Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1940 — Page 6

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PLAN BASEBAIL CLINIC HERE ON APRIL 1 Major League Sound Pictures To lie Shown At Clinic Here A haaabell clinic sponsored by Ih>- WPA recreation departmeut, will be held in Decatur Mmwl.iy afternoon and evi-tting. April I Arrangem* -nte for the clinic are lw Ing made by Georg-- F laiurvnt, (Creation kUpetvixor. and lb-*ti<‘ Durwlti. activities chairman ot the executive committee of till !*••«-» I fur recreation department. The clinic will open nt 1 o'clock In the afternoon of April 1 wlrh| thia session to Ire held In the gym- i Itanium of the Junior * nlor high j school. At thia session. fundatneril | ala of base trail will be explgtaed' to the recreation lead •is ill order’ ♦hat they may If trained Iw-tter for their work in Junior bas.-bill during th.- »umm> niontii> Plana are b> ing made to Invite! bam-hall players'of the city nidi county to thia aftermarn *.-«rt -it i

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, for which there will be no charge The dibit will lie eimdui-lisl by Itolierl Downey and Edc •'<»* of the district recreation office The highlight of Ihr haeehall clinic will In* held Monday r veiling al “SO o'clock al the Cuthiillc hi htMd auditorium Feature of thia session will he the showing of the 1940 million pictured, the uffii lal product limn of , Is ah the Imerh-un and National li-intm-s There will he no admission charge for Ihin mei iing. and the genera) public (a Invited to alien*! Hevaral local baschull leaders I will lie Invited lo apeak briefly, j and the 19ft) Junior baseball program. Alnerh uii 1,. gtou junior liani-ball. and the tio-uge.limit iima • leiir program will Ir- dia< ussed I during the evening mn-'tng | The two sound pictures, "Touch- | Ing All Banea." the official AmeriI< an league production and Play Hall, America." the official Nation ial league prialuclion, feature the i outstanding mars of both major I leagues i .Many ivf baseball s Immurtala. ; such a* Ha be Ruth Ty Cobh. Tria Speaker, take part In the \ tn-than le.igti-' picture fn addition lo tm- nt day -tai-s. s-ueli as Joe INMaCgfo. Hill l>i<-key, Jim* I'rotifn. Huh Feller and many oth rs How I these stars field thi-fr positions, i how they pitch how they bat. will ' !><• shown in thia picture, t 'onstd I erable fiattage la devot d to night ' baseball, and the pl< tun- concludes with Hews shots of the !*'!•• W il 111 aeries betwe- n the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds I Many phases of inside luiaehall j will l» iHittrayed in the National * l-agne production with sm h stars 'of the senior loop as Paul lierrlngter. Cabby Hartnell Itolph Camilll I Jis- Meilnh k Xtky Vanghan. Tony ! f’ui i inello J.h Moore and many I Others In auuitloii lo sm h llhistrations, j brilliani playa made by National league p|ayv>ra plus some very ey ! citing game apuatlons and acenea i from the I'IJH world series will be 1 included In thia ph titre JAPANESE RIOT CAM IM Kti PH'iW PAQtJ Oivttl apology "Don't tell u« lie* " the membera i <hauled Everftualiy. Arita finished his spec- h and other business proceed id However. !>t Ktyoae said be ' would teo|w t> the case before the 1 imdrei committee

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SMALL TOWN OF LAPEL PEOPLE'S TOURNEY CHOICE In heralded Team From Small Town In State Tourney Finals i Editor's Note. .This Is the first of a series of four art hies on the four finalists of the I9fu high i scl.isd baak-lliall tourney t Hy Ed Hainsbury l.tled Ind. March 19 U.F!> Not i since the days whet) a high achtstl I entered the state liask<‘thall tourI Iley finals hy simply filling out a i blank not since the war era has i lloosi- idoin had an entrant In the i final four comfuiralde to one i among the seli-i ! group this ve.it It a Lapel, a standout five If there ever was one. when you consider the season a op|»osttlon. the touiney < limpetition and the record And from u .< tiool of 2<m students a small town, poprtlatiim . I H‘> Ils population today, though ' rrMialats of l.lftt basketlurll fanatics. And .not u citizen is Hated I that won't tell yon that the final aeries at the Butler fieldhouse at Indla n a India March JU Is unnecessary. Their answer Is "Just send Hie plaque to lai pel ’ They've reason for their confldeme, however, tor their Hulldogs are not rhe ordinary type of small 'own team They're good and they proved they're gmnl by their tourney record Ihfore the tot,r*.< y larfH'l had won IS of 2<t games. Im luded In H* victims were amh as .Middletown. Yorktown. Frankton, and Monrovia. Among Its ion I ipierors were Muncie Httirls. Ah-X-I andria. and la-luiiion Hut the tourney was a different story Lapel lixrk Summitvllle by throe points, Imutm-d over the Anderaon Indiana, a state title favorite by one. and repeated hy down Ing Aleaandrla. deemed the sectional winner at that time by an i other otu- lurlnt. The regional had Indianapolis Shortt >dg>- as the favorite larfiel was rated, however. I ' a* u final game contestant. So th-- Ihrlldogs roared from Im-1 hind to trip Cre-nfield and justify | i the pickers that put them in the . finals Then they took an early lead over Hhortrldge. saw It dlsa|v I |>ear. and came hu< k to win by I three |ioints. They were pic ked lo lose to j Rushville in the first semi final I game- They trailed th< Lkm-i by I tour point* at th-- half and cam ■ 1 Ino k to wilt by on* tsilnt They J were rated as a rp-arer te-t arainat North Vermm fn th- finals and put on a show of spec-d. drive and shooting ability that stopped the I'atithirs attack cold I won J>y IT points. Now they're in the finals a.id they meet Hammond Tm h In the first game March JO. To go against llaniinond Tech lat pel has a big team to put on the floor. Anderson and Harnhlzer. starting forwards, are an even sig feet is height Trevor WhetI sei. starting renter, is « feet {. Males and Mills, the starting guards, are £ feel T and 5 feet I] respectively They're a bunch of these "conn try boys*' that can bit the beaket In the regional and semifinal games Whetsei averaged better than 13 point a per .-onlest with a total of 53 Harnhizer hit 21. Anderson 20. Males tc and Mills 2f The first substitute Wayn Jarrett. a C foot forward, hit IL In all tourney game* so far Lafiel has netted 24S points while holding the opposition to 220 That's sn average of 35 42 for Impel and 31 42 for the opposition, or an average winning score of four points And most of this hair points <ame from the North Vernon game For until that IT point

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DECAI ( T R DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY. MARCH 19. 1940.

As Nationals Beat A. L. All-Stars at Tampa y Ww ..... iS Charley Keller safe at Rrst base

This action shot from the National and American . leagues all-star game at Tampa, Fla for the benm I f.t ->f Fn niah war sufferers shows Chsrlev Keller I

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victory. l-i|e I had won six tourney j game* .nd had oUIM-ored the oppir ait lon hy only It point* Nobody knows exactly now many ticket* ixipel get* for the final •erica I>at every person in the town I* ready, wlllin gand able to Im. k the biggest Hoosier hash-”-hall crowd, ticket or no ticket. In order to see hi* Bulldogs play at Butler When Mpel won the srctlorisl then, was a mild celebration on the main street. When the boy* won the region*) there was » bon fire When they woa the s»mifinal they moved the bonfire Into the middle of the highway talarsection rousted out tta- town, and really held a eelelrrallon The light* didn't go out until midnight If l-apel rotnes throuA the finala. It'll be drfferenl again The lights will slay on until morntag — If they don't burn the town down. *" Today’! Sport Parade * •- - J St Petersburg. Fla.. March 10.— UJF -The league of women base hall sufferers, composed of wives of major league players, has come up with owe of the most prrmislng rookies in years in the person of Dorothy IM Maggio, bride of the Yankee stagger center fielder. Although making bar Brat trip to a spring trainlag camp. Mrs DIMaggio ha* shown anoagh talent as a sufferer when th* Yankees are playing to earn her high praise I from itr h veteraty sqlrmers. nail ‘ i-hewera, lip biter*, and permanent wave dtean anger* aa Vi Dickey.

Yankee outfielder, safe at flrst base Buck Me Cnrmick. Oney fir” baseman, is at the bag The Nationals won 2-1

Izzy Rolfe. June Gomez and Pauline ItuffillE Mrs. DiMaggio was put to her first real test at the all-star Sum--.between the American and Nation-1 al league* here taut Hnnday and | her behavior when her husband I wa* al bas or chasing * fly. and ' the American league wa* behind, ■tamped her a* ready to step Into the big league of sufferer* In her first year up. This correspondent ■aw Mrs InMaggio before she went to the all-alar game and after she , had returned On her departure for the park she could have passed I muster before the mn*t exacting coatoarier In the world, and her - make up and coiffeur were Im-; peccable When I saw her again, after she had been through the torment ol

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seeing husband Joe fall to get a hit. and tit* Nationals llik the Americana, she could have used the complete |5 treatment hi a beauty parlor And this, mind you. despite the fact that naturally she J* Just about the prettiest wife in baseball Two hours In the tortnre chamber reserved for the players wive* had all but made a wreck of her Nhe didn't deny that het riperlente had been harrowing, either "It's terrible." she said wearily, “that sitting there and watching your man at the plate You hope and you pray he'll get a hit. Yau find yourself hating the umpire when hr calls a strike, and the pitcher for throwing It. I don't think I could stand it if Joe weren't a good hitter and I didn't have the comfort of knowing he usually gets hl* share of hits and runs'* Mrs Di Maggio's ability lo suffer so Intently probably Iles tn the fart that she was <>ii<-e a baseball player herself, and thus knows the j problem* and hardship* of hitting ; high fast ones, curves that break like a pane of glass, and tantaliz mg ckhngr* of pace and the such Yea. M>*. IMMaggio was a better than fair flrtt baseman In her day Rhe never quite made the indjora l»ut there was a time not so many years ago when she was the best girl soft bullet in lmlu<h. Minne sots. "I was a pretty good hitter,” she admitted under questioning "I was always around 3«o and got quite a few home run* No. I wasn't as good a hitter sa Joe, and I couMn t field quite a* well as he doe*, bift then he ba* had more experience," I’p until the time she met Joe, Ute In the 193 T season, she had ■ never seen a major league baseball game Hut It didn't tske her long to correct that mistake Hhr

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i At the Training CampN By United Fraas Red* Tumps. Fla, March 19 <U-» The t'liii-innatl Reds tackle the Detroit Tiger* al Mkeland. Fla . loduy The lli-dii have loot six of their eight evhlbltioii stuns ami leave tomorrow night for Havana, to |d»y several Cuban all star team*. . Giant* Fort Myers, Fla Cliff Melton and Bill l<obr«nan wilt pitch for the New York t.iallta against the | Cleveland Indians tmlay Th. tllaut* spring training record dropp»-d to sm> for s.lx games yesterday when the Doston Bees cama’ from behind wjih a three-run rally in the fifth to score a T 4 win Cardinale Ht. Petersburg. Fla. Holdout catcher lion Padgett of the Ht Ix>lat is Cardinals said he wgpeeied to sign hl* 1940 ontract after a lonf'-ienie with v h-epresident Hrant h His key today Padgett is expected to sign for a reported 111.000. Cub* Anaheim. Calif The Chicago Cubs returned to the Philadelphia Athleth-* camp today to try to make It three In a row for the Chicago team* The White Hox treat the A'a 42 yesterday while the Cub* were whipping the l<o* Angeles Angela. 4-2 The Cuba defeated the Athletic* Sunday Senator* Orlando, Fla The Washington , Senators broke a three-game losing streak yesterday and handed the New York Yankee* Kansas City farm team an 9 lo I ah» Hacking Three rookie Nat pitchers held the Kansas City team to four hits) while th.- Nat* themselves gathered 10 hits. The only iong distance i lout by the Nat* was a homer by Catcher Early Two of Kansas City's four hits were triples Firsts* Han Bernardino. Calif Th* Pittsburgh Pirate* today le-gan t... Ir long list of major league exhlbitloti games in a set-to with the Chicago White Hox here Manager Frank Frisch began cutting hi* squad after th.- Pirates defeated the llollywisal < lub yesterday. 12-T Act Parker and Eddie Yount wece given to Syracuse nf the Interna tbmal leagu - on straight options. Jarker was bought from Potts mouth with a part down payment and a further sum in event Parker I* uninjured in pro football with the Brooklyn Dodger* thia winter Hill Cletnensen was *»-nt to Syracuse under a 24-hour recall option met Joe on Aug 4 and on Aug. S was In the stands to see him bieak up a game with an extra base hit. Hlnie that time she hasn't missed a Yankee game when she was In New York, and she doesn't Intend to mis* any more. "It's terrible suffering." she said, "hut It's fun And. too. I've got to get in training for my Brat world series this fall That will make me worry and tret." This remark made it obvious that Mr*. DtMaggki hadn't seen the Vault* in a world serie* They don't give their hackers much to worry about Just four straight and in a hurry For the life of us we can't feel sorry for Mrs. DiMag and her suffering If she Is tortured when Joe com** to bat. just think of what the wives of those .230 hitler* go through

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