Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1942 — Page 6

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Cardinals Take Double Header From Brooklyn Pittsburgh Within One Gome Os Lead; Cleveland Defeated New York, May 4 (UP) Those unpredictable, lovable and maddenIng Brooklyn Dodgers today were xkhiding like a monkey on a greased pole and the hot and-cold. bloom in the springtime Cleveland Indians were no longer enjoying Lady Lurk's fond embraces After one of the busiest Sundays in many a major I' ague season, in which 220.774 fans stormed, the eight major league parks for the largest attendance of the season, the pacesetting Dodger* and Indians definitely were on the run. Amid turbulent scenes In which the two rival managers. Leo Durocher of the Dodgers s.nd Hilly Southworth of the Cardinals, and four Brooklyn players were ejected. St latuls slashed its way to a twin triumph over the National league Champs. 14 10 and 4-2 <*ix Innings, darkness). The Dodgers have now lost four In a row and their lead has been trimmed to one game. The Boston Red Sox found the vulnerable spot in Cleveland’s armor and snapped the Indians' winning streak at 13 gam«v with an 8-4 triumph Plainly showing the strain of their streak, the Indians committed three costly errors Jeff Heath dropping two fly balls and Ray Mack a throw on a potential double T7BTBTI JI 11 /! Try AMOS KETCHUM 82'. Winchester ISR Tlsi mblaa •( coorwey sad safe driviag is ivirdtd to on* car aror at this cawuwaaity sack w««k day. MNV< CAMPUU. Y - SAYI A LiPC Mod Bns Brrwtaf Cory. Port Wimt, 100 Tonight & Tuesday I.ol’ ABBOTT BI O COSTELLO RIDE ’EM COWBOY’ ALSO—Shorts 9c-30c Inc. Tea —o Wed. 4 Thur*. — "Remember the Day** Claudette Colbert. John Payne First Show Wednesday at 9:30 Continuous Thursday from 1: SC BE SURE TO ATTEND! —o Coming Sun — “To Ba or Not Te Be" Carole Lombard, Jack Benny JCORT Tonight & Tuesday “YANK ON THE BURMA ROAD” Loraine Day. Barry Nelson & “DON’T GET PERSONAL” Hugh Herbert. Mlocha Auer Only 9e-26c Inc. Tax -0— Wed. 4 Thura. — “Pane Calling -0 Coming Sun—" North to Klondike ' 4 **Mr. Bug Oooe to Town "

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play. Charlie Wagner, although rapped for 13 hits, kept them scattered and went the route for his third straight win The Red Sox put on a sixTtfh rally in th.- fifth featured .by Bobby Doerr's trieple oIT Steve tiromek, who relieved Al Smith The Dodgers haven't been treated as roughly since their little joust with the Yanks last fall us they were in St. Louis yesterday. Ziggy Sears gave Durocher the thumb in the firs' inning of the opener and he was gone for the day Ereddy F’lUimmons ai*o was ousted. The Dodgers' bench tossed towels all over the place in pro- - teat against Sears' actions, latter Billy Sou th worth was tossed out -for the name reason that Durocher was questioning ball and strike decisions. In the second game, umpire Tom Dunn gave the heaveho to Dolf Camllll. Whit Wyatt and Chet Kehn. Camilll's offensive was kicking dirt on the pitching mound and. after he was ejected, had to be restrained from punching Dunn. The first gam.- was a regular Donnybrook fair. The Cards got off to a. n so lead, but saw it melt away. Then with the score tied. 10-10. Hie Cards staged a four-run rally to clinch It. Ken O'Dead drove in seven runs -hitting a homer with the bases loaded In the first ami a double off the wall with the bases loaded in the seventh. Kirbe lllgbe's wildness led to Ills downfall In the nightcap. He loaded the bases with walks and Jimmy Brown tripled to center. Pittsburgh pulled within a game of Brooklyn by dividing with the Braves. Big Max Butcher pitched the Pirates to a 6-2 victory In the opener but the Braves clouted three Pirates for 14 hits and a 12-3 triumph In the nightcap Eddie Miller homered inside the park 1 with the bags loaded In the second game. Bucky Walter* was handed his fourth straight defeat as 'he (Slants defeated the Reds. 5-4. Bill Werber. making bls first start against his former mates, doubled and tripled. sparking the early (Hants scoring hut almost lost the game with a wild throw which allowed two runs to score in the ninth. Bill Lee pitched his third victory as the Cubs beat the Phils 9-1. but the tan-enders gained an even break in the nightcap, 81. behind Rube Melton's five-hit pitching The Yankees, playing before the season's largest crowd. <11.294— including 2.590 service men—took a I double fall out of the lowly White ■ Sox. 6 4 and 3-1. Manager Jimmy Dykes was ejected for protesting a close decision at third which: I cost Chicago a run tn the second game Red Ruffing, although he needed a spot of frellef. hung up his 247th major league victory In the opener and went to the top of all active hand* in the majors Alley Donald shaded Bill Dietrich in the nightcap. The crowd was amazing considering that the White Sox had lost eight of their last nine games and are in the cellar. Detroit gained an even break with the Athletics, winning the opener, 8-7. on Pinky Higgins' ninth : inning double, but losing the night- , cap. 1-0. Rudy York hit homers No. 6 and 7 In the opener. Phil Marchildon stopped the Tigers with I with two hits in the nightcap. Stan Spence's triple In the ninth gave Washington a 9-8 victory over ' ' the Browns but St. lamia made* It an even split by taking the night- : cap. 5-1. Yesterday's hero: Ken O'Dea. Cardinals' catcher, who hit a horn,er and a double, each with the bases load'd, and drove In seven LOANS If you have a job, you can borrow 510 to MOO from us. 1. No endorsers or co-maker* required. Prompt service. : 2. You can get a loan to buy the things you need or for , any worthy purpose. ! 8. Consolidate your debts—have only one place to pay. Let tu explain how you can get ready cash quickly and privately and you are not obligated if you do not take a loan. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY, INC. SMsaS Haw saw—Owe SeOwer SWu Uta, Snm« SOw» -e»*M J-l-7 OSCatus isetssA Urn sn F*S.li swwtSiS la ASaaw ABsa aa* WWW Caaatiat

Shut-Out, Son of Equipoise, Wins Derby -*?. H n I-HFi SB ts I I I 11 n■ la lIL • -’■»!* I®^- ’ s Shutout. Greentree Stables entry of Mrs. Payne Whitney, with Wayne Wright up. won the 68th annual Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in the time of 2 minutes. 4 2/5 second*. This picture wax made immediately after the race. ___________

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runs as his team beat the Dodger*. 14-10, In the first win of a • lean sweep. MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. C, B Brooklyn 14 7 .657 Pittsburgh 12 7 .632 1 St Louto 111 8 .556 2% New York 10 0 BN 3 Boxl.m 11 lu .524 3 Chicago 9 11 .450 4*4 Cincinnati 1 II .389 5*4 Philadelphia 5 15 .250 B** AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Cleveland 14 4 77s Detroit . 14 8 .636 2 .New Lurk 12 7 .632 2>? I I Boston 11 7 .611 3 I Washington 9 12 .429 6*4 St. Louis 9 13 .409 7 Philadelphia 7 14 333 Nt < hi. ago 4 15 .211 10** YEBTERDAY'| RESULTS National League Chicago 91. Philadelphia 1-8. Pittsburgh 6-3. Boaiton 2-12. New York 5. Cincinnati 4 St. ixiuix 14-4, Brooklyn 10-2. American League Detroit 6-0. Philadelphia 7-1. New York 6-3. Chicago 4 1. Boston 8. Cleveland 4. Washington 9-1. St. Loftla 8-5. o ♦ • Today’s Sport Parade 'Reg. U. 8. Pat. Office By Jack Guenther Aboard horse car 15.201 somewhere in Pennsylvania, May 4 — (UP)—lf you are atlU looking for , the real feedbox analysis of the I 68th Kentucky derby, brother, take I a look at this. It in written on a I soap box nestling between Sun Again and Wbirlaway on the road to the Preakness stakes and it comes to you through the courtesy of big Ben Jones Big Ben didn't have a borae of his own running In the derby Saturday because Sun Again, who ie nibbling at the corner of my copy paper, was scratched an hour before the race. But the squareset ' king of America's trainers had a > c ouple of good ones running In a couple of derbies a few years ago. One of them waa my traveling compenlon, Wbirlaway. The other waa Lawrta. Mr Jones la just about aa shrewd 'a horseman as ever supervised a morning work-out and hie eyes miss ' very little—if they miaa anything at ail. Here la what be saw from bto box hard by the flntoh line at Churchill Downs on Saturday First of all. he aaw a race that waa won by the best hors*- Shut Ost. Secondly, he aaw a race in which the second beet borae— Al *ab —finished second. And as for the third. four£ and Sfth borwM. it wan just a toaa ap la which a few etridee at the wire meant a lot

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or a little. | ' To me the caliber of the horses running in title derby was every j bit the equal of that of previous derbies,*' he said “Every year the folks say that the current crop of three-yi-ar-olds Is a bust. Yet. every year, by the time summer rolls around there la always one good horse and sometimes as many as five coming out of that crop.'* Although Ben thinks the horses in the race were ax good, on the average, as any group you will fltid on a track at the same time, lie wax disappointed Uy the one he thought wax the beet. That was Davil Diver, who wae the solid ' choice among the trainers. The Diver was sixth at the end. you remember, and his mate. Shut Out. won. “When I saw Devil Diver work at Keeneland he turned in the most remarkable show I have seen so early in the spring with one exception." Jones said. “Whlrlaway is the only horse who ever matched such work. Had Devil Diver run back to it. he would have led the derby from wire to wire. I don't think he ran his real race and he will he better as time 1 goes on." What about Alxab and Requested. the two glamor nags in the derby? "Alxab from now on will be a mighty dangerous horse," Ben said. "He ran what looked like his beet race as a three-year-old and It Indicated that he may be running right back to his old form. He waa in a little trouble. Alsab waa, but he wax a pretty game horse there at the end. I'm going to have to watch him closer and closer this summer. “Requested? Well, he took a banging at the etart and was in very close quarters all through the flrxt three eighths of a mile. He got good going over and never recovered from it. His race was no true indication of what he la or what he can do as a raced horse I'Ve already written it right off my book He is much better than hia 14th place at the finish." Don't take the comparatively slow time of 2:04 2-5 as an indication that the horsea were slow, too. Ben says the track waa | “cuppy" and it wan very hard to run on The name Shut Out, he oplnex. running on the same track four days previously, would have 'lipped two full seconds from that ''lacking. In other worda, the foot- j Ing was at fault, not the horses I asked Ben why my little pal. Sun Again, was scratched, and he , xava me a pretty plain anawer. Rug Again, be said, just waan't In | the peak of condition needed to > tarry a horse a mile and a quarter. I And, he added, there is no point ‘ to running if you don't have a I chance to run first Simply stated. Jones doesn't shoot for mere seconds. But if I don't cmss this noisy typing In a matter of mere seconds. he may shoot me. So I’ll stop bothering my nrtstocratic traveling companions, go back to my own stall and try to remember that a man who beta on a horse —like I did —always winds np riding on a horse car—like I am. - • The Department of Commerce Index of value of maaatoeturers' now orders jumped from 188 la Ternary 1941 to SH in February this ywr. '

LEADING HITTERS National League Player Club G AB R H Pct. FVrnandez. Boston 21 89 11 32 .360 Walker, BrtMiklyn 13 43 9 15 349 Musial. St. i-oulx 17 63 15 21 333 Murtaugh. Phils. 18 58 919 .328 Waxdell. Pirates 15 49 716 .327 American League 1 Doerr, Boston 11 42 9 18 .429 ' Spence, Senators 21 90 17 38 .422 Dickey. New York 16 59 7 23 .390 Heath. Cleveland 18 72 16 27 .375 Gordon. New York 16 62 7 23 .371 o . HOME RUNS York, Tiger* 7 Camllll. Dodgers 6 F. McCormick. Reds I Williams. Red Sox 5 Lltwhiler. Phils 4 Muxlal. Cards 4 0 Softball Meeting Thursday Evening The softball meeting will be held Thursday night at 8 o'clock at the Lincoln bußding. instead of Monday night as was previously announced, Steve Everhart stated this morning. JOHN F. HOCKER (Continued From Page 1) also survives. Besides the brother In this city, he lx survived by Rev. H H. Hocker. Corina. Calif., Mrs. R. B. MeKeeman, Fort Wayne and Otis O. Hocker. Monroe. Short funerh! services will he held at the Hocker residence in Monroe at 2 o'clock, followed by the church service at 2:30. with Rev. R. F. Hart, pastor and Rev. C. A. Schmid of Berne, in charge. Burial will be in the M. R E cemetery. west of Berne. The body was moved from the Yager funeral home In Berne to the Hocker residence this afternoon and may be viewed after 7 o'clock thia evening.

* T° Voters of Adams g V|K S: W County: iajwmfc.. i Out to my firm work. siong With the necessity ° f ••*■"« «*•*•. tm ytfc» been impossible for me to I By contact each voter Please sccept th.a a> a persons: ifc contact and my ia<t plea XtSißk. fo< >' our on r :ma.-y r * d l! " d< " T SSSSSSSfiaEaSESSS May 5. FRANK LINIGER Democratic Candidate tor County Treasurer Pol. Advt ■■■■■■■■■bmihhhhhmhhmhhhhhihhbhbbhmbi

Great Lakes Plays Chicago Cubs Today Navy Team Managed By Micky Cochran Great l-ikes. HI.. May 4 (UP) The Great Lakes naval training station baseball team renews co old "series” with the Chicago Club* today after a lapse of 24 years. •Lieut Gordon (Micky) Cochran's sailors will play host to thn Cubs before a crowd which will Include . stars of the 1918 Great LukM team. 1 The Cubs were the first of nine : Big league clubs which agreed to : visit the Huge training station on | off-dates to entertain the blue-jack-1 ets. •When the Cubs played here during World War I. they gained a 5 to 0 decision over the Sailors. Pitching for Great Lakes iu that game was Urban (Red) Faber, who stared with the Chicago White Sox. Faber is one of the former stars invited for today'* contest. Others include George Halas. owner-coach of the professional football Chicago Beurs; "Paddy" Driscoll and Jimmy Counselman. Cochrane, who gained fame first with the Philadelphia Athletics and later as manager of the Detroit Tigers, has built his team around five former major league stars. The five, catcher Frankie Pytlak. infielders Benny McCoy and Johnny Lucadeilo and outfielders Joe Grace and Don Padgett, will be in the lineup against the Cubs. Great I-akes has “warmed up" for its game with the Cubs by playing five college teams. The Sailors defeated Indiana. Miami and latke Forest, while losing to Ohio University and Notre Dame FARMERS OF COUNTY (Continued From Page 1) Is “approaching a natioAl scandal." ('hairman Carl Vinson. D.. Ga , of the house military affairs committee added hl* voice over the weekend to those demanding that the armed forces be “democratised." He proposed that appointee* for West Point and Annapolis be given nine months' or a year's service in the ranks before beginning their academic work Faddis' amendment would apply only to the army, hut Vinson said It should be extended to the navy and marine corps. Charge Dismissed In Circuit Court — A charge of practicing medicine ■ without a license, filed some lime < ago againat Della Moser, local masseuse, waa dismissed Saturday In : circuit court by Judge J. Fred Frucbte after the filing of a nolle I prosequi motion by prosecutor Hur-1 ry T. Grube. Three From County Complete Training Three Adam* county young women will be graduated May 13 from the Deaconess' Hospital at Cincinnati. it was learned <iere today. The three are: Miss Ruth Grether, daughter of Rev. and Mr*. David Grether; Miss Mary Worthman. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Worthmsn. and Mlns Ethel Worth man daughter of Mr. and Mns. Ernest Worthman. all of Magley. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Worthmsn

have had two other daughters. Miss Ruth Worthman and Mrs. Lee Schult*, graduated from the hospital previously. The former has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. medical corp* and at present is awaiting call to wrvice. o G. E. Trains 50,000 In War Production Schenectady. N. Y.. May 4--Gen-eral Electric has trained mo.c than 50.000 new employes for war work and put them on regular production

Hr wr j °HN| DoAN I M Kepuhlicas H JIMH < andidate forH MAYOR sj I solicit your vote and influence in the pnmtq ■ •lection Tuesday. May 6. H Number 12 on the City Ballot. I I ! p '’ ! Notice to Voters!] ■ Remember to Vote for I DR. EARL HIGGId Democratic Candidate for | JOINT STATE SENffl l Adams* Well*-Black ford Counties I Next Tuesday. .May 5 | I My Number on the Ballot is 1". i Poitol ■ ■ ■ ■ a ■ ■ ■ ■ « ■ ■ •■■■■■ b b b«4 To The Voters & of Adams County: Bl In 11-. campH. ' cr '” I Uke this means ta ask far your vote and *aee foe the Ctomacratlc nomination for Shef' given me will be greatly appreciated If succe»»'boot I can give in cooperation and service EDWARD J. MILLER Democratic Candidate for SHERIFF Adams County My Number on the Ballot is 2St •

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