Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 161, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1942 — Page 8

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Brooklyn Far In Front As Leagues Resume Dodqers, Yankees Hold Substantial Leads In Majors New York, July !• il l*> Forget all that talk about the New York Vanke-s'"collapse" and make up your mind that the Bro k'yn Dodgers' -taKgering S’, game lead in the National league will get bigger. Because a* the majors go bat k ’>> work today after their allstar holiday, both circuit champion* are better off than at the same time last year Despite their terrific nosedive on their latest western jaunt In which they dr pped nine of 14 games, thYankees have a four game edge over the heat of the American lea gue field, a margin that to a half gam- better than they had at the IfMl mid way mark At thFs point last season, the Yankees led by only .3’* games ami the nsiiort-cir< tilted the opposition t orun away from the pa< k and win the flag by a 17 game margin an edge that won them designation a* baseball's super-team The rest of the junicr circuit Is almost the same as last y .-arson Boston's red-hot Bed Sox have replaced the Cleveland Indians a* the Challengers hut the separating

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margins are almost the same The lied Sox play fourth place Detroit today. the Tigers trailing along nine games off the pat-e. The Indians, seven gam- * hack, have wo seven of their laet nine and stand a good chance of getting hack In the fight. They tangle with the Philadelphia Athletic* tonight in the open* r of a three-game series. The three-game series between the Chicago White Sox and Wash1 ington Senators, both hopelessly ' det p in the second division, will part cf a three team cellar fight. Chicago Is sixth, the A s 2 1 -* games back and the Senators are last, a game and a half behind Philadelphia Brooklyn opens an important J western trip against Cincinnati and although It is one of th-ir most crucial junket*. the Itodgers are ' Dodgers an- fixed better than ever to fight off their tough intersecth iia! rivals. The National league champions have a tremendous p*y« hologii al and physical edge in 1 that S'-j game margin. ' i.a«t year at this time, Brooklyn kept one eye on their own ball game and the other on the score- , board to see how the St. I, uis Cardinale, who w- re breathing on their very necks, were doing The Dodgers held only a three-game ad vantage over the Red Birds who '(seemed to g-1 hotter as the race ' got closer, turning the campaign 1 into a bitter battle light di wn to 1 the flat days Brooklyn wound up he season 2*» games in front and manager Ix-o Dttrocher is already i pouring on the procure to pr-vent another pulse hopping pursuit like . 11 >1 The Dodgers have the most pie : tent plate-power in the league but ' may have trouble in their tUo-game set with the Red*, who have risen to third from last year's fourth place Three games each follow | with the Pirates, Cuba and CardI ina's. Second place St. Louis plays the fourth-place New York (Hants toj da yand Chicago, which has climbed to the top of the second division. one notch better than last year's post, plays Boxton. The Pirates tai kle the perennial last place Phils. ANOTHER JAPANESE (Continued From Page I) the fourth was sunfl at Agat'u Low visibility, emphasized in the last navy communique, has prevented other attacks on Japan**,* invasion forces. President Roosevelt has informed the Pacific war council that "miserable weather" was responsible for failure of American I I forces to broaden their operations! agaimit the enemy in the northern , Pacific area. The latest successes of submarines in the Aleutians brought to 74 the number of Japanese ship* sunk, probably aunk or damaged by submarine* during the war. Most of the 47 actually sunk were warships. —o— ...—_ No sermon wiU be dry If mixed I with tears In it* preparation I CORT ♦ —— ♦ -*- La*» Tim* Tonight — "SHEPHERD OF THE OZARKS" Weaver Brothers A Elviry ALSO—"Spy 8 m ar her" »c2sc Inc. Tax FRI. & SAT. “DEVIL’S TRAIL” Bill Elliott. Tex Ritter Sun. A Mon. — “Who is Hopa Schuyler” A “On the Sunny Side" (LOANS mu sxe Qsiesir aao fbiyiteit hide We try to mat* the borrowing of money a umpir trinuctioa. You do I not hire to wk trundi or reborn to ugn your not*. Leant ere made without rmiurrtHiag credit far * lane ia dw pwssy *4 year ewa baas, er in ear ymwsats ..hills* Maas. M incaeNnaa* wne. a* sad a raaneea* rtyrwuMama vA tag an yea md nyfaaa ear faianaai amca fuhy Y«« emaader ■» abfagaoua d yaa da aat tala a laaw. I “Praaag*. eaurtaaaa arrrw." LOCAL LOAN COMPANY, INC. •aar to*a*w Stars INH Bart* Uaaaa* tense etaaa MCAtua. laeiAM II ““•sruisa.'- —

Western Amateur Goll Meet Opens Defendinq Titlist Wins Medal Honors Spokane. Wash. July ft (I Pi Corp. Marvin (Bud) Ward. Spokane, leads 64 golf amateurai into the first round of match play today In the western Imateur golf championship. Ward, the defending titlist and national amateur champion, won medal honors yesterday by adding a blistering foui-under-par 68 to his early round of 73 for a 36-ho!e total of 141. In spite of a driving wind which sent score* soaring, ward carded eight birdies. Two strokes behind Ward was his fellow townsman .Marsh Hammond with a one-under-par 143. Wilfred Wehrle, Racine. Wls.. and Fireman Bruce McCormack. Los Angeles, posted 145’s to tie for, third place. Harry (livan, Seattle, who HI ■ the medal field at the halfway mark With a 69. was wild yesterday with an KO for a total of 149. Charles 'Chirk) Evans. Chicago. I four times western amateur titlist; In the early '2o'* qualified with a 157 total. Thirteen-year-old Buddy Moe. at the other end of tfie age scale, qualified with 155 Moe is the aon of the home duh pro. o - f Today's Sport Parade •| <Reg. L). 8. Pat. Office By Jack Guenther • • Cleveland. 0.. July 9. —(U.P.) — Whenever and wherever the old. young and intermediate men who make baxeball writing their business are thrown together in a strange city they invariably -pend their leisure hour* talking shop They discus* this pitcher and that shortstop and they heatedly belittle or praise some particular team. The excursion of these Itinerant boswell* to this bustling, lake shore metropolis was no exception. There wax only a slight change in the routine in previous years, conversation was nominated by the New York Yankees This season the team under the iiiic-ruscupe was Brooklyn and the question was "do the bum* really rate their lead?” The facts of this case are evident. As the major league* resume play the Dodgers hold an 8-’i game lead over St. Louis and one of a dozen game* over Cincinnati. This margin is almost historic in an organization famed for its s'retch battles. And as far as the Dodger* are concerned, the margin borders on the xheerly impossible. The bum* lead the league in games won and lost, in batting and j in fielding. Individually, they have virtual strangle-holds in the batting and pitching races. To a man. they ire riding High and wide. Yet, a surprisingly large number of the writers who gathered in Cleveland for the second all-star team are convinced a reaction soon will be noted. The reporters acknowledge that Brooklyn to blessed with tremendous pewei and iiiai the power Was imported by l-arry MacPhail. They admit that t.he Dodger Infield is so I tight that It is hard to drive a pill through it. But they also hold that the DodI ger pitching is too good to be true and that a serious slump Is in immediate prospect The firooklvn twirlera are so well seasoned that they are over-ripe Possibly the batting will carry them through to the pennant because there is ao other contender with enough power to develop Into a serious threat. But the supposed experts, while almost conceding the Dodger* the flag because of the lack of oppeeitlon. are all but certain that the National league king* will — 1 » Public Auction Household (ioods i The household goods of the I late Bins Buhler will be sold i at public auction at .129 Line BE-, Decatur, Saturday, July 11th at 1:10 P. M. w 1 good range coot stove; 1 cabinet; 1 hot plate; 1 table; 1 kitchen chain; linoleum; dining room suite; 4 good rugs; 4 good rockers; 1 base rocker; 2 good combination nek bookcases: 1 library table: 1 piano, fine shape; 2 bed* complete; 1 wooden bed; 2 cheats of drawers. 2 dreason; comforts blankets; canned fruit; diabee. cooking utensils; ironing board: wash tubs; glass cans; porch swing; and other article* too nume ou* to mention TERMB; Cash. Ellis J. Emerick* Owner Roy B Johnson. Auctioneer

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fall again into the pitfalls of 'he world series and that although they may be a good team for their circuit they are not a good team as good team* are judged. The lack of balance between the offense and the defense is the major argument the writer* advance. But there to another reason, too, which must tie recognized a* the off spring of the theory that wishing will make it so. For the 1942 Dodger* are to the writer* perhaps the most unpopular team of the last 20 year*. This unpopularity doesn't stem from the bottom —lt seep* down from above. The reporters have no fight with the player*. But they do have a surprisingly bitter argument with the management, mean- I ing MacPhai! and Leo (the lip) Durocber. Both men are Idud. arrogant and selfcentered, and they rapidly are becoming much too unpleasant to live and work with. Macl’hail is an unpredictable sort. At time* one of the moat forthright men In baseball, he Is at other time* given to the sort of tantrum* for which junior is soundly pummeied with a razor strop. A* for Durocher. he ha* become xort | of a Napoleon of the National ! league If a writer is critical in 1 the slightest sense, he finds the ' Brooklyn clubhouse barred Tile pumlier of sport writing friend* now commanded by the Brooklyn dub may be counted on right hand of three-fingered Brown. The aituation ha* become no critl-' cal that even the men who tabbed Brooklyn as th* National league winner are sitting back and summoning all the jinzes they're ever heard of. Barred dressing room* and tan- 5 trum* and egocentric pose* are noveltlM for a time—but only a •bort time. Ho today the universal attitude of the writer* I* summoned in that old bromide—whatever happen* to Brooklyn, let'* hope it I* trivial But wishlug doesn't make it so. and the writer* at heart know thia. You must give even the devil hi* due. and whether you like them or not you mnst give the Dodgers' their due. too. The Dodger* don't form a solid club add they are a bothersome lot to have as your daily chore but they won't slump to the point where they will blow the pennant and although they aren’t great they'll do until the real thing come* along. —————e Flr*t American nickel* were minted In the U.S. In 1913.

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BRITISH PLANES (Continued From Fa«e 1> quarter*. Berlin said that throe of the raiding planes were downed. Wilhelmshaven was last attacked on the night of February 27. Last night’s raid gave additional emphasis to the recent pattern of Royal Air Force attack* in tha' corner of northern Germany lying on the North *ea ju«t east of tue Netherlands. It Is an area filled with airplane and other war factories and with caval ablpyaid* most of which are i building submarines Game Bird Delivery For Club Brooders Delivery of 150.000 pheasant and quail chicks to conservation club brooder* for rearing and liberation will be completed within the next few days, it was announced teday by Merrell F. Mosbaugh, director of the division of fish and game. These rtay-old game oiru chicks were hatched in electric Incubator* at the Jasper-Pulaskl and the Wells I county state game farm* which are r-i-ognized a* among the largest and beat -equipped in the United State*. Release of the pbea*ant« and quail at the age of eight week* will ' be done by the members of the ■ conservation club* under the super- ! vision of the conservation officers. Birds will again this year be liberated only on land which Is open for hunting and on land where food, shelter and cover condition* are satisfactory. Moose To Initiate Candidates Tuesday Plans have been completed for a special meeting of Adame lodge 1211. Loyal Order of Moose, to be held at the Moose home next Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Initiatory work will be conferred on a class of about 15 candidate* with the Fort Wayne degree and drill team, under the direction of Harold Bridges, in charge. The meeting will begin al 8 p m. and will be followed by refreabmente. AU member* are urged to attend. William Schumacher and Cedric Fisher are acting a* cochairman of arrangements for the meeting. Other members of the committee are: Florian Keller. Frank Llnlger, Pete Braun and Ernest Worthman.

MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 52 21 .712 St. Louis 43 29 597 Cincinnati 41 43 .547 12 New York 40 37 .519 14 Chicago 38 41 .481 17 |*ltt*burgli 24 40 .459 18*4 Boston 35 46 .432 21 Philadelphia 21 54 .280 32 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pct. G.B. New York 50 26 658 Boston 46 30 .605 4 Cleveland 45 35 .5'3 7 Detroit 44 38 .53 • 9 St. Ixtuis 37 41 .474 14 Chicago 31 44 .413 18*g Philadelphia 32 51 .393 21 Washington 29 50 .367 22’4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League No game* scheduled. American League No game* scheduled. RUSSIANS BATTLE (Continued Fivtn Page 1) effort to reach either Voronezh or Svoboda. The break through wa« described by Ilya Khrenburg. noted Soviet war correspondent, as "a military mischance" that might have the most far-reaching results. The German* said that they had broken through toward the Don on a front 300 mile* wide. Indicating that their operation* extended j south of the bend in the river, where the main railroad extend* southward toward Rostov. Russian counterattacks on both flank* of the German offensive were reported by *Moscow, which said they had been effective in slowing the enemy and in helping to "bleed” the Nazi atreßfflA but there was nothing to indicate that the Red army had been able to start a major counteroffensive al Orel or elsewhere. The German communique reported that "hard enemy attacks" were repulsed with big losses and the destruction of 289 Russian tank* in tour days of fighting In the

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. Orel area. On the Egyptian front, the British reported that their patrols still were on the offensive and had knocked out a number of enemy guns and taken prisoners, but a Rome communique claimed lhat Axis forces concentrated west | of El Aiamein again were taking the initiative and had forced the British so retreat from important position*. Dispatches from the fighting front on the desert said that a large Axis force was caught in a pocket by the British southwest of El Aiamein and was trying to fight it* way owt without success. The British were said to In* getting stronger in the air and on the land but It was not known what reinforcements the Ax!* had sent to Egypt. o — The retina of the human eye to nine layer* thick.

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