Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1939 — Page 6

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PERSONNEL OF < JUNIOR LEGION SQUAD LISTED Fifteen Players Selected For Junior American Legion Team Member* of ihi* Junior American Leglcn team of thia city, sponsored by Adama post number 43. select ed after several tryouta, were announced today by Deane Dorwln.' coach of the team. The complete roster la aa fob > lowa. Pitchers: K rhllcote and F. Schamerloh. -Catcher*: K, Heckman and 11. Johnson. Infleld.-rs L. Hackman, W. Lynch. J. Holt house. R Ktthnle. R Stapleton and T. Bolinger. Outfielder* It Hannle. J. Holthouae. M Andrews, D. Terveer and U Miller. • New uniforms have been ordered and are expected within a few, daya. The first practice game was scheduled for this afternoon at 1 Worthman Field, with the Bluffton Junior team furnishing the opposition. but was changed to next Wednesday The team will travel to Portland Monday afternoon. Re turn games will be arranged later. Two games will be played with the Van Wert. Ohio. team, the dates to be* set later. A regular schedule of games will be played with other Legion teams in the fourth district, with the winner of this schedule to represent the district in the regional tourna , ment. place and date for which will

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be announced later. 1 Thia 1a the first time in several . year* the focal Legion post has aponsored a team In legion competition and considerable enthuslasm ha* been evinced In the prospect* of a winning team In De- . catur. not only by the boy* but nl*o by the Logion sponsor*. other team* In the district competition are Auburn. Albion and two teams from Fort Wayne. Mr Dorwm la being assisted in coaching the team by George laturent, recreation supervisor Hubert Cochran, veteran baseball player, I* manager of the team STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. Pct. (I B. Cincinnati 38 22 .<33 New York 33 28 .556 4 St laruia 33 27 550 5 Chicago . . 34 3o .531 <1 Brooklyn . . !H W Rem s Boston 25 35 .417 13 Philadelphia IP 38 .333 I7>* AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pct. (LB. New York 4* 14 .773 Boston .... 33 24 .579 13 Cleveland 33 29 .532 15** Detroit 33 3o .524 IS Chicago . .31 29 .519 16>* l*hiladc Iphia 26 27 .413 23 Washington 25 41 .379 25 S St Louis IS 44 .290 30>- • * 1 YESTERDAYS RESULTS American League Washington 2-n. New York 1-71 (second game called sixth, darkness I. St. Loula 9-5. Chicago 3-7. Philadelphia 8. Boston 6. Detroit at Cleveland, rain. National League Chicago 7. St. lamia 6. Boston 8. New York 2 Philadelphia at Brooklyn. bad weather. Only games scheduled. ARCHER HURLS NO-HIT GAME Pleasant Mills Hurler Holds Yoder Hitless, One Man To Base Archer, hurler (or the Ph-asant : Milla softball team, hung up the. best pitching performance of the | season Thursday night, holding the * Yoder team without a hit under the 1 light* at the South Ward diamond. I Pleasant Mills winning a 15-0 con-1 teat. . Archer’* performance was near perfect, as one Yoder batter reached liaae, Quackenbush drawing a walk in the fourth inning. Archer tanned 10 battera and the others provided easy infield tap* or pop fl tea. Meanwhile. Pieaunt Milla pounded out 14 hita to pile up a total of 15 runs with the assistance of five Yoder error*. ' Because of the muddy condition | of the Held, the regular league game between Monroe and Haba , netlo was postponed. R it E Pleasant Mills 103 234 2—15 14 0 Yoder oou 000 o— o o 5 i Archer and Clark, Bubb and Smith o Tennis Teams To Play Again Sunday Both Dec.tur tennis team* win b» in action Sunday, with both playing out of town. The second district; league team, composed of llancher. Strickler. Haug*k end Cline, will play at Wabash: and in the nortnera Indiana foagae. the team will play at Plymouth, previously postlumed because of rain.

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EMIL LEONARD BEATS YANKEES Washington Hurler Scores Second Win Os Year Over Champions New York. June 3o <U.R) Emil ' (Dutch* a chubby Belgian who throw* a kttui kle ball without using hl* knuckle*, today qualified a* one of the bravest men in sport* He. indeed, is the Tony Galento of the diamond. I'nmindful of the murderous , Yankee bats, which had rattled off . 33 run* and 43 hit* tn two game* Wednesday. Leonard stepped out on the hill at Griffith stadium in , Washington yesterday and shoved I his dipsy-do knuckler right down | 1 the throat of the world champion*. up only seven hita and I blanking the Yanka for 11 cotisecu- j five inning*. Leonard pitched the Senators to a 2-1 triumph over the | Bronx bomber* and became the I i first American league pitched to hog-tie the champs twice thl* seas- ‘ i»n He previously had beaten the , Yanks. 3-1. April 22. Letting them 'down with six hit*. Yeaterday't game went 12-In-' 1 nlng* with Buddy Lewi*’ single to center putting over the winning tally. The Yanks scored a run in the first when Croaettl was hit by a pitched ball, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on Joe DiMaggios single. Sam Wcat’S triple and Tah Wright'* single tied I It up In the Senator*' half, and then the two club* battled Into the 12th before breaking the deadlock. i It was Red Ruffing'* second defeat against 11 victories. For Leonard. ■ who use* the tip* of hi* Anger* to throw his knuckle ball pitch—one | of the most difficult of all pitches Ito follow -hung up hi* seventh. The Yank* came back In the nightcap and slapped Ken Chase I for a 7-0 triumph in six innings , (called by darkness*. Alley Donald let the Senators have only three hit* and scored hi* ninth

Louis on Floor in Third Round «• Br • Hr C ART <■*... J1 1 * j Here'e Champion Joe Louie on the floor in the third round of hie bout with elaehlng Tony Galento in New York, knocked down by a I terrific right from Galento'e pudgy fiats. Louie went on to win by • I technical knockcut in the fourth round as Galento. battered and beaten, had to be held up by Referee Arthur Donovan.

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• straight triumph Rabe Dahlgren hit homer No. S. kimm! for three I ruu*. With Connie Mack confined to his hotel by a stoma* h disorder ■ the Athletic* beat the Red Sox, 8IE. Bob Johnson led the A'a attack with a homer. No. 11. and two single*, driving in four run*. Ted William* hit hi* loth homer for i the Red Sox. and a doulde and I single. The Brown* and White Sox broke ••ven. St Louis laying down a 16hit barrage to take the opener. 9- , 3. and Chicago staggering through to take the nightcap, 7 5 Bob Harris gave up six hit* in winning the Opener. Danny Macfayden. making hi* first start in 11 days, cooled off the Giants and the Bees won an 8-3 victory. Al Simmons got him out of his only serious jam in the second Simmons charged Into the wall and made a flying leap of Jorges' “double" with two men on which ended the tuning. It was one of the greatest catches ever I seen at the Folo ground*. The defeat snapped the Giants' 5-game winning streak. Rip Russell's single drove in the ' run in the ninth by which the Cub* ' defeated the Cardinals. 7-6 Bill la-o. with aid from Larry French in the ninth, hung up hi* eighth victory. Yesterday's hero: Emil Leonard. Washington's knuckle ball artist who stopped the rampaging Yank* for the second time this season. LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. Arnovich. Phillies 58 883 37 57 .393 Bouura. Giant* 6! 226 49 83 .367 Foxx, Red Sox 50 187 48 66 353 McQuinn. Brown* «2 254 48 89 350 Lewi*. Senators 60 235 41 81 345 o ... HOME RUNS Greenberg, Tigers 16 Csmilll. linger* 14 Selkirk. Yankees 12 Ott. Giant* ij McCormick. Red* 12 Foxx. Red Sox ... 12

PASSING RACE FEATURES CARD L I —- — ■ Passing Race To Feature Junk (’ar Derby Here Sunday H| •’ A "Passing race" will be the sea- ( I ture of next Sunday's Junk Car 1 . | Derby at the Devil's Bowl. Carl 1 * 1 Hurst, promoter of the event, announced today. , j Driver* must he *ure their , [ • mount* are in the best of shape , : ■ and carrying a full tank of ga*o- ,' line to enter this race, the pro' , moter assert* | ; A* soon as the driver of s car , ! 1* passed by another the first * ( I driver drop* out. Thu* the race . is eliminated to but iwo driver* ..sod their car* ( j To win the race one of these < must pass the other. Thu*, pro1' moter* see * long interesting bat- , tie. especially if two fast car* are i left on the track to fight it out i for first place. In addition to the feature event, | two regular 25 lap race* will be>( run. Admission to the race* I* 25 < cent* per person and plenty of | 1 parking space I* said to be avail-1 able. The promoter ha* promised 1 to lay the dust If the track drleaj out too much before the card' <>l>en( at 2 p. m Sunday.

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UNION ACES TO BATTLE C. E. HERE SUNDAY Leadership Os County WPA League May Shift In Sunday Games leadership of the Adams county WPA amateur banel>all league will Ih> at *take Sunday afternoon when play I* resumed on the regular • league schedule. The Vnlon Ace*, knocked out of ! the leadership last week by a double defeat at the bat* of the I Fuelling Ace*, will meet the General Electric team at Worthman I'i.id Results last Sunday put the General Electric and Fuelling team* In a first-place tie. G. E.'» only defeat , of the season was Inflicted by the Vnlon Acea and the Decatur nine • ■ will be out to avenge this lo**, a* | well a* defend their position at 1 the top of the heap. I The O. E. Vnion scrap lx ached- . tiled to start promptly at 2 o'clock, with the low admission price* of 1 10 and 15 cent*. The Fuelling team will meet the Pleasant Mills nine at the Pleasant Mills diamond Sunday after- ' noon In the other league game. Mie* ' 1 Recreation will travel to Friedhelm. Mies showed improvement 1 last Sunday in acorlng a double triI umph over Pleasant Mill*, and will Ih* out to avenge an earlier lo*« inflicted by Friedheim. Famous Race Driver b Killed In Race Cahokia. 111.. June 30 -(UM-Jim-, my Snyder. 34. nationally known ■ automobile racing driver, who net • a new lap record of 130.7 m.p.h. in j qualifying for the 500-mile claaaic 1 at Indianapolis this year, was killed last night when he lost control . of his midget racer at the Cahokia j track. He was traveling only 65 ■ mile* per hour. He wa* coming out of a turn on j the 12th lap of the 40-lap feature i event when hi* car swerved Into 1 the outer retaining wall, bounced • off. and turned over on the track.' He died almost Instantly. Hi* car { wa* struck by another driven by j Paul Ambruater. St. Louis, who suf- ’ sered burns

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JACK DEMPSEY SERIOUSLY ILL For m e r Heavyweight Champion Serious After Operation New York. June So <U.R) -Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight box-, Ing champion of the world. I* suffering from peritonitis following the removal of a gangrenous appendlx. Polyclinic hospital report-1 "d loday. The hospital said Deinpaey “spent a MU night and I* resting comfortably thl* morning,'* The former champion entered the hospital at 9 p. m yesterday and waa operated on at 10:30 p m hy Dr, Robert Emory Rrennan Hl* wife, Mrs. Hannah William* Dempsey, remained at their home but checked the former fighter'* condition frequently by telephone "Dempney 1* n very *lck man." Dr. A. A Jailer, superintendent, said I call* Inquiring aboat

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