Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1945 — Page 6

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Braves Defeat Giants To End Losing Streak New York. Aug. I.—(UP)-When the Yankees gave Dave his flint bumps as a big leaguer after he had won eight straight games they let it circulate via the American league grape-vine that the big rookie could be hit successfully if the batters “waited him out." After scoring their third straight victory over the l handsome kid. yesterday, it seemed evident that they knew what they were talking about. They beat him, 4 to 2 in 10 innings, for his fourth defeat against 17 victories. They had to go beyond regulation distance, but they tagged ♦'erriss for 10 hits, four by George (Tuck) Stainback. His last one, a single, drove in the winning run in the 10th after which Frankie Crosetti squeezed in another with a perfect bunt. Walt Dubiel pitched the Yankees to their sixth victory in eight games since Coach Art Fletcher took over the reins as acting manager for ailing Joe McCarthy. The other big American League ■winner, Hal Newhouser, got a little more extra inning support, winning his 17th game for the Tigere in the 12th when Jimmy Outlaw singled to beat the Browns at Detroit, 5 to 4. The relief pitcher Pete Center gained a 6 to 5 victory over the White Sox at Cleveland, pitching scoreless ball after the fifth. Johnny Dickshot hit a homer for Chicago.

Del Bissonette’s first day as manager of the Braver was a hectic one in which lie saw practically everything happen in a split of a double header with the Giants at New York. The Braves ended their losing streak at 10 games by win ning the second game, 9 to 4 with a five run rally in the 13th. They lost the opener in the last of the ninth, 4 to 3. Workman's second homer spotlighted the Braves’ slump-busting rally in the nightcap. Buddy Kerr hit a Giant homer in the second game and Manager Mel Otl got his 499th major league homer in the opener. Tommy Holmes got a second game homer and Whitey Wietelmann hit one in the opener for Boston. The Reds made it two out of three over the Cardinals at St. Lou. id by splitting a double header. St. Louis took the opener, 4 to 3, when Al Jurisich, making his first start since May 18, turned in a tight sixhit game for his initial win of the season. Bucky Walters, returning to his favorite habit of beating the Cardinal, gave Cincinnati a five-hit, 2 to 0, shutout in the second game. It was his 10th victory but his first this year over the Cards. Eddie Miller’s homer provided the margin of victory. The Philadelphia A’s at Washington and Brooklyn at Philadelphia Phils double-headere were postponed because of rain. Yesterday’s star —Charley Workman of the Braves, whose two second game homers highlighted a 9

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to 4 victory over the Giants which ended a 10-game. Boston losing streak. The Giants won the opener, 4 to 3- — o No Cub Players Yet In Yankee Uniforms • New York, Aug. 1. —(UP) —Five days after Larry MacPhail of the Yankees engineered his fantastic inter-league deal with the Chicago Cubs, no fleeh-and-blood evidence of what he got in return for his “sloo,ooo pitcher,” Hank Borowy, had yet appeared today and the mystery was deepening hourly. Anxious fans, the baffled press and certain characters along Broadway who stand to win or lose a fortune on the fate of the Yankees this season ask these questions: 1. If MacPhail has already obtained certain Chicago players in exchange for Borowy why are they not at this moment performing in Yankee uniforms when the team has its best, if not last, chance to overhaul .the Detroit Tigers in the American league race? 2. If such players were merely promised in the screwy deal, how can they now be passed on to the Yankees with the club owners of both leagues thoroughly aroused over the manner in which MacPhail waived Borowy out of the American loop and up through the lower brackets of the National to the Cubs? 3. If the SIOO,OOO sale price is MacPhail’s only expected return in the transaction, how come, since the Yankees are supposed to be as well-heeled as any club in baseball and dollars can do little to "strengthen the team for the future,” Macfhail’e announced purpose in the deal? “Not yet,” was the Yankee office’s terse comment today when asked whether any players from Chicago had applied for New York uniforms, and there the matter rests.

LEADING BATSMEN National League Player and Club G. AB. R.-H. Pet. Holmes, Boston 96 395 90 146 .370 Rosen, Brooklyn 87 361 81 133 .368 CavarretUf Chi. 92 347 70 122 .350 American League Cuccinello, Chi. 83 291 38 96 .330 Caee, Wash’ton 82 336 49 110 .327 Stirnweiss, N. Y. 87 358 65 112 .313 Home Runs Holmes, Braves, 17. Workman. Braves, 17. ..LouißuxLL-lJLauLs,

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Kraft And Legion Win In Tournament Two more Adams county teams advanced in the softball tournament at Bluffton Tuesday night. The Legion team of Berne walloped the Petroleum Merchants, 17 to 4, in the opening game of the night’s program. Kraft Cheese scored an impressive 7 to 0 triumph over Huntington Tractor Sales, in the second game of the evening. Bauermeister limited the losers to two singles and was given perfect support by his mates. The winners counted once in the first inning, twice in the third and put the game on ice with four in the sixth. The third game of last night’s schedule was postponed because of rain and will be played at 7 p. m. Thursday, delaying the McMd-len-Ossian second round tilt until 8 p.m. Three games are scheduled tonight, with the Decatur Moose team slated to meet Young Drug of Bluffton at 9 p m. Score by innings: RHE Kraft 102 004 x—7 10 0 Huntington 000 000 o—o0 —0 2 4 Schoeff and Mitchell; Bauermeister and M. Ladd. 0 MAJOR LEAGUE ’ STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Chicago 58 32 .044 .... Brooklyn 53 39 .576 6 St. Louis 55 41 .573 6 Pittsburgh 49 46 .516 ll’/i New York 50 47 .515 11*4 Cincinnati 42 48 .467 16 Boston 42 52 .447 18 Philadelphia .... 26 70 .271 35 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Detroit 51 36 .586 ... New York 47 40 .540 4 Washington ... 45 41 .523 512 Boston 46 43 .517 6 Cleveland 44 44 .500 7’/4 Chicago 44 45 .494 8 St. Louis 30 56 .349 20’-a YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League New York 4-4, Boston 3-9 (2nd game 13 innings). St. Louis 4-0, Cincinnati 3-2. Brooklyn at Philadelphia, postponed. Only games scheduled. American League Cleveland 6, Chicago 5. Detroit. 5, St. Louis 4 (12 innings). ' New York 4, BeMfn ?. Philadelphia ; s» ( t Wae'Hngton, ' ■ : - — o ■ ' ' •s"’ - C ■ f ■.* . I City Swimming Pool Closed For Cleaning 'Dan Perry, supervisor of the municipal swimming pool, announced today that the pool will be closed for several days for cleaning purposes and to make a complete change of water. The pool is expected to be re-opened next Monday or Tuesday.

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CONFERENCE OF (Continued From Page One) the progress of his discussions with Premier Stalin and Primo Minister Attlee. The three chiefs of state today held what has been described officially only as a “further meeting.” It was likely to be tihe. final meeting of the conference, although a possibility remained that another session will be scheduled tomorrow. The communique to be issued on conclusion of the conference probably will state the Allied position on tihe future of Europe with particular emphasis on Germany, but Is not expected to contain any reference to Japan. This does mean that the Pacific war was not diecussed by t.he three leaders. President Truman insisted upon its inclusion in the Agenda. While both the Americans and the British respected Russia’s neutrality in the Pacific conflict, they tij-mly statpd their ' belief the future of tire; world cb'uld not be discussed without some' reference to Japan. President Truman devoted the early portion of the conference to feeling out hie two experienced contemporaries. Then, with the assurance of the almost unanimous support of the U. S. Senate, he drove bargains which otherwise might have been hard. it was likely that he in turn made some concessions to British and Russian viewpoint. Mr. Truman, Stalin and Attlee were reported officially to have made a “good bit” of progress at their meeting yesterday, the first since the Soviet Generalissimo wa ;3 taken ill Sunday. Best available information was that Stalin had suffered only a mild upset in the nature of a cold or an attack of indigestion, but censorship at first prevented disclosure of the reason for the interruption in the conference.

LEAHY'S UETTER TO (Continued From Page One) agreement among the judge and opposing counsel to get on with the trial, that responsibility for the Franco-German armistice had been dealt with sufficiently, and that the “interminable discussions” should be ended. Jrfdge Pierre Mongibeaux demanded that counsel “tighten up the case, which has strayed,” and suggested that the testimony be brought around to charges that Petain had intelligence with the enemy. Prosecutor Andre* Mornet said the testimony about the decline and fall of France was only preliminary to the trial itself, in which he proposed to prove with documents that Petain’s alleged treason began after July, 1940. Defense chief Fernand Payen concurred in the desire for a speedup of the trial, complaining that the court kept on calling more prosecution witnesses. o National Auxiliary Convention Planned Indianapolis, Aug. I—(HIP)— A token national convention of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held in Indianapolis Oct. 24-26, Mrs. Charles B. Gilbert, national president, announced today. O- x Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

Investigate Death Os Fish In River Ward Bowman, state game warden, has been informed that a representative from the Indiana department of conservation will make an investigation of the killing of fish in St. Mary’s river. The state representative was expected here today. Hundreds of dead fish floated down the river yesterday from a point north of the Marshall street sewer. The atreams measured 2.10 feet this morning, following last night’s rain, and it in possible that the low water level caused the fish to die. An examination has been made up the river to the Erie railroad bridge and investigators stated they did not find any dead fish between the Monroe street and Erie spans. It’ is;believed that last night’s rain will improve conditions in.the stream and at least float the fish down river. -<, Three Baseball Men Killed By Lightning Wauwatosa, Wis., Aug. I—(UP)1 —(UP) —Two baseball players and a team manager were killed last night when lightning struck a baseball diamond at nearby Butler, Wis. The dead were Peter Hillstrun, 15, and William Zimmerline, 16, members of the village of Butler baseball team, and Raymond Phillips, Marcy, Wis., manager. Five other playens were injured when bhe lightning bolt hit the open field. Spectators were unharmed.

PIERRE LAVAL (Continued From Page One) day after 10 prosecution witnesses had testified. First defense witness was Gen. Maxime Weygand, who served briefly as generalissimo of the French armies just before France surrendered to Germany in June, 1940. Laval’s own trial was expected to be perhaps the most sensational in French history, topping even that of Petain. He served as premier and chief of government under Petain, who was chief of state of the Vichy regime. It appeared certain that Laval will be brought to trial within possibly weeks. The government’s' case against him already has been prepared and little time will be wasted in preliminaries, such, is were necessary in the case of Petain. Laval and his wife were held by American authorities at Linz for five hours while arrangements were made to turn them over to French forces at Innsbruck. Both the former premier and his wife were searched thoroughly to make certain they carried nothing with which they could attempt suicide. A collar clasp, an automatic pencil and a pearl-handled knife were taken from Laval, along with $10,500 in American SSOO bills, $lO,000 worth of Swiss money and smaller sums in French and Spanish money. They had with them 14 pieces of baggage and four wooden cases, two of which contained Vichy water. ——o — Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

rodayVSports Parade By JACK CUDDY Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) o O —————— New York, Aug. 1- (UP) ~~ lt would take cavair and eornpono to get Larry MacPhail and Branch Rickey seated at the same table, hut the host who could arrange such a menu might be rewarded, with a scoop on the most whopping baseball trade of all—a ager for. a manager. ’(Became Yankee Proxy MacPhail and Rickey, the domo of the Dodgers. don't travel in the same social circle, they probably never thought of cooking on a deal. Yet 'the fact is inescapable that both arc temper: mentally incompatible with the guys who rrt) their clubs And it .’’Jst happens that g.'itie manly Joe McCarthy, manager cf the Yankees, is exactly the ty r .e of fellow Jou would expect to be running a club for the equally gentle manly Rickey. Moreover, explosive Leo Durocher already has demonstrated that he can direct a winning team for MacPhail. who was his boss in Brooklyn when the Dodgers won the pennant in 1941.

When MacPhail took over as head cf the Yankees last winter, there was a buzz of speculation over how long he and McCarthy would get a.ong. Rumors of friction l.ecamtr fact when McCarthy tried to resign after MacPhail ciilicized the club’s lack of hustle. And MacPhail, though he emphasized that he held McCarthy blameless, didn’t help to repair the breach when he peddled Hank Borowy, one of McCarthy’s favorite pitchers, to the cubs. iDurocher riiust have had the feeling for more than three years that he has been walking on eggs. Considering their “north polesouth pole” personality clash, it is a wonder that Rickey has kept him this long. Durocher is a broadway dandy with radio, night flub and theatrical connections. Rickey’s love of “bright lights” ends with the reading lamp beside his favorite easy chair. Never, since he took over the club in 1943, has Rickey given Durocher more than a year contract. At the start of his regime he warned Durocher that there must be no more high stake poker and that there must be stricter training rules. And when Lippy Leo was spellbinding radio audiences with special appearances last spring, Rickey reminded him tartly that he would have to decide whether he was going to hold down one job or the other. McCarthy could get along with

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Rickey, who leaves actual direction of the team solely to his mananger. And Durocher, though he frequently indulged in historic histrionics with MacPhail. son “ how managed to keep red-head tarry in his place. MacPha. often invaded the sacred precepts of the Dodger dressing room and usually Durocher was glad to see him If he wasn't he was likely to tell his club house boy to “keep that red-haired lug out of here or I’ll beat his brains with a ball bat.” MacPhail loved that and because he was convinced that Durocher probably wasn’t kidding usually stayed out at such times. Sometimes he fired the lip, but he always reinstated him within hours. He did it once on the eve of their greatest triumph. That was when the Dodgers won the 1941 pennant on the road and were coining home to a great ovation. Durocher asked if the conductor would omit the train s usual stop at 125th street station to prevent delay of the reception he was expecting from MacPhail at Grand Central station. The hitch was that MacPhail had decided to meet the train at 12th street and was left ( on the platform surrounded by iced buckets of champagne. Durocher was fired as soon as MacPhail learned he was responsible. But they were pals again before the night ended. That was life on the Dodgers in 19'41. it could be the same on the Yankee in 1946. Illinois has a bank balance of $698,215,700, an all-time high, according to State Treasurer Conrad F. Becker.

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Tuesday Night R a j n Halts Softball P| Q y Rain Tuesday night «sy the isoftball schedule at t man field. Because of fte|» now in progress in in which the four Decatwiu teams are entered. Wonk field will be as follows: At 7:30 p.m. Senators it jj Sox (final of American M summer recreation ment); 8:30 p in. Decatir Girls vs. Main Street Smittj of Portland.

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