Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1938 — Page 6

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PIRATES DROP TWIN BILL TO NEW YORK NINE' Pittsburgh Lead Over Cubs Slashed To Two And Half Games New York. Sept. 15—(IIP) —Pill Terry now wishes he hadn't said that his Giants couldn’t win the pennant. The undiplomatic Giants’ master mind, who is variously known as Terrible Terry," "Vinegar Bill,” and "The Cheerless Leader”, earnestly' wishes he hadn’t quit on his balL club the night of August 24 when they were leaving Chicago for St. Louis on the last leg of their Western journey. The reason is that the Giants may win the National League pennant' after all. Terry deemed the Giants’ hopeless that August night in Chicago. A newspaperman said to him, “It'll be tough catching them (The Pirates) now —six games behind.’’• Terry said, "catch what? The train. 1 We’ll be lucky if we don’t miss it J the way we're going. We’re out of it.” Later in Pittsburgh Terry con-' ceeded the pennant to the Pirates and said. "If they don’t win the! pennant they ought to quit." Terry is now trying to teil some' of the boys he didn’t say these things—or, anyway, if he said them he didn’t mean them that way. Be-] cause the Giants yesterday kicked the Pirates in the slats twice, 3-0 ( and 10-3, and today were tied with the Reds for third place, only 3% games from the top. Pittsburgh, with perhaps the worst case of jitters since the, team's famous slump in September, j 1921, looked all through as they' caved in before the Giants yester-, day. Hal Schumacher, pitching with . a chipped elbow bone, planked them 3-0, on seven hits in the opener. In the nightcap the Giants slugged Ed Brandt and Bill Swift for eight 1 runs in the first two frames and Harry Gumbert coasted to a 10-3 victory. The Pirates have now lost eight of their last 11 games. Their sevengame lead entering September has melted away. Over this stretch the I'irates have had only tw’o pitchers go the route and win. To omplicate matters Bob Klinger, the Pirates steadiest pitcher, has a sore arm which prevented him from pitching yesterday and Red Lucas is away from the Club because of the ser-

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| r.ius illness of his wife, i Gabby Hartnett's homer with the 1 | ’iases loaded enabled the Cubs to triumph over the Boston Hies, 6-3 |on si hits. Charley Root allowed 11 | I hits but was stingy in the pinches. %'asey Stengel protested the game, •claiming Hartnett’s hom»r was foul. | Cincinnati dropped into a third-i • place tie with New York by divid- s . Ing with Brooklyn. Fred Fitzsitni mons won his seventh straight as I 'he Dodgers copped the opener, 6-2. 1 1 Ernie Lombardi's homers placed the Reds to an 8-4 victory In the i nightcap. The St. Louis Cardinals whacked the Phillies twice. 12-9 and 3-2. Joe I Medwiek hit a homer in earn game | making his season’s total 19. His second homer won the nightcap.' ookie .Morton Cooper allowed only! three hits in winning the second > game. n the American League the Boston Red Sox snapped Detroit's six (game winning streak with a 9-2 vicjtory. Joe Heving won his third straight, keeping the Tigers’ nine ■hits scattered. Jimmy Foxx and i Joe Crownin made three hits each, i Wally Moses' ninth inning homer enabled the Athletics to nose out ; the Browns, 4-3. Buck Newsom was charged with his 14th defeat. Yesterday's Hero —Hal Schu-i jmacher, Giants’ crippled pitcher who went the route and blanked the Pirates with seven hits perform-' ance. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. I Pittsburgh . 77 56 .579 ('hicago . 76 60 .559 2% I | Cincinnati 75 61 .551 3% I New York 75 61 .551 3% I Boston 68 67 .504 10 St. Louis 66 71 .482 13 Brooklyn 62 73 .459 16 I Philadelphia 43 91 .321 34% AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. ; New York 93 42 .689 Boston 77 57 .575 15% Cleveland 76 58 .567 16% 1 Detroit 71 65 .522 22% Washington 67 70 .489 27 Chicago . 55 74 .426 35 Philadelphia .49 86 .363 44 St. Louis 47 83 .362 43% YESTERDAY S RESULTS National League Chicago 6. Boston 3. Cincinnati 2-8, Brooklyn 6-4. New York 3-10, Pittsburgh 0-3. St. Louis 12-3. Philadelphia 9-3. American League Washington at Chicago, rain. New York at Cleveland, rain. Philadelphia 4. St. Louis 3 (second game. rain). Boston 9, Detroit 2.

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BIG TEN GRID TEAMS PREPARE j FOR OPEN GAME Hocus • Pocus Style Oi Game To Be Featured In Conference Chicago. Sept. 15. — KU.R> — The i Big Ten is preparing for Its fan- ' cleat season of hocus-pocus foot- : ball. Coming up In a tight conference campaign In which any one of five i teams may slight into the championship and their coaches, considering all other things equal, or nearly so, are laying extensive aerial plans. Ohio State, probably the only team in ithe conference with weight to spare, definitely has returned to Francis Schmidt's carefully planned "dipsy-doo" style of play. At Illinois. Bob Zuppke already has invented the double huddle and rival coaches will be just as happy if that’s all he has cooked up. Northwestern, lighter than usual, lias a new passer in sophomore Red Hahenstein and lowa has an'other sharpshooter to pair up with Nile Kinnick, who set the Big Ten I on fire last season as a sophomore. A typical example of the razzledazzle Ohio State hopes will win a Big Ten title broke out in yesi terday's scrimmage. Co-Capt. Mike ' Kabealo, trapped after receiving a forward pass from sophomore Jim Sexton, flipped a neet lateral to Stu Whitehead, another sophomore. who jogged across the goal : line for the only touchdown of the I long offensive scrimmage. Schmidt expects his sophomores !to make up the heavy beating graduation dealt the Buckeyes. The new threat at lowa is Jerry Niles, sophomore halfback, who may be another Kinnick. Niles consistently hit the mark with passes during a fast scrimmage. yesterday in which the regulars] I scored seven times against the resevres. Irl Tubbs wants plenty of touchdowns this fall. In his' first season at lowa they were al- \ most as scarce as victories. Tom Harmon, the Indiana sophomore who finally picked out Michi- 1 gan. has begun to show his passing hand along with Dave Strong, transfer student from Illinois. Both clicked late in a scrimmage yesterday, throwin gto Ed Fruitig and Vince Valek, rookie ends. Shortage of tackles is causing Bob Zuppke minor worries. Al 1 Lundberg pulled up with a torn muscle and Zup shifted John Sik- ' ich fro ntguard to tackle to plug the hole. o | Today’s Sport | By Henry McLemore New York. Sept. 15. — 4U.R> — Here's a market tip? If the New York Giants win the National league pennant this year take all the , money you can beg. borrow or steal and buy transportation stock.s Because the migration from this 1 city on the day the Giants start against the Yankees in the world series will be terriffic. Baseball lovers by the tens of i thousands will fight for seats on departing trains, buses, airplanes and boats in an effort to get as {far away from the Yankee stadium and Polo grounds as possible. Bored to death by the Giants' sickly efforts against the Yankees in 1936 and 1937, the fans simply won’t stand for this outdoor sedative three years in a row. Yet it looks as if they might have to, because the Giants kicked the staggering Pirates twice yesterday and now are only 3 and j % games out of the lead. In a league where the standard of play is as poor as it is in the National this year, even a grade B, unpasteurized team like the Giants has as much chance as any of finishing on top As awful as the Giants were iiß the series of 1936 andl937, in which they won but three games, they will be worse this year. At least they had Hubbell whose magnificent craftsmanship was something to see. But Hubbell is out with an injured arm. and without him the 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 Incorporated , ' Room I and 2 Schafer Building Decatur, Indiana Phono 2-3*7

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ENGLISH RACER ! BREAKS RECORD .John Cobh Sets World's Auto Speed Record This Morning Bonneville Salt Flats. Utah. Sept. 15 —(U.R) —John Cobbs. Eng-j i I lish sportsman, today drove his i 2.500 Jioi eepower Railton racer at I > i an average speed of 350.20 miles ' ; I an hour, a new world's record for ' i speed on land. Cobb's tremendous speed was. attained shortly after dawn in a renewal of the friendly racing , duel with a fellow countryman, Capt. George E. T. Eyston. Eys- ■ ton held the previous world land 1 . speed record. He said that he | would bring his seven-ton Thunderbolt racer back to the. salt track tomorrow in an attempt to recapture the record. Monday Cobb had failed by the 1 slender margin of 2.97 miles an , hour to equal Eyston's mark and this morning at dawn when the button-shaped racer was wheeled out to the track the conditions, i Giants are the drabbest, most tin-' I inspiring outfit that ever smelled 1 ! of liniment. j; The present team isn’t exactly ; the one that was smothered by the 1 Yanks last year, the Messrs. CisseTl. Kampouris and Seeds having i been added to the roster. With, 1 i the team already top-heavy with , 'bores, the addition' of these aterl-. ' ing athletes was the same as carrying coals to Newcastle. A series between the Giants and Yanks this year will have its novel 1 touches, however. There’s the matter of the enthusiastic fan who always parks himself in front , of the bleacher gates a week before the series is scheduled to start ' I in order to be the first patron in “ i the park. This year, if the Giants i make the grade, he will camp in 1 Grand Central station in order to J gain the honor of being the first fan to leave for points west, ’ Such a series would be the first in history to end in three games, too. After taking their lickings in the first three days the Giants , wouldn't show up for the fourth. 1 They wouldn't have anything on the customers, though. They would B have to show up several days s earlier. I The opening day ceremony would L be unique. Judge Landis would fl lead the parade of the players to , the flagpole in centerfleld and out of respect to the Giants' chances | the flag would be raised only to half mast. With the comfort of the few fans who do attend in mind, all boxes would be equipped with innerspring mattresses. When the sight of Yankee runs crossing the plate became too monotonous the fans could relax and take a nap. Instead of hot dogs and pop the vendors would sell insomnia cures, and bingo would be inaugurated in an effort to lure customers into jthe park. i In other words, if the Giants get | into the world series again every- | thing is going to be a complete mess. Even the sight of Bill Terry being a genius in the third base : coaching box won't be enough to make things interesting. Let us | pray! 1 (Copyright 1938 by UP.)

were perfect. The saline surface of the world’s fastest nice track was hard-pack ed. There was a brilliant early morning sun and the air was 1 chilly. ‘I don't feel nervous at all." Cobb said as he stepped down from his cockpit in the nose of the Railton “t believe the Rail- ' ton has still more potential ! speed." 1 Cobb required only three inin- J utes and 14 seconds to travel the 1 full 13% mile length of the course 1 on his north run. An airplane • that started out immediately I overhead as Cobh headed south arrived at the end of the speedway several minutes after the Londoner brought his racer to a squeaking halt. Cobb, a London fur broker, attained his speed, breaking Eyston's record of 345 49 miles an hour, by passing through the measured mile from south to . north at 353.29 m. p h. and at 347 11 m p h. on the south-bound run. Cobb also established a new ( world's record for the kilometer at a speed of 350.07 miles per hour. Brooklyn Dodgers Buy Tiger Players New York. Sept. 15—(UP) —The Brooklyn Dodgers today announced purchase of catcher Ray Hayworth and third baseman Don Ross from the Detroit Tigers for the interleague waiver price of *7,500. o — — HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 50. Foxx. Red Sox 44 Ott, Giants 33 York, Tigers 33 DiMaggio. Yankees 30] Clift, Browns 30 1 Goodman. Reds 3<»

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The Decatur Yellow Jackets will ! open the 1938 season Friday night, traveling to Bluffton, where they will tangle with their favorite rlvi als, the Bluffton Tigers. —oOo — The tilt is scheduled to start at 8 o’clock, while reserve squads of the two schools will will meet in an abbreviated preliminary at 7 o'clock. —oOo — Bluffton, with two games already ' played, will have a decided edge lover the Yellow Jackets. The Tigers also have a veteran team, with the majority of last year's regulars back in the harness, led by Kinsey. ' cue of the finest backfield men hi the northeastern Indiana conference. —oOo — Bluffton, although losing its first game to the Tigers of Fort Wayne Central by a 4418 score, is on rec- , ord as victor of that tilt. A few days after the game was played. Central officials learned that one of their regulars was secretly married before the opening of school. According to high school regula-1 tions, this makes the player ineligible. hence Central was forced to forfeit the tilt. "We've heard of moral victories, would this be considered a “marital'' win for Bluffton? —oOo— In their other game, the Bluff- i ton Tigers held Warsaw to a 6-6 tie score last Friday night. —oOo — The Yellow Jackets will go Into the opener tomorrow night with eight lettermen available from last season's squad. These veterans are McConnell. Andrews. Friedt. Highland. Neidigh. Shoe, Stalter and Walter. Only two of these men. McConnell and Walter, are backfield men, with the others playing in the line. —oOo—The Yellow Jackets suffered their first casualty of the season in Wednesday's scrimmage when Bill Christen sustained a cracked collarbone. While the injury is not considered serious. Christen will be out of action for a week or 10 days. Decatur will play its first home game of the season Friday night. September 30, meeting Fort Wayne Central under the lights at Worthman Field. o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct Foxx, Red Sox 135 512 124 180 .352 Reds 115 432 52 149 .345 Averill. Indians 124 442 96 150.340 DiMag io. Yank 126 522 118 175.335 Heath. Indians 108 425 8o 142 .334 Choose your new Fall Coat and Dress tomorrow. New arrivals direct from the market.—E. F. Gass store. —

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