Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1945 — Page 6

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Hard Hitting Marks Opening League Games New York, April IS—(UiP)— If coming events caet thier shadows before them in the 1945 baseball season, it’s going to he a rough year for the pitchers. In direct contrast to the 1944 opening day games, the pitchers took it hard and heavy yesterday only five of the 16 starters managing to stick it out to the finish. There were 77 hits in each league as compared with only 36 doled out iby National league flingers in the 1944 opening games and 59 by American leaguers. The batters made 12 home runs two with the bases loaded. Seven were hit in the National where- the batters didn't get any in 1944 openings and five in the American as compared with three a year ago. Production of runs was almost on an assembly line basts in some parks and the 49 scored in tthe American league contrasted with only 15 a year ago. There were 45 in the National against only 13 on the first day of 1944. ’the most telling homer of the day was delivered by Russ Deery of the Yankees, coming with the bases loaded in the seventh and edbping a seven run rally netted an 3 to 4 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Derry, who also hit an earlier homer, delivered the grand slam blow with the score tied at 4-all and sent pi/cher Rev. Cecil to the showers. Atley Donald weathered a bad first inning when the Red Sox made three runs but went on to gain the win. The day’s biggest hit-fest was at .Philadtlphia where Washington got 15 blows off five Athletic pitchers to gain a 14 to 8 victory. Joe Kuhel .paced the senators with four hits to drive in five runs. The Chicago White Sox rallied late to win 5 to 2 at Cleveland, lefthander Thornton Lee, getting credit for the victory. Both of the Indians’ runs were unearned, coming in the sixth On errors after which Lee retired. The St. Louis Browns, who paved the way for their American League pennant iby winning their first nine games to set a new circuit record, started out on the right foot again, .topping the Detroit Tigers and their .pitcdiing ace lefly 'Hall Newhouser, 7 to 1. Pitcher Sig Jakucki yielded only six hits for the most effective : job of the day. Ted Wilks and Eldred Byerly! of the Champion St. Louis Cards collaborated in a losing four-hitter, | .the Cubs winning 3 th 2 at Chicago on a ninth inning single by Don Johnson. Byerly was tabbed with .the defeat and Old Paul Derringer, who went the route, gained the vic-

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tory, his 268t.1i in 'National league competition. Outfielder Daln Clay gave the Reds a 7 to 6 Victory in the 11th over the Pittsburgh Pirates before ..’in.iMlh fans at Cincinnati, largest ot the opening day crowds. He hit •a single with the bases loaded to break up the game, after giving Cincinnati a lead in the nftn on a homer with three abase. Curt Davis, lean dean of the Dodger pitching staff, hit and nurled his team to an 8 to 2 victory over ithe Phillies at Brooklyn. He scat-' itered eight hits effectively and smashed a two run homer. The Giants gave their ace pitcher Bill Voiselie, an easy victory at Boston, swamping the Braves 11 to 6 with a ;15-hit attack, which included homers .by Ernie Lombardi and Phil Weintraub. Cooper Brothers To Talk To O'Connor Chicago, Apr. 18 —(UP) —The Cooper brothers, Mort and Walker, star battery of the St. Louis Cardinals, take their salary difficulties to Leslie O'Connor, chairman of baseball's advisory committee, today. President Sam Breadon of the Cardinals will not be present when the Coopers explain to O’Connor why they should get a salary increase of $3,000 after signing contracts for $12,000 each. Breadon is in St. Louis and probably will not be represented at the meeting. The Coopers will be accompanied by their attorney, Lee J. Havener. The Coopers quit the Cards Saturday and went on strike, but rejoined the team yesterday after O’Connor suggested that, they air their protest thrpugh "regular and orderly channels.” They agreed to confer with O’Connor but insisted they would not accept less than $15,000. The Missourians signed their 1945 contracts for $12,000 each, the club’s ceiling, but protested when Marty Marion, Cardinal shortstop, was given a contract for an above-ceiling salary. Marion’s salary was approved yesterday by the buerau of internal revenue. The Cards, with Walker Cooper behind the plate, lost the opening game of the National league season to the Chicago Cubs here yesterday, 3-2. 0 Pope Cites Need Os Peace Organization Rome, Apr. 18.—(UP) —Pope Pius XII warned the world today that both the victors and the vanquished will bear the “grievous consequences” of a new war unless a fair and just peace organization is established. The Pope made his plea in a special encyclical epistle issued only a week before the ofiening of the world security conference in San Francisco, at which a peace organization probably will be set up. fb urged the world to increase their prayers for peace and a peace organization.

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Today s Sports Parade I By LEO H. PETERSEN Reg. U. S. Pat, Off.) —— O New York, Apr. 17 —(UP) —It was a great day for the old-tim-ers, and it's too bad a couple of their old cronies weren’t around to see them perform. The boys who have passed their peak and were tagged as ready tor baseball's graveyard gave a pretty good exhibition yesterday as the 1M4 r > major league baseball season opened. The accent wasn't on youth—it was on age. And the old-timers didn’t disappoint. The late Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who ruled the game for so many years as it’s commissioner, and the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who as president was baseball’s No. 1 champion, would have enjoyed it. If they got the returns in Valhalla, they must have had quite a chuckle. There was 41-year-old Hod Lisenbee, ■ discarded as a has-been years ago, but brought back by the Cincinnati Reds because of the manpower shortage. All he did was hurl two scoreless innings and receive credit for the Reds 7 to 6 11-inning victory over the Pirates. In Brooklyn—what doesn’t happen there? Anyhow, a couple of 40-year-olds took charge of that ball game. The ancient arm of Curt. Davis still threw more stuff than the Philadelphia Phillies could overcome and Manager Leo Durocher, who hasn't been active for a couple of years, acted like a school boy around second base. Davis not only scattered eight hits effectively, but got two hits, one a home run with a mat) on base. Durocher handled six chances in the field flawlessly, batted in two runs. Even Jimmy Foxx of the Phillies caught the idea. He beat out an infield hit as a pinch hitter —but he’s only 37. The 38-age group did all right, too. Paul Derringer beat the world champion Cardinals for the Chicago Cubs; Joe Kuhel got four hits and batted in five runs as Washington beat Philadelphia and although it was in a losing cause Manager Joe Cronin played a lot of third base for the Boston Red Sox as they dropped their apener to the Yankees. He scooped up a slow grounder and threw out a Yankee speed boy with the grace of the days when ho was a $160,000 shortstop with Washington. In the 36 age bracket, were Manager Mel Ott of the New York Giants and Tony Cuccinello of the Chicago White Sox. Ott, who sets a new mark every time he goes to hat, led his Giants to an opening day victory over the Braves, getting two hits and setting a new major league record by starting his 20th consecutive season with the same club. Cuccinello picked on one of the younger players to do his stuff—and was that kid’s face red? The kid was Manager Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians. Boudreau fell victim to the ancient hidden ball trick and Cuccinello was the perpetrator. o Lad Is Injured In Fall From Automobile , Edward Drum, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Noible Drum of 304 N. Fourth street, escaped serious injury at aibout 7 o'clock last evening when .he fell from the auto in which he was riding onto the pavement on U. S. highway 224, near the Franklin service station, east of Decatur. The youth was riding in the hack seat of the car, when the door opened. He tried to close It and the wind Was so strong that it pulled him out of the car. He received an injury to his forehead and back, but no broken bones or copcusssion, a medical examination revealed. The iboy wan taken to his home by L. A. Holthouse, who was driving toward Decatur and came upon the scene of the accident.

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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE Teams W. L. Pct. GB New York 1 0 1.000 ... St. Louis 1 0 1.000 Chicago 1 0 1.000 . Washington 1 0 1.000 ... ‘Boston 0 1 .000 1 Philadelphia 0 . 1 .000 1 Detroit 0 1 .000 1 Cleveland 0 1 .000 1 NOTIONAL LEAGUE Teams W. L. Pct. GB Cincinnati 1 0 1.000 .... Brooklyn 1 O 1.000 ... New York 1 0 1.000 .... Chicago ..., 1 0 1.000 .... Boston 0 1 .000 1 St. Louis 0 1 .000 1 Pittsburgh 0 1 .000 1 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 1 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League New York 11, Boston 6. Chicago 3, St. Louis 2. Brooklyn 8, Philadelphia 2. Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh 6. American League St. Louis 7, Detroit 1. New York 8, Boston 4. Washington 14, Philadelphia 8. Chicago 5, Cleveland 2.

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Robert L. Mann To Graduate At I. U. Bloomington, Ind., April T'B -Robert L. Mann of Decatur ie on the spring graduation list at Indiana University and will receive the B. IS. degree in chemistry at the Universityfa 125th anniversary year commencement om April 22. Two hundred and fifty-seven'rvtu-dents will receive degrees Sunday which will be the eighth commencement held since the inauguaration of the University’s war-time accelerated program. President Ralph Cooper Hutchson of Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., will be the speaker for the commencement, which will be at 3 o'clock in the auditorium. — Berne Student On College Y. W. C. A. Muncie, Ind. April 18—Mrs. Phyllis Stogsdill of Berne baa been elected to serve aa vice-preaident ot the Y. W. C. A. for the school year, of '1945-194'6 at Ball State Teachers College. • * 'A junior and active in campus aoiivicitfi, Mrs. Stogdill is a menu 'her of Muaic clylb. Girls cluib and Y. W. €. A., and is president of the Omega ■Sigma Chi sorority. Hay Cutting Hay cut at the proper stage is much higher in quality and food value than hay which is allowed to become dry and fibrous.

WAR'S LEADING (Contlnued From Page One) the greatest admiralion. "Mr. Pyle will live in the hearts of all servicemen who revered him as a comrade and* spokesman. More than anyone else, he helped America to understand the heroism and sacrifices of her fighting men. For that achievement, the nation owes him its unending gratitude." Pyle’s father, W. C. Pyle, lives in Dana. Ind. His wife lives in Albuquerque, N. M. The country knew both of them well. Mrs. Pyle was “that girl” in Pyle’s prewar columns His father had been the subject of many a little essay on the things which happen on an Indiana farm. Stimson was shocked into momentary silence by the news. Then he said: “I feel great, distress. He has been one of our outstanding correspondents. This is the first I have heard of his death. I’m so sorry." . From congress came quick expressions of sorrow. Speaker Sam Rayburn voiced the sentiment of his colleagues: "I think he was one of the great correspondents of all time.” That had been the judgement of the Pulitzer prize award jury, which honored him last year for his work. Pyle also had received many other honors. Mr. Truman’s and a hundred other tributes w°re being paid to a modest little man who always seemed mildly surprised by the fate which had made him a war correspondent. He had bedded down with death, stood around with death, marched forward with death all the way from North Africa to Okinawa. But. he never got used to it. In one of his last columns he voiced the vast relief he felt on not seeing any bodies lying on the beach when he landed at Okinawa on the day the marines landed. Charlie Chaplin To Appeal Jury Verdict Hollywood, April 18 — (UP) — Film comedian Charlie Chaplin will appeal the verdict that declared him the father of balby Carol Ann Barry, his attorney announced today. Lloyd Wright, an attorney for Chaplin, said the film star would appeal the jury verdict returned yesterday by making a motion for a new trial. “We feel that it was impossible to get a fair jury here,’ Wright said. Spilling The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities MIES ALLEYS Women’s League 'Zwick won three from Schafer; Lose won three from Dauler; NuArt won three from Victory Bar; Bruce’s won two from Smith Furniture; Hill-Smith won two from McMillen.

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