Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1938 — Page 6

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INDIANS NEAR LEADERSHIP RY BEATING YANKS I Cleveland Within BallGame As Harder Defeats Yankees New York, July 20 -(U.R) The' haughty Yankees had better come ■ down off their high horse and , quick. They've been saying all | season that the Cleveland Indians were a "fold-up cluh.” But they | haven’t been able to prove It. Instead, the evidence at hand in-1 dlcated that the Yanks are more; Inclined to fold than the Indians, j In 11 games between the pennant rivals the Indians have won seven; I the Yanks only four. And today the Indians can tumble the Yanks right out of first , place by sweeping both ends of a I double-header at Yankee stadium.; That seems fantastic but rememher how the White Sox did it earl-, ter this season. Manager Oscar Vitt has selected Johnny Allen, who has won 12 j straight games and would rather heat the Yanks than all the other six clubs combined, and Rookie Johnny 1 Humphries who has been red-hot lately. The Yanks' pitchers will be Lefty Gomez and Red Ruffing. With this array of pitch-1 ing talent on display and first i place at stake, some 70.000 fans I are expected to jam Yankee stadturn. After squandering the league 11 lead with their loose defensive'! tactics and ragged pitching, the j < Indians have settled down again < and apparently tire far from; 1 through. The way they beat the ] Yanks yesterday behind the steady < pitching of Mel Harder indicated | that Vitt has kept his club from getting panicky over losing the lead. With Harder pitching a sixhitter the -Indians conquered the Yanks, 5-3, and trimmed their lead ; to half a game. The defeat snapp- ( ed the Yanks' seven-game winning j streak and marked their first loss , in 17 straight games at home. ( Rick Ferrell's double in the 10th , inning scored Buddy Myer with j the tun by which Washington de- ; seated Detroit. 4-3. The Senators rapped Vernon Kennedy for 14 hits, .with George Case leading the attack with three singles. Pittsburgh held its half game lead in the National league by blanking the Phillies, 8-0. behind the five-hit pitching of Ed Brandt. Johnny Rizzo, with “4 for 4” and Arky Vaughan, with “3 tor 3" had perfect days •at bat. Two of Vaughan's hits were triples. The New York Giants put on a deiperate ninth inning rally to score three runs and nose out the St. Louis Cardinals. 7-6. Hank Leiber drove in five runs, hitting a homer in the eighth and then ‘ winning the game with a ninth in- I King single. 1 The Cincinnati Reds broke a

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Junior Baseball Schedule Os Week Is Listed Below ♦— — ♦! Lion* Leflyue ! Thnursday 9 a. m.—Giants vs. ; Yankees I 10 a. m. —Cubs. vs. Red Sox. | Friday 9a. m— Pirates vs. Tig-; ' era. in a. m.—lndians vs. Cards. Friday. 4 p. m.—Pleasant Mills vs. Berne at Berne. ! four-game losing streak by scoring! a third place one percentage point ‘ahead of the Cubs. Whitey Moore, making his first start of the season. held the Be-s to two hits in I the opener. He held tile Bees hit-1 . less until pinch-hitter Harl Maggert singled in the eighth. Hom-j ers by Lombardi, Craft anti Berger J featured the second game. In which Bucky Walters allowed only eight ’ 1 hits to win his fourth straight. Vito Tamulis stopped the Chicago I Cubs' seven-game winning spurt as! ■ Brooklyn downed them. 8-3. it was the Dodgers fifth straight vic- ( tory and their seventh in eight;' games against first division clubs. Cookie Lavagetto and Tamulis each drove in three Dodger runs. 4 ■ o-rday's In t o -Henk T.<-il>>-r < Giants' outfielder whose ninth inning single with the liases loaded , drove in two runs and brought < New York a victory. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. ’ 1 Pittsburgh 48 28 .632 I ‘ New York 50 31 .617 ■ Cincinnati . 44 35 .557 ! Chicago 45 36 .556 11 Brooklyn 37 43 .462, 1 Boston 34 41 .453 i ‘ St Louis 31 45 .408 . 1 Philadelphia 22 52 .297 ;• * AMERICAN LEAGUE ‘ W. L. Pct. ■ ’ New York 49 28 .636 ! Cleveland 48 28 .632 1 Boston 46 31 .597 | 1 Washington 43 40 .518 i 1 Chicago 33 38 .465 1 Detroit 38 44 .463 i ' Philadelphia 29 46 .387 1 St. Louis ... 23 54 .299 I I < YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Cincinnati 3-7. Boston 1-2. Pittsburgh 8. Philadelphia 0. Brooklyn 8, Chicago 3. New York 7. 'St. Louis 6. American League Cleveland 5, New York 3. Washington 4. Detroit 3 (10 in- 1 nings). Chicago at Boston, rain. St. Louis at Philadelphia, rain. LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. 1 Averill. Indians. 76 279 66 105 .376 I Lombardi. Reds 65 246 31 90 .366 1 Foxx Red Sox 77 292 73 106 .363 ! Travis. Senators . 79 312 52 109 .350 i 1 Medwick. Cards 72 289 47 101 .350 ! 0 ' HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 28 , • Foxx, Red Sox 26 Goodman, Reds . 24 York. Tigers 22 ' Ott, Giants 20 —o 500 Sheets B'/ 2 xll, 20-lb. White Automatic Mimeograph Bond $1.05. 500 Sheets B'/ : x 11, 16-lb. Special Mimeograph. White 35c. The Decatur Democrat Co. ts

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CLOSE GAMES PLAYED HERE Two Hard Fought Games Mark Softball Play Tuesday Night i Two closely fought games markfed the softball play under the j lights at the South Ward diamond Tuesday night, with the Decatur | Casting losing an exhibition tilt fund Pleasant Mills winning a reguliar league encounter. The G. E. club of Fort Wayne i outliil Decatur to score a 9-7 victory in the opening exhibition enI counter. The Casting's most productive inning was the third, when f five tallies crossed the plate. Pleasant Mills edged out a 4-3 verdict over Cloverleaf in the league game. The winners scored ; twice in the first inning, one In the fourth and one in the fifth. 1 Cloverleaf scored two in the fourth 1 and one in the sixth. R H E it',. E. Club 104) 321 020--9 13 3 | Casting 005 000 020-7 71 | Dent and Stelhorn; Andrews, ! Agler and M. Ladd. R H E| Pleasant Mills 200 110 o—4 6 2 Cloverleaf 000 201 0-3 4 5 Archer and V. Edgell; Wynn and Hitchcock. o * Today’s Sport Parade By’Henry McLemore ♦ ♦ New York. July 20. — (U.R> —lt was as hot as the inside of a baked poato in the Cleveland dressing room in Y’ankee stadium. Hot showers hissed and steamed. Hot players pulled off hot flannels. The cloying aroma of hot liniment hung heavy in the air. Everyone seemed to have but a single thought, and that was to get out of this tireless cooker of a room, deep in the stone and steel of Yankee stadium. Everyone, that is, except one man. He sat on the bench in front of his locker and to judge by the expression on his face he was as comfort-1 able and contented as though he I were seated in a moonlit, breeze- j swept garden. The small of the liniment seemed as sweet to his nostrils as though it were attar or rose. The slap of the tow-els on tired wet bodies might have been soft, sweet music drifting ■ across a lake. The man was Oscar Vitt. manag-1 er of the Cleveland Indians. His j team has just gone in off rhe field after licking the Yankees in the, first game of a series that may i come close to deciding the Amer- , lean league race. The victory lifted the Indians to within half a game of the leading Yankees, and Vitt wore a smile so big all it needed was a couple of cane seats to pass for a canoe in any sporting goods window. “Just like I've been saying all along, just like I've been saying all along.’ he said as he thumped my third and fifth vertebrae out of place. “Yessir, those Yankees can be licked by a team that has courage and brains. If you go out there afraid of ’em they'll knock your head off. If you go out there and feed 'em nothing but fast balls they'll butcher you. But if you'll just go out there and look ’em square in the eye, and then play smart, you can win. Boy, was that a good one to take today." Knowing that one game was no better than another in the percentage table. I inquired as to why he was so pleased. “If you had been managing this club for the past month you'd know." he sighed. "Do you know that this is the first easy game this 'club has played in a month? Ever since June 17 we’ve had nothing : but those soul tearers that were won and lost in the eighth and ninth innings. "I’m telling you we lost some that were so tough to lose that I was afraid to go to my hotel room ; alone. Honest, I was afraid I

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- would jump out the window." It -would have been a very un- | fortunate loss for Cleveland had i Vitt leaped in one of those moments of despair, because he has done a magnificent job of managing the Indians, with practically the same linoup. were in fifth place, 10 games behind their preslent pace. The morale of the team, under the managership of Steve | O'Neill, was lower than a mole on I a mole's chin. Cliques abounded. | and there was little or no team- ; work. The work of Bob Feller. ; the ace of the team, was being ■ impaired by the fact that he was not worked in his regular turn but was handled like a freak, and shown only on special occasions when his appearance meant extra money in the till. O’Neill was manager in name only, the real boss being that gentleman with the musical comedy name, Cy Slapnicka, Cleveland business manager. Brother Vitt has straightened out this mess. The team is hustling. The morale is high. Feller is pitching for the good of the team and not the teasury. And

Dizzy Dean Stages Comeback ■ % 5,.& c &^Wl>xSO : Krw wWSE whmhhbk -/Z'*- <T/ ' / ' -1O tz *O| <w '■ :w> ; I * <b " 1 \x ' \ X. A V -W~ * rJ&Fi?- '\ '' X J; &M ’-<■'}.'■> ' ■ ’Wfll ™ 'W’- " S&'iSLi V s-** ■ Si, 4' O*U »WFw . "IS||W" S'’ , "A-.: *S£ ZIKE// ■ ': . , '■' ' "' ■ |„ T •-■?%Z,TW‘MTO Dean on the mound — Pitching a four-hit victory against the Boston Bees, Dizzy Dean, star hurler, proved he is worth the $185,000 the Chicago Cubs paid for him and silenced reports that his sore arm had ended his career. . Here he is on the mound as he staged his comeback.

i Vitt is the boss. Johnny Allen, the man who hates the Yankees, will pitch the first . game of the double-header the Indians play with the Yanks today and he is liable to win. as he is the best pitcher in baseball. If! he does the Indians will be on top, ' and this time don't be surprised if! they stay there. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) o Joe Savoldi Wins Wrestling Match Indianapolis, July 10. —,(U.R> —Joe Savoldi, of Harbert, Mich., former Notre Dame univrsity football star, ; defeated Jaun Humberto of Mexico ! City, in straight falls in a heavy-! weight wrestling match here last night before 2,800 spectators. Humerto was disqualified after' 36 minutes in the first fall because ■ of illegal tactics. In another' match, Frank Sexton, Akron, O„ defeated Chris Zaharis, Pueblo, Colo. Louis Thesz, St. Louis, Mo., former claimant of the heavyweight title. Mis been signed for next week's card.

FOREST FIRES RAGE IN west More Than en Battling Disastrous Fires In \Nest snn Fn, 7X ?i2 4Noo u Sm: Xt Sesin CallforH or..*.n and Wa.hington, i iKhtuing low humidity »>>d high iSds ihreatened national for-M valuabb- privately owned tintbit I lands, and a score of towns. The Washington forest fire assoI elation reported that five large ■fires in that state were of Incen d ' a y survey showed a dozen large fires raging out of c° nt J o ' Among these was the Smith Be fire in Oregon, which covered approximately 6,000 acres. Men engaged in fighting it faced extrem peril, as the flames were driven ;by a brisk northeast wind and ! much of the fire was in log falls land areas of thick undergrowth. The town of Scottsburg was ; threatened. Spot fires in Oregon broke out I a mile ahead of the main blaze. i at times surrounding the fighteis., j A fire in Douglas county destroyed two residences and a church ami ignited a score of roofs In Sutherlin. Firemen succeeded in bringing the blaze under control. Two sawmills were destroyed with an estimated loss of $200,000. ! One man was arrested at Klamath Falls and questioned in regard to fires in the Chiloquin Lumber com- ; pany holdings. Heavy palls of smoke hung over I most of the Oregon timber areas, making it difficult for lookouts to I locate new blazes. A large fire along the Chetco river in the Siskiyou national forest broke out of control unexpectedly. Crews were hampered by a 45-mile an hour wind. More than 300 forest fires burned in eight national forests in California. One of the largest, at Red Gap Prairie north of Eureka, was out of control. One hundred volunteers and 500 CCC enrollees fought to cut it off before it reached the I dense Klamath forest. Almost 200 fires already had broken out in the Klamath forest, most of them Started by lightning. Three fires caused heavy damage to industrial plants within a 10-mile radius of Ukiah. More than $40,000 damage was done to fruit drying yards. WAVNEPLANS HORSE RACES Annual Harness Races To Open At Fort Wayne Friday Night Fort Wayne, Ind., July 20. —Fort Wayne's annual harness horse racing meet, to be staged with first annual Allen county fair at the Fort Wayne Speedway, July 25 to 30, was announced today by Jay Gage, racing secretary of the meet. The horse racing will open Friday night and Saturday night, July 22 and 23, post time 8:30 CDST. under the flood lights. The meet will be resumed the following

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