Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1938 — Page 6

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PENNANT RAGE SCENE SHIFTS TO THE EAST National League Teams In East; Pirates Meet Giants New York, Sept. 13 — (U.R) — The madhouse National lengne pennant race, which has the oxports walking on their hods and the managers cutting out paper dolls at midnight, was resumed along the eastern front today with the Pittsburgh Pirates determined to prove they are ■ champions. With a 3'j game lend over the 1 Cubs. Pittsburgh moved Into the Polo Grounds to open a three- j game series against the fourthplace Giants. Rival pitchers for j today's game were Rob Klinger, l Pirate rookie who has beat the Giants four times this season, and Hal Schumacher, gamely carrying on for the Terrymen despite a chipped bone in his pitching arm. Across the river the third place | Reds. 4' 2 games off the pace, tangled with Rrooklyn. fresh from a triumphant series over the Giants. The second-place Cubs, victors seven out of their last eight games, resumed their drive against the fading Bees in Boston. As the four contenders wheel down the stretch, they could be sized up as follows: Pirates —Big advantage because of five-game lead in all-important losing column. Johnny Rizzo, temperamental outfielder, is key man If he keeps hitting the dull can t blow it. If Rizzo slumps the Pirates are likely to wind up behind the 8-ball. Tight defensive infield is Pirates' strong point. Twenty-htree games to go. 13 of

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; them with first division clubs, 1 Cubs Schedule favors Cubs, who have only seven of their re- | mainlng 20 games with first dl vision clubs Dizzy Dean, uppari ently ready to pitch again, likely , to be key man. If he can team up with I-ee, Bryant, and Root the . Cubs may do It. Reds — Everything depends on left side of Infield and Johnny i Vunder Meet's continued success. Have most powerful attack of the contenders but weakness at third may cook the Reds' goose. Vander Meer, Derringer and Walters might do It if Pirates keep slipping and the Cults fold up. Ten of remaining 20 games with first division clubs. Giants — Slight advantage of playing at home. Melton, Schumacher and Gumbert must all click to keep them in the running. Infield weak at second, and team’s attack is spotty. Will take a real Terry miracle to bring them home in front again. Eight ! of remaining 20 games with first division dubs With Frankie Frisch out as manager of the Cardinals, the managerial rumors have shifted to Brooklyn where Burleigh i Grimes is “fired" every 24 hours. According to the grapevine circuit, Grimes is definitely through hut will not step out until the end I of the season. One report hau it that Frisch would move in as Grimes' successor this winter with Gr*mes going to the Cardinals. Hank Greenberg stood all even with Bahe Ruth's home run record pace today. He hit no. 50 yesterday off the White Sox's Jack Knott in his 134th game, the same one in which the Babe hit his 50th in 1927. With 20 games left Greenberg must hit a homer I every two days with one extra one tossed in somewhere along the route to break Ruth's record of 60. Rudy York's double drove in the run by which the Tigers heat the Wthie Sox. 4-3, in the only major league game yesterday. It j was the Tigers' fifth straight victory. Yesterday's hero: Hank Greenberg. who kept pace with Rabe Ruth's 1927 home run record by i hitting No. 50. I STANDINGS I NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. Pittsburgh .. 77 54 .SSB Chicago 75 59 .560 3*4 Cincinnati 74 GO .552 4*4 New York 73 61 .545 Sft ; Boston . 67 66 .504 11 St. Louis 64 71 .474 15 Brooklyn 61 72 .459 17 Philadelphia 43 89 .326 34*4 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. New York 92 42 .687 Boston 76 56 .576 15 i i Cleveland 76 57 .571 15*4 . 1 Detroit 70 64 .522 22 ' Washington ...... M 69 .489 26*4 | Chicago 54 73 .425 3114 ' St. Louis 47 82 .364 4214 | Philadelphia .... 48 86 .358 44 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League , No games scheduled. American League Detroit 4. Chicago 3. Only game scheduled.

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i== mm Seasons Greetings! —oOo— Decatur's football season, originally scheduled to open last week, will get underway Friday night, with the Yellow Jackets carded to tangle with the old rivals, the Bluffton Tigers, at BiufTtou. —oOo — An unexpected delay in erection of new light towers at Worthman • Field forced local school officials to revise the 1938 schedule. —oOo— The opening game of the schedule, which was to see the Garrett Railroaders at Worth- ! man Field last Friday night, has been moved to Tuesday night, October 4. The first home game of the season will be played September 30. with the Tigers of Fort Wayne Central as the opposition. —oOo— Bluffton will have a decided edge over the Yellow Jackets in the opener, as the Tigers have been in action twice. Bluton was trounced by Fort Wayne Central fn the first tilt, but the Tigers bounced back to hold the strong Warsaw eleven to a 6-6 tie last week. —oOo — Eight lettermen from the 1937 squad are available for this year’s edition of Hugh Andrews' Yellow Jackets. These returning veterans are: John McConnell, Charles Andrews, Marion Friedt, James Highland, Paul Neidigh, Lewis Shoe. Robert Stalter and Richard Walter. I I t — oOo— Eight lettermen of last year’s team, lost by graduation, were: Don Death, Marion Drum, Frank Grether, Art Heller. Dan Holthouse, Dwight Kimble, Laures Meyer and Max Odle. —oOo — Despite the “jitterbug” race in the National league, with the leading teams taking turns blowing chances to sew up the pennant, to hold sport interet, football fans of the country are on edge for the season. ——oOo— With grid appetites whetted by the spectacular battle in which the College All-Stars whipped the ; Washington Redskins, national professional champions, great crowds turned out for the opening games of the pro league last week, and advance ticket sales forecast great crowds at college games this fall. Order your tickets early. —oOo — We've often wondered what causes football coaches to be chronic pessimists and baseball managers such incurable optimists. Every grid mentor In the country today is bemoaning his lack of tal-ent-lucky to win a game is the usual cry—but last spring, even the j St. Louis Browns had a chance to | win the American League pennant. I Must be something in the air. o Special Wednesday Only! One rack of Silk Dresses—i values to SB.OO, special $2.00. 1 E. F. GASS STORE.

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j 1 Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore ♦ ♦ ! 1 New York, Sept. 13.—(U.R)—A , new star shone In the tennis heav-j , ens today anu not one single press < box "astronoraern” could lay claim i to having forecast her arrival. j l The new star hears the old name I i of Tvtargot Lumb and she came in- i < to view late yesterday when she j l eclipsed Helen Jacobs in straight sets in a third round match of the : national single championship. Crit-! | ies who had been as silent about i < her chances to win the title as is i the “T” in her first name, came 1 away from the match singing Miss 1 Lunib's praises and vowing that ’ she would be champion of the , world within the next two years. ■ I consider two years a very con-

In Cards’ Managerial Shift Mike Gonzales Frankie Frisch When Frankie Frisch was dropped as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, the St. Louis management named the veteran former Cardinal coach, Mike Gonzales, to take over the team until the end of the season Pastor No Paul Bunyan v» C Bob Pastor Training for his fight with Gunnar Barlund of Finland, heavyweight Bob Pastor swung the axe he was using to chop wood against his left leg and cut a deep gash which required 22 stitches. The accident occurred at Saratoga, N. Y. The fight was scheduled for Oct. 3.

servative estimate if she can hold to the form she displayed ill beating Miss Jacobs, 7-5, 6-2. For an hour yesterday she was the be9t woman tennis piayer in the world. She had every shot, and executed them so superbly that Helen Jacobs. who was playing sound tennis. had no more chance than a movice. At no time did the Californian have a chance in the face of the English girl's whirlwind attack. Miss Lumb is a rather remarkable athlete. Tennis isn't her best game, you know. She just started playing serious tennis two years ago. Squash racquets was her first love, and still would be if she hadn't become so good that there wasn't a woman in the world wiio could give her a battle. Effortless victories in this game so bored her that she vacated her world’s

CHAMPION TEAM GUEST OF CLUB Rotarians To Entertain Junior Baseball League Champions The junior Rotary baseball team, champions of the Adams county junior league during the past season, will be guests of the Decatur [ Rotary club at the weekly meeting ! Thursday evening at the Rice hotel. The Rotary team won the league championship with five victor-! ies as against one defeat. The lea-' gue winners defeated the Decatur Legion team twice, Pleasant Mills twice and gained an even break in two games with Berne to cop, the title. The Rotary team, composed by the local service club, was coach- j ed and managed by Carl Mies, former minor and major league hurler, now a resident of this city. The league was conducted as a part of Decatur’s new recreation program, under the direct supervision of George F. Laurent, recreation supervisor. Mr. Laurent and Mr. Mies will also be guests at Thursday's meeting. Robert Downey, district recreation supervisor, will be one of the speakers at the meeting and an effort is being made to obtain a championship and turned to tennis. Now, at the rather advanced tennis age of 26, she threatens to become so proficient on the courts that she soon will have to find a fresh sport to conquer. Perhaps middle age will find her in the uncomfortable position of having exhausted all possible sports, and reduced to reminiscing of the days when she w-as squash raeqets, ten nis, bicycling, swimming, croquet, I and rope climbing champion. Her biggest asset is speed afoot. She covers court with the alacrity of a man and can retrieve shots that would elude any other woman by yards. Coupled with her speed she has unlimited stamina. Pat Hughes, vetel-an British Davis cup star and manager of the British Dightman cup team of which Miss Lumb is a member, says she is the finest conditioned athlete he has ; ever known. “I always thought that Fred Perry, in his amateur days, represented the ultimate in condition,” Hughes told me, “but Margot keeps herself fitter than Fred, even. Honestly, she could play ten sets ! under a broiling sun, and finish at | top speed. Fitness is one of her ! fetishes. Perfection is another, j She cannot tolerate mediocrity, i No tennis player practices as much as she does. Hour after hour she bits the ball." Miss Lumb is no certain thing to win the title at Forest Hills this year. One match never did make a champion. While she showed no weaknesses against Miss Jacobs. | she has some. Her backhand is In the recent doubles championship one. It is not consistently sure, at Boston her backhand failed her, repeatedly. Her strategy is not always of the keenest sort, either. : But you can safely make a bet that practice will remedy the backhand j flaw and tournament play the dei flciency in courtcraft, and that by this time next year she will be | even money to defeat any of her, i rivals. (Copyright 1938 by UP.)

UPSETS MARK TENUIS MEET Bobby Riggs, Helen Jacobs Eliminated From Tourney Horeat Hill*. N. Y., Sept. 13.— <U.R> -The remaining quarter dual round place* in the men'* and wo- j men's national tennis singles championship* will be filled today j but no one, from the oldest critic ! to the youngest lull boy, cared to j wager who would get them. This unwlllingne** to predict was a result of yesterday's amazing upsets which saw two of this country'* finest players beaten Tty unranked outsiders. A gambler with a flair for iongshots could have made a fortune by parlaying Gilbert Hunt of ashington, D. C.., who defeated Bobby Riggs, and Margot Dumb of England who trounced Helen Jacobs. Os the two victories Hunt’s wa* the most astounding. There are few Instances in the record book where the 19th ranking player defeated the country's No. 2 performer in the natioanl championship. Today's matches, confined to the upper half of the men's draw and the lower half of the women's list, were not without their upset possibilities. In the men's play Don Budge was the only favorite who appeared in no danger. He plays Charley Hare of England, and while that young man gave Budge a tremendous battle In the first set of their Davis cup match at Wimbledont Hast year, he isn't likely to do it again. In the women's division, Alice Marble. America's chief title hope now that Miss Jacobs is on the sidelines, plays Dorothy Stevenson of Australia, and should win. .o — — Heavy Vote Predicted In Michigan Primary Detroit. Sept. 13 —(UP) —A comparatively heavy vote was predicted today as Michigan chose candidates for major state offices and for congress. Gov. Frank Murphy was unopposed for remonination on the Demmember of the state recreation department as principal speaker. George Thoms, chairman of the club athletic committee, will have charge of the program. Members of The team, who will be guests Thursday night, are: Jim Highland, captain; F. Shamerloh, W. Lynch, R. Walter, K. Gaunt, F. Hoffman, R.‘Lord, W. Melchi, R. Woodhall, Heckman. R. Bolinger, A. Baker. W. Kuhnle, N. Hess, P. Elliot.

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