Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1938 — Page 6

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MILLION DOLLAR BATE FORESEEN AT TITLE BOUT Huge Throng To See Louis-Schmeling Fight Tonight New Yoik. June 22 (U.R) -Joe l.ouis, heavyweight champion of the world, and Max Schmeling. German from the Rhine, command the attention of the civilized world tonight. Tb*<y will command it with one hour (or least of the most uncivilized of all sport—fighting with the fists. They will go at it in a gaunt ring, pitched in the center of Yankee Stadium and SO,OOO persons of ail creeds and colors. With skin tight gloves over ironhard knuckles they will bash one another until the referee raises Joes hand and cries "Winner and still champion of the world!" or Schmeling’s and bellows “Winner and new champion.” Not since the liarbed-wire bearded Dempsey and the sunning, cutting Tunney came to grips in Chi-, .ago has New York the United States, and the w’orld. been so excited by a prizefight. Today the ticket sale had crept close to the $1,000,000 mark, and by night, when the first preliminary starts, the gate was almost certain to be the sixth million dollar one in history. Judged from a promoter’s angle the fight is a "natural” —has everything. It is international, pitting a foreigner against a native, and the fact that the foreigner is a German, a Nazi, fighting in the world s largest Jewish city, has not hurt ■ ths sale of tickets. A boycott I against Schmeling, which was, launched months ago when the fight was announced, was forgotten in th erush for credentials to this meeting between the ring's most vicious hitters. It is a fight between a negro and a Nordic; a young man still short of his prime and an old man (as ring ages go) on the way down

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* ♦ Junior Basehall Schedule Os Week Is Listed Below Junior League Wednesday. 4p. m Rotary vs. Berne at Berne. Pleasant Mills vs. Legion at Decatur. Lions League Wednesday, 9 a. tn.—Cubs vs. Cards. 10 a. m — Indians vs. Pirates. Thursday, 9 a. m.—Giants vs. Yankees. 10 a. m - Cubs vs. Red Sox Friday. 9a. in. Pirates vs. Tigers. 10 a. m.—lndians vs. Cards. hill. It is a fight that provides the challenger. Schmeling. with the opportunity to become the first man in fistic history to regain the heavyweight title, and it is a fight (hat furnishes Louis the opportunity to gain revenge for the unmerciful beating that Schmeling handed him two years ago. Proof that it has roused this city to an abnormal point was offered in the announcement from police headquarters as to how the city would be patroled during fight hours. More than 3.000 extra policemen have been assigned to fight duty. In addition to the regular men on the beat. 1,000 uniI formed coppers will stroll the slivt ts of Harlem, to ouell, any racial outbreak. The Yankee stadium will be alive with police. More than 1,000 of them will swing their night sticks in and about the giant concrete pile. With the fight only a few hours away Louis still was a decided, favorite. He was held at 1 to 2 and astute layers of odds predicted j that he would l>e 1 to 3 or there-1 abouts before ring time. Joe’s! position of favorite was not even ' shaken yesterday when the Newi York State Athletic commission, I I in a surprise ruling, banned the I use of the long thumbed Chicago gloves. Joe wanted to use the; Chicago gloves, but the commis-; sioners said they were unfit for a title defense and okayed the New York glove, the one Schmeling likes. o STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. j ' New York 24 22 .607 i Cincinnati 21 22 .585 j Chicago ... . 34 25 .576 1 Pittsburgh 30 23 .566 1 l Boston ... 27 24 .5291 1 St. Louis 23 30 .434 I Brooklyn 23 34 .404 Philadelphia . . 14 36 .280 AMERICAN LEAGUE — W. L. Pct. Cleveland 34 20 .630 j Boston 33 23 .589 j New York 31 22 .585 Washington .31 29 54J Detroit 29 29 .500 Philadelphia . ... . 24 30 .444 Chicago 19 32 .373 St. Louis 18 34 .346 — YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Boston 3. St. Louis 1. Cincinnati 6. New York 2. Chicago 4, Philadelphia 3. Pittsburgh 9. Brooklyn 3. American League Cleveland 10. New York 5. Boston 8-4, Detroit 3-5. • Washington 7. Chicago 0. St. Louis 5. Philadelphia 2. o Trnde In A lined Town — Deentur

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HUBBELL FAILS IN EFFORT TO HALT RED RUSH Cincinnati Defeats Giants To Move Closer To League Lead New York. June 22 (U.R) The i major league pennant races had a definite “Ohio tinge" today with the Cleveland Indians commanding a two-gatne lead in the American league and the Cincinnati Reds surging upward from second place only a game and a half behind the New York Giants in the National. The Indians hurled buck the Yankees yesterday. 10-5. with Bob Feller triumphing over Red Ruffing before 18,060. The defeat dropped the Yanks to third place 2'u games behind the league-lead ers. One of the season’s crucial double-headers was scheduled for Cleveland’s municipal stadium tie day with a crowd of 60.000 expected to see the Indians, with Johnny Allen and Mel Harder on the mound, attempt to increase their lead, opposing the Yankees’ Lefty ' Gomez and Monte Pearson. Cincinnati climbed closer to the fading Giants by beating the league champions, 6-2, and frustrating Carl Hubbell in his third attempt to score his 200th major league triumph. Jim Weaver and Bucky Walters combined to pitch a fourhit game. The Chicago Cubs closed in on the Giants, too. by beating the i Phillies 4-3 and are only a game and a half off the pace although a few percentage points behind the Reds. Before a crowd of 25.000 Pittsburgh defeated Brooklyn in a night game, 9-3. The Pirates slugged Mungo, Tamulis, Butcher and . Frapkhouse for 14 hits including j homers by Todd and Young. Although walking nine men and j allowing seven hits Bob Feller i hung up his eighth victory in pitchi ing Cleveland to triumph over the : Yanks. Rollie Hemsley’s double | with the bases loaded was the big tribe punch. Pinky Higgins broke Tris Speaki er’s I''-year-old major league recI ord by making eight straight hits to run his consecutive hit record to 12 as the Boston Red Sox divided a double-header with Detroit. Higgins, who made four straight ■ hits against the White Sox Sunday. I collected three singles and a double ! in the first game, won by the Red , Sox. 8-3. and made four singles in ; the second game, won by the TigI “t-s. 5-4. Rudy York hit homers Nos. 18 and 19 to tie Jimmy Foxx I for the American League lead. Harry Kelley pitched Washington to a 7-0 victory over the White Sox. Oral Hildebrand pitched a 5-hit game as the St. Louis Browns beat the Athletics, 5-2. Yesterday’s hero—Pinky Higgins. Red Sox third baseman, who made i eight straight hits in a double- . header against Detroit to run his ! consecutive hitting streak to twelve in a row for a major league record. Today’s Sport Parade | By Henry McLemore New York, June 22. — XU.R) —The chances are that by this time toI morrow many readers will be seated at their desks thinking up the i meanest and most sarcastic things j 1 they can writs to me for having been so stupid as to pick Mac' 1 Schmeling to defeat Joe Louis. I As a guide to these letter writI ers I would like today to list a I few of my more outstanding weak-1 i nesses—vulnerable points at which | ' their shafts can be directed so as | to cause me the most pain and I I embarrassment. This isn’t exactly , ' a beau geste on my part because,! frankly, I have been depressed by the lack of venom in recent letI ters I have received. After I had picked Ross over I Armstrong my letters were not nearly so caustic and biting as those of my contemporaries. Now it’s a point of pride with a sportswriter that his critics are just as mean and ornery and merciless as the next fellow’s. There was a time when my critics were rated tops and were able to put more pure poison in a letter than a portfolio full of cobras. I long for the return of those days—those days when I wasn’t ashamed to show my letters to anyone. Hence today's admission of my weaknesses. The quickest way to offend me lis to mention my ears. The size : of them, I mean. I don’t mind being called a bum and a thief all day. but just let someone tell me I that my ears resemble those floating targets battleships shoot at,

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and I see red. And I don't like to I see “red,” because I owe liiin five i dollars. ! 1 Another thing that embarrasses i me is my inability to outgrow the childish habit of soaping the end of the bath tub and. with a loud ( shout, sliding into the water. For example, a letter that told me to grow up—that I was ruining the wall paper—would hurt me much more deeply than one that start- _ ed. “Dear idiot: Why don't you give up trying to pick a fight win- i ner? You make me sick.” I'm pretty touchy about not be- ! ing able to ride a bicycle without touching the handlebars, too. All my friends can perform this feat, and it makes me feel pretty silly to hang on for dear life while they ] whirl along, hands in their pockets, a whistle on their lips. You can also get under my skin 1 by reminding me that I never have 1 been able to resist buying those 1 apples on sticks which are all cov- 1 ered over with a cheap grade of ■ red mucilage. To buy one of those apples the first time is all right. 1 because such an act cau be ex- 1 plained on the grounds of not knowing what it was. But to buy a second one, and a third one, and a . fourth one. and—in my case—hundreds of them, is to admit to a ; very large bat in the belfry. The apple Snow White ate was positively tonic in comparison to those red apples. And that red glue on 'em! Working under the guise of sweetening, it soon transforms the eater into a helpless mass. He can’t signal for help because hsi hands are stick together. And he I can't shout because his mouth is stuck tight. Yet. such is my coni dition. that even as I write or the ( horrible things I crave one, yearn . for a bite into its brittle horrors. So, rally you mail-order critics! When Louis knocks out Schmeling. and you sit down to write me, ■ don't spart my feelings. I want | to be proud of you. (Copyright, 1938, by UP.) o Mies Recreation To Play Night Contest The Mies Recretation baseball baseball team will play a night game at St. Mary’s, Ohio, Thursday evening. All players are ask- j ed to get in touch with Manager , Mies by noon Thursday to make transportation arrangements. o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Averill, Indians.... 54 201 47 79 .393 , Travis, Senators.. GO 234 37 83 .355 Martin, Phillies . 50 20333 72 .355 Lombardi, Reds.... 42 155 21 55 .355 Trosky, Indians . . 52 189 44 Gi .354 I i o I. U. To Discuss Basketball Coach I Bloomington, Ind., June 22. —(U.R) | —Appointment of a new basket- , ball coach at Indiana university to succeed Everest Dean, who resigned recently, will be discussed tonight at a meeting of the athletic board, Z. G. Clevenger, athletic director, announced today. Those reported most likely to be chosen for the position are Branch McCracken, Ball State college hardwood coach, or an unnamed former I. U. star who worked under Dean. Paul Harrell, freshman foot-

ball coach and assistant to Dean in baseball, appeared to be the choice for the varsity baseball mentor’s job. SWIM SCHEDULE CHANGE LISTED Schedule At Municipal Swimming Pool Is Revised Today A revision in the schedule of the municipal swimming pool at Water Works park was announced today by Marion Feasel. pool director. The pool will lie opened to adults on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 8:30 until 9:30 o’clock, instead of on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 to 10 p. m. Mr. Feasel announced. This change is made in the ho>pes that more adults will use the pool, because of the earlier hour it will be available. The pool will also be open to adults tonight and tomorrow night from 8:30 until 9:30. Next week the new schedule will be started. Another change may effect mothers who have been desiroous of accompanying younger children! when they enter the pool. From 1 until 2 p. m., on girls’ days, Tuee- J days, Thursdays and Saturdays, mothers may accocmpany children too young to enter the pool alone. Mr. Feasel also announced that the pool will .be opened in the mornings to any organization that makes arrangements prior to the day the pool is desired. o WOMAN KILLER’S (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ness. illaley said she had told him of, her attempts to regain custody of I the children and that it led him to believe she was of unsound mind nt the time of the shooting. “Refusal of her mother-io-law to give her information about the children was the last straw to break, her,” Haley testified.

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■! . ■ - - C ASTING WINS FROM CTO TEAM Strickler’s Homer Gives Casting Lead; Cloverleaf Defeated I Strickler’s home run with two i men on base in the first inning sent Decatur Casting away to u flying start against the CYO team in an i Adams county softball league game Tuesday night ut the South Ward . diamond. Casting winning by u 5 3 score. Beacon Auto of Fort Wayne I trounced the Cloverleaf team itt an exhibition tilt preceding the league game. 16 to 5. The winners pounded out 12 hits and were aided by nine Cloverleaf errors The Decatur team scored all its runs in the . fifth inning on two walks, two singles and a home run by Kirby. The CYO team outhit the Cast ing in the league game, but B. Andrews kept th’ seven blows well scattered. H. Baker drove out a home run for the losers in the sixth. Score by Innings: R H E Beacon Auto. 400 921 o—l 612 2 Cloverleaf - 000 050 0 — 5 9 9 Pelz and Longsworth; Fleming and Hitchcock. Casting 300 020 0— 5 6 1 CYO 100 101 0— 3 7 0 B. Andrews and M. Ladd; A. Baker and Gage. HOME RUNS Foxx. Red Sox 19 York, Tigers 19 011. G lads"l6 Greenberg. Tigers 16 Goodman, Reds 16 o WEST, NORTH WARD (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to contribute both to the health 1 of the pupils and the economy in fuel bills. It has been estimated that it would cost between $40,000 and $50,000 apiece to replace the two obsolete buildings to be demolished. with structures meeting the requirements of present school standards, which the city is unable to do. as it has bonded itself to the limit provided by law in build- ! ing the new junior-senior high school. The enrollment in each of the three wards runs above 100 pupils each year. ————<o Two Women Killed In Traffic Wreck Lagrange, Ind., June 22 —(UP) — Two women were killed in an auto-mobile-truck collision at nearby Sturgis, Michigan early today. Mrs. Hobart Bronstetter, Sturgis, died instanly of a broken neck and Miss Wandella Schultz, 23 grange, died two hours after the accident at Sturgis memorial hospital of a skull fracture. o New Dresses just arrived from market. Navy and Black Sheers, Bembers and Linens. E. F. Gass Store.

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Two Wabash County School Leaders Die Wabash, Ind., June 22—(UP)—i Funeral arrangements were being completed today for two prominent I Wabash county high school prlncl-' pals who died yesterday. Henry Hoover, 63-year-o)d former Manchester high school principal, died at his home in Manchester. Howard Williams. 57. Chippewa township high school'principal, died I in the Wabash county hospital, following an extended illness. He was formerly euperintendejit of the; North Manchester high school and had served as principal of seven! county high schools. % Q „ . . Minor Fire Today At New Building 'A minor fire occurred at the new school building site this morning when straw and light cardboard, in which a load of bricks wer-’ packed ignited. Workmen extinguished the blaze with a nearby hoee, but not before a few bricks were scorched. No apparent extensive damage resulted.! A cigarette, thought to have been carelessly tossed by a passerby, was blamed for the fire. Hoosier Boys’ State Conducts Mock Trial Indianapolis, Ind., June 22 —(UP) I—Boys 1 —Boys attending the second annual boyn state reproduced a civil damage suit in a mock court on the State Fair Grounds here today as additional instruction in government. Boys filled the posts of attorneys

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