Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1942 — Page 6

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Indians Drop Second In Row To Boston Nine Bobby Doerr Stars As Red Sox Score 11 To 8 Victory New York. May 5. — (VP)—The other day baaebalj fans were asking if Joe Gordon, the Yankee pivot man. wasn't the greatest second baseman of all time but today the question simply was whether Gordon Is the No. 1 second sacker In the American league. Little Hobby Doerr of the Boston Red Sox ha* moved up by leap* and bound* the past few days to challenge Go; Jon's claim to the kingpin of second baseman. Gordon, the world serie* hero, started out burning up the circuit and until he pulled a muscle in his back was clouting over .400. But Gordon has slumped back to .175 and Doerr, who get a slow start because of an Injured hack, is now showing the way to all major league hittrra with a tremendous 467 Hitting and Holding like a demon. Doerr ha* played havoc with the league-leading Cleveland Indiana the (Hist two days. Yesterday he slapped out a double and two singles for a perfect "3 for 1” day at bat. drove In four runs as the Red Sox hauled down the Tribe's banner for the

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second straight day. 11-8. He was flawless afield, handling five chances perfectly. On Sunday Doerr hit two singles and a triple and was instrumental in the Red Sox 8-4 triumph which snapped Cleveland's 13-game winning streak. Itoerr has hit safely in hie last ten straight game* and Is tied for fourth place in runs batted In in hl* league with 18 although he's played In only 12 games. The Gordon-Doerr argument is an old one. It started back hi 1940 when the scribes gave Gordon 42 vote* for second base In picking 'he American league lineup for the all-star Finnish relief game. Doerr got none. Several scribes later found that Doerr had as many boosters among the ball players as Gordon. One of Doerr's champions was Charlie Gehrlnger, himself rated the peer of American league second sackers for many years. Joe Gordon. Red Sox pilot, dodges the Gordon-Doerr argument this way "I don't know who I* the better type of ball player. He's out there doing a smooth flawless job every day. He's a great team man. as good as anybody on the double play pivot and a whizz on playing ground balls. And Doerr has made hlmeelf a great hitter by concentration and practice.” It's hard to realize that Doerr is now playing his sixth year with the Red Sox and Is only 24 He brole In with the Hollywood Pacific coast league when he was only 16 and reported to the Red Sox before he'd reached 19. He I* built compactly and Is bigger than he looks. , Doerr's hitting helped Heber Newsom rack up hie fourth straight win although he had to have some relief aid from Tex Hughson at the finish. I»u Boudreau. Cleveland shortstop-pilot, made two errors. The Yankee* poured it on the ha|>l<>sg White Sox again, 6-1. and moved within a game and a half of the lead it was Chicago's 11th lose in 12 Starts. The Tiger* kept on th- Indian's heels with a 6-4 win over the Athletics behind rookie Charlie Fuchs who won his j third game. Pittsburgh moved within half a game of the Idle Dodger* by nosing out the Braves. 2-1. In a pitcher's duel between Jim Tobin and Boh Klinger. Elbie Fletcher* ninth Inning single drove in the winning run after Eddie Miller had made a costly error. Scoring 12 run* (within two of the record) In the fourth inning ’ the Red* slapped down the Giants. 15-4. a* Ray Starr went the route Th re- errors, four walk* and six hits produced the big Inning. Yesterday's hero: Bobby Doerr. Red Sox second baseman whowe perfect day at bat with two singles and a double and three runs batted In helped Boston brat Cleveland . for the second straight day, 119. |

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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS 9 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. Pct. G B Brooklyn 14 7 .997 Pittsburgh 13 7 .950 St Louis 10 9 554 2H New York 10 10 SOU 3>4 Boston 11 11 .500 Chicago 9 11 .450 4Mi Cincinnati 8 11 .421 5 Philadelphia 5 15 250 Mfe AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pct. GB Cleveland 14 5 .737 Detroit 15 8 «52 I New York 13 7 .650 It* Btstton 12 7 .632 2 Washington 9 12 429 6 St. Louis 9 13 .409 4', Philadelphia 7 15 .318 Hi* Chicago 4 16 . 200 lot* YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Cincinnati 15. New York 4. Pittsburgh 2. Boston I. Only games scheduled. American League Detroit 6. Philadelphia 4. Boston 11, Cleveland 8. New York 4. Chicago 1. St. Louh-Washlngton. postponed. o_ — B Today's Sport Parade (Refi. U. 8. Pat. Office By Jack Guenther ♦ 4 New York. May S—(CP)-Prof James Joseph Dyke* the malevol ent magician who Is famed throughout the American league aa a baseball alchemist and word abu*er extraordinary, today analyxed the infant 1942 season snd obligingly boiled bls conversation into one or two aabesto* line »enjences "Why Hl be laclEgo," said the professor In lang nag* strong enough to blackball him from the lougsboreman's union "Those »i.'S— E<SH and 99(K<3)—E> are »£(3l—El. These *()(E) White

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Box of mine are |CI)(0O(l- And an for that umpire, why S Cll (•( I.” i Translated for benefit of the ( pink lemonade and lady finger* aet. the remark* of the Chicago | J maestro prove neither particularly ( profound nor indicative of deep thought. After watching his team , lose l« of 20 game*, the professor ( - with all the calmness you might ( expect from a volcano auffering ( from lndige*tion — ha* concluded ( hl* boy* can't hit. "For several year* now they've < been calling the Sox the Hltle** ( Wonder*," he explained a* the •moke curling from hi* magnlflc ( ently black cigar withered every , blade of gra»* in a radius of IS yard*. "Thl* year we are just ' hltle**. From the way the*e White ’ Sox have been swinging you would think they bav* been hypnotised They aren't even following the law o' average*. ( "Our defense ha* been good and the pitching I* fine, but we can't ’ seem to buy. borrow, beg or steal , a base hit. If just one of the guy* ' would hit Homething but the ’ steak* on the dinner table maylie 1 the reat of them would get Inspired But they ail look like so many women golfer* on a Thursday at- ( ter noon I don't think they can ’ even see th* ball." 1 Th# professor blame* the ab aence of Taft Wright, who wa* th* ‘ Box' bix stick man last season ’ with a fat average of .322. as per- ’ hap* the big reason for the atnas Ing weakness of the team on at- 1 tack. Wright, aa you know, I* 1 in the hospital waiting for a pulled stomach muscle to heal. He ha* 1 been replaced by old Sam West. 1 who I* just about batting hl* age ’ —.o3* "And don't forget that Thornton 1 Lee won 22 games tor us last tea- 1 son but hasn’t been able to bold 1 hl* arm up thl* year since he went 1 four Innings during the spring 1 training routine, Geer.raily. our 1 pitching I* very good but we or any other team mis* a z2game 1 winner. His absence has thrown I extra weight on the other boy* and 1 they feel It." A glance at the record* discloses 1 that the professor's plight actually 1 ia very sad Indeed. In the 20 1 game* played to dale th- Sox have I failed to score at aii four times. I have pushed over only one run in 1 four home trie* and have loot eight 1 game* by the margin of a single tally. Six I* the greatest number of scores they have made In any game and they lost that—74. Consider the case of Grandpa Ted Lyon*. Needing only five triumph* to reach the 2M>-wln mark, th* <l y*ar-old Louisianan won hl* first outing. 14. and has gone to th* mound twice since only to bav* hi* team fall completely to piece* behind him and be blank- ! ed. In hl* three effort*, the Box I have given him th* great and glorious tout of on* run to work on. "Bo you see what ! moan “ I Dykes said, blowing his smoke in a different direction and catching th* bat boy unaware A* said bat boy promptly swooned, th* proles•or then mentioned tlMtt the root 1 of Um league jo it teemed to be hitting like bUly-get-out Cl eve land is a mystery to him. but he is convinced that even without Feller th* Indians are hot. 1 export th* Yankee* to win out a* usual because alien they got started they really roil.** bo soplained, "bat Cleveland «t be met s flash la the pan. Thooe In diaus are hustling, they are getting good pitching and they all are pulling together. Bo long aa they

Conservation Club Elects New Officers L. R. Meyer Heads Conservation Club L. R. "Rudy” Meyer, was named president of the Country conservation club during the annual election of offleeft held aa a part of the club meeting at St. John's last night. Theodore Kleine was named vicepresident and W. E. Vffelman. sec-retary-treasurer. Henry Getting was chosen as delegate and Frank Schuller, Jr., as alternate. T. Reiter was named game distributor for Allen county and C. Knipateln as distributor in Adams county. Ervin Schuller is the deputy game warden Elected to the board of directors of the club are: Lawrence Bultemeler, T. Reiter. C. Boerger, C. Lepper. G. Judt, Oscar Schuller and Ervin Schuller. The club made plans for another coon chase next fall after the last one was reported aa successful, announced the spring picnic date as May 31, the fair in Hoagland in the third week of July. Service flag* are planned* In honor of club members in the country's armed forces. o Great Lakes Team Defeated By Cubs Drop Opener With Major Leaque Teams

Great Lakes. 111.. May s—<l’P) —The Milors al Great Lakes naval training station cheered baaeball a* a morale builder today but expressed hope the recruiting service will find lhem a pitcher for their next big league game. The Chicago Cubs, first major league club to appear on the station diamond In 24 year*, defeated the sailors. 4 to 3. in an exhibition game yesterday. The score wm unimportant but the game waa significant because It marked another step by baseball to justify it* war-time existence. While 8,000 sailor* were given leave of their regular dutiea to watch the game, neither they nor the handful of guests were permitted to forget that the nation is in war. Beyond the outfield, companies of white-clad gobs drilled throughout the game. The Cub* were the first of nine major league clubs scheduled to appear at Great Lake* against th* navy team. The appearance of the National leaguer* was surroundM with much of the pageantry that goes with » big league opener. Kenroaw M. Landis, the whitethatched commiialoner oF baseball occupied a box seat in company with Captain T. Dewitt Carr. Great Lake* execiAive officer. Two star* of Great Lake* baseball team of 1919, George Hsias and (Paddyl Driscoll, now official* of the Chicago Bears of the National football league, represented th* sailor team of world war I in pregam* ceremonies. The crowd was extremely partisan. but the gob* In the stand* showed they could be aa critical aa the most rabid Brooklyn Dodger fan. When Al Barkua. th* starting Great laka hufler, walked three men and allowed a single before * man wa* retired in the first luuing. the sailor* shouted al manager Mickey Cochrane. "Take the bum out." When Barkus waa touched for two run*. Cochran* “borrowed" pitcher Le* Fleming from the Cab*. Fleming pitched well the rest of the way, although he was nicked for two run* In th* fifth and two mor* in the ninth. Great Lake* •cored once In the first inning and twice in th* second. Eddie HanyMVflki worked eight inning* for the Cub* and Vaiii* Eave* hurled th* ninth. a LEADING HITTERS

National L*agu« Player Club GAB R H Pct. Walker. Brooklyn 13 43 9 15 .349 Fwaandea, Boston 38 93 11 S 3 341 Muttol, fit. Louis 17 93 19 21 .333 Wasdell. Pinto* 19 51 717 .333 Muruugh. Phllte* 19 M 9 19 .339 Amaricen Leagu* Doerr. Boston — 13 45 19 31 .497 Spaac*. S***tor* 31 Mi? 39 .433 Dickey. N*w York 17 93 I 34 391 Gordon. New York 17 99 9 35 .379 Heatk. Indian* 19 HIS M 477 e HOME RUNS York, Tigers -7 CamUiL Dodger* — - ... R Wllltam*, Red Box S F McCormick. Red* 5 Heath. Indiana - 4 LHwhltor. Phils - ' 4 MuMl. Cards 4 MarshalL Otanu 4 4* that they are gotag to be nsak Ing trouble and plenty of it B«t th* v aaks will wia." —— l a Aa osme* of arether to worth a poead *f ctorgy

STRICT BAN ON (Continued From Psge 1) •'weeping move by the government to date to conserve iron and steel for th* war program. Most of th* article* were common ones, but not all. There were asparagus longs, beer mug*, dummy police, finger bowls, subway turnstiles and terrazzo spacers In the list. Some of the Item* In every-day nse were clgaret lighters, compacts, book ends, ice cube trays, and a 1' dozen types ol metal cans and coni' tai tier* ' Limited production of the articles will be allowed for 90 days. After that manufacturers will be forbidden to make any of the banned articles out of Iron or steel, or •Vt-n any metal substitute except gold and silver—which would not be suitable fo* most of them. Sugar Approximately one-third of the nation was believed to have registered yesterday for war ration book No. 1. Consumers must have one In the future to buy sugar. Enrollment will continue for three more days during which some 130,000.000 books are expected to be distributed. Sugar sales, which had been suspended for more than a week, were resumed at 13:01 a. m.. today. But from here on out It'll be necessary to have a ration coupon as well as money to buy sugar. Sales Americans spent three percent more money at retail atom in March. 1942. than they did in the same month last year, but still got 14 percent fewer goods for their money because of tremendous price rises, the commerce department reported today. Retail sales during March —the month at whose levels prices are soon to be frozen—totaled 14.349,000.000. a rise of $433,000,000 over February sales. This Increase, however, was about the usual seasonal amount. FOUR STATES HOLD (Continued From Page 1) Rep. Louis Ludlow. Democrat, was under heavy Are during the campaign for his “no” votes on lendleaae, ship seizure, draft extension, repeal of the war sone ban. and arming of merchant ships. OOP candidate* Ir Indiana wre not seriously opposed. Republican Gov. Hari J. Rushfield of South Dakota was opposed for IT. 8. aenatortal nomination by Mias Oliva A. Rungsrud. secretary of state, a former country school teacher who polled a record vote in being re-elected to a second term. Democratic senatorial candidates were Tom Berry, former cowboy governor, and Sen. William J. Bulow. The principal fight in Florida waa for the congressman-at-large nomination between Rep. Lex Green. Jacksonville, and state Rep. Earnest Overstreet. Miami. All other congressional incumbents were favored. The congressman-at-large poet was created after the 1941 legislature failed to redistrict the state. JAPANESEJNVASION (Contlnusd From Fags 1) wars with the United States army air corps, led the raid oa Rabaul. flying a giant flying tortressA United Press dlspaoth from the advanced base from which Scanlon's flying fortresss snd Catalina* took off ssid be and Ms men fought through some of the worst weather ever met since the Allied aerial offensive started.

New cannon-firing fighter plane* made the raid on Lae. in hie communique. No. It issued from his southwest Pacific general headquarter*. MacArthur announced also that United States fighter plane* bad damaged four Japanese bombers and one Navyd fgbter at a formation on nine heavy bombera and 10 Ztroe which tried to attack the Allied base at Port Moresby. New Oninea. Bo promptly did Americas asd Australian interceptor plants rise, the emenmy fleet did not even reach the airdrome. MacArthur described the raid as without affect, their Rrimul raid the American bombers officially chimed three enemy plane* Mown to pieces by direct hits An airdrome area on which M plane* were dispersed was plastered with bombs. Grounded Japanese planes were damaged by fighter plane* In their raid on Lea. Wot a single Unttsd Stalos piaae was loot m the attacks on Babanl aad Lea and la the defense of Port Moresby Both Allied and Japanese raids la the New OulaoaJßtamarck iolands gone were evidence of the increastagiy eapiosire aitaat oa oft the northeast AaetraUaa coast, where tta Japanese may strike at any time. (a tta nortbwaetsrn sous, the AL lied force* also were preparing for a poesfole Japan see attack baaed on PortageeoOuteh Timor island. A dlaptach from Broome. ea (be N< njrwoet coast. mM that in the t«a mouth* since th* Japanese strut raided that town, fee at so tad bees stripped for actios Uta a tab

tieship and that not a woman or a child remained witbin 50 miles.) DAR PLEDGED FOR (Continued F>om Fags 1) armed forces had “proved worthy o,' America " “Now it is up to it* at home to prove worthy of them." he said. They have *ei us an example of sacrifice, of unity of singleness of purposes Giat we on the home front must emulate if the nation I* to survive " Mrs. William H. Pouch, president general of the national society, said the DAR stool united, “a great organization of patriotic women eager to help, ready and willing to sacrifice.” “We are all 'Madonnas of the trail' today.” she said, comparing members to the figure of an American mother, grasping the barrel of a flint-lock rifle and resolutely pressing forward. "This has been called a time of 'blood and sweat and tears.' Ws will try to keep back the tears.”

BRITISH PLANES (Continued From Pag* 1) industries aa Bosch, leading German specialists in electrical equip ment; Daimler Bens, manufacturers of airplane engine*, heavy trucks, tanks and tank engines, and of the Hlrth concern, manufacturer* of aircraft precision equipment, are at Stuttgart First reports of the raids came from the German radio, which acknowledged that only one Brit ish plane was shot down. The term "In strong force” usually means that scores if not hundreds of planes took part. A* usual the Germans claimed the British attacked "residences." The Gerifians, In reprisal, sharply attacked the southeast coast of England last night, and a British communique reported some casualties and damage. One German plane waa destroyed off the southeast cosit Three German planes were destroyed over airdromes in northern France, which the British attacked early last night, Watchers on the channel saw large formation* flying over and soon heard loud explosions on the French coast RATION (Continued From Pag* I) today al 12:01 a. m Persons who fall to register before the close of registration Thursday evening must wait two week* before they can sign up. How To Use Books Mr. Hill today called attention to the use of the ration books Stamp No. 1. when presented at a store, entitles the registrant to purchase one pound of sugar during the period of May 6to Ifi. No 2 is good for the period of May 17 to 30. No. S I* good tor May 31 to June 13 and No. 4. June 14 to 37. One member of a family may make sugar purchase* for the entire family by presenting the correct number stamp* for any period. The rationing program ha* provided tor a half pound of sugar per person per week tor the first eight weeks. The amount to be released after June 27 has not been determined. For example. If there ar* Jhree in a family and three ration book* have been issued, the books are to be taken to the grocery, where the registrant may buy three pound* of sugar tor the period ending May 19. Stamp No. 1 will be torn by the grocer from each of the three booka.

STRATEGIC FRENCH (Continued Prom Page 1) Vichy said British airplanes in force flew over the island and the naval bane and that warships sup ported the iandiug. Il was understood there was less than a division (11.000) of French white troops on Madagascar but these were aided by a large number of native troops The British foreign office spokesman pointed out that the British presumably sent "ample forces against Madagascar In view of Allied experiences in Syria, where the Vichy forces put up a furious battle. Most of the British sent against Madagascar were believed to be South Africans The Laval government at Vleby had pledged itself to resist any attack on French colonies as the British forces previously had been restated In Syria and driven off from Dakar. Wadagaaeer, in addition to being a vital naval base, has huge tracts tor airdromes, some of which are developed, and the South Africans tad been agitating for weeks to seise the island to prevent it from becoming "another Indo-China " Goa. Charles Dgaulle. leader of the Free French, also bad recently renewed plea* that the Alites occupy the island. Japs In China Chungking. May b—(UF)-Pow-ertui Japanese mechanised unite forced open the back door to Chins today, eiknaxtng a three-month drive through Burma by crossing the Ckhseae frontier into Yunnan A Military roi h

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