Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1946 — Page 8

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G.E. Club And Berne Stars In Finals Tonight Th* De< atur G. E Cluh and th* Berne AlMltars will haul* al, Worth nun field tonight In th* final game of the Adam* county softball tournament, a the reault of semi-final victories Wed nesday night over Habegger Furniture of Berne and Yager Furniture. also of Berne, respectively The title game la scheduled for 8 4G o'clock tonight, with two girls teams meeting in an exhibition tilt at m. In event rain prohibits play tonight. the championship tilt will be played Friday night. 0. E. Club trounced llabegger, 12 to I, in the first semi-final tilt last night. Hauermeiater limited the Berne team to four hits. With the losers' only tally a home run by Hprunger In the second inning G. E. put the game on Ice with four runs In the first frame on three hits, a walk and an error. Homer* by Betiermeister and E. Schult*. each with a man on, featured later scoring by G. E., who tallied In all except one inning. The Heine All Stars eliminated Yager in the second semifinal, 5 to 3, In a close tussle Yager drew first blood with a rnn In the first inning on two hits, and held this lead until the fourth, when the All-Star* broke loose for four runs on three hits and a pair of errors. The winners scored their final run in the fifth without a hit. Yager's final runs came in the sixth on a walk and Buckingham's hrtmer. Scores by Innings: RHE G. E. Chib .. 420 212 112 II 2 Habegger .. 010 000 o-l 4 1 Bauermefater and Andrews; D Neuenschwander. Meyer and tyRHE Yager .. 100 002 0-3 c, 3 Berne Stars 000 410 x-5 4 o I. Sprunger. Neuenschwander and Liechty; H. Schwartz and W Stuckey ■■AwaiaHMMMMM —■ r.l ...I. mJ AIR CONDITIONED —TODAY— Continuous from 1:20 “A WALK IN THE SUN” Dana Androws, Richard Conte ALBQ— Shorts Bc-Aoc Ine. Tax BE SURF TO ATTEND! —<O—OU—FRL & SAT. I i I • fWTZ UHG ROBINSON I 1 JW BENNETT I •** -* DURYEA JgL lUK SB W 11JI1 ■ w v Bun. Mow. Tues.—D. Morgan, Ann •herigan, -One Moro Tomorrow"

Legion Bowlers Io Organize Tonight Organization of the American Legion howling league will be rompleted at a meeting at the Legion home in ths city at 8 o’clock tonight. William Tutewller, legion bowling chairman, urges all Mglpn naires interested to attend to night's meeting. There are openings for places on two or three teams In the Legion league, the chairman an nounced, and those planning to bowl in the league next winter are requested to attend this final meet Ing. All members of the Legion are eligible for the league A permanent league organiiatlon will be formed tonight, with all officers to be elected and league rules adopted. g All-American Golf Meet Opens Today Chicago. July 25 - (l?P) - Golf's richest and most ballyhooed tournaments, the circus-tinged allAmerican events for professionals, amateurs and feminine stars, opened here today with gaudyshirted George S. May as the ringmaster. May, a Chicago business engineer who constantly is at odds with the staid I'nited State* Golf Association over his methods of operations, has gained phenomenal support from links galleries with his platform of "dollar golf and has the solid backing of the players, particularly the pros, because of the lavish purses offered Prize money for three tournaments opening to day and concluding Sunday total 850,000. with the touring pro troupe shooting for a lucrative First prize money In the pro tournament is 110.500, a sum equal to the total offered In many events around the country The All-American tournaments are a dawn-to dusk venture. The first threesome teed off at 6:30 a. m. and the last will not be in until dark. In pant years, promoter May has lighted the IMih green to permit late-flnishers to complete their rounds. Byron Nelson who is making his final complete swing of the long tournament circuit, is the top favonte to win the All-Ameri-can professional event Nelson is at bin best when the stakes are highest and the All-American is strictly a blue chip event. • The big Texan has won the AllAmerican four times in five tries. He has proved his complete mastery over the Tam O'Shanter country club course and is the odd-on-choice to repeat. Nelson warmed up for the AllAmerican by winning the victory open here last week. The only outstanding star who psssed up the victory, but will duel Nelson at Tam O'Shanter is British open Sam Snead. Snead was bothered with a wrist Injury last week and skipped the victory to concentrate on the rich All-American. Harold (Jug) McSpadss of Sanford. Me., the only Hnksmen to break Nelson's domination In this event, finished second in the victory and is expected to be well up in this tournament. McSpaden recently has shown flashes of the form that made him Nelson’s chief rival three years ago. While May vowed to "toughen up" the course tor the All-Ameri-can It is unlikely he'll be able to halt new scoring records by Nelson and his sharp-shooting mates. The present course record of 65 is held Jointly by Nelson. Ralph Guldahl. Leonard Dodson. Johnny Bulla and Johnny Revolts. It was threatened repeatedly during qualifying teste and probably will fall when the "big name" stars set to work.

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Dodgers Take Over Lead In National Loop New York. July 25 — (UP) — What long range hopes the National league may hold for break Ing down the domination of th* American league appeared to rest principally with tne bright young men of the Brooklyn Dodgers today. A game lefty rookie Joe Hatten of Bancroft, lowa, pitched the Dodgers back into sole possession of first plsce last night with a six-hit, 2 to 1 victory over the Cubs at Brooklyn, who previously had beaten him two times Along with Hatten there were four other rookies in the lineup, three of whom came up so fast that they weren't even on the Dodger roster at the start of the season. The others were center fielder Dick Whitman, first baseman Ed Stevens who drove in the first Dodger run with a double; third baseman Bob Ramazottl, whose walk forced in the winning tally; and catcher Bruce Edwards, up recently from Mobile, Ala. the farm club In the southern association. Each got a hit off Cub pitchei Hank Wyse. By contrast, the Cardinals, dropping out of a tie for the lead, had no actual first year men in their lineup when they lost a 3 to 1 decision to the Giants at New York on Johnny Mize's twee run homer in the ninth. Mfty Dave Koslo pitched the Giants to a five-hit victory for his 11th success, shading Johnny Beazley, who had matched him in a tight duel until the ninth. Lyn Rowe of the Phils ran his string of scoreless innings to 20 when he topped the Pirates, 2 to 0 at Philadelphia on the margin of Jim Rabor's two run homer, It was Rowe's second straight shutout and his 10th victory. Another veteran. Bucky Walters, pitched his sixth straight victory for the Reds, beating She Braves at Boston. 2 to 1 on nine bits. He had trouble only with league leading batter Johnny Hopp who mad* a double and two singles to boost hh average to .383. The Red Sox evened their scries at Chicago with the White Sox. winning 4 to 1 behind Tex Hughson. who gained bis 11th victory Boston made 14 hits. Johnny pesky and Rudy York getting three each. Bobby Feller won his 18th game and his seventh shutout at Cleveland. holding the Athletics to three hits as he shaded luckless 1 Boi> Savage in a 1 to o duel. Hank Edward got the only run on a homer Feller struck out nine batters to run his season total to 220 Two of the league's top conver- ! nationalists. Bob Newson and Dizzy Trout let their pitching speak for them at Detroit where Newsom emerged the winner in a I to 0 Washington triumph In which he allowed only seven singles. Trout, who dropped his second straight 1 to 0 game to Washington, yielded eight bits, but two of them with an error and a sacrifice In the seventh proved to be his downfall. Spud Chandler, helped by Johnny Lindell's two-run homer in the fifth pitched the Yankees to a 5 to 3 victory at St. Louis. It was Chandler's 15th trluiuph and he held the Browns to Just five hits. Yesterday's star—Lyn Rowe of the Phlllle who pitched his second strsight shutout and ran his string of scoreless Innings to 20 with a 2 to 0 victory over the Pirates. —, o —— Reds, Cards Win tn Tourney Games The Reds downed the Dodgers and the Cards defeated the Cubs Wednesday morning In opening games in the tonraamen* of the summer recreation baseball league. Scores by innings; RHE Reds 130 00 - 4 2 1 Dodgers 000 00 « 0 2 3 J. Uillig. Myers and McConnell; Peterson, Ogg and Smith. RHE Cards 007 10 • 2 I 2 Cubs 001 01 - 2 2 2 Ladd and Busse; D. Gillig, Everett and Braun. Foreshadowing a likely was the scoring In Yesterday's qualifying of non-exempted professionals. Dave Clark, a 20 year "unknown" from Galveston, Tex. Mt the pace with a 68 and Clarence (Doc) Yockey. Kansas City, was next with a 70. The women's field is topped by the brilliant Mrs. George tßsbe Didrikson) Zaharias and the amateur event lists such outstanding starts as national Amateur champion Marvin (Bud) Ward. Frank Stranahan of Toledo, and former intercollegiate titlist Earl Steward ot Dallas, Tea.

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NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B Brooklyn 54 34 614 St. Louis 53 35 602 1 Chicago 47 39 .547 6 Cincinnati 42 43 494 Boston 42 47 472 lit New York ... 38 49 .437 15% Philadelphia ...36 47 434 15'4 Pittsburgh 34 52 .395 19 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. Boston 66 26 .717 New York 54 37 .593 11H Detroit 50 38 568 14 Washington 45 43 511 18 Cleveland 43 47 .478 22 St. Ixiuis 39 5.1 .433 26 Chicago ... 35 14 393 29H Philadelphia 26 62 .295 38 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. G.B. Indianapolis 61 40 .604 Louisville 59 4.1 .588 2,'i St. Paul 57 45 .559 Kannas City 50 51 .495 11 Milwaukee 48 51 .485 12 Minneapolis 46 52 .469 Toledo 42 61 408 20 Columbus 38 58 .369 20fc YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Cincinnati 2, Boston 1. New York 3, St. Louis 1. Brooklyn 2. Chicago 1 Philadelphia 2. Pittsburgh 0. American League New York 5. St. Louis 3. Bost on 4. Chicago 1. Cleveland 1. Philadelphia 0. Washington I. Detroit 0. American Association Indianapolia 2-8, Kjiwm City 1-3. Ix/uisville 13, .Milwaukee 6. Toledo 9. St. Paul 5. Minneapolis at Columbus, rain. ———o

Maior Leaaue Leaders Leading Batsmen National League Player 4 Club G AB R H Pct Hopp, 80. .. 76 274 50 105 .383 Muiial. St L. 88 356 71 lit .368 Walker. Brklyn 81 316 47 116 .367 Mize. N. Y. .. 86 324 59 107 .330 Gordon, N. Y. 69 229 37 71 .310 American League Player 4 Club G AB R H Pct Williams. Ho. 94 331 94 120 .363 Vernon. Wash. 82 326 55 114 .350 DiMuggio, Ho. 83 311 53 103 331 Edwards, (’lev*. 68 249 39 82 .329 Hernrdino. St.L. 88 360 46 116 .322 i Home Run* Williams, Red Sox ... 27 Greenberg. Tiger* 23 Mize, Giants .... 2<> Kuller. Yankees 19 DlMagglo. Yankees ... 17 Pitching Newhouser. Tigers .. 19-3 .864 Dickson. Cardinal* 8-2 Bts' Ferris*. Red Sox ... .. 15-4 .789 Dobson. Red Soxlo-3 T 69 Harris. Red Sox .. 13-4 .765 o Dave Rankin Named Purdue Track Coach luifayette, Ind. July 25.—(UP) — Athletic director Guy (Red) Mackey of Purdue univerolty announced today that Dave Rankin, Boilermaker aii-American football end in 1941, has been appointed head track coach. . Rankin. 27, was released from the marine corps last February after serving a* a fighter pilot in the South Pacific While at Purdue. Rankin won three major letters in football and was a crack hurdler. He was captain ot the 1941 collegiate allstar team. Recreation League Games Tomorrow Two games will be played Friday morning in the summer recreation softball league. These games were postponed earlier because of rain. The Yanks and Red Sox will meet at 9 am. followed by the White Sox and Indian*.

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Indians Take Two From Kansas City By United Prows Go 4 pitching gave mdlangpolh two vh’torie- to strength! n it* lead In the American Awtoclatluti today to two and a hilt games. The Indian.! whipped Kansan City, 2 to I and 8 to .1. last night while second-place Ixmisvllle took a single win from Milwaukee, 13 to 6. In other games, Toledo topped 81. Paul. 9 to 5. and the Mlane-upolis-Columbiki confer* was postponed because of ruin. Earl Reid hooked up with Fred Bradley in a mound duel to gain the firni game triumph for Indianapolis, Reid gave the Blues a meager allotment of two bits while the Indians made sev~n off Bradley. A five run fifth inning and three tallies in the seventh gave Ed Klleman a «evon-hlt victory in the second game. Klieman allowed <m<run until the ninth when Kansas City put acruis two more. Indianapolis made eight runs on seven hits which were supplemented by three errors by the Blues. latulaville put together 15 blows In trouncing Milwaukee. The Colonels came from behind In 'he fifth inning with six runs and scored in each of the remalaing innings to take the game easily. The slowly disintegrating St. Paul Saints fell apart, committing tour erroru to give Toledo victory The liens smashed six rune across the platter In the second inning to clinch the gam*. Home run* by Eric Tipton and Joe V.tter for the Saints were not enough to pull the game out of the fire.

Two League Games Carded Friday Night Two Decatur softball league gam<M are scheduled to Im* played at Worthman field Friday night. Legion Poet 43 and Yager Furniture wll) meet In the tinst game at 7:30 o'clock, followed by the G. E. Club and Schafer. In event rain forces postponement cf tonight's tourney final until Friday, the league games will be cancelled. 0 The firwt veterinary school established in the world began operations in Lyons, France, in 1792. Club Shows FRIDAY - 10:30 p. m. SATURDAY 9:30 & 11:30 Featuring EDNA CERNEY Dancer VINCENT YERRO Philippine Ambassador of Good Will. Admission by Membership Card Only. Wives and Sweethearts Welcome.

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o —7° ' Today's Sports Parade By Oscar Fraley Reg. 11. B. P»t- 4>l» O 0 ' New York. July 25 ti l’ l ag.'r Charley Grimm. wh«su> Chicago Cuba ate defending the National League pennant with Increasingly higher hopes, today predicted a three team light all the way to the wire with the St Loul.! Cardinals und the Brooklyn Duigers Jolly Cholly, a likeable dutchman whose attributes Include the ,’outbpaw playing of the banjo, ha* opened quite u few eyes to the width of surprise recently as his Cul»! surged toward the front. For-| tunra may ebb und flow In tb*| next few weeks but In th* sprint i down th* home stretch he ie con-| vlltced that his Cubs will be a growing factor. Two rookies and a veteran on two clubs gave up provide much of the liaals for Grimm's confidence. The rookare outfielder Marv Rickert and first basemar. Eddie Waltkua and th* Veteran is 38-year-old Billy Jurgoa. who <a"ie back to the same team for which h* started a decade ago. "Waltkua and Rickert are real finds," the wiry-haired pilot said "Eddie's marvelous work enables me to keep Phil Cavarretta In the outfield.” While Waitkus helped in that manner, Rickert has strengthened an outfield which wobbled badly when Bill tHwixh) Nicholson was| benched betause of poor hitting The outfield problem also has lessened for the stretch battle with , the return of young Yandy Pafko. A sturdy Wisconsin farm boy, . Pafko has returned to duty after , being out since Jun* 1. He suffered a sprained aukl* when he stepped <>ii a ball during batting practice and his absence was costly,

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with a *<*"l arm and eoiU'W Ihr >ugli often in the clutch. Thu real surprise of the yenr for tlm t übs, however, I* not u nsikle or on.' of the younger stars but a veteran who .<up|s»«edly hid reach ed th* end <d th* baseball trail Jlirges. Billy wai an outstanding performer with the Cubs ft in 193? through 1938 Five of those yearn, as th* t’ntis won three pennants. Billy wa.i the league's leading abort stop In fielding. Then, in 1939. Be wm rent to the New York Glanin and played with th* Polo grounds crew through last reason But even th* Giants released him last October which isn't exactly) a recommendation for any ball I player. The Brave*, struggling to fill their many gaps, picked ttltn up in December, took a hasty look In March anil also released him. Billy, tossed aside by two lowly clubs, put In a call to Grimm as Charley readied for hie pennant defense. "Okay.” Grimm said, "do you want to play or coach?" "1 can still play." Jitrgro replied "You're on.” Grimm told him, and three day* later Bill wan signed to a contract. Charley hasn't had cause yet to regret It. For JurgiM has Iteeti a steady reliable man at shortstop ae he got the cal! over two younger player*. Proving he still can play, tic performed in two straight doufor young Andy I* a fleet fielder lileheaders last weekend. ESo Grimm Is banking on thl« veteran Ironically en >ugh a native of Brooklyn and hk< two young find.! to help the Cubs to another flag. And. win. lom or draw, the way they have been coming is enough to make the rest of the league sit up and take notice. , I ■ I ■■!■! ll— ■() I— ■■■ Trade la • Good Town — Decatur

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