Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1945 — Page 6

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Last Season's Major League Stars Slump New York. June 26. (UP) Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown—at least as far as the various major league baseball champions of 1944 are concerned. With the current season drawing close to the half-way mark tixlay, most of last year’s individual leaders were bogged down wlule new and sometimes surprising gentlemen have risen to take their places. Swinging a bat with plenty of hits in it, Tommy Holmes of the Boston Braves indicates that he means business in his efforts to annex the major league batting championship. Ami as far as last year's champ, Fred (Dixie) Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers is concerned, Holmes apparently doesn’t need t > worry. The Boston outfielder has a .386 average while Walker is 29th among National League regulars with a puny mark of .278. Lou Boudreau. Cleveland Indians' manager and 1944 American League leader, is little better off. Replacing him is the amazing Tony Cuccinello of the Chicago White Sox, finally blossoming out as a hitter after a decade of play. Cuccinello has a .342 mark and Boudreau is 24th among American League regulars with a .265 figure. One of the few likely to succeed himself is Hal Newhouser, crafty Tiger southpaw, who io ahead of his 1941 pitching time table with 11 victories and four defeats. Going at that pace he will win more than 30 games whereas in 1944 he picked up 29 wins while losing nine times. In the National League Ted Wilks of the Cards, who won 17 and lost four, has equalled hie 1944 record on the losing side with four defeats, but he has mustered up only four wins to go with them. His ex-team mate, Morton Cooper, now of the Braves, is the current National League leader with six triumphs and one loss, but that is a long way from big Mort’s 1944 total of 22 and 7. One of the biggest “busts” of the year has been Bill Nicholson, the 1944 home run and runs batted in king from the Chicago Cubs.

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Things have gotten so bad with him that he is going to take hitting lesflons from Rogers Hornsby, one of the all-time National League greats in the base-hit department. Nicholson to date is 16th in runs batted in with 31 while likable Luis Olmo, the Battin’ Latin from Brooklyn, is the new leader with 54 to date. Ernie Lombardi of the Giants is the new home run leader with 13 while Nicholson has only five, a far cry from his 33 total of 1944. In the American League two 1944 champions apparently have decided to switch crowns. Vernon Stephens of the Browns has displaced Nick Etten of the Yankees as the home run leader with 11, while Etten, who hit 22 last year, has hit only five to date in 1945. However. Etten is tied with Bob Johnson of the Red Sox for the runs batted in leaderflhip with 39. Stephens, who led the league with 109 last year, has only 29 thus far and rates fifth. 0 — MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Brooklyn ... 37 22 .627 St. Louis 33 25 .569 3‘/ 2 Pittsburgh 32 26 .552 4>i New York 33 28 .541 5 Chicago 29 25 .537 5V 2 Boston 28 28 .500 7V 2 Cincinnati 24 30 .444 lO’o Philadelphia .... 16 48 .250 23’3 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. GB. Detroit 35 22 .614 .... New York 33 23 .589 l’/ 2 Boston 30 27 .526 5 Chicago 31 28 .525 5 Washington 27 28 .491 7 St. Louis 25 29 .463 B’/3 St. Louis 25 29 .463 S’i Cleveland 23 31 .426 10’/ 2 Philadelphia . . 20 36 .357 14U LEADING BATSMEN American League Player and Club G. AB. R. 11. Pct. Cuccinello, Chi. 56 199 29 68 .342 Case, Wash’ton 51 205 28 68 .327 Etten, New York 56 200 25 64 .320 National League Holmes, Boston 58 246 60 95 .386 Rosen. Brooklyn 53 213 48 78 .366 Kurkowski, St. L 54 199 39 71 .357 Home Runs • Lombardi, Giants, 13. Stephens. Browns, 11. Dimaggio, Phillies, 11. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League No games scheduled. American League No gamefl scheduled.

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Senators, White Sox Are Winners The Sena tore and White Sox registered victories in the American division of tho summer recreation league at Worthman field 'Monday. The Senators, driving out 13 hits and flcoring in every inning, defeated the Red Sox, I's to 6. Both teamfl played errorless ball. The White Sox defeated the Indians, 7 to 6, in a game which went to six innings. (The winners obtained six hits and the loserfl seven, with both teams playing errorless ball. Scores by innings: R. H. E. Senators 63i2 22-4115 13 0 Red Sox 001 50— 6 6 0 Petrie and Pollock; Gage, Costello and Schulte, Gage. White Sox 018 102— 7 6 0 Indians . 101 211— 6 7 0 Coffee and Lister; Gage and Hurst.

Krafl Beats Moose In League Contest Kraft, defeated Moose, 5 to 1, in a City softball league game Monday night at Worthman field. A scheduled exhibition game between McMillen and the Van Wert YMCA team was cancelled when the Van Wert team called shortly before game time, stating they would be unable to appear. McMillen defeated a pick-up team. 7 to 1. in a brief exhibition. Bauermeister, Kraft hurler, limited the Moose team to a lone safety, a single by his pitching opponent in the third inning. The losers scored their lone run tn the sixth on a walk and an error. Kraft tallied once in the first inning on two hits, scored twice in the fifth on two hits and a wild pitch and scored their final two runs in the sixth on two errors and a fielder's choice. Score by innings: R H E Moose 000 001 o—l 1 3 Kraft 100 022 x —s 4 1 Sharp and Schmidt; Bauermeister and M. Ladd. o Injured White Sox Hurler Improving Chicago, June 26 —(UP)— Joe Haynes, Chicago White Sox pitcher, said today that his fractured ankle was "knitting nicely” and that he would be back on the mound before the season ended. 'Haynes, who suffered a compound fracture and dislocation June 17 when he slid into third base during a game with the Detroit Tigere, said he would be released from Mercy hospital this week.

induction Os 4-F Men Is Underway Indianapolis, June 26 —<(UP)— Maj. Robert W. Platte of the state selective service office eaid today that induction of men with 4-F draft classifications was under way in Indiana as a result of lower army physical standards. Fifty have been accepted thus far. Platte said. He added that 6,060 Hoosiers who had been rejected or deferred would be feiven pre-induction examinations before Sept. 1. 'All are 25 years of age or younger.

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Today s Sports Parade By JACK CUDDY Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) 0 O New York, June 26.—(UP) — Brooklyn, that beautiful borough of churches and chowder houses, a paradise to its natives and a paradox to the rest of the world, provided baseball today with what could be one of the greatest diamony mysteries of all time —“dem breath-taking Bums, the Dodgers.” There always is something new and different in Brooklyn—never a dull moment —but the evolution of Manager Leo Durocher’s seventh place “dodderers” of 1944 to the current crew of dandy's who are threatening to steal the National League pennant takes every slice of cake on the place. Always before the team was supposed to be good and the Ebbets field faithful went to the park to swear at and not by the players when they failed to live up to expectations. This year the whole thing is in reverse. The baseball experts, viewing the Dodgers in spring training at Bear Mountain, N. Y., shook their heads sadly and said that the fans would have to “wait ’til next year.” So what has happened? With only scattered changes, few of which were supposed to have been for the better, “Dem Bums” rise to heights sublime. They have been in first place for nine days now and if the altitude has made them dizzy they haven’t shown any signs of it. In the recent set of games with their eastern rivals they won lp out of 19 games, a pennant pace in anybody’s league. During that time they had winning streaks of eight games and seven games, but of course both of those were “small stuff” for this year’s Dodgers. Earlier in the season they ran up an 11-game string, and though they have had their losing lapses, the most they have lost in a skein is six games on their last western junket. The “wise guys” insist that the Dodgers are due to crash just as soon as the supposedly stronger western teams begin to move m this week, but there is an answer for that one in Flatbush, too. It just happens that seven of the 11 games in that first wild winning streak were run up against the invaders in their first trip east, two in a row against the champion Cardinals, two against the Reds and three straight from the Pirates. A quick analysis of the Dodger personnel reveals no real clues as to why they keep winning. Last year’s major league batting champion, Dixie Walker, was rattling the fences at a .385 clip at this stage of the 1944 campaign. Right now Dixie is 107 points below that at .278. Goody Rosen, who wasn’t even a regular last year, is the leading light among the hitters with a .366 mark and the help of Luis Olmo at driving in runs can’t be overlooked. He's leading the league in that important department with 54. Yet the Dodgers have only three regulars, Rosen. Olmo, and infielder iEddie Basinski, hitting above .300. The tipoff, though, may be in the fact that collectively the club now leads the league in batting with a .278 mark. Afield, however, they still are the Dodgers, seventh in team fielding with only the jaybird Phillies outranking them in making errors. The pitching, which was supposed to have been collapsible and may be the team’s “Achilles heel,” is made up of a staff that is “very

old” at one end and “very young” at the other. Key men are oldster Curt Davis, who has won six and lost six and youngster Hal Gregg, who has won nine and lost four, but has miseries in his back that prevent him from being at his best. Rookies Clyde King, a reliever who has won four and lost none, Cy Buker (2-0), Vic Lombardi (3-2), Leroy Pfund (3-1), and oldster Art Herring (1-0) give Durocher an assortment to say the least. In the meantime, Ebbets field is rivaling Coney Island as a Brooklyn summer resort with paid attendance of 475,258 to date and the season not half gone. No wonder owner Branch Rickey found it expedient to pay tribute to his “ferocious gentlemen.” Q Asks Public Aid To Speed Vets' Return Camp Atterbury Head Asks Cooperation

Camp Atterbury, Jnd., June 26— (UP)— ©rig. Gen. Ernest A. Bixby commander of Camp Atterbury, said today that families and friends of overseas returnee's could speed their arrival home by refraining from making personal visits or telephone calls to the Hoosier reception station. Bixby also predicted a 40,990-man monthly processing routine soon. “The folks at home can help us get their men to them sooner by not coming to meet them, or trying to call them by phone,” Bixby said. He said that the visits and calls delayed the processing of soldiers coming back for furlough and reassignment. “Anything which delays their processing simply means a disruption of our procedure at the reception station, and a consequent delay for the men themselves. Bixby said the reception station was handling “hundreds” of returnees every day. “There soon will be 40,000 men going through each month,” he added. o Job Priorities Tq Hoosier Veterans Indianapolis, June 26—(UP) — Hoosier veterans of World War II were told by Governor Gates today that they had “the No. 1 job priority” upon their return home. Gates made the promise in a 3,000 word message sent to the army news service of the army service forces, for use in a radio script for fighting men overseas. “Government, business and labor all are working and planning toward a common end,” Gates said, "that upon your return you. will find a life more economically worthwhile and more enjoyable in every way than any of you have ever known.’’ o Ernie Pyle Memorial Broadcast On July 2 Indianapolis, June 26 —i(tUP) —A nation-wide radio broadcast in memory of Ernie Pyle today was scheduled to be held July 2 in connection with the world premier of the Hoosier columnist’s movie, “The Story of G. I. Joe,” in Indianapolis July 6. The popular Vox Pop radio show will be broadcast from the Indiana state fairgrounds coliseum.

Patton Assailed By Soldier Cartoonist Says General Tried To 'Dictate' To Men Denver, Colo., June 26 —(UP) — Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, commander of the third army, today was the target of a charge that he tried to "dictate" the thoughts and emotion of his men. Tho accusations came from Bill Mauldin. Scripps-Howard cartoonist considered a spokesman for the American soldier. Mauldin was in Denver yesterday enroute with his wife to Los Angeles where he will see his 22-month old son for the first time. Point-discharged from the army two days ago, Mauldin, the creator of the famous “Up Front with Mauldin” and its successor "Sweatin’ It Out,” revealed some details about an interview he had with General Patton last March in Luxembourg. Explaining that his recent discharge had nothing to do with his expression of opinion, Mauldin said that General Patton called him into headquarters and “tried to tell me what 1 should think and what 1 should draw’, what Gl’s should think, what the American people should think.” The young artist refuted a statement attributed to the general several weeks ago that he had seen only two of Mauldin’s car toons and liked neither of them. When General Patton summoned him, Mauldin said, his desk was covered with examples of Maul-din-pictured representatives of soldier life in Europe. “He said my cartoons were undermining the morale of the army, were destroying confidence in the 'command, were making soldiers unsoldierly,” Mauldin said. “He said that I was blowing off steam for the soldiers, that 1 was giving them an outlet for their emotions. He said he did not believe that soldiers should have any steam let off for them or have any outlet for their emotions.” 0 Texas has more old-age pensioners on the rolls than any other state. It was more than 6.000 years ago that the Egyptians discovered mineral dyes and color began to play a part in apparel arts.

IHIm i i i i EL : i &••• »<>>•<,•. .> ua ••• • J VICTIM of a vicious child crime, according to authorities, the violated body of six-year-old Hazel Laurie, was found in an abandoned ice box in the yard of her apartment house home at Springfield, Mass. The 14-year-old brother of the little girl, Earl Laurie, confessed he had attacked • the child in the cellar of their home and then, finding her an hour and a half later curled Inside the unused ice box, slammed shut i the door, according to Police Chief R. P. Gallagher. (International)

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Post-War Training Favored By Hershey Nation's Guarantee Against Aggression Gary. Ind., June 26. — (UP)— Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service director, believes that universal post-war military training is “tint nation's only guarantee against aggression." Hershey told a chamber of commerce audience last night that no “bully nation” would attack a country it knows it cannot lick.” Only by preparedness through youth training in peace time can the nation be sure of lasting peace, he said. The draft director said that in-1 dusiiry would remain in high gear! for to come,” and that deferments for men under 30 would become increasingly few as discharged veterans returned to in dustry and farms. Monthly draft calls will remain at around 100,000. Hershey said, for “the foreseeable future.” Deferment requests of employers for younger men will be scanned more closely by local draft boards as they watch signs of heavy industrial lay-offs among older men. women and physically handicapped, he said. Hershey said there would be little sympathy shown for so-called “job jumpers.” He referred to reg-1

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