Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1937 — Page 8

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GIANTS, CUBS IN BATTLE TO LEAD LEAGUE Hubbell, Davis Slated To Hurl Series Opener Today Sew York. .July 23. — (U.R) A hand-to-hand skirmish opens at the. Polo grounds today between the. New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs for the National league lead. If the Giants are going to catch the Cubs, this is the time to do it,, because after three games here! Chicago goes home for a 20-day stand. And this Cub team like] many before is at its strongest at Wrigley Field. 1 The Cubs came to town today under the leadership of Gabby Hartnett, acting manager in place ot Charlie Grimm, who is down with sciataca. On their present) eastern Journey they have won seven games and lost three and kept j one Jump ahead of the Giants. Opposing pitchers for the opening game are Carl Hubbell, who has 'Won six straight after his early June collapse, and Curt Davis, who has been almost useless to the Cubs after a long siege of arm trouble. Davis has won two games and lost none. His only complete game this season was a 9-4 victory over Brooklyn last Sunday. The Cubs can’t lose the lead to day but a Giant victory will leave Chicago only a .003 point advantage. Because of the difference in the number of games played the Giants will have to sweep the series to grab the lead. The Cubs can go home in first place by winning one game. The Giants sliced a game off the Cubs’ lead yesterday when they nosed out the Reds in the ninth, 6-5. After blowing a 4-run lead

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| they triumphed on Wally Berger 8, homer over the left field stands. Chicago apparently was breezing I along to its seventh straight vic-. | tory when Clyde Shoun lilt a wild I streak. His successor. Larry I French, was even wilder and be- , fore he got the side out the PhilI Iles had put over a seven-run rally ! In the eighth to beat the Cubs. 7I 4. The Boston Bees swept their 4j game series with the St. Louis i Cardinals by winning the final i game. 2-0, behind Danny MaeFaydj ens 6-hit pitching. The Cards made I only five runs in the entire series. , Not a single Cardinal player reach- ■ ed third yesterday. [ Red Luca? held the Dodgers Io ) four hits and Pittsburgh smacked I three Brooklyn hinders for 14 hits I and a 10 1 victory. Home runs featured play in the I American league. Hal Trosky hit I two to make his total 23. Hank I Greenberg hit No. 22. Jimmy Foxx hit No. 23, his firth homer in three ‘day. Lou Gehrig cracked out No. HI. Joe Di Maggio failed to make I any kind of a hit, the first time he’s gone hitless in 22 games. The St. Louis Browns ( touted , | out 15 hits to trounce the Yankees. I 13-4. Rollie Hemsley and Sam | West hit homers Tom Henrich. , | Yankee rookie, got "4 in 4" including a homer and three singles. , Detroit slugged out 19 hits and , crushed the Boston Red Sox. 17 f to 4. Jake Wade held the Red Sox t i to six hits but gave up 10 bases on balls. In addition to Green- 1 berg's homer, circuit clouts were < made by York. Gehringer and £ . Laabs. Whit Wyatt, making his first t start of the year, held the Ath- £ letics to four hits as Cleveland t won, 5-1. Trosky’s two homers r featured the Indians' attack. I Yesterday's hero: Wally Berger, q whose 9th inning homer enabled f the Giants to beat the Reds and f I climb within one game of the , Cubs. ' 1 o j Trade In a Good Town — Oecatur

BUDGE, PARKER MEET ENGLISH I Frank Parker Replaces Grant In Chance At Davis Cup London. July 23. — (U.R) - I>" n Budge, of Oakland, Calif., and Frankie Parker of Spring Lake. N. J., were nominated today to play the singles for the United States In the challenge round play for the Davis tennis cup which starts at Wimbledom tomorrow with two single matches. For the doubles match, Budge and Gene Make of Los Angeles were chosen for the United States. England nominated Henry Wilfred (Bunnyl Austin and Charley Hare for the singles and C. R. D. Tuckey and F. H. D. Wilde for the doubles. Wilde replaced the veteran Pat Hughes who was forced to withdraw because of illness. Parker will meet Austin at 2:30 p. nt. tomorrow (7:30 a. in. CST) and after that match Budge will meet Hare. At 3 p. nt. Monday the doubles will be played and at 2:30 p. in. Tuesday Parker will meet Hare and then Budge will meet Austin. o- * Today’s Sport Parade i (By Hsnry McLemore) ♦ ♦ New York, July 23 —(U.R) —I am r.ot a man who is given to gloating but I would be a little less than human. anj in danger cf being picked up as the missing link, if I did not get a laugh out ot the present discomfiture of the St. Louis Cardinale.Because four months ago the Cardinals, with the weal' excuse that I was nr. good on ground balls and couldn’t hit, epurned by offer to play in their infield and turned me out of the training camp. As a sort of sop manager Frankie Frisch offered to farm me to the Ty Ty Tigere of the Upper Tallulah Falls League in Georgia. But I refused this when I learned that the Upper Tallulah Faile was a barter league, where the players were paid off in farm merchandise. I couldn't bring myse’f to hitting .350 and fielding 990 V:r any green stuff other than the kind that grows in banks and is picked by paying tellers. Besides, there ie always the danger of a drought, or a corn bore or potato bug plague in a barter league. A few potato bugs come to town, or the hens start moulting, and there goes everybody’s salaries for a month. So I packed my glove and eliding pad (which everybody says is superfluous after one look at me) and came to New York. I tried to catch .-.i with the Yankees as a center fielder but Joe McCarthy eaid he’d gamble on Dimaggio, so I started epending my time following the Cardinals in the papers. They have been very easy to fo’low, cause mostly they've been going on way—down. To find the stories of the'r games all y. a have to do is look for the stories head: “Giants Take Two," or “Cubs Make Clean Sweep," or “Bees Cop Another." It’s always the Cards that other clubs are sweeping or copping or taking two from. If it wasn't for that Medwick the Cards would be sunk low by now that they’d have to wear miner’s lamps and carry canaries to warn them of mine damp. Frisch probably would have sent Medwick to Tallulah Falls a-

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Tommy Farr—tough guy Proving that prize fighters do think. Tommy Farr. British heavyweight champion who meets Joe Louis Aug 26 in New York, assumes a thoughtful pose as he trains in New York for the fight Tommy recently came to the United States from England where he achieved considerable success against second-raters.

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long with me if he hadn’t learned lin Detroit several years ago that • Ducky doesn’t get along on anythI Ing but a grapefruit diet. II 1 can’t hel-p but believe that 1 1 Frisch is sorry he didn't keep me 1 on the team. Because even if I had ■ failed at shortstop he oould have used me as a pitcher. All I've got is 1 a roundhouse out and a drop that goes up instead of down, but that's • been showing lately- All they seem more than Frisch’s pitchers have r to have Is a road map showing the ' shortest way > • the showers. And 1 even if I didn’t play, I’d be around ’ the hotel at night. A manager can’t I have too many friends around after his team loses two in one afternoon 1 to something like the Phillies. Nex’ ! to losing two • • the Brooklyne this is the worst thing that can happen • to taam, and all possible hands are t needed to run after ice packs and ' aspirin, and stand guard at the win- ■ dows of the higher hotel rooms to keep the manager and members of I his boarj of strategy fs-m taking ' | the cowardly way out. II Too' if I were there I could hide Hhe newspapers telling of New York ‘ : and Chicago successes from the ‘ players, just as doctors keep papers ’; away from Aunt Emma when she is > ailing and her little Willie has been •' mistaken for a chow and thrown in 1 , the city pound. And I could be of | help in carrying messages from the : 1 injured Dizzy to Frisch. And when • | the messages became encouraging 1 and said that Dizzy’s big toe was 1 healing rapidly and that he soon, ' | wou'd be in the fold again, I could 1 hold Frisch's hand and sympathize ' with them, and bring him tempting ' and dainty brom..seltzer sandwich- ' jee on rye, quinine sundaes and as'l pirins on pumpernickel. ; (Copyright 1937 By United Press) Q Rockne Son Enrolls At Notre Dame U. — South Bend. Ind.. July 23. —(U.R) j—Knute Rockne. Jr., 17-year-old son of Notre Dame’s late famed football coach, was enrolled today for the fall term of school at the ’ university. Weighing less than 150 pounds, young Rockne was expected to try • out for a quarterback post with

the Irish freshman squads this ; fall. He captained and played quarterback with the Miami. Fla., mill-1 tary academy team which went un , defeated for three consecutive, seasons O 5 Castings Play Berne All-Stars Tonight The Decatur Castings company will play an exhibition game with the Berne All-Stars at the South Ward diamond tonight at 8 o’clock. No games were played Thursday night. o HOME RUNS 1 Di Maggio, Yankees 25 Foxx. Red Sox 23 Trosky, Indians 23 Greenberg, Tigers 22 ’ Medwick. Cardinals 20 o Noble Kizer Still Showing Improvement Mfayette. Ind.. July 23. —(U.R) — ■ Noble E. Kizer. Purdue university athletic director and head football , coach, apparently was headed to recovery today as his condition , continued to improve in a local

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hospital here. Sunday | physicians pronounced | tlon serious. ’ STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet- ; ■ 55 “4 .697 N I T' < ” k 50 33 602' I Detroit X* 10 ? , « M | Cleve,an<l qi 45 408 [Washington •" I St. Louis •-6 ’ ’’ j i Philadelphia ' NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet • 52 30 .634 Chi<aßo r-> t> 619 I New York I Pittsburgh 44 ’ i ‘ j St. Louis « J* I Boston 4 " 4 [ {Brooklyn “ 4 4 « " Cincinnati “2 4. I Philadelphia "2 5- > YESTERDAY’S RESULTS American League Cleveland 5. Philadelphia 1. Detroit 17, Boston 4 1 St. Louis 13, New York 4. Only games scheduled. National League New York 6. Cincinnati 5. Pittsburgh 10, Brooklyn 1. Philadelphia 7. Chicago 4. Boston 2. St. Louis 0. oBud Williamson One Os Leaders Chicago. July 23- (U.R) —Bud W illianieion. Fort Wayne, Ind., and Horton Smith * f Chicago led early finishers in the first round of the $lO,- ' 000 Chicago open golf championship today with 73- Williamson was > three over par on Mcdinah country i club course No. 1 with 36-37-73. o MRS. KNAPP IS i fCnvTiwvr vrov . red Rumschlag are now serving in , these positions and the board deterI mined that they should continue as ) visitor and clerk-stenographer, rel epectively. of the Adams county de--1 pgrtment.’’

TO RACE AUTOS AT HUNTINGTON Auto Races To Be Held At Huntington Speedway Sunday All preparations are nearing com-'p-etlon for the automobile races to be held Sunday. July 2a, at the , Hnntmgton Motor Speedway, with twellly <me entries from the T - States fastest and finest race dr.vers With the track reoiled and re-1 surfaced, a twenty-six second mark , l„ expected for the 5-8 mile local, ll 'Charles Seckendy. holder of th" twentv,-five mile record. d rivln * 1 distance In seventeen mlntitee and | thirty-three seconds, wi'l pilot a, M Iler 220. a new car from Chicago. Such noted drivers a< Al Hammond. I Fort Wayne, Ray Smith, Kokomo. ] Paul Uuseo. Chicago. Mike Salay, South Bend. Charles Van Dyke. ( hi,ago Windv Jennings. Detroit. Lee Duncan. Indianapolis, Vent Tressler Indianapolis, Ernie Push. DeHus s e 11 Campbell. Detn .H.

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iGeorge Barringer. 1 Hu-h. Dulins Texue. p.m P :'as Texas. Hassell Spatq/i? ton, Charles Caluhau, i [Bud Wyoong, Fort Wuy 118 South Bend. Ted Ten '* '-<■ gan. Art Reh liter, D, /’'iM ers are expected M The special event „f . H Ihe a LaSalle se ( | an l) , , u-|| 'EK la flaming board wall at th,. .‘‘'’•W sixty miles per hour H There will be eigh.y. t i, rP(I u. ■ racing a three lap Class A ten lap rev, rue haul W Cass H ten lap eli:n.naii,, r . [C ten lap elimination, ulll | j I) ten hip consolation rar,. [winners. The main event u;| jty hipe for the r., UIt , ~n ra „‘J’ 0 ® of the day. I Free parking space jf Bl for 5.000 auton. .biles, K Time trials start promptly at ..M 109 noon, and the rac-s sta-t at p m All times are Central ard. BATTING LEADERS B Player Club GARR| Ip B Medwick. Cargis ' 1 319 ?> P. Waner. Pirates si HI Hartnett. Cubs 54 17’22 Gehrig. Yanks \» ", West. Browns 71 272 I' 'JH