Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1939 — Page 6

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RUFFING’S ARM IS QUESTION ON EVE OF SERIES Yankee Ate Hurler Suf* ferine Son* Arm; Series Wednesday Naw York. Oct J—'U.R>— Red Ruffing. acs of th* Yankee pitching staff who hat boon suffering with a sore arm tine* • *ept. 17, will pitch tomorrow ! opening world aeries game against the Cincinnati Reda. Manager Joe McCarthy announeed today. New York. Oct. X — (U.» —Thi mywtery surrounding the mighty right arm of Red Ruffing. Yankee ace. w»< to be lifted today when the fnertlme American league ■ hampion* staged their final drill before engaging the Cim In eat I Reda In the opening game of the world aerie- tomorrow Ruffini who haun t pitched since the Brown* knocked him out of the hot on Sept 17. waa acbedul ad to unllmber hla arm for the In •flection of manager Joe McCarthy What Ruffing shows McCarthy will determine the Yankee pitcher for the opening skirmish While McCarthy la aaauming a pone of worry and anxiety about hla pitcher* manager Rill Me Kechnle of the Reda ha* hla moandamen all lined up to face the power that la the New York Yanka It'll be tall Paul herring er tn the opener. Ru< ky Waltera in the second game Thursday and Gene Thompson In the third game at Cincinnati Saturday There ia some justification for McCarthy being upaet about Ruff 1 Ing The cold and rainy weather

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of the paat few days ham.'l helped Huffing! arm which has teen bothering him since mld-Hoptemb-IW, “Ruffing tells me he wnnta to ' throw a few more before making 1 up hla mind about hla arm." aaid I McCarthy "If he decldea he'a ready, then he'll pitch the open- • er," If Ruffing Isn't ready. th»n the Yankee hand wagon la going to loae a lot of aupportera With Lefty Comet apparently out of the aerlea with a pulled muscle In hla aide, the lose of Ruffing would make the Reda' cause skyrocket Without Ruffing and Comet, Me-' Carthy would he up agalnat II for pitchera. Hla opening game choice, if Ruffing'a arm lan't ready, would be between Monte Pearaon and Oral Hildebrand. Pearaon haa pitched only one good game In Ave weeks and haa gone the route only eight llmra thia season It's true he haa pitch ed and won a world aerlea game each of the paat three yearn but hia many achea and paina. real or , imaginary, alwaya make him a gamble every time he atarta. Behind Pearaon. McCarthy haa Hildebrand and Rump Hadley and neither of them la any Itrrrlnger or Waltera Without Ruffini: tn form, the Yanka are not only 31 abota hardly better than *-S The break In the *< hedule which gives the Cuba a day for travel between the two eltiea la perfect for the Red* Herringer and Waltera can pitch the flrat two games tn New York, and come back and hurl the fourth and fifth games in Ctn < innati and get their three days rest. In addition Gene Thompson, the Xi-year-old rookie who haa proved his mettle under Are, will be able to make hla start tn the third game before a friendly home town audience Roth club* hdd idle by rain yesterday. work out at Yankee , stadium today, weather permitting Manager McKechnie has the Reds In their best condition since July 11 when Ival Goodman was hurt In the all-star game Second te*«man Ixmnir Frey’s injured heel and shortstop Hilly Myers’ bruised instep are both k-aled With the , exception of Ruffing and Gomel all the Yanks are hi condition The Reds have a tar different mental attitude than the Cute of last year Rill McKechnie'a quiet.! experienced way of handling fats players apparently haa built up their confidence to a high pitch McKechnie gave two of his stars. Walters and Mere* permission to I atop off at their homes on their I way east. He did that all season and he saw no reason why he

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should change any rule! for the world aerlea. i Jack Hoyle. Broadway betting commlaalotier. continued to quote I to 3 againai the Yanka and 13 to & agalnat the Reda. Man to man beta make the Yanka 1341 favoritea. If Ruffing ia unable to pitch the opener the price on the Yanka la likely to aborten —— — *0 ' Decatur Bowling league Results • G Schult! led the Central Soya I league at Mie* Recreation last night, posting a IM ... Ha bettered the two hundred mark in hla last two attempts getting a SOS and a 313 ... H Krick also poat ed a nice acore aIM . . Town- | -end with a 3fl» got the only other double* ent ury coat Reautta laboratory non three from Feed Milla. 3.3*4 to 3.13*. Solvent ptant won three front j I Tradbatav *.s»4 tw XvJl. Expellee* won three game* from Mixers. 141* to 11*4. Maintenance won two game* from Office. • .3*o to 3.11A. •tandmga Solvent » 3 ■ Mixers ( < Laborstory 7 5 1 Office fi < Truckers . * * I Evpellers , * * Maintenance 3 *1 |F*ad Milla ______ 3 * CCNTRAL »OYA LEAGUE Mtaseg Archer .. 1W ]» Osterman I*3 I3fi la* 1 Bunner 177 13* 147 Sheets 1(1 137 1»1 Schlickman |»7 14* 141 Mutt »« _ Totals __ _ 7*a *33 7*3 Eapgttsr Howe 13a Heller __________ *M 14* | INU _____________ 14* IM 133 Cornon IM 13* IM Kelly 137 137 147 Rowden I*3 I*3 Iff* I

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I probably haa had enough of the npa and downs In the ring and will noon be hack at the bnslnemi of calling -stlth floor — children's* underwear garden ho*.', player piano*, women * budget shop and house furnishing* “ Just what did Garcia win by •lopping Apoatoll In the seventh round* To answer that one you'd have to know what titles Apoatoll wore when he entered the ring, and that to something no one •eerna to know. The garden announcer called Garcia the ch am pion of the world at the end of the fight The radio announcer* i proclaimed him champion of the ' world but only In California and New York, which make* about a* much aenae a* calling Alf Landon president of the I'nlted States, but only in Mslne and Vermont. When the news of the Filipino'*! | victory reache* Carta the inter- j national boilng federation will meet In aolemn aeaaloa in aome bomb-proof ahelter and call him t-hampioa of France and Manila I |of course, will throw up a ferocious looking statue in hi* honor and hail hlui aa the universal con queror Although he to champion In New York and California a* a result of Apoatoli twins rwognlted a* the middleweight titleholder by the Inning eommtoaoins of the*e two atate* and in France because he once kn.M-ked out Marcel Thii. for mer champ of the Champ* Elyaee It wouldn't tak* Garcia more than half an hour to g*t la a state • here he to considered jaal an other ltd-pounder and no champion There are « states whose bo* Ing to governed by the national boilng ammriatfam and one of them will recogntoe fats new title Al Ho*tak of Seattle. Wash . to their champion and even ts he doesn't come out from behiud those red Wood trees for the neit ten year* they apparently are going to »tb-k by him The whole mesa started 'hi* •ay At th* start of l»3s. Freddie Steele generally cuusidered the middleweight champion In January of that year. Ap—toii knocked him out. but waan t given the till* becaua- It was an over-the-weight match In July of the. •ame year. Steele suddenly defended hto title against Hootak. a feiiowtownaman. and waa kmak-d out In tke first round The NkA then climbed on the Hoslak band wagon but the New York and Californto commtMion* refused to do this on the ground* that the bout i wa* ahaluW for only ten round* In the Oral place, and in the second. Apoatoll and not Hoslak. de served the title shot To make thing* realty compile*! ed the New York board aaM It •ould recognise tke winner of (fa, young Corbett HI and Apostoll i bout aa the champlcn Apo*t a |i I flattened Corbett teat November i la the meantime a fat aumbet • named Solly Kretger had decision

FIVE MIDWEST GRID ELEVENS DISPLAY POWER Notre Dame. Michigan And Northwestern Rated As Tops Chicago, Oct. 3.— <U.» — Prelimi inary skirmishes revealed today the midwest haa no leas than live major football powers to carry on ita mass revival after three disastrous years. Notre Hume. Michigan and Northwestern still are the big I three. Added to these, on the basis of eicc-ptlona 1 showings In opening games last Saturday, are Minnesota and Purdue. Despite Rs defeat at Notre Home. Purdue must be reckoned with. The Boilermakers were severely crippled, their attack cut io half its normal strength, and still they held the Irish to three points on , a field goal by John Charles Kelleher. ISfl-pound substitute quarterback. who has lievn a splintergatherer on the Notre Dame bench > tor two full seasons. Minnesota ’a G to 0 victory over Artsuna. surprising even to insiders who have been watching the reconstructed big ten champions in secret drills, placed them definitely In line. At Nebraska Saturday. Minnesota will discover for cwrtaln whether it has a team cap- ' able of challenging the nation's beet. I This week also brings Into the open Northwestern and Michigan. ' co-tavorites for Minnesota's conference championship since the closing days of the IS3S campaign Northwestern Introduces Ita brilliant sophomore brigade led by the prep-school phenom Rill Decorrevont In ha opener against Okla hernia's big sis champions. Michigan plays a traditional intra-state rival Mu hlgan State. True strength of Notre Hume's ed Hoatak In IS rounds but the New York sultans wouldn't give him a look In at the title, even though be came from Brooklyn Before thia could worry th«m very much. however. Hoatak kniuked out Krieger, who quit the ring and started making a good, honest living as a bookie Btee|e retired and efforts were made to i gel Hoatak and Apnatoil together. . but their managers don't like one another and wouldn't talk bus! news Besides, or so the story goes. Hoetak's manager, one Drug man. Is also a promoter in Seattle awd dueMi't care to <-*!»■•* his chief meal ticket and gate attraction to any undue danger My suggestion for the settling of 1 the tangle is to assemble all ablebodied persons weighing between 114 S and IM pounds and play a came of- enl-- meeny miny-mo the winner to be given the title. But only on the condition that he » defend it.

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a * offense may he determined agatnat Georgia Tech Saturday. The Irish had their fundamentals down pat against Purdue but It was 100 early In the year for polish and ; the sort of deception that carried them through eight straight ganu-s without a scratch last tail. The only optimistic note resulting from the Purdue game waa Bob Hag gnu's exceptional punting in the i dutches and the tine all round play of Ixm Zontml, right half workhorse. who haa plugged unherald rd through two seasons 1 ■■■■—■ Of—aumusauu—(’hieaxo Brant Whip Pittsburgh. 32-0 P'ttshurgh. Oct. 3—<l’P|—Johnny Blood resigned today as head i <oach of the Pittaburgh Pirates protesslonal football team In the wake ■( the lira tvs' humiliating 33-0 de-

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