Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 21 May 1945 — Page 6

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Browns Score Double Victory Over Yankees New’ York, May 21—(UP)—The St. Louis Browns, who get there by plugging instead of slugging, surprised their fair-weather friends today by moving ahead of the 1914 pace with which they won their first pennant. Riding a five-game winning streak, the American league champions boast a record of eight victories in nine starts and the fans are climbing back on their band-wagon. After sweeping their four games with the Yankees by winning a double bill at St. Louis yesterday, 10 to 1. and sto 2, the Browns moved up to a second place tie with Detroit. Their 13 victories and nine defeats for a percentage of .591 compared with a .567 figure on 17 wins and 13 losses at this time a year ago. Last season, the Browns got off tp a great start but no one took them seriously because they had gone 42 years without a flag. This year the fans deserted when they had an early-season slump that lasted nearly a month. Good pitching, a "must" with the Browns because they lack sustained punch, prevailed in the twin win. ilbirever. the attack came to life in the opener to produce 15 hits for Nelson Potter as he won his third game. One-armed Pete Gray led the batting with three singles and added another in the second game in which Bob Muncrief outpitched Walt Dubiel. Dubiel accounted for the only Yankee runs with a homer. It was the nimh straight time the Browns had beaten the Yankees. The Browns gained no ground on the leading White Sox, who won their fourth Sunday double header at Chicago, beating Boston, 4 to 2 and 8 to 2. The White Sox rallied late to win the first game for Lefty Thornton Lee with three runs ill the sixth. They supported Orval Grove more quickly, clinching the second game with four runs in the second. The smallest pitchers in the majors, Frank (Stubby) Overmire of the Tigers and Marino (Bantam) Pieretti of the Senators, won at Detroit. Overmire scattered seven UUs to beat Washington, 4 to 1.1 George Sinks scoring the only sen- j ator run with a homer. In the second game, Pieretti won a 1 to 0 duel from Alton Benton, handing the Tiger ace his first defeat after ftve wins. Benton, who has permitted only two earned rims in six complete games, gave up just four hits- It was a dual shut-out until the ninth when the Senators scored on Joe Kubel’s single, Fermin Guerra’s sacrifice and Biliks’ double. Pieretti had a three hitter. The Athletics and Indians split

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at Cleveland. Philadelphia Winning, 6 to 2, on four 10th inning runs which gave Charley Gassaway Ida first victory. The Indians took the second, 4 to 2, to give Charley (Red) Embree his second win. The Chicago Cubs highlighted National league play by winning two from the ambitious Dodgers at I Brooklyn, 4 to 2 and 1 to 1. Bill ' Nicholson's homer gave Paul Derringer the margin for his fifth victory. while a three-run rally off Hal Gregg in the first limning gave i Hank Wyse all the incentive iie need to win a four-hit second game. Bill Voiselle won his eighth straight game for the Giants, beating Pittsburgh, 5 to 1. The Pir- ■ ates took the edge off his performance by shutting out the New Yorkers, 4 to 0. behind Elwin (Preacher) Roe in the second game, it was the first time the Giants had been blanked this year. Tlie Phillies held the Cards to an even break at Philadelphia, winning 7 to 6, after losing, 6 to 2. Doubles in the ninth by Coaker Triplett and Glenn Crawford produced the winning run for the Phils but Vince DiMaggio’s basesfull homer was the big punch. Bucky Walters was a hitter instead of a pitcher, getting two homers to make up for the 15 hits tie allowed on the mound as Cincinnati beat the Braves at Boston. 10-to ". The Braves won the second game, 9 to 4. Yesterday’s star: Elwin (Preacher) Roe of the Pirates, who blanked the slugging Giants. 4 to I), on three hits and struck out eight, giving his team an even break in the twin bill. o Anderson Indians State Track Champs

Indianapolis, May 21. — (UP) — Anderson’s rampaging Indians upheld their role as short-priced favorites in winning the 4-2nd Indiana state prep track and field champion-, ship on Indianapolis Tech cinderpaths Saturday and Hoosier track fans today affirmed that in track. | form paid off and not upsets as in | other sports. Coach Carl Bonge’s undefeated cindermeu were made the odds-on choice by all experts to win their first track crown —a crown which they had missed by only one and one-half points in 1943 when Muncie Burris slipped through to take the title. The well-bdlanced, smooth-work-ing Anderson squad—norlh centra! conference champions for six consecutive years — produced only three first place winners but still ran up tlie amazing total of 41-6 points. “That, according to Bonge, who had that certain feeling over annexing his first state title, showed | the importance of those second and i third place finishes. • Bonge added I that the team had been consistent | all season but never spectacular. Paced by Capt. Bob Devinney, who took the 120 yard high hurdles in :15.1 and the 200 yard lows in a fast :22.7 and a crack miles relay quartet of Dick Williams, Johnny Vaughn, Bob Spearman and j Dick Adams, the tribesmen led run-ner-up Hammond high by 9>2 points. Gary Roosevelt was third, 15 points behind the winners. Other teams finishing well up were Lafayette's Broncos with 23 points; Muncie Central with 15 3-5 points; Ambia and Elkhart, 14 points each. DeVinuey’s double victory did not give him individual glory, however, as little Ambia high’s Maynard Dewitt —the school’s only entrant- flashed tor victory in the 100yard dash, defended his broad jump title with a leap of 22 feet, 4 1 4 inches, and was runner-up in the 220 yard dash to tally 14 points himself.

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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE Teams W. L. Pct. GB New York . 21 6 .778 Brooklyn.. 17 9 .654 3’/: St. Louis 13 13 .500 7’/ Chicago 12 13 .480 8 Boston 11 13 .458 B’/: Pittsburgh 11 14 .440 9 Cincinnati io 13 .435 9 Philadelphia 7 21 .250 I.4Vi AMERICAN LEAGUE Teams W. L. Pct. GB Chicago 15 7 .682 Detroit 13 9 .591 2 St. Louis 13 9 .591 2 New York 13 11 .542 3 Washington ... .... 12 14 .462 5 Philadelphia 10 15 400 6 l /s Cleveland 9 14 .891 GVBoston 9 15 .375 7 SATURDAY’S RESULTS National League All games postponed, rain. American League Washington 6-0, Detroit 2-3. Chicago 3, Boston 2. Cleveland 4-2, Philadelphia 0-1. St. Louis 4, New York 2. National League St. Louis 6-6, Philadelphia 2-7. New York 5-0, Pittsburgh 1-4. Chicago 4-4, Brooklyn 2-1. Cincinnati 10-4, Boston 8-9. American League Philadelphia 6-2, Cleveland 2-4. Detroit 4-0, Washington 1-1. Chicago 4-8, Boston 2-2. St. Louis 10-5, New York 1-2. o— LEADING BATSMEN National League Player Club GAB R H Pot. Holmes, Boston. .. 25 101 27 43 .426 Ott, New York 28 92 28 37 .402 Kurowski, St. L 25 93 18 36 .387 American League Cuccinello, Giants 21 73 13 26 .356 Case, Senators 26 102 16 34 .333 Stephens, St. L 21 78 18 29 .333 —o — ROME RUNS Ott. Giants 7 Weintraub, Giants 7 Lombardi, Giants 7 0 Baseball Attendance Hits New 1945 High !Ne*w York. May 21— (UP) —-Baseball attendance hit a new 1945 'high yesterday when 187,399 spectators paid t'heir way into eight parks, with the 46.575 casth customers at the Giant-Pirate game in New York a high mark for individual games. The Ibcst previous attendance at Sunday doubleheadens was on April 29, when 174.1-62 fans were on hand. The four national league doubleheaders yesterday outdrew the quartet of American league twinbills, .116,197 to 71,202. — Q Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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ONE OF AMERICA'S most distinguished aeronautical experts, Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner, ! above, has been named to succeed i Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle as j commander of the Eighth Air Force. Doolittle, who led the war’s first bombing blow at Tokyo, turns over his European command to Kepner amid immediate speculation that he would return to the Pacific to finish the job he started. (International) John Goldsberry of South Bend Adams gained his share of the laurels by defending the shot-put crown with a new state record heave of 53 feet, 9% inches. Goldeberry’s toss broke the old state meet record of 52 feet, inches, set by Don Elser of Gary Horace Mann in 1931 and also the Indiana mark of 53 feet, 7 inches, made by Bab Blake of Alexandria high in 1933. Fails To Qualify Paul Bucher, Decatur Yellow Jackets’ lone entry, failed to qualify during the Saturday morning trials. Bucher won the 100-yard dash in the Fort Wayne sectional, thue becoming Decatur’s first entrant in the state track finals for many years.

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Today's Sports Parade I By JACK CUDDY Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) o o New York, May 21. —(UP) —ls chipper Charley Grimm had his banjo with him. he'd be strummin’ today as his Cubs headed home to Chicago after snapping their losing streak with a double-header victory before 36,176 flabbergasted Brooklyn fans. Mighty sweet for manager Charley were those two wins Sunday at Ebbets field. They took the curse off a woeful road trip. They fanned the flickering flame of pennant hope in Jolly Cholly’s bosom. “This was the turning point,” Grimm declared in the dressing room. “Things will improve from here. We’re a much better club than we’ve been looking lately.” Cholly wasn’t so jolly when his faltering Athletes took the field against the formidable Dodgers, i who had scheduled theii aee pitchers: Curt Davis and Hal Gregg. It could be said that Charley was grim, if you’ll poddon the pun. His Cubs were working on a losing stream of six straight. Moreover, they had lost nine of 12 games on their trip, which opened at St. Louis May 5. They had dropped from second place into the second division, tied with Pittsburgh for fifth position. And they hadn’t won a Sunday game since April 22. i when they dumped the Pirates; twice. All this was forgotten, however, aa the valiant Chicagoans went to work in the Dodgers—on their own home field — before the largest Brooklyn crowd of the season. The Cubs won, 4-2 and 4-1. Veteran Paul Derringer registered his fifth pitching victory of the season in the opener, and Hank Wyse took> the nightcap.* According to Jack Smith of the New York Daily News, the Cubs turned Brooklyn’s “team of destiny” to a “team of dustiny." In tire dressing room Grimm said.

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“we’ll do better from now on. Catcher Mickey Livingston will join j us again at Chicago. He hasn’t | been with us since May 9, and we’ve missed him a lot. He was hitting' .311, you know. He was called 1 home when a high wind blew down his house and farm buildings near Columbia, South Carolina. His wife was injured, too. “Bill Nicholson is getting back into hitting form. You know what a difference big Bill will make wh'*n he really goes to town. Claude Passeau has been pitching; but he's been handicapped by arm trouble that is yielding to treatment now. And Ed Hanyzewski’s arm should be back in shape soon. We'll do all right from now on. This double win over Brooklyn was just the lift the club needed.” Now that Grimm and his Bruins had played every club in the National league, could he say which outfit impressed him most? “Certainly—the Giants. They're a tough team. They're getting fine pitching, and they pack a lot <«f 1 punch.” But, won't the Giants slow up when hot weather hits them? “I see no reason why hot weather should make . them sluff off,” Grimm said. “The Giants have a good combination of veterans and young players. And believe me their veterans are in good condition —Ott, Lombardi, Weintraub and the like. I wish something would, i slow them up, but 1 don't dei pend upon hot weather to do it. Ini cidentally, the Braves have improved so much that Boston is tough for any club to beat now.” ' 0 — Nevada Divorce Mill Hit By High Court Washington, May 21 — (UP) — The supreme court held today tliat each state may decide for itself whether to recognize the validity of the six-weeks residence under which Nevada grants divorces.

The 6 to 3 ruling, ’written by Justice Felix Frankfurther, affirmed ‘the convictions of a Pineola, N. C.. couple for "bigamous tuhabilaUun.” — — O .. ■— Meal And Poultry Supplies Dwindling Black Markets Cut Deep Into Supplies By United Press Carving knives lay idle in kitchen drawers throughout the U. S. today as meat dealers reported black market operations cutting deeper* into dwindling meat anti poultry supplies. Lines lengthened before the corner butcher shop. And most housewives considered themselves lucky to obtain meat of any kind — or poultry, the next best substitute. About the only beneficiaries of the current meat shortage are the nation's butchers, suddenly supplied witli an unprecedented amount of liesure. Many are quitting work after an average four-hour day. There is simply no meat to sell. In Chicago, the meat packing center, office of price administration officials estimate that supplies have dropped 50 percent in the past six months. Most markets have adopted a practice of opening only two or three days a week, while others close as soon as the day’s supply is < xhausted.

Almost to a man, the butchers blame the black market. “A retailer can get all the meat he wants if he has a high-income clientele and will pay the price, , one butcher complained bitterly. In New York, half the butcher | shops are closed and showcases In | the others are empty despite an enforced ban on meatisales. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia last : night called upon government < Hicials to inaugurate the rationing of I poultry, and to adopt universally i New York’s meatless Tuesday and. Friday. He also proposed that i restaurants and hotels be required to collect ration points from pat-j rons for meat servings. The war food administration has , held put little hope for increased meat, poultry and egg supplies in : the number one population center. It points 'out, however, that "fish ; are coining into the market at tlie i rate of 1,000,600 pounds a day, 300,- ’ 000 pounds above the normal sup-; Philadelphia newspapers quote ply.” Arthur E. Dennis, attorney for several meat industry groups, as saying that the city’s meat supply is at its lowest ebb since the Civil | war. Fifteen plants in the areal already have warned the war pro-. duction board that output would lie slowed unless their cafeterias were given enough meat for at least two or three luncheons a week. o ■ Three Are Killed As Train Smashes Auto La Porte, Ind., May 21 —-(UP) —j Indiana state police sought today i to identify the bodies of a man and ■ two youths w'ho 'were killed this [ morning when their automobile i was .struck by a Grand Trunk train ; on Ind., 43 near Wanatah. The automolbile was registered i in the name of Rudolph Hawkey, ' Rensselaer. Chesterton state police | post officers said the two boys ap-1 peared to be about 16 and I'7 years. ' old. ■ —o The town of Blessing, in Texas, was named when an early settler remarked that “This was a blessing” as officials announced a rail-1 road would be built through the i I section.

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