Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 164, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1941 — Page 6

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DODGERS POUND OERRINGER TO 12-2 DEFEAT Add To league la* ad; DiMaggio Hits In 50th Straight Game Xew York. July 12 4UC The fortune* of baeelwll *hlft swiftly |nd inexorably Uni Octcdier * Paul Derringer and Burk Newsom tried ike rubber to do het’le for the world's championship Today those two erstwhile touets of the baseball world were down in the dumps Rtrangely enough, their records are Identical. Each has won 7 games and lost 11. They’re lost aome tough ones and they've also heen hammered from pillar to post Rut. winning, or lowing, they aren't the pitchers they were a few short months ago Derringer trying to stall the Heils on a concerted pennant drive, floundered madly at Kbbets Field yesterday. He couldn't get the side out In the first Inning The Rodgers hammered him for sir hila I In 2-3 of an inning nnd mad • a running start to n 12-2 triumph over the world champions. The t I lodgers scored seven runs in the first frame and had the Reds lick-' ed. Newsom was somewhat happier yesterday. He pitched hl« Itesl game of the season, and the Tigers blanked the Red Sox. 241. Opposing Lefty flrove, who was in nvesi of his lodth victory, Newsom held the Red Sox to six Mts. shutting |

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!them out for the first time thia season In the first three Inning > he struck out Williams, Cronin. | Foxx. Tnbor and Doerr tflve of I the American league's toughes hitters) In succession. Ted Wil- ( Hams, the all-star game hero, went hitlers in four trips against or Botio Rut Newsom's superb pitc'Hng . yesterdad was only a 'brief In'rrI hide In hla stormy season In four or five previous starts prior he had lieen knocked out of the IxiX Like Newsom. Derringer has been good and bad by turns. Rome of the hitters feel that the hrea’s are going against both and consequent- , ly do not have the fear of them they had last season Brooklyn's triumph, featured by • 16 hits. Including homers by Med wick. Walker and Pitcher Curt Ravia, enabled the Rodgers to increase their lead over the idle Card Inals to -lib games The Yankees tied the majors' longest wining streak nf the season by winning their 11th atnilght from the Rrowns. 6 2 It also was I the Yanks' 25th win In their last 29 galhes and enabled them to In I crease their lead over the Idle Indiana to four games. The question no longer is “IMd fMMagglo hit today? The proper query In: "How many did Joe get?" The answer yesterday wa- a homer ‘ < No. 2u > and three singles In five trips, making the 50th consecutive game In which he's hit safely. The Rrowns held the Yanks to a 2 2 He until the sixth when Joe , Gordon crashed hla 14th homer. Tommy Henrich previously had hit No IS with Rolfe on base In th" first Inning Marius Rusco. blanking the Rrowns after Cullenblne’a j homer with a mate on In the first, won hla eighth victory. Maybe the White Box don't need I Jimmy Irykes after all. With Dykes ' still In the stands been use of strong t language the White Sox. under the | leadership of Muddy Ruel, won 1 their third In a row by defeating Washington, 3-1. Billy Knlckerliocker's homer with a man on deI elded the game. Edgar Smith pitched a six hitter for hla eighth victory.

Jim Tohin hurled the Braves to a 7 2 win over the Cuba, yielding ot.sy five hits. Sibby Sistl. with three doubles and a single and Johnny Cooney, with a double und two singles, led Boston's attack. Yesterday's hero: Buck Newsom, of the Tigers, who recaptured some of his old glory by outpltchIng laefty Grove and handing the Red Sox their first shutout of the season. 2-0. — — OA naturaliutlon treaty was signed try the U. S. ami Great Gritain in 1870. ending the contention of "once an Engllslrmjn. always an Englishman." .More than 850.000 letters are delivered every 24 hours by the U. 8. postal service. About 85 percent of Delaware's soil Is under cultivation and tho value of crops exceeds 123.000.000 annually Greenbacks or paper currency were first Issued by the U. 8. government in 1862 to help finance Civil war operations.

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CASTINGS WINS IN 10TH FRAME Casting Scores 13-10 Victory Over Pleasant .Mills Team

Decatur <'a*tinx scored a 13 to 10 victory over Plea*ant .Mills In a high-«corliix softball league tilt Friday night at Worthman Field. The winners Obtained only eight hits 'but were aided by nine errors in the Kame which went into the 10th Inning In-fore the Castine team mon. Four runs tallied In this extra inning wltn the aid of only one hit. In the exhibition Kame. Young's Itrugn of Bluffton defeated St. Mary's. • to 4. bunching 10 hits to good advantage. Scores by Innings: R. H. E. Young's Drugs 120 2<M o—o lit 2 Si. Mary's u<H» 301 0 4 6 3 Richey. S< hulls. Thompson and Ireland. MoGIII and Welker. Casting Oil 411 llhi 4 13 « 5 I*l Mills 500 013 tHHI I 10 14 9 Beery and Strickler; II McMillen and Clark. — ■» Two crops of potatoes are frequently grown on the same piece of land each season in some parts of Oklahoma. The Province of Alberta, Canada. Is twice as large In area as all of England. Wales. Scotland and Ireland combined. West Virginia Is known as the Panhandle state. It contains 24.170 square miles and ranks 40th in sixe in the Union. The American continents, from iheArctlc to the Antarctic oceans have a comrtiined overall length of more than 9.000 miles. Florida has an average width of •trout M miles. It has the longest coastline of any state, almost I.2<M> Approximately 1,500,000 licensed radio seta are operating in Canada, says rhe Department of Commerce. Mouth Africa Is using locally produced moving pictures for military Instruction, the Department of Commerce reports. fluid production In Nicaragua this year Is expected to reach a record 7,000 000 the Department of Commerce says. o * TODAY'S COMMON ERROfT* In the sentence "tt you had of come we could of gone togeth- I er;** the preposition of is wrongly used In both Instances Omit the first and substitute I | have for the second.

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Bronco Buster Turns Flier Vermillion. 8 D. — (UJO —From bronco rider to airplane pilot In easy lessons — that’s the story of Jim Owens and he says they're easy. Owens, who never had piloted anything hut a bucking horse, finished second highest in a Universly of South Dakota flying course. Flying heats bronco riding, he says. o Boys' Novel of Past Huntsd We.tfleld. N. Y - (IT)- The •earch for a boy'* novel written four decade* ago by 3 Chautauqua county auditor has developed into

In The Swim To “Keep ’em Flying!” mat uitti - ■■■■ Joining in the patriotic swim to "Keep 'em Flying! ", radiant Ruby Basinger adds sing to her 1841 beach coetume by using the nstion's new Army Aviation Cadet symbol as its stream-lined motif. Ruby. Fifth Corps Area Hignal Corps secretary and daughter of Mayor R. E Basinger. Forest. 0.. flashes through the air and water too—because she * army alr-miuded and adores aviators.

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lectors. The title of the l»ook is "White Horse Fred, or Julian Among the Outlaws.” It was published in 1801. The author Charles Atfstln Fosdick. had establkshed himself as a writer for boys under the name of Harry Castlemon. W" ■ Cat Adopts Two Rats Aahtwbula. 0.. — Il'P) -Bonnie, a large tlgerstrlped cal, has adopted two liisliy rats into her family of two kittens. The feur nurslings play and feed together.

STANDINGS OF LEAGUE TEAMS Junior Softball And Baseball league Standings Announced Standings and next week's schedule for the Rotary softball and Lions baseball leagues were annottneed today by Deane Rorwin. The Cards and the Cubs are tied for Brat place In the softball league with tour victories and two losses each. The Red Sox are far in front in the baseball league, having chalkup seven wins against no defeats Rotary Softball W. L. Pct. Cards —- 4 2 66< Cubs * 2 ®® 2 Red* 3 2.569 Pirates 1 2 -IM Next week's schedule: Monday. Cards vs. Rede and Cuba vs. Pirates. Wednesday: Cuba VS. Reds and Card* vs. Pirates. Lions Baseball W. L. Pc« Red Sox 7 0 I.IMMI Yankees 4 3 .570 Tigers 3 4 .328 Indiana " • """ Next week's schedule: Tuesday. Indians vs. Tigers and Red Sox vs. Yankees. Thursday: Red Sox va. Tig/ra and Yankee* va. Indiana THE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. Pct OR. Brooklyn 52 24 .884 St Louis 49 28 .836 3* New York 38 33 .542 11 Cincinnati 38 37 .513 13 Pittsburgh 34 35 .483 14% Chicago 35 43 .448 18 Boston 30 43 .411 20% Philadelphia 20 55 .267 31 Mi AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. HR. New York 50 26 .658 Cleveland 47 31 .603 4 Roeton .. 40 34 .541 8 Chicago # 40 36 .526 10 Detroit 40 40 . 500 12 Philadelphia 34 41 .453 15% St Louis 27 47 .365 22 Washington .... 26 48 .347 23% YESTEROAY'E RESULTS National League Boston 7. Chicago 2. Brooklyn 12. Cincinnati 2. Only games scheduled. American League Chicago 3. Washington 1. Itetrolt 2. Boston 0. New York 6. St. Louis 2. Only games scheduled. ■ -O —— Tailor, K, Refuses to Retire Yakima. Wash <U.» An MO year old Yakima tailor who refuses to retire from active life, Frank Engquiat, has a simple philosophy which he applied to existence. It la: “I'll do my job and enjoy life, and everything should be all right." Deputy Paged to Get Skunk Las Cruces. N. M 4UJ> Deputy Sheriff Sanios Ramires believes that It takes both nerve and diplomacy to be an officer la the west these days, after answering a hurry up call. Upon arrival at the home, be was urged to remove a skunk which had taken refuge beneath the floor. o An average person has about six quarts of blood, weighing from 12 to 15 pounds.

When Good Fellers Gci logcO /*>.* M K ’ V a At 18 S m il i v \ \ J / * MawMMft r x ME Kk s r . * I i a ■ Bob Feller and dad, William Feller |K Presented a plaque by the Cleveland sandlotters for being ar. American Boy," Bob Feller proudly shows his dad, William )-□«■■ of Van Meter, la., the award before a night game in FsUer also received a citation from a baseball paper li iaunAj %■* as the outstanding baaeball player of 1840 MB

Australia Outlaws Sect Cantterra. Australia. fUJD The religious sect known as Jehovah’s Witnesses has been outlawed under the national security regulations act. The "Lightray." a 60-foot ketch, used by the sect in the Pacific Islands, has ben seised. Woman, 99. Handles Bomb Ixtndon.-XUJD’ -On her 99th birthday. Mrs. Lillian Halle heard an Incendiary bomb crash through the roof of her house hi Chesterton

Boy Pleads for Mother’s Life wL 1 s sn Gov. Culbert Olson and Joseph Asking for the life of his mother, doomed to die July 19 in C* forma's lethal gas chamber, the son of Mrs. Juanita Spinelli 17, la pictured with Gov. Culbert Olson of California in San fr» Cisco. Mrs. Spinelli, convicted of a murder, was schedub to A June 10 but was given a last-minute reprieve of 30 day

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Road. Ladhroke Grow Shritd carried sand and water to tbt of the bouse and put os: | bomb. Australia Ponders Child M Canberra. Australia -<U.RT-la latlon has been introduevd hi federal parliament to provided endowments for all famiß-s I an Income of leas than 123 a m The endowment is expe< M t«d for lIMMHH) children. Trade In a Good Town — IhM