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Pirates Beat Reds To Bolster Hold On Second Mel Ott Hits Two Homers For Giants; Yankees Lose Again New York. June 8.- (UPI Manager FranKTc Frisch of the Pittsburgh Pirates considered the possibilities today of making basketball a regular part of the Pirates* spring training routine in years to come. The fiery Frisch, who complained during training thia year that he was developing a cage instead of a diamond team because bad weather at Muncie. Ind . forced his squad Indoors much of the time, rapidly I Is becoming a basketball booster. The Pirates, whom Frisch eaid could challenge the Indiana state high-school championship basketball team to a game, have been

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getting along all right in '>ua<ball too. They ktrengthened their hold on second place In the National league lust night lo a full game over Cincinnati by beating the Reds 4-2 and drew within three and a hulf game# of the idle league lead- | lug Nt. lands Cardinals. Truett (Rip) Sewell, ace of the | Rues' mound staff, recorded his seventh consecutive victory ami his eighth of the year as be pitched seven hit ball to receive credit for the triumph Frisch called on ; Xavier Henclgno for relief work in the ninth inning, the first time this season that Sewell has failed to go the route. Rookie Tom De Lacruz I was ehaiged with the loss. , The New York Giants stretched their streak of consecutive games in which they have hit homers to 10 by clouting four to trounce the Boden Braves 6-2 in a game in which all scoring was accounted for by circuit clouts. Manager Mel Ott hit two. one i with a mate on base, to increase I his major league leading total to 14. six ahead of his nearest competitor. Phil Weintraub hit bls third in as many games and Nap I Reyes accounted for a pair of runs 1 with his fifth of the season. Harry I Feldman recorded hfs fourth tri- | umph behind the power hitting and | had a one-hit shutout going into 1 the seventh when Butch Nieman ; pob*d one over the fence with a , mate on the bases to account for the Braves's two tallies. In the only other National league I game scheduled the Philadelphia I Phillies shoved the Brooklyn Dodg* ■ ers down into’seventh place with a 1 6 5 victory. Two runs in the ninth Inning brought the PhillltM from behind and spoiled Rube Melton's bld j for his third straight win. I<efty : Ken Raffenshergen although touch- . ed lor 10 hits Including a homer by Angle Galan, was the winner. In the American league the Chi- ■ cairo White Sox ran their victory j string to seven games by defeating the Detroit Tigers 3-1 behind i the five hit pitching of Orva! Grovy ■ Hal Newhouser's wildness largely was attributable to hte own downfall as he issued passes to nine Chicagoans. Two walks and three ' single* scored two runs for the Sox In the seventh Inning, breaking a ■ 11 tie and accounting for the margin of triumph. Tex Hughson ran his record to i nine wins against four losses in I his competition against the New York Yankees as the Boston Red j Sox downed the champions 8-1. It I was Hughson's seventh victory of : the season and the Yanks' eighth 1 loss in their last lo games. The ace of the New York mound staff. Hunk Boro'wy. was charged with ; the loss as Hughson limited the

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15-Year-Old Hurler Joins Cincinnati Junior heigh Grad Is Signed By Reds Cincinnati. ()., June 8. — (UP) Joe Nnxhall. 15 -year-old junior high school graduate, become* the baby or the big league* tonight when he join* the company or Bucky' Walters and Elmer Biddle and other pitchers on the utaff or the Cincinnati Rods. Signed to a contract by the Red* last fall, the six-root, three-inch. 195-pound Giant (retted through tour long months or schooling he tore he could Join the Cincinnati team. Should the young giant pitch in a big league game with the Reds before July 30, he will make baseball history. No other 15-year-old ever has appeared In a major league boxscore and Joe won't be 16 until July 30. “I'm all set." the youngster grinned. “I know I can learn a lot from .Mr. McKechnle, Bucky Walters and other players. Mr. McKechnle hasn't told me what he has planned for my program. Would I like to get In a big league game? What do you think I've been waiting for all these months?" The Reds meet the St. Louis Cardinals tonight under the light** at Crosley Field. Warren Giles, general manager of the Reds, said that any plans for Joe are up to manager Bill McKechnle. "The boy Is big and strong and looked very good in the times that I've seen him pitch.” Giles eald "He's got a real fast ball." —— o 'Teen-Age' Dance To Be Held Here Friday The Decatur high scho.H band will oponsor a “teen-age" dance in the music room of the Decatur Junloruenlor high school Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock. No admission will l>e charged but all attending will be required to register. Only teenage student* of both the Catholic and public school*, are invited. However, this includes this year's graduate* of both high school* I! | II I 111 I , Cubs And Dodgers Exchange Players New York. June 8 —(UP)— Ed Htanky, utility infielder and former American association batting champion, joined tbe Brooklyn Dodger* today, in a trade that sent pitcher Bob Chipman to tbe Chicago Cvfts. It was a straight player deal. iStanky, who hit .342 with Milwaukee in 1942. went to the Cubs last year and batted .246. He haa been used infrequently thia season. ex-bombers to six hit*. No other American league games were scheduled. Yesterday's star: Manager Me) Ott of the New York Olanta, whose two homer* accounted for half of hi* team'* run* a* New York beat Boston, 6-2.

Chipman. who wa* with Montreal last year, had won three games while losing one for the Dodgers. Organize Class Os 16 Nurses' Aides '.Mr*. Harold Hoffman and .Mr*. Roy Price organized a clan* of 16 nurse*' aide* at a meeting held at tbe American Legion home Tuesday evening. Mrs. Hoffman a registered nurse. will be the instructorClassen will begin Monday at 7 o'clock at the legion home, and will meet every evening, with the exception of Saturday and Sunday, for two weeks. Anyone wishing to join the class should contact Mr* Price before Monday. Those from Decatur enrolled in the courae are Mrs. Vernon Fairchild. Mrs. IMax Schafer, Mrs. Madge Barton. Mrs D. H Kingsley, Mr*. Weldon Soldner, Mr*. Roy Price and Mis* Mildred Worthman. —,— O'--Two Men Are Killed As Ditch Caves In •Shelbyville, Ind, June 8— (UP) — Janies Christian Carroll. 52. and Clarence Bailry 38, were killed late yesterday in a ditch cavein at a private home where they were excavating for Utilitie* installations.. ■Deputy coroner Charles Kohlmeyer said the men were crushed by falling earth and that they had been dead an hour before the Itodies were found by Walter W Carter owner of a plumbing firm by whom the victims were employed. The liodies were taken to Hurroddburg, Ky., former home of both men. for burial Saturday. The men were brothers in Itvw. Carrol is survived by the widow and eight children. Bailey by the widow and four children. —o_ HOME RUN* Ott. Giant* 14 Kurowski, Cardinal* 8 Cullenbine, Indian* „ 7 Nieman, Brave* 7 Eight player* tied with 6 SAYS VAUNTED NAZI (Oor.tlaee* r»«s race 1) hated Germans.” When I entered Bayeux the Inhabitant* were crasy with joy. A* we reached the town, a squadron of medium bombers flww over lo*r. Crowd* pointed upward*, waving their hand* a* the airmen could see them "Tint is what frightened the German* molt," the French laid." They scurried underground like rabbits whenever your flier* came over. During the last few day* before tbe invasion, your air attack* were terrific. We could read fear on the face* of the German*.” A* I drove into Bayeux, I passed ■long line* of German prisoners. On the roadside the bodies of German nad Allied dead lay unburied. For a moment, every man wa* needed for fighting. What surprised me moot waa the weakness of rhe Herman defense line. 1 examined with great eare the Mxalled Atlantic wall ■long this coast. It constitute* the biggest bluff of the whole war for

MAJOR LEAGUE STANOIH6S NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G B St. Ixnii* ... 29 14 .674 Pittsburgh 24 16 .600 314 Cincinnati 29 19 .558 I New York 21 23 .477 B’4 Philadelphia 18 22 .450 9% Boston 21 26 .447 10 Brooklyn 19 24 .442 10 Chicago 13 25 .432 13)4 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L Pct. G.B. Fit. Louis 27 20 .574 New York 22 19 537 2 Detroit 24 23 .511 3 Chicago 21 21 ,50ft 3’4 Boston 22 23 .489 4 Philadelphia 20 22 .476 4 Cleveland 21 25 .457 5>4 Washington .... 20 24 .455 5t4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Philadelphia 6, Brooklyn 5. Pittaburgh 4, Cincinnati 2. New York 6. Boston 2. Only game* scheduled. American League Boston 8, New York 1. Chicago 3, Detroit 1. Only games scheduled. o Red Skelton Reports For Army Induction Hollywood. June B—(UPI-He-1 Skelton, radio and movie comedian, reported at Ft. Mao Arthur today for Induction into the army. "I'm really glad to be In the army,” he said, "But I sure hope my top sarge ha* a sense of humor.” o Mountain Height At Kohima Is Captured Southeast Aria Headquarters, Kandy. Ceylon, June 8 - (CLP) — British imperials captured strategic Aradura Spur * mountain height below Kohima overlooking tbo highway running south to Imphal. and left a Japanese garrison trapped in a *mall pocket, it wa* announced today. With the British holding full control of the main road in tbe area south of Kohima, Allied official* Mid the Isolated Japanese were unable to withdraw fiovn the trap and faced certain liquidation. The Aradura spur wa* occupied by th* Imperial* at dawn yesterday as the Alllea continued their drive to clear the Japanese from India and removed a threat to tbs AssamBengal railway. it simply does not exist. Some pri•oners told ma that tbe German* had been frantically trying to complete defenses but that the task had been too vaat for them.

Milwaukee Brewers Boost League Lead ' Win Double Header As Columbus Loses I I (By United Press I The Milwaukee Brewers stretchrd their lead in the American A» «> cistion to eight games yesterday i by taking a doubleheader from the Louisville Colonels. '-5 and -’-I. whib- the second-place Columbus i Redblrds dropped a 4-3 decisl

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the Mlnneapolls Millerg. In other aitocfarlon games, Toledo beat St Paul 6 2 and 4-1 and Kunras City whipped Indianapolis 3 2. Pitcher Charlie Gassaway played a double relief role for the Brewers, going into the first game in the second inning after the Colonels staged a rally that netted four rune and threatened the five-run lead the Brewers piled Up in the first stanza. After holding the Colonels to a single run for the balance of the game, Gassaway also was called upon to hurl the final Inning ot the nightcap after Earl Caldwell gave

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