Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1945 — Page 6

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Indians Beal Senators For Third In Row New York, July 25 — (VP) You’d think it was the last, place Athletics that the so-called Ameri«:an league contenders weie trying to catch these days in a race that seems to be developing into a full "retreat” from the pennant. Take the pace setting Detroit Tigers. They left home on an eastern road trip, four and a half games in front and won only four games, losing seven and tying one. That they still are three full games in front is evidence of the backward trend in effect among the other clubs. Tlie second place Washington Senators came home after one of the most successful road trips in years and promptly hit a mediocre stride, winning six ami losing seven. They climaxed the stand last night by dropping their third straight game to the Cleveland Indians, 4 to 0. Fire-bailer Allie Reynolds pitched a seven hitter for Cleveland. Lambert (Dutch) Meyer paced the 11-hit Indian attack of Emil (Dutch) Leonard, who suffered his fourth defeat. It was Reynold's loth win. The St. Louis Browns, who picked up some ground on their eastern swing, fell out of the first division after squeezing in for a day, losing a 6 to 0 shutout at Boston. Emmet O'Neill pitched a four-hitter. Sigmund Jakucki, usually a control artist, ' >.<t mainly because of his wildness. The other socallcd American league contenders have done little better, but the surprise team of the outfit is the cellar-dwelling Philadelphia crew, which has eight victories, three defeats and two ties in its home stand for the best record in the circuit during the period. The Cubs, with southpaw Boh Chipman back in harness, beat the Phillies at Chicago, 8 to 3, for their 24th victory in 31 games against eastern teams since June 27. Bill Nicholson's three run triple was the key blow for Chipman in his first appearance since June 20. The win kept Chicago’s four and a half game lead in the National intact. The Giants remained ahead of the Reds in fifth place in the National league, winning, ff to at Cincinnati. Harry Feldman served up a home run pitch to

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Frank McCormick which accounted for two Red runs, but after that happened in the second, he had little trouble. He also made two hits. The Pirates won their fifth game in six from the Braves, 6 to 5, in 11 innings. Veteran Jackie Xaltzgaver scored the tying run in the ninth after singling. In the 11th he came across with the winning run ‘on -x long fly after leading off with a triple. Relief pitcher Ken Gables won his seventh game without a defeat. Augie Bergamo of the Cards broke a second place tie with the Brooklyn Dodgers by singling in the ninth to score Marty Marion for a 7 to 6 victory. It was his third straight hit and enabled the Birds Io climax an uphill battle which found them behind 6 to 1 at one time. No other games were scheduled. Yesterday’s star — Ex-Yankee Jackie Saltzgaver who gave the Pirates a 6 to 5 victory over the Braves, scoring the tying run in the ninth after singling and the winning run in the 11th after a triple. o G.E. Girls Defeat Inca Tuesday Night ______. The Decatur G. E. Girls returned to the victory trail Tuesday night at Worthman field, defeating Inca of Fort Wayne. 6 to 1. The locals combined one hit with a pair of errors for three runs m the first inning, added another tally in the fifth, ateo on one hit, and bunched four hits for their final two runs in the sixth frame. A hit and a walk gave Inca its lone run in the second inning. Butcher limited the visitors to four hits, scattered over as many innings, while the wtnnerfc made, nine gaieties. In the first game, the Senators scored a 6 to 3 triumph over the White Sox in the American division of the summer recreation league. Scores by innings: R H E White Sox 000 12—3 2 0 Senators 231 Ox —6 G 0 Coffee. Gehrig and Dague, Braun Hiatt and R. Pollock. Inca Old 000 o—l 4 2 G. E. Girls 300 012 x—6 9 5 Grenenback and Bailie; Butcher and Bower. 0 Postpone Gomes In Rec reaheoLeogtie—'Wet grounds thia morning forced postponement of games in the summer recration league at Worthman field. The games will be played next Monday, with the Senators and Indians meeting at 9 a. in., followed by the Red Sox and White Sox. About 1,400 Maine men have been killed in action.

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Todays Sports Parade By JACK CUDDY Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) o o New York, July 25 —'(UP) —Gotham’s baseball crowd was a house divided today over whether loquacious lairry MacPhail, President of the Yankees, went "out of hounds” to criticize manager Joe McCarthy’s club for lack of hustle. Baseball scribes, subway riders, the fan in the street and even the players themselves pitched into the controversy which may or may not have anything to do with McCarthy’s unaccepted resignation and his nervous illness that sent him home to Buffalo, N. Y., for a rest. 'Macphail, who steadfastly has kept his word that he would not enter the Yankee dressing room or interfere with McCarthy’s management of the club, watched the team grow progressively worse as the season dragged on. He saw an infield that frequently looked amateurish pile up a total that now’ has reached 112 errors for 82 games, highest for either league. He saw players drawing salaries for mediocre play that w’ould be fabulously high for stars on any other club in baseball. Finally he •blew his top. In typically picturesque language he described the "disinterested attitude” of many of the players and their "lack of hustle and emotion.” Significantly or not McCarthy’s illness stemmed from the date of MacPhail’s blast to newspapermen. That he resigned flatly there is no doubt—that McPhail desperately tried to persuade him to reconsider also is established definitely. What is doubtful is whether there was a connection between MacPhail’s blast and McCarthy’s absenteeism. And that is what has the fans, the scribes and the players in a dither. 'One school of thought insists that McCarthy, with a proud record of no second division teams in 14 years as Yankee manager, simply couldn't take it any longer a<s he watched the most inept club he ever directed pas<3 up opportunity after opportunity to move up as contenders. (During the home stay which produced the crisis, the Y'ankees have won only three games and have lost seven. They have been playing at below’ the .400 mark for more than a month. This school believes that MacPhail’s criticism, though valid, was ill-timed and that he might fetter have been able to serve the club by a few player deals.

The other side contends that as long as MacPhail is boss man and holds the purse strings, he has a perfect right to be frith al and they emphasize that i*|4id not ii| aijy way criticize Mc.Htfthy or his ine-•thods-Theyiroint out that the fiery red-head never has tolerated a loser before and that it is not reasopr able to assume that het wouid; accept one sittihg down now. Moreover, even though this probably is the weakest Yankee club in more than 20 years, all teams have suffered (similarly in manpower looses this season and there is no sound reason why the Yankees should be falling apart at the seams any more than any other club. Will McCarthy be back? He says co, MacPhail says so, hut here again the rest of the baseball populace is debating the matter. Some of the writers stress that all he needs is a rest, a chance to think it over and to get some of the bad baseball he has been seeing out of his mind. The others emphasize that he is 58. old for an active manager, that he is not in robust health that he has a fine suburban farm upon which to retire near Buffalo and that he is well fixed financially. How will it. all come out? It wouldn’t be safe to make a guess now, but it does seem certain that the situation will be settled — one way or the other — soon. Neither McPhail nor McCarthy are men of inaction or indecision. 0 A lighted cigarette end is so hot, according to the General Electric Co. research laborator, its temperature is slightly above the melting point of aluminum or magnesium. The tobacco, however, acts as an insulator, saving the smokers lipa from burns.

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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Chicago 53 32 .624 .... St. Louis 5b 38 .568 4% Brooklyn '... 49 39 .557 5% Pittsburgh 48 42 .533 7% New York 47 45 .511 9% Cincinnati 40 42 .488 11% Boston 41 47 .466 13% Philadelphia . 25 68 .269 32 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. G.B. Detroit 47 36 .566 .... Washington 44 39 .530 3 Chicago 44 41 .518 4 Boston 44 41 .518 4 New York 42 40 .512 4% St. Louis 41 40 .506 5 Cleveland 40 43 .482 7 Philadelphia .. . 30 52 .366 16% YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League ; jJew York 6, Cincinnati 4. St. Louis'7, Brooklyn 6. Pittsburgh 6, Boston 5. Chicago 8, Philadelphia 3. American League Boston 6, St. Louis 0. Cleveland 4, Washington 0. Only games scheduled. O : LEADING BATSMEN National League Player and Club G. AB. R. H. Pct. Holmes, Boston 90 375 84 138 .368 Rosen. Brooklyn 83 348 74 127 .365 Cavarretta, Chi. 87 330 68 116 .351 American League Cuccinello, Chi. 79 277 38 90 .325 Case, Wash’ton 79 324 48 102 .315 Lake, Boston 63 218 43 68 .312 Home Runs Holmes, Braves, 16. Lombardi, Giants, 15. Workman,. Braves, 15. 0 Softball Managers To Meet Thursday Night Steve Everhart, head of the Decatur softball association today requested a meeting of all team managers at the fieldhouse at Worthman field Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock.

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ROTARYSCOUT (Continued From Page One) nature, aquatics, pioneering, camping. Boys that have earned these are: pioneering, Gerald Schultz and Dave Moore; craft, Dan Freeby and Gene Ziner; nature, Dave Mac Lean, Norman Stingely, Sheldon Daniels, and Dick Mies; aquatics, Don MacLean, Gene Ziner, Norman Stingely and Sheldon Daniels. Those scouts obtaining merit badges are: Gene Ziner, rowing, canoeing and wood carving; Gerald Schultz, pioneering, first aid and partial in camping and cooking; Jim Kortenber, metal work and wood carving; Norman Stingely, bird study and life saving; Sheldon Daniels, bird study and life saving; Dick Mies, bird study and life saving; Dan Freeby, rowing and wood carving; Dave MacLean, bird study: Don Mac Lean, life saving; Bill Freeby, rowing; Norman Leonardson, rowing; Dave Moore, pioneering;- Gordon Rice ; ,, a partipl in cooking. AB b(>ys . from Troop 61 who went to Big Island earned their' honor camper emblems. The troop also was awarded the troop honor camper awhrd x for both weeks. Bill Freeby and Jim Kortenber served as camp troop leaders. In the meeting Gene Ziner and Neal Thomas were appointed on an entertainment committee. Dave Mac Lean presented a picture show. The scout meetings will be held promptly at 7 o’clock on Tuesdays from now on. All boys are urged Io attend. ,

Moose Family Picnic Is Planned Sunday

The annual family picnic of Adamo lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose, will be held at Sun Set park, southeast of Decatur, Sunday, opening with a basket dinner at 12 noon. Games and contests of all kinds will be held during the afternoon and the pavilion will be available for skating. All members and their families are invited to attend and a special invitation has been extended to the wives and children of the members in the armed serviced.

Oregon Girl Wins Medalist Honors Chicago, Ju Carol i (Babe) Freese, a little, pug-nosed kid from Portland, Ore., today was hailed as the coming women go. champion of America— the kind o player who some day may dominate the distaff side of the game as Byron Nelson now rules the male competition. Miss Freese is just a-feet, - inches tall and weighs a little over 100-pounds, but she has a big heai and whopping power in her drives as she proved yesterday by taking medalist honors in qualifying foi the All-American woman’s open. The Tam O’Shanter course, with its rolling greens and long holes, is tough for women, but the frecklefaced kid from the west coast came within one stroke of tying the women's course record with a three-under-par 73 to lead the 24 qualifiers. Although this is only her third major tournament, Lt. Ben Hogan and Nelson hailed Miss Freese as “the greatest woman player to come along since Babe Didriksen, currently the queen of feminine golf. “Give her a littlq more experience—she’s only 20—and she’ll be the greatest of them all by far, Fred Corcoran, P.G.A. tournament manager said. Despite Miss Freese's great performance, she was just one stroke better than Peggy Kirk of Findlay, 0., who finished with a 74. Trailing her was Dot Kielty, Loe Angeles dress shop proprietor, with a 76 and Bettye M. White, of Dallas, Tex., and Mrs. H. S. Covington, Baltimore, Md. The final qualifying round in the $60,000 All-American championship, George S. May’s three-in-one folging extravaganza, ends today with about 90 professionals playing 18 holes for 40 players in the men’s open. Tomorrow the big gold rush starts. The women’s open, the amateur and the men’s open begin concurrently with 18 holes daily through Sunday. At the end of 72 holes medal play the richest prizes in golf history will come out of May’s pockethook. o

AMERICAN AND (Continued From Page One) United Press correspondent Richard W. Johnston from Admiral William F. Halsey’s attacking armada. Part of the huge attacking force Wheeled eastward along the inland sea th oomb and shoot up Kobe harbor, 150 miles away, where other secondary units of the Japanese navy were believed ; hiding. - “Kure and Bobe have been the refuge for the Japanese navy,” said Johnston. “They are a refuge no longer.” There was no chance of escape for the trapped enemy warships. Swarms of night fighter planes kept constant vigil over the target area during the night, dropping flares and incendiaries into Kure harbor. In contrast to the wild dog-fight-ing that swirled over Kure all day yesterday, there was no airborne opposition when the first carrier planes roared in to the attack this morning. But the Japanese warships still afloat and the shore batteries lining the anchorage opened up with one ot the most ferocious flak barrages ever met by Halsey’s fliers in a vain effort to turn back the attack. Bad weather hampered the first assault waves, but fleet dispatches indicated Halsey’s carriers were standing close offshore to facilitate the strike—perhaps south of Shikoku island which lies across the inland sea from Kure. 0 - Democrat. Want Ads Get Results

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PETAIN DEFIES . | (Continued From Page One) l”nt solely on The ’destruction of the French Republic and of Democracy** Accusing Petain of going beyond the mandate given him by the national asisennny meeting at Vichy "under the pressure of German bayonets,” Daladier cried! “We saw the birth of a regime which, under the name of the French state, was to replace the republic, supported by a band ol adventurers and traitors. "We, however, refused to believe in France's irremediable defeat, and left on June 20, 1940, on the steamer Maueilia. While on the high seas we learned of the armistice conditions, and decided to organize in North Africa a resistance movement among French patriots.” But Daladier was brought baea to France to become a prisoner and to face a Nazi-dominated French court in the Uncompleted Riom trials. Daladier then told of his hope that Petain would raise the flag of resistance at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa. “At the time of the American landings in North Africa, ’ he said, "I expected great things from Vichy, but was terribly disappointed when I saw that nothing happened. “I heard nothing but the cries of soldiers driven from their barracks. I heard nothing but the heavy German jackboot entering Bourrasol prison. Let men and history judge these events.” He said that while he was talking with Governor General August Nogues in North Africa about organizing the resistance movement, the since slain Georges Mandel, interior minister in Daladier’e government, was working on his own. Mandel, he said, saw Lord Qort and-Alfred Duff Cooper, British officials in the Mediterranean, and finally was arrested. “The whole affair collapsed, and the Massilia returned to France,” he continued. I ask you—wag it. the attitude of fugitives we took? As if one were taking flight by going to French territory to defend his country’s interests-” He then discussed his own imprisonment at Bourrasol, charging that Petain took judicial powers upon himself and in October, 1941, “I was condemned without even having been heard.” While in prison, he said, he received a message from officers of Petain’s personal army saying that they were ready with supplies and arms to join in a resistance movement. But nothing ever came of ' it. While Daladier was speaking, Petain sat motionless, flugeriug his

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