Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1938 — Page 6

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SPORTS

C. E. DEFEATS MONMOUTH NINE IN 12 INNINGS Extra Inning Tilt Features County League Play Sunday League Standing 0. E. 2 0 1 000 Mies 2 1 .667 Monmouth 11 .500 Pleasant Mills —1 1 .500 Preblel 1 -500 Fuelling 1 2 .333 St. Mary's 0 2 .000 Featured by a 12-inning victory for the Decatur G. E. team over Monmouth, three games were played in the Adams county amateur league Sunday afternoon. In other games. Mies trounced Preble, 14 to 6, and Pleasant Mills defeated Fuelling, 3 to 1. In the last of the 12th inning of the first game of the double header at Worthman Field. Busse. G. E. manager, singled to drive home Jackson from second with two men out to win the ball game. The feature of the hard-fought contest was a long home run over the right field fence by Paul Conrad. Monmouth pitcher, in the fourth inning. Mies Recreation tallied seven runs in the last two innings to cinch the 14-6 victory over Preble in the nightcap of the double header. The winners pounded out 16 hits, Brittson leading with “4 for 4.” Pleasont Mills edged out a 3 to 1 victory over Fuelling in a pitcher's duel at Pleasant Mills. Each team obtained nine hits, but Siusser kept Fuelling's hitters at bay in the pinches. G. E. AB R H E D. Reynolds, ss 6 0 0 0 Harkless, 2b. 3b .. 5 0 0 0 Jackson. 3b, c 5 2 0 0 Busse, cf 6 13 0 Schneider, p 5 12 0 Schultz, rfs 111 Mclntosh, clO 0 0 Omlor, 2b 4 0 0 0 Keller, lb 4 0 10

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I Scheiman, If 2 0 0 0 Johnson, If 3 0 10 TOTALS -. 46 5 8 1 I Monmouth jB. Fuelling. If 5 10 1 I Scheiman, lb 5 0 0 1 • Strickler, 2b5 111 [P. Conrad, p 4 12 3 1 Macklin. 3b 4 0 0 2 ' R Fuelling, cf .... 4 10 1 L. Conrad, cflo 0 0 I Cable, c.... 5 0 0 0 Moses, ss 4 0 0 0 l Brokaw, sslo 0 0 | TOTALS ... 43 4 4 9 MIES Agler, cf 2 110 Miller, cf 2 0 2 0 Dull. 3b 6 2 2 2 Ritter. Ifs 10 0 Brittson, c, rs 4 4 4 0 M. Ladd, rs, c 4 0 11 R. Ladd, ss 4 2 2 0 McConnell, 2b 5 11 1 ■ Ogg. lb 3 0 0 0 | Schainerloh, lb — 2 2 10 I Harmon, p 3 112 i Mies, p 10 10 TOTALS ... 41 14 16 6 Preble j Gibson, rf4 10 1 ! Koeneman, If 4 110 Durr, ss 4 0 0 0 'L. Hoffman, lb 3 112 ■ P. Hoffman, c 4 0 0 0 Bittner, cf 4 2 0 0 Beavers. 2b4 0 10 G. Hoffman, 3b4 112 Buuck. p 3 0 10 Borne, plO 0 0 TOTALS ... 35 6 5 5 Pleasant Mills Byers, 2b4 o*l 0 Huser, ss3 0 12 Raudebush. lb 4 11 0 Halberstadt cf 4 110 Dague. 3b 4 0 2 0 Stover, If 3 0 2 0 Hicks, c 4 0 0 1 McMillen, rf4 110 Slusser, p 3 0 0 0 TOTALS .. 33 3 9 3 Fuelling R. Scherer, 3b ..„ 4 13 0 L. Boerger, c 4 0 10 B. Gerke, lb 4 0 0 0 M. Scherer, 2b 4 0 0 0 Hoile, If 4 0 0 0 Franz, cf 4 0 10 A. Gerke, ss 2 0 2 0 Boerger. ss 2 0 0 0 Ftieliitig, rs 4 0 10 H. Gerke, p 2 0 0 0 Gresley .plO 10 TOTALS —. 35 1 9 0 STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 31 17 .646 Chicago 30 20 .600 Cincinnati 25 22 .532 Pittsburgh 24 21 .533 Boston 22 21 .512 St. Louis 20 26 .435 Brooklyn 21 28 .429 Philadelphia 12 30 .286 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Cleveland 29 18 .617 New York 27 19 .587 Boston 26 21 .553 Washington 27, 25 .519 Detroit 25 24 .510 Philadelphia 21 26 .447 Chicago 18 25 .419 St. Louis 15 30 .333 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League Chicago 9-0, Brooklyn 3-6. Boston 6-4, Cincinnati 5-7 (first game 10 inninngs). New York 8-1, St. Louis 5-4. Pittsburgh 11, Philadelphia 5 (second game postponed, Sunday curfew). American League Boston 3-3, Chicago 2-4. Philadelphia 8-1, St. Louis 3-0 (second game 5 innings, rain). New York 7, Cleveland 6. Detroit 18, Washington 12. HOME RUNS Foxx. Red Sox 18 Johnson, Athletics 15 York, Tigers 14 Greenberg, Tigers 13

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Johnson Destroys Legend Os Jeffries’ Power Boilermaker Reluctantly Returns to Ring and Is Slaughtered by Negro Champion at Peak of His Fighting orm

Editor's Note: This Is the third of a series of five stories about exchampions who couldn’t come back. By Bill Braucher Central Press Sports Editor In the Years between 1899 and 1905 Jim Jefferies was the king of [the prize ring. He met and turned back Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Sharkey land ail other worthy opposition, j Possessed of an endurance that seemed endless, he packed a left hand punch tha tlifted men off the I floor. Big Jeff set up a record of inI t incibility during those years that made him a legend Then in 1905. with no new worlds to conquer, he retired. Upon leavI ing the ring, he announced that the winner of a bout between Marvin Hart and Jack Root would inherit his title. He had seen Hart defeat Jack Johnson in San Francisco, and was impressed. Hart went on to beat Root, but he did not remain in the picture long. Tommy Burns de- ! seated Hart in 10 rounds in 1906 i and claimed the title. Philadelphia | Jack O’Brien also claimed the j crown, so Burns met and beat him in 1907. Burns was recobnized as champion. $30,000 for Burns Berns toured Europe, meeting minor opposition, and finally land|ed in Sydney, where he flattened fthe Australian champion, Bill Lang, ; in six rounds. Shortly af'er this fight. Jack Johnson, who had been ‘ pursuing Burns with challenges, appeared in Sydney, and promoters of-' sered Burns $30,000 to meet the Ne-1 gram. Burns was reluctant but force j of public opinion finally caused him to sign for the bout Dec. 26. 1908. Johnson cut Burns to ribbons, 1 and the bout was stopped by police ■ in the fourteenth round to save Tommy's life. The reign of Johnson started a world-wide quest so ra White Hope. Lumberjacks were lured from the forests, and ambitious fight managers enticed sinewy young workers away from the mills and blast furnaces. No blacksmith was safe from the zealous ■proselyters of the prize ring. Most of the White Hopes were a sorry lot. They were htt-riedly trained to exploiters whose idea was to strike while the iron was hot, to cash in before the fuor to find a Causasian champion died away. A Great Fighter It soon became apparent that Johnson was a champion who might be around for a long while. His in-' descretieons won for him almost universal unpopularity. But it was conceded that he was a great fight- [ er. Possessed of mavelous defense, he was like a cat on his feet. He fought with caution until he was.

YANKEES AGAIN BEAT INDIANS TO CUT LEAD Both New York Teams Now' Appear Headed For Pennants New York. June 13 —(U.R1 —The paramount issue in the majors today concerned the Yankees and the Giants and how to keep them from staging their third subway world series. A few days ago both New York teams seemed to be cracking up. The Yanks lost three in a row to the White Sox, who previously had lost 11 out of 12 games. The Giants dropped six in a row and were floundering all over the west. Overnight they both leaped back, into the foreground of the pennant picture. The Yanks righted themselves in the nick of time and today boasted a winning streak of I three straight which lifted them to within a game and a half of the league-leading Cleveland Indians. The Giants fought their way back into the National league lead by | winding up their western campaign with five victeries in their last six games. Again the cries arose: Stop the Yankees; Stop the Giants! Cleveland, with a 3M> game lead when they came to New York, moved back home today after taking two straight lickings from the; Yanks. The Yanks proved again that when the chips are down they are the meanest club in baseball.l They beat Cleveland's two greatest pitchere in one game—Johnny Allen and Bob Feller who folded j before 43,702 fans yesterday. Red Ruffing scored his eighth i victory, beating the Indians, 7-6. | Ruffing hat a homer with two ■ mates aboard, and rookie Joe Gorj don won the game with a homer off Feller in the eighth with Dickey ! on base. In the west the Giants divided a I doubleheader with the St. Louis , Cardinals to maintain their two- ■ game National league lead over the I Chicago Cubs. The Giants ran I their winning streak to five straight by taking the first game, 8-5. The Cards won their first game of the season from the Giants by annexing the nightcap, 4-1. Carl Hubbell failed in a bid for his

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sure of his man. Johnson had a pulverizing punch. What was more important he was a smart fighter, with keen ring instincts, abl? to adjust himself to almost any situation (which he proved when he got up from the floor to knock out Stanley Ketchel). Disbuested with the search for a White Hope, the fight world turned to Jefferies. The big fellow’s invulnerability still was fresh in public memory. Jeff himsekf didn’t want to meet Johnson. He pointed out that he was 35 years old. had been out of the ring for five years (in 1910.) felt comfortably fixed financially for the rest of his life and had no wish to reutrn to the rigors of the ring. It wae the late Tex Rickard who finally persuaded Jett to come back. Jeff had been such an indomitable battler in his hayday, that Tex really believed he was the very man to lick the Negro. It was one of Tex’s pet ideas that Johnson would lose heart as soon as he got into the ring with the man who once had beaten them all.

200th victory. It was “big inning” day around' most of the circuit yesterday. The Detroit Tigers took down the prize by beating Washington. 18-12, after trailing at one time. 11-1. With Gehringer and York hitting homers in the sixth the Tigers scoredlll01 runs. Even so they went into the ninth one run behind, but staged a seven-run rally. The Athletics won the day’s only twin triumph by beating the St. Louis Browns. 8-3 and 1-0 (5 innings). Bob Johnson hit tw’o homers for the A’s in the first game. The Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox broke even in a doubleheader. The Red Sox won the opener, 3-2, on Ben Chapman's double in the eighth. The White Sox took the nightcap. 4-2. on Gerald Walker's ninth Inning homer. Scoring nine runs in the eighth inning the Cubs beat Brooklyn, 9-3, but succumbed to Freddy Fitzsimmons’ four-hit pitching to lose 6-0 in the second game. Dolf Camilli hit a homer with the bases loaded off Larry French in the nightcap. Cincinnati split with Boston, the Bees winning the first game, 6-5, in 10 innings and the Reds taking the second, 7-4. Fletcher’s single won the first game, while Paul Derringer outpitched Jim Turner in the nightcap. Ival Goodman hit homer No. 14. A crowd of 33,735 attended. Scoring ten runs in the fifth and sixth innings Pittsburgh won from the Phillies, 11-5. Mace Brown scored his eighth relief victory.

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Jeff Accepts Finally Jett agreed, and the battle was signed for Reno, July 4,1910 Some 15,000 from all corners of the world poured Into picturesque Reno, won and lost smal Ifortunes over the gaming tables in the city’s palaces of chance, visited the training ' camps and paid $270,775 to see the fight Itself. Writers who sat at the ringside i in the great wooden saucer Rickard built in Reno loft glowing records of the spectacle. But of the fight there was not much to say. The thousands who baoiied themselves in the sun to see a great battle witnessed a crushing anti-climax. The man who walked across the ring to meet Johnson that day was only a shadow of the Jefferies that was, a formidable likeness of course outwardly, but without the sipark. Time had robbed Jeff as effectively as thep ickpockets had cleaned Reno’s unwary visitors. Johnson fought cautiously at first boxing carefully, on the defense. In Peff’s punches failed to hurt him, ‘ he began to open up, carefully but

SPECIALISTS TO EXAMINE OIZZY Cubs’ Ailing Hurler To Undergo Thorough Examinations Chicago, June 13.—<U.R>—A corps ( of specialists was called in today ■ to determine once and for all what’s wrong with Dizzy Dean’s helpless pitching arm. Seeking some return on an investment of $250,060 in cash and players, manager Charlie Grimm ordered Diz to remain behind while the Chicago Cubs embarked on an eastern trip and submit to a complete physical checkup. The month of rest prescribed by Dr. John F. Davis, Cub physician, left Dean with an arm as limp as a dishrag instead of cured of the him from baseball’s greatest rightmysterious ailment which reduced ' hander to an ordinary pitcher with nothing but a slow cure. “Dean is no good to us the way he is,” Grimm said. “We’ve got to find out what’s wrong with his i arm so we’ve called in these spec- ; ialists. One doctor’s report isn't | enough.” The specialists insisted that their names be withheld. The complete overhauling will start with the broken toe Diz received in last year’s all-star game and extended on up to his teeth. He’ll be tested for every ailment that ever slowed up a fast ball pitcher. “Dean's whole trouble started with that broken toe,” said Charles Drae, assistant to owner Phil iK. Wrigley. “When he broke thaC jhe tried to change his pitching I style to favor the Injured toe. The i new style hurt his arm late tn the I year and that old ailment is still i with him.” In Dean’s late-summer appearances on the mound, he affected a i slow side arm curve and failed to ’ cut loose even once with the fast ' ball that made him famous and a world series hero of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was the same cautious. control pitcher with the Cubs as he won his first three starts of the year. Despite the Cubs’ efforts to round Dix into shape, Grimm apparently isn't counting heavily on the shelved pitcher. He'd like to forget all about Dean and concen-

“"surely. In the seventh he added steam to his leads, closing Jeff’s right eye, marking his face. Some of the old fury seized Jeff, and he ' rushed out wildly, swinging with , all he had in an effort to break ■ through the Negro’s defense. But . what he had was not enough. Johnson’s defense was impenetrable, and itis counterpunches were staggering. The Slaughter Is On Un the twelfth the champion reali hy opened up, pouring rights and lefts to Jeff’s face and body. The ■ power to fight back seemed »o have i left the big fellow. A lingering trace of his ounce boundless stamina kept him on his feet. ■ In the fifteenth Johnson floored ■ Jeff with a long left. He got up at tine only to meet the same crushi ing punch. He sat near the ropes . trying to get up, but his legs no longer would obey the mind’s com- - ma nds. They helped him to his corner t where Jeff mumbled through swoli len lips. Ask Johnson to give me his , gloves.” t Next: Dempsey’s Mighty Effort.

trate on trying to win the pennant 1 with what he’s got on hand. He answers hundreds of questions a day about Dean. Restaurants, theaters, amusement parks j and clubs keep calling on Diz for personal appearances and most of ( the invitations are directed to tht ( busy Grimm. The Cubs are finding that Diz is j too important to ignore. o LOCAL TENNIS | PLAYERS LOSE I City Tennis Team Loses To Fort Wayne; Girls Plan Tourney The Decatu city tennis team lost its first match in the Northern Indiana tennis association schedule Sunday afternoon, toeing to the Fort Wayne County Club team, 8 to 1. Decatur’s only victory was by default in the final doubles match. Results of all matches follow: J. Wilson defeated Cowan, 6-2, 6-6; P. Souders defeated H. Hoffman. 7-5. 6-3; William Hall defeated Townsend, 6-3, 6-2; Bob Schelper defeated Hancher, 6-2, 6-3; Allen Lornont defeated Cline, 6-4, 6-3; Garth Vernor defeated Macklin, 6-2, 6-3; Willson — Souders defeated Townsend —Cowan, 6-1, 6-1; Don Burns — Sehelper defeated Hoffman —Hancher, 6-4, 8-6; Lomont—-Vernor defaulted to Cline —Macklin. James Cowan won the tourney conducted the past two weeks to determine ranking of the iplayers, defeating Harold Hoffman in the finals. Cowan defeated ,Paul Hancher in the semi-finals and Hoffman eliminated Bud Townsend. Girl* Tourney Eight girls are entered in a tourney, the schedule for which was announced today. First round pairings are as follows: Mary Martha Terveer vs. Mary K. Tyndall; Mary Jane Fr.itzinger vs. Mildred Acker; Bernice Borne vs. Rosemary Fullenkamp; Pauline Affoldcr vs. Eileen Wells. o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Averill, Indians 47 179 41 67 .374 Trosky, Indians.... 46 165 39 61 .370 Lavagetto, Dodg. 38 139 25 50 .360 Lombardi, Reds 35 128 15 46 .359 Myer, Senators 41 132 26 47 .356

FISHING SEASON ■ OPENS TUESDAY —— Indiana Fishing Season Opens At Midnight Wednesday Night Indianapolis, June 13. — Hoosier anglers can anticipate some of the i best fishing of recent years dur 1 ing the open season beginning Thursday morning. (June 16) Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Departments of Conservation, assured Indiana fishermen today. Streams and lakes are in fine condition; a record hatch of game fish has been reported during the spawning season and the millions of fish planted last year have grown exceptionally fast. Another indicemert is the opening for fishing the first time, the two lakes on the Brown county state game preserve and the two in the Morgan Monroe state forest. These lakes have been heavily stocked with bass and other game fish over a period of -several years. No boats will be permitted on these lakes. Thousands of fishermen will celebrate the opening of the season, many of hem planning o be ready for their first cast immediately after the stroke of midnight. Ureopening celebrations for the visiting anglers will be held this year at Monticello. LaGrange, Syracuse and Jasonville. Special programs of interest to the fishermen will be staged Wednesday nigbt, including exhibits from the Department of Conservation. During the closed season on taking bass, bluegills and other game species, trout fishermen have been enjoying real sport with some record catches from the cold-water streams hi the northern part of the state. The trout season continues until August 31. Hoosiers were reminded that the Indiana law requires every person to have a license to sish —with two exceptions — children under eighteen years of age may fish without a license and the owners of farmlands or tenants and their families may fish in waters on such farms only, without a license. In some parts of the state, especially on the northern lakes where the spawning season is still in progress, fishermen will be expected to observe the laws prohibiting fishing within areas designated as spawning beds or operating motorboats within such areas. Folders giving bag limits, minimum lengths of game fish to be taken legally, and other regulations on fishing in Indiana may be secured free or charge from county clerks, agencies issuing fishing licenses, or by addressing the Division of Fish and Game, room 406

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