Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1947 — Page 6

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Decatur Moose t> 4> Decatut Crushes < All Opposition, Wins State Title At Goshen

•Wades Through Four Opponents In Easy Fashion; No-Hitter Is Hurled In Final Tne Decatur Moose joftball team, capping their three-day battle in the state Moose tournament at Goshen with a no-hit victory Sunday night, nailed down the state Moose championship with a 3 to 0 triumph ,in the final tilt. To Paul Harrah, who hurled against the Decatur team in a tourney at Paulding last week, went the honor of pitching the title tilt. Harrah was obtained after Bauermeister, regular Moose pitcher, developed a blister on his pitching hand, and also to augment the hurling staff for the strenuous tourney round. Decatur will now represent Indiana Moose lodges in the national Moose softball tournament, which will be held at the new Zollner stadium in Fort Wayne September 20 and .21. Hurls No-Hitter Harrah, in setting the Greencastle team down without a hit in the championship game last night, pitched a near-perfect tilt. Only opponent to reach base was Grimes, Greencastle catcher, who led off the ball game with a base ' on balls. Harrah then struck out the side, and went on to mow down the opposition with monotonous regularity, chalking up a total of 21 strikeouts, and with 1 only one outfield putout register- ' cd. The Moose scored the only run needed in the first inning. Boyer singled, stole second and tallied on McClure’s single. Decatur Licked up two insurance runs in the second on a pair of Greencastle errors and Reed’s two base blow. Bauermeister Stars Les Bauermeister. despite his blistered finger, hurled Decatur to victories both Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Les pitched steady six-hit ball in the quarterfinals Saturday, while his mates pounded out 10 hits to register a 15 to 5 triumph over Logansport. Decatur scored in every inning in this game to make Bauermeister’s chorse a not too difficult 1 task. ■ Harrah was the starting hurler 1 in Sunday afternoon’s semi-final. ■ but after tossing two innings of 1 hitless ball, wa affected by the 1 blistering heat and Bauermeister 1 took over to keep Wabash well ' throttled as Decatur walloped cut a 12 to 1 triumph. Wabash counted its lone run j after Decatur had piled up a 10

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to 0 lead. Harrah and Bauermeister each registered two victories in the tournament. Harrah winning the 7 to 0 opener from Gary Friday night and the final Sunday night, while Bauermeister was the winner in the afternoon games Saturday and Sunday. During the four games, these two hurlers allowed only 13 hits, while Decatur pounded out 29 safeties. Decatur made onily three errors during the tourney, all in the easy victory over Log ansport. Scores by innings: RHE Decatur 316 23—15 10 3| Logansport 200 30 — 5 6 2 Bauermeister and Stoppenhagen, Graft; Green and C. Sullivan. RHE Decatur 280 02 —12 10 0 Wabash 000 10— 1 4 9 Harrah, Bauermeister and Stoppenhagen. Graft; Barnett, Hipsher and Rice. Haag. Final Game Decatur AB R H E Reed, lb 4 0 10 Royer. 2b 3 110 Scherer, cf 4 0 0 0 McClure, If 3 0 10 Harrah, p 3 0 0 0 Stoppenhagen, c .. 3 0 0 0 Painter, rs 3 1 0 0 i Crist, ss 2 10 0 Davis, 3b 3 0 0 0 Totals 28 3 3 0 Greencastle Grimes, c 3 0 0 0 Coffman. If 3 0 0 0 B. Agnew. 3b 3 0 0 1 I ear. rs ■— 3 0 0 0 D. Agnew, cf 3 0 0 0 Figus, ss 3 0 0 1 •Rockhill. 2b 3 0 0 0 Stites, lb 3 0 0 1 Jobs, p 3 0 0 0 Totals 27 0 0 3 Score by innings: Greencastle 000 000 000 —0 Decatur 120 000 OOx 3 —o• Wades

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National League W L Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 84 52 .618 St. Louis 77 56 579 5% Boston 76 61 .555 «% New York 68 64 .515 14 Cincinnati 65 74 .468 20% Chicago 59 74 .444 23% Pittsburgh 55 79 .410 28 Philadelphia 55 79 .410 28 American League W. L. Pct. G.B. New York 86 50 .632 Boston 72 61 .541 12% Detroit 72 62 .537 13 Cleveland 70 63 .526 14% Philadelphia 69 66 .511 16% Chicago 62 73 .459 23% Washington 58 76 ..433 27 St. Louis 48 86 .358 37 American Association Final Standings W. L. Pct. G.B. Kansas City 93 60 .608 Louisville 85 68 .556 8 Milwaukee 79 75 .513 14% Minneapolis 77 77 .500 16% Columbus 76 78 .494 17% Indianapolis 74 79 .484 19 St. Paul 69 85 .448 24% Toledo :.. 61 90 .399 31 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League St. Louis 12-2, Cincinnati 2-4. New York 7, Brooklyn 6. Chicago 4, Pittsburgh 3. . Philadelphia 2, Boston 0. American League Philadelphia 7-4, Boston 4-3. . New York 7, Washington 1. . Cleveland 3, Chicago 2. St. Louis 3, Detroit 0. . American Association Minneapolis 7-5, Kansas City 2-2.. Columbus 9-< Indianapolis 4-1. St. Paul 1-10, Milwaukee 05. Louisville 4-7, Toledo 3-18. 0 Local G. E. Golfers Win Factory Title Led by David Baumann, who hung up a 757 the Decatur G. E. golf team won the factory golf championship at Fort Wayne Saturday. The local team defeated Winter Street in the finals after moving there by of copping the Taylor street league. The Decatur golfers had a team total of 327, ae follows: David Baumann, 37-38-75; John Baumann, 4041, 81; Clarence Morgan, 45-38, 83; Kenneth Gaunt, 46-42, 88.

National Loop Slate Favors Cardinal Nine New York, Sept. B—(VP)8 —(VP) There are only 20 days left in the National league season and from today on the schedule definitely favors the onrushing St. Louis I Cards in their desperate efforts to overtake the league-leading Brooklyn Dodgers. Neither team is playing today as the Dodgers head into the western badlands with a five-and-a-half game lead, making their first stop at Chicago tomorrow. The pressure continues to mount and something is bound to explode, probably in St. Louis, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday when the two contenders clash in what may be the most important games of the year. The Dodgers have 18 games left —l4 of them away from the charmed precincts of Ebbets field. The Cards, however, have 21 games left—l 6 within the cozy confines of their own Sportsmans park. The Cards know they will have to take full advantage of every Dodger slip, and for that reason they had every right to be perturbed by their split with Cincinnati yesterday. The Dodgers, by dropping a single game to the Giants, 7 to 6, gave the Cards a chance to pick up a game-and-a-half by taking a twin bill from the Reds. But, after trouncing the Redlegs and their ace Ewell Blackwell, 12 to 2, in the opener, the Cards were beaten by lefty Ken Raffensberger, 4 to 2, in the nightcap, and gained only a half-game. George Munger coasted to his 14th victory in the first game behind 15-hit support, but homers by Erv Dusak and George Kurowski were the only runs the Cards could score in the second. Home runs by Johnny Mize. Willard Marshall, and Buddy Kerr proved the Dodgers’ undoing, outweighing similar swats by Dixie Walker. Harry Lavagetto, and Gene Hermanski. Lefty Dave Koslo gained his 15th win on Mize’s eight-inning clout, his 46th of the year which tied him with Babe Ruth’s record 1927 pace The Boston Braves lost ground in their fight to catch St. Louis when Blix Donnelly of the Phils shut them out with three hits, 2 to 0. Howie Schultz’ homer with Jeep Handley aboard provided the only Phil runs against Charley (Red! Barrett, who gave up only six hits. Rookie pitcher Johnny Miller of the Cubs hit a grand-slam homer in the second inning to beat Pittsburgh, 4 to 3. Miller was forced to leave in the third with a blistered hand and Doyle Lade pitched three-hit relief to win. Kirby Higbe, tagged for the homer, was the loser. In the American league, the Yankees 'carne within eight games of clinching the pennant when Allie Reynolds completed his recovery from a sore arm by beating Washington, 7 to 1. It was the 17th win for Reynolds, who had to be relieved by Joe Page in the eighth. Ray Scarborough was the losing pitcher. The Boston Red Sox, in secondplace lost a doubleheader to' Philadelphia, 7 to 4 to Joe Coleman in the first and 4 to 3 to Bill McCahan. Ted Williams homered for Boston in the first while McCaha'n, making his first start since pitching a no-hitter, was helped in the second game by homers by Pete Suder and Eddie JoJost. The Detroit Tigers, only a halfgame behind Boston, lost a chance to take second place when they were four-hitted by Jack Kramer of the Browns, 3 to 0. Vern Stephens doubled home two of the St.. Louis tallies. The losing pitcher, for the 16th time, was lefty Hal Newhouser. Hank 'Edwards, 12th homer and JoJe Gordon’s single, double, and triple led the Cleveland Indians to a 3 to 2 win over the White Sox at Chicago. R was the 1,985th game at shortstop for Luke Appling of the Sox, who thereoy equalled Roger Peckinpaugh’s American league record. Charley (Red) Embree was the winner, and Charley (Red) Ruffing was the loser.

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Yesterday’s star — Sylvester | (Blix) Donnelly, Philadelphia Phils’ pitcher, who gave only three hits and no walks to blank the Boston Braves, 2 to 0. 0 Association Playoff Will Open Tuesday By United Press The American Association's 45th season was history today with Kansas City, Loflisville, Milwaukee and Minneapolis ordained to carry their colors into the Shaughnessy playoffs which start Tuesday. Kansas City took the pennant breezing, clinching its seventh flag a week ago. Second and third places were not nailed down until late last week and Minneapolis didn’t assume fourth place completely until the final day of the season. The best Louisville, 1946 champ, could do was second. Although it challenged at several points during the season, it couldn’t quite work up enough steam to catch the high-flying Blues. With manager Bill Meyer in the saddle for the entire season, Kansas City left no doubt in the minds of the fans as to the most balanced club in the league. Last year, Meyer was out most of the season because of illness and the Blues finished seventh. The Blues won their first four games of the season and Were never ranked lower than third. They assumed the lead on May 11th to stay while taking a double

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header from Indianapolis. Their average was .608 for the season based on 93 wins and 6ff loses. Louisville and Milwaukee also kept a snug hold on their respective positions for most of the way and the only post that had real contention was fourth place. Minneapolis had it when the going was toughest, taking the final three games from the Blues at Kansas City and winding up the season with a .500 average. It gave the Millers a full game lead over fifth-place Columbus Which dropped one of it sthree weekend games to Indianapolis. The results of yesterday's games were: Minneapolis trounced Kansas City twice, 7 to 2 and 5 to 2; Columbus beat Indianapolis, 9 to 4 and 6 to 1; St. Paul also took two from Milwaukee, 1 to 0 and 10 to 5; in the only split of the day, Louisville edged Toledo, 4 to 3, and Toledo took the final, 18 to 7. o_ : Miss Evelyn Gerke In National Contest Amherst, Mase., Sept. 8 — Evelyn M. Gerke of Adams county is competing in the seventh annual national junior vegetable growers association production-marketing contest, Prof. Grant B. Snyder of Massachusetts State College, adult. niHiiiiannHiiiiHiiiiaiiiiHHiiMiiiiHiiiiMiiiiHiiiiaiiiiai ■ OFFICE SUPPLIES a Our Salesman Will Call On You ■ Julian Office Supply ■ Bluffton, Indiana j|

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