Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1938 — Page 8

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Berne Dunbars Win Softball Championshil

SCORE 6 RUNS IN FIRST FRAME WINNING 8 TO 5 Castings Rally In Last Inning Falls Short In Title Game Thp Berne Dunbars, second halt--champions of the county league, piled up an a'..nost insurmountable lead in the first innin glast night at the South Ward diamond to cop the county softball championship from the Decatur Castings. 8-5. It was the first inning that ca<lied the punch for the winners Neuenschwander walked. E. Stuc- , ky was safe on a fielder s choice.' Steiner singled and then Dro singled to score two ahead. K. Stuckey was sate on the pitcher s error and Bailey pushed two more across with a single. Then Neuensehwander shoved across another brace of runs with a double before ehe side was retired. That first inning virtually decided the title tilt. Castings scored twice in the fifth on singles by Hill. Strickler and Angler with a walk. Berne came back in their half of the sixth to score two more when Erne walked Baumgartner and Krick singled and C. Neuenschwander doubled The Castings made a strong bid in the last inning when they scored three runs on a walk, an' error, a double by Agler and ! singles by A. Andrews and B. j Andrews. Wynn started on the mound for the Castings and was relieved in ■ the fifth by Bob Andrews. The | two gave up eight safeties. Steiner did all the mound work for the Dunbars and gave up but I six hits to the Castings-men. Castings made three errors and . Berne two. The exhibition tilt, following the championship game was call-. ed in the fifth with the Castings leading the Kuhner Packers of Muncie. 20-0. Undoubtedly the largest crowd "v-r to assemble at the local softball diamond wedged their way into every seat and corner of the field last night to watch the championship tilt. Last night's title engagement was the final softball game of the season under the county league

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sanction and wound up what was I termed the moat successful series | since the game was first started here. — 0 —— —— OME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 46 Foxx. Red Sox . 39 | York. Tigers 31 Ott, Giants 30 f Clift, Browns ... 29 — -- - -—0 YANKEES WANT TO FINISH 20 GAMES AHEAD Second Straight Loss To Tigers Dims Hopes For Record ■ I New York. Sept. 2. — tU.R> —Can you imagine a baseball manager worrying with a 13-game lead in the pennant race and only 30 games to go? Well, that’s what Joseph Vinc.<it McCarthy, dugout genius of the New York Yankees, was doing today. He isn't fretting over the slight possibilty that the Yanks could blow the pennant, but over lost opportunities of the past two days to achieve one of his pet ambitions. When the Yanks dropped two straight to the Detroit Tigers and had their prodicious lead clip- 1 ped from 15 to 13 games, they put a small crimper in McCarthy’s big aspiration to win the .pennant by ' more than 1914 games for a new • American league record. McCarthy's 1937 team finished 119 > 2 games ahead to eclipse by half i a game the previous record set by 1 Miller Huggins’ great Yankee team lof 1927. The major league record | I for the widest’ victorious margin is i 27’4 games, set by the Pittsburgh Pirgte in the 1902 National league I race. With the secnd-place Boston Red Sox moving into Yankee stadium today the Yanks get a fresh i opportunity to satisfy McCarthy’s keen yen. One of Joe’s motives i is to increase the prestige of the 1938 Yankees in their comparisons i with great teams of the past. Al- l ready the chatter in the press box draws parallels between this Yankee aggregation and the Yanks of 1927. the Athletics of 1929 and '3O. and the Yanks of 1923. and other oustanding clubs. < With three Yankee regulars —1 ■' - ■ '■■■ ■

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Selkirk. Rolfe and Dickey—nursing injuries, the world champions fell before the Tigers again yesterday, 6-3. It was a rather humiliating defeat inasmuch as relief piticher George Coffman, who hadn t started a game this year, shackled the Yankee thunder until the ninth. Nervous over his approaching conquest Coffman grew wild and Harry Eisenstat had to rescue him. Monte Pearson, who had won 10 straight and pitched a no-hit, norun game in his last start, was thumped for 10 hits and his first defeat since June 22. One ray for the Yankees was the continued slugging of young Tommy Henrich, who belted homer No. 21, his seventh in six days. The Boston Red Sox beat Buck Newsom and the St. Louis Browns. 5- Cleveland shellacked the Athletics. 11-4. as Bob Feller won No. 13. Chicago’s White Sox lambasted Washington, 11-6, and their manager. Jimmy Dykes, announced he would retire as an active player at the close of the season. Pittsburgh rolled on toward the National league pennant by blanking the New York Giants. 6-0, for a seven game lead. The defeat the Giants <-< » place. The brothers Warner made six of the Pirates' 12 hits. The Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Bees. 4-2, and moved into a tie with the idle Cincinnati Reds for second place. Clay Bryant hung up victory No. 14. In the other National league game the Cardinals won from the Phillies, 6- It was the fourth straight day they have scored the winning tally in the final inning. Yesterday’s hero: George Coffman. Detroit relief pitcher who had won only one game this season, who stopped the Yankees with a bit of ninth inning aid from Harry Eisenstat. ♦ ♦ Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore ♦ 4 New York. Sept. ,2. — <(J.R> —JaiAlai, a Spanish game played with a goat skin ball, a wicker basket, three cement walls and great risk of life, was introduced to New York yesterday by Mike Jacobs, the ‘T’ll-try-everything-once’’ sports enterpreneur. Jacobs gave the sport and 50 of its greatest players a formal com-ing-out party in his Hippodrome, the mezzanine floor of which had been transferred into someone's idea of a bit of old Spain. There was a mammoth bar, laden with bottles of those exotic Spanish drinks, rye, Scotch, bourbon and ; gin—and presided over by a digpij fled don of a bartener named “Dutch.” Tables were heavy with such Iberian delicacies as ham-on-rye, Swiss cheese, salami and gooseliver sandwiches. A bevy of “senoritas,” splendidly outfitted in mantillas and combs, swished madly about the place, speaking in the soft, out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth accent that is genuinie only to Latins from Man hattan. | Sfenor mushky Jackson, whose hycienda commands a sweeping

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1938.

;- view of the Tenth avenue elevated 5 tracks, led a band through the strains of that haunting Spanish „ air. "Flat foot floogie with the fly- } floy,” and some of the local Latins were so overcome they broke ’ into that most native of all Spanisli . dances, the shag. j Dashing Spaniard i Among those present was Octavus Roy Cohen, the dashing Span- ) iard from Birmingham, Alabama. . and creator of that beloved Span- , ish character, florian slappe/. Cot hen—for a reason he can’t explain i —started playing Jai-Alai — he * doesn’t remember where — years r and years ago and is ranked as the No. 1 American fan. He talks knowingly of the sport and bandies : about such words and phrases as “pelota,” "cesta,” “el saque." “sale . mucho,” and "pared grande." much to the confusion of everyone, in- . eluding Senor Jacobs, the pro- • moter. Senor Jaeobs never has I seen a game of Jai-Alai —in fact. . he only learned yesterday that it is pronounce “hi-li” and not “jay- > aley”—but he has poured thous- . ands of dollars into the contruc- ■ tion of a court and—to use his ; own words—believes it will sweep Gt . mond. Perhaps it will, too, because of . all the games played by man Jait Alai is the fastest. I had seen it i played in the big frontons at Hat vana and Miami, but ysterday was . the first time I ever walked on a

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Johnny Rizzo and Manager Pie Traynor s Rookie Outfielder Johnny Rizzo, left, and Manager Pte Traynor are >■ two big reasons for the showing of the Pittsburgh Pirates this year, a showing which sent them into the league lead and on the way to e the pennant Rizzo, a first-year man, is hitting sensationally and g is the spark of the team. 1

court and had a try at it. My opponent was Estanislas Maiztequi. of San Sebastian. Spain, and recognized as the world's champion. He tied a cesta on my right hand, a cesta being a wicker basket shaped much like an automobile fender. It is with the cesta that you catch and throw the pelota against the walls. The pelota is between a golf ball and baseball in size and harder and faster than either. Estanislas Maiztequi played carefully with me. making sure that he did not throw the felota too strongly against the w’alls. Because a pelota, thrown by a fine player at top strength, rebounds off the walls at a velocity of 120 miles an hour, and the records of the sport are dotted with instances where players were, struck in the head and killed. The game calls for tremendous speed afoot, lightning like reflexes, and unerring eye, and unflagging stamina. The game here in New York will be the fastest ever played, the players said, because the Hippodrome’s floor space allowed for a court of only 150 feet in length. The standard size court is 196 feet. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) LEADING BATTERS Player Club G AB R H Pct Travis, Senator 119 461 81 160.347 Foxx. Red Sox" 120 435 109 157 .347 Averill. Indians 118 424 96 147.347 Lombardi, Reds 103 391 47 135.345 Trosky, Indians 120 442 87 151.342

| STANDINGS NATIONAL league W. U pet. GB. Pittsburgh 74 48 .607 - Cincinnati 68 56 .548 Chicago 68 56 .548 7 New York 67 56 .545 7'4 Boston 61 60 .504 12’ 2 St. Louis . 59 65 .4.6 I*. Brooklyn 55 667 451 19 Philadelphia 38 82 .31. -15 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. GB. New York 85 39 .685 Boston A "0 50 .583 13 Cleveland 69 53 .566 la Detroit 63 60 .512 21 Washington 61 63 .492 24 Chicago 52 67 .43. 21 St. Louis 44 77 .364 39>,4 Philadelphia 44 79 .458 40’4 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League I Pittsburgh 6, New York 0. Chicago 4. Boston 2. St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 5. I Only games scheduled. American League ■ Boston 5. St. Louis 3. I Cleveland 11. Philadelphia 4. i Detroit 6, New York 3. Chicago 11, Washington 6. 0 _ Local Tennis Team Meets Elwood Here The Decatur tennis team meet the Elwood tennisers at the South Ward courts Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The match is one i of the eecond district league titlts. 1 SUN. MON. TUES. 10c Matinee 1:15 Sunday Two Swell Features! FIGHTS AND DAMES' The Sattle-cry of the Marines H«’»‘ . o c*' 1T -rZ 4-XaX J. ftr* with GORDON OLIVER JUNE TRAVIS GUINN (B»G BOY) WILLIAMS RAY WALKER — ADDED THRILLER — Swift, startling story of a G-Man -nd bls Kid Pal! “Tough To Handle” Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond Evenings 10c-15c —o Tonight & Saturday TOM KEENE in “GOD’S COUNTRY’ AND THE MAN” ALSO—“Fighting Devil Dogs;” Comic ft Novelty. < Both Nights

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Butler, Macklin Win Mixed Doubles Title Miss Martha Erma Butler and j David Macklin carried off the city championship in the mixed doubles I division of the city this week when

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