Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 39, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1941 — Page 6

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CARDS RETURN AS LEADER OF NATIONAL LOOP Defeat Cincinnati In Extra Inning To Regain League New York. Aug 8 qj.ff, Every time th* Rt. Irnuls Cardinal* ar* kn<M-k*d down. they get right bark up again. They have th* muff of which champion* art mad* and ar* back In th* National league van today by th* margin of ottos points after a thrill-packed 11-lnnlng victory over the world champion Cincinnati Red* yesterday. 3-2. Th* Cardinal* may be down but never out. If that wasn't th* rase Hat el Crabtree and Morton Cooper Wouldn't have been around yesterday tn tend the victory surge in th* eleventh. You Wouldn't have het a plugged nlckle last June that Crabtree, who's coming on to 37 eleven days dance, would play another hall game, much less lie performing for the league.lead Ing Cardinal* When Hilly Southworth moved up from Mot heeler to become manager of ’We Cards In June. Crabtree wa* gjven th* Rochester job. Before <E* month was out Crabtree was carted to the hospital for th* re tnoval of a kidney. His recovery •uiceeded all eipectatlons and Mouthworth told th* Cardinal front office he'd like to bring up the veteran as a substitute outfielder •ad coach for the young players. t Routh worth'* foresigb' is paying ’ dividend- Crabtree hasn't played an awful lot but when he's been In I sb* lineup he's performed miracles. Hit hatting average Is .451. twenty I - IS

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three hits In 51 time* at but and most of them In the dutches Crabtree's pinch single yesterday off Rucky Walter* broke down th* Red*' bulwarks and pnved the way for the Card* to regain th* lead from the Idle Dodgers After Mite had singled and Rlaughter doubled. Crabtree batted for Marion and singled horn* Mile Slaughter wa* out at the plate, trying to score Mancuso singlet! and Morton Cooper did likewise, scoring Crabtree with what proved to lie the winning run. It was only last! month that Cooper had to go to the hospital for an arm operation and many thought him washed up for the season Cooper, defying th* doctor*, wa* operated on June 17 but recovered »o swiftly he was back on the mound Aug. 3. pitching a 8 1 victory over the Phils. Yesterday hr outdueled Walters to win hl* ninth gam* Tiring In the eleventh. Cooper had to have some help from Ram Nahent who retired the last matt after Cincinnati had scored a run on single* by West. Frey and Gleeson After holding <he Card* to seven hits for l<» Innings. Walters weak ened in the eleventh and gave up five hits. Pittsburgh kept up its break-neck pace by nosing out th* Cub*. 4-3. after spotting Chicago a three run lead II wa* the Pirate*' sixth straight and l»th victory In their last 2- games Catcher Al latpet * homer In the ninth broke up th* game wjth relief pitcher Lloyd Dietl the winner over Juke Mooty The Yankee slump continued The Red Mol belted the Brons Bombers. M. but New York held It* ll*w game lead because the Indians also lost. Joe DiMaggio Charlie Keller and Bill Dickey all went hitless liefore Dick Newsome's slants and the Yanks lost their fifth Rptne in their last seven starts. I<efty Gomel had hl* * game wlnnnlg streak snapped Ted

SEMI-FINALS IN SORB ALL MEET HERE TONIGHT • Two Berne Team*. Portland And Pennville In Semi-Final* ——— Semi finals In the sectional softball tournament will be played toi night at Worthman Field, with the - first game starting at 7 30 o'clock. ; lipponente in the first game will - be Nussbaum Novelty of Herne and the Pennville Merchants. In the i nightcap, the Berv-Ue store of Berne will oppose Western Auto of t Portland. The finals of the tournament will be played nest Tuesday night. August 12. with the winners of tonight's semi finale in opposition S-rv-I'l and rhe Portland team were victorious in Thursday night guinea. Merv-l's defeating Sinclair Service, also of Berne. 7 to 5. and Portland defeating Yager Furniture of Herne. 4 to 2. SERV-l'B AB R H E Hurry. If 4 « 0 • Beitler. sf 4 • 4 » Lehman. 3b 3 » « 1 Baker, as 3 111 Neiiensi hwander. p 3 2 3 0 Stuckey, lb 3 3 2 0 Reynold*, c 3 1 3 01 Woods, rs 3 0 0 0 Atlgahurger. 2b 3 0 0 1 P. Stuckey. cf 3 0 1 0 Total* ... 31 7 10 3 SINCLAIR Butcher. 2b 4 0 2 0 Habegger. a* 4 0 0 0 Briggs, rs 4 0 0 0 Stricker. 3b 3 12 0 Hprunger. c 3 110 Nussbaum. »f 3 10 h Abnet. p 3 12 0 Huffman, cf '.3011 Lelchty. If 3 11 o Stuck, y. lb Solo Totals 33 5 10 1 Score by innings: Ser vVs "2" 401 " " Sinclair 010 400 0-5 PORTLAND AB R J< E i W Hartsell. c .. 3 12 0 Bubp.3b 3 110 1 Hush, lb 3 0 1 0 F. Harwell, cf 3 o 1 o j Bond, p 3 0 0 0 I Swifter. ** 3 2 0 0 Welbusch. sf 3 0 2 1 Borders 2b 3 0 0 1 Van Shoup, rs 3 0 0 0 Tindall. If - 3 0 0 0 Total 30 4 7 3 YAGER M Spntnger. If 3 0 10 Lelchty. 1b 3 0 11 i Baumgartner, ss 3 0 0 0 , Stuckey, c 3 0 o o Luglnblll. 3b 3 110 Deusser. sf 3 0 0 0 Agler. cf 3 0 10 R Sprunger. 2b 2 0 0 0 Fennlg. rs 2 0 0 1 N Sprunger. p — 2 110 Totals .......... 27 2 5 2 Score by Innings: Portland 002 100 I—4 Yager 011 000 o—3 ■<- ■ HOME RUNS Keller. Yankees ...... .. 27 DiMaggio. Yankee* ........ 2fi Williams. Red Sol 22 Henrich. Yankee* .... .. 21 Camllli. Dodgers . William* got three hits, including | homer No. 22 Despite a three-run homer by Soup Campbell which tied the score in the ninth, the Indiana, with Boh Feller In the bog. succumbed to the Detroit Tiger*. 4-3. in 13-innings It was Feller's 7th defeat against 20 victories. Suecesslve single* l>y McCosky. Higgins and Bruce Campbell scored Detroit's winning tally. Roger Cramer's ninth inning single drove In the winning run as Washington treat the Athletics, 5-4. Jake Early. Senators' catcher, had a perfect day at I»at. "4 for 4." The Chicago White Sox hammered out 17 hits to trounce the St. Louis Brown* 11-1 as Buck Ross pitched a seven-hitter. Wally Judnlch homered In the ninth to spoil Ross' shutout. Yesterday's heroes: Ext el Crabtree and Morton Cooper, the Cards' two hospital cases who starred as St. Louis beat Cincinnati and regained the National league lead 9 When I You Burn 9 Gm you do burn 9 Ilollars. but 9 You’ll burn less 9 gas and fewer 9 Dollars and get ■ more quiet power 9 After a carburetor U adjustment here ,1 For we make them 9 save gas and rnonej RIVERSIDE I SUPER SERVICE H East Monroe at Rhone 741 S “WhM you think of 9 Brakes, think of ua."

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| Today’s Sports Parade I (Ref. U. s. Fat. Office) By Harry Ferguson New York. Aug 8 <U.R. Tucked away in au obscure corner of the American league pitching averages today is a line "Ryba. Boston, won 4. lost 2” that l» a arnt of liu-hel hiding the light of one of the moat remarkable ball players In the business. That gent would !>e old Mike Hylia. the one-man team who ha* done everything connected with a baseball club except cut the gras*, take tickets and try to Interpret one of Judge l-uulis' <lei '.*l >n« Old Mike has been knocking around the minor and major leagues for a long time, but he had to wait iin.tl he was 38 yenrs old to settle down to one position He comes to mind today tu-cause here In th* heat of August he ha* just appeared in three game* in four day* a* a pitcher! Any time the Red HoX get 111 tiolilde these days. Manager Joe Cronin sounds the alarm and old Mike shuffles out of the bull pen to put out the fire. Dig behind the record* and you will find that old Mike ha* been in 2» ball games this season and map get into 20 more. If Cronin suddenly decides to take advantage of ail of .Mike's talenpi. the old guy could be In there every day from now on. Baseball men *1 ill apeak with awe of the 1*34 season when Mik* was In charge of the Springfield club of the Western association "1 was the manager and the business manager." Mike said recently

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in recalling that hectic year. “We traveled around the league In three automobiles and I drove one of I them I usually drove the rear car |»o I could ride herd and see that none of the player* dropped Olli to grail a beer "I played every position on the club, and I can Mill remember my averages. Asa pitcher I won 14 | and lost 3. I caught alauit 100 'games and the rest of the time I played all the positions around the infield and In the outfield I hit .342 ” Now that It has become apparent that the Red Sox aren't going anywhere In particular this season, old .Mike could put on a great show If Cronin would give him the green light and lei him do his stuff. He ' has two good acts he perform*. Ou* is to pilch the first Kain* of p double header and catch the second one. The other Is to play three Innings at first base, catch three innings and pilch the last I three. Ilespite the fact that he Served a term with the St lands Cardinals and now is a member of the Red Sox. old Mike Is not too well known to major league fans. Rut in the minor leagues he Is known from coast to coast. At various times he has been voted the most valuable player In the American asste j elation, the International league, the Middle Atlantic league, the Western league and the Western association. He might have gone on Indefinitely In the minor league* If the Red Sox had not been Intrigued by the fact that he won 24 games for Rochester last season as a plloher They brought him up and

CARDINALSWIN ROTART LEAGUE Defeat Cubs For < hampionship Os Junior Soi l hall League Th* Cardinal- won th* Rotary •ofetitall longue till* yes . nlay toy bunding the Cub* a 2**2 trouncing lb the final game of the champion I ship serie*. M< Bride, diminutive Card* pitcher. held the lo«er* to four hit*, while hl* teamate* were fathering 2« The tilt made the champion* finish with a record of ntn* win* and three loose*, against an eight and four record us the lu-*r-The box score; < Who AB R >1 ' Baker, p. c 3 •• •» | lemgerich. p. lb 2 •> 0 Brown, lb J 11 I Hackman, p. lb 2 11 ' If ichten*telger. •« 2 0 1 I Mo«*e. 3t> ... 2 l> » Garner, It 2 * <• Pollock, sf 1 V • Rowden, cf .201 Sorg. rs | II n Htncky. rs o o o Llilliert. «f I " • I Franklin, cf v » •• l» 2 I | Card* M<-Bride. p 3 2 2 Peterson, c 3 2 2 Hill, lb 3 2 2 Mdd 3b 2 2 1 Haley, as 3 3 4 1 Ogg. 3l> — 2 2 1 I Mrlchl. If 4 2 21 Gilliff. * 3 3 31 Elgey. cf 111 Gerfierding. rs o •• ti Calde. If . ... 1 0 0 Weldy. cf 1 o •• Costello, cf I 0 0 MaHnuKh. If 2 1 I 2!i 20 2o H H K j Cates ihhi 202— 2 4 0| Card* 7MI Il2)lx So it j told him to forget the other eight positions and stick to pitching. Old Mike never will tie another Walter Johnson. Imt you can safely bet that when he Is 45 years old he still will b* playing basehall somewhere at any position that happen* to lie open.

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THE STANDINGS National Lsagus W I. Pct CH 1 Nt. lanil* •»< 37 844 Brooklyn 34 fill ’y Pittsburgh 57 43 .378 8 Cincinnati 54 I* 52* 12 New York 44 Mt 17* 17 Chicago 45 S» 137 21 Boston 41 57 tin 22 Philadelphia 28 47 28» ."b American League W. I. Pct. C|| N*w York 71 35 87« Cleveland 5* 15 '.ill II Ay Boston 64 4» 534 16'$ Chicago 51 53 PH) I* ti 54 487 21' . Phlladelpia 44 55 484 21S Washington 41 5» .410 27 Hi laiuls 41 41 ,042 27*v Yesterday's Results Nstiongl League Nt. la>ul* 3, Cincinnati 2 ill Inning*|. Pittsburgh 4. Chicago 1. tOnly game* * heduledi. American League Boston •; New York 5. Washington 5. Philadelphia 4. Detroit 4. Cleveland 3 112 Innlngst Chicago 11. Ht laiuls I LIST SOFTBALL PLAY FOR WEEK — — Sectional Final Tuesday Night: Rotary-Lion* Wednesday The «ch»-dule for nofiball play I for next week was announced toI day iiy Sylvester Everhart, presl dent of the Adams comity «oftball association Features of the week's card will lie the final game In the sectional tournament, which will Im- played Tuesday night; and the second I game of the Rotary-lons series j W.aliieMlay night. Roth of these gam** will lie pre.-.-ded by preliminaries to b* ann.iiinced later. I . Regular league games will l»playe<| Monday, Thursday and Friday.The «wk'» whednie follows: .Monday Ilf Way vs G. E ; Clov erleaf vs St. Alary's. Tuesday Beellonul final. Wednesday Rotary vs Lion* Thursday Hchafer v» Pleasant Mills: Central Sugar Co. vs Deca-

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