Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1938 — Page 8

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INDIANS LOSE SECOND IN ROW TO BOSTON SOX Cleveland Moves To New York Today To Open Crucial Series New York. June 10 IU.R) The Cleveland Indians moved into Yankee stadium toaay to battle the world champions in a vital three- . game series out of which may come the answer to this question: Are the Indians on an early season joy ride? Cleveland clubs have been out in front at this stage of the race before only to wind up behind the 8 ball. The Indians came to town today with a 3' 2 game lead, which would be fairly convincing if it belonged to any other club but the Tribe. The doubters stil want to see the Indians knock off the Yanks in their own back yard. The Yanks have been stumbling and fumbling around like a gang of ex-champions recently, but they still pack plenty of authority for those crucial tests. After dropping three in a row to the White Sot. they righted themselves on the eve of the important Cleveland series by coming from behind to beat Chicago, 5-3. ♦#i the other hand, the Indians, with the nightmare of Yankee stadium just ahead, dropped their second straight to the Boston Red Sox, 8-0. Some interpret these two defeats as the early stages of panic prior to a nose dive. Manager Oscar Vitt, who fined Johnny Allen $250 for insubordination on Tuesday when he walked off the mound after an argument with the umpire, over his tattered shirt sleeve, nominated him to pitch today's series opener. Manager Joe McCarthy, playing poker with Vitt, chose Lefty Goirtez. beaten by the Browns in his last start and definitely a question mark. With Bill Dickey back in the lineup the Yaks came to life yesterday ad salvaged the final game from the White Sox. Dickey's homer with a mate on base tied the score, 3-3, and his single started the winning rally. Lefty Grove, scattering nine hits and driving in three rusn himself, blanked the Indians for his tenth victory. The Red Sox ’ pounded Mel Harder for 14 hits, including Jimmy Foxx's 18th homer. Washington beat the St. Louis Browns, 6-4. behind the four-hit pitching of Jimmy Deshong, and j the Athletics knocked Vernon Kennedy out of the box to beat the Detroti Tigers. 8-5. Dario Lodigiani's J homer with the bases loaded ruined Kennedy's bid for his 10th straight. The New York Giants staged a three-run rally in the ninth to take their third straight from the > Chicago Cubs, and increase their National league lead to 1% games. J Bob Logan walked in the winnig run with the bases loaded and then

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Mel Ott's single clinched the game with two additional tallies. A to- , tai of 72,639 saw the four game series. Mace Brown, in a relief role, held 1 the Bees to two hits in seven innings as Pittsburgh beat Boston, 5-3. in the only other National league game. Brown's single with ! the buses loaded drove in the winning runs. Yesterday's hero: Dario Lodgiani. Athletics’ rookie secnd baseman who hit a homer with the bases loaded to break Vernon Kennedy's winning streak as the A’s trimmed the Tigers. I STANDINGS ■ NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York 29 16 .644 Chicago 29 19 .604 Boston 21 19 .525 Pittsburgh 22 20 .524 Cincinnati 23 .21 .523 St. Louis 19 24 .442 Brooklyn . .... 20 27 .426 Philadelphia . 11 28 .282 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Cleveland 29 16 .644 New York 25 19 668 Boston 25 19 .568 Washington 27 22 .551 ■ Detroit 22 24 .478 I Philadelphia 18 25 .419 Chicago 16 24 .400 St. Louis 14 27 .341 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 5. Boston 3. New York 8. Boston 5. : Brooklyn at St. Louis, rain. i Only games scheduled. American League New York 5. Chicago 3.* I Cleveland 9. Boston 8. i Philadelphia 8. Detroit 5. i I Washington 6. St. Ixmis 4. i o HOME RUNS I 1 Foxx. Red Sox 18 < Goodman. Reds 13 Greenberg. Tigers 13 York. Tigers 13 Ott. Giants 12 a I BOOST GARNER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) beyond the age group from which 1 conventions normally select presidential nominees. But the fact that Senators and others are discussing j potential 1340 candidate® of Gari tier's type indicates that the split in the New Deal-Democratic party i probably is widening and that there I will be a battle royal contest two years hence to determine whether i the party standard shall be carried by a man committed to continuation ' of the Roosevelt New Deal program ior one tied more securely to the conservative wing of the party. Sen. Harry F. Eyrd. D., Va., has also been mentioned as a conservative i possibility. , i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY. JUNE 10. 1938.

Corbett, First Ex-Champ to Battle for Heavy Title, Had Jeffries Beaten for 23 Rounds • Then, Bang!

Sullivan’s Conqueror Amazed World By Great Boxing i Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of five stories about ex-champions who couldn't come back. By BILL BRAVCHER, Central Press Sports Editor "CORBETT'S got him!" “Jeff can’t hit old Jim!" Shouts rang at the Coney Island | ringside on a spring night 38 years 1 ago as Jeffries and Corbett battled round after round. Gentleman Jim. I the boxing master, the genius of! dodging, side-stepping, rolling, was ■ giving the bull-like boilermaker a ' licking. Like a picador in some dusty | Spanish arena. Corbett fitted in | front of the powerful champion. ■ shooting that lightning left to the i face and right to the body, leaping in and out while Jeff labored vainly to pulverize him with a ' punch. Corbett, Fitz and Jeff The world that night came close j to seeing what never has happen-ed-a champion come back.) Through the years since Sullivan's gory day the illusion has persisted that some day a former heavyweight champion will recover the j ring's most prized bauble. But no : man has. Corbett, conqueror of John L.. i stormed vainly at the juggernaut Jeffries. Wide-shouldered Bob Fitz- j simmons. who felled Corbett with his famous solar plexus punch to win the crown, found big Jeff an invulnerable fortress in his campaign to win back the championship. Jeffries himself was to know the same bitter disillusionment years later when he tried to come back against the black king. Jack John- j son. only to find that his youth, his splendid punch had slipped away. 1 Dempsey Fails, Too And in our own day one of the 1 greatest hitters of all time toiled : along the same painful path to de- 1 feat. Dempsey and Ttinney! The dream that came so close to being I real ended forever for the Mauler when the ex-marine lifted his tired 1 body from the resined floor in Chi-, ■ cago and slashed the man from Manassa into a mangled wreck. Now Max Schmeling hurls a fist < into the face of tradition when he meets Joe Louis June 22 in Yankee stadium, seeking the title that Jack Sharkey snatched away on a p sultry night six years ago in Long , i Island bowl. Schmeling is 32 years old. Corbett was 35 when he met Jeffries

CASTING WINS DOUBLE HEADER I Edges Fort Wayne G. E. > In Exhibition; Troun- I ces Cloverleaf The Decatur Casting softball team scored a double victory Thursday night under the lights at the South Ward diamond In the first game ot the evening, i Casting edged out a 2-1 victory over the G. E. team ot Fort Wayne in an exhibition tilt, and in the nightcap. Casting swamped the Cloverleaf team, lU-1 in a regular Adams county softball league contest. i All runs in the first game were scored in the fifth inning. Two hits and an error enabled Fort W ayne to count one run .in the first of the fifth. Agler, first Casting batter in the fifth, drew a walk, and Strickler pounded out a home run for the winnig tallies. Casting scored in every inning except the fourth, pounding out 18 nits and benefiting by 10 errors to trounce Cloverleaf. The losers tallied their lone run in the second on a hit and an error. Scores by innings: Fort Wayne G. E. 000 010 0-—1 3 0 Casting 000 020 X—2 2 2 Musser and Stelhorn; Wynn and M. Ladd; Cloverleaf CIO 000 o—l0 —1 3 10 Casting 427 024 x—lo 18 .1 C. Farrar and Hitchcock: Beery and M. Ladd. o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. ■ Trosky, Indians. .. 44 157 37 59 .376 i Averill. Indians.... 45 171 40 64 .374 Foxx. Red Sox 44 167 43 61 .365 ■ Iximbardi, Reds 33 117 13 42 .359 Lavagetto, Dodg. 36 132 24 47 .356 NOTICE to CREAM Patrons While streets are closed for paving, drive south on Third street to rear of our plant. We will have our man give you prompt service at your car. Thank you. 1 Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc.

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on that May night 38 years ago at , the old Seaside Athletic club at ' Coney Island. It was eijjht years I after Corbett had performed the I magic at New Orleans by knock- ' ing out the one and only John L. Sullivan. The days of Jeffries were another golden age of prize fighting in America. Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Tom Sharkey, Peter Maher, Gus Ruhlin and Kid McCoy were stars of the roped arena. But Jeffries , was the ace of them all. A 215- . pound giant with a terrific punch i in either hand, with endless endur-1 ance, Jeff was ready to defend his . title at any time. Corbett Outboxes Jeff Corbett had been out of the ring ; for five years before he met Jeff.

MINE WITNESS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) j Clyde, are held in Harlan jail in connection with the killing. i G-men investigated reports that | | three men kidnaped John Isom yes-, i terday because he was “a damn I I union" man. Isom told the story himself, explaining that he had jumped from an automobile and ‘ escaped. I The puzzling part of the Smith-I 1 ers killing and the kidnaping of, 1 Isom was that neither man had testimony of much weight or sigI nificance to throw into the balance ‘ for the government. Smithers, in fact, had been excused as a witness although he still tvas under subpoena. What he would have told if he had lived and testified was that he had a quarrel with a strawboss at the Harlan fuel comI pany where he worked. Smithers was ready to testify that the quarrel started because the strawboss taunted him about the "breaking up of the union.” That is mild testimony in this courtroom where almost every day some one swears to murder or assault. Isom testified days ago that the Harlan Central Coal company discriminated against him after he. went to Frankfort and testified before the grand jury that returned the indictment in the conspiracy case. Brien McMahon, assistant attor ney general in charge of prosecuting the conspiracy trial, declined to comment on either the kidnaping or the killing until he had received an official report from G-men. Reports on how and why 1 Smithers was killed varied widely. , Tillman Knuckles, deputy jailer of Harlan county, said Smithers hit one of the Fee brothers on the head with a beer bottle and provoked the quarrel. Chief deputy sheriff C. N. Nolan agreed that Smithers had struck the first blow and added that Verlin Fee had confessed to him that he fired the shot that killed the union man. Knuckles said both of the Fee boys | had been badly beaten up in the tight; Nolan insisted only Verlin had suffered such injuries. The twelve jurors, of course, know nothing today of these events 90 miles away. They do know however, that a government witI ness, Kelly Fox, testified late yes- . terday that an agent for the dei fendants tried to buy his testimony. o— Trade la A Good Tow a— Deeatur

i but he staged one of the greatest | I fights of his career. Betting was I 2 to 1 on Jeff when the bout be-1 ' gan. But before it had gone five i ! rounds the wagering was even. : Corbett seemed absolute master of: I the big fellow. Corbett simply could not be hit. He leaped in and | out with jabs and hooks, tipping the big bear off balance, making him miss ridiculously. After they had gone for 15: I rounds Corbett seemed to be tir-' j ing. but he still found it easy to I l avoid Jeff's fierce rushes. Though ' • one of Jeff's punches glanced off ' his chin in the nineteenth roud, ■ floorig him for an instant, Corbett J still was far ahead on points through the first 20 rounds of the | 25-round bout. Corbett had hiFtfie

EVERETT DEAN ACCEPTS POST I. U. Basketball Coach Accepts Bid To Coach Stanford Bloomington. Ind., June 10.—(iU.Pj ' — Everett S. Dean, Indiana uni-’ varsity basketball and \aseball mentor, announced today that he would accept the contract, thought to be for five years, offered him by Stanford university of Palo Alto, California. Dean win succeed John Bunn, head basketball coach who resigned to become dean of men. It was understood that the salary involved was higher than Dean had received at the Hoosier school. Athletic director Z. G. Clevenger said consideration would be given applicants for the Indiana vacancy before he recommended Dean’s successor to President Herman B. Wells. The university athletic board will discuss all candidates, he said. Dean has shared the big 10 basketball championship three times during his 14-year regime. His baseball team won the conference title twice and shared it this season with lowa. Cleveger, payig tribute to Dean's appointment, said: “Dean is one of the finest characters I have known in inter-col-legiate athletics. He combines ideal qualities with unusual coaching abilities. Our loss will be Stanford’s gain." ji United States Leads In Tennis Series i I Wimbledon, Eng., June 10.—flJ.Rl ■ —The United States, seeking its ! eighth straight victory, forged into a 2-1 lead today in the 16th an- ' ' nual Wightma cup tennis series 1 between women qf England and 1 the United States. Off to a bad start when Alice ■ Marble of San Francisco, Amer--1 ica’s top-ranking player, bowed to ' left-handed Kay Stammers in the ’ opening match, the United States ’ took the lead on a singles triumph by Mrs. Helen Wills Moody of San ■ Francisco and a doubles victory |by Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, . i Brookline, Mass., and Miss Marble.

I champion a half dozen blows for every return. Then, in the twenty-third it hapi pened. The desperate Jeffries, see- ! ing his title slipping away, rushed . out with everything he had. He j crowded his tormentor into a | corner. Corbett, unaware of his ‘ nearness to the ropes, backed into the strands, and in trying to duck 1 his way out, stepped into one of : Jeff's lefts. The blow landed squarely on the chin. Corbett regained consciousness five minutes | later in his corner. Thus, the first of the American ex-champions who tried to come back found failure with his goal only a few minutes away. , Next: Jeffries and Fitzsimmons.

FLORIDA YOUTH (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) : ing and tomato industry jobs. Hoover disclosed yesterday that the original ransom cache had coni tained $9,750. After further questioning of McCall. Hoover said, * G-men learned where the rest was ’ hidden and they found another I $245. One $5 bill was missing. Suit Against Mayor Bangs Is Dismissed Huntington, Ind., June 10.—KU.Pj i —Circuit Judge Otto H. Krieg late yesterday dismissed the Northern I Indiana Power company's suit for i collection of bond given by Mayor 1 C. W. H. Bangs as security for a $2,500 damage judgment. Judge Krieg dismissed the acI tion upon motion of power company counsel. The unexpected ; move came after both sides had | completed final arguments before , a jury. | The damage judgments resulted i from the famous contempt cases ;of 1936 which were an utgrowth I

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THREE LEAGUE GAMES CARDED FOR JUNE 12 I Double Header At Worthman Field To Feature League Schedule League Standing W. L. Pct. ,G. E 1 0 1.600 I Monmouth 1 0 1.000 j Preble 1 0 1.000 Fuelling 11 .500 Mies 11 .500 Pleasant Mills .0 1 .000 I St. Mary s 0 2 .000 Three games are on the schedule for the Adams county amateur I. baseball league Sunday afternoon, i June 12, in the third day's play in I the league. A double header at Worthman i Field will feature the day's pro- 1 gra nr. In theo pening game, scheduled ' to start promptly at 1 o'clock, two j l of the teams tied for the league lead, will battle, with the G. E. team of Decatur playing the Monmouth nine. In then ightcap contest, Preble, the third undefeated league team, will play the Mies Recretation team of Decatur, which has a recof an injunction issued prohibiting the city of Huntington from entering the utility field.

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