Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1938 — Page 6

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Softball League To Open Season MondJ

SIX TEAMS IN ADAMS COUNTY SOFTBALL LOOP League (James To Be Played Under Lights At South Ward The complete schedule for the first half play in the Adams county amateur softball leaftue was announced today by Sylvester Everhart, president, and George Laurent, recreation supervisor. The opening games will be played under the lights at the South Ward diamond next Monday evening, June 6. A total of six teams are entered in the league, with three from Decatur. The Decatur teams are C. Y. O:, Casting and Cloverleaf. Other teams in the league are Berne, Pleasant Mills and Monroe. Two games will be played each night of the schedule, with Berne opposing Pleasant Mills in the opening tilt Monday at 7 o'clock. This game will be followed by the Monroe-C. Y. O. clash. After the opening night, one league game will be played each night of the .schedule, to be followed by an exhibition tilt. The league gamer will start at 7 o'clock each night, followed immediately by the exhibition contest. Managers of the various teams are requested to consult the sport page of the Daily Democrat for an- j nouncements regarding exhibition games. The complete first half schedule j follows: Monday, June 6 Berne vs. Pleas-; ant Mills; Monroe vs. C. Y\ O. Thursday, June 9 — Casting vs. j Cloverleaf; exhibition. Monday. June 13—Berne vs. C. | Y. 0.. exhibition, vs. Cloverleaf; exhibtion. Tuesday, June 14 —Pleasant Mills Thursday, June 16—Monroe vs. ! Casting; exhibition. Monday. June 20—Berne vs. Cloverleaf; exhibition. Tuesday, June 21 —C. Y. O. vs. j Casting; exhibition. Thursday, June 23 — Pleasant Mills vs. Monroe; exhibition. Monday. June 27 — Berne vs. Casting; exhibition. Tuesday, June 28—Cloverleaf vs. Monroe; {exhibition. Thursday, June 30 —C. Y. O. vs.

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Pleasant Mills; exhibition. Tuesday, July 6- Berne vs. Monroe; Custiug vs. Pleasant Mills, j Thursday. July 7 Cloverleaf vs. 1 C. Y. O.; exhibition. • o j LEADING BATTERS Player Club GABR II Pet. j McCormick. Reds 38 165 26 63 .382 j Averlll, Indians 37 137 34 51 .372 ' Trosky, Indians 36 124 29 46 .371 Lavugetto, Dodg. 29 99 16 36 .364 Stelnbacher. W.S. 30 114 14 41 .360 - i HOME RUNS I . , 1 Greenberg, Tigers 13 • Koxx, Red Sox 11 , [Goodman. Reds 11 j York. Tigers 10 | . | Ott, Giants * ' JUNIOR SCHOOL I IS CONTINUED '| Sessions Os Junior Baseball School Continue Friday, Saturday 1 Weather permitting, the Decatur I 'junior baseball school under the (supervision of George Laurent, re-( [creation sppervlsor, will continue' 'Friday aftercoon at 3:30 and Satjunday at 9 a. m. and 2 p. m. at' | Worthman Field. 'ln conjunction with the school,; the Daily Democrat presents an-j other in the series of big league j (tips. Tips For Shortstops (By Joe Cornin) Manager of Boston Red Sox., i Youngest manager in the big lea- ; gues, sometimes called "the boy, j wonder.” One of the most sensational shortstops since the dave of Honus Wagner. ( “In away, the duties of the short-) : stop are like those of the second | baseman. I would say, however, that the shortstop should be more agile and able to throw overhand, 1 ! sidearra and underhand. If I havej |to take a ground 'ball to my left, j must whip it underhand or sidelarm to first. If have to go to my, t ight or back in deep short, I throw overhand and rifle it. “The shortstop must make long-j er throws than any other infielder. He also must be fast enough to show speed in coming in for the slow rollers, which often, he must grab with one hand and throw und- j e r hand. j “He not only must cooperate with jthe second and third basemen as to I the teritory to be covered, and have j it understood who is to cover sec-! ond on an attempted steal, but he has many other duties. “He must be skillful in taking flies to left or center field with his i back to the plate. He must back up the second baseman when the latter j iv taking a throw from the catcher.' He must cover second when the ball is hit sharply to the first baseman and there is a chance for a double play with the shortstop acting as the pivot man. He must cover third base with the third baseman 'backing him up on a throw from right or center with a chance to nail the runner going from first to third. On many teams, he talkes 1 the signs from the catcher and re- ' lays them to his teamamtes. “The shortstop should be taught

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KENNEDY WINS EIGHT IN ROW Detroit Hurler Defeats Yankees To Win Eighth Straight New York, June 2 — (U.R) — The "friendly feud” between those pals of Connie Mack's great teams of 1929-30-31. Mickey Cochrane and Jimmy Dykes, was a horse of another color today. Now rival mnangers of the Tigers and White Sox. Cochrane and . Dykes are two of the keenest rivnls j jin baseball in a ball game, a trade j :or any battle of wits. Dykes drew i | first blood with bis “city slicker | i sale" of A1 Simmons to Cochrane, ' for J 75,000 two years ago. Dykes ! lias laughed at Cochrane ever j since. But Dykes' laugh now Is a little hollow. Cochrane finally has the upper hand. He has Vernon Kennedy, the eccentric pitcher whom Dykes traded to Detroit last winter with the belief that he was putting over a fast one. Cochrane gave Gerald Walker. Marvin Owen and Rookie Mike Tresh for Kennedy and Dixie Walker. A storm of disapproval broke over his bead 1 because Gerald Walker had been a Detroit hero. When Kennedy was with the I While Sox he was bitterly criticized for living in a trailer. Some critics ' said his wildness was the result of Improper sleeping. Cochrane was asked yesterday, after Kennedy had hung up his eighth straight victory. whether his star still lives in a trailer. 1 “I don't know," replied Cochrane, j "But if you can find me another ; guy who can pitch like Kennedy | I'll buy him a trailer to live in.” | It turns out that it wasn't Ken- ] nedy's trailer that made him wild, j In his White Sox days he pitched « overhand and underhand. When he joined the tigers this spring Cochrane suggested that he concentrate on pitching his natural way. overhand. Kennedy pitched the Tigers to an 8-4 victory over the Yanks yesterday, blanking them until the last two innings at which point he had an 8-0 lead. Thus he ranks todayj ■ with Grove as the top pitcher i • in the American. Grove was knocked out of the box by the Yankees while attempting to win his 9th straight. The victory enabled the Tigers. ( still in fifth place, to move within ( five games of the league-leading ( Cleveland Indians who lost to the Athletics, 9-5. Johnson, Hayes, and j ‘ Chapman hit homers for the A's j ' to drive Mel Harder from the box. In the other two American 1 league games Washington beat the 1 White Sox, 5-4. on Buddy Lewis' ninth inning single, and the Boston t Red Sox triumphed over the St. 1 Louis Browns. 6-3, on Manager Joe 1 Cronin's homer with two mates on. The New York Giants dropped | their third straight and had their i National league lead cut to two < games as they were beaten by i Bittsburgh, 4-1. Russ Baiters pitched a five-hit game to triumph over i Cliff Melton. The second-place ( Chicago Cubs were idle because of i rain. | Cincinnati turned back Brooklyn, ] 4-1. behind Johnny Vander Meer’s , five-hit pitching and the St. Louis j Cardinals hammered out a 9-4 vie- , tory over the Phillies. Ival Good- , man hit homer No. 11 for the Reds. . Joe Mcdwick. Cards, came out of his hatting slump by getting “4 for 4," including a homer. Yesterday’s hero — Hank Green- ( berg, who hit two singles and , homer No. 13 as he paced Detroit’s attack against the Yanks. o Another Coon Chase Planned By League Joy Johnson, head of the committee of the Adams county fish and gajne conservation league ini charge of the coon chase held at | Sunset Park Memorial Day, stated today that a cbedkup proved the chase to be a complete success, and that the club plans to hold another l chase in the future. i I Favorable comments have been received, he said from dog-owners | | and sportsmen from ail over this to pivot differently than the second baseman in a double play.. I have two ways to prevent the runner from spilling me or spoiling my throw. As 1 take the throw from the second baseman, I have one eye ■ on the runner coming from first. | if I see he is coming in on the ( inside or third base side of the sack, l tag the bag with my right foot, take or.e more step and throw. If the runner is crashing in on the outelde, I tag the 'base with my left foot, make a quick step backward and then throw. In taking a throw from .the first baseman with a double play possible. I generally allow myself to be similarly govt, neu by the runner's actione.' ((Copyrighted 1936 by Scholastic a Coach.)

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i?ection of the country', tie said, regarding the chase. Sunset Park as ; a natural course for coon dog trials j received its share of commendation. he stated. The committee put). j licly expressed its appreciation to \ those instrumental in the successful j staging of the event. NO CHANGE IN OPEN SEASON No Changes To Be Made In Squirrel Hunting Regulations Indianapolis, June 2. —Open season for squirrel hunting in Indiana j this year will be from August 10 to October 8 in the southern zone | and from September 1 to October 30 in the northern zone, Virgil M. Simmotis, commissioner of the department of conservation, reported today. The open season dates and the zones are the same as were in effect last year while the daily bag limit of five squirrels will again apply. Killing or possession of! grey or fox squirrels in Indiana at any time other than the open season designated, is a violation of the state regulations. Preliminary reports from wardens and conservationists throughout the state indicate that the j number of squirrels has increased in many areas and that squirrel hunters will find berfer sport this j year than in the past. The early spring has advanced the breeding season and many experienced hunt- ! ers anticipate that a second litter will be raised this year. Indiana's best squirrel hunting is j in the central and southern parts of the state where wooded areas and nut trees are found in greater numbers than in the northern part. Some of the northern counties have good squirrel hunting in limited areas where food and shelter conditions are favorable but few grey squirrels are found in that part of the state. Open season dates and counties in each of the zones, are: Southern Zone August 10 to October 8 (both I dates inclusive): Benton. White. I Wells, Adams. Jay, Howard, Blackford. Carroll, Tippecanoe, Warren, Fountain, Montgomery, Clinton, Tipton, Madison, Wayne, Delaware, Randolph, enry, Hancock, Marion, Hamilton, Boone, Parke, ' Hendricks, Putnam, Vermillion, ! Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, I Spencer, Peiry, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Clark, Jefferson, Ohio, Switzerland, Dearborn, Franklin, Union, Fayette, Rush, Shelby, Johnson, Morgan, Owen, Clay, Vigo, Sullivan. Knox, Gibson, Pike, Du- | Bols, Orange, Scott, Washington, I Ripley, Decatur, Bartholomew, i Brown, Monroe, Greene, Daviess, I Martin, Lawrence, Jackson, and Jennings counties. Northern Zone September 1 to October 30 (both dates inclusive): Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaGrange, Steuben, Newton, Jasper, Pulaski. Starke, Marshall, Fulton, Noble, Kosciusko, Whitley, DeKalb, j Allen, Cass, Miami, Grant, Wabash. • and Huntington counties. : 1 FRESH LIME ADE Green Kettle.

I STANDINGS i NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. ! New York 25 12 .676 | Chicago 24 15 .615 j Boston 18 14 .563 Cincinnati 20 18 .526 i t Pittsburgh 18 18 .500 ! St. Louis 15 20 .429 (Brooklyn 14 26 .350 (Philadelphia 11 22 .333 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Cleveland 24 .13 .649 New York 20 15 .571 Washington 23 18 .561 Boston 20 17 .541 : Detroit 19 18 .514 Philadelphia 15 20 .429 Chicago 12 19 .367 St. Louis 11 24 .314 j YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 4. Boston at Chicago, rain. Pittsburgh 4, New York 1. Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 1. American League Detroit 8, New York 4. Boston 6, St. Louis 3. Philadelphia 9, Cleveland 5. Washington 5. Chicago 4. o Father Os Eight Is Accidentally Killed New Albany, lnd., June 2 —(UP) —Jemes F. Lynch, 30-year-old father of eight children, was Injured fatally late yesteday when struck by a cylinder head of a railroad locomotive while elttlng near the tracks.

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LARGEST WHEAT CROP FORECAST Private Experts Predict Largest Wheat Crop In U. S. History Chicago, June 2—(U.R)—Private crop experts today forecast for 1938 the largest U. S wheat crop i ever harvested, the average estimate being 1,077,000.000 bushels ! as compared with the previous rec- ! ord crop of 1,009,000,000 bushels in 1915. Favorable crop weather In the past month resulted in ati increase of 67,000.000 bushels in the aver- | age estimate of the winter wheat crop, which the experts today placed at 810.000.000 bushels as compared with their own average estimate one month ago of 743.i 000.000 bushels. j Today’s forecast on winter wheat j Is only 10,0()0,000 bushels less than the record winter wheat produc- ' tion of approximately 820.000,000 bushels in 1931, and exceeds the government estimate of last month by 56,000.000 bushels. In audition Bennett & Co., on Tuesday estimated the winter crop at 804.088.000,000 bushels and the spring crop at 251,000.000 bushels, making a total of 1,055.000,000, and yesterday the Miller-Shields report estimated winter wheat production at 768.000.000 bushels, and probable I spring harvest of 278.000,000 bush- j els, making a total of 1,046,000.000. The average estimated winter wheat production for 1938 of 810,000.000 compares with a 1937 winter wheat harvest of 685,000,000 bushels and the 1928-1932 five year average production of 623,000,000 bushels. The average estimated spring wheat crop for 1938 of 267.000,000 bushels is 78,000,000 bushels more than the 1937 production of 189,- ; 000.000 and 26.000,000 bushels greater than the 1928-1932 average of 241,000,000 bushels. Trurte In A <n>od Town — DeOlur

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