Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1939 — Page 6

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HABANELLOS. DUNBAR WIN IN OPENING GAMES Huge Crowd Attends Op* eninjc Os Softball (James Monday Night Th* official opening of softball play In Decatur Monday night was a decided since**. with a huge crowd In attendance and two wellplayed ball games, one going into extra innings before a decision was reached The formal opening was launched with a parade of the City and t'hnrch league teams, headed by , the combined band, directed by Al- 1 bert Rellemeyer. Boy Scouts In uniform and the city band, directed I by Gerald Zimmerman. WPA music , • upervlaor. • bunbar scored two runs in the I ninth inning to register a 3-1 ex-tra-inning triumph over Cloverleaf ' in the opening City league con-; test. Cloverleaf tallied Its long run In j the fourth frame on a double by . Ktrby and a passed ball. Dunbar ' tied the score In the seventh In mag on a double by E Stucky and ' O. Sprunger'a triple. The winning runs counted in the ninth on two walks and E Stucky's i single. Both teams played errorless ball ' Duubar obtained sli hits off the I hurting of C. Farrar and Cloverleaf hit safely five times against - Hoffman. In tjie second game. Habanellos registered an 8-3 triumph over Pleasant Mills. The Habaitellos I had a big inning In the fourth I when they tallied five runs on a I walk, an error, singles by Strickler and Stapleton. and triples by Jackson and Painter. Pleasant Mills came back with three in the same frame on two errors and three bases on balls R Ladd's single and V. Andrews home run eave Habanellos two more runs in the fifth and the final

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run tallied in the sixth on two errors. RHE I Dunbar two 000 IM— 3 < 0 1 Cloverleaf two 100 000 I & o Huffman and H Rprunger; C. Farrar and Hitchcork •I R II ■ ) Habanellos MM2I fl—7 I 3 I Pleasant Mills 000 3000 o—3 3 4 I Agler and M iAidd, Archer and , V Edgell. Clark. I STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE I *-- W. L. Pct. G.B Cincinnati 29 14 .874 ... at. Louis 23 17 MS 44 Chicago ... _ It 20 ,524 fits Pittsburgh 22 2o 524 <4 Brooklyn .. .. 2o 2v 100 74 New York 1» 24 142 lo i Boston 17 32 425 I*4 | Philadelphia .... 13 27 .33$ —■ '■ ! AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L Pct G.B. I New York 33 8 »u 5 i Boston 33 IE .fiflfi 84 I Chicago ... 23 13 Ml 1«4 Cleveland 21 13 .525 114 I Detroit IS 24 .429 15' s | Philadelphia 17 24 .415 IS ' Washington .al5 24 3SS IS jSt la>ul* 13 29 .310 201, YESTERDAYS RESULTS American League Cleveland 7. Boston 5. Detroit 3. New York 0. Chicago 13. Philadelphia 1. Washington at St. Louis played I as part of double-header Sunday. National League Brooklyn 8. Pittaburgh 3. Cincinnati 8. New York 2. Philadelphia 8. Chicago 7. Boston 10, St Louis 4. LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pet. Arnovhh. Phillies 41 158 23 Cl 384 ! McQutnn. Browns 42 108 34 Co 367 Campbell. Indians 25 7C 17 27 .355 Higgins. Tigers „ 22 74 8 M 351 I Dickey. Yankees 40 149 40 52 349 Sullivan. Browns 30 8C 13 30 349 p— HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers 13 Selkirk. Yankees ie

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BRIDGES HURLS TIGER VICTORY J OVER YANKEES » —- : Detroit Pitcher Curves First Shutout Os Year On Yankees I I New York. June C <U-R> The > way to atop the Yankees la to I mak* them do their stuff against good pitching All thia talk about splitting the American league season after the all-star game July 1 11 because the Yanka are tunning away with the pennant 1s poppycork Let the other Clubs follow D*| Baker's belated attempt to atop the Yanks by tossing their beat pitchers against them at every turn. Raker finally pulled the wraps off Tommy Bridges yester day and let him face the Yanka for the first time thia season The slim Detroit right-hander pitched 'he Yanks Into a whisper. I allowing only four hits and blankI ing them for the first time thia season Bridges had the Yanka eating out of his hand, and was In trouI hie only once as the Tigers heat I Monte Pearson. 3-«. In the ninth a single by Henrich, a walk, and I Selkirk's single loaded the bases | Bridges fanned Joe Gordon for I strikeout No I#. and forced Babe Dahlgren to pop out to end the game. Hank Greenberg hit homer No 12. and Pinky Higgins clouted anI other one to touch off the Tigers' I winning rally in the fourth It I was Bridges' seventh victory and I Pearson's first defeat Today Baker comes back with Schoolboy Rowe, an old Yankee I lieater who'll try to recapture I I some of the magic he used to j weave around the Brons bombers I before his arm came up with the 1 misery. That's the stuff. Del - Keep giving 'em the best you've got. Bridges and Rowe and New-' som. If the other clubs would i atop squawking about how the f Yanks are running away with the, flag and go out there and give 'em the best they've got every day. then we'd see a little fun I Big leads have been blown before. I The Yanks of 1922 blew a 14-game! lead and just barely managed tobeat out the Browns by one game > The Chicago White Ro* moved i to within a game and a half cf second place by knocking off the , Athletics. 12-1, behind Jack Knott’s three-hit pitching It was' the first time title season be hud i gone the route Ollie Bejma hit | I his third homer in a* many day*! I for the White Ro*, who clouted 15* hits off Joyce and Parmelee Earl Averill, whom the Indians! tried to waive out of the American league to sell to Brooklyn, led Cleveland to a 7-5 victory over the Red Sox He slugged out a hotner and two doubles and drove In j three runs. Boston rapped Johnny Allen for 13 hits but couldn't overcome a 7-1 handicap. Cincinnati continued to draw away from the field in the Nation al league by gouging the Giant*. 8-2. and lengthening their lead to 44 game* Bu<-ky Waiter* held the Giant* to seven hit* for hl* seventh triumph Every Red made at least one hit In a IS-hitj barrage on Schumacher, Brown, i and Castleman. Lombardi hit homer No. 10 and McCormick hit a triple and two single* The Other three western clubs lost - the Bees slapped down the Cards. 10-4; the Dodger* tripped the Pirates. 42-; and the Phillies beat the Cuba. 87. Max West's two homers featured the Bees' triumph Ernie Koy'a double with the base* packed was the big Brooklyn punch Joe Marty, and Kirby Hlgbe. e*-Cuhs. helped th* Phils beat their former mutes Marty hit a homer with one on and Hlgbe was credited with the victory although he had to have relief. Merrill May had a perfect day. "4 for 4." Yesterday'* hero Tommy Bridges. Detroit's slim curve bailer who mystified the Yank* and handed them their first shutout ■ this season. 3-0. Lombardi. Reds _... 10 ' McCormick. Reda ... ... .. 9 Mlse. Cardinal* 9 LOANS 110 to S3OO OWN SIGNATURE NO ENPOaSEIUL-NO CO-MAKEgS There'i no n«d to iwl »ny embiri r>Min*nt shout salon* ui for a loan. Our asrvic* to ths public u to help them plan and arrange their money problems. A cash loan may help you. W* mat* ns ’nautrls* st trlenrt*. rslstlee* *e *m*4eyer Call at other, write or phone ua for full details. You are under no obligation if you do not take a loan. Call, «-»!•• er pArer I LOCAL LOAN COMPANY INCR»RFO«ATIO Item I nM 2 Behalf’ BnIIGIrr Oacatvr. IrGUbi FMm 2-J.7 fwry pff<Bs««f Mr

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Today’s Sport Parade * By Henry McLemoee New York. June C. <UJt) Putt- ‘ ing the sports shot here and there: We will now make the moat i umaxing prediction of the year .. . i j after more year* than be like* to remember. Harry Cooper will win the national open golf champion- ‘ ship at Philadelphia thia week .. . ' -ill you clown* can laugh, laugh. Haugh at thia forecast, this flying jin the fa<-e t»f Guldahl. but I am naming a man who. if the record l<ook* do not lie. la the greatest hitter of a golf ball who ever lived Forget for a moment that Harry I never won the nat tonal open < hsmpionship. and no man living I or dead can match hl* record ... I just file thi* away In your hat and get yourself a little of that IM i money the Philadelphia bookie* | are offering at thix point. Lower .the flags to half mast boys, but the Biliisli polo team , tbit was beatrm by the American* I in the first international cup matcL wm a better side . . . handicapped . r i>y Inferior ponir-s. the British had : uuer teamwork and a better setup j <>f p|.>y* than th * American* who I won • rough t- tirg . . had tie j Britleh been a bit more .ucky converting tout*, tjiey would have won a* they should have ... It j pain* me to *ay this but Tommy Hitchcock has ridden out his string . . . Father Time ha* swung a •cythe more deadly than Hitch-1 cock'* mallet ... the once super Tommy I* 10 goal* in name only ... He cannot ride on the same field a* a No 3 with Corti Smith, the M-rewball from the Panhandle. If Lou Nova I* thrown In with Joe Louis In September he won't : last as long as Gelento will in I their fight the lust of this month . . . According to my private ring rtatlstlclan Galento figure* to lie in and out of the ring inside of two minute* . . . Two minute* and four second* is par tor the electric chair at Sing Sing, ao you can see 1 what chance I concede the man

Committee Chiefs Discuss Campaign Plans Je 4 L » A*o WK *--**' « ■■ w jMMt BMP ji f * ■ Bf <K . I/> >. jF: C«or ( « D. CriH.nb.rf.r •( And.t-,o«, mw MCr.tary of tbo Democratic Stale Committee? JiocieeaJ ortanisation affaire with State Chairman Fred F. Bays, right, at state recently. Mr. Crittenberger, recently elected to tucceed James L. Beatty, io preoidenl of the Indiana Doanacratie Editorial j Association. ——— ■■■.- ■ — i

who drink* beer and shows 11. The utter futility of putting up stop. look, and listen sign* at rail-1 road tracks la proved by the tact > that Nova and his manager. Ray Carlen. not only think they can lick Loula. but can knock him out 1 . . . you won't believe me when 1 tell yife this.* and I don't blame you. but Carlen and Nova are not worrying about Loui*. but about how much gate the light will draw ... I don't know how much money will be paid to see It. but I will bet you 85 even that the number of stitches taken in Nova’s head. If he fights l-»uis. will be an odd Lumber . . . say seven or nine or thereabouts. If Alice Marble does not win the Wimbledon championship this year, you caa put her down aa a second late tenul* player ... If she I* a best rate player, she will walk tnrougb Wimbledon without the loss of mor* than a set or two because women s tennis I* at the lowe»t ebh since the girls used to wear font petticoat* in order that the , footfault Judge might not see un-i-hapely Silhouettes . . . with Moody over the hill, with Jacoba right be- i l. nd her. with Dorothy Round a i housewife and Retiorlta Anita Lis-1 -na the same, who has Marble got ;tt beat? ... the answer ia no one but herself, the same person who lias been beating her for the last , four year* . . . Alice C'l won t wear shorts anymore"* has never lacked in at. ok* equipment ... ail she ever lacked was what that great | master of English. Mushky Jack •M. calls. “Moxie" . . . word come* from Georgia, by confederate vat- • r»n. that Spurgeon Chandler has developed a screwticll ... If thia t» Interesting to you. that's fine, but It doesn't Interest me a bit because ' I m from Georgia and I know the state la full of screwballs ... to «IW>w that there Is no bias. I have ihree uncles who belong to the group, all of whom had their careers blighted by the Rust cotton I-lcker. Get your handkerchief ready be-

'cause It won't be long before we have another tear jerker . . . Carl I Hubbell tsHu-adin' for the minors ;. . . don't iFsurprised if Bill Terry fotlcwa him hot footed because Terry, aa a manager, has been nercblng on Hubbell's left arm like « *|u>rrow on a bush . . . Maybe It was Bill's weight that wore out Hubbell . . . Freddie Hutchinson la making good in the minor*, reports ssv . . . that must be comforting to Detroit, which paid 850.000 for him to |ltch in the majors. Exhibition Game Schedule Listed The schedule of exhibition softball games for next week was announced today by Sylvester Everhart -president of she soft wall association. Each of these games will be played at 7 V m.. preceding th » (icgular league contest. Monday night Dunbar vs First National Bank of Fort Wzyne. Thursday — Pleasant Mills vs Kuhner Packers of Fort Wayne. Friday-Monroe vs Brown* Ltn Itos of Fort Wayne. — — — — — 1 Recreation Committee To Meet Wednesday The executive committee of the Decatur recreation program will a»eet In the office of Waiter J. Krick. In the Junior-senior hirn school building. Wednesday evening at 7:3V o'cloc*. All committee member* are asked to be present. ■ - O Chuck Klein Given Release By Phillies Phlledi-lphia. June g —• (UP> — < huck Klein, veteran outriflkier ot the Philadelphia Phlille*. has been i given permission to make connections with another club and has fl* cd applications with several other National la-ague teams Including

WASHINGTON TO WELCOME KING Royal Welcome Planned For Kinic’N Viait To Wafihinßton Washington. Jun* • —4UJt>— Hun dreds of British Unlnn J*<k* and American flags were unfurled to day along th* streets over which King George V! and Queen Kilts beth will pass during their historic visit here Thursday and Friday Decorating of the parade route* began early today a* the capital prepared to welcome th* first reign Ing monarch of Geest Britain to visit thia country. At every electric light post along Pennsylvania avenue cluster* of three flag* were placed above , shield* of the two countries. Shopkeeper* decorated their window* with flag* and bunting. One owner displayed a sign proclaim Ing: "long live the king " Moat of i them were selling vantage point* In their windows at prices a* high a* Sin each. As excitement over nearness of Ute royal vlalt mounted. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and other j state department ofllclala prepared I to entrain for the Canadian border to accompany the royal party to Washington. Hull, five of hla aides, and army and navy official* leave tonight for Buffalo They will welcome their majesties to American •oil at Niagara Fall*. N. Y . tomor row. Official plana for the two-day visit were completed Only last minute conferences among ofllcial* Pittsburgh, it was announced today. Klein, a 10-year man. antomntic*By would become a free agent. He ’ firat came up to the Phils in 1924 ' from Fort Wayne and was traded to I the Cuba in 1933. Three year* later he »•» traded back to the Phils

Ready rx W To Go? What can compart* with the thrill of along on the open highway? Perhaps you have a trip planned mbbefore you go. "have your car checked ud make aure it ia READY TO (JO. It'aawto mot or int who plan*, ahead. Drive is tomorrow. Summer Lubrication: Grease - Drain - Refill. Summer Motor Tune-up: A complete, thorough check. Brakes Reconditioned: Pull wheels, grease and tea. RIVERSIDE Super Senin When you think of BRAKES—Think of !»■ •■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■ ■••• Make Us An Otto I 1 The Decatur Daily Democrat offer* f< sale its office furniture, counters, etc. i Including the following: Front counter and railing Two roll top desks Two typewriter desks, with * drawers An accounting table Small typewriter table and ch Two long tables, with drawer* A wood telephone booth Several wood filing cabinets’ Several wood chairs, wood P 3 i tion, etc. i Come in and look it over. Purfh ’?*L*TiS property at own rink. Same wlll '• about July 8. : Decatur Daily Democrat m m m ma, mmaBWWBUUUB 1

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