Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1947 — Page 8

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Prelim Battle Tuesday Night Holds Interest The game between the American Legion team of this city and Smitty’s Restaurant of Coldwater. Mich., which will be played at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday as a preliminary to the Pistons - Redskins exhibition clash, is attracting great interest among basketball fans. The Legion team, sponsored by Adams Post 43, boasts some of the outstanding basketball players in this area, while the Coldwater team is recognized as among the tops in independent circles in this section of the country. These teams met twice last season, each scoring one victory, and with both quintets adding new players this year, another hangup battle is in prospect Tuesday. Smitty's, with several games under their belts, will have a playing advantage over the Legionnaires, who will be seeing actual play sos the first time. i Starting lineup for the Legion is

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Saturday Monroe vs Monmouth at Berne. Petroleum at Geneva. Poling at Hartford. Pleasant Mills at Wren, O. expected to include Dale Schnepf and Crist at forwards, K. Schnepf at center, Zerkel and Hirschy at guards. Other members of the team are Melchi, Stapleton, Zuercher Andrews and Mansfield. Wayne Schnepf is manager of the Legionnaires. The Coldwater team has several former college stars on its roster, including Hansen, six foot, seven inch center from Albion Teachers, and Dillon, a guard, former Illinois University star. The starting lineup will be: Corless and Buford, forwards: Hansen at center, and Dillon and Shurlow at the guards. Reserves are Gilbert, Miller, Wheeler and Scheldt. This tilt will be followed by the exhibition battle between two top , National league teams, the Fort J Wayne Zollner Pistons and the i Sheboygan Redskins. These teams ] divided honors in a pair of games ■ at Sheboygan last weekend and the J best in the series of exhibitions j played here annually by the Pis- , tons is expected Tuesday night. J Tickets may be obtained from 1 any member of the Lions club, spon- < sor of the game, or at various in- J dustrles in Decatur. <

o . I women’s league Gass Store won three from 1 Kuehn; Victory Bar won three from Mies; McMillen won three from Sutton; Duo Therm won two • from Three Kings; Dauler won I two from Central Soya; B & T J won two from Hill-Smith. I Standing < w l ; Mies 17 7 ■ McMillen * 15 9 I : Gass 14 10 J Central Soya 13 11 ' Duo Therm 13 11 Hill-Smith 12 12 ' Victory 12 12 Three Kings 11 13 ; Dauler 10 14 B & T 10 14 ; Sutton 9 15 ' Kuehn 8 16 High games: Densel 189, Wood- ‘ ward 180, Fennig 177. < o ; Trade in a Good Town Decatur * I CORT TONIGHT and FRI. & SAT. HOPALONG CASSIDY “Hoppy’s Holiday” Wm. Boyd, Andy Clyde ALSO “Jesse Janies Rides Again” 9c-30c Inc. Tax Sun. Tues. “Crimson Key” & “Shoot To Kill”

O'Connor To Fight Ruling By Chandler BULLETIN Chicago, Oct. 30.— (UP) — President Will Harridge today called a special meeting of all American league clubs tomorrow to consider commissioner A. B. Chandler’s suspension of the Chicago White Sox and its general manager Leslie O’Connor. Chicago, Oct. 30 —(UP) — Leslie O’Connor, the stoical but sharptongued general manager of the Chicago White Sox, promised to make public today all of the correspondence in the fight which led commissioner A. B. Chandler to suspend him from baseball. Because the Sox signed high school pitcher George Zoeterman in violation of baseball rules. Chandler said, and because O’Connor refused to pay a SSOO fine imposed for the violation, the White Sox

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were "without privilege’’ under baseball law until the fine is paid. ( And O'Connor planned to fight 1 the ruling with every means at his 1 command. Revelation of the corre- < spondence Was to be the first step, i After that his course was vague, 1 but O’Connor, who learned his baseball lore as secretary to Chand- I ler’s predecessor, KeneSfiw Moun- : tain Landis, left no doubt he would continue to fight as long as he i can. ' 1 "I know the rule in this case,” he said, "because 1 actually wrote 1 it myself. Certainly, I wouldn’t 1 violate it.” O'Connor maintained that the : rule prohibiting negotiations with I high school players specified that 1 it applied only to players on school 1 teams which belonged to the National Federation of high schools. The Christian high school which ■ Zoeterman attended is not a mem- ■ her of the federation. Chandler in later bulletins de- ] creed that the rule applied to all high school students. O’Connor admitted that he was aware of these bulletins, but said that. Chandler "had no right to interpret the rule , that way.” Regardless of the outcome of the dispute, O’Connor made the first • complete break with Chandler since the former Kentucky senator took office as baseball’s ruler in 1945.

Previously Chandler had enforced a one-year suspension on Leo Durocher, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and had aroused some opposition in baseball by sitting in a closed hearing with Larry MacPhail, then president of the New York Yankees. But no baseball figure has openly defied an edict as did the fighting-mad O’Connor. The White Sox signed Zoeterman to a contract as batting practice pitcher for the final weeks of the 1947 season in September. The contract also called for him to play major league ball in 1948. O’Connor said he wrote Chandler about the contract and on Sept. 26, the commissioner replied by mail, voiding the contract and fining the Sox SSOO. When the fine vyas not paid by Oct. 24, O’Connor said, the club was barred from the “privileges of the rules.” The restriction meant, that unless the fine is paid and the White Sox reinstated to good standing: 1. O’Connor, a member of baseball’s executive council, could not attend the next meeting of the group at Cincinnati Nov. 7. 2. The club will not be able to participate in the draft of minor league players Nov. 10. 3. The club will be unable to make any player trades or enter into other types of inter-club business. Opinion differed on whether the Sox would be able to play ball at all next season if the fine was not paid, and Walter Mulbry, Chandler’s executive secretary,

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—— said at Cincinnati that the cothmissioner had “not looked that far i into the future.” o Auburn And Garrett ( Clash Friday Night Indianapolis, Oct. 30 —(UP) The Central Indiana high school conference today prepared to turn its attention to king basketball, but for the remainder of the Hoosier prep school loops, the gridiron season had at least two more weeks to go. Plymouth, undefeated in league play and with a season record of seven ups and one down — the latter at 13-7 decision to South Bend Adams — copped the CIC crown last week when it won its last game against defending champ ion Huntington, 35-13. Lafayette Jeff also has its NCC 1 title sewed up for another year, I but the Broncos have two more i games on their schedule. The Northeastern conference i title will be decided Friday when • Auburn and Garrett — both undefeated — will clash for the crown. | > There was also still plenty of ac- • tivity in the Northern and South- ■ ern conferences. East Chicago Roosevelt, still the ; state’s "wonder eleven” after its successful conquest of rugged ; Whiting, will be host to city rival , Washington, while the Oilers will . take on Hammond Clark.

In other part of the Western section of the NIHSC, Gary Froebel will be at Gary Tolleston, while Gary Wallace, which nrovided a mild upset by turning hack Tolleston last week, cross over to the eastern half of the loop to take on Mishawaka. Fort Wayne North, still seeking its first win of the campaign, will he at La Porte, while Goshen, winner over Mishawaka and Michigan City, will be at South Bend Washington in the eastern NIHSC league. Trade In n ••nod Town — necniiir O Presbyterian rummage sale Saturday, November 1. Bargains. git

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