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MONMOUTH WINS COUNTY TITLE Defeats Monroe 11-5 In Final Tilt; Win Six Straight An undefeated Monmouth high I school team was named county softln»ll champions last evening after a 11-5 victory over Monroe. The Monmouth aggregation won six straight victories this season. Scores of their games: 9-3 over Pleasant Mills; 11-3 ever Kirkland; 10- over Monroe; 14-6 over Kirk-1 land; 11-1 over Pleasant Mills and | 11- over Monroe. L. Fuelling and Doc Fuelling formed the battery for the winners ' yesterday and Hanni and Hahne-rt formed the losing battery. Kirkland finished in second place in the final standings. STANDINGS ' NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. I New York 93 57 .629 Chicago 91 61 .599 Pittsburgh S 3 68 .550 St. Louis 81 71 .533 Boston 77 73 .513 j Brooklyn 62 89 .411 ' Philadelphia 61 90 .404 Cincinnati 56 95 .371 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 100 52 .658 * Detroit . 88 64 .579 Chicago 83 68 .550 Cleveland 82 70 .539 Boston 81 69 .540 Washington 72 78 .480 Philadelphia 51 97 .345 St. Louis 46 105 .305 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 6. Cincinnati 3. St. Louis 4. Chicago 1. Brooklyn 7, New York 4. Only games scheduled. American League Boston 4. New York 2 (called in seventh). Detroit 14, St. Louis 4. Only games scheduled. o HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Bluffton 28. Portland 0. Wabash 39. Huntington 0. Peru 20. S. Side, Fort Wayne 0. N. Side 46, C. C. Fort Wayne 6. Valparaiso 24, Warsaw 12. Marion 14. Elwood 0. Anderson 22. Noblesville 0. Wiley (Terre Haute) 18, Brazil Broad Ripple (Indianapolis) 18. 1 Seymour 13. Shortride (Indianapolis) 41, Stivers (Dayton) 0. Champaign (Ill.) 14. Central of Evansville 12. Vincennes 0, Princeton 0. Bosse of Evansville 26. Booneville 0. ' Decatur Bowling League Results Minor League W L. Pct. Schmitt 9 0 1.000 Kuhn 6 3 .667 Elks No. 2 6 3 .667 Cloverleaf 5 4 .556 Burke's 5 4 .556 Mies -• 4 5 .444 Monroeville .... 1 8 .111 Hoagland 0 9 .000 Minor League Monday: Schmitt vs. Kuhn; Elks No. 2 vs. Cloverleaf; Burke's vs. Mies; Hoagland vs. Monroeville. Merchant League Tuesday: Van Wert vs. Macklin; Gamble vs. Upholster; Casting vs. Schafer; First State Bank vs. CYO. Major League Thursday: Mutschler vs. Saylor; I Frickle's vs. Rockford. Important Gaines To Be Played In Area New York, Oct. 2—(UP)—Mid West football tops tne football calendar today with all but two of the Big Ten schools seeing action. The schedule in the Mid West is:*] Minnesota-Nebraska game at Lincoln tops the program. Purdue and Ohio State meet in only Big Ten game. No big six games scheduled. I Michigan meets Michigan state and Chicago journeys to Nashville to play Vandetoilt in big games. Other games pair Northwestern-lowa state; Wisconsin-Matquette; Notre Dame - Drake; Kansas - Washburn; Xavier - Kentucky, and Illinois- Depau.'. lowa and Indiana a”e ■ nly Big Ten teams idle. o Red Birds Win Third Victory Newark. N. J., Oct. 2.—The hardhitting Columbus Red Birds made the champion Newark Bears of the

International League look like just ( I another ball club for the third straight time Iqst year as they beat I them, 6 to 3. in the third game of the little world series before u near-capacity crowd of 17,000.' Score: Columbus 200 000 220 —6 10 1 Newark 360 000 000—3 8 31 Cooper. Lanier and Grube; Tamulis. Beggs. Page and Hershberger. o j Trade tn a Good Town —Decatur.

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IJNKEEFANS ARE WORRIED Lefty Gomez Pitches As Yanks Continue Losing Streak New York. Oct. 2 (U.P> American league partisans werq perturbed today over the -eleventh 1 hour" losing streak of the New York Yankees and the defeat of l,efty Gomez in his last start before facing the Giants in the ing game of the world series Wedj uesday. Most Yankee supporters charged

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i off the 4-gatne losing streak to lack | of incentive to win with nothing at stake, but yesterday's loss, with I Gomez on the mound trying hard for his 22nd triumph, caused an xlety among Yankee backers who l have laid 21 that the American I league champions win the world series. Gomez was oHtpitched hy Buck Newsom who scored a 4-2 triumph for the Boston Red Sox in 7 in- 1 nings. darkness halting the game Newsom held the Yanks to 5 hits - while Goinez was rapped for eight.! Gomez had trouble with his con trol, giving up 7 walks. With the pennant In the bng. the Giants bowed to the Dodgers, 7-4. Tile victory broke Brooklyn's 14game losing streak. The Giants used a makeshift lineup and gave

( Hy Vandenberg, Baltimore rookie,] his first start. Hany Leiber. back | In the lineup after illnens. got "51 I for 5." In the other National league | games Pittaburgh won its 18th vicI tory In 19 starts against Cincinnati. 6-3. and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs. 1-1. Jim Tobin, who let the Reds down with 6 hits, had a perfect day at bat. getting "4 for 4." Si Johnson pitched the Cards' victory. With Hgnk Greenberg hitting • homers No. 39 and 40 and Rudy York belting No. 34 the Detroit Tigers slugged out a 14-4 triumph over the St. Louis Browns In the ' only other American league game. Eldon Anker easily won his 17th game. Yesterday's hero: Jim Tobin.

I Pirates' pitcher who pitched and I batted his tentn to its seventh straight victory. 6-3, over the Reds — 0 GIANTS'HAVE BEST INFIELD Strong Infield Expected To Help Giants In Series By George Kirksey United Press Staff Correspondent.' New York. Oct. 2-(U.PJ—Offen-1 slvely or defensively, individually , or collectively, the Giants Infield

must be conceded the edge over the Yankees' fqi the world series-on-the-aubway which will open Wednesday at Yankee stadium But fVen this coltceeaioll to the I Giants has a catch to It lam Geh rig might upset the apple cart and] ' create more havoc with his but i ’than all tlie Giant Infielder* com-j , blued. Gehrig has played in five I ] world series and never been' ' shackled at the plate He did 1 plenty of damage last year, bitting ' ] two homers which i-.ayed big parts I In whining the third and fourth I games. His batting mark was only 292 but he hit for 14 liases and ; drove in seven runs. If th- (Hunts 'can hold Gehrig In check, they'll l . make a big step toward winning j the series. With Gehrig disposed of th-

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