Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1939 — Page 6

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SPORTS

REDS DEFEATED BY PIRATES TO HAVE LEAD CUT Cincinnati Blows .">-(1 Lead To Lose To Pirates In Eleventh New York. Sept. * - (U.R>- When better ways to lose ball games are figured out, th«- Cincinnati R«mls will be the boys who'll do it. It looks like they refuse to put on a spurt and clinch the National league flag no everybody tan settle back and get ready tor the world series. At the rate the Reds are traveling they'll come down to the world scries just another of those tired. Jittery National league champions with not much left to hurl at the mighty Yankees. Two rookies. fresh from the minora, played the leading roles hi helping the Bed* heat themselves

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. yesterday. Boh Elliott and M»ur ; Ice Van Roltays, a pair of out heldera from the International league, made seven hits between them and drove In four runs as the Reda , 4. S*7, te 11 ii.iiincPittsburgh Pirates. Elliott's double and Van Roltays* double tn the ninth gave the Pirates the run that | u> dtkg score, 6-6. Van Robaya 1 singled home the tying run again In the 11th after the Reda had scored In ihelr half, and then Elliott scored the winning tally when i outfielder Gamble fumbled the ball. The Reda had a 5-0 lead going Into the last of the fifth, but toss--1 ed ft away They collect* dltt hits off Blanton, Klinger. Swift and Re well but had 13 men stranded It was the fourth straight extraInning game for the Rhinelanders, who can't keep their minds off the pennant and on the ball game they are that day The Cardinals trimmed the Reds' lend to 4Ls games when they beat the Cuba. 4-2. in l»» Innings. Feature of the game was Gabby Hartnett's cracking the major league catching record by appearing behind the bat In his 1.727th game. Ray S< halk. who held the previous ■ mark, presented him with a scroll I signed by 2.544 fans Bill Lee's three base error on Slaughter's tap to the box started the Cards* winning rally in thi loth Rapping Carl Hubbell for four hits tn the ninth, the Rees came from behind to beat the Giants. 4With the bases loaded which per3. Hank Dunning dropped a throw . mitted the winning run to come in. lead to games by beating the The Yankees increased their Red Sox. 5-1. Monte Pearson and Oral Hildebrand combined to hold the Red Sox to three hits. Joe DiMaggio hit homer No. 27 and a single in three official times at hat to Increase his batting average to I IOS. The White Sox moved up within i two games of the Red Sox by taking a twin bill from the Browns. 8-4 and 11-4. Ted Lyons won his 11th game in the opener and Lefty Lee his 13th In the nightcap. Hal Troaby hanged out four hits, including his 24th homer, to lead Cleveland to victory over the Tigers. 9-8. Hank Greenberg hit two homers. Nos 26 and 27. Ken ('has pitched Washington to a I it-1 victory over the Athletics. The Senators slugged out 16 hits with Taft Wright getting four. Yesterday's hero: Gabby Hartnett. Cubs pilot who caught his 1.727th game to set a new major league record.

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Decatur Bowling League Results The weatherman crippled the activities at Mies Rm rest lon last night In the opening of the major league season . . . Prickle's tend Rice hotel were short two men each Iwv-ause of the heat which made bowling uncomfortable to all those but the real enthusiastic ... a little 15<i score took the place of each absentee . . . Oscar Lankenau set the pace with a big 525 for three games, apparently untroubled by the high temperture. on 197. 21S and 215 . . Ahr grabbed a 203. latdd a 205. Tut Weiler H 215. Farrar a 2<S» even. Keller a 223 and R Woodhall a 214. Results Rice Hotel won two out of three from Prickle's 2.3 VS to 2,354. Hon EKrust won three straight from Snyder's Diner. 2.722 to 2.554. Tonight s Schedule Tails vs. Antlers and Hoofs vs l.eg* in Elk's la-ague, MAJOR LEAGUE Snyder's Diner Stump ifio if,s iss Mies 135 199 H7 Ahr 15S 179 203 Mutschler 14S 13« 191 latdd 154 2t*s 192 Totals 753 579 922 Hon-E-Krust Frisinger IM 19* ISO Tutweiler 215 191 174 C. Farrar 172 ISS 20tt A. Farrar 191 I<s IJS Keller ICO !5« 223 SP«" 15 . Totala . . *94 *94 934 Frickle's R Woodhall 151 199 214 H Galltneyer 113 US 189 Zelt 129 IS| IM 150 150 150 150 150 150 Totala 693 805 KSS Rice Hotel Appel man ng 173 143 Boniface 163 120 145 latnkenau 197 216 215 150 150 150 150 150 150 Totals 776 809 MS — o Today’s Sport Parade * By Henry McLemore New York Rept 8 <UJD -1 Stan rd the wrong pledge when I was a boy. Instead of pledging lifelong fealty to temperance. 1 should have gone <m record with a vow never to watch a football game between all stars and proteaalonala. The whisky might have killed me. bui It wouldn't have iatr.-d me to death All-star games have come close i to doing that, and the one 1 saw lust night at the Polo Grounds came too close for comfort It I Involved a group of collegians, mostly from Pittsburgh, and the herd of wild beef that Nieve Owen hue corralled and branded with the Iron of the New York Giants. The Giants won it--that Is. they

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were ahead 10 to 0 when 1 went to sleep sometime, during the fourth quarter, and I terl quite sure that the all-stars never scored They couldn't have with the type of attack they brought on the field which was a singular one baaed on the belief that It was easier to run through the Giants* tonnage than throw the Imll through the air. The moment they got the hall the all-stars would go into a hud die. veto any auggeathm of subtlety by an II to 0 vote, and come al the mammoth professional line charging out to hurl themselves Encouraged. It seemed, by the inability of the professionals to throw them for a loss of more than five yards at a time, they would reassemble in the huddle, compare bruises, and come out for more It was heroic but lousey football. Dr Jock Sutherland, who coached the all-stars, started a team against the Giants that was composed of nine men who played under b'm at Pittsburgh last year, aud two Carnegie Tech ringers This squad was resolute on defense. all right, but soon showed that It had no more chance of scoring than Hitler has of getting thia year's Nobel peace prise The good doctor replaced it with another of assorted eastern collegians and the Giants, prob ably the best pro job ever assembled. took it apart and very quick ly. too With Tuffy Leemans as the spearhead, the Giants swept across a touchdown with the ease of a campfire girl toasting a marshmallow. and then aettled back to add their bit to the boredom of the evening With a one-touchdown advantage. the Giants dug In on the defense and defied the all-stars to do their worst The all-stars did their worst, right up to the end They passed only often enough to prove they had heard of aerial tactics The collegians who managed to show a bit despite their dismal setting were Rid Luckman. Bob McLeod. Bill Daddlo. and Leeson The biggest disappointment was Bind Holland. Cornell's celebrated end He didn't even look good during IniemiiMlon "Bullet Bill" Oamanskl must have fired his charge In Chicago, because the proa stopped him cold The Giants showed only enough to win. They opened up just once.

Big Push on Polish Capital = BtAO^Uows = | SHOW Tf«ITC*l Au PAINS Os frf PMAas A ouwNtolktmort SHOW QEVMAN T>-> OBJECTIVES ANO WU/I wworWuw' I I r M. v « AT _ > .....j# A x /’l* \ v TW A*" sta v ( nw»tn^^t Q * e o’C®*’ ~ “A» /»mu *• x v jg Thi» excellent map «howi the German drive on Warsaw. Polands capital, now being shelled and evacuated. Germany's southern forces took the key industrial cities of Chorsow and Katowire Poland s army battled the Germans on a 46-mlle front from Plonak to Clechanow. The government moved to Lublin

i got their touchdown, and then settled down to uole with the ■ ustomera. | It really was a "dream" gam Spectators were dreaming all over Rte place at the flnlah STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. P<-t. G r Cincinnati 76 49 .608 —— Rt Ixtuis 72 54 .571 4*> Chicago 71 60 .542 8 New York <5 60 .520 11 Brooklyn 65 6o 529 11 Pittsburgh 59 67 468 Boston 57 74 .449 IM* Philadelphia 40 85 .320 36 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pct. G B New York , .93 SB .719 R«o'oti 74 54 .585 141, Chicago 75 57 568 181* Cleveland 69 M .535 23 Detroit 69 62 .527 24 Waahlngtim 59 73 447 341, Philadelphia 45 84 .349 47 St Ixtuis 35 93 .273 561, YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Boston 4. New York 3 St. Ixtuia 4. Chicago 2 Pittsburgh S, Cincinnati 7. Philadelphia at Brooklyn, played former date. American Lgague Chicago 8-11, R; Louis 4-4 New York 5. Boston 2. Washington 10. Phlltadelphta 1. Cleveland 9. Detroit g. — -0 ■ LEADING BATTERS Player Club G AS R H Pct DiMaggio. Yanka 99 383 93 156 408 Mile. Cardltfals 125 463 84 148 363 Foxx. Red Sox 123 464 131 167 360 Keller. Yankees 91328 76 114 348 Johnson. Ath 129 463 98 155 335 HOME RUNS Foxx, Red Sox m 35 Ott, Giants 37 Greenberg. Tigers 37 DiMaggio. Yankeea 37 Mise. Cardinals ..... 34 Camllll. Dogern 34 Gordon. Yankees 34 Williams, Red Sox .. 54 Trosky. Indians 34

CMIf HARTNETT BREAKS RECORD (’ubs Manager Sets Mark For Number Os (ianies (aught Chicago. Sept, B. — (U.PJ a long grind eighteen years behind the plate--but an long an the Chicago Cuba need the booming lint of U*o (Gabby 1 Hartnett the old war horse will keep on firing. After 1.727 cmiiesta. more than any other major league player has caught, the great Gahby is getting tired. He has grown gray In the servh-e of the only major league ' club he ever played for. He wants to quit and run his ball club from the bench. "i'll have to stick around aa long as they need me on the Held," Hart.nett said. "There's Mill a lot of' baseball left In the old boss. At that, maybe I can set a record really worth shooting at Itefore I retire ” Old tomato face set his endurance mark yesterday, bettering by ; mte game a reiord set by peppery Ray S<-hulk from 1912 through 192* with the Chicago White Sox and In a live-game stretch with the New York Giants in 1929 In the list of the great catchers I of all time, the roarhtg Cub manager ranks high II elms a throw-1 Ing arm second to none. He Is a 1 master handler of pitches, for years has been the No. I man on , attack, and few old settlers can recall the last time he dropped a foul fly ball Hartnett has been a fighter all his eighteen years with the Cubs One enemy pitcher luot Mace Brown of Pittsburgh 1 says Hartnett could walk io the plate with two strikes on him and still be the < most dangerous hitter iu the batt- 1 ‘ ing order. Beat illustration of that was I Gabby's fateful twilight homer off Brown last September, which so: 'irate* they never re-1

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covared and the Cubs Anally stagger<*d Imo the Natlonnl league le-nnant That was the highlight In Gabby's career. It was a' thrill io catch old Grover Cleveland Alexunder In Hartnett's flrat big league game opening the 1922 season. There was another when Hartnett, I after suffering all season long with ait aim ailment that altnoat washid him up, walked out imid ati ovtion to catch his only game of 1929 after the Cuba hud climbed the pennant Hu, just ask the Gabber. No player ever hud a greater thrill than he got out of that homer last , fall. TREASURE HUNT HERE SATURDAY Recreation Department To Conduct Hunt Here Saturday At 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, a treasurer hunt will tie held at tlanna-Nuttman Paik. sponsored by the W P A recreation department All boys up to sixteen years of age ar* invited to be in the hunt. The hunt will start from the eeltor house, where clues will be poetled as to the location of the ttensure. I Additional clues will be foujd along 'he trail, directing the boys In their < earch. The Wertaberger Confectionery and the Blue Creek Dairy are donating a number of prizes for the treasure hunt, and these will l-e found along the trail to the treasure. A lot of fun is promised the boys on this event, and the special prizes and the treasure will make the hunt I w<-U worth while. paper with rip-cord opener and end-of-roll siimal 50c. Every roll in vacuum cleaned to remove all lint and dust. I The llecatur Democrat Co.

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