Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1938 — Page 6

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REDS, PIRATES OPEN CRUCIAL SERIES TODAY Four And Half Games Behind. Reds To Play Pittsburgh Twice New York. Sept. 7.— (U.R) —Cincinnati’* dream of becoming the first club tn major league history to win the pennant after finishing in the cellar the year before, will | receive the acid test in a two-game series opening today against the’ league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates, j In games today and tomorrow at : Cincinnati the Reds wil have al chance to prove that they are not clutching at a phantom pennant, i Only 4% games off the pace, the Reds can slash the Pirates' lead to 2% games by sweeping the ser- ’ les. And if that should happen most baseball soothsayers agree that the second-place Reds, and not the first-place Pirates, will be the club to beat in the dizzy National league race. By the same token Pittsburgh can shout down its critics who say that the Pirates haven't the heart to stand off a real challenge in a hammer-and-tongs stretch battle. The Pirates have been floundering for weeks but the proof of the pudding is that they still hold the fort. The Reds' drive to catch the Pirates received a jolt yesterday when the St. Louis Cardinals put the screws on the Rhinelanders.! 8-0. Curt Davis turned in a fivehit masterpiece while his mates slugged out 17 hits off three Red pitchers. Every Card made a hit, with Don Padgett and Curt Davis, getting three each. The Pirates were idle. With one of their finishes reminiscent of happier days, the New York Giants prevented the Boston Bes from closing in on fourth place by scoring a 6-5 victory in 10 innings. Homers by Alex Kampouris , and Jojo Moore tie dthe count and sent the game into extra innings. After the Bees had scored thrice in their half of the 10th the Giants : won the game with a Tour-run rally in the last half. A walk. Danning’s single- and Mel Ott’s 33rd homer tied ihe score. With the bases loaded Kampouris' single won the game. Vito Tamulis survived a four-run first inning to pilch Brooklyn to a 6-4 triumph over the Phillies. Tamulis allowed only three hits after the first frame. Kiki Cuyler’s ; single with the bases loaded sea-

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itured a four-run rally by the Dodgi ers In the second. Cleveland moved Into a tie for second place in the American league with the Boston Red Sox by ’blanking Detroit, 6-0. Bob Feller . allowed only four hits and pitched his first shutout since April 20 when he blanked the Browns In his first start of the season. Fel- ’ ler also made two of the Indians' ■ 10 hits and drove in two runs. It was No. 14 for Feller. Cecil Travis' single with the bases loaded In the eighth drove in the two runs by which Washington defeated the Boston Red Sox. 7-5. Rene MontegudoT Cuban rookie fro mthe Senators’ Trenton farm, won his first start, though rapped for 14 hits Jimmy Foxx , bit homer No. 40 but fanned in . the eighth with the boases loaded. Monte Stratton scored his 14th , victory by pitching the Chicago White Sox to an 8-2 triumph over ■ the Browns. By failing to get a homer since Aug. 31, Hank Greenberg, lytroit .slugger, is now behind Babe Ruth's record-breaking schedule. Ruth hit three homers on Sept. 6 to make i his total 47. Greenberg has 46. and needs 15 in 26 games to break Ruth’s mark of 60. Yesterday's hero: Alex Kampouris. Giants' utility infielder who was soved back into the lineup at second base and hit a homer and a game-winning single against the Bees. o j STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Pittsburgh 75 52 .591 I Cincinnati . .72 58 .554 4% Chicago 71 58 .550 5 New York 70 59 .543 6 Boston 65 62 .512 10 St. Louis 62 68 .477 14% Brooklyn 58 70 .453 17% Philadelphia .... 40 86 .317 34% AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. I New York 89 40 .690 Boston .. 74 53 .583 14 Cleveland 74 53 .583 14 Detroit 65 61 .508 23% . Washington — 64 66 .492 25% I Chicago 54 70 .435 32*4 St. Louis 45 81 .347 42*4 Philadelphia .... 45 84 .349 44 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League St. Louis 8. Cincinnati 0. Brooklyn 6. Philadelphia 4. New York 6. Boston 5 110 inpings). Only games scheduled. American League 1 Cleveland 6, Detroit 0. Chicago 8, St. Louis 2. Washington 7. Boston 5. Only games scheduled. _ 0 . Decatur Tennis Team Defeated By Elwood Winning only one singles match. I (the Decatur city tennis team was 11 defeated on the local courts by El- j wood, 4-1, in a second district lea- i gue match during the La'uor Day holiday. Hoffman scored Decatur's only victory, defeating Hollingsworth, 6-4. 6-2. Other results: Wilson (E) defeated Hancher, 6-4, 6-4; Frazier <T7T defeated Strickler, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3; Brewster-Majors (E) defeated Hancher-lloffman, 75, 6-3; FrazierFitzpatrick (E) defeated Strickler- ; Affolder, 6-3, 3-6. 75. o 500 Sheets S'/ixll. 16-lb. White Paragon Bond typewriting paper 55c. The Decatur Democrat Co.tf

GIANTS BATTLE ALL-STAR GRID TEAM TONIGHT Annual Charity Game To Be Played At Polo Grounds Tonight New York. Sept. 7—<U.R) —The New York football Giants tackle the eaatr-rn college all-stars in a charity game at the Polo Grounds tonight. While these pro-all star clashes have multiplied like guinea pigs in the last two years, there is more then usual Interest in tonight's tilt because of two straight 1 defeats suffered by the National league champion Washington Redskins at the hands of the collegians in the last eight days. The Giants were runners up to the Redskins in the eastern division of the league last year, and outcome of this game might furnish a basis of comparison between them in this year's race. The Giants, with virtually the same lineup as last year, are even money to make it three straight over the all star* in the New York Herald Tribune's third annual game for the benefit of underprivileged children. Odds on the professional club 1 probably would be longer except for the way the Redskins have been manhandled by the rah rah boys, and the fact that Colgate's Andy K *rr has the finest all-star aggregation he ever has coached.! He has a first string forward wall j averaging 6 feet in height and ’ 202*4 pounds per man. His back- 1 field averages 5 ft. 11 in. in height and 183% pounds in I weight. The Giants will outweigh the j collegians about 10 pounds per I man. They have put in three | weeks hard training at Pearl River, N. Y., and Coach Steve Owen believes them far enough ( along to uphold successfully the prestige of the professionals. Notable addition to the Giants is Nello (Flash) Falaschi. fancy blocking quarterback from St. Mary's. Owen wants to start him ; with Ward Cuff and Tuffy Leemafis at the halfback posts. Another newcomer. Leonard Barnum. th'- West Virginia Wesleyan | ace, will be at fullback. Mel I Hein, all-league center for the! past five years, will be starting his eighth season as the Giants, pivot man.

Kerr plans to start a backfield composed of Johnuy Miehelosen of Pitt at quarter. Al Hessherg of Yale anti Andy Stopper of Villanova at the halves, and Bill Stapulis of Pitt at full. Fordham’s two ail-Americas, Alexander Wojciechowicz and Ed (Devil Doll) Franco will be in the all-stars' forward wall, playing center and guard respectively. If the weather continues clear, a record crowd of nearly 45.000 Is expected. o Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York. Sept. 7.—<U.R) —As a bookmaker. Tim Mara is about the coldest article that ever wore a hound tooth's jacket. Sitting on a high stool, by his slate, at Aqueduct. Belmont, Saratoga. the Empire City, the Elg Irishman is a throwback to the ice age. Plungers walk up and lay five grand on a long shot and Tim doesn't' bat an eye. Neither does he allow bets of twice that size on the favorite to disturb his calm. TVhen the' horses, carrying a small fortune of his on their backs, go to the post. Tim is as unpreturbed as a two buck better. He mounts his stool, turns his glasses on the barrier, and giTes a sketchy call of the race in a flat, dead voice.

I listened to him yesterday during the running o£ the seventh at Aqueduct, a race in which he stood to lose a small fortune in Bonsoir won. Bonsoir broke on top and took a two length lead. Tim called it as quickly and unemotionally as if he had never heard of Bonsoir. When Julius Caesar caught Bonsoir in the stretch and came on to win by a head, all Tim said was: "The favorite’s licked, boys." No yelling, no jumping up and down, none of the hi-jinks that might reasonably be expected from a man who had just won thousands of dollars. Tim isn’t always so cold, however. The horses don't get him, but football does. Yes, football, because Tim is only a bookmaker on week days. On Sundays he is Tim Mara, owner of the New York Giants, a professional football team In the National league. On Sundays he is so nervous he cant’ eat. At breakfast time he is worrying about what the team will do. At lunch he is worrying twice as acutely about the same thing. And at dinner time—well, win or lose, the excitement of the game has thrown his appetite for »

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! a 10-yard loss. During a Giants' game the man i who can watch a 125,000 blanket i finish at the race track is first | cdusin to a maniac. He tears his hair, rends his clothes, paces up and down, runs out on the field, and screams screams that can be heard above the roar of the elevated trains that pass the Polo grounds. “I'm nuts about that football,” Tim said yesterday during a lull in betttng. “I’ve been nuts ever since 1925 when I bought the. Giants' National league franchise.' That’s a funny story, that one about! me buying the Giants. I was sitting in Billy Gibbon’s office,' the same Billy Gibbon who managed i Tunney, when in came a Dr. March and a Mr. Carr. After a lot of small talk they tried to sell Billy the Giants’ franchise. He said he didn’t want it. So Carr turned to j me and said I ought to buy it. “I asked him how much he want-1 ed for it, but told him not to make it very much because I never had | seen a football game of any sort. I Carr said he would let me have the ■ franchise for 2.500 bucks. That sounded cheap to me, so I wrote out a check." Tim was ready io pay someone to take that franchise half way in the National league season. Out $35,000, and with no sign of any dough coming in. he nearly passed away when Red Grange brought

Extend Hunt for Abductors • AH * **■, ■ > &£< MHr *» ■ <b *. W- */• * >, J „ ■* !*«•»»>•-* v Jr >C<X. JkBR" A < f fr i t i - -8 -3 > I J Lloyd Hewitt and Burt Foster, top; Mrs. Meeks at home, below California state police Joined in the hunt for two abductors of Mrs. Norman Meeks. 56-year-old farm wife, below, shown recovering after being seized from her home near Marysville, Cal., for $15,000 ransom and then left alone on a hillside. She wandered back to a road and was taken home by Burt Foster, shown right, above, talking with District Attorney Lloyd Hewitt A redheaded man was hunted as one suspect in the strange abduction.

his team in and played to a gate of exactly $142,000. “When I saw that crowd” Tim explained, “and knew that half the cash in the house was mine, I said to myself. ‘Timothy, how long has this gravy train been running?' ” It was no gravy train in 1927, however. C. C. Pyle, the bunion derby man, formed an American league with a team in New York and no one made any money. Tim finally got rid of Pyle by backing I C. C. on a barnstorming tour. I But Tim didn't give up. He ' stuck with the Giants through the ■ lean years and what do you think ' his franchise is worth today? I asked him. and here's his answer: “I paid $2,500 for it and I wouldn't sell it today for 200 times that amount. And 200 times s2'.f 500 is half a million dollars. So ! you can see what I think of the Giants.” I asked Tim what his team would Ido to the All-Stars at the Polo grounds tonight. “We're a shoo-in.” he said. I “We’ll win pulled up.” (Copyright 1938 by UP.) o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Lombardi, Reds 109 412 47 145.352 Travis, Senator 125 487 85 170.349 Averill. Indians 118 424 96 147 .347 Foxx, Red Sox 127 487 114 166 .341 Trosky. Indians 126 464 93 158.341

TOURNEY DRAW IS ANNOUNCED City Horseshoe Tourney Will Open Here Thursday Evening Pairings for the first round of the city horseshoe tourney, which opens at the G. E. courts Thursday night at 7 o'clock were listed today by the committee in charge. Thirty-two tossers will compete in Class A division for the title now held by Bill TuteweilOr. Vizard. the other finalist in the spring i tourney, is also entered. The class A pairings: J. Hodle vs. J. Spahr, A. Hurst vs. .1. Brunton. J. Bayless vs. W. I Lindeman. Marbaugh vs. L. AnI drews, D. Gallogly vs. Bob McMili len, L. Kreischer vs. Archer, Moses j vs. Tuteweiler, B. Scheimann vs. |G. Womack. O. Schultz vs. G. Stults. R. Ralston vs. G. Myers. A. ! Andrews vs. Marion Heare. L. ‘ Drake vs. F. Hoffman. L. Rash vs. V. Andrews, Rupert vs. Krugh. R. ’ Andrews vs. G. Vizard and McDonald vs. D. McMillen. The drawing in the class B division for the first round: W. Baumann vs. E. Lankenau. Max eare vs. G. Auer, R. McDoug- ' all vs. H. Lengerich, A. Burke vs. ' D. Bogner, C. Miller vs. J. McCon--1 nell, R. Spade vs. F. Engle. R. Ladd vs. R. Roop, J. Alberding vs. F. I Kitson. R. Leitz vs. H. Drake, W. i Eckrote vs. B. Kertzberger, B. ' Hanni vs. C. Heimann. E. Warren vs. R. Stanley, F. Gillig vs. H. Heller. W. Baughn vs. P. Busse, H. Keller vs. W. eim, F. Braun vs. G. Acheson. The entry fee of 10 cents is to be paid at the courts. Players will be given until Monday night to compete first round play. o I ♦ Rotarians Battle Lions Tonight In Softball ‘Classic’ The sports "classic” of Hie year will be played under the lights at the South Ward diamond tonight, when members of the Decatur ser\ice clubs. Rotarians and Lions, batle for the city’s “fumbling” title. There will be no admission charge with thep layers daring aching muscles for sheer glory and amusement of the heckling spectators. Starting time has been set for 7; 15 o’clock. The service club teams will play three innings and then sit out for three innings while teams chosen by the Boy Scout troops sponsored by the clubs play three. If the veterans are able, they will again take the field to finish seven innings of play. , Starting lineups were kept a deep dark secret by the rival captains, Maurice Kindler of lhe Rotarians and John Doane of the Lions, who probably fear some of their supposed players may take a run-out powder, —o Little Rock Pitcher Hurls No-Hit Game Atlanta, Sept. 7.—<U.R) —A rookie, Woodrow Rich, pitched a no-hit, no-run game last night for Little Rock against the Atlanta Crackers, leaders- of the Southern Association. Little Roek won 4-0 in the first game of a double-header as Rich proved himself invincible. The . Crackers helped him along by mak-

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! Ing seven errors. It was Rich's Hffh victory of the ! season against nine defeats. I Local Theater Shows Decatur Movies Here r| Thousands of Decatur people are i in the movies and will be enabled j io see how they look on the screen at the Adams theater tonight anu tomorrow. A representative of the r Weller Newsreel Co., a profession--1 al Hollywood cameraman, has ’ been in the city the past week • photographing Decatur folks and principal places and events of in- ' terest, and several thousand feet ’ of this film will be an interesting • addition to the Adams" program 1 The roving cameraman “shot'’ many people on the streets, business houses, ball games, the Boy '■ Scouts and also visited Berne and Willshire. Just like the Hollywood ' productions, the local newsreel will ' have a commentator who describes 1 and talks about what transpires • on the screen. HOME RUNS . Greenberg, Tigers 46 ■ Foxx, Red Sox ... . . 40 Ott, Giants 33 ■ York. Tigers 82 Clift. Browns 30 . Goodman. Reds 30i . o SPECULATE ON i 1 (CONTINUED FPOU ?AGB ONE) ■ Inherited heir to the fallen Span- • ish throne, there would be no 1 question that Prince Juan, third ’ son of Alfonso, would be the ■ choice for the crown. Officials of • nationalist Spain have not rejected the idea of a referendum to 1 welcome back a king, under 1 strictly limited powers, after the 1 , war endt. Prince Juan is 25 years old. His wife is the former Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon- ! Sicily. o BOARD REFUSES ' (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the river. They said it was unfair to these people along the . river. The commissioners are also de- | manding that the original agreement be kept, in which the county would not become liable for the huge bond issue. San Francisco Stores Paralyzed By Strike San Francisco. Sept. 7 —(UP) —. Several thousand salesgirls and clerks went on strike in 35 of San Francisco's largest department stores today. Their action practically paralyzed the city's famous shopping district. The stores opened for “business as usual.” but hundreds of pickets, mostly women, made shopping difficult. They booed persons who attempted to enter the stores. Scores of police patrolled the district.

PENNY DANCE Thurs. Nite, Sept. 8 10c Admission 1 Penny per Person. — ALSO — DANCING Sun. Nite, Sept. 11 with Harold Greenamyer’s Orchestra for both engagements. Followed Sunday Night with Free Fireworks. Everybody Welcome at EDGEWATER PARK Celina, Ohio.

Public Sale We will sell at Public Auction on the farm located 1 mile * 'i mile south of Magley, on FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 Begins at 1:00 o'clock sharp HOGS—IO Head Coders. Ten head hogs weighing about 125 lbs. each. Good FARM MACHINERY pi I Wagons, Turnbull wagon in fair shape, low wt, eele , bed, wagon box; good cultipacker; rotary hoe. go°<* •■ . , in Deer ' national corn cultivator, in good shape: breaking pi<> 1 j er ago spike tooth harrow; spring tooth harrow: Moline nay . )pere one; hay tedder; manure spreader, New Idea; ,lo ' punier, J°’ double disc, in fair shape; Superior grain drill. ‘‘ Deere, a good binder, will go right out and do the w MISCELLANEOUS crea m s' Fifteen barrel galvanized tank, good as new. De hel | er; sot arator; feed cooker; spring wafeon; cider press; e ' man y oft canned fruit; dishes and other household goods articles not mentioned. TERMS—Cash. W. M. and Walter Frauhiger, Ownei H. H. High—Auctioneer Milton Girod—Clerk.

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Notice to Patrofl I, My office will be September 6. 7.8, «. Br, 11, V, nJ '! WANTED I 11 RAGS. Magazines. Nfl papers. Scrap Iron, Old fl Radiators. Batteries. Cofl ' Brass. Aluminum, andfl grades of scrap metals. B We buy hides, woo], sfl pelts, the year round. fl The Maier Hide fl & Fur Co. | 710 W. Monroe st. Phone I [corl Tonight - Tomornl THRIFT NIGHT TWO ADULTS fl Children, under 12 — 11 J ADDED — Pathe Ne« s a Comedy “Candid Kid. Sunday — “Go Chase W self” a hilarious with Joe Penner.