Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1939 — Page 6

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VETERAN GROVE WINS HIS 13TH GAME OF YEAR 39 • Year • Old Veteran leading All American League Hurler* New York. Anu 18 < UR) The baseball miracle man of ;he year la Robert Mose* Grove. 39-yaar-old Boston Red Sox pitc her who I ha* beat hi* way back from vlr-I hisl extinction One day last season Grove'a arm went dead, and the medico* shook their head* and said. "It will Ice danaeiuua for him to pitch attain. Uia only cure will Ice a lons and perhap* permanent real.*' Yet i today find* gray haired Grove lead Ina all the American league pitcher*. with IS victories and two d—teal* Hex won eight straight and ha*n't been licked since the White Sccx beat him. 7-8. Icack cm June A machine with JKRBVWfVk vocal cordt tpeakt like a human MARVELS teO I ‘ | your taste the atory <d quality f A .A f° r ' e “ MflhsMflF Ask for MARVELS frifiRVCLS Th, CIGAR ETTE of Quality

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( 11. The only other game' Grove I ha* lost waa a 2 0 declaion to the Yankee* on opening day Grove'a comeback la one of the s moat remarkable in all baseball annals This spring Manager Joe I, (‘ronin did not even know If Grove | would ever pitch another game Grove went to Hot Springs in February and asked Cronin.to let him condition himself He task the baths and hikes through the Otarks. Then at the Red So* Sarasota. Fla., camp he mapped out hl* own program, which called for 15 minute* of throwing each I day. Not until the Red Sox start-! ed north with the Red* on an ex I ' hlhlllon lour did Grove throw a I Icall In a game Then he told I ' Cronin he wanted to try his wing I He pitched four Inning* that per i *uad< d Ike R>-d Sox pilot he had I enough to face the- Yank* openingl day Grove already is a cinch to aur-, pass his Hl' record, when he won ' 1 14 and lost 4. With six week* still to go he Is likely to hang up several more victories. Winn he j Iceat the Athletic* yesterday. 7-1. i It wa* hla 2Mth major league vic-, tory. He aspires to reach the 3M» mark, a figure reached by only five pitcher* Pitching with his noodle as much a* hi* arm. Grove scattered 10 hit* among the A'* Jim* Vosmik . hit a homer with one on. the hig blow In Boston's 17 hit attack on Reninger and Dean Vostnlk. Ta- ' lior sit'd Desautels made three hit* { each The Yank* kept the American league race status quo l»y making' It three straight over ‘Washington i with a 18-lnnlng. 9-8 victory Atley 1 Donald, who wa* hot as a hall of fire during hl* 12 game streak, was knocked out of the l*>x for the fourth straight time. The White Sox beat the Tiger*. I 2-1 Rookie Fred Hutchinson gave up only three hits in seven innings but in the fourth, a walk. Luke Appling's triple, and an infield out pu*h>-d over the winning run*. Ihmblea by George .VcQulnn and Chet Laabs in the loth turned back the Cleveland Indian*. 63. > for the St Louis ilrown* • The Cincinnati Reds reta'ned • their six-game lead in the Natkmal league when they nosed the their sevengame night schedule Spotting lite Cuba a five-run lead, the Reds pecked away and pushed the tying run acroaa In the ninth on Lombardi's double and Berger's •Ingle JtxMt's triple and West's •Ingle provided the punch for the winning margin in the !#th. The 24.669 faits brought the night total in Cincinnati to 184,954 for seven games The Reds won six of them The Cardnials kept up their pennant drive, handing the Pirates a 4 2 defeat. It wa* Pittsburgh's ninth straight defeat. Curt Davis I went the route for his 17lh victory. allowing unly six hits. Knocking Harry Humbert out of the box for the second lime In three day a the Dodgers trimmed the Giants. 5-1, Hugh Casey held | the Giants to five hit*, one of them Mel Ott's 24th homer. Yesterday's hero: Lefty Grove. Red So xveleran. who brvyaed along to his eighth straight vic tory and his nth of the season over the A'e T -ede In a Good Town — Oeeatuf BISMA-REX I fOAAC/O- £f)A \MOi<;es/7CW B. J. Smith Drug Co.

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NET STARS TO BATTLE TONIGHT Homier High School AllStars To Play Frankfort Champs Indlsnspoll*. Aug 18 — iq.Pj - Hoosier hardwood fan* converged on* Inilinnapoll* today to lie nn i hand for their dream classic. Indiana's first all-star liasketlmll game, between the championship Frankfort team and an all-atar ag i gregatlon Selected by popular ballot. at Rittler field house tonight. ( Despite short experience working together, the all-stars present-> ed a formidable front to Coach I Everett Case'* 1939 title winners. Coaches Tom Downey of Rossville and Buck Plunkltt of Southport, guiding the all-star*, promised topnotch cooperation and a close knit team. Toughest problem for the all stars was expected to he the job of stopping Splinter Johnson, all torney Frankfort star and captain and hla team mate l-ewls Cook Toughest problem of the special-' ora obviously was to pick a winner. Starting for the champions will I*- Johnson at center. Cook and Billy Joe Wettel at the forward spots and Harold Pyle and Ernest McGill at guards Ixiren Brower, * Vernon Glass. Bradford Carr. Willis Brunow and Melvin Leach willj be in reserve The Opening lineup for the all stars was announced as George Crowe of Franklin. forward; ■ George Fields of Mooresville, forward; Fred Krampe of Shortridge, center; Bud Goodwin of Blooming ton. guard, and Don Frasier of Greencastle, guard. Reserves will be Wayne Payton of Spencer, i Roger Bundy of Salem. John Wil Ham* of Southport. George Taylor of Greencastle and Howard Mitchell of Crispus Attucks At the close of the game the working press will select a "star of stars" who will lie awarded a prise. CLOVERLEAF AND HABANELLO WIN Defeat Blue Creek And Monroe In County Softball league The Habanello and Cloverleaf teams were victorious in Thursday night's play in the County softball league, defeating Monroe and Blue ' Creek, respectively. Habanello. driving out 13 hit* •nd aided by 10 Monroe errors, scored an easy 18-1 triumph In' the opening game The losers obtained only two hits, and tallied I their only run in the fifth inning on I two error* and one hit. R Ladd and Agier homered for Habanello Cloverleaf marked up a 7-3 victory over Blue Creek In the nlghcap. The winners obtained only Ave hits and bunched their blow* effectively with walks hanedd out | out by Beery Arnold held Blue ; Creek well in hand with the exception of the third inning, when the losers scored all their runs. R H E Habanello 040 528 B—lß 13 3 Monroe ... ooooio 8— 1 3 10 Reed. Stapleton and M Ladd; Schwarts. Hannle and Hahneri. R H E Blue Creek 003 turn 0 3 7 5

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Cloverleaf 210 031 g—T 5 1 Heery and Smith; D. Arnold and Hitchcock. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G B Cincinnati 69 39 .630 —- St. Louie 62 44 585 6 Chicago 61 50 .550 >4 New York 54 52 .509 14 Brooklyn 53 53 500 16 Pittsburgh 49 55 .471 18 Boston 46 60 .434 23 Philadelphia .„ 32 71 .311 34% AMERICAN LEAGUE W. U Pct. G B New York 76 33 .697 j Boston 67 39 .632 7% Chicago 60 50 .545 16% I Cleveland 58 51 532 18 Detroit 57 54 .514 20 Washington 48 63 .432 29 Philadelphia .... 38 71 349 38 St. Louis 32 78 .298 43 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 5, New York 1. St Louis 4. Pittsburgh 2. Cincinnati 7. Chicago 6 <lO tn-. nlng*>. Only games scheduled. American League New York 9. Washingion 8 (10 j Inn Inga). Boston 7. Philadelphia 1. Chicago 2. Detroit 1. Bt. l-oui* 6, Cleveland 5. HOME RUNS — Foxx. Red Sox 30 j Ott. Giants 24 .Greenberg. Tigers 20 ! Mixe. Cardinal*—U- 20 • Gordon. Yankee* 19 Camilli. Dodgers 19 o BATTING LEADERS Club G AB R H Pct.

DiMaggio. Yanks 77 292 66 115 .394 Foxx. Red Sox 99 374 104 136 364 Mixe. Card* 105 390 75 137 .351 Johnson. Athlet. 110 400 90 139 .348 Arnovk-h. Phil* 103 384 54 131 .341 TOURNEY DRAW HERE TONIGHT Drawings To Be Made Tonight For City Tennis Tourney All entries In the annual city tennis tourney divisions must be made by 7 o'clock thl* evening. Paul Isncber. general chairman, stated today. At that hour the drawing will be nade tor the tourney in The Daily Tlemocrat office*. Entries will t>j received there up lo that hour. Pairing* will be made In five divisions; men's singles men’s lotfbie*. women's single*, mixed ■kiUbles and junior slgnles. , A large entry Hat is expected la each of the divisions. Plans for the opening rounds of the divisions will also be made tonight following tht drawing. 1 Proepecilve entrant*. wno have not yet signed, are urged to be at ihe Democrat offk-e prior to 7 o'clock tonight. [LOANS' $lO to S3OO QUICKLY 3RD FEIV3TELY MADE £••» to su*Ufv--LMtorsl tons*— cwk-T* apply-Cali or phoao "ftMag. eatoeS aM*a*<aaLOCAL LOAN COMPAHV <•»•« Schaler Star, Oral., lag. tl7 leoo. to AJaw, WM,. Allee aa* Ja, CaeaWee

RODEO FEATORE 1 OF JUNK RAGES Rodeo Will Be Added Feature To Junk Car Races Sunday A rodeo will feature the Junk Chr Derby, east of Drcatu- Bunday afternoon, according to an announcement made today. Member* of the F. K. DW*eraon| Rodeo, ttpeclalltlng In fancy riding t t-vplng and bulldoxlng steers, will > stage a full program In addition to i the race*. The track Is located two and one)<*lf miles east of the city Arrows and marking* are set up on race ■lay for fans Admission 10 the event still be 25 cents for adult* and 10 cents tor . children. Plenty of fre* parkhu rpace will be available. The track I* reported *o be In fine shape for the junkets to take tbeir turn and the racing card promises to be fast and plenty entertaining. Today's Sport Parade By Henry McLemore 4 4 Chestnut Hill. Mass. Aug. 18.— <U R> Adrian Quist and Jack Brom- ' wk h have obligingly come to the | aid of the I'nlted States Davie cup . •election committee and solved a troublesome problem for It. For months the committeemen ! have fretted and stewed about ‘ which team they should choose J to oppose Quist and Bromwich In the challenge round doubles at Philadelphia early next month. They have considered knd tried I'CORT SUN. MON. TUES. 10c Matinae Sunday 1:15 to 4 TWO GREAT FEATI RES’ - IaHI r **** <,*>• 2“'- flTffir *••••• 8. ••». oM le« to a«Mn 88Mkaman —ADDED THRILLER— You’ll gasp and you'll choor this •setting, pulse-pounding racetrack Story 1 FIGHTING THOROBREDS Mary Carlisle, Ralph Byrd Evening* 10c-20c —o Tonight & Saturday ROY ROGERS “FRONTIER PONY EXPRESS’’ ALSO— 2nd chapt. “BUCK ROGERS'' < News. 10c-15c ’ <o> Tonight & Saturday Something New—Two Full-Length Western Feature Hits! TIM McCOY “JUSTICE of the RANGE” & “WATER RUSTLERS" Dorothy Page, big caet. TONIGHT ONLY lUC •aturday 10c-lie

I more combinations than there are lon the lock of ii bank safe Now. thanks to Quist and Bromwich. they have lo worry no more The two Australians put an end to the problem yesterday In a I quarter-final round match of the national doubles tournament hero lln crushing, routing, and humiliating Gene Make and Jack Tldball. 62. 6-1. 6-2. they proved that it doesn't matter a great deal who the American Davis cup committee selects. The classic Longwood courts, whose turf has left the drives and volleys of all the grest doubles teams of the last 50 years, have 1 seen few greater doubles exhibitions than Quist and Bromwich stated yesterday Mako. winner of the title last year with Don Budge, and Tldball. are no pushover*. •• their winter record of 10 tonrna- 1 ment victories attests. On paper, at least, they stand with the Bve best double* team* In the world. But they were like children, like Tyro*, against the Australians. In fewer than 30 minute* they were swept off the conrta in straight aets, victims of a beautiful comblnntlim of power Immenae. and guile. The Australians couldn't mi** anything, either on attack or defense. up clone or in the back | 'court. Bromwich went IS game* •before netting a bail. *nd Qubit 10 ' before outing hl* first shot. Their | services were never seriously chai-

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to«g*d. hut they lorF . W of their opponent* at , ar , served Six time. du rihM ' W and Sv* time, n .... bails carnionbaii <i.h\„, v " M mor. a»*cilve. but irallans chmh.-.t M cracked through fl Rtaletiera , h „ , fl the Australian |,;. h man. captain .>t n,,. v „ ’ said after th.- niai.i, lhl , . fl| ed hl* buy* hud , HII , '.W peak quite *<> early fig "ib.tli Adrian and j.„ k fl on top of their game,' •aid "The liuvi, ~, , wm-k. or , lW4y 'fl only hope that they «■ MN Off u bit. befura ”■ jm-tlve I* reached " ■ Walter P.ie, eeu.r.n.,■ the American *hl.ly light-hearted after th/jfl Bromwich exhibihnn n- ... fl the match »a* lw t al , teat Imcatise. " a d,, 11t ,i,.. only a* strong aa it. . fl .link" dll,n 1 *•” * hlc >> of fl American, h link, but it I* probuhl.- that h, Tldball In mind, being a. h„ staunch defender ,>r Mjl... hall, however <|idn ■ fl more imept i n th.- f.,,. .. |( W trallan Sr* thati did M.,k u matter of fact, they good tennis, but pr.i-v ’ .fl Isn't worth mu. h ,h. ~W latfve sort.