Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1950 — Page 6

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Boston Braves Moving Closer To Loop Lead New Tork Auk. I. — fUP»— The, Bouton Brave* barged rtaer to - the National League lead today, powered by the hetter-thsn-eve.-pitching of the three men who hurled them to a pennant in, 194*. A* a result of their tenge 4 to 3 triumph over the St. Louis Cardinala last night, the Brave* occupied second place, three game* behind the Philadelphia. PMHIee and a half-game ahead of the Card*. And the moat apparent reason for thia lefty position I* that the 'terrific t rio"-Johnny Sain. Warren Spabn and Vera Wcktord -la (Ploying its beat year ever Back In thy flag rear of '4B. these three hurters accounted for 50 victories among them. In the disappointing .-’49 Season. they notched onty 48. With 87 already In the bag this season, they seen certain to eclipse both figures b ‘ya comfortable margin in thejwa, remaining months Spahn's triumph on- a fine six Litter was his nth of the year.) only two short of the 15 he copped , !nl»48 And it was one of his beat j ." wins, coming after a. long motion duel pith lefty. Max Ijinle'rof the Cards. —- - Three times the Braves scored single run* off Lanier to lake the . lead and three lima* the" Cards rallied to tie the scotet But the Braves broke the duel in the last of the ninth When they snored . <<ne run on a walk to'Smn Jetttro*.. Earl’ Torgeson s sips-K-. in. rnten? ; ’tonal walk and .afitm a torepon-j St the plate Walker Coopers! single off thin! baseman Toni7 <:iav|ano's glove. Torgeson. who hit safely In, pl/. 92nd straight game and Bob K!

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Revised Softball Schedule listed A revised «1 hedule for the Decatur Softball league, following the heavy rains .which prevented play Monday night, war announced today by Bt*Ve EVerbart. supervisor ■ Two game* will be played to- - night, W«dne*d»y. Thursday and. Friday. The corrected schedule follow* :- Tonight - VFW v* McMillen; | Rural Youth vs Prebl*.' Wednesday Preble v* BeeryVteard; K. of C. vs Hural Youth. Thursday - Berry ■ Visard v« VFW: K of C. v» Preble. Friday—K of C. vs VFW’: Beefy-. Vlsard ys McMillen. Hott. Who homered, led Boston a 10-hlt attack while Glavlano horn < red for St I moi*. With Spahn certain to beat hi* 1948 total only Sain seems nn : l likely to match hl* figure* for th*’ | season. In *4B, Johnny won 24, this year he, has 14. Bickford alieady ha* topped bi* mark of 11 •with 12. In the only other Major-league game yesterday the Chicago Cub- . d. opped The Brooklyn Dodg>r». 8 i to 5. a* the Ihslger*’ pitching staff • .-<g*in buckled I* the middle. Brooklyn rallied for five run* In .the fifth inning, Including Duke Snider'* three-run homer but' -tarter Dan Bankhead was unable to hold the 5-t lead. The Cub* knocked him out with three tai’Ife in the-sixth and added four more in-the seventh against Chris. VaaCuy* and Rex Barney. Th • | winning Tun crossed on a Barney I wild pitch, hui - Van Cuyk wa» . barged with the defeat. Frank HII-' . ier, first of three Cub pitchers, wak II lie. w ij> , - - , , - I'7 Yesterday's Star — Southpaw /W’arren Spkhn of the Braves who ; hurled Boston Into second plai e Lby Irt'ptTng' Max' 'Lanier pF' the pt a rd* In ti stirring ulbsiul duel; t to 1 • If you nav* eonwtning to **H ( or room* ror rent try a Democrat J Want Ad. U brings result*.

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Race Down To Wire Foreseen In Both Loops N*w York, Aug 1— (VP)- Th* current heat wav* may break any day but tb* major league pennant race* will still be white-hot In late September, according to there who •bouM ksow best—th* manager, A Called Pre** survey showed today that the manager* expect a reasonable facslpiile of the IMS raere. both of which were de*M«d on the final day of the season. Some manager,, in tact, thought the whole thing Wotfld be unreasonable The'mansgere a*U* the American league race as a threeVeam struggle among the New Yor\ Yankees. Detroit Titter* and Cleveland Indians. with the fourth-place Boaton tied Sox an unlikely long-shot. I Nw National league manager could foresee a break in the senior ( ir.-ult * four team squeege and manager Leo Durocber of the New York Giants probably expressed everybody’* feeling. ' / "The team that get* hot in Sep-tember--that's the winner," kald Leo. ■ ‘ / | Manager Lou Boudreau/.t th*! Cleveland Indian, went to other! extreme He picked his/own Ip-j dlane to - wln with no/gue*tion*

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