Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1937 — Page 8

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GOMEZ LEADING YANKEE DRIVE TO LONG LEAD Scores 12th W in 01 Y ear; Cubs Regain Lead In National New York. July 16 —(UP) Tho fireball of El Senor Gomez is blazing again, not quite up to its white heat stage of 1934, but still hot enough to warrant the New York Yankee portsiderw' nomination for the No. 1 comeback of the Major Leagues. And nothing could be more pleasing to Broadway's play boys and girls who took the gangling Rodeo, t’a'if., youth to their hearts back i t 1931 and transformed him into one of their own kind. At first he was a curiosity with his wide-eyed observations and a milk and cheese diet, but he made them laugh and earned the name of "goofy"He was a sensation hie first season. winning 21 games. In 1932 he won 24. He slumped to 16 wins the next year, then reached his peak in 1934 when he bagged 26 triumphs and was the American League's leading pitcher with an earned run average of 2.33. Yankee officiate went into high gear and signed lefty uu to a two year contract at S2O.O<M) per annum. That was a mistake. "Goofy"s took 1 to the bright lights like a duck to water. He wooed and won the beautiful June O'Dea of musical comedy fame and "went Broadway’’ to such an extent that last year the Yank front office had a corps of "gumshoes" checking up on hte nocturnal hours. Lefty came to a tude awakening last spring when Yankee owner Jake Ruppert offered him a contract for $7,500. He had expected a cut. he said, but not a 62'i per cent reduction. He wheedled that figure up to $12,5c0 then began seriously attempting a comeback. Yesterday he turned in his 12th victory of the year, as many as he won al' year in 1935. and only one less than he registered last year. With the season barely past the lia.i-way mark. Lefty is a good bet to win 20 games. In beating Detroit, 13-6. yester-

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the California Castilian also gave the Yankees their ninth victory in a row their longest winning streak since 1933, which boosted their league lead to 7'4 gamesThe other three first division clu s lost. The Hoell.n Red Sox hoc- | Brown- when Oral Hildebrand 11 mited them to eight hits, and the Chicago White Sox were nosed out , i by the Philadelphia Athletics. ’ , ca iter held <’hi- ago to tour hits to break a 15 game Philadelphia losing streak. Cleveland made it two straight over Washington, coming from behind with a five run rally in the fifth, climaxed by Hal Trosky's 19th homer, for a 6-2 decision. ' The Chicago Cubs edged back In front of the G ants in the National League chase when they beat the Boston BBees 5-1 behind Tex Carleton's eight bit pitching. It was the only game not rained out In the League and put the Cubs out. .o'»4 percentage points ahead of the idle New Yorkers. Yesterday's hero: George Caster of Philade'phia who turned in the best pitching performance in the majors. He doled out four hits for the Athletics' first win in their last 16 games. BATTING LEADERS Player Club GABR II Pct. Medwick. Cards 71 280 65 115 .411 Hartnett. Cubs 50 157 21 61 .389 P. Waner, Pirate 73 291 58 113 .388 Gehrig. Yankees 73 268 65 102.381 Travis. Senators 51 188 25 69 .36, — o home runs Di Maggio, Yankees - ‘ Greenberg. Tigers ■ 20 Trosky. Indians Medwick. Cardinals IS Ott, Giants ls o Reports Favorable Farm Price Outlook Washington, July 16—(UP) —The department of agriculture today reported a "favorable outlook" for farm prices and income during the next few months. Prices of most farm products, already somewhat above those of a . year ago, probably will advance . further during the next month, the - department said. It was beieved that cash income in July will show 'a markedly greater than seasonal ■- increase over June.”

BUDGE. MAKO. GRANT NAMED U. S. Davis Cup Team To Play German Stars In Series 1 London, July 16 —(VP) — The United States today nominated the ’ same trio which won the North Am- ' erlcan Zone finals against Australia • to battle, gerniany beginning tomorrow -n the Inter-Zone round of Da- ‘ vis cup tennis competition. t Donald Budge of Oakland. Cal., The Wimbledon champion, Bryan r (Bitey) Grant, the tiny Atlantan, ' and Gene Mako, husky blond from Los Angeles, were selected to play • the strong Nazi pair of Baron Gott- ‘ fried Von Cramm and Henner Henkel for the right to meet England In • the challenge round for the trophy next week-end. 1 Von Cramm. the slim German 1 who lost in the all England finals to 1 Budge, will face Grant tomorrow ' in the opening singles match of the best three out of five aeries. Hen- ' kel plays Budge in the second singles. On Monday, Germany's "iron man" combination faces Budge and Mako — the aV-England doubles champions —in dunblw while on Tuesday tomorrow's singles pairings will be reversed for the con eluding matches. STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 49 22 .690 Boston 41 29 .586 Chicago 44 32 .579 Detroit 42 31 .575 Cleveland 36 34 .514 Washington 30 40 .429 St. Louis . 28 48 .324 Philadelphia 21 50 .296 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Chicago 46 28 .622 New York 47 29 .618 Pittsburgh 40 33 .548 St. Louis 39 33 .542 Boston 34 42 .447 . Brooklyn 31 41 .43f Cincinnati 29 43 .403 Philadelphia 29 46 .387 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League St. Louis 5. Boston 3. Cleveland 6. Washington 2. Philadelphia 2. Chicago 1. New York 13. Detroit 6. , National League Chicago 5. Boston 1. Pittsburgh at New York. rain. Cincinnati at Brooklyn, rain. St. Louis at Philadelphia, rain. — —__ o ♦ « I Today’s Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) | « « New York, July 16.— (U.R) — The prestige of that baseball institu-i tion known as the sprjng training camp is taking an awful kicking ' around from Charles (Rufus the Redi Ruffing these days. Every time that Manager Joe McCarthy, front the depths of his . infinite wisdom, sends Charles out to pitch for the Yankees, Charles proceeds to win. The latest statis tical bulletin reveals that he has a season's record of eleven victor- . ies against two defeats, which is as sparkling as your favorite Tiger's eye. if tne spring training camp business were as vital as baseball's wise men would have us believe it is. Charles should have the in- - glorious record of no wins and thirteen losses. Because Charles never saw the inside of one this year. When the call came for the Athletes to depart to southern : climes, Ruffing was busily engaged > lin holding out for mye money, from him, home in Nokomis. Illinois. And he continued to hold out until middle May, and never was any nearer a training camp than his own front yard. Not one shaft of Florida sun-' shine, with the benefieient vitamin J rays, touched his torso. He 101 - i ed on no beaches, sucked no oranges. bought no lamps made from conch shells, played no golf, caught no fish. In short, he enjoyed none of the training camp routine which is supposed to ready a man for a season of big league play. He just sat at his desk in No- I Komis, in the chill of an Illinois early spring, and wrote spiteful letters to Jake Ruppert. That was his sole exercise—that and running down to the corner grocery, I the barber shop, the postoffice and ' the movies. When Ruffing finally joined the Yankees in New York in May, the baseball critics sadly shook their heads. “Why he isn’t even sunburned!” NOTICE! Since the building, in which I live and keep my shop on First street, has been sold. I must get a new location. Y’ou will hear of me later. I am not leaving Decatur. I will start up again. D. A. Gilliom

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they said. “He will be lucky to win five games this year." They prophesied Ruffing’s arm . would be full of kinks at a bush-' man's hair, his legs as unstable as I gelatine, and his timing as unsure . as an indoor sun dial. They were all wrong and Ruffing.' from the first time he toed the slab, had all the stuff on the ball i he ever had. and a little bit more. As a result. I see but one con-1 elusion to draw: That spring training camps are chiefly a fine publicity dodge for baseball and the chambers of commerce where the teams train. Which is perfectly all right, of course. Your true baseball filbert probably would go crazy if he had to do without any word of his, heroes from the time the world series ends in October and the season starts in April. By March he is almost wild for stories and pictu- s of the noble athletes, fie isn't particular what kind of stories ami pictures they are. either. He will devour articles telling how much w< ight shortstop Joe Doakes lost over the winter, and where right fielder Ben Glutz went moose hunting. And he will feast his eyes on pictures of the athletes I playing catch on the beach, shinnying up a grapefruit tree, and cashing a $2 ticket at a dog track. The spring training camps provide him with these stories and ‘ pictures, and work up his enthus-

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iasm to such a pitch that by the time the season rolls round nothing short of violence < oid prevent his being in the grandstand for the opening game. (Copyright 1937 by UP.I o Cub Manager Leaves Team For Treatment Boston. Ju’y 16—(UP)— Charley Grimm, ailing manager of the Chicago CuXs, saij he would leave on the noo ntrain today for St. Louis to be treated for a recurring sciatic condition of the right leg 0 - —— o Russia Plans Third Flight Over Pole Los Ange-’es. July 16 — (UP) — Soviet aviation, having demonstrated Its ability on long flights over uncharted, dangerous areas in two trans-polar flights, now will send a third plane on a non-stop trip over the top of the world from Moscow to California, it was announced today. The proposed flight was discussed while the three heroes of the record breaking Moscow-San Jacinto nonstop flight, which ended Tuesday, were receiving the official greetings of Los Angeles and visiting the movie studloes. o Trade In a Good Town — Decatu.

FEW FITTED FOB WELF A R E WBK Gottschalk Keveals Few Persons In state Art Qualified Indianapolis July 1« ( U'R) ~ Thurtnan A. Gottschalk, , ■ rector of public welfare, r tod-.y that there is "an asto ish , lU g shortage of persons in who are trained to do and public w.-lfare administration, add planned revision of the merit system in his departmentGottschalk's statement came response to criticism from bo Democrats and Republicans about the results of recent merit examinations. The welfare department gradually i» installing the merit system in all of its divisions ami institutions but this procedure is still in the 'experimental stage Gottschalk also was concerned over the abiLty of som- p* ■ ' ll to pass the merit system tests, i About 20 persons in the Marion county welfare department who have had two years welfare ex perience recently flunked the examination. -We do not propose to weaken the inert system in any partlcu 1 .. .. . . it “Kut nnlv I<l

lar.” Gottschalk said, “hut oniv 1 highest personnel needs of the state and county welfare organizations. It may even then be requir- | ed that we institute some program ] lor in service training of our welfare workers." . Gottschalk asserted that a com- ‘ mittee in his department has been formed to study all complaints and make recommendations tor (

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(he State personii"! < l,lll leartl-d He • ,„iv stiffs probably due to the 1 '.»■ “ . in the experimental Stage. ,ln .. .. h ,'e I receiving com,l ,u,s ibout the results of the I " e\ . nimUjons from both ReI all< r Democratic county . ‘ffl.iai- so from l' 1 »" s ‘"' 1 Endpoint it would eeetn that our k efforts to improve public welfare personnel over the state have been ' without political tin**' „ a • When persons other than parti- !’ eanT join with these others in t' making complaints about the cotintv eligible lists. It would appear 1 Lt « should make a thorough ' review of the methode twhlch have t ... . been used. (1 (p-—-.1 \I‘S. CHINESE d ' Japan was remote unless this nn- " tlonul government moved aY'ively in support of the Northern officials li,.' ible ources at Nanking topi '■ the' United Press that Gen. Sung Cheh Yuan, chairman of the Hopel- " fh.cur politi.al eoun.il and com- <»

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