Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1939 — Page 8

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DECATUR LOSES ANOTHER GAME TO PORTLAND Panthers Score 6-3 Victory Against Yellow Jackets Th* Decstur Yellow Jackets lost th*ir secund game In two day* to tl* Portland Panthers Wednesday afternoon. dropping a 6-3 decision to th* Jay county team at Worthman Field Th* Panthers started with a rush. scoring thr*«- runa on a walk, a double. tripl* and an *rn»r A and an error gave Portland another In th* tilth and th* Panther* tallied their final run In th* aixth on a walk and two alngle* |i*tafur scored on* In th* flrat inning when M< -Connell walked and was driven around by single* by Haunt and Hoffman llevatur'a other two runa counted in th* fifth on doubl*a by Koldewey and Bchamerloh and McConnell's sacrifice fly Th* Yellow Jackets obtained only nit hlta. Gaunt coming three with half the blown Portland hit aafetly eight time*, with Hartiell the only Panther to drive out more than one blow Portland AR R II K Money. 2b 2 11 t» Valentine, an 3 0 11* Hartiell. c . 4 1 2 0 Garrison, rs 4 110 Coldren. rs _ 3 0 0 0 Loy. 3b Js 11 o Lak*, p . .... 1 • fl fl Shoup, If 4 0 10 Haines lb 3 0 0 0

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.Starr, p. 3b 2 2 I 0 Total* 2* fl m o Decatur All It II K McConnel, 2b .2100 ' Gaunt. If ' 4 0 3 0 Hoffman, rs 3 o I o | Highland. lb 3 0 0 1 | Koeneman. rs 2 0 *• •• : Stapleton, aa Juul ' Kitt h*n, 3b .2 o <t u . Lynch. 3b o 0 • o - Xoldewey, <■ 3 111 Chllcole. p 10 0 0 .th hamerloh, p 2 110 . Totals 24 3 6 I Score by innings: Portland 300 111 0 C Iterator 100 u2o p 3 TENNISERS WIN EASY VICTORY Decatur H ik h School Scores Easy Win Over Concordia Decatur's high school tennis I team, atlll undefeated tor th* sea.* I cn. chalked up another victory | Wednesday afternoon with a 5 1 triumph over Concordia high ot . Memorial park In that city. Fort Wayne. In a match played a: ' Decatur won four of the live • tingles matches and annexed the , lone doubles encounter. Results of the singles malt hrs follow: Kat. (Cl defetaed Melchi. 7-9.1 b-2. 6-3. Walter .Di defeated Miller, fl-3. 1-6. fl-3. Boh like lD) defeated Schoenherr. 6-3. fl-4 Milla fill defeated Vajda. S 3. 6 1 I Utah (Di defeated C. Jabker. fl-1 3. 7-5. Doubles results: Rohnke-Mllls <1)1 defeated Vajda- ’ O Jabker. «-2. 6 4 STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE Team W L. Pct CH New York 17 5 .773 Boston 13 « 6*4 2’» Chicago 14 10 .5*3 4 Cleveland 12 10 545 5 Washington !» 13 4<>h * Detroit . 10 Isl .3X3 • St lzmis 9 15 .373 > Philadelphia 6 15 ,2M io>, : NATIONAL LEAGUE T*am W L. pct. G B | St. Louts 13 9 .591 | Cincinnati 13 in .565 I Boston 12 11 .522 p, Chicago 12 12 JMfl 2 Brooklyn 11 11 .500 2 New York 11 13 45X 3 Pittsburgh .... 10 13 435 3', ' Philadelphia 10 13 435 34 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League Chicago fl. Boston 3 ilO tn-{ nlngsi. Washington 4. Detroit 1. New York 4. St. Louis 3. Cleveland at Philadelphia will' be played at a later date National League Philadelphia 7. Pittsburgh 3. Cincinnati fl. Boston 1. .New York t. St. Louis 4. Chicago 9. Brooklyn 9 (19 innings).

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WALTERS HURLS REDS TO WIN OVER BOSTON Cincinnati Within Half Game Os National League Lead New York. Muy is <UR> For , the htiMling championship of th* !' majors, th* Phltlles offer little i j Morris Artiuvlcji. th*lr Jewish out* > , fielder who by his determination and bulldog grit blossomed in* I > to one of th* National league's I I outstanding outfielders With a *‘s for 5 perfect day at I Irat yesterday. Atnovich advanced to the National league hatting j leadership with a perevaflaga «d 1.425. Arnovlch'a lusty hitting help|ed th* Phillies beat th* Pirate*. I 73. and continue to atnaxe baseI ball fans with their refusal to roll over and play d< ad Th*re is no more determined I player In has* hall than Amovlr-h. j Hustling for a lastpla* e duh I through a 154-game schedule lent . often done by any player but Arnlovlch ha* never pulled up since he I Joined th* Wills from Haxelton In I 1936 Amovlch makes a few misI take* but nobody yet ha* caught | him failing to give th* ' old Rai ger* try" *yery minute h*s on the Amovlch'* hitting and hustling lis one of the main reasons why jthe Phillies. d*spite the fact that they are tied With the pirates for I -eventh place, are only 34 games ' from th** National league lead , They've won in out of 23 and i every tint* they come home In I front everybody wonders how they do it Hugh Mulcahy's smart, 5-hit ■ pitching, combined with Arwovich'a I hitting, were the answers yesterHucky Walters pitched Clm-ln-iuatt to within half again* of the [top by scoring a «1 triumph over the Boston Rees He allowed only I seven hits and Lad a shut out un- ■ til the ninth. Fred Frsnkh«inse ; knocked Harry Craft. Red outfleldI *r. unconsclou* with a pitched.ball : and riled the Clm iunatl crowd ■ Ival Goodman hit butter No. 4 The Giants moved to sixth place iby thumping the Cards. 9-5 Mel | txt's 6th homer with two on helped Hal score his Hist victory despite the fact that he had to l»* rescued In th* seventh Brooklyn batted the Cubs to a >9-9 tie in 19 Innings, longest game I thus far this season The liodgera i mad* 16 hits, and were aided by J six Cub errors but had 19 men left ,on i*ase Th** lead changed hands ! six limes until Brooklyn tied it tn j th* ninth on Koy s single and t'osi carart’s double. The Yankees stretched their win ‘ ning streak to seven in a row by {defeating the Browns. 4-3. scoring | the winning run on Johnny Beraridities errpr. Monte Pearson hdd ; the Browns to four hits for his ’ fourth victory Tommy Henrich | hit his second homer. The Red Sox lost ground by bowI Ing to the Whit* Box,, fl-3 in 1A . innings. Joe Cronin's homer with I two men aboard accounted for all 1 Boston's runs Singles by Owen. I Tresh. Radcliff and Bejma were ' resjiouslble for Chicago's threeI run rally in the tenth, driving Jack Wilson to cover. Kighteen-y«*ar-old Walter Masterson off the Philadelphia sandlots pit* hed his first major leagn* game by hurling Washington to a 4-1 victory over Detroit. He allowed only six hlta Ruck New* som. in his first start for the Tigers. was slugged for four runs in the first frame Jimmy Wasdell. Washington first sacker, hit ”4 for 4." Yesterday's hero: Morris Amovlch. Phillies' outfielder who hit a double and four singles to gain the

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National league hatting lead and pace hts team to a 7-3 triumph over Pittsburgh JUNKCARRACE 'AGAIN SUNDAY Second Os “Junk ('ar Derby Races” To Be Held Here Sunday Pl.tis for the second In a series ci "Junk Car Derby Rar**' to be LflM at the Devil's Bowl, located three -fourths of a mile north of Ih-catur on the River Ruad Sunday a.ternoon. are rapidly nearing compit t hm Carl and Rtlph H .rst. p nmoter* >f the etent p;edict a laig-r crowd rnl better racca than Shore helj last weak, which w«re acclaimed a ■ omplete succe**. Fifteen or 16 entries are expected to line up for th* starting tan Satut'lajr. with drivers from Decatur and vicinity filling up the roster. No «ar worth more than f 5 ■ will ;* permitted In the rare th.s wwg* | end. Two big event* are planned, each to b» 5o laps in length. The qualifying triala. which last Sunday held up the race* some time Will be ellraiuated and the events will start I romtply at 2 o'clora. Drivers of all cars whicU are ex l*ected to be entered In the race, .ue to #»■»> either ot th* men in charge b> Saturday afte-:ioon to make out their entry blanks. Judice I-an dis Probes Detroit Farm Workings Chicago May 18 —tl'Pi— Haseball commissioner Kenessw Mountain Landis. Investigating 'arm opcations of the Detroit Tigers, today sought further details on "the transfer by Toledo of quite a few players” to Fort Worth of tn# Texts league, where Detroit has an "un* tl-rs:aiding” with Beaum* nt. Toledo. In the American usaocla'.ion. has a working agreement with

Detroit. latndis quest lotted official t of tn* Itetroit. Fort Worth and H»-.ttun*mt ciabe for three hours yesterday, then adjourned the hearing until "rome future date while w# look tor further information." ■<> "- 1 ' Church League To Be Formed Friday Organisation of the church softKill league will be completed at a a -eting of team representatives at u< junior-senior high school Friday evening at 7 o'clock. The meeting was called by Sylvester Kverhart. president of the softball aa«>.-ciatk>b. * — '*»* a ■ Junior Basehall School Saturday Another In Ute series of junior baseball training schools, conducted by tile WPA recreation departsuent. will be held at Worthman F'eld Saturday morning and afternoon. The morning uflflfllaß. fiom 9 to Ila. m. will be for boys ftom 1') to 14 years of age. The afternoon session, from 1 to J p m will be fui boys over 14. WPA League (James Scheduled Sunday The third set of games In the Adams county WPA smateur league Will be played Sunday afternoon, with three games scheduled. Fnedhelm will play the G. K tcatn at Worthman Field; Mies Rect -ation will play at Pleasant Mills ttbd I'll lon will play at Feulling. LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Mauers Browns. 16 57 15 25 -439 Amovlch. Phils — 24 94 15 40 42fl Kuhel. White Sox 18 73 18 30 .411 Galan. Cuba 18 64 14 26 406 Foxx. Red Sox .... 17 64 18 26 406 HOME RUNS Mlxe. Cardinals 7 Greenberg. Tigers 6 <>tt Giants 6 < iiiilllla Dodgers 6 ■’ .Red Sox 5 Selkirk. Yankees 5

BRYANT'S ARM WORRIES CUBS Clay Bryant Latent Cub Hurler To Come I’p With Sore Arm | Chicago May is tl'Pi—Another hatch of X-ray plates can make or t.r*ak the pennant chanc-s of ths I Chicago Cu*>a italay when the club inhyslclan reports ot the d*od*nd*d erm of speedbailer <Tay Htyant. Bryant's ailment b:.s received far Il*sa public attention than Dtaij ! Dean's, but if the giant right handed pitcher la forced out of action for I many weeks the Cubs are la a apot It waa Bryant'a lat* season I splurge ending In his 19th victory I that clinched the pennant las'. 'all. He and Bill law* were manager I'.roby Hartnett's two big reasons tor picking the Cubs to reneat. Th* sore atm la a mystery. Bryant has been Ineff.Clive all spring, winning one and losing on*, until Lnaily h* reported he was unable to work b*< ause o( ext-etre sore-i n*ss lit hl* pitching arm. “I haven't been aid* to do any throwing for several days.” Bryant admitted “It hurts even tn a light { s orkottl" Hartnett was glum aa he waited the report by Dr. John F Itavls He (eared Davis would order Bryant to bench for several weeks and th* I *ay th* Cuba are going now they ‘ I taay tall too far behind to catch I the leaders coming down th* ‘ stretch. Surgery on Clary's anm would la* 1 ' even a worse blow. 1 "tMxgy Dean looked areat th* * ct.ier day. but we n* ed all th pilch , 1 ing we can get.'' Hartnett said "We <M*t afford to lose any of tt now I'.n keeping every pitcher on til-* staff, even if It weakens reserves, •ome place else " That means Hartnet will keep i leven pitchers Lee. Rryin:. Dean. Vance Page. Gene Lillard. Kirby Highe. Earl Whitehall. Imrrv French. Ray Harreli. Jack Russell, and old Charley Root. The recent failures of Page. LI.-, ls*d. and Harrell, put the s'aff In a sorry plight One brfght note is the •hirtout pitching of Hlgbe. who ell { maxed several neat relief Jobs with seven scoreless innings against Kidnapers' Victim — . w I A i j? 'i^ Bum George Palmer Putnam (above), wealthy publisher, set authorities ; on trail of kidnapers who slugged I him and left him bound and gagged j »r* a house at Bakersfield. Calif. He laid he managed to slip bis bonds and escape. ■—■■■■■ g- UN ■■ || CORT i r — Last Time Tonight — “JESSE JAMES” Tyrone Power, Nancy Kelly. Henry Fonda. Randolph Scott — Shorts. 10c-15c Friday & Saturday GEORGE O BRIEN ‘ARIZONA LEGION’ A "Lone Ranger Rides Again." Sun. Mon. Tues. —• "Mr. Moto In Danger lelsnd" A "Mystery of the White Room.” <®s> Friday & Saturday Wild BILL ELLIOT ‘Law Comes To Texas’ ALSO — "Dick. Treey Returns." Friday Nite 10 centx Saturday tOc-15c

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