Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1945 — Page 6

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Dodgers Hand Cards Double Defeat Saturday New York, July 23.—(UP)— Wouldn't it be funny if the poor old Browns managed to defend their championship while the high and mighty Cardinals missed out? It could happen. Although the Browns have been kicked around down in the American league second division through much of the season, they have ‘‘perked up” lately and today are Ohly a half game further back in their American league race than the Cardinals are in the National. Manager Luke Sewell of the Browns insists that it’s too early to count his team out, that it will be much stronger from now on, and that the only thing, necessary t> put it into the thick of things is a little more hitting to go with fine pitching. Evidence of the improvement is the fact that the Browns have won seven out of 11 games on their current road trip, the best out of town showing for them this season. After a bad start at Philadelphia, where the A’s won three out of four, the Browns won two straight at Washington, two at New York and two out of three at Boston. The Browns split with the Red Sox yesterday, moving into fourth place a half game behind the Yankees and only four and a half games behind the leading Tigers. Dave Ferrise beat them, 3 to 2, in the opened. It was Ferris’ 17th win against two defeats and both Brown runs were unearned. A single by Johnny Lazor after an error gave Boston the winning run in the ninth. Newman (Tex) Shirley pitched a four-hitter to give the Browns a 5 to 1 second game victory. Meanwhile the Cards were taken over the bumps at St. Louis by the much kidded Dodgers, 3 to 1 and 8 W> 7. The champs have just broken even in 14 home games during the current stand in which they were supposed to begin their famous stretch drive. The Dodgers came from behind to wiiP the

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first game for Hal Gregg, the winning pitcher despite the fact that the sun kayoed him in the eighth. In the second game, Charley Barrett wtte given his worst beating since joining the Cards, being batter out in a six-run first inning rally. Hal Newhouser won his 15th game for the Tigers, a 9 to 1 fourhitter, but Philadelphia took advantage of an error by Bobby Maier to score two unearned runs and beat Al Benton in the second game, 2 to 1. Washington, two and a half games behind the Tigers, failed to gain with a 5 to 4 victory and a 9 to 3 defeat against Cleveland. Mickey Haefner singled in his own winning run in the opener. George Binks made four hits for the Senators. It was Haefner’s eighth win. Jim Bagby pitched steadily and got solid hitting support to give the Indians the second game. The Yankees, led by Coach Art Fletcher in the absence of Manager Joe McCarthy, who is ill, dropped a 12-iuning thriller to the visiting White Sox, 6 to 5, when Leroy Schalk singled home Wally Moses from second. The Cubs gained a full game with the Phillies. Chicago won, 8 to 5, then lost, 11 to 6, after blowing a lead. Ray Prim gained the opening victory even though Vince Dimaggio blasted his 13th and 14th homers. In the second game, the Phils put on a 10-run rally in the seventh, routing three pitchers including starter Hank Wyse, wild was trying for his 14th victory and his eighth straight. Cincinnati took two from the Giants. 2 to 1, in 13 innings and, 11 to 5. The double lose dropped the New Yorkers into the second division. Bucky Walters, going strong now after a slow start, won his fifth straight opener. It was the seventh victory in eight extra inning games this year for the Reds. Three singles off Harry Feldman, the last by Woody Williams, produced the winning run. The Pirates replaced the Giants in fourth place with two well pitched victories over the Braves at Pittsburgh, 2to 1 and 3to 1. Ken Gables gained the first game victory in the ninth when Jim Tobin weakened. Four hits and a eacrifice fly gave the Pirates both their runs. Jack Barrett, who scored the tying run in the opener after singling, won the second game with a three-run homer. Elwyn (Preacher) Roe was the winning pitcher, allowing only four hits.

Yesterday’s star — Encore performer Dave Ferriss of the Red Sox, winning his 17th game against two defeat^, Lite--3 to 2, and allowed no earned runs. -— oi— ————— Wednesday Deadline For Softball Tourney Wednesday midnight. July 25, is the deadline for entries in the softhall tournament, which will open at Bluffton August 4. B. J. Masterson, tourney manager, stated this morning that only one entry has been received to date from Adams county and other teams are urged to enter before the deadline.

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Biggest Money Goli Tourney Opens Today Chicago, July 23. —(UP) —Golf's greatest gold rush, the 360,000 AllAmerican tournament, gets under way today at the Tam O’Shanter country club with the best field since 1942. The All-American, composed of a men’s open, an amateur and a women's open, is the game's annual Barnum and Bailey show. It is always a riot of color, circus ballyhoo plus some of the best golf of the season. Staged by George S. May, the gaudy-dressed Chicago business man who is a very fast man with the check book, this three-in-one golfing classic starts today with qualifying play for the amateurs. Women qualify tomorrow, the pros Wednesday. Championship play begins concurrently in each tournament Thursday with 18 holes daily through Sunday. As a slde-flhow, May also is sponsoring a national swimming meet over the weekend. The main attraction is the men’s open in which a brilliant field, headed by Byron Nelson, slammin’ Sammy Snead and Lt. Ben Hogan, will be after the $13,600 in war bonds that goes to the winner. It’s the first time since Snead entered the navy in 1942 that this great trio has competed. Nelson, in the midst of a record winning streak, skipped the St. Paul open tournament to rest his golf weary back in preparation for this tournament, which he has won three times in its four-year existence. Snead did the same thing, giving his injured wrist another week of reet. Hogan, playing his second major tournament since entering the army late in 1942 when he was the game’s leading money winner, has obtained a leave to find out whether it’s true what they say about Nelson — that he’s the greatest of all time. But Snead and Nelson missed something when they passed up the St. Paul open. Sgt. Ernest J. (Dutch) Harrison of Wright Field, O„ showed he would be a hot challenger in the All-American by winning it with a 72-hole total of 273 strokes, 15 under par. His was an upset triumph. After trailing the pack 36 holes, Harrison pulled even at the 54-hole mark and then won going away when he ehot a blistering eight-under-par 64 on the final round to grab the $2,000 war bond first prize.

MAJOR LEAGUE STAHNHGS ;; -4-, ■ ' ■ -NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Chicago 52 32. .619 St. Louis ~J. 49 38 .565. A% Brooklyn 49 38 .563 4% Pittsburgh 46 42. .523’ 8 New York 46 45 .505 9% Cincinnati 40 41 .494 10% Boston 41 45 .477 12 Philadelphia 25 67 .272 31 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Detroit 47 35 .573 .... Washington 44 37 .543 2% New York 42 39 .519 4% St. Louis 41 39 .513 5 Boston 43 41 .512 5 Chicago 43 41 .512 5 Cleveland 38 43 .469 8% Philadelphia .... 29 52 .358 17% YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 2-3, Boston 1-1. Chicago 8-6, Philadelphia 5-11. Brooklyn 3-8, St. Louis 1-7. Cincinnati 2-11, New York 1-5 (Ist game, 13 innings). ? American League Boston 3-1, St. Louis 2-5. Detroit 9-1, Philadelphia 1-2. Washington 5-3, Cleveland 4-9. Chicago 6, New York 5 (12 innings, 2nd game postponed). o LEADING BATSMEN National League Player and Club G. AB. R. H. Pct. Holmes, Boston 88 36X 83 136 .371 Rosen, Brooklyn 82 343 74 126 .367 Cavarretta, Chi. 86 327 67 116 .355 American League Cuccinello, Chi. 78 274 38 89 .325 Case, Wash’ton 77 316 48 101 .320 Lake, Boston .... 62 216 41 68 .315 Home Runs Holmes, Braves, 16. Lombardi, Giants, 15. Workman, Braves, 15. o Indianapolis Hurler Purchased By Braves Pittsburgh, July 23. —(UP) —The Boston Braves, seeking pitching to go with their strong hitting attack, awdlted the arrival today of Ed Wright, recent no-hit game winner, who was purchased from Indianapolis of the American association. Wright, who also pitched a onehit game earlier in the season, was obtained for an unannounced sum of cash and two players, pitcher Ira Hutchinson and infielder Steve Shemo. o Trade In a Good Town — Decatar

Expect McCarthy To Quit Baseball New York, July 23—'(UP)— Joe McCarthy, master manager of the majors, whose 15-year-eareer with the New York Yankees provides baseball with its greatest succe-rf otory, probably is serving his last season at the helm of the club, president Larry MacPhail said today. McCarthy, ill at his hotel here, reportedly was ready to resign yesterday until after a conference with MacPhail when he was persuaded to finish out the season. Th P 58-year-old Irishman, whose genius for developing stars gave the Yankees eight pennants and seven world championships, four second place finishes and two thirds since he took over the team in 1931, compiled a record that is unparalleled in baseball. MacPhail revealed that McCarthy was ready to resign last winter because of recurrent illness, but reconsidered when the club changed ownership. “Joe told .Ed Barrow that he wanted to quit then, but 'he felt people would think he resigned when I took over so he changed life mind,” MacPhail isaid. "He is upset about the way that the team has been going. He said ho hadn’t been able to sleep since Wednesday and life physician has advised him to rest awhile, forgetting about baseball.” McCarthy left the club Friday after it dropped a double header to t'he St. Louis Browns and had not been with them since. The red-haired ‘MacPhail, who became one of the owners of the Yankees laet winter along with Capt. Dan Topping of the marines and Del Webb of Phoenix, Ariz., had been expected to dash with McCarthy. However, harmony had been notable in the new regime from the start and MacPhail emphasized that there was no friction involved in McCarthy’s reported desire to quit. o Frank Bohnke Heads Decatur G. E. Club Frank Bohnke has been elected president of the Decatur G. E. Club, effective August 1, succeeding Carl Smith, who will remain as a director for one year. Other officers are Leo Hoffman, vice president; Ethel Miller, secretary, and Hilda Gaunt, director for three years.

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Retail Sales Show Increase In State .Washington. July 23—(UP)— Independent retail sales in Indiana for June, 1945, showed a 10 per cent increase over June, 1944, and a six per cent hike over last May, the census bureau reported today. Reports from 798 stores, exclusive of department stores, indicated that sales for the first six months of this year were seven per cent higher than the dollar volume for the same period last year, o ° Today's Sports Parade By JACK CUDDY Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) O ~ ° New York, July 23 — (UP) — James J. Dykes, chunky manager of the Chisox, is in the throes of a psychological about-face. Professor Dykes is now blistering his own players with the hottest verbal applications he can concoct, instead of burning up opposing performers and umpires as was his custom down through the years. We came upon the round and raucous man in the Yankee stadium dressing room, after Chicago had beaten the Yanks,* 6-5, Sunday in 12 innings. Dykes, in gray road uniform, was sitting before his locker, puffing with savage satisfaction upon a large and allegedly fragrant cigar. “I told ’em off," he muttered in grim contentment. “I really told ’em off; and we beat ’em. We out-hustled ’em and out-lasted ’em.” Just what did he tell those Yankees? —an alert reporter wanted to know. And what particular Yanks was he "riding" during the game? “Yanks, hell!” snorted Dykes, with an accompanying burst of smoke. "I'm talkin’ about my own club. I really told my guys off. We had a little meeting right here in this room before today’s game, and 1 gave it to them like I never handed it out before. “I started off slow and easy like —told 'em I was probably wastin’ my time talkin’ to 'em because some of 'em w-ere so sloppy and lazy they probably wouldn't even listen. And then I really went to work on ’em. “No, it wasn’t any pep talk. It was the most serious talk I ever made in my life. I said things to them T never said to any other group of men. It wasn’t just a spur-of-the-moment Now - off.

Things had been building up to this for some time. They needed some applied psychology, and they got it. And they’ll get plenty more if they don’t hustle. I’ve come to the conclusion that applied psychology can win the pennant this season —more that! anything else —because of the minor league complex that seems to have settled upon some of our teams.” Minor-league complex? Dykes explained that this complex was a product of wartime baseball—a product that is driving several managers almost goofy. It seems that practically every major league club now has many players who, in normal times, would still be in the minors. "They wouldn't even be wearin major league uniforms if it were not for the war,” Dykes continued. "Well, those guys are up here now, and you'd naturally figure that they’d make the most of their big chance. You'd expect them to hustle — try to make a name for themselves —try to stick —try to become permanent major leaguers. "But do they do that? No, they don't. Instead, they act as if they're playing on borrowed time. As if they’ll have to go back to the minors when the regulars get out of service. So they say, ‘to hell with it!’ And they don’t even show the hustle they had in the minors. Their indifference and' laziness ruins the morale of an entire club.” Dykes emphasized that if every player on his squad had been hustling like Tony Cuccinello and Roy Schalk, for example, the White Sox now would have a firstplace lead of seven or eight games, instead of being in a tie for fifth position—five games off the pace. He declared that most teams in the American league were -so evenly matched this season that the pennant would be decided by hustle —more than any other factor. But, to achieve that hustle under present conditions will require the ultimate in applied psychology on the part of the managers “My boys left the dressing room today determined to beat the Yanks —determined never to give up,” Dykes concluded. “Going into the ninth inning we were three runs behind, but we kept hustling and were ready to take advantage of the breaks when they came —and we finally won out. You’ll see a lot more hustlin’ on the White Sox from now on.”

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