Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1941 — Page 6

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CARDINALSAND INDIANS BOOST LEAGUE LEADS — Cards Win Ninth In Row; Cleveland Makes It 10 Straight New York. May 6.—(U.» —Bam ■ Breadon. owner of the St M>uls | Cardinals. had the jitter* nt the all- | •tar game in St Lotlie laat July and a friend told him about vitamin HI pills. He took nome and they calm ed hla nerves Ho he had hl* en tire ball club taking them thia spring at Ht Petersburg. The Idea was to build up excess energy. If there's an in*ide story about the aennatlonal succes* of the Cardinala thia spring. It's the tale of the j little white pills in the little brown | bottle* in the Cardinal*' dressing | r<M>m They all take them. The Card* have the highest per- | rentage in the major* They've | won nine straight and 11 out of 12 j and they're sweelng through the | earn at »u< h a lemflc clip that they j aooti may di*place the world champion Wtlclnnail Hed* a* betting fav- I orite* in the National league pen- ' nant race The Card* are leading the National league in percentage in hitting. In Belding and their pitching is the league'* beat, both in quality and quantity In running off nine straight they've had aeven winning pitcher*, with only lam Warneke and .Morton Cooper repeating The other single game winner* were Mat lainler. Sam Nahern. and three rookie*. Howard Krist. John Grod- ; xlckt. and Henry Gornlckl. Hit men are batting over .309, topped by ancient Gu* Mancuso With .478 'pa*r the lamest fast, boys), followed by Slaughter. Walk er Cooper Creepy Crespi. Terry Moore and John Mile. Manuel Salvo held the Card*' Bl power In check for seven Inning* yesterday at Boston and then the floodgates broke down. Th--Card* rapped out live hits to M'ore three run* and beat the Brave*. 3-1. Brown. Moore. Padgett. W. Cooper and Slaughter all «lngled In thia rally. Mort Cooper waa cred-

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Ichho Coach Kt A- - 13' X BX * Guy P. Wk-ka Next September Cuy P. Wick*, above, will take over hi* duties a* new baskettmll and taw ball coach of the University of Idaho at Moscow. Wick* Is a former atar at Idaho and has had outstanding success a* coach at the southern branch of the university Bed with hl* third victory, helped by Clyde Hhoun's relief pitching. The Bed* continued their miserable play by losing to the Phillies. 3o Rookie Tommy Hughe* held the champ* to three single* and allowed only one man to reach third. The Red* have made only 11 runs j In their last six game*. Pittsburgh beat Brooklyn 8-4. and moved Into sixth place. Elbie Fletcher's homer with two on following Peewee Reese'* error With two out In the third started Luke Hamlin to his first defeat. Ken Helntxeiman went the route, giving the Dodger* nine bits. Babe Young hit a homer ami two singles to lead the Giant* to a 9-4 victory over the Cubs and snap New I York * six game losing streak. Cliff Melton gave Chicago eight hit*. Cleveland scored its tenth straight —the year's longest winning streak —by defeating Washington. 12 4. and Increased its American league lead to 3|* games. The winning streak is the longest any Cleveland team has enjoyed since 1922. Cecil Travis hit homer No 4. Hobo Newsom went the route for the first time this season and pitched the Tigers to a 10-l victory over the Yanks, allowing only five hits. Rudy York hit his sixth homer with , two on. The Athletics soared Into high figures at Chicago by walloping the White Ho*. 17-11. Benny McCoy and Bob Johnson hit homers, the latter with one on. l>-fty Grove pitched the Red Sox to a 114 triumph over the Browns, scattering eight hit*. It was Grove's 394th major league victory. Lucadello and Culienblne homered for I the Hrowna. . Yesterday's hero: Tommy Hughes. Phillies' 21-year-old rookie up from Baltimore, who held the world champion Reds to three singles and blanked them. 3-0. LEADING *BATTERS~ American League Player Club GAHIt 11 Pct. Travis, Senators 14 57 13 30 526 Heath. Indian* .... IS 54 10 24 .444 ' Cronin. Hoaton 15 53 14 21 3M DiMaggio. Boston 17 72 1» M 398 i Trosky. Indians 19 71 11 27 .380 National League Slaughter. Ht U. 17 72 15 23 389 Etten, Phillies 19 69 12 N .377 Jorges. Giants 18 84 1! 24 .376 Lavagetto, Dodger 21 81 18 30 .370 I Vaughan. Pirates 13 52 10 18 348

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WHIRLAWAYON TO PREAKNESS Kentucky Derby Record Smashed By M hirlaway Saturday Louisville Ky.. May 5,- <U.R> — That old familiar cry- “on to the Preakness” rung through the Blue Grass land again today a* Whirlsway headed for Maryland to meet a brand new set of rivals In the rare that la known a* the second jewel tn America's triple crown of the turf. Fresh from hi* remarkable triumph In the 87tb running of the Kentucky derby, the cyclonic colt from Calumet farm was placed aboard a *pe< lai train and sent away to match bls newly-found speed against six horses he hasn’t faced yet this year and three olhi er* he debated so crul*hingly on I Saturday. • Hure. we'll win the Preakness," , warned honest Hen Jones a* he I roaxed hl* charge Into the horse ear while a big grhi almost split III* ruddy face. "Hure. we ll win it. i And after the way Whirly won the . derby why shouldn't we wiu it? - Who can beat him?'* There wa* no handy uuswer to the veteran trainer's question, at I least not from those here. They were too busy hailing their newest “super" horse and not even memories of Bimelet h and Johnstown could stay their wagging tongues. If an answer Is to Im- had. It must be found at Pimlico this week. In the Preakness Whlrlaway might not find things a* much to hi* liking as they were at Churchill Imwns when he turned on hl* speed In the stretch and broke the course record with a sensational clocking of 2 01 2 5 for a mile and a quarter. The Preakne** I* a different race on a different track, and it has drawn a number of differI ent horse*. I The best of these are Htld Irishman. Attention and King Cole and there are three others named Ocean Blue. Choppy Hea and Overdrawn None of these ran In the derby but they Will be in the gate next Haturday and there will be two factor* In theit favor. The first I* the short distance of a mile and 3-18 and the second is the sharp turn* of the Pimlico track. Whirlaway may not find the route long ■ enough and certainly won't take to the bends. O Today’s Sports Parade (Reg. U. B. Pat. Office) By Harry Ferguson New York. May 6 <U.R Here It is five months 10-fore the start of the football season and an argument already has broken out in the Ivy league The ivy league never wa* an organisation to shtliy shally and delay an argument till the laat minute. In case you don't know, the Ivy league is a collection ol select eastern schools which have a tendency to over-emphaslxe education. The brand of football they play Isn't so hot. but the arguments they get Into are unsurpassed anywhere with the possible exception of congress. Two honeys of recent vintage are the Issue of whether coach Carl Hnavely of Cornelf signaled play* from the bench In the Ohio Htate game and that thing at Hanover, N. H when Cornell was allowed five downs to punch across a touchdown against Dartmouth. Now comes Yaie with a proposal that ought to keep an argument going well through Thanksgiving. Yale propose* that football coaches, after spending a week developing cunning, skill and strength In their athletes, retire from the bench on the day of the big game and let the boy* do all the thinking. Yale nays it will keep its coach off the trench If opponents will do likewise. The argument hasn't progressed to the point of concrete suggestions on what the coaches would do with their leisure lime on Haturday afternoons. Presumably they can attend double feature movies, bake a -take or browse through the decline and fail of the Roman empire. We should like to gel In on the ground floor of this argument, and we announce without healtatlon that we are on Yale's side. Coaches not only should be barred from the trench, but the Ivy league should establish a revolvingffund and hire private detectlvea to shadow them between 12 noon and 8 p. m. each Haturday to see that they are unsullied by any contact with football. However, we would like to introduce one refinement to the Yale plan. The coaching should be done from the grandstand by old grads, equipped with semaphore flags to wave signals to the players. This scheme has the virtue of eliminating that notorioua character known aa the Monday morning quarterback—the old grad who buttonhole* everybody and telle them how a stupid play at the crucial moment lost the game. Under this plan the old grads would assemble on Friday night and choose a strategy committee. Semaphore signals for a pas*, punt, end run, off tackle and quarterback

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• Ah Whirlawav Set A New Derby Record w i; ■ , jJil < WKErf®* r’ - X M •a *y I m v —. •■ ...• 1 —- Tr. Warren Wilght's Whlrlaway is shown winning the 87th running of the |76.tMMt Kentucky Derby at Church--11l Downs. Louisville. Ky.. from a field of fast three-year-olda Whlrlaway eel a new track record of 2:®l 25. Hugh Nesbitt's Htaretor ton rail) la six length* twhind In *ecotid pla<e. Market Wi*e is third Jockey Eddie Arcaro rode the winner. Winner’s Wreath For Derby Victor f. .4. aiLfsra~< Eddie Arcaro sits proudly astride W hirluway u* the Derby winner wear* the floral wreath. Whlrlaway whirled to a victory by six lengths In the Kentucky Derby, at Umisville. greatest of racing classics, and clipped two fifth* of a second from record set by Twenty Grand in 1931. He covered the course in 2:01 2-5. He la owned by Warren Wright.

sneak would be perfected. The strategy committee would consist of eight old grads- four who were graduated bafora 1900 and four after 1900. The one* who got out before 1900 would have special privileges. At the crucisl moment they could put away their flags, go down on the field and join the huddle. Any old grad who was graduated before IM9O would l»e allowed to try for the point after touchdown once each season. The strategy committee would debate strategy lietween plays and In event four voted to kick «>n fourth down with a yard to go and four voted to run the bail, the Issue would Im- referred to the chairman of the university's board of curators for decision. He also would be In charge of collecting the old grads' alibis after the game and preserving them in some suitable spot on the campus. Hold 'em. Yale! THE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G B. St. ixiuis 14 3 334 Brooklyn II 6 .714 3 New York 9 8 .529 5 Cincinnati 8 10 .444 8% Boaton 7 10 .412 7 Pittsburgh « 10 .375 7Afc Chicago 5 10 .333 8 Philadelphia 8 13 .318 9 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. 0.8. Cleveland II 4 .719 New York 13 8 MH) Chicago 10 7 .588 4 Boston a— 9 3 .529 5 Detroit 9 8 .629 5 Washington 8 IS. .383 Bty Philadelphia 5 It .294 9 St. Louis 4 11 .287 9 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 8, Brooklyn 4. Philadelphia 3. Cincinnati 0. St Louis 3. Boston i. Naw York 9, Chicago 4. American League Detroit 10. New York 1. Philadelphia 17. Chicago 11. Cleveland 12. Waahington 4. Boston 11, Bt. Louis 4. o Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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SOCIALITE IS GUNMAN VICTIM Wealthy New Yorker h Slain By Footpad Sun* day Morninic New York. May 5 <UX Police *sld today that a 23-yearold foot pad confessed he shot and kllh-d wealthy Harry V. Maxwell Hunday morning aa he sat In a parked automobile with a be.-iullfui bloude model who had lw>en hi* companion during a round of night clubs. The killer, police *aid. was Mor rl* Mardavlch. a plumber's helper who ha* been convicted three time* on burglary and larceny charges. He wa* quoted as saying that Maxwell. 41-yearold advertising executive and heir to a Hlilbonrd for tune, “put up a fight so I let him have It." Mardavlch'* arrest resulted from a descrlp'lon furnl*bed by Mary Jane Cassidy. 22-year-o!d milliner's model and Maxwell's frldnd and companion. Hhe said they were scaled In Maxwell's car In front of her home at 5 u m when two men appeared and forced their way Into the front neat, one oo either side Hhe heard the sound of i “pop" and felt Maxwell slump. Hhe thought he had fainted and It wa* not until 10 hours later that an autopsy dis closed he had been shot through the heart. The footpad* fled without taking anything. Police began rounding up mem ber* of a gang *u«p<-< led of prey Ing on night club patrons. Among them was Mardavlch. For almost 2t> hour* he denied participation In the crime and then, according to police, confessed shortly before 4 a. m. - Station Ih Cloned During Construction The Mobifea* station at the earner of Eighth and Monroe street has been temporarily closed, during the work of construction on the new building Im-liuc erected there j— Two Decatur Nurnen To Graduate May IK Two Decatur young Indies are among the 3H student nurse* at Ht Joseph’s hoepttal. Fort Wayne, who wail iw graduated at commencement exercise* at 3 p m Hunday. May 18. in the Central Catholic 'high school auditorium The Decatur graduate* are Minae* Gladys Harvey and DorctiHoagland. . ~,p. , Sale* of Marbhnlcal stoker* in 1940 totaled 151.905 unit*, an In crease of 45 7 percent over the 1939 figure of 104.289 units. ♦ - • CAT MOTHERS BUNNIES Robert Ehrman. Kirkland township farmer, reports an unusual quirk ot nature. Recently. | while plowing, he uncovered a neat of ala baby rabbits. Taking the bahy bunnies home, the family cat took over the job of rearing the rabbits, and today all are reported In healthy condition. • 8

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