Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1937 — Page 8

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CHICAGO SOX DOWN YANKS. TIE FOR LEAD Win 10th In Row To Tie For League Lead; Pirates Finally Win New York, June 9 — U.R> —Jack Doyle, the man in the green suit from the crossroads of the world - 12nd St., and Broadway, New York City was in Detroit today for the national open golf tourna ntent, but his thoughts weren't on golf. He was thinking about baseball particularly about the Chicago White Sox. Doyle, who's been betting on baseball for 31 years, laid 151 against the White Sox winning the pennant. Old Jack who has seen every world series and probably more baseball game than anyone alive, can't enjoy a golf tournament if the White Sox

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are going to continue along their ■ present path. I The pule hose have won 10 | straight the longest streuk in the majors this season and today are | tied with the New York Yankees for the American league lead. Jack laid only 4 5 against the I Yanks. They seemed to have the ! class, but have lost five out of I their last six games and are beginning to resemble one of those | ball clubs that can t win unless | it’s at home. • Chicago isn't kidding. They're battling for the pennant. Jimmy Dykes, pilot of the White Sox, is i guy who can do miracles with a ball club. He piloted the White Six to third place last season, the hihgest they've been since 1920, the year the “black sox” scandal explode d The White Sox moved Into a tie for the American league lead yesterday by beating the Yankees. *>■•!. The Yanks twice knocked down a White Sox lead but every time Chicago came bark. The damaging blow was a double by Luke Sewell with the bases loaded. Thornton Lee scored his third victory over the Yanks. Di Muggle and Gehrig hit homers but they didn't help The Boston Red Sox kept Cleve- ’ land from taking the league lead j by scoring eight runs in the ninth ' [ inning to beat the Indians. 10-8 The Red Sox were beaten. 8-2. when they came to bat in the ninth but hammered away at Johnny Allen, Joe Heving and Whit Wyatt until they had enough | runs to win. Eldon Auker held the Athletics to one hit as the Detroit Tigers scored a SO triumph. Hank Greenberg hit homer No. 15. The Washington-St Louis game was rained out. Pittsburgh moved back into second place in the National league by breaking a five-game losing I streak with an 8-1 victory over the Phillies. Rookie Russ Bailees held :he Phils to six hits. Todd. Bnti baker and Jensen hit homers, seaI luring the Pirates’ 13-hit attack. Lee Grissom. Cincinnati southpaw, held the Bees to four hits is the Reds triumphed over Boston, 40. Buck Jordan. ex Bee. hit a double and a triple to lead Cincinnati's attack. The other two games were rainI ed out. I Yesterday's hero —Thornton Lee superstitious southpaw of the Chicago White Sox who beat the NewYork Yankees for the third I straight time, hurling his team inI to a tie for the American league lead. o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Medwick, Cards.... 41 151 37 62 .411 Greenberg, Tiger. 41 172 48 66 .384 Bell, Browns 41 172 29 66 .384 Gehrig. Yankee .. 42 159 28 61 .384 Vaughan, Pirate 42 165 27 63 .382 o Farmer Forced to Use Boat Marinette, Wis. 'J.?„ - Farming is an Interstate proposition for Michael Brost. sometimes requiring use of a rowboat. The Menominee river, on the boundary between Wisconsin and Michigan, runs through his property

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RACE DRIVERS’ | STRIKE ENDED Drivers Reach Compromise With Speedway Officials Indianapolis. Ind., June 9 (UP) !- A six-day strike of American race divere in demand for SI,OOO guarantee for entering their cars in tho Vanderbilt cup race at Roosevelt Spied way, long Island, N. Y., on July 3 ended here today in a compromise. Rooseve't Speeway officiate announced that they will post an extra SIO,OOO consolation puree to be divided Into S4OO prizes for each of the 20 American cars which are among the starters in the race but do not finteh among the first ten winners. Leon Duray, former driver and ■ now a racing car owner, acting ae , spokesman for the drivers, indicat- j ed that the ecompromise is acceptable. “,t wasn’t a sit-down strike like i the newspapers called it,” he said. l ■ "We’re ready to move the whole racing colony to New York Imnied-I lately." The drivers, many of them parti-1 cipants in the 500 mile race at Indlaiapolte Mptor Speedway on May 131, had protested the large guarantee offered foreign drivers in the Vanderbi't cup race. They warned 1 I that there would be no American ! drivers in the race unless “our de-! ' mands are meL” As a further concession to American drivers, the Rooeevc-lt speedway management announced that' i it will post a special SIO,OOO added purse. The first American driver to finteh the race will receive $2,500 of the specal prize money, the second finisher will be awarded $1,500 and the third SI,OOO. Similar sums will be posted so rthe first three American made cars to finish, according i to race officials. “The prize money has given us new enthusiasm,” Duray said. “We will race those foreigners silly.” According to the new entry terms only the 39 fastest cars will be iper- ( m'.tted to start the race. The winner wiV receive $20,000 and in addition to accessory prizes. $50,000 will be divided among the first 10 cars . to finish. o HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 15 Bartell, Giants - 11 Selkirk. Giants T c ofttj Selkirk. Yankees 10 Medwick. Cardinals 9; Kampouris. Reds 9 Foxx. Red Sox 9 Johnson, Athletics 9 Di Maggio, Yankees 9 o Ed Merica Given Sports Numerals Ed Merica, a graduate of Monmouth high school, received freshmen numerals in both basketball and football at Indiana State Teachers' college at Terre Haute this year, Ernest Curtis, principal; at Monmouth stated today. Merica was the only freshman to be awarded numerals in both sports, Mr. Curtis stated. Merica j also maintained a high average in ■ studies at the school, which en- I titles him to maintain his school scholarship for another year, he, reported.

Tie.nite th- fact that he is now engaged in his first year of major competition and faces the most formidable field of any golf tourney, young Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs. W Va., is fa-

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NATIONAL OPEN I MEET THURSDAY I Star Golfers Await Start Os National Open In Michigan Birmingham. Mich., June 9 — (UP) —The nation's best golfers, a sun-bronzed field of veteran money players and amateurs, marked time today with short practice rounds for the start of the National Open tournament tomorrow at Oakland Hills country club. This brilliant array of talent will start a 72-hole medal parade off Na.' 1 tee at 8:15 A. M. each man bent on dethroning Tony Manero, defending champion who came out of no- ' where to walk away with the title a year ago thin week at Baltusrol, i ■ N. J. A few of the contenders still dissatisfied with their game spent ths j 'ant day in practice. Others who have toured the difficult tourna- 1 ment course in satisfactory manner 1 I restej for the hard grind, complain-1 Ing about a high wind which has ! whistled over the fairways since 1 Monday. The wind has sent several prac-: tice games soaring above par and i the experts were scratching their noggins over the score most likely to win golf’s most coveted prize, i It is generally agreed the 72-hole ' figures will be well above the re-! cord- breaking 282 drilled by Man- , ero last year. The best Tony has ;done in his tests this week is 73, one over par, which he has scored for three successive days. The best practice round turned in this week belongs to Ky Laffoon, veteran Ravinia, 111., pro, who hlazled home with 69 on Monday and strengthened his position as a challenger w’ith a ipar 72 yesterday. ° Pacific NuA its Invited ■I Grants Pass, Ore. —(UP)—Southern Oregon and northern California i i nudists are opening "spring training” here and w >3 be known as

_ .... x ... .. ■'. .. ■■ y<H - .-f vored to win the National Open at Oakland Hills course, Detroit, June 10-12. Defending champion is Tony Manero who w&s a semi-finalist in the P. G. A. at Pittsburgh.

I "siskiyou sunbathers.’’ Unsigned ; I notices are being mailed from AshI 'and Ore., telling of organization of the colony. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 28 17 .622 Pittsburgh 25 17 .595 Chicago 26 18 .591 St. Louis 22 19 .537 Brooklyn 19 21 .475 Boston 18 23 .429 Philadelphia 16 27 .372 Cincinnati 15 27 .357 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 25 17 .595 I Chicago 25 17 .595 : Cleveland 23 17 .575 ■ Detroit 25 20 .556 Boston 19 18 .514 I Washington 19 24 .442 Philadelphia 16 24 .400 , St. Louis 13 28 .317 > ■ YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 8, PhPadelphia 1. Cincinnati 4, Boston 0. St. Louis at New York. rain. Chicago at Brooklyn, rain. American League Washington at St. Louis, rain. Detroit 6. Philadelphia 0. Chicago 5. New York 4. Boston 10, Cleveland 8. o Sent To Prison For Hitting School Bus Indianapolis, Ind., June 9 —(UP) —Mike Vargo. 44, who drove his truck into a school bus, today was under sentence of six months on the j Indiana state farm. I The state charged that Vargo was ; intoxicated when he crashed into a bus hauling children to the Robert’s school for crippled children' Nov. 4, 1936. He was sentenced yes-1 terday in Criminal court by special: judge Clyde C. Karrer.

THREE SLAYERS TO DIE TONIGHT "Head And Hands’’ Killers Lose Plea To Gov. Townsend Indianapolis. June 9 ■ KU.P.) Three of the four convicted "head and hands" murdeivrs of Hurry A. Miller, retired Cincinnati. 0., fire i captain, will walk from the death ! house to the electric chair at I Michigan City penitentiary shorti ly after midnight tonight to pay ' the supreme penalty for u,e I crime. The men scheduled to die are | John Joseph Poholsky. William ! Kuhlman and Frank Gore Williams. The fourth slayer and ui | leged ringleader in the death plot, j Heber L. Hicks, is to be electroI cuted June 25 unless the state su•ireme court reverses his convlcj tion on an appeal he has pending Poholsky, Kuhlman and Williams lost all hope of mercy last night when Gov. M. Clifford Townsend for the second time refused to intervene in the case. Last month the trio asked for a stay of execution to testify again ' if the supreme court should grant l Hicks a new trial. Townsend rej jected this plea. Yesterday, they sought to have their sentences commuted to life ' Imprisonment but Townsend again refused to act. > “This crime was simply coldblooded murder.” the governor sa'd. “If there ever was a case which justified the death penalty it is this one. I'd be afraid to have my wife and children expos'd to criminals of this kind. The 1 judge said the word and I'm not going to override the judge.” Kuhlman. Poholsky and Wil liams will die one day short of a /ear after the crime was comnitted June 11. 1936. Miller was beaten, shot to death I ind his head and hands removed. They were found emliedded in a box of cement in a lake near Car . •oilton. Ky., nine days after Mill>r's torso was taken from a cul vert near Eminence. Ky. Hicks and Poholsky were captured near Cincinnati. Williams 1 was arrested in San Francisco and I Kuhlman was taken at Portland. , Ore., due largely to skillful police work by Capt. Matt Leach of the I Indiana state police. All four men i confessed the murder and all were : sentenced to death after trials at Brookville, Ind. The evidence disclosed that Hicks maintained a close association and was chauffeur for Miss Flora Miller, sister of the slain ! ire captain. Hicks became aware

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AGtrdinal Comes Z I / ;i y ‘ I ' 1 Back with his teammates on the Cardinals bench, Dizzy Dm being welcomed by Lon Warneke. Dizzy had just been Ford Frick, president of the National League, who lifted without getting the signed apology he had asked from pitcher. Dean made a formal denial before wstaeises of charges ’’ ‘-a™

|of Miller's wealth through her — Leach told Governor Townsend at the reprieve hearing that Hicks “hypnotized" her. According to Leach and the trial ' evidence. Hicks plotted the mur-1 der for two months, planning to, kill Miller, have his sister inherit his $150,000 fortune and then I i “bleed” Miss Miller of her in- j heritance. Hicks. Kuhlman, Poholsky and ; Williams went to Miller's summer I cottage on the Whitewater river, beat him unconscious and shot j him to death on an automobih ! j t ide through southern Indiana and I Kentucky. Poholsky severed the i head and hands, supposedly to pre-1 i vent identification of the body. Poholsky and Kuhlman both i testified against Hicks, then ' pleaded guilty and laid their con I sessions before a jury but were | sentenced to the death chair also I last December. Williams was ar-1 rested during their trials and also , pleaded guilty. o Morgan Packing Co. Strike Is Settled Austin, Ind., June 9 — (UP) —i Newman Jeffrey, Indianjolis, Na-

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