Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1938 — Page 8

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AMATEUR BALL LEAGUE OPENS SEASON SUNDAY Mayor Holthouse To Toss Out First Ball Before Double Header Formal opening of the Adams county amateur baseball league Sunday afternoon at Worthman Field will have a decidedly “big league” tinge, with city and league officials .participating in forma! opening ceremonies. Arthur R. Holt house, mayor of Decatur, will pitch the first tall. Walter J. Krick. euperintetvJent of the city schools and chairman of the recreation executive committee, will take his swing at the mayor’s toss, and Carl Mies, president of the league, will attempt to catch the mayor’s delivery. These opening ceremonies are set promptly at 1:30 o'clock, and w ill be followed by a double-header feature of four league teams three of them from Decatur. In the opening clash at 1:30, St. Mary’s of Decatur will play the Fuelling team. At the conclusion of this game, the G. E- cltlb team will play the Mies Recreation nine in the nightcap. In Sunday's other league clash. Pleasant Mills and Monmouth will play at the South Ward diamond, as the home diamonds of these teams are not yet ready for ,play. Reasonable admission prices have been set for Sunday's inaugural games at Worthman Field. Admission prices for adults will be 25 centrf. with 10 cents for boys and girls, with all children tinder 12 being admitted without charge. Part Os Recreation The Adams county amateur baseball league is one o fthe activities sponsored under the newly organized recreation program recently LOANS $lO to S3OO Mo @o-Makati CONFIDENTIAL NO ENDORSERS Let us solve your money problems Convenient repayment terms Call, write or phone LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCORPORATED Rooms I and 2 Schafer Building Decatur, Indiana Phone 2*3-7 fiery request receives our prompt and courteous qtteuhosr

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softball, meeting All persons interested in | i I formation of softball leagues for the city and county are re- . quested to meet at the city hall .Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. | Softball leagues this year will be supervised by the softball association. Sylvester Everhart. ’ president, and by George laiur- ! ent. recreation supervisor. set up for Decatur and Adami I I county. George Laurent, recreation euper--1 visor, led In formation of the league i which, however, will tie governed - solely by the league’s own board of directors, composed of the managII rs of the seven teams entered. , I.eague officials are: Dari Mies, president: Paul Busee. vice-presid-ent; George Laurent,' secretary; Rev Father Alvin, treasurer. :| STANDINGS i NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. : New York 19 6 .760 ; Chicago 16 12 .571 i Pittsburgh 13 12 .520 Boston 13 12 .520 Cincinnati 13 14 .481 St. Louis 11 12 .478 Brooklyn 11 18 .379 ] Philadelphia 6 16 .273 J AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. . Cleveland 18 9 .667 i , Bosfbn 16 9 .640 New York 15 9 .625 . i Washington 17 13 .567 ('hit ago , !< 11 ’ Detroit 11 14 .440 ■ Philadelphia . 7 17 .292 j . St. Louis 7 IS .280 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League I Philadelphia 5. Cincinnati 4. : Chicago 1. New York 0 (10 in- , ningsl. Brooklyn 8, St. Louis 4. Boston 4, Pittsburgh 2 (11 in-. : nings). American League Detroit 6. Philadelphia 2. Chicago 4. Boston 0 (called end seventh, wet grounds I. Cleveland 15. fVashington 3. New York at St. Louis, rain. o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GABR II Pct. DiMaggio. Yanks 13 51 12 22 .431 Trosky, Indians 26 86 25 35 .407 , Medwick. Cards 18 72 12 29 ,403 Lavagetto. Dodg. 19 67 11 26 .388 McCormick. Reds 27 118 19 45 .381

CENTRAL WINS ANNUAL TRACK MEET THURSDAY Central Graders Defeat St. Joe By 35 To 24 Score Thursday | In probably the closest and most interesting of th. yearly events ever held, the Central eighth graderst toppled the St. Joe thinly clads Thursday afternoon at Worth man Field in the annual dual track land field meet. I Central won by a 11-point mar-j gin, 35 to 24. Their win in the re-1 ' lay provided the extra margin. 1 Had they lost in that event, the' margin would have been but one point. Hunter, participating in his first I athletic event for Central, was i high single scorer, getting three firsts, a third and a tie for first and third, for a total of 18 points. He was hard pressed for IndividI ual honors by McGill, of St. Joe. i who garnered 15 markers. Enthusiastic cheering from Central and St. Joe rooters spurred I it he graders on during each event. The entire meet was run off during threatening showers, which I I tailed to materialize. Coaches Sylvester Everhart, of Central and Pat Murphy of St. I Joseph, directed the efforts of I their charges. Officials included: i Coaches Hugh Andrews. Deane Dorwin. Harry Daily:' P. Bryce I Thomas, while Argo Sudduth and Art Hurst handled the tap. I The complete results follow: I Footbal throw: McGill (St. Joe). 1 first; Terveer (St. Joe), second; Sunter (Central), third. Distance. | 118 feet, five inches. 50-yard dash: Hunter (C), first; , Johnson (C), second and Lynch ' (Cl. third. Time: 5.9. Baseball throw: McGill (St. J.). I first: Lynch (C) second; Beer (C) i third. Distance: 270 feet. 100-yard dash: Hunter (C) first; I Johnson (Cl second and Rum-1 schlag (St. J.) third. Time: 11.9.' Broad jump: Hunter (C); McGill (St. J.) second and Beer CC) ' :third. High jump: Brud Holthouse (St. J.) first; McGill (St. J.) and Hunter (Cl tied for second and third.' Hheight: four feet, five and one-, (half inches. I Quarter-mile relay: Central i Light. Johnson. Beer and Hunter) first; St. Joe (Keller. Rum--1 schlag. B. Holthoc.se and McGill) : second. o CHICAGO CUBS DEFEAT GIANTS Bill Lee Hurls 10-Inning Shutout Over League Leaders New York. May 20.—jlU.R> ~The. ' red hot American league pennant ‘ | race found the Cleveland Indians back <sn top today but the National league was gradually sneaking back into the spotlight. The big drama in yesterday’s baseball all came from the Nation al. where four spectacular games j were won in the late innings. Top triumph was the Chicago Cubs’ 1-0 victory over the leagueleading New York Giants in 10 innings. Big Bill Lee emerged victorious over Harry Gumbert in a tense picthing duel which gave the Cubs the series by a two to one edge and (hopped the Giants’ lead to 4LG games. It was Lee s first complete game this season, and it was a masterpiece. He allowed only five hits, all singles, walked none, and permitted only one man to reach second. The Cubs made six hits off their jinx. Gumbert. Two w’alks and Billy Herman’s single won the game. The amazing Boston Bees surged into third place by winning thir third straight victory over Pittsburgh by a one-run margin. 4-3, in 11 innings. Al Lopez s double and Rabbit Warstler’s single produced the winning tally. Rookie Max West led the Bees’ 13hit attack with two single and a triple. Ira Hutchinson, who relieved Lou Fette, pitched the last nine innings to get credit for the victory. Trailing 4-1 going into the seventh, Brooklyn staged two big rallies to break a jour-game losing streak and trim the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-4. Ernie Koy's homer with two men on in the seventh tied the score, and Rosens triple scored Durocher with the tie-break-er. Cookie IJivagetto had a perfect day at bat, "3 for 3. ’ T two-base* muff by Lonnie Frey in the ninth enabled pitcher Hugh Mulcahy, of the Phillies, to defeat Cincinnati, 5-4. After Ival Goodman had homered with two men on in the first inning. Mulcahy held ■ the Reds to two hits. Scharein i and Corbett hit homers for the I Phils. 1 Cleveland ousted the Boston Red

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SWIMMING POOL TO OPEN JUNE 4 Municipal Swimming Pool To Be Opened Within Two Weeks Plans are being made to open the municipal swimming pool at Water Works park on Saturday, June 4. Draining of the poo! will begin next Monday and by the end of the weok it is hoped that the pool will ' lie sufficiently dry to permit painting of the floor. Whitewash will | ! :.ot be used this year. Marion Feasel of this city, who . I acted ae supervisor of the pool last year, will be employed again and a , [ schedule for bathers will be arranged similar to that in use heretofore. The swimming pool is 70 ‘by 120 Sox from the American league lead I by laying down a barrage of 13 hits — including four doubles, a triple and three homers to beat Washington. 15-3. With Hank Greenberg hitting homer No. 8 and Rudy York clouting No. 5 Detroit slugged out a 6-2 triumph over the Athletics. The Boston Red Sox had their eight-game winning streak snapped and tumbled out of first place as the Chicago White Sox won a iseven-inning game halter by’ rain. 4-0. John Whitehead permitted. Boston only three hits. Jack Wilson. who had pitched two shutouts in his two previous starts, w>; knocked out in the fourth. Yesterday’s hero: Big Bill Lee. Cubs' right-hander who pitched his first complete game this seas- ( on after failing to finish five, and checked the Giants with five singles.

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♦ * POSTPONE GAME The Decatur Yellow Jackets- | | ' Bluffton Tigers baseball game. f scheduled for this afternoon at | ; Worthman Field, has been 1 c potted to Wednesday afternoon. ] Coach Deane Dorwin announc- j a ■ ed today. j i feet, averaging from one to eight I teet in depth and has a capacity of ' 335.009 gallons, of water. Pure city : water, with chlorinating trea'ment, i is used in the pool. Since three boilers are being fired |at the city plant and most of the j time turbines are being used, the water demand at the plant exceeds ! any formre year. The swimming ' pool has been used as a cooling i basin for boiled water and city officials are much concerned over ‘ the probability of not being able to operate the pool during the en- ' , i tire summer. Every effort will be made to keep ' the pool open for the children and ' municipal plant officials and engineers are working on plans toward that end. The city plant uses appro-. ximately a half million gallons of i water a day, about three-fourths of which is reclaimed and used over through the spray pond and cooling basin system. Mayor A. R- Holt house and other city officials were quoted as saying tnat more water cooling capacity' was needed at the plant and that 'they also favored the building of a new swimming 'pool. Mayor Holtnouse and members of the council are making an investigation covering the plant needs and the possibility of obtaining federal funds to help defray the cost of the needed | improvements. i o Jimnty Mann's Star Dust Band. Sunset Sunday Dance.

SECOND JUNIOR BASEBALL MEET HERE SATURDAY Junior Baseball School To Be Held At Worthman Field Tomorrow The second in a series of junior' baseball schools, cancelled last [ Saturday because of rain, will be held at Worthman Field Saturday morning and afternoon. The school is under the direction of George Laurent, supervisor of the Decatur and Adams county recreation program. The first school, held two weeks ago. attracted approximately 100 boys to Worthman Field, with the lads showing considerable enthusiasm at the opportunity to learn proper methods of playing baseball under supervised Instruction. Tomorrow's school will be divided into two divisions, with boys up to 14 years of age meeting at 9 o'clock in the morning, and boys 14 and over, meeting at 1 o'clock in the afternoo. Plans of instruction used in the school" are those prepared by the state department of recreation, with tips from big league stars as the basis for the program. These junior schools have been held throughout the state for the past few years, and have been of great benefit to younger baseball players of Indiana, particularly in developing good high school teams. Mr. Laurent will be assisted by a number of volunteer baseball enthusiasts of the city. CLUB PLANNING ANNUAL PICNIC Annual Country Conservation Club Picnic Next Sunday An exceptional program has been announced by the Country Conservation club for its annual picnic Sunday afternoon and evening at the St. John’s Grove seven miles north of Decatur on U. S. highway 27. The public has been invited to attend and no admission SUN. MON. TUES. 10c Matinee 1:15 Sunday TWO ACTION HITS! jr wL T ' a new Wfcr ’ UNIVERSAL PICTURE FORBIDDEN VAIIEY Vltt NOAH BEERY, Jr. FRANCES ROBINSON Screen ploy and direction by WYNDHAM GITTENS Amoc Producer* HENRY MacRAE & ELMER TAMBERT Bated an o novel by STUART HARDY — ADDED THRILLER — Suffering Long Years In Prison— He Sought Revenge—For a Crime He Did Not Commit! “BEHIND PRISON BARS” With Ralph Morgan, Kay Linaker, Ben Alexander Evenings 10c-20c o—o Tonight & Saturday “ROLLING CARAVANS” With JACK LUDEN ALSO — “Flash Gordon's Trip tc Mars” 4 Last Chapter “Mysterious Pilot.” Tonite ONLY ONE DIME Saturday 10c-15c—First Show 6:3(

charged, | Among the features of the program will .be special mtude by ,] IH Fort Wayne Newa-Sentincl bund, and the two bands cuniposed of members of the cltlb. the piano aecordlan band of 18 pieces, and the Hawaiian guitar band of 15 pieces Free acta will be presented by the Harders, acrcfiats and clowns of the Spa Indoor circus. The fro,, acts will be presented in the afternoon and evening. There will be bowling, horseshoe pitching, trap and rifle shooting for the crowd. Members o ftho clnb I will also stage a coon chase for the entertainment of the visitors. A conceMlon stand will serve

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