Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1946 — Page 8

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Louis Knocks Conn Cold In Eighth Round A>k« Purses Held Washington. June 20—(UP)— Rep. Donald L. O'Toole, 0.. N. Y., today asked the New York state boxing commission to hold up the LouifrConn fight purses pending an investigation of all circumstances S 1 rrounding last night's heavyweight title bout. New York. June 20 (UP) The five-year controversy over Billy | Conn "losing his head" wax nettled conclusively last night when Joe Louis almost tore it off with an explosive left hook In the eighth round. Until challenger Billy wa* knocked out at 2:ID of the eighth he had "kept his head" with such (utility that the 45.266 who paid 1 • 1.925.564 at Yankee Stadium felt that they had been defrauded by advertisements for a world heavyweight championship fight. Conn was so ashamed of his second failure to wrest the crown from the aging but able Detroit negro that be imedlately announcecd his retirement from the ring He had lasted longer again*! jolting Joe in 1941, when belted out j In the 13th round; and he had put up sueh a whale of a fight in their pre-war tilt that a large section of the world’s boxing fans believed he might have beaten Lcul* had he not lust bls head and tried to slug It out In the 13th round. He was landing Joe on the official score cards at the end of the 12th. But last night* farce verged on' a "no contest", a* the two ex-1 soldiers returned to the ring after more than four years’ absence from competition. Louis, at 32. fought like a champion once l.e got going. Conn, at 29. appeared a "soft touch" from the opening gong, although many experts and two boxing cotrt-i mission physicians had pronounced him in better physical condition than the champion. The pursuit by 207 pound lx»uis of 182 pound Billy ended in the •Ighth round. Brown-skinned Joe. a 3H to 1 favorite, cut loose. Early in the round, be shook Pittsburgh Billy with a left hook, followed by a smashing right to the face that knocked the challenger back on hi* heel* and opened a ga»h Iteneath Billy’s left eye. Conn ti led to fight back, and after brief

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stepped in with a left hook, lamia* brown lightning right beat Conn to the punch, landing with such j crushing force near the left temple that the challenger was stunned and fell Into a clinch. They had a light exchange in mid-ring. Then lamia nailed him with a straight right to the jaw, followed by a right uppercut that straightened him up In perfect position for the terrific left hook that altnoat lifted him off his feet and sent him sprawling onto his back on the canvas, with blood flowing from his eye gash, his nose and bls mouth. Conn, like a man paralyzed tried to raise his head and shoulders at the count of six, but fell back and refree Eddie Joseph-the same official who had counted him out in 1941—tolled off the terminating "10". Joseph bent down and assist!ed the blasted challenger to his leel. and escorted him to hto corner, while more than 600 newspaper men and sports casters and television technicians notified the world that the myth of Conn's lost head bad been exploded. Unia, making his 22nd defense of the title he won from him Braddock in 1937, laid off the pace ir. the early going, apparently conliclous that movie cameras were recording the historic battle for posterity. Accordingly, Conn's dancing footwork and ventures with left flicks to the face and soft left hooks to the body managed to earn him the flrut and third rounds, and tv fight on even terms in the «>cond. according to United Press ‘ coring. After that, it was all Louis Because the champton started i slowly, the first three rounds were duller than a mortician's wake. And thousands of fans in the ball park that "Babe Ruth built", were yelling for action. About 11,000 of them had paid 1100 a seat. After . the opening gong sounded, nearly a full minute passed before a single punch was thrown. None of the three ring officials gave Conn more than two rounds referee Joseph, who had Billy leading in their 1941 bout, seven rounds to five, gave the challenger only the second and third last night. The two judges. Jack O'Sullivan and Frank Forbes, ca«t dublicate ballots, each giving Conn the third and 'ailing the first even. 0 Will Sponsor Shoot Sunday Afternoon The county conservation club > will spoiator a shoot at 1 o'clock i Sunday afternoon at the !*•<> King home, west of Decatur. The public ; is invited to attend.

Virgil Trucks Shuts Out A's On Seven Hits New York. June 20.—(UP)— There may be plenty of Truck* coming off lh« assembly line today In Detroit, the nation’s motor capital, but the world champion Tiger* have got a streamlined one who to definitely not for eale— Virgil iFire) Trucks. Truck*, the only man In major league history who won a world series game without scoring any victories in the regular season, wax beginning to give the Tigers hope again that they may still have a chance to catch the runaway Red BOX. Truck* came back to Detroit ftom the navy last season in time to pitch the last game of the campaign. the one In which the Tigers clinched the pennant. He didn’t get credit for winning it. and went Into the world series with an 0-0 record, something unprecedented. Then Trucks pitched Detroit’s first victory, 4 to 1. In the world series. Trucks, Newhoueer. and Dizzy Trout were supposed to form Detroit's "T. N. T." pitching combination this year, but until recently Trucks didn't bold up his end of the triumvirate. Lately, however, he has been the same blazing flre-baller who won 16 games and lost 10 in the 1943 ampaign. and yesterday he turn-| >d in hi* beat effort of the year, a 3 to 0 seven-bitter against the Athletic* at Detroit. He struck out nine, and only three batters got a far as third bane. Pat Mullin are him able support, getting bree of Detroit's eight hits and coring two of the runs. Top pitching job in the National was by Dodger rookie Joe Hatten, who scored his first major league shutout, beating the Pirate* at Brooklyn, 7 to 0 also giving up seven hits. The Dodgers gave him a fine working margin, scoring four unearned runs in the first inning after two were out. First baseman Howie Schultz ied the Dodgers with three hits, batt.ng in two nt*. The Olants, held hitlesx for six Innlnga by rookie Ewell Blackwell, scored four runs id the seventh on two hits, an error, three walks and a hit batsman to beat Cincinnati, 4 to 3 at New York Nate Andrews, recently cast off by the Reds, beat them in his first start with the Giant*. The Giants made only three hits while the Red* got eight. The Cardinals remained a game and a half behind Brooklyn by winning their third straight game at Boston. 9 to 3 behind the fine relief pitching of Ted Wilks, who | held the Brav<* to four hits for I 6to Innings, it wax Wilk’s third relief victory In 10 day*, hb fourth 1 of the year without a defeat. The I cards made all their tallies in two I tour-run innings, the first and the I sixth. Stan Muslal drove in three ' runs. I The Chicago at Philadelphia | double header In the National and I the New York at Chicago, Boaton at St. Louis and Washington at Cleveland games in the American I were rained out. Yesterday's star-Pltcher Virgil Flrej Trucks of the Tigers, who 1 won his fourth straight game, a I 3 to 0 seven hitter over the AthleI ties. o Maior Leaaue Leaders Loading Batomen National League Player and club G AB R H Pct. Walker. Brook. 49 IBS 29 72 .369 Hopp. Boston .... 46 165 31 58 .351 Cuslai. St. L. .. 66 223 42 77 .346 Ue, New York 66 207 31 70 .338 Kurowski, Bt. L. 48 163 28 63 .325 Vernon. Wash. 48 188 35 (0 .372 williams, Bost. 68 207 56 74 .358 DiMaggio. Bost. 49 176 38 60 .341 Beradlno. St. L 56 220 27 72 .327 Keller. N. Y 55 197 41 64 .325 Home Runs Williams, Red Box 15 Greenberg. Tigers 14 KeHer. fafikees 14 DiMaggio, Yankees .' 12 Mlse, Giants 11 Pitching Higbe. Dodgers - 6-0-1.000 Kush, Cubs 5-o—l.ooo Ruffing. Yankees 4-o—l.ooo Caldwell, White Sox .. 4-0-1.000 Dobson, Red Sox 7-1 — .875 Kramer, Browns ........ 7-1 — ,876 QWet Grounds Postpone Game Here Wednesday Wet grounds ymterdsy forced postponement of the baseball game between the Junior Legion and the Swearingen Dairy entry in the junior federation league of Fort Wayne. Th* game has been rescheduled for Friday at 4:30 p.m. at Worth man field. Th* Junior Legion team will also play the Willshire. 0., team at Wortbmau field Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock.

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Heavyweight Fight Is Dismal Failure New York. June 20-(VP)-The sports world had its first poet war hangover today—and It was a bitter one. It may turn out to be major one, too, for boxing. Foe what wax ballyhooed ax one of the greatest sports events of our time turned out to be a dismal - failure to everyone except prompter Mike Jacobs and Joe Louin. Leading the hangover parade were the financial headaches of the 45.266 persons who paid all the way from 95 to 1100—the highest price ever charged for a boxing contest —to »ee Ixiuix retain his world's heavyweight championship at Yankee Stadium last night by knocking out Pittsburgh Billy Conn in the eighth round. They had been led to expect i something better. Reverberations starting coming in early today. At Washington. Rep. Donald L O'Toole, D., N. Y.. announced that

he would make a speech on the House floor today asking postmaster general Robert E. Hannegan to bar use of the mails to. Jacobs as a result of the fight. The congressman, who is from Brooklyn and who saw the tight via television, termed it a "joke", said that only 17 teal punches were thrown by both fighters and that "Jacobs knows no efforts were made toget those guys In shape.” And thousands of the vast audience which listened to the bout on the radio wondered If there was any significance in an announcer’s statement that Louis and Conn had touched gloves at the beginning of the eighth round In which the Brown Bomber from Detroit put his opponent away. Acordlng to boxing tradition, fighters touch gloves only when they come out of their corners for the final And Louts and Conn were scheduled to go 15. The fighters, their handlers, Jacobs and almost every one else scoffed at the reports. The newspaper writers and others at ringaide did not see any touching of gloves. x But there wasn't any doubt but what Jacobs was in a hot seat. His hangover may turn out to be worst of all for awhile his biggest promotion laid an egg, it was only a rotten one for the public. It was a golden one for Jacobs, even if the gate fell far below expectations. He had expected a crowd of between 75.000 and 80,000 and a gate of 83,000,000. He got instead a gate of 11.825,564—which was a lot of money for what the customers saw. For it was anything but a championship boxing bout. o Recreation League Games Are Delayed Rain this week waahed out opening games in the summer recreation softball league, with these games to be played at the end of the league schedule. Next week's schedule follows: Monday — Indiana vs Senators; Yankees vs White Sox; Tuesday— Tigers vs Indians; White Sox vs Senators. 0 Crosses of various designs, •ome dating from the Stone Age, have been found in nearly every part of Europe, as well as India, Syria, Persia and Egypt.

Tryouts For Baseball League Here Friday Tryouts for the summer recreation baseball league will be held , at Worthman field Friday morn- ■ ing. Pltdierx and catchers will repert at 8:30 o'clock and infielder* and outfielders at 10:30 o'clock. 0 — Cardinals' Owner Meets With Pasquel Mexico City, June 20—(UP)—j Owner Sam Breadon of the St. Louis Cardinals, reportedly bearing an olive branch from the ma-' jor leagues, wax ready to meet wtlh Mexican league president Jorge Pasquel today to discuss a plan whereby future raids on American teams would be stopped. Brea don's presence here wax ! confirmed by a personal represen - tative of Pasquel, who said that ! the St. Louis club preside it had made arrangements for the con • ferenee last week. “Breadon got In touch with Pasquel last week through a St. latiiis newspaperman who is a friend of the Pasquel family." the spokesman said. “I think that Breadon wants to make an agreement with Pasquel about the Mexican league's raids on U. 8. major league teams. He has talked several times with him. but there has been no formal i agreement." It was not discounted that Breadon might be on hand in an effort to retrieve th* three star players who jumped his club to go to the Mexican "lucre loop" nearly a month ago. If he was here seeking to permade ace pitchers Max Lanier and Fred Martin and Inflrider Lou Klein to return to the Cardinals. chances ar* that he had conferred with baseball commissioner A. B (Happy) Chandler and that he might also be extending an invitation to "come backall is forgiven" to other recalcitrant major leaguers who jumped south of the bqrder. Chandler ruled shortly after the start of the major league season that all players who had jumped were automatically barred for five years from organized baseball. But If a move was underway to get them to teturn to the fold, it la conceivable that th? ruling might be rescinded. Yanks Purchase Peck, Release Weatherly Chicago, June 20.—IUP)—The New York Yankees announced a minor shake-up in their reserve outfield ranks today, selling Roy Weatherly, an American league veteran, to Indianapolis of the American Association and buying Hal Peck from the Philadelphia A’a. Weatherly, Who returned thia seaaon after two years In military service, had been strictly a benchi warmer with the club this year. Pack, who was batting .240 for the Athletics, was expected to be u*ed a* a pinch hilts: and utility man since he alao can play the Infield. g Kxperta of the Cornell University vegetable crops department any that lime to needed on more than three-fourths of New York stale's vegetable soils for best yield* of all crops, except, perhaps, potatoes, bean* and tomatoes.

NATIONAL LffAGUff W. L. Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 34 21 619 81. Lotil* 33 23 .MB Chicago 37 23 .540 4Mi Cincinnati 26 25 .510 0 BontM 25 30 .455 9 Pittsburgh 23 29 44* New York 24 32 .429 U»H Philadelphia 21 3» .412 II AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Boston 42 15 .737 New York 36 23 .610 7 Dertoit 31 *5 .564 Washlnglun 29 25 .637 II to Cleveland 25 32 .439 17 81. I*>ill* , 25 32 .439 17 Chicago 21 31 .404 IN to Philadelphia 15 41 .269 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. G.B. St. Paul 31 25 .603 Loutovllle 35 27 .565 2to Kanxax Chy 33 29 .532 lndluna|M>llx 32 2!) .525 5 Minneapolis 32 30 .616 5>4 Milwaukee 25 31 .440 9to Columbus 23 34 404 12 Toledo 25 3N .397 13 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League St. Ixiuis 9, Boston 3. New York 4, Cincinnati 3. Brooklyn 7. Pittsburgh 0, Chicago at Philadelphia, rain. American League Detroit 3, Philadelphia 0. AB other games, rain. American Aaaociation Columbu* I, Kanaaa City 0, Minneapolis 7-1, Indianapolis 1-7. St. Pau) at Ixmlsvlll.*, rain. Milwaukee at Toledo, rain. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

OToday's Sports Parade By Oscar Fraley R«g. U. 8. PaL Off.) b — o New York. June 20- (UP)—Joo Louis, “still heavyweight champion of the world." abandoned his poker face today and actually grinned because he called hie shots — and the rest of the boxing world didn't, it had called him "too old” and it had called him "too slow." And It said that the younger Billy Conn might lift boxing's biggest crown right off from over that famed poker face. Today the poker face is gone—but the crown still is there over an unfamiliar grin. The tanny brown bomber proved. after a five-year layoff, that he was none of those things but still the deadliest puncher In the ring. Three sharp, conclusive blows had made Billy the kid a iclired citizen of Pittsburgh. Pa. "And Ah called the round exactly," Ixniis chortled In his jam-

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