Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1938 — Page 6

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PHIL WRIGLEY SCOUTS RUMOR OF HUGE TRADE Admits Changes But Asserts Wholesale Shakeup “Silly” Chicago, Get. 12—(U,R>-Owner Phil K. Wrigljy .’.nd Manager Gabby Hartnet’ of the Chicago Cubs, disappointed by the world series fold-up of the team that drove gallantly to the National league pennant, "cooled down" today as they pondered plans to strengthen the club for the 1939 campaign. Wrigley admitted there will be changes but said a wholesale shakeup of the club is 'ridiculous.' "We're going to cool down before we do anything." he said calmly, despite an avalanche of rumors that had virtually the entire team traded off. The rumors and guesses started piling up after Hartnett, on his return from New York Monday, said that only four nlavers — Pitchers Dizzy 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 Rooms : and 2 Schafer Butldinq Ofcatur, Indiana Phone 2*3*7

m M| W.WVWS ‘ TONIGHT ONLY ■ Stage Show 9 P. M. ON THE ST \GE—IN PERSON “WOWO RADIO STARS” Come See in Person those talented entertainers you hear every day on the air — AMBROSE HALEY; Little Mary Lou; Sweet he Cou i. Roy Fl. accordion ace; Tommy and Dick. ON THE SCREEN—“JUVENILE COURT” Out of the crime-stalked city slums they come! It's a powerful, exciting story, with PAUL KELLY. Rita Hayworth, Frankie Darro 4 gang. ALSO—Newsreel Pictures World Series, and Shorts. All This Big Show for ONLY 10c-25c o c THURSDAY - FRIDAY - SATURD AY ■ They may be young... they may be small “ But how they fight...and give their all! k Stand up and salute the small fry...sons T of the heroes of yesterday ... ir. this Lx heart-stirring story of a father /* who couldn't fall because his n /jl boys wouldn't let him! A RM I \ red-blooded picture for — £E » j 1 red-blooded J™ I Adolph Zukor I / Directed by s ja l -9 JAMES MOCAN * * f .. 41 Picture , A s/W» ; i T®r '"“A h\ v\ -1 *aw 'Sr ft?-wWo¥ > ; u’, Vu —o o Sun. Mon. Tues.—“ Sing You Sinners” Bing Crosby, Fred Mac Murray. |

1 Dean. Bill Lee and Clay Bryant. I and Third Baseman Stan Hack I were sure of their jobs next season. The most recurrent rumor had I taptain and second baseman Billy , I Herman going to the St. Louis , ' Cardinals as player-manager in a , | trade for outfielder Joe Medwick I or first baseman Johnny Milo. But President Sam Breadon of , 1 the Cards promptly spiked the I idea in these crisp words: "Most teams would like Medwick and Mize. But they are not ' for sale to anyone. And we don't intend to build up the Cubs. I’m in the baseball business to build ' tip the Cardinals, ami not a single ■ player whom we think can help | us next year is up for trade or sale.” It was Breadon who last April sold Dizzy Dean to Wrigley for i 8185,000 cash and three players. | Wrigley himself, though admitt- | 'ng there would be some deals to I strengthen the Cubs, said he had no individual in mind except that ‘offhand. I'd swap for those New York Yankees.” He hinted broadly that he was through making big cash outlays tor players —and if Medwick or Mize were for sale, it would take : a good chunk of cash to lure either from the Cards. “You can't but a team," Wrigley said. "You've got to develop young players. In that connection, I'm working on a plan for a rew kind of arrangement with minor league clubs that would be beneficial to both parties. It would ha along the line of the present system of working agreements." As for a wholesale shakeup of the 193 S Cubs. Wrigley said "ft doesn't scc-n i*o«sible ,n me I to make a wholesale shakeup. ; You can’t trade off 36 ball players, out of the 40 or 41 that would be on the club roster. It's ridiculous.” He also cleared up a couple of other points—that the contract to.be offered to Hartnett will be lor one year because "that's as long as any of our contracts run.” and that Tony LazzerL who was signed as player-coach last winter after 12 seasons with the Yankees. will have a place in the - — ' M .. . "L~""*" "

INVITE SCOUTS TO INDIANA U. Boy Scouts, High School Pupils Invited To Attend (Janie — I Bloomington. Ind.. Oct. 12 - (Spa- . rial)—Boy Scouts and high school i pupils of Decatur will be entertain- , ed at Indiana University Saturday, : Oct. 22, in connection w.th the Kansas State (Indiana homecom- ' ing football game. This will be the ■ twelfth annual Toy Scout nay and '.he fourth annual high school Day ■ tc be sponsored by the University. An all-day program, including a talk by Bo McMillin, has been arranged for the young visitors. Approximately 5.000 Scouts and high school pupils tire expected to make the annual trek to the State University. A special student price of twenty-five cents forth" Kansas State game has been approved by University officials. High School students will be admitted at this special rate on presenting letter* of identification from their principals. Boy Scouts in uniform will take part in a parade and 'roop review prior to the game and will be admitted without charge. The day's program will open at s a. m., with a reception and registration in the Field House. This will be followed by swimming in the men’s pool and campus tours. From 11 to 11:30 there will be a program in the Field House, which will include a concert by the 1. U. band, welcome by Coach McMillin and a wrestling and gymnastic chow. University officials have asked that all visiting students and Scouts he accompanied by adults. Special parking space will he provided for tracks, busses and private cars | transporting the visitors. ; "ZZZZT7 — [ Today’s Sport Parade i By” Henry McLemore • — ♦ New York. Oct. 12.-—(U.P>-Out of the welter of rumor and counter rumor that has swept this harried world since Europe teetered on the brink of war. there came today one clear, decisive, authentic note. Ace Parker has a moustache. Who is Ace Parker? He is quarterback of the Brooklyn Dodgers. leaders in the natlonalprofessionai football league. News of Parker's moustache reached me by a motorcycle courier who had raced madly from Brooklyn, stopping only for red lights, traffic snarls and a flat tire. Spent and worn, his face lined with fatigue (partly from his ’ mad ride, partly from living in Brooklyn- he tumbled off his machine and thrust a great envelope into my hand. Os the same size and texture as the envelopes used by foreign governments for documents of tremendous importance. U wm stamped ' ** . With trembling fingers I opened it. First I found a curt little not" which said: Note to editors: Information contained in this article was received by long distance teie- ! phone, and is authentic. And then this story, under a Fort Wayne, Indiana, date line: "Ace Parker has grown a moustache. In next Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers. Parker will officially become the first moustached big league football player. “The Brooklyn Dodgers' quarterback started it ‘just for fun.' By Sunday the scrubby growth was a subject for chiding, and Parker made up his mind to shave it off. r ’ubs organization in 1939 “if he wants to stay with us." Wrigley also said he looked for more promising things from Dean next season. “I don't think there’s anything 'he matter with his arm. except that it probably needs exercise. He didn't work enough the past season.” Tonight & Thursday Her Last and Best Picture! JEAN HARLOW “SARATOGA” Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore. ALSO—"Secrets of Treasure Island” Only IOC O_n Friday & Sat. — Now they came to Decatur’s Leading Western Th-st-r' TM nC E HrrQ.,| T ,- E r. S in "PALS OF THE SADDLE" 10c BOTH NIGHTS o—o S"n. Mon. Tues. — 2 Big Hits! “FUGITIVES FOR A NIGHT" & “SPIRIT OF YOUTH” with I an all-Negro cast.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1938

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“Then tho Dodgers boat the Pittsburgh Pirates and leaped into first plafe. "Parker is superstitutious about making chatfges when the team is winning. “’I only hope.' Parker said, that it doesn't lead to a penalty for a screened pass.’ ” Many a great story has passed through my fingers since I started in newspaper work. I am an old man now. bent and tired, and the butt of the office boys' jokes as I sit in my dusty little corner, a green shade protecting feeble eyes. Yes. many a great story— Dewey at Manila. Dewey at the Hines trial. The Titanic. Gettysburg. the Alamo, the Johnstown flood. The Louisiana purchase, Ticonderoga, and,Yorktown Burr H&SIiStOH Buttle Os ings and many, many others. But the story of Parker's moustache is the greatest of them all. Not only because of the importance of the fact it contained, but also because of the simple and yet magnificent way in which the story was told. Where, in all literature. will you find a more majestic line than: “Then the Itcugers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates and leaped in-, to first place.” Yes. I'm afraid it will. It will stick in my memory for'"jar, . ’-*/ ■ (Copyright, 1938, by UP.) Q Recreation Committee To Meet This Evening The executive committee of the Decatur recreation program will meet at the office of Walter J. Krick, chairman, at 7 o’clock tonight. All committee members are urged to be present, as important business will lie transacted.

Add to Your List of All-American Hopefuls TLi .b's** I «, V ■flHflfli 2 i < Mik*- — JP 4 1 wMm -to ? w. I W \ / • Bill Osmanskl ~~ Paul Kromer Perron Shoemaker *

You can add these three names to your list of posI sible All-American football players: Bill Osmanj ski. Holy Cross fullback and captain: Paul Kromor,

CLUB HOST TO JUNIOR STARS Lions Cluh Entertains .Junior League Champi ions 11 The Decatur Lions club Tuesday i night entertained members of the Lions-Recreation junior baseball league championshp team, end captains of the other teams in the league, at the weekly meeting of the club, held at the Knights of Py- 1 thias home. A trophy, emblematic of the lea gue championship, and awarded by the Athletic Institute, inc., was presented to the team by Dr. Joe dorris. chairman of the program. The Lions-Recreation league, sponsored by the Lions club and the Decatur recreation department, played a complete schedule during i the summer months, with the eight i teams divided into the merican and ( National Leagues. | The Indians won the championiiip. defeating tije Gianu in the ) j>ost-schedule series. David Terveer was captain of the , F'.'.v..,u'„, i.who.-.' oth -nemiers were: Leo Miller, Herb I Welker, Herman Hammond, Wai- ’ er Sudduth. Carl Rash. Richard i Foreman, Ed Boknecht. I<eßoy Bailey. Billy Bromer. James King and Robert Kistler. Robert Kunkle was captain of the Giants. National league champions. Captains of other teams were Mural Andrews, Yankees; Pat Hackman. Red Sox; Paul Lend. Tigers; Max Haere, Cubs; Lewis Schnepp, Pirates and Bernard Myers,

Michigan sophomore backfield flash. ar.<J Perron Shoemaker. Alabama end. Osmanski and Shoemaker are seniors.

Cards. George Laurent, tecreation sirpervisor, was first introduced .at Tuesday’s meeting, and after touching briefly on work of the recreation department, iatroduc. d Carl Mies, former league hurler. Mr. Mies, who has been actfte in baseball circles in Decatur since moving to this city, speke briefly, relating several baseball anecdotes, and giving valuable advice to the boys present on baseball training and physical condition. o * ♦ | Decatur Bowling League Results | * — ELKS LEAGUE Antlers Briede 159 176 194 Hiller 161 167 152 Keller 118 112 170 DeVoss 174 171 186 B. Gage 161 Totals 747 761 863 Legs G. Gage 145 149 173 Metzler 144 178 Appelman 178 196 15S A. Miller 236 148 Mies 148 156 184 G. Laurent . 178 169 «<x.. *• Totals Ssl 827 M 2 Hoofs D. Gage 183 167 162 F. Beal 163 138 Brunnegraff 129 169 Reynolds 158 173 146 Mutschler 181 171 176 Fuhrman 148 183 Totalsßl4 797 836 Tails Macklin . 179 156 205

ASK PRO TEAM OUT OF LEAGUE Cleveland Owner Asks Pittsburgh Team Be Ousted Cleveland. Oct. 12—(UP)—Thomas E. Lipscomb, president of the Cleveland Rams of the National football League, sought today to have the Pittsburgh Pirates ousted from the circuit. Lipscomb said his r.ction was based on postponement by the Pirates of a game scheduled to be plf yed in Pittsburgh Sunday. "I have wired every cluh owner n the league asking that the Pirles be ousted," Lipscomb said. "1 •Iso have taken up the mater with President Joe F. Carr in Columbus.” Lipscomb termed the Pirates refusal to play a telling blow to profootball. personally think Rooney (Arhur J. Rooney, president of the Pirates) is a swell fellow, but this postponement of the game is a terrible blow to us." Lipacomb said. “Our team has been going 'hot' ind we don’t want them to cool off." Remonsirance To Hospital Examined County Auditor John W. Tyndall and D. Burdette Custer, attorney employed by the hospital trustees and the commissioners, were rushing the examination of the names on the remonstrance to the propos»d addition at the Adams county) ’ memorial hospital, in order that it might be certified before the Ad- j ' ams county council meet* in spe-i ' dal session Thursday to consider I I the proposal. The names on the remonstrance ' ' are being certified as to whether I ‘ tne signers are taxpayers and quali- ' fied to sign it. There were 985 ’ names on the remonstrance. About 750 names are to be certified on : the petition requesting the addition. | ° EGG AUCTION II continced fAGh: one. dozen. There were about 25 cases of | eggs from Randolph county in Tuesday's sale and six Jay county , producers were represented. Ralph ’ Crooks, manager of the auction, . showed the visiting group how the grading is handled and answered a gregt many questions concerning the operation of this new market , venture. o Beverages Board To Conduct Hearings The Adams county alcoholic beverage board will conduct hearing* Octobet f'.' .- o’«'l< *■ ' ■ county commissioners’ room of the courthouse on the following applications: Joseph, John and William Lose, beer retailer’s license; Knights of Columbus Council, beer and retailer’s license and Frtd FuUenkatnp, liquor, wine and beer retailer’s license. o Favors Approval Os Chicago Loop Subway Washington, Det. 12 —(UP) —Pub' lie Works administrator Ickes today recommended that President Roosevelt approve an >18.000.000 grant to Chicago for a loop subway o cost 837,810.000. o — Sit-Down Strike Closes Factory Detroit. Oct. 12 — (UP) A sit-down strike today closed the motor products company plant Officials of the United Automobile vorkers union said 2.000 men had joined the strike. A company spokesman said there were 1,400 in the plant. The demonstration started an tour after the day shift began work Yorkers locked the gates and an■ouuved that no one would be per- | mitted to enter or leave the plant. bulletin New ork, Oct. 12. — (U.PJ “Lippy" Leo Durocher, fiery captain and shortstop, today was named manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, replacing Burleigh Grimes who was let out on Monday. The announcement was made by Larry MacPhail, executive vice-president of the Brooklyn club, at a luncheon for baseball writer*. Strickler 158 235 16 Shoaf 135 Beal 127 152 Schneider 140 132 Baker 145 Stump 168 j Totals. "40 836

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