Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1940 — Page 6

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OL' DIZ HURLS 6REAT BALL IN OPENING START Dizzy Dean Holds Browns To Two Hits In Five Inning* Chicago. April 9 (UP) The screwball with the nothing hull., one Dizzy Dean of the Chicago 1 Cub*. ti|ip>d off the boy* along the ! lute today that he* not washed up i X*t _ Just a* ole Oil wa* about to be | < nnsigncid to the scrapheup or | maybe even traded to I’hiladelphlu. , up he cogi>-« with one of thoae |a»t- i minute llfesavcrs hi hi* first j pitching effort of 1940. ttean *"t down the St Loul* Brown* for l»r Inning* fin only two hit* one of , the he*t *tretche* by any major league pit* her in training this ppetug Pin day* the paper* have been ' lull of a "deliver or else” iiltim.it um •nppoaedly Issued to Itean and pertaining to thi* partlmlar effort again*: the Brown* There wa* no "ffl. |»| . onflrma 1 Unit of any such ultimatum, hut ; Mean mini have believed it. lie) w«a! trttwi the Brownie*, much aa fie did ag.i n*i the Yankee* in the jI9JS world «erte* He walked four, j bui struck out three and permit!-, ed only one man to reach third has*. When it wa* all over he pi claimed him arm never felt 1 belter. I That ailing right arm ha* cau»ed owner Phil Wtlfley more head aibea in the la»t two yea * ihan the entire dub combined. The Cuh* eventually won 15 to 2. hut that was antl-c lima* The Dean aituatlon had hei ome complicated import* from Catalina liland all

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spring had Dizzy In a*«ortcd dog home* operated hy manager tiab by Hartnett, moat of ihe Cuh player* and all the travelling newspapermen Now. he* a hero agin In ihe eye* of ihe home fall*. Hartnell'* main peeve again*) the big right-hander wa* Dizzy's la< k of enihu*ta*m for training Reporting late after hi* holdout *iege—that one about ‘Til »tarve lielore pltehing for 110.000" Dean put himaelf on hi* own training. program Hi* idea* differed somewbai from Hartnett'* Dir went to *ee hi* own dart- | or*, prescribed a real cure tor ; him**-!f and did a* he pleaaed So Hartnett put him on the *pot Kzcepi for a couple of lad* nam ' ed Sam llamhany and Joe CallaghI er, Ifc-au had s breeze. Ilarahany | and Gallagher each nicked him for | *ln*leg LEFT HANDER ! EARNS PLACE Milwaukee Southpaw Ties For 10th In National Rowling Meet lietrolt April 9 ll'Pi Kdgar Steulw* of Milwaukee tod 117 wa- the | flr*i left-hander to enter the field , of leader* in the American howling Irongre#* tournament sieube rolled I*4 259. and 241 for 1 *ls which tied for loth place In , the single* Although he undoubted--1 ' home stretch. hi* wore la remarkable Inaamuch aa Portalder* are > always at a dlaadvantage They , muat liK-ate their own groove*.'' I only two let-hander* ever have an- I In * zed ABC minor event* title*. Charley Neeh. a Columbu*. (). grocery Clerk totaled 19«1 In the all-event for fifth position. Ve*ii bowled <**• Saturday night with the j Flaking de< orator* team, pu ked up •>SS In the double* Monday afternoon and then hit 1»2-l*«-l*4 for 554 in the single* competition | For the fifth consecutive dav i leader* In Ihe five-man te.im event remained unchanged Phil Smidt'* quintet from Whiting Ind lead* with a I.*"l total. I~— ■ 9 -*- Mr*. Dwight Kimble and daughter Ruth Margaret spent yesterday in j Fori Wayne and heard Henry Bu«■e'» orchestra at the Kmlstyd

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* General Electric I Bowling Results G. E MAJOR LEAGUE Welder* tlnagland IST IST 219 1 8> bulls 149 ITS 222 K W Lanketiau |»3 14* 142 M o Brown 134 149 192. W Heim 126 142 1T« ' Total* 759 759 #4* Rotors I Forfeit l Stator* H Cochran 175 157 166 A Schneider 16« I*4 179 A Miller I*o 2)6 194 . 162 162 162 . 162 162 162 Total* *39 **l *54 Flange* Kady .. *63 I*l I7u (Mur 1:1 * 17A 144 I). Gage ... 171 212 2u7 162 162 162 .. 162 162 162 Total* *29 *93 *35 MINOR LEAGUE To*ter» McClure . 175 153 14ft F Gillie 164 144 I*l H Gage 155 157 134 ISA 156 166 Total* *O4 799 765 Maintenance Q. Mayer* . 170 .126 134 Rrelner 231 171 155 Huber 169 167 16<l 166 166 155, 156 166 165 Total* »*« *Ol 759 Flange* St hull* IS? 173 ISO Buckley 142 191 137 Brokaw . 12* 176 IS6 Holm ... „. 136 163 132 155 156 165 Total* 72S M* 6*9 Night Man Krueckeberf ... 10* 169 143 Uiti 171 IS6 176 T. Hauhold 152 IS3 ISO 166 166 166 ISS lit IBS Total* 742 7*4 *o* Bunch Free* Weber ISS IS* U* Ahr US 16* 166 Rufenbargor 146 124 16ft 166 165 166 IIS 16S US Total* 717 71* 77S Teal Ream Hanrber _ IS* I** 202 Beery 154 12* 12S O. Uater ISS IBS 14* H Lanktnau IS* 144 1M Total* 7SI 7*2 111 aIndiana Beats Indiana State Bloomington, lad.. April S—<PP) Playing la aa almost constant Brittle Indiana aatvnraity'e baaeball team yaatarday combined 11 hiU aad II walks to dnfoat Indiana *tat*. 1! to 2. ta Ike opening boas* game of the aaaawi. Bruner want Ik* fall anvaa inn lug .Iretrb (or the Hooalara while j State aaad Bofearallr Boch and ] Jobnaee on tka mound

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Sport Parade * By Htnry McLamor* Augttala. Pa . April 9 UR> For ; a aolld quarter of a century thl* part of the tolid south ba* lieen on the nearrh for another Tym* Raymond Cobh to Gy it* color* In I big league baaeball | From Tybee* Light to Rabun* ; sap not a youngster ha* treen overlooked Sow at long laat. It *eem* at if the red day country ha* iome up with a rookie who*# feet j won t turn to day »has: the hard j high one* whiatle up to th<- plate, j or there'* a trace to lie atolen In the dutch, or a long one to lie ed down by the flagpole in deepest j center. • It wa* right here in Auguata that Cobb flrat sharped hi* »teel on the basepaiha, and right here they are taking time out even for golf to talk of Johnny Rucker, of the f'rahapple. Ceorgia Rucker* who will lie lead-off man and cenleifielder for the Nr* York Giant* thl* *ea*on They will tell you that If the Glam* bought Johnny on a "make-good bad* j from the Atlanta Cracker* of the Southern league, (hen (he polo j .-rounder* might )u*‘ a* well go I ahead and make out a ( heck for the remainder of the IlS.ooo they ’ pledged the Atlanta learn If the i country boy delivered And be la a country boy You gotta be a country boy when you home addreaa ia Crsbapple It wa from a town like Crabepple that a little Georgia boy I know oner made a vlalt to Atlanta He arrived on the ontsklrt* of the city ju*t aa darkneaa felt, and the light* in the city rame on He aaw the *pei lade from a hill and all he could any to the lady holding hi* hand waa: "Goah auntie, the whole world done gone poetum bastin'." Johnny Rncher may have a aimtiar feeling of awe the flrat time he walk* out before 46000 people at the polo ground*, but tboae who know him aay It won’t get him down "Hall *how the Oiant fana more speed on the bate* and more *p. ed and grace In the outfield than they have teen tor a long, long time," Kdn Danforth. aporta editor of the Atlanta Journal and a baaeball critic who watched Johnny all la*' tea non. *aid to me "There isn't a fatter man in baseball today. Hell steal fifteen or twenty bases without ever getting dual on hla pasta And be can go clean to Yonkers for a fly •ammammaaamamnmaaamm—<—■—

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ball And Johnny'll hit. too. He * so faai getting down to first that ,he can heat out anything ibatj bounce* more than once Give him two or three bounce* and he'* liable lo try for a double Paul Richard*, a former Giant catcher and now manager of the Atlanta team, la another who doe* I not think there i* a man In either major league with aa fine a turn of »peed aa Rucker "He'* a rubblt," Richard* say*,: "and what a pair of leg* ’ All the Georgian* who know him j i figure he'll get along with hla i f.iiow major league piayer* They 1 bate thli on the fact that Johnny hat a reputation of being the beat i mule handler In north Georgia, a' j section that ia filled with good mule handler* "A fellow who ran handle a mule,” a Georgian told me “la Juat naturally hound to get along with] anything or anybody A mule' >1 -velop* pa'lem e, tact, and understanding In a man And Johnny i can do as much with a mule as Red 1 Poilsrd ran with Reahiacult." — —— ■ O ■- "■ - Walker ('up Golf Matches Cancelled New York. April $— 4t"*»>—'The Walker cup golf mat- he* the biennial lompeiition between the I ni'-

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THREE SCHOOLS IRE SUSPENDED No Football To Ik* Permitted At Frankfort, Logansport, Hobart Indlanapnlla. Ind., April * tt’Pl laiganaport Hobart and Frankfort high school* Today were forbidden to participate In football nett fall In a ruling hy Arthur ITre*ter. commissioner of the Indiana high school athletic association board of control. The drastic penalty wa* a*»e**ed liecause the three school* participated in a football training camp aDune* Park prior to the opening of school last year, which 1* con-' ■ trary to association rule*. Coaches and officials of the three I -e-bools were censured by the board for attempting to withhold Informs Hon regarding the early practice — o —- » - ■ ■ - ♦ ! At the Train inf C amp* 1 1 ■y United Praaa » - — • Beds Bluefleld. W Va., April 9 <UiD First baseman Prank McCormick of the Cincinnati Reds, out of uniform since April 2 with a lame back, resumes workout* today j The Bed* and Boston lleil Sox. tied at 5-all In their eihlhltton »er I lea. play today Indiana Salisbury. N C. - Bobby Feller pilches for the Cleveland Ipdtan* today against the New York Giants' Harry Humbert Veater day's game was rained out. Pirate* Kanaa* City. Mo Ruse Bauer*, the oaly unsigned Pirate, today wa* to go against the Chicago White Box in a game that la to decide whether he «hall »iay with "d State* and Great Britain have been cancelled because of the Euro pean war. It wa* announced today

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the Pirates Injured In s« auto ! mobile accident Inal year. Batiera j asked manager Frank Frisch for a ; 1 1 Nance to show what he could do i before he signed a contract Frisch aatd Bauer* would have to show hi* stuff today or leave for ihe minor* The Pirate* break a threeday stretch or idleness it* their | game today Cub* Fori Smith. Ark Pitching displayed hy the St I an; I* Brown* was no more powerful than their batting against Jerome H. iDlrzyi Dean, and ihe Brownie* lost to the Chicago Cuba. 15 2 Eldon Auker was scheduled to pilch agaiast the National leaguera at Wichita tie day Cardinal* Shreveport. I.* - Rapping out II hlta. the St. laiul* Cardinal* beat : the Shreveport Sport* of the Tex- ' a* league 9 to 5. but Boh Bowman | gave the minor leaguers Id hit* | and four run* In the four innings :he pitched The Card* play Fort ' Worth today. ■ » Softball .Meeting Held Here Monday The first softball meeting of th* season wa* held last night at the Unroln school, with Steve Ever-

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