Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 76, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1938 — Page 6

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JOE LOUIS TO I FIGHT THOMAS | FRIDAY NIGHT — Heavyweight Champion To Fight In Chicago Friday Night Chicago, March 30 (ll.R) Heavy-J lug his explosive right fist for a j weight Champion Joe lamls, groom-] quick knockout, ended training tic day for a scheduled 15 round title fight Friday against Harry Thom- ] as, the wild swinger from Eagle! Bend, Minn. Anxious to dispose of Thomas] quicker than did his conqueror. ■ Max Sell me ling, Louis finished the! grind with stress on his right hand punch Schmeiing stopped the art-j less Thomas in the eighth round ; There was little wagering, hut , odds still remained at 20 to 1 and 10 to 1 that Louis would retain his | world title hy a knockout. These odds, plus a second game; in the Stanley cup hockey playoffs; hetween the Chicago Biackhawks ] ami New York Americans ached-] uled in the stadium the night lie- 1 fore the bout, held back ticket : sales. Approximately $30,000 worth ' of tickets were reported sold and ! the bout may not do better than ; $60,000. Louts opened up with his right | for the first time yesterday. 1 Abandoning the cautious left jab which carried him through most of the eailier workouts, the bomber ripped into his three spar mates repeatedly, often leading with his right. Thomas, who fights from a weav- 1

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Ilng crouch, Is a slow swinger and can be hit with either hand. The champion, however, appeared careless in Ills defense during these I flurries although lie never was hit solidly. lie worked two rounds each with j George Williams and Tom Jones of Chicago and his old standby. | tieorge Nicholson of Yonkers, N'.Y ] lie knocked down Jones with his first right hand punch and let up i Williams, first to box witli him. was staggered several times in ) each round, but stayed on his feet. They also wme oil Louis' pro- | gram for two rounds each today, i Thomas resumed today after a I rest ami planned to spar at least six rounds. As his title chance neared, he still retained his confi ; deuce and showed no traces of the ! "Louis jitters" which have sent , more than one man against the ! deadly negro shivering in his socks. "I've got to go to the dentist ! again today.” he complained "(Jolly, 1 hate that worse than ; climbing in there with Louis." Thomas said he weighed 192 and ] probably would weigh in at 195. 1 Louis expected to weigh about 20t. Dr. Frank Lagorio, staff physl ' cian of the Illinois athletic commission. was called to examine 1 both boxers In the presence of ! Chairman Joe Triner after their workouts today. o * Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore ♦ —— 4 St. Petersburg, Fla.. Mar. 30. — (U.R! Cali it coincidence if you like, or even if you don't like, hut last year during spring training the honorable Joe (Ducky Wueky 1 Medwick was quartered in a hotel ( room with the number of 3T4. It was exactly .374. no more and no less, that the honorable Medwick hit during the 1937 season to lead all National league batsmen. The hotel w. s the Osceola GramI atan. the town Daytona Beach. This year when Medwick arrivled in St. Petersburg to begin ] spring training, the manager of the Detroit hotel, flanked by 17 bellhops, three flunkies and a bus j boy. escorted him to the hotel’s i best room, as befitted baseball's ! mightiest hitter. Tile room had | every known sort of ventilation, j including dormer windows. It J looked out on a park where sparrows chirped and larks hopped, it ' had hot and cold running water, j knee-action blinds, and a carpet as i Persian as any cat. Much to the manager's astonishment Medwick took one look at ■ the room, or rather one look at the ! number on the door of the room | and refused it. The manager in- ; sisted it was the very best in the house and that he must have it. Medwick said he wouldn't have it even if they gave it to him free ! along with a paid up social securI ity slip. .His explanation was very simple : and to the point. The number of the room was 238 and Medwick, as superstitious as a voodoo doctor. was afraid that would be just the percentage he would hit this year if he lived in it. So he moved upstairs, to a mean little room, almost an attic number. It was dark and it was dreary but on its door it had a number that inspired Medwick. It was room 403, and that's just what Medwick hopes to hit National league pitching for this year. “I'm not saying I’m gonna get that high," Medwick said, “because

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when you're on top. and every- j body knows you can hit, you oughta see the stuff thase pitchers blow I up there at you. I'm telling you ! that I hit stuff last year was so] fancy, so screwy, that I didn t b' 1 - ] lieve I d hit it until I saw the box I scores the next day. Hubbell nev- : er threw me an easy one. Neither did that Mungo. Neither did. anybody else." From this start Joe and I moved ] into a technical discussion of hitt-j ing and he explained to me a ] phase of hitting of which I knew j nothing. Every good hitter has] an “imaginary zone" and when the' hall comes in there it gets swung i at. This zone differs with each ] batter. Medwiek’s zone, for ex- j ample, is much bigger than that j of the average hitter, and includes ■ an area that takes in what would lie had balls for a less powerful ] hitter than Joe. He is so strong] that he can half bit a ball and i knock it for a double or a home j run. Joe doesn't try to outguess a pitcher. When a hall comes into his zone, he takes a whack at it. be it a curve, fast ball, change of pace, throw out or anything else., Medwick also dotes on hitting the] first hall and gets many of his hits j that way. “A good deal of the time that first pitch is a sweet one," Joe ] told me. • "it naturally would be. because smart pitchers are always working to get the edge on the batter." It began to get stuffy in room 403 at that point so I moved back down to room 238 and sat with a rookie who said he would be mighty pleased to hit .238 in the National, being as that would be , a hundred points higher than he hit in the Evangeline league last year. (Copyright 1938 by t T P.) ■ o . + • At the Training Camps \ By United Press . « Bees, Red Sox Bradenton. Fla.. March 30 —<U.R) i —The Bees and the Red Sox. each i with one victory, meet today in the . third of the six-game exhibition | series between Boston's two major , league clubs. The Red Sox snapp- ■ ed the Cincinnati Reds’ winning streak yesterday S-4 for a spring average of .500 —after 14 games. , The Bees hammered out a 9-1 trii umph over Louisville in the American Association for their sixth victory in 14 starts. Cardinals St. Petersburg. Fla. — The St. Louis Cardinals will try their luck against their American Association farm club at Columbus today after bowing 0-1 to their International league ruralites at Rochester in a 13-inning battle yesterday. It was the Cards' ninth defeat in IS spring games. Indians Biloxi. Miss. —The Cleveland Indians and the Philadelphia Phillies meet today in their fourth and last exhibition game. The Indians took , the lead in the series with a 2-1 decision yesterday. All their games i have been decided hy one run. the Phils taking the first 7-6 and the Indians the second. 5-4. Cleveland has a spring record of six victories. one tie and seven defeats. The Phile have lost nine out of 14. Browns San Antonio, Tex. —The St. Loui3 Browns returned to their home training site today after a week's absence, to start a five game series with the Toledo Mudhens of the American Association. The Brownies scored their ninth , straight victory of the training campaign when they beat the University of Texas nine 5-1 yesterday. General Manager Bill Dewitt finally got the second-baseman Tom Carey started to the Hollywood club of the Pacific League ; last night after threatening suspension. White Sox Los Angeles — Jimmy Dykes, I manager of the Chicago White Sox,

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j believed today that the team's hatting power, lax since the training i camp season began, was beginning ! to assert itself. The Sox won their ] second victory from the'r city riv | als, the Culls. S to 7 yesterday with I a strong display of hitting. Gerald , ; Walker, former Detroit outfielder, I led the attack, hitting a homer and ; triple to drive in four runs. Joe ( ! Marty of the Cubs had three dou- ! hies and a triple to his credit. The ] I spring series between the clubs j now stands 4 to 2 in favor of the Cubs. 0 Purdue All-Stars Defeat Celtics] Terre Haute. Ind., March 30 — (CP) —The Purdue all-stars won i the second tilt in a three-game serir- from the New York Celtics, world's professional cage champions (3 to 37, here last night. Pat Malaska. former Boile-maker j |rrar. and Jewell Y'ouug. his sensa- ! i tional southpaw team-mate. !ed the ] i scoring drive and staved off a Cel- j I tic rally in the closing minutes. Mai luska made 12 points and Young 11. ! , The Celts won the first scrap at Indianapolis, 51 to 4S The deciding ; game will be played at Fort Wayne j tomorrow. FATAL FIRE IS BEING PROBED Alleged Incendiary Fire At Indianapolis Fatal To Girl Indianapolis, Ind.. March 30— t UP)—Five separate investigations were under way today into an alleged incendiary fire at the cleaning establishment of Henry A. Working. 42. which took the life of Mildred Bowden. 7, and critically injured her 8-year-old sister. Mary Belle. Working, meanwhile, was being held incommunicado on a vagrancy charge in default of SIO,OOO bond. nvestigations were being made by fire chief Fred C. Kennedy, who declared the cleaning estahlishwas a fire trap; the police department; Coroner E. R. Wilson, the office of Herbert M. Spencer, prosecuting attorney and the state fire marshall's office. Working was arrested late yesterday after chief Kennedy personally investigated the scene of the tragedy and asserted the blaze had been "touched off” in the weatherboarding of the store. He said also there was evidence of burned rags near where the fire started. The blaze trapped the six Bow'den children in two small bedrooms located above the store. Four of them escaped uninjured with their moth. , ! er. Mary Belle suffered third degree | t urns and her condition was report- I j ed critical today. She was given a blood transfusion from Wayne Babbs. 20. a taxi driver, who aided in rescuing the children after the lee was discovered Monday. Wer'klng was said to have his equipment insured but it was damaged by the blaze. Police questioned Mrs. Bowden’s estranged husband yesterday but ; released him. Plan Civic Banquet To Honor Archers l j Fort Wayne, lnd„ March 30— • (UP) —Complete plans for the civic , banquet April 5 in honor of the state champion South Side high ] school basketball team, were announced today. Members of six prominent Indiana interscholastic basketball teams have been invited: Central, north and Central Catholic of Fort Wayne; Hammond, Ridgeville and • 1 Muncie. Numerous short addresses will ieature the program. The banquet , will be the official civic event in honor of the South Side team.

BUCKY HARRIS IS CONFIDENT Washington Manager Envisions First Division For Senators Orlando, Fla . Mar. 30. (U.Ri Bucky Harris visions a place in the first division for his Washington Senators. Clark (old fox) Griffith, who every spring hitches his predictions to a star, talks about knocking off the Yankees. 1 Enthusiasm abounds in the Senators’ camp. The big reason is Zeke Bonura. first baseman obtained from the Chicago White Sox in exchance for Joe Kuhel. "I have to pinch myself to believe we really have Bonura.” says Harris. "We didn't get enough runs last year, making less than any club except the Athletics and i Browns. We hnd more men left on | base than any other club in the j ! league, but I think big Zeke will do something about that, it was a godsend getting him." Harris thinks the right handed hitting Bonura balances the Sen ators attack which was predomlt ] antly left-handed last year. This; year they have three right-handed j hiteers. Bonura, Al Simmons and ] Rich Ferrell. "! think our attack is strong [ enough to take us into the first 1 division.” says Harris. '.'Every j man in the hatting order is a po- I tential .300 hitter. We'll get plenty! of men on base, and if Simmons and Bonura hit up to expectations

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we should score a lot of runs. The two big problems right now seem to be Simmons, S 5-year-old i outfielder »hoee lifetime b average Is .342, and the pitching staff. Simmons, who hud hi* hand lireken twice last year and slump ed accordingly to .280. has shown ■ promise of a comeback. Simmons had Ills salary slushed from $15,000 to SO,OOO, but his heart is in the game and he's hustling like a rookie. The pitching In the lap of the gods. Harris hopes Ills two south paw youngsters. Joe Krttkauskas. 100-pounder, and Kendall < base, who beat the Yanks twice In Yankee stadium late last year, will make good and round out his staff Wes Ferrell, Jimmy Deshong and Monte Weaver are counted on as the big three. The others will be chief Hogsett, Pete Appleton. Ray Phebus. who pitched a one-hitter j against the Red Sox late last year, and Emil Leonard, up from Atlanta. “Ferrell's spirit Is fine," says Harris. "Weaver is in better | physical condition and I expect | expect great things from him. | Deshong was our leading winner j : last year and is dependable. It's ] all up to Krakauskas and Chase, j who showed good stuff last fall The infield will be Bonura at ! ] first. Buddy Myer second, Cecil 1 1 Travis short and Buddy Lewis 1 third, one of the best hitting units in the league. The outfield will ] be Simmons in left, Mel Almada I center and Johnny Stone right. ! Defensively tile outfield is good hut its hitting power depends on 1 i Simmons. Rick Ferrell, fully recovered from : last year's broken hand, will be the ! first string catcher, with Angelo | Giuliani, bought from the St. lands

| Browns, the No. 2 man. Sizing up the rest of the league Hurrls says: "The Yanks of course are still the club to beut. Detroit is strong but their problem is pitching. Rowe doesn't look good to me. Cleveland will be a better club with Allen and Feller pitching regularly. I look for the White Sox to drop out of the first division. Wo hope to lake their place up there. The Red Sox look heller and may be our big opposition for a first division berth." o- - Former Owner Os Yankees is Dead Brunswick, Ga„ Mar. 30 —(UP) -Col. Tlllinghast L. Huston will be hurled tomorrow in Christ Church cemetery of St. Simon't* isi ‘ Mil. The one time 'part owner of the New York Yankees, victim of a heart attack yesterday, will be burini beside W. O. McGeehan, New York baseball writer, and Howard Coffin, contemporary of Huston In j development of the Georgia Islands. Death came unexpectedly to the former Spanish American war en-

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