Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1939 — Page 6

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JUNIOR TRACK TEAM DEFEATS ST. JOE SQUAD Junior High Scores 19-10 Victory In Annual Track Meet Th* Decatnr Junior high school track team won th* annual track ■nd Held meet with th* St. Jo»« tram Monday afternoon at Worthman Fi*ld. 4410. Th* Junior high tram won six < first places In Ob' seven events, making grand slams ot all three ( places In th* 50-yard dash, baseball throw and broad Jump. Sihm.tt scored St. Joe's only first place. leaping tour feet two Inches to lake the honors in th* high Jump. St. Joe's other points were scored by Schmits with a third In th* looyard dash, and Laurent and Klepper. tied for second and third I nth* football throw, i Abbott was the star for Junior high with is points, taking first t places in the 50 ya rd dash and broad Jump, tied for first in the lop-yaid dash and tied for second and third in Ur* high Jump. The second game of the annual aeries for the city softball championship will be played th*- afternoon at the South Ward diamond Junior high won the first gam* of the series, played last Friday. <4c , If a third game is necessary, it will i be played Wednesday afternoon. The winner of th* city series will play th* Rotary club team Wednesday at 5 p. m. at th* South Ward diamond as oue of the features of the boys and girls week observant* In this city. Results of the grad* track meet: 50-yard dash - Abbott, first: Johnson. second; Beer, third. 'All of Junior high). Tinies - 8.7 seconds. Baseball throw — M. Andrews, first. S<-hn*pp. second;. Beer, third, tAll of Junior bight. Distance. 323 feet, three inches. IMO-yard dash- Johnson and Abbott 'Junior high*, tied for first and second: Schmitt (St. Joe* third. Time 12.1 seconds. Football throw— P. Rickord (Junior high* first. Laurent and Klepper (St Joel tied for second and third Distance. 114 feet, five inches Broad Jump- Abbot*, first. Johnson second Fuelling, third. <Al> of Junior high*. Distance. It feet, on* hM h. High Jump — Schmits (St Joe* first. Abbott and G Andrews (Junior high i tied for second and third. Height, four feet, two inches. Relay — Won by Junior hUh (Johnson. Letts. Fuelling and Beer* Time 53 3 seconds. ■— -■" o HOME RUN* Gheringer, Tigers ....... 3 Greenberg. Tigers 3 Goodman. Reds 2 Camllll. Dodgers 3 Cucelneilo, Bera 2 Mile. Cardinals ’ Hoag. Browns ... ~,, g Foss. Red Sos 2 Campbell. Indians ___ 2 Marty. Cuba „ _____ .. 2 (Nt, Glans 2 —— — o LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAR R H Pct. Myers. Reds » 27 5 1 2 444 Ml Maggio Yanks 7 23 5 10 435 Greenberg. Tigers 11 42 • 13 .42* Dickey. Yankees R 24 4 10 417 Kubel. White Sox 10 44 » .IP .413

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STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pet. I New York 5 3 <25 I - Boston . * 3 .825 Chicago ...... 8 4 Koo Washington 5 4 .558 Detroit 8 f. .545 j St U>uls 4 I ttl Cl.-v.-iand 4 8 .400 ' Philadelphia 3 7 .222 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Prt. Boston 3 3 .727 ' Cincinnati _ 8 3 887 Chicago 8 4 .800 'St laiuis 5 4 558 Brooklyn 5 4 558 j Philadelphia _. 4 8 400 New York 3 7 300 Pittsburgh ... . „. * R .2**** YESTERDAY'* RESULTS National League Boston 7. New York 2. Brooklyn 13. Philadelphia 12. Pittsburgh 2. Cincinnati 1. Only games M hedu'ed American League Cleveland at Detroit, cold Chicago at St Louis tto lie played Utter date,. Only games scheduled. BOSTON TAKES NATIONAL LEAD — Bees In First Place; Pirates Snap Losing Streak Monday — New York. May 2 djJD Open Ing of the major leagues' first ! intersectional games today promised to shed some light on baaeImlls two timeliest topics What will the Yankees do without Joe Di Maggio* Can the Boston Bees keep up their hot pace? Those two questions are likely 1 to be the livrat tn baseball circles during the east west clashes of the next 10 days The Yanks, along with the rest of the eastern American league clubs. will awing through the west without the services of their cleanup hitter and sparkplug., DI Maggio, who was hitting a cool .435 when he lore the muscles in his leg on the wet tugs at Yankee stadium Saturday Mor* than one smart baseball man has Insisted that DiMaggio 1 is what makes the Yanks go h. M loss comra at a particularly tough 1 time as Lou Gehrig, who has lx« n hitting No. 5, is batting a m«i« i .143 It seems certain that DiMaggios loss for 18 days or longer wiil result in the dropping of Gehrig to a lower spot in the batting order, or. worse still. If he doesn't start to hit. to his com piet* benching For the time being George Selkirk will play field and Jake Powell and Tommy Henrich will alternate in center at.d Joe Gallagher and Charlie Kober will alternate In right. It begins to look as if the Be-s are no flash In the pan as the eastern National league clubs make ready for the invasion from the west, headed by the second place Reds and thtrd place Cubs They have been getting phenom *nal pitching and are playing ■mart baseball Rill Posed* I th* Imdger castoff, mad* the Bees l-ook even more dangerous when he set the Giants down with four

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hits yesterday. He held the Giants' hitless until the seventh and won i easily. 7-2 It was the Bees fourth straight and enabled them to climb Into undisputed possraslot: of the National league lead The Giants have plunged to | within one game of the cellar Yesterday's was their fifth straight defeat. For a club Bill Terry! called. “The brat I ever managed" | this spring, the Giants look rather feeble Their pitching has been sour, their infield is gumming ui plays, and the expected power ha» failed to develop, George Myatt spiked Billy Jurgra when he ran In front of the shortstop and tried to handle Cooney's grounder Only Ott and Bonura are hitting over 300 and even Sake, now hltt- ( ittg 314. is beginning to find the National league pitching a little' more than he bargained for. Pittsburgh snapped its eightgame losing streak and knocked ('inclnnati off the top by beating: the Reds 2-1. Truett Sewell out-; pitched Whitey Moore, who was wild Johnny Rixxo drove in both of the Pirates' runs with his two doubles. Brooklyn outlasted the Phillies' to win a wild game. 13-12. Th* Dodgers blew a six-run lead In the; ninth when the Phils scored seven i but won out in their halt

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DECATI’R DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, MAY 2. 1939.

SOFTBA LLLOOP PLANNED HEBE Regular Ix'aifue Schedule Will Be Launched Munday, June 5 Practically complete plans for the Adams county softball league for the !*3» season were made at a meeting of league officials and > tram representatives at the city hall Monday night. Seven tcimc were represented lat last night's meeting These teams are Pleasant Mills. Monroe. ; Cloverleaf Creameries. St. Mary's. B'ue Creek Dairy. McConnell's Habanellog and Berne. Efforts are being made to obtain another team I when Lavagetto's single drove in ; two tallies Whit Wyatt, who I came on th* acene in the ninth was the Dodgers' winning pitcher Yesterday's hero—Truett Sewell Pittsburgh pitcher, who held the j Reda to six hits and halted the i Pirates' nosedive after eight t straight losses

to round out an eight-team league. Rules and by laws were discussed and voted on. the entry fee was established and a protest board was named, composed of Sylvester Kverhart. Frank Peterson and Leland Franks The league voted ihat each teem be sanctioned in the National Softball association This sanction fee is *3 per team. The league schedule will open ' Monday. June 5. The complete 1 schedule will be announced In the nrar future. Plans are being mad* ,fcr an elaborate opening, with Kinds and a parade Included. The league la co-sponsored by the Softball Association and the j WPA recreation department. Lea-, gue offtcers are: Sylvester Ever- < hart, president; Leland Franks | treasurer; George Laurent, secre-1 tary. “■ a Home Talent Show At Monmouth Postponed The proposed home taletti show which was to have leen presented st the Monmouth school tlut week, has been postponed indefinitely, persons connected with the proposed show announced today.

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ENTRIES CLOSE FOR SPEEDWAY H> Cars Entered At Deadline; Mail To Increase List Indianapolis. May 2 <U.R> Th* hum of powerful racing motors reverberated through the sprawling Indianapolis speedway today aa more than a score of the nations top-ranking drivers twated their cars for th* Memorial day sao-mll* classic. Just four weeks' awsy. M'hen entries dosed st midnight last night, 48 cars had been entered The early malts today are expected to bring several more to raise the total number above 501 which will compete for the 33, places In the race. Among the drivers whose entries ' were received are four former champions--lx>u Meyer, only threetime winner in the history of the' 500-mlle race; Kelly Petillo. winner In 1935. Wilbur Shaw. Indian spoils driver who won in lfi37. and Floyd Roberta, who triumphed last year. Mauri Rose, national racing champion in I*3B. will drive Wilbur Shaw's three-year old car in which the latter won Almoat all of the moat famous drivers - su< h as Shaw. Meyer. Roberts. Petillo an Jimmie Snyder already are at the trach preparing their shiny mounts tor the race Qualifying trials are scheduled to start May 20. Just 10 days before the big race and most drivers agreed that a new record will 'be established this year. The present qualifying mark of 123 78* was set last year by Ronny Householder of Los Angeles. One reason lihely to contribute to a new record is that the quailtying distance has been reduced from 25 miles to 10 miles The ('rivers will have to circle the track 'only foul times ln«t< ad of 10 times

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sa In the post. And then the drivers and mechanics believe that the car* will be progressively taster thia year 1 than In past yearn Thia has been ib* experience In the last several years for the 500-mile record ha* > i*e*n broken annually since |».14 Many experts are predicting that a Speed close to 120 miles an hour will be necessary to win the I*3* race. Roberta' record-breaking winning time last year was 117 2tx* and shattered by almost four miles an hour the previous mark established by Wilbur Rhaw tn 1*37 Khaw believes that a mark of 120 miles per houi will be necessary to whi thia year and in aiming at that speed TENNIS TEAM WINS ANOTHER — Decatur Remains Undefeated With 6-1 Victory Over Bluffton The Decatur high school tennis i team continued Its undefeated season Monday afternoon, register lug an easy 8-1 victory over the Bluffton team at the Worthman' Field courts Bluffton's lone victory was In a three-set singles match, while all of Decatur's victories were In straight sets in easy fashion Results of all singles matches: Melchi IDi defeated Willey, go. M. Affolder tDi defeated Rynder. W 841 Walter IDI defeated Fry back. 80. *-1. Pond 18l defeated Mills. 7-*. 24. *-2 Boch (D) defeated Stogdlll. 84. 41 Results of the two doubles matches: Hohffke-Walter <D) defeated Willey pond. *4. *4* Hammond-Krick <DI defeated Fryhwck-Rnyder. S 3. 84 Decatur was scheduled to play

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