Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1943 — Page 6

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Cloverleaf To Meet Flyers In Exhibition Tilt Fort Wayne Air Base Team At Worthman Field Friday Niqht The outstanding attraction of Decatur** softball season will be presented at Worthman field Friday night, when the Baer Field Flyer*. of Fort Wayne, will play In an exhibition game, slated to mart ut 7:15 o'clock The Flyer*, composed entirely of army personnel stationed at the Baer Field air base, have an outstanding and colorful team, and made a great Impression when they played here kiat season. The Flyer* will meet the Cloverleaf team. City softball league leader*, In the exhibition lilt Following the game, the Flyer* and the Cloverleaf team will be guests <>( Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., at a party In the second game of the evening, the G. E. Club and St. Mary's will meet in a regular City league game, postponed because of the heavy rain Tuesday night. Eight States On Roster The playing roster of the Baer Field Flyers lists players from eight different stale* on the service team. Lieut. E. Welnburger is in charge of the Flyers. Pfc. Clarence Kirkman, of Harlem. N. V, a southpaw, is the team's leading hurler. He ha* allowed only four hits and no earned runs In hi* last three starts, and has a season’s record of nine vic- ■ ■■■■ I———

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f torle* as against only two defeats. Pfe. Andrew Dynia. of Hartford. Conn, the team'* other pitcher, has won five games and lost two. Three members of the hmm are holdovers from last year's squad. Sgt. Fred Feller, of Dover, 0.. playing hi* third year on the team. Is the second baseman and sparkplug of the Flyers. Otte of the most reliable batters on the team, he ended last season with a .300 average S Sgt. Walter Butcko. 'of Detroit. Mich., third baseman. and S Sgt. Pete Palumbo, of Chicago. outfielder, are both In their second season with the team. Pvt. Frank Lomnardo, of Harlem. N. V., a former Notre Dime athlete, catcher, boasts a powerful. accurate throwing arm Cpl. Kenneth Nelson of Chicago. I* the Flyers' other catcher. Other members of the team are: S Sgt Donald Walker, of Indianapolla. first baseman; S Sgt. Felix Solek, of Toledo. (>.. shortstop; S Sgt Harold Lombard, of Keene. N H . third baseman; Lt. Hollis Downing, of Oklahoma, short field: Sgt Maurer Neil, of Michigan, left field. Pvt. Walter Knapp, Fort Wayne, third baseman; Cpl. Jone* (Sad Sami, of Harlem. N. Y. rlgh field Play Tonight Two games an- scheduled al Worthman field tonight. In the opening game, the Senators and Indians, who tied for first place in the Recreation league, will decide the first half league championship. In the second game tonight. Cloverleaf and Post 13 will meet In a regular City league contest. Kansas City Knocks Indians From Lead Milwaukee Alone In Lead In Association (By United Press) The last-place Kansas City Blues knocked the Indianapolis Indians out of a first-place deadlock in the American association last night by I splitting a twin liill with the Indlathi. The Milwaukee Brewer* took undisputed first place, meanwhile by defeating the Louisville Colonelu. The downfall of the Indians occurred In the fourth inning of the opener when the Bines scored eight time* before their side could be retired. The game ended !• to 2. In the nightcap, the Indians turned around and spanked the Blue* 7 to 3. Milwaukee had to battl- 12 her--I tic Inning* to jump into flrat place in league standings. The Brewers, aided by four laiukivlll* errors, picked up an early lead, but the Colonels counted three times in the eighth to send the contest into extra innings Milwaukee scored a run in the 11th. but ixmisville matched It. The Brewera finally won out when they sent five runs over the plate In the 13th to win 10 to 5. The Toledo Mudhen* took a 1 to

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0 victory from St. Paul. And th* Minneapolis .Miller* beat the Redbird* 8 to 4 at Columbus. MAJOR LEAGUE SUMS NATIONAL .LEAGUE W. L. Pct. o n St lam I* 48 24 .687 Brooklyn 47 34 .580 s'i Pittsburgh 38 35 .521 Cincinnati 39 37 .513 11 Philadelphia 34 42 .447 16 Boston .. 32 40 .444 16 Chicago 33 43 .434 17 New York 30 46 .395 20 AMERICAN LEAGUE t W. L. Pct. G.B. New York 43 30 .589 Detroit 38 34 .528 4H Washington4o 37 .519 5 Chicago 35 36 .493 7 St. Louis 35 37 .486 .$* Cleveland 35 38 .479 8 Boston 35 39 .473 Bt* Philadelphia 34 44 436 lU* Yesterday's Result* National League No games scheduled. American League No games scheduled. o— Matinee Friday For War Stamp Buyers IhMidet putting a rivet in the new airplane carrier. The ShangriLa. with the purchase of 81 in war stamp*, the boy* and girl* of Decatur. will see a free matinee at th* Adam* theater Friday afternoon if they purchase their stamp* at the Imai office. The stage I* set for the show, "Tarun Triumphs" Children under 12 year* of age are eligible. Ail they have to do 1* buy a dollar* worth of war stamp* at the box office and march in. and receive credit In helping build The ShangriU. - . St Louis Gardinols Purchase New Hurler Sacramento. Calif. July 15—(t’Pl i —AI Brail*, pitching star of the Sacramento Solon*, will join the St. Louis Cardinal* Monday. President Phil Bartelme wa* traded for cash and a pitcher He will replace Howard Pol Jett of the Card Inals, who recently entered the army. Brnale recently set a new Pacific coast league record by ha-diag 40 •core!* a Inning*. ALLIED TROOPS - (CosttnsM Pres* r*<« |) railroad aiding? ~ ’ RAF Blenheim bomber* hit two large rtver steamer*, an oil barge aad o«h*r river craft on the Imtw--1 addy river.

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Cardinals, Yankees Favorites To Win Junior Leaque Race Close All The Way — (By United Press! From here on In, the major les-! gut- baseball season boils down to bitter tight* for first place in the two circuits. It used to Im* a favorite saying of baseball fans that the teams leading their respective leagues on July 1 would meet in the world seriea ( The St. Ixiuls Cardinals that' expression out of commission last year, when they came up from second to nose out the Brooklyn Dodgers. This year It's the American league which promises to provide the | fight to the finish. There are half a dozen clubs which could conceivably come up and take the flag away from the New York Yankees. All too often, the Yanka have made a runaway race out of the! American league champion-hip season. This year. It the Yankees win at all. It will probably be by the smallest of margins. And here's why. The distance between first and third places In the < National league happens tc be 10 and a half gamre At the moment. But the distance between first and laat place in the American is just * one game larger— 11 and a half I games If the Yankees don’t tr'.n the pen- j nant, who will? Let's look at tbe preseason dark-horses. First there were tbe St. Louh Browns. They, wound up third last year, and were j figured to give tbe Yanka their stiffest opposition this season The Browns got oft to a bad start, but they're coming up fast, and they Ye now some seven game* off the pace. Wl’h Vern Stephens and George McQuinn In there at ihe plate—and possibly Bobo New-1 som pitching they're a threat. The Cleveland Indians were tbe other pre-season favorite. But Lou I Boudreau and his mates seem to have fallen into the same rut with the Boston Red Sox almost as good as tbe leaders, but never quite good enough. The two clutki which are now traveling at the hottest pace are a pair of second division teams—the Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators. Take a look at the stand Ings, and you'll see that they're hot on the Yankees' tails. The Tigers were picked by moat observers to win up In the flrot division—suaybe. And tbe Senators weren't even given a look-see into the upper bracket. But some good hitting and a flair amount of decent pitching has made both clubs Into pennant contendere The Bengal .tartrd mov ing wbea Rudy York and Dick Wakefield found the hiuiag range. And the Senatora owe their success chiefly to Bob Johnson. George Cane, and Stan Spence Yoe can't count either of these elube out of tbe running—and nobody knows tint better than the Yankees. — 1 o - It has been estimated that 190.009 persona board aa address by President Grover Cleveland when be •wed tbe worlds lair tn Chicago in May. im. |

■ Newsom Traded To St. Louis Browns < Cause Os Brooklyn Flareup Is Traded — (By United Press) When Buck Newsom was traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers by the Washington Senators last Augu.it he sent a telegram to manager Leo Durocher. “I congratulate you on buying pennant insurance." it read. Well, you know what happened. Apparently Durocher should have taken a more expensive policy. Because Bobo, an explosive, boastful and sometimes great pitcher, didn't bring the pennant to Brooklyn. And now he won't have a chance to make up for his failure last year. Because Newsom -the leading Dodger pitcher In point of victories- has been shipped down the river, to the St. Louis Browns. Buck is probably the first ball , player to play on the same major league team three different times. And he's had two stays each on two other big league clubs -the Dodgers and the Senator*. ' Why has Buck done so much | traveling? It's not because he's a | had pitcher. He could even be called one of the best money pitchers in the last decade If you covered up half his record, and ignored the times he’s lost games because of his temper. NewKom's personality has been the deciding factor influencing 1 most of the trades involving him. Ruck is easily the most boastful I man to hit the major leagues In a , long tlme- and that covers plenty lof territory. He's arrogant, conceited, and he's a braggart. But and this is a big but—he can back up his supreme confidence in himself almost to the hilt. ‘ And that's why he's a mighty valuable piece of baseball propertyeven though he gets kicked around I a*r If he weren't worth a dime. All through Buck's baseball j career, he's been telling p«-ople howgood he is. Most of the time he'* been able to prove It with performance. His first two big league dubs — the Dodger* and the Chicago Cubs —never game him a chance to pitch. He threatened to j cause so much dissension that the owners felt they'd better get rid of him and save themselves some I headaches. In his first year with the Browns ! —l93l—he won lf> game* with a sixth-place club. He split the next I year with the seventh-place Browns ■ and sixth-place Senators, and won ' II-Nineteen-tbirty-elght found him back with the Browns and he was a 20-game winner. But In May of the following year he was traded to the Detroit Tigers. He finished the '» season with an even 20 victories for the second year in a row. But the payoff came In 'lO, when 32-year-old Newsom pitched the I Tig. rs to the American league flag. The big right-hander then proceed- | ed to win two world series games from the Clncinnstl Reds. He • started in the seventh game—with | the series tied st three-sll. You remember the situation. Buck's father had just died, and Bobo went to the mound with at broken heart. The story books would have had him win the game ' for the old man—but he lost. And with It went the world championI — ■ ■

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Little Os Southern Sicily Is Ravaged Writer Surprised At Weak Defenses Palanolo. Sicily, July 15—(UP) —A vetirnn American newspaper man say* the Allied sweep through Mouthea*tern Sicily ha* left moat of it the beautiful green land It always was. Ned Rureell of the United Press has made a tour of recently conquered parts of the island as a representative of the combined American press. And he reports that the ravages of war have appeared only at isolated places where the Fascist troops have tried to make a stand. Russell finds that most of the Sicilians seem relieved that the Allies have finally come. There is no cheering. But there are smiles and t wavem from doorways and an occasional "V” sign. Russell is surprised at the weak defense put up by the Italian and Herman armies. He says Allied might easily overwheJmed the weak coastal bandcadre consisting of txponed pillship. Nobody Named Buck—he’d been the whole Tiger team. The following year he was the highest-salar-ied pitcher in basehall But in 1912. after a bad season, the Tigers sent Newsom to Washington. And last August the boastful one grabbed a train for Brooklyn—ln time for the pennant drive which failed. Buck ssys he won’t report to St. Louis now. He says he's been given the rawest deal a pitcher ever got. and he may be right. But either he or Leo Durocher had to go. And Branch Rickey stuck by bin manager instead of his star < pitcher. While at Sportsman's Park In St. Louis they’re hopefully stencilling Buck's name on a clubhouse locker—for the third time.

boxes and barbed wire entanglements. But he is surprised the Fascists did not make a stand in the mountains off the coast. They rise to a height of 2.000 feet and Russell declares a few men could have held off the invaders for a long time. He speculates that the Axis strategists may have decided to put up their big resistance further on. Palazxolo —an Inland rail town west of Syracuse- had a taste of what the Allies could do. Russell *ays the Fscists tried to hold back advancing British and Canadian armies at Palaxzolo. So the British replied with an overwhelming air raid that quickly reduced moat of the town to rubble. Says Russell: "When the bombs crashed down on them they fled from the crumbling buildings, out of clouds of dust into the British lines waving everything from white handkerchiefs to bedsheets." When Russell arrived the stunned people of the town were i mumbling Incoherently about casualties. The British were kind to them and helped them care for their wounded. But. says Rusell, "they remind them that this h , their wsr and unless they quit, they will get hurt." But Russell saw more than a dos en of the quiet towns of southeast Sicily. And only Palazzolo showed signs that war had struck. o— Mexican Government 1$ Paying Off Debt New York, July 15 —(UP)—lnvestors in the United States have started receiving paymenta today from the Mexican government on Its public debt which has been in default for 15 years. The first allotment Is a semiannual payment, out of a national fund of 10,000.000 pesos, under an agreement with the Mexican government. Coupons retained by holders’of bonds on Mexico's external debt are exchangeable for new coupons. o- - . An average bathtub baa a 15 gallong capacity.

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