Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1945 — Page 6

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Reds Edge Out Cards In Only Big League Tilt New York, July 31 (UP) One Major League manager was down, another out and at least five more may he slated to go before the lll+ti season rolls around, a cheek into the baseball boss situation indicated today. Joe McCarthy, manager of the Yankees was down in bed at home near Buffalo from worry over the worst New York team he has managed. It was reported reliably that he had decided not to return and that President Larry MacPhail would name a new manager in a day or so. Bluff Bob Coleman waa out as manager of the Braves, turning in l>Ls resignation after a bad road trip climaxed by a nine game losing streak as yet unbroken. Del Bissonette was named to replace him by General Manager John Quinn, who said he would continue “as long as he does a good job.” Meanwhile there were grumblings of fans at Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Philadelphia in the National and at Cleveland and Washington in the American. Fiery Frankie Frisch of the Pirates, whose players unfortunately don’t always reflect his enthusiasm, is blamed in some quarters for the lack of consistency that has characterized them this year. The I’iratio, pro-season choice of many writers to win the pennant, now are in fifth place. Likable Deacon Bill McKechnie ot the Reds has another of his typical teams at Cincinnati, a “good field, no hit" club. Few equal it in low-scoring tight, defensive play, but the fans there are longing a little for a slam-bang club that goes for breaking up games wiih homers. The long-suffering Philadelphia fans have noticed no improvement in the Phils since Beu Chapman inherited the impossible job of getting them out of the cellar. Ossie Bluege of the Senators, who might (qualify for a job in the etate department af'er his diplomatic “good neighbor" efforts with the Latin American players he inherited, was under fire last season but rose in stature when the team bounced back into the pen- I mint picture recently. However, it isn't going well now and the.,heat, may go on again. The Indians, who are disappointing year after year, ceem to be as high in the race as could be expected of such personnel, but Cleveland long has been managerial “grave yard" and young : Lou Boudreau might well be the next victim.

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after a fine start, but Mel Ott is fairly safe even though there has been some criticism of his handling of players. Leo Durocher, never a favorite ot General Branch Rickey, seems safe from the clutches of everyone but MacPhail after his standout job with the Dodgers this season, if ills old boss beckons, he might yield to the itemplution to manage the Yankees. In the only Major League game yesterday, the Reds ended a sixgame losing streak with a 5 to 4 victory over the Cards at St. Louis. Eddie Miller, with a triple and a two run double, led the way for Ed Heusser’s seventh win, which he achieved over Rookie Ken Burkhardt. It was 'the Card’s 16th defeat by one run this season and the fifth to Cincinnati. They dropped to third place. Yesterday’s star —Eddie Miller of the Reds, who batted in two runs and scored a third on a double and triple in a 5 to 4 win over the Cards. McMillen Wins In First Tourney Tilt McMILLEN WINS IN RW McMillen of this city advanced to the second round of the softball tournament a.t Bluffton, trouncing the' Masterson-Tyndall team of Bluffton in the opening tourney game Monday night, 8 to 1. McMillen scored in each of the first five innings, while holding the Bluffton team sPoreleas until the final frame. The winners pounded out 10: hits while limiting the losers to five. The McMillen team will play again at 7 o’clock Thursday evening, meeting Ossian, 9 to 0 victor over Chester Center in the second tilt last night. Score by innings: R..H..E. McMillen 442 130 o—B 10 1 Masterson 000 000 I—l 5 2 Keidel and McClure; McFarren and Wolfcale. Two Adams county teams are elated for .tourney action tonight, with the Legion (Berne) meeting Petroleum at 7 p.m., and Kraft playing Huntington Tractor Sales at 8 p.m. The Decatur Moose team will play the final first round game at 9 p in. Wednesday, meeting Young Drug of Bluffton.

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Nelson Breezes To i Golf Tourney Win i Chicago, July 31. —(UP) —A liti tie freckle face kid, using a cross- • hand/rip, grabbed a golf club in a Ft. Worth, Tex., caddy yard to take a practice swing 21 years ago. Today he ruled alone as the game’s greatest player. He’s J. Byron Nelson, tall Texan, now 33, who actually has become the "Babe Ruth of golf.” Nelson, by bronzing to victory in the All-American open yesterday, stretched his winning streak to nine straight individual tournaments for an all-time record. He thereby reached the stage where he very likely will pocket SBO,OOO this year—an unheard of sum in sports until the bambino received that much a year for his home run swatting as a Yankee outfielder. The little kid with the awkward grip never dreamed of such mon ey when he first took that practice swing. And he never dreamed of it during the depression when his railroad auditor job was knocked out from under him and he had to turn to golf for a living. Nelson played his first tournament in 1932 and ended with $12.50 for the year. But today, after winning the record .$13,600 in war bonds that goes to the All-Ameri-can open champion, he boosted his winnings for seven months in 1945 to $45,200. Hie victory in the open, by the brutal margin of 11 strokes over Gene Sarazen and Lt. Ben Hogan in second place, sets him up almost as a sure shot to win SBO,OOO this year. There is a tournament every week from now through December and with that possible money plus the numerous exhibitions that Nelson plays, the man with the steely hands and icy nerves appeals to be golf’s first and poesibly only "Babe Ruth.” Few could doubt that he’d reach that sum if they could have seen him run a great field of golfers into the ground yesterday as he took the All-American with a 72hole total of 269 strokes, 19 under par over a tough tournament course, the 6,770-yard Tam O Shanter. For his four rounds he had a bi>-68-68-67 to completely bury such golfers as slammin’ Sammy Snead. Hogan, Harold (Jug) McSpaden and the rest of the nation’s big name stars. It marked his fourth I victory in the five year history of the All-Americans and a new winning mark, 9 strokes under the previous record of 278 strokes he used to win the 1941 open. The figures speak as c’early as any testimony to his greatness in the bunkered world, In winning his 13th this yean, just two weeks after ticking the nptiod-.al-Jl.GA...tilfl, Nelson answered the critics who said he was making his mark against a mediocre field—the kind that didn’t have Hogan and Snead.

Jerome Diltz Hired As Coach At Monroe Jerome J. Diltz of Bryant, a former teacher in ’Fort Wayne and Berne, has been employed by Glen Neuensehwander, trustee of Monroe township, as coach and ■athletic director of the Monroe high school. Mr. Diltz succeeds E. Cranston Bernsdorf, who has accepted a teaching position in Greenville. Mr. iNeusenschwander announced that his teaching staff is now complete for the opening of the fall term next month. To Modernize State Legislative Chambers Indianapolis, July 3d—(UP)—Preliminary plans for the modernization of the legislative chambers in the Indiana statehouse will be prepared in the immediate future, it was announced today. Lt. Gov. Richard T. James said thwt Walter Scheier of Lafayette and tile firm of Miller and Yeager of Terre Haute had been named architects. The project, ordered by the 84th General Assembly, will include revamping of the House of Representatives and Senate chambers. The improvements will be made on ventilation, acoustics, lighting and decorations.

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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Chicago 58 32 .644 .... Brooklyn 53 39 .576 6 St. Louis 54 40 .574 6 Pittsburgh . 49 46 .516 11 % New York 49 46 .516 11% Cincinnati 41 47 .466 16 Boston 41 51 .446 18 Philadelphia .. . 26 70 .271 35 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Detroit 50 36 .581 .... New York 46 40 .535 4 Washington .... 45 41 .523 5 Boston 46 42 .523 5 Chicago 44 44 .500 7 St. Louis 42 43 .494 7% Cleveland 43 44 .494 7% Philadelphia .... 30 56 .349 20 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League •Cincnnati 5, St. Louis 4. Only game scheduled. American League No games scheduled. o . LEADING BATSMEN National League Player and Club G. AB. R. H. Pct. Holmes, Boston 94 388 88 143 .369 Rosen, Brooklyn 87 361 81 133 .368 Cavaretta, Chi. 92 349 70 122 .350 • American League Cuccinello. Chi. 82 288 38 96 .333 Case, Wash'ton 82 336 49 110 .327 Estalella, Phil'ia 88 317 37 99 .312 Home Runs Holmes, Braves, 16. Lombardi, Giants, 15. Workman, Braves, 15. o (Continued From Page One) tion with the armistice was to say that France never would surrender her fleet. 5. —The French fought bravely and to the limit of human endurance against insurmountable odds in their last big battle —the “calvary leading to the crucifix which was the armistice. Everyone was at his post.” 6. By June 12, 1940, when the French no longer were able to co-, ordinate their movements, Wey-| gand decided they must ask for an armistice, and told the government so. Weygand, brought in from the Paris hospital where he is under technical arrest pending his own accounting for his role in 1940, charged the armistice premier, Paul Reynaud, with responsibility for the decision to ask for an armistice, noting that military power i s subordinate t o government power. With all the emphasis of an old soldier pleading his own case, Weygand categorically denied that he and Petain ever had plotted to bring about the collapse of France. As he neared the end of his story, Petain stood up and thanked him for his testimony and proof of his loyal friendship. Again when Weygand replied sharply to a question, "You won’t get me to say Petain is a traitor,” the old marshal rose and exclaimed: “Now I can hear my name again. Weyband is a sound man, a man in whom all can have confidence." — o Democrat Want Ada Get Result*

Cubs Win National Division Tourney “ The Giants, scoring two runs in the final inning, edged out the Cubs, 4 to 3, under the lights at Worthman field Monday night to win the tournament in the National division of the summer recreation league. The winners obtained seven hits to three for the losers. An exhibition game scheduled as the nighcap failed to materialize and the Moose team of the City league was handed a 12 to 3 licking by a “pickup” team of kids from the recreation league. Score by innings: RUE Giants r -200 02—4 71 Cubs 1U 00—3 3 1 Jackson and Hansel; D. Gillig and Farrar. Senators Win The regular schedule of the American division of the recreation league was completed Monday, with the Senators finishing on top of the league with seven victories and two defeats. League Standing W L Pct. Senators 7 2 .778 Indians 5 4 .556 White Sox 3 6 .333 Red Sox 3 6 .333 Final Games The Indians and Red Sox were winners in the final games Monday in two of the best games of the season. In the opener, Dan Mills’ homer in the fifth with a man on provided the only runs of the game to give the Indians a 2 to 0 tri umph over the Senators. The winners made four hits and Jhe losers two. The Red Sox nosed out the IWhite Sox, 4 to 3. in the nightcap, although outhit, 7 to 6. Two runs in the third and two in the fourth gave the Red Sox their winning margin. Score by innings: R* H E Indians 000 02 —2 4 0 Senators .. 000 00—0 2 0 Smith and Gage, Hurst, Hiatt and Pollock, Lobsiger. Red Sox 002 20—4 6 0 While Sox 102 00—3 7 0 J Bassett and Costello; Gehrig I and Braun. but also in connection with the All-America conference, which has been accused of raiding the college players, right and left. - o Elkhart Brothers Die Os Diphtheria Elkhart, Ind., July 31—(UP)— Two of the five children of Mir. and Mrs. Floyd Weaver died of diphtheria yesterday morning. Billy, 14, and Paul J„ 16, were in the same class at Wakarusa high school. o Capital Bartender Confesses Slayinq Indianapolis, July 31—<(UP) — Amos Hartwell, Indianapolis bartender, confessed last flight that fie shot and killed Alonzo Seymour, 36, Indianapolis, after an argument in which Seymour threatened to kill him. Hartwell, who insisted he fired in self-defense, is being held under high bond on a vagrancy charge.

o Today's Sports Parade By JACK CUDDY Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) O —————— New York, July 31 (UP)—ln an effort to work up a feud between colleges and the national football league, some collegians have made much of the recen Roger Harding case — without understanding the case. You mav recall that Harding, playing with the University of California last year, was the outstanding center on the Pacific coast. When lie was signed recently by the Cleveland Rams, loud wails of protest rose from the U. of C. graduate manager Clint Evans and coach Buck Shaw. Evans said, "if the National league plans to continue to come on the campus signing outstanding players who intend to graduats and who have college eligibility remaining, it may some day find all the colleges in the land co-operating with the rival league — the All-America conference — which has declared a strict rule to leave college players alone until they have concluded their college eligibility.’’ Before paying too much attention to Mr. Eans’ protest, perhaps we should point out that the University of California Brass Hats took young Harding very much-to task because he became involved in a campus prank aimed at returning the “Red Axe” from Stan ford U. to California U. at Berkeley. The "Red Axe,” we understand is the Pacific coast facsimile ot the “Little Brown Jug" over which Michigan and Minnesota battle, or the “Old Oaken Bucket” for which Indiana and Purdue tilt. Anyway, the U. of C. authorities decided that Harding was overjealous in his activities to recapture the “Red Axe” from Stanford. And they declared summarily that Harding was ineligible for the first three Pacific conference games this fall. Harding, who already had been instructed Dy the Cleveland Rams to go back to school, became “fed up” with the Golden Bear’s decision that* he should sit out half the season at Berkeley. He politely suggested that the U. of C. officials take a swan dive into the bay. Then he contacted the Cleveland Rams.

Cleveland was given permission by National league headquarters tc sign Harding when it was established that he had been declared ineligible by his university. The National league shed few tears when Coach Shaw began crying all over the coast about, losing a good center for his 1945 eleven. The National leaguers felt that Shaw’s tears were partially brought on by_ the thought that Harding also would be lost to Hit? San Francisco team of the AllAmerica conference —a mythical team of the future with which Shaw is alleged to have a close personal connection. We learn, first hand, that National leaguers care not a whit about Shaw’s lamentations; but they do feel sorry for. graduate manager Clint Evans of U. of C., who apparently has digested only one side of the story—not only in connection with young Harding;

CONFAB CLOSE (Continued From Page One) will attend the opening of parliament here tomorrow, supporting the belief that the Potsdam conference was almost over. Attlee To Return London, July 31 — (UP) —The Times said today that Prime Minister Attlee would return to London from- the big three meeting in Potsdam in time for the opening of parliament tomorrow and might even be back in England tonight. Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin will remain in Potsdam, the Times said, and Attlee will return there later in the week if his presence becomes necessary for further decisions. The London stock market broke sharply on domestic issues today, partly because of labor’s promise to nationalize industry and partly because of the prolonging of the period of suspense by the announcement that the king would address parliament Aug. 15 instead of Aug. 8. Former prime minister Winston Churchill was spending a few days at his country home at Westerham, Kent, after leaving the prime minister’s residence for the last time yesterday. A secretary said Churchill was “fit and well.” Disclosure that Churchill had declined the king’s offer of membership in the Order of the Garter was interpreted by political circles as evidence that he intends tc assume active leadership in commons of the opposition to the new labor government. It was theorized that Churchill believed It. would be unsuitable for him to accept the honor while he still was engaged as leader of the opposition in castigating members of his majesty’s government.

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Good Hoosier Peach Supply Is Promised - ***■ Vincennes Area To Start On Shipments Lafayette, Ind., July 31 (IT) A good supply of home grown peaches is expected on local markets during August, the Purdue university agricultural experiment station announced -today. Cantaloupe, watermelon and tomatoes will also be available, the station reported. Shipment of about 6,000 bushels of Hale Haven peaches and of 75,000 to 80,000 Elbertas is expected to begin early next week from the Vincennes area. Elbertas will begin moving from Posey county Aug. 4 or 5 and from Pike county Aug. 5 with the peak about Aug. 10 or 12, according to the report. Although the. cantaloupe crop is smaller than normal this year, shipments from the VincennesDecker area were estimated at 12,000 to 13,000 crates; from the Terre Haute area, 3,000 to 5,000 crates; and from the Johnson area and Gibson county, 10,000 crates, with the peak late this week or early next week. The report showed watermelon shipments beginning from Gibson county about Aug. 10 and from the Vincennes-Decker and Jackson county areas about Aug. 15. Tomatoes are moving out of the Terre Haute area at the rate of about 3,000 20-pound baskets a day. Marion county shipments of greenhouse tomatoes have about ceased. Marion county will also supply quantities of snap beans, peppers, sweet corn and apples to the growers’ market, which is open 24 hours a ' day for local shoppers. 0 The wirebound box industry reports a $48,837,420 business volume for 1944, as compared with $44,302,319 for 1943.

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Hoosier Farmer Is Found Shot To Death Brazil, Ind.. July 31-<rw Harry Robert Halstead, old farmer, was found shot death yesterday al hi« h 9 5 ,( Cory. County cuiuuer Dr. y Bond continued an investiw today to determine wlieOrt shooting was accidental orn cide. The widow and a son vive. Capehart Predids War End In Indiana Senator No Soft Peace Advocali Indianapolis, July 31-(0) Sen. Homer E. Capehart, Rd was on record today as prtffi the end of the war with within 60 days. Back home in Indiana forth ate vacation, Capehart comma on hfe “personal observation'll stated that Russia would "jhi in the Pacific by Sent. 1 ill Japanese haven’t surrendered! that time”. On arrival in Indianapoliap terday, Capehart said that tel er had advocated a "soft pus but simply wanted the Art people informed of any peaceh ers no matter "how clim i were”. The Hoosier Senator® one of the firet to voice ttei sibility of a negotiated “ml tional surrender." "Well, they finally did 1 4 there had been peace teei didn’t they?” he asked, f* Capehart, who will spwA* of his time in Indiana loo® l ter his manufacturing M was not too optimistic over■ world security charter. He voted in favor of it, h*’ because “no man has a rig» vote against anything no how feeble it may be if it»! ed to eliminate war."