Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1949 — Page 8

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Jackets Open Baseball Card With Victory Thrse hurlers collaborated to pitch a no-hit game Wednesday afternoon as the Decatur Yellow Jackets opened their 1949 baseball season with a 4-1 victory over Wren, 0., on the Wren diamond. Thomas tossed the first three innings for Decatur, Bohnke followed with three and Plumley worked the final inning. Thomas walked •Wren’s first batter of the game, the only man to reach base the first three innings. Bohnke fanned five of the six batters he faced in his first two frames, but Wren combined a walk and a pair of Decatur errors for its only run in the sixth. Plumley retired the side on strikeouts in the final in ning. The Yellow Jackets reserved a’.l their scoring for the sixth inning, counting four runs despite only one hit. The Jackets wrapped two walks,/two hit batsmen and a pair of Wren errors with Busse's double for the four tallies. The Yellow Jackets will play at Convoy. 0., next Monday afternoon, and will open their home season at Worthman field Wednesday with the Geneva Cardinals. The Jackets will also play Ohio City, 0., at Worthman field next Thursday afternoon. Yellow Jackets AB R H E Sautblne, 2b 10 0 0 Strickler, lb 11 0 0 Plumley, ss, p .... 4 0 0 0 Lehrman, cf 2 10 0 Bohnke, p, ss 10 0 0 Busse, c 2 110 Smith, c 0 0 0 1 Grant. If 3 110 Ogg, rs 2 0 0 0 Moses, rs 0 0 0 0 Wefel, 3b 2 0 0 1 Jennings, lb 3 0 0 0 Petrie, 2b 0 0 0 0 Thomas, p, cf .... 3 0 10 Myers, cf 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 24 4 3 2 Wren AB R H E Cashel, c 2 0 0 0 Custer, p i 2 0 0 0 Clifton, 3b 10 0 1 Thatcher, If 3 0 0 1 Slevans, 3b, p J 0 0 0 Krugh, cf 3 0 0 1 Bowan, ss 3 0 0 1 Weaver, 2b 2 0 0 0 Merkle, 2b 10 0 0 Brown, lb 2 0 0 0 Whitaker, rs 2 10 0 TOTALS 24 1 0 4 Score by innings: Decatur 000 004 o—4 Wren 000 0«l o—l

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I. U. Opens Baseball Card With Victory Bloomington, Ind., April 7 —(UP) — Indiana University's baseball team took it easy today following a 6-to-2 win over Valparaiso yesterday to open its 54th baseball campaign. The Hoosiers meet Notre Dame here tomorrow and Saturday. i Coach Ernie Andres used his pitchers sparingly and they rewarded him with a hitless performance until the eight inning, when Valparaiso got a single. Three more singles in the last inning plus the only Indiana error gave the Crusaders their two runs.

Jackets Take Second Place In Track Meet The Decatur Yellow Jackets track team, making its first start of the season, placed second in a triangular meet held at Huntington Wednesday afternoon. The Huntington Vikings won the meet with a total of 52% points. Decatur was second with 41% points, and Fort Wayne Concordia finished third with 37. Deeatur thinlyelads won three firsts and both, relays, Huntington copped five firsts and Concordia three. The day's best time was turned in by Johnson, of Decatur, who won the 880-yard rape in 2:07.8. Stingely, of Decatur, took first in both the 100-yard dash and the 440-yard dash, and was also anchor man on the winning 880-yard relav team. 'JfJF The summary: High hurdles — Hendricks .(H) first; Williams (C) second: Taykowsky (C) third. Time—l 7.6. 100-yard dash — Stingely (D) first; Woods (H) second; Schultz (H) third. Time—ll.l. Mlle run—liters (H) first; Smitley (D) second; Kellogg (C) third. Time—4:s6.s. 440-yard dash — Stingely (D) first: Taykowskv (C) second: Sies (C) third. Time—s2.B. Low hurdles—Berning (C) first; Wilson (Hl second; Williams (C) third. Time—26.4. 880-yard dash — Johnson (D) first: liters (H) second; Preston (C) third. Time—2:o7.B. 220-yard dash — William (C) first; Woods (HI second: Passwater CH) third. Time—24.6. Shot put — Bleeke (C) first; Doehla (Cl second; Passwater (Hl third. Distance—4s ft. 7 in. Pole vault—Hendricks (HI and

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Wilson (II) tied for first and second; Clark (C) third. Height — 9 ft. 3,'in. » High Jump — Hendricks (H) first; Mac Lean (D) second; Zink (C) and Berning (C) tied for third. Height—s ft. 6 in. Broad jump—Schultz (H) first; Wilson (H) second; McConnell (Dl and Woods (H) tied for third. Distance—l 9 ft. 3 in. Mile relay — Won by Decatur (Foreman, Thompson. D. Johnson and R. Johnson); Concordia second. Time 3:48.9. 880-yard relay—Won by Decatur (Bogner. Gehrig. Mills and'Stingely); Huntington second. Time —7:40. The Yellow Jackets will engage in their next meet at Bluffton next Wednesday. Minneapolis Again Defeats Washington Minneapolis, April 7 — (UP)— With or without their star center, George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers indicated today that they probably will need only four games to knock off the Washington Capitols and thus wrap up the Basketball Association of America championship. x After taking an 88 to 84 decision from the Caps in the opener of the best-of-seven finals Monday night, the Lakers came right bach ' ast night to dump Washington, 76 to 62. The third game will be played at Washington tomorrow. Mikan, who paced 'the Minneapolis crew to five straight victories in earlier playoff skirmishes, was held to an infinitesimal 10 points by the Caps. But, fortunately, Mikan’s sharp shooters were ! able to take up the slack. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur I

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WOMEN’S LEAGUE Standings > W L Central Soya 27 12 Hill-Smith 35 u Mutt’s 25 14 Mies 23 16 South Budd 23 16 McMillen 23 \l6 Kent 22 17 Hoagland 22 17 Mirror 20 19 Gass 19 20 Baig Service 18 21 Dunbar ' ]8 21 Decatur Ind 18 21 Gottschalk yl7 22 Duo Therm 16 23 Jlank 14 25 | Sutton 12 27 j BPW 10 29 High games: Smith 195, Ladd 194. <Moran 189, Steele 180, E. I Youse 173, Helmut 171, Kingsley Ift. Notre Dame And lowa To Continue Series South Bend. Ind., April 7— (UP) — Notre Dame and lowa will mee on the gridiron through 1952, athleic director Ed (Mooje) Krause of Notre Dame announced today. The Ijawkeyes will play here Nov. 19 this year, and will be host to the Irish Nov. 18, 1950. The 1951 game will be played here Nov. 24, and the teams will meet in lowa City Nov. 22, 1952. PROPOSES (Cont. From Page One) which would not l>e guaranteed any support under the Aiken law. There pre whole milk, eggs, farm chickens. hogs, beef cattle and lambs.

Berne C. Os C. To Honor Berne Bears Berne, April 7 — The Berne Chamber of Commerce will fete the Berne-French township Bears at a dinner Monday evening, April 18, in the Sub-Marine room of the Berne auditorium. The members of the first team, Coach Ned Shuck and the two student managers will be the guests of the local organization. 'Donkey Olympics' Here Friday Night “Donkey Olympics’’ will be. presented at the Decatur high school Friday night, sponsored by the local Eagles lodge. Many different unique acts will be presented, with local men, mounted on donkeys, presenting unusual entertainment. Proceeds are to go to the Eagles memorial foundation. CHINA PEACE (Com. rrom Pag* One) ment of a joint committee, headed by Mao and nationalist acting president Li Tsung-Jen, to take over the nationalist government. Others were believed to Include confiscations of the property of China’s “first four families,’’ the Chiangs, the Soongs, the Kungs and the Chens: reorganization of the nationalist armed forces into the communist "people’s liberation forces.” and communist control of all financial and economic resources.

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IMMUNIZATION (Cont. From Page O ne> fall. Permanent medical records have been accumulated for all children now in Lincoln school and for ihose entering next September. Trade In a Good Towr. - Oecatu REPORT REBELS (Cont. From Page One! and bombing planes,” entered in three columns, these sources reported. Trade in a Good IC'vn — Decatuf HOSPITAL FIRE (Cont. From Page One) done by a contractor, and that no paint was stored on the premises. Gov. Adlai Stevenson, who visited the scene yesterday, promised state aid in building a new hospital for the town. St. Anthony’s, the first section of which was built 80 years ago, was Effingham’s only hospital.

PUBLIC SALE As 1 am working for the state highway department, I am quitting farming and wili sell at public auction all my equipment. Located 9 miles South of Fort Wayne, on State Road No. 27, to Nine Mile, then 1% miles East, on the Flatrock Road; or 11 miles North of Decatur, on State Road No. 27, to Nine Mile, then 1% miles East; or 2 miles West and 1 mile North of Hoagland, on MONDAY, APRIL 11,1949 Sale Starting at 1:00 P. M. Implements TRACTOR — COMBINE — CORN PICKER Model A John Deere Tractor, on new rubber, this tractor is in A-l condition; cultivators for John Deere Model A tractor. John Deere 14-inch Tractor Plow. Gleaner 6-ft. Combine, with 4-cylinder mounted motor, on rubber, in extra good condition. • Co-Op Single Row Corn Picker, on rubber, used 4 seasons. Black Hawk corn planter with fertilizer attachments, new. used 1 season;. Good 9 ft. Cultipacker; John Deere Tractor Disc: Rubber Tired Farm Wagon, with new grain bed, 600x16 tires: Three-section John Deere spring tooth harrow; Farmers Favorite 10-hole fertilizer grain drill; low wheel farm wagon; hay loader; 5 ft. Osborn mower: land roller; 5-shovel cultivator; bobsleds; many miscellaneous articles not mentioned. TERMS-CASH. CLINTON DOCTOR, Owner Ellenberger Bros,—Auctioneers Mart Griebel—Clerk 7 Mart Grubel—Clerk.

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