Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1938 — Page 6

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JACKETS LOSE TO AUBURN IN GRID CONTEST Auburn Scores 21-13 Victory Over Yellow Jackets Saturday A hard driving, re-vitalized squad of Yellow Jackets outlayed and out-gained the Auburn Re.l Devils in a football game played in the northern city Saturday afternoon, but lost 2! to 13 when the breaks turned against Decatur in the last quarter. The Jackets opened weak in the first quarter to permit Auburn to walk down the field for a touchdown. but suddenly found their stride and held the Red Devils without a first down for the last three quarters, only to prove it is not the first downs but the trips across the goal line that count. On defensive the Jackets used a close formation specializing in vicious power drives through the line, which time after time caught the Red Devils flat-footed. Decafurs big line opened up holes, often on the weak side of the line tn permit the backfield, headed by McConnell and Stapleton, to twist through for from three to five yards or more at a time. At the end of the third quarter, the Jackets seemed to have the game well in hand with a 13 to 7 lead. A returned punt and an intercepted pass spelled defeat for Decatur. Auburn Scores First The first quarter was all Auburn. Shortly after the start of the game, the Red Devils backfield, led by Hines, small hut fast and clever quarterback and assisted by Culler.. Tarter and Reinhold easily went 60 yards before they could be stopped. Decatur kicked to the 41 yard line and in two first downs. Auburn was back to the 11 yard line. A few plays later, Hines went over for the first touchdown and then, on a fake kick ran through the line for the point after. making the score 7 to 0 in favor of Auburn. This ended the scoring during the first quarter.

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The second qttater opened with J honors about even until Decatur i brought the ball down to the 26- | yard line. Here the Jackets' line | opened up a hole through which McConnell ran. eluding the secondary defense to score the first touchdown for Decatur this season. Stapleton's effort to convert the i point after touchdown by u drive ' through the line failed, making the ■ score 7 to 6 in favor of Auburn with S l a minutes to go. Play was resumed with Decatur obtaining the advantage on an exchange of punts. An effort by 1 Walters to pass from Auburn's I 26-yard line was ended in a loss ' to Decatur, latter a short pass to Zerkle was completed. As the time ■ grew short, a flurry of Decatur 1 passes was unsuccessful and the half ended 7 to 6. Jackets Score Second Time ■ ' The second half saw Auburn i kick to Decatur and the Jackets produce the most effective exhi- ' bition of power seen recently in i a local team. In less than a minute and a half McConnell and i Stapleton. in a series of drives i through the line, assisted by expert blocking, had moved the ball three quarters of the way across the field to the 15-yarf line. Here a change in strategy resulted in giving the ball to Walters, who in a run through left end. scored to - put Decatur in the lead 12 to 7. Stapleton produced the point after touchdown with a drive through the line. The Jackets had little difficulty in driving through the 1 line, but were stopped before reach- ■ ing scoring distance again Tarter once intercepted McConnell's pass, but was tackled, the third quar- . ter ended 13 to 7 in favor of Dei catur. The fourth quater saw the best . run of the game, coming irnnted- ■ lately after play was resumed when Hines received a punt on his own 22 yard line, his interference stopping ahead to block out De- - catur, with the result the coast I was clear for a direct route down the side line for a 78-yard run and a touchdown. Carter converted the point after, putting Auburn back . in the lead. 14 to 13. | Decatur continued to outplay t Auburn on the and threatened to destroy the lead, when with i only a few minutes to play. Staple- , ton s pass was intercepted on the 36 yard line by Carter, who raced > the rest of the way for a touch- | down. Culler made the point afj ter touchdown, which ended the • scoring at 21 for Auburn. 13 for Decatur. After a few minutes of even playing, both coaches ran in substitutes during the last minute to I give them experience. Lineup and summaries: Decatur Auburn I Stafter LE White , Eriedt LT N. McDarby ; Brown LG Thomas 1 Snowe C.. D. McDarby ’ Melchi KG Kirkpatrick H Hyland RT Schaab ! Andrews RE . . Mavis McConnell Q Hines Walters RH Reinhold Zerkel RH Culler Stapleton . FB Tarter Substitutions: Decatur: Tricker, Neidigh, Eichorn, Gerber, Gaunt, Granger, Schamerloh. Maloney. • Bonifas, Johnson and Wahall; Auburn. Grocups. Lockner, Fenning. i McCombs. Hoffman. Scott. Doth. I Ruckle. Dick. Helmich. Neistey. ' • Reunar and Dean. 1 Officials: Vic Dauer, Wabash, referee; Jim Crow, Huntington, umpire, and George Fisher, Warsaw, head linesman. o STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. GB. ' Pittsburgh 85 58 .594 i Chicago 84 61 .579 2 | New York 7,9 66 .545 7 I Cincinnati 77 66 .538 8 I Boston 73 72 .503 13 ' St. Louis 68 76 .472 17 H ! Brooklyn 65 78 .455 20 Philadelphia 45 99 .312 40(4 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York .95 51 .651 Boston 84 59 .587 9(4 Cleveland .. . . 83 63 .568 12 Detroit 78 69 .531 17(4 I Washington 73 73 .500 22 , Chicago 61 79 .436 31 ’ ' St. Louis 53 90 .371 40*4 Philadelphia .... 52 95 .354 43(4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League | Brooklyn 5-1, Philadelphia 1-5. (Second game 7 innings). Boston 3-4, New York 2-3. (First | game 11 innings). ■ ; Pittsburgh 5. Cincinnati 3. Chicago 7, St. Louis 2. American League Philadelphia 6-4, Washington 5-5. (First game 10 innings, second game seven innings). ’ Boston 5-2, New York 3-2. (First game 10 innings, second game tie, *• six innings). St. Louis 7-8, Chicago 2-4. ■ Detroit 7, Cleveland 5.

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MONMOUTHNEI CARDANNOUNCED Loach Curtis Announces 1938-39 Basketball Schedule Ernest Curtis, principal and coach of the Monmouth high school, today announced the basketball schedule for the Eagles for the 1938-39 season. Sixteen games and two tournaments. exclusive of the sectional, are on the Monmouth card. All home games of the Eagles will be played tn the new gymnasium. which is near completion as a part of the addition to the school building, started the past summer. The Eagles will be host to a four-team blind tourney Saturday. December 31. with Kirkland. Pleasant Mills and Jefferson as th.- oth- I er competitors. The complete schedule follows: Nov. 4—Geneva at Geneva. Nov. 11—Pleasant Mills at Pleas-, ant Mills. Nov. 18—Jefferson at Monmouth. Nov. 19—Concordia at Ft. Wayne Nov. 22 —Poling at Poling. Nov. 23 — Spencerville at Mon- , I mouth. Dec. 9—Kirkland at Monmouth. Dec. 16—Monroe at Monroe. Dec. 23 Pleasant Mills at Monmouth. Dec. 31—Tourney at Monmouth (Jefferson, Kirkland, and Pleasant Mills). Jan. 6—Jefferso nat Monmouth. Jan. 19. 20. 21 —County tourney. Jan. 27— Monroe at Monmouth. Feb. 3—Kirkland at Kirkland. Feb. 10—Concordia at Monmouth. Feb. 17—Poling at Monmouth. Feb. 24—Geneva at Monmouth. o 500 Sheets o'/ixll Yellow Second Sheets, 35c. Decatur Democrat Company.tf

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1938

_ — + Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York, Sept. 26.—<U.R>—Your average tennis official (and when you say "average" you include them all. betause they all are that) can't see past his nose. This is probably due to the fact that he carries his nose very high, not unlike that of a bird dog's tail when pointing a covey. If the tennis officials could see past their noses (or is “nosi" the plural?) they would not be scurrying around these days in an effort to keep Donald Budge from turning professional. And that's just what they are doing. I'll -l>et you that Donald has been promised promised everything from a cabin hi thepi nes to a tisket-a-'asket if he will only agree not to desert the amateur ranks and cast his lot with Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry, those dastards who play for I money. If the amteur tennis fathers could see past their noses they would be urging John Donald Budge to quit the amateur group —and in a hurry. He is slowly but surely killing what small interest there is in amateur tennis. He is killing 7t because he is too good. It wont be long before customers will quit patronizing the tournaments Budge is in. After all. sport is based on competition and when Budge plays his amateur rivals competition doesn't exist. There isn't an amateur living, and that goes for all thep layers in all the world, who can take a set from him if h? 'doesn't want them to. Gene Mako took a set from him at Forest Hills Saturday, that's true, but only because they are closer than Scotch and soda, Damon and Pythias, castor and pollux, gin and tonic. Swiss and rye, love and money and rice and gravy. Had he cTlosen to. Budge could have turned back Mako with the loss of not more than six games. The fact that Mako was his op-

ponent in the final round is the ' tip-off on the state of affairs in amateur tennis. Mako is a nice , boy, with a sweet smile and a charming manner, but he isn't a great tennis player. In fact, he is ; scarcely a good one. Vet. so poor is the fleltf. Mako winds up in the final. Budge should turn professional. Such a move would leave the amateur championship wide open, and a red hot rivalry between medi- ' ocre players is more to be desired than the contiiffial “walkovers'' of ' a great one. I would hate to be j responsible for the sale of tickets ' if he stays amateur and goes into , the final round again next year. How would Budge fare as a professional? Now that is an interesting question. To look at him lick the socks off the amateurs one would says he had no weakness. But weaknesses come into view only under pressure, and Budge hasn't had any pressure , since Baron Von Cramtn was made I (against his will) an instructor in a nazi concentration camp. Vines might reveal a Budge weakness. Vines is a hard hitter; a harder hitter than Budge. 1 am not sure that Budge's forehand would look so good when subjected to a steady flow of forcing shots. And Vines turns on the heat from the start and keeps it on. So does Perry. Don't be surprised if Budge doesn't turn professional. Our Donald, despite his red hair, lean face and one million freckles, is social around the fringes. He likes the smart clubs, the tea hour, and that sort of thing. The thought of being separated from such surroundings. and having to play in . barmrand armories and backyards. ; ■ repels him. Even for SIOO,OOO. But let's not criticize him. He's 1 only 21. And when one is 21 so 1 many unimportant things are ini--1 portant. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) i Dr. and Mrs. Roy Archbold and Mr. and Mrs. .1. H. Heller visited In Van Wert, Ohio Sunday.

fans. Washington was outplayed throughout most of the game. Lloyd Phelps (No. 17) of the Huskies is pictured making a short gain, aided by good interference.

GIANTS. REDS ELIMINATED IN PENNANT RACE National Loop Race Narrows Down To Pirates And Cubs N’. w York. Sept. 26-4U.PJ The New York Giants today officially ended their two-year reign as National league champions. They are out of the pennant race and I so are the Cincinnati Reds, who at one time this year had a| chance to become the first club | in history to bridge the gap from i last to first in one season But there still is a buttle In the National league, with the Chicago Cubs, riding the crest of a sixgame winning streak, hot on the trail of the Pirates Pittsburgh has a two game lead but moves into Chicago tomorrow for a 'hree-game aeries which probably will settle the issue Each contender has seven games left the Pirates playing three with the Cubs and four with the Reds ami the Cubs playing four with the Cardinals in addition to the Pittsimrgh series. The Pirates. eliminated the Reds yesterday with a 5-3 tri,mph. Red Lucas. 36-year old pitcher, was the hero of the Pirates' victory, winning his 14th '•onsecutive game over his former teammates since he left them live years ago. With Clay Bryant pitching his 19th victory with only two days rest, the Cubs captured their 16th game in the last 19 played by trimming the Cardinals. 7-2. Six walks and two Cardinal errors combined with eight hits enabled the Cubs to put on two big scoring innings for all their runs. The Boston Bees terminated the Giants' championship reign on defeating them twice. 3-2 in 11 | Innings and 4-3. Brooklyn and Philadelphia traded games by 5-1 scores. Dolf Camilli’s 22nd homer with a mate I on base featured a five-run rally j which gave the Dodgers the open-1 er. Claude Passeau pitched the I Phils to a seven-inning victory in the nightcap. The Yankees again took it on the chin, losing a 10-lnning game ' to the Red Sox, 5-3. The second game ended in a 2-2 tie after the ' six innings because of darkness. : Hank Greenberg was able to • hit only a double as Detroit won - from Cleveland. 7-5. After the St Louis Browns had won a doubleheader from the Chicago White Sox. 6-2 and 8-4. President Donald Barnes announced that Gabby Street would . not be retained as manager of , ihe Browns next season. Buck 1 Newsom won his 19th game in ;he opener and Emil Bildilli. I Springfield. (11l i rookie, won his . first major league game in the; nightcap each pitcher allowing i 11 hits. Nick Etten's single gave the ; Athletics a 6-5 victory in 11 in-i nings over Washington but the lienators came back wit ha four- . run rally in the seventh to take ■ the nightcap. 5-4. in seven in- ' nings i I Yesterday’s hero: Red Lucas. Pirates' veteran who hasn't pitch- ’ ed a game since Aug. 31 and who nas been absent from the club , tor ten days because of the 111i ness of his wife. He beat the Reds to eliminate them from the pennant race. GABBY STREET GIVEN OUSTER Veteran Baseball Leader Fired As Manager Os Browns St. Louis. Sept. 26.— <U.R> —St. Louis Brown officials thumbed through baseball's “who’s who'' today searching for a new manager to replace Charles E. (Gabby) Street. Admitting that the “old sarge” had served the club faithfully and had done as well as anyone could have with the material at hand, general manager Donald L. Barnes issued a statement that the Browns would have a new pilot in 1939. News of Gabby’s forthcoming dismissal followed by two weeks the discharge of Frankie Frisch as manager of the St. Louis Cards, and baseball followers immediately began speculating as to whether Frisch might get the Brownie vacancy. Barnes said club officials “had no other manager in mind." He said that Street had come into the office yesterday after the Browns had won a doubleheader from Chicago and asked about his status for next year. “I advised him the club did not expect to renew his contract for 1939,” Barnes said. "He has served the club faithfully and I be- * lieve he has done as well with it

as anyone could have, but 1 believe It 1* necessary io engage u new managei ” Street will finish out the season Street, who will be 56 this week, began his baseball career In I9UU ! and played for 2f*yeats before he laid aside his mask and mill He caught alter Johnson for four years when the "big train was In his prime, ffl managed the Cardinals to aucceMlve National league pennants in 1930 and 1931 and bent the Athletics in the world series the latter year. ■ o COLLEGE FOOTBALL Purdue 19. Detroit 6. Minnesota 15, Washington 0. Ohio I'. 6. Illinois 0. Alabama 19. So. California 7. Butler 12. Ball State 6 DePauw 13. Franklin 0. Akron 38. Wabash 0. Rose Poly 8. Evansville 0. Manchester 14. Valparaiso 13. Michigan State Normal 37. Indiana State 0. Pittsburgh 19, W. Virginia 0. Kansas 19, Texas 18.

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