Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1947 — Page 6

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Americans Win All-Star Game From National Chicago, July 9 (I'Pt - Joej Cronin, the bulging manager of the Ronton Red Box. ntiwxl vindicated today. Cronin's pennant winning club' lout the world series last year to Eddie Dyer and hi* St Louis Card! nals amid muttered aside* of “poor managing." But he redeemed hl* baneball reputation yesterday by directing the American league to a 2 to 1 victory over Dyer and the National league in the all ntar baseball game The Americans won the game on Robby Itoerr's smart base running and a pair of successful pinch hitters. but Cronin could claim credit too. for he Inserted the pinch hitters, and he stood by his guns In switching pitchers in midstream The decision on pitchers came} in the last half of the eighth with the American league team ahead Walter Masterson of Washington was on the mound for the Americans and there were two out and one man on base. Cronin sent in Joe Page of the Yankees to relieve the Senator star. The next man up. big Johnny Mize of the Giants, already credited with a home run off Prank Shea, another Yankee hurler, singled to right and Willard Marshall, on base, advanced to third. Boston's Phil Masi went in to run for Mize. The crowd started griping about Cronin. ‘Poor judgment." the undertones said. Rut Page wax equal to the task, and Enos Slaughter, one of the same cards which clubbed Cronin's crew into submission in the IfMfi world serrles. wasn't. He grounded to lx>u Boudreau, the Cleveland manager who played short for the Americans, and the home team National leaguers went scoreless In the eighth. Page came through for Cronin again in the ninth, and he sent the Nationals back to their dugout and the clubhouse, losers again for the loth time in the 14 games in which the two league* have matched their best. Cronin was on the spot. If his team lost he was open to accusations of failure to brief his pitcher* on the rival batsmen. There were complaints that Cronin'* club wasn't playing to win: that ( ronin

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was more Interested in overworking the eight players from the league-leading New York Yankees. It didn’t work that way The Nationals scored first when Mize, a veteran of the circuit, smashed a home run into the sixth row of the right field bleacher* in the fourth. It was a slider pitch by Yankee rookie Shea which Mize clubbed out of the park, and It wasn't enough. , The American leaghers were . still in the game, but it wasn't until I the sixth that Cronin sent in his first pinch hitter, aging Uike , Appling, the shortstop of the Chi- , . ago White Sox Luke bashed a single into left, and went to third when Ted Williams made his sec . ond hit. a single deep to right on a . hit and run play. Joe DlMuggio of ! the Yank* was next at the plate and. although he hit into a double play, he sent Appling home with the tying score. A deadlock was all the Americans needed One inning later the bombshell came Johnny Sain of Billy Southworth’s Boston Braves was on the mound, and he put out George MtQtiinn of the Yank*. But Bobby Doerr, another Boston player. wax too much, he singled to left and on Sain’s next pitch stole second. Doerr left the pitchgr alone then, for one pitch. On the next he t<»ok a lengthy lead off second, danced and pranced, and watched poor John throw the ball wide into center field. There was plenty of time for him to romp to third. Stan Spence went in to hit for } Shea and the Senator outfielder , smashed a single to right a* Doerr came home with time to spare. For Cronin, it was astute manag- , Ing: for Dyer and his National leaguers It was tough luck. The game drew 41.123 paid cut- , tomers, nearly 2.000 under expectations. and contributed 1105,314.90 to the players' pension fund. It wax the lowest score ever marked up in the annual inter-league contest, one run under the two 3 to 1 , victories scored hy the Americans ' in 1939 and 1942. i ®- Legion Team Wallops 1 Roanoke Last Night 1 Sparked ’by two home runs by Red Schultz, the second with the bases loaded, the Decatur Legion ' softball team walloped Roanoke, 11 to 2, in a Suburban league game at Roanoke Tuesday night. The Legion made 10 hits and one error. Roanoke four hits and three errors. Batteries: Decatur. Leakey and M. Ladd; Roanoke, Brunkhart and R. Swing NOTICE My shop will be closed July 14 to July 28. Brush wilier Tailor Shop

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A SELL-OUT crow lof 41,123 rabid fans watch the American League team win it* 10th game o e 14 played thus far in the annual All Star baseball classic. at Wrigley Field. Chicago, by a score of . to-1 Above. Ted Williams of Boston heads for first on a single off the pitching of him World Series Nemesis. Harry Bre< heen of the Curd*. Luke Appling of the White Sox. who pinch hit a single, can be seen scampering to third On the next play, the Yankees' Joe DiMaggio hit into a double play during which Appling scored, to tie the count. Johnny Mize of the Giants made the Nationals only run with a homer. ___ — ___

Bobby Locke Wins I All-American Meet Chicago, July 9. (t’P) Bobby Locke today had an extra 17,000 and a fifth tournament golf championship to carry with him when he returns to the South African Veldt where he learned to swing a club. Ixrcke won the All American golf tournament yesterday hy knocking off Ed (Porky! till ver. fl up. in the 38 hole play off resulting from their regular play tie. Those six extra times he had to swing his club cost Porky exactly 13,866 50. He collected >3.333.50 for second place. Ollvor and laicke each ticked off 276 strikes during the regulation 72-hole contest. During the first IS holes of their play-off. Locke took a three stroke lead. When they went into their final round yesterday Oliver got into trouble quick. On his second shot of the deuce hole he hit a spectator. deflecting the ball deep into the rough. His next shot dropped into the creek directly in front of the green and he hided out with a bogey fl while Locke came up with a par 5. Oliver acknowledged after the match that he was unnervt-d by the shot that hit the spectator. He was off form until Locket got into trouble on the ninth. By then it was just about too late The win was Locke's fifth of I the nine tournaments he has played since he invaded the American fairways 14 weeks ago It placed him in second place among the top American money winners, just >2OO shy of Ben Hogan's >16,567 winnings. It shoved Jimmy Demaret of Ojol, Cal., into third pjjqi ojut ‘|U3 ‘ptfo jo pumii saqei 0 Disorder of farm equipment 4* the greatest single cause of farm accidents. a ATTENTION ELKS Regular Meeting Thurs. July 10 - - 8 p. m. All members are urged to be present. * 11

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National League W L Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 42 31 .575 Boston 40 31 .563 1 New York 38 30 .559 1% St. Louis 37 35 .514 444 Chicago 36 36 .500 5% Cincinnati 37 38 .493 6 Philadelphia 30 44 .405 1244 Pittsburgh 28 43 .394 13 American League W L Pct. G.B. New York 47 26 .644 Detroit 37 32 .536 8 Boston 38 33 .535 8 Philadelphia 36 36 .500 10% Cleveland 31 32 .492 11 Chicago 35 39 .473 12% Washington 30 38 .441 1444 St. Ixtuls ......... 25 43 .368 1944 American Association W. L. Pct. G.B. Kansas City 47 29 .618 .. Louisville 17 38 .553 44i Milwaukee .. |3 39 .524 7 Indianapolis 42 43 .494 9% Toledo 39 44 .470 11% Minneapolis . ..40 47 .460 12% Columbia 38 46 .452 13 St. Paul 37 47 .440 14 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League N<> games scheduled. American League No games scheduled. American Association Indianapolis 4-3, Kansas City 2-5. St. Paul 4, Toledo 1. Minneapolis 2, Columbus 0. Milwaukee 3. Louisville 0. o ——— — Winchester Races To Be Held Sunday Winchester, Ind.. July 9—A full field of at least 20 cars und drivers will be on hand for the mid-season, A.A.A. sanctioned speed program set for the world's record holding Funk's Speedway here Sunday. Pre-race favorites to challenge dQ’lfcj. Take a trip—have some fun Let nothing go wrong. Let us check your car—so Your relatives can go along. GAY’S MOBIL SERVICE 13 & Monroe Phone 318 Don't Delay—See GAY todayl

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Decatur Newsboys Swamp Portland — I The Journal-Gazette Newshoys blasted the Indianapolis News newsboy* at Portland Tuesday afternoon In hoth ends of a doubleheader. The winners exploded with 16 hits to cop the opener. 18-10. with J. Petrie and G. Bair forming the victorious battery. Bair, and Schulte each pounded out two homers, aided by the big bats of D. Smith, D. Mills. N. Kohne, G. Zlner and Petrie. In the nightcap the Journal boys slammed out 13 hits to win going away, 16-8. While Petrie was holding the losers to five hits. Mills hammered out two homer*. Bair and Smith contributed to the stick power. The two victories pile up the Journal boys win column to six against no defeats. Summaries: H R E Journal 330 11 (10)x—16 18 5 Indianapolis 130 14 1 0-10 10 2 H R E Journal 331 201 8-13 16 4 Indianapolis 005 003 0— 5 8 3 0 Q O I Today's Sport Parade | By Oscar Fraley (Reg. U. 8. Pat. Off.) O O New York. July 9?—(UP)—For a fellow who twice was resurrected from baseball's boneyard, the American League will tell you today that one John Robert Mize, a i red-faced Giant from Georgia, is a prdtty fair country ball player. John, a quiet, easy going citizen, was one of the defeated National leaguers in the all-star game but it's six. two and even that any American League outfit would be only too happy to invite him into its dressing room. For Mize, doing his talking with a bat as big as a bull Addle, put the American

League (luggers to shame. Ht**all<ig ’he junior circuit's thunder. John Robe t came up with the game's only homer. On top of that, with hl* team trailing 2 io 1 In the eighth and two away. Mize cracked out U (ingle which put a runner on third. That gave him two for ‘ three, even though the rally died , there. No, not too bad for a fellow who twice wa.i labeled “hnished. Back In 1934. when he wax with RochMter in ’he Cardinal chain, Mize took a hook slide Into second base and something snapped in his knee. They told him that if he continued playing he might cripple himself for good, but Johnny st!yed in there swinging. The leg was so bad that the Cards tried to peddle him to the Rede, but Cincinnati took a look and didn't want him either. So it was back to Rochester. Yet one year later. Big Jawn was up with the Cards and rapidly rose to sta:dom. Then In 1941 disaster struck again when Mize severely injured hi* shoulder. Branch Rickey, a shrewd man who had Inveigled the Chicago Cubs into purchasing deadarmed Dizzy Dean for >185.000, saw Illg Jawn at the end ot the line. So he sold him off to the Giants and for a year Mize sweated It out. Three yea:s in the navy gave the shoulder time to heal and Mize started his comeback last season. This year he has hit the top ao head man of a murderous crew which sends cold chills over rival pitchers. The Giants are blasting the ball and the pace setter is Mize, the two-time cripple, who leads the majois with 24 homers. Mize Anst hit the majors in the hey-day of the "gas house gang." as raucous a band of characters as ever inhabited a diamond. They liked the quiet, gentlemanly fellow but he didn't At in with the Aery Frankie Frisch, wild-running Pepper Martin, loquacious Lippy Durocher or rampant Joe Medwick. It reached the point where Durocher said to Frisch: "Frank, we oughta do aomethink about the hig Mize from Georgia." "What do you mean?” asked MaWMMSSIMMMimWMMMMeKMMMIMmaMMjBaaaSSMMiMWMa

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