Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1938 — Page 6

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G. E„ FUELLING AND MONMOUTH TAKE OPENERS " Adams County Amateur Baseball League Is Opened Sunday League Standing I W. L. Pct. i Fuelling .10 1.000 G.E 1 0 1.0001 Monmouth 1 0 1.000 Preble 0 0 .000 i Pleasant Mills 0 1 .000 St. Mary's 0 1 .000 I The Adams county amateur base ball league opened its season Sun-, day afternoon, with the General Electric, Fuelling and Monmouth teams victors, respectively, over Mies Recreation, St. Mary's and Pleasant Mills. The G. E.-Mies game, the nightcap of the double header at Worthman Field, was easily the feature, : with G. E. nosing out a 5-4 triumph i over Mies in a close battle. Fuelling trampled all over an I Inexperienced St. Mary's nine in the lid-lifter at Worthman Field, winning by a score of 20 to 0. | In the third game, played at the : South Ward diamond in this city. ' Monmouth had an easy time shutting out the Pleasant Mills entrant, 9 to 0. Mies jumped into a one-run lead in the first inning, R. Ladd draw- • ing a walk with two down, and scoring when Busse dropped Brittson’s long drive to center after a hard run. Reynolds and McDougal opened | the G. E. third inning with singles, j Jackson was hit by a pitched ball, I loading the bases. Reynolds scored on Busse's infield out, and Me- I Dougal tallied after Schneider filed to left. Brittson walked to start the ■ Mies fourth, and scored on Ritter's hit. The latter scored on Schneider's wild pitch. G. E. tallied the winning markers in the fifth when Bierie, relieving Harmon, walked four men, committed an error, and allowed one hit. three runs scoring. Mies

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hurled the final inning, allowing only one hit. Two hits and an error gave Mies a run in the sixth but Schneider bore down to retire the side with two men still on base. Hurls No-Hitter | Gresley, Fuelling hurler, let the ISt. Mary’s down without a hit in ‘the opening game while his teammates bunched hits with numerous : St. Mary's miscues to pile up the 'ovewhehnlng 20-0 score. Only four i St. Mary's players reached first, one ou an error and three through free transportation. I Monmouth had no difficulty trouncing Pleasant Mills. 9 to 0, with Brokaw and P. Conrad limiting the losers to five hits. P. Conrad's home run was the feature of this game. , Box scores: I Fuelling AB R H E jR. Scherer, 3b 5 2 2 0 L. Boerger, c . 4 2 3 0 Gerke. lb 5 110 M. Scherer, 2b 5 3 3 0 M. Fuelling, ss 3 2 2 0 H. Boerger. cc 2 0 0 0 Franz, rs 3 2 10 iL. Fuelling, rs 2 0 10 W. Scherer, cf 4 2 11 Hoile, If 3 4 3 0 plreasley, p 4 2 2 0 Totals- 40 20 19 1 St. Mary's AB RHE Gage, rs — 3 0 0 1 iJH. Baker, lb 3 0 0 0 |W. Coffee. 3b 2 0 0 0| Murphy, If 2 0 0 0 A. Baker, ss 2 0 0 3 Voglewede. ct 2 0 0 0 Omlor, 2b 10 0 0 W. Baker, c 2 0 0 0 R. Coffee, p 2 0 0 1 Totalsl7 0 0 5 Score by Innings: St. Mary’s 900 000— 0 , Fuelling 315 506 —20 I G. E. AB RHE ; Reynolds, ss 3 1 2 0 : McDougal, c 3 110 (Jackson. 3b 3 10 0 j Busse, cf 4 0 11 'Schneider, p Jill Keller, lb 3 0 0 0 Scheimann. If .... 2 1 0 0 ' Mclntosh, rs 3 0 10 I Omlor, 2b 10 0 1 Totals2s 5 6 3 Mies AB RHE . Davis, cf 4 0 0 0 M. Ladd, 3b, 2b 4 0 0 0 |R. Ladd, ss 3 11 0 I Brittson. c _ 2 2 0 0 Bell, 3b 2 0 0 1 Ritter. If 3 1 2 0 Smith, rs 3 0 0 0 Ogg. lb 2 0 0 0 Andrews, lb 10 0 0 Harmon, p 2 0 10 Bierie, p 0 0 0 1 Mies, p 10 0 0 Totals2B 4 4 2 Score by innings: Mies 100 201 o—4 G. E 002 030 x—s Monmouth AB R H J. Moses, If 3 10 Shuman, lb 3 0 2 Fuelling, lb 110 Strickler, ss 3 2 2 i Kable, c 4 12 Macklin, 3b 3 0 2 (Fleming, rs 2 0 0 IR. Fuelling, rs 2 0 0 Beal, 2b 3 10 iB. Fuelling, ct 3 10 j Brokaw, p A 10 0 P. Conrad, p 3 2 2 Totals3l 9 10 Pleasant Mills AB R II Byers, rs 5 0 0 Merriman, ss 4 0 0 Halberstadt, It 4 0 1 Marhinke, cf 3 0 0 Conrad, lb 4 0 0 Dague, 3b 4 0 1 Stover, c 3 0 2 Slusser, p • 4 0 1 Kukelhan, 2b 4 0 0 T0ta15.".35 0 5 o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Lavagetto, Dodg. 22 79 14 32 .405 Trosky, Indians . 29 97 26 38 .392 Chapman, R. Sox 24 87 12 34 .391 DiMaggio, Yanks 15 59 13 23 .390 Averill. Indians.... 30 112 27 42 .375 Medwick, Cards ... 20 80 12 30 .375 o Trude In A Good Town — Decatur

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JACKETS PLAY IN TOURNAMENT NEXT SATURDAY Annua! Northeastern Indiana Conference Baseball Meet Saturday Four baseball teams, including ‘the Decatur Yellow Jacket nine, will battle next Saturday, May 28. at Kendallville for the N. E. I. C. baseball championship. The Jackets, through the draw made Saturday, will have a tough time In their fight to cop the conference title. Their first opponent will be the Kendallville Comets, hosts in the four-team tourney, and the favorites of the meet. The Jackets and the Comets will open the tourney in the first game at 9 o’clock (Central standard time) Saturday morning. Hartford City and Bluffton will tangle In the second tilt at 10:30 a. m.. with the two winners meeting at 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon for the title. The Comets are the.outstanding favorites, with a record of 13 games won and but two losses. The Jackets and the Comets did not meet during the regular playing season. The locals hold a win over Bluffton, but suffered two losses to the Airedales, both by close margins. Although the Comets are heavy meet favorites, Coach Deane Dorwin's nine has high hopes of upsetting the dope in the first round battle and marching through to a I win over the other semi-finalists. I Admission will be 25 cents per session or 25 cents for a season ticket to all three encounters. E. L. Druckmiller of Angola and G. R. Prentice of Kandallville will officiate. BEES MARK UP SEVEN IN ROW Boston Defeats Cubs, Cincinnati Into First Division

New York. May 23 -OJ-PJ—There was something strange about the National League standings today. , Boston and Cincinnati, perennial . second-division clubs, were up ■. among the first four teams for the first time this season. Boston has been up there for some time. Cincinnati has been up and down. But not once since the season started have they enjoyed such company together. The Bees sailed along on the crest of a seven-game winning streak. They were only a game behind the second-place Chicago Cubs. The Reds, who have won seven of their last ten starts, were fourth, a half-game away from Boston. And only six games separated 1 the league ■ leading New York Giants from the fifth-place Pittsburgh Pirates. The Bees picked up a full game ( on the Cubs yesterday by beating ( them 2-1 in the 11th for their third j straight extra-inning victory. Mil- ( burn Shoffner, 31-year-old south- . paw rookie, held the Cubs to seven hits and his single in the 11th j drove home the winning run. The Reds, with Ival Goodman clouting his 10th homer of the season. moved into fourth with an 8-3 victory over Brooklyn. Pittsburgh, which had been fourth. slipped back to fifth by dropping an 18-2 decision to the New York Giants. That victory, coupled with the Cubs’ defeat, enabled the Giants to snap a four-game losing streak and increase their league lead to 3t4 games. Carl Hubbell pitched for the league champions and won his fifth game. It was the Giants’ greatest scoring spree of the year. With Bill McGee of the Cardinals and Jete Sivers each pitching fivehit ball. Philadelphia scored two runs in the ninth for a 2-1 victory. Ted Lyons, Chicago’s 37-year-old right hander, was the big news in the American League. He pitched the White Sox to a 9-2 victory over the Washington Senators for his 200th major league triumph during a 15-year career. He gave up nine hits The Cleveland Indians stretched their lead to two full games over the Yankees with an 8-3 victory over the world champions. Bob Feller started for the tribe despite a painful back injury, but had to quit after three innings. The biggest crowd of the season —62,244 — jammed Cleveland’s municipal stadium. The Detroit Tigers trimmed the , third-place Boston Red Sox 4-3. Rudy York's homer in the first with I the bases loaded provided the winI letics defeated St. Louis 8-5 in 10 ning runs. The Philadelphia Athinnings. A single by Lodiglani with the bases loaded in the 10th drove in two runs and Potter's single j brought home another. Yesterday's hero — Ted Lyons, Chicago White Sox “old man” oi

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the mound, who scored his 200th major league victory. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. U Pct. New York 20 8 .714 Chicago .18 13 .581 Boston 14 11 .560 Cincinnati 16 14 .533 Pittsburgh . 14 14 .500 St. Louis 12 15 .444 Brooklyn 12 20 .375 Philadelphia 10 18 .357 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Cleveland 20 10 .667 New York 16 10 .615 Boston 17 11 .607 Washington 18 15 .545 Detroitl3 15 .464 Chicago 10 12 .455 Philadelphia 9 18 .333 St. Louis 8 20 .286 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Boston 2. Chicago 1 (11 innings) New York 18. Pittsburgh 2. Cincinnati 8. Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 1. American League Detroit 4, Boston 3. Chicago 9, Washington 2. Cleveland 8, New York 3. Philadelphia 8, St. Louis 5 (10 innings o HOME RUNS Goodman. Reds 10 Greenberg. Tigers 8 Foxx. Red Sox 8 Ott, Giants 7 York. Tigers 6 DiMaggio. Yankees 6 Keltner, Indians 6 Mrs. K. Guy Brown visited in Fort Wayne Saturday.

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BROOKLYNPLANS NIGHT BASEBALL — Contracts Are Let For Installation Os Light System • I ; | New York. May 23.—(U.R>~The i ■ Brooklyn Dodgers next month will I i become the second major league ; club to have night baseball. I Larry MacPhail, who pioneered major league night baseball at Cincinnati, announced that contracts have been let for installation of a lighting system at Ebbets Field. , The Dodgers’ vice president and general manager said the system , will be ready for operation about J June 15. He said no decision had , , been reached regarding night ball i this season but it was believed the J Dodgers might try to schedule a game for June 17 against the Cincinnati Reds. Work on the projects will start immediately. The installation will cost SIIO,OOO and the lighting will ibe the best in the country, MacPhail said. 0 Francis Ouimet Wins In British Amateur Troon, Scotland, May 23- (UP) — Francis Olmet of Borston, former American champion, scored the first UaHed States victory Ln the British Amateur golf championship today when he defeated P. J. Url--1 winsmtth, 1 up. Oimet rushed oft to lead by three up at the seventh hole and turned two up. He had an outward ' medal score of 37 against Par 26. ' The be-spectacled Bostonian pro- ' I sited by 'Smith's mistakes on the 1 outward nine. Trude In A <■<»«»«! Town — Orrntuv

UQUALIFVIN 500-MILE RACE 25-Mile Qualifying Record Broken In Trial Sunday Indianapolis. May 23. — (U.R> Drivers and mechanics, given a day's recess from qualifying trials. } today groomed their powerful racing bullets for more record-shatter- | i ing speeds and the prize money s which goes to the best performance in pre-race trials. Fourteen were qualified today for the 500-mile Memorial Day classic, nearly half the starting field of 33 which takes a flying start on the speedway oval one week from today for the nation's greatest auto race. ’ The 25-mile qualifying record was cracked yesterday, less than ; 20 hours after Floyd Roberts guni ned his big thunder-chariot to a i new time and the pole position i during the first day of trials. One of Roberts' home town pals from Van Nuys, Calif., set the new record. Ronny Householder, the seacoast flash driving one of Joe Thorne's creations, went the 10 laps at 125.769 miles an hour. Roberts’ speed Saturday was 125.68. Householder was driving at a steady, gruelling pace, taking every ' lap at more than 125. His best, the third, went at 126.707 miles an hour. The car was a six-cylin-dered, supercharged job, called a Thorne-Sparks special. Also qualifying yesterday were ' Frank Brisko, Chicago, at 121.921 j miles an hour: Joe Thorne. Tuscon, Ariz.. 119.155; Herb Ardinger, Pittsburgh, Pa.. 119.022; and Louis Meyer, Huntington Park, Calif.. 120.525. Meyer, only three-time winner, sent a shiver through other driv(ers as he drove nine of his 10 laps on only seven cyclinders. On the first lap a spark plug went dead but he still had plenty of power to qualify in fair time. Jimmy Snyder. Joe Thorne's other driver, made his second trial but quit after one lap because of carburetor trouble. He gets one more chance to qualify. Kelly Petillo. the man who brings apprehensive shakes of the head when he puts his foot on the gas, was on his way to a new record surpassing Householder’s mark when suddenly he stopped on the fifth lap. “The motor was not turning over fast enough to suit me.” the little Italian said. His lap speeds, however, were amazing. They ra nat 125 T 56. 124 - 292, 130.246. and 129.348. The third almost smashed Jimmy Snyder's single lap record of 130.492. Petillo Saturday had finished nine laps i in record time when his rear tire l blew out. He used bigger tires yesterday. Eight qualified Saturday. They were Floyd Roberts, who won the pole position, Rex Mays. Glendale, I Calif., 122.45; Tony Gulotta, DeJ troit. 122.499; Chet Miller, Detroit, | 121,898; Ted Horn, Los Angeles, 121.327; Wilbur Shaw, Indianapolis, 120.987; Babe Stapp, Dallar. Tex.. 120.595; and Mauri Rose, Columbus. 0., 119.796. I Trial speeds indicate that Wili bur Shaw's one-year 500-mile record of 113.58 miles an hour will be knocked from the books May 30. Many already have proved their machines are able to settle into a 1 steady pace of 120 miles an hour. Qualifying times have been much higher than those of 1937. Several

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Queen of Blossom * * U • ip * mW ‘ >■ j - —si— ——————fl Dorothy Mcßride B One of the most coveted beauty titles in the nation went ti J Dorothy Mcßride, blue-eyed blonde from Kalamazoo, when *3 chosen to reign as queen at the annual Benton Harto, m 3 ■om festival. ■

I started the race last year who r qualified at 116 miles an hour, hut « it is generally accepted that 119 is f the lowest pace this year. s Among the "name'' drivers who pick up the speedway trial this i week to pass the qualifying test t are Bill Cummings. Fred Frame. Billy Winn, Jimmy Snyder, Shorty Cantion. Kelly Petillo and Al Put- ] am. All are expected to be at the wheel next Monday, when 11 rows of three cars each take positions ‘ for the annual show of speed madness. . o Hammond High Wins State Track Meet Indianapolis. May 23. — |(U.R> — i Hammond high school athletes toi day hung up their spiked shoes by their rubbersoles and elected , ones, ending a year of near supremacy in state high school , sports. ' Last Saturday the Wildcats won the state track meet, scoring 29’ 2 points. In football they were generally acknowledged state champs > and in basketball they came out second best. North Side of Fort Wayne plac- i led second with 22 points, Tech of Indianapolis third with 21; Muncie Central fourth with 20*4 and Shortridge of Indianapolis fifth with 20. t o | Ear! Peters Forecasts State Building Boom Indianapolis, Ind.. May 23 —(UP) —R. Earl Peters, state director of, 1 the federal housing administration. < ' today forecast that 1938 would be a record year so rthe building in- i dusrtry in Indiana. Peters said hte office established a record year for the building in- > sons applied for insured mortgages I 1 totaling nearly $1,700,000 to build t

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■ -I f < m.ir'zigw for repairs to tsistM'm, said. I :i-v; i: uTi.tns now baveiß s3l 731 41" ! ;nFm| • d Ui ■:'-".i." ■ I'-'-rs at Post master Farley Off State PtS South Bond. Ind, Mnr3I’ -' r i-neil Jm i'arley has sworn dtttii List night as be stoppd* to Benton Harbor. MN he was "through dibUtf them. Last weak “Big Jil’l stand in the Pennsyirniigi trying tn co-ordinate Wo! Democratic factions. “I won't comnit tjstSi more states." he said. He predicted that the it presidential nominee in IMO be V 3. Senator Wit} 1 mrg of Michigan. Softball Meeting Here This £«« A re-organization leetigd Lail leagues will be teW 7:30 o’clock at the city tt i ester Everhart smumO Teams outside o! the ebji ested in forming a W"’ to attend. Garner Bust Presented Lubbock, Tex. -(BM| bust of Vice-president Johl Garner has been presentet Texas Technological Collejll and Mrs. Among Carter« Worth. The bust, by Waggoner Bowma ll ' •• sculptress and former e be 'Placed in the West Te* eum on the campus. 1