Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1947 — Page 8

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Giants Sound Death Knell To Cardinal Hopes New York, Sept. 17 — (UP) — Ac the final chop of the executioner on the neck of the onceproud world champion St. Louis Red Bird drew inevitably closer, it became obvious today that the tragedy would never have occurred had it not been for the New York Giants. The Giants, big bullies that they were, took special delight on hitting the Cardinals when they were down. Winning 13 out of 22 games for the season, the Giants all but delivered the Coup de Grace to the Cardinal pennant hopes yesterday ■when they scored a 7 to 2 triumph in the final meeting of the year between the teams. It was the third straight triumph for the New Yorkers over the Red Birds and in St. Louis it brought back bitter memories of what occurred in the first few weeks of the season. The Cardinals, as is often the tendency of champions, got off to a slow start and were in a la«t place tie with the Giants when they found themselves involved in a losing streak which eventually reached nine in a row as the Giants took them for three straight and went on to win the first six games the teams played against each other. Even after the Dodger invasion there might have been some hope for the Cards had not the Giants come in and won three in a row. Yesterday’s triumph was a late exploding one. The Giants opened up an Lefty Harry Brecheen after he had held them to two hits for six innings, and scored all their runs. Ray Poat won his fourth game for New York since joining the team late laet month. The Dodgers, by winning 7 to 3 at Cincinnati as Ralph Branca scored his 21st victory, put themselves within four games of the flag. The Phils shoved the Pirates into last place at Pittsburgh. Blix Donnelly won a 2 to 1 pitching battle when losing pitcher Mel Queen forced in the winning run on an eighth inning walk. The Yankees came out of their pennant clinching celebration safe and sane and divided a double bill with the Browns at New York, winning 8 to 3 as Rookie Dick Starr won his firet big league game, then losing 8 to 2. Sam Zoldak. St. Louis hurler, was backed up by five double plays which enabled first baseman Walt Judnich to set a league record for his position by participating in all of them.

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Bob Feller won hR 19th game, Joe Gordon hitting two homere to bring his total to 29 as Cleveland won a 5 to 3 decision over the Athletics. The A’s won the second game at Philadelphia, 7 to 3. Denny Galehouse, now tn his second decade as a big league hurlerg pitched a six-hit, 5 to 0 victory over the White Sox at Boston, but Chicago took the second game, 8 to 3. Chicago pitcher Joey Haynes drove in what proved to be the winning run with a sixth inning double. The Senators handed Hal Newhouser of the Tigers his 17th beating at Washington, 4 to 1 as Early Wynn pitched four-hit ball and missed a shutout only on the margin of Eddie Lake’s homer. Al Evans hit a Washington homer. Boston and Chicago were idle in the national. Yesterday's star — Joe Gordon of the Indians, who hit two doubles and two singles, drove in four runs and worked in three double plays in a split with the Athletics.

BASRAH RESULTS

National League W L Pct. G.B, Brooklyn ... 90 54 625 St. Louis 80 61 .567 8% Boston 79 67 .541 12 New York 74 67 .525 14% Cincinnati .... 69 78 .469 22% Chicago 65 77 .458 24 Philadelphia 59 85 .410 31 Pittsburgh 59 86 .407 31% American League W L Pct. G.B. New York 91 54 .628 Detroit 78 66 .542 12% Boston 77 66 .538 13 Cleveland 75 68 .524 15 Philadelphia 72 72 .500 18% Chicago 67 77 .465 23% Washington 60 83 .420 30 St. Louis 54 88 .380 35% YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Philadelphia 2. Pittsburgh 1. New York 7, St. Louis 2. Brooklyn 7, Cincinnati 3. Only games scheduled. American League Boston 5-3, Chicago 0-8. New York 8-2, St. Louis 3-8. Cleveland 5-3. Philadelphia 3-7. Washington 4, Detroit 1. 0 Colonels, Brewers In Playoff Finals By United Press Either Louisville or Milwaukee was slated today to represent the American association in the “little world series" as they disposed of opponents in the semi-final playoff round. The Colonels, eecond-place finishers in the regular season, defeated Minneapolis, 8 to 4, last night to gain the rubber game of the eevengame set Third-place Milwaukee knocked off the pen-nant-winning Kansas City club, 4 to 2, and earned its right to play in the finals in six games with the Blues. ‘ The finale, between Louisville and Milwaukee, will open in the Kentucky city Friday night.

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BULLETIN St. Louis, Sept. 17.—(UP) — Jerome Herman “Dizzy” Dean, ope-tlme pitching great for the St. Louis Cardinals, today Signed a contract to pitch for the St. Louis Browns. Ed Smith, publicity director for the Browns, said that the right-hander would probably start one or more of the team's remaining home games at the discretion of manager Herold “Muddy Ruel. 0Indiana Counts On Lettermen To Win Chicago. Sept. 17. —(UP) —Coach Bo McMillin, whose “pore lil boys" have won or tied 16 of 19 games in the last two seasons, is counting on Iff select lettermen to help Indiana win its second big nine football championship in 1947. Eight of this crew were members of the 1945 team which won the only conference title ever brought home to Bloomington. Chief among these is George Taliaferro, the classy negro halfback from Gary who was the leading ground gainer in the circuit in his freshman year. Others on the list are captain Howard Brown and Bob Harbison at guards, tackle John Goldsberry, ends Bob Havensberg and Lou Mihajlovich, and right halfbacks Mel Grooms and Dick Deranek. With this nucleus and 23 additional lettermen, McMillin’s club hopes to better the third place finish of 1946, but 80, never optimistic. isn’t expecting too much. He rates the running attack as stronger because of Taliaferro, but he believes the passing will be much weaker because of the loss of Ben Raimondi. Last year’s punting star, Rex Grossman. is back, and while the place kicking for distance may be better, tackle Charley Armstrong, the point-after-touchdown specialist, nas graduated. McMillin sizes up the weaknesses of his team at center, which he proclaims “weak as water,” and at fullback, left vacant by Pete Pihos. The ends have “more talent available," the tackles and guards are “about the same,” the quarterbacks uncertain and the halfbacks good. Taliaferro is a certain starter at left half and he will have strong backing from Hugh McKinnis. At right half Groomes and Deranek will alternate. McMillin has Grossman, Del Russell and Bill Driver as possibilities for the signal calling spot, but Grossman may move to fullback to compete with Chick Jagade and Joe Bartkiewicz. Bob Ravensberg and Mihajlovich are the probable starters at end and while Goldsberry is sure to nail down one tackle post, there is plenty of competition for the other spot, with Tom Moorehead, a senior doubke-letterman from Fort Wayne, as the probable choice. Harbison and captain Brown will be the starting guards, while Mike Sikora, George Parker, Francis Oleksak and George Karstens are competing for the center berth. Indiana opens Sept. 27 against a traditional rival, Nebraska, and then meets Wisconsin, lowa, Pittsburgh, Northwestern, Ohio State, Michigan, Marquette and Purdue.

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CHAIN-SMOKING Sjarif Hamid Alkadrie, 34-year-old Sultan of Pontianak, West Borneo, is shown in New York City during a press interview. He told reporters that two-thirds of the 75,000,000 natives in the Netherlands East Indies are bitterly opposed to the Indonesian Republic. He added that the republic is controlled in a large measure by Moscow-trained egents, (International)

Veterans Stick it Out Norman, Okla. (UP) —Although living costs reached a new high, only 3.49 per cent of the veterans enrolled in the University of Oklahoma withdrew from the school during the spring semester. It compared with 4.19 per cent veteran withdrawals during the first semester, and 3.57 per cent withdrawal of non-veterans during the current semester. With God, go over the sea; without Him, not over the threshold. — Russian Proverb.

Monmouth Eagles Defeat Kirkland The Monmout Eagles softball team defeated the Kirkland Kangaroos, 20 to 9, in a game played on the Kirkland diamond Tuesday afternoon. — o Girl Softballers To Compete For Title The girl’s softball championship of Adams county will be settled in a three-teaiu blind tourney at Geneva Thursday night. Teams entered are Preble, Geneva and Bingen. The tourney draw will be made shortly before time of the first game. o Presbyterian Men Meet This Evening The Presbyterian men’s club will meet for a dinner and program in the church basement at 6:30 o’clock this evening. Lawrence Auspaugh, program chairman, will show a cathedral sound film, “No Greater Power,” based on a story by Vacchaeus. —— o Not always right in all men’s eyes, But faithful to the light within. — Holmes. o “Don’t gamble with death--Drive carefully.” —Kenneth Runyon. 218t5

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Kirkland Basketball Schedule Announced Seventeen games are on the 194748 basketball schedule for the Kirkland Kangaroos, as announced today by Hubert Zerkel, Jr., coach of the net squad. The Kangaroos will open their schedule Tuesday, Nov. 4. meeting the Jefferson Warriors on the Jefferson home court. Included on the card are home and home games with the Decatur Commodores. Kirkland, who lost last year in the finals of both the county and sectional 'tournaments, lost only three members of the sectional squad by graduation. W. Landis was the only regular to graduate. The Kangaroos also suffered a further blow several days ago when Baxter, a regular last year, suffered a broken leg in a softball game and will be unavailable at least early in the basketball season. The Kirkland schedule follows: Nov. 4 —Jefferson at Jefferson. Nov. 7—Rockcreek at Rockcreek. Nov. 11 —Commodores at Decatur. Nov. 14—Hartford at Kirkland. Nov. 21—Monroe at Kirkland. Nov. 26—Monmouth at Kirkland. Dec. 3—Petroleum at Kirkland. Dec. s—Geneva at Geneva. Dec. 12—Lancaster at Lancaster. Dec. 18—Pleasant. Mills at Pleasant Mills. Jan. 2—Hartford at Hartford. Jan. 16—Monmouth at Monmouth. Jan. 23 —Jefferson at Kirkland. Jan. 30 —Decatur Commodores at Kirkland. Feb. 6—Pleasant Mills at Kirkland. Feb. 13—Monroe at Monroe. Feb. 20— Markle at Kirkland. Police Report Baby Buggy Abandoned Here City police have confiscated and found a wide assortment of items and articles in recent years, but they believed the latest “lost and found" tops them all. It’s a baby buggy. The buggy, in good condition, waa found abandoned. It was reported to police that shortly before it was found a slightly inebriated man was seen pushing it down the street. Police are holding it until the owners calls. Trade fn n Good Town — Decatur

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Fort Wayne Speedway To Offer Two Races Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. — The Fort Wayne Speedway will stage its first open racing program for midget autos this season and ’ Speedway Owner Charlie McKinley expects a big field of Offenhaus- : ers to turn out for this Thursday night card to compete with the i Fords, outboards and motorcyclepowered cars of the Capital Racing Association. The thousands of racing fans who have been attending the California Road oval’s racing programs this summer have been clamoring for an opportunity to see the speedy Offenhausers fn action. The Mutual Racing Association will present another of its exciting stock car programs Sunday night. Both of the shows will get going at 8:30 p.m. Midget time trials will start at 7:30 p.m. o Trade tn n Good Town DeeiMnr

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

Fort Wayne Man Is Fined For Speeding Jeese Foldner, Fort Warn fined $1 and costs by justj# the peace Floyd B. Hunte Tuesday when he pleaded t to a charge of speeding, gj arrested on Mercer aventel ficer James Borders, who fa him with driving 50 miles pe in a 30-mile zone. 0 HURRICANE WINI (Continued rrom r«t j the concrete floor. The coastline had battened hours before the full weight i storm struck the southern 12 the state. And in a bumper to bumpetl way cavalcade and by tpi trains and buses, an estimate 000 refugees migrated froi Lake Okeechobee region, It t inlaid, where over 1,800 pet! in the 1928 hurricane.