Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1948 — Page 6

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Regional Legion Playoff Battle Here Sundal

Decatur Meets Hunt inafon On sms Local Diamond The rc-'i'»nal championship of the Indiana \merlcan Legion baseball : tournament Rill be decided at Wortbman field in this city Sunday afternoon. when the Decatur | and Huntington Lesion teams bat- < tie for the right to enter the semi- < finals of the state meet. Deiatur. spoil noted by Adams, Post 13. is the fourth district chant- ( pion ami Huntington. sponsored by | Port 7. is the fifth district champ. ■ These teams will meet at the Io- | tai diamond Sunday afternoon at i j 2:30 o'clock for the right to tom 'i pete tn further Lesion competition . Elwood Legion was originally ( scheduled to meet Decatur in Sundays regional playoff, but the EI-. wood team was disqualified for us-' ing several ineligible players and Hunt ngton then was declared fifth district < hampion The Decatur team, which has compiled an outstanding re<ord this season, losing only two games, is representing the fourth district Decatur walloped Post 17, Port

Wayne, in the first game of a scheduled three-game series a few weeks ago. following which the Port Wayne team elected to withdraw from the Legion competition Decatur won the Federation lea gue championship, losing only one league game, but decided to fore go play in the Federation playoff in order to com|M*te in the Legion tournament. The winner of Sunday's Decatur Huntington playoff will later play | in the state semi-final tourney against winners of three other re 1 glottal meets, embracing Legion 1 posts In the entire state The date and site of the semi-. final and final games will be determined after all regional tourneys are completed. 11 Admission price for Sunday's < tilt at Worthman field will he the, 1 usual 50 cents. Decatur defeated Huntington in an early season ex hibltion tilt. Two Races Sunday At Fort Wayne Speedway Fort Wayne, Ind. Aur, 6 — Everything is in readiness for Sun day's double-feature racing pro - rant at the Fort Wayne Speedway Big car racing absent for several years, will return to the California I Hoad speed plant Sunday after < noon and fans who turn out for this program will be privileged to purchase tickets for Sunday night's weekly midget show at half price The Idg car show which will he staged on the Speedway's famous I high-banked, five eighths mile oval.! i will start at noon Sunday, when time trials will begin. Actual rac-■ ing won't get going until 2:30 pni The Sunday ■ night midget autoi show will get under'way at S. 30 | p m.

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. MAJOR NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Boston 57 42 .576 Brooklyn 5o 44 .532 4*4 St latuis 5! 45 .531 4'g New York 50 I'i .521 5*4 Pittsburgh 46 45 .505 7 Philadelphia 48 4ft .495 8 Cincinnati 44 56 44*1 13’4 Chicago 4o 49 .404 17 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Cleveland 57 38 .<OO Philadelphia til 41 .598 New York 58 39 5979 Boston 59 41 590 Detroit 40 51 474 12 Washington 41 57 .418 17'4 St Louis 37 58 .389 20 Chicago 32 66 .327 26’4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 6. Chicago 4 Boston 6. Cincinnati 4. Other games postponed American League Philadelphia 3-7. Chicago 0-4. Boston 8. St laiuia 7. New York 2. Detroit 1. Cleveland 3. Washington 0.

K. C. Team Defeats McMillen. 13 To 6 Scoring eight runs in the fourth Inning, the K. of ('. defeated McMillen. 13-0. in a Decatur softball league game Thursday night at Worthman field The winners made 13 hits to five for McMillen ,In the exhibition nightcap, the Bingen Girls edged out a 9-8 tri umph over St Aloysius. halting a last inning rally by the visitors which fell one rißt short of a tie. In games tonight. Mutt's and McMillen are scheduled to meet in a league tilt, followed by the Moose and Ossian In a Suburban league encounter. Last night's scores: RHE McMillen 200 031 0— 6 5 3 K of C 300 820 X 13 13 1 Strahm, Parrish and Jones; Meyer and L. Hackman. RHE' St Aloyaius 410 010 2- 8 9 41 Bingen 3<>o 321 x 9 6 41 A Harver and Sorg; Ostermey•r and Krauss None Injured When Two Autos Collide No one wa* injured and 1300 property damage was Incurred in ft I traffic accident Wednesday even-1 Ing 4’4 miles southeas* of Decatur J sheriff Herman Bowman reported today. The collision involved auto mobiles driven by iMmald Werlint-1 <>f Preble, and Richard Speakman, of Decatur route 6. Scco ur-L phoiei ering Phone 16RK T

New Coach * n ail David Terveer r ■ ■■ ~~i minor AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct. GB. Indianapolis 75 40 .G 52 Milwaukee 65 49 .570 9*4 Minneapolis 60 51 .541 13 St. Paul 61 53 .535 13 Mr Columbus . 59 56 .513 16 Kansas City 45 63 417 26*4 Toledo 45 67 .402 28’4 i Louiavllie 42 73 .365 33 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Kansas City 2. Indianaiadis 1 Milwaukee 5. Columbus 3. St. Paul 4, Toledo 3. Minneapolis 7. Uiuisville 4. Jack Heller Invited To Hanover Practice Jack Heller. Decatur high school football player for the last two years, today received an invitation to report with the Hanover college f<M>tball squad a week early for football practice, prior to the opening of that school. Hanover grid coach Jack Carl, in his invitation, reminded squad members that the first game with DePauw will be September 25 Jack will enter Hanover this fall as a freshman. 10 PERSONS KILLED <('ofit. From One) ground at opposite ends of a Muckland pasture, almost inaccessible ' by car from the nearest highway ' three miles away. Trade In a Good town — Decatu*

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American Loop Race Growing ' Daffier Daily New York. Aug. 6 — Il'Pt — How daffy can this American : League pennant race get’ The Cleveland Indians, for example. wen- in first place today i half a game behind the second 11 place Philadelphia Athletics and if that doesn’t make sense blame it on your seventh grade inath«-niat I* s teacher. in good old simple arithmetic • the Indians had an even 600 per- | centage with 57 victories and 38 ' defeats. 19 games above the .500 level The A s had a .598 percentage with 61 triumphs and 41 losses and were 20 games altove .500. The teams were in virtual tie for ' the lead before yesterday and the i Indians won one game, beating the I Senators. 3to 0. while the Athletics took two from the White Sox. 3 to 0 and 7 to 4 to go half a game ahead on a won and lost basis. What's more Philadelphia rested just one ten-thousandths of a percentage point ahead of third place New York, which had a .5979 figure with 58 victories and 39 defeats after a 2 to 1 triumph over the Tigers at Detroit. The Red Sox weren't exactly out of it either. They beat the Browns, 8 to 7 at St. latuis to stay half a game behind the Yankees with 59 victories and 41 defeats for a .590 percentage. Philadelphia achieved its two victories at Chicago with Hank Majeski and Sam Chapman each getting a two-run homer Joe ('oleman scattered six hits for his 11th victory and third shutout in the opener In the second game Rookie Don White's grand slam homer gave starter Bill .McCahan a 4 to P lead in the first inning, but he couldn't hold it and after Chicago tied the score at 4-4. Carl Scheib came in to pitch five scoreless innings and gain his eighth victory Sam Chapman's homer sparked a three-run ninth Inning rally that produced the triumph. The Indians made only three hits but they were all homers, two by Jim Hegan and one by pitcher Gene Bearden in their triumph over Washington Bearden scored his ninth victory and his third shut-I out. giving up six hits He had fine | infield support with six double; plays cutting off Washington threats Manager Lou Boudreau i suffered a bruised shoulder in a'

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To* Huntington i 8 Daniel Perry collision but was expected to be able to play tonight. Allie Reynolds of the Yankees held Detroit to six hits. He need ed help from Joe Page in the pinth when Dick Wakefield tripled with one out hut was credited with his 11th victory when the lefty relief ace got pinch-hitter Jimmy Outlaw on a ground out. and struck out pinch-hitter Bob Swift to end the game. Doubles by Yogi Berra and Billy Johnson produced one' Yankee run and a double by George , Stirnweiss and Charley Kellers' single accounted for the other. The Red Sox outslugged the Browns at St. Louis. winning when Vent Stephens singled home John ny Pesky in the eighth. Ted Wit Hams and Stephens each drove In two runs. Williams getting three singles to pace the 10-hit attack. Gene Hennanski made Flatbush history when he became the second Dodger in baseball annals to hit three homers In one game, his blows accounting for five of the runs in a 6 to 4 victory over the Cubs The only other Dodger to : hit three homers in a game was Jacques Fournier in 1926. Rookie Carl Erskine made his first big league start a whining one. giving up eight hits and walking but two. He got shabby support, the Dod rers making six errors behind him.

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Negro cratcher Roy Campanella , made three of them. The Boston Braves snapped a I four-game losing streak by beating Cincinnati, 6 to 4. In a night game. Earl Torgeson was the hero of the piece, tripling with two on and two out in the eighth to decide the outcome Danny Lithwller hit his 12th homer of the year for the Reds. The Pittsburgh at Philadelphia double header and the St. laiuis at . New York game in the National were rained out Yesterday's Star Gene Hermanski. who became the second player in l*odger history to hit three homers in a game in a 6 to 4 victory over the Cubs. DAVID TERVEER (Conr, From Pas»- One* slstant pastor of St. Mary's church and athletic dlrecotr of the school. The Commodores' net team was I hard hit by graduation last June, losing six of the 12 members of the sec lonal tournam nt squad 'The graduates were Eugene Bak ■ er. John GEIIg. Arthur Wilder. Richard Rtinisehlag. Jim ll<»p i and Fred Heiman Tourney squad . members expected to return this , fall are David Glllig. John Kable. , Jim Meyers. Jim Parent. Joe Loshe and Phil Terveer, brother of the new coach. The Commodores advanced to the finals of the sectional tournament last February, losing to Hartford township in the sectional championship affray. Perry To Huntington Terveer succeeds Daniel Perry. Commodores' coach last season, who resigned recently to accent 1 position In the publlr s<-h«H>t vystern at Hunting on. Perrr, a graduate of Warsaw high schoo' •ind Bali State Teachers college it Muncie coached at Hoagland ind the Detatur high school be fore moving to the Catholic school last year. Perry, in Ills new position at Hun Ineton wi I be assistant In ill sports to Bill Williams, veteran Huntington mentor Perry wi'l also teach Industrial arts and driver's training in his new post REPORT BERNE (font. From Pae* Onei matried three weeks ago in defiance of a court order forbidding him from re-entering matrimony 'or a twovear period.

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