Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1938 — Page 8

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BUD TOWNSEND CITY'S TABLE TENNIS CHAMP Defeats Pau! Hancher In Final Round Os City Tournament Bud Townsend, Decatur tennis champion. Wednesday night also proved his superiority in table tennis. scoring a victory in the adult division of the city-wide table tennis tourney, conducted under Decaturs new recreational program Townsend defeated Paul Huncher iq a hard fought final match. 16-21, 21-10, 21-10, 15-21. 21-17. Townsend advanced to the final round by Ed Engeler in his first mauh. 21-12. 21-13. He then eliminated R. Boch and C. Omlor, and in the semi final round, disposed of Cart-Smith. 21-15. 16-21. 21-12 and 21-15. Hancher. in advancing to the finals, eliminated W. Lindeman. H. Blythe. P. Strickler and F. Voglewede, the latter in the semi-finals by scores of 21-19, 9-21, 21-17. and 21-5. Others Play Today Play will get underway late this afternoon and this evening in the high school and grade divisions. A total of 32 are entered in the high school class and a total of 55 boys in the grade school dlvis ion. The grade division was slated to start elimination play immediately after the close of school this afternoon. with the high school play starting at 7 o'clock this evening. Present Trophies I. A. and Roy Kalver. owners and operators of the Adams and Madison theaters, have donated trophies which will be presened to each of the winners in the three divisions. A new table tennis paddle will be given to each of the three city champions. The tourneys are being conducted by George Laurent, recreation- - Last Time Tonight - “ROMANCE IN THE DARK” John Boles, Gladys Swarthout John Barrymore. ALSO — Color Cartoon; News & Traveltalk. 10c -25 c —o FRI. & SAT. THEY LAUGHED IT DEATH ANO BEAT DESTRUCTION! Thundering Red-Blooded Adventure! shattered grim, S impassable .9 mountains to a tpen a great nation with ji rails ol steel WK, RICHARD ARLEN Lilli Palmer and Cast of Thousands. — ALSO — “Our Gang W Follies” 4 1 —o Sun. Mon. Tues. — “BIG BROADCAST of 1938" W. C. Fields. Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Ben Blue, Shirley Ross.

al supervisor, with the assistance lof various organizations of the city. j STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. 1 Chicago 2 11 SM i Pittsburgh .... . . 2 1 1.000 Boston 11 -500 Philadelphia 11 .500 New York 11 -500 Brooklyn 11 -500 Cincinnati 0 2 .000 St. Louis 0 2 .000 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct Washington 3 0 1.000 Chicago 2 o 1.000 Boston 2 1 .667 St. Louis 11 -500 Cleveland I'l .500 New York 1 2 .333 Detroit 0 2 .000 Philadelphia 0 3 .000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. Kansas City 3 1 .750 St. Paul 2 1 .667 Indianapolis 3 2 .600 ■ Toledo 3 2 .600 Milwaukee 2 3 400 I Minneapolis 2 3 .400 Louisville 12 .333 ; Columbus 1 3 .250 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League Philadelphia 6. Brooklyn 5. Chicago 10. Cincinnati 4. Boston 6. New York 4 I Pittsburgh 9. St. Louis 4. American League Washington 3. Philadelphia 0. Cleveland 9. St. Louis 0. i Chicago 5. Detroit 4 Only games scheduled. American Association Kansas City 5. Toledo 4. St. Paul 3, Indianapolis 0. Milwaukee 4. Columbus 1. Minneapolis 13, Louisville 6. LOCAL TENNIS TEAM DEFEATED Dunkirk High Scores 3 To 1 Victory Over Decatur Racquet Wielders i The Decatur high school tennis team suffered its first defeat of the season Wednesday afternoon on the local courts, with Dunkirk carrying away a 3 to 1 victory. Dunkirk made a clean sweep of all three singles matches. Decatur won one doubles match and the second doubles match was halted because of darkness. Results of singles matches were as follows: Everhart (Dunkirk) defeated Cline. 7-5. 6-4. Anderson (Dunkirk- defeated I Ehinger. 6-3. 6-4. | Shoemaker (Dunkirk) defeated | ' Melchi. 7-5, 6-3. In the lone doubles match comI pleted. Cline-Ehinger (Decatur) de- | seated Everhart-Everhart. 6-2, 3-6. I 9-7. In the second match. AndersonShoemaker (Dunkirk) won the first set from Melchi-Bohnke, 6-3. and the second set was tied at 12-12 j when darkness halted play. Decatur was scheduled to play | North Side of Fort Wayne on the I Worthman Field courts this after- ' noon. i 0 T-Man idea Popular Pasadena, Cal. <U.R) — Half a dozen Southern California cities have followed Pasadena's example | in appointing squads of “T-men." These consist of citizens represent- . Ing various civic organizations who take the license number of every person seen violating traffic regulations and report him to the city's I Safety Council. o [ Trude In A Gnod Town — Ihrrafnr - —

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FELLER HURLS ONE-HIT GAME ■ Boh Feller Holds Browns To One Hit; Dean Wins Easily New York. Apr. 21. U.R> Plaster up the 24 sheets, haul out the headlines and turn on the Mazdas not for Dizzy Dean, the Chicago Cubs $250,()0o pitching pnma donna. but for Bob Feller, the 19-year-old fuzzy faced lowa schoolboy who 1 missed baseball's hall of fame by 1 the narrowest of margins. 1 Yesterday was to have been Dean's big day. He was to prove that his arm was sound, that he j was baseball’s greatest pitcher and worth every cent P. K. Wrigley, paid for him. Dean did well i enough, scoring his first triumph; in easy fashion for the Cubs. But i something happened he hadn’t I counted on Bob Feller, without utering a single word, stole the spotlight not only from Dean but I from every * other major league I player. He pitched a 1-hit game; for Cleveland against the St. Louis Browns. • Now 19. wiser, stronger and more ’ confident Feller cut down the hard-. hitting Browns with a dazzling fast ball and a baffling* change of pave which stamped him as the fore- ' most young pitcher in baseball, s Teaming up with Rollie Hems-, ley. the catcher the Indians pro-; cured especially to catch Feller., blazing Bob gave a masterful ex-, hibition. The only hit made off him was a bunt by Billy Sullivan. ex-Cleveland cacher. in the sixth inning. Feller himself fielded the hall, and threw to first baseman Trosky. It was a close play. Umpire Ed Rommell. an old Athletics' pitcher' pitcher himself making his American league debut, called Sullivan safe. The Indians protested violently but the umpire has the last word. Feller fanned six men. and gave up six walks. As for Dizzy Dean, he scored a 10-4 triumph over Cincinnati without extending himself. The Cubs gave him a 9-run lead in the second inning, and he coasted until taken out in the seventh for a pinch-hitter. Dizzy permitted eight i hits and 2 runs in 6 innings but was masterful in the pinches. Manager Charlie Grimm removled Dean because he wanted to rest him for Sunday s game against the Cards and felt that with a 9-2 lead j the Cubs had the game won. During the spring. Dean suffered a severe cold and he hasn’t re- ( gained his full strength. “1 was satisfied with Dizzy in | every respect,” Grimm said. “I took him out because he was tired. He pitched only about 15 innings in spring training and needs more work. He'll doa lot of running and throwing the next few days and that will help his legs and wind. Babe Pinelli. who implied behind the plate, and catcher Hartnett assured me Dean's arm was okay.” Cincinnati players were divided over Dean's prospects for a big season. Catchers Virgil Davis and Ernie Lombardi and manager Bill McKechnie said Dizzy wasn't the "old Dean yet.” “This game didn” test him." said McKechnie. "He doesn't look like the old Dean, not yet anyway. I Maybe he needs more work.” Billy Myers and Alex Kampouris were Dizzy's biggest boosters on • the Reds. "Dizzy showed me . plenty." Myers said. Rookie Coaker Triplett and vet- ■ eran Tony Lazzeri were the Cubs’ t batting heroes, getting four hits I each to top a 16-hit attack which ! blasted Grissom, Barrett and Klelnhans. ' In the other National league ‘ games Pittsburgh defeated the • Cardinals, 9-4. with a 20-hit attack. The Boston Bees beat the New York Giants. 6-4, on Gene Moore's homer with the bases loaded, and the Phillies made a 4-run rally in s the ninth to trump Brooklyn. 6-5. In the American league, Wash- . ington won its third straight from the Athletics, 3-0, behind Emil 1 Leonard's 7-hit, pitching. Leonard ; is a Brooklyn castoff who couldn't make the National league grade, j Mel Almada tripled. Rookie Rupert Thompson s pinchsingle in the eighth drove in the run by which the Chicago White r Sox made it two straight over Detroit, 5-4. Thompson is another ■ National league castoff, failing to make the grade with the Bees. The Yanks and Red Sox were idle. Yesterday's hero: Bob Feller for

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——— ! his 1-hit game and Tony Lazzeri i for getting four hits —a double and | three singles, and driving in three ■ runs in the Cubs' rout of the Reds. o I # —-—• Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore < New York, April 21 —(U.R) Joe DiMaggio has capitulated to Col. Jake Ruppert's offer and is speeding to New York in an upper berth to sign a contract for $25,000. 1 wish 1 had known in advance that Joe. when he traveled, was an upper berth patron, because such information would have offered a definße dew as to how the battle between the colonel and him was' coming out What I mean is that no upper berth rider has much right to tilt financial lances with' the colonel. Any one challenging Jake in a battle where cold cash | is the ammunition should be of, the drawing room type at the very > least. Because the colonel, when he takes a cross-country ride, is fortified with enough of what it takes to have an entire train to himself with a private engineer, J fireman, conductor, porter, and brakeman. There is one bright spot in Joe's trip in an upper berth, however. The Yankees won't have to worry i about him being out of condition | when he arrives. He’ll be fit. I hard as nails, ready to step right out in Centerfield and pick up where he left off last fall There are few things that will condition a man more thoroughly than living in an upper berth for three or four days It’s a rigorous life, and my guess is that before DDiMaggio reaches Chicago he will have reached a point of fitness that six full weeks in the St Petersburg training camp would not have given him. No road work or jogging around . the bases ever was as exacting as I trying to get in an upper berth. • The little ladder the railroad companies furnish upper berth patrons I is just a gag. From the top step i of it. to the inside of the stratosphere bunk, is where the work comes in. A man has got to have i just a touch of Tarzan in him. or i develop a touch of Tarzan, ever > j to make it. But it is the business of trying . i to put on one’s pants of a morning • that makes an upper berth a com- , bination of mechanical horse, , treadmill, stationary bicycle, trap-

Young Yankee Star Ends Holdout r : -—- 1 WMlt B *.'. 1 Sg9 ’-'■ ?j>dL ■ joM|g I ======= Joe DiMaggio, youthful etar of the New York Yankees, last nigh 'ended his holdout siege for more money from the Yanks' owner, Col I Jacob Ruppert The latter insisted that DiMaggio accepted the club': j offer of $25,000 salary for the season, with no bonus promised.

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PUSH PLANS FOR COUNTY LEAGUE Adams County Amateur Baseball League Appears A Certainty 1 Further plans for organisation of the Adams county amateur baseball league, under the sponsorship of Decatur and Adams county's new recreational program, were discussed at a meeting of team managers ami represetnativee Wednesday evening. The meeting was conducted by George Laurent, local supervisor, and Robert Downey, district supervisor for the state WPA recreational department. Organization of the itogue will be completed Saturday night, when managers of all prospective league members will meet at the city hall at 7 o'clock At the Saturday night meeting, the managers, who wil form the league’s board of directons, will elect a president vice-president and secre-tary-treasurer. who will conduct the league's affairs. The constitution and l.y-iaws 1 which will govern the league were discussed at last night’s meeting, and likely will be finally decided at Saturday’s meeting. Considerable interest has been developed in formation of the Adams county amateur baseball league, and a league of six or eight teams likely will be formed to provide entertainment for baseball playero and fans of the county throughout the summer. The constitution and by-laws to govern the league will be published following final decisions on the pro- • visions by the league’s board of dir- ’ ectors. WORKERS VOTE TO END STRIKE Street Fights Break Out After Vote In California Strike . i Crockett. Cal . Apr.'2l.--(U.R> -A I series of street fights broke out , early today as striking warehouse r men affiliated wfth the committee ( tor industrial organization voted to end a five-week strike at the Cali- > fornia-Hawaiian sugar refining plant. Thirty officers restored order In * 30 minutes. State highway patrol 1 men and deputy sheriffs used teai I gas and riot guns to disperse the 400 men who crowded the streets iI ■ _ BARN at PUBLIC AUCTION 1 mile East and mile North t of Monroe on Mud Pike: i f Monday, April 25th at 1:00 P. M. H f Barn 40x60. with Shed ade joining 20x40. in good repair II Metal roof. Will sell to the highest bidder. Terms—Cash. (t J Claud A. Harvey, Owner, n I Roy Johnson—Auctioneer. V A can of LOWE BROTHERS QUICK-DRYING ENAMEL and a brush will make old, shabby pieces, shiny and new in a jiffy. You can do over almost anything, whether it’s glass or wood or plaster. And it’s so easy.' Flows on smoothly and dries very quickly. A wide range of colors from which to choose! Holthouse Drug Co. I

| in front of the hull where the vote was tuken. A half dozen men were tnjureG. 1 1 none seriously, in the fist fights 1 i Sheriff John Miller believed (lint 1 quick action by officers averted a general riot. . The rival workmen, part of them American Federalon of Labor supporters and part CIO., left the streets to return to their respective hulls. ; The decision to return to work I at the same wage scale that pre- [ vailed in 1937 was made by a vote , of 152 to 115. The fighting start ed as the warehousemen announi■' , i d the vote when they left their ■ . meeting place. The men most seriously injured : , were Peter Lynch, of the A. F of L.. and Richard Alden, of the . (TO. Neither required hospital . treatment. William Tyler, vice president of , the Sugar Refining company, said

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