Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1938 — Page 6

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MAJOR LEAGUES OPEN BASEBALL SEASON TODAY Four Teams In Action Today, Others Launch Season Tuesday I New York, April 18 <U.R) -The j major league baseball season opens I today President Roosevelt will toss in the first bail at one game, and the mighty New York Yankees, i representing a $10,000,000 invest-' tnent. launch their campaign for a third world’s championship, in an-1 other. Tomorrow all IS teams will go into action on eight fronts, but today the Philadelphia Athletics play the Washington Senators at Washington and the New York Yankees play the Boston Red Sox at Boston. Showers were forecast for both cities Barring bad weather approximately 250.000 fans will see the 11 games today and tomor-’ row (the Yanks and Red Sox play! a holiday double-header tomorrow,, [ In addition to the usual first day I enthusiasm, today's opening has the historical significance of marking 100 years of baseball. Back in 1839 at Cooperstown. N. Y.. General Abner Doubleday laid out the first baseball diamond. Today the game is America's national pastime and a billion dollar industry. Fan interest soared to almost unprecedented heights on a last minute St. Louis Cardinal-Chicago Cubs deal which may upset the balance of power in the National league. Acquisition of Dizzy Dean, one of the greatest pitchers in diamond annals, has projected the Cubs into the favorite’s role and set tongues wagging all over the baseball world With Dean, a potential 20-game winner, heading Chicago's pitching staff. Jack Doyle. Broadway betting commissioner, quoted the Cubs 3-2 favorites to win the flag. The Giants, who had held the favorite's spot at 8-5. dropped to second place at the same price. The Cardinals' odds changed from 3-1 to 4-1; Pittsburgh's price was trimmed

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from 6-1 to 5-1. Even before the spectacular Dean deal fan interest wits running a high fever because of realignments of power, the most disappointing spring showing in years for the world champion Yanks, Commissioner Landis' blow against "chain i store baseball." Joe DiMaggio's I stubborn holdout campaign for | baseball s top salary of $40,000, 'and “civil war" between the American and National leagues, incited Iby magazine articles Although fans and experts are wondering if the Yankees are be- | ginning to crack up, the Ruppert I rifles remained prohibitive favor ' ites to retain their American league laurels. Jack Ikikle quotes ’ them at 7-10. shortest priced favor- , ite since the 1914 Athletics. DeI troit and Cleveland were quoted [joint second-choices at 3-1. Missing from the Yanks' opening day cast for the third straight year was Di Maggio, vital cog in two world championship arrays He missed last year's opener because of a tonsil operation, and the year before he was out with a burned foot. This year he was a holdout, refusing $25,000, asking $40,000 While he remains in San Francisco, Col Jake Ruppert vows in New I York that he won't pay him "a button off my vest more than he's been offered." For each day DiMaggio misses he'll be docked $162.35. The pennant races in both leagues shape up as considerably closer affairs than a year ago because of the general improvement of the second division clubs in both leagues. The Yanks, in particular. are likely to find stronger opposition in the Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians Detroit's stock soared because of the impressive comeback of Schoolboy Rowe. Yesterday he ‘ held Cincinnati to one run, three hits, one walk in six innings. The I Tigers' power trio of Gehringer. Greenberg and York promises to give the Yanks' mighty triumvirate of DiMaggio (if and when he signs, Gehrig and Dickey a run for its laurels. Cleveland, with a wellbalanced pitching staff, and a driving leader in Oscar Vitt, looks better than in years. In the National league, where only twice in 15 years has there been any semblance of a runaway, may put on another of its thrillers though the Cubs have Dean. The Giants have defensive steadiness and Bill Terry's stable leadership The Cardinals, even without Dean, may be a more closely knit club, and certainly have power in Med- 1 wick. Mize, the two Martins. Padgett and Country Slaughter, prize rookie. Pittsburgh has new pitching strength and is a formidable club on paper. o TABLE TENNIS DRAW TONIGHT Schedule For Men’s Singles Tourney To Be Drawn This Evening The schedule for the first Decatur city-wide table tennis tourney will be drawn this evening, following the deadline of entries as set for 5 o’clock. This tourney, the first activity sponsored by Decatur's new WPA recreational department, will be held Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Catholic high school gymnasium. George Laurent. WPA recreational supervisor, will conduct the tournament, which has been limited to men's singles only. No age limit has been set. and any boy or man in the city is eligible to enter. No charge of any kind will be made, and the general public is invited to attend the tourney. Various organizations of the city are aiding in plans for the tourney. Entries are being taken by Paul Hancher, Robert Frisinger, Deane Dorwin and William Voglewede. o Vendor Fools Federal Men Boston. —<U.R> —A "drug peddler" with a sense of humor was taken into custody by Federal agents. His supposed drug capsules were found to contain baking soda. The same peddler, the Federal agents . said, sold catnip-filled cigarettes [ as marihuana "smokes.”

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DIZZY DEAN IS BOUGHT BY GUBS ■ Purchase O f Cardinal ’ Hurler Makes Chicago I Pennant Favorite t ’ Chicago. April 18— (U.R) One man but what a man. Dizzy Dean — changed the entire National 1 league pennant outlook today and established the Chicago Cubs as ' a new favorite in the 1938 cam ' pnlgn. Diz. now a Cub after six colorful stormy seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, shifted the balance from the Cards and New York Giants directly to the Cubs, who badly needed new blood to prevent another fatal August slump. Dean summed it up himself: "My reason for picking the Cardinals to win the pennant is with the Cubs now." It took three players and between SIOO,OOO ami $150,000 in cash, a woefully small amount compared to the price Dean once might have brought, to transfer the great one to Chicago. Owner Phil K. Wrigley closed the deal himself Saturday night in a long distance telephone conversation with Branch Rickey, vice president of the Cardinals. Wrigley tossed in pitchers Curt Davis and Clyde Shoun and outfielder George (Tuck, Stainback with the cash. They reported today as Dean was scurrying over to Cincinnati to join the Cubs. The rangy right hander received his working orders from Manager Charley Grimm during a two-hour mystery trip to Chicago yesterday. He will pitch the second or third game against the Reds at Cincinnati and probably will face his old mates, the Cardinals, in a dramatic debut as a Cui, in Chicago next Sunday. Still stunned by his sudden transfer. he managed to smile and quip I a little while but he was nothing like his old self. He climbed off a train at 9:30 a. m.. chatted with Grimm, ordered six new uniforms and was back on a train bound for St. Louis at 11:30. Even Cui, officials appeared puzzled over why he made the trip Chicago fans, recalled the unfortunate deals bringing Chuck Klein. Floyd (Babe, Herman. Curt Davis. Leroy Parmelee and Rip Collins to the Cubs, at first were jubilant, then skeptical, over the Dean swap. They wondered why the Cardinals. a pennant contender, would trade a man who might bring them home in front? Is there anything wrong with Dizzy's pitching arm? Diz says no. His one-hit performance in four innings against the New York Yankees during spring training also says no. But already he has complained frequently of a sore arm and once was confined to his bed with a sinus infection. Even if Dean is ineffective, about all Wrigley can lose will be his cash. Davis, although he won nine in a row last fall and finished with 10 victories and five defeats, is in poor health and may not be strong enough to help the Cardinals. Shoun. a left hander, is too wild to be of much service and Stainback will have plenty of trouble crack-

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I 1 Ing Frankie Frisch's outfield, t , In Dean and Gabby Hartnett, the I I Cubs now have the most colorful' t , pair in the league. In addition. I -1 Hartnett can handle Dean on the 1 < ball field like a master and Diz i - loves to pitch to him "cause that j > Gabby is a mile square." O 1 r ♦ —— “ j —♦ I r; Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore | 4 New York. April 18 — (U.R> - I The managers' micraine. meaning: ' Jerome Herman Dean, has been I 1 sold by the St. Louis Cardinals to I the'Chicago Cubs. Officials of both [ ■ clubs said that in return for dean. | ’ the Cardinals received pitchers I ' Davis and Shoun, outfielder Stainback, and an undisclosed sum of, * money. 1 Now I happen to know that isn't j 1 all there was to the deal. Before , Charley Grimm, manager of the I 'I Cubs, would agree to the trade he j had it clearly stipulated that Fran- [ , kie Frisch. Card manager, would | j ' ship to him. by fast freight, all the |. paraphenalia a man who manages I ’ Dean gradually gathers about him. |, ' i Frisch has had charge of Dean 1 ' * RTS ever since he came out of Texas . some six years ago. In that time i ( ’ Frankie has spent hundreds of 1. ) ! dollars on supplies to enable him , 'to withstand the Dizzy one’s ani tics. For example, Frisch has the I 'largest single collection of headi ache ice packs in America. .I Another important item is a 100 , | gallon demijohn of second — guess ] .! anti toxin, which, if properly ad.l ministered takes much of the ,' tsing out of having a pitcher tell I you how to run your ball club. ■ i Then there is the carton of tablets ■ i J which Frisch found invaluable, . when Dizzy would refuse to catch 1 1] the bus for an exhibition game in I which he was scheduled to pitch. : Three of these and a manager just settles into a sort of coma and ' > | pitches a fellow named Willie or : II Bill or Gus. Other items in the Frisch sup-

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i ply include capsules to be taken ' when Dean complains of a sore [ arm at 12 noon on (lie day he has | been advertised to work, and 12- ! pound hammer for personal head i knocking when Dean suddenly decides it would be fun. not only to I pitch, but to make all putouts at | first base himself. For Grimm's sake it is to be hop- | ed that nothing delays the packI age in transit. Grimm is known as I the happiest and most carefree of i all baseball managers. He loves to plunk gay tunes on his banjo [ and sing lilting songs under the 1 shower. It would be a shame to | see such a man lay aside his banjo. abandon his joyful songs, and lapse into melancholia. It will be interesting to watch Frisch's reactions to his release from managing the mercurial Dizzy. I was talking to an eminent psychologist today, and as he bandaged the foot of an injured coll- , ie (he does veterinary work on I the side) he said that he would not be surprised to hear that Frisch was unable to keep his balance for a week or two. ■'Don't be shocked." the psychologist said, brushing a flea off his wrist, "if Frisch starts stopping birds and sings to them, gambols through parks, barefooted, playing a lute, or writes a book of poetry, even.” My own guess is that he will do none of these things, but that he runs the grave risk of caching the “bends' from having had the pressure removed from him too quickly. (Copyright 1938. by United Press) o Says DiMaggio Willing To Sign New YoTk. April 18 —(VP) —The New York Sun said today that Joe Limaggio. holdout outfielder of the New York Yankees, has agreed to accept the offer of the club for a salary of $25.00<* this season. Ed Barrow ge.neral manager of the New York Yankees, said "noth-

JIM BRADDOCK FAVORS LOUIS Former Heavyweight Champion Says Louis To Whip Schineling ■ (Editor's Note: Three questions] are uppermost ‘in the minds of box-1 ing fans today. Who will win the i Lmils Schineling title fight? Where will the fight on June 22. be held? Who will the winner meet in September. The United Press asked ] the man believed best qualified to ■ furnish the answers — the man I Louis beat for the heavyweight ; crown. James J. Braddock.) By James J. Braddock Former heavyweight champion of the world. (Copyright 1938 by United Press) New York. April 18 — jtU.PJ' Without any beating around the j hush, Joe Louis will knock out Max Schineling. The fight will be held in New York. And the winner [ will meet NOBODY in September I don't think it will take Joe any | longer than six rounds to finish Maxie. Louis Is a vastly improved fighter since his knockout by, Schineling in June. 1936. Schrneling cannot possibly be as good as he was that night. He won because of Joe's mistakes. Joe knows ' where he miscued, and he will not [ be guilty of the same mistakes again. It took Maxie 12 rounds to kayo Louis, and the Detroit boy absorbed 57 right hands before he was counted out. Joe is young — 24 next month He's got more wallop in either hand than any man I ever met. He proved his ruggedness and gameness against Maxie. In our Chicago fight. I floored Joe with a right to the chin in the first round. He was hurt — plenty but he got up and was smart enough to cover up for the rest of the round. I didn't lose my head then as has’been said. He was concentrating on slipping my punches, and made me look wild. I knew it | might be my one chance to finish him. and I didn't spare the horses. If Schmeling thinks Joe is going to drop that left glove and leave himself wide open to he plugged by right hands this time, the Gering has been heard from Joe DiMaggio since he was here in January.” I

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man is in for a rude awakening. Joe will not rush in at the opening gong as many people believe. He Is a counter puncher much like Schineling. only mucli faster. He will keep circling to Schtneling's left, knowing Muxs left hand Isn't much of a weapon. He'll jub, jab, 'jab with the left Instead of trying to hook his way into close range. I Promoter Mike Jacobs will an I nounce the site of the fight this | week, and you don't have to do I much figuring to decide It will be ]in Yankee Stadium. I'll bett ifto I to 1 it will not go to Chicago. Detroit dr Philadelphia. You can forget the antl-nnzl boycott In this fight. In my restaurant I I have a lot of Jewish customers , and I number plenty of them among by. friends. For every customjer who stays away to keep from ' enriching Schmeling, there'll bo lo , who will go see Schmeling get ids I block knocked off. —o Baseball Meeting Wednesday Night <A second meeting leading to organization of an amateur baseball league for Decatur and Adams coun[ty, will bo held at the city hall Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Considerable interest has been evinced in the proposed league, which is sponsored by the XV. P. A. [ recreational department. The league will be strictly amateur, with

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