Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1942 — Page 6

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New York Giants Stop Twilight League Battles Regulation Daytime Contests Only Ones At Polo Grounds New York. Aug. S.—(VP)-The Are of controversy over twilight ba*,ball burned *o Intemw-ly In the National league today that official action threatens soon to wipe out all unorthodox form* of baseball In the seplcr league at least so far m eastern coastal cities are concerned. Three so-called "Iwliright” contest* -all of which have had questionable endings — have come on top of each other during th.- last . several days. And all have Involv-! ed thfe.- of the circuit's top dubs Brooklyn. the Cards and the Giants. Preaid* nt Horace Stoneham, hacked by manager Mel Ott, ha* taken the Initial step and banned all games other than regulation daytime contests at the Polo, Grounds His decision resulted from Monday night s game between I Brooklyn and the Giants at lhe Ptoki Ground* for army relief List ' night there was another affair on the name order. The service contest came tn an end with two men on. none nut. Babe Young at bat and the Giants trailing. 7-4. The attitude of the 57.305 fans was so strongly against curtailment of play that only the playing of the Star Spangled Banner prevented some unpleasant demonstration. Last night Pee Wee Heese hit a home run with the ba.es full and one out to break a 1-1 tie In the top half of the 10th. But the umpires. In cooformmg with regulations, called the game and It reverted to the end of the ninth and remained a He The Dodgers scored their official run In the fifth on a wglk. a force out. a sacrifice and Reese’s single The Giants tied It oi: Mel Ott’s single. Babe Young's double and Willard Marshall's fly. President Larry MacPhail of the " -UT— ■

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I Dodgers was pot on hand to take part In the controversy which began when an important contest be tween the Cards and Dodger* a ! we-k ago had to be .ailed In th*seventh. But secretary John McDonald unnoticed that the Dodgers would advance their twilight starting times to 8:30 p. m EWT. Controversy or n t, Brooklyn bepelt’.d when th.- It*-i* whip;- -I th.- (ads. I to 3 to drop St. l-ouls 10 games off the pace Johnny Van der Meer held the Cards to two hits In the first six innings, but was j I kayoed In the < sventli lie gained I credit for hl« seventh otralght vic-. | tory over St. Louis. however, when ' . Cincinnati registered the winning 1 run on Slats Marlon's error, single-. :by Frank Kelleher and Eddl Joost | ' and Dick West’s fly. Jim Tobin tied the National league mark of homers by a pitcher when he socked hie sixth four-hag ger in th.- seventh with on.- on as | I .he Brave* lest to the Phils. 42. Wes Ferrell holds the major league i mark for circuit clout* by a pitchi er, with nine, made in 1931. Hal , Schumacher of th** Giants now ! shares lhe senior circuit mark with I Tobin The husky moundsinan ' gave up only five hits but was hamper-<1 by two errors. Frank Gustine's pop fly single ' fell iu front of la u Novikoff to j give the Pirates a 2-1 verdict over . . I the Cub* in FI inlngs. Bob Elliott , ’ singled and advanced on a sa< riI flee as Vince DiMaggio walked to I set up the deciding run Elmir Vaio's three-bagger with , two on climaxed a three-run sev ( I .-nth Inning rally that gave the A'* I , ' a 6 4 victory over the Bed Sox aa I, Washington shaded the leading Yankees 4-3. behind the sev-n-hlt , pitching of Sid Hudson. An error, j George Cage's double and Stan Spence's fly drove in th.- winning run In the fourth for Washington , Ted Lyon* shaded Tommy , Bridge* In a mound duel between two veteran* to give the White Sox a 5-4 decision over the Tigers , It was Lyons' ninth win and f urth straight for lhe White Sox Bridges hung on until the eighth In a bat tie In which both allowed 10 hits. ( Taft Wright scoring the winning run •».. a doubts play Cleveland at St l»ui* was pout-' potted. Yesterday's star Jim Tobin who tied the National league rec rd for homers hit by a pitcher when he socked No 6 as Boston bowed to the Phils. 4-2 o —— LEADING HITTERS National League Player Club G AB R H Pct. Reiser. Dodgers 87 341 71 117.343 I l-otnbardi. Brehm 78 215 32 72 .335 Medwick. Dodger* 99 3*4 53 125 326 Slaughter. St L 99 386 83 125.319 Musial. St Louis 88 291 58 92 .316 American League Williams. B-ston 102 356 90 123 345 Gordon. Yanks 97 351 55 123 343 Wright. Chicago 65 224 36 75 .335 Spence. Senators 101 426 64 140 329 Deerr. Bbcmi MMttlliflJtt - Roller Skat inc Every Wednesday, Thursday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday Nights, 18 < 'dock at SI N-SET.

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City Softball 1 League Playoff Opens Thursday Cloverleaf To Meet McMillen Team For City League Title — Final Standing W L. Pct McMillen 5 1 *33 Hi Way < 2 - 66 J Cloverleaf I 2 -®®‘ ' j Schafer » ’ •&«" St. Mary's 7 ;1 - r,IMI IG. E. Club 2 4 .333 Wayne Novelty <• 6 -00® Th.- playoff serie., for the championship of the city softball league will Open Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock, with Clov.-rl.-af first half winners, tangling with M< Mill-n. second half titlist*. a The second games of the series will be played Monday ami the third tilt Tii.edny Fourth and fifth games, if necessary, will b<-, played next Thursday und Friday , Th- team first to win three games j will be the league champion Tonight, promptly at 8 o'clock, th.- Rotary and Lion* clubs will meet in th.- second game of their annual series. This game will be followed by an exhbillon between M< Millen and File-, tool of Fort Wayne. Foil wing Thursday night's play r , off game. Schaf.-r will meet Bowser K of Fort Wayne in an exhibition | game. Two • xhibitioii games Fri ~ day night will he Wayne Novelty a vs Preble and Hi Way vs. Reuter „ Chevrolet of Fort Wayne. Hi Way defeated St. Mary’s In M last night's league game. 4 to 2 p In the exhibition game. St Peter's p of F- rt Wayne defeated the G E club, 6 to 4. , _ Scores by Inning*: R 11 F. ( ] Hi Way 100 120 0 4 6 1 p St. Mary's 000 0002 0 2 4 2 |, Raudebush. Helm and Sapp; Bak |, er and Bollinger. ( - St. Peter’s 302 0001 0 8 7" „ G. E. (flub mm 2"2 0 4 6 3 Miller and Chok.i Andrews an.l Wortbmatl. Hakes. ... .1 Q — , Il •'* • | Today's Sport Parade n i Reg. U. 8. Pat. Office By Jack Cuddy I i * — ♦ y New York. Aug. 5 -tl’Pt Some- j j one remarked that Chalky Wright (l was a pickaninny during the Civil ’ | war. Another disagreed, claiming , Wright — current featherweight t, champion had been a mess b y u with Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan ( hill I Nate L wi*. the bald eagle of : Chicago's Michigan boulevard. Ig- y mired these exaggerations about ( the colored champion's age and de- ( < fared: j "Wright ha* a good chance a- a galmtt young Allie Stclx at the r Garden Thursday night, because a ' f figbier is as old as be feel* If you don't believe it. I'll tell you about stoebings Kelly, th" olde*t , professional fighter I ever knew." i Newspapermen, who had been discussing Wright's non-tltle 10- — .

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round* r with lightweight Stoll, gave the grer light to ancient lx*uf». So bespectacled. bald-head ed Nate, who has l»een kicking about the fight game a* trainer, manager and promoter for more than 50 yean and now pilot* lightweight Leo Kodak, cleared hl* throat and began the tale of Slot-k---ing* Kelly. • Many year* ago. I'm promoting at Gary, Indiana.” Lewis said, “tn those day* Gary ha* a big Polish population. and I have a young Pollah preliminary boy named Stanley Zejinaky who I* a gnat card because he is a rough, tough »lugger of the Galento type. “Alao at thin club. I have a gen j eral *ecend handling the bottle*. j Ktoola and oo forth named Stock-1 ing* Kelly, who had been a good lightw* ight In hl* day. hut who I* now about 50 year* old and hasn't fought for at least 15 year*. On > the side Kelly I* managing some youngster, and he aaka me If I can put him in a preliminary. I say the only prelim that's open its with Zelinsky. In the first bout, but I don't want to put nobody In who might knoc k out Zelinsky and ruin him a* a drawing card. Kelly say* hi* boy can’t knock out nobody—yet. So I acept the boy for Zelinsky. "Well. It’s fight night, and we have a good crowd. I come out of the office In ront after estimating the dough and I'm looking up and down the street to gee if more fans are coming when I hear the gong rung, and I know the first prelim Is on. So 1 go Inside. “I have a strong heart - never had a stroke or anything in my life -but I almost drop in the aisle wbc A I take a look at the ring. Zelinsky is In there all right, throwing punches In all direction*, but his opponent Isn't any boy. It’s 50-year-old Stockings Kelly, look ing a* if he had just jumped off a slab In the morgue, what with bls being withered by age and seared white. “I totter down to the ringside to i the ac companiment of fans mumbling. "wot ta heck.' It’s because 'hey B || know Kelly and bow old he Is I don't know what to do Kelly i* running ha.-ir—ardst. throwj ing left jabs at man-eater Zelinsky, who Is swlnnlng all over the place :md aimin' to kill the od gaffer. This ke» p* up for about two minute! whle I'm trying to figure what to do. Then, all of a sudden, old Stockings Kelly sorts punches up I and throws a right. It is one of ihe most perfect rights I ever saw I: hits Zelinsky on the chin and knocks him cold. When Zelinsky ie count d cut. the crowd goes wild In admiration of old Kelly Fans rush tbe ringside and climb in to shake his hand They slap me on tbe back and say I am a genius as a promoter •'Finally Kelly gets to the dreasing room and I say wo’tlnhell to the meaning of this. He says bis

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boy dt n't show up for the fight and he doesn't want to disappoint me and the crowd, so he 'borrys' a pair of trunk* and does into fight, himself He way* he was scSred stiff and he got so tired running from Zelinsky that he couldn't have kept on hl* pins for the rest of the round. So he decide* to risk everything and throw a right - In desperation. He was more surprised than Zelinsky -or me. ’ Ever since then I never took too much slock In a fighter's ag*-, Lewis said. And he concluded: "I den’t know whether Chalky Wright is 30 or 40. but he's a good fighter and don't sell him short ■ against young Stolz." MAJOR LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. Pct. OB Brooklyn 73 30 .709 St Ixiuls 42 39 .414 10 Cincinnati 55 47 .539 174 New York 54 50 519 194 Pittsburgh 46 53 .465 25 I Chicago 4S 5* .453 244 Bustufi 43 64 4vz 32 Philadelphia 30 70 .300 414 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pct. GB. New York 70 34 .673 i Cleveland 59 47 .557 12 Boston 57 47 .549 13 i St Louis ... 54 53 .505 174 i Detrcll 51 56 .477 204 11 Chicago 44 55 .444 234 i Washington 42 61 .4">< 274 > 1 Philadelphia 43 47 .391 30 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS I National League dm laccucil 4. Si. Louis 3. Brooklyn 1. New York 1 t called I. i Pittsburgh 2. Chicago 1. Philadelphia 4. Boston 2. American League I Washington 4. N w York 3. I Chicago 5. Detroit 4. > Philadelphia 4. Boston 4. f Clevland at St. Louis, postpon- . ed. 1 o r HOME RUNS 1 • a Williams Red Sox 24 i> Mlse. Giants 19 » LMbs. Browns 19 s Camllll, Dodgers 17 (Mt. Gisnts 14 i- York. Ttgem 14 s DiMaggio. Yankees 14 s Keller. Yankees 14

Japs Machine Gun Survivors Os Ship Lifeboat Fired On By Jap Submarine A west coast port. Aug. 5 tl Pi ■ Nine survivor* ot an American freighter shelled and act afire in the north Pacific by a Japanese submarine. July 14. told today how six of their mate* di<-d of exposure as they drifted eight day* on the open sea. Two other crewmen were killed by shell and machine gunfire. A 13th naval district announcement said the submarine machine gunm-d one of the lifeboats afte. subjecting the ship to such terrific shellfire that the captain ordered hi* vessel abandoned. This was the fourth Japanese submarine attach on a vessel in the North Pacific since June 7 when a freighter was sunk. Point Eatevan on Vancouver Island and Astoria. Ore., have been shelled by submarines. The dead were: Anthony Amundsen. chief engineer; Bernard Rodman, seaman, San Diego; Rudolph Petterson, seaman; Emil Nilsson, seaman. Seattle; Lloyd Carlson, seaman. Seattle; Martin Knudsen, seaman. San Francisco; Thomas F. Ware, seaman, and Alexander Reltner. missing and believed dead The submarine attacked with shellfire from a distance of about three mile* shortly after dusk on July 14 and the captain threw the ■hip Into a aig-aag course In an attempt to elude the enemy. Hhellfire splindered a lifeboat destroyed a wheelhouse and radio shack, knocked down the funnel and set the ship afire. The master : ordered the men to abandon ship and they took to the sea In the one J remaining lifeboa-t and two raft*. Seaman Rodman. already wound- 1 ed by shrapnel, was killed when the submarine moved In close to riddle the lifeboats with machine gun fire. Bullets pictured the roptain's life raft and it was fastened to a second raft. Signalman third class Milton C. j MnGuWhey of St. Joseph. Mo., was among the survivors who related the story of the tortures suffered _ hy the men during the eight days of drifting before they were picked up by the rescue vessel. “I dreamed once I was in hell,” ■ MeGauhey said. He added that all the survivors were Irrational during the days [

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I In Hot Senate Primary Fightßt! ' \dßSßfek. Bl / I < s|» | | K. -.JSiLk™ » If IpMr- 1| *' B * JU 1 ■ mQHh .. ya Here are the two leading ouidklates who took part In the hot niary for th* Democratic aenatorial nomination in West They are Gov. M M Neely, left, former senator, an-1 H. G. Kump. Two year* ago. Governor Neely, then a senator. up his Washington post to run for governor in order to 'dean his opponents in the state house. *8

and night* of drifting. | Amundsen, the "kief engineer. was the second to die. Petterson 1 died the next day and Mlsaon. Carlson and Kuud»en followed In quick succession. t'nder orders from the captain. ' the men took the dead men’s cloth- ■ Ing to protect ihemselves from the | | intense cold, and shoved the Itodles I into the »ea. Radioman third class William Kosarlch, Pittsburg. Pa., a survivor. told of their disappointment when a navy patrol plane flew low over them the morning after the atattack but fai'ed to see them. o- — — To Launch Probe Os Allen County Break Fort Wayne. Ind.. Aug. 5— (VP) A thorough investigation will be started Into the escape of fire priI sonere front the Allen county jail early yesterday with the return either today or totnorow of sheriff Walter Felger from Syracuse. N. Y. Four of the Dve are still at large. One, 17-year-old Frank Johnson accused burglar, was recaptured a few minutes after the break Still at liberty are Raymond Beebe. 22. charged with armed robbery; W. J. McCoy. 49. Issuing fraudulent checks; Hotnw Johnson. 18. Frank's brother, accused burglar.

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