Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1938 — Page 8

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PIRATES TAKE TWIN BILL TO RETAIN MARGIN Drop Brooklyn Twice As Cubs Win Two; Lee Hurls Shutout JJew York, Sept. 23. 'U.P., In i April and May a whispering campaign was going the rounds that big Bill Lee was a quitter—that he couldn’t go the route when the pressure was on him. Five times the Chicago Cubs gave him a substantia’ lead and he was hammered from the box. It began to look like what sthey, saying was true until the afternoon of .May 19 when Lee. a softspoken Louisiana boy with a motion picture protile, toed the mound at the Polo grounds. He cut down the Giants with his dancing fast ball in one of the masterpieces of the season —a dramatic 1-0 victory* in -0 innings. Lucky, some said. said nothing. He just kept pitching and winning. He hung up 15 vic-

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1 lories and then he hit a cold streak 1 and they revived the whispering campaign. Lee continued to take his turn rearing his leg high in the air and tiring away. He was routed a few times and then he found the winning touch again. , He blanked the Pirates on Sept. I 5 by a 3-0 score. He did a relief ! job of an tuning and one third on Sept. 7 without allowing a run He shut out Cincinnati on Sept. 11, 2-0. He whitewashed the Giants ion Sept. 17. 4-0 Yesterday he goose-egged the Phillies, 4-0. I Those four straight shutouts tied the National league record established in 1908 by Ed Keulback of the Cubs and equalled in 1911 by Grover Cleveland Alexander. Lee s 37 1-3 consecutive shutout innings need only another 9-inning shutout to top Carl Hubbell’s National ■ league recon! of 46 straight inInlngs without a run, made in 1933. I Lees triumph gave him 20 victories, tying Paul Derringer for the most triumphs in the National league this season. Clay Bryant pitched the Cubs to a 2-1 victory in the second game of yesterday’s double header and kept Chicago in the pennant race. Pittsburgh maintained its 3% game lead by taking a twin bill from Brooklyn. 6-0 and 11-6. Jim Tobin pitched a 4-hit game to win the opener and the Pirates outslugged the Dodgers to grab the nightcap. The Pirates now can win by annexing five of their 10 remaining games even if the Cubs take S out of their 11 games. After dropping a doubleheader to the Bees, the St. Um is Cardinals caught a plane out of trainI less Boston in order to get to Chicago in time to open a three-game series Saturday. With six runs in one inning the Bees won the first game. 6-5. Dick Errickson pitched the Bees to a 4-1 victory in the nightcap. The New York Giants moved into third place by winning twice from Cincinnati. 6-1 and 2-1. Hal Schumacher allowed only six hits in winning the opener and Harry Gumbert was stingier, permitting only three to win the nightcap. 21. Mickey Haslin’s two homers won the second game. Oh. yeah —the Yankees finally came out of their nose dive and beat the White Sox. 7-4, ending a

PURDUE OPENS WITH DETROIT - Lafayette Tilt Features k Indiana College Opening Games n■ " • r Indianapolis, Sept. 23. — <U.R> a Hoosier college coaches today e pounded final Instructions into welloiled but untried grid machines, t. hunted up the old rabbit foot and f hoped to find a place tomorrow ut n the head of the 1938 football pari. ade. t. Featuring Indiana's pigskin s brawls tomorrow will be Purdue's e season “warm-up" with the Detroit Vniversity Titans whose leatherj slinging last year ranked them first i- In national scoring. Detroit has f the same passing combination this y year- Ed Palumbe to Capt. Alex s Cresney and Mai Elward. Boiler 9 maker coach, has frantically been searching for a defense to stop 1 them. Elward is handling Purdue for the first time as head coach. Last - year he took charge while Noble r' Kizer was ill. 1 Known Boilermaker strength is t two veteran linemen and unusual r speed among both linemen and t backs. Co-Captains Joe Mihai at i tackle and Paul Humphrey at center are bulwarks in the line. Fast , backs are necessary to stop De--1 troit's air attack and Brown. Brock, i Ippolito and Mennis will get the i staring call. Purdue is prepared for the new . Titan defensive huddle which r strategists say enables a team to - figure out the next play and shift ■ accordingly. Elward has blocking assignments ironed out for any • type of defensive line. Neither team was given betting odds today. Indiana university and Notre . Dame are not scheduled until next i week. In the state college conference 1 crushers who placed first and sec- ■ Butter and DePauw. the homeI ond respectively in 1937. will kick > off on home lots. Butler with Ball i State at Indianapolis and the Tig- • ers against Frnklin at Greencastle, i Coach Tony Hinkle still is ’ searching for a triple-threater ; among his Bulldogs to match Ball state’s sophomore sensation. Jimi my Phend of Goshen, who gained all-state prep honors two years ' ago. Butler’s backfield situation I now gives one man passing duties. ■ i one kicking, one running and the j ! other planning their rotation. It s ; cw but it should work.

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The Decatur Yellow Jackets will play their second game of the season Saturday afternoon, meeting the Auburn Red Devils at Auburn. The Jackets, after dropping their opener to the Bluffton Tigers last Friday night, have been put through stiff workouts this week by Coach Andrews and assistant Dorwin in an bffort to correct the faults shown in the opening defeat. Auburn started its season with a bar.g last Saturday, scoring a two-touchdown triumph over the Columbia City Eagles. Zeke Young, who has been grid mentor at Auburn for many years, is still at the helm of the Red Devils. —oOo— Saturday’s game, one of the two daylight contests for the Jackets this year, is scheduled to start at 1 o'clock, central standard time Auburn operates uu daylight savings time and will start the game accordingly. —oOo— While’ having a number of new men in last week's opening lineup, Auburn showed considerable speed and cleverness: and the Red Devils will be plenty tough for the Yellow Jackets to knock over. The Jackets came out of the Bluffton battle in good physical condition and should be in good shape for the Auburn game. —oOo — The only serious casualty of the opening game was one suffered by Darwin Leitz, Decatur six-game losing streak, one of the longest in the history of a great machine. Red Rolfe's homer with a mate on base did the damage in the ninth with the score tied. Yesterday’s hero: Big Bill Lee, Cubs’ ace who pitched his fourth straight shutout to tie the National league record and keep his club in 1 the pennant race.

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yell leader. Darwin, while leading the Decatur fans in cheering on their favorites, became over-enthusiastic and threw a shoulder out of place. Tough luck! —oOo —■ Following Saturday's game, the Jackets will be forced to buckle down so real work next week, with the first home game of the season scheduled for Friday night. The Jackets’ oppositiem for the home opener will be the Tigers from Central of Fort Wayne. Central showed considerable power in trouncing the Bluffton Tigers in the opening game of the season but struck a snag at Elkhart last week, dropping a one-sided decisi lon to the Blue Blazers. o LEADING BATTERS j Flayer Club G AB R H Pct. I Foxx. Red'Sox 141 538 130 188 .350 Myer Senators 119 406 74 138 .340 Lombardi. Reds 119 448 53 152.339 Averill. Indians 126 447 96 150.336 Heath, Indians 116 457 94 153.335 HOME RUNS Greenberg, Tigers . 54 Foxx, Red Sox 47 Clift. Browns 33 York. Tigers 33 Ott, Giants 33 o 500 Sheets S'/jxll, 20-ib., White Automatic Slimeouraph Bond, nealy wrapped $1.05. This paper is free of lint and sized for pen and ink. Decatur Democrat Company. ts

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* Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York. Sept. 23 -XU.R)— One of the many differences between Larry Macphail and the late Will ' Rogers is that what he reads in , the newspapers isn't all that Larry , knows. Larry, for exampie, has read in the newspapers that Robers Hornsby is going to be named manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers just as soon as Burleigh Grimes and his barbed wire beard are given the ol' heave-o at the end of the seas-1 on. But he doesn't know that. In ‘ fact. Larry says Roger desn't run 1-2-3 or 4 in the list of possibilities for Grimes’ job. and as general manager of the Brooklyn team he is tn a rather knowing position Grimes is going when the 1935 string is played out. Larry admits that, and he says also that Bur-1 leigh knows it. “We’ll part friendly, too," Macphail told me over a streak last night. “I told Burleigh the situation several weeks ago and he agreed with me that his going was the sensible thing. He wasn't pleased over my decision, but he saw my side. He's a swell manager. and a great fellow, hut he’s not just the right man for our particular set-ttp." This was a natural opening for the question as to who was the right man for the Brooklyn setup. “I don’t know, and I swear I’m

• telling you the truth.’ answered I the big red-headed Irishman. *lf| ! you were to offer to bet me 1.560 | j bucks to a thousand that I couldn't ; name you the man who would be i in charge of the team ut the start of next season. I wouldn’t lake It. I’d be n sticker to. because I haven't any more Idea thn you have. I know one thing, It won’t be Hornsby.’’ Why was Mr. Macphail so defl nite about Hornsby? Didn’t he like Roger? Didn’t he consider him a smart baseball men? I “I like him as well as any man

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in baseball, and they don’t come any smarter. He knows basebull I from every angle. When I was In Cincinnati 1 hardly ever made a deal for players without first consulting Hornsby and getting his opinion." What then was the cause for ills refusal to consider him as manager of the Dodgers? Did he hold Rogers' love for the horses iigainsi him? ’’Frankly, yes. 1 do hold his love for the tracks against him. I believe the horses and belting Is darn near a mania with Hornsby,

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