Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1938 — Page 8

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PLAN TOURNEYS FOR DECATUR'S TENNIS PLAYERS City-Wide Tournaments Will Be Held In Six Different Divisions Plans for a citywide tennis tournament, sponsored jointly by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Decatur Tennis club, were announced today by George Laurent, recreation supervlsoi, who will act as tournament manager. Tourneys are being planned in several divisions. Men's singles and doubles will be played, women's singles, mixed doubles, boys' singles and junior singles. Play In the men s singles and doubles will be open to any man or hoy in the city. All matches will be two out of three sets until the semi finals and finals, which will be three out of five. The boys' division will be open ‘ to boys 14 and under, with all' matches two out of three sets. | Players 18 and under will be eligible for the junior division, with the same mles provided as in the boys' division. All matches in the women’s singles (open age). will he two out of three sets. Mixed double stopen age), finals will be two of three sets. All entries must be made by Monday. August 8, and the tournament will open Wedensday, August 10. The entry fee will be 10 cents

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laud entries may be given to • George Laurent, Hud Townsend, I Harold Hoffman or Paul Handier. Matches Sunday Both teams of the Decatur TenInis club will see action Sunday. | Kokomo will play on the courts nt • the South Ward field Sunday afterI noon In a Second district league i match. Members of the Decatur , team will be Handier, Cowan. JI Hoffman and Sheets. Decatur will play at North Man lehester in a northeastern Indiana I league match. Decatur players I will be R. Affolder, V. Affolder, t Eenimore, Macklin, Cline and I r I Strickler. ■i STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE II 11 W. L. Pct. Pittsburgh 55 31 .640 I New York 81 3.8 .578 | Chicago 50 38 .568 Cincinnati 49 40 .551 Brooklyn 41 47 .468 Boston 38 46 .452 St. Louis 37 49 .430 Philadelphia 20 59 .306 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 53 30 .639 Cleveland 51 30 .630 Boston 50 33 .602 1 Washington • 46 45 .505 Detroit 43 46 .483 Chicago .... 35 41 .461 Philadelphia . 29 50 .367 St. Lbuis 26 58 .310 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League New York 2. St. Louis 1. Cincinnati 4. Boston 2. Pittsburgh 9. Philadelphia 2. Chicago at Brooklyn, to be played later date. American League St. Louis 4. New York 3. Boston 13-8. Chicabo 8-5 (first. ■ game 10 innings). Philadelphia at Cleveland, rain. Detroit 12. Washington 4. o HOME RUNS Greenberg, Tigers 33 FoXX. Red Sox 28 Goodman. Reds 26 York. Tigers 22 Ott. Giants . 22 o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Averill. Indians 81 294 68 107 .364 Travis. Senators 86 337 54 120.356 Foxx. Red Sox 83 312 78 111.356 ‘Lombardi, Reds 74 275 34 98 .356 Medwick. Cards 82 329 55 114.347

HUBBELL HALTS LOSING STREAK ■ Carl Hubbell Pitches 2-1 ) Victory To End Losing String Chicago, July 29—<U.P> hat's | why they call him the meal ticket. | ■ After everybody else hud tried and ‘ ■ fulled, Carl Hubbell stepped out ■ on the mourn! and with his crooked j . left arm pitched the New York ‘ I Giants to a 21 triumph over the' Ist. Louis Cardinals, ending a fivegame losing streak. Hubbell, only Giant pitcher to go | the route in 18 days, scored his ‘ twelfth victory of the season by ' I holding the Cards to 7 scattered hits. He outpilched Roy Henshaw, the Card s chunky little southpaw, I who allowed only six hits. Mel | Ott his his twenty-second homer of the season. Pittsburgh maintained a five game lead by defeating the Phillies ‘ 9-2. The Pirates staged a seven-, run rally in the seventh inning to clinch the game. Johnny Rizzo and Arky Vaughan led the Pirate s attack with two hits each. Lonnie Frey's double with the bases loaded was the vital hit in Cincinnati's 4-2 triumph over the Boston Bees. Peaches Davis outpilched Bobby Ries to score his sixth victory. The New York Yankees had half I a game slashed off their American 1 league lead when the St. Louis Browns beat the pace setters. 4-3. ' The loss shaved the Yank's lead. to one game. All three Yankee runs were' homers—Joe DiMaggio hitting No. 18, Lou Gehrig getting No. 17. and ! George Selkirk clouting No. 4. Oral Hildebrand held the Yankees to'. seven hits, winning the decision ‘ over Bump Hadley, who allowed nine. The Boston Red Sox scored a double win over the Chicago White Sox. 13-8 In 10 innings, and 8-5. ■ The Red Sox combed three White Sox pitchers for 17 hits, including homers by Jimmy Foxx and Ben Chapman. Relief Pitcher Jim Bagby's single drove in what proved to be the winning run in the opener. In the second game, Roger Cramer led the Red Sox attack with two singles and a triple, driving in three runs. The Detroit Tigers triumphed over Washington. 12-4 for their fifth straight victory. George Gill kept the Senator's 11 hits well scattered and didn't yield a run until the eighth inning. Birdie Tebbetts hit two doubles and Rogell and Greenberg hit one each in the Tiger’s 10-hit attack. Yesterday's hero —Carl Hubbell, Giant southpaw who held the Cardinals to 7 hits, and scored his twelfth triumph of the year. o —. Today’s Sport Parade I By Henry McLemore New York, July 29. — (U.R> —It rained a steady downpour here in New York last week and I, for one, see a connection between the weeping heavens and the rather amazing match of edicts hatched by the New York state boxing commission on Wednesday. The rain kept the members of the commission indoors and having nothing better to do they undoubtedly sat down and thought. Time has proved that when the boxing commissioners think the results are more than apt to be alarming. They were this time. With one sweep of the pen the honorable Messrs. I pronounced Messers) took John Henry Lewis' light-heavyweight title away from him and declared the championship vacant in this state; told Al Hostak his victory over middleweight champion Freddie Steele didn't mean a thing to them and that he was not the champion in their eyes, and threw the flyweight division into a fine tangle by ordering an elimination tournament to decide a champion. You know, the more rulings the commissioners give off. the more one realizes that they were born too late. They should have lived in the feudal days, when every nobleman had his castle and his jesters. What a following the commissioners would have had in the role of royal entertainers. In my mind’s eye I can see a nobleman, worn by a strenuous day of hunting, perhaps, or drooping in spirit a mighty meal in the banquet hall, calling out: “Send in the commissioners three: I want a laugh." , And in they come —the good general, the good Mr. Wear, and the rugged Mr. Brown, resplendent in cap and bells —to make the castle walls ring with laughter with their merry rulings. I think the feudal lords would have been amused by the commission's recent rulings just as we of today are. Take the business of ' taking the light-heavyweight crown I away from Lewis, for example. Everybody knows that champions are crowned and dethroned right out in the ring and not in a maI hogany-smelling office in a lower II New York skyscraper. Lewis will

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be champion of the 175-pounder until he is beaten. The commission can place crown on the heads of fighters unti ithey wear themselves out, but the public won t take those crowns any more serious! ythan if the commission were bestowing Panama hats. Two and two make four, but the refusal to recognize Al Hostak as the middleweight champion doesn't make anything, particularly not sense. When a fellow knocks the champion kicking in the first round of a title bout it should make him the new ruler. What does the commission want Hostak to doshoot Steele with shotgun? No. they want him to meet Apostoli and Corbett, a brace of challengers. In other words. Hostak can't win the title by beating the champion but must win it l>y licking a couple of pretenders. I may be old-fashioned, but I always thought that when you beat the head man you became head man yourself. But enough of this. I positively refuse to allow the boxing commission to get me excited. 11l say this, though, if that Edgar Bergen ever needs a new Char- oh, skip it. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) o Trnde In 4 (.nod Town — T* rent lit

Stars of Eastern Tennis c 2__ te “W & Ufe-.-fOI : ; s-.< |L i& ot ywßi r. iri t iwu il I) u lai. B, >1 Mi . V W> « -W ■* ’■> MBS? jßr-* ’ ■’’T 9B ~ V '•’’ fi I K 1 g • % al '■■■•' wSrfry f SbkßW IStl i I * ■ fi I x I B hw LZ J Alice Marble and Bobby Riggs Two of the outstanding tennis stars in the U. S. today, Alice Marble of California and Bobby Riggs of Chicago, pose for a picture at Sea j Bright, N. J., where they defend titles they won last year. Riggs , recently won the Longwood Bowl tourney.

Escaped Woman Is Recaptured Linton. Ind.. July 29—(U.R) —Authorities were holding Mie. Anita Kennedy, 16. today who said she was induced to escape from the girl's school at Clermont Monday by Bernard Lee Johnson. Indianapolis, who is being held with her. Officers of the school said she fvould be returned immediately. Mrs. Kennedy, sent to the school for “marriage without consent of parents" said another girl. Mary Natzley, Indianapolis, escaped with her. Huntington Approves Natural Gas Change Huntington. Ind.. July 29 —(UP) —Plans were being made here today for a switch from artificial to natural gas following action by the city council which approved the change in a five to two vote last Eight. It was planned to serve Huntington. Roanoke, Columbia City and South Whitley, ail having approved the change, with natural gas from Fort Wayne. 500 Sheets B'/ 2 xil Yellow Democrat Company. ts Second Sheets, 35c. Decatur

PLAN SECTIONAL SOFTBALL MEET Adams County Teams To Compete Against Allen County i Fort Wayne. Ind.. July 29. The, 'eighth annual sectional softball tournament will be staged here I j August 7 io 17. inclusive, under the; auspices of the Amateur Softball ‘Association of America, it has been , announced by Gunnar Elliott, com-, ' missloner In this section. The meet will be staged at night undet | the floodlights at the municipal; I beach dlamod. All organized teams in Adam, and Allen counties which have ‘ played five or more games this I season are eligible to compete in the event. The entry fee is »L6O i fern the sanctioned teams and i $4.50 for nonsanctioned teams. Sanctioned teams are those which are members of the Amateur Soft ball Association of America. The . ■membership fee for this organiza ■ ition Is $3, and any. teams wishing to join should see Gunnar Elliott.; The entries must be in before j August 1. and they may be made at the Main Auto Supply company lor with Herman Russell at the ' municipal beach. A meeting will be held Monday ‘night, August 1. iH the Main Auto at 7:30 o'clock to draw the sehed- ‘ tile and to select officials for the games. The protest board, as selected by Gunnar Elliott, *s com ■ prised of Robert A. Reed, of The Journal-Gazette, Herman Russell I and Ben Tenney of the News-Sen-i tinel. No admission will be charged I for any of the games, and Paul I Thiele, superintendent of public I utilities, has announced that add!I tional bleachers will be erected to j take care of the large number of fans which will turn out for the 1 contests.

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TREMOR SHAKES NEW YORK CITY I No Serious Damage Reported From Earthquake This Morning New York. July 29- (U.f!) An earthquake shook this city of 8,- . at 1:44 A. M. CST today. A few hours later no serious damage had been reported, though the, I tremor was felt in all parts of the, city and In some of its suburbs. It > 'was particularly heqvy in Bronx and Queens Borougtw and West-. i Chester county where two distinct ; , tremors were felt. The seismograph at Fordham tin- ■ iversity recorded the shock at 3:44 ‘ \ M (EDT). Seismologist* were > 'checking the instrument to deter-, mine its intensity. Police and fire stations were I swamped with telephone calls from frightened resident* awakened from -.neir sleep by a rumbling, trembling earth. The first calls casne from the ! Bronx and Queens. Father Joseph Lynch, Fordham . seismologist, said that a sharp sur-

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