Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1938 — Page 6

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PIRATES BOOST LEAGUE MARGIN IN TWIN BILL Pirates A n d Yankees Picked As Favorites For World Series Chicago, Aug. I (U.R> Pacemakers who can win on the road usual ly blossom Into pennant winners In October That's why the major league situation today pointed to the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates as likely world series rivals two months hence. Tile Yanks continued their highly successful western junket yesterday while tile Pirates stepped up their eastern pace even faster by sweeping a double header from tile Boston Bees Whereas the Yanks and Pirates have proved their ability to win on the road, their two nearest rivals, the Indians and Giants, slumped in their last intersectional road excursions and failed , to live up to their form at home, j Pittsburgh, showing no signs of j cracking under the pressure of. leading the National league parade. Masted the Bees. 9-4 and 5-3. to in-

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I crease Its lead to games over I the (Hants. Al Todd, with 4 hits, Ued an P<-hit attack on Turner mid I Hutchinson to win the opener, i Arky Vaughan and Paul Waner. 1 I with a pair of hits each, paced tile i I Pirates' 10 lilt attack on the night- ' cap Cy Blanton and Joe Bowman ’ The N( w York Olanta turned ' loose a home run barrage on the ; Chicago Cubs to win, 8-3. Mel Olt hit No. 21 and Mancuso, BarI tell and Seeds also hit round tripI pers. Harry Humbert, witli relief from Dick Coffman, scored the vic- 1 ■I tory. Cincinnati moved into a third , place tie with the Cubs by trimming the Phillies. 6-3. in 10 Innings. Ival Goodman's 27th homer with a mate ’ion base featured the Beds' three run rally in tile tenth ' The St. Louis Cardinals nosed, I out Brooklyn. 3-2, In a 10-inning I night game. Pitcher Bill McGee s i ! double, a wild throw by Bill Pose-1 ' ■ del and Terry Moore's single ac-1 I counted for the winning tally. I Rookie Joe Gordon's 14th homer 1 1 climaxed a 3 run rally in the elev- ■ enth. giving the Yanks a 10-7 vic-1 'tory over Detroit and increasing' I New York's American league lead I to two games. The Boston Red Sox divided a I pair witli Cleveland, winning the ■ I opener, 4-3. and then dropping the j I nightcap to the Indians. 8-6 Clevej land fans gave Earl Averill. Atner- ,! lean league's leading batsman, a | car and lie hit a triple in the opener Hand a single in the second game., I With an 8-0 lead in the nightcap ; j the Indians almost .tossed the game i away before Bob Feller squelched | I a rally after six runs had scored. | The Philadelphia Athletics wal-1 loped the Chicago White Sox , twice. 14-2 and 13-5. Bob Johnson ( hit homers No. 19 and 20 In the first game. Wally Moses had aj perfect day. “4 for 4" in the opener and Earl Bracket did the same thing in the afterpiece, one of his .. four hits being a homer. The A's ' made 18 hits in the first game and , 16 in the second. Harland Clift's homer put the clincher on the St. Louis Browns' 5-3 victory over Washington. Buck ' Newsom let his ex-teammates down with six hits. Yesterday's hero — Joe Gordon. Yanks' recruit second baseman whose homer in the 11th with a| mate on base featured New York's 1 extra inning triumph over the Tigers. ■ o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GABR 11 Pct. 1 Fc.xx. Red Sox 89 335 81 120 .358 Lombardi. Reds 79 292 34 104 .356 1 Averill, Indians 87 313 71 111.355 Travis. Senators 91 353 62 125 .348 Berger. Reds .65 240 51 82 .342 • " ■ HOME RUNS 1 Greenberg, Tigers 37.1 Foxx. Red Sox 29 Goodman, Reds 27 I Ott, Giants ... 24 I York. Tigers 22 < o Expect Reenactment Os “Nuisance Taxes" Washington, Aug. 4 —(UP) —Act-, ing secretary of the treasury Roswell MaGill indicated today ths treasury will recommend reenactment of manufacturers’ excise taxes commonly known as “nuisance taxes'', which produce $450 000,000 annually. MaGill was asked about conflicting reporta that the taxes would be recommended. He replied: “Fhat would you think after looking at the budget?” The federal government is facing a 1939 deficit of more tiian $4.000,00'01,000 (B).

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' STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE 1 " W. L. Pct Pittsburgh 59 33 .641 I New York 55 40 57f Chicago 52 42 .55! i Cincinnati 62 42 .558 Biookiyn 11 Boston 42 49 .Mi 1 St. Louis 39 54 .4111 Philadelphia 29 62 .319 AMERICAN LEAGUE W, 1.. Pct. New York ... .... 58 31 .652 Cleveland 65 32 .632 I Boston 52 37 .584 Washington 48 48 .500 Detroit 47 48 .495 i Chicago 36 47 .434 Philadelphia .. 32 54 .372 St. Ijouis 29 60 .326 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 9-5, Boston 4-3. New York 8, Chicago 3. Cincinnati 6. Philadelphia 3 (10 innings). St. Louis 3. Brooklyn 2 (10 innings ). American League Boston 4-6. Cleveland 3-8. Philadelphia 14-13, Chicago 2 5. St. Louis 5. Washington 3. New York 10. Detroit 7 (11 innings). o 4 —• Today’s Sport Parade By" Henry McLemore + — ♦ New York, Aug. 4—(UP)— For George Hudson's sake I wish there were a Baker street in New York, and that on Paker street lived Sherlock Holmes, ready at any time, day or night, to jump in his trap and gallop off to solve a mystery Because George Hudson, tennis coach at the Berkeley tennis club of Oakland. California, and one of the finest teachers of the game, is confronted with a mystery. The mystery concerns what officials of the United States lawn tennis association told young Frankie Kovacs on a hot and sticky afternoon during the recent Seabright tournament. It must have been an ominous message, because it turned him dead against a man who had been his friend, his coach, and his adviser for more than five years. That friend, that coach, and that adviser, was George Hudson. He started teaching Kovacs when Frank was a gangling boy of 13. Finally Frank developed sufficient stroke equipment to be one of the most promising players in the country. When Frank decided to come east this year for a whirl on the big-time circuit, he asked Hudson to come with him; made Hudson pledge that he would accompany him every step of the way. Hudson, paying his own way, left the coast with Kovacs early in June. The two—pupil and coach—went to tournaments in Kansas City Chicago and Cincinnati. They roomed together, ate together, played together. Then they reached Seabright, a tournament important enough to bring out high U. S. I. T. A. officials on the lookout for Davis Cup material. Kovacs played magnificently. Came that afternoon when a photographer asked Kovacs and Hudson to pose for a picture. Out of 3 clear sky Kovacs refused Asked why, he answered ‘*l have my own reasons, I can't have that picture made.” Sitting in the lounge of the Governor Clinton hotel yesterday, with Kovacs playing at Southampton, Hudson told me what a shock the boy’s behavior had been to him. "6 asked him what was the matter, and so did my wife," Hudson said. ''All we could get out of him was that certain tennis officials had told him he positively must not be seen with me, take any lessons from me, or travel around with me. I haven’t seen him since. Just what the officials told him would happen to him unless he left me I do not know, but it must have frightened him.” 1 asked Mr. Hudson if he had not made inquiry among the tennis fathers. “Yes, but I got little satisfaction. I talked to Mr Holcombe Ward and ihe toi dme that Kovacs did not need ■ “ “

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CORRIGAN NEAR END OF VOYAGE ; “Wrong Direction" Flier Due In New York This Afternoon Aboard U. S. Liner Manhattan, Ell Route to New York. Aug. 4 (U.R) Douglas ( orrigan got up "before breakfast” today mid said lie felt "pretty good so far" lint didn't know how be would feel "after they throw till those telephone books at me tomorrow.” The 12() pound Californian, still sticking to his story that lie flew I from New York to Dublin “by mistake." was headed for one of the j I craziest receptions in New York's history. But was he excited, or worried’ “I never worry about anything." he said While Capt. Edwin A. Richmond I was pushing tile Manhattan through fog at 20 knots toward New York harbor, still 180 miles away. Corrigan discussed sin h tilings ns his weight. Ills eating habits and Ills airplane. "I'm weighing 120 pounds right j now." he said. "I used to weigh 123 when I left the U. S. I worked a little weight off. somehow.’ He said It was no hardship for him to get up before breakfast because he never ate breakfast i anyway—"just a light lunch and some supper is all I ever eat.” he I said. Corrigan said he would be glad i to see all the people who want to ! see him. but there’s one meeting in particular he's looking forward to ■ —a meeting with a man named Mulligan. Denis Mulligan. Mulligan is byway of being head of the bureau of air commerce, practically all of whose rules Corrigan broke when he hopped the ocean to Ireland. “I've been invited to Washington to a luncheon and a dinner in Washington on Wednesday," he said. “I want to see Mr. Mulligan before lunch and see if he'll believe my story, too." Captain Richmond said the liner should reach quarantine in NewYork harbor by 5 p. m. if all went well. Corrigan was scheduled to make numerous radio talks today over tile facilities of the National broadcasting company, the Columbia broadcasting system and the Mutual network, whose crews boarded the vessel off Nantucket lightship this morning. Corrigan took occasion today to deny authorship of a note in a bottle found on the New Brunswick coast by a little girl this week. The note purported to lie a report on the progress of his flight to Ireland. It was signed “Corrigan." “it must have been another Corrigan I understand there are other Corrigans — because it certainly wasn't my signature," he said. Plan Welcome New York, Aug. 4—(UJ!>—Douglas Corrigan returns today from Ireland to a riotous hero's welcome. When he took off from Floyd Bennett field last month the attendants thought he was crazy for risking his neck in an attempt to fly to California in his S9OO nine year old plane. When lie reaches quarantine station aboard the liner Manhattan at 1:30 p. m. (CST) today he will think that everybody else is crazy. A dozen screeching boats, loaded to the gunwhales with thousands of screaming passengers, will surround his ship. They will be divided into hostile navies, one side yelling at him to come to Brooklyn borough first, the other to Manhattan. He will see 200 Corrigans aboard one ship: 1.000 other Irishmen aboard another, fighting to the end for Brooklyn though that borough's official reception committee had addempted to end three days of strife by stepping aside and letting Manhattan have Corrigan first. Unless their boat is rammed in the rush, the 300 members of the Manhattan committee, beaded by James McGurrln, head of the American Irish historical societies, will accompany the Manhattan from quarantine to the Manhattan dock and take Corrigan off there. Then they will take him to a hotel and keep him there until Friday noon, when the ticker tape parade on Broadway and the official welcome from Mayor F. H. LaGuardia are scheduled. i

my services any longer—that he was a completely equipped player, now, and furthermore. If he should by any chance, need coaching, the Davis cup committee would furnish it. I told him this was absurd—that Kovacs did need further helpu, especially on his forehand. But he started talking to some one else, and seemed to forget all about me." Mr. Hudson does not intend letting the mystery drbp. He is busy at work tearing away the mists that rurround the entire transaction and promises some interesting developments in a few days. I, along with the estimable Doctor Watson, am very interested in what Sherlock Holmes probably would have called “the mystery of the Davis Cup prospect” and will give you another installment soon. ('Copyright 1938 by United Press)'

I His Win Rebuff for New Deal? | : — O d 1 .1 w [\ wr / H ih s ! ■ ( Representative Howard Smith voting Triumph of Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia, William E. Dodd, Jr., in the Eighth district Democratic congressional ’ primary in Virginia is looked upon by political observers as a re u to the New Deal. Smith, on the “black list” of the Non-Partisan league (C. I. O.), has voted against key administration measures, j Dodd, son of the former ambassador to Germany, proclaimed him* self an “unswerving” Roosevelt supporter. Photo shows Smith voting in the primary at Alexandria.

Boy Is Fort Wayne’s First Drowning Victim Fort Wayne. Aug. 4 —(UP)—A i small boy drowned in the St. Joseph's river here this afternoon. It was the city's first drowning if the year. Police said the boy, whose bodylias not been recovered, had been •entatively identified as Harold I Potter, nine years old. The boy had been fishing in a frail tin boat when the boat sank, the boy started swimming to shore but disappeared in the water before lie could reach shore. o Yale Coach Leading In All-Star Voting Chicago Aug. 4 (UP) —Raymond Pond, Yale, held first place today in

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EIBHI GOLFERS STILL IN MEET Defending Champ Averts Defeat In State Amateur Tourney ithlianapollc. Aug. 4. — .(U.FDt Efght golfer* drove Into the quar-ter-flual round of the state amateur championship tournament today with defending ehampion Dick MeCreay, who had n narrow escape from defeat yesterday, .leading the pack. McCreary was forced to make a sensational rally to win ills second yesterday against Walter Cisco of New Albany. 1 up. The Indianapolis sharpshooter was 21 down with 3 to play, but he trained his sights and blasted through ; to win .the remaining holts and | the match. The toughest scrap was between Johnny Simpson of Washington and Dick Taylor of West Lafay-‘ ette. Simpson, a former titleholder. was forced to go three ex-i tra boles to eliminate Taylor, and the difference between victory and defeat on the 21st hole was an unseen force which kept Taylor's’ ball suspended on the lip of the' cup on his fifth shot. One of the favorites, John David of Indianapolis, who won the state i junior title last week, was eliminated. Jack Taulman of Columbus! accomplished the trick, 2 and 1. I Other results of second round

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