Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1948 — Page 8

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Legion Nine To Play Bluffton Here Sunday The Decatur American Legion baseball team, preparing for the Federation league opening May 9. will meet the Bluffton Merchant# in an exhibition game Sunday as ternoon at 2 o’clock at Worthman field. Carl Mies, manager, announced today. No admission charge will be made for Sunday’. exhibition, and baseball fans of the city and coun-l ty are Invited to attend The, Bluffton team Is also a member of the nine-team Federation league Decatur will meet I-eg lon Post 47. of Fort Wayne. In the league lid-lifter at Worthman field Sunday. May 9 Further details on the opener will be announced next week Other opening tilts will be Fort Wayne Moose v» Huntertown at State School. Redkey at Cedi. O . and International Harvester at Van Wert. O. The Federation league will play only Sunday afternoon games during the month of May. with the night schedule getting underway the first week in June Night games will be played at Dwenger. State School. McMillen and Bluff ton. Starting Lineup The probable starting lineup for Sunday's exhibition, as announced by manager Mies. Is as follows: Andrews or Bower, catcher; Cossairt, Schamerloh and Zwick. pitchers; Jack Schnepf. first base; Schmidt. second base; Frey, shortstop: Krouse, third base; Bolyard, left field. Hornberger, center field; Heckman, right field All members of the squad will likely see action in the exhibition game, Mies stated 0 MINOR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct. G.B. Indianapolis 12 .1 .RAO Minneapolis 10 5 .667 2 St. Paul 9 6 «oo 3 Milwaukee 9 7 563 3>-* Columbus 7 * .467 5 Louisville 6 Iff .375 St; Kansas City 511 313 7 4 Toledo 412 .250 65k YESTERDAY’S RESULTS American Association Indianapolis 4. Kansas City 2. Minneapolis I, Ixiuisvllle 6. Columbus 5. St. Paul 6. Milwaukee 5. Toledo 4. 0 Secaur--ipi.olstering Phone T 0 Trade In a O®'<4 Town — Decatur

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Softball Loop Open To Entire County A meeting to organize the summer softball league in Decatur will l>e held at 7:36 o’clock Monday evening at the Decatur Junior ■ seni ior high school. The league is open to all teams in the county and interested organizations are asked i to have representatives at Monday's meeting. I o Pair Os Joes Lead Yanks To Four Straight New York. April 30. -(TP) - , No one talks much about the world champion New York Yant kees these days, but thanks to a couple of pros named Joe. they're . doing very hlcely. folks. Today they rode a four-game winning streak and from their second place position In the standings seemed ready to challenge the still unbeaten Cleveland Indians, all because Joe Di.Maggio and Joe, . Page are back In the groove that j led the Yankees to the 1947 pennant and world title. DiMaggio broke up a 10-lnning. 5 to 4. ball game with the senators at Yankee Stadium yesterday, hitting a long fly with the bases . loaded to send home Bobby Brown I There's nothing new almut that. It isn't always a spectacular hit. but In one way or another Ida Joe usually delivers. In the eight games the Yankees have played thus far he has gotten at least one hit in each and leads the club In runs driven in with seven laist Sunday in a similarly climatic I situation he smashed a three-run i homer against the Red Sox. Page got < redit yesterday for his first victory of the campaign by pitching hitless ball for four innings. hut manager Bucky Harris can tell you that there are at least two other games that the Yankees wouldn't have won. had he not come to the rescue. It was his fourth relief appearance In five games and in each he has been brilliant. I'ntll Di Maggio broke it up In the 10th homers by George McQuinn. Charley Keller, and Mrry Berra kept the Yankees In the ball game. The Incredible Indians, still 144 , games short of a perfect season, j nevertheless breezed to victory . number six behind the steady , pitching of Bob l#mon. who scatt tered eight hits In a 5 to 2 triumph over the Browns at St. Louis. It was Ltnog'i second win and he was ably supported by manager Lou Boudreau who got a homer, double and two singles and batted In three runs. Ix*ss Moss hit a St. lamia homer. Home runs also paid off for > the Red Sox with Ted Williams. Sam Merle. Joe Dobson, and Murr rell Jones hitting for the route In

an 11 to 5 triumph over the Athletics at Philadelphia. Dobson, after two defeats, chalked up victory number one, hut he couldn't get Elmer Vaio out. Vaio got four hits including a double and a homer and Buddy Rosar also homered for the A’a. The White Sox handed the Tigers their sixth defeat in seven games. 5 to 4 at Detroit. Floyd Baker tripled and came home on an error with the marginal run In ( the seventh after which Ike Pearson protected the margin with scoreless relief pitching. George Vico hit his fourth homer of the campaign for Detroit and Aaron . Robinson got a round tripper for ' Chicago. The Reds topped the Cards. 5 to 4 In the 14th at Cincinnati when rookie Hank Sauer, who had tied the score with a homer in the eighth, broke up the game with a run-scoring single. It was Sauer’s fifth homer, giving him the National league lead. All four Cardinal runs were driven in by Stan Musial. who hit a homer and two singles. The defeat was charg-; ed to Ted Wilks, his first since I 1945. Wilks, a relief artist, had won 12 straight games since hlsi last loss. The Dodgers maue 20 hits in a 17 to 7 rout of the Giants which ended a three-garne Brooklyn losing streak and a six game New York victory string. Preston Ward hit a grand slam homer and Pete Reiser got a three run homer and two run triple Johnny Mize, with a three run homer, and pinchhitter Bobby Thomson, who homered with none abase, led the Giants , Bruce Edwards got four of the . Dodger hits. Harry Walker’s Three-run in- ; side-the-park homer which followed a pair of singles, ruined pitcher Johnny Beazley's comeback at Boston as the Phils topped the Braves. 4 to 2. Beazley, trying to overcome arm trouble, had given up only three hits until the eighth. One of them was a homer by Dick Sister Elmer Riddle, a pitcher who did come back, scored his second straight success after four seasons of chronic arm trouble, hurling the Pirates to a seven-hit. 4 to 2 victory over the Cubs at Chicago. Frankie Gustine hit a double and | two singles to lead the Pirates' 10hit attack. 1 i Yesterday's star Hank Sauer of the Reds who hit an eighth inning . homer to tie the score, then de- '[ I -nr- ;jr ' | CORT I - I SUN. MON. TUES. Continuous Sun. from 1:15 I r 2 SWELL PICTURES! Mien Baby ItokesTEree... ,<•/ i j - JACKIE \vy\“ COOPER —AhhFjrTHRILLER— H •• . null HUT -THU LUU • 111 Hill 14c-30c Inc. Tax -0 Tonight & Saturday CHAS. STARRETT “LAST DAYS OF / BOOTHILL** With Smiloy Burnetts ALSO — “Son of Zomo” 14c-30e Inc. Tax NOTE Shew Going On Ao Usual During Alterations!

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Entries Close Today ! For Kentucky Derby Ixiuisville. Ky.. April 30 —(CPI— They were due to dropu little white slip in an old battered brown box lin the entry room of Churchill I Downs today that could well make Kentucky Derby history. It will be headed Citation and below that thoroughbred’s name will be thm,e notations: "Owner - Calumet Farms, Warren D. Wright. "Trainer — Benjamin Jones. "Jockey — Edward Arcaro.” It all added up. In the minds of most turf people, to the 74th annaul running of the Kentucky Der-

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|b> tomorrow. Citation figured to I make it a one-horse race and blast In hie path all the Jinxes which have overtaken derby horse after derby horse. And ihie time thing* seemed to point the way to breaking precedents. even though there were a lot of the-n to break — to make good. For instance: No Jotkey ever has won the der by four times but hawk-nosed Arcaro. one of the greatest, if not the greatmt. money Jocka of ail time,! Is out after the mark. And old plaid Ben. who actually gave up active training two years ago. is listed as trainer not only for Citation, but for hia stable-mate. • Conltown. as well. In a bld - po«I sibly his last — to tie an all-tline trainer derby winning record. But those are personality Jinxes. I — — ■ ———— •

i Here are some that the home himself han to overcome. Citation won the deby trial and no home who ever took down that first-place money ever went on to i win the derby. Citation also won the Belmont Futurity, and no victor in that han dl< ap ever ha> gone on to dick at: Churchill Downs. As if those age-old turf handicaps were.not enough to overcome, there 1 ; also were other precedents working against the Calumet Fanns’ No. 1 I three-year-old. i He won the Flamingo at Hialeah i this spring and only one horse In »he 74-y«Br-oM history of the derby has been aide to come north and add Col. Matt Winn’s specialty to his laurel*. That was laiwrin. trained by Ben and ridden by Eddie, in 193 M. Should Citation come through it would (>e No. 4 for both Big Ben and little Eddie. It would give Arcaro the leading derhy-wlnnlng Jockey honor, of all time. He I. tied at three right now with Earl Sande and Isaac Murphy. It would put Jones In the same

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