Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1938 — Page 6

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LEAGUE TEAMS TO PLAY THREE GAMES SUNDAY Adams County Amateur League To Resume Schedule Sunday Featured by a double header at Worthman Field in this city, the Adams county amateur baseball league teams, forced to idleness Sunday by rain and wet grounds, will play three games on the season's schedule. The St. Mary's team of this city will tangle with Preble at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the first game of the twin bill. Immediately at the conclusion of this game, the G. E. team of Decatur will play the Pleasant Mills nine, in the third game on the schedule, the Mies Recreation team will play at Fuelling. Monmouth ( drew the bye for this round. Games which were washed out I last Sunday will be played at a ■ future date. (1. E, Fuelling and Monmouth are ; at the top of the heap in the league ■ standings, each having scored one victory without a defeat. Sunday's game wfil l>e the first for Preble, while St. Mary's and Pleasant Mills lost their first starts. DIZZY DEAN IS BEADY 18 HURL Doctor Says Chicago Cubs’ Hurler’s Arm Is Fully Cured Chicago. Juno 1 (U.R) —There was joy among the Chicago Cubs today Dizzy Dean is coming back cured of the tricky ailment that laid him low and convinced he will pitch the kind of ball owner Phil K. Wrigley expected when he paid $185,000 in cash and three players for a damaged piece of goods. The St. Louis Cardinals sold Diz to Wrigley, but Diz has sold himself to the Cubs. They like the guy., Diz is a "regular.’' a "bear-down-er all the time,” and a “goodhearted down" to the jockeying Cubs who used to razz him unmercifully when Dean was in his prime at St. Louis. It's "great stop. Diz," in a friendly sarcastic vein when Dean boots i grounder working out before a game and “great throw, kid. " in encouraging tone whenever he makes a pitch even faintly resemb-

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' ling his old overhand delivery. ; Dean worked hard to make the I Cubs like him. On the spot with ! a sore arm, he continued to pitch i when even the fans perched high |up in the Centerfield bleachers ■ | could see his arm was no good. IL 1 took his medicine a month of rest — with a wide grin and the minute i Dr. John F. Davis said his arm was ! cured, Diz began to shout: "Hey. when can I start —tomor row?" j Davis and Manager Charlie I ! Grimm, however, have put Dean on 1 j a regular spring routine, pitching ' I In batting practice, strengthening i :j his arm in frequent workouts with | >' a catcher alone, but no relief work . . ' Grimm will have one eye on t . I Dean every minute he works and as soon as Diz quits sidearming ‘ , j and begins to throw with his long, ■ i loose overhand delivery, ho will i ■ get a starting call. It may be a ' I week or 10 days. i "We want Dean in shape for the I rest of the season, so he doesn’t ■ J pitch until he's ready,” Grimm i . said. “If he works too soon, this' ’] ailment might come back and we'd , lose him for another month. Maybe he could keep winning with aj sore arm. but he'd be no good when , we hit the stretch." ] STANDINGS ‘ NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. ' New York .25 11 .694 I Chicago 24 15 .615 Boston 18 14 .563 Cincinnati 19 18 .511 Pittsburgh 17 18 .48(1 St. Louis 14 20 .412] Brooklyn . 14 25 .359 Philadelphia 11 21 .311 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Cleveland. 21 12 .667 New York 20 14 .588 Washington 22 IS .550 Boston 19 17 .528 Detroit IS 18 .500 Philadelphia 14 20 .412 Chicago 12 18 .400 St. Louis 11 23 .324 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League No games scheduled. American League New York 12. Boston 5. Washington at Philadelphia, to be played later. Only games scheduled. , o Bleeke, Koeneman Honored By .Jackets Louis Bleeke. senior otftf'elder of the Decatur Yellow Jacket baseball nine, has been judged the most val- 1 liable to the team during the past season. At a meeting of the team Tuesday following the conference tourney. Robert Koeneman, senior outfielder and reserve catchei, was elected honorary captain.

KID STAR By Jack Sords / Dip-W'S-so / I (‘PGCf / X—' U'■ ’ ’" '1 “MAk'iNGS'eF TidE CLEVELAND iNFtELP » * ■ I wKX? i , Sis® 6 ' \ ,-3> ¥ \ />pA ! I fc\ fbvUeRFVL UURiST CLeVELAwO <MIt?P BASE.uA* A' SWiMG- -ffle CVfS-f'ANC’irJtr aaA-IoR. V X \ L6AGJE raookte OF THEi Season COPYRIGHT, 1918. KING FEATURES SYNDICATE Uw

JUNIOR SCHOOL BEST OF WEEK Junior Baseball School Here Thursday, Friday And Saturday George F. Laurent, recreation 1 supervisor, today announced junior j baseball schools will be held at : Worthman Field Thursday. Friday ami Saturday of this week. The Thursday and Friday sessions will be held at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. Sessions Satur- ’ day will be held at 9 a. tn. and 2 p. m. In line with these baseball schools, the Daily Democrat has ■ he'll publishing a series of articles prepared by big league players and managers. Following is another of the series: , Tips for Second Basemen (By Jimmy Dykes) Manager of Chicago White Sox. school' d under Connie Mack for 11 years. One of the most versatile players in baseball. "A second baseman. like all the 1 other players around the baselines and in the outfield, is at an advantage over the batter if he knows his batting habits. “If you know that a right-handed batsman is likely to hit a fast ball a trifle late and toward right field.

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' you must edge over toward first base just as you would for a lefthander batter with a tendency to . pull a ball toward right. A righthanded batter also will hit a curve ball on the outside toward right field while a left handed hitter will 1 hit a curve ball on the opposite side of the plate toward left field. If a slow ball is thrown up to a ’ right-handed batter, play closer to : second. “Play the ball. Do not let the ball play you. The short hops are 'the toughest, so try to grab the ' ball, if possible, on the long hop. , "Charge in for a slow hit grounder, and cultivate a snap underhand throw to first, for there are times when nothing else will beat a fast runner to the sack. "The second baseman must have I a working agreement with both (lie first baseman and the shortstop. Now and then you may have to cover first when the first baseman lias been drawn wide on a grounder. Yon must also have it understood with the shortstop as to whether you or he will cover second base to take the throw in case of an attempt to steal. “You must have a change of pace lin throwing to the shortstop in starting a double play. Sometimes you set yourself and make a careful throw. Do not shoot the ball to your teammate if a short throw is all that is necessary. In such a ease, toss or lob it. “The proper way to pivot is to take the ball a step away from the bag, tag the sack with the left foot, take one more stride, and thus be in a position to whip the liall to first without being spilled , by the sliding baserunner.” (Copyright 1935 by Scholastic Coach) o ♦ -♦ Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York. June 1. — KU.R> —Barney Ross paid the price of courage last night. Paid it the hard way—with his own blood. For fifteen rounds —45 long, agoniz.ng minutes, he stood up before the ring's most merciless workman and defled him to do his worst. Henry Armstrong accepted the challenge and did. At the finish the only thing recognizable about Ross was the red badge of courage he had worn i when entering the ring. It still was untarnished. His eyes were blue and ugly lumps. His cheeks were swollen, unsightly. His lips stood out in a bruised pout, and his body was a mass of welts. As early as the tenth round his condition was such that the referee leaned over the ropes to talk with doctors and the head of the boxing commission. Had he been a lesser man, a lesser champion, the fight would have been called, the towel thrown in. But the officials sensed, as did the I crowd, that here was a champion who preferred to lose his title standing up, even if the finish found him more like a gargoyle than a man. Ross will fight no more. He's through. He told tne in his training camp that he would never take but one beating. “Let a guy give it to me—really give me my bumps —and I'll hang up the gloves,” Ross said. Well, a guy gave it to him last night. The “guy” is named Henry Armstrong, and he is 133 pounds of almost inhuman properties. | I say “inhuman” because a man is not supposed to behave the way Armstrong did last night. He went ;at a blistering top speed for 15

TENNIS DRAW ; IS ANNOUNCED Tourney Will Be Held To Determine Members Os City Team Sixteen Decatur tennis players have been entered in a tourney to determine t>he mem'bers of the team which will represent this city in in-ter-city matches with other teams in the northern Indiana district of the Western Lawn tennis association. which the Decatur tennis association joined recently. All firsj round matches must be completed by Saturday. June 4. Second round matches must be played by Tuesday. June 7. and the tournament must be completed by Friday, June IJ. The ranking of the various players will be announced at the next meeting of the tennis association, which will be held at Hie city hall Friday, June 10, at 7 p. m. The first round schedule follows: Townsend vs. Coffee: Macklin vs Ehinger; Cline vs. M. Hoffman; Allwein vs. H. Hoffman; Hancher vs. W. Melchi; D. Bohnke vs. Cowan; Fenimore vs R. Affolder; I*. Reynolds vs. V. Affolder. The local tennis association has hee n granted permission to use the <lay courts at the South Ward tor . al! inter-city matches. rounds—and he didn't even sweat. He threw 10,000 punches, and yet when he stood in his corner, ready to monte out for the final round, he wasn't even breathing heavily. I know this to be true, because the night was cold and I could see his breath in the frosty air. It was as regular as that of a man who had walked only a block or two at a brisk pace. He gave you the impression of being more a machine than a man. "Cut his veins,” I heard one spectator say, “and he'll run lubricating oil, not blood.” Yes, cut him open and I am sure you'd find springs and coils and armatures and dynamos and bits of metal. In the early rounds Ross hit him plenty. But he never I changed expressions. A right to the chin and he only snorted a bit louder and moved in a bit faster. Punches to the body only seemed to set off a hidden power that drove him onto the attack at a faster pace. He fought every round the same, from the first to the fifteenth. The befl rang. He came out on the ! run and in a split second was chest to chest with Ross. A right would go. Then a left. Then a Jab. Then a hook. Then an uppercut. Then more hooks, more jabs, more uppercuts. And, when it appeared that he had thrown all the blows in the hook, he would burrow in closer and use his shoulders, el-' bows, and head. He was perpetual motion in purple trunks; a buzz [ saw with gloves on. Ross soon wearied. He tried to {coast, but there, flailing away at him every second, was the little negro. Ross would go Into a corn- ' I er. There would be the little negro. Ross would duck and there would be the little negro, beating ' him on every exposed surface, i Ross would weave and there, weaving in front of him, would be the i little negro. ’ Fists. Fists. Fists Fists. Thousands of them. i (Copyright. 1938, by UP.)

SHELTER HOUSE IS BEING BUILT Dressing Room. Shower Facilities Available At Worthman Field Erection of the new shelter house nt Worthmnn Field, which is to provide dressing room mid shower facilities for athletes and ' officials, has been opened. The laying of brick was started this morning, under the direction of Amos Ketchum, industrial arts instructor of the Decatur high school. The house Is to be 28 feet by 38 ] feet in size, and in addition to affording shower and dressing room accomodations, will house the refreshment stand and ticket w'ndow. The shelter ij to be built of brick upon a cement footing, with steel-barred windows. The refreshment booth at the northwest end of the shelter will be blocked out from the remainder of the structure, with a separate entrance. Dressing room facilities, long a necessity at the field site, will be afforded both the home teams and i opponents. The building of the I structure will eliminate the neceas- ] ity of players dressing at the high ' school and traveling the eight blocks in athletic clothing. * The building of the shelter I

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! house is considered by school of ! tlcials us un Important step in niult ing Worthman Field one U s (hl , most modern athletic Hehls | n city this size. 0 Kendallville Wins Conference Title Tile Kendallville Comets, combir! from behind In the final Inning, nos. I ( d out the Bluffton Tigers, 4 to 3 ! for the championship of the north-' eastern Indiana conference, in the tourney held at Kendallville Tuesday. The Comets defeated Decatur in the opening game yesterday morning, 2 to 0, and Bluffton nosed out: Hartford City. 2 to 1. in nine inn lags, to enter the final tilt. ( hecks Presented Speedway Winners Indianapolis, Ind., June l--(UP) -Checks were presented last night to drivers in the 500-mlie speedway iace at the annual victory dinner. Floyd Roberts, the husky Van Nuys, Calif., veteran who won the race in record-breaking time, received a total of $31,950, an electrical refrigerator, a watch and the checkered flag which waved him to victory Monday. — o Friddle Candidate For I. U. Position Franklin. Ind.. June 1 —(UP)— ■ Burl Friddle. basketball coach at South Side high school, Fort Wayne

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