Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1938 — Page 8

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JACKETS OPEN GRID SEASON THIS EVENING Decatur High Football Team Plays At Bluffton Tonight The 1938 edition of the Decatur Yellow Jacket footlmll team will open the season tonight under the lights at Bluffton, where they meet the Parlor City Tigers. The Tigers undoubtedly will have the edge on the locals in tonights encounter, since they already have played two games this season, falling before the Central Tigers of Fort Wayne and holding the Warsaw eleven to a 6-6 tie. Despite the fact that a delay in the opening of the Jacket season sends them into tonight’s tilt without game experience for the season, the Jackets have been trailing diligently each day and are expected to furnish plenty of opposition for their arch rivals. Fifteen men have been selected by Coach Hugh Andrews to carry the brunt of tonight’s game. Despite the shortage of regulars and lettermen from last year, the fact that all of the 15 have had actual game experience from the 1937 season makes them a formidable threat. Stalter at left and Andrews at right are expected to handle the end assignments for the locals as they line up tonight. Both are lettermen. Freidt and Highland, who undoubtedly will work at the tackle position, are also lettermen. Highland has been shifted from his position at center last year to the tackle berth. Highland's old place at the ballsnapping post has been given to Shoe, another letterman. Neidigh, a letterman and Brown, a reserve from last year, are Coach Andrews' choice for the left guard assignment, while Melchi. another reserve who has made good, will probably start at right guard. Veteran Johnny McConnell is slated for a big job at the quarterback position this year. In addition to doing his share of the ballcarrying. McConnell will probably do most of the punting and passing for the locals. Stapleton will get the fullback assignment, while Walters and Zerkel are scheduled to finish out the starting backfield. Os the latter three, Walters is the onlv letterman. fricker and Maloney are also expected to see plenty of action at backfield posts, alternating with the starting lineup, w’hile Woodhall. reserve line-man is also expected to break into the line up. Assistant Coach Deane Dorwin’s

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' reserve team will open the nctiv--1 Ities tonight, meeting the Bluffton reserves at 7 p. tn., followed by the varsity game at X o'clock. . TEAM IS GUEST ' OF ROTARIANS I Junior Rotary Baseball Team Guest Os Club Thursday Night Members of the junior Rotary B baseball team, champions of the t Adams county junior league, were entertained by the Decatur Rotar- [ ians at the weekly meeting of the club Thursday evening at the Rice hotel. , The Rotary team won the league I championship with five victories in , the six games played, defeating the Decatur Legion team and Pleasant , Mills twice each and splitting two t games with Berne. Robert Downey, Fort Wayne, district recreation supervisior for , the works progress administration. ’ was the principal speaker. Mr. , Downey, after congratulating the team on its league triumph, and I congratulating the club for its , sponsorship of the team, spoke briefly to the boys on their future ' I activities hi sports. The speaker stressed the need I of clean living and good sports- • manship, not only in sport activ- , ities. but throughout life. The members of the team were introduced by George F. Laurent. , supervisor of the Decatur and Adams county recreation program. Tarl Mies, who coached the junior team to its victory, praised the ’ team members for their splendid attitude during the season and gave some excellent advice on furthering their baseball hopes. Mr. Mies, who saw service as an outstanding hurler with several , minor league teams, urged the boys, if they desire to follow baseball as a career, to live and think baseball all the time. Members of the executive committee of the recreation program were also guests at the meeting. George Thoms, chairman of the Rotary athletic committee, had charge of the meeting. — o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct Foxx, Red Sox 136 518 124 180.348 Lombardi. Reds 115 432 52 149.345 Averill, Indians 125 446 96 150.337 eath. Indians 110 433 88 146.337 DiMag’io. Yank *27 527 118 177.336 o 500 Sheets S'/jXll. 20-ib., White Automatic Mimeograph Bond, nealy wrapped §1.05. This paper is free of lint and sized for pen and ink. Decatur Democrat Company. ts

PIRATES BEAT GIANTS TO ADD TO LOOP LEAD 11 ■ — Pittsburgh Plays Twin Bill Against Boston Bees Today b New York, Sept. 16 KU.R> The 1 most nervous man in Boston today " is Harold J. (Pie) Traynor and the reason Is because his Pitts- | burgh Pirates are playing a doubleheader. Doubleheaders are poison to the Pirates. Traynor ordinarily is the most nervous man in any city he’s in r but when his ball club is playing • a twin bill nowadays the Pirates’ • boss is positively a combination of -a man with St. Vitus dance, a jit- • terbug listening to Benuy Good- ■ man and a whirling dervish. The strain of the fantastic Nat- ■ lonal league pennant race is telli Ing heavily on Trayor but it’s the doubleheader D. nT.’s of the Pirates which may lad soft-spoken i popular Pie in a padded cell over the winter it he doesn’t win the pennant. In their last six double- ■ headers the Pirates have won only two games, blowing both games on four occasions and splitting even in the other two. The have won two doubleheaders from the Pirates, the Giants one and the Phillies one. The Pirates broke even with the Giants and the Bees. Pittsburgh’s pitching staff is in such plight that Traynor has to Brown, to pitch one of today’s call on his ace relief man. Mace games against the Bees. Russ Bauers. the Wisconsin lunberjack who's money in the bank when he's right, but is too seldom that way. was expected to twirl the other game. The Bees have nominated Danny MacFayden and John Lanning. There was a slight sign of relief in the Pirates’ camp yesterday when they bounced back from Wednesday's double defeat to polish off the Giants. 7-2. The victory increased the Pirates’ lead over the Cubs to three games and dropped the Giants to fourth place, four and a half games off the pace. Jim Tobin turned in a well-pitch-ed seven-hit game and the Pirates imported him with a 14-hit attack, including homers by Paul Waner (2). Lloyd Waner. Pep Young and Johnny Rizzo. The Pirates drove Clift Melton to cover in the fifth with the scored tied and two out, scoring three runs before Dick Coffman put out the fire. Even though they lost to Detroit, the New York Yankees moved nearer the American league pennant as the Red Sox and InYaunks now need any combination dlans divided a double header. The of three victories or Red Sox defeats to clinch the pennant. A two-run rally in the seventn enabled the Tigers to trim the Yanks. 6-4. Roy Cullenbine tripled and scored on Chet Morgan's single. Walker sacrificed and Gehringer and Greenberg walked to load the bases. York's single scored Morgan. Jeff Heath's homer with a mate on base gave Cleveland a 3-2 victory over the Red Sox in the opener, Mel Harder allowed only nine hits in scoring his 16th victory. Fritz Ostermueller held the ’ndians to six hits in pitching the Rtd Sox to a 3-2 triumph in the ithtcap. Bob Feller's wildness ’ to his defeat though he permitted only three hits in eight ‘rames. -rho White Sox and Athletics divided a twin bill, with Johnny ~...,eu<ad just ,asting to win the first game for Chicago, 5-4. and George Caster twirling a four-hit-ter to give the A’s the nightcap, 1-0. Duncan Rigney walked in the A’s winning run with the bases loaded. Washington defeated the St. Louis Browns, 6-4, as Emil Leonard pitched a six-hit game. Don Heffner hit a homer for the Browns with two men on base. Y’esterday’s hero: Paul Waner. Pirates' tiny veteran wh oslashed out two homers to help lift Pittsburgh out of its slump and to a 7-2 victory over the Giants. o Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York, Sept. 16.—<U.PJ —Ten years in my business has convinced me that the most easily amused person in the world is the American sports specator. While he or she is watching athletes perform nothing is too trivial to call forth gales of laughter. These same people are amused by nothing but the best over the radio or at the movies or the theater. They’ll kill a fairly good comedian with silence or refuse to be amused by the carefully thought out antics of paid funmakers. But put them in a stadium for baseball, at a tennis match, a football game, or in a golf gallery. and they become slightly ! hysterical with laughter on the

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least provocation. During the current national tennis championships at Forest Hills I the correct or incorrect announcement of the names of Franjo Kukuijevic or Jadwiga Jedrzejowska has had the entire crowd convulsed with laughter. These names caused just as much amusement j the 30th time they were announc- 1 ed as they did the first time. Can you imagine any comedian making a hit by walking out onto the ‘ stage and repeating "Kukuijevic" thirty times? In the recent Davis cup matches at Philadelphia the fact that the tail of Bobby Riggs' tennis shirt worked its way out of his trousers was as sidesplitting to the audience as if Charley McCarthy and Edgar Bergen had walked on the court and done their stuff. A stray dog wandering across the fairway at a golf tournament can reduce a gallery to fits of laughter. It doesn t have to he a funny looking dog—it can be any kind of dog. from a properly groomed chow to a homeless mutt, but his appeal as a comic is equal to that of the $2,500 a week comedian. I saw a world series game bait- . ed —by the laughter of the specta- . tors by nothing more comic than . the lighting of a pigeon in the in- . field. It was a normal pigeon and , made a normal pigeon landing. It , didn't stand on its hands or do the , . <mbeth walk. However, the , crowd was uncontrollable with . ;ayety until the pigeon finally flew away to wherever pigeons fly when they leave a world series game. i If the reaction of the crowds means , anything, then the single funniest . sight in the world is a torn pair I of pants on a football player. From . California to Florida to Maine I have heard football crowds laugh . themselves into semi-consciousness i STANDINGS 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE 5 W. L. Pct. G.B Pittsburgh 78 56 .582 • Chicago 76 60 .559 3 1 Cincinnati 78 61 .551 4 New York 75 62 .547 4>4 1 Boston 66 67 .504 1014 ! St. Louis 65 72 .474 1414; Brooklyn 62 73 .459 16’4 ► Philadelphia . 43 91 .421 35 AMERICAN LEAGUE 1 W. L. Pct. G.B. - New York 93 43 .664 • Boston 78 58 .574 15 • Cleveland 77 59 .565 16 e Detroit 72 65 .526 21’4 ■•(Washington 68 70 .493 26 1, Chicago 56 75 .427 34’4 ! Philadelphia .... 50 87 .365 43*4 3 St. Louis 47 84 .359 43’4 e. e YESTERDAY’S RESULTS d. e! National League Y; Pittsburgh 7, New York 5. i-' Only game scheduled. I- American League i. i Detroit 6, New York 4. I- Washington 6, St. Louis 4. Yi Chicago 5-0, Philadelphia 4-1. el Clevelad 3-2, Boston 2-3.

because a hard working halfback had had the misfortune to tear his trousers. The peak of the laugh ter is always reached when the unfortunte one’s teammates form a circle about him while he puts on a new pair of untorn and unfunny breeches. Any unexpected gesture by a champion athlete is considered extremely funny. A smile, a smirk, a wave, a nod—just anything slightly out of the ordinary — is cause enough for guffawing and applause. Let Don Budge mimic Jack Bromwich’s two-handed backhand in a warm-up and the gallery darn near falls out of the seats. Let Lefty Gomez make a head on slide and the customers laugh until their sides ache. Let Dempsey pretend to have trouble climbing over the ropes into the ring for an introduction and the place is a shambles from laughter. Trusting that most of you who read this are sports fans I will leave you In complete hysterics by asking you to picture Kukuijevic. with a tear in his pants, being chased by a dog between a pigeon and a stray bit of paper. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) World Series Will Open October 5 New York. Sept. 16 —(UP) —The 1938 world eries will open in a National League city on Wednesday Oct. 5 it was decided toJay at a meeting over which commissioner Kenesaw M. Laddis presided in the Hotel Roosevelt. The first and second games will be played Oct. 5 and 6 in the home City of the National League champion. The third fourth and fifth games will be held at Yankee Stadium in New York, the Yanks being ! virtually certain to win the Amj erican League flag. If needed, the sixth and seventh ! games in the best four of seven ' series will be played in the National League city. —o —<■ Five Persons Killed In Head-On Collision Urbana. 0., Sept. 16.— (U.R>— A head-on automobile collision seven j miles south of here killed five persons and injured three seriously today. Those killed were: Mrs. Bea- ; trice Louden, 21, Urbana, skull : factured. Orville Bowers. 32. Huntsville, neck broken; Robert Harrold. 23, Huntsville, skull fractured; James Francis Kennedy, 21. Springfield, neck broken, and Jack Strong. 21, Springfield, neck b ok en. The injured are Mrs. Aileen Ripley Whittmore. Urbana, and Carl and Kenneth Zell, bothers, ot Huntsville. o Ancient Abacus Exhibited Pasadena. Cal.—<U.R> —Yozo Yos i hino, expert on the ancient Japan ese Abacus, or calculating machine demonstrated to the students that it is faster and more accurate in the solving of mathematical problems than the modern calculating machine.

BIC TEN TEAMS CARO AT WORK Quarterback Is Crying Need Os .Minnesota, Defending Champs Chicago Sept. 16—I UP I-In just < ight mere practice days Minnesota! ' must find a quarterback to help ! stave off the Invasion of Washington huskies in the first Major intersectlonal game of the 1938 foothull season. I If Bernie Bierman can lay his hands on a wise signal caller, the Big Ten defending champions will be favored to repel the Huskies and ontinue with a successful defane of their title. Fullback Phil Bellfiori apparent-j ly has the Inside track on the Job which hasn’t been handled perfect-1 |ly since Bud Wilkinson stopped up ifrom guard in 1936, but Bierman has to decide. Bellfiori took over the job in the first practice of the year and work-

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cd at quarter In every hard scrimmage until George Faust an experlenced pilot, begun to get the call. Even Faust, however, hasn't convinced Bierman he Is the man need‘|ed to <oax the best efforts from •the Gopher machine. ’ Report from lowa still toll of heavy scoring In scrimmages. With a year behind him, Irl Tubbs gradually Is bringing hl* system Into I prominence and the Big T »i likely Is due so ra surprise. His first lowa team lacked ofteni'give prilllance except for Sophomore Nile Kinnle-k. With Kl°niek In better form than ever and sesveral I additional backs performing well, the Hawkeyes are flipping the hull irround with surprising results. Kinnick and Sophomore Jerry Niles I handled the passing one day and i the next Frank Balazs popped up with valuable completions. Lateral | passes clicked during a ha’f dozen long touchdown rtins against th.i ; reserves yesterday. Two more Sophomore forward ■ passers stole the show again yesI I terday. I Two more sophomore forward I passers stole the show again yes- ■ I terday at Illinois. Ralph Ehni. year-

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