Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1941 — Page 6

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CARDS BLANK DODGERS. 1-0 INNIGHTGAME Dodgers Shut Out For First Time In Only Game Played New York. Juno 14 'U.S- — Th* Natkinsl league's “lively bull" | suddenly has go#* dead Maybe It's the mosture In the air or the dampness In the ground but whatever the cause, th* resounding ■mack of wagon tongue on horsehide ha» been missing for the past few days. When the league leading St. lamia Cardinal* blanked the Brook lyn YhMlcer*. I<>. last night in Hi lamia. It was the seventh shutoat tn the last 16 National league game* Mat Lanier. the Cardin al's guitar playing southpaw, outdueled Whit Wyatt. Drnlger are. to increase the H««d Birds' lead to three full games A crowd of 15 7<m attended The last three games played In the National league have been shutouts. In addition to Lanier's airtight j«H» last night, big Paul Derringer whitewashed the Braves. 1-0. and Carl Hubbell blanked the Cubs. 2-n. In the only two games' played Thursday. Aldon Wilkie. Pirates’ rookie southpaw started the shutout par-' ade last Monday when he got egged rhe Itiils, 6-0 Tuesday lain Warneke handed the tail-end-era another whitewashing, 3-0 The same day Vern Olsen. Cubs south paw. shut out the (Hants. 11-0 Wednesday. hick Krrickson. I Braves' righthander, blanked the Beds 2-0. This streak of shutouts indicates that the National league nice Is likely to develop into ■ test of pitching strength as In other years j Many hitters who were up In ditty figures In April and May have to come down, but fast ‘/evcral players say the Imll isn’t as lively ax last season. However, these players have low batting averages and no player ever thinks

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there's Jackrabbit In the lail! when I he's not hitting Brooklyn's defeat last night la likely to cause another Ihidger deal. latrry MacPhall can’t weak- ' eti now In his policy to "buy the I pennant for Brooklyn" and his present club doesn't seem galled for the long haul. Robe Phelps, who pleadwl Ithiess and didn't to west with the IhMlgerx. is almost certain to in- traded Manager Leo Durocher has told MacPhall he |doesn't want Phelps on the club. Th*- Dodgers want a r*dlef pitcher and a right-banded hitting outfielder. Mnler pitched a four hitter last I night to hand the Dodgers their first shutout of the season He Mattered three singles tbtough the first three innings, and then walker! three men to fill the liases in rhe fourth. out *< that Jain, hr- didn't allow another man to reach first until the eighth when Wyatt, who made two of his team's four hits, singled. It wws Miller's fourth victory against two defeats and Wyatt's fourth loss against nine victories Wyatt has dropjied his last two starts, nithough allowing only a total of four runs. He had n run of 26 scoreiexx iiiniiigs until the Itislx made three In the ninth last Bunday and beat him. 32. A walk to Terry Moore. Hopp's pop single and Padgett's line single scored the lone Ht laiuls run The Cards made only four hits and none after the fourth Inning All the major league chibs resume action today with the western American league clubs playing In Ihe east and the eastern National league clubs playing in the West. Yesterday's hero Max Mnier, <’anil mi I southpaw, who pitched a four hit shoutout over the Dodgers I and increased the St Muis' National league lead -to 3 games. THE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. 08. St. lambi . 37 Hi .704 Brooklyn 34 IB .Ml 3 New York 26 25 .510 !<»•» Cincinnati 27 26 so'» lor, Chhago 24 27 .471 12', Pittsburgh 20 25 .444 13'4 Boston . 17 31 .354 Di Philadelphia 16 34 320 20 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pct. 08. Cleveland 36 20 .643 New York 30 32 .577 4 Boston - 27 21 .563 5 Chicago 26 24 .536 6 Detroit 29 25 537 6 ' Philadelphia 25 26 .472 9'4 St lamia 17 33 340 16 Washington 17 36 .321 17*4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League No games scheduled. , National League St. Muis 1. Brooklyn 0. No other games scheduled. ■ o IvOuim ‘‘Coasting’’ For Bout Against Conn Greenwood latke. N. Y . June 14 | — t-IM’l — Heavyweight champion Joe Louis la already "at bis peak and will merely coast along from now on." John Hoaborough. one of ' his co-managers sold today. Muis went through a listless ' workhout with his four sparmates i yesterday in -preparation for his ' title defense against Billy Conn next Wednesday night. Trainer Jack Blackburn has been urging Muis to take things slowly to prevent his going stale before , the fight, lie appeared to have i reached his peak as early as Tuesday » - Europe is about one-third as large , as Africa. OPENING Monday, June 16 THE COFFEE SHOP and COCKTAIL LOUNGE at RICE HOTEL

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I their way up Into the realm of lopnotch performors. and the veteran will have to battle such younger | well known favorites as. Spider Webb of Hell. Calif.; Klbert B*s>kor. the sensation of Di-Woll; Tony Bettenhausen of Chicago who is doing a splendid job of tooling the big curs over the Funk track Imiiks after making a name for himself in midget racing circles; and Harry llobtoy of Font lac. There have been five different winners in the five speed programs Fiwnk Funk has presented over , his circuit of four A.A.A. ragulated t high bunked and paved speedways, and Funk states that It is still a 1 question as to there la-lng a distinct favorite for the seven event - program here Sunday. Tiin<- trials are slated for 12 - , o'clock, with the first heat' race , schcdiilml to go on at 2:15 Cell- 1 , tral Standard time. ■ ..—o Next Week’s Softball Schedule Is Listed The softball schedule for next , 1 , w«-ek was announced by Steve i , Everhart as follows: | June 16 - Schafers vs. Bueter I . Chevrolet; Casting vs. Cloverleaf. June 17—Pleasant Mills vs Al- 1 [ len County Highway; St. Mary's i > vs. Hi Way. June 19 Casting vs. Bass Founi dry; Central Sugar vs. Cloverleaf. June 2D Central Sugar vs. Fort , Wayne Drug; Pleasant Mills vs. I Hi Way.

17 STUDENTS WIN LETTERS Principal W. Goy Brown Lists Scholarship D Winners Winners of scholastic "D's" were announced today by W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur junior senior high school. Students who were on each of the six slx weekx honor rolln were awarded the letters. Seventeen students were declared winners of the awards. They are to call st the school Monday to receive them. Following Is a list of those to whom the "D's" are to be given: Elhert Fuhrman Bette Lu Myers, H. Far! Bromer. Jr., Richard Goldner. Lois King. Anita Rtolp, Grace Grether. Robert Foreman. Richard Abbott. Jack Graham. Gerald Kimble. Joan Cowan. Hernlece Burlier. Juanita Kdgell. John Spahr. Barbara Kohle. and Kenneth McConnell. o — Forty-four million pounds of Swiss cheese is made annually in U. S. plant«. Census figures show — less than a pound and a half per family per year.

DORWIN LISTS PLAYSCHEDULE Softball, Baseball League ScheduleN At Worthman Field Given Hchednles for the l.ionsWPA Itaxeball Idbßue and Hi* RotaryWPA softball l«*gu« at Worthniin Fl.-Id were atiiiouiii-ed Imlay by Deane Dorwln. playground supervisor. Following Is the baseball schedule: Tuesday. Jun* 17 R*-d Box vs. Tigers snd Indians vs Yankees. Thursday. June IP Indians vs Red Hox and Yankees vs Tigers. Tuesday, June 24 Yankees vs Indians and Tigers vs Red Bog. Thursday. June 26 Tigers vs Yankees and Indians vs Red N*>x. Tuesday. July 1 Indians vs Tigers and Red Box vs Yank*-es. Thursday. July 3 Red Sox vs Indians and Yankees vs Tigers. Tuesday. July B Yank«-es vs Red Hox and Tigers vs Indians Thursday. July !• Tigers vs Yankees and Indians vs Red Sox Tuesday. July 15 Indians vs Tigers and Red Sox vs Yankees. Thursday. July 17 Red Sox vs Indians and Yankees vs Tigers. Tuesday. July 22 Yankees vs Red Sox and Tigers vs Indians. Thursday. July 24 Tigers vs Yankees and Indians vs Rwl Hox. Any guinea in the league, poatponed because of rain, will be play-i-d al (he end of the above schedule, (tames will he five-innings in length. The first team names in ench case will Im* considered the home team. Following Is the softball schi-d---ule: Monday. June 16 Cards vs R.-ds and Cubs vs Pirates Wednesday. June IB — Cuba va Cards and Pirates va Reda. Monday. June 23 Pirates va Cuba and Reda va Cards Wednesday. June 25- Reda vs Pirates and Cards va Cubs. Monday. June 30 (tarda va Reds and Cuba vs pirates. Wwineaday. July 2 Cuba vs Cards and Pirates va Reda. Monday. July 7 Pirates vs Cubs and Reds va Cards. Wednesday. July 9 Ib-ds vs Pirates and Cards va Cubs. Monday. July 14—Cards va %eds and Cubs vs Pirates. Wednesday. July 16 Cuba va Cards and Pirates va Reds. Monday. July 21 Pirates va Cuba and Reda vs Cards. Wednesday. July 22 Reds vs Pirates and Cards vs Cubs, Mr. Dorwln has suggested that each of the participants cl-p the above schedules to use for reference in the future. He has issued a call for all boys between the ages of 14 and 16 who

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Cadet Graduates, Then IP I -If !i| I K * I ■KPI ' i Graduated from the U. S. military academy st W.-t p.mt x Lieut Arnold R Thomas of Grass Creek, Ind . made th.- day , ,i Important one to remember by marrying the former Higgins at Highland Falta, N. Y Thoning was the Or»t .4 the Class to wed. ■

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