Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1938 — Page 6

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PIRATE RALLY BEATS CUBS IN NINTH INNING Pittsburgh Within Game And Half Os Leading Giants New York. July 12— (UP)-ThaM counless fans throughout the country who are rooting for "somebody, anybody,” to beat out the two New York Clubs In the pennant races had plenty of reason today to rise up and shout. While the Cleveland Indians temporarily had the “Yankee Menace” under control in the American League, a double threat appeared to oust the Giants from their National league lead. On the even of the Giants departure for their most critical road trip of the year, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati gained additional ground on New York. It was only half a game each, but the way the Pirates and Reds won was highly significant. They won, like they meant business. The Pirates twice came from behind to ( down the Chicago Cubs, 5-8, and rewmmmmmmmmmmwmammm

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♦ — ♦ Junior Baseball Schedule Os Week Is Listed Below 4 — 4 Junior League I July 13, 4 p.m.—Rotary vs. Berne J at Decatur. j July 14. ap. m.—Pleasant Mills { vs. Legion at Decatur, a Lions League July 13. 9 a. m. — Red Sox vs. Pirates. 10 a. m.—Tigers vs. Cards. July 14, 9 a. m. — Indians vs. Cubs. .j 10 a. m.—Giants vs. Pirates, j July 15. 9 a. m. — Yankees vs. Cards. 10 a. m — Red Sox vs. Tigers. . duced the Giants' lead to a game | and a half. It was the Pirates’ ' iwelfth straight triumph, longest j winning streak of the major league , 1 season. [ I Cincinnati lashed out with an : 1 eight-run rally in the first inning . to conquer the St. Louis Cardinals, . ! 9-5, for their fourth straight victory. .; This current Cincinnati winning j streak, indicates that Bill MoKechnie's club has the "Moxie" to ! stand up and slug In a tough 'pennI ant scrap. One of the big reasons for the : Reds’ recent nosedive was the absence of shortstop Billy Myers, with myers nursing an injured leg the Reds' crack defence went to pieces. But with Myers’ return the Reds righted themselves quickly. In addition they wnow have infielder Woody English, one-time Cub, as a utility man, having landed him from Brooklyn on waivers. Pittsburgh’s sensational epurt is| one of the greatest drives ever| made by the Pirates in mid-season. j Sometimes called a "sight-seeing club” the Pirates are giving all the imitations of a band of ruffians out for blood. in yesterday’s game the Pirates went into the ninth trailing 3-2 and staved a three-run rally off hard luck Larry French. With the bases loaded relief pitcher Jimm Tobin singled td drive in two runs after the Pirates had tied the score. Then Mace Brown stopped the Cubs in tiie ninth, causing piach-hitter Tony Lazzeri to hit into a double play to end the game. The eds batted around in the first inning, scoring eight runs off Henshaw and Harrell. 'Billy Myers and Lonnie Frey hit homers during the 1 ! big rally, and Lew Riggs hit onej in the third. The Reds collected 17 1 hits. Peaches Davis, coasting easily < behind a long lead, gave up 12 hits. No other games were played. Yesterday's Hero — Jim Tobin, Pittsburgh’s relief pitcher who singled with the bases loaded in the ninth to lead the Pirates tc their 12th eraight vieory. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. 1 New York 47 26 .644 Pittsburgh 43 25 .632 Cincinnati 39 31 .557 Chicago 38 34 .528 1 Boston 32 34 .485 St. Louis I 29 41 .414 Brooklyn 30 42 .417 Philadelphia 21 47 .309 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Cleveland 44 25 .638 New York 42 27 .609 Boston 41 29 .586 Washington 39 37 .513 Detroit 37 38 .483 Chicago 29 36 .446 Philadelphia ~. 27 42 .391 St. Louis ...i 23 44 .343 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 5, Chicago 3. Cincinnati 9, St. Louis 5. New York at Brooklyn, rain. Only games scheduled. American League No games scheduled. (loams) NO ENDORSERS CONFIDENTIAL—NO CO-MAKERS There’s no need to feel any embarrassment about asking us for a loan. Our service to the public is to help them plan and arrange their money problems. A cash loan may help you. Consolidate your debts with us — have only one place to pay . Call at office, write or phone us for ' full details. You are under no obligation if you do not take a loan. Cmtl, write or phone , LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCORPORATED Rooms I and 2 Schafer Building Decatur, Indiana Phone 2-3-7 Every receive* our prompt

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DOUBLE HEADER TAKEN BY BERNE •Borne Softball Team 'I Wins Two Games Here Monday Night The Berne softball team scored two victories Monday night at the South Ward diamond, defeating the , Kroger team of Fort Wayne In an exhibition game and Pleasant Mills , In a regular county league contest. Berne bunched Its hits effectively In the exhibition opener to defeat the Fort Wayne team, 6-3. Beer held the Kroger team to six 'hits. Berne scored eight runs In the third Inning to take a commanding leud over Pleasant Mills In the league game, with Berne holding a final lead of 14-8. The winners drove out 11 hits, and were aided by nine Pleasant Mills errors. R II E Kroger - 110 100 0— 3 6 5 Berne 202 101 x— 6 10 2 Haller and Ummell; Beer and W. Hilty. Berne 008 012 3—14 11 5 PI. Mills 010 023 2— 8 10 9 Huser and W. Hilty, Krick; Archer and Edgell. DIZZY IS ALL READY TO HURL — Dizzy Doan May Start Pitching For Cubs Within A Week Chicago, July 12. — (U.R> — Dizzy Dean, who has been idle the better part of two months with a | mysterious “kink” In his right arm, may start pitching again for j the skidding Chicago Cubs in a j week or 10 days, manager Charlie j Grimm indicated today. Diz started toughening up his $250,000 arm Immediately after owner Phil K. Wrigley and Grimm learned from a hpsyician that pitching will make Dean's arm no sorer and will do no further damage. He peppered the ball to outfielder Augie Galan during a short workout yesterday and, without bearing down, appeared to have as much stuff as he had shown in the four games he pitched this season before he was sidelined May 4. “If Dean shows he can't pitch,” Wrigley said, “then we may have to put his arm in a cast.” Iliz himself was convinced he ean win more games for the Cubs. He won three of the four games he pitched at the start of the season. o Today’s Sport Parade I By Henry McLemore ♦ Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa., July 12. — KU.R> —Harry Cooper, a hay fever victim, is playing in the national P. G. A. championship here with a doctor in constant attendance. Helen Jacobs is limping about with the aid of a cane. Max Schmeling is a patient in a Berlin infirmary. Dizzy Dean's arm is dead. Paul Dean and Schoolboy Rowe are convalescing in the Texan league. Archie Sam Romani has growing , i pains. Don Hume, mightiest of stroke cars, has the all round aches on , alternate Tuesdays. And Seabiscuit, War Admiral, Lawrin and Dauber —our four top horses —all have the miseries. , All of which prompts me to ask: Whither are we drifting in sports? What is the future of athletics if our athletes, supposedly the hardiest breed of all, continue to crack and break and bend at the rate they have in the past year? My guess is that unless something is done to toughen our sports competitors the arenas of the future — the Madison Square Gardens, the Soldiers fields, the Polo grounds, the Belmont parks, the Olympic stadia, the Wimbledons — will be gigantic hospitals. Surgeons will replace promoters. Internes will take over the duties of graduate managers. Referees and judges will be replaced by diagnosticians and dieticians. Sanitariums will be the favorite training sites for fighters and ball clubs will do their spring exercises hi the back yard of the brothers Mayo. Os course, the shift of locale from the arenas of today to the hospital wards will bring about a decided change in the types of competition. Instead of the 16pound shot fielcT men will toss the 16-pound hot water bottle. The big dash event will be the wheel chair race from ward A to the Xray room with a free set of plates going to the winner and a set of hand carved crutches to the run-ner-up. Spectators will have to wear gowns and masks to keep from contaimlnating the fragile athletes. Boxing will undergo a great change. Jack Blackburn will be

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removed from Joe Louis' corner in favor of John Hopkins M. £>. The round by round story will be dictated by Dr. Dafoe and published on a fever chart. Bookmakers will set up their pitch in clinics and shift their odds to suit the latest bedside bulletins. Johnson and Johnson will replace Everlast as the big boxing goods manufacturer. Golf clubs will undergo a great change. A big seller will be a mashie that can readily be converted into a stomach pump or a stethoscope with one twist of the wrist, even an injured wrist. The national open winner will get a free trip to Baden-Baden for the baths instead of a cup and a check. Horses will get one pound off for each fevered fetlck and when ridden by mere medical students will get the apprentice allowance. Charley Kurtsiuger, Eddie Arcaro and Basil James will be set down for ten days at the fashionable ! Polyclinic meeting for carrying I dull scalpels and failing to attain a passing grade in anatomy. (Copyright 1938 by DP.) o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GABRH Pet. Averill, Indians. .. 69 257 58 97 .377 Lombardi. Reds.... 57 218 27 80 .367 Berger, Reds 41 142 33 51 .359 Travis, Senators . 77 306 51 109 .356 Foxx, Red Sox 70 263 64 93 .354 rO HOME RUNS Greenberg, Tigers 26 Foxx, Red Sox 23 York, Tigers 22 Goodman, Reds 21 Ott, Giants 19 o .Joe Dienhart To Coach At St. Joe Indianapolis, Ind., July 12—(UP) —Joe Dienhart, 34-year-old basketball and football coach at Cathedral high school here since 1928, has been named to succeed Ray de cock as coach at St. Joseph’s College, collegeville, nd., it was announced today. Dienhart, former Notre Dame and Butler University Athlete i ae won six state Catholic championship basketball tournaments since assuming coaching duties at Cathedral. He will coach football, basketball and track at St. Joseph’s. Maxie Baer Ready To Fignt Galento Reno, Nev., July 12 —(UP)—Maxie Baer, the former heavyweight ooxing champion, said today that he was tired of Tony Galento calling him a play-boy, and that he was leady at any time to meet the bartending boxer in a ’’warm-up bout.” Baer said that if Joe Louis refused to fight him in September, he would like especially to meet Galento and prove that he was merely, a stepping stone in his attempt to make a comeback in the fighting game. “That Galento ought to get himself a reputation before he starts i popping off about me,” Baer said. “At least I'm the former champion -of the world and who is he? Nobody. i And I don’t have to drink two bat- %

i ' rels of beer and smoke half a dozen } cigars to polish off that Palooka.” | REDS TO MEET EASTERN FOES Cincinnati To Open Home Stand Against East Wednesday Cincinnati, O.; July 12 —Battling their way up through the torrid zones of the boiling National Lea- ; gue race, the Cincinnati Reds will return to Crosley Field Wednesday to meet their arch enemy, the New York Giants, in a three game series, with the opening contest being ladies’ day. The Reds have won eight ! of eleven games played with the! ' Giants so far this season. Following on the heels of the Giants are the Brooklyn Dcdgers, . i who are slated to meet the Reds in | a quartet of tussels in three days j starting Saturday, with a doubleJ header Sunday. This date lias been ! designed ae Dayton Day and will honor the staunch rooters of Dayton. Ohio, who for years have been ’ i noting for the Red Raiders. The series with the Dodgers will also offer the fans their first opportunity to see Babe Ruth, recentl) made a Dodger coach. Ruth has not ap- | neared at Crosley Field since 1935 when he closed his career as an active player with the Boston Bees, Casey Stengel’s Bees will follow the Dodgers to Cincinnati and will meet the Reds in three contests. To open the series will be a ladies’ day double-header on Tuesday, July 19, and it w'ill close with the fourth night game of the season Wednesday, July 20. Bringing to a close the invasion of the Eastern herd will be the Phil-! adelphia Phillies. After an off-day following the night game, the Reds will meet the Phils in a twin bill on - Friday, July 22, a single game • Saturday, July 23, and a doubleheader Sunday, July 24. On this home stand the Reds will appear in fifteen games against; their Eastern foes, a stretch of con- ; tests that will do much to Indicate i where the Reds will finish in the 1 National League race. | o Junior Baseball Game Postponed I 1 The Rotary-Beme junior league ■ game, scheduled to be played at : Worthman Field Wednesday aftert noon, has been indefinitely post- - polled. The Legion and Pleasant l i Mills teams will meet at Worth- • man Field Thursday afternoon at j ’ 4 o’clock Berghoffs Play Casting Tonight j ’ i One of the most formidable soft- ’ ( ball teams to appear on the local | list of exhibition games will play here tonight when the Berghoffs 3 from Fort Wayne meet the Decatur • Casting at the softball diamond. i The Berghoffs have an imposing . record for the season, emerging • victorious in 20 of 22 games. The

MAKE ATTEMPT TO FIX WAGES Labor Department ° Seek To Fix Basic Wages In Steel Companies Washington, July 12 — <U.R> —An , attempt of the labor department to ; fix basic wages of steel companies working under government contract was expected today to result in a move to bolster the industry s wage structure agalmrt possible "u Metcalfe Walling, adminlsj trator of the department's public | contracts division, in announcing public hearings on the Issue Ju > 25 said that they would ' determine the prevailing minimum wages which must be paid by employes having contracts with the federal government in excess of $200,000. He acted under the authority of ! the Walsh-llealy public contracts ! act. . i This determination, he saiu. I “must be made on the basis of the prevailing minimum wages of the industry.” It was this section of his announcement that led to the belief that the hearing may be an j i administration move to frestall pay slashes reported under coni sideration in the industry after recent price reductions. The prevailing minimum wage I for major steel producers now is, 62' 2 cents per hour for unskilled 1 labor. If the public contracts board | board adopts this wage. Walling; said that steel companies paying less would be ineligible for govi ernment business. Meanwhile, It was learned that j government officials are watching : closely the effect of the recent re-' duction of steel prices, consider- ; Ing it a major test of their often stated theory that "big business I had priced Itself into a depression. The justice department has had i under way for several weeks a j preliminary investigation of the steel industry and steel prices. ' For more than a year it has been gathering statistics on alleged price-fixing and uniform bidding on government contracts. It was indicated by justice ofli | cials that the Inquiry will be withheld pending study of the price reduction and there was some suggestion that unless the new price policy was followed up by a wage ' reduction the proposed investigaTion may be called off. To the hearings on steel wages. ! Walling invited the heads of the 'lO major steel companies and ■ chairman Philip Murray of the ClO's steel workers organizing committee. Serving as an advisory panel of labor and management, they will meet informally : here July 20 to discuss preliminary matters. o Movie “The River” To Be Shown Here v The Adams county fish and game conservation league held the regular monthly meeting Monday evening at the Moose home, with a good attendance reported. The league announces that it has secured a new moving picture, "The River,” produced by the farm security administration, which will be shown at the Madison theater Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The picture tells the story of the Mis--1 sissippi river. o HUGHES KEEPS (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE) I and motion picture producer, had left Le Bourget airdrome, Paris, with his four companions at 6:24 p. m. CST Monday in their silver I I monoplane “New York World's Fair of 1939.” Flying over central and eastern Europe high above thick cloud banks in constant danger if they flew too low of permitting ice to form on the plane, the aviators; made the Paris-Moscow stage, second of their flight, in seven hours ■ 51 minutes. As they arrived they were 32 | hours and 55 minutes out of Floyd Bennett airport, which they left at I 5:20 p. m. CST Sunday. They had halved, in their flight | from New York to Paris, the time made by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh j in his solo flight in 1927; when ] they reached Moscow they were 17 ! hours 15 minutes ahead of the time Post made in 1933, flying byway of Berlin. Leaving as quickly as they did, | Hughes and his companions gained another 36 minutes on Post, who j remained here two hours and 52 minutes, and they were now 17 hours 51 minutes ahead of the Post record. They would have gained another 10 minutes but that one of the sil-! ver monoplane’s two motors did not " ■■■■■" ■■■■ — ■■ ■ —— — Berghoffs will use Vincent Chrostek on the mound. Chrostek has! a record of 12 wins against a single loss. ,| The game is scheduled for 7 i o'clock, opening the evening’s! card. A good crowd is expected to turn out for the game.

.function well when they U>M round the central airport for .heir 2,ff -M the two motor, roarl/ln perfect key after the brief de- ! lay and the flier* made an excellent take-off. , _ A roar of cheers went up from j ,t.e pig crowd here as Hughes, a s!s 000,000 capitalist In a soclullst ! und. started on a flight across l vast Russia to Alaska and the I United States. Hughes had planned at first to | fly direct to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. !Jr a third stage of 2,281 miles. I Rut aa |,e took off he sajd_hewould_

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make for Omsk, miles this side of i, Siberian railroad Hughe*. Richard Stodd.* engineer, Thomas I. Tl ,„, ' Harry P McLean C 0,,,,,, ' 0 ’ tors, und Edward |, unJ mechanic, had 9.:in4 ra n„ Floyd Bennett airport i 0 I* the round the world nigh* l better Post's record The weather was l>rllll aw sliver monoplane arrlvJ " great central airport t|,j, * Dance Wednesday