Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1940 — Page 6

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CINCINNATI IS PICKED TO WIN WORLD SERIES Slronxer Pitching And Defense Make Reds Series Favorite* Detroit. A*pt 10 — uf> — Owner Walter O. tr ee* of the Dew«>t Tiger* announced lodar that manage' D *' ■•**' Md keen signed far 1441 No Ml ary figure was announced pinnlnntH, Hen’ 3» «lj 4> The longest lane ha* a turn It can'tl rein forever The sun has to break ' '(trough the clouds Mitnetim* After losina five straight world *' championships to the American ■ league, the National league will eome ap for air along about nett I Monday or Tueoday and pt >udly I boast "f the I*4« Cincinnati Reda, the Irani 'hat ended the drouth With magnificent pitching and a ■launch defence, the Red* will conquer the Detroit Tiger*. < ham pion* of the American league, in, the world aerie*, opening here Wednesday It will lie a long (erlea. going perhap* ail. and maybe *even game* The Red* a ill have to win on their «martnes*. their claaay pitching and their tight defense. They cannot hope to slug it out with the Tiger*. They have to muffle the Tiger* *iege gun* Hank Greenberg Rudy York and Charley Gehring* r And strangely enough, theyll probably have a better chance of doing it In Detroit* hall park where the third, fourth and fifth game* will be played than on Croaley Field, their home diamond Look at the comparative dimension*: Croaley Brigg* Field Stadium Left field 323 ft. 344 ft Center field ... 317 ft 4in ft Right field .... 344 ft 325 ft Paul Derringer. Rucky Walter*, the Red* two right handed ace* who are due to pitch the first two game*, can't make any mistake* on the Detroit hatting order and that even includes everyone from little Dick Bartell, the 234 hitting leadoff man on down to Birdie Tebhetta. the eighth place hitter Every right handed hitter tn the Tiger* lineup I* capable of belting the ball out of the Cincinnati park The Red* cannot match the Tig or*' power but neither can the American league champion* offer anywhere near the pitching or def«nae that Cincinnati will field Wtth Catcher Ernie lavmbardi unlikely to get Into the aerie* be fore Saturday because of a spralned ahkle the Red* will go Into the serie* with only one legitimate 300 hitter in their lineup first baseman Frank McCormick Outfielder Jimmy Ripple I* alao batting over .300 but be played in only 40 game* since coming to the Reds In late August from Montreal. He's a money player and will be danger ou* In a abort aerie* The Reds' strength I* in their pitching and defense They have

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.four starters, Derringer. Walter*. 1 | Thompson and Turner, and a great I relief man, Joe Begg*. The Tiger* I cannot match this array of pitch-1 ing talent Their three top men' ,J re Schoolboy Rowe, Buck Newsom and Tommy Bridge* Newsom I* a gamble Bridges need* five day* rest and can be counted on for only one start In th«- series From this trio Manager ft. I Baker ha* to go to a rookie. Johnny G>>r-1 slca. and rouble pitches don't decide world serie* By comparison, the Cincinnati hotting order look* mighty sick It look* even sicker If Ixtmtrardl I* hoc* de combat and still more I so If second baseman Ixtnnie Frey. 1 nursing a bruised and broken Mg ' toe. ean not operate at top effidency. Their replacement*. 4b-year-old Jimmy Wilson behind the ha: and Eddir J oca: a: second. arc ! sound defensive men but they are whisper men at the plate But the Reds aren't expecting. ' to match base hits and home run* 'with the Tigers They are count- ! Ing on their pitching and defense ‘to stop the Tigers' attack often enough and long enough to bring them down the stretch In front The Infield of Frank McCormick at first Frey or Joo*t at sernnd. Myer, at short and Werlter at third has class. The outfield of Ripple. • Mike McCormick and Goodman la more than adequate Winning one-run games Is another test of a team that thrive* on pitching and defense The Reda won 74 out of 15S game* by one run Only 17 times were the Red* beaten by one run and three of those defeat* came after they ! clinched the pennant Going ba< k to last October. th* Reds were not a* badly treaten a* the record Indicated In those four straight, they might easily have won twodßa tries hut for a break here and there Thia outfit I* smarter, better balanced and more experienced than the team the Yanks conquered II should heat the Tiger* and win the world's title, four games to two e. ■ W i! Pittsburgh Pirate* Release Pep Young Pittsburgh. Sept 3b -ll'l’t The Pittsburgh Pirate* baseball club today announced release of l’«p Young veteran infielder, and a one.year extension of the cont-act with its manager Frankie Frier h. Frisch, completing hr* first year at the Pirate helm, now I* under contract through 1943. the initial contract calling tor two-year*' service. STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G B Cincinnati DM* 5.1 <54 Brooklyn _ M <3 .573 12 St Louts »4 49 54* 14 4 Pittsburgh 73 73 504 22« q < Chicago 73 73 417 25 New York 72 SO .474 27 >* Boston 45 17 .421 34 4 Philadelphia $0 102 .327 50 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct G B Detroit M 44 .514 Cleveland -31 45 514 1 New York M 44 .571 2 Chicago 32 72 .532 3 Boston ... 12 72 532 3 At Louis 47 37 435 23 Washington 44 90 414 24 Philadelphia 54 100 .351 34 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Bt Ixruls 4. Chicago 0. Cincinnati 11. Pittaburgh 2. New York 14. Boston 0 Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 0. American League Cleveland 3. Detroit 2. New York 4. Washington 3. St Louis 2. Chicago 1. Boston 9-4. Philadelphia 4 1.

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BIG TEN TEAMS ■ TAKE OPENERS Trounce Tough Foe* In Opening Football Tilt* Saturday ' Chicago Sept 3®— I rpl It* time' to haul out the Webster special and find out If "renaissance" is spelled with one "n” and two “a'*" or two "ns" and one '*" for it's i mighty important word around the Illg Ten today I Michigan Ih-ked California. 41 to I Ohio Htate defeat'd Pittsburgh 10 to 7. Minnesota defeated Washington. I 11 to 14. That was the renaissance the Big Ten was looking for last year , and cuuldn't quite achieve On the Opening Huturday of thh> season they came through with important victories in the three top game* ol the week and in their grand *l*lll •flowed power of national significant e. Ohio Blate's wester* conference champions <>p<-ni-d their title defense against Itordue at Columba* this week, while Mlnnerota and Michigan continue against lough nonsonference opponents Minnesota has a difficult assignment against Nebraska. hailed as the big gun of the Big Hix. Michigan tackle* It* old rival. Michigan State. This week alao bring* Into action r all other conference elevent*: Tex- ' as at Indiana. Northwestern at By-1 racuse. South Dakota at lowa. Bradley at llllonh and Marquette at 1 Wlacousln •vsktu ( n" Off their »howing in the three major opener*. Ohio Hta •. Mt. higan and Minnesota apparently will make it a great dog fight for the western conference title On Saturday they showed Tornado Tom Harmon at his stormiest Don Scott at hl* coolest and George Granck al hl* •peedtest. This trio of hack*, representing Michigan. > Ohio State and Minnesota, respectively. turned the tide in ail America fashion Here's what they did Harmon scoread .our of Michigan's six touchdown*, running 95 yard* with the opening kickoff He also passed to Dave Nelson for another score. Scott plcthed two touchdown passe* against Pittsburgh, sharing honors with tackle Charley Maag the blond giant, who booted a 25yard field goal and blocked a punt, setting ufi a touchdown Franck scored twice, mice bringing Minnesota from behind with a 97-yard kickoff return He's the fast-; sect back in the Big Ten. but on that tig xag run hlockors appeared before him as rapidly as he stepped off the yardage Purdue, expecting to he almost a hopeless underdog at Ohio Stat* Saturday, stuck to straight football In defeating Butler. 2* to 0. three sophomores Tony Berto., Marlon (Red) Carter and Bill Bus-, Tington — each scored a touchdown and John Petty, a fulltrar'k confined to the bench by Injuries last year,, picked up the other 0 LEADING RATTER* L National League Player Club GAB R If Pct. | Garms. Pirate* 103 353 74 127 355 laimbardi. Red* 10l 374 50 120 .311 Cooney. Boston 101 345 41 114 311 Hack. Chicago 14» 403 101 111 .317 Mile. St Louie 154 571 111 112 .314 American League DiMaggio Yank 132 IM 33 171 350 Appling. W Sox 160 544 »4 117 .341 Williams. Bees. 144 541 132 113 344 Radcliff. Brown* 150 534 33 200 342 McCosky. Tiger 143 511 123 200 340 Greenberg Tig 143 573 129 135 340 o ■ Trad* in a Gow less — Duoatw*

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NEW YORK -If you are free tonight to go to the theatre Broadway offer* a rather fair choice for a sparkling and cool lah evening ao early in the *ea son. We have the choice of drama, melodrama, comedy, mualral comedy and even magic The last la a somewhat unusual full length offering at the Moroaco called-for no reason we've been able to discover — ■ ffirn Sala Bim". It give* a man who call* himself Dante a (hance to bantbouale you and you with your eye* wide open, at that Dante'* an old timer. An lllu ■lonict, a prestidigitator, an actor of no mean stature, he fill* In the three hour* with a aerie* of bafflements which audience* have found amueing. It's been a long time *ince anyone ha* undertaken a full length the* trlcal period devoted to magic Dante doe* it well And a* to Eim Sala Bim“, the neareet we can come to a solution la that it, equal* the "tarara boom de-ay” j in that famous old song, and; that it come* from the Standi navian. A* regards melodrama, you've the choice of A. J. Cronin'* rather creaking and hokum ridden "Jupiter Laughs"; Miss Grace George in "Kind Lady", which we stlU like, more e» ; penally since Mis* George la in 1 it. and that ripsnortcr. ‘ Johnny Belinda" at the Belaaco. Let's not forget "Tobacco Road", which, according to It* pro ducera la In it* last weeks, and the not too-dramatlc and not too theatrical "Separate Room*", in which Alan Dinehart and Mis* Glenda Farrell still hold forth at the Plymouth Theatre. For drama there I* Robert

Today’* Sport Parade By Henry McLemore > «| Pittsburgh. Pa.. Sept. 30.—<U.R> Tin- football world knows him a* a (old guy Not only as a cold guy. > but a hard one, who look* upon hl* player* aa ma< hlne*. and not as human being* to be patted when they did well, to be scolded when they failed lie hel|ied build up this legend. 1 there's no denying that. In the flrst place—and we re talking about Jock Sutherland — he ■ formidable in appearance Big the stands si* two or three and weight* 230 or thereabout*!, he tonT given to easy etrnveraation. Intense, he live*, breaths, think* football all hl* waking hour*. A perfectionist, he rebel* at a player falling to give hl* very best He has been called the "dour I scot" the "sour scot," and "dead-1 pan dentist" and a dogen other thing* that denote aloofness, un-, friendliness But - and this to my »tory—ls he really that sort of a man? i The answer is no. Jock's a pro coach now. In charge of the Brooklyn Dodgers, after 14 year* of coaching the Pitt Panther*. Hl* team played here yeater- ' day against tne Pittsburgh Steels era. The game ha* been the talk of the town for two month* AI crowd of 27,000 wa* in the stand* | to see what Jock's team could do. i I talked to Jock before the game, in the lobby of the Hotel fiehenley. "I'd like to win thi* one," he said. "I would have liked, to tell i you the truth, to aak the player* . to win It for me. but I never have asked a team to play for me. and I never will I just hope they'll do their be*t." Then Jock told me how he felt coming back to Pittsburgh—a town he lived and worked In almost 30 year*--a* a stranger "1 didn't sleep much tost night on the train I kept thinking about

I Sherwood * "There Shall He N’t . 1 Mght'„ with Lunt and Fon ■ j tanne at the Alvin. We havt Mid before that the play la nt i great credit to the pen of Mr H Sherwood and we Mick by oui , j gun* It's a bit pompous, abi f lush and well fed and allck t* drama la a bit on the *wan> . aide-that traditional doordb i drama one might identify wltl j the nineties and with an Eng land which never existed Mr I Sherwood's Finland, in "Then Shall Be No Night" never quitt ! come* to life, and look* an< smell* too much like country I England of the romances whirl marked the turn of the century Os course Alfred Lunt and Lynr i Fontanne ar* superb actor* And while "There Shall He Nc j Night" doesn't quite come off < it* heart I* Indubitably in ths i right place. With regard to comedy, there * that remarkable evening in the theatre which "Life with Father' affords If ticket* were ten dot ' iar* each, which they're not, "Life with Father" would still I give you two dollar*' worth for every dollar spent A* to musicals, you've the j choice of Ed Wynn in "Boys and (Jiri* Together". Bert Lahr in "Dußarry Was a Lady”; Jolson lln "Hold On to Your Hats”; Victor Moore in "Louisiana Pur | chase " and. of course. "Hellza poppin'’. Th* less we say of ; William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life" the better for all concerned. If* going to run for ; a couple of week* before it goes on tour America hasn't done anything, really, to deserve a road tour of "The Time of Your Life", but at least Eddie Dowling , will renew acquaintanceship > with a lot of his admirers on the road.

1 how I. a* coach of Pittsburgh, used to w>-l<*bine arriving coaches, now. 1 there was to be a welcoming party for me. I seemed funny. I, who knew Pittsburgh as I know no other town, to be greeted and treated as a stranger " Th* crowd gave him a great hand when he walked on the field before the game between the Dodger* and the Steelers The band | playd the customers yelled, and I Jen k just walked out. slowly, quietly right hand in his pocket, left hand clutching a program He didn t look up. He dldn I look down He Just walked straight ahead to the Brooklyn beach. Not knowing him. the crowd resented hi* refusal to show emotion. Inside, the doctor wa* turning over and over. He hadn't eaten a bite of breakfast Not a bite of lunch. "Not hungry." be told Liend*. No. just a great fellow, a great ' conch, being human ln»ide he wanted thi* ball game Inside he , prayed and hoped the Dodger* ' would come through. i They did. And without* *peech. either. I talked to ten or twelve of the player*. They ail eaid. In substance. the same thing. “We like him We go for Jock We knew he wanted to win. to, we did what we could." Work On Final Draft Os Amortization Bill Washington Hept 30 — <U.R> — ■ Congressional legal expert* workwi today on the Anal draft of the , exc-ea* profit tax plant amorttoation bill which will be presented to the house foi Anal approval tomorrow The Anal draft wa* agreed to by a senate house conference committee at an unusual Sunday seaaion The conferees had been seeking for *ven day* a compromise for bouse and senate versions of the bill which to Intended to speed the defense program.

GREEN BAf AND REDSKINS LEAD Packer* Swamp Chicano Card* To Lead W e*tern Pro Division g, u*>t*d Pre** Green Bay climbed Into posses*.' I.ion of first place in «he western division of the national professional [ football lengue Xunday while idle i Washington aaiomatlcally gained the lead In the eastern division The Packer*, world professional j ' • hampions, awaniped the t'Mragw i Cardinals In virtually every departi inent to win. 31-4 before 2*' 234 fans . as only *l* out of !<■ tewms saw ncIt IM Hun<i*y Whlgger White ra< ed 2w yard* for the only tou< hdown •* the Detroit Lion* won over the C|e- j veiand Rams. <-« m the only other western division coolest, before a I crowd of 11 .Soo The Redskin* took over undlspui- i led po»«r«sh>fl of th* eastern |e«*ue I lamd as lhe Brooklyn Dodgers knocked lhe Pittsburgh Hleelers off i th* top. 10-3 while 24.41* fan* cheer- j led Brooklyn coach Dr Jink Huiher-1 hand In hi« pro debut at Pl'tshurgh New York's Giants defeated the | Philadelphia Eagles. 2P-I4 Saturday j | night COLLEGE FOOTBALL — Ohio State 30. Pittsburgh 7. Purdue 2*. Butler o Michigan 41. California 4. Minnesota 19. Washington 14 IUII Stale 12. De*ales • Wooster 13. Man< heater 7. DePauw 40. Hanover 4 St Joseph s 14 Valparaiso 0 Indiana Slate *O. Mwrence Tech I 7. i Carnegie Tech 21. Geneva a. Navy 19. William and Mary 7. Duke 23. Virginia Military o Wake Forest 12. North Carolina » Boston College 27. Tulane 7. Pro Football Green Bay 31. Chicago Cardinal* 4. Brooklyn 10. Pittsburgh 3 Detroit 4. CleveUnd 0 New York 2<* Philadelphia 14. . a- ■- —- Donald Budxe Wins Pro Tennis Title | Chicago Hept 30 — <t'P> — Al crashing service and strong back- i stroke won the national profesbsional tennis title for Donald Burds* adding that crown to the already long list of his achieve-1 ments. Budge former world's amateur | champion and American ftavls cup •tar. defeated Fred Perry, former ! British Davis cup star, yesterday 4-3. 5-7. 4-3. after eliminating Wil-' liant T. (Big Hill> Tilden In the semi finals Saturday Squirrel Sexson To End Here Saturday The Indiana department of con-, servatlon announced today that the open season on squirrel* In thia county, aa well st other southern I countie*, will end next Saturday. October 5 ■—■ —♦ Texas-Indiana Tilt Will Be Broadcast A description of the Texas-Indi-ana foolball game at Bloomlugton. will be broadcast over WLW on Saturday. Oct. 5. starting at 2:3h p m- EST Dick Bray will *e al the microphone for the broadcast. WILLKIE BACK ■ CONTINURD FROM PAUK ONBt ■ tlo namong Pennsylvania Republican*. Allegheny county chairman Frank J Harris, a pre-con vent lon Wlllkie supporter, reportedly objected to a plan for Gov. Arthur H Jam**, whom Pew backed for the presidential nomination, to Introduce Wlllkie at Pittsburgh Thursday night Thi* row wa* settled when Republican national chairman Joseph W. Manin. announted that vice presidential nominee Charles L. McNary would Introduce hi* running mate to the Pittsburgh audience Wlllkie was asked shortly after I his nomination whether he had heard from Pew He replied that he had not. adding that "as far a* I'm concerned, that'* only the half of tL" When Pew left the train at Syracuse, N. Y- h* told reporter* ' that h*. Cook and Wlllkie had "a very interesting, aatiafactory and delightful meeting We covered all Pennsylvania problem*. Everything to In fine shape." Pew wa* ngked whether Wlllkie apologised for Statements he had made about him before and after the Philadelphia eMVMttow. i ‘‘l have no Idea he made any re- - marks about me before or after the convention.” P*w replied. Wlllkie retired without commant but It was understood that Oov. Jam** will tw tovlted to rid* th* train through Pennsylvania. Wlllkie'* first atop today to at Booth Bend, Ind., at * a. m CBT and he win leave the train tor a

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: »|iee< h and a visit to Notre Dam* ‘ He ha* four rear platform appeal ancee -at Nile*. Mich . Kalamajo>> Battle Creek and Jackaoti and '.eavea the train for a speech at ' Ann Arbqr at 14« p m CHT lb- • ill leave the train at Wyandotte and motor to Detroit late In the day III* major talk* on thi* tour are 1 scheduled for Cleveland Wedne* I day night on foreign affair*, at Piltaburgh Thursday night, labor. I at Philadelphia Friday night; at Newark. N J . next Monday night Wlllkie speaks at Pontiac. Flint. Ijinaing and Grand Rapid* tomorrow. ■ - W SMASHING BOMB I tCONTINIHCD FROM FAGB <»N«I altitdude this morning over Dungeness. at the southenst tip of EngI land, and at other point*. • They met such strong resistance 'by guns and fighter plane* that they broke up into small groups There were two air raid alarm period* during the morning in London •rut no raider* appeared During the night Royal Air Force ; plane* had attacked port* on the , French and Belgian cM*D. German gun emplacements near Cape Grli Net aero** from Doi er. and freight yard*, oil plant* and alumiinum work* in Germany, the air min- ' l*try said Hit* Airplan* Flant Berlin. Hep* 3b—ll'Pl—A German plane dropped bomb* of the heaviest type In the middle of workshops of the Roll* Royce motor factory at Derby, the official news agency asserted today and mem- | bers of the crew were able to observe destruction In a building where airplane* were being a**em hied It wa* asserted that London 1 wa* "effectively" bombed during the night and lhat the "first 30 planes" were able to report the homblng of Industries and wharves from low altitudes despite heavy

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