Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1938 — Page 6

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JACKETS LOSE OPENING HOME CONTEST, 2-0 Hartford City Defeats Decatur In First Home Game Os Season Decatur's Yellow Jackets lost their first home game of the season Monday afternoon, dropping a 2-0 decision to the Hartford City Airedales. Itespite a mix-up in schedule announcements a good sized crowd witnessed the opener here. It was , the Jackets' second loss to the Airedales, having been defeated on the opponent's diamond. 5-3 sev- 1 eral weeks ago. The loss made the Jackets' rec- j ord stand at five wins against thrqp losses. A fluke trip around the bases' was accountable for the first Hart-1 ford City run in the initial Inning. | when Fuller walked, advanced to second on an error and then rounded third on an overthrow, scoring

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the first marker. In the fourth the Airedales scored again, this time under somewhat sounder circumstances. Singles by Overmeyer, Ruble and Williams, afforded the punch. IKoeneman, McConnell and Gaunt each secured a single for the three Decatur blngles of the tilt. HartI ford City made six safeties, Schamerloh pitched for the lo- ■ cals, until being relieved in the j final stanza. Williams, winning I pitcher in the first Jaeket-Airednle ! tilt, again went the route to mark up the victory. The Jackets play their second home game of the season Thurs--1 day afternoon, meeting the Ossian Hears at Worthman Field. The I game will be called at 3:30 p. m. Decatur AB R H E Kitchen. 3b 3 0 0 1 (Gaunt, if 3 0 10 Bleeke. cf 2 0 0 1 i McConnell, ss 2 0 10 i Koeneman, rs 3 0 10 ! Schamerloh, p 2 0 0 1 - Highland, lb 2 0 0 0 j Walters. 2b 2 0 0 1 I Schnepp, p 1 0 0 0 Totals 23 0 3 4 Hartford City AB It H E ! Campbell, lb . 4 0 0 0 j Fuller. 3b 3 10 0 Schrock. If 4 0 2 0 j i Owens, ss 3 0 0 0 I Dodds, cf 3 0 10 | Overmeyer. rs 3 11 0 , Ruble, c 2 0 10 , Wagner, 2b 3 0 0 0 \ Williams, p 2 0 1 0 1 Smith, c 10 0 0 Totals 28 2 6 0 Score by Innings: | Hartford City 1 0 0 1 0 0 o—2 Decatur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 LEADING BATTERS Player. Club GABIt H Pet. Todd. Pirates 5 19 4 9 .474 Lavagetto, Dodgers 4163 11 .6SS | I Lombardi. Reds 6 19 1 9 .4.4 | Steinbacher. W. Sox 5 18 3 8 .444 \ Lazzeri, Cubs 5 16 3 7 .438 o HOME RUNS McCarthy. Giants . 3 Greenberg. Tigers '3 ' Johnson. Athletics 3 CaniUli. Dodgers • -2, Ott. Giants 2 j Goodman. Reds 2 j Trosky. Indians 2 j Laabs. Tigers 2 Chapman, Red Sox 2 Lodigiani, Athletics 2 —. o Dance Wednesday Sunset.

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CARDS SUFFER THIRD SHUTOUT IN SUCCESSION —- Drop Third In Row; Pittsburgh Wins Seventh t Straight New York, April 26 — (U.P) Ilase- | hall's most perplexing question of -! the moment Is, "whut’s happened ■| to the Gas House Gang from St. :' Looey?" A lot of fans are wonder- ■ j lug If Sam Breadon's sacrifice of : Dizzy Dean for 185,000 Iron men didn't deliver a stunning blow to I the spirit of the gas house boys. Dean’s apparent happiness in his i' new surroundings with the Cubs ■ hasn't helped the delicate situation any. There have been veiled hints that Dizzy's escape from the Cardinal "coolie” team was a put up jolt by Dean. The word has gone around baseball circles that Dizzy played possum this spring in an effort to get away from the Cards. As soon as Dizzy joined the Cubs he became a changed man. The , boys left behind in St. Louis apparently aren't too happy about it. The Cardinals have the worst , record in the majors today, with : one victory in seven games. They had to put on a 4-run rally in the 1 ninth to win their only game from j the Cubs, and an error sent home j the winning tally. The Cards I haven't scored in three games —j 27 consecutive innings. Larry French, Cubs’ southpaw, blanked St Louis Saturday. 4-0. on four hits. Dizzy Dean shut them out Sunday, 5-0. on 4 hits. Paul Derringer, Reds' right-hander, whitewashed them yesterday. 5-0. on 3 hits. Thus in three games the • Cards have made only 11 hits, four of which were by Enos (Country) Slaughter, rookie outfielder. Os course, Joe Medwick. National league hatting champion, is missing from the lineup because he has lumbago. When Medwick gets in the lineup he will add punch and may awaken Johnny Mize from his slump. Medwick, who knows how I to play only one way—to win—may give the Cards momentum they need to get started, but if he doesn't, look out for an explosion soon on the banks of the Mississippi. Sam Breadon still has the ISS grand but you can't win ball games with cash, as Pepper Martin ! remarked when Dizzy went to the I Cubs. Pittsburgh continued its dizzy i pace by winning its seventh I straight, from the Chicago Cubs. I 8-6. Twice the Pirates rallied to | overtake the Cubs. Arky Vaugh- ! .ill's single with the bases loaded ; tied the score in the eighth and Gus Suhr's single produced the winning run. Tony lazzeri, playing short for the Cubs, hit a homer. The Boston Red Sox moved into second place in the American league by shutting out Washington. 7-0, behind the 4-hit pitching of Fritz Ostermueller. He has now pitched 15 scoreless innings, allowing only 5 hits. Ben Chapman led the Red Sox attack on rookie Emil Leonard with two doubles and a single. Jimmy Foxx's double drove in three runs. Buck Ross kept seven hits scattered to pitch the Philadelphia Athletics to a 6-1 victory over the New York Yankees. The A's made eight hits off rookie Joe Beggs. I with Johnny Lodigiani, recruit second baseman, raking him for two singles and a homer. Featured by Chet Laabs' homer with the bases loaded the Detroit

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Tigers crushed the St. Louis i Browns. 10-1. Hank Greenberg bit 1 homer No. 3. P?te Pox and Dixie j Walker made three hits each in \ Detroit’s 13-hit attack on Cole, j Knott and llonetti. No other games were placed. Yesterday's hero: Fritz Ostermueller. who pitched the Red Sox i into second place by blanking Washington. 7-o. He hasn't been I scored on in two appearances on 1 the mound this season. STANDINGS 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Pittsburgh 7 0 1.000; New York .61 .833 Boston .3 2 .600 j Chicago 4 3 .571 Brooklyn 2 4 .333 Cincinnati 2 5 .286 Philadelphia 1 4 .200 | St. Louis 1 6 .143 j AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. ' Cleveland a 1 .833 Boston .5 2 .714. Washington . 4 3 .571 , Chicago 3 3 .500 * St. Louis 3 4 .429 New York 3 5 .I7K Philadelphia 2 4 .333 Detroit 2 5 .286 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Cincinnati 5. St. Louis 0. Pittsburgh 8. Chicago 6. Brooklyn at Boston, threatening ' weather. Philadelphia at New Y'ork, rain. American League Philadelphia 6. New York 1. Boston 7. Washington 0. Detroit 10, St. Louis 1. Cleveland at Chicago, rain.

FOUR FORMER WINNERS AT INDIANAPOLIS RATED HIGHLY TO REPEAT IN BIG RACE —— —,. —. .u...... —...

INDIANAPOUS, I n d. — Four old standbys will make the crowd sit up and take notice in the 500mile race May 30th at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They are all former winners of the big race, one is the present AAA champion and the other three have held the National championship. Their names are: Wilbur Shaw, Louis Meyer, Kelly Petillo and Wild Bill Cummings. Shaw is an Indianapolis boy, and has the dazzling 1937 victory to his credit. 'He probably will go into the race as a prime favorite to repeat, a feat which never has been performed at Indianapolis.

I , ——♦ Today’s Sport Parade j By Henry McLemore I#- ♦ New York. Apr. 26. <tU.R> News litem: A hiAdup with a gun is not I a robbery in California if the per- ■ son is recovering money lost at gambling, according to a ruling of the state supreme court. The majority opinion of the court said 1 that “the winner gains no title to I his winning at gambling. ThereI fore the offense cannot be termed ! robbery." Boy. run out and get me the bigbest revolver you can buy. a set ! of matching blackjacks, and a car- ! ton of hand grenades. Because I i am off fur California and Santa Anita in the morning. I want to , get out there before that supreme court can change its mind, ami have a go at those long-fingered gentlemen back of the selling wickets who took my money ail winter. If you think Attila the Hun was ; a scourge, wait until you have a 1 look at me scourging up and down ! those mutuel windows grabbing i back the money I gambled on horses who were last away from the barrier and solidified their posi- ! tion with each step. 1 am not going alone. The min- ’ ute I read the good news I called , all my acquaintances who were in ' \ California this past winter, and they barely took time to kiss their 1 wives or pat their babbies good bye before shouldering a musket or ! pocketing a gat and reporting to | me. At a brief little meeting we : organized the McLemore rifles with 1 myself as commandant and started drilling.. We’re not a very snappy troop in appearance, because few of us got out of Santa Anita with more than our shirts. But what; we lack in accoutrement we make tip in determination. As commandant. it makes me proud to know that not a single member of the

Meyer hails from California and is the miracle man of 500-mile racing. The checkered flag waved for him in 1928, 1933 and 1936, and he finished fourth last Decoration Day. Petillo's sobriquet is “King of the Ridge” and he also comes from sunny California. He beat Shaw to the wire in 1935 and scored a sensational triumph. Wild Bill Cummings is a Hoosier hero, and won the big race in 1934. He was third in > 1935, left at the post in 1936 : when his clutch froze end sixth 11 last year. Cummings held the pole, I honor position of the race in

SOUTH SIDE IS TENNIS WINNER Ft. Wayne School Scores ;* To 2 Victory Over Decatur Team The Decatur high school tennisers suffered their second loss of the season lust evening on the local courts when they were nosed out by South Side of Fort Wayne 3-2. The Archers won two singles and a doubles match from Coach Harry Dailey's boys, while the Jackets could do no better than secure a win in each of the divisions. Yesterday's lose brings the Jackets' record to three wins and two l„ses thus far this year. Following are the results of yesterday's encounter: ihinnier (South Ridel defeated Cline (Decatur), 6-1, 6-1, Bolyard (South Side) defeated Khinger (Decatur) 6 3, 8-6. Melchl iDecatur) defeated Spencer (South Side) 6-1. 4 J »L 6-3. Dajnmier-Bolyard (South Side) defeated EblngerBoltnke. 6-0, 6-4. Fuhrman-Mills (Decatur) defeated Dumniier-Locue, 6-2. 6-2. t — o— — Joe Louis-Schmeling Fight In New Vork New York. Auril 26—(UP)—Promoter Mike Jacobs announced today that the world's heavyweight championship fight between Joe lands and Max Schmeling would McLemore rifles will cease firing until the last cashier has been yanked from behind his window and made to yield what the supreme court says is ours. We have worked out our method of attack to a detail. With a blast from a bugle (one member has been detailed to overpower the track bugler and sound the charge) each member of the rifles will rush the window assigned him. Personally. I am going to handle the $2 booth, because it was there that 1 suffered the most damage during the winter. I would not be surprised, when we land in Hollywood, to find scores of recruits waiting for us. eager to enlist. 1 know Guy Kib* bee will be there, anxious to be in the first line that goes “over the top.” And 1 feel sure that Oliver Hardy will be another ready to obey any command. Pat O'Brien and Marty Zahn are other patriots almost sure to enlist under our , colors. All of these boys have scores to settle. After Santa Anita the “rifl“s" will move on to San Francisco for decisive engagements at Bay Meadows and Tanforan. By that time other state supreme courts probably will have fallen into line with the benevolent California one. If they do the rifles will move to Del Mar. Lincoln Fields, Arlington, Bowie, fair grounds, Harve de Grace, and all the other tracks where members suffered reverses in the past. ■ Fall In! Company attention! Forward march, and don t shoot until you see the denominations of their hills! (Copyright 19398 by UP I

1937, gaining that place by turning in the top qualifying time on the first day of the speed trials. All four of these drivers are “hot”chauffeurs and arch rivals on the Speedway. Their rivalry is bound to make itself felt for they are all equally anxious to add another triumph to their records. Shaw and Meyer probably will be slightly favored over Cummings and Petillo by the big crowd Race Day, but Wild Bill and Kelly are far from dark horses. With fast cars, there's little to choose between them if you’re looking for a likely candidate for top honors.

GIVE BENEFIT !j PLAY FOR TEAM Play Friday Night To Provide Funds For Baseball Team A three-act royalty play, "Love, Honor and Obey," will he presented at the Monmouth community building Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock. All proceeds from the play will jgo to the newly-organized Mon--1 mouth baseball team, Which will be a member of the Adams county he held In Yarfkee Stadium. New York, June 22 unless “develop'ments unforseen at this time arise to ii/cessitate a shift in the fig!

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