Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1938 — Page 6

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M SPORTS £k. StaZA *-;j County Softball TourneyfiOpening In City Tonight

■ i Berne Meets Monroe In First Round Tilt At 7:10; Play Tuesday,; Thursday. EXPECT CROWDS Adams county’s softball sane will come into their own this week, as the annual city softball tourney Is opened today at the South Ward diamond, when the first of the teams swing into action. The Berne Dunbdrs, second half champions of the county softball league, wil Isee action in the opening game of the tournament tonight at 7:10 o’clock when they meet Monroe. Cloverleaf and CYO will (angle in the second tilt, called for 8:16 o’clock. Tuesday night the winner of the ' Berne-Monroe encounter will be matched against Pleasant Mills in the opener with Castings, the first half champions, and The Cloverleaf CYO winner furnishing the enter- : lain men t in the night cap. The championship tilt will be ( played Thursday night at 7 o'clock, followed by an exhibition engagement between the Castings team and the Kuhner Packers of Muncie. Huge crowds are expected tonight to witness the opening of the tourney under the lights, with plenty of 1 excitement and good ball games promised. Plan High Tourney More fun for softball fans is seen , late this week or early next, when the teams in the county high school softball league stage their annual ( tourney. Drawing for the event Is expected , to be made in the offices of county superintendent, C. E. Striker, early this week. Results of the drawing will he published in the Democrat immediately following the pairings. . The teams in the city tourney

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I have been playing before unusually 'large crowds this season, with many l of the ball clubs showing championship form and meeting opposition of j the highest calibre from neighboring cities and towns. A recent turn of enthusiasm among sofetball fans is expected to increase the size of the tourney crowds this week during the championship games. STANDINGS STANDINGS American League W. L. Pet. New York 83 37 .692 Boston 68 48 .586 Cleveland 66 52 .559 Detroit 69 59 .504 Washington 60 60 .500 Chicago 49 67 .422 St. Louis 43 74 .368 Philadelphia 44 76 .367 National League W. L. Pet. Pittsburgh 70 47 .596 New York 68 52 .559 Chicago 67 54 .554 Cincinnati 64 56 .533 Boston - 59 59 .500 Brooklyn 53 63 .466 St. Louis 55 64 .462 Philadelphia 37 78 .322 o • — ♦ Buck Fever Blamed For 13-1 South Bend Win Over Mies Nine | ♦- ♦ That old bugaboo "buck fever" was blamed today for the downfall of the Mies Recreation nine from this city in ids bid to win the sectional amateur baseball tourney at South Bend Sunday. The Mies nine rode roughshod over opponents i nthe city, at Bensancon and in earlier tourney tilts in the northern city only to fold up as they went into the finals. It wae a comedy of errors, as the local lads emerged Sunday from a stinging 13-1 defeat at the hands of t te South Bend A. C.'s in the final, game of the tournament. Twelve errors — no less — were marked up against the Mies-men, who before had boasted a smart fielding outfit. Manager Molly Miee. who went to the aid of Grisley on the mound for the locals in the founn, blamed the reaction of the locals to the some two thousand-odd fans in the stands as the direct cause. With two hits, giving the locals a 1-0 lead in the fourth frame, it looked as if the Mies-men were headed for the state tourney at Anderson nevt week. Then things began to happen. The local hurler hit two batsmen, walked another, before the parade of errors started. From that time on the game was never in doubt. The locals gathered but two hits off the slants of the A. C.’s slabmen while Grisley and Manager Mies gave up eight safeties. Sarazen Wins Lake Placid Open Title Lake Placid. N. Y„ Aug. 29—(TTP) —A familiar name —Gene Sarazen — today was back in the winning column of golf. Gene put together a pair of sub-1 par rounds. 70 to 68, yesterday to win the Lake placid open title and first prige of $750 with an aggregate of 2SI for 72 holes. Second place went to Stanley Horne of Ottawa, Canada with 283. Ray Mangrum of Dayton, 0.. and Wiiiie Goggin, San Bruno, Cal., tied for the third with 285’s.

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YANKS' RECORD ATTRIBUTED TO - LONG HITTING Champs Continue Winning Ways With ExtraBase Clouting New York. Aug. 29. —<U.H—You . i want to know why the Yankees PjwlTi ball games? Well, all you , have to do is pick up the current | American league club halting recj ords and you'll see. ' j But at first glance yon won't. ' Misleading is the Yanks’ batting ’; average of .280 which places them r I in fifth place. That may throw you ' off the track right away because the Red Sox are hitting .284. the ’ I Senator .291, the Browns .282 and 1 ! the Indians .281. 1 j lx>ok closer and you'll see the secret of the Yanks’ success. In j extra base hits, runs and run batted in they are supreme. They've hit 140 homers. 32 more than the Red Sox. They've driven hi 732 runs. 114 more than the Red Sox. In total extra base hits they've i amassed 1,137 bases, 167 more than | the Indians. These figures in hard type may not be terrifying hut when the \ Yanks swing into action they mean runs and victories. Yesterday the ; 1 Yanks gave a classic illustration ■ ! of how extra base power wins ball j | games. They made just four hits | ; but those four hits included two; \ home runs and a double and were t enough to beat the Browns, who! made 12 hits, 4-2. Tommy Henrich, the pink-cheek-. ed outfielder who plays the piano ! and goes to symphony concerts, ex-1 plodcd the dynamite which wrecked Buck Newsom's 4-hit game. He ; blasted out two homers—Nos. 17 and IS —and a double to score and drive in ail New York tallies. He j hit his first homer with the bases | j empty, his second with a mate on base and his double was convert- j ed into the Yanks fouth run. Hav- j mg hit two homers in the nightcap 1 of Saturday s double header with I Cleveland. Henrich made it four icircuit clouts in his last two games. Although he gave up 12 hits Red Rutfing pulled through to score his 19th victory, more than any ; other major league pitcher this 1 season. The triumph combined with the Red Sox’ defeat by the ! Tigers lengthened the Yanks' lead to 13 games, longest this season. •| Hank Greenberg's 45th homer i and Rudy York's 29th tied the score 3-3 in the Tigers-Red Sox j I game and enabled Detroit to pull ■ through to a 4-3 victory in 10 in- i nings. Greenberg's homer put him nine games and nine days ahead of Babe Ruth's record-breaking I ' schedule in 1927 when the Bambino hit 60. Mark Christman's : j triple and Chet Morgan’s single j drove in the Tiger's winning run. ! j in the oilier American league games the Athletics took a double- j header from the White Sox, 5-4 and 7-2, and Cleveland defeated Washington. 6-5. The defeat drop- 1 ped the Senators to fifth place, the Tigers moving into the first divis-. j ion. The National league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates lost their fourth game in five days at home, this ■ time to the sixth-place Brooklyn Dodgers. 8-5. Cookie Lavagetto's double with the bases loaded in i the second was the big Dodger ipunch. i Pitching with a chipped bone in | his elbow Hal Schumacher tossed ; the Giants to a 7-3 victory over the nose-diving Cincinnati Reds. 7-3. The Giants clouted 15 hits, , and narrowed the Pirates lead to ! 4% games. The Chicago Cubs moved within five games of the top by winning twice fro mthe Phillies, 6-5 and 3-1. After spotting the Phils five run in the first inning of the opener the CW fla&lly won out in the 11th on Bill Herman's trip. |an error, two walks and Phil Cavarretta's single. Vance Page kept the Phils' nine hits scattered | in the nightcap. Bob Weiland’s three-hitter gave; ! the St. Louis Cardinals an even ; ! break with the Boston Bees. With Welland invincible the Cards wo.N the opener, 5-1, but Dick Errickson outpitched Curt Davis to give the Bees the nightcap, 2-0. — Yesterday's hero: Tommy Hen- ! rich, Yanks’ sophomore outfielder who hit two homers and a double for a perfect day at bat. accounting for all New York's run in a 4-2 victory over St. Louis. - — i Trmlr In A Ciood Town --n^g

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•—< ♦ — —• Today’s Sport Parade ÜBy Henry McLemore ♦ New York, Ang. 2a OJ.R) — ; Putting the sport shot here and | there: Don't believe any stories about the Australians purposely losing the national doubles title on Saturday at Brookline. Mass., for purposes of strategy in connection with the Davis Cup challenge round . . . because their coach, George Lott, had twenty bucks riding on them . . . Boston is all excited over the prospect of the Red Sox finishing second in the American league . . . the way morning newspapers give Red Sox games front page play you’d think i they were 13 games ahead of the i Yanks instead of 13 behind ’em. The first professional football ; game on record was one between Latrobe, Pa., and Jeannette, Pa., on Aug. 31, 1895 . . . Marquette I University's grid squad this year i will be the smallest in recent his- ! tory ... it numbers only 43 play- , er3 . . or one short of four teams | . . . Bill Lee of the Cubs believes it's bad luck to have his picture taken the day before he is going 1 to pitch . . . and the average pea-: nut. hot-dog and soda pop vendor ] at the ball parks walks 20 miles 1 | during a doubleheader ... it costs j $75 for the necessary iicenses to shoot bighorn bison in Idaho . . . i they tell me the hoys are going to; | give “Whizzer" White the works in 1 | this week's all-star football game j ; out in Chicago. The Brooklyn football Dodgers i have the only player without college experience in the pro league j . . . he’s Robert Campbell, a hack

Trio of Net Stars Who Will Defend Davis Cup . Don Budge, Gene Mako and Robert Riggs

When (Jr ,ted States meets Australia in the Davis cup matvdes, responsibility for defending the title will be in the hands of these three young stalwart*,

from Euclid. 0.. who got his experience in the army . . . Bill Terry may go to Hollywood this fail and j act in a baseball movie . . . best 1 crack of the week, by Caswell Ad-, ains, New York Herald Tribune: “When you meet Henry (Triple! Crown) Armstrong on the street! It's customary to say: “Hi ya champs'.’’ . . . the Tigers are the j only Antillean league club which never finished last . . Gunnai Barlund. the Finnish heavyweight, goes to the movies twice a day ; when he's not training . . . claims; that's the way he learned to speak i English. Thingumabob. the promising two-year-old which was destroyed recently at Saratoga, was insured 1 for $50,000 . . . Mickey Cochrane never had a finger injury dining all the years he worked behind the plate . . . Pop Warner of Temple is scheduled to retire as an active : coach after this season . . . Col. I Jacob Ruppert draws only $15,000 1 as president of the Yankees . . . wonder how he gets along? . . . < wonder when some enterprising golf concern is goiug to come up 1 with a yellow golf hall? Gabby Hartnett’s young brother, 1 Chick, is catching for a semi-pro J team . . . that “jitterbug” session last week out in Chicago did so much damage to the turf on Soldier Field that it’s costing $5,000 to fix it up for this week’s all-star ! football game . . . over in England ; ! they've discovered a new game . . ' polo on bicycles . . . Tom Yawkey ; is trying to bring pro football back I to Boston . . . for the first time in 1 40 years, Purdue's football team '■ won't play either in Chicago or | Evanston, 111., this fall . . . Bob < Seeds. Giant outfielder, once i

left to right, Don Budge, No. 1 ranking player of the world; Gene Mako, his doubles partner, and Robert Riggs, sensational Los Angeles player.

punched cattle on his father's ranch when lie was a youngster. (Copyright 1938 by United Press) j Wabash Tenniseers Drop Decatur Net Team, Four-To-One The Wabash tenniseers let the Decatur tennis team down with but one win Sunday on the local courts, as they defeated the locals four out of five. Decatur s oniy victory came in the nightcap doubles match when Flynn and Witting forfeited to Mac kiln and Strickler. because of the late hour. The results: ;, Witting (W) defetated Affolder (D). 6-4, 6-2. Wilkerson (W), defeated Fenimore (D), 6-2, 7-5. | Flynn (W) defeated Strieker (D) 6-2, 6-2. Wilkerson-Dumbaugh iW) defeated Haneher-Fenlmore (D), 6-3, 6-0. Flynn-Wittlng (W), defaulted To Macklin-Strickler (D). 8-6. 2-6. 1-7). o Laurie Wins Left Hand Golf Crown Sunday — Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 29 —(UP) —Charles Laurie, Auburn. Ind., walked away with the cup in the state left-handed golf tournament here today. Laurie shot a 37 and a 42 for a total of 79 to gain the George Waldschmidt trophy. Bill Link. Fort Wayne, turned in an 83 to take second. Winston Dunlap, Fort Wayne, was third with 84.

nfr n rvClj The CIGARETTE of Qua/J Give Us Spitballs; Stop 1 Sore Arms, Says The Sal

New York. Aug. 29.—'U.R>— Legalize the spit-ball and the increasing epidemic of arm ailments among major league pitchers will soon end. Gabby Street, manager of the St. Louis Browns, said today. “If the spitter isn’t given back to the hurlers,” said "old Sarge" Street, “they’ll have to dig a bigger graveyard every season for dead pitching arms." Some of baseball's greatest , names —Carl Hubbell. Lefty Grove, Van Mungo. Dizzy and l’aul Dean, I*>e Grissom and Schoolboy Rowe —have gone to the sidelines this season with sore arms that could easily have been saved. Street said. j "The spitball would give pitchers a chance to ease up now and then," he explained. “At times they could bluff with it —make believe they were going to throw it, and shoot something else. It would relieve their pressure. It's got to come back.” Overwork is causing all the arm trouble this year, he said, and added: “Some people say pitchers' arms are going bad because they're not working hard and often enough. That’s silly. The cause is too much bearing down.” Gabby. wti6 is in his 29th season in baseball, said modern pitchers must pit the pressure on more than the old timers because of (1) the lively ball; (2) encroachment on the playing field by left and right field stands and (3) depriving pitchers of artificial deliveries like the spitter. emory ball, mudball and shiner. Pitching, he said, no longer is a a matter of skill but one of bravery and luck. By bravery Street explained that every pitcher knows that any time

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