Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1947 — Page 6

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Reynolds Hurls Two-Hit Win For Yankees New York, May 24 (UP)- A near player revolt appeared today to be the tonic the New York Yan kees needed Ever since president l.arry MacPhall cracked down on ala of hla atar playera. the Yankees have not only been winning but their pitchers haw been turning In shutouts. Xhe player unrest,* which had been noticeable all season. reach* ed Ita climax Tueaday when MacPhall fined outfieldera Joe DlMaggio, Charley Keller and Johnny Lindell, catcher Aaron Robinson, third haaeman Billy Johnson and pitcher Don Johnson stuns ranging from |lo<r down to 125 for failure to participate in the club's promotional activities. It reached a point where in a clubhouse meeting Wednesday some players began talking strike, but DiMaggio and Keller were reported to have talked them out of It. Then with DiMaggio and Keller playing key roles, the Yankees went out that night and blanked Hal Newhouser and the Detroit Tigers 5 to 0 behind rookie Frank Shea. Then yesterday when tension still was high despite a secret club-house meeting which manager Bucky Harris held with the players. they went out and shut out the Boston Red Sox 9 to 0 as Allie Reynolds turned in a two-hit masterpiece. Harris refused to disclose what, the clubhouse meeting was about hut he confirmed the fact that the fines had been levied The Yankees looked anything but disgruntled as they went to work on the champion Red Sox With Keller leading the attack with his ninth home run of the season, the Yankees sewed up the game with a four run attack off starter Harry Dorlsh, who suffered his second defeat against four victories in the fifth inning. Both hits off Reynolds were flukey ones. Bill Goodman, hitting for Dorlsh in the sixth, got a looping hat handle single to center and Birdie Tebbets. catching tjis first game for the Red Sox, was credited with a single in the eighth when his ordinary ground ball took a bad hop and struck third baseman Bobby Brown in th*

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chest. It was Reynolds’ second two-hitter against the Red Sox this season and his fourth victory against three defeats. The defeat, coupled with Detroit’s 5 to 2 victory over Chicago, dropped the Red Sox a game and a half behind the league leading Tigers. Al Benton, who had been used exclusively in relief roles, made his first start of the season a winning one. limiting the Sox to seven hits, one of them a home run by Hob Kennedy. The Philadelphia Athletics moved up to tie the Yankees and the White Sox for fourth place by winning a night game from the Washington Senators. K to I. Bill Marchildon allowed the Senators only three hits while Chet Laaba led the As attack with a threerun homer in the fourth. . The St. Ixtuls Browns wont 12 innings at night to beat the Cleveland Indians, 5 to 3. turning the trick on a single hy Bob Dillinger, a double l>y Paul Lehner, and a squeexe hunt by Jeff Heath. Walt Judnich homered for the Browns and Ed Robinson for the Tribe. In the National league, the New York Giants took over first place by seven percentage points by dumping the Boston Braves, 8 to 1. Johnny Mixe’s llth homer of the season, coming with the bases loaded in the third inning, was the payoff blow as righthander l.arry Jansen held the Braves in check with six hits. In a night game, the Brooklyn Dodgers took advantage of Phillie errors of omission and commission to beat Philadelphia, 5 to 4. The Dodgers came from behind to score the tying and winning runs in the seventh inning without making a hit. using instead three walks, a foneout and two bunts that pitcher Dutch Leonard fielded poorly. Relief pitcher Rex Barney was the winning pitcher. The St. Ixniis Cardinals got six hit pitching from George Munger and shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates. 2 to 0. The Cards scored both their runs In the first inning on a walk to George Kurowski. Enos Slaughter’s single, ami Erv Dusak's double. Cincinnati at Chicago was rain ed out. Yesterday’s star— Pitcher Allie Reynolds of the New York Yankees who yielded only two scratch hits as he shut out the Boston Red Sox. fl to 0. (f — If there were no atmosphere, the average temgerature over the earth's surface would be about IK degrees Fahrenheit instead of the observed fih degrees, according to ■ the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Big Name Drivers Race At Speedway Indianapolis, May 24 (CP)— With the big 500-mlle race only six days off, the Indianapolis motor I speedway turned into a beehive of I confused activity todnv. Racing cars owned by the Ameri.can society of professional auto racing members rolled onto the grounds hy the hour. ASPAR "big name" drivers were looking for cars to drive. The 35 original entrants of cars were getting writer's cramp signing conditional waivers allowing ASPAR cars in the famed classic. Mechanic's tuned a doxen cars for qualification attempts today and Sunday. The speedway roared to life yesterday afternoon after Ralph Hepburn. president of ASPAR announced that a majority of bls members had approved the compromise reached Tuesday lie* ween the speedway management and ASPAR negotiators. By dusk, three of the* fastest ASPAR cars were stabled in speed way garages and Rex Mays, the 1941 national auto racing champ, eald that his Bowe* Sealfast special was in a downtown garage "ready to go.'* A minor technicality In the signing of waivers appeared likely to keep ASPAR cars out of today's qualifying runs. But only Joe Chitwood and Mays appeared ready, anyway Chitwood and owner Fred Peters brought the first ASPAR car to the track the same four-cylinder jolt that finished fifth last year and the one Mauri Rcwe won the pole with back in 1941 Then Joe Thorne, millionaire west coast sportsman, arrived with the six-cylinder iacer that the late George Robson piloted to victory here last May. Irvin Wolfe of Tulsa, Okla., came In a little later with the four-cylinder Wolfe special that Wilbur Shaw won with in 1937. Frank Wcmrne brought it in eighth last year. Thorne said he would drive but Wearne, although at the track, was not signed for the Wolfe job. o Enter Decatur Puppy In Fort Wayne Show Gretchen Von Dunhelm, Doberman Pinscher, owned by Jack Teeplo of this city, which won first place in the puppy bitch clash at the Anderson dog show last Sunday, will be entered in the 14th an|ual all breed charity dog show at Fort Wayne on June 1. The dog also won Its first leg ! toward an AKC "CD" rating and is out of Duchess, widely known dog owned by Custer Dunifon, of - the Foit Wayne police, which has i been used in a number of safety exhibitions.

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Legion Nine Plays Fort Wayne Moose In League Game Sunday The Decatur American Legion baseball teain will meet the Fort Wayne Moose nine in a Federation league game Sunday afternoon at Worthman field, with the tilt starting at 2 o'clock. Regular league admission price* of 50 and 25 cents will be charged. Both teams won their initial league games two weeks ago. Decatur walloping International Harvester. 17 to 2. and the Moose outslugglng VFW, 15 to 7. Both teams were idle last week because* of the continued heavy rainfall. o Protests Ousting Os Deputy Clerks Indianapolis, May 24 —(UP) — U. S. district attorney B. Howard Caughran today protested a congressional move eliminating deputy

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clerks' offices at two Indiana federal court local ions. Caughran crltkixed congress for cutting an appropriation bill to the (mint that it would eliminate the clerks' offices at New Albany and Tern* Haute. He said that New Albany had had a court clerk more than 100 years. The house recently passed the bill which would reduce the Hoosier court staffs. _ o Rites Held Friday For Green Infant Graveside services were held Friday afternoon at the Decatur cemetery for the infant son of E. G. and Wanda Brunner-Green, of Line street, stillborn at t the Adams county memorial hospital earlier yesterday Surviving in addition to the parents are a sister, Sandra, and the grandfather. Oren Brunner of Decatur. The services were conducted by the Zwlck funeral home, with the Rev. Carey R. Moser officiating. Trade la a G«hhl Taw a— »eras r

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| baseball R»ULTS|

National League W L Pct. G.B New York 16 H **M Chicago 17 12 -sKfi Brooklyn 16 13 .552 1 Boston 16 14 .533 Hi Pittsburgh 13 13 .500 214 Philadelphia 15 17 .469 314 Cincinnati 13 18 .419 5 St. Ixtuls 11 19 367 6's American League W L Pct. G.B Detroit 18 11 .621 Boston 1" >3 .567 114 Cleveland 13 11 .542 214 New York ... 14 14 .500 344 Philadelphia 15 15 .500 314 Chicago 16 16 .500 3>4 Washington 11 16 .407 6 St. Louis 11 19 -367 714 American Association W L Pct. G.B. Kansas City 17 11 .607 Toledo 17 12 .586 14 Columbus 15 15 .MB 3 Milwaukee 13 13 .500 3 Louisville 16 17 .485 314 St Paul 16 IB .471 4 Indianapolis 15 18 .455 414 Minneapolis 14 19 .424 544 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League New York 8, Boston 1. Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 4. St. Louis 2. Pittsburgh 0. Cincinnati at Chicago, rain. American League New York 9, Boston 0. Detroit 5, Chicago 2. Philadelphia 8. Washington 1. St. tauls 5. Cleveland 3 (12 innings). American Association Milwaukee 5-4. .Minneapolis 22. Columbus 8. IxmisviHe 7. St. Paul 7. Kansas City 5. Toledo 3*l, Indianapolis 2-6. 0

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OFF for a vacation In her native France, Actress Simone Simone waves a farewell from the liner 8. S. America as it sails from New York. f/nternationa/j a O' » ■ Rape Charge Filed On Corunna Youth Fort Wayne. Ind., May 24 — (UP)-- Rodney Harding, 22, Corunna, Ind., was held today on a charge of raping a 14-year-old expectant mother. Mrs. Raymond Staley, charged that Harding hitched a ride in her husband’s car, drew a gun and forced her 16 year-old husband to climb Into'the car trunk. He then stopped on a lonely country road and raped her, she charged. MARSHALL TO NAME 14'oetlawed from I’aar 1) Greek-Turkish aid program. Greece will get 2306.000.000, Turkey |IOO,000.000. Under congressional direction. the pacts must be signed by the two countries before any assistance can be dispatched to them.

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