Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1938 — Page 8

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JACKETS BEAT BLUFFTON NINE IN FINAL TILT Decatur Scores 9 To 6 Victory In Final Home Contest I The Decatur high school Yellow Jacket baseball team clout d its home season Wednesday afternoon at Worthman Field with a convincing 9-6 triumph over the Bluffton Tigers. Serving notice that they wifi be a contender for the N.E.I title in the tourney Saturday, the Jackets fell on the Tiger pitching with •a vengeance, getting 14 hits off two hurlers, including two lusty triples and a double. Twice the Jackets came from be-1 hind and then forged out in front to win by a three-run margin. In the first inning the Tigers drew, blood, when Schotzhaudf singled, j moved up on a sacrifice, and came I home on Kinsey's triple. Kinsey scored on a passed ball. The Jackets, however, came back in their half with two runs, on a ; triple by Bleeke. singles by Gaunt. Highland and Koeneman. Bluffton i fatted to score in the second and i the Jackets took the lead when singles by Schnepp. Bleeke and Gaunt pushed across two more. I Bluffton got one of them back in 1 the third and then in the fourth 1 scored three times to take the lead ■ Little Jim Kitchen furnished the' punch in the Jacket fifth, getting a I clean single over second with the i bases loaded. Before the smoke 1 cleared away, the Jackets had put two more across the plate and then , in their half of the sixth scored again on three singles. Schamerloh and Schnepp did the Decatur hurling. Schamerloh handling the first three innings and ■ being relieved in the fourth be-1 — ' • — - Last Time Tonight - “TIP-OFT CtßLS’’’ Lloyd Nolan. Mary Carlisle, Roscoe Karns. Larry Crabbe. ALSO—Musical Comedy: Cartoon; I News & Pete Smith's "Camera maniacs." 10c-25c —o FRI. & SAT. THE FIRST 100 YEARS OFMARRIED LIFE ARE THE HARDEST... but what fun I A riot-call for sweethearts! The love-and-laugh hit of the year! a' FirrtlM ... Ttarr WARREN WILLIAM BINNIE BARNES ALAN DINEHART . Dlrwettd br HICHAM) THORPS J F.Wb»«<l by NORMAN —o Sun. Mon. Tues. — That eagerly awaited successor to “You’re Only Young Once"—“JUDGE HARDY'S CHILDREN” Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone. Cecelia Parker.

cause of a sore arm. Grandlienard i took heavy pounding for six innings. before giving way to Cos- | sairt for the Tigers. The Jacket batsmen had a field I day at the plate. Gaunt hit three i for three, one a scorching triple. , Bleeke got two in three times up, one a triple. Jim Highland, in ad- ' dition to handling the backstop I duties in fine style in his first appearance behind the plate, also secured three safeties. Koeneman banged out two hits, one a double. ■ while Walters, Kitchen. Schnepp j and McConnell each garnered one. The Jackets went to Portland today to meet the Panthers in the final season game before the Saturday tourney Decatur AB R II E Heller, 3b 4 0 0 0 Bleeke. cf 4 3 2 0 Gaunt. If 3 2 3 1 McConnell, ss 4 0 11 ; , Highland, c .... 4 13 0 Koeneman. rs - 3 1 2 0 ' Schamerloh. p. lb 4 0 0 0 Schnepp. lb, p. 2 11 0 Kitchen, 2b 3 0 1 0 , Walters, Ifll 1 0 32 9 14 2 I Bluffton Schlotzhauer. cf.. 3 11 0 I Shields, lb 3 0 0 0 Kinsey, ss 4 2 2 1 • B. Betz. If. c — 3 0 0 0 | Coassairt. p1 0 1 0 I Grandlienard. p 2 0 0 1 I S. Richey. 2b ... 2 1 0 1 , 'R. Richey, c. rs. 4 0 1 0 H. Betz. rs. 1f... 3 11 1 | I Yates. 3b 0 0 0 0 I ' Speheger. 3b3 11 0 j McCray. 2blo 1 0 29 C S 4 Score by Innings: I Decatur 220041 — x ' Bluffton 201300 — 0 STANDINGS I NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct.! ; New York 22 9 .710 i Chicago2l 13 .618 | Boston 16 12 .571 ■ Pittsburgh 15 15 .500/ I Cincinnati .17 16 .4)85 St. Louis 12 18 ~400 Brooklyn 12 23 .342 Philadelphia 9 ZfS .333 ' / AMERICAN LBAGUE f W. Lr. Pct. I Clevemi.L . ..- 22 10 .688 | Boston ... 18 12 .600 I New York 16 12 .571 Washington 18 17 .514 j Chicago 12 12 .500 Detroit 14 16 .467 Philadelphia 10 19 .345 St. Louis . 9 21 .300 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Boston 2, Cincinnati 1 (11 innings). Philadelphia 2. Pittsburgh 1. New York 3, St. Louis 1. Chicago 7, Brooklyn 2. American League Chicago 7, Philadelphia 4. Detroit 7. New York 3. Cleveland 6. Boston 4. St. Louis 4. Washington 3 (13 innings). o Thieves Like Crackers Massillon. O. — — Thieves broke into the truck driven by E. F. Blythe and took three and onehalf pounds of crackers.

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HITTING MARKS LEAGUE GAMES Homers Feature American League Games, Pitching In National New York. May 26.—<U.R>—Everything is sealing down to normal l in the iwdjor leagues, with the Amerjjffln offering the home run as jfs piece de resistance and the j ' National drifting back to tight de- ■ tensive games after a brief splurge I of slugging. Rudy York and Hank Greenberg. . Detroit’s twin howitzers, headlin-1 ■ ed the American league's home run circus yesterday by clouting a pair of circuit wallops each to beat the New York Yankees. 7-3. York hit homers No. seven and eight and drove in five runs while Greenberg hit Nos. nine and te to take the nleague lead. The other importat homer in the American league's collection of nine was by Mike Kreevich, Chicago White Sox. He hit his with two on in the seventh, featuring a four-run rally which defeated the Athletics. 7-4. Other American league homers were hit by Bob Johnson. Athletics, Harland Clift, Browns, and Gerald Walker and Rip Radcliff. White Sox. Pitching ruled the day in the National league, With a three-hit performance, two five-hit exhij bitions, a six-hit game and a sev-en-hit affair. There were only five homers in all games, and only two teams made as many as 10 hits. Larry French held Brooklyn to three hits as the Chicago Cubs trimmed the Dodgers, 7-2. In addition French hit a double with the bases loaded. Danny MacFayden outdueled Paul Derringer to give the Boston Bees a 2-1 triumph over Cincinnati in 11 innings. MacFayden did not walk or fan a man in winning his fourth game. Gene Moore’s single with the bases loaded won the game. Bucky Walters held the Pirates to five hits as the Phillies beat Pittsburgh, 2-1. Jim Tobin also pitched a five-hit game, losing on Heinie Mueller's second-inning homer. , Hal Schumacher limited the Cardinals to six hits, one of them a homer by Don Gutteridge, as the I league-leading New York Giants beat St. Louis, 3-1, and held their game lead. Schumacher's homer produced the winning run. In the other two American league games Cleveland increased its lead to three games by knocking l off the Boston Red Sox, 6-4, with a four-run rally in the seventh, and the St. Louis Browns nosed out i Washington, 4-3, in 13 innings. Mel Harder limited the Red Sox to , seven hits and Lyn Lary paced J_ STATE GARDENS MIDDLEBURY, OHIO Come on out hoys and bring your best girl. Open every night. Dancing Saturday, Sunday night, also Dancing Monday night. May 30. Also a change in Orchestra. Everybody Come and have a good time.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY. MAY 26, 1938

| Cleveland's 13-hit attack with a I double and two singles. Howard I Mills, rookie southpaw from San ' Antonio, held the Senators score- ‘ less from the fourth through the thirteenth. Yesterday's hero: Lary French. Cubs, and Hal Schumacher. Giants, iwho pitched and batted their teams i to vicory. o Today’s Sport Parade | By Henry McLemore * < New York. May 26.—<U.R>—The world's welterweight title will not be the only thing in jeopardy i tonight when Barney Ross meets Henry Armstrong in the sunken bowl built by Madison Square Garden's “600 millionaires,” now also sunken. In there fighting for their lives will be a splendid assortment of pugilistic adages, axioms, maxims and truisms that we sportswriters have been repeateing to you patient readers ever since Gutenberg invented the printing press. Such fine old veterans of the hackneyed sentence as ‘‘a good big man can always like a good little man." and "a hungry fighter is the most dangerous fighter” face stern challenges tonight. If Armstorng, after spotting Ross some eight or nine pounds, beats the ears off his foe you can take that “good big man —good little man" business and drop it into the river, along with the next batch of kittens. If Ross wins you'll have to take out one kitte nad make room for the "hungry fighter is, etc.” saying. It'll be through, too. Because of the two men. Ross is the more Opulent. He hasn't been hungry for ten years, at least, and will go ito the ring with his insides fortified by as choice a collection of meats and vegetables as Lucullus. ever had. A Ross victory also wit7 deal a body blow to those Spartanminded critics who consider comfortable living fatal to a fighting man. The best tailors, the softest silk, the most lavish suites, and hand-and-foot attention have been the Ross standard for years. Another saying that will be put to the test is the one that claims a good boxer can always beat a puncher. Armstrong, strictly a hitter, can't box a lick. Ross is admittedly the finest craftsman f since Leonard. Armstrong's theory of winning is to keep moving in ad keep punching. With the sound of the first bell he gets closer to his man than the buttons on a vest and starts swinging leather.h leather. From here, from there, from up yonder, from down there, and from everywhere. Furtherhe can put you in the care of the • physician anytime one of those punches happens to land correctly. And the law of averages is, with him in this, because he throws in the neighborhood of two or three million of them in the course of an evening. Ross is as Orthodox as pave 8 lin the manual on self defense. He maps out his moves as carefully as Capablanca. Every movement has a meaning all its own. Tonight's fight will offer a definite answer to the question of whether j a scientist can keep his poise in‘ ■ the presence of a buzz saw. I believe Ross will be able to. But Gene Tunney, a chap who is as | wise as a tree full of owls when it comes to matters of le boxe, thinks Armstrong’s mad maneuvI ers will bring on an utter collapse j 11

HANCHERHEADS TENNIS GROUP Decatur Tennis Association Formed. .Join District Group Fourteen Decatur tennis players met at the city hall Wednesday night and organized a Decatur tennis association, which all interested persons in Decatur are invited to join. Paul Hancher was elected presidet of the association. Other officers are: Vance Fenimore. vicepresident; Tom Allwein, secretary; Harry Dailey, treasurer; Harold Hoffman, chairman of the courts committee. The local association went on record to join the northern Indiana district association of the Western Lawn Tennis association. Membership dues for the season were fixed at 50 cents per person. Money collected in dues will be used to defray the entry cost in the district association. A total of eight inter-city matches will be played during the summer with other members of the association. Four of these matches will be played on the home courts and four away from home. Other members of the district association are: South Bend. Elkhart, Goshen. Plymouth. Warsaw, Nappanee. Fort Wayne Country Club and North Manchester. The two clay courts at the South Ward field have been recondition- ' ed this year under the direction of I George Laurent, recretation supervisor, and are in excellent condition. All of the association matches will be played on these clay courts. ’ The next meeting of the Decatur association will be held at the city hall at 7 p. tn. Tuesday, May 31. o LEADING BATTERS . , Player Club GAB R H Pct. , Trosky. Indians 31 104 27 41 .394 1 Lavagetto. Dodg. 25 89 16 35 .393 Averill, Indians 32 120 30 46 .383 DiMaggio, Yanks 17 68 14 26 .382 Chapman, R. Sox 26 96 13 36 .375 o HOME RUNS Goodman, Reds 10 Greenberg. Tigers 10 Foxx, Red Sox 9 I Ott, Giants 8 York, Tigers 8 I in Ross’ style, thus enabling Armstrong to rip him to bits. Perhaps Mr. Tunney’s belief is based on the memory of that evening long ago when a bigger Arm-strong—-Harry Greb —all but massacred a bigger Ross —Gene Tunney. Come what may, under the hot lights of the bowl tonight, the fight promises to be the fastest, tougnest, every-man-for-himself engagement of the year. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) Others have destroyed — Your local Conservation Club is trying to preserve Nature’s beauties. Help us. Attend the Coon Dog field trials, at Sunset Park, Monday, 30th. | Sponsored by Adams County Fish and Game League. i

THREE GAMES SCHEDULED FOR COUNTY LEAGUE Second Series Ot Adams County Amateur League Sunday League Standing W L Pct. Fuelling 1 0 1000 G. E Clubl 0 1 00" Monmouth 1 " 1000 Preble ------------ 0 0 .000 Mies 0 1 000 Pleasant Mills 0 1 .000 St. Mary'so 1 .000 The second series of scheduled games in the Adams county amateur baseball league will be played Sunday afternoon, with three games on the card Heading the list for Decatur fans, will be the battle between the St. Mary's team and the Pleasant Mills nine. This tilt will be played at Worthman Field in this city, with the first ball scheduled to be thrown at 2:15 o'clock. These two teams dropped their opening league games last Sunday, but have strengthened their lineups and an interesting game should develop as the teams fight to vacate the cellar position. Two other contests are on Sunday's schedule, with the G. E. Club playing Fuelling at the Monroeville diamond, and Preble and Monmouth slated to play at Monmouth. The Mies Recreation draws the bye this week and will not see action again until Sunday. June 5. In the opening games last Sunday. Fuelling defeated St. Mary’s. G. E. defeated Mies, and Monmouth defeated Pleasant Mills. Preble drew the opening round bye. In « Cood Toon — nrcatur

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BULLETIN New York, May 26—(UP) — The Barney Rosa-Henry Armstrong fight for the world welter weight championship, scheduled for tonight in Madison , Square Gardens was postponed today because of rain. If weather conditions permit, it will be ; heldo tomorrow night. — 0~~ — All U. S. Golfers But Yates Beaten ( Troon, Scotland, May 26—(Up) ( —Charley Yatea of Atlanta advanc- , ed through the fourth and fifth ( rounds of the British amateur golf ). championship today while all his ( follow countrymen were eliminated. I Chuck Kocsis of Detroit,. Johnny Goodman of Omaha and Freddie

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