Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1948 — Page 8

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Softball Play Is Opened Here Tuesday High! The softball season was official-1 )y launched in Decatur Tuesday night. with two games for the fans who braved the ' hilly weather to witness their favorite sport in the opener, the G. E. Club edged ou' a 15-14 victory over the Knights of Columbus in a practice game prior to the league opening r.ext week In the night ap. the Decatur Moose team scored lis seventh consecutive Suburban league triumph with a 5-1 victory over Haheireer Furniture of Berne Harrah limited Berne tn two bits, a double in the fourth leading the losers to their lone run. Hits by Reed and McConnell, an error and an outfield fly plated two runs for Decatur in the third frame, and the Moose bunched hits by Reed. Stoppenhagen. E. Graft and Davis for three more tallies in the fifth Reed's three singles led the Decatur attack. McConnell chipping in with two blows. Harrah fanned 17 Berne batters, walked one and hit three with pitch'd tails. Two more games are scheduled Thursday, with the VFW playing an exhibition game at 7:30, followed by Mutt's and G. E in another practice tilt Mat night's line scores RHE K. C. 020 324 3—14 8 2 G. E. 004 20k I—ls 12 3 Lengerich. Peterson and Failrote. 1,. Hackman; Andrews. Grote and Jackson. RHE Berne 000 100 o—l 2 2 Moose 002 C3o x 5 8 1 L Neuenschwander. Fluecklger "nd L. Llechty; Harrah and Stop penbagen. Sp*a”r-I r pho’utering Phone 16HS T

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O o I1 Today's Sport Parade By Oscar Fraley I (Reg. U. 8. Pat. Off.) I 0 O New York. June !» (t’P)-—The boys start swinging in the national open golf tournament at Ms Anyeles tomorrow and you can feel the pressure all the way across the country us they take dead 'alm on the record book for this biggest one of sil. It's a gruelling 72-hole Journey where the shakes usually set In on the final day so that seldom does anybody go winging off away from the field Ixmg Jim Barnes, a character with a built in cooling system, put it away most neatly with a nine-stroke margin in '921. But a testimonial to its dead heat finishes is the fact that in ’he 47 previous tournaments there have been 15 tie*, necessitating playoffs. Mostly it's th" professionals who carry off the swag Only eight have gone to amateurs thanks to a gentleman named Rort Tyre Jones, Jr., who captured the crown four times. The open find was played in 1895 and it was a hay ride for one Horace Rowline. there being only II entries. In 'hose fading gay nineties it only went 36 hides, too. The fourround system was installed in 1898. Fred Herd proving a good router as he won with 328. Since then, the scores have gone down and the number of entries have gone up By 1937. Ralph Guldahl had cut the72-hole record to 281. a mark which still stands. He also was shooting against the cream of a record list of 1,402 entrants Whether this year's winner breaks Guldahl’s mark or not. he will be head man of a new record list of 1.418 candidates for the crown. The big blue chip guys were tones and Wlille Anderson, fourtime winners. Anderson was Involved in two playoffs, beating Hex Smith, 85 to 86, and Dave Brown. 82 to 84. Jones also won a nair of playoffs, from Bobby t'mickshank. 76-88, and from Al F«pinosa, whom he massacred at 36 holes. 141 to 164 There were a trio of three-way I deadlocks which necessitated plav ! offs Hark in 1910 Alex Smith || f J. McDermott and MacDonald i Smith tied at 298 Smith -won the i nlayoff with a 71 against McDermott’s 75 an-1 Smith's 77. Byron Nelson. Craig Wood and i Denny Shute pulled in all even In 1939 with 284's— after Sam Snead took his infamous eight on the final hole. It was a par five where everybodv had been firing birdie fours. Snead needed a par to win a six to tie He took eight soul-searing blows to finish two strokes out of it. Nelson and Wood still were tied with 68 s in the first playoff, "Lord Byron" winning with a windtip lb against Wood's 73. Probably the toughest three-way 1

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playoff involved Lloyd Mangrum. Nelson and Vic Ghezzi in 1946. Each shot a 72 on the first 18-hole playoff. So all three went out again and Mangrum march home through a raging lightning storm with a winning 72. one stroke up on the others after six brutal rounds. But they’ll all have to go a long way to beat the record of the incomparable Jones. The little em-l peror in the nine years from 1922' through 1930 won the open four times, tied twice only to lose playoffs and two other times finished 1 second. B's still a cause for wonder how i he ever finished ninth in 1927! Legion Plays Tonight In Federation League The Decatur American Mgion baseball team will meet Harvester <n a Federa’ion league game at 8 o’cloi k tonight at M< Millen park In Fort Wayne. The game was transferred from Dwenger park because of a Central league game at Dwenger. Two other games tonight are Van Wert and Cecil at State School and Huntertown st Bluffton Thursday night. Post 47 and Redkey will mec-t at McMillen. Nearly 150'a 00 worth of cotton is grown in loinois every year. I

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MAJOR AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. j Cleveland 28 12 .700 i Philadelphia 27 15 .600 3>i New York 27 18 .600 3»i , Washington 22 24 .478 9 Detroit 21 24 .467 94 Boston 20 25 .444 104 St. Ixiuis 18 24 .428 11 ! Chicago 12 30 .286 17 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. New York 24 17 .585 St. Muis 25 18 .581 Boston 22 19 .537 2 Pittsburgh 23 20 .535 2 Philadelphia 24 23 .511 3 Brooklyn 20 22 .476 44 i Cincinnati 20 25 .444 6 I Chicago 15 29 .341 104 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League New York 3, Chicago 2 lit inn ings). Cleveland 2, Boston 0. Detroit 2, Philadelphia 1. Washington 6. St. Muis 5. National League Bos'on 11. Chicago 1. Brooklyn 6, Cincinnati 5. St Muis 7. Philadelphia 5. I New York at Pittsburgh, rain.

Boudreau Paces Cleveland In Pennant Fight New York. June 9 — (t’P) — | Being the best shortstop in the i American league isn't enough for | Mu Boudreau, he also wants to be ’ the best manager and the best hit- ; ter at t!.. time. • And thougn tne odd* against such | a triple attainment are heavily i against him. the playing pilot of the pace-setting Cleveland Indians, still j had a better chance of accomplishing his aim today than any other man In baseball history. First of all his Indians now enjoy a 34 game first place lead over the Yankees and Athletics. who are tied for second, and that Is the widest margin a pace-setter has yet enjoyed in either league this season. It was attained last night as the Indians topped the Red Sox, 2 to 0 in a brilliant pitching battle at Boston in which Boudreau's tworun homer gave rookie left-hander Gene Bearden his sixth victory against one loss. Boudreau got two hits in three times at bat. boosting his hatting average to .368, second highest In the league and certainly within striking distance of Ted Williams, the Boston Impper. who leads the way at .384. In last night s triumph, which -.napped a five-game Boston winning Break, Boudreau delivered hla homer in the fourth Inning and Bearden went on to pitch a fivelitter over loser Mel Parnell, who also gave up but five safe blows. The Yankees moved into a second place tie at New York when Bobby Grown, playing his customary role of "Gaifte Breaker.' singled home Larry Berra in the 12th with the winning run in a 3 to 2 triumph .ver the White Sox. Karl Drews, who pitched hitless relief ball for 'our Innings, and who dropped a sacrifice bunt that sent Berra to se< ond in th- final inning, was the winning pitcher, gaining his second decision. Hal Newhouser won his fifth straight game and his sixth of the year when he scattereu seven hits in a 2 to 1 Detroit victory at Philadelphia. it was the fourth straight defeat for the A’s, their longest -sing streak, of the year. The Senators came from behind three tunes to defeat the Browne. 1 to 5 at Washington. Gil Coan driving in the deciding run with a dxth inning single. Ed Stewart hit a Washington homer and Paul Milner got a triple, double, and single for the Browns Rookie Vetn Bickford, apparently manager Billy Southworth's answer to his quest for a fourth reliable starting pitcher, held the Cubs to four hits at Chicago as the Braves breexed to an 11 to 1 victory. It was Chicago's seventh straight defeat. Bickford, winning his third well-pitched game, had a no-hitter for five innings. Phil Mssi and Tom»y tiolmes got three hits apiece in the 13-hit Boston attack. The Dodgers cashed in on the fine relief pitching of Willie Ramsdell for a 6 to 5 victory over the Reds at Cincinnati. The St. Ixiula Cardinals defeated the Phillies, 7 to 5. and New York at Pittsburgh was rained out. Choice bacon cannot be made from hogs that weigh much more than 225 pounds. DECATURS PRIDE and JOY That Popular FAMILY and BANQUET ROOM

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Junior Legion Team At Berne Thursday The Decatur Junior Legion baseball team, sponsored by Adams Post 43. will make its first start of the season Thursday afternoon, | playing at Berne. A rookie game ! will be played at 3 o'clock, followed j by the regular Junior Melon tilt A Bible printed by the Clearen don Press, Oxford, in 1717, Is known as the "vinegar Bible" because Luke xxii is headed Parable of the Vinegar (Vineyard)."

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