Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1947 — Page 6

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Decatur Opens Fdofball* Season Frida j

•Bluffton Team To Play fee Friday Nighs New football uniforms for the opening game of the season Friday night at 8 o’clock at. Worthman field against Bluffton high school Tigers, were passed out to 30 Decatuj, high school grid candidates laWT night preceding a night practice. Coach Worthman sent his charges through a heavy work-out in preparation for the Bluffton game. Season tickets for the four home games are on sale and also may be secured prior to the Bluffton game at the field. Season tickets for adults, will sell for $1.75 and single admissions will be 50 cents for each home game. TUh Friday night contest will start” at 8 o’clock, by agreement of both teams. Regular starting time in the Northeastern Indiana conference is 7:30, but the Friday night tiuw was changed because daylight saving time is still in effect. Tile Decatur high school band will get its first ’public workout prior to game time and the gates at Worthman field will open at 7:15 o'clock. A few minor injuries have been reported among the players, but the squad generally is in good condition and coaches Worthman and Dorwin are optimistic concerning the ability of th# players to learn the new system which is being used. ° o There is still a lot of speculation concerning the starting lineup, but it is believed that coach Worthman will announce the probable starters Thursday. O—B- —- Triple Program At Fort Wayne Speedway Fort Wayntf. Ind., Sept. 3 — The Fort Wayne Speedway will offer racing fans a triple-barreled program this week. Here's the lineup at the California Road ovals: Thursday at 8:30 p.m. — Midget racing, sanctioned by the Capitol Racing Association; Sunday 2:30 p.m. — Motorcycle racing by professional "bike" men. Sun£uy at 8:30 p.m. — Stock car racing, sanctioned by the Mutual Racing Association. »* W Tonight & Thursday D o I • OUR BIG DAYS! | First Show Tonight 6:30 Continuous Thur, from 1:30: BE SURE TQ ATTEND! o o 'MI JACK H. SKIRBAUL and BRUCE MANNING Giiner'"*""’ W RfflS NIVEN i» MmiiH ALSO—Shorts 9c-40c Inc. Tax O—O Fri. & Sat.—ROY ROGERS. “Apache Rose” — In Color! O—O Sun. Mon. Tues.—"CYNTHIA”

■ 7 NATIONALW.EAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Brooklyn . 82 50 .621 — St. Louis . 74 55 .574 6% Boston 73 60 .549 9% NewKYork 66 62 .516 14 Cin‘4tinati 62 72 .463 21 , Chicago ... 58 72 .446 23 Pittsburgh 54 76 .415 27 Philadelphia .54 76 .415 27 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. New York 83 47 .638 — Boston 71 56 .559 10% Detroit 71 60 .542 12% Cleveland 66 61 .520 15% Philadelphia 65 65 .500 18 Chicago 60 69 .465 22% Washington 55 74 .426 27% St. Louis 46 85 .351 37% AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct G.B. Kansas City 90 56 .616 — Louisville 81 66 .551 9% Milwaukee 77 71 .520 14 Minneapolis . 73 7ft .493 18 Columbus 73 75 .493 18 Indianapolis .... 71 76 .483 19% St. Paul 65 82 .442 25% Toledo 59 88 .401 31% YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League No games scheduled. American League 3. St. Louis 2. Washington 7, Philadelphia 4. New York at Boston, rain. Only games scheduled. American Association St. Paul 10, Minneapolis 9. Columbus 5-5, Toledo 2-4. Milwaukee 13, Kansas City 2. Indianapolis 6, Louisville 3. o Fort Wayne 6E Nine National Champions Wichita, Kans., Sept. 3 —(UP) The‘Genera lElectrics of Fort Wayne. Ind., who defeated the . Coors Brewers of Golden, Colo., 4 to 2, last night, reigned as national semi-pro baseball champions today with a purse of SIO,OOO to be divided among the players. The Hoosier# bunched pairs of runs in the first and eighth innings to win the title in the first playoff gatne in the 13-year history of tWe national baseball congress. The victory qualified the Fort Wayne club to represent the C. S. in the sevensgame series against Canada’s semipro champions in London, Ont., at , a datp to be set later. Bill Brandt, the Electrics' veter- 1 an right-hander, held the Colorado team to seven hits while his mates got all their runs off 19-year-old Bob Swanson in the 7% innings he worked. Singles by Mel Kestner, Pete Elko, Carl Kennedy and Ray Scott gaYe the G-E’s their first two runs. A walk to Paul Dyke, a Brewer err or and Elko’s single produced the clinching runs in the eighth. Knights Os Pythias Will Meet Thursday The weekly meeting of the Knights of Pythias lodge will be held Thursday night at 8 o’clock at the lodge home. All members are urged to attend. |CORT Tonight & Thursday o A New Western Star! Presenting Richard Martin as A Rough-and-Tumble, Romantic Latin-American Cowboy with a deadly eye for a target anda roving eye for a red-head! IN NATURAL COLOR! ‘Adventures of Don Coyote' With RICHARD MARTIN and FRANCE* RAFFERTY --XL-o ALSO—Sheriff 9c-30c Inc. Tax O—O Fri. & Sat. — Chas. Starrett, "Prairie Raiders” & Ist Chapt. "Jesse James Rides Again.” O—O — SunV Mon> Tues. —'‘VIOLENCES 1 "Spoilers of the North”.

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New Players Appearing In Major Leagues New York, Sept. 3 -(UP) - New names began to show up in the major league box scores today, affording sneak pieviews of next year's rookie crop. Starting Sept. 1. player linyt rules are relaxed, permitting the big league teams to call up stars from the minors, but none of thes players are eligible for world series play if their team wins a pennant. However, few pennant- contending teams are willing to use a rookie in the stretch drive, so most of the unknown names ■showup on the second division teams or on first - division squads which are far out of the pennant drive. As usual, Brooklyn is a little different. The Dodgers recalled Phil Haugstad, 23-year-old righthander, from St. Paul of the American Association, used'him Sunday against the Phils and his two innings of bitless relief won him a ’probabld starting call against the Giants next Saturday. Brooklyn’s brain trust believes the kid may assure them the pennant. The Amerfc-an league championsthe Yankees, also bought a new man up from the minors, but Sherman Lollar can't be classed as a complete stranger to major league fans, for the burly catcher was up with Cleveland for part of 1946. He played most of this season with Newark of the International league, then reported to the Yankees and won the second game of Sunday's doubleheader with Washington by blasting a tworun triple. Cleveland brought up Joe Frazier from Oklahoma City of the Texas league, the Cubs fltve a chance to pitcher "Johnny Miller, and the Athletics recalled Orge Cooper from Savannah some five weeks ago. Miller had the roughest introduction, retiring from Sunday’s game with the Reds after allowing four hits and walk #nd getting no one out. The Reds went on to get 10 runs. Rookie Bob Kuzava, up from Baltimore, was to piteh for Clevelatd today. Detroit is the only team which has announced that if will call up no rookies for late-seascm trials, preferring to fight for second place with its near-veteran lineup. Cleveland’s grazier doubled in a the eighth inning against the St. Louis Browns last night and then scored in a 3 to 2 triumph whei» Les Fleming slammed a two-run triple. The Browns rallied for two runs in, the ninth, chasing Red Embree but Ed Klietnan saved the victory. Washington trimmed the Athletics, 7 to 4, for Philadelphia’s seventh loss in a row. Rookie Joe Coleman allowed the Nate one hit in the first five innings, then blew up in the sixth and Washington scored six runs? on five singles, three walks and an error. The Yankee-Red Sox game at Boston was rained out, and other major league teams were not scheduled. Yesterday's star: — Les Fleming

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> 1 of Cleveland, whose two-run triple ■ in the* eighth gave the- Indials a - 3 to 2 victory over the Browns. o 0 Legion Winner In Suburban Encounter t The Decatur American Legion ' softball team, breaking loose for 1 eight runs in the eighth inning, de- * seated the Zanesville Merchants, 11 to 3. in a Suburban league game ’ Tuesday night at Zanesville. ] Zanesville scored all its runs , in the fifth on a homer by McCartney with tw T o on. Legion evened j the score in the seventh on G. Schultz’s double and a pair of , fielder's choices. Three errors and three wild pitches contributed to ( the Legion’s big extra inning, k The Legion team will play at 1 Waynedale tonight and a Legion > victory would throw the Decatur I team into a first-place tie with ’ Roanoke second-half league honors. Score by inning#: RHE . Legion 200 000 1 B—ll 6 0 , Zanesville .... 000 030 00— 3 2 3 ( Sharp, Leakey and M. Ladd; J. Walton, Tsetse and McCartney, Beamer. t _ 0 ■ Rochester Youth Is PBlio Victim ; Indianapolis, Sept. 3. —(UP) —

l Last rites will be held tomorrow for Clyde A. Bick, 17-year-old son of Mr «nd Mis. Leroy Bick of Rochester, who died of polio in an Indianapolis hospital yesterday. The death brought the season polio toll in Indiana to five. Bick, an apprentice printer in the Rochester News-Sentinel office. was admitted to the Indian 1 ; , apolis hospital Sunday. He was • stricken with the disease at his - home last Thursday. , 0—•• t Trade in n Gond Town — Decatur

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° Toc/ay'sSport Parade j By Oscar Fraley I (Reg. l.fe ? S. Pat. Off.) I 0 o New Mk. Sept 3 — (UP) - "Mr. Inside’’ and "Mr. Outside Wind it up tonigß on the familiar turf of the polo grounds. That famed combination of Glenn Davis and Felix (Doc) Blanchard, one of the most storied and gloried in football history, will play their final game together with the Eastern college all-stars against the New York Giahts. It will be a different etory from the three previous visits the army touchdown twins made to the heights above the Harlem. Those other times they ran rampant against undermanned Duke university teams. The opposition tonight is rough, tough and burly and intent on upholding it.? profe9»ionalism. But win, iose or draw, these two kids with the fresh, gleaming gold bars of second lieutenants aren’t taking any risk in their farewell. They proved in the past three years their right to rank with the football immortals of all time. I’heir deeds are written indelibly in the record books and cherished within the gray stone fortress up the Hudson. They came together in the fall of 1944 <nd since then army has gone without defeat, winning 27 games and tying one over a three-year s]An. Davis was a lithe, pink-cheeked youngister with wings on his heels. Blanchard was a bronzed, heavymuscled lad “’With olive cheeks who had won his way into the Point through the regular army. At that time they were simply embryo “lieutenants but they made of th£ army football team an unstoppable juggernaut which carried them to fame. Davis, only five feet. 10 inches and 170 pounds, opened them up by slipping through the tackles or fleeing around the ends with the eltfciveness .of a phantom. Blanchard, a six footer packing 220 pounds, simply brought them back together agafci by barrelling through the middle. ; They were the spearhead as army i won nine in 1944, compiling S(M points to the opposition's 35 and humbling a still bitter Notre Dame by a record 59-0. They added nine more wins-tn 1945, running up 412 pointe to 46. and scored nine wins

last season against a scorless du#! lock with Notre Dame. They could have named their price in pro ranks this year because of their fame and war time safety at the point, it became aj moral issue and ther was no other course but to remain in service. On post-graduation leave they went to Hollywood and made a picture and one incident there proves that! at 22 they still are naive youngsters despite their fame. "Is this going to a B picture?” Davis asked. ”1 don't see any name stars around.’’ “Y-ou two stars of this one,” an executive laughed. “Mr. Inside’.: and “Mr. Outside” juflt shook thefr heads in bewilderment. They were named to the college all-stars to play against the Bears in Chicago and Davis sat it out with a bad knee while Blanchard played on defense. And now they come up to the finale, both of them able physically and hoping for one more good game at the Polo grounds After that, Lt. Glenn Davis of the infantry reports to Fort Riley,

■ — —' ~ iFOOTBALI / ouening game of the season Friday, Sept. sth I WORThSiAN FIELD—B P. M. j Yellow Jackets ( ’ vs j Bluffton > ADMISSION—SingIe Gamesoc Tax Inc. f SEASON TlCKETS—Adults__sl.7s Tax he. 1 Studentssl.2s Tax Inc. i — Home Game Schedule — • \ Sept. s—Bluffton Oct. 10—Columbia City f Sept. 19—Aubuw Oct. 17—Warsaw ATTEND EACH GAME

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Kans., and Lt. Fehv n . the air corp., goe? Field. Tt*. 0 But there are those' wh J insist*that the two of 11 1 .have been graduated sh erals, 1 m o —i Railroader Killed By Run-Away Car Indianapolis, Sept 3 Brewer Greeson. 46. New tral railroad trainman Wa , 01 ed to death by a nm.; car early today. Greeson was killed as a seven’>ars on a swi ' tth ' J broke loo.se. Conductor m Brown of Indianapolis engine was switching wh 1 cars broke loose and began J along the track. One car jumped the t rack . ran loose, crashing im o ' block at the end of th- track brakeman-%as . rushed fa’ the car and the block. o—. .> ln T..W _ .