Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1947 — Page 6

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Yankees Beal Indians Twice For 16 In Row New York. July 16 (I'l’t - *Maybe they're not ax great uh the Yankees of yesteryear. but unless bo me team stops them in a hurry, they will come up with the greatest winning streak in American League htettory. They were roaring through the West today with Ift victories in a row, only three short of the alltime American League high established in 1906 by the "hltless wonder" Chicago White Sox. The "Sweet Ift" also gave them the longest streak in tiie majors since the Chicago Cubs ran up 21 In a row In 1935 and enabled them to equal the greatest Yankee winning irtreak of all time, established in 1926 when a fellow named italic Ruth was In his prime. Not even Bobby F«ll»r held any terror for them last right when they took a twin bill at Cleveland. 9 to 4 and 2 to 1. beating the Indian fireball ace in the second game with Floyd Revens, a "failure" who hadn't won a game In nearly two months. It was Bevens' best effort of the season and he gained his victory margin in the eighth when Billy Johnson tripled, scoring Joe DiMaggio who had singled. A triple by Tommy Henrich ami a long fly gave the Yankees their other tun off Feller while Ixju Boudreau provided Cleveland with its only tally on a homer DiMaggio's 13th homer and George McQuinn's eigh'li paced the Yankees to the opening victory in which Henrich hit a three run triple and Allie Reynolds scored his loth victory.

The last place Pittsburgh Pirates rose up and slugged leading Brooklyn 12 to 4 and 9 to 3, as Dodger pitching wont eour in each game The defeats came on the heels of a one-hit loss at the hands of rookie Everett Lively of the Reds on the previous day, but Brooklyn still led the league by 2H games since the second place Braves also were beaten. Wally West lake batted In seven runs for Pittsburgh with a homer and double, each with the liases loaded, in the first game. Jim Bloodworth, with a two-run homer, and Hank Greenberg, with two doubles, paced the 13-hlt second game attack for Pittsburgh. The Dodgers made only tour hits in the first game, and relief hurier Preacher Roe held Niein to one -afety for the last six innings. They made

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13 hits off Jim Bagby in the nightcap. Lefty Dave Koelo pitched a fiveI bit, 4 to 0 victory for the Giants lover the Cubs as Willard Marshall hit his 21st homer and Walker H ooper got bis 20th. It was Koslo's loth victory and his fourth fever Chicago. Kwell Blackwell could thank only ■ the stamina of his Cincinnati mates i for prolonging the longest winning I streak for n pitcher in the majors since Lyn Rowe chalked up 16 straight with Detroit in 1934 Bla< kie won his 14th in a row and his 16th of the season. 5 to 4, at Philadelphia, but his mates had to overcome a 4 to I i’hllly lead to do the job The Phil.* got to Blackwell for six hits, a walk and an error In the first ami third inning* before he settled down. Ray Lamanno hit a Cincy homer and the winning tun came across In the eighth on singles by Babe Young. Augie Galan and Eddie Miller Blackwell struck out eight to run his league-leading total to 107 for the season The Cai (finals put on a four run rally in the dxth after being held hitless by rookie Walter Lanfranconl for five inning*. The rally was more than enough to give their own rookie. Jim Hearn, an 8 to 2 win over the Braves at Boston. The Athletics drubbed the Browns. R to I. at St. l-ouis as Phil Marchlldon won his loth game, a six hitter. Ferris Fain, with a homer. and Pete Ruder, with three tingles and a double, led the A's in a 14 hit attack Frank Paplsh aUo pitched six hit ball at Chicago to give the White Sox a 5 to I decision against the Red Sox. Rudy York hit a two run double against his old mates and Taft Wright got a hotter. The Tigers, getting 14 hits off three pitchers, defeated the Senators, 11 to 6. at Detroit. Roy Cullenbine bit a two-run homer while Hoot Evers drove in a pair of tallies with a triple as Hal White won the game in a relief role. Yesterday'* star Wally Westlake of the Pirates who drove in eight runs as the Pirates upset the leading Dodgers, 12 to 4 and 9 to 3. getting a homer and double, each ' with the bases full in Hie first ' game. I o- ! » Two Softball Games Scheduled Tonight 1 Wet grounds again prevented ' softball play at Wort liman field Tuesday night but the diamond was being put in shape today for , two games scheduled tonight, . providing there is no more rain. The VFW mid Moose will meet , in Iho opener at 7:30 o'clock • this evening, followed by a Lat gion league game between Deca tur and Fort Wayne Logion teams. o ■ - A Nebraska state senator once opposed a tax levy of one-tenth of a mill because it was to# much, and offered an amendment of one-fifth of a mill.

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Year's Leading Bout At Chicago Tonight Chicago, July 16 —(UP) Champion Tony Zale and challenger Rocky Graziano match punches again tonight at the Chicago stadium in the ring's richest indoor bout and the most widely publicized classic of the middleweight division's 80-year history. The world wide attention commanded by this return 15-round title bout reflects not only the promise of another blood and thnndA* brawl between the sluggers, but also the current supremacy of the talent packed. 160-pound division over the fight game’s other seven weight brackets. Including the heavyweight class. Although the middleweight compartment has boasted such great warriors as Kid McCoy. Stanley Ketchal, Harry Grab, and Mickey Walker, never has It enjoyed such topflight, division-wide competition as that which will be provided In tonight's clash of the two maulers who met in the "fight of the year" last September 27 In their first thrilling encounter at New York's Yankee stadium A near-capacity crowd of 21.500 from all sections of the country was expected to provide an alltime record Indoor gate of 1415,000 for this tilt between Zale—the exsteel worker from Gary. Ind. who is champion at 33 and Graziano of New York, the dead end kid who became the ring's "golden boy.’ and later Its stormy Fetrel at 25. A gate of 1415,000 would shatter the ring's previous indoor record of 1201,603, established by heavyweights Jimmy Maloney and Jack Delaney at New York's Madison Square Garden on Feb. 18, 1927. It also would be larger than the 1342.497 which Tony and Rocky drew outdoors at New York last September. • New fire-department regulations that prohibit standees will prevent any threat to the indoor crowd record of 23.320. registered by the Jack Dempsey-Klngfish Ix>vinsky bout at the Chicago Stadium, Feb. 18, 1932.

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Brown-haired Zale, with the fistbattered face, was favored at 6-Mi to 5 to achieve a repeat triumph over Graziano, whom he knocked out at 1:43 of the sixth round at Yankee Stadium last September. Eale was favored largely because he displayed superior ruggedness and )M-rhaps superior gatnenes.s In their first bout. Returning to competition for his first title defense after serving three and a half years in the navy. Zale rose from the canvas In the second round, and then absorbed a beating until the sixth round when he suddenly knocked out Rocky with a right hook to the solar plexus and a left hook to the chin.

Noted Songwriter Dies In California Walter Donaldson Is Taken By Death Santa Monica. Cal., July 16.--(UP)—Songwriter Walter Donaldson was on the way to his Illue Heaven today. The 54-year-oid writer of more than a hundred hits. Including "Mammy" and "My Blue Heaven." died at hie home yesterday from a liver ailment. He had been ill nearly a year. Donaldson never took a music lesson but was one of the country's most successful songwriters. He wrote ''We’ll Have a Jubilee in My Old Kentucky Home." before he’d ever been south of New York City. letter he turned out such hits as "How You Gonna Keep Them Down on the Farm,” "My Buddy." "Yes. Sir. That’s My Baby." and many others. After coming to Hollywood he wrote the score for the movie "Whoople" and "It's Been So Long," and "Did I Remember." crooned by the late Jean Harlow In the movie “Suzy.” Survivors include his ex-wife, former actress Wanda Mansfield, and two daughters, Ellen, 9, and Sheila. 12.

NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 49 34 .515 Boston ... 44 35 .557 2H New York .... 42 35 545 3H St. Minis ... 43 39 .531 4Mi Cimitiiiuti 41 41 .500 7 Chicago 37 44 .457 10 Mi Philadelphia 35 47 .427 13 Pittsburgh ... - .32 49 .400 15 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. PcL GB New York .... 55 26 .679 .. Detroit 41 34 .547 11 Boston 41 37 .526 12 H Cleveland ... 36 97 .493 15 Philadelphia 39 tl .499 15’v Chicago 37 64 .457 19 Washington 34 42 447 18V> St. latuis .... 27 49 .360 2514 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pet. GB Kansas City 54 33 .621 laiulsvllle . 53 41 .558 5 Milwaukee 47 43 .522 MH Indianapolis ...47 46 .505 10 Columbus 43 48 .473 13 Minneapolis 43 51 .457 14H Toledo .40 51 .440 16 St. Paul 39 52 .429 17 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 129. Brooklyn 4-3. New York 4. Chicago 0. St. Louis 8. Boston 2. Cincinnati 5. Philadelphia 4. American League New York 9-2, Cleveland 4-1. Chicago 5, Boston 1. Detroit 11, Washington 6. Philadelphia 8. St. Louis 1. American Aeaociation Kansas City 2-7, Toledo 1-1. Minneapolis 8, Ixvuisvllle 0. Col urn true 6-1, Columbus 4-0. St. Pau) 5, Indianapolis 4. o Os the five great staples of the world- bread, meat, sugar, wool, and cotton—Nebraska produces a surplus of four, the exception being cotton.

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Pirates Groom 'Kid' Keystone Combination At Indianapolis

Indianapolis.. July 16.—(1 P) The Pittsburgh Pirates have a "kid" keystone combination developing here that probably will lie making majoi league headlines In another year or two Second baseman Gene Mauch, who's only 22, and shortstop Pete Castiglione, who's 25. began playing together only three weeks ago, but they took to each other's style like duck* take to water. Manager Jimmy Brown of the Indianapolis Indians said today that he rates both of them as "definite major leaguers.'' He believes they will be ready to graduate from the trlple-A American assocla Hon into the majors at the end *»f this season. "They re soth practically finished products right now.” Brown said, "and playing here the rest of the season should give them all the seasoning they need." Ted Sullivan. Tribe business manager and another veteran base ball observer, compares the Cae tlgllone-Mauch duo with the key stone teams of Ray Mack Lou Bond reau and Gerry Priddy-Phil Rlzzuto that went direct to major league stardom from trlple-A ball In recent years. That may sound like high- and possibly premature praise for the Indians' second base combination But the way the Indians have caught fire since Castiglione and Mauch teamed up bears out Sullivan and Brown. Mauch Is the peppery, pugnacious umpire-baiting type of player. Castiglione Is quiet and modest Mauch steadies his play. Both have great arms, are excellent fielders, run like dashmen and are sharp and timely, although not long-ball hitters Both were signed by major league scouts while still in their teens. Mauch, a former Ix>s Angeles high school star, signed with Brooklyn In 1942. Castiglione, who makes his home in Greenwich. Conn, Ink‘ed a Pirate contract the year lie-

fore. ... Mauch, after two seasons with Montreal, came up for a trial with Brooklyn in 1944. Then he went Into tit.- a'my Last year he started with Brooklyn. went to St Paul in the Association ami was back with the Dodgers in the fall. Tills season tie went to Pittsburgh In the Kirby Hlgbe deal and the Pirates sent him here late iff June with Instructions to play him at second base exclusively. Castixlione also joined the army after his first big league trial with Pittsburgh in 1913 He wax with Selma. Ala. In a ' la"* '*•»” c,reu,t last year, but showed enough in spring training to break in as the Indiana regular shortstop this season. Both stand five feet II Inches tall and weigh 165 pounds. Mauch leads off for the Indians, and Brown rates him as a nifty man at getting on base. Castiglione bats 1 second in the lineup, ills specialty I* hitting behind the runner. . Their "pet" fielding piay Is an eye-catcher. On ground balls to his right with a man on first base, ' Mauch fields with his gloved hand ' and virtually deflects the ball to Castiglione, rather than tossing it with his right hand. Castiglione 1 fires It to find for Hie double play, t o Horse Show July 27 ' At Rockford, Ohio 1 Horses and horsemen within a ’ radius of 50 miles expect to be pres--1 ent at the second annual American Legion horse show, to be held at Wollet I’ark one mile west of Rock--1 ford, 0.. Sunday afternoon, July 27 1 at 1 o'clock. Plans are under way to present ’ a program of 12 events. There will . be events for all classes of horses i and ponies. A three year old light I bay saddle mare will lie given i away. Music will be furnished by the - Mendon high school band.

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