Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 7 October 1937 — Page 8

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GIANTS DEPEND I ON MELTON TO BEAT YANKEES Freshman Southpaw Slated To Face Red Ruffing Today ■' ■" """■ New York. Oct. 7. — (U.R) — Cliff (Mickey Mouse) Melton, the North Carolina hillbilly with the big ears and a grudge against anyone wear- 1 iug the uniform of the New York Yankees, swings his long left arm today in an effort to put the NewYork Giants back on even footing with the American league champions iu the 1937 world eries. Melton, who in his first year in the major leagues got 20 victories against nine defeats, never saw a series game until yesterday, when the Y’anks trampled over his Giants. 8-1. Today his famous ears twitched as he drawled a warning to the team which shipped him hack to the minors three years ago after a hasty tryout. •‘l’ve been a-gunnin' for them Yanks after the way they treated me." he said. “They won't pound > - Last Time Tonight - “THE MAN WHO C RIED WOLF” With LEWIS STONE Tom Brown. Barbara Read. ALSO—Monkey Cartoon & Latest Community Sing. 10c-25c —o FRI. & SAT. youiteSwfciL "-MJCKBV Hoorny < && ' boy .7 ; year /r ’ the n° f the J W °'tte yea7 P ! CtUf * . JU ■■ • down t ovabl » wsss, ANNE NAGEL F FRANK SHIELDS EDWAXD PAWLD • WILLIAM COULD Edward Eggleston's Beloved Story of our own Hoosier State! —o SUN. MON. TUES. —First North-j ern Indiana Showing! “SOULS AT SEA" Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee. Olympe Bradna.

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!no fences off me. I aims to make I 'em look plenty sick before I get i through with 'em." The Yankees already had an- | nounced what was in store for the i gangling rookie who had tossed u i few insults at them during the ! latter part of the season. They had accused hint of going “swell- ' head" and had declared: “Wait until that big-eared punk ' starts throwin’ 'em. We'll blast I him hack to North Carolina.” That was the friendly atmos- ’ phere at Yankee stadium today as 1 the teams went hack for the second game of a series that started with a rout for Manager Rill Terry's National league champions. Yankees' Manager Joe McCarthy chose big Red Ruffing, whose right arm won 20 and lost seven, to battle it out with the 24-year-old Giirtits southpaw. Betting men favored the Yanks I today, quoting odds of 9 to 5. and raised the odds on the Yanks win ning the world championship to 9 to 2. Ruffing was cocky as he prepared to face the Giants before a crowd of more than 60.000. "If I ha*e as much stuff as 1 had ! in Washington when I won my 19th game last week.” said Ruff , ing. “it's going to be a non-hitter." I With a right-hander working for the Yanks. Terry will shift his batting order. Hank Leiber, who went ' hitless in four times at bat in the i opener, will be benched in favor i of Lou Chipzza. a left-handed batI ter. Jimmy Ripple will move up i to bat in the clean-up spot and will maintain the batting array Chiozza will hit sixth. The Yanks which notched the opening victory. Echoes of Carl Hubbell's downfall in the opener brought severe criticism of the American league umpires. The Giants claim Hubbell had Lefty Gomez struck out in the sixth inning when he was give na base on balls which started a 7-run rally. With the count 3 and 2 Gomez was awarde dthe fourth ball by umpire Emmett Ormsby of the American league who was behind the plate. “American league umpires are i high ball callers." said Terry I “They evidently aren't used to low - ball pitching. We thought HubI bell had Gomez fanned.” After Gomez walked —he later walked again in the same inning—the Yanks ran riot, pushing over , 7 runs on 5 hits, four walks and I two errors. In this dizy frame the I Giants got so excited they got ‘ their own players mixed up. Harry Gumhert was announced as the relief pitcher for Carl Hubbell. It ; should have been Dick Coffman, who was striding to the box from i the bull pen when the loud speaker blared: “Gombert replacing in telling the umpires the wrong l Hubbell." Because of this mistake H I • . ome | CORT - Last Time Tonight - “COUNTRY GENTLEMEN” An Oustanding Comedy with OLSEN and JOHNSON. ADDED — “Postal Union” and "Mexican Murial”. Also —Pa the News. 10c -25 c Sunday—“ Handy Andy.”

, off the bench cold and pitch to one batter before Coffman could go In. Hero of the Yanks' triumph was lafty Gomez, who weaved his left handed magic nround the Giants' but. holding them to six li<s, In scoring his fourth world series victory to keep his perfect record intact. MONMOUTH HIGH LISTS SCHEDULE Seventeen Games Larded For Eagles’ Basketball Team The 1937-38 basketball schedule for the Monmouth high school Eagles was announced today by Coach Ernest Curtis. Seventeen games are on the Eagles card in addition to the county tournament. Following is the schedule. "H" denoting home games and "T" on the opponents floor: i Nov. 3 Fort Wayne Colored 11 Nov. s—Kirkland T. N#v. 12—Geneva —T. Nov. 19—Hartford —T. Nov. 24 —Monroe —H. Dec. 3 Pleasant Mills—T. Dec. 10 —Pleasant Mills—H. Dec. 17- Jefferson —H. Dec. 23 —Hartford —H. Jan. 7—Jefferson—H. Jan. 14 Ft. Wayne Colored —H. Jan. 21. 22—County tournament. Feb. 4 —Kirkland H. Jan. 18 Poling—T. Jan. 19- Monroe —T. Jan. 26—Geneva—H. w The Decatur Yellow Jackets will play their final game away from home Friday night, meeting the Portland Panthers under the lights at Portland. —oOo — Though defeated in their first four starts, the Jackets have high hopes of breaking their losing streak tomorrow night. Decatur and Portland have both fallen victims to the Bluffton Tigers. Decatur by a 13-0 score and Portland by a 28-0 count. The Panthers gained only 52 yards against Bluffton, while the Yellow Jackets played the Tigers on nearly even terms. —oOo — Handicapped, by lack of experience. the Jackets failed to score i in their first four tilts. An apparent touchdown at Bluffton in the second tilt of the season was nullified when the Jackets were penalized for backfield in motion. —o(W— While tomorrow night's tilt will be the final game away from home, the Yellow Jackets have four more home games on the schedule. Central Catholic of Fort Wayne will play here Friday. October 15; Columbia City here Wednesday, October 20; Bluffton in a return game here Friday. October 29; and North Side of Fort Wayne will wind up the Jackets' schedule Friday. November 5. —oOo— All these remaining home games will be played at 8 p.m., under the brilliant lights at

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Worthman Field. ■ —oOo— Outstanding in college football I games of last week end was the’ stunning upset Nebraska scored over the mighty Goifliers of Min i nesota. Notre Dame was impressive with a 21-0 triumph over Drake. 1 and Purdue disappointed the Boil- 1 ermaker followers by dropping a | 13-0 decision to Ohio State. -—oOo — The Notre Dame-Illinois clash at I Vrhana likely will draw the c'nief interest of midwestern football fans Saturday, although the World Series in New York still holds the sports spotlight. Michigan and Northwestern will clash at Evanston. while Indiana's meager squad will buck the infuriated Gophers! at Minneapolis. Today’s Sport Parade I (By Henry McLemore) i New York. Oct. 7. — (U.R) —The, i Greeks had a word for it, and it was the same as ours— INSOLENCE! To me that nine letter word tells the story of the first game of the : 1937 world series, in which the New York Yankees treated the New York Giants as if they were just a bunch of boys who blew into town and hurriedly chose up a side. go back to the first half of the fifth inning. The Giants are up. The score is 0-0. Ripple, first man up for the Giants, bangs out a single. A minute later Johnny McCarthy — “one note Johnny" — slaps another single, chasing Rip- ■ pie to third. To nearly everyone in the stands ’ —and there are 70.000 “evenones" packed in there —it looks like the ball game. Because Carl Hubbell, pitching so rthe Giants, appears invincible. The “meal ticket.” his crooked left arm whipping up and down and out with the speed of a snake's fangs, has silenced the Yankees' artillery, and with each pitch he appears to be stronger. “Give us one run.” the loyal Giants rooters say “and it’s our ball game. That's all we needjust one across." That's Manager Bill Terry's strategy, too. He plays for one run when the "meal ticket" is working. And then—and here's where insolence reared its head with a resounding pop — Manager Joe McCarthy says —in effect —“let the bums have one run. Sooner or

occurred in the first inning of the opener, which was played at Yankee stadium, and won by the Yankees, 8 to 1.

' later we ll knock their brains out." ! He said this—McCarthy did—by I signaling for his infield to play deep. Waving, them not to come in. As you know, in a game as I close as this one was at that time. ! it is customary for the infield to! 1 come in on the grass when men ' are on first and third and only | one isout. The theory is to cut : off the run at the plate. Bnt the Yankees, with a fine I scorn for their opponents, played the infield deep, willing to give a run for a double play. “What does it matter,” the • Bronx bombers said by their action. "if these amateurs get a run? In an inning or two well let the roof fall on their heads.” So they played Gus Mancuso for a double I play, and he hit into it. but Ripple i scored. The Giants and their fol-. 1 lowers went into a deep-dish frenzy. 1 turned a pair of binoculars on the Yanks in the field and ’ on the bench and if there was any I ’ concern on their faces it was too ■ feeble to be revealed by ten-power ! glasses. 1 couldn't help feeling that the Yankees considered their opponents push-overs, ready to be taken whenever they (the Yankees) deIcided to knock them off. They; * must have made up their minds to end matters in the sixth for in that frame Hubbell, who had retired 14 batters in order, was shelled from the mound and the 1 game put on what is technically known as the ice. I talked to Walter Johnson, the old “big train." after the game, and asked him what happened to Hubbel in the sixth; what caused the disintegration of a pitcher who. until the world came to an end. seemed in such complete control. "Remember the Y’anks' fourth? Walter asked. "Remember what Hub did in that frame? He faced three hitters in that inning —Di Maggio, Gehrig and Dickey. He made Joe hit into the dirt, struck out Gehrig, and then made Dickey roll to the infield. I don’t know, but my guess Is that his legs went after that effort." “His legs!” I said, figuring that’ it was a pitcher's arm that went i first. “Yes sir. his legs," Walter said. "Hub's no kid. And when you're no kid that underpinning just caves in when the pressure's too hot." And —just one more line: (Copyright 1937 by UP.) o In a Good ▼'own. — Decatur — ■■ ■ •

CHICAGO CUBS TAKE OPENER Cubs Beat White Sox In Opening Game Os City Series , Chicago. Oct. 7-(U.R) The Chi- ' cago Cuba, who finally broke the I White Sox city series streak after it reached nine in a row. looked for another victory today, from solemn Curt Davis, most effective ! Cub pitcher during the closing days of the National league pen nalit race. Right-handed Vernon Kennedy will pitch for the American leaguers in today’s game at Comiskey park The Cubs won yesterday's series opener. 7 to 3. Three-run dusters l in the sixth and eighth innings j routed the Sox after they had i nicked Jim (Tex) Carleton for two | runs in the second inning. The Cubs jumped on Ted Lyons i and Bill Dietrich for 15 hits, scor- ' ing in the fifth, sixth and eighth ! Hits by Bill Herman. Frank De- | maree and Phil Cavarretta sent Lyons to the showers in the sixth j and Joe Marty added another off Dietrich, scoring the third run. In the eighth. Cavarreta and : Augie Galan hit in succession and I Lonnie Frey banged a triple off (he right field wall. Frey later scored on an outfield fly NEWARK BEARS TAKE SERIES Win Fourth In Row To Beat Columhus In “Little Series" Columbus. 0.. Oct. 7—(UP) —For the second time in six years the Newark Bears today ruled the minior League baseball world. Newark climax d a pheromenal ; comeback here last night when it

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