Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1946 — Page 8

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Jackets Beat Willshire By 7 To 2 Score Breaking loose for five runs In the fifth Inning, the Decatur Yellow Jackets wound up their regular season Wednesday afternoon, defeating Willshire. 0., 7 tn 2, at Wort liman Held. The Jacket* will close their season Saturday In the annual Northeastern Indiana conference tournament, which will be held at Worthman field Saturday. Decatur will meet Bluffton in th« tourney opener at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, with the winner to meet New Haven at 2 p. ni. In the championship encounter. S’u admission will be charged and the public Is invited to attend. The Jackets opened the scoring yesterday In the first Inning. W. Arnold starting with a walk, stealing second and ecorlng on Stein er'e single. Taylors double aud W. Arnold's single were good for another tally In the second. The Jackets bunched singles by Ahr. Taylor and Uchtenstlger end a two-bagger by Helm with a pair of Willshire errors for their five runs in (he fifth. Willshire tallied both Its runs in the sixth on three hits and a hit batsman Gaunt hurled the first four Innings for Decatur, limiting the ( Ohio nine to two singles, and Kuittle worked the last three frames. Steiner and Taylor each cracked out two hits to lead the Jackets' hitting Decatur AB R H E W. Arnold, If 4 2 10 L. Arnold, cf 2 0 0 0 Grant. If .... 10 0 0 Knittie. rs, p .... .. .. 4 0 0 o Steiner, 2b 3 12 0 Helm, lb ... .. 2 110 Ahr, c ..311! Taylor. 3b 3 2’l Lichtenstelger, ss ..2 0 1 0 Jackson, ss 0 0 0 0 Gaunt, p 2 0 0 0 Black, rs 1 0 0 0 Totals 27 7 8 2 Willshire ’ AB R H E Geary, cf 3 111 Schaffner, p ..3110 IjUglnbill, c 2 0 10 Giessler, 3b .... 3 0 2 1 Reichard, ss 3 0 0 1 Koch. If .. .. 3 0 0 0 rf .. 3 0 0 0 — TODAY — Continuous from 1:30 “.Meet Me On Broadway” All Star Cast ALSO—Shorts 9c 40c Inc. Tax BE ATTENOI FRI. & SAT. —b —. - ' iWU .*5 Iht amorovt ■ CBIWWI nCi9R> flttttßfj lit RUSStItBOWMAH Mfts main "* JER6ENS * WiRMINfiEII HAMY OAVSNSOST • USA HAMM UmWe * «me» «■ S*i Ma a* ra M Mw DtfSCteSW YIRGMIA VAN UFF * ALEXANDER MAU. ——O—O——Bun. Mon. Tues. — "Bentimental Journey" with John Payne, Maureen O’Hare, Wm. Bonder L rs . .. . '

Hakes. 2h ... . ... .. 3 0 0 1 Myers. 1b 3 o o o Totals 26 2 5 4 Score by Innings: Willshire ... .. 000 002 0- 2 Decatur 110 050 x 7 SI 1111 soO.wsi— "I— Rose Qualifies In Long-Shot Gamble Indianapolis. May 23-(VP) A long-shot gamble that paid off today stamped Mauri Roue im perhaps the leading threat for this year's Memorial Day 500-mile automobile race at the Indianapolis motor speedway. The pipe smoking little Italian from South Bend. Ind., who took | over a 14th running car from Floyd Davis and piloted It to victory In ‘ the last "MO," qualified at a niggling 124 066 miles per hour In the dusk last night. He made a dramatic bld that, If unsuccessful, might have meant hie mieslng the 1916 classic. Hose failed on opening day, last Saturday, when his six-cylinder Blue Crown Spark Plug special threw a connecting rod after he whirled through a 125-mile-anhour first lap. He had two chances to qualify. Hiu original car definitely was not in shape. The other half of i the Joe l-enckl entry a four-cylin-der. reardrive Blue Crown special • utlil was torn down late in the afternoon. Bose had never drive ihe four cylinder job. Mechanics were none too aure of Its brakes, or its ability to go the required 10 qualifying miles at 115 miles per hour right then But. Mauri, looking over the timM of the four early qualifiers yesterday, decided he had a chance > to take the Inside petition on the fourth of the It starting three-j car rows. It was the day's prise • and if the gamble was successful, | Rose would l»» near the front of, the starters while meat of the top-I notehers, like Rex Mays and Ralph Hepburn, were in the rows behind. Mechanical troubles also have hampered other perennial pace setters. All would tie ready to go by the next trials-thia Saturday-1 and. by waiting. Rose might find hinwelf so far behind that the Jam of cam would keep him from ever reaching the front. Rose took two fast practice laps and signaled he was ready for his trial two minutes before the track closed. He clipped off the first two-and a half mile lap In 125.156, making up f>r his rar’s evident lack of eneed In the rtralgb.tuway by skillful driving on the curves. He tapered off on the three remaining laps but his 124.065 time xtlll wax the fourth fastest round of the qualifiers. Grey-halred Ruas Snowberger of Detroit and Emil Andrea of Chicago rounded out the fourth-row yesterday. In the fifth row, were Joe Chitwood of Reading. Pa., and Al Putnam of Indianapolis. Nineteen starting berths yet were to be filled in qualifying runs .Saturday, Sunday and next Tuesday. Snowberger's time, the beat until Rose made hie gamble, was 121.593. The Detroiter, veteran of 14 .Memorial Day races, was at the wheel of the same eight-cylinder Maserati in which Rose won the pole at the 1941 race.

Six Association Teams Swap Places By United Press General moving day found six team* In different position today In the American Axaoclation aud the other two teams mixsiug a swap by a few percentage points. St. Pauf held first place by a half game, backlog into the lead on an i open date and Louisville's loxx to Columbus, 4 to 3 yesterday. Columbun missed ellmblng out of the cellar by text than a half game. In other games, Indianapolis ■ edged Toledo, 3 to 1, taking third place from the Hens after a oneday tenancy and Kansas City moved to fifth place over Minneapolis i by toppling the Millers, 3 to 2. CORT • , ■„— — Leet Time Tonight — "BARBARY COAIT" Joel MeCrea, Ed. G. Roblneen Brian Denlevy, Walter Brennan ALSO—Shorte st-30c Ine. Tax FRI. & SAT. “THUNDER TOWN” with 808 STEELE ALSO—First Chapter “Scarlet Horseman” G-0k— Sun. Mon. Tuea. — "Fear" and "Mysterious Intruder."

Dixie Walker * Stars, Dodgers Defeat Cubs New York. May 23-(UP)-The big league show seemed to he moving on without him when he started the season as just another heavy-hearted spare hand in the Brooklyn dugout. It seemed Incredible at the time , that the Dodgers could go without the people's choice, Fred (Dixie*) I Walker, the “mayor of Ebbets field" in the lineup. But that was the way prexy Branch Rickey hud ordained It. This was to be the year of destiny for the Brooklyn Dodger "youth movement** and there was no j place in the script for Walker, who had climaxed hU 15 year major 1 league career by leading the leag ue In runs bat ted-in with 124 In, 1946. That performance came on the heels of a .357 batting average which also was tops for the league with a seventh place teem in 1944. All of that was discounted! though, because Dixie was crowding 36, and Rickey wanted youth to have its fling. However, there wax a sudden revision of opinion on Walker's value to the club when he homered as a pinch hitter against the Giants, tying up a game which the Dodgers eventually won. The next day Dixie was back in right field and he hasn't been out of the lineup since. Today he leads the league in batting with a lusty .369 mark and is third In runs batted in with 26. He broke up the ball game yesterday with a 13th inning double which scored Dick Whitman with the whining run in a 2 to 1 decision over the visiting Cubs. 1 Joe Hatten pitched the best game of his rookie career, but ironically wasn't the winner. He went out for a pinch-hitter after holding Chicago to four hits in ' 12 innings and Kirby Higbe pitched the 13th to get the decision. Johnny Schmitt was the loser In a spirited duel highlighted by n 10th inning fist fight tietween Dodger Eddie Stanky and Len Mer- ! ullo of Chicago. Both were banished for the row. The Cardinals kept pace with a 7 to 1 night win over the Giants at New York. Enos Slaughter and George Kurowski lilt homers in a five run first inning rally In which the first five batters hit safely. The Cards made 15 hits for lefty Howie Poliet who held I the Giants to five and beat them . for the ninth time against one defeat in his career. It wee his fourth 1946 win. Johnny Mite got the only run off Poliet when he hit hie eighth homer. The Phils topped Pittsburgh, 6 to 2. as Lyn (Schoolboy) Rowe pitched steady eight-hit ball and doubled twice, driving In two runs and scoring two. it wax the first time this year the Phils had won two In a row.

The Bruvex beat Cincinnati, 5 to 1 ax Johnny Sula hurled his fifth win and Boston gained its firxt home night victory under Its new lights. The Braves had dropped four night contexts. Ted Williams hit a two-run homer in a 12th Inning rally that gave the Red Sox a 7 to 4 victory at Cleveland. The Indians took a 3 to 0 lead then dissipated It. sub outfielder Johnny Laser sending the game into extra innings with a ninth inning homer. Each team scored a run In the 11th and Boston clinched it in the 13th. Bobby Doerr's double and Laser's single provided the third run, Dave Ferrisa gained bls sixth straight win, deapite a shaky relief job in which be retired only two batters in the 11th. The Yankees won a 6 to 3 battle «t Detroit, protecting their margin with a weird triple play in the eighth in which three Tiger runners were thrown out on the base paths and the ball was handled by every Yankee Infielder end the catcher. To climax the burlesque, outfielder Tommy Henrich, coming In to back up the Infield, was spiked by Dick Wakefield on the base path. Relief pitcher Jake Wade was the victor. Doublee by Don Kolloway and Murrell Jones In the ninth gave the White Sox a S to 4 victory over the A'a at Chicago. Sam Chapman scored three Philadelphia runs with a grand slam triple. The Browns made three runs on four hits in the eighth to defeat Washington, 3 to 1 at Bt. Louis. Newman (Tex) Shirley won his third game. Yesterday's star—Fred (Dixie) Walker of |he Dodgers, who broke up a 13-innlng game with the Cube with a double that produced a 2 to I victory. • oThe city of Cincinnati. 0., owns the Cinclnaatl. New Orleans and Texas Pacific railway, connecting Cincinnati with Chattanooga. Tenn., operated under lease by the Southern Railway system.

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Bertelli Jumps To ! Boston Grid Team j — San Francisco. May 23—(I’Pt Edward P. (Slip) Madigan, general manager of the Ims Angeles dons of the all-Amerlca conference threatened court action against Angelo Bertelli today and warned that the former Notre Dame grid star would play with the dons or not at all. Madigan, informed by the United Press that Bertelli had revers-1 ed hix field and signed with tiie Boston Yanks of the rival national football league, said he would go Io court to prevent Bertelli from ! breaking his contract with the Dons. "He’ll play for Ims Angeles this year or he will not play for any-! i cne," he stormed. Initer. Madigan aaid ho had in 1 (Pructed the team'.i attorneys in Loa Angeles to seek an immediate injunction against Bertelli to prohibit uim from playing football with any one else, and against Ted Collins, owner of the Yanks, for Inducing Bertelli to br*-ak his contract. Madigan uald he would bring suit for the maximum amount of damages obtainable under the law i—and he Intimated that might mean an entire reason’s gate. Madigan, one-time coach of fit. I Mary's college galloping Gaels, ■raid Bertelli had accepted a 21.000! bonus to sign with the Dons and that the cancelled check stub was I in the team's fllea to prove It. ' Bertelli. who had an “under-, standing" with the Boston club before signing with the Dons, was in a class by himself as the finst i prominent grldder to execute a I "double-jump” as a result of his dedsicn to go with the Yanks. Collins announced yesterday that Bertelli had signed a four-year contract with the Yaniot, reportedly at ! 120.000 a season. I For his part, Bertelli explained , the change of heart by saying that i he wanted to "be near hom»." He

Wil I In THE FIRST OfFfNDENT mother-in-law to come from the U. B. to live with her son-in-law tn Germany for the duration of hla service with U. S. occupation forces is Mrs. Mary Leitch, rl.tl.t, who is shown on arrival in Frankfurt with her daughter, Mrs. Norman Sprowl, beinf greeted by Lt CoL Norman Sprawl, Mrs, Leitch baa lived with the Sprowta In Cincinnati, 0., for 25 years, ilMtrattignall

lives with hit wife at Springfield, Mass. ( Bertelli. who wax a unanimous all-Amerlca choice as captain of the 1943 Notre Datne eleven, waa the fl: it player drafted by the Yanks when they obtained their charter two years agr He never had signed a contract, however, snd after hix dta-harffe from the marine corps announced he would cast his lot with the new all-Am-erica circuit.

Major League Leaders Leading Batsmen National League Player and club G AB R H Pet. Walker, Brook. 26 99 19 37 .374 Muslal, St. Ixtuis 2K 111 22 41 .369 Ree-ie. Brooklyn 29 95 17 34 .353 Heiman. Brook. 24 93 19 33 .355 Cavarefla, Chic. 27 99 25 35 .354 American League Vernon. Wash. 24 99 19 39 .394 IxMligiani. Chic. 19 70 7 27 .396 Williams, Bost. 34 121 33 45 .372 Pesky. Boston 33 142 36 51 .359 Berardino, St. L. 31 132 14 44 .333 DiMaggio, Bost. 102 21 34 .333 Home Rune Dl.Maggio, Yankees s Williams. Red Hox 9 Mize, Giants 9 Keller. Yankees 7 Kellner. Indians r, Greenberg. Tigers fi Pitching Harris, Red Sox ... 7—o Ferrlsx, Red Sox g q lainier. Cardinals 6- 0 Beggs, Reds 4. 0 Leonard. Senators .... 4—o ——<j 0 — 0 I Today's Sports Parade By Oscar Fraley I Reg. U. 8. PaL Off.) O- . 0 New York. May 23~(UP)~The guy behind the unfamiliar specs didn't look like Jolly (’holly Grimm, the fun-loving, banjo-playing Dutchman who piloted the Chicago Cubs to the National league pennant last season. Charley appeared like a man trylhg to live up to his last name. He was doing a good job of It, too.

There were little worry wrlnklei around the eyes behind thoxo eye glasses and (Iharley wnxn t kid ding when he kicked the roitgl floor luiards In the dugout nt Eb liets field and said: "No, these aren't rose colored glasses." Grlmtn has practically the <nme crew which won the pennant last year, except for his pitching staff, and the Impression was there that even ('hurley knew It wasn't going to be qulto good enough against his rivals, nil whom have improved Somebody wanted to know how the Curdltialx looked "Damn Good." Charley snorted wtih explosive respect. And Brooklyn? "They're all right too," Charley said, hut without the warmth which mention of the Cardinals hud kindled. "Listen," he continued. "They're all lough thia year. Those Braves. | they'll run you craxy. And even the Phillies, don't laugh at them They've got five guys who can knock the ball out of the park on you and with a little pitching they'd be rough for anybody.** Contributing to Charley’s grimneks are three Injured players. Stan Hack lx out with a had leg; Eddie Waltkus with a sore elbow and Mickey Livingston with an ankle Injury. Like a lot of fellow managers, Charley is sore at the weather man. "We've played six games on this trip, imagine, just six games," he said. "We need some good weather so our pitchers can get some work. I heard a lot of talk that Hank Borowy has something wrong with him. Weil, it isn't anything a little work won't cure. He just wax a little wildt simply from lack of work."

— " — —O ; NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. 0.8. SI IXMlls 1« IB 643 „... Brooklyn . .18 W «43 Chicago 15 12 .556 2H Chicagi II 12 .556 2«4 Boston 16 13 552 2«4 Cincinnati 13 13 .500 4 New York 12 17 .414 6’4 Pittsburgh 10 16 .395 7 ' Philadelphia 9 19 .295 9’k I AMERICAN LEAGUE I W. L. Pct. G.B. I Boston 27 7 .794 IJ New York 21 13 .619 6 iI Detroit IS 15 .545 S’v !! Washington 16 It .533 9 • St. Ix'uls 15 18 .455 11H I; Cleveland 13 19 .406 1.1 I Chicago io 19 .345 14% Philadelphia 9 24 .273 17% 1 I AMERICAN ASSOCIATION I W. L. Pct. G.B. f St. Paul 21 13 .683 ; Ixiulxvllie 19 14 .576 % ; Indianapolio 16 13 .552 1% (Toledo 17 I'. .531 2 I Kansas City ... 14 16 .467 4 l Minneapolis 15 18 .455 4% I Milwaukee 12 17 .414 5% I Columbus •.13 19 .406 6 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Philadelphia 6. Pittrburgh 2. St. Ixiuis 7. New Y< rk 1. Boston 5, Cincinnati I. Brooklyn 2, Chicago 1 (13 InI nlngs). American League »: Boston 7. Cleveland 4 (12 In II nlnge). ,| Chicago 5. Philadelphia 4. £ New York 5, Detroit 3. > St. Ixntls 3, Washington 1. American Assoeictlen Columbus 4, Ixiulsviile 3. 1 IndlanapolH 3. Toledo 1. Kansas City 3, Minneapolis 2. •- Only games scheduled.

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