Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1939 — Page 6

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BOOSTER GAME PLANNED FOR LEGION TEAM Booster (lame Wednesday Evening To Send Team To Indianapolis The Decatur Junior American Legion team will play a "booster name" at Worthman Field Wednesday evening at 5 o'clock, with proceeds to be used to defray exlienees of the team to the regional tournament at Indianapolis Thursday The Decatur team will meet the Van Wert, Ohio. Junior l*gion team in thia special game. The Van Wert tram was seml-finalial tn last year's Ohio state Legkm tournament The game has no bearing on Indiana stale standings but will provide Decatur fans with an opportunity to see all the Imai Junior le-glon boys tn action. The admission price will be 25 cents to all. The Decatur team will play at the Riverside diamond at Indianspoils Thursday morning at 9:30 oclock. meeting the winner of the Kvanaville district. If auccesaful in the opening game. Decatur will play again at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The four survivors will meet for the state title Saturday. August 5. In one of the four cities winning In Thursday's elimination. Tickets may be obtained from Paul Briede at the City Confectionery, the Dully Democrat other, the Legion home or from any member of the Junior Legion team. The Decatur team will meet the Mason Junior at Bluffton Tuesday afternoon and the booster game here Wednesday will be the Anal tuneiip for the tourney. Members of the Decatur team, all of whom have been cert Hied and will make the trip to Indianapolis Thursday, are: Ed Heckman. Jim Hothouse Hob Stapleton. Ralph Hannle. Lee Hackman. Dave Terveer. John Holthouae. Harold Johnson. Marvel Andrews. Kenneth Chilcote. I*o Miller. RIH Lynch. Bob Kuhnle. Frederick Sc-hamerloh and Ted Bolinger Deane Dorwin. reach of the team requests all mesnbe rs of the team to meet st l*gion home F ! iwt and

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Madison streets, at -8 3o o’clock thia evening. STANDINGS I NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. O R Cincinnati 5.1 M 639 'St Minis 44 .IS 530 9 ' CMbm* 4< 41 .53* • Pittsburgh 42 39 .5114 10 Brooklyn 40 41 .494 12 New York 41 43 .488 124 Boston 40 44 .476 13 4 Philadelphia 25 54 .310 10 i —— AMERICAN LEAGUE I W U Pct. (I B New York .... 02 25 .713 I Boston 52 30 .034 74 - , Chicago 49 37 .570 124 Cleveland 45 40 .529 10 ■ Detroit .. ... 43 44 494 19 i Washington . 30 54 .400 274 ' Philadelphia 33 52 388 28 i| St Louis 24 02 .279 374 i ■ — ii • YESTERDAY* RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 3-0. Boston 3-1. Cincinnati 5-4. Philadelphia 3-0. Si M>ula 12-ti. Brooklyn 0-2. Chic ago 7. New York 5. American League Chic ago 8-4. New York 5-5. Cleveland 11-4, Washington 2-3. Boston 13-11. St Louis 5-3. Detroit 10. Philadelphia 3. FUELLING TIES G. E. FOR LEAD • I - - - Co p r Double Header From Mies As G. E. Wins Single Game League Standing W L. Pct. i Fuelling |o ■: |G. R 10 2 .5331 1 I nion e 5 .545 ' 1 Pleasant Mills .... 4 7 .304 '[Mies 3 S .373 1 | Friedhelm 2 1" .107 The Fuelling team, winning a 1 double header from Mies Recre- • atlou Sunday afternoon at Worth--1 ’ man Field. 10-2 and 3-1. tied for the I leadership of the Adams county 11 WPA amateur baseball league. ® O. E kept pace by winning a * single encounter from Pleasant ■ j Milla at the latter's diamond. U 7 In the other games of the day. the I'nlon Aces and Frledhefm spilt ' a twin bill cm the Friedhelm dlam- I ond. Friedhelm won the first game. I 5-4 and t'nion took the second con- ' teat. 13-3. LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAR R H Pct. DiMaggio. Yanks 56 10l 44 81 .403 Foxx. Red Box 75 281 42 103 307 Arnovlc h. Phillies so 307 48 111 .305 Johnson. Athletics 314 7! 109 .347 Mc-Qulnn. Browns 87 350 66 121.340 , HOME RUNS I Foxx. Red Sox . |9 I Greenberg. Tigers 18 I Mixe. Cardinals 18 I •Oh, Giants id I Williams Red Box |« RUNS BATTED IN Williams. Red Sox 84 McCormick. Reds Greenberg. Tigers 73 Walker White Sox 72 Johnson. Athletics 8* • One Man Killed In Head-On Collision , Marion, Ind.. July 34 —(UP)— George W Jones, 34. of FCimoun'.l was killed Inagantly yesterday when i' hl* car collided heed on w.'h a ma-1 chine driven by Stanley Harding of Shirley on state road 9 south of here. »| Hardin*, hla wife and lurby. and Mrs. t-a imine McCormick of Grand , L ipids. Mich., riding with the Har-j | , • -

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WESTERN TEAMS LEAD NATIONAL Four Western Teams In First Division Os National League New York. July 24 <U.R) The National league pennant will go west again that much was a dead certainty today with till four western clubs monopolising first division An Cincinnati seems to be the city that will land the big prise. The Reds have passed their big test with flying colors Without | Ival Goodman, who wan Injured In the all-star game, they had u highly successful eastern tour, winning nine and losing four. They came east with a 54 game lead and were headed homeward today with a nine-game advantage. If there had been any dlapoal. Hon cm the part of the Reds to start blowing their lead, the loss of Goodman, one of their moat potent hitters, would have put the crusher on them. Instead, they played like c hampions After losing Googman. they also were minus the services of Ernie Lombardi. another key man. for a few games, but they rwib-d right along In fact, they fortified their |m*slHon by coming up with another starling pitcher. Junior Thompson. who won two games In the east Brought along slowly by RIH McKechnle, Thompson has now won hla major b-agm- spurs under fire If McKechnle could only find out what's the matter with Johnny Vander Meer, the Reda would be equipped for any emergency. Thompson proved his mettle yesterday by beating the Phils. 1 5-2 In 11 Innings He scattered 14 hits, and was at hla heat in the I dutches. Lonnie Frey's double with the lueses jammed was the winning punch Whitey Moore made It a dean sweep for the Reds by winning the nightcap. 4-41. allowing only three blows Using a yellow ball as an experiment. the Cardinals, behind Rob Bowman's brilliant pitching, slugged out a 12-0 victory In the first game with Brcs>klyn In the | nightcap the Cards also triumphed. ' 8-2. with a regulation white Imll Bowman gave only three hits, and had a no-hitter until Koy singled with two out In the seventh. Pittsburgh divided with Boston, wlulling the opener. 3-2. cavil the Pirates' runs were unearned I. and losing the nightcap, l-u Chuck Klein's hitting streak was ended at 21 games tn the opener. but he came back to get two hits In the afterpiece. Lou Fette scored his luth victory and sixth shutout in the nightcap, allowing six hits The Cubs put on a tour-run rally ■ in the ninth to lick the Giants, 7-5 llt was the Giants' ninth straight | defeat, closing one of their worst I home stays In history. In which | they lust 10 out of 11. The Yankees finally collared the I red hot White Box but not until they had taken an 8-5 licking from I them in the opener before an S R O crowd of 51.000 at Comlskey park Ted Lyons pitched and I batted the Box to victory. It was INo io for him Pinch-hltter CharI He Keller'S single In the ninth gave the Yanka the nightcap. 5-4. snapI Ping the White Box six-game I winning streak The Red Box slugged out a douI ble victory over the Browns. 13-5 land 11-3 It was the eighth I straight defeat for the Browns I Doerr hit a homer In the first Ignme. and Williams and Foxx hit I for the circuit in the second Cleveland heat Washington twice. l|-2 and 4-3. Rob Feller •cored his 15th victory In the <>p ener. allowing nine hits Tommy Bridges pitched the Tigers to a 1H victory over the Athletics. Rudy York hit a homer and two singles to lead Detroit's I attack. Yesterday s hero Ted Lyons. I White- Box’ 38year-old veteran who . he ld the Yanks to six hits and'had J a perfect day at hat. "3 for 3“ as he won his loth game

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JUNK DRIVERS SPLIT HONORS Junk Car Drivers Divide Honors In Races Here Sunday - > Drivers In the Junk Car Derby | ( east of the city Sunday afternoon. spill honors for the day with a dlf- 1 ferent driver winning each of thei four events. ! "Rasty" Peterson of Decatur! . copped the Inaugural 20 lap event. ! with Bob Milli-r of Fort Wayne; . and John Haugk of Hoagland fln-‘ a iahing second and third reapec-' ( lively. Mlßer then returned to the track' to win first in the second 20-lapl contest, followt-d hy Peterson andi Bolt Bowman In the second and ( third inouey-spota. ! In the third race Bowman took . ( first honors, while Miller followed > him and Bowman's brother. Glen.! t won third-place money. ! Art Foreman, also of Decatur. ( won the special consolation race. I ( Spectators were given an added

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• # MAYOR SUFFORTS GAME Forrest Elxey. mayor of De- j catur. today urged baseball | funs of the city to purchase ! tickets and attend the "booster ; game" between the Decatur ' Junior American Legion team i and the Van Wert. Ohio. team. I I: which will lie played at Worth- i j' man Field Friday evening at 5 | O'cliH-k All prooeeds of the game will he u*.M to defray expenses of the team to the i regional la*gkm tourney at Ini dianapolis Thursday. Tickets ; are priced at 25 cents each. thrill during the first event when | four cars piled up on the north ' curve. All of the drivers escaped unhurt, however, and the races i were continued. The pony races proved to be the (eature event of the day—only in a humorous vein, however, aa the | mounts entered made attempts to | go toward the liarna. toward home and In fact anywhere but the finish line No actual winner could 1 tie declared when the contrary ponies had at last lieen rounded

BYRON NELSON WINS TOURNEY Scores 281 To " i» " e! **‘ ern Open Title By One Stroke Chicago. July 24 (U-W 'li h *P' pens to one of them every year and now It's Byron Nelsons turn to lead the nation's golfers over th* tournament jumps. Seven weeks ago. at Phlladel I phis, the likable Texan, a prolesIslonal at Reading. Pa. won the V. B open title and yesterday, while ithe spectacular leaders were folding under pressure, added the western open title by a single stroke with a 72 hole total of 281. In the big three of professional golf -the V. S open. P. 0. A., aud the western- Nelson now has won two and finished second In the other. a 37-hoie match with Henry Picard In the P 0. A. finals Hla latest victory, fifth of the year, paid him 3750. Increasing his money winnings for the year to 87.423. He still trails Picard, however, In the point race for the Harry Vardon trophy annually awarded the most successful tournament player of the season. Picard, scrambling all over Medinah country club's tough tournament course yesterday, slid Into 1 third place tiehind Lloyd Mangrum lof Los Angeles and picked up . enough points to prevent Nelson from overtaking him in the Vardon standings. Mangrum used up | 282 strokes, blowing two strokes I on one hole, and Picard had 284. Dick Metg. I-ake Forest. 111.. ‘ leader for 54 holes, finished with 285. Denny Shute. Huntington. W. Va. had 287. Sammy Snead. White Sulphur Springs. W. V.. and Ky l-affoon of Chicago were tied for sixth at 288 and defending champion Ralph Guldahl. titleholders for three straight years, was a poor eighth with 291. o Circus Acrobats Are Seriously Injured Ohk-ago July 24 —tUPl—Two wo- ■ m-*n acrobafs were injured seriously last night during a center ring .M-rformance at the Ringling Brothers and Rarnum and Hal’y Circus i when they fell 33 feet from the cross hur of a pol* "balanced on a ■— —1 up A Junk Car Derby was also staged at the Devil's Howl north- , west of the city Sunday after- . noon. No results tn this contrsi were announced today, however o 500 .sheets Mjxll Sunrise Canary Second Sheets, neatly wrapped 35c. The Decatur Democrat Co.,

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