Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1937 — Page 8

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MAJOR LEAGUES AID YOUNGSTERS Again Donate $20,000 For American Legion Junior Teams Indianapolis. Dec. 16. -(Special) Organized baseball has again voted a grant of $20,000 to The American Legion for the support of Its junior baseball program during 1938, thus assuring another summer season of wholesome recreation, expert instruction and character building for more than 500,000 hoysContinuation of organized baseball's financial aid to this great yotiQi training activity of The American Legion, was authorized by unanimous action of the baseball commission at its session in Chicago, December 8. The commission is composed of the representatives of a!8 of the clubs of the American and National baseball leagues. The Commission's action followed the formal petition for continued financial support of the junior baseball program made by Homer L. Challlaux. national director of Americanism of the American Legion. He pointed out to the assembled baseball magnates that The American Legion through its junior baseball program not only was helping to develop fine sportsmanship and good citizenship among the boys of the nation, but also was helping to bring back baseball as a recognized jnajor sport in any high schools throughout the United States. of junior baseball will be payable The 1938 grant to the support in SIO,OOO installments to the national Americanism commission of The American Legion, on July 1 and August 1. respectively. It will bring cldse to $300,000 organized baseball's financial aid to junior base'ball since 1928. The money which the baseball commission contributes annually toward the junior baseball program is earmarked exclusively for the purpose of defraying the transportation and other expenses of the championship teams playing in the regional and sectional tournaments and in the junior world's series. The 1938 junior baseball season

TURKEYS for CHRISTMAS SHOOTING MATCH Sunday, Dec. 19 Starts 10 o'clock POULTRY FOR PRIZES. Hot Lunch will be served. 6 miles North of Decatur on State Read 27 or 1 mile South and 1 2 mile East of St. Johns. Shelter with heat is there. Watch for siqns. Country Conservation Club | CORT - Last Time Tonight - “ANNAPOLIS SALUTE” with James Ellison. Marsha Hunt. ADDED — Good Comedy and Shorts. 10c-25c Sunday—“ Danger. Love h at Work.”

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Week’s Schedule For Adams County Basketball Teams | ♦— ♦ Friday Yellow Jackets at Berne. Monroe vs. Kirkland at* YellowJacket gym. Geneva at Hartford. Monmouth at Jefferson. Sunday Catholic high of Joliet, 111., at Commodore gym. (4 p- tn.) will be the twelfth in the history of this American Legion youth activity. The season will open officially June 30. 1938 This date is the deadline for the enrollment of eligible hoys in the program. There probably will be more than 30.000 teams sponsored by American Legion posts throughout the nation. These teams play elitnin ation games to determine first the city championships, then the county championships, then the congressional district championships and finally the state championships The state championship teams then meet in regional tournaments to determine the regional championships. Regional winners progress into the sectional tournaments. The sectional tournaments determine the annual finalists who compete in the junior world s iesAmerican Legion posts sponsoring junior baseball teams usually supply the youngsters with full equipfnent including, gloves, mitts, bats, masks, bails and in manycases with uniforms. They obtain also expert coaching, often employing the services of former big league stars. The boys are given the best instruction possible on how* to bat correctly, how to pitch, how to run bases and how to field. For these purposes Legion posts spend many hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. While they are doing all this, the Legionnaires alos teach the boys the code of good sportsmanship, flag etiquette and other things that help to prepare the lads for better citizenship. No team may carry more than 15 players. Enrollment in the 1938 junior baseball program will be open only to boys who are amateurs and who will not have attaine dtheir 17th birthday before March 31. 1935. A boy born prior to midnight March 30. 1921. will not be eligible. rv —

o I Today’s Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) Sacramento. Calif.. Dec. 16.—<U.R) —How much better is a "wonder" football team than just an or,|iuary foothall team whose members put their pants on one leg at a time, eat the regulation ham and eggs for breakfast, and think Zane Grey our greatest novelist? In my travels about this sunkissed state I have been trying to find jit answer to this question, because it won't be long before California and Alabama meet in the Rose Bowl and an answer will be a very handy thing to have around. As you' know, California has a “wonder" team this year. Every native son agrees on that. At one time or another in the past months I have read word pictures of that team which, if swallowed in the entirety and without the customary dusting of salt, could lead one but to one conclusion: That the California varsity is a combination of the Taj Mahal 9>y moonlight, sunset on the Bay of Naples, mother love. Kreisler playing two fiddles.' and the hundred yard dash between the married and single men at the Elk's picnic. Now Alabama makes no such claim for its molskin warriors. In fact, I have heard it said that Alabamans are considering making the rabbit the state animal on the

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grounds that only the left hind legs of the rabbit enabled the! Tuscaloosa team to go through the ' season undefeated. I also have heard it said that | at one time Alabama could not I make up its mind whether to go to I the Spgar Bowl and win for $40.000 or come to. the Rose Bowl ami ' probably take a beating for SBO,OOO. I don't know whether this is true. - but if it is I want to congratulate those who decided to risk the j beating for an extra $40,000. For $40,000 one can buy all the balm' in Gilead, not to mention all the! liniment the pores of a football eleven could absorb in twelve months of steady rubbing. The odds the Californians are ■ offering on the game are not consistent with their talk of a “wond-, er" team. At thb present writing l the best an Alabama follower can! get for his $5 is $7. Now that's; not right. Certainly a "wonder" team should be an overwhelming favorite over an eleven that won two games by the slim margin of a field goal, and two others by the almost as slender margin of! a touchdown. To date I haven't found any Cali-, fornia supporters willing to give' points. They shy away from 7 points as a politician does from a fiat statement of policy. The reas-

on for this unwillingness to overboard on the Golden Bears is has-; ed. I believe, on the dull but en-! lightening reading furnished byi the history of the Rose Bowl. Four i times Alabama has been out. and three times it has won. And the worst the hoys from the corn pone and suspender belt have gotten is a tie. It is my belief that Alabama's best chance this year lies in the fact that every member of the California team can read and is a subscriber to one or more newspapers. This means that the boys have read all the stories written about them, and that perhaps they will take the field convinced they are all of all-America status and entirely unbeatable. If they do. Alabama probably will win, because football history does not contain even one instance of where a newspaper clipping, no matter how carefully preserved, ever did a de- , cent job at blocking, tackling or running. I’ll say this: if Coach Stub Allison has managed to keep his players humble and untemperamental he deserves a hand struck medal, replete with palms, hibiscus bushes. and even a live bird. (Copyright 1937 by UP.) W II 111 — w

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Decatur Bowling ,| League Results j CHURCH LEAGUE Immanuel No. 2 G. Thieme 116 143 ! V. Bleeke »... 147 131 138 ; iA. Steele 141 148 1701 1. Steele 139 I<«2 ■ E. Thietne 104 1131 Schamerloh ... 134 145 H. Thieme S 3 Totals 647 598 709 j Convoy City Don Roehm 97 121 133 I R. Reidenbach 65 88 76 ■ E. Roehm 147 112 124 100 100 100 .. 100 100 100 .— Totals 509 521 533 Friedheim ;M. Buuck .... 106 171 160 j N. Stopenhagen 120 140 133; E. Reifestack 124 148 1351 E. Buuck 160 166 115 \V. Stopenhagen . 119 138 125! i ' Totals 629 763 668! Immanual No. 1 E. Reinking 139 169 118 , Hoile 168 151 181 Krtiekeberg 110 148 1381 Blakey 158 179 150 Shultz 177 170 ! R. Blake 135 Totals 752 826 722 I Ossian E. Werling 120 129 91 Mfl Meyer 101 128 180 Scheuman 102 87 129 R. Werling 88 151 149 Nahrwold 118 97 129 Totals 529 592 678 Convoy Country U. Etzler 140 171 187 W. Etzler 126 131 163 E. Etzler . 149 161 110 C. Etzler 191 170 112 A. Etzler 139 144 153 Totals74s 777 725 MATCH GAME Wade Motors Kodeman 176 171 192 Foster 162 189 174 ■ Fifrid 147 180 2181 Kraft 153 175 155 Kessler > 151 156 187 Totals .... 789 871 926 Decatur Green 172 156 228! Hoagland 199 181 171 I Ladd 163 181 176 Mutschler-. — 204 182 234 Spangler . 207 191 195;

GREENBERGIS SWAT LEADER Tijrer First-Sacker Leads League In Runs-Batted-In Mark 1 New York. Dee. 16. <U.PJ Hank : Greenberg. Detroit's slugging first- ! baseman, came within one run of ! tleing the all-time record for runs batted in during one season, ofll , Hal American league averages for ! 1937 revealed today. Coming back after being out I most of last year with a broken wrist, Greenberg hammered 18$ ! runs across just one less than I the major league record set in 1931 by Lou Gehrig of the NewYork Yankees. Greenberg, seventh on the batting percentage list for the season Just ended, might have shattered, Gehrig's mat'll it he hadn't had a ! slight slump during June. Aiding ' his cause was a total of 40 home runs—more than any Detroit play- ! er ever had hit before. Gehrig, who was third on the I list with 159 nuns batted in. shat- ! tered a pair of major league rec-1 ; ords. By slamming home 150 or more runs for a seventh season. ' he broke the former high of sic set by Babe Ruth By hitting over 100 runs for the 12th straight season, he moved out of a tie with Goose oGslin and Al Simmons for _UBL_I_I— lIH.M— I II - r- "IST 1- ■ -

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having performed the feat 11 con-! seeutlve years. Joe Di Maggio. Yankee outfleldo.r was second ill runs butted in With 167. Bill Dickey, Yankee catcher, was fourth with 133. Ijist year's leader, Hal Trosky of the Cleveland Indiana who led with 162, was fifth this season with 128. The Yankees, with 922 runs batted in, led the league but they fell far short of the all-time record they rung up last year at 995. The Detroit Tigers, who led the’ circuit in club batting, were sec ! ond to the Yankees with 873 runs' batted in. Boston was third with' 769. The St. Ir>uis Browns, sec-! ond in club batting, were seventh j in the runs column with 682. Only 15 men went over the 100! mark as compared to a record 18 , last year. Frank Crosetti, Yan- 1 kee leadoff man. fanned the most' times. 105 Greenberg was second with 101. Jimmy Foxx of Boston, who led in strikeouts for the last six years, dropped to third! with 96. Gehrig drew the most passes.j 127. That brought his life time total to 1,398 and marked the tenth straight year he had drawn 100 or more fre trips to first. O Passes School Bus, Fined At Bluffton John Zimmerman, of Adams coun ty, was fined $1 and costs in Bluffton city court Tuesday night on a charge of passing a school bus, whi'e unloading children.

JEFFERSONVILLE SUFFERS UPSET — New Albany Wins Fifth In Row To Beat Jeffersonville Indianapolis, nd . Dec. 10 (Up) ’ New Albany flashed into protulnlence among outstanding state titles i cage contenders last night by ibeat. ;ing Jeffersonville, 21 to 19. Jeffersonville 'ast Saturday night I had knocked off last season’s Ind'iana champions, the Anderson Ind'lans. It was the fifth straight win for New Albany and indicated unusual power in the southern five, 'who previously had walloped Reitz and Central of Evansville, and Columbus Other Scores: I New Albany 21; Jeffersonville l:i. I Greenwood 25; Whiteland 32. Culver Military 31; Kpox ladependente 28. Silent Hoosiers 39; New August:' 34. Purcell (Cincinnati) 41; Lawrenceburg 23. Bright 19; Lawrenceburg reserves 13. Southport 27; Plainfield 21. Mt. Comfort 32; Union township ! 27 I Bippus 43; Clear Cieek 17. College Basketball Purdue 53; Detroit 26.

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