red Campbell of Indianapolis. Although Cambell's car was pounding along behind in hot <pur- ( suit there was no car in the immed-| late vicinity of Lower’s when the fatal plunge occurred. Lower seemed to have lost control of the vehicle just as he swung around the curve that leads into the home ( stretch. Spectators who were near i the scene of the crash said that 1 Lower’s car turned over several j times. It crashed through the iron I fence that surrounds the track be- j fore it stopped and H I s believed j that it was this impact that caused the death of the driver. Sheriff Herman C. Hoile, one of' the first to reach Lower, said his { feet were pinned under the battered j machine- Wheels of the overturned , car were still spinning. Hoile said, , when Lower's body was picked up j and placed in the ambulance, which i was not far from the spot where the car went over the embankment, j The sheriff drove ahead of Ibe am- 1 bulance, clearing traffic to the hos- ; pita!, Lower was dead when the ambulance arrived there. It is believed that he was killed instantly. —o Kokomo Wins State Track, Field Meet Indianapolis, May 24. — (U.PJ — Performances in the last two major high school sports events un-, til fall were written into the record books today with the IHSAA track title going to Kokomo and the golf crown to Shortridge of Indianapolis. Koko-mo, led by Bob Denny who established a new record of :14.9 in the 120-yard high hurdles, captured its eighth track championship by scoring 38 points in the ! meet Saturday to beat out 92 other I schools. o Denies Feller’s Injury Permanent Cleveland, May 24. j(U.R>—Cyril C. Slapnicka, vice-president of the Cleveland Indians, today denied there was any truth to rumors that Bob Feller’s pitching arm is perm-. anently hurt and that he is "through for the season.” “It’s news to me, if he is," said Slapnicka, “and I’m sure that If

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he were through I’d have heard about It.” Slapnicka said he did not know when Feller would pitch again and that he had had no recent reports on the condition of the 18-year-o’<d rookie's arm. Q LEADING BATTERS 1 Player Club GAB R H Pct. Cronin. Red Sox 21 84 17 37 .440 I Medwick. Cards 28 111 28 47 .413 Walker, Tigers 27 112 26 47 .420 lAtry. Indians 22 97 22 40 .412 Bell, Browns 25 105 17 43 .410 TENNIS TOURNEY HALTED BY RAIN Decatur Entrants Win Singles Matches Before Play Is Stopped Rain halted play in the annual northeastern Indiana conference tennis tourney, held Saturday on the local courts, after only four • singles matches had been completed. Decatur high school's singles entrants, Affolder and Cline, both came through to victory in two of the four matches played. I Players were represented from { Decatur, Bluffton, Hartford City, and Central. North Side and South I Side of Fort Wayne. Harry Dailey, coach of the Dei catur team, stated today that no j definite date has been set for completion of the tournament. I Affolder and Cline scored their victories in easy fashion. Affolder ' losing only four games and Cltue j three. Scores of the four singles matches follow: Eichar (S 3 defeated Koegel. I (C) 7-9, 6-3, 6-3. Affolder (D) defeated Baum gartner, (B), 6-0. 6-4 Cline (D) defeated Luecke (NSi, 6-1, 6-2. G. Stover (C) defeated Doe (HC) 6-3, 2-6, 63. o Date Trees to College DAVIS. Cal. (U P ) — Two seedling date trees, oldest in California i and only trees of their kind bearing fruit this far north in the tem-1-erate zone, have been acquired by the University of California lAgri- ! cultural College. They were planted about 1859. o—. ■ Cornstalks Yield Gas MINNEAPOLIS (U.P.) — Harold Ohlgren. physics assistant at the University of Minnesota, has discovered a method of obtaining . gas in commercial quantities from . hay, cornstalks and clover. He declines to reveal the process used. — o Blue Mosquitoes Cause Panic JOHANNESBURG, South Africa 1 (UP) — Appearance of dark blue I mosquitoes struck terror In a certain area of northern Transvaal, ' where a severe epidemic of malaria was already raging. Local res-id-ents feared some new horror tinI til the clerk of country store, observed something wriggling In an inkwell, discovered it to be full of mosquito larvae, in which apparently they had bred.

RUSSIA HALTS RESCUE FLIGHT Soviet Government Forbids Flight To Aid North Pole Aviators Moscow. May 24. —<U.RX—The soviet government today forbade | three soviet airplanes to proceed! from Rudolf bland with food and other supplies for the four men | isolated near the North Pole by • adverse weather conditions. Pilots of the three supply planes! were determined to make the dash across the Polar ice 560 miles to the Russian filers who flew to the North Pole last week and set up an aviation and meterological station 12ta miles from the center of the top of the world. Nicolai Younson. acting Arctic chief in Moscow, forbade 77ie attempt to risk the elements when 1 visibility was low. Wind whipped ‘ snow off the Arctic ice, the party ! had wirelessed, and it was impose ible to see more than a few yards,' making flying perilous.. Despite this word from the Polar | party, the men at Rudolf Island' were determined to fly in with i supplies. They planned to make an intermediary landing if necessary. The ice-breaker Lenin was ordered to stand by at Murmansk, in the Arctic ocean, in case of accident. | The Rudolf Island base wirelessed that the transformer on the! Polar plane had broken when the plane landed last week, preventing use of the radio compass to guide ' the supply plane. The magnetic compass was use-1 less in the Polar zone, they added, and the navigators with the scientiflc expedition worked out a complicated method to guide the planes to the Polar camp. The fliers at Rudolf Island were I prepared for the flight with eight j tons of supplies to the men who! plan to remain indefinitely at the, North Pole, but Moscow and the | weather held them back. o— THIRD SON IS i (CONTINUEn KHnv ,<■■> I given the child. The birth came only a week from the 10th anniversary of Lindbergh's historic flight to Paris and on the day when the British empire was crowning Its new ruler, George VI. Miss Annie Cutter, at the library. at first had disclaimed knowledge of the birth after its announcement from the Cutter home, letter, she acknowledged it was true. The caution with which the news was guarded was characteristic of the long travail through which the family went during the trying years of the investigations after the kidnap-murder of the first Lindbergh child. Mrs. Cutter is a sister of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, mother of j Mrs. Lindbergh and widow to the j late ambassador. Their home is in the exclusive suburb, Cleveland Heights. The new son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh is the third born to the famous flying couple since their marriage May 27, 1929. j The fate of the first. Charles A.

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Lindbergh. Jr., Is known the world over. • i His birth on June 22, 1930, his , mother's 24th birthday annlver-j sary. was greeted by headline which announced " 'We' an- 1 three." A few months before b| a ' second birthday. Charles. Junior. I was kidnaped, on March 1, 1932/ from the Hopewell, N J„ home of I his parents, and later his body was found In the woods. <>n Aug io. IMX> a aaeoad son.' Jon Morrow Lindbergh, was born | At the time of Jon's birth. Col-' | one! Lindbergh made an appeal j for privacy But threats to the i | family and publicity continued. i j On Dec 22, 1935, the Lind I I berghs und three year old Jon sail-' ed for England, and settled in the Kentish village of Weald. In the two years since. Colonel Lindbergh became a virtual "village squire.” He did not relax his precautions in Jon's behalf, however. In addition to a police guard, a huge police dog protects the estate on which the Lind berghs live. The dog is trained 'to knock trespassers down and stand guard over them until help comes. . —— o May New Corn Hits New 12-Year High j Chicago May 24 —(UP)— May new corn climbed to $1.36 a buehel today on the Chicago board of trade a new 12 year high for any corn future. Buying power developed after May corn eagged to $1.34 a bushel | in early trading and carried the ■ - -

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