Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1945 — Page 6

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Senators Open Major League Spring Drills New York, March 7.—(UP) —A little buddle of pitchers and catchers for the Washington Seniors were set to open major league j spring training officially today at I College Park, Md„ in an atmosphere as foggy as the immediate future of the sport itself. Gone until victory, at least, are the days of warm sunshine in the balmy dimes of southern California, Florida, and Texas, but Ijtajor league club owners are resigned to take whatever steps are

necessary to keep baseball alive through one more war time season. That they will be able to muster sufficient manpower to operate was a matter of speculation which can't be settled until congress completes work or else legislation. Despite typ uncertainty, however, there is [ no thought of quitting and each of the 16 major league teams will proeppd with spring training as planned. Manager Ossie Rlttege of the Senators was certain only that three Ql bis veteran knuckle ball pitch-| ipg artists, John Niggeling, Roger Wolff, and Emil Leonard, would be pn hand when drills begin today on ibp u niversity of Maryland catnpqj —weather permitting. The prospects were for rain and foggy weather. The setting was typical at least of what all major league teams hve been up against since northern spring training first yyas instituted in 1943. It would be an innovation if the weather were decent. The Senators are a sadder and Wiser lot than the hopeful band went into training in 1944 as top choice of the baseball writers to succeed the New York Yankees as pennant winners in the American league. Instead, they got off to a miserable start and bogged down into the second division, finishing in last place, 25 games behind the winning St. Louis Browns. This year no one expects them

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to go places. The fact that the pressure is off may help them. If they can keep even a portion of the players lined up, they will not be lacking for manpower. I Forty-one players re listed on the advance roster, 12 of them draftsafe Latins. That probably is more ithan any other club will be able to master, although many in the group are not of major league caliber. The field includes 15 pitchers, four catchers, eight outfielders I and 14 infielders. I The top hands of the pitching i staff are expected to be Leonard, i Wolff, Niggeling, Milo Candini, ■ Alex Carrasquel, Milton Haefner, and William Lefebvre, all seasoned veterans. The veteran Rick Ferrell is expected to bulwark on otherwise weak catching department, with George Case, Stan Spence, and Roberto Ortiz likely to be frontline outfielders. Harland Clift, Joey Kuhel, George Myatt and Gilberto

! Torres are the infield standouts, but Bluege has several pretty good rookies who may work into the : starting lineups. The Chicago Cubs touch off National league training activities tomorrow at French Lick, Ind., and the communique front there is that the diamond “is under water as usual ait this time of the year.” Manager Charley Grimm, who has been on hand to inspect the amphibious layout said that "there is enough land showing for a running and throwing workout.” He said 16 players would be on hand for the opening, most of them pitchers and catchers. 1 General manager James Gallagh- i ‘er of the Cubs said at Chicago that i he wasn’t sure how many more 1 would appear. I “Some players have wired they t will be late, others are waiting t word from their draft boards and still others want more money,” he j said. * ( An;l that about sized up the situ- j ation for the rest of 'the clubs. I r o Notre Dame Star Sets New Scoring Records South Bend, Ind., Mar. 7. —(UP) 1 —Vince Boryla, who led Notre J Dame to an 87-43 victory over ,Detroit last night, held three new scoring records today. The 17-year-old basketball star scored 31 points in his last game 1

before his navy induction Friday. He broke the all-time record for a 1 single game eel by Bobby Faught in 1942. His 31 points also smash- i ed the Irish fieldhouse record held i by Bill Gosewehr of Purdue this i season. 1 With his score last night, Boryla , also ran his season total up to 322 points for 20 games, breaking , the previous record of 293 made f last season by Leo Klier of Notre . Dame. . No Finer Gift Kilgore, Tex. (UP) —There 'was . a man in Kilgore on Christmas 1 Day who called in every soldier boy he saw and told him to call 1 his family on his phone—regardless of where the family lived. 1 i CORTI ■ "■ ■ ■■■ -I. , Tonight & Thursday YOUTH ON THE RAMPAGE! FREE... to run wild! 4 FREE... to mock the law! FREE... from parental love! fate, FAC# FO.SC3 PAUL KELLY-LEE PATRICK *IWWUnbWCW*tA* MMOTNYMTKMON V eUTRUM toieMMA » * * WAMM 1 —Lomeoy uc-aOc inc. Tax —o Fri. A Sat.—" Vigilantes of Dodge City” with Bill Elliott. r, o—o n Sun. Mon. Tuea. — “Night; Club Girl” A "Mark of, the Whistler."

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Star Centers Battle In Bloomington Meet 'lndianapolis March 7 —(UP) — Th,- epic matching of Jasper, Evansville Bosse, Bedford and Terre Haute Gerst.meyer in the Bloomington semi-final of the Indiana high school basketball tournament Saturday will have a secondary feature thq-t may -steal most of the attention from the main chow. • Four of the greatest centers in 1944-4'5 Hoosier pretp cage ranks will lead their teams in the battle for the championship cf the most outstanding semi-final event in state tournament history. The Jaeper-Gerstmeyer game at 1 :3O p. in. will bring together sixfoot, five-inch ‘Wee Willie" Wu»hner of Jasper and the equally tall, rugged and high-scoring Ehner Leslie of Gerstmeyer. Then, an hour or so later, fleet Bab Young of Bedford and nifty Julius (Bud) Ritter of Bosse will fight for the tip-off as the second game of the “dream” semWinal starts. 'Wuchner has 'been rated by many coaches, writers and fans as the peer of such all-time pivotmen of Hoosier prep basketball as Dave Dejernet of Washington and Jack Mann of Muncie Central. IHis 34 points paced Jasper to the Vincennes regional championship and his 17-point-a-game average made him the top scorer in regional play over Leslie, Young and Ritter. Young, who stands six feet, one inch and operates as end man on fast break, poured im 32 points in tiwo regional games. Ritter notched 29 and Leslie totaled 14 points in each game. Young, Ritter, Wuchner and Leslie will not be the only potential all-state performers seeing action in the starstudded semi-final at Indiana University, of course. ißosse will present the diminutive red-haired Bryan (Broc) Jerr.ell, a fancy-dan dribbler with a deadly scoring eye and terrific driving ability. 'Bedford will back Jerry Queen, a burly guard who drew most of the cTtdit for the Stonecutter victory over Jeflfeison.ville last week through his fine defensive work on “big Charlie” (Meyer. Jasper will brag of the exploits of slender Tommy Hoffman, the team’s leading scorer in the regular season. And Geistmeyer fans will point ou t the work of Gene Verostro, the sixth highest point-collector among the 640 players who participated in the regionals. o Zollner Pistons Win First Playoff Game f 'Fort Wayne, Ind., March 7—>(U P) —The defending national league and world champions, tha Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, swamped the Cleveland All Men 78 to 50 in the first game of the eastern national professional cage league playoffs last night. The second contest of the playoffs between the two quimteta will be held in Cleveland tomorrow night. If the Pistons repeat their victory, they will hold the eastern title and meet the winner of the Ghicaigo-Shelboyigan series for the national league crown. o— I Eden Warns Against Persecuting Poles i London, March 7 —(UP) —For eign secretary Anthony Eden today warned Luiblin provisional govern ment of Poland against persecut ’ Ing .Poles loyal to the governmsnl I in exile here.

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Devore Named As Notre Dame Coach South Bend, Ind., March 7- —(UP) —Hugh John DeVore, assistant football coach at Notre Dame? today was named as the college’s athletic director and head football : coach for the duration. DeVore, former alHAmerican end , at Notre Dame, succeeds Ed McKeever, who resigned Fdb. 27 to i become head coach of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y. Devore will handle the two Irish I athletic jobs until Lt. Frank Leahy < returns from the navy to resume i work as athletic director and head < coach under a long-term contract. I Q | Lower Net Income 1$ Reported By Nipsco • 1 1 i Despite an all-time high of |3O, j 765.0i2i2 in operating revenues in . 1944, the Northern Indiana Public . i Service company reported that net i income for the year was 13,350,281 as compared to $3,878,594 in 1943, it was stated today by Dean H. Mitchell, president, Although the total operating revenues last year were $930,591 over the previous year, this was more than ot’fiset by increased provisions for taxes which were $1,068,061 more than in 1943. Rural Youth To Meet Here Thursday Night The rural youth of Adams county will meet for organization Thursday evening, at 8 p. .m. in the Lincoln School, Decatur. This group of rural young people includes 4-H cjub junior leaders and other older farm boys and girls. Delegates from Huntington, Jay, aud Blackford counties groups will attend this meeting. Officers will be elected. At the . close of the meeting Rex DeHaven of Huntington will lead the recreation hour. powerfuToffens. (Continued From Page One) to the industrial heart of Germany. Late field dispatches said armored outriders of the American third army were in the Monreal area, 17 miles west-southwest of Coblenz and less than 15 miles southwest of the Rhine city of Andernach, nine miles northwest of Coblenz. Patton’s tqnks already had covered more than 37 miles tdnee , they kicked off from their Kyll river bridgeheads east of Bitburg 48 hours ago and the Germans showed no signs of halting them short of the Rhine. The speed of the advance left little doubt that the German collapse in the north had forced the t Nazi high command to order a , general retreat behind the Rhine a all the way from Coblenz to the ' 1 Dutch border, a distance of more . than 116 miles. Remnants of the Cologne gar1 rison already were scurrying for the Bonn crossings 12 miles to B the south under a terrible rain of fire from the pursuing Ameri- ’ can first army, and the plight of the Nazi first paratroop and 15th v armies farther north appeared r even more desperate. n Survivors of those two armies e were funnelling back to the east e bank of the Rhine by barge and across two battered bridges In the Wesel area, 50 miles north of Cologne. ' • The Germans held a roughly-semi-circular arc radiating out about five miles to the west, r- southwest and south from the y Wesel crossing, and armored and i- infantry forces of the American t- ninth and Canadian first armies it were squeezing them slowly hack into the Rhine.

Major Sports Aid Wartime Charities Chicago, Mar. 7 —(UP) —The nation’s major professional sports —basebail, football, racing, golf and boxing — contributed more than $16,000,000 to wartime charities during the past three years. The No. 1 contributor was horse racing. It was impossible, to incomplete records, to obtain official figures from all of the states which have racing, but official reports from New York, Illinois and California established track proprietors as pro sports’ top donators. New York and California tracks alone topped the other sports. Racing in the Empire state gave $3,961,785 during the three years, while California tracks contributed $3,571,263. California racing, meaning Bay Meadows and Hollywood Park tracks, also donated. the top single-year total of $2,377.077 in 1944, before war mobilisation director James F. Byrnes banned the sport for the duration. Baseball’s major leagues were next with $2,630,460 during the past three years, followed by the other sports in this order: nation’ll football league, $1,610,564; professional golfers’ association, $650,000, and boxing. $450,000, from California and New York rings alone. I Donations from professional Uockey and minor league baseball pushed the total over the $16,000,(jOO mark. Figures from the miners were incomplete, but the

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I available folate showed more than i $600,000. Professional hockey's charity contributions were made through the league’ll individual clubs, which failed to note all donations. The Boston Bruins of the National Hockey league, for example, contributed the total receipts from their opening game and other clubs had similar arrangements. Pro sports hit its high mark last year with a total donation of $7,525,211, surpassing by more than a $1,000,000 its totals for the two previous years. —o Sheboygan Redskins Even Playoff Series Chicago, Mar. 7. — (UP) —The Sheboygan (Wis.) Redskins evened their national basketball league playoff series with the Chicago American Ceara last night with a 4936 win. The Gears played the first half without the services of their leading scorer, Stan Patrick. Patrick spent the early part of the evening coaching his De La Salle high school teams. | The itwo teams meet at Sheboygan in a third game tomorrow night to determine the opponent in the league finals against the winner of the Fort Wayne-Cleveland series. 0 — I like the man who faces what he must. —Sarah Bolton. o Spilling The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities MIES ALLEYS Rural League Koenemann Hardware won three from Ehler’s Restaurant; Foley Aces won two from Kraft Cheese; Preble Restaurant won two from Heart Club; Sanitary Grocery won two from Joe’s Lunch; Stoppenhagen won two from Jarett Case. Standing W. L. Koenemann 18 6 Foley 16 8 Preblel4 10 Joe’s 14 10 Sanitary 11 13 | LOANS PRIVATELY MADE Would a loan of $25 to $250 or more help you-.? If so, it can be easily arranged. FOR EXAMPLE If you are in need of SSO and have a steady job, you can borrow it on your own signature. No one else signs. See Us Today LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incsrpsratad Over Schafer Store — Telephone 2«3-7 DECATUR. INDIANA Open Daily 8:30 to 5:30 Thurs- until 12:30 '

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