Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1938 — Page 6

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Castings, Berne Advance To So£tball Fin all

FIRST, SECOND HALF WINNERS PLAT THURSDAY Pleasant Mills, (,’loverleafs Are Victims Tuesday Berne and Castings softball teams meet Thursday night at the South Ward diamond for the city sofetball title, by virtue of second round wins at the diamond last night. Pleasant Mills was the second victim of the Dunbars, losing 12-3. In the nightcap Castings moved into the finals with a 14-2 win over the Cloverleafs. For two innings the Pleasant Mills lads and the Berne boys played on even terms. Then in the first of the third the Bemeites came into their own. Bailey hit a triple, Krick was safe on a fielder's choice and Pleasant Mills failed to get Bailey at home. Neuenschwander got to first on an error. E. Stucky tripled scoring Neuenschwander. Steiner was safe on an error by the third : baseman. The Mills-tnen breathed a little easier when Dro struck, out, but H. Stucky, next up, clean-, ed the bases with a home run. Then in the fifth Berne snagged fottr more on hits by E. Stucky.; Dro, Neuenschwander and Bailey. I coupled with two Pleasant Mills! errors. Berne also scored one in , each of the sixth and seventh innings. The Pleasant Mills aggregation failed to score until the eighth when they got one when Everett walked and Longenherger tripled. They got two more in the seventh when Edgell doubled and Foor homered behind him. Steiner gave up but four hits to Pleasant Mills, while the Bente lads secured 12 off Archer. Six errors also hurt the Pleasant Mil's chances, while Berne made but two bobbles. Win Nightcap In the nightcap the Castings, had a big sixth to crush the Cloverleafs. The teams played scoreless ball through four innings. In i the first of the fifth the foundry- ■ men scored four times on hits by I Schultz. Agler, B. 'Andrews and A. Andrews, and an error. The Cloverleafs came back with two in their half, however, on a walk. ar. error and hits by Hitchcock and Baura-

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gardtner. Then came the big sixth, when jthe Castings-men scored seven times. Jackson doubled. Schultz singled, scoring Jackson. Andrews I was safe on a fielder’s choice. Strickler walked and Agler slnglF I ed. B. Andrews walked and A. Andrews singled. Then Mel Ladd homered and Rol laidd tripled before the side was retired. Schultz . and V. Andrews also homered in the seventh. Thursday night’s game will start at 7 o’clock, followed by an exhi- : bition tilt between the Castings I and the Kuhner Packers of Mun- . cie. , o STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE I W. L. Pct. ■ Pittsburgh 72 47 .605 New York 66 54 .550 Chicago 87 65 .549 ’ Cincinnati 67 56 .545 Boston 60 59 .504 St. Louis 56 65 .463 Brooklyn 55 66 .455 Philadelphia 38 79 .325 AMERICAN LEAGUE , W. L. Pct.' New York . 85 37 .697 (Boston 68 50 .576 : Cleveland 67 53 .5581 [Chicago 50 67 .427 i St. Louis .. 44 75 .370 l Philadelphia 44 77 .304 j YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 7, New York 1. Boston 8, Chicago 1. Cincinnati 5-7, Brooklyn 4-4. Philadelphia 4-7, St. Louis 3-8, (second game 10 innings). American League New York 3, Detroit 1. St. Louis 9. Boston 5. Cleveland 10. Philadelphia 8. Chicago 3, Washington 2. o OLD FIGHT WAS LESS DIFFICULT Unable To Find Site Os Ancient Ring Battle Hattisburg. Miss. Aug. 31 —(UP) —Promoters are having more trou-t Me attempting to re-enact the his-: I toric John L. Sullivan-Jake Kilrain tight than the two principal? had j in the original half a century ago. I And the only reason the fight was held in a cow pasture at Richburg, [ j near here, was because a law for- [ j bade fighters to box at all. There is some question where the fight was held in 1889. A natural [ bowl lies next to an elevated spot ' outside Richburg. Owners of the bowl claim Sullivan whipped Kilrain in 75 rounds on their property. The man who owns the hill contends just ae strongly that the arena was constructed on his land. Promoters of the re-enactment to be held Labor Day have leased both j sites just to be safe. If a marker is constructed, as originally was planned, it probably will be on the dividing line between the two properties. Promoters "Pa’’ Stribling and "Tanks” Grantham had notions for a while to bring together Jack Dempsey and Jim Braddock for 75 rounds of barefisted fighting. If the tow had agreed to fight, the proImoters could not have charged more 'than $2.50 for reserved seats. They decided to sign some lesser fistic lights. o Personally selected Fall Coats, Suits and Dresses direct from the market. E. F. Gass Store.

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PIRATES LOOK BETTER IN WIN OVER NEW YORK Pittsburgh Is Apparently Headed For Pennant With Safe Lead New York. Aug. 31—<U.R>—The Pittsburgh Pirates, It seems certain. are going to win the National league pennant but they were not the best bull club in their loop in August. They weren’t even one-two-three-four on their August form. They were a bud fifth. The Boston Bees, fired up by Casey Stengel, set the pace in the National league in August with 19 victories and 12 defeats for a percentage of .613. it's too bail ' the Bees were so far back in the j ruck when they started their | August spurt or they'd be up : there now abttling for the pen-; nant. On their August showing, the ' Cardinals were the league's sec-1 ond best club with 18 and 13: the I Reds third with 17 and 14; the I Cubs fourth with 16 and 14: the Pirates fifth with 15 and 15; the I Giants sixth with 12 and 15; the Dodgers seventh with 13 and 17; and the Phillies last with 9 and 19. As far as all outward appearances are concerned Pittsburgh can't blow the pennant now with a lead of 614 games over the Giants and Cubs and seven games over the Reds. If they keep up their August pace of .500 it'll j take a near miracle for any one of the other three clubs to overtake them. The Giants are as good as out of it now with their international league infield and a hopelessly crippled pitching staff. All the puffing and huffing of Gabby Hartnett hasn't been able to breathe any fire Into the lackadaisical Cubs . If any club seriously threatens Pittsburgh it seems likely that it will be Cincinnati, another hump-ty-dumpty club but one that is due to get hot again after its prolonged slump. The big chance of the Reds lies in the fact that they have nine games left to play with the Pirates. Cincinnati showed a flare of pennant fever yesterday when the Reds thumped the Dodgers twice, 5-4 and 7-4 and moved within a half game of second place. Paul Derringer, although allowing 11 hits, skinned through his ISth victory. Whitey Moore pitched a five-hitter in the nightcap in which Lew Riggs and Ival Goodman delivered the telling hits. • Pittsburgh conquered the Giants, 7-1, and seemed to be over their “pennant jitters” for the time being. Jim Tobin held the Giants to five hits and relief pitcher Dick Coffman, who became a starter out of dire necessity. was pounded out of the box in six innings. Gus Suhr featured the Pirates' 13-hit attack with a triple, double, and single for a perfect day at bat. In the other National league games the Bees dumped the Cubs. 8-1. on Jim Turner’s five-hit pitching and the Cardinals and Phillies broke even in a twin bill. The Phils won the first game on six hits, 4-3, and the Cards took the nightcap. 8-7, in 10 innings. Fifteen games in front, the New York Yankees have virtually clinched their third straight pennant. The Yanks won their fifth straight and their ninth game in 10 starts by defeating Detroit, 3-1. Red Kress, driving in four runs and Buster Mills, driving in three, led the St. Louis Browns attack on their ex-teammates to beat the Red Sox, 9-5. Cleveland outslugged the Athletics, to win. 10-8. and the White Sox nosed out Washington, 3-2, in the other two American league games. Yesterday’s hero: Gus Suhr, Pirates’ first baseman, who tripled with the bases loaded and

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added a double and single for a' perfect day at bat against the! Giants. o i Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York. Aug. 31 — <U.R> — In 1869 Captain William S. Gun-j mere of Princeton challenged 1 Captain William Leggett of Rutgers to a game between the two, schools. This game, the first intercollegiate football contest in history, was played at New Brunswick, N. J.. Nov. 6, 1869, Rutgers winning 6 goals to 4. I thought about Captain Gun-1 mere and Leggett today when I listened in on a modern day foot-! ball coaching school and heard Jock Sutherland. Lou Little. Clipper Smith and Dick Harlow lecture on the theory and practice of football as it is played today. Had the two valiant captains walked into the room looking just as they did on that day it all started in a Jersey meadow, no one would have recognized them as football players, what | with their flowing sideburns, dinky little flannel caps, stiff canvas jackets and tight-fitting knickers. [ Just Like Astronomy And the captains wouldn't have . understood a word of what was going on. Football was a simple game whtn they rode in tasselled surreys to the playing field, but today it stands shoulder to shoulder with astronomy when it comes to hifalutin' complications. It is a coaching school, where specialists of the game are the

Budge-Mako Team Wins Another KJ ii 1 ' i bHi 1 8.. j IwIMFObW I If • j Overwhelming the Australian team of Adrian Quist and John Bromwich, the American tennis pair of Donald Budge and Gene Mako, both Californians, won the United States doubles championship at Brookline. Mass.

' pupils and super-specia'lists the , teachers, that you realize offj tackle plays and reverse spinners of the present day are bloodbrothers to what once was an i elementary thing, requiring nothi ing more than a player throwing his body in the path of an opponent Today the “block” has more phases than the moon. There is the brush block, the reverse block, the shoulder block, the | crab block, the long body block, the wall-out block. the finesse block and heaven help the poor befuddled sophomore — the psychic block. Blocks and More Blocks There are plays that call for each of these blocks and the suc- ! cess or failure of the play depends on how perfectly the block is carried out. Let a player make a cral) block when a psychic block is needed and a conference championship may be lost. At least, that is what I heard famous coaches say as they paraded on and off the platform, filling blackboard after blackboard with intricate charts. ; Quite a discussion arose as to whether a back should make a crossover step or drop-step on a deep reverse The argument was ' settled when Dick Harlow of Harj vard said that he had timed the two steps hundreds of times with a stop W'atch and that the cross- ! over step saved something like one-fifth of a second. On such things do Rose Bowl bids depend today. Much attention was paid to “intentional defense splits.” and also to the various types of ends.

Including "drifters" »H'l "crash-1 ers” and "sliders" and "funnel-1 ers" “intentlal defense splits.', you learn, are planned tricks by I which the opposition is trapped | Into str'klng where It will smeared. "Mouse Trapping” "Play resistance" was another phrase that was often heard Inj the New York Herald Tribune’s annual football forum. This Involves driving an opposing player toward the direction you want him to go by edging him gently in th eother direction The theory is that he will resist being pushed to where you apparently want him to go and fight his way in the other direction and finally wind up where you actually want-1 ed him to be. This is a high form of "mouse-trapping." which Is u variant of "sandbagging.” All clear? , aprafn« Cur.mere and Leggett [ would get lost in the moxe of offenses today. Today a team, may employ the Notre Dame, the single wing, the double wing, the triple wing, the Minnesota shift, the spread, the punt formation, or the flanker attack, to name a few , of the standard offenses. Pitted I against these a team may use the. seven man diamond or box de- [ tense. or the 6-2-2-1 defense, or l the 6-3-2, or the 5-3-21. (1 trust! these last named add up to eleven.)

PLAN TO HONOR HANDER MEER Plaque Will Be Given Pitcher Before Cub Game Sunday Johnny Vander Meer, sensational southpaw of the Cincinnati Reds, whose feat of hurling two successive no-hit games this season placed him among baseballs immortals, will be honored by the National League Sunday before the game between the Reds and the Chicago Cubs. At that time the League will present Vander Meer with a beautiful silver plaque. This plaque contains a bust of VanderMeer, carved in silver. and the words "Johnny Vander Meer—for his immortal accomplishment pitching two successive no-hit games.” The dates and scores of his famous games are also included, as is the official monogram of the Reds. Vander Meer has completely recovered from an attack of boils in •iis inner ears, which kept him on the sidelines for three weeks. The infection has completely cleared and he expects to be taking his regular turn on the mound before long. The Reds will meet the Cubs in a double-header Saturday in addition to the single game Sunday when Vander Meer wil Ibe honored. On Labor Day the Reds will also be at home to greet the St. Louis Cardinals in a twin bill and a solitary contest the day following. Then the Pittsburgh Pirates will swing into Cincinnati with the team that has been leading the league most of the season. The Reds and Pirates will clash September 7 in a ladies’ day game, and September 8 in a night game. This will be the last nocturnal combat played at Crosley Field this season. Tickets for therse games are on sale at the Straus Cigar Store sixth and Walnut Streets. 500 Sheets B'/ixll, 16-lb, White Paragon Bond typewriting paper 55c. The Decatur Democrat Co. ts

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Odds 7-1 Greenberg Won’t Top Home Run Record Os Babe Ruth New York. Aug. 31— <U.R>— The odds are 7-1 that Hank Greenberg won't break Babe Ruth's home run record of 60. Hank said so himself today. "Those people who are taking the short end of 2-1 bets that I break Ruth's record are crazy," j confided the tall, black-haired Bronx boy who plays first base for the Detroit Tigers. “I’ve got an outside chance, that’s all. Every day it gets tougher and tougher for me to get a homer. "The pressure is on me from all angles. Take the other day in j Boston. We were leading the Red Sox. 11-1, in the ninth inning and I came to bat ’ against a rookie pitched named Baker. The first pitch be serves me is right at my head and I have to go down into I the dirt. If 1 wasn’t after Ruth's record he would never have thought of trying to dust me off." Don't think that Greenberg has given up on his chance of smashing Ruth's record. Even while admitting that the odds are tremendously against him. he will tell youl about the schedule he has set for himself in quest of the mighty Bambino's 11-year record, a mark considered unassailable in baseball's inner circles. "I have 45 homers now,” said Greenberg, "that means I have to hit 16 more in 33 games. I hope to hit one each in New York, Chicago and St. Louis in our road games. We have 24 games left at Detroit and I'd have to hit 12 there to make it an even 60. Then I'd have to get one in five games at Cleveland to top -fluth's mark It's awful easy to talk about it but it just don't pan out that way. Os course, my big chance is to get hot like I did in late July when I hit eight homers in six games in fiVe days.” Greenberg says there ie an electric tension every time he goes to bat now. Catchers and other players have started to ride Greenberg in an effort to throw him off his stride but he pays no attention to them. "In Boston catcher Peacock tried to get my goat and I had to laugh at the outcome," said Greenberg. “First time up I lined to Cronin. Next time up the ball accidentally hit my bat and I popped to Foxx. Tben the third time up Peacock said to me. 'Hank, you're standing closer to the plate than usual, aren’t you?’ I hit the next pitch for a homer and when I crossed the plate, “eacock said, ‘w T ell, I guess I talked you into that one ’ ” Bowling Committees Will Meet Thursday Members of the minor league bowling teams are asked to meet Thursday night at 8 oclock at the Mies Recreation alleys. It is urgent, that all captains of teams attend. | Germans Break Swim Supremacy Os States Stuttgart, Germany. Aug. 31 — (UP) —American supremacy in freestyle sprint swimming was broken today for the first tune since Uncle Sam’s aquatic stars .began their present European tour. Werner Plath of Germany finally won a sprint race for Europe yes-' terday in an American-German meet which the Nazis took, four events to’ three. Plath won the 200-meter event in 2.14.9 compared to 2:15 for Ralph Flanagan of Miami Beach, Fla., who suffered his first defeat on the European trip. Peter Fick of New York preven-

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