Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1949 — Page 6

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Moose Lose To Flint Team In Benefit Game Th" Joe Ixniis Punchers. of Flint. Mich., one of the nation's top softball foam*, defeated the Itecatur Moose team. 2-0. in a well played, hard fought battle at McMillen field in this city Friday night. The exhibition game attracted th- greatest crowd ever to attend a softball game in Decatur, and for a great cause, with all proceeds of the game to be contributed to the Adams county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Extra bleachers were erected at the field, and these were all jam med. with hundreds of fans sitting or standing on the ground along the baselines and behind the backstop. Three Flint hurlers held the Moose team without a hit. while Scat Harrah limited the hard hitting National Fastball league team to six hits. Both of the Flint runs were un : earned, with errors followed by a | hit in each case. The first run tallied on the sec- s ond on a Decatur error, followed by Bates' double The other run •cored in the sixth on an error, fol'owed by Copeland's single Harrah fanned five batters and walked one. whHe the three Flint ' pitchers struck out 13 batsmen and I walked three. Score by innings: It H E Punchers .. 010 001 000 -2 6 11 Moose f»00 000 000 0 0 ! Mayfield. Pendergast. McConner , and Hamilton. Jackson; Harrah and Stoppenhagen — 1 1 1 Two Accidents Are Reported By Sheriff Sheriff Herman Bowman invest!- 1 gated an accident un I'. S. highway 224 Friday when the brakes' on the car driven by George Adler, i of route 5. failed, and the car ran' into a truck driven by Edwin Call, of Decatur. Damage to the front end of the Adler car was, estimated at 120; damage to the front fender and running board of { the truck was also estimated at >2O. Another accident was reported to the sheriff's office when the - car driven by Charles Hoffman, of route 4. hit a bump in the road I two miles south and one mile west : of Kirkland high school. and left i the road on the left side, going into a ditch and overturning. The latest wrinkle in cosmetic* i« perfume in solid form packaged like a lipstick Equivalent to an , ounce of liquid perfume, the stick] is easy to carry and use, and nat-[ urally does away with spilling and evaporation

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Legion Team To Be Honored Thursday The Decatur American Legion baseball team. Indiana state semipro champjons, will be honor i guests at a banquet Thursday eveJ ning at 7 o'clock at the Legfun 1 home In this city. f All members ot the team, their 1 wives or sweethearts, coaches and other offi.’isls of the tram will be ■ guests of Adams Post 43. Members of the committee in ; charge of the banquet are: Art Hchamerloh. newly appointed ath letlc officer of Adams post. David Tcrveer. past athletic officer. I Floyd Hunter. Joe Laurent and Bob Bieberich. « The Legion team established an excellent record again the past sea , son. winning 30 games and losing ] only seven. In addition to winning the state semi pro title in the tourney held in Decatur, the Legion team was run ner-up for the state Legion crown, which the Decatur nine won in | 1948 Motorist Pays Fine For Leaving Scene Adams County Man Fined Here Friday LaVerne Wittwer, of route 6. was fined lift and costs by Justice I of the peace Floyd Hunter in court Friday for leaving the scene of the I accident A car driven by Wittwer ] c ollided with a car driven by Sam uel Hickman. Jr., of Springfield. ' (>., in the 700 block on Mercer avenue. Wittwer reportedly was over the ' center line and side swiped the Hickman car. injuring Hickman ' and Mrs. Sara Hickman. Sr., a passenger, of Aurora. 111. Hickman 1 received neck and back injuries and cits, and Mrs. Hickman re | c-eived cuts and bruises Police .estimated damage to the Hickman I car at >350, to the Wittwer car at >IOO. police investigated another ac ■ cident when a car driven by John Nepelk. Kan Nuys. Calif , in trying to pass a car driven by John Wer- | ling, Preble, on the right side, j clipped the Werling car's front fenI der Damage was negligible to i both cars. i Clarence Heiman. 115 South Sixth street, in leaving a parking | place in the 300 blin k of West Monroe street, pulled In front of a car driven by Anne Smith. 405 • Winchester street, damaging the 1 Smith car >4O; damage to the truck driven by Heiman was >5. Many Will Attend Fair At Van Wert ! Many Decatur and Adams coun , ty people plan to attend the Van \ Wert county fair on Labor Day The fair opens Monday and ex tends through next Friday, with ■lay and night programs. Monday will be Derby day witli seven ninning races scheduled for the afternoon. A stage show will be given Monday night In front of the grandstand The proportion of the American' 1 population that graduated from college trebled between the two world ‘ wars, rising from 1.2 per cent to I 3.6 per cent, according to a Twen- • leth Century Fund report.

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El Playoff Series To Open Wednesday I The final playoff series for the 1 championship of the Eastern InI iliana softball league will open at j McMillen field in this city next Wednesday night at 8:30 o'clock it was announced today. Battling in the final playoff will be the Decatur Moose and Rich mond. The playoff is scheduled for a three-game series, although there is some possibility it may j lie changed to only one game. The Decatur Moose advanced t<’ the league playoff finals by eliminating Klwihml and Connersville while Richmond won Its way to [ the finals by defeating Kokomo and Muncie. Richmond defeated the Moose 3-2, In the final gam’e of the regional tourney at Cambridge City a few weeks ago, and went , to the semi finals of fife state tourney before iceing eliminated Richmond lost only one game | during the regular Eastern Indi ana league season. Usual admission prices of 25 cents foi\ adults and 10 cents for children will prevai To Dissolve Berne Community Group Berne. Sept. 3—Authority for the dissolution of the Berne community association has been received front the office of the secretary of state ot Indiana and the 36-year j old corporation will officially become dissolved this month. As | seta of the corporation will be divided among the 236 shareholders. each share of stock to realize • its owner >61.50. Most of these i assets have been realized the sale of the building and the prop- 1 erty to the town of Berne in 1948. i Checks will be mailed to the shareholders next week. The Berne auditorium was built in the 1920's' and has served all these years as a communi'y center. It is now owned by the town cf Berne and ] will still serve as such a community center.

Dodger Rookie Pilches Third Shutout In Row . •New York. Sept. 3 (UP)-There was admiration and just a touch of envy in Giant manager Leo Duroch-1 er's voire today when h* said "Don Newcombe is the man who can pitch Brooklyn to the pennant " Durocher had Ju-t watched the Dodgers blank the Giants. 8 to <l. a« Newcombe pitched a five-hitter i i for his third shutout in a row. giv-' ing him a string of 30 consecutive scoreless Inning* and seven new strikeouts for a season total of 119. That gave him 14 wins against six losses for the best overall record on the Brooklyn staff and put him in a tie with Warren Spahn of the Braves for the league lead In • trikeouts. "Sure he heat us — we Just couldn't touch him." Durocher said. "That Newcombe b as great a pitcher as you could want to look . at And against nd I'll bet he didn't throw 2U fast balls. He had curves. ' sliders and dlpsy doos, lie is the kind of a pitcher that nobody can hit when he is really right." Durocher's stern judgment was borne out by the records which showed that Newcombe, more than any other Dodger player, has kept the club in contention through the I recent rough weeks in which the ; Cardinals overtook the Brooks and j tried to run away from them In last night's vital victory he I cut the Cardinal lead to a game and a half as they "enjoyed" an off day. Brooklyn took a 3 to 0 first inning lead, aided by two Giant errors, and that was all the margin necessary, although solid slugging in the fourth produced thtee more tuns and five more hits. { Jackie Robinson. Peewee Reese, j Carl Furllio and Newcombe himself each got two hits in the 12-hit Dodger attack on four pitchers. The Phillies regained fourth place from the Giants by coming from behind to defeat the Braves at Philadelphia. 6 to 3. Boston momentarily advanced on homers! by Jeff Heath and Connie Ryln but Bill Nicholson's homer tied it at 3-3 after which the Phils scor- j ed three more runs to provide re- , lief uitcher Jim Konstanty with his seventh triumph. In the American league, the Red Sox once again established their lovely little Fenway park as "home sweet home" when they scored five runs In the first inning and then i Just whizzed to an 8 to 4 triumph over the Athletics. Bobby Doerr hit a three-run first inning homer and Al Zarllla got one good for the «aine amount in the fourth. Zarilla's blow was additionally notable ' because it was the first inslde-the-

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Moose Bowlers To Meet On Wednesday Bod Lord, secretary ot the Moose bowling Irague. today announced that the final meeting before the I opening of league bowling will b«> held Wednesday evening at the Moose home. All Moose bowler* and last year's team cap'ain* are urged to attrr.d park homer in Fenway since 1931. The victory put Boston's encroach- ‘ ing Red Sex within 2'4 games of the idle league-leading Yankees. At Detroit. Virgil Trucks won his Ifith game, 8 to 0, pitching the , Tigers to their second straight shutout, a well distributed 10 hit Job against the Chicago White Sox It was the 10th victory in the last 12 games for Detroit and came right on the heels of a previous I shutout against Boston by Art Houttcman. All other major league clubs had open dates. Yesterday's star — Don Newcombe. the Dodger rookie who won . his third straight shutout. 8 to 0. over the Giants and extended hid string of scoreless Innings to 30. | TWO KILLED IN rcnnt. From Page one) ; I Its fus;lage is shaped like a pod and designed to carry an enormous • cargo. * LABOR DAY (Cont. From Page One) record crowd. Roads around the] 1 city were expected to be choked i with thousand* of cars for Mon- ] day's Thompson trophy race. All I hotels were sold out. An airplane was ordered to help 250 officers assigned to control traffic. United Airlines reported that it bad scheduled 50 extra flights across the nation and TWA said it had added 54 for the weekend. Railroads rxpected a somewhat lighter load of travelers this year than last, however, on the theory' that more people own motor cars' now. The weather generally across the count) y was clear with moderate I temperatures. Some scattered thundershowers were predicted for i the midwest and the south. "Nobody has so worfy about hav | ing their picnic spoiled, however."] a weather forecaster said < I August Temperature Is Reported Normal Berne. Sept. 3. — The month of | August was norma) from a tern-1 perature standpoint with a mean average of 72.5 degrees, according to H. M. Reusser's monthly sum mary mide yesterday. The highest reading during the month was 93, the lowest 48. Rainfall totaled 2.08 inches, more than an Inch below normal for August.

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