Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1939 — Page 6

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WALTERS HURLS TENTH VICTORY FOR CINCINNATI Reformed Infielder Hurls 10th Win Os Year For Cincinnati New Tbrk. June 21. — (U.K) — A year and a week ago today the Cincinnati Reda made the deal which | may plant the National league pen' nant atop Croaley Field’s flagpole J in October. They bought William Henry tßuckyi Waiters. the tall, j anttularjawed ex-third baaeman. i from the Phillies for 850.000 and | Al llolllagaworth and Spud oavia | Walt era. who took up pitching in I 1934 after aix year* aa a third law-matt, did well enough after June IS last season. winning 11 1 gamea and loaing alx. but he arrived a little too late to get the Reda higher than fourth place. But thia la another year and Walters la making wise men out of War- i 1 ren G. Giles and Rill McKechnle. ' He's the No. 1 man of the Reda I. pitching staff with a record of 1® I, victories against four defeats. He's!, won more gamea than any other ' National league pitcher and has pitched more complete games than any major league hurler. with 11 to hit credit. Two of the four games he’s lost were in relief roles. 1 and the other two by one run and two runs, respectively. One of those defeats was a 2 •• loss to the

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Cuba a game In which he allowled only four hits Illa 10 victories | I have all been complete jobs except jcme- a 10-lnnlng affair In which he tired and had to get relief In the I loth after going 9 13 frames. The tall, blond Redleg has allowed only lu3 hits In the 11S Innings he's pitched, and In only 1 four games has the opposition ( made more than Iwo runs. He . 'pitched a typical Walters game by beating the Dodgers.-14-2. yielding eight hits. Dolt Cam’lll! hit a homer with a mate on, base n the flrat frame, but the Dodger* couldn't score after that. | The R«-d» collected 10 hits off Freddy Fltsalmmona. The victory ! increased Cincinnati's lead to «'x ; I games over the idle second place | ; Cardinals Claude Passeau won hla second ■ i game in a Chicago uniform, pitch*: | Ing and batting the Cuba to a 3-1 ' triumph over the Bees. He allow- ] ed only live hits and singled with j the bases loaded, driving In two runs The victory brough the Cuba I back to the Soo mark and into I fourth place, replacing the Dodg- , era. Jack Knott. Vic Frasier and Ed- ] gar Smith were just what the , doctor ordered for the Yankee batt- I Ing slump. The Bronx bombers , broke out In a rash of 19 bingles for 30 bases to crush the White 1 Sox. 13-3. Monte Pearson, after ' yielding three runs In the first fram. blnked the Sox the rest of > the wy, Red Rolfe led the Yankee barrage with two doubles, a triple i and a single. Eldon Auker pitched the Red ' Sox to an 8-1 victory over the ' Browns. He gave up nine hits. ‘ Joe Vosmlk had a "4 for 4.“ two , of them triples. The Cleveland Indians came - from behind, deadlocked the Washington eSnators at 2-2 tn the ninth inning, and then pushed over two j runs in the 13th to win 4-3. A wlk and three hits sent in the two runs, safeties by Ken Kehner and Sammy Hale sending the runs 1 across. Tommy Bridges allowed but sev- ; en hits to blank the Athletics. 5-0. ' In a night game before 13.000 fans at Philadelphia. Yesterday's hero: Rucky Waii tera. ex-thlrd baseman who held the Brooklyn Dodgers to eight hila * for his 10th victory of the year for Cincinnati. '>•<> ta • >.*mi T-wa — SteeaSw*

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PRO FAILS AT | HOLE IN ONE Michigan City Pro Fails At Hole In One Out Os 1,817 Tries Beverly Shore* Country Club. Mich lean City. Ind. June 31 <u.p_) —A elender young professional. , ehot with weariness and painful j blisters. pounded hie 1.817th golf l»all at a flickering candle light marking the tenth hole early today and decided that luck, not science. breed* a hole-ln-one. After IS hour* of driving, on a $25 bet wtih Duffer Bill Volt*, who; 1 scored an ace on the same 13*yard hole a week ago. professional Harry Gonder. 25. finally was forced to quit. He had hit the pin doten* of tlnte*. once a* late as hl* 1.753th shot, but at 2 a tn. tl'STl he admitted hi* blistered left hand was too painful to continue "Let the bat shooter* have their holes In-one." he grinned. "It's Just luck after all. I thought I could do anything a duffer like Hill Volt* could do Now 111 have to pay him twenty-five dollars." According to the only available , figures, result* of the annual New York World-Telegram hole-ln-one tournament, he had only one chanc*- In 5.313 to win Once, late yesterday, he had It. The ball dropped quickly into the cup. but with such force it popped out again and spun 4 Inches away "You don't do It right. Harry." Volt* said. “You've got to take a spoon my lucky spoon If you want It even If it Is only 136 yard*. Then Just make a quick Itackswing like this, with your arms straight up tn the air." | Volt* swung In a craiy arc that | haiked more like a la*y uncle beat ; Inga rug under protest than a ' golf swing (hinder, who consistently shiaits the course in par 72. finally admitted that luck might lie the way and toward sundown mechanically began to play the law of averages o «- j Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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It's not news any more that Sydney Wooderaon, Britain'* world record holder of the mile run, finiahed last in a field of five at th* "mile of the cen--11 t«iry” race at Princeton, N. 3. But thia m*g»< eye

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STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. GB. Cincinnati 37 18 .673 . , Bt. Louis 23 23 .558 *4 New York 23 26 .527 8 (Tilt ago 28 28 5M >l6 Brooklyn 26 27 .43! 10 Pittsburgh — 2 4 28 . 462 16»* Boston 22 31 .415 14 Philadelphia „.. 18 32 .360 168* AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct G.B. New York 42 11 .732 I Boaton 3d 21 .586 II Cleveland 2» 25 .537 134 Detroit ——._ 30 27 .526 14 Chicago 28 26 .513 144 Philadelphia .31 33 .383 21k* Washington ... 22 33 .386 21 | St. Ixrnia — 15 33 .278 27 >* j YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League Boston 8. Bt. Louis 1. New York 13. Chicago 3. Cleveland 4. Washington 3 412 Innings). DetroM 5. Philadelphia 0. National League Chicago 3. Boston 1. Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 2. Philadelphia at St. Louis, rain. New York at Pittsburgh, rain. Gehrig Has Paralysis; * To Get Unconditional Release This October • X New York. June 21 (UP»—l£d Barrow, president of the New York Yankees, announced today that lam <’“hrig. Yankees first b**eman. is suffering from chronic poliemyelb, tls—which was described a* a type of Infantile paralysis and that hl* baseball career has ended, at least' temporarily. Barra* and manager Jce McCarthy of the Yankees made the announcement after a diagnosis of Gehrig at the Mayo Clinic Harrow raid the first-baseman Would be kept with the team on hl* regular salary for the remainder of the • vrrem season but would b» unconditionally released after h's conI tract expires In October. - Gehrig returned from the May?

EXTRA INNING GAME FEATURES SL Man’s And Methodist Teams Wins In Church League Play The Methodist and St. Mary's learns scored vk-torie* In the Church softball league Tuesday night at the South Ward diamond. The Methodists tallied a 10-5 triumph over Baptist in the opening contest, on nine hits and aided by si* Baptist errors. The losers obtained 11 hits but these were kept well scattered by Cline, I Methodist hurler. I St. Mary's was forced Into an extra inning to register a 7-4 vicj lory over Reformed. St. Mary's ' was trailing. 4-2. at the end ot Ave innings of play but one run in each of the sixth and seventh inning* tied the score and St. Marys' drove out three hits and was aided by an I error to tally three run* in the eighth. RHE Methodist 320 120 2 -10 3 3 Baptist 010 211 •— 5 11 6 Cline and Laugherty; Schult* and Baker. RHE St Mary's 200 001 12—7 11 3 Reformed 201 100 00—4 5 3 W Baker and Gage; L. Brokaw and F Brokaw. ; < linic yesterday but refused to di*'close its finding* He handed the <'iignosi« to Barrow and McCnthry «t the Yankee stadium today. The ;eport.'stgned by Dr. Harold Hobein M. D„ described the afCictton as > “an amyotrophic of the lateral soleJ tosls affecting the motor i-athwayi I an t cell* of the central nervous ay*I fem." Gehrig, forced out of the line up after playng 2.150- consecutive , game*, will not be permitted to take I active exercise until he ha* *ul> , tultted to a aerie* of treatment* pre- , |«cribed tn the diagnoai*. J• " " Any 6 or 8 exposure roll Developed and Printed for 25c. Edwards Studio. 202 * South Second Street.

camera enap shows Wooderaon leading the rac< during the early atagea, with Chuck Fenake moond and Glenn Cunningham, Blaine Rideout and Archie San Hvinaui following. Fenafce won.

(LEGION PLANS JUNIOR TEAM THIS SEASON Adams Post To Sponsor Junior Baseball Team * In District League Official announcement was made this morning that Adams post number 43 of the American le-glon will sponsor a Junior Legion baseball team thia season for the first time In several years Roster of the team la limited to boys 16 years of age or under Deane Dor win. baseball coach of the Decatur high school, will coach the Legion team. New uniforms are being ordered and other new equipment la being purchaaed The Decatur team will enter the fourth district cvuleat. and the winner of the district schedule will take part In the regional tournament. place and date to be announced later. Aa a departure from previous years, a regular district schedule will be played, with each team to play each other team twice Other teams in this district are Auburn. Albion and two from Fort Wayne. All home gamea will be played at Worthman Field. The Decatur team will alao schedule gamea with nearby Legton teams as practice contests. First tryouts for the team will be held at Worthman Field Thurs day and Friday afternoons at 1:30 o'clock. The partial list of boys expected to report for Initial tryonta Thursday and Friday la aa follows: F. Schamerloh. Holloway, t’hllcote. Ixrrd. H Johnson. L. Koidrwry. E. Heckman. R. Foreman. H. Welker. D Terveer. L. Boerger. H. Hamman. L. Hackman. R. Kuhnle. W. Lynch. Ted Bolinger. K Schnepp, L. Schnepp. R Stapleton. R Linn. Lee Miller. R. Holthouse. J Holt house, M. Andrews. W Fisher. Clark and McMillen of Pleasant Milla. Frans and FuellIng of Monmouth. L. Koeneman of Preble. Any other boys In the county whose 16th birthday waa on January 1. 1939. or after, are invited to be present at the tryouts thia week. LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Arnovich* Phillies 81 197 36 78 396 McQuinn, Browns 54 200 43 78 355 Bonura. Giants ... 53 196 41 68 .347 Foxx Red Sox 46 170 44 59 347 McCormick, Reds 55 219 41 75 342 - O " HOME RUNS Greenberg. Tigers — 16 Camilll, Dodgers 12 Foxx. Red Sox 11 Uimbardi. Reds 11 i McCormick. Reds 11 «swss^^»« WHM Pleasant Mills To Have Variety Show A variety show will be presented in the new sudltorium of the Pleasant Mills high school Friday evening at 8 o'clock, with all pro- ( ceeds to be devoted to the Pleas ant Mills team In the Adams county WPA amateur baseball league. ■ The program for the show has I t>een arranged by the WPA recrea ' tlon department, under the direc- |

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tlon of George Laurent, supervisor. and Gerald Zimmerman, music director Admission prices will l»e 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children The public is Invited to attend. 0 CWNCIL HIRES (CONTINUED FROM PAGB ONW> Inga 1.000 HP boiler and a 6.ww KWH turbine at the city plant, are i estimated at between S3OO.CVO and 1350.000. No definite action has yet been taken on the project. — —— TO CONSIDER <CCNTINUE» FROM PAGE ONE) be used iu the purchase of right of ways for the Thirteenth street by-r-vas of federal road 27. The total sought In the appropriations ta »6.710.70. jo — ■ Rev. Allem To Speak At Calvary Church Rev. Harold A. Allem. pastor the Pleasant View Ba pt tat church; of Wren. Ohio., will apeak at the Calvary Evangelical church Friday' evening Special music will be pre-> sented by Mrs. Allem and young people of the Wren church. — 0 Dr. Dafoe !>oesn’t Spank Quintuplets Montreal. June 21—fUPH-Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe does not iipank the Dionne quintuplets—and he does' not want to hear of anyone else try- ’

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