Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1945 — Page 6

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No Pronounced Standout Team In Junior Loop New York, Aug. B—(UP)—The -low motion pennant pace 01 ,he American League contenders may pfMnce a winner with the lowest final percentage in the history of the majors, the figure fraternity pointed out today. The race couldn't wind up any closer than last year wlhen the Browns won their first pennant on the final day of the season. Hut (he Tigers, teetering along at a percentage of .MS, will have to play .(HO hall from now on to top the ijGi final percentage of .578 by the Browns, which equalled the alltime major league low. Only one other club, the St. Louis Cardinals of 1926. ever finished with such a low mark and still won the pennant. “ThTTigers have won 54 games and lost 41. In order to beat the low percentage mark, they will have to win 36 of their remaining f,y gamed, whiclli isn’t too much to ask of a pennant winning club, but which is a little better than they have done to date.

lit will be tougher for the other contenders,, tfie second place Sena-| tors, who would have to go at al .621 pace, winning 36 of their 58 games, and the third place Yan kees. who would have to win 40 out of 61 remaining garnet; for a .656 mark. All this is possible. To date the various teams have played cut-throat baseball and there lhas been no pronounced standout over any extended period. Although the 1944 race tightened in the last month when at one time the Browns. Tigers, Yankees, and Ked Sox all were within a game of pach other, it, wasn’t as close from first place to seventh at this I time a year ago as it is now, j Today only eight and a half games separate the seventh place | Brownie,; from the leading Tigers. I The Senators are just a half game behind in second, the Yankees are three games off the pace in tilt'd, Chicago's White Sox are five games behind, in fourth and the

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| Cleveland Indians ate elx and a half games behind in fifth. Boston s Bed Sox have a respectable record of 48 wins and 49 lorises and are only seven games behind in sixth place. At this time in 1944, 16 games separated the leading Brownri and the seventh place Athletics and the Browns were playing at a .596 clip, from which they faded in the final month and a half. The Hind phase of intersectional warfare in the majors begins today with the American League teanus in the west and the national lea--1 gues in the east. The Tigers begin 1 their home stand against the fairly r consistent Red Sox. while the second place Senators begin a long road trip at Chicago. The White ' Sox have been one of the standout 1 clubs in the Circuit during the past month and if they continue at their 1 present pace they might cool off the senators, who have won nine of their past 10 games. in the National league, the Cubs who are seeking to clinch the pennant and begin concentrating on tlie world series, begin their road trip at Boston where the Braves are trying to get squared around after a shaky stretch in which manager Bob Coleman resigned. The only game scheduled yesterday, Brooklyn at Boston in the National. was rained out. — o

I MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Chicago 63 34 .649 .... ST. Louis 59 42 .584 6 Brooklyn 55 43 .561 8% New York 54 47 .535 11 Pittsburgh 51 50 .505 14 Boston 46 55 .455 19 Cincinnati 43 53 .448 Philadelphia .... 26 73 .263 38 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Detroit 54 41 .568 .... j Washington 54 42 .563 i New York 50 43 .538 3 | Chicago 50 47 .515 5 j Cleveland 48 48 .500 6 l »> Boston 48 49 .495 7 St. Louis 45 49 .479 872 Philadelphia .... 32 62 .340 21% YESTERDAY”S' RESULTS National League Brooklyn at Boston, postponed. Only game scheduled. American League No games scheduled. o—- ■ < LEADING BATSMEN National League j Player and Club G AB It H Pct j Holmes, Bostonlo2 419 93 153 .365 I Rosen, Brooklyn 92 381 84 138 .362 i Cavarretta, Chi. 99 378 77 135 .357 American League Cuccinello, Chi. 84 292 38 96 .329 j Stirnweiss, N. Y. 93 384 68 122 .318 I Case. Wash’ton 92 377 56 119 .316 I — —

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Baer Field Teams Split Games Here Two Baer Field teams gained an even split in exhibition games played Tuesday night at Worthman field, with the Baer Field Wacs taking a pounding from the Decatur (1. E. girls, and the base team nosing out Kraft Cheese in an extra inning tilt. The G. E. girls, lashing out 19 hits and benefiting by 10 errors, trounced the Wacs by a 24 to 7 score in the opening game on the night’s program. The local girls scored in every frame of the tilt, which was cut to five innings. Nitte runs, four by Baer Field and five by Kraft, were tallied in a wild first inning of the nightcap, after which the team settled down to a real battle. All the Hist irning runs counted on only one hit for each team. The air base team counted twice more in the third but Kraft evened the score at 6-8 in the fourth frame. Neither team cou'd break into the scoring column again until the ninth irning, when Baer Field tallied twice on two hits and an error. Following the games, the girls were entertained by the Decatur G. E. Club, and the men's teams were guests of the Kraft Chets?

company. Scores by innings: R. H. E. Wacs 203 20— 77 10 G. E. Girls 721 59—24 19 4 Spalding, Snyder and McGalen; Sprunger, Moser and Bower. R. H. E. Baer Field 402 000 002 -8 7 6 Kraft 500 10(\ 000«-6 4 3 Kirkman and Feuer; Maitlen and M. Ladd. Games This Week Thursday ——Kraft vs. McMillen; Moose vs. Legion. Friday — McMillen exhibition; McMillen vs. Moose; Kratt vs. Legion at Berne. Home Runs Workman, Braves, 18. Holmes, Braves, 17. Lombardi, Giants, 15. — oAdopted Kindergarten The first American city to make the kindergarten an integral part of the public school system was St. Louis in 1872.

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0 o Todays Sports Parade By Jack Cuddy Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) | O o . London, Aug. S—(UP)— Staff Sgt. Charles (Mike) Mileusnich of Columbus, 0., is an ultra-op-timist. He believes first that his United Kingdom all-stars will win the European service baseball championship at Mannheim, Germany, late this month, and secondly that the British public is learning to love the horsehide sport. Mileusnich, slenfier, dark-hair-ed and 30, may manage his "U. K.” team to the title because he i has at least four ex-minor leagu-

ers, but any British trend toward the diamond looks like wishful thinking on his part. But he swears differently. “The British are becoming so baseball conscious that they’ve already got leagues and umpires associations at Birmingham,’’ he said. "Many clubs are springing up throughout Britain where enthusiasts are trying to imitate the American style of play, and also the lingo. “British civilians, and also servicemen, became interested reluctantly when United States army athletic officials requested and generally received permissioa to use cricket fields for baseball. I “But they would not permit us

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By United Press Indianapolis strenKl, ’** ned in , i i ‘f 1 lea d in the American Association, today, winning from the seconddivision Minneapolis Millers while second-place Milwaukee split a twin bill at Toledo. Jimmy Wallace went all the way for the Indians, holding Minneapolis to six scattered hits, to win 7 to 1. The victory put Indianapolis two full games in front of the defending champion brewers. ~ Milwaukee held the Mudhens scoreless for a 6 to 0 victory in the first game of their doubleheader but developed jittery fingers in the nightcap, which they lost, 7 to 1, through a trio of errors. Armand Cardoni was the losing pitcher for the Brewers. The third-place Louisville Colonels took both ends of a doubleheader with St. Paul. The Colonels limited the Saints to three hits in the seven-inning opener for a 1 to 0 shutout victory. Claude Weaver was unable to stem a Louisville scoring attack in the second and the Colonels won again by a 5 to 3 score, despite three errors. In the other association pairings, Columbus and Hie last place Kansas City club came out even. Columbus won the first, 4 to 3, but absorbed a 9 to 2 defeat in the second.

Plan For Austrian Control Announced Control Machinery Set Up By Allies Washington, Aug. B.—(UP)—The Allies Today set up control machinery for Austria similar to the German plan and announced the separation of Austria from Germany as one of their primary objectives.

The plane for four-nation control machinery, and the zones of Austria to be occupied by the United States, Britain, Russia and France, were released simultaneously in the four Allied capitals. | The control machinery provides that the city of Vienna will be directed by an interallied governing authority to be composed of four commandants —one from each i Allied nation. In addition to separation of Austria from Germany, the primary tasks of the commission will be: ‘‘To secure establishment of a freely elected Austrian government." The Russians proposed at Potsdam that the provisional government headed by Karl Renner now relegated to just Vienna—be extended to all of Austria. Presi- < dent Truman and the British in- I listed that the decision be post- , poned until American and British troops had moved into Vienna. The statement on the control machinery and zones of occupation made no mention of the length of occupation or when Austria would attain its ilroirtised independence. The occupation plan provides that Austria, within its 1937 frontiers, be divided into four zones. The northeastern zone will go to the Soviet Union: northwestern to the United States, western -o to build pitchers mounds, making it tough for the hurlers,” he added. “They had to watch Horrified as American players tore up the hallowed turf with spikes, but they gradually became interested in the game and began experimenting and borrowing equip- ■ menu Thy realized that Americans are not completely nartz, because baseball is fun. Believe me, baseball is here permanently in Britain.”

Mileusnich is a former insurance salesman from Columbus where he played second base on a sandlot team and coached. His all-stars include former pitchers Capt. Ralph Ifft of Springfield in the three-eye league; Cpl. Edward Schoenform of Minneapolis in the American Association and Sgt. Charles Kimmel of Atlanta in the Southern, as well as shortstop Cpl. Daniel Carnevale from Buffalo in the International circuit. Mileusnich talks like a Major League manager. “I ain’t promising we’ll win the title,” he said, “but we’ll be in there hustling.”

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