Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1941 — Page 6

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YANKS BUT ONE GAME FROM IST; SWEEP INDIANS Kun Streak To Ei<hl Game*; Newsom Ixmea To Senator* NeW fork June 1? -<U.R> There w»r» « number of reasons why the Mew York Yankee- did not win their fifth straight American leamie pennant to get u new ><■< ord last year, An Important one was the ta< t that Joe DtMagglo was tinable lo start the season in the out field VkMi> the Yank< eg sine* 1935, DI-1 Maggio has yet to play a full seM ’ on Os 155 game* last year. DIMagglo took part in 132, Ini hiding j several brief appearam ••* we a iiim hhitter A* Juke Powell wa« I out for almost a* lona, the club's rlahthanded batting power was r< •. duced to a minimum The Yank*, turned l*a< k time and again by. southpaw pilthei a lout too Him h around early In the season to re- j gam a commanding position After thtelr first 55 game* lent year moat of them Di M.iggtoh *s. the Yank* were in forth plate 6', game* off the pate. Thlii year Joe ha* been in harness from opening game and today aft<r 55 game*, it look* a* though he ha* supplied the *park net e». nary to put the Yankee* back in the world series. After yesterday's 6 I victory over the Irague leading Cleveland Indiana. the Yankee* Were only one game away from first place. They boaat a winning streak of eight game* Including a t lean aweep of the three game net with the tribe. The Yanka bettered a major league home run record yesterday Joe Gordon clouted hi* Imh of the season to bring Yankee homer pro-

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tiliiitlim to 2! n 12 straight game* I which surpassed the mark *et by the St Louis Browns in 1922, InMuggio. now batting 33*. conI I t lull record eh.lietl by Ilog* I I’et k 1 I 1 ' . tbret run tally in the eighth that won the game Shortstop Frankie | t'ro«etti was spiked and miff* red ! < ut ting in and a slashed right < I-i ■ bow He'll be out five tlay*. Senator* 3—Tiger* 1 Huck Newaom of Detroit continued to go from bail to Woree, He lout hl* eighth gum*- of the year a* | the Washington Senator* scor'd a i '! 3 I victory over the Tiger* who ! dropped into the »econd division. I I Nt w*om gave up all three run* lie-1 ' fore letlring In the • ighth. Ken < i cha*e broke an eight-game losing I | streak with an eight hitter. He I fanned outfielder Pat Mullin set •, mid leading hitter In the league, to ' etui a Tiger rally in the ninth with j the tying rune on necoutl and third j Cmcy Shut Out The New Yotk GiutiTs snapped -■ I I three game cim Innati winning ' i streak with a t> <> shutout a* Hill I ( l.ctli mill scattered three hit* MO effectively that only one runner | | passed Hist The Giant* collected I eight hit* and their flrat three run* I w-re foiled hottie on walke Cub* W>n 3-1 The Chicago Cub* whipped the! Philadelphia Phillies. 3-1. Babe I Dahlgren made hl* debut at first I base for Chicago, singled once Ini two ofti< ial tri|m and turned hi* I first defensive < ham . into a double play on which he made two putouts ami an assist. No other gam** Were played. Yesterday'* hero Joe DiMaggio of the New Yolk Yankee* whose i one hit in yesterday's 6 I conquest I of the Cleveland Indian*, rati hi* | hitting -treak to 29 game* o I LEADING BATTERS American League Player Club G AB II II Pi t. William*. Boston I* 167 51 71 125 i Mullin. Tiger* 3* 150 31 55 367 Heath. Indian* 56 206 33 73 .354 Travis. Senator* 53 210 11 71 352 Cronin Boston So I*6 39 65 319 National League Reiser. Itodgers 42 155 36 57 .369 Slaughter. St I, 57 227 M7l .311 Mize. Ht laiuls 40)42 21 4* .339 Hack. Chicago 55 2''l 47 67 .329 <>tt. New York 55 |MI 3* 6it .323 ———— —o —. .1,. ■ HOME RUNS (Mt. Giant* IS CamillL Dodgers 14 1' Nicholson. Cub* . 13 1 DiMaggio, Yankee* 13 York. Tigers 13 ' Johnson. Athletic* . 13 The I’ S I* the dunk* r‘« paradise. a< cording to the Census, j Doughnuts, cruller*, and other fried cakes commercially prodm ed a- , mount to over .3.36 million dozen* per year valued at over |SS.iMN),(MMI

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CONN'S WEIGHT IS SECRET'TIL WEIGH-IN TIME May Tip Only 175 When lie Meets Ltiuis Wednesday Night New York. June 17 <UP- ' Billy Conn Is In town, ready for I tomorrow night's shot at Joe I I.olll*' crown, but hl* weight still ll* a closely guarded secret. On the eve of this Polo Grounds ■ battle, the »u*piclon increased that Pittsburgh Billy will weigh In closer to the light heavyweight limit lof 175 iMtund* than to the IM he . alleg'-dly has been registering at Pompton latkes. . Ilf* weight 1* being guarded 1 apparently, because a low figure ' for the g<HMI "little” man Is not Considered stimulating 'bog office* The same procedure wa« used when George* Carpentier, the jl'- ti.li otiliol 10.111. fought J.u k j In-mpsey 2<t year* ago Carpentier scaled 172 and was kayoed in four ‘round* 1 Before breaking camp yesterday tat pompton. the challenger's handlers declined to put him on the 1 » ale* publicly, ami there was little likelihood that there would lie atty ' weighing dm Ing today's final line ! Itering egerclses at the Pioneer | gym Despite the possHilc l»o» office I effect of publicizing a low weight, manager Johnny Hay would prefer to see hl* angel-faced flatter <-ome In close to 175. Hay figure* that j Billy The-Kld would be much *peedier and more evasive at this natural figure than at an artificial I*o. which might leave him loggy. Meanwhile, laoil* was dointl hl* concluding eg>-rci*e* t<*l.iy in camp at Greenwood laike Hecause of the champion's desire for speed and a quick kayo it Wat Indicated that he might weigh In at les* than 2"" pounds for the first time since hl* return knockout of Arturo Godoy last June Bomber scaled I't't then. He will break camp and drive into New Y’ork tomorrow, just in time for the noon welgh-in ceremonies A* the vanguard of fans from various cities particularly Pittsburgh arrived jn town, promoter Mike Jacob* refused to predict the crowd and gate. However, from other source*, it wa« learned that the advance sale Indicate* a crowd of about 4" mm and a gate of about (375.1*10 Price maker Eddie Borden announced that the lieltlng odd* had lengthened slightly The bookie* now are laying 3 to I on a laiui* victory and taking 3>* to I against it. They are laying 2 to I that Jolting Joe registers a kayo, and taking 2*y to 1 against. They offer even money that Conn doesn't go eight rounds. Borden said that a plentitude of PlttHlmrgh money is keeping the price short, rather than any general confidence In the challenger. It is the biggest betting fight since the Ixrulsdh-hmelllng return match three years ago. Conn was in an excellent mood when he broke camp after sparring four round* with two Pittsburgh welterweights. Juwt before leaving for New York, he won more than 1700 In a card game with some of hl* Pittsburgh friends. W 1 — 0 I Today’s Sports Parade I | (Reg. U. a. Pat. Office) By Harry Fergueen ♦ ♦ New York. June 17 — (t'P) —1 pick Joe Louis to knock out Billy r 'onn tomorrow night. It will happen. I think, some time before the bell ring* for the eighth round. It can happen in the first and happen so fast that Conn won't have a chance to throw a Imnch. Conn ha* speed, heart, cunning and the treat left in boil ng. but somewhere along the line Louis I* bound to nail him Billy may «ide*!ip the first five (punches and block the next four, but the tenth one Is likely to catch him squarely ro——

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on the button. When that happen*, some of the seed I* going out of hi* legs and he Is going to (become an easier target. Like Dempsey-Tunney Those who like Conn's chances and there are plenty of t’twn argue that thi» will be another Cor-bett-Sullivan affair or another Demp«ey Tunney. What they are trying to say is that a fast little man who can l*>x stands a swell chance against a slugger. Taking the arguments up in the order of their appearance, let u« »ay right now that laiuis is no Sullivan. Sullivan was fat. old and ring rusty when Corbett stabbed him out of the title, laiuis Im (omparalively young, fast and trained to the minute. Nor I* Con any Tunney. Even the iMiy* who didn't like Gene in his hey-day admit that he was a dangerous fighter. His left jab carried 1 authority, he was a great counter puncher and he had knockout dyna- 1 mite in hi* right. If you are looking for a closer parallel between this brawl at the i Polo Ground* tomorrow and an- I other famous fight in history, take the DemqtseyA'arpentier affair. ’ Tb-mpsey'* legs still were mod; »o are Louis'. Carpentier, like Conn, pinned all hi* bopws on speed and cleverness. The result was that Demp*ey i taught up with him and blasted him to piece*. ( There ha* been a lot .if talk aBoat how Ixtul* is mad at Conn. I Ixits of It conies out of the agile brains of press agents, but acutally

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It doesn't make any difference how U>uis feel* toward Conn The only | thing Important Is that Joe's trainer. wily old Jack Blackburn, knows that the farther the fight go*-* the (letter are Conn's chances. The laiuls crowd definitely wants a short fight and their idea of how to bring that »l*>ut is to send Joe out blasting at the first bell. Loot* Slip*—Not Enough l*ouis may have slipped a bit. I»ut not enoifgh. He looked great in Washington after he crawled bark through the ro|>es and went to j work on Buddy Baer. He maneuver-1 ed the big guy around the ring, bit him with lefts and right* and was punching hard and accurately Baer j took a lot of punches liefore crumb ' ling, and the question in my mind is whether Conn can take punches. I don't say he can't, but I do say I never *aw him do It. Not the kind of punches that Louis throw*. The hardest single punch I ever saw Conn catch was thrown by l»ee SaVoid, and It broke Billy's nose. Conn isn't afraid of anything that walk* and Ixiui* is going to have to give him a terrible beating before the kid goes out. And while that is happening it may be quite a brawl — considerably better than anything that's I>een seen around here for a long time. There are two old sayings in the prize fight game: 1-Htring along with the champion. 3—A good big man can always lick a good little man. People have got rich playing It that way.

THE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. Pct. G B Ht laiuls 39 lit 6*4 BrtMiklyn 3C 19 .855 2 Cincinnati 29 27 .51* 9>i New York 27 27 500 10’* Chicago 27 28 491 II Pittsburgh 21 26 447 13 B(«toii 19 32 .360 17', Philadelphia 17 37 .315 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pct GB. [Cleveland ... . 36 23 610 KM York 33 22 .600 1 Boston 22 .569 3 Chicago 29 26 .527 5 Detroit 30 37 .526 5 Philadelphia 26 29 .473 3 SI Louis 19 34 346 14', Washington 19 37 .339 15>g YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Chicago 3. Philadelphia 1. New York 6. Cincinnati 0. Boston Plttihurgh. postponed. Only games scheduled. American League New York 6. Cleveland 4, Washington 3. Detroit 1. 8t l»uis-Phlladalphia. to be played later. Only games scheduled. o ■■ 'Measure your words, for In so doing you ezperlence more joy and les* sorrow.

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