Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1947 — Page 6

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Indians take Team Laurels For Fielding New York. Dec. 26 —(UP) — Despite the fact that'the Cleveland Indians exhibited the smoothest fielding array in American league history, the Philadelphia Athletics won individual honors by placing three men on the 1947 all-star defensive team, the official averages revealed today. Top Philadelphia players in their "field” were second baseman Pete (Pecky) Suder, third baseman Henry (Heinie) Majeski and catcher Warren (Buddy) Rosar. The Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox each supplied two leaders, the New York Yankees one, and the Chicago White Sox one. The American league's 1947 allstar fielding team: IB—Rudy York, Chicago, .995. 2B—Suder, .986. 3B—Majeski, .988. SS—Lou Boudreau, Cleveland. .982. OF —Joe DiMaggio, New’ York, .997; Sam Mele, Boston, .992, and Hank Edwards, Cleveland, .990. C —Rosar, .996. P —Joe Dobson, Boston, 1.000. Cleveland, which created a new major league fielding record with a .983 percentage, had chiefly its playing - manager Boudreau to thank. The slender short-fielder cracked his own major league rec-, ord of .978 by posting a .982 average. He erred only 14 times in 794 chances and was leader in doubleplays with 120. Majesi also broKe me major league record for third sackers with his .988 percentage. The mark erased the .984 standard registered by Willie Kamm of Chicago in 1933. Majeski committed only five errors in 428 chances. Joe Di Maggio tied an American league record with his percentage of .997 in 139 games, while brother Dominic of the Red Sox led the loop’s outfielders in assists with

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All told, the American league tied or broke 16 different fielding marks during the past season in which the emphasis was on fielding and hitting rather than pitching. Three other American league defensive marks were tied by first baseman Ferris Fain and shortstop Eddie Joos£ of Philadelphia and catcher Larry (Yogi) Berra of the Yankees. Fain participated in six doubleplays on Sept. 1, while team-mate Joost took part in five on the same day. Berra made an unassisted double-play against the St. Louis Browns on June 15. Little Eddie Lake of Detroit made more errors than any player in the league, 43, and George (Skeets) Dickey of the White Sox was charged with the most passed balls among catchers, eight. Loosest fielding units in the league were the White Sox and the Tigers, each tied for the lowest average with .975, and for the most errors, 155. 0

Women’s League Hill-Smith won three from Sutton; Central Soya won three from B & T; Mies won two from Duo Therm; Gass won two from Victory Bar; Three Kings won two from McMillen; Dauler won two from Kuehn. Standing W L Central Soya .... —-— 32 16 Mies - 31 17 Gass .... 28 20 McMillen — 28 20 Dauler 26 22 Three Kings 25 23 Hill-Smith 24 24 Victory 24 24 B & T 22 26 Duo Therm 18 30 Kuehtk 17 31 Sutton - 14 34 High games: Kingsley 192, Reynolds 181, D. Hoile, D. Hoile 181, Rowdon 187, Odle 179, Engle 177, Myers 176, Nash 176, Woodward 176, Schafer 173, Moran 171, Densel 170. PRQ BASKETBALL National League Rochester 61, Syracuse 60. 0 Lightweight Division Results Announced The London Bobbles defeated the Eagles, 24-11, and the All-Stars downed the Maroons. 21-18, in the lightweight division of the Decatur junior-senior high school intramural league earlier this week. o Trade In a Good Town —Decatur

Begin Final Drills For Bowl Contests By United Press Final drills for more than a dozen Jan. 1 football bowl games begin today and at Los Angeles, where Michigan and Southern California will clash in the Rose Bowl, it appeared that coach Fritz Crisler will be able to make good use of his alternating teams of defensive and offensive specialists. Crisler’s undefeated - untied midwestern juggernaut has suffered from the California heat since arriving for the granddaddy of bowl contests but ripped through a sparkling scrimmage the day before Christmas. Yesterday Los Angeles had its hottest Christmas in 33 years. The temperature reached 84 degree and Crisler, apparently well pleased with the condition of the Wolverines, said the team would hold only five more practices. Michigan unlike many cold-cli-mate teams that have bewailed California heat as the cause of their downfall, should experience a minimum of difficulty if the western heat wave continues through New Year’s day. Crisler used practically different teams on offense and defense to coast through nine games during the past season and probably will continue the system against Southern California. Trojan coach Jeff Cravath said yesterday he will start his regular lineup against Michigan. Cravath indicated that he will hold a single practice today but will go back to a two drills-a-day schedule Monday. At Dallas, Tex., Penn State’s Nittany Lions faced morning and afternoon drills today and tomorrow after going through a surprise practice yesterday. Coach Bob Higgins led the Lions through a turkey dinner and then took them out for a ° scrimmage which he said was a d “little ragged.” ' The undefeated - untied Lions 1 meet undefeated but once tied s Southern Methodist in the Cotton f Bowl. Penn State’s co-captain and ( right tackle John Nolan, who has *■ a sprained ankle, reserve quarterback Walter Palmer, who has a ■ cold, and end Dennie Hoggard, w’ho a was suffering from an upset sto- c mach, missed yesterday’s scrim- < - mage. 1 S. M. U„ who has not had a work- ( out since last Saturday morning, s resumes practice this afternoon. 8 The squad is reported in top physi- 1 cal condition. c

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Both the east and west squads, who will meet in the annual shrine game at San Francisco New Year’s day, worked out Christmas day. The western All-Stars went through a two-and-a-half hour session stressing contact blocking and pass defense. at Stanford university while the eastern team drilled at Santa Clara, Cal. Herman Wedemeyer of St. Mary’s, Virgil Eikenberg of Rice and Cal Rossi of U. C. L. A. stood out for the western squad. George Connor, Notre Dame's all-America tackle, Glen Treichler of Colgate, George Savitsky of Pennsylvania and Larry Olsonoski of Minnesota, all of whom have been hospitalized with intestinal flu, re-joined the eastern group and head coach Bernie Bierman of Minnesota scheduled double sessions today and tomorrow. Teams in the other major bowl games, Albania vs Texas in the Sugar at New Orleans,' and Kansas vs Georgia Tech in the Orange at Miami marked time over the holiday but will settle down to serious training today. — — 0 Father Os Indiana Grid Star Killed Gary, Ind., Dec. 26 — (UP) — Police questioned Walter Taliai ferro today in connection with the I death of Robert Taliaferro, 42, father of Indiana university’s star negro halfback, George Robert Taliaferro died in a hospital yesterday after suffering a shotgun wound during a quarrel with Walter, his 37-year-old brother. Walter told police the shotgun exploded accidently in his home when he tried to take it away from Robert. —o —— • 24 Persons Drowned As Vessel Is Sunk Amsterdam, Dec. 26 —"(UP) — Twenty-four persons were believed today to have drowned Christmas night when the 1,950-ton Norwegian timber ship Skoghaug sank after an explosion off the Dutch coast. Arne Roekkan. 28, believed to be the only survivor, reached Camperduin in a lifeboat to tell his story of a 50-mile storm-tossed voyage along the Dutch coast. —o Trainmen Injured In Florida Wreck Miami, Fla., Dec. 26 — (UP) — An almost-empty passenger train ploughed into wreckage of a derailed freight train on the outskirts of Miami early today, injuring two crewmen. The passenger train was a northbound local, and at the early-morn-ing hour very few passengers were aboard. Damage to train equipment was heavy. Traffic was routed to other tracks. ; —o Four Persons Die In Fire At Dance Hall Fredericksburg, Tex,. Dec. 26 — (UP) — Four persons were dead today as fire swept through the Seipps dancehall on the outskirts of Fredericksburg last night. Only 30 persons were in the hall at the time of the blaze but more than 1,000 were expected to attend later. The early time of the fire possibly saved this section of the country from an inferno such as the Coconut Grove disaster in Boston.

Fox Hunt Planned Saturday Morning The Adams county conservation club will hold a fox hunt Saturday starting at 8 o’clock in the morning. The hunters are asked to meet at the OK welding shop on North Eighth street promptly at the starting time. Officers of the club announced that free ammunition will be furnished all hunters bringing guns with them. The dogs recently bought by the club will be used in tracking the animals. o U. S. Sailors Die In Finland Shipwreck 39 Crew Members Reported Rescued Helsinki, Finland, Dec. 26 — (UP) — Nine American sailors met death from drowning and exposure when the U. S. ship Park Victory was wrecked in a Christmas Eve blizzard on the rocky southwest coast of Finland near the fortress town of Uto, military authorities reported today. Thirty-nine members of the crew, including Capt. Allen Zepp, were rescued. One of the crewmen was saved after five hours of artificial respiration. Two of the dead succumbed from exposure shortly after rescue. Zepp told authorities he dropped anchor in the storm but that the bottom was rock and the anchor would not hold. The ship was driven against the rocks and split up in a few minutes. The captain ordered the crew into four lifeboats, which rapidly filled with water until some of the men were immersed up to their necks. A distress signal sent from the sinking ship was heard by a Finnish radio station and guards from Uto fortress put to sea in three rescue boats.

Flashlight signals guided rescuers to two of the lifeboats. Two others reached a small rocky island, from where the survivors were rescued. Zepp reported that seven of the dead were lost when huge waves swept them overboard while the ship was breaking up. Names of the dead were not disclosed. o Dies Os Injuries In Police Station Fall Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 26 —(UP) — Ralph W. Waters, 22, Fort Wayne, died yesterday of injuries he received Sunday when he fell down at the Fort Wayne police station. Doctors said he died of complications arising from a brain concussion and pneumonia. o— , North Judson Fire Loss Is $200,000 North Judson, Ind., Dec. 26 — (UP) — Damage from a Christmas day fire in the downtown section of North Judson was estimated today at $200,000. The fire, caused by an oil heater in an apartment house, wrecked seven buildings. One of the ruined structures was the U. S. post office. Seven fire departments aided in fighting the blaze.

° Today's Sport Parade | By Oscar Fraley I (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) I O —— 0 New York, Dec. 26 —(UP) The major leagues are counting today on a great many rookies to make the grade next season but the pressure come 1948 will be on those freshman phenoms of 1947 who come to grips with the much-fear-ed sophomore jinx. The second year hoodoo isn’t to be taken lightly for down through the years it has tapped some of the best on the shoulder. Some came back and some never again made it. Those who attained first year success and must be on the lookout include 13 National leaguers, which may be a bit prophetic. They are Brooklyn’s Jackie Robinson, Pittsburglh’s Cully Rickhard, Cincinnati’s Frank Baumholtz, Boston's Early Torgeson, Dodger Spider Jorgensen, Pirate Wally Westake, Giant Lucky Lohrke, Cardinal Chuck Diering and, among the pitchers, Giant Larry Jansen, Brooklyn’s Harry Taylor, Cardinal Jim Hearn, Giant Ray Poat and Cincinnati’s Ed Lively. The risk is less in the American league because the junior circuit had fewer first year stars. Among them were: Boston’s Sam Mele, the A’s Ferris Fain, Detroit’s Vic Wertz, the Yankees’ Yogi Berra and Ralph Houk, the Browns' Ray Coleman, Washington’s Eddie Yost and, among the pitchers, Vic Raschi and Karl Drews of the Yankees and Bill McCahan of the A’s. Waite Hoyt said once that no ball player, particularly among the pitchers, can be properly evaluated until he has been up on the big apple at least three years But apparently if a player gets over the second year hump he’ll do. Yet what a climb that can be! Consider some of the cases. There was Cliff Melton, the Carolina hillbilly with the liquid lightning fast ball and the jug handle curve. He won 20 games his first year for the Giants, first such rookie performance in the National league since Grover Alexander’s 1911 debut. But it was five years before “mountain music” had another winning season. Then there was Paul Derringer, w’ho went up to the Cardinals In 1931 and helped them to the pennant with 18 wins. Flattened twice in the world series, Oom Paul needed three years to rehabilitate

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himself. And back in 1938 a yoiftg southpaw named Johnnie Vander Meer went up to Cincinnati and achieved the unprecedented and almost unbelievable feat of pitching two successive no-hitters. The next year a sore arm stopped him cold. The New York Giants had another example of the sophomore jinx' effectiveness in the case of Bill Voiselle. The big guy won 21 games as a 1944 rookie and as a sophomore stumbled and couldn't buy a victory. Many of these brilliant baseball careers are handicapped by injuries. But that just seems to be part of the hoodoo. Yet while injuries bring about the downfall of many, it is only one symptom of a jinx in which much is psychological. In all too many cases something either physical or mental happens to the rookie wonders and tosses them into a nondescript class the following year. And there’s a lot of them who must face the jinx in 1948! 0 Smoking In Bed Is Blamed For Death Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 26 — (UP) — Fire department officials today blamed smoking in bed for the death of Rolf J. Heyn, 22, Fort Wayne, yesterday. A coroner said that Heyn was asphyxiated by smoke from the smouldering bed in which his mother, Mrs. Wella Heyn, found him. o TYPHOON HITS (Continued from Page 1) ashore south of Tabaco, in Albay province. The Manila hotel, showplace of the Philippines, was wrecked along with many other buildings, including the American army and navy club. The screeching winds peeled off the hotel’s metal roof and drove guests out of the upper floors. At least two radio transmitters were knocked out when the winds blasted their sending towers, but undersea cables remained in service. Other unconfirmed reports said the huge U. S. army airbase at Tacloban Field, famous in war dispatches, had been set afire and that the typhoon winds were fanning the blaze into an inferno. One message, received from an unidentified station, said Taeloban was "burning like hell.” The full fury of the blast ripped into Manila at 2 a. m., heralded by 10 shrieking signals on the weather siren to warn Christmas celebrants that winds of major force were about to hit. Earlier winds of 60 miles an hour warned of the typhoon, which swept up from the southCASH LOANS Tell Ils How Much You Heed Privately Convenient Made Terms Don't hesitate to apply to us for a loan. Just tell us the amount you need. You can borrow any sum from $25 to S3OO on YOUR OWN SIGNATURE. No one else need sign. May wo help you? VISIT OUR OFFICE or mall coupon USE THIS VALUABLE SERVICE Our office open dally -•■■ CLIP AND MAIL TODAY”” •LOCAL LOAN COMPANY J Ground Floor - Brock Store Building • Phone 2-3-7 DECATUR. INDIANA ' ; Send me FREE INFORMATION J . Name — • Address« • • ; City State!

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