Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1938 — Page 8

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CITY CHAMPION IS ELIMINATED FROM TOURNEY Paul Hancher Defeats Bud Townsend in Hard-Fought Match In one of the feature matches of the annual city tennis tourney yesterday. Hud Townsend, defending champion was eliminated in a semi final tilt by Paul Hancher. assuring a new 1938 singles champion. Hancher. a strong contender, was forced to four sets, but dropped the defending title-holder. 6-4. 6-2, 4-6, 6-1. Townsend won his way to the semi-finals by beating Affolder, 6-1, 6-2. Affolder won his first round match from William Kuhnle, 6-0, 6-1. Townsend won his from Bob Bolinger. 6-3, 6-3. Harold Hoffman will meet Harold Strickler Saturday afternoon in a quarter final tilt, by virtue of his 6-3. 6-2 win over David Macklin in a first round engagement. Strickler defeated Dick Sheets 6-2. 6-1. In the other quarter-finals, i Hob Worthman. with a 6-1, 6-4 vic-. tory over Wendel Smith meets Jim Cowan, who forfeited his match with Glen Dickerson. Men’s Doubles In the men’s doubles. Hancher and Hoffman marched to the semifinals by toppling Kuhnle and 80l- . inger. 3-6. 6-1. 6-2 after advancing j from the first round with a 6-4, 6-u ; win over Richard Walters and Bob : Johnson. Kuhnle and Bolinger won their first tilt from Worthman and Smith, 7-5. 6-1. Bohnke and Melchl won the other first round match played to date by de- ■ feating Affolder and Macklin. 8-6. 6-2. 1 Junior Singles Meredith Cline and Rollie As- ( folder will meet this weekend in the finals of the junior singles, singles, having brushed aside all competition up to that point. Cline 1 beat Bohnke. Terveer, and Kuhnle • in straight sets each to win his way to the finals, while Affolder defeated Macklin and Walters and won by forfeit from Bob Bolinger. Mixed Doubles Mary K. Tndall and Harold Hoffmatr will be one of the finalists in ■

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'the mixed doubles division, winI ning from Eileen Wells and Jim ; Cowan. 6-2, 4-6, 9-7, and being forfeited the Affolder Affolder match. M. E. Butler and I). Macklin meet Paul Hancher and Mildred Acker I this week end in a quarter final i tilt. The former team drew a first , round bye, while the Acker,Hanch- | er combination beat B. Borne and i H. Strickler, 6-4, 7-5. No matches have been played to I date in the women's singles divls- 1 ion. o MIES NINE TO | PLAY SUNDAY City Light Tigers Os Fort Wayne Play Here Sunday Afternoon — The Mies Recreation team, chant-1 pions of the Adams county amateur , baseball league, and winners of last i Sunday's sectional tournament at' Bisancon, have scheduled a tough I opponent for a practice game Sun- , day afternoon at orthman Field. Mise will play the City Light Tig-* ers of Fort Wayne. on» of the tough-, ( st indipendent nines in this section 1 of the state. I City Light at the present time Is . among the leaders in the Fort . Wayne League and wil Iprovide, i plenty of keen competition tor the ; local nine. The game is scheduled to start i promptly at 2 o'clock Sunday afterI noon. with admission price of 25 I cents per person. Mies Recreation have its tegular ’ t«am. which won the sectional last week by defeating Harlan. Allen county champion, and the Minear Oita. Wabash , county champion, available for Sunday’s game Manager Molly Mies will have i four hurlers available for duty, including himself. Gresley. Schneider . ! and Slusser. i Gresley hurled the Adams county I champions to victory over Harlan last Sunday and Manager Mies, , pitched the championship victory against Wabash. o HOME RUNS ■ Greenberg. Tigers 38 , I Foxx. Red Sox 32 J Goodman. Reds 27 [ Ott, Giants 27 j •Johnson, Athletics 25

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REDS BACK IN I THICK OF RACE Cincinnati Playing Best Ball Os All National League Teams Chicago. Aug. 19.--U.PJ -The ball club to watch from now on in the National league pennant race is the! Cincinnati Reds. With the other first division ; clubs, the Pirates, Giants, and I Cubs, all traveling in reverse the J Reds are crowding their way back into the thick of what promises to be a typical National league battle. Knocking the Cubs off for the second straight yesterday. Cincin-1 nati moved within six and one-half games of the league-leading Pirates. Paul Derringer handcuffed the Cubs with seven hits to win. 91. and further distinguished him- i self by hitting one of the longest homers seen at Wrigley geld this : season. It was his 16th triumph. 1 The 'Reds combed Root. French I and Russell for 18 hits with Frank i McCormick leading the attack with 1 four singles. McCormick has now i made 156 hits in 108 games and 1 has a chance to become the first Cincinnati player to make 200 hits I in one season since Jake Daubert 1 accomplished the feat in 1922. ] The revived spirit of the Reds i has even ultra-conservative Bill 1 McKechnie admitting that Cincin- • nati has a pennant chance. I “We haven't quit at all .in this pennant race," said McKechnie. i “We had our slump when our boys tightened up but we've passed through that and have now settled < down to play our game. We aim to catch somebody in this race and : that somebody is Pittsburgh.” The two National league leaders i

As Armstrong Won World Lightweight Crown ¥ Armstrong lands left on Ambers’ jaw

Vicious lefts to the jaw, such as the one shown above in which Lou Ambers is on the receiving end, enabled Henry Armstrong to win the world lightweight crown from the Herkimer Kid in a vicious

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lost yesterday. The St. Louis Card- 1 inals dumped the Pirates, 5-1, I when Bob Weiland pitched a fourhit game. Don Cutteridge's single j with the bases loaded in the fourth i drove in what proved to be thei two winning runs. Johnny Mize ’ hit a homer with two on in the j next frame. The only run off i Weiland was Lee Hadley's homer j in the first. Brooklyn trimmed the Giants, I 5-3, although New York made 11 hits to the Dodgers' six. Vito Tamulis was invincible in the pinches. Tuck Stainback's triple with the bases loaded featured a j four-run Dodger rally in the fifth ; which enabled the Dodgers to defeat Cart Hubbell. Although they split a twin bill I the New York Yankees kept up: their pennant drive as- Cleveland' lost and the world champions ex-' tended their lead to nine full games. Joe DiMaggio's triple and Lou Gehrig's double gave the I Yanks a 6-5 victory over Washing- ' ton in the UTinning opener. Wes' Ferrell, pitching his first game in 4 a Yankee uniform, outlasted Dutch ' Leonard to beat his ex-mates. I Harry Kelley pitched a six-hit j game to beat the Yanks. 6-3, in the nighcap. George Case. Sen j ators' rookie outfielder, made three' hits in each game. The St. Louis Browns scored a 9-1 triumph over Cleveland behind Buck Newsom's five-hit pitching. ' Newsom fanned eight men in scoring his 14th victory. Bob Feller] was driven to cover by the Browns with a three-run attack in the fifth. I In the other two American lea-' gue games Jim Bagby pitched the Boston Red Sox to a 2-0 victory over the Athletics, and Detroit, capitalizing on Johnny Whitehead's widness. beat the Chicago White Sox. 5-1. Yesterday's hero: Frank McCormick. Reds' rookie first base-

man who blasted out four hits and led the Reds to a 9-1 victory over the Cubs. o : STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Pittsburgh 65 40 .619 ; New York 62 47 .569 : Cincinnati ... 60 48 .556 i Chicago 59 50 .541 Boston 51 54 .486 Brooklyn . 51 56 .477 , St. Louis 47 60 .439 i Philadelphia 32 72 .308 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. ■ New York 71 34 .676 I Cleveland 61 42 .592 Boston 58 44 .569 Washington 56 54 .509 I Detroit 52 55 .486 Chicago 43 56 .434 Philadelphia 38 66 .365 St. Louis . ... 38 66 .365 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 5, New York 3. Cincinnati 9, Chicago 1. St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 1. Boston at Philadelphia, rain. American League New York 6-3, Washington 5-6 (first game 11 innings). Boston 2. Philadelphia 0. Detroit 5, Chicago 1. St. Louis 9, Cleveland 1. o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Brucker, Athletic 53 171 26 54 .374 Lombardi. Reds 91 341 41 121 .355 Travis. Senators 105 404 78 142 .351 Foxx. Red Sox 102 381 90 132 .342 Averil, Indians 101 365 84 .125 .342 Weintraub, Phils 56 196 29 67 .342

15-round battle in New York. Homicidal Henry thus became the first man in pugilistic history tc hold three world boxing titles simultaneously--feather, light and welterweight.

PROTEST MARKS SOFTBALL TILT First Protest Os Season Is Filed After Thursday Game The first protested game of the season marked Thursday flight's softball play at the South Ward diamond. A third base decision In the last of the seventh which led to Pleasant Mills scoring the winning run. brought a formal protest from the Decatur Castnig team, which was defeated. 7-6. Pleasant Mills outhit Casting 12 to 8, scoring six of their seven runs in the big fourth Inning. n the first game of the evening, Yoder scored a 9 4 victory over Pleasant Mills in an exhibition game, soring in every inning except the seventh. Yoder outhit Pleasant .Mills, 10 to 4. R. H E. Yoder 202 122 0-9 10 4 pleasant Mills 020 100 I—4 4 1 Bakerand R. Quackenbush; Clark and V. Edgell. Casting 030 012 0 6 8 .5 Pleasant Mills 000 600 I—7 12 4 Andrews Wynn and M. Ladd; Archer and Clark. 0 f Today’s Sport Parade^; By Henry McLemore ♦ ♦ Boston. Mass., Aug. 19 — (U.R) Here in this cradle of American liberty, where the hoof beats of Paul Revere's horse still echo on quiet nights. 1 have found a traitor. Here in the shadow of Bunker 1 Hill, at a spot hard by the harbor 1 where the water still ripples from . the tea thrown overboard, lives a ! man who is conspiring to deliver us I once agrin into the hands of the British. 1 In order that you may know him. I will give you his name. It is George Martin Lott. “Mata Hari” as we will call him from this point on. played on six ■ American Davis cup teams, and knows all the secrets of the world s ! most futile sport. He can speak with non-playing American captains in the mystic Braille that non-play-ing captains effect. He knows the i vulnerable spot in the armor of ! each American Davis cup player because he coached them last year and enabled them to win back the Davis cup. “Dx-3," as Lott will now be calli ed, sold his services to the Australians this year. For a sum. Lott a-

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greed to tench the Australians how to beat 111 the Germnn in the inter-1 zone finals and (2) the Americans in the challenge rounds for the cup. He is understood, when the fatal bargain was sealed, to have delivered from his black brief case to the toned zipper-equipped kangaroo pouch employed by the Australians for important documents, a com-' plate dossier of American Davis cup trade secrets, including the name of the philanthropic donor of the convertible coupe which greeted J. Donald Budge when he stepped off the gangplank from Europe a few weeks ago. Lott sincerely believes — or at least he told me yesterday while redecorating his room with union jacks — that the Australian team which he has so carefully coached has more than a fighting chance to win the cup for the first time since 1919. "Nelson was a 1 to 3 underdog at Trafalgar.” Lott said in his clipped British accent as he fiddled with his old school tie. (P. S. 14. Springfield. 11l 1 “Jack Doyle would have let you write your own ticket on Wellington at Waterloo, but we bloody British blokes have away of muddling through be it Germantown or Ypres.” Unexpectedly. Lott began to make sense. He said "Bromwich, given a fast court such as German-

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