Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1948 — Page 6

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Legion Downs Post 47, Ties For Loop Lead The Decatur American Ix-gion baseball team pulled Into a first ! place tie in the Federation league Sunday afternoon, defeating Post 47, Fort Wayne, 6-3. in an 11inning thriller ut the State School diamond. V"rn Krauss' double with the bases loaded in the 11th was the payoff i.’ow for Decatur to hand Post 47 Its first league loss of the season Eat h team has now won sev*n games and lost one. Decatur pulled into a 3-0 lead by counting twice in the fourth inning on hits by Bolyard and Krauss and Voight's error, then tallying a single run in the seventh on a pair of walks and a single by Krauss. A pair of Decatur errors and Ludwig's hit gave Post 47 two runs in the seventh, and the Fort Wayne team knotted, the game in the eighth on an error and Kolfitig's hit. Schnepf opened the winning 11th with a walk lied Schultz was safe on an error by Mingus and Schmidt sing ed to load the bases Krauss then unloader! his two-baso drive to score all three men ami shove Decatur into the first place tie. Fry hurled the first eight innings for Decatur, Cossairt taking ever In the nfn’h and becoming the winning pitcher. In other league games Sunday. Huntertown blanked the Moose. 11-0; Redkey whipped Cecil, 14-2. and Van Wert defeated Harvester. 5-3. One league game is scheduled tonight, Moose und Ceci! tangling at Dwenger. Games Wednesday night are Huntertown vs Harvester at State School and Redkey at Bluffton Decatur is slated to pay Van Wert at Dwenger park Thursday. Decatur AH RHE Schmidt. 2b 4 13 1 Krauss. 3b 6 0 11 Hornberger, cf -4 o 2 0 Fry. p. ss ....6 0 0 0 Bolyard. If 4 1 2 0 Ladd, ss 4 12 2 Cossairt. p 10 0 0 S«-hn< pf. 1b 4 11 0 ■ Schultz rs 4 2 0 0 Bower, c 4 0 0 0 TOTALS 41 6 12 4 Post 47 Ludwig. 2b 0 0 10 Meyer. 3b 5 0 0 0 Snodgra** cf 5 0 2 0 Voight, ss 5 0 11 Werling. c t 4 0 1 o Jackmeyer. lb .... 5 10 0 Wells, rs 2 0 0 0 Rolflng. rs 3 0 10 Reynolds, If 4 110 Stow, p 10 0 0 Mingus, p 4 12 1 TOTALS 44 3 9 2 Score by innings: Decatur 000 200 100 03—4 Post 47 000 000 210 00—3 Tonight & Tuesday Technicolor Musical! “THREE DARING DAUGHTERS” Jeanette MacDonald. Jose Iturbi, Jane Powell A loO—Shorts 14c-40c Inc. Tas O—O Wed. A Thues. — Hal Roach's "Comedy Carnival'* — In Color! First Show Wed. at S:3O Continuous Thurs. from 1:30 BE SURE TO ATTEND! —o Coming Sun. — "Naked City" I CORTI Tonight & Tuesday “TENDER YEARS” With JOE E. BROWN — and — “CRIME DOCTOR’S GAMBLE” With WARNER BAXTER 14c JOc Inc Tas -0 Thera. Fr‘. Sat.—Chao Starrett. “West of Sonora" —o Coming Sue — •ThundorSottf A "The Plame"

Bobby Locke Wins Victory Open Meet Chicago. June 21.— (UP) — Bobby Locke, the South African golfing ace. today added the sixth annual Chicago victory open title to his growing list of honors and pocketed 13,700 more in prize money. Locke fired a five-under par 64 in the final round yesterday to rack up a record-breaking 72-hole total of 266 IS under par. That was 16 strokes better than runnerup Ellsworth Vines of Chiago. Skip Aienander of N. (.'., was third with 283. Moose Defeated In Exhibition Battle Decatur Moose suffered its second exhibition defeat in as many nights Saturday, dropping a 4-3 decision to the Warsaw A. A. on the Warsaw diamond. Warsaw put together three hits for a single run in the first Inning hut Decatur came back to take the lead in the fifth frame, scoring all three of their runs on hits by Stoppenhagen and F. flraft and a pair of Warsaw errors. Warsaw pulled into a 3-3 tie in the eighth on a walk. hit. and error and tallied the winning run In . the ninth on a hit, an error and • fielder's choice. ' Warsaw obtained nine hits off < Harrah while Rains limited Decatur to six safeties. Each hurler fanned sewn batters. Warsaw will play a return game ( here Friday. July 9. The Moose will play Zanesville ( at Worthman field at 8:30 pm ( today in a Suburban league tilt. | and will also meet Roanoke in another Suburban game, also at Worthman field. Tuesday night at | the same time. Saturday's score: RHE Decatur 000 030 000 —3 6 3 Warsaw 100 000 021—4 9 3 . Harrah and Stoppenhagen; Rains | and W. Goshert. I Monmouth Winner Lions League Game Smacking out 14 hits. Monmouth defeated Ideal Dairy, 10-4. in a ( Lions league game Sunday afternoon at McMillen park in this city After picking up a single run In ( the second inning, Monmouth tai- • lied three times in the fourth, once 1 in the sixth, once in the seventh 1 and four times in the eighth. 1 Ideal counted once in the sixth ’ frame, and added its final three ■ runs in the ninth inning. ( ('core by innings: RHE Monmouth 010 301 140—10 14 2 1 ideal 000 001 003— 4 4 8 I Kruetxman and Korte. H. Thieme; C. Knittie. Gaunt. H. J Plumley and D. Plumley. 1 I ( Jack Kramer Takes National Pro Title Forest Hills. N. Y.. June 21 — (UPI— It took four sets for Jack Kramer to wreat the national professional tennis championship from Hobby Riggs yesterday, but only one of them really counted. It was the first one. which Kramer won. 14-12. Riggs showed unmistakable signs of fatigue the rest of the way. But the cocky little defending titleholder came hack to win the third before Kramer roared on to his 14-12, 4-2. 34. 4-3 triumph. Kramer topped off the victory by teaming with Francisco (Pancho) Segura of Ecuador to dethrone Riggs and Don Budge in the doobias finale. 4-4. 1-7. 4-2. 74, 4-4. MINOR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pet. O-l. Indianapolis 43 24 442 Milwaukee 39 25 549 244 St Paul 39 28 .582 4 Colambtu 35 80 538 7 Minneapolis — 32 84 484 Kansas City 24 38 444 MH Toledo Ff 42 Ml 17 Louisville 25 45 -M7 IPA 4 SATURDAY’S RESULTS Louisville 4. Toledo I. St Paul 11. Milwaukee Id. Minneapolis 12. Kansas City 11. Indianapolis at Cotembaa. rain YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Loutovfll. S 4. Toledo 5-1. CoftimhM 184. iadiaaapoHs 4-4 Milwaukee 54. Mianeapoita 14. Kansas City 81. St Paal 44 Trade Ip a Good Tew* — Oeaatar

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Summer Softball League Is Opened The Hummer recreation softball league opened play thia morning at Worthman field, with the Dodger* defeating the Red Sox. 9-2. and the Tiger* edging out the Brown*. 9-5. The scores by inning*: RHE Dodger* „.. 202 02 6 10 0 Red Sox CRH 01—2 3 0 Engie and McDougal; Morrison, J. Brunner and Bunner. Schnepf RHE Tiger* 013 02 -6 5 0 Brown* ... . 021 11—5 a 0 Johnson. Ga*s and McDonald; Foor. D. Rambo and Eyanaon. MAJOR AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Ret. G.B. Cleveland 34 IS .954 New York .. 32 23 .582 3% Philadelphia . 33 26 .599 4 Boaton „.... 27 26 509 7% Detroit 28 28 .500 8 Washington ... 25 32 .439 11% St. Louis 21 32 .399 13% Chicago 1" 33 .340 19 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. G.B. Boston 34 22 .607 PitUburgh .. 32 23 .582 1% St. Louis 30 25 .545 1% New York 29 26 .527 4% Philadelphia 27 30 .474 7% Brooklyn 23 29 .442 8% Cincinnati 24 34 .414 11 Chicago 23 33 .411 11 SATURDAY'S RESULTS American League Cleveland 4. Philadelphia 0. Chicago 9. Washington 5. Boaton 9. Detroit 7. New York 10. St. Loula 5. National League Chicago 5. Brooklyn 2. New York 10. St. Loula 1. PitUburgh 7, Philadelphia 6. Boaton 5. Cincinnati 0. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS American League Cleveland 4-10. Philadelphia V 9. New York 4-6. St. Loula 2-2. Chicago 7-1, Waahington 6-4. Boston 8, Detroit 3. National League Philadelphia 9-5. Pittaburgh 0-7. Boston 5-4. Cincinnati 4-1. 8L Loula 7-4. New York 3-4 Chicago 4. Brooklyn 3. FLOOD OF From Pio Anet ia "available" and to whom the aocalled isolationists probably would rally against Vandenberg's nominatioa. - Gen. Douglas MacArthur, ctriek•y a dark horse in tar stall of the deodloch stable. Burglars Have Mot Time Milwaukee (UP), — Burglar* got their fingers oe everything but money'when they tried to crack a safe hero Whoa they knocked off the case dial, tear gas squirted oat at them Blinded, they ran to the window, not the cartataa on Bro with a Mowtorch, aad spent the root of their visit boating out the fire. They loft an unopened safe containing 854 aad a comb laced with straal* of staged hair. The a*«msn Nebraska hwa* holder a awnthly electricity MU io 84.46. S 3 eeata under the national level if

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Louis-Walcott Fight Will Be Broadcast New York. June 21 — (UP) — Sol Strauss of the 20th Century club announced today that the Joe Loui*-Jer*ey Joe Walcott world heavyweight fight Wednesday night will be broadcast nationally over the ABC network and will be televised in the east by NBC. The telecast will cover an area that includes Richmond, Va.. Wash ington. D. C.. Baltimore. Philadelphia. New York City, Schenectady/ N. Y.. and Boston. Junior Legion Team Is Defeated Sunday Fort Wayne Post 82 defeated the Decatur team in a Junior Legion gam* at Worthman field Sunday afternoon. 5-3. the winner* scoring all their run* In the first two inning*. A pair of walk*, two error* and a lon* fly gave Fort Wayne two run* in the first Inning, and two hits, aided by a walk and an error, were good for the winners' final three run* in the *e< ond frame. Decatur scored ail it* runs in the second inning, two hit*, a walk and two errors accounting for the. tallies. The Junior Legion team will hold practice session at Worthman field Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, •nd the reserve team will meet the Berne reserve* at the local field Tuesday at 3 pm. Sunday's score: RHE Post 82 230 000 o—s 5 5 Decatur 030 000 o—3 4 4 Fiepel and Perrlgina; Ladd. Thoma* and Busse. Trad* In a Good Tmk — Oecatui Pi l R tags Vr.B 1 W'.'V » I ■L’” J 1 1811 Sj ’ IM t uasAaa asst.*..* r <*i - a*r» er — 1 MODfl CONNtt KNoi get* her I "Mis* New York Citv" ribbon 1 from Grace Downs. director of b th* "Mias New York City" beauty pageant IB Madison Square Garden. Which put* Connie—lß year* ► old, » feet 8%. weight 120. bust • 34. waist 34%. hips 89—ia AU j I lentic Qty next tan. shooting for I "Mau* America.- (InterngftaaaO

Indians Down Athletics In Double Header New York. June 21 — (UP) — If Boh Feller has turned out to be a bi! of a lemon this year. Boh Lemon has turned out to Ite a peach. , And with the Indians "bobbing" along a vital double victory over the Athletics. 4 to 3 and 10 to 0. l>efore the largest crowd in ItaseImill history at Cleveland yesterday. It was ixtmon and not Feller who drew th? biggest cheers from the overflow multitude of 82,781 fans at the finish. Feller was lucky to win the openear. giving the A's a 3 to 0 lead as Eddie Joost and Ram Chapman tagged him for homers. But his mates rallied for four runs in the and he survived for bls first victory since May 19. breaking a fivegame personal losing s'reak. Ix>mon had no such travail in the second game He struck out 10, walked only two batters and pitched no-hit bail for six innings as he stored his 10th victory, tops in the majors, it was his fourth shutout, a four-hitter and his 10th complete game. It gave him a total of 65 strikeouts, also tops for the majors. His victory, in whicn ne contributed his third home run of the year and a dauble. put Cleveland 3*4 games ahead of the secqnd • place Yankees. The Yankees took over second from the A's by winning 4 to 2 and 6 to 2 victories at St. Louis as Joe Dimaggio hit three l/omers. The Red Sox. very much In the r American league pennant reckon I Ings again, won their tifth straight and their 12th victory In 14 games. ' 8 to 3. at Detroit to take over fourth ' place from the Tigers. They handed Hal Newhouser a defeat as he sought to win his eighth straight 1 game. Vern Stephens clinched the victory with a three-run homer. I.uke Appling set a new American 'I league record for third basemen by handling 10 assists as the White Sox defeated the Senators. 8 to 5. after which Washington broke an eight game losing streak with a 4 to 1 triumph on Sid Hudson's pilchV JV Sp«c>»‘Ulna l " M jw ■ st FRIED RABBIT i i -—— ——

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