Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1938 — Page 6

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YANKS WITHIN FIVE TILTS OF CLINCHING FLAG Red Rufling Scores 21st Victory; Cubs Lose To Boston New York, Sept. 14 — (U.PJ Charlie the Red Ruffing woke up' out In Cleveland today and anxiously Inquired: "I really did win' that 21st game didn't I? it wasn't : a dream, was It? All the Yankees hastened to j reassure Ruffing that he did pitch ( his 21st triumph yesterday by i letting the Cleveland Indians i down with eight hits in scoring a 1 7-1 victory. The assurance was sweet music to Ruffing's ears lie-1 cause for 15 long years he's been i trying to get over the 20-game ! hump He's flirted around ft Beveral times, but something always | happened to halt him. I>ast year and the year before 1 he won 20 games but he couldn't I get No. 21. Now. 34. Ruffing had j about reconciled himself to the | fact that he was just a 20-game . winner, no more. In his last start before yesterday's game he was ] unmercifully blasted out of the box by the Red Sox in less titan four innings. By winning his 21st game yes- , terday Ruffing firmly established himself as the pitcher of the year. | ( with 21 victories and 5 defeats. I ] No other pitcher in either league I j comes close. The triumph increased the I ‘ Yanks’ lead to 16 games and put | them in sight of the promised I land. They need any cotnbina-' 1 tion of five, either Yankee victor-1 ies or Red Sox defeats to elimin-1 nte Boston and any combination i, of six, either Yankee victories or ' Indian losses to eliminate Cleve- , land. Detroit already is mathe- 1 ‘ matically eliminated. The Tigers won their sixth straight by clubbing out a 9-3 vic- I tory over the Red Sox. Vernon I Kennedy limited the Red Sox to * eight hits to win his 12th game. ' ——iii. —» Tonight & Thursday Brought Back-See It Again! “WAIKIKI WEDDING” Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Bing Crosby, Shirley Ross ALSO—Selected Shorts. Only IOC —o Fri. 4 Sat—TEX RITTER in "UTAH TRAIL" 10c Both Nights. O—O Sun. Mon. Tues. — 2 Big Hits! ‘•Bulldog Drummond in Africa" 4 ‘‘The Missing Guest."

■ ■ TONIGHT - - |y A w M W> Advance |r«llMiffi«4| 10C-25C ON THE STAGE-IN PERSON America’s Great 1 Singing Cowbov Star! MM SMITH BALLEW W JI? Direct from Hollywood ■ & mR. JlB with five singers and plavers MSgl “BEVERLY HIILBILI1ES ” Come—See and Hear this Great Star of Screen and Radio! The Entertainmenl h-' en * "* I he year! ta^e Shows S 7:15 and 9:15. ONLY 10c-25c ON THE SCREEN—Sparkling Comedy Hit! “SHE MARRIED AN ARTIST” John Boles, Frances Drake, Luli Deste. ALSO—News; Cartoon; Novelty. Doors Open 6:15. 0 O Thurs. Fri. Sat.—“THE TEXANS.” (See Accompanying Adv.) 0 O Sun. Mon. Tues. — “Letter of Introduction” Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Andrea Leeds, Adolphe Menjou.

Four Tiger double plays helped. Washington and Chicago dlvld ed, with the Senators taking the opener, 7-1, and the White Sox Kiubblng the nightcap. 3-2 Zeke Bonura had a perfect day at bat, "4 for 4" in the opener, lading ‘ Washington's 12-hit attack Ken ' Chase let the Sox down with six i hits. A single by Larry RosenI thal drove in the winning run in I the second game and ended the I White box five-game losing i streak. The Chicago Cubs muffed a ■ chance to gain on the idle Pirates in the National league race by | losing to the Boston Bees, 5-2. 1 Jim Turner held the Cubs to four , hits and won his 13th game. The Bees rapped Clay Bryant for 11 hits, with Elbert Fletcher getting I "4 for 4," a triple, double and two ' singles. The defeat dropped the Cubs four games from the top 'or worse still, six games behind on the losing side. The other three first division clubs were rained out yesterday and will stage doubleheaders today with the Pirates tangling with the Giants and the Reds i playing the Dodgers. Yesterday s hero: Red Ruffing. ' the ex-coal miner from southern, Illinois, who won his 21st game for the first time in his 15-year major league career by pitching the Yanks to victory over the, Indians. Monmouth Defeated By Kirkland Team The Kirkland high school soft-1 ball team scored an 8-5 victory over i Monmouth Tuesday afternoon at the Monmouth diamond. The winners obtained 14 hits to 11 for the losers. Kirkland committed two errors and Monmouth one. Batteries: were P. Arnold and Runkel for Kirkland and Kunkel and Fuelling for Mon-mouths. o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Foxx, Red Sox 133 507 122177.345 Rombardl. Reds 113 423 49 147.343 Averill. Indians 124 442 96 150 .340 Weintraub, Phil 8/300 48 102.340 DiMag'io, Yank 126 522 118 175 .335 Q HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 50 Foxx. Red Sox — 44 Ott. Giants 33 York. Tigers 33 DiMaggio, Yankees 30 Clift. Browns 30 Goodman. Reds ......... . .... 30 LOANS $lO to S3OO On Your OWN Signature No Endorsers Absolute privacy. No questions asked of friends or employer—No embarrassing inquiries. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incorperated Rooms I and 2 Schafer Building Decatur. Indiana Phone 2-3-7

64 REMAIN IN i GOLF TOURNEY ■ Match Play Today To Cut National Amateur Field To hi t i Oakmont. Pa., Sept. 14 - (UP)--j . The Sun can flood the fairways with : silver today, but It will still be i; "Black Wednesday"- The day that • used to give Dobby Jones the jitters ■ '—along the traps and greens of Oak--1 moot where 64 nervous goiters start ' match play in the national amateur • championship. It will be "Black Wednesday", day ‘jot heartbreak and disappointment,* 1 because at dusk only 16 of the 64 mon who have a chance til’s morn- ( . ing will stil Ibe in there fighting the clawing for the title. The rest will have dropped into obscurity. I losers in the 18-hole matches that ' will be played this morning and thA ■ afternoon. For the dark horses, it is a shot * of fame, a chance to knock oif some i renowned player and get a foot on the glory road. For Johnny Goodman. defending champion, and others who already have collected a reputation it is a day of terror. : They never know when an unknown . player is going to get hot and sweep | them out of the tournament before I they can get their game in the groove. Bobby Jones used to say i that "Blak Wednesday” was the most terrifying prospect in tourna- ; ment golf, in 1929 at Pebble Beach, Calif., he lost a "Black Wednesday” l l match to Goodman. The luck of the draw sends Goodman today against Sid Richardson 1 of Parairie View. 111., who stayed in I the tournament only by a whisker. | He was one of 11 men who tied at 160 in the qualifying round, and lhe commiyee sent them out for a sudden death playoff from »!ie tenth tee. Only seven of the 64 match play I positions were open, which was bad news for four of the seven who had 1 160. Richardson survived the ■play- ’ ! o,f - > Not until late yesterday, near the I lend of the two days of qualifying I rounds, were the amateurs able to 1 beat down Oakmont's stubborn par 1 of 72. The pressure was on for 124 men and many a putt was stabbed nervously, many a tee shot strayed |to the rough. But along in the after- , I noon, cool as a gangsters getting • t:i a cop. came Gus Moreland of Peroria. 11l- and dropped a five-footer on the 18th green for a shining i It gave him a two-day total of 146 ( and made him medalist of ‘he tour- < Lament. The only other person able ‘ to conquer par was little W iilie Turnesa of Briar Cliff Manor. N. Y , who got a 71 for a two-day total of 148. 500 Sheets S'/iXll, IG-lb. White Paragon Bond typewriting paper 55c. The Decatur Democrat Co- £* Thurs. Fri. Sat. Another Mighty Special! Zu»o< pm».nu JOAN BENNETT * RANDOLPH SCOTT SEE the raging prairie fire... the blinding dust storm on the plains I THRILL to the thundering stampede of Texas I longhorns and I the shrieking atI tack of the warI ringComonchesl 1 May Robson* Walter Brennan Robert Barrat I ~ ’

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STANDINGS ' NATIONAL LEAGUE I W. L. Pct. OBJ Pittsburgh 77 54 .588 j Chicago 75 60 .556 4 ■ Cincinnati 74 60 .552 4*4 New York 73 61 .545 5*4 Boston .... 68 66 .507 10*4 St. Louis 64 71 .474 15 Brooklyn 61 72 .459 17 | Philadelphia .... 43 89 .326 34’4 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. 1,. Pct. GB. New York 93 42 .689 Boston 76 57 .571 16 Cleveland . 76 58 .567 16*4 Detroit .... ... 71 64 .526 22 Washington .. 67 70 .489 27 Chicago 55 74 .426 25 St. Louis 47 82 .364 43 Philadelphia 48 86 .358 44*4 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League Boston 5. Chicago 2. Pittsburgh at New York. rain. Cincinnati at Brooklyn, rain. ■ St. Louis at Philadelphia, rain. American League Washington 7-2, Chicago 1-3. Philadelphia at St. Louis, rain. Detroit 9. Boston 3. New York 7. Cleveland 3. o * Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York. Sept. 14. —(U.R) —The Moody myth has been exploded. It is not true that the classic profile, the tailored eye-shade, and the air-conditioned demeanor of Mrs. Helen Wills Moody are necessary to make a tennis tournament a financial success. Mrs. Moody is not at Forest Hills for the current national singles championship, yet already the attendance has set a new five-day record and by nightfall Sunday the coffers of the west side club are certain to be stuffed as they never have been before. Upwards of 45.000 customers have watched the play to date, and with the finals now set for Sunday because of yesterday’s rain a total attendance of 100,000 or more seems not only > probable, but downright likely.. Tournament officials welcomed Tuesday’s rain with all the engnthusiasm of a dust bowl farmer,; and not because they wanted to stay indoors and catch up on their reading, either. Each drop was a penny from heaven as it wet the courts and paved the way for a week-end final. It wasn’t a hard rain, being barely sufficient to settle the dust on the clay courts. But the well-be-ing of the customer is always uppermost in the minds of tennis officials at such a time, and they couldn’t bear the thought of a — : ' — DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT Instead of Saturday . . . this week only. BOBBY FREDERICK 9 P. M. Decatur Country Club *

! single ticket buyer getting a single I drop of moisture on his clothes. | But to get back to la Moody, the (officials must be delighted with the I proof (and It’s right there tn the ledgers, in black ink) that her ' prsence isn’t the only lubrication that will make the turnstiles spin. Because goodness knows how many hours they have spent fretting and fuming waiting for her entry blank that never arrived, and pleading and cajoling tn an effort to get her to enter the lists. This year was no exception. They went after her entry blank as painstakingly and carefully as a botanist seek-| ing a rare orchid, and when their , quest ended in failure their faces were as long as that of a Missouri ‘ mule who has just lost the one nearest and dearest. We of the press didn’t write anything that would buoy their, up. either. We too, believed in the Moody myth and wrote stories picturing row on row of empty seatq, and a stadium as cheerless as a morgue on Monday morning. But the customers exploded the myth. They went right ahead buying tic-1 kets just as if they didn’t know ( that the California matron was too busy with a lecture tour, the third ' chapter of her first novel, the design for a new sports frock, and the painting of a new (and stiller) still life, to play tennis. In fairness to Mrs. Moody (and if there is one thing this pillar of sweetness and light believes in, it is fairness—on alternate Wednesdays) her absence might have hurt some more but for the presence of the Davis cup on those shores. The Davis cup attracts foreign players just as effectively as a flower does the bees or a sirloin steak does man’s best friend, which is either the dog or the horse—l forget which. Thanks to the Davis cup, the national field this year is cluttered up with Germans, Frenchmen, Poles. Czechs. Jugoslaves. Australians. Peruvians, and Englishmen.; I—* 1 —**— — | CORT Tonight - Tomorrow THRIFT NIGHT s* Adult Hf* Ju Admissions J&jjC Children under 12 yrs., 10c i KAY FRANCIS | & BONnACRANV'*** | || ANITA LOUISE ■ a bobby jordan | H JOHN LITEL DICKIE MOOR e J i ALSO—Rathe News and Comedy. C Sunday—ZANE WITHERS “KEEP SMILING”

Singing Screen Star Appears At Decatur Smith Ballew— the first screen celebrity ever to visit the city of Decatur, drove into town this morning without the blare and fanfare that usually accompanies a ' bright star from the cinema heavi ens. engaged a modest room at the Rice hotel and caught a little sleep ‘ before his appearance on the Adams theater stage tonight. Sprawled across a bed, the famed cowboy crooner, whose rise to stardom In western singing pieitures of the past six or eight years j has been nothing short of sensational, tossed aside all I'l* giantj our and Hollywood manners to ' grant an interview to a Democrat i reporter. Tousled hair in comparison to the well-groomed head thut moviegoers see; a comfortable pair of lounging slippers replacing the high western boots; ordinary civilian clothes instead of the chaps, | kerchief, and ten gallon Stetson— I these were the most noticeable disI ferences In seeing Smith at home and on the stage. Ballew, who two years ago re- ' placed Al Jolsnn, one of the brighti est of the radio stars, on a weekly i program, unlike many synthetic I cowboy stars of the screen, is real. He was born on a Texas farm, moved onto a ranch and really ! knows how to ride a horse. He ;has played a harmonica but gave j up instrumental music for singing | —and he likes it. "The Hills of Old Wyoming”— jlong a favorite western ballad—is | also his favorite song. Ballew, who looks like Randolph Scott, another of the screen’s chos-1 j en sons, didn't change his name. His name is just Smith Ballew - he didn't think it was necessary 1 ' to tack on a cowboy “monicket such as “Tex," "Two-Gun" or oth- ! ers used by western stars. Zeppo Marx, one of the four Marx brothers, is his agent. His appearance at the local theater tonight Is to be a one-night stop before going to the Fox, Detroit s largest theater. Smith has made seven pictures. “Rawhide,” in which he shared top honors with bou Gehrig, combination movie-star and big league baseball player; "Hills of Old Wyoming" and "Roll Along Cowboy" are the best known. Ballew and the Beverly Hillbillies. who will appear with him tonight at the local theater, were the I center of attraction on downtown streets today, because of their western regalia. But Ballew nonchalantly windowshopped. chatted with his compan-: ions and looked for other means' Foreign players hold a strange fascination for tennis fans. Wheth,er they can play a lick or not. I doesn't matter. The fact that they are foreign is enough. The pat- | rons apparently would rather hear a good accent than watch a good backhand. Which, of course, is nobody's business but their own. (Copyright, 1938, by UP.)

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Falk Refmc I I ' flB (al . -T* Gilbert A. Hunt and Bobby Riggs • ini Accomplishing one of the most stunning upsets in natmn.t play, defeating Bobby Riggs, seeded No. 2. Gdbert A hSwISKs ington. D. C.. seeded 19th in the tourney, drew the attention fans at Forest Hills, U I. Hunt 1. shown b'l on ‘° a Riggs after their match. un S rat

of passing away the time until his stage appearance — apparently unaware of the furore he was caus- ' ing and acting altogether unlike I what he really is —a Hollywood movie and radio star. o Bryan M. Grant Beats Australian Forest Hills. New York, Sept. 14 , —(UP) —Bryan M. Grant of Atlanta. "giant killer" of tennis, provided ' the national singles championship with a rousing upset today when he crashed Adrian Quist of Aus- ; tralia, 6-1, 4-6. 6-1. 7-5, to gain the i quarter final round. MANDATE SUIT fCONTINUED FROX «AGB ONE) ' own land that drain's into the ditch were not assessed or apportioned any portion of the ditch to keep clean and in a proper stat© for drainage. Summons was made returnable. September 3fl. Nathan C. Nelson appeared as attorney for the plaintiff. 0 | Ex-Purdue Stars On Coach Staff Lafayette. Ind., Sept. 14—(UP) —Bob Woodworth, acting athletic director at Purdue university, today announced that three former Purdue football stars have been added to the Boilermaker coach : ?g staff for this fall. Duane Purvis, all-American halfback in 1932. will serve as assistant I Freshman coach. He will take graduate work at the University in add!-

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