Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1943 — Page 6

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Cardinals And Yanks Appear Flag Winners Hold Wide Morqins As Major Leagues In Home Stretch I By United Press) The baseball season is heading for the home stretch now the last one third of the campaign. And it's during thia crucial period that the pennant race* will be decided that to, if you’re one of those who believe they aren’t over already. The eastern American league clubs are making their fwiai trip west. and the western teams in thNational League are visiting the East for the last time, Yesterday and today most of the teams have been traveling and resting up for the hard grind ahead. And now that there’s a brief breathing spell, it might be a good idea to look at the big league* and see how they line Up. let’s take the American first. The Yankees passed the two -■ thirds mark with a nine game lead over the net of the junior circuit nd also with the blessing < f most | of the experts who seem to agree I they’ll wind up the season just about the same distance in front. | The Washington Senators are the current holders of second place -but not by a very large margin The Chicago While Sox and the

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Detroit Tig-rs are de.idl.x ked f third, two games in back of the Nats A half game behind ate th* Cleveland Indians And sixth place belongs to the Boston Bed Box two more games In back. These cluls* a l * all in the race theoretically, at least. The seventh plate St Louis Browns and the last place Philadelphia Athlet its appear to be stuck in the second division f i good. , In the National League th • world champion St Louis Cardinals have a Plgame lead at the moment. The second place club Is the Pittsburgh Plrat-s. with the Cincinnati Reds a half game behind nt the third Spot. These two dub!' Seem to be the only ones with a chance of latching the flying Cardinals an even they hav. only a remote chance. The Brooklyn Dodger* now artin fourth position. 16 games off the pace ami still sinking. The Chicago Cubs head the set ond division will), the Philadelphia Phil lies are sixth, anti the Boston Braves seventh The New York (Hants bring up the rear a pitiful 30 games In back of the leaders And that’s the way they stand today with th.- last lap ahead. There arc only two games sche.l* uled today, both in the American League. New Y< rk is at St. Ixniis, and Boston plays at Chicago under the lights. — o Columbus Defeats Milwaukee In 11 th Knock Full Game From Brewer Lead (By United Presst Mo-t of the credit for the full game Columbia gained on Milwaukee In the American asso-lation last night goes to Redbird Infl -Ider John Anton -1110 Milwaukee led 2 to 0 in ihe last | half of the ninth. But with one mate almard, Johnny smashed a homer over the fa.-aibi of the Brewer outfielders tying things up at 2-all. Francis Joe Barrett, who ha replaced Ted Wilk* for the Redbird* In the ninth, held .Milwaukee off for two innings. And in the last of the 11th. the Redbird* pushed over the winning run. Columbus outhit 10 to 7 givt* most of the credit for the victory to Antonelli. Tonight .Minneapolis plays a doublebi-ader at Toledo, and Milwaukee takes the field for a twin bill at Indianapolis. Kansas (Tty meets the Colonels at Louisville.

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Schaefer, Sf. Mary's i Score Upsets Monday Defeat G. E. Club Cloverleaf Teams Schafer and St. .Mary’s provided a pair <T startling upsets In (Tty softball league games Monday night at Worthman field, turning in victories over the G E. Club and Chn rleaf teams, respectively. B Scherer limited G. E. to three hits in the opener, while bit mattbum ht'd nine blows to good effect to give Schafer a 7 to 2 triumph. Three runs in the fourth Inning pt- ved sufficient for the Schafer victory. St. Mary's tallied six runs in the fourth inning without a hit to mark up a 7 to I victory over Cloverleaf. Five Cloverleaf errors ami two walks accounted for the six scores Score* ’y Innings: R II E Schaefer <H»I 301 2—7 » 3 G. E. Club 100 (ml it 2 3 i B. Scherer and SUppenhagen; Gordon. Conrad ami Holtsberry. R li E Cloverleaf 000 121 0 4 8 7 St. Mary’s 000 610 x-7 3 5 .Maltlin. Wynn and Pettibone; R. Lengerich and Wemlmff. MAJOR LEAGUE kJ STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L. Pct. G.ll. St. lanti* W 32 .673 Picitburg 54 40 .640 13 Cincinnati 53 47 .530 14 Brooklyn 52 50 .510 16 Chicago <6 53 .465 20%, Boston 43 52 .453 21 Philadelphia 47 56 ,456 21 •■rfl New York 37 63 .370 30 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L. Pct. G.B New York 61 37 622 Washington 55 4‘J .521! ’J (Tib ago 50 4* .510 11 Detroit 5o 48 .510 11 Cleveland 4U 48 .505 11% Boston 48 51 .485 13% St. lauils 43 54 443 17'n Philadelphia 4«> 61 If.tMl 22>| Ye»!erd»y’» Re*i It* NATIONAL LEAGUE No game* s-heduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE No gain* n scheduled. o Valparaiso Quits Football For Year Valparaiso, Ind.. Aug. 10—(I’Pt I’niverslty university has abandoned foot trail so rthe coming school year I’niverslty president Dr. O. P , Kretzmann, who announced the action today, said the move wan l made because ot a shortage of 1 and St. Paul in booked at Colum-' I bIM. 1

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Tells How Doughboys Landed Behind Lines Attack Is Complete Surprise To Nazis With American f< rces advancing along thf north Sicilian coast, Ang. 10 il'IM When Lieutenant | Colonel Bernard told his men "to cut a rug."' he wasn’t giving dam Ing lessons. |i was J »m and a small l>and of American »<dd!ers was about to land behind the enemy )in> s. Their job was to hold the Germans off while the main American forces ad van< <*d. "It’s a chance that few cutilts 1 get." Bernard told the tense group, "so let's cut a rug and knock them al! the way back to Messina." Sergeant Jack Foisle. a corree pondent for Stars and Stripes, tells how the boys did it. Creeping In through a grey dawn, the Yanks caught the Germans completely by surprise. Five hours : male students. FootlMll coach I-oren Kilis said that none of last yearu team was available for competition thW year His dutlea for the coming school year have not been determined a--1 TeL

after the* first assault boa! louche I the sand, they were firmly entrenched In the hills, and had man aged to cheek all enemy traffic back ami forth. By noon the* stra- ! tegle- town eef San Agata had fallen. Anil within three* quarters of an hour some* 14 houre ahead of schedule -cemtact was established with the main American force. Sergeant Foisle* says it was too dark for the* Americans to be espee ially Interested In taking prisonera. "Blit if they insist on surrendering," Col- ne! Bernard had tolel his mtn, "1 guess we can,find a drawer or something to put them In." About !t0 did insist. Ami morej than half of them, the sergeant rays, were Nazi supermen. Bell Telephone Co. Strike Called OH Scheduled Strike Os 1,000 Canceled > Indi.in i;> Aug- (W) 1 Vice prt.lident Frank Montrose of I the Indiana Bell telephone comi pany says that a scheduled strike of I.WO employes hae heen called 1 ■ off. The maintenance and ‘on-true- • tion workers delayed their walkout pending completion of a hearing

Wyatt And Mellon Big Dodger Flops Pitchers Fail To Win For Brooklyn (By I’nited Press! If you’re looking for a couple mo- reasons why the Brooklyn Dodgers are taking their current nosedive how about Whit Wyatt ami Ruin- .Melton’ W. im-nti n those two gentlemen bl cause they re th. pitch. . s who were picked to stem til*’ flood wfilch has washed the Dodgern >o the gates of the Naikmal league-s-i oiid division. A sudden upsurge of power at the plate also might hav<- done the trick- Ur th. i>turn to form of s me other piti-it-ers. But at the start of th<- season. Melton and Wyatt were • xpect. l to hear most of the mound burden for the flock. And they've both been dismal flops the biggest disappointments on the Ikniger team Wyatt’s tr tlbl has been with his right shoulder. All through the early part of the season he was bothered by It. In July, things becam.- crucial when the shoulder went lam*-, an I he had to rest it completely for a few weeks. Thre. w.-eks ago. he war aide to start again And he came through In grand style pitching a four-hit shutout over the Cincinnati Redn. But In bis tw starts since then he dropped a close one to the St. Units Cardinals and was knocked from the box by the Boston Braves. So apparently he isn't ready to pitch his bent yet. But -M. lion’s Inability to win games is even more important. Umt winter. President Biamh Rickey of the D dger* announced that if the Dodgers were to win th.- pennant. Ruh. Melton would have to pitch them to it. He said that In so many words. Th.- former Philly has been pl'lfill. Ill* record now ki live win before a war labor Ixiard panel meeting in Indianapolis. The strike wa» to have begun today. but I’nlon ami company officials have been conferring with the WLB panel since y.nt -rday in an effort to avert the atrlke. The employm are represented by an Independent union the Hoosier telephone awoclatlon. .Montrose and union president Ceci! Risk of Muncie define the issue of the dioagr'enii'llt as one of repiMentation and closed nhop rather than over wages.

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and seven losses. He’s lieen blast',l from the hili almost every time on. He's the only Dodger pitcher who did not lose a game during the in-game 1 sing streak blithe started twice and went to the showers twice having th- adverse decislon to some other pitcher. I’tilesa .Melton and Wyatt come around before long, the D dgm probably will remain on the skids. And even if Rube »•»<* Whit do .tart winning games. H’s too late for them to do much about that world serh * melon.

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