Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1939 — Page 6

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CLOSE BATTLE FOR RUNNER-UP SPOT IN LOOP Cub* .lump To Second Place With Six Teams In Battle New York. July IS <U.R> There «n* a traffic Jain on In th- Natkin ill hsigil** unlay between second and seventh places With th- ('lnclnnall Red* TH names tn front.: the Interest In thi* senior circuit forth- time li-lna la th- tatlb*' forth- runn-r up afatl Thar* ar- j ala clubs in It Only th- lb-d» and the last-place Phillies seem to lain th- a|Mita they'll wind up In. Th>* traffic between th- mid way i elute was terrific yesterday. Th-' Glams dropped from a-cond to' fourth The Cubs moved from, third to second Th* t'ardhialn 1 leaped from fifth Io third Th- ■ IShlm* r« dropped from third to, fifth From the <*uta In second I to th- H—x in a—tenth, th- gap I, \ only fonr game*, and from the I Cuba to th- Dodgers In fifth, only | a name and a half A dull may I Ire the runner-up on Saturday ami. wake up on Monday In sixth place i While all thia tattling was going on to determine th- club which: would make th- big challenge to, atop them, th- It-da rolled on with . a 12-3 victory over th- Hees. Paul j Derringer hung tip his 12th ' triumph but had hit* consecutive - Inning record without allowing a walk snapped II- walked Debs | Gar ms in the flrat frame, ending I a run of 19 2-3 innings without Issuing a paaa Th- record la 6', set by Christy Mathewson in I*l3 I Frank McCormick led the K-d» . attack with a homer and two| single*. driving in four tallies The Cuba teat th- Itodg-ra. 4-2 i

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| with Claud'* I’aaaeau going the j I route to win after belli* put mil . I of Sunday** game for protesting a' ! decision Stan Hack and Hip Hu*I sell hit homer* off Luke llumltii. i Th- downward plunge of the | I Glam* continued a* th» Cardinal* j |' knot tod «*n tte 1 Cm three In a row aijh-Poloflrtrnnda ’ I Carl Hubtail. starting hla first i game since June 4, was lapped for ' nine hits In seven frames, and was, th- laser. T-rry Moore and Pep- J | per Martin hit homers, Mickey; I Owen made u double piny unusxlst-f m| when he drove Hippie tack to- ( ward third and iagg*-d him. nml i , then touched O'Dea coming Into j th* tag With Sy I Johnson pitching eight-* 1 hit tall, th- Phillies won from th- * Plrules, 8-3. Klein. 11-Il and , Fletcher hit hom-rs to account lor I ! all th- los-ra* runs I Alley Donald set a freshman I I pitching record when he hurled th* Yankee* to a sat victory over ' : the St. lamia Brown* for his 11th i I straight triumph. Il broke the ■ , former murk of 1* set by Hurry I Kraus- of the Athletic* In isos I The Yanks won the second game., I 1-3. for a clean sweep, Inert-using j ' their l-ad to eight games. The H'-d Sox broke even with the While Sox, winning the open- 1 er. 13 10. and dropping the night-: icap. tt-6 Homers by Williams , Foxx and Anker, each with a man . lon base. won the first game Clint ' j Brown's fine relief pitching sea-* i Hired the White Sox victory Jo- Krakaukas held the Tiger* ■ to six hits a* Washington thumped | out a 10-2 victory over Detroit.! I Hl* triple with the basis loaded : helped drive Tommy flridges on’ i of th- Ih>x in the third. Cleveland broke a fivt-game lo* • i Ing streak, defeating the Athletics.' I 6-3, before P.fuat In a night gamnd Th' \ ■ kn< I 1 mil Johnny Allen tat were stopped 1 by Joe Doltsoii so the last t *-3 innings. Yesterday * hero: Atl-y Donald. I Yanks' IT-year-old rookie from Chandrant. La.. who let the Drawn* down with three hits In j winning his 11th straight to create ' a new record for a freshman LEADING BATTERS Player Cluh GAHH II Pct. I " Maggio. Yank* 51 IM to 7* 402 Ar novi< h. Phils 74 2*5 46 10* .37* Foxx. Red Sox 6* 254 74 *1 351 Honura. (Hun's 77 2x7 53 I<M> ,34s h Johnson. Athlet . Ml (90 (9 IPU .345 HOME RUNS Mice. Cardinal* IS Greenberg. Tiger* _ 17 . 'I Foxx. Red Sox . 16 ‘ familli. Dodgers 15 W'illlatn*. R-d Sox 15 , <>tt Giant* 15 , ' Selkirk. Yankees 15 | McCormick. Red* 15 1 Gordon IS

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CLOSE LEAGUE GAMES PLAYED (iDseJree-scoring Games Are Played In Church league Two cloae. free-scoring games j were play-d in the Church softball league Tuesday night at the Bouth Ward diamond, with'the Metho (list and St Mary's teams the winner*. In the opening encounter. Methodiat edged out a 14-13 triumph over the Raptlst team. The winners' big Inning* were the fifth and sixth, with five runs crossing the platter In each Inning. After the first Baptist tatter had been retired in rhe seventh. Anspungh and Melchi drove out home runs. The next mail was retired but a pair of singles brought In another run and the tying ran was left on the base* as Cline funned the last tatter. Trailing. 7-3, in the sixth innlug. St. Mary's smashed out six hits In the last half of the frame to tally five run* and none out the Reformed team. S-7. in the nightcap. Each 1 team obtain'd 11 hits, with the loser* playing errorless tall. RHE Methodist .. 112 055 o—l 4 11 5 1 Haptist .... 010 <3O 3—IS 1« 7 Sudduth. Cline and Highland: 1 Andrew* and H Johnson Reformed .... 002 023 0— 711 0 St Mary's... 021 005 x— » 11 3 L. Rrokaw and F. Brokaw; Gage ' and W. Baker. O N! I Today's Sport Parade * By Henry McLer iore • —— 4 New York. July IS <u.RI Thia Week u life olid illUOl corp*. laist week a mile race between Cunningham and th* twins Hideout. Next week Well. It I* likely to lie East Lynne, because there I* no telling what Leland Stanford MacPhail will offer In an effort to get the customers tn Ebbets held to watch the Brooklyn Dodger* plsy. Vaudeville isn't dead at all, It ha* Ju*t removed Itself across the river to Brooklyn where MacPhail is determined to make money out of a tall club even if the playing of baseball is relegated to the rear. The Dodgers may be in nnh place In the National league but they ure top* in variety's boxacore. It won t be long before that bible of the theatrical trade will be covering the Brooklyn performances In Its column "new acta." Since h" took charge of the Dodger*. MarPhall has put on almost everything us a pre-game attraction. He ha* had chamber music, foot race*, soloist*, tight rope walker*, and now there I* a report that he I* dickering for the parachute Jump at the world’s fair. We wants 11. or so the tumor goes, removed to Ebbets Field for the purpose of giving each ticket purchaser a free ride, lie want* a* hl* first customers hl* two pet peeves, Bill Terry and Ford Frick. If he could get this pair In the parachute., he would leave them stranded much longer than were the unfortunate couple at the world's fair, and would personally shnot any mechanics who attempted to get them down. MacPhall la running the Brooklyn* with the Unease of a carnival

tarter, and *l* getting results. That I*, he I* making more money than almost any other cluh In the league, despite a team that is in the second division now and will , lie In the second divlson when the season end*. Hla belief Is that baseball I* g business, not a sport, and a tail-end club that makes money I* more to be desired than a first place club that doean't. He i* about aS popular with the other league owners as a corsage of poison ivy would be with a nudist. They consider him fresh, brush, radical, and a screwball. This is not surprising, because the average National league owner or operator frowns on progress aa something that has no place in the game of baseball. They operate on the theory that anything good enough for their forefathers is good enough for them. MacFhall will take another step toward something on Sunday when he employes the yellow ball in the game with the Cardinal*. MacI’hail doesn't know whether the yellow ball is any good or not. but he doesn't believe it* merits or demerits ever will bi- settled by studying it behind a mH top desk In the front office. He wants to get It out there in a game and find out by experiment how It work*, and whether or not It is more visible to the speettor* and playera. MacPhail ha* been a hustler and a chance taker for many a year. He was a member of that brave but giddy band of American* who attempted to kidnap the kajser shortly after the World War. It I* a shame that the plan didn't go through. If It had MacPhail would have the old gentleman from Doorn playing in the Brooklyn outfield right now. or chopping wood us an

Abandons Death Leap Threat - - BNffifww ** '■ -"IB • ''tes ' 1 Sergeant Sweeney Charles Galloway D**pond*nt beeauM hla wif* had toft nlm. taking their four-ysar-old daughter along, Charles Galloway, 30, right, held crowd* in downtown Cleveland, 0., *pellbound by threatening to leap from th* Hergeant a ia.i. B j t ß ry bulldln,r ' B 30-mlnut* argument. Polic* SE P*"'« b ‘W GaUowAy that he might regain custody of hit child through legal mean* and Galloway abandoned 11 hl* aulcid* threat.

.■extra attraction at night game*. r or something. , He’s a lulu, the Brooklyn bona, but he doesn't stand still. 1 ' Q ■ STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE i I 1 ! W. L. Pct. G.B. Cincinnati 48 2H .823 ‘ Chicago 43 3» .524 7> 3 New York 41 38 .SIS 8 St. Louis 40 37 .519 8 ' Brooklyn 38 37 .507 9 Pittsburgh 37 38 .493 10 ‘ Boston 37 41 .474 11 ( Philadelphia 24 49 .329 22 » I AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L Pct. G.B j New York so 23 .723 , Boston 48 27 .640 8 ‘ Vhicago 44 38 .550 14 > 3 , Cleveland 41 39 .513 Detroit 40 41 .494 19 Washington 34 5o .403 22H Philadelphia 31 49 .387 27 St. Louis 34 57 .296 35 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National Lcagu* Chicago 4. Brooklyn 2 St. Louis 5. New York 3. Ctnclnnati 12. Boston 3. Philadelphia 8. Pittsburgh 3. American Lsagu* Boston 13-5. Chicago 10-8. J New York 9-4. Bt. Louis 0-3. Washington 10, Detroit 2. Cleveland «. Philadelphia 3 , 0 Any 36 exposure 35 mm. film developed and printed : for 51.00. Ijirire prints. — Edwards Studio.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX OWNER IS TAKEN BY DEATH .1. Louis Coniibkey, Owni pr Os Chieauo White Sox, Dead Chicago. July IS <U.F> Th.- Has In venterfield at Whit" Sox park wax lowered tn half-mast today in mourning fur ’he last of the illustrious Comlskeys actively concerned with American le*gue tasetall J. Louis Comlskey. 54. owner and president, who directed the Whit* Sox fortunes for eight years . between aevere attacks of heart disease, lost hl* h>»t fight yesferday al hl* summer home at Eagle River, Wl». His body wa» shipped to Chicago today for burial. All that sports fans know of Comlskey I* hi* record a» one of the ablest magnates In baseball. He couldn t get around much with hi* 3m> pound frame and Buttery heart, but in hl* quiet way he did as great a Job In r-buildlng the shattered White Sox a* did the spectacular "old Roman" - Charles A Comiskey tn guiding champ lonshlp American league teams in Chicago before the Hlack Sox scandal of IME. "Vncle larti" restored the team** morale and physical strength IS years after the s<an<lal that resulted In lifetime suspensions for several White Sox player* accused of throwing the I*l* world serie* to Cincinnati. He engineered one of has-tall * biggeat player deals, purchasing Jimmy Dykes. Al Simmons and George 'klttlei Haas from the Philadelphia Athletics for a reported 1150.000. He Inaugurated a workable farm system. Always a booster for night baseball he was pioneering with light* in Chicago at the time of hi* death. Workmen now are installing a lighting plant at Comlskey park When the old Roman died In IS3I. »on lx»ui». with 21 experience a* a club executive, was fully prepared to »tep in a* president and run the club through It* leanest financial years The younger Comiskey. however, has no family successor ready. Mrs Comlskey never was interested actively in the club and son Charles is only 13. There *re two daughter*. Grade Lou. 17. and Dorothy. 22-year-old assistant in the Sox front office. First In line for the presidency apparently la Harry Grablner. veteran vice-president of the organisation. who ha* handled all business affair* during the frequent lllneaa of the owner. Comiskey made most of the spring training trip* aiuce he inherited the club, but many weeks of each season he was forced to leave hla office for hospital treatment or rest at Eagle River. He usually recovered in a week or two but early Monday morning, when a aevere cold failed to respond to treatment, he was placed In an oxygen tent which he had Installed three year* ago after a similar emergency, lie lapsed into unconaciouaness and died at 4:20 p. m. yesterday Funeral service* will be held at • 30 a. m (CSTI Saturday at St, Thomas The Apostle Roman Catholic church The game scheduled for that afternoon between the Sox an dthe world chumpion Yankee* ha* been postponed. Indians Beat Pirates In League Contest The Indians defeated the Pirate* 5-i. in today's gum* In the Lions Recreation league. In the other scheduled game, the cardt forfeit ed to the Cuba. Thursday s schedule; Giants vs Yank* and Cubi v*. Red Sox. — 111 th— —i — Order State Police Enforce Weight Tax Indianapolis. July 1». — (U.PJ — Stale police today were under order* to enforce strictly and Impartially the truck weight tax law passed by the IM7 general assemb-

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