Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1945 — Page 6

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Dodgers May Fall To Cellar In National ((Editor’s Note: .This fa the seventh in a aeries on the 1945 prospects of the major league (baseball trams). • By Leo H. Petersen ’New York, April 3—(UIP)-The Brooklyn Dodgers have been slipping steadily since Branch Rickey took aver from Larry MaoPhail and inaugurated an accent on youth program. They finished second in J. 942, third in 1943—'Rickey’s first year —and dropped to seventh last season. They can drop only one notch lower this year and the chances are they will. , The collection of basdball flesh which Rickey has given Leo Dur-oc-her, his field manager, to work with thfa season is anything but championship material. Rickey is the first to admit it; he believes it will be two years after the war before the revamped dodgers will be winning national league pennan'g. He built up the St. Louis cardinals along the same lines, and he is sure his rebuilding program eventually will play the same dividends in Brooklyn as it did—and still is— in St. Louis. Only four players who were with the team when it won the pennant in 1941 are still around and one of them, catcher Mickey Owens, Is. awaiting a call to service. The others are Fred ((Dixie) Walker, the 1944 batting champion; Augie Galan and pitcher Curt Davis. They are the men around whom Durocher will build his 1945 team. He has a few promising youngsters but not enough to escape a second •division finish. flal Gregg, who won only nine games last year but is expected to become a star; Ben Chapman, who came ibaek to the majors last year a pitcher after going to the minora following a successful outfield and infield career with the Yankees; and Art Herring, who with Chapman represent the only oldsters Rickey has added to the club, are being counted on for starting pitching duty along with Davis, Possibilities include Ernest Rudolph, who won 14 games for St. Paul last year but who is holding out for a portion of the purchase price; Clyde King, Ralph Branca, Cyril (Buker, Otho Nitcholas; Leroy Vic Lombardi, John Wells and Al Zachary, all of whom were (n the minors last year. Tom’Seats, Who won 25 games with San Fran-

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cisco in 1944, fa expected to win a place on the staff if he reports. For his chief relief pitching, Durocher will call on Lea Webber, a seven-game winner with 'the Dod-g-r« last year. 'The catching will be all right while OV’en fa around. When he leaves Stan Andrews, a Rookie up from Montreal, Is expected to take over with two old timers, Ray Hayworth and Clyde Sakefort, both far past their prime, for reserve duty. Galen fa expected to play first • base with Howie Schultz scheduled I for the services. Durocher himself may start the season at second base with Tom Brown, the 17-yaar-old, ‘ at short, and Bill Hart up from New • Orleans, at thiid. Hart also may ' be lost to the armed forces in I which case Frenchy Bordagaray i prclbafoly would take over the hot i corner. Other Infield candidates include Barney Koch and Eddie Basinski, ‘ both of whom were tried at second ■ last year and found wanting; Ed S»tanky, who fa reporting late (bei cause of illness; and two other . minor leaguers up for a try, Mike : iSanlock and Mike Sebena. Another infield possibility fa Elmer (Red) i Durrett, an outfielder up from i Montreal whom Durocher has been ■ working at first base. I Walker again will be the key . man in the outfield with Louis Oli mo, the Culban, and Moris Aderholt, I who hit .289 witn Montreal last i year, winning the other starting . berths. That would leave Goody I Rosen as the No. 1 Utility outfielder with Galan and Durrett also available if not needed for infield duty. Galan, of course, would get a regu- , ular berth in the outfield should Durrett live up to major league ’ standards at first. — 0 Pitcher’) Expect To Dominate Baseball i Chicago, Apr. 3.— (UP) —Major ' league pitchers believe that 1945 is 1 going to be their big year, the year that they make pitching a safe pro1 session again. 1 Most of the boys with the booming bats, who made a practice of ’ driving pitchers to cover during ’ recent years, are now In the ser- ! vice. That’s why hurlers believe they are going to dominate baseball this season and make 1945 a pitcher’s year. The Chicago Cubs’ Paul Derring- ’ ■ er, veteran National league pjtcti- ' ing star, said, “The hitters who ■ bothered me and other pitchers last year are gone. There were 1 Stan Mesial. Walker Cooper and 1 Danny Litwhiler of the Cardinals 1 and Ron Northey of the Phillies. They're in the service now which I is going to make things a lot easier.” I A check of the American and [ National league rosters showed ! that major league baseball has lost | practically all of the blasting hitI ters, who made pitchers throw and duck during prewar days. > Bill Voiselle, New York Giant i pitcher, recently remarked that the ■ only dangerous hitters left in his : league are Dixie Walker of the I Brooklyn Dodgers and Bill NicholI son of the Cubs, who may not play

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this season. In contrast, .however, a surprising number of tried and proved hurlers are still doing business at the same old stand. In the National league, the world champion Cardinals still have Mort Cooper, Max Lanier, Harry Brecheen and Sy Donnelley. The Pittsburgh Pirates have Rip Sewell, the blooper ball artist, Max Butpher and Fritz Osterinueller, while Buckey Walters and Elmer Riddle are still working for the Cincinnati Reds and Jim Tobin, Charlie Barrett, Nat Andrews and Al Javery are still operating for the Boston Braves. The New York Giants still have Harry Feldman and Voiselle. Still working in the American league are Johnny Niggeling of Washington, Hal Newhouser and Dizzy Trout, the Detroit Tigers’* brilliant duo; Jim Bagby and Allie Reynolds of Cleveland, Mike Ryba and Joe Bowman of the Boston Red Sox, and Nelson Potter and Jack Kramer of the champion St. Louis Browns. o Authorize Changes In Football Rules New York, Apr. 3.— (UP) —College football legislators, “defrosting” the rules in an effort to keep pace with the increasingly popular pro game, assured spectators today that they have made the sport easier to watch and wider open offensively. The national collegiate athletic association authorized five changes by the rules committee yesterday, including a drastic penalty for the use of the out-of-bounds kickoff and legalization of forward passing anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. The action of the committee was surprising, since in their last previous meeting in January of 1942, the rules were “frozen” for the duration, and there was some doubt ] whether any changes would be made in the meeting yesterday. The N.C.A.A., which embraces all of the nation’s major colleges, followed the example set by the usually conservative eastern branch of the association, which pioneered in the rules changes with a set of drastic revisions last season. The out-of-bounds penalty does not affect the first kickoff, but the kicking team must repeat the play. If the second kickoff is out of bounds, the receiving team shall put the ball in play at the point from which it was kicked, the kicking team’s 40-yard line. The rules makers also provided for use of an elevated one-inch tee for the kickoff to provide accuracy. ■» The liberalization of the forward pass play eliminates the previous restriction making passers operate five yards or more behind the line of scrimmage. The minor changes provide that substitutes may report to any official, the center in passing the ball may have no part of his body ahead of it and his feet must be behind it, and if a player uses his hands or arms in blocking, he must have his hands in contact with his own body. —.—o MANY COAL MINERS (Continued From Page One) The idle mines included a number- operated by steel producers, whose stockpiles of coal ranged from six to 15 days’ supply. A continuance of the shutdowns would begin to hit steel production within a few days. •Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., largest operating subsidiary of tJ. S. Steel Corp., announced that the No., 1 blast furnace at the Duquesne works, scheduled to be blown in tomorrow after a shutdown for repairs, would not be started up because of a shortake of coke. Eight additional blast furnaces will be shut down tomorrow unless coal production improves. The mine closings reduced production at the company’s beehive coke ovens to 25 percent of normal.

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10 Convicts Escape Pennsylvania Prison Six Are Recaptured Within Short Time Philadelphia, Apr. 3«— (UP) — Ten convicts, two of them serving life terms for murder, escaped today from the state eastern penitentiary by burrowing from a cell block to the street. » Six were recaptured by city police within the first hours after their escape. Both life termers were recaptured. Horace Bowers, serving a life term for complicity in the slaying of a Pennsylvania state policeman, was shot in the stomach when he attempted to ram a police car with a stolen milk truck. He was taken to a city hospital. The four still at large escaped in another dairy truck after they kmjjrked the driver tq the street and threatened to cut his throat. They escaped on foot after abandoning the truck in the city. The prison identified (hem as William Russell, serving 10 to 20 years for burglary; David Aiken. 10-20 years for armed robbery; James Grace, 10-30 years for armed robbery and Victor Syzmanski, 20-40 years for armed robbery. All were sentenced to prison from Philadelphia. Warden Herbert Smith, in a preliminary statement, said the men tunneled 50 feet from their cell block under the prison yard to the street. Their escape was discovered after a breakfast count. 0 SOVIET TROOPS (Continued From Page One) stadt Sunday. The city lias been bombed on numerous occasions by Italy-based American planes seeking out its aircraft plants. Moscow dispatches said Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s second Ukrainian army group drove into the outskirts of Bratislava, eastern gateway ’to Vienna, after capturing Biskupice, two and a

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half miles to the southeast. Bratislava lies 30 miles east of Vienna. Other Russian units were within gun range of the greater Vienna area delineated by Adolf Hitler in 1936 and less than 20 miles from the city itself on the southeast. To the north, Moscow reported, evidence increased that the zero hour for the Red army’s frontal smash from the Oder river against Berlin was approaching. The Russians plunged into the city limits of Bratislava under a canopy of shells laid down by massed Soviet artillery. Moscow said the fall of Bratislava would pull the plug from Vienna’s frontal defenses for Soviet advances along both sides of the Danube. Ajanary, four miles northeast of Bratislava and 29 miles east of Vienna, also fell as the second army group drove up to the foothills of the small Carpathian mountains on a 25-mile front. Advances of up to 14 miles were reported. The Russian third Ukrainian army group was meeting increasing resistance in its drive on Vienna from the southeast, but Berlin admitted the city had been deeply flanked from the south. (Continued From Page One) of Bielefeld, 189 miles west of Berlin, and were closing fast on the Pied Piper town of Hamlin on the Weser. The American thrust split through the hinge of the German defenses which were wheeling north in a desperate effort to check the British and Canadian drive. At Hamlin* the - Americans would be only 24 miles southeast of Hannover and fewer than 95 miles due west of the Elbe river line at Magdeburg, the last big water barrier before Berlin. Bus Drivers Strike Remains Unsettled Indianapolis, April 3 —,(UP)— The Indiana railroad bus drivers strike remained unsettled today as ’ 85 drivers ibegan the fourth day of i a work stoppage.

BUY EQUIPMENT (Con Untied From P*H« One) to the~Mollenkopf 'Equipment Co., for $2,390. The dump 'body which goes on the chassis was purchased from the Allied Truck Equipment Co, for $275 The grader is powered I>y a Delael engine and has a four-wheel drive. It will 'be used in grading the 7(0 miles of county road under the department’s supervision.. Priorities to purchase the equipment already have been issued by the federal government. The commissioners also awarded the fleet insurance to the Decatur insurance Agency, effective thfa month. . Assails Iceland For Refusal To Join War By United Press A Moscow (broadcast, recorded thy the TOC today, attacked Iceland for what it charged was Iceland’s refusal to declare war on Germany. The Moscow commentator noted that iceland had been saved from the Nazis Iby the United Nations and that it had achieved independence "with the direct support of the three great powers.” r o- —— Latest News From Training Camps Os Major League Teams Braves ■Washington, Apr. 3. —(UP) —The Boston Braves may have to start the Regular season without three top pitchers who won 44 of their 65 victories in the National league last year, it appeared today. Two of them, Al Javery and Nate Andrews are definitely out with injuries and the other, Jim Tobin, who won 18 games, is a stubborn holdout. Giants Lakewood, N. J. — Ray Berres was in line today to become the number two catcher for the New

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York Giants behind Ernie Lombardi. Berres, who reported yesterday, received an okay from his draft board before leaving a war plant job. Yankees Atlantic City, N. J.—ls third baseman Don Savage can keep up his long range hitting the New York Yankees may be fortified with some unexpected power. Savage, who hit only four homers during the 1944 season, has been hitting solidly during camp exercises. Red Sox Pleasantville, N. J. —-The Boston Red Sox may duplicate the feat ff . the 1944 St. Louis Browns in developing brothers of established ( major league stars, a lineup check . revealed today. Outfielder Lloyd Christopher, brother of pitcher Russ Christopher of the Philadel- ’ phia A’s, and third baseman Jack Tobin, brother of pitcher Jim (no hit) Tobin of the Boston Braves, . both are in line for regular jobs. : Reds r Bloomington, Ind. — The Cincin—l

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- nati Reds, who lost four ton - ers during th,. (I ff. S p a3oll n lose word today f iom Frasl( Pacific coast league strilwnffilh: of 1914 who ''!>oi't;nj . Dasso Whiffed r,O batters ing 20 games at San Diego. c Browns K Capo Girardeau, 1 plagued tlie St. Louis ? day ami the team lookedl . breaking ramp U'itlay. TfaßtMUi will open city series Cards, a spring "mnfay” }l W' , world scriee. f Cards gP'’' St. Louis. Mo.-St. Louis (BS j Inal president Smn Rteadon.^fc':' < has be, n reilncir.g 1 holdouts one by one r day to tackle his lougiw: I-'.left handed piteli-r k !een. The speedy southpaw, o won 16 and lost five games !, season and heat the R.owns world series game left his IMA ' 1 Okla., home ycster.hy for the^^B 2 ary confab with Breadon.