Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1938 — Page 8

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FOUR PITCHERS FEATURE MAJOR LEAGUE GAMES Four Little Known Pitchers Hurl Splendid Victories Wednesday Nww York. May 5 (U.R) A little soft music today, professor, and a rtrouM spotlight for four American league boys from the back row Emil Leonard, Joe Beggs, Cletus Poffwnlierger and Bill Dietrich Never heard of some of 'em. have you’ • Wall, for this day anyway the Bob Fellers. Red Buffings. Mel Ifarders. Lefty Gomezes and other heralded pitching stalwarts of the American league must remain in the background while Leonard. Beggs, Poffenberger and Dietrich take a bow for four brilliantly pitched games First, there’s Leonard. 28-year-old righthander from Auburn. 11l . who pitched Washington to a 13-inning triumph over Cleveland. 1-0. The ball expert who came up from Atlanta after once failing to make the grade at Brooklyn, of all places, let the Indians down with six singles, fanned five and had perfect control. Then. Joe Beggs. 24-year-old righthander from Aliquippa. Pa . who pitched the New York Yankees into second place with a 3-2 triumph over the St. Louis Browns He allowed only seven hits, fanned one and did not issue a pass A slender 6 footer. Beggs, who came

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, up from Newark, once had aspira- | tions to be a Javelin thrower when ' he attended Geneva college. And next Cletus (Boots, Poffenberger, stocky, chesty 22-y ear-old ' righthander, who pitched the DeI fixers out of the cellar with r a 4 1 yictory over the Boston Red ' Box ii' 1 allowed six hita lout two men. mid walked one. I Poffenberger is the lad who con-1 ", tlnually tells Mickey Cochrane: I I "Let me pitch against the tough i clubs I don't like to waste my , I stuff on the push overs.” He's out , of Charleston. W Va.. and came up I from Beaumont last mid season. ' ! And finally Bill Dietrich, the j 1 b.-spectacled Chicago White Sox righthander who can't see across i the room without his glasses, completes this quarter by virtue of his five-hit. 4 1 triumph over the Philadelphia Athletics Bill isn't often l l ight, but when he is he's tough, as | 1 witness his no-hit. no-run game | among a patchwork of mediocre performances last season He walk ' , ed four and fanned none. Give 'em a hand. fans. Bill Dickey's homer after Joe DiMaggios double gave the Yanks their winning tallies against the Browns Taft Wright's fly with the bases loaded enabled Zeke Bonura to score Washington's winning run. Bol> Feller, who retired as a precaution against injuring his arm In the 11th. allowed only three hits, but walked nine and fanned eight Zuber, who relieved him. was the loser The Tigers shelled two Red Sox pitchers for 16 hits, including three each by Greenberg and TebbI etts. Steinbacher's triple and Gerald Walker s single were the big blows ' in the White Sox winning rally, i Fighting uphill behind Carl Hubbell's stout pitching the New York I 1 Giants collared the Cincinnati Reds I ■in the eighth to win. 3-2. Johnny I i McCarthy's single drove in Jimmy Ripple with the winning run. Claude Passeau. an old Cub jinx.' pitched the Phillies to a 6-4 victory I over Chicago, with a little relief j | help from Kelleher in the eighth , and ninth innings. Bill Atwood hit i a homer with one on. Pittsburgh snapped a five-game I losing streak with a 9-5 victory over Brooklyn. Russ Batters and | Joe Bowman held the Dodgers to i three hits. The Boston Bees staged a 2-run rally in the fifth off Lefty Lainer to tie the St. Louis Cardinals. 3-3. i and theh rain halted the game. Yesterday's hero—Emil Leonard, i Washington rookie, who outpitched | Bob Feller and held the Indians to 1 six hits in scoring a 13-inning 1-0 I triumph over Cleveland Q BATTING LEADERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. ' Trosky. Indians 15 53 20 23 434 ; Werber. Athlet. 14 58 11 24 .414 I Hayes. Athletics 12 32 5 13 .406 Fox. Tigers 15 65 12 26 .400 ' Averill, Indians 15 55 14 22 .400 o HOME RUNS Goodman. Reds 5 Lazzeri, Cubs 4 McCarthy. Giants . 4 Leiber. Giants 4 Ripple. Giants 4 | Greenberg. Tigers 4 Keltner. Indians 4 Bonura. Senators 4 Johnson. Athletics 4 o Trude In 4 Cnnd Town — llpPßtnr LOANS'] $lO to S3OO gaby to Qualify NO ENDORSERS NO CO-MAKERS Let us solve your money problems Convenient repayment terms Call, write or phone LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCORPORATED Roomi I and 2 Schafer Building Decatur, Indiana Phene 2-3*7 Every request receive/ our prompt | CORT 2 MORE DAYS 15c —3O c I WALT DISNEY'S first full length feature .. I i * VT*\' kII I I ; WjfEVEN DWARFSIn Multiplane Technicolor aw 0» OM-AWnf kr (KO RADIO Hctwaa

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DIZZY DEAN IS OUT FOR MONTH WITH SORE ARM J ‘ Muscle Inflammation To Keep Cub Pitcher Out Os Action Chicago. May 5 (U.R) An x-ray 1 solved the mystery of Dizzy Dean's I ailing arm. The question now is. I "will a month's rest cure him?" Dizzy's trouble, the Chicago Cubs : physician said, was caused by a I muscle inflammation near the right I shoulder resulaing from the same ; old injury that wrecked him last season He rested all winter but i it didn't help. Dean, onetime prima donna of the St. Louis Cardinals, tried his J best to minimize the sore arm and might have taken a regular, disappointing turn in the pitcher's box all season if Manager Charlie I Grimm hadn't stepped in. "Diz. you've got a sore arm.” i Grimm told him after a morning .workout at Wrigley Field yesterday. “You go see Doe Davis ” Dr. John F Davis, club physician. placed Dean's $270,000 arm under an x-ray and proved that the big right hander was unsound when the Cubs bought him last largest cash deal in baseball his tory. Owner Phil K Wrigley said he paid $185,000 in cash in addition to three players "Those pictures showed traces of a former case of bursitis (which cost Diz a month of service last year) and that's what caused his present condition," Davis said "He has an inflammatory condition of the deltoid muscle, but it's nothing permanent. Trouble there is one of tile easiest things to cure.” Skeptical fans who watched Diz I do a fade-out in three of his four i starts this season were saying toi day that the Cubs had liought an- | other "lemon" to go along with the 1 major deals for Chuck Klein. Curt I Davis. Babe Herman and others : which also soured Diz was unconcerned. He was put to shagging fly balls in the | outfield to trim his waistline and I put the spring back in his legs while he's waiting for his arm to heal. He went at it with all the fire he might show in a world | series. "Don't worry." he said. “I'll still win 20 games this year." Although Grimm apparently was displeased when Dean refused to admit his arm was sore, none of the players resent the special care and heavy publicity he receives. As a veteran outfielder put it. Diz is a bear down guy all the time I never saw anybody who loses tougher than he does even when someone else is pitchin'." Grimm said Dean will stay with the ball club the whole month. "He's got other things besides his arm to get in shape before he can play ball for us." he said "We ll need him plenty later on." STANDINGS : NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 13 . 2 .867 Chicago 10 6 .625 Pittsburgh 6 6 .600 Boston 5 6 .455 Cincinnati 7 9 .437 Brooklyn ... 6 9 .400 St. Louis 5 9 .357 Philadelphia . 3 11 .214, AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Cleveland 11 4 .733 New York . ... 10 7 .588 Washington 9 7 .563 Boston 8 7 .533 Chicago 6 7 .462 Detroit 6 9 .400 Philadelphia 5 9 .357 St. Louis 5 10 .333 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 9. Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 6. Chicago 4. Boston 3. St. Louis 3 (called end fifth, rain). New York 3, Cincinnati 2. American League innings). Detroit 4. Boston 1. Chicago 4, Philadelphia 1. New York 3. St. Louis 2. THE DECATUR FLORAL CO. will have Flowers for sale for MOTHER’S DAY Friday and Saturday at the Brock Store

Rickenbacker Maintains Auto Racing At Indianapolis is 'Cleanest Sport'

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Auto racing is still “aces high” with America's ace of aces of the orld War. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker — he still forgets he has a colonelcy is celebrating his fenth anniversary of being associated with the management of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As president of the organization which sponsors the 500-mile race each year. Captain Rickenbacker has had one paramount purpose— j "To maintain automobile racing on a plane of clean sport and fair competition”. •‘We have always given the huge , crowd at Indianapolis a good show 5 for its money”, he says. "We have J turned every effort toward maintaining the high level of sports- ■ manship on the part of drivers. ; And we have adopted every means of assuring them the utmost safety ' in this laboratory of speed from which have evolved so many improvements that have benefitted I the motoring public of America”. Twenty years ago, the President of the speedway was risking his life in the battle to save democracy. He shot down 26 enemy planes, escaped with his life when his plane cracked up at a height I of 5,000 feet, and emerged from the World War acclaimed as America’s premier aviator. Since then he has worked tfnceasingly to make commercial aviation the safe mode of transpor-1 tation it has become. As general' manager and dynamic force of Eastern Airlines, he has helped aviation become one of the country's most progressive industries.

FIGHTING FOX RACE FAVORITE Workout At Track Makes Eox Favorite For Kentucky Derby Louisville. Ky.. May S.—:U.R —Stagehand, winter-book favorite to win the Kentucky derby. was withdrawn from the race today because of sickness, owner Maxwell Howard announced. Louisville, Ky.. May 5.—f.U.R) —He came, he was seen, and he conquered. That's Fighting Fox. the strapping son of Galahad 111 and Marguerite. and the Belair stub s solid hope in Saturday s 64th running of the Kentucky derby Yesterday this time he shared the post of favorite with Stagehand. the Sande trained colt whose smashing runs down the stretch | won him $150,000 in California dur- ! ing the winter. But today, whenever horsemen studied the probable field of ten which will go to the post in the derby, they always , wound up with one conclusion: "The Fox is the one to beat." For a bit of quiet, yet tingling drama, you need not go past the manner in which the Fox elevated himself to the post of favorite. It happened yesterday, between the third and fourth races on the card at Churchill Downs. The track was deserted, and the some 15.000 fans, their bets on the third collected, and their bets on the fourth made, were sitting quietly in the stands, or loitering at the bars. Then, with no fanfare, no announcement. a horse and his jockey jogged slowly along the backstetch. No one paid any attention to them, because between nearly every race some stabl boy gallops a horse around the track. The boy and the horse took it easy and ambled into the far turn; no one gave them more than a passing glance. Then the boy must have said

Tribute to Unknown Soldier

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Representing the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. William A. Becker, president general of the organization, places a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington Cemetery, as members of the D. A. R. watch.

I Jr - VW pW j It was he, as chairman of the Contest Board of the AAA, who was instrumental in adopting Internationa rules for the 530-mile race .May 30th, and increasing the prize mot.ey for the contestants, "I want this to b« th- greatest of all 500-mile contests", he said, “it will have closer coinietition, certainly, und I see a va«t improvement for American nto’jrs resulting from the new rules”.

I something, for in one great bound . the horse was transferred from a I I loafing, easy striding animal into I I a pegasus who seemed fairly to | fly. No. pegasus isn't quite right., i because he didn't seem as if he ' had wings; he gaW- you the Itn-, pression of tremendous power, end- . less vitality, and the will to run , , over anything hi front of him. I The horse was Fighting Fox. i 1 with his man. Jimmy Stout, up. The Fox hadn't run fifty yards ' before every eye in the place was ; 'on him. Men laid down their, juleps and rushed to a place where ( they could see. In the press box. : typewriters stopped clicking as the : experts ran to the outside. Bar- i I tenders and waiters crowded to the . windows. And the Fox gave ’em a show. He worked a mile and an eighth j in 1:55 4 5 but the time doesn't mean anything. It was how he | made that time. Save for a brief moment at the start. Stout never • gave his mount his head. In fact, as the Fox came boiling down the I stretch Jimmy was standing up. j pulling up on the reins as hard as I he could. But that didn’t bother■ the Fox. His head was turned al- ( most around by the yanking, but on he went, a magnificent picture j of everything a race horse should , , be. The Fox's great showing hammered his odds down to 2’z to 1 and made him the favorite. Next in line, at 3 to 1. was the Maxwell Howard entry of Stagehand and the Chief. Bull Lea was 5 to 1. ■ and Meiiow anil Dauber 8 to 1. , Lawrin was held at 10 to 1. Can t Waita t 15 to 1, Co-Sport at 25 ; to 1. and Elooto at 30 to 1. Sunday Appearance Os Circus Banned Indianapolis. May S.—KU.PJ—The board of public safety today banned the scheduled performance next Sunday of the Cole Brothers circus following protests from Indianapolis ministers and church leaders. A committee from the auxiliary of the Indianapolis orphans' home was to meet with the board today in an effort to have the ban lifted. The auxiliary was sponsoring the

DECATUR TEAM BEATS CENTRAL Decatur High Wins Three Singles Matches Io Defeat Central — Sweeping all three singles matches, the Decatur high school, | tennis team scored a 3 to 2 victory | I over Central of Fort Wayne. In a . ' match played at the Worthman Field courts Wednesday afternoon. I Central won both doubles match- i es and the third doubles contest was called on account of darkness with the standing at one set each. Results of the singles matches follow : Cline (Decatur) defeated Weaver, 8 6. 6-3. Ehinger (Decatur) defeated Van Stover. 6-4, 6-4 Melchi (Decatur) defeated Reese, 9-7, 6-4. Doubles match results follow: Keller-Bauermeister (Central > defeated Fuhrman Bohnke. 2-6. 6-2. 6-2. Endetleßond (Central) defeated Mills-Boch. 63. 7-5. in the final doubles match. Weaver Van Stover (Central) won the first set from Cline Ehinger. 62. with the Decatur pair winning the second set. 6-2, before darkness halted play. The Decatur team will play Bluffton at the Worthman Field courts Friday afternoon. o Adams Theater To Present Stage Show — As an added attraction Friday and Saturday, the Adams theater will present on their stage. "The ' Dancing Cowgirls." a 30-niinute revue with five entertainers. The act features buck, skate, tap and acrobatic dancing in addition to singI ing and comedy. There will also j be a free act in front of the theI ater at opening time. The screen . show will be "Non Stop New York " the story of adventures aboard a , trans-Atlantic air liner, and in ad dition there will be a I-aurel AHardy comedy Stage shows wiU be presented Friday and Saturday i I night and Saturday matinee. o Big. Little Business Attack Spending Plans Washington. May 5 —(UP)—Re-1 presentatives of !>ig and little bus!-' ness today attacked administration plans to lead he way out of depree-, sion with a new spending program : and predicted disaster if large scale i ! pump priming is continued indefin- i I Kely. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce, ; ] convened for its 26th annual meet-1 ing .heard a dual attack on the I underlying philosophy of President I Roosevelt s $4,512.0004 «)0 against depresssion and unemployment. . o Tussaud's Loses Trinkets London —(UP)— The ‘ dummy" : V. C. o n the .breast of the wax fig- ' ure of J>ck Cornwall, boy naval hero, has been stolen from Madame Tussaud’s Museum here. During the ipast year dozens of imitation jewell | snuff boxes and buttons were rej moved from figures of royalty, liter- | ary celebrities and criminals. t I Sunday performance and was to, ' receive part of the receipts. The circus was to make two ' showings Saturday and two Sun--1 day. The Hageubeck-Wallace cir- ' cus was prohibited from showing 1 here on Easter Sunday. j Fresh Pineapple Sherbert. i Green Kettle. fa/mize Ri n** Zr Mr * FLOOR ENAMEL For smooth, colorful, waterproof floors. Dries * quickly. Withstands a- 2 buse on wood floors, cement or pattern-worn I linoleum. Protects porch M'l" floors against - ■ weather. Makes " your basement | floors'easy to dean. All the popular colors KOHNE DRUG Store

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