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YANKEES WIDEN LEAGUE MARGIN OVER INDIANS Hold Eight-Game Lead; Dog Fight Apparent In National Chicago, Auk 17 — (U.R) — MidAugust finds the I wo major leagues 1 gradually getting around to normal an American league walkaway and a National league dog-eat-dog fight. I.ate last month it appeared that the Cleveland Indians might trffer the Yanks some serious opposition | down the stretch. The Boston Red , Sox also were hanging on like they • might cause trouble. First the Indians caved in. then the Red Sox. Now the New York Yankees are without a serious rival. Widening their lead to eight games, longest , of the season, the Yanks all but I

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| settled the pennant race yesterday by knocking over Washington twice 16-1 and 6 2. Even though the Pittsburgh Pirates came out of their slump and l increased their National league lead to five games, the situation re-| I mains acute for Pie Traynor's team, i 11 The Giants, Cuba and Reds are all | I hanging on grimly, and out of this 1 I group is likely to come a dangerous , ;• pennant contender in the drive to I I the wire. The Giants are five games I back, the Cubs seven and the Reds seven and one-half, all close enough I to overtake the Pirates with a sustained drive. The Giants came from 1 a similar position in August last year to win. i During the past week the Pirates . 1 have indicated that they may be ready for a nosedive. Manager I Traynor shook up his lineup yest- , erday by benching first baseman ; Gus Suhr for Bill Brubaker, a , ' third baseman by trade, and catch- ( I er Al Todd for the weak hitting Ray ! Berres, and it had the desired rei suits for the Pirates blanked the Reds. 10-0. But Traynor's move in juggling his lineup nt this stage of the race tipped off the fact that the I Pirates may have radical weaknessI es which will cost them the pen- > nant in a red hot race. i Cy Blanton plugged up the ■ leaky Pirate craft temporarily at I least with a masterful eight-hit 1 I pitching performance. Brubaker. 1 I with a homer and two singles, and • | Lee Handley, with a triple and two , ’ , singles, led the Pirates’ 14-hit at- 1 tack on Peaches Davis and Jim p Weaver. Brooklyn scored four runs in a • ninth-inning rally to upset the Gi- | 1 ants. 7-3. Goody Rosen's double 1 with the bases loaded was the vital • punch. ' Scoring two runs in the ninth, I the Cubs tied the Cardinals and ’ then went on to score a 5-4 victory 1 in the 11th when Ken O'Dea, sub- 1 bing for the injured Manager Hartnett, singled and Frank Detnaree < tripled. Then the Cards came back 1 to win the second game, 5-2, as i Curt Davis limited the Cubs to nine < scattered hits. The split enabled ■ 1 the Cubs to gain undisputed posses- ; ] sion of third place as the Reds lost. 1 Chuck Klein's single in the 11th 1 i enabled the Phillies to trim the t Boston Bees. 7-6, despite Tony j Cuccinello's two homers. t Lefty Gomez and Red Ruffing 1 each pitched a six-hitter in the < Yankees’ twin triumph over Wash- 1 t ingtou. Lou Gehrig had a perfect ! day at bat in the opener, “four-tor-! t lour.” including his 22nd homer. Joe . DiMaggio hit homer no. 23 in the r nightcap. t Cleveland pounded four St. Louis t Browns" pitchers for a 9-6 triumph. , j Odel Hale hit a homer and two | singles and Hemsley, Trosky and i Campbell connected for triples. | f The Athletics trimmed the Red i e Sox. 14-11. in the other American t league game. Yesterday’s Hero — Cy Blanton, j Pittsburgh's curve ball expert, who I ( blanked the Reds with an eight-hit ■ j performance. ,

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FIGHT CARD ON I THIS EVENING Henry Armstrong And Lou Ambers To Fight This Evening New York( Aug. 17. — (U.PJ 1 — ■ i Henry Armstrong surges out into I a pool of hot light at Madison ‘ Square Garden tonight to try to convince friends and foes Ihut he ; 1 can lick nny man in the world be1 tween 117 and 147 pounds. The first man he must convince Is a tough little Italian named Lou Ambers who will be in the ring with him, jabbing, fighting, duck-1 ing and running to protect his lightweight title. If Armstrong wins—and the odds favor him theree to one he will be the first man ever to hold the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight championships at the same time. Win or lose, it will be a momentous night in the life of the little negro and he met this crisis by, of all things, writing a poem: "The rest of the world is black- : ed out The only place left is this squared ring Under the glaring lights a man I must rout Or myself become a beaten thing.” , i The boys backing Armstrong in- 1 sist his punching is more rhythmic than his meter. This little argument between Ambers and Armstrong was supposed to have been settled a week ago tonight, but rain fell at the Polo grounds and promoter Mike Jacobs decided to take the bout in-: side Madison Square Garden. It ; probably will turn out to be one of the smartest things he ever did. It looked like a skimpy $60,000 I gate at the Polo grounds, but in the Garden tonight fhere probably will be 17,000 customers who will pay around $130,000. Armstrong, a murderous puncher who has knocked out 35 or his last 38 opponents, is the boy who is drawing them. There is only | one kind of battle Armstrong knows how to fight — to start punching when the bell rings and keep his fists flying until the round is over.. He’ll trade punches any time, gambling that if he lands one good one in 15 tries the man in front of him is going to fall. That’s been his story all the way up from obscurity and toight he's sticking to it. Every fight Armstrong gets into is a darktown strutter's brawl, and if you don't think so ask Bar- ] ney Ross who lost his welterweight title to the negro last May and, took the licking of his life in do-j ing it. Most of the money riding on Ambers was placed there because some people believe no championship fight ever should be a three to one shot. Ambers, they argue, is no China doll and his record bears them out. In all the time he has been fighting he has never | had that strange sensation of his | knees turning to water, of the lights going black and of waking j up 10 seconds or more later to learn that he has been knocked out. He is not a good enough puncher to stand toe to toe with a killer like Armstrong, but he kows his way around the ring. And, most important of all. he is at his peak when he is In three de-I fending his title. o Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York, Aug. 17. —t(U.R> —Benny Goodman and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow meet by proxy for the world's lightweight boxing championship in Madison Square Garden tonight. Representing Goodman will be Lou Ambers. 135 pounds of pure swing music, and representing Longfellow will be Henry Armstrong, 134 pounds of ode, idyll and sonnet. Amber , hwoa fIRWu W.... 8 od Ambers, who advanced from alii- . gator to cat to jitterbug to a desire for his own swing band, has been training faithfully on the trombone, clarinet, and snare drum at Madame Bey's bungalow of bop. He spent some time in the ring.

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punching at sparring partners, but on his musical instrumets. his real work was done in his room Al Weill, Ambers' manager, said he had never in al Ihis life seen anything to equal the trombone as 1 a sharpener of fighters. “Before he took up the tromI bone,” Weill said, “Lou’s right hand was just another right hand. Not bad. not good. But a week on that instrument and his right hand became a killer diller. The snare drum helped him. too. To play one of those durn things, and play ■it hot. you got to swing your body j like a monkey on a limb. Lou would get to swinging a piece and I then ask his sparring partner to try and hit him. They couldn’t put a glove on hint when he was really going to town on ‘Flat Foot Floogie.’ ” Armstrong came down from his Pompton laks camp just as fit as Ambers. Henry is a poet and the composition of 1 odes, 14 sonnets, two epics and an elegy brought him into magnificent shape. He was hard as a Grecian urn. fast as a west wind, tough as the shooting of Dan McGrew, and as composed as though he were looking into Chapman's homer for the first time. His plan of battle calls for him to scan Ambers for the first two or three rounds and then beat him “verse” than he did Barney Ross early in the summer. He has predicted that Ambers will look like the ancient mariner with his paradise lost after he gets through with him. Ambers countered this with a

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t statement that when he finished I getting in his own "hot licks" I Armstrong would be so worn out [ he couldn’t even hold down the job of poet laurate for Madison Square I Garden. s There is expected to be little .! difference in their weights. AmI bers came in at 135 with a cymbal t in his hand when he was weighed II last week, and Armstrong, with an , . I anthology of modern British verse . under his arm, tipped the scales p|at 133%. r The managers hold a conference; r with Mike Jacobs today in regard 1 to the announcing of the main ' 1 fight. Ambers’ manager will de- > rnand that the announcer introduce Lou with three verses of 1 “old man Mose is dead” and a 1 chorus of “tisket-tasket.” Eddie j Mead. Armstrong’s handler, will s insist that the introduction of Ann- , strong be followed with three • elegy in a country churchyard. , verses of Hiawatha and Greys 1 Mike Jacobs. I have learned ■ ' front a source so close to Mike | t Jacobs that it is Mike Jacobs, will i ■ tell them both to go to —what's the ■ name of that place that is hot' > sometimes, cold sometimes, but i t just won’t free ever? (Copyright 1938 by UP.) ‘ o 1 LEADING BATTERS ‘I -1 Player Club GAB R H Pct. I > Brucker. Athletic 53 171 26 64 .374 - Lombardi. Reds 89 332 39 116.349' 1 Foxx, Red Sox 99 371 88 128.348 Travis. Senators 103 398 75 138 .347 1 • Weintraub. Phils . 55 193 29 67 .347

CYDTEAMWINS double header Stages Late Rallies I<> l ake Softball Double Header The Decatur CYO softball team scored two victories Tuesday night under the lights at the South Ward diamond, defeating St. Marys of Fort Wayne in an exhibition game and Cloverleaf Creameries in a league encounter. Trailing by one run at the end of five and one-half innings of play in the opener, Decatur rallied for four runs in the last half of the | sixth to net an 8-5 triumph over St. Mary's of Fort Wayne. Art Baker held the visitors to four hits. In the league game. CYO again was forced to come from behind to edge out a 4-3 decision over Cloverleaf. The Creamery lads held a 3-2 margin as CYO came to bat in the last of the sixth, but CYO scored twice on an error and three hits t otally the tying and winning runs. RHE Fort Wayne .... 101 210 o—s 4 6 CYO 000 224 x—B 10 4 Barlle and F. Kartholl. A. Bak and J. Murphy. RHE Cloverleaf 003 000 0 3 4 3 CYO HO 002 x—4 71 . C. Farrar and Hitchcock; Gage and J. Murphy. STANDINGS NATIONAL EAGUE W. L. Pct. Pittsburgh 64 39 .621 i New York 61 46 .570 i Chicago 59 48 .551 'Cincinnati 58 48 .551 j Boston 50 54 .481 Brooklyn 50 55 .478 I St. Louis 46 59 .438 . Philadelphia 32 71 .311 AMERICAN LEAGUE l W. L. Pct. i New York . 70 33 .680 I Cleveland 61 40 .604 j Boston ... 55 44 .556 Washington . 55 53 .509 Detroit 49 55 .4.1 ! Chicago . 43 53 .448 | Philadelphia 38 63 .376 i St. Louis 36 66 .353 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 10, Cincinnati 0. Brooklyn 7, New York 3. Philadelphia 11, Boston 6 (11 innings). Chicago 5-2. St. Louis 4-5 (first game 11 innings). American League Philadelphia 14. Boston 11. New York 16-6, Washington 1-2. Cleveland 9. St. Louis 6. Chicago at Detroit, rain. o HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 38 Foxx. Red Sox 31 Goodman. Reds 27 Ott, Giants 27 Johnson. Athletics 25 o Faithful Democrat Errs i Cleveland. O.—(U.R) —Stephen M. Young drove 104 miles to Toledo, where he thought a Democratic rally was to be held. Instead, he found a tea-musicale sponsored by a Democratic woman’s club. He remained for two hours. ——o Ginnivan Dramatic Company—Tent Theater, Decatur all next week. Schmitt Field. 194-4 t

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ALL-STAR NINES ARE SELECTED Junior All-Star Teams To Play Seven-Game Series Junior baseball in Decatur, directed by George Laurent, recreation supervisor, will be closed with a four out of seven game series of all-star games, starting Thursday morning. The first game will he played at Worthman Field tomorrow morning. starting at 9 o’clock. Two all-star teams have been selected from members of the Lions-Recreation league, one from the American League and one from the National league. K. Chilcote has been named captain of the American league all- ' stars, and L. Hackman captain of the National league all-stars. Members of the American league squad are as follows: K. Chilcote, D. Terveer, H. Hammond. D. Neidigh. D. Ridenbach. M. Anderson. R. Ixtrd. H. Johnson. F. Hoffman, Bill Fsher and W. Sudduth. Members of the National league squad are as follows: L. .Hackman, Bob Kuhnle, W. Lynch, L. Schnepp, K. Schnepp. Ted Boiinger, H. Gehrig. L. Kitchen. D. Dobsiger. B. Holthouse, R. Laurent. J. Eichorn.

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