Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1948 — Page 6

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County Track Meet Will Be Held Wednesday The annual Adams county track and field meet will be held at 2:30 u<lm k Wednesday afternoon at Worthman field. Harry Dailey, Yellow Jackets track coach, announced today Flight of the county's 1" high schools will compete, with approximately 125 boys participating Herne. Monroe, Monmouth. Pier.- ) sent Mills. Hartford. Geneva, De -1 catur Catholic and Decatur will! compete for the team champion ship Every team will be represent-1 ed in the two relay races ami all the ’individual events will have from 12 t<> 16 entries. Officials for the county meet will Ice Steve Everha’t. starter and ref , eree \rthur Byrnes. field Judgein the high jump and pole vault.) and Bole VVorthinan. field Judge in the shot nut and broad jump In Goshen Relays Yellow Jackets thiulvc lads competed in the Goshen relays at Gosh . er Saturday, participating in the Bl meet, which was won by Auburn with »9' 2 points Rochester was second with 41 points and Garrett placed third with 43. In the 10U-yard dash, which had 42 entries, Kingsley won his trial heat In H> S, and Stingely won his trial heat in lo ci. Kingsley was gp. en second place and silver medal In the final, whose finish was so close the judges Were forced to take! a vote The final Hine was 10 6. Heller qualified In the high Jump trials with a leap of. 5 ft. 4 tn. In a field of 41 entries but was elini-l inated at 5 ft. 6 in in the finals.! Just missing fourth place Heller a'cco won his heat in the high hurdles and finished fifth in the finals There were 27 ent ties in tills race. The Yellow Jackets scored in the three relays they entered Mile relay Fourth in a field of nine teams i Bogner. Sommer. Foreman. Lehman!. Medley relay Third in a field' of seven teams (Baughn. Bogner. Lehman. Smilleyi. Half-mile relay Fourth in field of eight teams (Stingely. Baughn. Gilbert. Kingsley>. Decatur’s time ot 1:37 in thia relay was faster than the old meet record, and would have been good enough to win either of the other two half mile relays. oSteals Scooter-Bike, No Charges Preferred An inebriated Ohio man who al legedly stole a scooter ■ bike for an impromptu ride about 5:30 am Sunday escaped the clutches of the law liecause of the generosity of the owner. The bike, taken from a service station at Five Pidntx, was found about 7 pm. by sheirlff Bowman at Nuttman and Sixth streets. In vestlgation by sheriff Herman Bow man. who found the bike, disclosed the identity of the thief. Since he had not Iceen seen by officials and the owner declined pressing charg es. no action will bo taken against him. although his identity was learned

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minor AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct. G.B. ' Indianapolis !t 3 .750 St. Paul 7 I 5*3 2 Minneapolis 7 5 .5*3 2 Columbus 6 6 ,500 3 Milwaukee 6 7 .462 3’4 Louisville 6 7 .462 3'i Kansas City 5 8 .3*5 4'4 ' Toledo 4 9 .30* 5'4 SATURDAY'S RESULTS Columbus 9. Kansas City 8. Minneapolis 14. Toledo I. Louisville 8. St. I’aul 4 Indianapolis 12. Milwaukee 8. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Milwaukee 10-10, Indianapolis [ML Columbus 5-14. Kansas City 4-7.1 Minneapolis 8-x, Toledo 5-5. lactiisville 36. St. Paul l-10. Giants Defeat Braves Twice To Take Lead Sew York. April 26 »I'P» Quiet little Me| OH, who lets the Giant home- run bats <i>> most ot the talking for his team, was a joyous gent today because it look 1 ed like at long last he had found a couple of pitchers At the start of the season Ott. conservatively sizing up his team's chances said "give us another good | starting pitcher ami we'll be as | tough ar. any of them " Now It 1 looks as If he had found not only one but two and maybe even three When the Giants started out Ott could look only to Larry Jansen. | 'his 21 game winner of last year.) ax a dependable pitcher. Behind him he had only question marks.) but Ray Poat, rookie Sheldon l Jones anil the great Bobo New- 1 I som have turned in creditable per formancex thus far in the young season. The Giatils bowled over.the Braves 6 to 2 and 6 to 0 yesterday, winning the op.-ner in the huh when Walker Cooper smacked a grand slam homer Relief pitcher Ken Trinkle took over from Newsom and stopped a Boston uprising to gain credit for the victory. Then on came Jones to pitch a twiehltter, holding the Braves without a safety until the fifth .lai k laihrke led the attack with a pair of doubles. The hustling Phils. hanging closely on the heels of the Giants in second place, made It two out of three over the Ikslgers in Brooklyn as Emil Leonard pitched a crafty nine-hit. 6 to 3 win Russ Meyer of the Cubs pitched the best game of the campaign to date a one-hit. 3 to 1 job over the Cards at Chicago. George Kurow ski got the spoiler, a second inning single and he went on to score on two walks and an infield out In one stretch Meyer retired 22 men in order. The Pirates came back to win a 13 to 10 battle at Cin< fnnatl after the Reds took the opener. 7 to 6. Hank Sauer broke up the opener [ with a homer in the ninth. Sauer got three homers for the day and took the National league home run lead with four for the campaign The Indians remained the only unbeaten team in the majors, topping the Tigers at Detroit, 7 to 4 as Ken Kejtner hit two homers and a single. It was the second time that Keltner had hit two homer* in a game this season and it gave him the American league lead with four. Cleveland made 10 hits, eight of them off Detroit lefty ace. Hal Newhouser. Bob Muncrief. who relieved Al Gettd was credited with the win. The Yankees, given a first Inn ing lift on Joe Di Maggio's three run homer, defeated the Red Sox i sto 4, but needed relief help from lefty Joe Page when starter Ed Izipat weakened and yielded ait the Red Sox runs In the ninth. Two came in on Birdie Tebbetts' homer The Senators divided with the A's at Philadelphia, winning 7 to 3 after rookie Carl Scheib shut them out. 4 to fit. in the opener with six hits to end a fourgame Washington winning streak Ray Scar borough gave up only three hits in the second game but two of them were homers by Eddie Joost and Hank Majeskl The White Sox won their first game. 4 to 1. at St. Louis after which the Browns won the nightcap. 7 t» <• In the opener. Bofr Kennedy backed up Orral Grove's steady pitching with four hits to lead the Chicago attaik Yesterday's star— Ruas Meyer

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of the Cubs who pitched a one-hit victory over the Cardinals, winning 3 to 1. 0 — Records Broken In Slate Track Meets IndianapolM. April 26 il'Pi Four new season records were on ■ the iMMikx today and some 2" stand lards lay xhatlered ax the result of • t ecord-bust ing performances by ■ Indiana's high »< hool trackmen 1 over the weekend. The annual relays at Goshen. East Chicago. LaPorte. .Muncie, Indianapolis and the intra - city battle l>etween Evansville and Terre Haute nerved ax a tun up for' the state xectionalx next month, and observers agreed that the ath- ’ letes were well on the way to reaching their peak. No less than nine meet records wereAtet at EvanxHll» as Reitz of the pocket city won the meet for the third straight year witli a total of 64 points Terre Haute was run ner-up with 51. Hut the real record - smashing took place at the Goshen carnival and a* Mqncie. Gary Froebel. which edged city rival Roosevelt at Goshen. 65-64. accounted for two of the new marks, and Anderson, although beaten by Fort Wayne South, turued in the others. Froebel's George Bell was the only double-winner of the weekend meets, racing the 2<m-yard low hurdles in .22 6 Just two-tenths of a second off the state record set by Everett Veregge of Richmond two years ago and capturing the 'road jump with n leap of 20 fret six inches. Froelu-I's half-mile relay set a new setuion and Goshen relays'

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mark with a 1:32.7 performance, two-tenllis of a second off its previous best. Johnny Stayton. Anderson’s youthful miler whom some experts tai- as a likely successor to Earl Mitchell, another Anderson distance runner who gained track fame at Indiana university, was clockeil in 4:29.4 in his specialty. And the tribe's one-mile quartet turned on the hr.it and was caught In 3 33 1 bettering Gary Wallace's best effort by three-tellt hs [ of a second. Meanwhile, Anderson's threeyear reign as < hampion ot the Muncie relays was broken by a wrllbalanced Fort Wayne South dub. which collected 30 points to Antler son's 29. The Archers were first only in the < pole vault and high jump, but they placed well up In front in five events to shade coach i'arl Botige'w Tribe. Soutli Side's victory restored the summitt city's reputation of ranking with the strongest track protlucitU athlete., centers In the state after Fort Wayne N nth lost to Indiatiup-dis Tech In the Indianapolis relays by virtue of the disqualification of two o' its relay teams. o Legion Chaplain To Speak Here Tonight The Rev. Philip Chase Dermond. state chaplain of the American l-e---glon. will headline a program at the Legion home tonight. Rev. Iteruiond Will speak during the regular meeting, scheduled for * p in. The lz*glon will also present a newly purchased resuscitator to the city during the meeting. A fish fry at 6 p.m.. for members only, will open the evening's activities. o Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

.MAJOR" - ! AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. G.B. Cleveland I 0 1 "00 Washington .. 5 2 .714 % Philadelphia 4 3 571 1«4 New York 3 3 ,f>"o 2 Detroit 3 3 .s<ut 2 St Uiuis 2 2 .500 2 Chicago 1 5 .167 4 Boston 1 5 .167 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. New York 5 2 .7154 Philadelphia 4 2 667 ’/ St. Louis 3 3 .500 1«4 Brooklyn 3 3 .500 m Cincinnati 4 4 .500 I’-, Pittsburgh 4 4 .500 I'4 Chicago 3 3 .500 I'-j Boston 1 6 .143 4 SATURDAY'S RESULTS American League Washington 3. Philadelphia 2. New York 7, Boston 2. Cleveland 4. Detroit 1. St. Ixiula 6. Chicago 4. National League Chicago 6. St. Louis 2. New York 16, Boston 9. Brooklyh 11. Philadelphia 4. Pittsburgh 7. Cincinnati 1. % YESTERDAYS RESULTS American League Philadelphia 4 3. Washington 0-7. Chicago 4-6. St. Izmir 1-7. J New York 5, Boston 4. Cleveland 7. Detroit 4. National League New York 66. Boston 2-0 (Ist

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