Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1948 — Page 8

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Junior Legion Wins Shutout Over Bluffton The Decatur Junior lesion baselull team, after blanking Bluffton. 15-0. al Bluffton Wednesday, was scheduled to c lose Its season this evening with a game at Berne. Decatur put yesterday's game on ice early, counting seven runs in the f ist inning on five hits, an error and a pair of fielder's choices The locals picked up four tallies in th*- se. ond. one in the third and wound up the scoring with tiiree ill the fourth. Gillig and C Plumley shared the pitching chores for Decatur, limitng the Bluff'on lads to two singles, one in the se. ond Inning ami one in the seventh.

Decatur AB RHE Plumley, ss, p 12 2 1 Wefel. 3b .. 12 11 Busse, c 13 3 0 It. Smith, c . 1 0 " » Ladd, . f .. i 1 2 « B Smith, <f ..1000 Gillig. p. ss .. 11 0 It firant. If 5 2 10 Sautlcine. if 3 2 0 it It Plumley, rs 2 o 0 o Myers, •!It 3 11 0 Petrie. 2b I 0 0 0 Ijiurent. 2b j it it o Jennings, lb .2110 B Busse, lb 1 it o o

Totals 3« 15 11 2 Bluffton AB R H E Kyle. 2b .... ..2 0 0 2 Hedge*. 2b I *> •» »• Hanlon. 3b 3 " •• 1 Miller. <’ 2 0 •' 1 Coatello. <• 1 o 0 II Compton, k* 2 n 1 n Bruun, ttn .10 10 N'axli. lb 2 I’ it if drove, lb I 0 II n G. Hpehexer, If 2 0 0 1 John* on. rs 2 <i O •• Marti. p 1 (i o 1 W Bpeheger. ts 1 o 0 0 GUlioiii. |>. if I i> 0 1 Ttoalu 22 0 2 7 Score by inningi*: lie. atllr 711 3UII 0 15 Bluffton Olio 000 o o SENATE FACES I Coni l'r..m Page l ine) den. 11. Xriz Ha advised the itepub licaii majority that the xenate would find It easier t.» approve a constitutional amendment outlawing jh.ll taxes than to try abolishing them by law He recalled that Kime senators, though opposed to the poll tax. lielieve the proposed law is unconstitutional. ▼rsde In a Gooff town — -<w*atu

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VFW Softball Team To State Tourney • The Decatur VFW softball team has entered the state VFW tourna inent. whic h will be held at Koko mo Saturday and Sunday. Decatur will play the first gam* of the tourney, meeting East Chiles go at 830 o'clock Saturday morning, if successful in this opening tilt, the locals will meet Winamac at 8:30 pin. Saturday. Semi-final games will be play ed at 1:30 ami 3:45 o'cloc k Sunday afternoon, with the state championship tilt at ":30 p.m. Sunday. Fourteen teams from all sections of the state- will vie for the VFW honors, won last year by South Bend Itecatur lost to South Bend. 10, in last year's meet. The winner of the state- tourney will receive $1,500, and will represent Indiana in the national VFW tourney, which will be- held at Austin. Tex., Aug. 11-15. The teams

will be- housed in the I'niverslty of Texas dormitory. Decatur Moose Beat Convoy Team, 2-0 Sc at Harrah was in rare form Wednesday night, tossing nine innings of hitless ball as the I>ecatur Moose team registere-d a 2-0 shutout over Convoy in a Suburban league game Wednesday night at Convoy.

Harrah hurled perfect ball for eight and one-third innings, with the second batter in the last of the ' ninth, barely nicked by a pitched ball, the only Convoy hitter to rea<-h hase. The Decatur tosser ' fanned 23 men and not a ball was hit out of the infield Phillips almost matched pilches ' with Harrah, allowing only two I hits In the first eight innings In Hie ninth, however, the second extra frame. vE rGraft singled with , one out but was forced at second by Harrah Hirschv then blasted out a home run, fidlowing Harrah . across the plate with the only tallies of the game The Moose will play the Argo ( team of Fort Wayne in an exhibl thin game at Worthman field Friday night at k3O o’clock Mutt's Service and K. of C. will meet In a Decatur la-ague tilt at 7:30 o'clock larst night's score: R H. E Decatur 000 000 on 2 240 Convoy 000 000 mm o o 2 Harrah and Stoppenhagen: Pbillipn and Whitacker. Carried to Justice Memphis. Tenn. ( T ’P> Marion Peacock. 24-yearold war cripple, was carried un the marble stairs nto Criminal Court, where he paid a 1100 fine for driving while intoxicated.

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Legion Clinches Tie For Federation Flag The Decatur American Legion baseball team clinched at least a tie for the Federation league championship Wednesday night, edging out the Fort Wayne Moose. 4-3, in a rugged battle played at McMillen park in Fort Wayne. Three Decatur hurlers limited the Moose to Tour hits while De catur made eight hits for their four runs. Tlie la-gion team will wind up its regular league schedule Sun day afternoon, meeting the Van Wert Burts at State School In Fort Wayne at 2 o'clock. Decatur can assure itself of the league title by defeating Van Wert Sunday, as Post 47. the second place team, has already suffered two defeats and can do no better than He for the lead in the event Decatur should be upset by Van Wert.

MINOR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct. G.B. Indianapolis 66 39 .629 Milwaukee 62 44 .585 St Paul 57 4H .543 9 Columbus 58 49 .542 9 Minneapolis ... 55 49 .529 Kansas City 41 60 .406 23 Toledo 40 64 .385 25 Li . Uiuisvllle 4<t 66 .377 2ft 1 i YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Toledo 5. Louisville 4 St. Paul 3. Milwaukee 2. Minneapolis 5. Kansas City 2 Indianapolis 5-1. Columbus 2-10. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur |

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.I Amazing A's Still In Thick iOf Flag Baffle j New York. Julv 29 <<'P> People who just ean t believe It when they look in the- standings uncl sect that the tihleti’.# ate Still up there were calling them the lyje ogruphical errors of baseball today, but. no kidding, they might steal that pennant. They were in second place, just four percentage points Icehind the Bed Sox with a ball club that cost kS-year-old Connie Mack lest thanl his free-spending fellow townsmen who run the Phillies have spent on one rookie ball player. Mark's waiver-price infieid cost him less than HO.OOT and the rest of the club, picked up in player draft marts and off sand lots stood him around 140,000 more. That's why club owners with extensive farm systems and high priced scouts are alarmed. They say it would set baseball back half a century if the A's would win the pen nant. In order for the As to beat Greenberg's Indians. 4 to 3 yesterday center fielder latrry Doby had to get hit on top of the- head by a fly ball which he lost in the sun | and which bounced away for a twoI base error that scored the tying and winning tallies. That's the way the A's win Icall games With two out ami with Barney McCoskey on base with a single and Bay Cole- | man byway of a walk. Don White • lofted the easy fly that conked the negro outfielder. Dick Fowler survived for his loth victory. Allie Clark hit a Cleveland homer. I Su|>erstition caught up with the ' Bed Sox after 13 straight victories and they lost a 13 to 0 decision at Detroit, suffering their worst beating of the year after compilin'; the longest winning streak lof the year. Dizzy Trout pitched six-hit ball and Hoot Evers led ' the- 18-hit Detroit attack with a • double and three singles, driving | in three runs. i Marino Pieretti beat the- Senators I for the third timo since they trad- | ed him to the White Sox. winning 2 to 1 as Balph Hodgin drove in both | runs with a single and double. Pieri etti yielded only six hits. I.eo Iturocher continued to get 1 amazingly fine pitching from his Giant staff. Clint Hartung pitching the second straight shutout and the fourth since Durocher took over , the club, a three-hit. 5 to it job over , the Beds at New York. Sid (lor- ! don lilt a two run homer for the , Giants. Once again the luslgers embarI rassed the Cardinals. 12 to 4 at I Brooklyn, pounding out 15 hits and scoring eight runs in the fifth inning. Gil Hodges hit a three run triple in the big inning. Tommy i Buckshot) Brown hit a Dodger homer and Whitey Kurowski got one for St. I.ouis Preacher Roe scored Itis fifth victory for the Dodgers, giving up seven bits. The Phils outslugged the Cubs. 9 to 4 in a battle of homers in which Eddie Miller. Andy Seminick and Del Ennis got round flippers | for the winners and Clyde McCullough. Peanuts Lowrvy and pinchhitter Al Walker homered for ChiI cago. Ennis got his homer with

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