Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1949 — Page 8

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Legion Meets Sycamore In Pro Playoff The Decatur American Legion baseball team. Mate aetni-pro champion*. will continue their battle’ thia weekend for the right to compete in the National Baseball Congrt**' tournament The Legion will tangle with the Sycamore Sons, Illinois state t champions, in a three-game series at Worthman field Saturday and Sunday, with the winner qualifying for the national tourney, which opens at Wichita, Kan. Aug. 19. The series opener will be played* nt 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at Worthman field The second game will start at 1 o'clock Sun day afternoon, with a third game, if necessary, immediately thereafter. Season tickets for al! games are now on sale, priced at 11.25. Single session admission will be 75 cent* per person. Sycamore, which is located west of Chicago, defeated North Chicago. 7-6, In the final game of the Illinois state tourney, played at Elgin. 111. Paul Knippen. Syracuse’s star right hander, who won three games in the state tourney, is slated to hurl Saturday’s opener and likely will be opposed by Dan Ferber. | legion’s right handed ace. who hurled great ball in the local tour n« y Defeat Bronson The legion team, playing its final game before the playoff, defeated the Bronson Reels at Bronson. Mich . Wednesday night. 7 5. Decatur Jumped into an early 4-0 lead but Brenton pulled Into a tie in the sixth. The Legion picked up a single run in the eighth on Bill Bower's home run. and what proved to be the winning ( margin tallied in the ninth when Bui Fry hit one out of the park after Jack Hornberger doubled Ferber hurled three scoreless innings for Decatur, and was fol lowed on the mound by Reynolds and Fry. with Fry the w.lining pitcher The Mgion will play two games wi'h Bronson Sunday. Aug 14 An afternoon game will be played at I Worthman field in this city, and! the teams will then return to Bron I son for a game under the lights I

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Two Decatur League Games Friday Night "Two Decatur Softball league games will be played at Worthman field Friday night. Rural Youth will meet K. of C. in the ■ opener at 7:30 o’clock, followed by- - and Bingen Berne Teams To Battle Tonight In Meet Final Serv-Cs Store and Dunbar Furniture both of Berne, will Hash at < McMillen field at 8 o'clock tonight for the Adams county softball tournament title. These teams won their way to tonight's final with semi-final tri umphs Wednesday night. A preliminary at 7 o'clock will match thMcMillen M A R nine against the Willshire Methodist church team. The Knights of Columbus. Decatur's last team in the running, was eliminated in Wednesday's opener, losing to the Serv-l’s nine by a 6-4 score. The Berne team scored what proved to be the winning runs in the first of the seventh, and halted a K. of ('. rally after one run scored in the last of the frame. Dunbar blanked Smith Bros., al so of Berne, 6-0. in the nightcap. S. Neuenschwander limited the losers to five scattered hits and was I . given perfect support by bis mates The winner of tonight's final will I advance to the sectional tourney, to open at Ossian next week. larst night's scores: RHE Serv-t’s ... 003 010 2 6 9 1 K of C 002 010 I—4 7 5 11. Habegger an<7 Stucky: Gllllg and L. Hackman RHE i Dunbar 211 100 16 9 0 Smith 000 000 0 0 5 7 Neuenschwander and Inniger; Myers and Inch. I III* I Decatur Legion AB R H E i Schmidt. 2b ... 4 110 I Sunday night. ' D Schnepf. sss 0 11 Hornberger, cf 4 2 3 0 | Fry. 3b. p 5 110 I Bolyaid. If. 3b 3 2 3 2 It* ynolds, rs. If. p ... 5 0 3 0 ! .1. Schnepf. lb 4 0 0 0 I Bower, c 5 12 0 Ferber, p 2 0 0 0 Mingus, rs 3 0 0 0 Totals 40 7 14 3 Bronson • AB R H E Yesh. ss 5 10 1 Snyder. If 5 0 1 0 Watta. lb 5 13 0 Corliss, rs 5 0 10 Miller, c 5 1 2 • Haughton, 2b 5 13 1 Lerry. cf 4 0 10 , Belote, 3b 4 110 I Newell, p .... 4 0 10 Totals 42 5 13 2 Score by Innings: Decatur 003 010 012—7 Bronson 000 031 001-5 ATLANTIC PACT (Cont. From Cage One) | hospitality center in Mayfair, where Bradley and Vandenberg are staying. Police quickly broke up I the demonstration. Koller Skating every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday niffhtH. —Sun Set. 18212

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Basketball Leagues Merge In One Loop New York. Aug 4.—(UP)— The newest colossus of the sports world -the 18-leam National Basketball Association—was Just a day old today and already it was suffering from a king size headache Oh. that schedule! The new giant was born yesterday when the three-year-old professional basketball war ended in a merger of the Basketball AMoeia-1 Hon of America and the National i Basketball league. Two teams were dropped from ■ each circuit to form the new outfit. but that still left a total of 18 uud set up a terrific Job for the league moguls when they meet a week from today In Chicago to figure out a regular season schedule Maurice Podoloff, president ot the old B A. A and newly elected head of the N B A . said a round robin schedule, in which each learn will play every other team tbe same number of times in home and home series, will not be po»l sible. But, he said, all teams will play each other at least once.

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At the Chicago meeting the league will be divided Into two divisions, with the season starting . around November 1. A basic question is whether teams from the eastern and west, orn divisions will compete against J each other during the regular sea- H son. Another is what to do about' a lark of stadium space in some d cities. The BAA teams dropped were Providence and Indianapolis. That left New York. Minneapolis. Phlla-1 delphla. Washington. Chicago, St. | Ixrnis. Boston. Baltimore. Rochest-' er, and Fort Wayne. The NHL eliminated Hammond. Ind. and Dayton. O. That left J Anderson. Ind . Syracuse. Sheboy-; pan. Wis., TrkCltlea (composed of | Moline and Rock Island, 111., aud Davenport, la.), Denver. Indianapolls, and Milwaukee. The lust two teams Joined the NBL since' the close of last season. • Paises Wrong Car Danville. 111.. (UP) Harry M«l-, Vin Darding. 28. Crawfordsville, I Ind. will be careful next time he! passes an automobile at excess speed Darding was fined 1100 for I passing a car at too high a speed : and on the wrong side of the road. j| The car belonged to a sheriff.

Blackstones Defeat Cecil For 2nd Spot The Decatur Blackstone* romped all over Cedi. 0.. 18-3. Wednesday night, in a playoff for second place In the Federation league The Decatur team drove six runs across the plate in the first Inning on four hits, a walk, a fielder's choice and two Cecil errors The Blackstones ran wild again In the seventh frame, tallying seven runs. Single tallies were scored in the fourth, fifth and sixth, and Decatur wound up the scoring with two in. the ninth on Kruetxman's i home run with a man on base W. Doehrman limited Cecil to four hits. The Ohio team counted once in the fifth and twice in the eighth. In addition to hurling fourhit bail. Doehrman also fanned 16 Cecil batters. Kruetzinan paced the attack with three hits, including his homer, while A. Getting lashed out three singles Krueckeberg and V. Doehrman banged out triples in the 15hlt attack. The Federation playoff series will open Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Blackstone* playing Fort Wayne at State School in Fort | Wayne, and league-leading Redkey at Cecil. The second game of lite I Blackstone-Fort Wayne series will lie played next Thursday night at Dwenger park In Fort Wayne. Blackstone AB R H E A. Getting, 2b 6 2 3 0 Bulmahn. If 6 3 2 0 I Korte, lb 5 12 0 1 Kruetzinan. 3b 5 4 3 1 —

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r ~MiSoT~ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct GB Indianapolis ... 69 44 611 j, Paul ... 66 Milwaukee 61 51 .545 7ft Minneapolis 65 49a I Columbus 54 56 .491 13 Katwas City ... 51 60 4a9 L Louisville 51 6o 459 1< Toledo •• 72 29 ’ YESTERDAY'S RESULTS St. Paul 5. Indianapolis 3. Columbus 1. Kansas City 0. Louisville 6. Milwaukee 5. Minneapolis 11 1. Toledo 04. Krueckeberg. cf 4 2 11 J. Karch. ss “ B. KarcTn rs — « J a V. Doehrman, c as--W Doehrman, p 5 10" Totals 45 18 15 > I * Cec'd AB R H E Bryan. 2b • 1 2 M Hoeppner, ss 4 11 2 B. Simpson. 3b T. Koehn, lb 2 0 0 2 J. Koehn, lb 2 0 0 0 Deevers. If G. Simpson, c .... 3 0 <• " Winterhalter, cf 4 0" " Saunders, rs 4 " 11 " Feeney, p 3 0 0 1 Doster, p 1 0 0 fi; Totals 35 3 4 8 Score by innings: Blackstone 600 lit 702 18 <- e< -il .. 000 010 020 - 3' In the first V S. Census, in 1790. Virginia, with a population 747.610 had the largest numlier of residents.

John Bauman Accepts South Bend Position Berne. Aug. 4-John Bauman i son of Peter Bauman of Berne and , coach and teacher at Pleasant Mills high school the past two years. | ha* accepted a position to coach, varsity football at Woodrow Wilson high «chool at South Bend He will also be assistant basketball , coach and will teach mathematics, and physics. Bauman taught and coached at Geneva for several years before entering the service. He served as athletic instructor in the army for several years. He and his Wife and daughter will move to South Bend soon He will be succeeded as Pleasant Mills coach by Gerald "Doc" Vizard, of Decatur, who will also be principal. Tigers Beat Daisies In Playoff Finals The Tigers edged out the Daisies, 11-10. in the final game In the playoff series in the boys' Major softball league at Worthman field this morning. Batteries: Tigers.' Odle and Conrad; Daisies. Bren-! nan and Thomas. U. S. COMPTROLLER <Cont. From Page One) Warren reported that "at least 4>2 cases involving fraud were discovered out of 9.195 cases examined Improper payments of J6.280,0t'0 , induced by fraud" were found and reported to the justice department, the office of contract settlement and to the government contracting agencies concerned. NO BLANK-CHECK (ConL From Page One) i "blank che< k" provision alone. They say 41.450.000.000 is too much and shat the administration hasn't Justified its need with Its reports on Russian military strength.

THURSDAY, AVGUST 4.

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