Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1938 — Page 6

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CINCINNATI IN THIRD SPOT IN SENIOR LEAGUE Cincy Reds Hottest Team In League At Present Time New York, May 24 XU.R) -As the' old order changes in the National League the Cincinnati Reds begin to look like a bona fide pennant threat. The Reds moved into third , place today, only four games behind the pace-setting Giants and a ' game and a half back of the second place Cubs. While the Pirates and Cardinals.! perennnial first division dubs hava'i slumped into the second division, : the Reds have come up with an i amazing rush Right now they’re playing the hottest ball in the | league, with a record of five out of six victories on their present east-1

♦ ————— — — Last Time Tonight — “GOLDWYN FOLLIES” I Charlie McCarthy, Ritz Bros., Phil Baker, Adolphe Menjou, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds. ALSO—Our Gang Comedy 10-25 c WEI). & Till RS. - ♦ First Show Wednesday Night at 6:30. Come Early. Thursday Matinee at 1:30 Box Office Open until 2:30 WARNING! When you meet her, step on it!... '4 Jk.' ' See iljllfty Poromounfi sensational KaSjßjj&ST , expose'of the 7 $10,000,000-o-year highway hijack racked o—o Fri. & Sat.—“ The First 100 Years" Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce ! Warren William. O—O Coming Sunday—The successor to •You’re Only Young Once' “JUDGE HARDY'S FAMILY” Mickey Roo-, ney, Lewis Stone. - Last Time Tonight - “Forbidden Valley” Noah Beery, Jr., Fred Kohler ■ and • “Behind Prison Bars” Ralph Morgan, Kay Linaker Onlv 10c-20c o—o Fri. 4 Sat. — CHARLES STAR RETT “Call of the Prairie.” O—O Coming Sunday—2 More Hits! “STATE POLICE" John King 4 “EXTORTION” Scott Colton.

ern trip. They’ve won four in a row and scored 39 runs to the opposition's 14 In the past six games. Util McKechnle has built a sound bull club at Cincinnati. It has speed, hustle, balanced pitching i and a timely, if not robust, attack. , 1 Barring Catcher Ernie Lombardi ' there isn't a slow mqn on the I Reds' club. Dutsy Cooke, Harry Craft and Ival Goodman are perhaps the league's fleetest outfield 1 trio. I The pitching has been consistentI ly good and may get better. Lefty Lee Grissom, counted the staff's 1 ace. hasn't won a game yet but is expected to start pitching after he has had a tonsil operation. Paul Derringer. John Vander Meer. Al I Hollingsworth. Peaches Davis and Joe Cascarilla have shared the ' brunt of the pitching thus far. Cincinnati beat Brooklyn yester-’ i day, 64. Goodman led the Reds’ ■ 11-hit attack with two singles and ' two doubles. When Gene Schott j weakened in the sixth Joe Cascari ella came in and squelched the I Dodgers. I Pittsburgh scored four runs in the first inning to turn back the I Giants, 4-3. Handley’s triple. . Vaughan's single, a hit batsman.' i Todd's double and Dickshot's single j I produced the four runs. Mel Ott 1 ' hit homer No. 8 with a mate on ■ base. Relief pitcher Mace Brown ■ J was hit in the stomach by a line I drive from Jlaslin’s bat and had to { I leave the game, but was credited I ; with his sixth victory. The Chicago Cubs snapped the ' | Boston Bees' seven-game winning | streak with a 4-1 victory. Big Bill j Lee held the Bees to six hits. He I was hit in the stomach by a line drive from Al Cuccinello's bat in the sixth, but finished the game, | Gabby Hartnett hit a homer with a man on. After spotting the St. Louis Card ' | inals five runs, the Phillies camel 1 from behind to win. 7-6. Morris • Arnovich's infield single with the i bases loaded accounted for the I winning tally in the eighth. It was the second straight for the Phils over the Cards. All American League games were rained out. Yesterday's hero — Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies, who gave up five! runs in the first two innings and then settled down and held the Cardinals at bay while his mates came from behind to win. o _ HOME RUNS Goodman. Reds .... 101 Foxx. Red Sox 8 Ott, Giants 8 Greenberg, Tigers 8 York. Tigers 6 Keltner, Indians 6 DiMaggio. Yankees 6 o Resume Qualifying Trials Tomorrow — Indianapolis, May 24. — (U.R> — Chief Steward Charles Merz of the Indianapolis speedway announced last night that qualifying trials in the 500-mile race would be resumed tomorrow. Softball Meeting On Friday Night Another meeting to organize a softball league in this city will be held at the city hall Friday eve- . ning at 7:30 o'clock. At a meeting Monday night, indications pointed to formation of a countywide league, with a possible entry list of eight teams.

| CORT — TONIGHT — and by popular request HELD OVER Wednesday-Thursday IN OLD CHICAGO' The Greatest Picture ever made! Tyronne Power - Alice Faye Don Ameche. A never to be forgotten spectacle. Crowds have been so great and sc many people have been unable to see this picture that we are complying with the request to hold it over two extra days. TONIGHT - WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 10c -25 c Coming Sunday — “Jezebel.” j

ROSS FAVORED I TO WIN FIGHT • Barney Ross Favorite To Defeat Henry Armstrong Thursday II 11 New York. May 24. <U.R>-Wei- ; j terwelght champion Barney Ross remained today an 8-5 favorite to I retain his title in Thursday's bout • with Henry Armstrong of Los Angeles. featherweight title holder. As both began tapering off their I training today, promoter Mike Jacobs said more than SBO,OOO worth of tickets had been jold, Indicating a gate of at least $250,000 for the 15-round brawl in Madison Square Garden. Ross arrived in New York last night to finish up at a local gymnasium after almost a month of hard work at Grossinger Lake, N. Y. He went through seven rounds ■of gymnasium exercises yesterday. He scaled a little over 141 pounds. ! Armstrong will remain at his Pompton latkes. N. J., camp until Thursday morning. Meanwhile, a majority of boxing experts picked Ross. If he wins, ■he would be the first champion ever to retain a title in the Garden bowl. Os 86 experts polled by the I United Press. 50 picked Ross. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. 1 New York 20 9 .690 Chicago 19 13 .594 Cincinnati 17 14 .548 Boston 14 12 .538 Pittsburgh 15 14 .517 St. Louisl2 16 .429 Brooklyn 12 21 .364 Philadelphia 8 18 .308 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Cleveland 20 10 .667 : New York 16 10 .615 Boston - 17 11 -507 Washington 18 15 .545 Detroit 13 15 .464 Chicago .10 12 .455 Philadelphia 9 18 .333 ; St. Louis 8 20 .286 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Chicago 4, Boston 1. Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 6. Pittsburgh 4. NeNw York 3. Cincinnati 6. Brooklyn 4. American League All games postponed, rain. o * Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore ♦ ♦ Crossinger Lake. N. Y„ May 24. —<U.R>-Plain tales from the hills where Barney Ross trained for Henry Armstrong: If Ross “quits in his corner” as Eddie Meade, Armstrong's manager says he will, the referee will be the one who stops it . . . Becaustwyears ago the welter champ made his managers, Sam Pian and Art Winch, put it in writing that never, never, no matter what hapuened inside the ropes, would they throw in the ' towel ... “I pay Art and Sam to get me matches and get me in shape fbr them." Ross told me . . . “Once that bell rings I'm in charge. I'm the one who takes the punches and there's no earthly way for my managers to know how I feel . . . It's understood that any time they stop a fight of mine they don’t get i paid." If “homicidal Henry" does stop ; Ross he will have stopped a man who takes a deal of stopping . . . , Thursday night's fight will mark Barney's 80th professional fight, and in that some five or six hundred rounds he has never been knocked out, and has been on the floor just once, and that for only a count of three . . . Ceferino Garcia was the fellow who knocked him down ... In their first fight : out on the Pacific coast . . . Ross I says he never saw or felt the I punch . . . One second he was 1 standing up boxing and the next ! he was sitting down, wondering if I he had slipped . . . One knockdown isn't a bad record for a fighter whose foes include such punchers as Jimmy McLarnin, Billy Petrolle, Tony Canzonet! and Bat Battalino . . . Ross says he doesn't doubt Armstrong’s hitting ability, but doubts if he hits with as much power as McLarnin. If you’re at the fight Thursday fLOANSI $lO to S3OO Ourn nature NO ENDORSERS—NO CO-MAKERS Let us solve your money probit? ms Convenient repayment terms CeH, write er )Aow LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCORPORATED Rooms I and 2 Schafer Building Decatur, Indiana Phone 2-3-7 Every request receives our prompt and courteous itttstios. f

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night and see a little gray-haired lady standing up and yelling “hook a little more. Barney; use that 1 uppercut, Barney," it will be the , champ's mother. Mrs. Ross is 63. 1 but when Barney gets in the ring she fights a full 15 rounds, all by herself . . , calls every punch ... I Barney says she knows as much f boxing as anyone he knows, and I that many of her tips have been invaluable . . . She never arrives l from Chicago unti ithe day of the ' bout . . . Says she knows too many . people who want tickets. Ross is one fighter who won’t ever need a benefit . . . and you'll never see him walking around' slap-happy from punches . . . "The • first time I ever get a bad beating, i when I know 1 am in shape, that's 1 the day I quit.” he says . . . “Not i even if doctors told me I could I fight more without hurting myself. I I wouldn’t listen . . . Hl take that one licking, and no more . . Heretofore Barney has been sticking most of his money into his I jewelry business in Chicago, but [ now he is ready to branch out as 1 a cloak-and-suited . . . Fifty thous- j and of the dollars he will get for ' going in with Armstrong will bo • invested in his new father-in-law's clothing business. The champion's new wife won't be at the ringside . , . She never lias seen him fight, and says she never will . . . She once watched j him work with a sparring partner and had a beautiful case of hys-; teria when her man got buffeted j about a little with 16 ounce gloves. • The Ross camp is worried about but one thing in the fight with « Armstrong . . . Henry’s tendency

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Latest thing in sports is the roller derby, a marathon race on skates. This innovation has all the elements of the six-day bike race, a derby and a marathon dance. Spills, jams, fist fights and feuds

: FINAL HOME GAME | . — The Decatur Yellow Jackets | , will play their final home game | of the season at Worthman [ , Field Wednesday afternoon. | , meeting the Bluffton Tigers at | , ' 2:80 o’clock. Yesterday's sched- | | I uled game at Portland, postpon- | | ed because of rain, will be play- | . ed early Thursday afternoon. | , ♦ ♦ !to hit low when he starts throw- ' ing those fists from here, there,' and everywhere. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) —o I i ANNUAL CLUB • PICNIC HELD; I Country Conservation Chib Picnic Is Well Attended A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 persons attended the annual , picnic of the Country Conservation , club, held at the St. John's Grove ( seven miles north of Decatur Sunday. An unusually fine program was 1 held, including numbers by the i Fort Wayne News Sentinel band.. < ; the club’s accordian band and the : * club's Hawaiian guitar band. j An animal and acrobatic act was performed by the Harders, mem- • bers of the Spa indoor circus. The program was given both in I

flare as the race goes on. The contestants are divided into teams pt two who relieve each other at intervals. The gals provide as many thrills as the boys and give a certain added toucii to the event.

KELLY PETILLO DURING DRIVER Excessive Speed Causes Two Qualifying Trials To Fail Indianapolis, May 24 fU.Rt If they let Kelly Petlllo do what he ' wanted he’d build an accelerator a mile long an dshove it every inch of the way to the floor. He is the boy who makes them turn their backs and sudder when lie screeches his big maroon thunder-chariot through the curves and burns down the home stretch with the throttle wide open. He wants so much speed there’s some doubt whether he’ll qualify tomorrow for the 500 mile Memorial day grind. He’s had two trials. He gets one more. "I suppose I’ll have to take it easy this third time," the stocky little champion of 1935 said today. "1F I don’t, something may bust and I won't get in the race.” Something has broken in his other attempts and something will again if he doesn't temporarily resign from the “ead-footed" clan. Unlike other drivers, he doesn't coast into the turns, which are the favorite trapping grounds of the grim reaper. (The old boy has swung at Kelly several times.) I’etillo hits them wide open and therein lies his danger. The rubber won't stay on tires at that speed, and when the rubber burns off there is a blowout. At that point the car either turns over and rolls, crushing the driver, or it careens into' a cement guard wall—at 125 miles an hour. Saturday, the first day of the trails, the motor-mad Los Angeles speedster had a record within reach. It would have given him the pole position and approximately $2,000. But on the ninth lap as he came out of a turn a rear tire bleW out. He escaped death miraculously, bringing his plunging machine to a halt. . The next day he went out again to bid for a starting position in the field of 33 which gets the flag Monday. He was using larger tires with more tread on them. They also were three inches more in circumference than his old ones. Petillo quit after the fifth lap because, he said later, “the motor was not running fast enough." His third lap went at 130.246 miles an hour, slightly under Jimmy Snyder's single lap record of 130.492 . . . and Kelly wasn't satisfied. LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Lavagetto, Dodg. . 23 82 15 33 .402 Trosky. Indians 29 97 26 38 .393 Chapman. R. Sox 24 37 12 34 .391 DiMaggio, Yanks 15 59 12 23 .390 Averill. Indians 30 112 27 42 .375 | the afternoon and evening. In addition, there were bowling, horseshoe pitching and trap and rifle shooting. During the afternoon a coon chase was staged by members of the club for the benefit of the I crowd.

But It Won’t Be Thatji ii 2 A V| «M - iw| I l!,' \ y Henry Armstrong of California, a picture of Barney Ross, welterweight champ, on hi.VS’W shows what he intends doing when they meet in New Y« r l Ross’ tide. Armstrong is in training at Pompton lak« v i’L*® photo of the ambitious boxer was taken"

PICKETS TAKEN FROM FACTORY Tension Relieved In Strike Dispute At RockFord, Illinois Rockford, 111., May 24 —(U.R) —The; United Automobile Workers of America withdrew pickets from the J. I. Case plant today »rd announc ed that a bargaining committee I would meet with company officials in an effort to settle differences. The action relieved tension arising from a clash yesterday between police and union members picketing the plant. Several persons were 1 injured, including special deputy Karl Palmgren, who suffered a frac tured skull. Police succeeded in breaking through the line and per- 1 mitted nonunion employes to reopen the plant. It had been closed since April 27. Approximately 4.000 members of the union, an affiliate of the com mittee for industrial organization, held a mass meeting last night and voted to withdraw the picket line and accept a management offer for a bargaining conference. Following the meeting the union paraded through downtown streets. Eleven strikers, arrested after the disorder yesterday, were to be charged with violating a circuit court injunction prohibiting interferences with plant employes. The dispute started when some members of the U. A. W. refused to work next to men who were delinquent in their dues. The company closed the plant when the union established a picket line in an effort to make collections About 700 pickets were in front of the plant yesterday when 20 police and 20 special deputies arrived at the scene with Mayor Charles S. Brown. The pickets declined to follow Brown's suggestion that they withdraw. The police and sheriffs then formed a “flying wedge" and. wielding clubs, charged at the line. After a brief skirmish they escorted 150 non-union employes into the plant. The management announced last night that 400 men were at work in the factory. Defer Action Austin. Minn., May 24 —(U.R) —A

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1 lixl.iy i>n a pielwinj Kt|JJ unions affilia-.d with X j !'•“ lor industrial The committee Austin l.iisitiHss houses met last night tu takHialW :< proposal, mad, | azo. to lock every store work'-rs’ uiimi orialaally , pendent group. Mrmdnl J ,| for voice in hiring employes. 9 When the meeting <uql ::.--n>L — is 1 on the proposal and their decision until The dispute Started Pai keepers uniriii askd fl dosed s||,,|, jdfl ••Ills Proprietors refnitdlfl lli- <! niaiul and edwitMifl Union officials and isl tvpi-- ’..i.itiv. • agreed tonfl negotiations in an efforttlM j the deadlock I Conservation Leo I Plans Coonltel I The Adams county fish ail conservation league trill ro coon dog field trial meets I set park, southeast nt DM j highway 33 next Monday,M 1 ial Day. A large uumlwdl | will be entered from Indiatl '. and Michigan. ] The club is offering IM teed purse of S6O. with ui fee of 11. Admission I® ■ ' cents, with women and di . admitted without charge. I •I o_ Tj Adams County GufflN Cow Completes M Peterborough. N. H. M ( Special l-A cow jn tkR ' James C. and R. K ' catur. Indiana, has ' official record in the herd # ' nient division qualifying ■ ' ' admission to the advanced* ' of the American ' (’lull, according to Kano. secretary. „ A six and one-half yew ‘: ln the Mos« herdW j Nancy. 31* | da y 9 10263.6 pound, 498.3 pounds of butters | AH| . Dance Wednesday