Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1948 — Page 8

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Bucky Harris On Spot With Yankee Club New York. Sept. 17 — (VP) — If there is anythin# hotter in baseball today then the A merit an league pennant race it is the spot being uncomfortably occupied by friendly, mildmannered Bucky Har ria whose New York Yankees still might cop that flag. The whispering campaign against him has reached the point where it is a shouting campaign Harris, who reluctantly went back into baseball flannels to manage the Yankees, giving up a nite front office job because no other person was available for the field job. directed them to a pennant in his first season and ha> had them in contention throughout the current campaign But the Yankee fans and the organisation itself have become so used to ihampionships that anything less doesn't satisfy them So despite injuries, failure of key performers to measure up to what they did last year, and a general improvement of other du Im in the race. Harris still has the Yankees “in there pitching" Co-owner Del Webb said last sight in Phoenix. Aria. that he thought the talk ngainst Harris was “red hot propaganda ’ and that he was well satisfied with the work he was doing. He said he believed the! reports had started in Boston as an attempt to break Yankee morale But the Yankees haven't tend ered Harris a contract for next year. While the rumors were flying the Yankees battled to an even break with the Tigers at Detroit, 1 dropping the first game of a double bill. 2 to 1. and winning the second 1 one 8 to I Joe Di .Muggio hit his 300th big league homer and his 36th of the season to spoil Freddy Hutchinson's shutout in the first game No other active big league player has that many homers. In the night cap. lefiy Joe Page, one of the Yankee problem children" pitched five innings ol scoreless relief ball and added a two-run triple as he gained credit for his fifth victory. The Boston Re»t Sox lost a night ' game to the Browns. 3 to 1. at St Louis Cliff Fannin held the Bed Sox to 1 seven hits and would have had a shutout except for Tod Williams' double. Wally Moses' single, and ' Bill Goodman's safe bunt in the! 1 tenth. Don Lund and Whitey Platt I 1 ( General Tires i| MOTOR OVERHAULING ,j Phone 103 . DOC’S CAR DOCK ■ <

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SPORTS BULLETIN New York, Sept. 17 — (UP)— Joe Louis announced today he will defend hie heavyweight championship in June against the winner of the Joe Baksi-Ea-zard Charles fight if the winner was "impressive." Louis' announcement was unexpected, for only Tuesday night the heavyweight champion declared at Philadelphia he would not decide until December whether he ever would fight again. i i) t Todays Sport Parade By Oscar Fraley (Keg. U. 8. Pat. Off ) 9 ( Now York. Sept. 17—(UP)— With one eye on the national amateur tennix championxhipx am. the other on the pigskin proa pectus—the first edition of Fra ley's Follies or a cross-eyed short cut to the poorhouse with tht weekend football selections! National Vilianova over Texas A 4 M - The Wildcats are big, burly am' bent on capturing this to start t season aimed at paying back th« Army for some of those war-time lumps The Aggies don't rank among the mighty in the cow country and this shouldn't help theii rep much. Texas over LSI'-The lumghornr are touted as the best in the southwest and that means they have quite a football team. As foi LSU. well, it is located in Bator Rouge.* West California over Santa Clara— Tennis is a funny game. • UCLA over Washington StateTwo players Oregon State over Idaho- Ant* 12 officials Stanford over San Jose State Still they make mlatakes. Oregon over Stant Barbara Am get mad when the crowd whistles Also: Colorado A 4 M ovei Colorado College; Utah State ove> Montana State; Denver over Colo rado Mines, ami San Diego Statr >ver Brigham Young Southwest TCU over Kansas The crowds too. are funny Arkansas over Abilene Christiar -They're shushed and tushed. Texas Tech over West Texas And barely tolerated North Texas Bute over Okla home Even though they pay the freight. , Hardin-Simmons over J ones bon I - The only fans in sports who pay to get a pain in the neck, and ar< treated like one Midwest IHake over South Dakota StatePlayers are eiannUh St. Louis over Dubuque—New comers are really outsiders Oklahoma Aggies over Wichita— And they'd better say "mister " Nebraska Wesleyan over Omaha —To the stars, that Is. Toledo over Baton—lt ain’t all cakes and gravy. South Wake Forest over George Wash Ington- Imagine. Jour bell bays. West Virginia over Waynesburg —Mechanical midgets In shorts Catawba over Atlantic Christian —And don't dare move. Buster Mas eat aI M Ast sard Imas rd W'.UliiWwol see -■ Washburn over Peru Btate-But the gala are cute in their scanties Carson Newman over Newberry —And most of them are pretty High Point over Cullowhee Which makes it all worthwhile! ! • Trade la a Good town Decatur

. St. Paul, Milwaukee Leading In Playoffs By United Press The St. I’aul Saints and Milwaukee Brewers held slight edges j today in the American association s 13th annual governor s cup playoffs. Both teams had two out of three records. They needed two more victories to eliminate their opponents. Indianapolis and Columbus, in tlie four-out-of-aeven series. St. Paul defeated the league champion Indians last night. 8 to 5. and Milwaukee outlasted the Red birds in a seesaw battle. 12 to 11- |. The Saints made good use of ! their nine hits and four Indianapolis i errors St I’aul started the scoring with four runs in the fourth. The Indians came back with three In their half of that Inning, but St. Paul added four more in the next to ice the game. Columbus used seven of their nine pitchers In -in attempt to stop; Milwaukee, but the Brewers were not to lie stopped. The Redblrds were far behind. !• to 3. going into the eighth inning Then they broke loose with a teven run barrage, to take the lead. 1 to 9. They added another tally in the ninth. But Milwaukee made it a melodramatic- finish tn their half of the last inning, pushing three tallies a ross the plate to win. The teams fkke a rest today. To-! morrow they move to St Paul and Columbus to finish the series. — Opening College Grid Games Today New York. Sept. 17 — tl'Pt — Make way. you Red Sox. Yankees and Braves — the college fooU>all season opens today. No fewer than 52 gridiron games, many of them under arc lights, are on today's program. And tomorrow those red hot pennant races will have to share the sports pages with 85 collegiate football oatties from coast to coast. A clash of two conference champions, something unusual at this stage of the season, is the feature tussle tonight and probably the best game of the first weekend That’s the arc-lighter at lx» Angeles between champion Southern California of the Pacific coast conference and champion I'tah of the skyline six. Southern Cal's Trojan's were rated a 21-point favorite although ■oach Jeff Cravath said that four of his best players might miss the tatne with injuries Leading the supporting card today are Drake vs. South Dakota State. Hawaii vs. Hawaii alumni. St Louis vs. Dubuque, and I'tah State vs. Montana State. At Austin. Tex., the I'niversity of Texas Umghorns will dedicate their new stadium in a game against Ix>uIsiana State on Saturday. At Igiwrence. Kans . Texas Christian. another southwest conference hopeful, will tangle tomorrow with Kansas' Jayhawks, champions of he big seven who have Mg hopes >f another championship season. The east's big game tomorrow will be at Philadelphia where the Villanova Wildcats tangle with the Texas Aggies. Down south there is he southern conference clash between Wake Forest and George A'ashington. California's Golden Bears were -ated over Santa Clara at Berkely >nd Oregon was a top-heavy choice igainst Santa Barbara at home, n two league games. Oregon State -lashes with Idaho and t'CLA plays Washington State, while Stanford neetz San Jose State. In other games tomorrow. Its Arkansas vs. Abilene Chris ian. We pick up and deliver DRY CLEANING at Bahner’a Barber Shop, Monroe and Bauman's Barber Shop, Pleasant Milte • Every Tuesday and Friday afternoon. KELLY’S Quality Dry Cleaning 427 N. Ninth St. °* C,,ur

f Brigham Young vs. san DIW State Denver vs Colorado Mines. Duquesne vs. West Virginia Wes levan. lowa State vs. lowa State Teachers. Montana »» eastern Washington. Wichita vs. Oklahoma Aggies; Arkansas State vs. HardinSimmons, and Loyola n. St Marys t > Bluffton Yearlings I Edge Decatur, 6-0 ’ A fourth quarter aerial attack which might have saved the day ' tor the Yellow Jackets fresh soph sijugd was repulsed by a powerful ! Tiger cub line at the 35-yard stripe as Bluffton's underlings snatched a 6-0 victory at Wor’iiman field , Thursday night A 30-yatd march in the first quarJ! ter brought Bluffton to the Jackets 10 yard line, and two plays later the 1 score stood at 6-0. Despite inspired ground play and accurate pass tos sing, the Decatur underclassmen, like the varsity a week ago. met defeat at the hands of a Bluffton ’ eleven. Don Wefel Released From Hospital Today !X»u Wefel. Decatur high school quarteriiai k who was seriously injured September 7 in the Bluffton game, was released from the Adams| county memorial hospital today He underwent an operation for inter nal injuries suffered on the playing i field. He probably will lie unable to play football again. Trees must eat. and a trees leaves manufacture its food When foliage is reduced by insects, nourishment is cut off. and slow death may result. An alarm thermostat for frozen food cabinets is designed to avert costly food losses through mechanical or power failures.

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Fort Wayne Speedway Midget Races Sunday Fort Wayne. Ind . Sept. 17 The Fort Wayne Speedway racing •potlight has been switched from night to afternoon programs for the tag end of the season, with a Idg car card, the second of the season. slated at the California Road oval Sunday afternoon. Sept 26. However, prior to the big car show, the Indiana midget racing association will present its final program of the season Sunday afternoon.

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