Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1938 — Page 6

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ACTIVITIES IN " JUNIOR LEAGUE OPEN TUESDAY Junior Baseball Leagues Start Summer’s Play Here Tuesday Junior baseball activity under the Decatur and Adams county recreation program was launched Tuesday, with two games played in the Lions Recreation league. In the opening game, the Indians defeat.-,d the (Hants. Sto 6. and in the second game, the Yankees outslugged the Cubs, 15 to 13. in a game which required one extra inning. Play in the Adams county junior league was scheduled to open this afternoon at I o’clock, with the' Decatur Rotary club meeting Pleasant Mills at Worthmail Field. The American Legion team will meet Berne at Worthman Field Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock Schedule for the Lions Recrea- • tion league for Thursday and Fri-1 day follows: Thursday 9 a.m. Indians vs Cubs 10 a.m. Giants vs Pirates. Friday 9 a.m. Yankees vs Cards. 10 a.m. Reil Sox vs Tigers. Score by innings of Tuesday's ' games: | Giants .10’10 — 6 . Indians 3 1 2 2 0 8 | J. Eichorn. R. Kuhnle and Peter(■■■■BKEEaMSSnHH

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.son; Terveer and Welker. ' Yankees 250 5 0 3 15 I Cubs 2 3 25 0 1- 13 I M. Andrews. J. Holthouse and R ; Eichorn: M Heure. Lobsiger, R. ' Laurent and Kitchen. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE I I W. L. Pct. ! New Y’ork 32 17 .653 Chicago 31 20 .608 Cincinnati 25 22 .532 Pittsburgh 24 22 .522 Boston 22 22 .500 St. Louis 21 26 .447 I Brooklyn 21 28 .429 I Philadelphia 12 41 .279 , AMERICAN LEAGUE II 1 1 W. L. Pet. 'Cleveland . 29 19 .604 ' New York . 28 19 .596 Boston 27 21 .563 i Washington 28 25 .528 f ■ Detroit 25 25 .500 Philadelphia 22 26 .458 . Chicago ■ 18 26 .100 St. Louis 15 31 .326 I YESTERDAY'S RESULTS I < National League ’ New York 5. Pittsburgh 3. Chicago 5. Boston 2. St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 3. ( | Cincinnati at Brooklyn, postpon- ( ed. rain, delayed. , American League New York 7, Chicago 4. , Philadelphia 8, Detroit 2. Washington 7, Cleveland 6. ( Boston 5. St. Louis 3. IANKS WITHIN HALF GAME OF LEAGUE LEAD Win Fourth Game In Row To Pull Within Half Game Os Indians — ( New York. June 15 (IJ.R) Half I a game was all that separated the New York Yankees from first place in the American League today as the Cleveland Indians continued their inglorious nosedive while the Yanks kept putting on the pressure. ~ With four straight victories, the Yanks have righted themselves after their worst slump of the sea- ; son. Monte Pearson, an in-ami-out-er all season, was Manager Joe McCarthy's nomination to set the White Sox back on their heels and give the Yanks a triumphant entry into the league lead. Johnny Whitehead was expected to oppose him. Scoring seven runs in one inning the Yanks knocked off the pesky I White Sox yesterday, 7-4, and overcame their old jinx. Thornton Lee. j Myril Hoag's triple with the bases loaded was the big punch. Rookie Joe Gordon collected two singles during the big frame. Cleveland, with its infield pouring leaks, dropped its fifth straight by bowing to Washington, 7-6 Odel Hale made two errors, Lyn Lary one and Ken Keltner another. The Indians have the jitters after their unpleasant experience of losing two in a row to the Red Sox and then folding up twice before the Yanks — the two clubs they have to beat. Cecil Travis with three hits led the Senators’ 11-hit I offense on four Indian hurlers. The Athletics handed Vernon ■ Kennedy his second straight defeat by pounding out an 8-2 victory over Detroit. Last week the A's broke Kennedy's 9-game winning streak and yesterday they gave him his second defeat. Rookie Sam Chapman hit a homer and two singles. Hank Greenberg hit homer No. 14. Jack Wilson rescued Lefty Grove |CORT Tonight - Tomorrow 2 bIG <*» FEATURES Jfe ‘THE WRONG ROAD’ with Richard Cromwell and Helen Mack. — and — “ONE GLAMOROUS NIGHT” j with Mary Ellis and Victor Jory. r ADDED—Pathe News. 1 10 c -25 c Sun.—“ Sally, Irene & Mary”

Braucher Predicts Max Schmeling Will Be The First Ex-Champion To Recover The Heavyweight Title

Editor's note: This is the last of five stories about exchampions who tried to recover the world’s heavyweight championship, and attempts to analyze Max Schmeling's chances against Joe Louis, June 22. By Carl Braucher, (Central Press Sports Editor) Max Schmeling will enter the ring in Yankee stadium the night of June 22 possessing an advantage over his opponent that was enjoyed by none of the other ex-champ-ions who tried to recover the heavyweight title. Max already has knocked out Joe Louis. He knows how to light the Negro. And Joe Louis begins this fight j witli tile knowledge that the man ' in front of him lias beaten him | down with right-hand punches. I Louis knows, too, that his oppon- I ent has taken his hardest blows. I lias shaken them off, and come on i to win. These are factors that make the I meeting of Louis and Schmeling I Strangely different from any other heavyweight cliampioship battle in the ring's long history. Can Schmeling do it again? Has Louis learned how to avoid that right hand? Has the champion's shattered confidence been restored by easy conquests since his victory over Jimmy Braddock? Is Schmeling too old? And Here Are the Answers I think Schmeling will win. I don't think Louis has learned how to avoid a right hand. Neither do 1 think that Joe's confidence lias been restored. I do not think Schmeling is too old. It's my guess that Schmeling will knock out Louis along about the eighth round. Just a minute and I'll explain. Schmeling is not the only man who proved Joe Louis was easy to hit by a right-hand punch. Every opponent Joe has met has been able to smack him with a right, but it took a great right like Schmeling's to knock him out. Why is Louis a sucker for a right? Because he drops his left low before shooting with it. He telegraphs. Against a right-hand puncher like Schmeling. that is suicide. Joe's handlers have tried to teach him how to change his style, in fact, he has been advised by every Tom. Dick and Harry who ever entered the ring. Has lie been helped by the advice? The answer, I think, is shown in his last two fights. It is no! A multiplicity of adive has only tended to confuse the champion. After fighting for three years, he is told to make

as the Boston Red Sox nosed out I the St. Louis Browns, 5-3. John j Peacock's pinch single in the eighth j with the bases loaded enabled the! Red Sox to beat Buck Newsom. j The New York Giants conquered Pittsburgh. 5-3, as Hal Schumacher’ . won his sixth victory. Mel Ott, j with homer __o. 13 and a timely, single, led the Giants' attack to, I beat Russ Bauers. Tex Carleton scored his seventh' victory fr. pitching the Chicago' Cubs to a 5-3 victory over the Bos-. ton Bees. The Cubs routed Lon I Fette, who was charged with his! 1 eighth defeat. i The St. Louis Cardinals moved' into sixth place with a 4-3 victory | over the Phillies. Curt Davis held I liis former teammates to seven hits ■ as Stu Martin topped the Cards' i attack with a double and two j singles. Cincinnati and Brooklyn will play I the first night major league game ever staged in the east tonight at I Elibets Field. John Vander Meerj will make his first start since his | no-hit, no-run game against Max Butcher. Yesterday's Reds-Ilodger j , game was postponed because of the 1 late arrival of the Brooklyn club' ! from the west. Yesterday's hero — Myrii Hoag, Yankee outfielder who hit a triple and a single to drive in three runs. as the world champs beat the White Sox and moved within half a game of the league lead. HOME RUNS Foxx, Red Sox 18 Johnson, Athletics 15 Goodman. Reds 14 York, Tigers . . 14 I Greenberg, Tigers .... 14

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over his style. That's too hard. Now this may sound a bit paradoxical. but Joe Louis is not a fighter. He is a puncher, I'll grant, and one of the greatest punchers the ring has seen. But he lacks ring istincts. the boxing intelli- ] geuce that a champion should have. He is a manufactured fighter. a robot that does not now just what to do when Tie meets a man who can weather a couple of his best belts and hit back. The weaknesses in his defense are glaring. That part of his ring education has been sadly neglected. For that matter, defense is a difficult art to teach. It's instinctive. Making Him Over To meet Schmeling's attack, Louis has been taught to carry his left higher. I doubt if that will help him. He will find it a different matter to punch with his left from a high position. Besides, how about his heart? Those Schmeling rights to the ticker won't help Joe any. either. A right smash to the heart is one of the deadliest weapons. Dempsey will tell you

* Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore ♦ ♦ New York. June 15.—XU.P>—Flotsam and Jetsam from today's sport ■tide: One of our scouts who cov- ; ers the waterfront saw Charley Yates of Atlanta, winner of the ! recent British amateur golf charnp- : ionship, as he underwent customs ' inspection upon his arrival from Europe yesterday . . . The customs I inspector demanded to know what was in the big walnut chest CharI ley was carrying, and opened it ... Inside was the British amateur ! cup, one of golf’s most sacred ! trophies, and it was packed with i —dirty shirts, the suit of long un- ’ derwear Bob Jones lent Charley ito wear during the tournament, i ties, an assortment of socks, and I a soft hat . . . Charley said the cup i never was going to get out of his j sight, which, if true, means that . Charley is going to have to curl i up his long legs and sleep in the trophy case of the East Lake ' Country Club in Atlanta ... He ' may get a bad case of silver polish- ' itis if he doesn't watch out. j Speaking of cups. Gene Sarazen tells of the time he won his first national open and arrived in Chicage with the cup under his arm . . . Having traveled very little, the young Sarazen had forgotten to make train reservations for New i York and all he could get was an berth —with the precious cup still upper . . . As he clambered in the under his arm —Bob Jones learned out from a drawing room at the end of the car and yelled: “Hey, Gene, come on down with that cup and let’s go outside. I’ll I play you for it.” “Even then," Sarazen says, “I had enough sense not to play Jones for any cup I had won, and went on to bed.” The conservatives will be glad to know that Joe Louis has joined them . . . Before their first meeting, Joe predicted he would knock ' out Max Schmeling In one round ... Now, with the memory of the terrible licking still green, not to mention black and blue, in his memory, he says it will take him all of two rounds to dispose of the challenger . . . Schmeling is | equally as confident as Louis, and tells one and all that he will punch the champion stiffer than a Nazi salute . . . Personally, I won’t take any fighter’s prediction seriously until he agrees tp step into the ring on a winner-take-all basis . . . I remember that when Jim Brad- ; i

[ that it was such a blow, delivered by Gene Tunney. that stopped him in their Chicago fight. The Mauler says he thought he was going to die right there. It is hard to overcome a beating I mentally, such as Louis took at the hands of Schmeling two years ago before taking the count in the twelfth round. Joe has beaten other men since then. His punch was working against them beautifully. Yes, but none of them was Schmeling. This man is the one who too k adozen of Joe's best punches during the early rounds and kept coming right in. Joe can't forget that. And what Joe knows also is that he will have to get rid of Schmeling early if he is going to win. Schmeling is 32, will be 33 in September. That is an advanced age as ring ages are reckoned nowadays, but the German is a remarkable man. He has built himself into splendid physical fitness by daily drill since dropping the title to Jack Sharkey six years ago. ' shown great stamina. His legs

dock was announcing in a pleasant baritone voice what he planned to do to Louis, I asked him if he would be willing to fight for all or nothing . . . .He said yes, and probably was sincere . . . But when I suggested such a thing to Joe (33 Vu per cent) Gould, his manager, he turned on his heel and walked away. You have undoubtedly read on the sports pages, at one time or another, of how the departed greats look down from Valhalla and watch the performers of the j teams they used to coach oi- play , for . . . Well, tonight at Ebbetts [ Field, when the Broolyn Dodgers play their first game under floodlights, I am going to take a search- . ing look toward the heavens . . . 1 I want to see who will be looking 1 down and guiding their destinies . . . My guess is that it will be Phineas T. Barnum . . . This game should be a pip, for funny as they are in the sunlight the Dodgers should be even merrier oafs with ■ the lights in their eyes. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) o BATTING LEADERS I Player Club GAB R H Pct. Averill. Indians 48 182 43 68 “74 Trosky, Indians 47 169 39 61 .361 Lavagetto, Dodg. 38 139 25 50 .360 I Myer, Senators 42 136 26 49 .360 | Lombardi, Reds.. . 35 128 15 46 .359' o j * Sheriff Encounters Much Trouble With |i Recalcitrant Cow 'Sheriff Dallas Brown, who has built up an enviable record at efficiently handling “tough guys” and “hard-nosed” criminals this morning undoubtedly met up with one of the "toughest assignments in nearly four years as sheriff of Adams • county—that of loading a stubborn cow into a trailer. I It took the sheriff and four husky men, with the aid of maple twitches and ropes, just 45 minutes ' of concentrated pushing and pulling to put the cow into the trailer after I it had been hit by an auto on federal road 224, east of the city. | Fred Ashibaucher, local mei chant, and a Democrat reporter were on hand when the sheriff answered the accident call, and volunteered their services. Later the crew was enlarged, as George Cramer and Harley Ward, farmers of the community, joined forces with the sheriff. i After 15 minutes of futile, sweat-' . 1

In all his recent fights he has have held up wonderfully. He always has been careful of what he ate and drank. He is stubborn, proud, intent on winning back the title, determined to become the first man to recover that crown. He has studied the pictures of every one of Louis' fights in the last two years, searching them with just one idea in miud. He says Louis is the same fighter now he was back in 1936. and that if he tries to change he won’t be as dangerous as he was then. Hits Quicekr Schmeling has not rusted. He has kept in trim by fighting, and Louis will find him sharper now i than he was two years ago. It’s my guess that Max, despite his age, is a better fighter than he ! was when he beat before. ' His timing is better, and when a . fighter’s timing is better, he can hit quicker and harder. All these are reasons why I think Schmeling will find Louis i easier than when they first met.

ing efl'orle, although expertly placed switching about the flanks and ears I ot the contrary bovine should have | done the work, no noticeable results I had been obtained. Then the sheriff, himself a far- i mer of no mean reputation, conceived the seemingly brilliant suggestion resorting to more forceful, if less fair tactics, the authority retreated to a safe position at the rear | , of Hie animal and began a series of | tail-twisting contortions —-but to no' avail. "Someone suggested holding shut' | the notrils of the cow, but when lack of air forced her to rise, a sudden gulp of good fresh oxygen per- ; mitted her once more to retire to a I I sitting position. After nearly one hour of tugging, ! . ihe cow was finally pushed in the 1 trailer to return to her green pas- 1 tures at the Charles Burrell home.' while the sheriff and his cohorts, 1 with aching backs and leg muscles, i rubbing rope-burned hands, returned to the city a bit more appreciative of the troubles a farmer may encounter. Half a score of passersby either stopped or slowed down to watch

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CASTING WINS OVERTIME TILT Scores 10-Inning Exhibition Victory; (’loverleaf Wins Pounding out two runs in the last of the loth inning, the Decatur Casting softball team edg'd out a 76 victory over Vick’s Diner of Fort Wayne in an exhibition game at the South Ward diamond Tues day night. Casting htdd a 5-1 lead at the end of the eighth but the visitors' rallied for four runs and a tie in the ninth. Opening the 10th, Ross elsen pounded out a home run for Vick's but Schultz. Jackson and Strickler came through with three ( successive blows to tally twice in 1 the last of the inning. In the regular league game following the exhibition, Cloverleaf scored a 6-1 triumph over Pleasant Mills. Farrar held Pleasant Mills to two hits while his teammates made effective use of their six idows. Thursday night at 7 o'clock, the Decatur CYO team will play the with amused Interest the efforts of the perspiring men as they drove Into the scene, but evidently warned by the persistence of the animal, balked at offering their assistance.

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