Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1947 — Page 8

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Detroit Mound Corps Best In Major Leagues By United Press Pitching, they say. I- *<’ percent of the game, and on that basis alone the Detroit Tigers appeared today to have the arithmetical Pdue for the 1947 American h rue pennant. They have pitching pin- by far the beat in the majors but manager Steve O'Neill's problem is to find some hitting and fielding to go with it If he does, and he thinks he will, the Tigers are going to make thing, interesting for the Ited Sox. Yankee... Indians and other aspirants. Although he would not come right out and say so, it was obvious that o Neill expects to repeat his 1945 feat winning the pennant an I the world series He knows that the pitching he has is more than onongiF to do it. and he believe* he Is going to find the other things It takes to hit the Ja'kpot at the end of baseh ill’s October rainbow. When it comes to pitchin.’. O'Neill has so much of it that he is like the old lady in a shoe and doesn't know what to do. For his big four he has lefty Hal New hoitser. who has won MfF games against 27 defeats in the last three M-a-ons; Dizzy Trout. Jhe bespectacled rigiit hander who won 62 games during the same period; Virgil Trucks, a fireball right hander; and Freddie Hutchinson who finally promises to live up to the thousands of dollars he cost the Tigers as a schoolboy. Back of them, portly Steve has a 2S year old right hander, who. he says, "can In- as good a* any of them." He is Harold White, whose 1946 record was one victory against one defeat, but this is the year that O’Neill thinks that Hal is really coming into his own. Then there are Stubby Overmire, a fair country southpaw, and rookie Arky Houtteman. a 16 game winner with Buffalo, whom O'Neill lielieves merit starting spots. His ■ce relief man will lie big Al o— — <>; — Last Time Tonight — "TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY" Robert Walker, Van Heflin. Judy Garland, June Allyson, '< Van Johnson, many more I ALSO—Shorts 9c 40c Inc. Tas I WEI). & THURS. ‘O o I OI K BIG DAYS! First Show Wed. at 6:30 Continuous Thur, from 1:30 BE SI KE TO ATTEND! O— — o L . KL-JXfIK-.. 3 Benedict Bogeaus ■ SI4S4NTS I GMtWff i mtMDT j •*» M*m > fM* amn * tsmas fimse M JWi • Mes UM> am IMM Fr 4. A Sat. — “DECEPTION" Cq.tvhq Sfwttrv--—’ M rr<>*

I B< nton. For the other three places on his 111-man hurling staff lie has some 12 candidates with Johnny Corsica Ted Cray. Kuffu* Gentry, and Ixiuis Kretlow the l>e«t looking of the lot. O'Neill feels that Walter Pierce, who came up ' as a high school sensation a couple of years ago. needs another year I of minor league seasoning. 1 "I'm only worried about first j I and second base," O'Neill declared ( He hopes it will be Eddie Mayo. ' > the holler guy of Detroit's 1945 I, champions, at second Mayo was .'out most of last season with In- ' I juries but appears to be us good pl* , as ever this spring If Mayo still is bothered by his ' bad back, the Tigers would have to depend on Ben Steiner, the for- * mer Red Sox utility man ami he ha- yet to prove that he is major league caliber. r Four men are in the battle fori the first base post Roy Cullen- j bine, a vet who doubles as an outi fielder; and three newcomers. | George Vico. Johnny McHale and Johnny Moyer. None of them will hit with ll.ink Greenberg, who ' drove in 127 runs and hit 44 homers for the Tigers list year, but any one of them can do a bet-1 ter field Job. Vico looks like a real star in the making and right

• ■ ••• ••• — " now has the inside track. The other Infield spots are adequately taken care of with George] . Kell, the best mall in his spot in the rnaJoAi last year, at third and Eddie Laki- at short Binlie Tebbets will be the litim ] her one catcher with the veteran Bob Swift and Harvey Rh’be as his relief. The outfield set-up depends on who wins the first base Job. O'Neill would like to have Cullen-1 bine in right with Dick Wakefield I In left and Hoot Evers in center . But if Cullenbine is needed at first Pat Mullin will be the other gardener. If the outfield lives up to Its hitting promise, the Tigers could i well have the power it takes to] back up their brilliant pitching' and that would be bad medicine for the other seven American] league < bibs. 0 - WOWO Achievement Dinner March 27 Firmer* of this area will be honored at the eighth annual achieveI ment award dinner given by radio station WOWO In Fort Wayne THursday. March 27 at the t’ham- . her of Commerce in that city. In- 1 chided among the winners are | Peter B. Lehman. of west of Deca , tur. Speaker for the event is Charles Flgy. director, state department of agriculture in Imnsing. Mich. I CORT w 0 — Last Time Tonight — ■ BEAUTY A. THE BANDIT" Gilbert Roland. Cisco Kid A -DANGEROUS MONEY" Sidney Tolar, Chas. Chan 9c-30c inc. Tax <> O WEI). & THURS. IM NO CUR, SIR!" HERE'S THE SECRET LIFE OF A PERSONALITY PUP...HIS ESCAPADES, HIS _ LOVES! £ ALBERTSON I / j* UM4U REED |jE.' f*lOHltin CALKINS i>yyff"! TY * i 0-0 j Fri. A Sat.—Starrett A Burnetts "Fighting Frontiersman" -0 Coming S«m — Return Hit! Gary Cooprr, -Th* Fialnsma,"." I .. _ _ _

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Cardinals Defeat Red Sox, 6 To 4 -- — m Sarasota. Fla.. March 25 —fl'Pl — Tex Hughson and Earl Johwoh were named to pitch for the Bost- ] on Red Sox today against the St. { Louis Cardinals second-string com-] . bination of Ken Burkhart. Wayne > M< la-land and Gerry Staley. The Cards were easy 6 to 4 winners over the SOU yesterday. Detroit I l.akelatid. Fla . March 25 —(UP) The Detroit Tigem today gave indications of nea ing the end of their spring training grind as Vlr|gil iFirei Trucks lieeame the first ] pitcher to go the route fur the i Bengala. Trucks, with his smoke ball at it* hottest, yenterday turned in a six-hit masterpiece to lead the Tigers to a 6 to n victory over the Buffalo Bison*. Cub* | lais Angeles. Cal. March 25 — H'Pl— The Chicago Cubs prepared today to renew their spring series with their city trethren. the' White Sox. after suffering a humilating 5 to 0 defeat by the San I Diego Padre* here yesterday. White Sox Pasadena. Cal., March 25 — (UP)- The Chicago White Sox 'made their last appearance at ! Brookside Park this year a winning line yesterday ae they tripped the j Cleveland Indians. 14 to 10 The Indians travel to Hollywood today for an engagement with the j Pacific Coast l.eague Star*. ttrown* Miami Fla. March 25 - (UP)— i Jerry Witte, one of the beet longball pitchers in the American As-; sociatlon last year, found major league pitching no rndre of a puzzle and apparently had clinched a spot with the St. Louis Browns today. -• He hit two homers off Rex Barney of the Brooklyn Ikidgers yesterday. but Brooklyn won the game in the 10th Inning. 5 to 4. Witte ba* hit four homere so far In exhibition play. Pirate* Miami. Fla.. March 25 —(UP)— . The Pittsburgh Pirates meet the I PHONE 134 ■ pECATI R . I DRY CLEANERS S 209 W. Jefferson St. £ I f»TTTW»s ********* * »* svvyrvrvg Ijajt Toiaaaon «*BH 4fc* *mb M mT* m m •* lipWrs.** Mrffy. . SmtotM M *m* uM —r*t*s. i Lmm mlmM* «M* ew—l*«* < ** * b«M .*—. ?*-.**• < h*l v cau, eno* <* warn LKM, WL* I** 1 *** 1 *

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St. Uiuis Browns today after deflating the Baltimore Oriole* of the International League yesterday. 5 to 1. ExDetroit Tiger Jimmy Bloodworth homered with the bases loaded in the ninth to break a 1 to 1 tie. o Utah Five Upsets Kentucky, 49-45 New York. March 25.—(UP)— Utah's wonderful "Blitz Boys" finally improved on the age-old tinderella story today—for they came un with a clock that refused to strike 12. It was time for the Utos to check in that golden slipper and quit playing the role of destiny's! choaen children last night, hut they liked It so well they stuck around past "midnight" and came up with the greatest of all their great basketball upsets. This time they won the game the experts said they couldn't win -this time they took on mighty Kentucky, the team the professional coaches aaid they would | Just love to have as a complete unit, and outsmarted d hl * P ro,| d southerners to win the National Invitational Basketball championship at Madison Square Garden. 49 to 45. And when they counted tired heads in the Utah dressing room In the "happy-whacky" celebra- ] tions which followed the team's seventh straight tournament up set victory since 1944. they had to sloop down to pat the brunette] thatch of little Wat Mlsaka. The Japanese kid who improved on the invention of the dynamo. For while dynamos occasionally ■top from overwork, little Wat supplied both the watts and volts to keep Utah humming. He was a defensive zealot who not only accomplished the feat of holding Kentucky’s top star. Ralph Beard. , scoreless from the floor, but he . doubled to block lanky Ken Rollins’ bath to the basket and held him to two very Inconsequential field goals. Utah, an 11-H point underdog in » the betting kept intact Its tourna ' ment record of never going into I the game as a favorite. And the Redskins from the salt flat* of I Utah mhde this one the greatest I upset of them aii by winning alI most without pressure. I i For Kentucky, if post mortem* || were in order. It might have been | a different story had not Jim Line. | the skillful southpaw one-handed || shotmaker, gone out late tn the |! last half. Line, who hit six ba*- | ket* as a substitute, put Kentucky | within striking dl*Unce twice in II the second half and when he was | retired by rule, th* Wildcat* had |l no one else to spark them. 1 ! I tdi Suter | B B CWtwr shttH Clsintn Mt«sa MB -

I in the third place ctmsolutton I game. North Carolina state upset West Virginia. 64 to 52. __Z 4 — , Extra Fieldhouse Play Aided Bears Indianapolis. March 25 (I l’» Shelbvvflle’s surprise victory in the 37th annual Indiana high schmd ha-kethall tournament provided an Interesting question today. It wae: "Does it give too much of aa advantage to the central Indiana semi-final winner when both the semi-final and the four team finals are held on the Butler fieldhouse court?" The plan was launched two year* ago by IHSAA commissioner L V. Phiiliß*, The idea was to allow more fans to watch the semi final in the Indianapolis area. Some 10.000 more of them were aide to each year. But. the first time the plan was tried. Anderson's Indians, sevengame losers during the regular season, roared through the Butler semi-final with a new "sweet sixteen" record of 67 points in one game* and then racked up 67 more the following Saturday in the title game agjinst Fort Wayne Central. Before the c hange. only one central Indiana semi-final winner went on to win the state title. That was Anderson in 1937. Ijist Saturday, coach Frank Barnes' Golden Bears, who finished the season in 20th place in the United Press statewide- rankings, connected on almost one out of every two field goal attempts In blasting previously undefeated Terre Haute Garfield, 68-SS, for the title. Taking nothing away from Anderson of 1945-46 and Shelbyville of 1946-47—for they both were outstanding in the four-team finals, but it does seem odd that both should have lost during the season to the team* they eventually beat for the title. Or doe* It? Central beat Anderson by 27 points during the 1945-46 season Garfield whipped Shelley by eight points this time. Before Anderson racked up those 67 points in 1945, only two other team* -In the tourney’* long history ever had scored 50 or more points in the final game got 51 back in All and Frank

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fori hit "• ,MC - Shelby hit 30 out of 63 from the field against Garfield last week and that .476 shooHng aver age was exceeded only once in the final game Martinsville hatted 688 against Greencastle In the I 1933 title affair, bul tried onlyJ . j Shots and made H> of them while ; obviously waiting for a <•«”• Khot" before trying It. Central managed 51 points against Anderson in . enough points to have won all but one previous state champion-hip game Garfield did the- same last Saturday with a 58 point effort. Gould it be that Anderson and Shelbyville came through c against teams which were rated much bet ter than them during the season) because they were playing their fourth game on the Butler court .nd had the range? Or. did coach Charley Cummings of Anderson and coach Barnes.have the right combination all along and th* boys Just hit their peak in those title affairs? 0 MAJOR LEAGUE Burke Standard won three from Babcock Standard: Moose won two from Smith Bros.; Habegger won two from State Gardens; West End Restaurant won two from Foley; Koeneman Hardware won two from Burk Elevator. High games: McConnell 211. R. Ladd 209. Reinking 2<TR. M Ladd 207 Mies 201. Hilty 200. MINOR LEAGUE Ahr’s Market won three from Kraft Foods; McMillen won three from Central Soya; Bud’* Place won three from Babcock (forfeit); Macklin won three from Gamble's. Berry 202-203. J. Ahr 209, Shoaf 201. Schultz 209. MERCHANTS LEAGUE Kraft No. 1 ’ won three from Kraft No. 2; Brant Motor won two from Engle & Kies*; Decatur Industries won two from Schafer; Riverview won two from Three Kings Tavern. High games: L Reef 234, Delx>ng 206. Koeneman 205. Wendel 202, Sluaser 216. RURAL LEAGUE Hi Ho Inn won three from Moellering; Steury Abbatoir won three from Palace Bar; White Spot Case won three from Red Rock Cola; West End Texaco won three from Werilng Insurance.

High sert*s: T. Ilobro<-k (Jo»,| (211-192 293). High gime*. Nahrwold 211. j Myers 245, R. Buuck 200. E. Gall- 1 meyer 211. J- Nahrwold 200. 0 Legion Team Loses In Tournament Tilt The ba-kethal! team of Adams' Post 43. American legion, was < liminated from the annual gold medal tournament at Van Wert. O. Monday night. Post 43 lost a tough overtime battle to Wapakoneta, 57 to 51 o Holy Cross, Oklahoma Will Battle Tonight ♦ New York. March 25 - (UP)— Holy Cross and Oklahoma. *o evenly matched that even the expertcan't choose a favorit.*, meet tonight for the National Collegiate A. A basketbail championship at Madison Square Garden, ending the ■ oliege session. # Only chance for extension of the season would lie a game between tonight's winner and invitation champion Utah, but no ruch match has Peen announced, and Thursday is the only available night in [the garden PRO BASKETBALL National Playoff* Rochester 62, Syracuse 57. Toledo 56. Fort Wayne 46. 0 Corn Futures Soar To 27-Year Highs Chicago. March 25—(UP)- The price of all corn futures soared to new 27-year highs today on the Chicago board of trade. Prlcw were at the highest levels since the 1919-20 season after World War I. The high prices were attributed to the prospect for continued government purchase of corn for oversea* shipment o Nine-Yeor-Old Boy . Is Killed By Train Greenfield. Ind. March 25 — (UP)— Service* today were planned for Larry Roger*. ». who was killed when he dashed in front of a New York Central freight train at nearby Maxwell. The parent*. Mr. and Mr*. Howard Rogers, and two slstera survive.

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