Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1945 — Page 6

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Fielding Will Be Problem In Major Leagues New York, May 1. (IIP) -An iffday audit of the records confirmed today what many folks had feared —-that the lowered standard of major league basebull this season would be reflected principally in the fielding. The trend is definite in both leagues as compared with the same number of games from the start of the season a year ago. There have been 194 fielding misplays in the 82 major league games played to date as compared with 158 in the same number of games per team a year a got The National league, upholding its long-standing reputation as a smoother fielding outfit, has coinitiHled 91 errors in 43 games, an increase of 15 for the same number of games last year when the total Was 76 errors. The American, with fewer games played. 39. han made 103 miscues as compared with 82 for 1944, an increase of 21. The error average per team per fame in the National is 1.06 as compared with .88 for the same period in 1944. In the American the team average is 1.32 errors per game compared with 1.06 per game a year ago. Surprisingly, the worst offenders in either circuit are the usually sure-fielding New York Yankees, who have made 24 errors in 11 games as compared with 14 in their firet 11 games last year. At the other extreme are their neighbors at the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants, who have made only nine errors in 12 games, a decrease of six from 1944 when they made 15 in the first dozen starts. Only five clubs in the two leagues are fielding at a steadier average than in 1944, with fewer errors for the same number of games. They are the Giants. Chicago Cubs and Boston Braves in the National, and the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers in the American. Except for the Giants with a decrease of six errors and the Athletics with a drop of four, the changes are negligible. One club, the Washington Senators, stands exactly even with its 1944 record with 13 errors in the 11 games played to date tiiis year and 13 in the first 11 games of a year ago. 0 — The Norden bombsight one of our greatest and most secret weapons of the war, is dependent for Us operation upon thirty-five different sizes and types of anti-friction bearings.

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i Den No. Two Wins ; Indoor Track Mee! Den No. 6 placed second and of Scout John Doan was winner of the Cub Indoor track meet held in the Lincoln School gymnasium Monday evening. Den No 6 placed escond and Dens Nos. 1 and 4 were tied for third place. Winners of the various events were presented ribbons at tile close of the meet by Cubmaster Bryce Thomas. The following is a list of winners of lite events: Fifty yard dash, Bob Doan, Den No. 2; One-half mile folding chair relay, Bob and Jim Nelson and Jack Lawson, Den No. 2: | shot-put, Jim Helm, Den No. 6. Strap race, Bob Doan and Jack Lawson, Den No. 2; potato race. Dwight Sheets, Bruce Andress and Eddie Stocksdale, Den No. 1; one mile paper relay, Ronald Murphy, Den No. 4; running high jump, Jim Helm, Paul Conrad and Donald Aurand, Den No. 6: 440 yard dash, Ray Brown, Den No. 6. Backward race, Jimmy Moses, i Den 3; baseball throw, Bob Nelson, Den No. 2; hop race, Robert Abbot. Den No. 4: 100 yard dash, Bob Nelson, Den No. 2, and tug of war, Dan Thomas, Eddie Stocksdale, Bruce Andress and Dwight Sheets, Den No. 1. o Spilling The Pins * With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities Brant won three from Lose. Hoagland won three from Lanes. I Gambles won two from Arnolds. Mies won two from Kraft Cheese. Merchant Bowling League Standing W. L. Kraft No. 3 31 20 Gamble 28 23 Mies 26 25 Brant 26 25 Lose . 25 26 Hoagland 25 26 Lanes 22 29 Arnolds Market . 21 30 High scores: Hannie, 235; Hoagland, 201. . o— Grandmother Becomes Mother Os Triplets Louisville, Ky.. May I—(UP1 —(UP) — Mrs. Joseph Walker, 40-year-old grandmother and her new-born triplets, were reported doing “well” at St. Joseph’s infirmary here today. Mrs. Walker, who already had two grandchildren, gave birth to two boys and a girl over the weekend. She immediately announced that they would be named after the original “big three.”

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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS LEADING BATSMEN National League Player Club GAB R H Pct. Olt, New York— 12 37 15 16 .433 Holmes, 805t0n.... 11 47 10 20 .426 O’Brien, Pirates.... 10 38 3 14 .368 American League Stephens, St. Louis 7 23 <lO .43> Kreevich, St. Louis 7 23 3 9 .391 Mayo, Detroit 9 36 S 14 .389 HOME RUNS Nieman, Braves 4 Dery, Yankees 4 Weintraub. Giants 3 — o Kenneth Wilson Now Directs Conference Chicago, May I—(UP)—Kenneth L. (Tug) Wilson was named athletic commissioner of the western conference last March 10, but today its official. Wilson will bow out as athletic, director of Northwestern university, a post he has held 119 years, to assume his new $15,000-a-year job. He lakes office under a sixyear contract, succeeding Maj. John L. Griffith, who died in office last December. Wilson will be replaced at Northwestern by Ted Payeeur, former university athletic ticket manager, golf coach and assistant basketball coach. o Loans Made Available To Local Communities Indianapolis, May 1 — (UP) — Applications for loans on a $500,000 state fund authorized by the last Indiana general assembly now are being received. Raymond L. Pike, director of the Indiana economic council, said today. The ' loans are available to counties, cities, towns, townships, school cities, school towns, and school townships, in preparation for surveys for post war planning. Repayable in five years, the money has been allotted to the 92 counties in the state. Applications must be received on or before Aug. 15 at the council offices in the hoard of trade building. o Saturday Wind-Up Cincinnati, O.—(UP) —4t happened on Saturday: Mrs. Matti Saturday sued for a divorce from Theodore Saturday.

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Berne Sends Truck Load Os Clothing A truck load of used clothing was brought to the local receiving station on South Second street today ifrom Berne, the donations from people in that territory, Clarence Ziner, county chairman said. Many of the townships have also delivered their packe of used clothto the Decatur station, where it is being sorted and packed preparatory to shipping. It has. been estimated that the total may reach 25 tons of clothing, Mr. Ziner said. 0 Tonight Will Be Last Show Os H. S. Musical Approximately 800 people attended the opening presentation of the musical revue, “Ring Up the Curtain,” in the auditorium of the junior-senior high school last evening. One-hundred seventy-five students of the school took part in the production, and all departments of the school are assisting. A opecial defense workers matinee was given this afternoon, and tiie final performance will lie presented this evening at eight o’clock. —o —— Professional Pride Boston. —• (UP) — A professional safe-cracker, Howard F. Pratt, explains that there is eomethjng about tiie safe business so fascinaing that once you get into it, you can’t get out. “That,” he said, “is the reason why our jails are always full.” o Most popular courses in sparetime studies offered soldiers of the Mediterranean theater by Armed Forces Institute are bookkeeping and accounting.

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I Relax I For Women Workers - Fort Wayne, Ind., May 1. —(UP) —Roland R. Schultz, Fort Wayne area WMC director, announced last night that war manpower regulations providing for the priority referral of women have been removed. Authorizaion for the relaxation of the control was received from John K v -Jennings, Indiana state war manpower commission director and is effective today. With the removal of the priority referral system as it affects women, • employers now will be able to hire women without referral through the United States employment’ service provided that they stay within their employment ceilings for women, and the applicants have not 'been employed in essential industry within the previous 60-day period. o— Patrolmen Ride the Range Ravenna, O. —'(UP) —Two Ravenna patroinen turned cqwboy. rode the Ravenna range, and finally apI prehended two ponies which had escaped from their master’s barn here.

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■L i REPORTED included in the haul of prisoners taken in northern Italy by Italian patriots is John Amery, above, 33-year-old son of Leopold Amery, British secretary of state : for India. John Amery is accused , of being an Axis radio propagandist. (International) -Rv Enterprises (• middle of the 17th century, mu colonies were sparsely seti eoistal villages were engaged community shipbuilding enter’••ses and its sons were venturg forth in small sloops on daring .rean voyages In these projects, ■be village blacksmith, carpenter, -:a 1-weaver and maker, merchant and trapper all participated and for their efforts and contributions leceived shares in the vessel and its profits. Their sons, most of them 13 to 21 years of age. were the crew members and signed on to receive shares as pavmerfT and reward. o Flushing Animals Flushing ewes and sows before breeding helps produce larger and stronger lambs and larger litters of pigs. Flushing consists of feeding animals for two or three weeks before breeding in such a manner that i they are in a healthy, thrifty condition and are gaining weight at time of breeding. o______ __ Reopening schools for Italian children in the Mediterranean theater as soon as possible after Germans have been driven from war-torn towns is one of the chief objectives of Allied military government. . j Soldiers who were veteran rail-I road men in the States operate: Railroads in Italy, supplying frontlin troops, under the Military, Railway Service of the Mediterrau-I ean theater of operations. American hospital ships carry 8,000 quarts of frozen vitamin D.: milk in addition to 500 quarts of fluid milk and 600 to 700 gallons of ice cream. The Texas annexation resolution provides that, with consent of the Ijone Star State, Texas may be divided into five states at any time.

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Kokomo G. E. Workers Return To Jobs Today Kokomo. Ind., May 1 — (UP) — Three-hundred employes of the General electric plant returned to work this morning, ending a strike that began Friday. The walkout, termed unauthorized by a representative of the United electrical and radio machine workers of America. (CIO), followed the firing of a tool room worker. The men returined to their jol>s without settling differences with the company, but negotiations were expected ito continue. Dismissal of the worker was one of several grievances lodged Iby the union, local 936. • 0 Sheriff Works Fast East Liverpool, O.—(UP)—Superman has nothing on Deputy Sheriff Howard Clark at nearby Lisbon. He recovered a car stolen from its owner’s garhge before the owner knew it was missing.

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