Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1948 — Page 6

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Legion Launches Baseball Season Sunda]

Play Post 47 In League Tilt Here On Sunday The Dcc-atur American legion baseball team, expected to be considerably stronger than last year, will <»p«n its season Sunday after noon. meeting the strong Legion Post 47. Fort Wayne, in a Federation league game at 2 p m at Worthman field in thia city. Admission price* for tomorrow's game, a* established by the Federation league for all loop contests, i* 50 cent* Season ticket*, priced at S 3, good for eight home league tilt*. are on sale at Mie* ' Recreation. BAT service station. I Burke service station and Linn's clothing store, and will also be on j sale at the field Sunday. The complete league schedule | for the Decatur team is as fol-1 lows: May 9—Fort Wayne Post 47 at: Decatur. May H—Van Wert, O. at Decatur. May 23-Decatur at Huntertown May 30—Cecil. O. at Decatur. June 2 —Decatur vs Redkey at State School. Fort Wayne (night). June 8- Fort Wayne Moose at Decatur. June 8-International Harvester vs Decatur at Dwenger (nightl. State School. June 13— Decatur at Bluffton June 20 Decatur vs Post 47 at; June 24 Decatur vs Van Wert at Dwenger (night). June 27 Huntertown at Decatur ' June 30—Decatur vs Ceci) at State School (night 1. July 4—Decatur at July 8-Decatur vs Moose at Fort Wayne McMillen (night). July 11— Decatur at Internation al Harvester. July 14 Bluffton at Decatur o Minor League Adams County Lumber won three from Macklin II; Macklin I won three from Fort Wayn« Wire Die; McMillen won two from Joe's Barber Shop; Central Soya won two from Hoagland Farmer* Co-op Standing W L Pts. Adams Lumber .. 30 is 43 McMillen .. 32 16 42 Macklin I 31 17 39 Hoagland .. .. 24 25 34 Central Soya .. .. 25 23 31 foe's.. .... 21 27 28 Macklin II .. 17 31 22 Wire Die .. ... 12 38 17 High games: Schultz 201. Macklin 204. Reinklng 206-202, A. Bultomalar 205. Rowd.rn 202. Max Heare 213. Zimmerman 205. Sander* 214. Nash 2(»2, Hoile 201, Gailmeyer 20? o . S4*caur-»l pbnkterlng Phone 1686 T

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i MINOR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct. G.B Indianapolis 16 6 .727 St. Paul 14 8 .636 2 Milwaukee 14 9 .609 24 Minneapolis 12 10 .545 4 Columbus 10 10 .500 5 Toledo 815 .348 14 Ixmlsville 815 .348 B,’* Kansas City 615 .286 94 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Indianapolis 8, Minneapolis 6. Milwaukee L Columbus 0. laiuisville 8, Kansas City 7. St. Paul 4. Toledo 3. — (> Last Season's Top Pilchers Have Troubles New York. May 8 — (l"P) — Inlern they get themselves siraigh*ened out very shortly, the six pitchers who won 20 or more games in the majors last season aren't very likely to repeat In the 1948 campaign. That was the sail situation today for Ewell Blackwell. Johnny Sain Warren Spahn. Bobby Feller. Ralph Branca, and Jansen All have , gotten off to slow starts and at . ■ the moment it wouldn't he a good i bet to bank on any of them to J equal their victory production of last y Blackwell. Cincinnati'* tall and terrific right hander, provided the j latent example of how tough ft i» to live on last year's press clip ping* He was batted nut of the box yesterday for the third straight time, coming up with a lame shoulder as the Braves topped him. 4 to 3. al Cincinnati. He said that he would have the shoulder X-rayad to determine whether he would lie able to continue his regular turn. But unless he shows a eudden reversal of form hl* presen e won't be missed too much, anyhow After he loaded the base* In the sixth inning. Eddie Stanky came on to strike a game-winning two run single off relief pitches Harry Humbert. but Blackwell was charged with the defeat, his third against two win* At this time In 1947 he had won three games. Stanky, who outlived his usefulness with the Ilodgers. provided the dam* winning blow for the Braves but Blackwell previously had served up home run ball* to Bob El-| Lott and Jeff Heath. Ted Kluszew ckl hit a homer for the Reels The liod ter* topped the Cubs. 9 to 5, at (Tilcago, getting eight hit* and 14 walks as they came from 1 behind to win the first game on I their western trip Hugh Caatey. who pitched five scoreless innings i in relief, was the winning pitcher I and rookie Preston Ward, who hit 1 a grand slam triple In the sixth, provided the Brooks with their margin of victory. Southpaw Howie Poliet. a question • mark on the Cardinals' mound staff, came through with a seven-hit Job to beat the Phil*. 7 to 4. in a St. Louis night game, striking out nine batters. The Cardo made four errors and three Phil runs were unearned Nippy Jones’ homer led a 10-hlt St. Louis I attack a* Oscar Judd, third Phil j pitcher, collected the defeat. In an American league night game, pitcher Bob Isernon twirled | a four-h!tter for the Cleveland Indians to beat the Senators. 8 to 0. at Washington. The victory. Lemon's third, lifted the Indians into second place. Mickey Haefner, who gave up five run*, was the startIng and /losing Senator pitcher while Alli* Clark and Joe Gordon clouted sis h-inning home runs to lead the Indian*' 13-hit assault. Ail other major-league games were rained out Yesterday's star — Pitcher Bob' Lemon of the Cleveland Indians, who hurled a four-hitter to gain 1 hl* third victory by shutting out the Senators. 8 to 0, in a night game. Naval Reservists To Practice Sunday Joe Trlcker announced today that the naval reserve would hold softball practice Sunday from 10 to 12 o'clock at lutwton Park. Fort Warne The reservists will play on diamond on*, located at Fourth and CMMo* afreet* Deea’sr members are Invited to participate In the practice p — Trad* In * v**d town — D*e«*ur

STILL THE MOST VALUABLE - By Alan Mover ELL! OT OF 77/£ BRAVES, W\ .. HAS STARTED OPP AS THOUGH HE WAS AIMING- \ ggt, Jhl 70 DRIVE THE BALL DOWN THE THROATS OP THE CRITICS WHO QUESTIONED >. A H/S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER AMRO LAST YEAR f — Pk) "Terr*' /vMV /J Xr/y * Wri* ✓ Bob S ReFiRRED 70 BY ms TEAMMATES AS WiZ 7 / •MR.TEAM"-HES THE / A BCN THEY'RE COUNTiNO tST J £ ON "V LEAD THE BRAYES Ts TO THE PENNANT fcr TN ATS BEEN / ELLIOTTI DENIED THEM. /VWj Z vPa * 4 3RD IX i Baseman \ I TO W/N H— - x most valuable - award

| 0 -o Today's Sport Parade By Oscar Fraley I (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) I 0 _O New Rochelle. N. Y.. May 8 — (UP>—-So you'd like to be a big time golf pro; follow the *un, live in swanky hotel*; see the country, and play all those beautiful course*. Well, take it from Cary Middlecoff. the *lender Memphis dentist who ha* been at it a year better yon should have a nice quiet job. catch the 8:15 every morning and complain to the janitor about the lack of heat. It ain't an gravy and sunshine Soaking wet and dlsguste-l aft»r a miserable round in an equally miserable rainstorm. Cary was ar jittery a* a first time visitor to the maternity ward waiting room when he found htnseif near the bottom in the current Goodall Round Robin. And he was anxious to steer any promising young golf- : er* Into a nice, pleasant job like, say. fixing teeth. "So I've won 17,742 this year." he drawled. "And I'm still not off the hook." Remember. Middlecoff is fifth among the game's leading money winner* this year. Considering that there are some 25 pros who make all the tourney*-about a 40-week grind-you'd think he was doing right well. But with almost eight grand in the poke. Cary need* a couple hundred bucks more to meet expenses for the season. It'* nice money, when you get it. Yet it goes out a lot faster than it comes in for most of them. "I figure for me it costs about

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JB.OOO to make the tour," Middlecoff explained "Sounds extravagant, doesn't It? Well. It isn't. "In an average week my hotel ! is from 350 to 170. food from |SO I to 360. my automobile 320 and Incidentals and tips, 325 to 335." he noted. "Then add my caddy fees, which run about 3-35 a week, on top of I which you're expected to give a caddy lo percent of your winnings." It's quite a bite, particularly when your pro runs out of the money for any length of tint*— ' which happen* quite often. "I said I'd give this pr? golf a twieyear trial and then decide whether to go back to dentistry," ('ary said. "Well, I’ve got another year to go. "But. meanwhile, I'm keeping

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MAJOR AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Philadelphia 9 5 .643 Cleveland 7 4 .636 New York 8 5 .615 t* Boston 77 .500 2 Washington 7 8 .467 ‘AH St. Louis 5 6 .455 2t» Detroit 7 9 .438 3 Chicago 3 9 .250 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Pittsburgh 9 5 .643 New York 10 6 .625 St. Louis 8 5 .615 Brooklyn 8 7 .533 It* Philadelphia 7 9 438 3 Boston 7 9 .438 3 Cincinnati 710 .412 3*i Chicago , 510 333 4% Yesterdays results American League Cleveland 8. Washington 0. All other game* postponed. National League Brooklyn 9. Chicago 5. Boston 4. Cincinnati 3. St Lout* 7, Philadelphia 8. New York at Pittsburgh, wet grounds? p Two Major Leaguers Fined For Fighting Chicago, May 8 — (VP) — Bostons Birdie Tebbette and Detroit's George Vico were nursing 8100 fines today, (he result* of a fist fight Thursday. President Will Harridge of the American league ordered the fines yesterday. Vico was charged with "bad conduct on the field." while Tebbett* was fined for "failure to go immediately to the clubhouse after his ejection from the game." my hand In at being a dentist.” Middlecoff added. "The biggest trick there is learning to get both hand* in a patient's mouth." The big trick in golf also Is learning to use both hands together, Cary explained, but once you master the technique in dent-1 istry you never forget it. He'* not too sure ab-->ut it in golf. Too many j other guy* get the knack and | i then you're back to doughnut* and | ' coffee J >* FREE Entertainment Friday, BP. M. . Round Dance Floor Show Sat. Nite EDDIE RICE and his orchestra with Mrs. Frauhiger at the Solovox. All Members and Families are Cordially Invited.

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Buffenbarger Resigns As New Haven Coach Carl J. Buffenbarger. former Decatur high achool athlete, has resigned a* athletic director and head coach at New Haven high school, effective at the close of the prroent school year. Buffenbarger. son ot Mr. and Mr*. Alva Buffenbarger of this city, will join the spurt* department of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette In the near future. Buffy, a gradual* of Manch**t«r college, formerly reached at Southport. Franklin township in Marion county and Pleasant Mill*. o Buses To Operate To Sun Set Rink Announcement was made today that city buses have begun a regular schedule of runs to Sunse', leaving the courthouse at 7:15 and; 8:45 pm. and returning at 9 and 10:30 p.rn each Sunday, Tuesday! and Friday. Regular fare* of 10 cents will h* charged Sun Set also 1 announced installation of a new j skating floor for beginner*.

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