Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1938 — Page 6

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Mies Recreation Wins Sectional Tournament

DECATUR TEAM BEATS WABASH IN FINAL TILT — Tight Hurling, Splendid Defense, Feature Tourney Victory The Mies Recreation team of this city, playing sparkling defensive ball behind the splendid hurling of Gresley and Manager Mies,] won the sectional amateur baseball tournament, held Sunday at Besancon. The Decatur team, with Mies on the mound, won the championship ( game from the Minear Oilers of ( Wabash, 2 to 1, after eliminating j Harlan in the opening game, 5 to 1. with Gresley on the mound. Wabash advanced to the finals i by defeating Montpelier, 6-3. Mies held Wabash to six hits in the final game, did not walk a man and fanned 10 Wabash batsmen. Wabash scored its lone run in the second inning on E. Barnetts triple and K. Rudig's single. Decatur tallied its first run in the second inning. Dull opened the frame with a single, advanced on a walk to Highland and scored off Ritter's single. Rudy stopped the rally by fanning Davis and McConnell. Mies Recretation won the game in the sixth. After the first two men had been retired. Ritter singled to right and advanced when Brubaker fumbled the hit. Davit then smashed out a long drive to center, scoring Ritter. The hit shonld have gone for a home run but Davis was called out for failing to touch second. Defeat Harlan Featured by Ritter’s home run. Mies bunched three hits with a Harlan error to count four times in the sixth inning to chalk up a 5-1 victory in the opening game of the tourney. Decatur scored first in the second inning when R. Ladd tripled and counted on Ulms error. The game winning sixth opened with Tustison's error on R. Ladd's hopper. Brittson sacrificed Ladd to second, from whence he scored on Dull's single. M. Ladd followed with another single and both Dull and M. Ladd preceded Ritter

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— —— *""'*** I "■■m l across the plate on the latter's long home run. Harlan scored its only run when I Baker homored in the eighth inning. Gresley held Harlan to live hits, walked two and fanned seven bats- ' men. He was backed by perfect support by his mates. By winning the sectional, Mies Recreation qualified for the regionI al tournament, which will be held | Sunday. August 28, with the location to be announced later. Decatur AB RHE Miller. 2b 3 0 0 1 R. Ladd, as 4 0 0 1 Brittson. c . 4 0 0 0 Dull. 3b 4 110 | Highland, rs 2 0 0 1 Schamerloh. rs 0 0 0 0, Ritter, If 4 12 0 I Da.vis, cf 4 0 3 0, McConnell, lb 2 0 0 01 Ogg, lb 0 0 0 0, Mies, p 3 I) 0 0 ] ! a-Slusser 2 0 0 0 1 I b-Schneider 1 0 0 0| Totals 32 2 6 3 ■ a —Battled for Highland in 9th. i b—Batted for McConnell in 9th. I Wabash AB R HE; S. Barnett, ss 4 0 0 01 Harner, cf 3 0 1 01 Ream, lb 4 0 0 0 ■ E. Barnett. If 4 11 0I McNear, 3b 4 0 0 1 1 K. Rudig, c 4 0 2 0 j Brubaker, rs 2 0 0 II Lawson, rs 2 0 0 0, Rish. 2b 3 0 0 0 1 A. Rudig. p 3 0 2 0 i — — — —| Totals 33 1 6 2 1 Decatur 010 001 000 —2 Wabash 010 000 000—1 I Decatur AB R H eI Miller, 2b 4 0 0 0| R. Ladd, ss ... 4 2 10] Brittson. c 3 0 0 0 1 Dull, 3b 4 11 0 j M. Ladd, rs 3 110} Highland, rs 1 0 0 O' Ritter. If 3 1 2 0 Davis, cf ‘ 3 0 0 0 ■ McCOinell, lb 3 0 0 0 I Gresley, p 3 0 0 0 Totals3l 5 5 0 Harlan AB R H E Oberlin, cf 3 0 0 0, Ulm. c 4 0 2 11 Stairhime, ss 4 0 2 0 Deatsnon, 2b 3 0 0 0 Tustison. 3b . 4 0 0 1 Perry, If 3010 Bollier, rs 2 0 0 0 BArdsley, rs 10 0 0 Blackburn, lb 10 0 1 Baker, lb 2 110 Allen, p 3 0 1 0 ( i—— — — Totals3o 17 2 Harlan 000 000 010 —1 Decatur 100 004 OOx — ,5 o STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Pittsburgh 63 38 .624 New York 61 45 .575 Chicago 58 46 .558 Cincinnati 57 47 .548 Boston 49 53 .480 Brooklyn 49 55 .471 St. Louis 44 58 .431 Philadelphia 31 70 .307 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 68 33 .673 Cleveland 60 40 .600 Boston 55 43 .561 Washington 55 51 .519 Detroit 49 55 .471 Chicago 43 53 .448 Philadelphia 37 63 .370 St. Louis 36 65 .356 I I YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 2, Chicago 0. Brooklyn 2-4, Boston 0-6. Cincinnati 5-1, St. Louis 4-8. New York 11-14, Philadelphia 0-6. American League New York 4-9, Philadelphia 3-2. Washington 7, Boston 1. St. Louis 7-3. Detroit 1-3. Cleveland 6, Chicago 4. o 500 Sheets S'/ 2 xll, 16-lb. White Paragon Bond type-1 writing paper 55c. The De-| catur Democrat Co. if ‘ loans' $lO to S3OO STRICTLY PRIVATE NO ENDORSERS—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. Let us solve your money problems Convenient repayment terms Call at office, write or phone us for full details. You are under no obligation if you do not take a loan. Cell, write or phone LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCORPORATED Rooms I and 2 Schafer Building Decatur,-Indiana Phone 2-3-7 Every request receives our prompt

MATES BEAT CUBS TO HALT LOSING STREAK I II Win 2-0 As Giants Gain By Winning Double Header Sunday — Chicago, Aug. 15 —<U.R)~About ' , this time every year. Bill Terry rubs his magic lamp and starts the '} New York Giants on their way to } i another National league pennant. Terry rubbed ft just in time this j summer. The Giants were playing I just about the poorest baseball in i the majors until whatever happens i to Giant teams in August began to 1 happen. Now they are only four and 1 one-half games back of the league- | leading Pittsburgh Pirates. I It was only the last place Phila- ' delphia Phillies which NeW York ; I defeated twice yesterday, but vi<f- ! tories like that are just as import- ■ ant as any other. I While Pittsburgh was shaking | off its three game losing streak !>y : defeating the Chicago Cults, 2 to 0, the Giants picked up a half game on the leaders by poling ont 34 hits i in their 11 to 0 and 14 to 6 victorI ies over the Phillies. The odd part of it was that the I National league champions didn't i look great polishing off the Phils. ! Neither starting pitcher — Hal I Schumacher and Bill Lohrman — ] was able to finish and in the sec- ' ond game, the infield made three errors. ' Pittsburgh, after dropping two | straight to the Cults, salvaged the I third game on six hit pitching by I Russ Bauers, former Chicago sandletter, and gold old Mac Brown who ■ came in with the bases loaded in ' the ninth and proved he's the best 1 relief pitcher in the league. Charley Root pitched a home run I ball to Johnny Rizzo in the second inning and was charged with the defeat which dropped the Cubs six and one-half games out of first place. Fred Fitzsimmons allow-ed only i three hits as Brooklyn won the first | halt of a doubleheader, 2 to 0, but the Bees got Lou Fette plenty of runs in the second and he won his eighth game of the year. 6 to 4. Cincinnati and St. Louis also split. Paul Derringer won his 15th game as the Reds won the opener. 5 to 4. and Clyde Shoun, a leftI hander, gave up only 6 hits as the Cards won the second. 8 to 1. In the American league, the New York Yankees also picked up a half game, increasing their lead over Cleveland to seven and one-half games, by rolling over Philadelphia, 4 to 3. and 9 to 2. Lou Gehrig hit a homer in each game. Cleveland, on home runs by Ken Keltner and Earl Averill, did what they could about staying near the Yanks by whipping Monte Stratton and the Chicago White Sox, 6 to 4. Harry Kelley. Washington veteran, turned in his second straight masterpiece by holding Boston to five hits as the Senators won. 7 to 1. Kelley drove in three runs himself. Catcher George Tebbetts of Detroit wrecked Buck Newsom's chance for a no-hitter with a single to center field in the seventh inning of the first game between the Tigers and St. Louis Browns. Buck won 7 to 1, a three base error by Beau Bell producing the one run. Darkness halted the second game at 3 to 3 after nine full innings. Yesterday’s Heroes — Russ Bauers and Mace Brown, PittsI burgh pitchers, who collaborated on a 2 to 0 victory over the Chicago Cubs, ending a three game Pirate losing streak. of Today’s Sport Parade I By Henry McLemore | New York, Aug. 15 —<U.R) —Jerry Travers can’t play golf these days because he hasn’t any clubs. All that's left of the set he used to win four amateur championships and one national open title is a worn and rusty mashie. One by one the clubs have been drawn from the little white bag and | pawned until only the mashie remains. It should have gone long ago. too, but Jerry has found hunger easier than parting with that thinbladed iron. It was his first club—j bought 35 years ago. when he was 15 and little dreamed that the game . he was about to take up would lift him to the heights and then plunge I him into the depths. i Jerry Travers is in the depths to- ‘ day. No mistake about that. Broke, ■ jobless, and homeless, and with a | family to support, all he has is I hope — and the little mashie. The I chances are that the little mashie, which stood by him so stoutly in j his competitive years, bringing senI sational shot after sensational shot 1 when the chips were down, will come to his aid once again. The United States Golf Assocla- ' tion wants the famous club for Its museum of golf. One of the Jerry's friends, Grantland Rice, suggested

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that Jerry raffle off the mashie to golf z'lubs and players throughout the country. $1 a ticket with all the funds to go to Jerry and the winner to present the club to the museum. It was no easy thing to. sell the | idea to Travers even though it held out the promise of several thousand dollars he badly needed. Os all the amateurs who ever played golf. Travers was the truest amateur, refused to capitalize on his championships. for even so much as a The amateur code was his bible. He

l\ew Speed Marks Expected in 1938 Air Races wL-—AI I / | F/ - ■ J isilSA' M nF D.mglas f ' ■ j IS ... view of 1937 air races jI Roscoe Turner | «

By MAURICE MERRxFaELD International Illustrated News Writer CLEVELAND —New speed marks are expected to be established when ttit ace flyers ol the nation gather nere for the national air races Sept. 3 to 5. More prize money, a total of 5102,000, is being offered than ever before. As a result faster planes and more pilots are out to try for a share in the rich stakes, and the keen competition should shatter more than one mark before the three-day carnival is over. Three events headline the program—the Thompson, Bendix and Greve trophy races. The Thompson race is a 300-mile affair over a 10-mile course and will have at least two new planes among the half dozen ships expected to qualify. The winner may have to click off close to 300 miles an hour since Roscoe Turner, Earl Ortman and Steve Wittman will be among

dime. “I am no longer a champion,” he I said when the scheme was first suggested. “But 1 am still an amateur. I hate to use anything connected with the sport to make money. But there is a limit to a man's pride when his wife and children need food and shelter. 11 have done everything I could for I the past six years to make my own ' way. but I haven’t been able to. 1 So if the U. S. G. A. wants my club, I'll sell it." No one will ever know how the

tne crack flyers competing. ] The Bendix trophy goes to the i winner of the transcontinental i dash and calls for endurance as i well as speed. Under a new ruling i in effect this year for the first i time, Bendix entries are not allowed to compete for the Thomp- i son trophy. One of the leading j contenders in the cross-country • derby this year promises to be 1 Jacqueline Cochran, noted aviatrix who has two planes entered, one a ] speedy Seversky. Foreign Flyers Expected The Greve trophy race, third main event, is a 200-mile event , over a 10-mile course for engines ' limited to 549 cubic inches displacement. Primary object of this classification is to encourage , the design and construction of smaller type planes which might be adapted to private use. The races this year were cut from four to three days and the

inability to make a go of it alone has hurt Travers. From the stories they tell of him his must have been the fiercest, the most unyielding | competitive spirit of any golfer | who ever lived. His was no easy } path to five championships. A frail - little fellow, with hands like a girl, he asked no quarter of the giant I hitters and gave none. Never aide I to master the wooden clubs, he relied on a driving iron off the tee, a | jigger, the little mashie. and a put- | ter that “smoked." Scores of vet- } eran critics and players have told [;

programs for each day given ■ added events. Biggest day in point of attendance is Labor day when upwards of 100,000 are expected to witness the Thompson trophy race finals. Another attraction for airminded spectators will be the presence of young Doug Corrigan, who flew the Atlantic in a secondhand S9OO "crate”. He is slated to fly the same ship here if given permission by department of commerce officials, but vzill take no part in the races. There will also be present squadrons from both the army and navy air forces and a representation of foreign flyers, among them Capt. Alex Papana of Rumania who re-' cently cracked up in New England just as he was about to attempt a transatlantic flight to Budapest. Racing events will be supplemented by the usual variety of stunting, parachute jumping, trick flying and formation maneuvers.

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LOCAL TENNIS TEAM WINNER Decatur Team Defeats Mishawaka Sunday Afternoon, 8-1 i j The Decatur tennis club team j von its final match in the northj eastern Indiana district league Sun'day afternoon, handing Mishawaka | an 8-1 trouncing at Mishawaka. Decatur’s victory enabled the io- 1 cal team to finish above the .500 mark with four victories and three defeats. The Decatur players won five of i the six singlee matches and made a I clean sweep of the three doubles; encounters. Results of the singles matchee: I follok: Bard (M) defeated Cline, 6-4, 6-2; ! Strickler (D) defeated Girard, 6-1. ',;-2; Cowan (D) defeated Van Noriris, 6-3. 4-6. 7-5; Hoffman (Di de-j ■seated Doutell. 6-2. 6-3: Hancher (D) | j defeated ©ehenke 6-1, 3-8, 6-3; j j Townsend (D) defeated Pedrotty, | ! 6-2, 7-5. Results of the doubles matches: Cline-Strickler (D) defeated Gir-ard-Bard. 8-6. 6-2; Cowan-Townsend |(D) defeated Van Norris-Doutell, 16-0, 6-2; Hoffmau-Hancher defeated Behenke— Pedrotty, 6-4. 3-6, 6-3. FOUR COACHES RATE ELEVENS Noted Football Coaches Nominate Likely Strong Teams — Chicago, Aug. 15.— <U.R) — Four noted football coaches today rated Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, Louisiana State, Ohio State and Southern California the nation’s outstandig; gridiron prospects for 1938. Raymond (Ducky) Pond of Yale handicapped the east and picked Pitt and Dartmouth. Frank Thomas, coach of Alabama's Rose Bowl team, nominated Louisiana State tn the south. Bo McMillin of Indiana rated Ohio State the big ten favorite. Elmer Layden of Notre Dame picked Southern California to regain its old power on the Pacific coast. McMillin, Pond and Layden were j in Chicago coaching the college all-stars for their battle Aug. 31 against Washington’s Redskins. \ Thomas dropped in on the prac-1 tice. “Darthmouth, Cornell and Harvard all will be good up our way,” , Pond said. “And of course. Pitt will be good again. Yale? We’ll be unpredictable. Clint Frank was a loss that really hurt.” Thomas picked four teams hi the south good enough to beat any other this fall. ■'Louisiana State, Tennessee, Auburn and Alabama look to be about the same,” he said. “Maybe I L. S. U. will have the edge. They didnt’ lost many from last year's team." McMillin and another all-star assistant, Harry Klpke who wound me that a man never lived who could match Travers’ magic touch on the greens. “It gave me the cold shivers every time he walked up to a putt,” j Walter Hagen once said. “And that went, for any putt from two to fifty feet.” Now the old champion is down to his last club. It seems only right that the players of the game to which he brought so much should see to it that he is never again down to his last dollar. (Copyright 1938 by United Press) i

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