Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1938 — Page 8

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PIRATES DROP TWIN BILL TO PHU LY TEAM Lead Is Cut To Four And Half Games Over New York Giants New York, Aug. 26 -(U.R) Don't hand the National league pennant to the Pittsburgh Pirates - ut least not yet. Because one day of competition has tightened the race to a point where the senior circuit may again stage one of its famed stretch finishes. Yestedray morning, the Pirates were rolling along six games out in front and striving to add to that lead and win their first pennant since 1927. Behind them were the champions of the last two years, th ■ New York Giants. In third place. 6> 2 games behind the pace, were the Cincinnati Reds while the Chicago Cubs languished in fourth, S'u games out of the lead. Pnday the Pirates were only 4Vz games in front of the Giants and 6'.> ahead of the Cubs and Reds who were tied for third. The lowly Philadelphia Phillies, cellar occupants, were responsible. They bumped the Pirates twice yesterday by the same scores. 2-1. The Cubs licked Brooklyn 3-2 and 5-4 while the Boston Bees licked Cincinnati 6 4 and 3-2. New York defeated St. lamia 8-7. From now on. the Pirates and the other first division teams will find the lower division clubs tougher and tougher to beat, the same as it has l>een in past stretch races. Max Butcher gave up only seven blows as the Phils won the opener, and "Wild Bill" Hallahan set the Pirates down with five hits in the 11-inning nightcap. Brack s double and Mueller's pinch-hit single provided the winning run. Lee pitched a full game for the Cubs in the opener, holding the Dodgers to four hits, and Carleton eked out the second. The Bees needed 12 innings to whip the Reds in the first game and it took a three-run burst in the ninth to win the nightcap. .The Giants took 11 innings to subdue the Cardinals. The New York Yankees maintained their 12 game American league lead with a twin victory over Cleveland. 5-2 and 15-3. The Indians dropped to third place. 14 ga.nes behind the Yanks as Boston moved up with 1-0 and 9-5 victories over the Chicago White Sox. Lefty Gomez pitched a five-hit game for the Yanks in the opener and Red Ruffing yielded six hits for his 18th victory of the year in the nightcap. In the day's only extra inning

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'game on the Junior circuit, St. Louis walloped Philadelphia 8-5 in 13 innings. The As won the i nightcap 4-1. Washington defeated I Detroit 8-2. Yesterday's hero — Red Ruffing, I New York Yankee pitcher, who scored his 18th victory by turning back Cleveland with six hits. 1 BERNE DUNBAR TAKES SECOND t HALF OF LOOP I • Defeats Casting To Win 1 Second Half Softball League Championship t' The Berne Dunbar team won the , second half championship of the ■ Adams county softball league . Thursday night by scoring a 7-6 vicI tory over the Decatur Casting team. . first half champion. ■ Berne scored twice in the last of 1 the seventh inning on an error and two hits to edge out the one-run 1 triumph. ( l In the second game of the evening. the Cloverleaf Creameries team scored a 6-3 victory over Huntington Cloverleaf in an exhibition tilt. Berne drove out 12 hits and made two errors, while Casting hit easeI ly seven times and committed four I errors. Steiner and H. Stucky form- : ed the Berne battery and Wynn and M. Ladd the Casting battery. I C. Farrar and Hitchcock were in I the points for Decatur Cloverleaf, > with Solloway and Cotton working ' for Huntington. Final tanding W. L. Pct. 1 Berne 0 1-000 Casting ... , Monroe .3 2 .600 Pleasant Mills 3 2 .600 , CYO 1 4 • 2W) Cloverleaf 0 5 .000 Plan Tourney . All league teams will engage in i a tournament next week, with gamee on Monday. Tuesday and > Thursday night. 1 Berne and Monroe will meet in i the opening game at 7:10 p. m. Mon > day. followed by the Cloverleaf-CYO ‘ game at 8:15. The winner of the Berne-Monroe ’ Hit will meet Pleasant Mills in the 1 first game Tuesday, with Casting playing the winner of the Cloverleaf CYO game in the night cap. 1 The championship game will be played at 7 o’clock Thursday night, followed by an exhibition jame between the Casting team and Kuhner . Packers of Muncie. -o — Jenny Lind’s Grave Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale. is buried in Malvern. England.

ALL-STAR TILTS ARE COMPLETED American All-Stars Win ■ Final Game OF Series 11 Here Thursday — I The All-Stars of the \mericati • League division of the Ltons-Re 1 creation league handed an 8-0 defeat ' tp the National All Star to cop the series Thursday. Tlte Americans had previously I won three of the five gamw played. The Nationals obtained only two I hits off of the hurling of Chlleot.-, : the Americans’ ace. while the win--1 ners were pounding out litre to amass their total of runs. Results of all games in the serI iee: American, 9. National 6; National 6. American 5; American 10, National 7; American 3. National 2; National 7. American 5: American I 8, National 0. Result of final game: R. H. E. American 201 012 2—B 9 9 National 000 COO 0— 0 2 5 Hf-TETA ETAO ET E E E EE Chilcote and Welker; Lyn< h and Hackman. o ■ ■ ■ * Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore 0 — Chestnut Hill.. Mass., Aug. 26— (U.R) — Let us not be too hasty in condemning Mrs. Helen Wills Moody for her refusal to enter the national singles championship at Forest Hills next month. Who knows but what she is saving herself for the veterans' championship? In two years she will be 35 and eligible for play in this matronly division of tennis. My guess is that when Mrs. Moody starts palying in the veterans' division, where the competition is on the stout and short-winded side, she won't miss a tournament. She will be a cinch to wilt every year and retire the cups as fast as they are put up. Her entry blank will beat even Mrs. Abou Beti Ahdem's in. Frankly. I can't understand tlie surprise occasioned by her refusal to enter the Forest Hill lists and possibly another joust with Helen Jacobs. The other night all of the tennis writers who believed she would enter held a buffet supper in a telephone booth, and there “-s room for all. The only surprise her decision not to play furnished was the cause — neuritis. We all believe that a sacroiliac ailment would be honored. After pll. why should anyone expect her to play at Forest Hills? She hasn't brought her composed countenance onto any court in this country since that fateful September day in 1933 when she defaulted to her rival, Helen Jacobs, In the final set of the final round. All of her play has been done abroad, and those American tennis followers who lifted her to a place on a pedestal have had to follow the performances of their heroine in the cable dispatches. As an observer of sports champions of all sorts, and for many years. Mrs. Moody is the only one I have ever seen who apparently does not know how to lose. Most champions have a spark that makes them want to go down fighting. Ruth always swings three times. Dempsey always got off the floor. Glenna Collett always sank that last putt. Perhaps Mrs. Moody has won so

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s much that she has never had time ; to learn how to lose. Perhaps j i those of us who never have been , champions can't understand the j gall in seeing another toasted in • victory Certainly no champion in' ; history was as all-conquering, as 3 invulnerable, as was Mrs. Moody f during her golden years. Year afr ter year she swept through all opposition without the loss of even a s set. It made news when she lost a game. , ’ Now. in the twilight of her car- ,. eer. she obviously finds it hard to ■ r walk out on a court knowing that' I she has no more than an even 5 chance of victory. Most champions ask no more of the gods than a , 50-50 break. Mrs. Moody, it seems, is happy only when the scales of 3 chance are dipped much heavier 3 toward her. I Such an attitude protects her j marks in the cold, imperson. l • type of the record book; no doubt | ! about that. But if I were she I ; . would rather have a place in the , hearts of tennis players than a place in a record book. After all. . you can buy those record books | for 50 cents a throw. (Copyright 1938 by United Press). » o 1 LEADING BATTERS t ’ Player Club G AB R H Pct. j Lombardi. Reds 97 369 45 130.352 ’ Travis, Sen. . 112 430 79 151 .351 i ■ Foxx. Red Sox 111 418 101 146 .349 : Trosky, Indians 111 405 82 138.341 ’ Averill, Indians 111 400 90 136.339; ' O Elks Bowlers Will Meet This Evening , All members of the Decatur Elks r lodge, interested in bowling, are t asked to attend the meeting at the . home on North Second street tonight at - 8 o’clock. Plans will be made for an allElks league of four or more teams t to bowl during the season. A Dutcn lunch and refreshments will be serv- ) ed following the meeting.

STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. Pittsburgh . 69 45 .605 New York 65 60 .565 l j Cincinnati 64 53 .547 Chicago 64 53 .547 ; Boston . 56 59 .491 Brooklyn 53 62 .461 St. Louis 52 63 .452 1 | Philadelphia 36 75 .324 AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 79 36 .687 Boston 65 46 .586 Cleveland 64 49 .566 Washingion . 60 57 .513 Detroit 57 59 .491 Chicago 48 62 .436 St. Louis 40 72 .357 I Philadelphia .... 41 75 .360 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Boston 6-3. Cincinnati 4-2 (first game 12 Innings). Philadelphia 2-2, Pittsburgh 1-1. ; second game 11 innings). ' Chicago 3-5, Brooklyn 2-4. New York 8, St. Louis 7 I (11 innings). American League St. Louis 8-1, Philadelphia 5-4 (first game 13 innings). Washington 8, Detroit 2. Boston 1-9, Chicago 0-5. New York 5-15, Cleveland 2-3. o G. E. Club To Play Preble Here Sunday ! The G. E. Club team will play Preble in a regular Adams county amateur baseball league contest at Worthman Field Sunday afternoon. The game is scheduled to start at 2 o’clock. Admission will be 10 cents. HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 43 . Foxx. Red Sox 35 York, Tigers 28 ; Goodman, Reds 28 i Ott, Giants ... 27 .

York to figure out how to beat the home run record of 60 circuit blows established by Babe Rutt i in 1927, I , V - -

CROWD ATTENDS SWIM CARNIVAL — Hundreds Line Municipal Swimming Pool For Water Carnival The largest crowd ever to assent-| ble at the municipal swimming pool | jammed the city bathing resort to overflowing last night to witness ! the first water carnival in its his tory. Hundreds crowded their way into the 300 temporary seats and I lined the fence entirely around the pool to watch undoubtedly the most interesting water exhibition pvpf held in the city. Cheering of enthusiastic spectators could bp heard for blocks, i as favorites in the races and con- ■ tests were spurred on. Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse, who attended the carnival, staled • that it was one of the finest community events of the year and more than ever supported the contention that the city was in need of a larger recreation center and swimming pool. Much favorable comment was bestowed upon Marion Feasel, pool director and Mrs. Feasel. his assistant. and the others who aided in ■ staging the event. Estimates of I the crowd ranged from 700 to 800 | people and higher. Excellent competition and the , equal dividing of points among the ' contestants made impossible the | selection of three oustanding en-; trants in each of the junior and senior boys and girls divisions. The winners of the various events: Beginner boys' swimming contest: first. Jack Downs; second. Jimmy Cairns; third. Jimmy Livers. Time: 22.3. Beginner girls' swimming contest: first, Geraldine Andrews: second. Caroline Striker; third. Ivan Eileen Mitchell. Time: 27.0. Boys’ swimmer division contest: first. Bolt Gillig; second. Jim Brunnegraf; third. Jay Girard. Time: 25.0. Girls' swimmer division cot test: first, Dorothy Hammond: second, Evelyn Andrews; third. Norma Baker. Time: 18.0. Boys’ junior swim: first. Max Heare; second. Calvin Burnett: third, Don Foreman. Time: 15.3. Boys' senior swim: first, Simeon Hain; second, Ed Reynolds; third. Darwin Leitz. Time: 13.2. Girls'senior swim , first. Marjorie Lose: second. Kathryn Schroyer.

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I Time: 13.0. 11 Junior luiys' trending water: 1 Pat Hackman. Dick Irf'lchtenstelg. ( er. Dick Flchhorn anti Jack Hunter, | I all tied for first. , ( Girls' treading water contest:', ! Joan Brunton. Marthu Ellen Hower , l and Betty Melehl, all tied for first. ( Senior boys' trending water con-‘ test: Harold Billings. Bob Schnitz , ; and Bob Beery, all Ued for first. Girls' relay race: first team./ Martha Ellen Hower. Joan Brun- ' ton. Jat.e Eady, Dorothy Ham- 1 mond and Norma Baker. Boys’ relay race: first team. Art . I Franz. Jim Brunnegraf. James Eg-; I ley, Don Foreman and Carlos Livers. Boys' basketball game: Won by i team: Simeon Hain. Bob Stapleton. Bob Egley, Tom Summers ami 1 John Holthoune Under-water swim: first. Bill 1 Beery; second, Dick Eichhorn; , third, Kenneth Beery. Senior under water swim: Eugene Ribbink; second, Edward Reynolds third. Simeon Hain. Diving Junior boys: first. Bernard Myer; I second. Max Heare and third, , l James Egley. Girls' surface dive: first. Patty; Schmitt; second. Catherine Lichtle, ' third. Jean Mitchell. Girls' front dive: first, Catherine Lichtle: second, Jane Eady; third. I Patty Schmitt and Martha Ellon Hower, tied. Girls' swan dive: first, Marjorie Lose; second, Jane Eady, and third ; Jean Mitchell. Girls' jackknife: first, Martha Ellen Hower; second. Marjorie Losp. Senior boys’: first. Howard Elzey; second, Dick Schnitz and third. Simeon Hain. Decatur Attorney Reported Better I Hubert R. McClenehan Decatur : attorney, was re-admitted to the

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