Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1947 — Page 8

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Yanks Clinch Pennant When Boston Loses New York, Sept. IS —(UP) — With the Cardinale suffering from a bad case of the si aggers, it seemed likely today that the Brooklyn Dodgeie would not be long in joining the New York Yankees as official competitors in the 1947 world series. The zip and bounce that was the hallmark of the Card world champions of ‘46 apparently has deserted these Redbirde, who have lost their last three games and fallen seven-and-a half games behind. Days like yesterday, when they lost to the Giants 10 to 5, offer the Cards little hope. St. Louie threw five pitchers into the fray but couldn't stop the Giants’ 1.2-hit attack, which was led by Bill Rigney's five hits and Walker Cooper's 32nd home run. Al Brazle was the losing hurler while reliefer Ken Trinkle gained his eighth win for New York. The lose cost the Cards a half-game, since the Dodgers, along with the Reds, were idle. The Cards face the Giants again today while Brooklyn meets Cincinnati. The Yankees, who have been in the driver's seat in the American league since their 19-game winning streak, June 29 to July 16, clinched the pennant yesterday sitting down when the third-place Boston Red Sox, only team left with a mathematical chance to tie. lost the first game of a doubleheader to Chicago, 6 to 3. The Yankee pennant was their 15th, more than any other club in modern baseball. The clincher for the Yanks, who sat around in their clubhouse after their game against the Browns was rained out, was a four-run rally staged by Chicago in the seventh inning of their tilt with the Red Sox. A homer uy Don Kolloway started the splurge which washed out the Red Sox’ last forlorn hope, and gave the win to pitcher Orval Grove. The fact that the Red Sox rebounded to win the second game, 7 to 5, was anti-climactic. Thd Detroit Tigers, who were already eliminated because they had lost more games, went one game ahead of the Red Sox in the battle for second place by beating Washington, 7 to 2, at night. Stubby Ovennire went all the way to win as his mates made 13 hits, all singles. Cleveland’s Bob Lemon won an

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11-inning night game from Philadelphia, 2 to 1, when George Metkovich tripled and Lou Boudreau singled against Russ Christopher. Christopher had relieved Dick Fowler, who matched Lemon for the first 10 frames. The battle to stay out of the national league basement, the hottest scrap in the majors right now. I found the Pittsburgh Pirates in seventh place by a half game after beating the Philadelphia Phlte. 12 to 2. Kirby Higbe gained his 12th victory and Hank Greenberg hit his 25th homer for the Pirates. The Chicago Cub Blocked Johnny Sain’s bid for his 20th victory and beat the Boston Braves, 3 to 2, behind Bob Chipman. Ed Waitkus led the Cub hitting with a triple and two singles. Yesterday’s star — Bill Rigbe of the Giants, versatile infielder who ' led his team’s 10 to 5 trouncing of the Cards with two singles, two doubles, and a triple in five times at bat. _o — Jackets B Team To Play Central B Here Thursday Decatur high school freshmen and second string football candi- ■ dates will get a chance to show their wares in a game scheduled for Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock 1 at Worthman fieldbetween Decatur < and Fort Wayne Central B teams it.l wa<3 announced today. 1 Coaches of both schools will get an opportunity to see the young material they have in regular game ac- ] tion. Several looked good in drills ; and Coach Worthman expects to ; give every candidate an opportun- i ity to play. ; The game, which will be the , first for both B aggregations, will • be open to the public and will be a . regularly scheduled contest. The only restriction is that varsity play-i ers are not eligible to take part. No I admission charge will be made. —_—o Berne Missionaries To Leave For India Berne, Ind., Sept. 16 — Rev. and Mrs. Edward Burkhalter are packing their belongings and getting ready to leave for India, where they will enter missionary work. They expect to get their sailing orders soon and plan to leave Berne early in October. o Four-Year-Old Boy Drowns In Excavation Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 16 — (UP) — Four-year-old Ralph Eugene Lowther, son of Mrs. John Bricoe, was drowned yesterday in an open wat-er-filled sewer excavation near his home. George, three-year-old brother, of the victim, also elipped into the water but managed to get out and run to tell his mother of the accident.

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Moose Team Defeats Geneva Monday, 11-1 Keeping in trim for the national Moose tournament at Fort Wayne next weekend, the Decatur Moose softball team defeated Geneva, 11 to 1, Monday night in an exhibition game at Geneva's newly-lighted diamond. Decatur bunched nine hits effectively and with the aid of five I Geneva errors, had little difficulty in piling up an easy victory. Bauermeister limited Geneva to three hits, the lone run tallying in the last of the seventh when Hoehammer blasted out a home run. Decatur will play its final warmup game Thursday night, meeting the tough Ossian team at Ossian at 8:30 p.m. Ossian’s Hoopingardner is rated as one of the toughest hurlers in this section of the state. Last night’s score by innings: RHE Decatur . 132 500 o—ll 9 3 Geneva 000 000 1— 1 3 5 Bauermeister and Stoppenhagen; Bixler /nd Shannon.

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National League W L Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 89 54 .622 St. Louis 80 60 .571 7% Boston 79 67 .541 11% New York 73 67 .521 14% Cincinnati 69 77 .473 21% Chicago 65 77 .458 23% Pittsburgh 59 75 .410 30% Philadelphia 58 85 .406 31 American League W L Pct. G.B. New York 90 53 .629 Detroit 78 65 .545 12 Boston 76 65 .539 13 Cleveland 74 67 .525 15 Philadelphia 71 71 .500 18% Chicago 66 76 .465 23% Washington 59 83 .415 30% St. Louis 53 87 .379 35% YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Pittsburgh 12, Philadelphia 2. Chicago 3, Boston 2. New York 10, St. Louis 5. Only games scheduled. American League Chicago 6-5, Boston 3-7. Detroit 7, Washington 2. Cleveland 2. Philadelphia 1 (11 innings). St. Louis at New York, rain. —— ■ oEverett Woodruff Wil! Js Probated The will of the late Everett Woodruff has been probated in Adams circuit court before Judge Earl B. Adams. The will gives $550 to a daughter, Edna Brewster, and divides the balance of the estate among six children. Personal property is valued at SI,OOO, with no real estate. In the possession suit of Minnie Schumacher against Lillie Master, the defendant was ruled to answer by the court. o Indianapolis Man, Wife Found Dead Indianapolie, Sept. 16 — (UP) — Police said today the deaths of a 32-year-old mechanic and his 27-year-old wife were a “clear case of murder and suicide.” The bodies of Charles Stewart and his wife, Virginia, were found in the living room of their home last night by a taxicab driver. Stewart apparently shot his wife ae she packed her suitcase to leave him, then turned the gun on himself, police said. o Plan Sanity Hearing For Alleged Killer Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 16 — (UP) — Ralph Lobaugh, 30, will be given a sanity hearing Dec. 9-10, judge Wiliam Shannen said today. The judge ordered the hearing for Lobaugh, who has confessed the slayings of three Fort Wayne women in 1944 and 1945 and then repudiated his etatements. I < An irritating grain of sand in an oyster does NOT determine the formation of a pearl! It is not the presence of an irritating intrusive body that determines the formation of a pearl, but the presence in the sub-epidermal tissues of the oyster of a closed sac of the shellsecreting epidermis. No irritating body introduced into the shell or tissues can be expected to become the nucleus of a pearl.

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League Formed To Play Tag Football Tag football will be introduced in Decatur Saturday, cqach Bob Worthman announced today, and four teams have been organized among the younger students at Decatur junior-senior high school with league competition starting Saturday. Tag football is similar to the regular game, except when a ball carrier is tagged by an opposing player the ball is dead and the runner cannot advance. It is regarded by football coaches as a great training for younger players, and eliminates the hazard of injury. It develops speed and accuracy. The four teams have been named the Bears, with Bill Bell, as captain; the Giants with Burdette Custer as captain; the Lions with Jim Helm as captain and the Rams with Bob Brokaw as captain. A regular schedule of games is being worked out with a championship series later in the fall. Following is the complete roster of the teams: Bears: Bill Bell, Dave Blackburn, Bob Oman. Carl Hurst, Roger McDonald, Jim Engle, Bob Baker, Bill Hancher. Earl Sprague, Bob Ochsenrider. Lions: Jim Helm, Don Foor, Norman Schieferstein, Jerry Carter, Bob Ailerson, Jim Rennels, Don Aurand, Larry Vizard. Roger Blackburn, Roger Dull, Irvin Myers. Giants: Burdette Custer, Jim Moses, Jack Gaffer, Dick Duff, Bob Abbott, Tony Custer, Larry Hutker, Verlin Egly, Ray Call, Berry I Sheets, Roger Sprague, j Rams: Bob Brokaw. Norman Poli lock, Don Metzger, Junior Conrad, Don Roop, Ronnie Murphy, Roger i Pollack, Bud Swygart, Phil Baker, Fred McDougal, Jim Oman and Ray Roop. No admission will be charged to any of the tag games and the public is invited.

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HOUSING Expediter Frank Creedon, in Washington, D. C., tells special Congressional committee investigating the housing shortage that legislation will not correct the shortage brought on by middle men taking unnecessary profits in the building material markets. Creedon declares the cost of homes will come down only when full production brings competition back. (International)

Will Attend Dinner And Meeting Os FOP More than 35 active and associate members of the Fort Wayne chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police from Decatur are planning on attending the dinner and meeting of that organization at the FOB country club at Fort Wayne the night of October 9. The dinner is limited to members only and there will be no charge. All local members are invited to attend. An excellent program has been arranged to follow the dinner. 0 Trnde Tn w Gnod T>»catnr

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Kansas City Champs Near To Elimination By United Press Louisville and Minneapolis will play the string out tonight in the American Association semi-final playoff round and Milwaukee needs another victory to eliminate leaguechampiop Kansas City. The Millers evened the count at three games apiece last night, laying down a barrage of home runs that defeated Louisville, 8 to 2, at Minneapolis. The other half of the playoff went to the Brewers at Milwaukee, 5 to 3, to give them a 3-2 game lead over Kansas City. It was Minneapolis, second successive victory after being down three games to one and the winner of tonight’s game will be in the finals with the victor of the Kansas City-Milwaukee set. Harry Gilbert sparked the Miller’s punch with a pair of home runs and Johnny McCarthy and Bob Rhawn made one apiece while Marv Grissom throttled the Colonel bats on eight hits. Gilbert and McCarthy hit successive homers in the second inning to give the Millers the lead and Grissom protect-

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ed it well. Joe Ostrowski was the losing hurler. Clem Dreisewerd was named to pitch the showdown game for Louisville tonight and Earl McGowan was slated to hurl for Minneapolis at their field. Glenn Elliott southpawed Kansas City into submission on seven scattered hits. Tommy Byrne was charged with his second loss to Elliott in the playoffs when he was slammed for two runs in the second inning on Al Dark’s double and three more scores in the fourth. Byrne was lifted in the fourth after issuing seven walks and six hits. Hank Bauer doubled home two Blue tallies In the third Inning and Ed Stewart scored Jerry Coleman on a two-bagger in the eighth to complete Kansas City’s scoring. In an attempt to wind up the set, Milwaukee nominated Vern Bickford to pitch tonight. Bickford threw a two-hit shutout at the Blues last week- 818 Wight will be on the slab for Kansas City.

■■■■■« M B W B B B B B B B ■ Browning Bus Line Announces the Operation of ■ New Bus Line K — Starting — | Thursday, Sept. 18 Busses will be operated on Two Routes, with stops at Madison and Second Sts. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, our busses will be B parked in Stop Zones, afternoon and night, for public inspection. See Wednesday’s paper for ■ routes and schedules.

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