Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1945 — Page 6

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Service Calls Weaken Cards For Flag Race ((Eflltor’a note. Thia la the first of a aeries of 16 stories on the prospect of the major league baseball teams). By Leo H. Petersen (United Press Sports Editor.) New York, .March 27—('UP)—’It ■was the .St. Louis Cardinale against the field last year and the field didn’t do >3O well. But the field promises to do better thia season and the end of the championship road may jbe in the sight for the world champions. Cone from the power-laden club which breezed to the national league pennant in 1944 are outfielders Stan Musial and Danny Litwhiler. Facing induction or already accepted for service are pitcher Max Lanier, outfielder Johnny Hopp and catcher Walker Cooper. iThoee five men represented a lot of the power which the Cardinale generated last year. If Lanier, Hopp and W. Cooper join Musial and Litwhiler in service it will bring the Red birds down to — mayfbe below—some of the other national league clubs. •It would mean that manager Billy Southworth will have to find a new outfield. Even with so vast a farm system as the Cardinals operate, outfielders have become a scarce commodity. Billy the Kid may have to go with Augie Bergamo, who saw part time service last year; the veteran Dabs Garm% far past his peak, and rookies Jim Mallory, up from Columbus where he hit .297 and Al Schoendienst, who hit .372 for Rochester and came up tabbed as an infielded. Schoendlenst may be the key to the 1945 pennant hopes of the Cardinals. Baseball men generally consider him one of the greatest natural hall players to graduate to the majors for several seasons. If he can maintain his minor league pace in the big time, Southworth will be able to take up a lot of the slack left by Uncle Sam. Schoendlenst earned his minor league reputation an a shortstop, with 'Marty .Marion around, the Cards have no need for shortstops, so Southworth considered switching the youth to the outfield. Whether he can learn the tricks of the new position remains to be seen— and he may even be needed for the shortstop post before the season runs out. For Marion, like W. Cooper, was accepted for limited service duty last summer but never called. Cooper since has taken another examination and has (been accepted

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for service. The big catcher has been a key man in the Cardinal setup and his loes expected in May—may Ibe more than the Cards can overcome. If Marion should go, too, the Cards would lose most of their championship luster. To back up Cooper. Southworth has Ken O'Dea, and Del Rice, a Rookie who hit. 264 with Rochester last year. O’Dea is no Cooper back of the plate—or at it, either but as war time catchers go he is no worse than the first string receivers of many other cluibs. 'The infield will ibe all set if Marion is not called. Ray Sanders will toe track at first, Emil Verban at second and George (Whitey) Kurowski at third. There isn’t anything missing there from prewar major league infields. 'Pitcfiing will be strong again even if Lanier is lost. Back to lead the staff will be fireball Morton Cooper. He recently was classified 4-F again and Southworth is counting on him for full season chores. Ted Wilks, who had such a sensational freshman season last year; Al Jurisich; Harry (The Cat) Brecheen and Lanier, as long as he is around, will make up the starting staff back of (big IMort. Blix Donnelly will be available for relief and on the basis of his rescue work in the world series last fall may play a more important role in Southworth’s pitching plans this year. Most promising of the rookie pitchers is Stan Partenheimer, who won 16 .games while losing seven with Louisville and Columbus last year. Eldred Byerly also is back for another try along with Bill Trotter. Ken (Burkhart, who won US and lost nine with Columbus and Jack Creel, an 11-game winner with the same club, also are fighting for a place on .the staff. o Kraft Cheese Team Enters Semi-Finals The Kraft Cheese quintet of this city advanced to the semi-finals of the annual gold medal tourney at the Van Went, 0., YMCA Monday night, trouncing the Zollner Reserves of Fort Wayne, 62 to 32. Kraft will play tonight at 9 o’clock, meeting either the Fort Eagles or the Rockford, 0., Independents. The McMillen team, also of this city, was eliminated in the opening game of the qnarter-finals Monday, dropping a 47 to 28 decision to Bayless Hybrid. Bayless held a lead of 27 >to 20 at the half. K. Schnepf was McMillen’s leading scorer with 13 points and Gilbert was high for the winners with 14. Kraft had little difficulty with the Zollner Reserves after the first quarter, which ended with Kraft on top, 10 to 8. The Decatur quintet had a 31 to 9 lead at the half and a margin of 44 to 26 at the

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third period. Hlsner, Kraft center, was outstanding for the victors with 25 points, and Gatton tallied tl points for the Reserves, Bayless Hybrid FG FT TP McAfee, f 0 0 0 Arnold, f 1 6 S D. McAfee, c 3 3 9 Gilbert, g G 2 14 Lesh, g 13 5 Dunn, f 5 1 11 Totals 16 15 47 McMillen FG FT TP D. Schnepf, f 2 0 4 Delong, f 113 K. Schnepf, c 5 3 13 Hirschy, g 10 2 Way, g Oil Painter, g 10 2 D. Hirschy, g 113 Totals 11 5 28 Kraft Cheese FG FT TP Reynolds, f 6 3 15 Scherer, f 113 Kisner, c 11 3 25 N. Saalfrank, g 3 17 Franke, g 4 0 8 A. Saalfrank, f 10 2 Crabill, g 10 2 Totals 27 8 62 Zollner Reserves FG FT TP Barille, f 113 Gatton, f 5 7 17 Speck, c 10 2 Shaffer, g 0 0 0 Robitalle, g 10 2 Luken, c 12 4 Ber.toe, g O 0 0 Miller, g 2 0 4 Ttoals 11 10 32 ■ o Seniors And Juniors Intramural Winners The Seniors and Juniors will meet tonight for .the championship of the intramural tourney at the Decatur Catholic high school, following first-round games played Monday night. The Seniors walloped the Sophomores, 68 to 18, in the first game Monday night. Terveer led the Seniors with 32 points and Schindler was outstanding for the Sophomores with 14. The Juniors eliminated the Freshmen, 44 to 23, in the nightcap. Briede was high for the winners with 12 points, and Gillig paced the losers with eight. Seniors FG FT TP Brunton, f 3 0 6 Gillig. f 9 0 18 Terveer, c 16 0 32 Faurote, g 113 Braun, g 0 0 0 Mowery, f 3 3 9 Totals 32 4 68 Sophomores FG FT TP Kohne, .f 11 3 Coffee, f 0 0 0 Loshe, f Oil Miller, g 0 0 0 Schindler, g 6 2 14 Rumschlag, g 0 0 0 Totals 7 4 18 Juniors FG FT TP Hess, f 4 0 8 Hackman, f 10 2 Briede, c 5 2 12 B. Lengerich, g 10 2 O. Wemhoff, g 4 0 8

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Schmitt, f 10 2 N. Lengerich, f 2 15 Daniels, g Oil D. Wemhoff, g 10 2 Baker, g 1 0 2 Miller, g 0 0 0 Totals 20 4 44 Freshmen FG FT TP R. Rumschlag, f 0 0 0 Gillig, f : 3 2 8 Wilder, c 3 (T 6 Baker, g 12 4 D. Rumschlag, g 0 0 0 Roop,- f 12 4 Voglewede, f 0 11 Lengerich, g 0 0 0 J. Heimann, g 0 o’o Totals 8 7 23 -— ... <) .... . — George Mikan Leads DePaul To Victory New York, Mar. 27 —(UP) —ls the days of the big man in basketball are numbered and legislation is drafted to stop their effectiveness, no one can say that George Mikan of De Paul failed to make hay while the sun shone. The six-foot, nine-inch center, breaking records like a mad-man in a music store, led De Paul to the national invitational championship last night with a 71 to 54 victory over Bowling Green’s orangeclad Falcons of Ohio at Madison Square Garden. Another tail-man, Bob Kurland, seven-foot center from Oklahoma A. & M„ takes his (turn in the spotlight tonight in the national collegiate championship final against New York university. The teams are rated about even, any advantage there may be going to the visiting Cowboys because of the immense Kurland. Mikan and his mates, whatever they may do against the N.C.A.A. winner in the Red Cross mythical title game Thursday uight, have earned the accolade as champions already. They did that in the final eight minutes last night when a comfortable lead began to fade under >the onslaught of a Bowling Green team that wouldn't give up. Whdu the Falcons got within four points De Paul turned on the steam and won running away, advancing from a 46 to 42 margin to the final count of 71-54, an average of better than three a minute. At the finish Mikan had 34 points to complete his three-game tournament stint with the three highest single game individual totals ever made in. posMeason play at the garden. In his performance against Rhode Island in which he made 53 points, he set a new national collegiate high for a single game. Against .West Virginia he made 33, giving him a total of 120 points. That broke the former tournament mark of Bob Gerber, Toledo university, who had 65. By scoring 49 field goals in three games, Mikan erased another invitational meet mark of 34 held by Gerber. His 22 free throws topped the mark of 16 held by Bill Lloyd of St. John’s. De Paul as a team set three more tournament marks, scoring exactly 100 field goals, 44 free throws and 244 points. St. John's, last year’s champions,’ gained third place by defeating Rhode Island 64 to 57, in a consolation preliminary. A crowd of 18,166 saw the games.

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Pennsylvania Orders 50 New Locomotives (Fifty powerful multi-cylin<l p '' steam locomotives, capable of pulling full-length passenger trains at speeds up to 166 miles per hour, and freight trains on fast schedules have been placed on order by the Pennsylvania railroad, it was announced today. Twenty-five engines will be built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and 25 engines and 50 tenders in the Altoona, Pa., shops of the railroad. The new locomotives will go into service this year, giving the railroad additional newly designed and more powerful engines to help move the war load. W. 11. Barber, local agent explained. o Sqt. Ernest Minch Is Killed In Action Sgt. Ernest O. Minch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Minch of Bryant, and a (brother of Mrs. Henbert Geisler of ■Pleasant (Mills, was killed in action in Belgium on Feb. 18, while serving with a tank battalion. He entered the service in January, 1943. Sgt. Minch was engaged in farming with his father prior to his entrance into the armed forces.

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