Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1948 — Page 6

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Jackets Play Concordia On Tuesday Night The Decatur Yellow Jackets, winner* over Auburn and Garrett following an opening game lota to the Bluffton Tiger*, face a pair of battle* thin week, although gain Inga respite from Northeastern Indiana conference play. The Jackets will play their first gaxne of the week Tuesday night, tangling with the Concordia Cadets at the South Side stadium In Fort Wayne. Tomorrow night's opening kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 o'clock Admission prices will be 35 cents for students and 60 cents for adults. Concordia, which started football only last season, is expected to be plenty tough for the Yellow Jackets The Cadets gave Fort Wayne Central a great first half battle before Central's reserve power wore down the Cadets Friday ulght, Concordia whipped t'olum-. Ida City. 194) Most of the Jackets came out I of Friday night's victory over the! Garrett Railroaders in good condition. with the exception of Wilmer Grote and Max Myers, veteran linemen. who both have leg injuries Portland Friday The Jackets will play their sec ond home game Friday night, meeting the Portland Panthers at Worthman field at 7:30 pm The Panthers, year after year, have been one of Decatur's toughest foes, and the Jackets will be out for revenge for defeats suffered in recent years at the hands of The Pant I er* Yankees' Catcher Suffers Broken Hand New York. Sept. 27 — (UP) — The American league pennant hopes of the New York Yankees received a severe setback today when X-rays revealed that catcher Gua Niarhos had a broken right hand and will *>e lost to the team for the remaind er of the season. Niarhos was injured in the eighth inning of yesterday’s game against the Red Sox X-rays were taken overnight and Dr Sidney Gaynor. Yankee physician, revealed today that they showed three linear ftac tures just tiehind the knuckle of the index finger. If you're ever floored, get up; the strongest may go down, but only the weakest will wallow — ’I. L. Anderson. * (Motor Overhauling J Kelly 4 General Tires Phone 103 DOC’S CAR DOCK ■ ■mi-iißi Tonight & Tuesday “WALLS OF JERICHO” Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter. Kirk Douglas ALSO—Shorts 14e-40e Inc. Tas —o Wed. & Thurs.—" Big Clock" Ray Milland. Chas. Laughton First Show Wed. at S:3O Continuous Thurs. from 1:20 BE SURE TO ATTEND! —o Coming Sun.—-Donald O'Connor. “Feudin’, Fightin* A Fuesln'." CORT Tonight & Tuesday Brought Back—Technicolor Hitt DENNIS MORGAN “MY WILD IRISH ROSE” Ben Blue. Arlene Dahl ALSO Shorts 14e-20c Inc. Tax 0 O Thurs. FrL Sat—“ Mange Renegade" Jimmy Wakaly Coming Sun.—"lnside Stary" g “King ©f th<i <

Erect Additional Bleachers For Fans At Worthman Field lllrachers seating between 400 and 500 additional spectators will be erected at Worthman field before the. Yellow Jacket' next home game October I, against Portland, Walter J. Krick. Decatur superintendent of schools, disclosed today * The new bleachers, now under ( construction at the Universal Bleat ber company factory in Champaign. 111., will bring the total seating capacity of the field to just under 1.000. The best bleachers made anywhere. Mr Krick said, the new stands have every safety feature, and cannot sway even in soft mud The bleachers were ordered June 12 to supplement those erected in 1939. They will likely be placed on the south side of the field, alongside the larger section of the present bleachers. Mr. Krick stated.

I. U. Registers Upset Victory Over Badgers Chicago. Sept. 27 — <UP» Clyde Smith's “new look" Indiana football team loomed today as another contender for the 1948 big nine football championship, perhaps on a par with Purdue. Michigan and Minnesota, the big three in preseason ratings Smiths revamped Hooaier club, wfiit-h he took over only this sea son after Bo McMillan abandoned his "pore 111 boys’* for the pro game, dropped Wisconsin in its league opener for the first major upset of the year Statistics gave Wisconsin an edge, but George Taliaferro, a speedy and rugged negro halfback, (parked the Hoosier attack while 220-pound tackle John Goldsberry kept the defense at a peak. Talia ferro opened with a 68 yard touchdown Junket, and then the Hoosiers drove 71 yards for another tally. Wisconsin rallied for its only •ouchdown. but when Indiana scored again after recovering a Wisonsin fumble, the Badgers were through for the day. They failed Ive times and loot the ball on four >f them. They had two passes in ercepted and completed only three The final score was Indiana 35, Wisconsin 7. Purdue lost its ball game to Notre Dame by one point. 23 to 27. but he Boilermakers showed a rough ine which worked equally well on lefense and offense, good passing >y Bob De Moss and hard-running >acks in Norb Adami) and Harry izulborski. Purdue outgained the Irish, but No: re Dame scored four times ater breaks. . t . In other games, all non-confer-■nee. the big nine came through with a sting of six victories. Michigan, possibly not as strong is 1947 s champions, tripped .Mich .gan Stale. 13 to 7 as Gene Rerri otte starred Illinois gave Kansas State its 27th beating in a row. 10 to 0. with Paul Patterson the stand >ut In the game. I a MZVII el'a

Ohio State defeated Missouri's • Tiger*, rated aa one of the beat in I he big six. 21 to 7. with Joe Whis ler the major wheel on the Buckeye juggernaut. lowa ed'ted Marquette. 14 to 12. on Ron Hoadlngtoa'a two Both Northwestern and Minne- ! 40ta downed Pacific <oaat oppon •nta The Wildcats set back U. C.U A., 19 to 0. while Minnesota playing Washington walloped over three touchdowns In the final per ,od for 20 to 0 decision. This week's schedule: (X| Illinois at Wisconsin. (XI lowa at Indiana. Oregon at Michigan. Nebraska at Minnesota. (XI Purdue at Northwestern. Southern California at Ohio State (X) Conference games H. S. FOOTBALL Warsaw 24. Now Haven 1. South Bend Central 25. South Bend Washington 14. PRO FOOTBALL National League Washington IT. Pittsburgh 14. Chicago Bears 45. Green Bay ?. All America Conference Baltimore 25. Brooklyn 20 San Francisco 21. Buffalo 21. Cleveland >l. Chicago 10. !t Is indeed desirable to bo well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors — Plutarch Moot folks fail ill because they do not have a religious outlook '.upon life — Dr. Jun*. i

BEARING DOWN—AND UP ■ By Alon Mover

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Decatur Moose Take Convoy Tournament The Decatur Moose softball team ' wound up its season in a blaze of glory Sunday night, edging out the Convoy, 0.. Daulers. 21. in the final game of Die Convoy invita tional tourney The final battle was a rugged pitchers' duel all the way. Decatur obtaining five hits off Phillips, ami Harrah limiting Convoy to four safeties. Convoy scored Its only run of the game in the f<«rth inning Haulers made two hits in this frame but the run tallied on a overthrow as third base The Moose evened the count in the first of the fifth Harrah was safe at first when the Convoy catcher muffed the third strike Crist then tripled to score the De•atur hurler The winning run tallied in the sixth Reed heat out a bunt for a hit. advanced to second tnd third on Infield outs, and •cored on a passed ball. Harrah fanned 16 Convoy bat ers and Phillips whiffed six. K-ore by innings: RHE lecatur .... 000 Oil 000—2 5 2 3or -oy 000 100 000 -1 1 2 Harr~*i am. Stop*., nhagen; Phil ips and White ker. MORE FLAMES (C'Ant Fr..m Pas- Gnet er already has crampon the opera•ion somewhat. ■ "We do what we can when the weather is bad and then give it a ■ea! blast when It's good." he said Highway traffic in Oregon inreased 50 percent between 1911 ind 1918, according to the state ilghway department.

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Decafur Yearlings Lose To South Side Decatur's freshman • sophomore grid squad dropped its second game of the season Saturday as the South Side Jayvecs pummeled them 38-7 at Fort Wayne Fruchte scored Decatur's lone touchdown in the third quarter, and made good on the try for the extra point The Archers' offense featured halfback McNabb, who tallied three times, and fullback Wuebben horst, who accounted for II points Wuebbenhorst turned in the long eat run of the encounter, slithering 10 yards to pay dirt in the fina' period. The score: South Side 13 7 6 12—38 in-catiir (i(»7 0— 7 Touchdowns: Decatur — Fruchte 1; South Side McNabb. 3; Crick more. 1; Wuebbenhorst. 2. Points after touchdown: Decatui —Fruchte. 1; South Side —Wueb beuhorst, 2. Indiana Farmhand Is Suicide Victim Rochester. ind 27—(L'P) — Fulton county coroner Dean Stln son said today thai David Sheets, a 78-year-old farmhand, hanged him self to death. Sheets' body was I found in a corn crib on a farm near Kewanna after he had been missing for three weeks. Stinson said. Woman Shot To Death In Front Os Tavern Evansville. Ind.. Sept 27 —(VP» — Authorities today Investigated the dea'h of Mrs Ikirothy Fletcher. 28. mother of six children who was found shot to death in front of a tavern. They said she died of bullet wounds enroute to a hospital.

Indians Take ■ Lead; Braves Clinch Flag .New York. Sept 27 - (UP) ~ j In'o the pressure-packed final week ot the most thrilling baseball race In history thundered the Indians, the Yankees and the Red Sox today. headed perhaps for the first triple dead heat in major league annals. Cleveland had the lead for the moment, but by only one game over New York and Boston, lied for second place after their three day "war of extinction" at Yankee Stadium The Indians, bidding brilliantly for their first pennant since 1920. had a slight edge over the otiiec j contenders. In the first place, they were playing the best brand of baseball. And they play all of their file lemaining games at home against second division clubs the last, place Chicago White Sox and the fifth place Detroit Tigers. With big money riding on every pitch, the incomparable Bobby Feller pitched the Indians to a five bit, 1 to 1 triumph over the Tigers at Detroit yesterday, beating his keenest hurling rival, lefty Hal ! Newhouser. It was Feller s failure to win con-l slstently until long past mid-sea-son which kept Cleveland from running off with the race, but the lowa plowboy now has a mark of six straight victories and a season mark of 18-11.

Yesterday he was magnificent He didn't issue a walk for the first time this season and all of Detroit's hits were singles. He struck out nine batters and had only one shaky inning, the fourth, when three sin- j gles gave Detroit its only run Joe ' Gordon gave him a two-run lead In the third Inning with his 31st homer of the year and that was all the • batting help Bobby needed At New York,* manager Bucky 1 Harris of the Yankees was forced ] to gamble on lefty Tommy Byrne, j one of his pitching problem child ' ren, but the youngster came through with a fivehit. 6 to 2 triumph, the first of his career over the Red Sox Like Feller. Byrne also chalked up his sixth straight ‘ triumph in a comebacg from mid ' season mediocrity. He was helped , at the start by Tommy Henrich's two run homer. Heprich’s homer was his 25th and he also got two ' dngles. The Yankees, by winning made it two out of three over the log. whom they must face at Boston iext Saturday and Sunday in the two final games of the season The contenders had a well-earned off day today with no baseball (cheduled in either league. To the surprise of no one. the Boston Braves finally clinched the lational league flag, their first in 31 years, by defeating the Giants. I to 2, at Boston as Bob Elliott set■led the issue In the first inning a-ith a three-run homer. Vern Bickord ran his string of scoreless In--lings to 22 before he weakened to /ield both New York runs in the IghtH It was his 10th victory. The Dodgers clung to second dace by half a game as Ralph Brana pitched five-hit bail to beat the •hillies. 5 to 1. The Cardinals renained only half a game behind in hird place by defeating the Cubs. > to 2. while the Pirates won a •air from Cincinnati. 8 to 6 and 8 o 5, to clinch at least a fourth ■Race. The Bucs were only half a game behind St. Louis. In a "who cares" American league game the White Soz shut out the Browns. 3 to 0. on Randy Gum•ert's siz-hitter. • —— Yesterday's star — Bullet ball lobby Feller whose five-hit. 1 to 1 rlumph over De'rolt put Cleveland . n undisputed possession of first dace In the American league race. it. Paul Saints Win Second From Columbus By United Press Columbus was looking for a firenan who could cool off the red hot, it. Paul Saints, in today's third tame of the American association's inal playoffs. St Paul won their second game if the series 2 to 1, with only five Ml* yesterday. The win was the •taint's 23rd in their last 27 gsmes. tnd was msde easier by a "break" when the winning run went home after outfielder Maurice ■ Mozzali's

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throw struck an infielder's glove lyinic on the diamond ■ MAJOR REPORT (c'-nl. From --acre Onet ,to have fled the United States since the end of the war- possi1 bly to Russia. MAJOR n AMERICAN LEAGU E W L Pct. G.B Cleveland 93 56 «21 New York 92 57 .617 1 Boston 92 57 .617 1 Philadelphia ... 83 66 .557 10 Detroit 71 71 .5(10 18'4 St. Louis 57 90 .388 35 Washington .... 53 95 .358 39>. Chicago 19 98 355 114 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Boston 87 60 591 Brooklyn 82 <67 550 6 St Ixiuis 81 67 .517 6’4 Pittsburgh 81 68 .511 7 New York 77 73 .513 11 Philadelphia ... 61 86 127 21'4Clncinnati 62 86 119 25'i Chicago 6<o 87 .108 27 SATURDAY'S RESULTS American League Boston 7. New 1 >rk 2 Cleveland 9. Iletroit 3. St. la>uis 7. Chicago 2. ' Only games scheduled National League New York 3. Boston 2 Pittsburgh IG. Cincinnati 6 Chicago 3. St. latuis 2 Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia 0. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League New York 6. Boston 2. Cleveland 4. Detroit 1. Chicago 3. St. Louis 0. Only games scheduled National League Pittsburgh 8-8. Cincinnati 6-5.

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Boston 3, New York 2. St Ixufli 5. Chicago 2 / Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 1. * COLLEGE FOOTBALL Big Nine * Notre Dame 28. Purdue 27. Indiana 35, Wisconsin 7. Illinois 10, Kansas State 0. lowa 11. Ma-iuette 12. Mlnnesata 20. Wash'ngton «. Ohio State 21. Miss.uri 7. Northwestern .9, t’-i.A 0. Michigan 13. Michlg. ?. State 7. Indiana Teams Butler 68. Indiana Central 7. Valparaiso 19, Luther 6. Albion 10. Manchester 0. DePauw 20. Hanover 11. Southwestern 19, Wabash 13. Rose Poly 12. ..McKendree 0. Indiana State 9. Illinois Central 7. Canterbury,#. Franklin 0 (tie). Evansville 12. Western Kentucky 6 Anderson 35, Earlham 0. St. Joseph’s 39. Ball State 0. Midwest Nebraska 19. lowa Sta'e IS. Bowling Green 13. Ohio U. 7. Western Michigan 26. Western Reserve 0. East Army 28, Villanova 0. California 21. Navy 7. Southern Methodist 33, Pittsburgh 11 Yale 28. Brown 13. Columbus 27, Rutgers 6.

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