Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1938 — Page 6

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REDS' CATCHER MOST VALUABLE LEAGUE PLAYER Ernie Lombardi Named Most Valuable; Bill Lee Second New York, Nov. 1 <U.R) —Big, hunkering Ernie Lombardi, Cln-' cinnati Reds' catcher who they j say can hit a baseball as bard as I any man wno ever lived, today was announced as the most valuable player in the National league last season. The selection was made by a committee of 24 members of the Basel®! 1 Writers’ Association of America, three from each city in the league. Lombardi, who won the National league batting championship with an average of .342. received 229 points as compared to a perfect score of 336. The point system for counting the votes was altered this year, with first place scoring 14 points as compared to nine in other years. Second place counted nine, third counted eight and so on down th" line as in other years. Lombardi received ten firsts, five seconds, three thirds, one fourth, one fifth, one sixth and one ninth. Two committeemen failed to vote for Lombardi at all. and one of them did not place him on the, honor roll. Bill Lee. Chicago Cults' righthander who led the National league pitchers with 22 victories

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and nine defeats, was the runnerup with 166 points. Lee received five first place votes, one second, four thirds, three fourths, two fifths, one sixth, three sevenths, on« eighth and two tenths. There also were two committeemen who did not place Lee in the first ten, I and one of them neglected to put I him on the honor roll. i Always a dangerous hitter, i Lombardi last season improved i his catching technique to such an extent that his receiving was an important factor in the Reds’ rise from the cellar to fourth plSbe. Infielders around the league have ' long teared Lombardi because of the tremendous power with which he hits low. bullet-like line drives. 1 couple or years ago he Knocked down Larry French, Cubs' sou iipaw, and broke his pitching hand. He has floored numerous infielders with his drives. Lombardi is the old time, rough and ready type of ball player. When he first came up to Brooklyn in 1931 he reported wearing a cap and with a liat in one hand and a small bag in the other. Scribes getting a line on him asked him numerous questions. Then one said to him: ■'Do you play golf’" ‘Golf!" he roared "Maybe you fellows don't know who you're talking to. I'm Botcho Lombardi, the ball player." After a year with the Dodgers he was swapped to the Reds in a 6-piayer deal and has been a valuable member of the Rhinelanders for seven seasons. His lifetime average is .320, and only twice has he dropped below the .300 i mark. Lombardi is 30, weighs 220 and is 6 feet 2 inches tall. He started playing ball with Oakland in the Pacific Coast league in 1927. was optioned to Ogden, Utah, the same | year but came back the next season with the Oaks. After three great years in which he hit .377. I .366 and .370 he was sold to I Brooklyn. I Joe Medwick, St. Louis CardinI als’ outfielder who won last year's award, dropped to eleventh place this season with 55 points. Behind Lombardi and Lee came i Arky Vaughan. Pittsburgh, who polled five first places, with 163 points; Mel Ott. New York. 132; Frank McCormick. Cincinnati. I \3O; Jphnny Rizzo. Pittsburgh 96; Stanley Hack. Chicago. 87; Pau! Derringer, Ciudftiiati, 70. Mace Brown. Pittsburgh. 62, and Gabby Hartnett, Chicago, 61. ARMSTRONG TO FIGHT GARCIA i Welterweight Title Fight In New York Wednesday New York. Nov. 1—(U.R)—Blood probably will determine the winner of tomorrow night's welter weight title brawl between Champion Henry Armstrong and Ceferino Garcia at Madison Square Garden. Most experts along Lammers' Laue figure that the referee will be forced to halt the scheduled 15-rounder when one of the principals starts shedding too much gore. Garcia, with a mass of scar tissue on hie left brow, and Armstrong. with an unhealed lower lip, are due to bleed quickly and copiously if either weak spot is hammered much. That's why this is one of the most dangerouns belting fights in championship history— aside from difficult-to-determine comparative prowess of the gladiators. Senor Garcia of the Philippines is getting his second chance at the 147-nound crown. In his first try, a mantie of blood handicapped him greatly That was the night when he almost dynamited the diadem off Barney Ross' head, in September. 1937. He suffered a gashed brow in the fifth round, and blood half blinded him dur- | ing the remaining sessions. Too many repair jobs on that brow, down through a decade of LOANS $lO to S3OO On Your OWN Signature No Endorser* Absolute privacy. No questions asked of friends or employer—No embarrassing inquiries. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incorporated Rooms I and 2 Schaler Building Df-catur, Indiana Phone 2-3-7

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Decatur Bowling League Results CHURCH LEAGUE Ossian Nahrwold 140 114 113 Meyer 164 147 160 E. Werling 125 130 143 R. Werling 129 115 111 Totals 681 607 647 Convoy City R. Reidenbach 123 159 163 E. Roehm 129 101 120 R. Rose . 145 127 155 F. Geyer 165 195 153 D. Roehm 130 149 144 Totals 692 731 735 | CENTRAL SOYA Truckers Harris 92 167 122 Sheets 163 129 114 Hawkins . 158 128 176 Black 95 147 118 Bucher 127 205 166 Totals 635 776 696 Laboratory Finlayson 112 116 131 I Mann 120 156 163 Kruse 151 173 165 Soldner 186 113 129 Brewer 181 198 180 Totals 750 756 768 Feed Mills G. Slickman 158 114 166 Lemish 128 127 102 Hake 125 122 -02 Hutker ..... 146 122 100 Hirschy — 87 113 159 Totals 644 598 635 Solvent Daily 129 106 105 Baker 130 137 171 Brown 125 136 Gallogly 152 162 158 Scotty 131 — 152 Black 142 125 Totals 667 688 711 Office Sprunger 136 201 129 Allwine 120 192 122 i McMillen 150 135 150 McCann 113 121 ... G. Schultz 153 181 161 Thomas 104 Totals 672 833 666 ! Maintenance Mitchell 98 100 109 Felber 78 124 125 Lehman 129 179 213 Keller 141 113 128 Springer ~. 137 145 126 Totals 583 661 701 Expeilers Bohren ..* 126 119 116 Babcock 184 134 107 Bollen 138 160 144 R. Little 145 144 195 Rice 147 172 151 Totals74o 729 713 Elevator Brennen 110 98 126 warring, left it us undependable as an over-patched inner tube. Now, at 28. he is a “quick bleeder." If Hammering Hank lands on that scar tissue in an early round, he will use the gash as a target, and it won't be long then before Ceferino loses on a technical knockout. Armstrong is facing an even greater blood hazard. He Is entering the ring with a spongy lower lip—a lip not yet healed after , the terrible mangling it suffered 'on Aug. 17. That was the night he staggered into the lightweight ' throne room, an unpopular victor over Lou Ambers.

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Scott 107 120 172 McCann 112 115 127 Omlor 143 J. Little 113 147 159 Rinehard 89 74 Totalssßs 573 658 MATCH GAME Auburn Moose Thomas 138 120 145 Ferguson 152 125 131 Lillard 155 156 131 Jenner 128 160 197 Selberg 172 215 183 Totals 744 776 787 Gamble's Schultz .193 173 177 B. Hoagland 204 173 223 Gallmeyer 152 176 129 Mies 228 Ahr 212 139 200 Blakey 166 147 Totals 989 828 876 G. 0. P. NAMES (CGNTiNt'ED FROM PAGE ONE) Johnson. S. St. Mary's Judge. Merle Foor; clerk. Sherman Archer; sheriff, Omer Dague. French Judge, Wiliam P. Joray; clerk. Hulda P. Klickman; sheriff. Gorman Erhart. N. Monroe Judge, Harold Ray; clerk, Hirshel Johnston; sheriff. Emil Christner, Middle Monroe Judge, Karl Christner; clerk, Novitas Moser; sheriff. Sylvas Sprunger. N. Blue Creek Judge, Frederick Myers; clerk.' Roy Lautzenheiser; sheriff. Wayne Hahnert. S. Blue Creek Judge, H. Swoveland; clerk. Mrs. C. C. Jones; sheriff. Harve Lawson. S. Hartford Judge, Noah A. Pusey; clerk. Floyd Munro; sheriff, William Twigg. N. Hartford Judge, Harold Kessler; clerk, Ray Thomas; sheriff, James Pyle. Ceylon Judge, Roy B. Lewis; clerk.

Rupperts Troubles Are Over

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Joe DiMaggio and Young Corbett, 111 Now that Joe DiMaggio has announced he won’t be a holdout next year, Owner Jake Ruppert of the New York Yankees can face the future with a happy heart. Joo z made the announcement at his San Francisco home where he is shown with Young Corbett, 111, the middleweight box#?.

Harry Moore; sheriff, Thomas A. Sullivan. N. Wabash Judge. John Smith; clerk, William Norr; sheriff; Roy Butcher. W. Jefferaon Judge, Jesse O. Teeter; clerk. Thodore Morningstar; sheriff, Harley M. Tumbleson, E. Jefferson Judge. Chester Adams; clerk. Olive DeArmond; sheriff. Ralph Derrickson. Decatur 3-A Judge. James Bain; clerks. Dora Lower. Stella Coverdale; sheriff. Charles Ross. Decatur 2-A Judge. Charles Burdg; clerks, i Inez Weber, Vivian Burk; sheriff. James Gaskill. . Decatur 1-A Judge. Cal F. Peterson; clerks, Lucinda Borne, Sylvia Ruhl; sheriff. Frank Peterson. Decatur 3-B Judge. Willis Fonner; clerks. Mrs. Ed Warren, Florence Kohls; sheriff. Fred Busche. Deeatur I Judge, Roy Mumma: clerk. Marie Hill; sheriff, Otto Kiefer. Decatur 1-B Judge. George Flanders; clerks, Melvina Eady. Nida Deitsch; sherj iff. Robert Strickler. Berne B Judgn, Fred Kamholz; clerks, , Mrs. Selma Nussbaum. Mrs. Mary Sprunger; sheriff, Emil Liechty. Berne A Judge, Cary Templin; clerks. Oswin Lehman, Orval Allspaw; sheriff, Frank Pickett. Berne C Judge, Calvin Sprunger; clerks, Eva May Sprunger, Thella Haeckdr; sheriff. William J. Frawley. Geneva B Judge, Joseph Cline; clerk. Ruth Grove; sheriff. A. Roy Noland. Geneva A Judge, Aaron Heimberger; clerks J Donna L. Vorhees, Lillian LaVerna | Hardy; sheriff. Robert M. Fields, i 0 Running Os Night Dogs Not Permitted State Game Warden McClean, of Pluffton. today called the attention of all sportsmen to the fact that running of night dogs will not be

ADAMS COUNTY NET TEAMS TO START SEASON Five Games On Opening Week’s Basketball Card This Week Adams county high school basket-1 ball teams will open the 1938 39 season this week, wilh five gunes on the first week's schedule. The Jefferson township Warriors will officially open the net sniping Thursday night, meeting the Petroleum Panthers at Petroleum. Three games are on the card for Friday night, with the Hartford township Gorrillas meeting the Berne Bears at Berue, the Monroe Bearkats playing at Kirkland, and the Monmouth Eagles at Geneva. The week's schedule will wind up Saturday night, with the Pleasant Mills Spartans and Jefferson playing at the Commodore gymnasium. Decatur's two high school teams will swing action next week, with the Commodores and Yellow Jackets playing away from home. The Commodores will launch the season's activities Thursday night, November 10. tangling with the New Haven Bulldogs at New Haven. The Yellow Jackets open their season the following night, Friday, November 11, meeting the Portland i Panthers at Portland. Two new gymnasiums will be available for Adams county teams this season. Work is practically completed o» the gymnasium-auditorium at tha new junior-senior high school building in this city, and the gymnasiumauditorium addition to the MonI mouth school was completed sevelial weeks ago. Construction wort i has also been started on a similar addition to the Pleasant Mills school, but this likely will not be completed in time for any games this season. —O'- ■ - Notre Dame-Gopher Gaine Is Sellout — South Bend, Ind.. Nov. I—(UP) — ■ Athletic business manager J. Ari thur Haley announced today that ' the Minnesota-Notre Dame football j game here Nov. 12 already is a well- ■ out. Haley said that Saturday s gajne with Navy at Baltimore also may be a sellout and that there were a few seats left for the Northwestern game at Evanston. 111., Nov. 19. o EMPLOYMENT IN (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) products. 12.9 and 9.3. Despite the encouraging gains of the last thrae months, comparisons with a year ago still show to disadvantage," the report said. "Preliminary indexes showed October employment to be 25.1 percent and payrolls 31.7 percent below a year ago.” Totals for 1.469 non-manufac-turing establishments employing 39,966 wage earners in October showed an employment increase of 0.2 percent and payroll gains of 2.2 percent above September, the report said. permitted until November 15, opening of the coon season. The pro- . hibited hours are sundown to sunrise.

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Mrs. Anna M. Perry Causing a sensation in city political circles, Mayor Robert R. Williams of Miami, Fla., named Mra Anna M. Perry, above, widowed mother of three grown children, as a member of the five-man city commission. She is the first woman ever to be appointed to the j commission. Mrs. Perry has served Mayor Williams as secretary for three years.

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Ceferino Garcia and Henry Armstront Welter Champion Henry Armstrong, right, has a date *»(*&> * Garcia In New York, Nov. 2, witli Armstrong a welter

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