Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1946 — Page 6

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Phillies May Blast Dodger Pennant Hopes New York, Aug. 31. - (I !•>—ln years gone by everybody called them the "futile I’hilllea." and with ji'iod reason, but times have changed and today Ben Chapman’s crew , I ok«*d more like the "forbidding Phillies" to pennant hopes of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Phils figu e luigely in the Dodger plans for the National league pennant. Leo Durocher, his squad and every citizen of Brook lyn expects the Dodge ra to win the flag by knocking off eastern teams in the eaet. and have virtually marked up an won the nix remaining games with the Phlla. They have some basin for thia low ultimate of the danger of the Phiin. In 15 game* no tar. the boys from Philadelphia have shown eonaide ruble brotherly love for the Bunin, losing 12 in a row 11 Brooklyn before coming out of rigor mortis to win three. However, the Phils are a better team than that record shown, and their performance last night as, they hammered out three home runs to beat the Giants, 4 to 3, boded no good for the Dodgeia. Jim Tabor, Johnny Wyrostek and Del Ennis got the four-baggers, backing a seven-hit pitching job by Charley Schanz. The Dodgers have had almost no home run. punch- and in some cases no punch at all—with which to combat the Phils. In the matter of spirit, the* Phils are even with Brooklyn. Chapman, like Duroc her. Is an aggressive manager, demanding the beat of bls players The Phil-Giant game was the only National League activity yesterday. In th« only American U-ague action, the Boston Hed Sox lopped the : Philadelphia Athletics twice, 6 to ti and 6 to t. The victories gave the Sox a | 13-H game lead, and they have 24 games left to play. Tex Hughson scattered four singles m lie won the opener, his fifth shutout and 15th victory agaiiwt 10 losses. A five-run fifth inning sewed up the game. Jim Bagb missed a seven-bit shut-out in the nightcap, when hie support wobbled in the second inning and the A’s got two runs. Rudy York homered for Boston, In the second inning, and the Sox scored two in the sixth, two In the seventh and one in the eighth to win easily. Ted Williams got only one hit in six tries, but Dorn DiMaggio came up with four-for-elght in the two games Other teams were traveling. 0 Portable Scrub Pail Instead of lifting or shoving your scrub pail around, take a piece of board large enough to hold pail Bore holes near corners, insert casters. Now the pail will move around easily and smoothly, —— -o Trade in a vood Town - Decatu- , - ■ '

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Musial And Vernon Lead Major Hitters New York. Aug. 31 (UP) — Stun Musial of St Louis, batting 371, und Washington’s Jim Vernon. hitting .342. led nil major league batters today and it appear rd that those two first haxemen might lake the 1940 National and American bailing championship* unless such outfielders ns Brook- , lyn x Dixie Walker and Boston s ' Ted Williams make a September spurt. • Musial. sparking the Cardinal |H*'inunt push from (he No. 3 position in the St. IxiuL lineup, has collected 47 bits In his lust 112 times at hat His 184 hits, 99 runs scored. 39 twolmse hits and 14 triples are also top figures In Na tlonal stat Isles. Vernon has led the American race since the last week In Muy. except for a two-day period In mld-July when Williams gained a ont point edge. Johhnny Peaky of Boston and his teammate Williams, standing 2-3 in the American race, were one and two points, respectively, doubletleader with the Phlladelpbehind Vernon before yesterday's i hia Athletics, but both Red Boxers . ended the afternoon with a .338 average. Dorn Di Maggio, however, moved from a fourth-place tie to fourth position and upped his average to .328 by getting four hits In eight times at bat agahist the A’s. Luke Appling of the Chicago White* Sox, hitting .325. was idle and DlMaggio's three-point jump left him In fifth position. Johnny Hopp ot the Boston Braves and Dixie Walker of Brooklyn w<ere .Mu*lai's closest rival* in the National. Hopp, hitting .364. was maintaining a steady pace. His average was only two points under the mark he posted two weeks ago, but Walker's .344 wax 18 points leas I than his July 16 average. Johnny Mize of the Giants was still idle with an injured hand ; but his .339 percentage kept him In fourth place while Phil Cuvarretta of Chicago and Hid Gordon of the Giants, (hi th hitting .306. were tied for fifth position in the National's big five. Significantly, the Cardinals (tacked up their newly-won first place honors in the National by taking over the loop's fielding honors and by raising their club batting average to a first-place tie with Brooklyn. Both the Cardinals andj the Dodgers were batting .263 a< a team The Cardinal* were fielding at a .979 pace, two points better than last-place tie with Pittsburgh in the Chicago Cubs, but Brooklyn s .970 percentage put them In a club fielding.

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NATIONAL league W. L. Pct. G.B. St. Louto 78 47 .624 Brooklyn 75 49 .665 2% Chicago 68 51 .557 8% Boston 62 59 .512 14 Cincinnati 55 69 .444 22% | Philadelphia 53 69 .434 23% New York 52 72 .419 25% Pittsburgh 47 71 .398 27% AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct GB. Boston 90 40 .692 New York 75 52 .591 13% Detroit 70 53 .569 16% Washington 62 61 .492 26 Cleveland 67 70 .449 31% Chicago 67 70 .449 31% Bt. Louis S 3 71 .427 34 Philadelphia 42 86 .328 47 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pet. G.B. Louisville 85 56 .603 ’ndianspolla 84 68 .692 1% U. Paul 75 <8 .524 11 , Milwaukee 69 71 .493 15% . Minneapolis 70 73 .490 16 Toledo 64 78 .451 21% Kauuss City 63 78 .447 23 Columbus 57 85 .401 28% » YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Philadelphia 4. New York 3. Only games -scheduled American League Boston 6-6, Philadelphia 0-2. American Association Minneapolis 7, Bt. Paul 3. Only game scheduled. 0 Willshire Mon In National Finals Friendship. Ind., Aug. 31—(UP) A (ormer national champion from Willshire, O-. led the way today into the finals of the national muule loading rifle association shoot. L. M. Wolfe, three-time national ; tltllat. had a score of M for 200 yards distance as the meet moved into Ms third day. Wolfe shot , wife a gun he made himself.

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Maior Leaaup Leaders Leading Batsmen National League Player A Clvb G AB R H Pct Musial. Ht. L. 125 496 99 184 .371 Hopp. Ro. . 101 346 61 126 364 Walker. Bklyn 117 450 61 155 .344 Mize. N. Y. 100 375 70 127 339 Gordon. N. Y. 106 .363 5! 112 .309 American League Player A Club G AB R H Pct Vernon. Wash. 120 474 73 162 .342 Pesky. 80. . 131 536 110181 .338

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Indiana Univmlty’s 1946 football poster to making ga appearance these days and pictured on it are these •eturning Hoosiers stars from last year's Big Nine rhampionship team. They will form the nucleus for Indiana's 194* gridiron machine. In the front row, toft to right titer are Joe BowinsU. of East Chicago;

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williams, 80. 129 450 130 152 338 I DlMagglo. 80. 120 454 76 149 .328 Appling. Chi. 122 472 52 153.3251 Home Runs Williams. Red Hox 34 j Greenberg, Tigers ... 28; Keller, Yankees .. .... 251 DlMagglo. Yankees * Mize. Giants 22 Pitching Ferris. Red Ht>x .... 23 4 852 Newhouser. Tigers .. 22 6 .786 lllgbe. Dodgers 13 4 .765 Dickson, Cardinals 12 4 .7501 Gumpert. Yankees .. . 9 3 .750

Shroyer Lake Beach To Close For Season The beach at Shroyer lake will ) he closed for the season Monday, {according tv an announcement by Mr. and Mrw. Hen Shroyer. The boats will be available for fishing and boating and the picnic grounds will remain open as long a* the weather permits. I Trade In a Good Town — Decatar

John Cannady, of Owensboro. Ky.; Frank CtoUi. o( Campbell. 0.. and Johnny Kckoa. of Gary. Standing, left to right, they are Bob Rsvensberg. Bellevue, Ky; Capt. Howard Brown, of Dayton, O: Russell Deal, of Bicknell, and Pete Pihos. of Chicago. Indiana opens its campaign Sept. 31 at Bloomington against the revitalized Cincinnati Bearcats.

Argument Over Shoes Ends In Man's Death Friend Os Murdered Mon Under Arrest Indianapolis, Ind. Aug- 31.tl'l’l U‘> Cannon. 50, was charged today with th- fatal stabbing of a friend |n an Indianapolis hotel room during an argument that started over a pair of shoes. The victim. Melton Hansberry. 4<>, Beloit. Wls.. died of two knife wounds In the chest a few mlnutro before police arrived a* 'he hotel in response Io a mysterious phone call. D-niiis E. Mndis. J.-.. N. Gar-i-etsvllle, 0.. Cannon’s brother-in-law. witnessed tYtc slaying. -Ryan and Cannon had tieen drinking pretty heavily all evening and I gue* both of them were pretty drunk when the fight started,'' Landis told police. (Police detective C. M. (lavender, who Investigated the killing said, that llaiwberry also had been knawn as James Tully Ryan. He had a social security card bearing that name. Cavender said, but a telephone check with relatives at West Milwaukee. WM. revealed that Hansberry was his teal name. No reason for the alias was given, Cav-nder said .) Landis, who was arrested as he attempted to hitch-hike from the city yesterday, told police Cannon had told him to get out of town. "After he saw what had happened. Leo (old me I’d better get out of there. He oald it was none ot my affair and he didn't want me involved In it,” Undis said. He said he wasn't altogether certain how (he stabbing happened 'They got Into this argument over a pah of shoe* They started scuffling and the first thing I knew Ryan was sitting on the bed with a jack knife handle sticking out of til** chest. I ”1 pulled the knife out and threw It in the hathnwm, then Uo told me I better leave, so I did.” he said. Cavender said the room was in disarray when police arrived. "You could see there had been a big fight In there,” he said. The table and chains were knocked over. There were several empty whiskey Imttles on the floor. “But we didn't find any blood in the room. All we found was a bloodstained knife In the bathroom," he said. Cavender eaid that Cannon was In the room when hr and his partner, detective Fred Whisler ar--1 rived. Cannon was in charge of a vending concession for the Jacob Brothers concessions, Cavender said. He had hired Hansberry and Landis us vendors in u food concwsion at the Indiana State Fair. — Land-Grant College The land ■ grant college 1* so named from the Morrill l»w of con- . gress. approved by Abraham Lincoln in 1862.

O O Today's Sports Parade i By Bill Dickey Manager, New York Yankees (Reg. U. 8. Pat. Off.) O o (Editor's note — Guest columnists will take over today's sport parade while Oscar Fraley is vacationing.) Washington, Aug. 31 — (UP) — While the New York Yankees haven't done as well as I had expected in this 1946 pennant race, yet I cannot say that I am bitterly disappointed with the results obtained thus far. You must rememlter that we are still fighting for first place even though it's going to be a tough job — if not an Impossible one - to bridge the gap that separates us from the first-place Boston Red Sox. As the standing indicates, they are out there with a commanding lead. But where there's life, there's hope — and my players are still full of life — and hope. lest It be forgotten, we're still In second place and intend to stay there if we cannot do any better. And If we finish second to those rampaging Red Sox. I wouldn’t exactly call It a particularly bad season. Unfortunately for us the Sox got off to a flying start, when they ran* up a commanding lead everybody waited for the big crack. They're still waiting. A team like that is hard to beat and more power to them, although I think they have plenty cf the latter now. Many of the sport writers have asked toe to furnish the answer to the perplexing question: has the war taken anything out of the players? And without going Into a discussion of individual players, but speaking generally. I would say that It has — in many cases a lot. But 1 am not going to be unduly pessimistic about the exservice men on our roster who have not come up to general expectations. Taking the case of Joe DiMaggio as an example, I would say right now that I expect him to bo the real Di Maggio when the 1947 seaton rolls around. He Is Just beginning to draw a bead on the

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American Uagite pitchers and were It not for Injuries and the handicap of getting off to a had start, which naturally gets a guy down, he doubtless would hate had a much better *ea*on. As for the much publicized re-j port* as to our re<ons.tructi>n l>lans for 1947. there Is little I can say at this time. Naturally, there will be a few changes here and there, but II is still too early fnr : me to honestly state just what our pla» R are. President Urry Mii< Whsil would like to have a pennant winner next season. Ho would 1. We will certainly get together and shape our plans with that goal In view when the time comes. We have quite a few young lads down In our farm clubs await ing the call to make a bld for imsltions in the Yankee lineup. There’s a pretty good infielder by the name of Bobby Brown, and two young pitcher* coining up from Newark. Brown has a lot of ability and the pitchers Frank Hiller and Johnny Moore, both right handers, have been up before and may be ready no for a real bid in big time. From Kansas City we expert pitcher* Karl Drews and Al Lyons, two mighty good righthanders. Drews and Lyons were with us for a short time before and I think hoth are about ready to do some first-rate pitching for us next season. Os course, their work in the spring training camp will decide that. Other bright prospects are Infielder Joe Bockinan. outfielder Hal Douglas, and catcher Bill Drescher, all from Kansas City.

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