Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1946 — Page 6

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Second Place Teams Fail To Reduce Leads New York. July 5— (VP>—All reason the sensational but at realty Boston Red Sox have been (NMMhali*a glsmuur boys, but today, as the mid-season milenone vaa passed. it was Brooklyn’s "consistency kids” who had the bigger flrat place lead. The Dodgers were seven Kames ahead of the Cardinals In the National while the Red Sox. once 10 games In front, were now six and a half ahead of the second place Yankees With no great home run slug gers and no winners on their pitching staff to compare with Boston's top due of Mickey Harris and Dave Ferris, the babbling brooks have Increased their lead gradually. They have been in first place since May 21 and before that were In and out of the lead. Yesterday Brooklyn won the recond game of a double header at New York, 8 Io 5. after the Giants took the opener, 7 to 5. Despite Giant homers by Willard Marshall, Buddy Blattner, and Etnie Lombardi, little lefty Vic Ixtmbardl won his eighth game ever them in two years without a loss. A three-run ninth inning rally clinched the Dodger victory. Homers by Johnny .Mixe and Iximbardi accounted for five of the Giant runs in the opening victory. The Red Sox also divided with a last place team, dropping a .1 to 1 decision to crafty Phil Marchlldon of the Athletics, then coming back with a 19-hlt attack to win, 9 to 8. Ted Williams hit his 21st and 22nd homers and drove In four runs to bring his total to 69, tops In the majors for lioth departments. Dorn Dimaggio led Boston's attack with four hits, and Clem Dresiewerd, one of six pitchers, struck out the only batter he faced to gain the victory. The second place teams failed to gain. The Cardinals cashed in on homers by Enos Slaughter and Buster Adams for a 6 to 1 victory by Charley Barrett at

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Chicago after the Cuhs took the opener. I to 2. Oldster Billy .•urges made the first game his thaw, singling In the two marginal runs In the ninth after getting a triple and double earlier. Relief pitcher Hank Wyse was the victor. At Washington Emil (Dutch! Ix-onard caused the Yankees to knuckle down to his knuckler for the thin! time this year, shutting them out. 2 to 0. Lefty Joe P« e countered with a four-hit, 5 to 0 New York victory. Leonard. who won his seventh game, kept Yankee bailers hitting Into the dirt and the Nats made 21 assists, within one of a record. He gave up five hits. Two of the four hits off Page were doubles by Mickey rnon. The Indians held off a late Tiger rally to win 9 to 8, at Detroit after losing. 8 to 4, to Freddie Hutchinson, who gained his fifth victory. Roy Cullenbine hit ihree Tiger homers, two in the second game, to lead an extra < hase barrage which Included homers by Les Fleming. Don Ross, Frankie Hayes and Ixiii Boudreau of Cleveland. The Browns won two at Chi cago, 4 to I and 3 to 2. putting over three unearned runs in the ninth of the opener after Don Kolloway dropped an easy pop fly at second base, then winning the second on hamers by Hank Helf and Chet Laabs. Jack Kramer, | though smacked for 12 hits, won his eighth game. Nelson Potter won the second game for his first Victory since May 26. Hon Northey gave the Phillies 7 to 0 and 3 to 2 victories by hitting a grand slam homer in the first game and a two run round tripper In the second at Poston. Oscar Judd and Charley F-i hanz were the winning flingers Nick Strlncevich of Pittsburgh missed his third straight shutout by a lone run, beating Cincinnati. 6 to 1, after which the Reds won. 4 to 3. Bob Elliott hit two horn era and Ralph Kiner got one for Pittsburgh In the opener. Ray Mueller's squeeze bunt gave Cincinnati an 11th inning win in the second game, Daln Clay com . Ing home with the deciding tally , for relief winner. Clyde Shotin.

Yesterday's star—Ron Northey of the Phils, whose two homers accounted for six runs and both victories. 7 to 0 and 3 to 2, at Boston.

Reds Defeated Cards In Baseball League The Reds defeated the Cards, 15 to 9. In a summer recreation baseball league game this morning at Worthman field. The line score: RHE Cards 053 10 - 9 9 0 Reds 431 7x • 15 13 0 Liehtenstelger and Franklin; J. Myers and Baughn. Next week's schedule: Monday Red Box vs Indians; Senators vs Yankees. Tuesday While Sox vs Indians; Tigers vs Senators. Wednesday Cubs va Dodgers; Cards vs Reds. Thursday—Reds vs Dodgem; Cards vs Cuba.

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6. E. Club, Bluffton In Playoff Tonight The fiecatur fl E. Club softball team will play the Blufßon Elks team at Bluffton at 8:10 o’clock tonight for the playoff championship In the first half of the Main Auto suburban league The 0. E. and Bluffton teams each won five games and lost one In regular first-half play. The standing of all teams fol lows: W L 0. E. Cluh -• 1 Bluffton Elks Osdan .. 4 2 Waynedale Lions — 2 4 Vnlondale .... 2 4 Hill's Grocery -1 6 ... - -— oJunior Legion Beals Hartford City 9-2 The Decatur Junior l/*gion baseball team racked up another victory Wednesday afternoon at Hartford City, defeating the Hartford City nine, 9 to 2. to keep the local team's undefeated record for the season. Decatur jumped into an early lead with two runs in the first inning on a walk to Black and Helm's long home run. A pair of hits and a stolen base retrieved one of these runs for Hartford in the second hut Decatur tallied tht needed tuna in the fourth frame on two hits and a passed ball, good for two runs. The local lads put the game on Ice In the fifth inning with five runs on as many hila. Hartford picked up its final tally in the sixth on one hit and two errors. Helm was Decatur's leading hitter with three blows, including a homer and a double. Ahr and J. filllig each connected safely twice. Gaunt limited the Hartford City team to four hits. Decatur AB R II E Jackson, 2b .. .. 4 11 0 Lichtenstelger. ss 4 111 Black, cf ..... 2 10 0 Helm. Ih ... 4 2 3 0 Ahr. e ... .... 4 12 1 Gaunt, p 3 10 0 J. (lilllg, 3b .. ..3 2 2 1 Thomas. If .. 3 0 1 0 D. Gilllg. rs 2 0 0 0 Totals 29 9 10 3 Hartford City AB It H E Fulton, 2b 3 110 Hornbaker, ss, p.. .. 3 0 0 0 McCosly, p. 3b .. 3 0 0 0 Harrison, lb ... 3 110 Brown, 3b, ss 3 0 10 James, c ..3010 Kile, cf .. 3 0 0 0 Cortright. rs .. ....3000 Gadbeny, rs .. 10 0 0 Cavanaugh. If 2000 Totals 27 2 4 0 tin Scoring hy innings: Decatur 2 0 0 2 5 0 0 9 llartord City .. 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 —o 0 .—— Roller Skating every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday nights,—SunSet,

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Indianapolis Takes Association Lead o . —■ . By t'nlted Press Indianapolis was in first place today, culminating a sizzling cam | palgn in which the Indians won 17 of their last 19 games, knocking St. Paul out ot the American' Association lead.

Th* Indians lied together two | winning efforts In the holiday hill | yesterday while St. Paul was split-11 ling a doitblelieader with Minnea polls to achieve their goal, Louis-j i ville was the victim of two well-; ( pitched contests at the hands of | | the new loaders. Ed Klleman. who won five and lost eight with Cleveland last year. | cut Itonisvflle down In the first | game with seven well-spaced hits. I | 6 to 2. Indianapolis, meanwhile, h (pounded three pitchers for II | blows. i ( It was almost the same story. | in the second, with Glen Fletcher | twirling the Colonels around his capable fingers for five bane knocks to triumph, 5 to 2. The Indians made all their runs In the first Inning. A homo run with two mates on: base in the eighth Inning by, Frankie Itatineker, second baseman, gave the Millers the morning contest at Minneapolis, & to 2. I Woody Abernathy yielded the I Saints only four hits in knocking 1 St. Paul off its exalted perch. ' Eric Tipton's two-run homer in the ninth tied the afternoon game at St. Paul and the SainU shoved J accross a tally In the tenth to win, f, to 6,'Four errors almost coat the Saints the game. Cliff Ray, Miller left fielder, and lx>igh Kimball, St. Paul third baseman, also homered. Milwaukee dealt Kansas City a i double defeat. 8 to 4 and 6, to 2, | to chill the Blue's bid for third place. Two six hitters, one by Uee Roas, the other by EwaM Pyle, checked the Kansas City attack. Dave Phllley, Brewers, and Art Matheny, Blues, made home runs In the first game. Hary Craft and Johnny Sturm. Kansas City players, counted round trip blows in the second contest. A spilt of the doubieheader at Columbus, gave the Red Birds the first game. S to 5, and Toledo ii>« second. 6 to S. Manager Charley Root hurled the winning effort for Columbus although be was relieved in the fifth when he weakened. The Hens came from behind in the second game to tie the score In the seventh inning and scored the winning tally in the ninth. ft—Conservation Club Plans Shoot Sunday —"O ■' -■ The Country conservation club will bold a shoot Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock* at the Leo King home, one mile west of U. 8. highway 27 on the Novelty road. Prises will be awarded and the public is invited to attend. 0Contract bridge was invented In 1925 during a bridge game on a steamship enroute from Los Angeles to Havana, the Encyclopedia Britannica reports. Harold 8. Vanderbilt develop the game from plafond, a French variation of auction bridge.

Maior Leaaue Leaders Leading Batsmen National League Player and club G AB R II Pct. Walker. Brook. 63 252 36 94 .373 Hopp. Bos. 60 216 43 79 .366 Mitsial, St. L.. 70 285 54 100 .351 Mize, New Y. 69 259 55 87 .336 Reiser. Brook. 61 206 44 66 320 American League Vernon. Wash. 63 250 44 90 .360 Williams, Boa. 75 262 74 91 .348 DlMagglo. Bos. 64 230 43 80 .348 Berardlno. St. L 71 285 37 93 .326 Keller, New Y. 70 249 52 80 .322 Home Runs Williams. Red Sox 22 Greenberg. Tigers ... 21 Keller, Yankees 17 DlMagglo, Yankees '.. 16 Mize, Giants 16 Pitching Hlglre, Dodgers 8 0 1.000 Kush. Cubs .. .. 6 0 1.000 Ncwhotiser. Tigers 15 3 .833 Ruffing, Yankees 5 1 .883 Caldwell, White Sox 5 1 .833 Herring, Dodgers 5 1 .833 Burkhart, Cardinals 5 1 .833 —Q— —._

BASEBAIL RESULTS —r-—

NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. Q.B. Brooklyn 46 24 .<57 St. ixtuls 39 31 .557 7 Chicago 37 31 .544 8 Cincinnati ..... 32 34 .485 12 Boston 33 38 .445 1314 Philadelphia 30 36 .445 14 Pittsburgh ... 29 40 .420 16>4 New York 29 41 .414 17 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Boston 51 22 .699 New York 45 29 .608 6H Detroit 39 32 .549 11 Washington 35 34 .507 14 Cleveland 34 39 ,4« 17 81 I '° ul » 33 39 .458 1714 Chicago 27 42 .391 22 Philadelphia 21 48 .304 28 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct, GUI. Indianapolis 49 31 .612 s »- P*ul 49 32 .605 14 Louisville 43 37 .537 g Kansas City 41 33 .511 Minneapolis 39 41 .488 10 Milwaukee 37 39 .487 10 Toledo 31 50 .383 1844 Columbus 28 49 .364 1914 WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS National League Chicago 4-2, Pittsburgh 2-L St. Lottis 16, Cincinnati 0. Boston 7, Philadelphia 1. Only games scheduled. American League Cleveland 6, St. Louis 0. Washington 3, Philadelphia 1. New York 3, Boston 2. Detroit 2, Chicago 1 (io innings). American Association Indianapolis 4. Toledo 3. Louisville 4, Columbus 0, Milwaukee li, St. Paul 1. Kansas City 9. Minneapolis 1. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Philadelphia 7-3. Boston 0-2. New York 74, Brooklyn 5-8. Pittsburgh <-3, Cincinnati 14. Chicago 4-1, St. Louis 24. American League 8t Louie 44, Chicago 1-2. Philadelphia 38, Boston 2-9. Wasbtngto n? 4, New York 0-5. Detroit 8-8, Cleveland 4-9. American Association Indianapolis <4, Louisville 2-2. Minneapolis 54, St Paul 24. Milwaukee 8-1, Kansas City 4-2 Columbus 8-5, Toledo 64.

BULLETIN Indianapalla, July 5— Glen Curtlo, Myear-old veteran of 28 yeartt of Hoooitr high school and college basketball coaching, today eigned a contract to coach a new indlanapollo profeoetonal hardwood team. Curtlo eigned a one-year contract, effective July 16. which gives him a free hand to select all players. The team has not yet been named. Indianapolis Is a member of a league formed chiefly among cities which have teams In the American hockey league. The league la known as the Basketball Association of America. Before he signed the pro team contract, Curtis handed in hie resignation as coach of the Indiana State Teachers' College basketball team at Terre Haute. The resignation was accepted by Or. Ralph N. Tirey, president of the school. BULLETIN St. Andrews. Scotland, July S (UP) —Sammy Snead of Hot Springe, Va., won the British open golf championship today, the first American to take the title since Oenny Shute turned the trick In 1933. —o Attendance lower At Sports Events New York, July 5— (I’P) — A •»■■ attractive program of holiday baseball and racing drew the blame loday for decreased attendance at Fourth of July events from high levels established five weeks ago on Memorial day. The reduced racing crowds also reflected a trend which has been evident throughout the curtent season in which both attendance and mutuel betting figures have been off slightly from 1945 levels. There were 80,149 fewer fans In attendance yesterday at 16 race tracks and eight major league ball parks than there were on hand at 12 tracks and the same numtier of parks on Memorial day. The races yesterday drew 328,826 fans and they were free spenders, putting 111,280,347 through the wager windows, much of which was duplication money won on previous races. However, on May 30 there were 871,411 fans on hand at only 12 tracks when the betting was estimated at 218,000.000. The total of 239.455 fans at eight major league double headers was down 36,564 from the Memorial day total of 274,019-H-'we ver, in both leagues the first place teams were playing tallenders and the Yankees, the bigrest crowd-luring outfit in either circuit, were away from home. The day's total waa up substantially from last July 4 when exactly 210,000 fans saw the slate of double headers. The top race crowd was at Arlington Park in Chicago where an estimated '45,000 fans saw the 750,000 Stars and Stripes handicap.

The day's biggest basehall crowd was In sports-minded Detroit where 61,303 watched the Tigers and Cleveland Indians divide a double bill. The interborough rivalry between the Dodgers and Giants drew the National league's top crowd of 48.200 at New York. Estimates of attendance at minor league and sand lot baseball games were made conservatively at 500,000 while minor sports drew lesser totals. About 2.000 persons watched the middle aute's pro tennis matches at Philadelphia: 30,000 fans saw the Lakewood auto races in Atlanta; upwards of 1.000 were on hand for the clay courts tennis matches at Chicago; 25.000 tans were out for the harness races at Westbury. N. Y„ and 6,000 attended midget auto races in Philadelphia. 0 O• — 0 j Todays Sports Parade | By Oscar Fraley I Reg. U.S. Pat 01.) 1 0 o' New York, July s—(UP)—Yankee Stadium was a slugger's paradise back In the storied days of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig but to the current crop of long distance bitters It has become known aa MacPhail's house of horrors. The bouse which Ruth built, and which Gehrig completed, has all the heavy lumber lads moaning the blues. It reached a crying towel crescendo In the Yankee-Rod Sox aeries with the chanting lad by Ted Willlama, Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller. Joe. being a right handed hitter, has a reasonable right to complain becanee those left Held fences ara a goodly swat away. But Ted the king and Keller the Marland strong boy. ehould be knocking theslau out of the short right field seats which Ruth bombarded with such monotonous regularity that they nicknamed the seettoa “Ruthville.” They should live there.

100. lieing left handed marksmen. But, for some unaccountable reason, thia hard hitting trio han heen getting Its lumps st the stadium all season. This makes It even more Irritating to Joe and Charley, because they must play half of their games in the Bronx ball orchard. On the Yankees' recent western trip, Keller ad DI Mag ls»th were knocking the cover off the ball. Joe was hitting ala .378 clip when they came home and had boosted hie worrisome batting average to .277. Keller had ballooned to a respectable 336. But, when they had closed the two game series with the Boaox and again hit the road. Joe had dropped 13 points to .264 and Keller had faded 14 points. In the two-game Red Sox series, Im went one for seven and Keller one for eight.

“I can't understand It at all,” Keller said. “I always seem to hit lietter on the road but once I get back in the Stadium I fall off. I don't have the slightest Idea why.” DiMaggio nodded a vicious second. Williams, second leading hitter in the American league, finds It even more embarrassing. Because the kid hasn't made a single hit In 14 official times al bat In the Stadium this year. He was whaling the ball at a .355 clip when the Sox came to town for the Yankee series. When It was over he had gone nothing for six and dropped eight points to .347. •'You've got me." he mused, “I don't have the slightest idea why hits should be so scarce In the Stadium.

“It's a good thing I don't have to play all my gamffs here, Isn't It?” he laughed. But it really gives none of them any cause for merriment. Williams faces six more Stadium game*

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