Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1945 — Page 6

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Roosevelt A Staunch Friend To Baseball ■New York, April 113 — (UP) — When President Roosevelt, early in hU first term, answered critic® of his pollens with the 'words, "1 don't expect to make a home run every time I come to bat,” the sports world knew it had a friend in the White House. Without the provisional “green light” tor baseball which he issued in one of his last press conferences there would have been little hope for continuation of the sport into its fourth wartime season. IBecause few persons know of his fatal illness, there had been hope to the last that he might follow up the "green light” declaration by throwing out the first ball at the presidential opener between the enawrs and Yanks at Washington next Monday. iNow, in respect to the staunchest friend the major leagms ever had in the White House, the game may he cancelled, and there was a de- J finite possibility that, the opening of the regular season on Tuesday also might be delayed for a day or so. iMr. Roosevelt in urging continuation of baseball for IJMS said he did not think the sport should use perfectly healthy men who could do something more useful in the war effort. The teams probably would be a little older and maybe not as proficient, he said. Then he told the newsmen that he liked to see baseball games, even if played by sandlot outfits. That removed the final vestige of doubt about whether there would be professional baseball this season. Similar "green light” declarations preceded the other wartime seasons,'the President emphasizing the need of the nation for the wholesome diversion of an afternoon or an evening out-of-doors when its war chores were finished. He was considered responsible for extension of the major league limit on night games after a press conference in 1943 when he suggested that more after dark games would be beneficial to the many government workers in Washington whose hours were in the day time. The major leagues promptly gave Washington special dispensation to play an unlimited schedule of night games and last year extended the number of games for all dull is whose parks had lighting facilities. •Hr was the presidem's fondness of swimming which led to his lifelong affliction from infantile paralysis. He was swimming at the family summer home at Campo Bello, Me., in 1921 when he acquired the virus and shortly thereafter was paralyzed to botlh legs. o _____ | Trade in a Good Town — Decatur I

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Latest News From Training Camps Os Major League Teams Baseball, preparing for its fourth wartime season, called a halt today to its tinal tune-up activities in respect to tlie death of President Roosevelt who more than any other one man had been responsible for the perpetuation of the sport since Pearl Harbor. The game between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, scheduled for tomorrow at Ebbets Field was called off. Sponsors of the city series between the Chicago Cubs and White Sox announced that all games had been postponed until after the president’s funeral. In yesterday’s Red Cross game between Brooklyn and the Yanks, the Dodgers were 3 to 1 winners. At Chicago, the Cubs opened up with a 22 hit attack to defeat the White Sox, 15 to 3, in the opener of the Windy City pre-season series. The Philadelphia Athletics made two runs in the ninth to defeat the Washington Senators 7 to 6 at Fort Meade, Mil., before 7,590 fans mostly soldiers. The Pittsburgh Pirates ended Cleveland’s winning streak of exhibition games at six straight at Muncie, Ind., with a 5 to 2 victory. The Boston Braves won their fifth straight game in the last innings to top the Red Sox at Boston, 12 to 11. The St. Lonis Browns clinched the city series with the Cardinals with an 8 to 3 victory, their fourth in five starts.

Democrat Want Ads Get Results Il J >.l. :> JiFilK U i _;i LT. WILLIAM E. DELANEY of Detroit, who scored four direct hits on the Jap super-battleship Yamoto, which was sunk dur ing an engagement south ol Kyushu, was shot down after he had unleashed four 500-pound bombs. Delaney crouched behind his tiny life raft almost in the middle of the enemy flotilla and watched the battered ships in their death throes. He was picked up four hours later by a U. S. flying boat. (International)

Senators Are Likely To Be Improved Team (Editor’s note: This is the 16th and final in a series of the 1915 prospects of the major league basebal Reams). By LEO H. PETERSEN New York, Apr. 13. — (UP) —So far as the Washington Senatois are concerned, things can’t be worse in 1945 than they were in 1944. The chances are they are going to be considerably better. Picked to win the American league pennant last season, the Senators finished a bad last, 25 games behind the St. Louis Browne. They never got going until the closing •series of the season when they defeated the Detroit Tigers twice in a four game series to knock them out of the pennant. From that team manager Ossia Bluege has lost his brightest star, outfielder Stan Spence, who is in the armed forces. Jimmy Sullivan, the regular shortstop, also is gone. Dutch Leonard. John Niggeling, Roger Wolff, Mickey Haefner and Alex Carrasquel, the Cuban, are back for starting duty. Among the newcomers, Marino Pieretti, who won 20 games with Portland last season, appears to have won a regular place on the staff. Another possibility is Lt. Bert Shepard, the one-legged war hero, who was signed to a contract on the basis of his excellent work in spring training exhibition games. Al Evans probably will open the season Monday as the No. 1 catcher but the veteran Rick Ferrell and Fermin Guerra are expected to take over eventually. The infield is set except at shortstop. The veteran Joe Kuhel will be at first, George Myatt at second and Harland Clift, who has shown signs of regaining his old time form, at third. The outfield will be built around George Case, the base stealing artist, who seems to have recovered from his shoulder injury. Two rookies, George Binks who hit .374 witii Milwaukee last year and Walter Chippie, drafted from Montreal, probably will get the other starting posts.

The team will have speed, led by Case and Myatt, and if it gets pitching may make a lot of trouble. But it lafks the hitting necessary to become a contender. o__ Russian Ex Prisoners Fighting With Yanks With U. S. Third army an Germany, April 13. (UP) —Tied army troops , went .into action alongside American doughboys for the that time today when some 20,000 Russian soldiers broke out of a prison-er-of-war camp near Weimar. The Russians overpowered their guards, seized German weapons and established a contact with nearby American third army troops.

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Fifth Army Columns Converge On Spezia 'Rome, April 13 —-CUP) — Three fifth army columns converged today on the Italian naval base of La Spezia, where reports of heavy explosions indicated the Germans were blasting the city. American troops and Italian partisans paced the drive on La Spesia by pushing north of captured Carrara to withih 11 miles of the port. iln eastern Italy, eight army troops went across the Eanterno river in considerable strength and were steadily expanding three bridgeheads against strong German counter-attacks The Germans were reported using Tiger tanks in some of the assaults on the eighth army forces. Q 360 Persons Killed In Italy Explosion Bari, Italy, April 13 —(UP)— Three hundred and sixty persons were killed and 1,730 injured in a munitions ship explosion in Bdri hatlbor yesterday, the prefect ot the city annouced today. — 0 _ Francis Scott Key," author of our national anthem, served as district attorney in Washington, D. C., for three successive terms, 1933-41.

Riverview Gardens . DANCING Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 9 to 12 Frank Hehble, Mgr. NOTICE The Adams County Riding Club will meet / SUNDAY, April 15 1 o’clock p. m. at Ahr’s Sale Barn. All members are urged to be present. Roy L. Price, sec’y.

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Legion Membership At All-Time High Indianapolis, April 13 —’(UP) — Mmhership in the American Legion r ached 1,435/419 (M) yesterday for a new all-time record, officials of tne organizations national headquarters announced today. The total was 9,496 above the 1944 final figure, and 212,454 above the enrollment on April 12, 1944. National headquar’ers also reported that 12,340 poets were active, also setting a new record. Many new posts are composed entirely of World War II veterans.

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ver is chairman of the meeting and will discuse the motion picture phase of the subject. An open forum will follow the speaking. The public is invited to attend. o He'd Be Mobbed Now Marfa Army Air FieJd, Tex. (UP) —When S/Sgt. Leonard F. Most was lecturing for the Dupont company before the war, he didn’t have much trouble holding the attention of his audience. He just held a paint can in one hand and a pair of nylon stockings in the other. That accomplished two objects: it demonstrated the variety of Dupont product,s and it also held the attention of both men and women.

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