Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1938 — Page 8

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YANKEES TAKE DOUBLE HEADER FROM DETROIT Major League Clubs Hold Little Respect For Cleveland Nine New York, June 3. I'J.R, For a club which has led the American league for all but 15 days since the season opened the Cleveland Indians are held in surprisingly low esteem. Tin' general impress- [ ion in the dugouts is that the Tribe i will soon fold. The Indians nave been out in: front since May 2o and are going along at a brisk clip with a 2' 2 game lead over the second-place i New York Yankees. But one of their first big tests is just ahead they meet their three closest rivals, the Sentaors. Red Sox and Yanks, in successive three-game series, opening Saturday. Those nine games may definitely establish Cleveland as a formidable chailenger or bear out the opinion of most rival players that they can t stand the gaff when the going gets tough. Manager Joe McCarthy of the Yanks already is on record with the statement that the Indians will fold. "They always do," says McCarthy. "I've seen Cleveland clubs get out in front before and they always choke up. And the chief choker is. Johnny Allen. 1 ought to know I had him on my team for three years.' Hank Greenberg. Detroit first baseman. conteds that the pennant race will be between the Yanks and Tigers. "Cleveland has one outstanding

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' weakness and I don't mean second base." says Greenberg. "It's ■ the Indians' inability to win on | the road. They'll beat ’em." The Indians hud half a game I chopped off their lend yesterday even though they won from the I Athletics. 10-5. The Yanks won a I doubl header from the Tigers, 5-4, - and 5-2. By the time the Indians 1 come to Yankee stadium, their jinx park. June 10. 11 and 12. that ■ series may be a dog-eat-dog tight i for the lead. Spud Chandler with a six-hit game and Monte Pearson with a five-hit-ter combined to pitch the Yanks' double. Henrich's double and Hoag's single won the opener and homers by Henrich {with one on) | and Knickerbocker helped notch the nightcap. Washington held third place, three games behid Cleveland, by defeating the White Sox. 7-1. with Emil Leonard hurling a six-hit game. Zeke Bonura hit his seventh homer, a double and a single. It was Chicago's eighth straight defeat. The Boston Red Sox remained four games from the top by scoring a 6 1 victory over the St. Ixtuis Browns. Young Jim Bagby held the Browns to six hits and drove in two runs with a single with the' bases loaded. The Chicago Cubs missed a I chance to gain on the idle New York Giants by losing to the Boston Bees. 6-2. The victory moved the Bees to within a game and a half of the Cubs. Boston collected 13 hits off three Cult pitchers, with Johnny Coonwy getting three of them. Brooklyn slugged out IS hits to trim Cincinnati. 11-5. Ival Goodman hit homer No. 12 for the Reds and Ernie Koy and Cookie Lavagetto hit homers for the Dodgers. Max Butcher, making his first start in three weeks, scored his third victory, allowing eight hits. The St. Louis Cardinals heat the

CASEY STENGEL REVIVES BEES Despite Weak Hitting, Boston On Heels Os Chicago Cubs Chit ago, June 3. ,(U.R> Before the season is over, there may be two “Brooklyns" in the National ! league. The Boston Bees have been exposed to Casey Stengel, one-time clown prince of Brooklyn, just long enough to begin to talk and act like him. Their dugout already sounds like an old-time minstrel show with Casey starring as usual in the role of Irrepressible end man. So far, the Bees have kept their daffy tendencies off the field except that no modern team has ignored its batting averages so completely. The Bees know they can't hit and refuse to worry about it. Picture the club in pre-game batting practice: Stengel is sitting on the edge of the dugout, his back to the field. “I don't have to look. I can just hear those basehits ringin' like rain on a tin roof," he grinned. "That sounded like a sharp one. Hey did he get it off the ground?" i Vince Di Maggio, slender brother of the Yankees' home run king, poked four balls over the left field fence and came back jubilant, he predicted. "With luck, i'll hit .323 today," ■ With a little more punch, the Bees could become a dangerous pennant contender. Last in team batting, they're third in the standings. only I’? - games behind the second place Chicago Cubs. Their pitching by Jim Turner, Lou Fette, Danny MacFayden. Milt Shoffner and John Lanning—is the best in baseball right now and defensively there are no serious flaws. "It's true we need a couple of more players." Stengel said, “we're not hitting enough to get on top or at least not enough to stay there. • « "One thing, though, we certainly get a lot of mileage from our basehits. Remember when we got : only one hit off Russ Bauers of Pittsburgh and wo nthe ball game? These boys have been doing things like that all year. I never sawsuch acool-headed bunch. They're used to tight games, so all those extra-inning games are easy.” Stengel thinks this may be the , best team he’s ever managed. “It has a lot of class and if we finish in the first division, it will be my best major leagueclub. Once 1 finished fifth vfith Brooklyn. but that don't count. Even if we re fifth, it's still my best club." STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York . 25 12 .676 Chicago . 24 16 .600 Boston ... 19 13 -576 Cincinnati 20 19 .513 Pittsburgh 13 18 .500 St. Louis 16 20 .444 Brooklyn 15 26 .366 Philadelphia 11 23 .324 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. ' Cleveland 25 13 .658 New York 22 15 .595 Washington 24 18 .5.1 Boston 21 17 .553 Detroit 19 •20 -487 Philadelphia 15 21 .41. Chicago . — 12 20 .3.5 St. Louis 11 25 .301. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 11, Cincinnati 5. Boston 6, Chicago 2. St. Louis 12, Philadelphia 5. New York at Pittsburgh, rain. American League New York 5-5, Detroit 4-2. Boston 6, St. Louis 1. Cleveland 10. Philadelphia 5. Washington 7, Chicago 1. o * Today’s Sport Parade | By Henry McLemore New York, June 3. — <U.R) —AI- ! though warned by my physician that I am likely to develop cauliflower ears unless I stop writing about boxing for a while, I just must comment today on a peculiar angle of the Joe Louis Max Schmel- ! ing bout. Did you know that right now i (which is 10:15 our time) Louis is a heavy favorite in the early betting, and that the bookmakers expect him to solidity his position Henshaw, brought back from the ! Phillies, 12-5, on 17 hits. Roy minors by commissioner Landis' j orders, won his first game, keeping 13 hits fairly wel Iscattered. Joe Medwick hit three doubles and a single, driving in three runs. Yesterdays hero: Jim Bagby, Red Sox rookie who pitched and batted Boston' to victory over St. , Ldufs for his third thriumph. I

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as favorite between now and the I time he defends his world's title against the German? Jack Doyle, told me this. Jack Doyle being ! Broadway's most celebrated layer of prices on sports events, and the only man in the world who owns , a sport coat made from the tp of i a billiard table. The story of that coat isn’t a ■ bad one, come to think of it. The I origin of the green coat, as I heard I the story, involves a great shot I once made by Willie Hoppe on a : , table in Dyle's billiard establishment. Doyle was a witness to the | shot and. to keep it ever green in ■ his memory, ripped off the cover i of the table and had a tailor work It into a sport jacket. When he is wearing it, and seen from a dis-; tance, Mr. Doyle can pass for the twin brother of a young and heal- ■ thy elm tree. It is a matter of rec-' ord. in fact, that a pair of robins nested in the breast pocket for j years. But to get back to Louis and . Schmeling and the 2 to 1 odds. | how does one go about explaining I such a set-up? Odds normally are I based on past performance, but | these aren't because the last time Louis and Schmeling met the Ger- ! man nearly beat Joe to death before finally knocking him out. If i that fight had anything to do with | the odds Schmeling. not Louis, I should be the heavy favorite. Cer- I tainly nothing has happened since that night to re-create the Louis, super-man myth. True, he later won the heavyweight title, but in winning it he beat a man—Braddock—who. to steal a phrase from ; the French, was at the end of his I rope. Perhaps the fact that Schmeling is getting no younger, and at a rapid rate, is the basis of the bettors' preference for Louis. The German is 32 or 33, and when you're a fifhter, that sort of age puts you in the octogenarian league. Still. Schmeling has shown few if any signs of falling apart at the seams in the past two years. To look at him. and to watch him in the ring, he appears to be a sounder machine than he was on that memorable night in June, 1936. when he amazed the entire uncivilized world by belting out the supposedly invincible brown bomber. No one has ever accused Schmel- , ing of not taking care of himself.

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His schedule is mighty near as i rigrorous as that of a trappist ' monk. For Max a lemonade and |an ice cream cone comprise an I orgy. In 32 (or 33) years he hasn't punished his body as much as most fighters do in a single year. So why the odds? I can't make I them out. If you have any ideas I on the subject why don't you jot • them down, put them in an envelope with a fifty dollar bill, and ; mail them to me? 1 promise you ' that' every letter will receive my ' personal attention. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) _o PLAN CONGRESS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) - the holder to receive the official ably will be contained in more than i record of the congress, which probI two vlumnes. but will not entitle the bearer to admission. Full memi berships of $7.50 will admit the ibearer to the grounds every day, ! to all of the buildings, to both the ' popular and scientific sessions and i to the official records. An allotment of $215 in tickets lias been set for this county and i an effort will be made to sell these ! during the moth of July. The Fort Wayne meeting Thursi day night was attended by County 1 Agent L. E. Archbold. Avon Burk i and Robert Heller of Decatur and I Simon Schwartz of Berne. ____________—o Goodyear Employes Will Hold Picnic Glen Oswalt, manager of Good- ; year Service Madison and 3rd Sts. I announces that he has just learned of plans for a picnic for all Goodyear employes in Indiana, to be Held at Foreet Park. Noblesville. Sunday, June sth. Three hundred Goodyear employes and ’heir families from every section of the state will attend this gala event. Mr. Oswalt reports that employes of the local Goodyear Service store and their families will attend. According to the plans a varied program has been aranged to include golf, swimming, 'bingo, soft ball, horse shoe pitching, etc., with prizes offered the winners i.i each : event. Due to the picnic the local store will be closed all day Sunday, June 5.

NEGRO ADMITS FIVE KILLINGS Robert Nixon Confesses To Different AttackSlay in jjs Chicago, June 3.- 'U.R> — Robert Nixon, 18-yeur-old negro, who first came under police scrutiny In Ixiuisiana when he was six, sat hunched over a desk in police headquarters early today and calmly dictated a confession of his crimes, which included the slayings of at least four women and a girl during the past two years. As he spoke, he corroborated his statements by sketching with an expert hand the floor plans of his victims' homes. He has beaten to death three women in Chicago and a woman and her daughter in Los Angeles. "1 can't think of any others," he said. Ilin victims were Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle, attacked and slain in iter Chicago hotel. June 28, 1936: Anna Kutcha, 18-year-old student nurse, attacked and slain at the Chicago hospital, Aug. 21. 1937; Mrs. Edna Worden and her 12-year-old daughter. Marguerite, stripped and slain in their lx>s Angeles home. Aug. 14, 1937; and Mrs. Florence Johnson. 35. mother of two children, bludgeoned in her bed May 27, 1938.. in each case the victim's skull was crushed with a brick. All were slain in their beds during the early morning hours. Nixon drew sketches of two Chicago hotel rooms where he had assaulted women and another of the nurses home where he killed Miss Kutcha. “Those sketches are as good as an architect's." Deputy Chief of Detectives Walter Storms said. 'Tie told me he had attended a Y. M. C. A. art school here.” Dixon told in detail how he went to the nurse's home, where Miss Kutcha lived. He said he wanted to steal. "I climbed up the fire escape," he said. "I took the screen from the window and climbed in. She was sleeping but she woke up and started to scream. "I put a handkerchief over her face and hit her with a brick. When I left I took her watch and a radio.” He said he hid the radio in a park. When he returned for it the next day it was gone. When he had completed a statement for Storms and assistant state's attorney John Boyle, detectives Thomas Bryan and M. C. Caskell of Los Angeles questioned

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hint briefly about the Worden case Then he was taken to his cell. He was asleep an hour later. Gaskell and Bryan will question | him further toduy after lie re-en acts the Kutcha slaying. They ’ said he was first identified with I the Worden crime because of its I similarity to the Chicago slayings and by fingerprints found on a milk bottle outside the Worden apart |rnent. They said they would ques I tion him also about the attackslylng of Mrs. Rose Valdez, which ; occurred in Los Angeles m May I 1934. SPEED WORK ON (CONTINUED FROM PAGH ONE) (oss with a basketball are set each in a block above the wide entrance. Inside the structure, workmen are making rapid time completing the seating facilities. Cement foundations for the seats are being poured, the railings being plated and interior brick work being done. Start Second Floor Meanwhile in the school proper, brick walls have been started for

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