Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 205, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1938 — Page 6

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Cloverleaf, Berne Win In Softball Tournel

WINNERS MEET CASTINGS, Pl, MILLS TONIGHT Monroe Nearly Pulls Surprise, Losing 10-9; CYO Loses, 74 The Monroe softball team threw a scare into the Herne Dunbars, second half champions of the city softball league last night, In the' first game of the softball tourney, lull faltered in the final stages to let tae Dunbars come under the wire, with a 10-9 win. Cloverleaf pulled a surprise vic-1 tory in the second game of tne first . mud when they toppled CYO, 7-4. By virtue of the first round wins, Berne meets Pleasant Mills tonight, •it 7:4.0 o'clock in the first of the Ecmi-final tilts, with Cloverleaf meeting Castings in the nightcap. The two winners will play the final Thursday night at 7 o’clock. Come From Behind The lEerne aggregiatlon came' behind twice to win from Monroe in the feature game of the evening. I The first two innings of the game, the slants of Jerome Steiner. Berne hurler just home from college prov-| ed a complete mystery to the Mon-1 rome lads. Meanwhile Berne scored | three rune on hits by Steiner and Dro. a walk and fly ball. In the third, however, the Mon- j roeites came to life and banged I Steiner for three hits, which coupled' with a walk, netted the three scores. 1 Berne then came back to score. two in the third, one in the fourth and on in the sixth to take a two run lead. Then came Monroe’s big inning. The Monroe lads hit safely seven times to score five runs. With the game apparently sewed up. they faltered in the last of the scvnth to' let Berne shove three runs across and carry away the victory. Steiner did the hurling for Berne all the way, giving up 11 hits and nine runs. Huffman also went the route for Monroe, allowing 11 singles and 10 runs. Berne made two errors, while Monroe committed four bob-; bles. The Cloverleafs scored three runs in each of the first and second i innings to take a commanding lead in the nightcap, which they never relinquished. The best the CYO could do wae score once in each of

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I the first, second .fifth and sixth innI Ings. Just to heap it up, the Clov er leaf's scored once mure in their I naif of the fifth. Farrar gave up eight hits for the Cloverleafs. while A. Baker and Gage, on the mound , for CYO, allowed but six. CYO made tour bobbles, Cloverleaf but one. o — NEW CHAMPIONS ARE CROWNED IN TENNIS TDUNREY I Darkhorses Sweep To Victory ; Trophies Change Hands Harold Strickler ami Meredith i ' Cline, dork horses to pre-tourna- . : menl dope, swept through to | victory over the week-end in the annual city doubles tennis championship. To win their way into the final match, tlie new champions had to defeat a team composed of James I Cowan, new city singles chain--1 pion, and Bud Townsend. 1937 1 city singles and doubles chaini pion. I The final match was against i Harold Hoffman and Paul Hancher, which the new champions j 1 won in straight sets. 7-5. 6-4. 6-0 The 1937 championship team was composed of Bud Townsend ; I and Ronald Parrish. Mr. Parrish ; i has moved away from the city. ' j and did not enter the tournament I I this year. The city tournament each year | is sponsored by the Decatur Jun-, ! ior Chamber of Commerce, which I provides the cups. To hold them permanently a winner or winners must take the title three successive years. Both the winners of the singles i I and the doubles titles this year j are new. 0 * Today's Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York. Aug. 30.—•(U.R> —News 1 item from Washington, D. C.: Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion, is boasting to friends ■ here that he could give Joe Louis I a whale of a fight for four or five; rounds. Johnson is 61. Last night I dreamed that this fight took place, and that I was at the ringside sending a blow-by-blow-description. It was held in Madii son Square Garden bowl before a , I crowd of 2.457 composed of Johnj son s relatives who had been sum moned to the ringside by his family physician when papers for the fight were signed, and the men who had sold Jack his life insur-i ance. |, Wearing a shawl about his j shoulders Johnson was brought I down the aisle in a wheel chair land helped into the ring by twoj 'of his grand children who wi re to ' I serve as his seconds. Out of re- 1 j sped to his age all the spectators

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I stood until he was comfortably seated in his corner. Johnson Dozing Louis came in on tiptoe so as I Hot to disturb the now dozing Johnson. Jack Blackburn. Louis' train-1 er. distributed pamphlets to the working press. They bore this caption: “How I slaughtered Jack Johnson ... by Joe Louis . . . for automatic release in morning newspap-j . ers tbe instant Johnson hits the! | floor.” , General John T. Phelan, chairman of the boxing commission, told reporters he had refused Johnson permission to wear his ea? trumpet during the fight. Summoned to the center of the i ring for final instructions. Johnson slipped off his shawl revealing that i he had a giant Red Cross painted ' on his back. Beneath the cross l was the word "non-combatant.” His seconds explained that it was 1 hoped the sign would prevent the ' brown bombers from bombing in 1 that area. | 1 When the bell rang Johnson cupped a hand to his right ear and said “eh?” ■ 1 Fathers Old Age Plan The referee, a venerable gentle- 1 man who once fathered an old-age pension plan, patiently explained to • Johnson that the bell had sounded and that the fight was on. Louis walked from his corner 1 reading a copy of the revised stat- 1 utes of the state of New York. ' Deeply interested in section B. ■ article 3, dealing with the penalty 1 for manslaughter. Joe paid no at- 1 tention when Johnson threw the first punch of the fight—a secret one he had perfected in training camp and known as the “hardened artery uppercut.” It landed squarely and savagely on Joe's law book, causing a page to turn. "Thank you,” Joe said, "I had just finished the page," and went on reading. The power of this punch caused bookmakers in the ringside quickly to reduce the odds on Johnson from 22,000,000 to 1 to 21,500,000 to 1. Hobbles In Aged. Johnson hobbled in close and beat the book from Joe’s hands with a terrific two-handed attack. "Kill 'im, grandpop, kill ’im,”' 'Johnson’s grandchildren screamed from the balcony. Annoyed by having his book rudely knocked to the floor, Louis walked over to the reporters at the ringside and in a quiet voice said: "Remember that paper Blackburn gave you all? Well, you can let it go now." Then he walked over to Johnson’s corner and asked if all of Jack's papers were in order. On getting an affirmative answer Louis let Jack have a left hook and a full right and then surrendered himself to the sheriff. o HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 45 Foxx, Red Sox - 38 York, Tigers 31 Ott, Giants - 28 Clift, Browns 28 Goodman, Reds 28

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NEW COURTS ARE OPENED AT K. P. > Horse Shoe Available To Lodge, Recreational Groups One of the finest horse shoe courts in Northeastern Indiana has been completed on the south side of a lot owned by Knights of Pythias lodge. The work was done jointly by] the Knights of Pythias lodge and the WPA recreational comnflttee and is to be used by members of I the lodge and participants in organized recreational activities. Part of the city horse shoe tournament is to be played on the court next month, George Laurent, director of WPA recreational activities has announced. The court is regulation 40 foot length and has concrete walks along the sides of the boxes. Several loads of clay were used in the boxes. The court is lighted and will be available for use at night. A tournament is now in progress between a team composed of W. F. Beery. Robert Ashbaucher and Gerald Vizard and one including Charles Knapp, George Stults and James Cowan for the mythical championship of the lodge. This tournament will be completed by

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[Thursday night. An exhibition match between the I two teams, which claim to include I the best horseshoe pitchers in the < city, will be played at 7 o'clock I' evening before the regular meet* I ing of the lodge at 8 o’clock. o Squirrel Hunters Look For Fox; Go Home Sans Either — Two prospective Decatur squirrel hunters were temporarily led away from their quarry this morning by the reports of bigger game. Hearing I rumors that a fox was loose on their [hunting grounds they momentar- ■ tly forgot the squirrels. To their chagrin, the hunters. Jerry Eady and Ted Appelman. later learned that the report was but a practical joke. Then. too. they had to return home without bagging either squirrel or fox. o Merchant Bowlers To Meet Wednesday A meeting of the merchant bowling league will be held Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at the Mies rec- 1 reatlon alleys. All team captains and interested persons are urged to < attend. 0 LEADING BATTERS Player Club G AB R II Pct. | Travis, Senator 116 448 80 157.350 Foxx. Red Sox 117 443 105 155.349; Averill. Indians 117 421 94 146 .347 | Lombardi, Reds 101 384 46 132 .344

GIANTS CLUTCH AT LUST STRAW IN PITTSBURGH I — Weary New Yorkers Open Four-Game Series With Pirates J - - New York. Aug 30 — (U.R) — ; Bill Terry and his weary Giants ' clutch at the last straw in Pittsi burgh today. Il's do or die from ' i now on for the two-time National i I league champions and the way I the wind is blowing they may do their dying during the four-game I series with the league-leading 1 Pirates, opening today at Forties ‘ Field. 1 New York correspondents trav- | eling with the Giants have re-. I ported already that Terry has j I given up all hope of winning the I pennant One of them quoted I bim as saying, "it we can win the i pennant, the other clubs in the | league should fold up." | Terry "knows he has a bad ball I club, but it's still capable of winning the pennant with a spirited I drive. The Giants are 5H games i off the pace and are playing in I spasms but the Pirates have • flopped around like a lot of dead j fish lately and can still blow the pennant if any of the other contenders show a real will to win. In the past few days the Chicago Cubs have moved up into a contending position and they may be the club which will come down the stretch to challenge Pittsburgh. As a result of yesterday’s Giant loss the Cubs today were I virtually tied for second place, only .001 percentage point behind the Giants. Unless either the Pirates or Giants can make a clean sweep—an entirely unlikely possibility on the past performances of lioth teams -the Cults have a chance to gain valuable ground. But th»y have a tough opponent on hand in the Boston Bees, who have been playing some of the best baseball in the league the past month. So desperate is Terry for pitchers for the Pittsburgh series that he has nominated Dick Coffman, relief hurler. to start today against the Pirates’ Jim Tobin. Yesterday Terry started Harry Gumbert for the third time in six days and he got by until the seventh when he collapsed and Cincinnati ponmied out five runs and went on to win, 6-3. Bucky Walters scattered seven hits and won his 11th game. The Reds collected 11 hits. with Dusty Cooke’s single with the bases loaded the big blow. Pittsburgh came out of its panic by thumping Brooklyn. 10-1

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with the ntd of some comic Dodger pitching and fielding The Pirates made two runs In the first Inning without a hit and then proceeded to sing out 15 hits the rest of the game off Posedel and Lamaster. Johnny Rizzo hit a single and a double. Those merciless Yankees continued to spread destruction by walloping the St. Ixiuls Browns, 6-4. and increasing their American league lead to 14 games, a new high. Lefty Gomez scored | his 15th victory. For the second straight day the Yanks were outhit but not outscored. The' Browns made 13 hits but wasted most of them until their throerun rally in the ninth. Tommy l Henrich hit homer No. 19 — his I fifth in his last three games — to ' lead the Yanks' 12-hit attack. . Detroit slaughtered the Boston Red Sox, 15-1. Rudy York hit homers No. 30 and 31 and drove in six runs. Eldon Auker held *ho Red Sox to five hits, missing a shutout because of Joo Cron-1 in's homer. Washington beat Cleveland, 6 4 ' on two less hits, the Indians making 10 to the Senators S. Ken Chase was aided by four double plays. Al Simmons hit homer No. IS. No other games wore played. Yesterday's hero: Cy Blanton. Pirates' screw ball expert, who pitched the league leaders to a valuable 10-1 victory over Brooklyn which increased their lead to 5% games.

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