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Sieve O'Neill Sure Red Sox : To Take Flag - packsonvillp, Fla., April 5. — (UP)- There isn’t a more confident manager in baseball todaj than Steve O’Neill of the Boston ; Red ’Sox. . ( He’s sure hitrlftal dub will win the American league pennant and > ' njpst' baseball experts agree with hnn. ' - I “I don’t" see any club which can beat us,” he said. “Sure,- the Yankees, Tigers- and Indians - figure to be tough, but not tough enough. The players are Just 51s \ confident as I am hiat we are going, to win.’’ O'Neill has made four major changes in the dub which flnibhed last season in third place, four games behind , the pennantwinning Yankees. \ He added pitchers Bill Wight and Ray Scarborough froni the White Sox. .signed Lou Boudreau, formol* (jlevdnnd manager and star ahorlstop, and assigned /Mmerlitpn batting " tluriuplon Billy Goodman, who has been a diamond, Jr vk of all tru.t. lb a permanent posilhm 'tVVh now have the best pitrhing Htgrilll the Ipagtie and the addl |lo|i of Hmidvraii gives the tied Ho| the MltoHgrtat Imlo h w« «VtU Jiafh had," o Neill allo tout,' tiih 11 it it last anmiimr wljuii Jim t • mhl'ailliv IKtlird, n.ihl * IL- tifidfpil Hl MlgTtdliimi llntl .Jill; age jtmj jrtlth ll|t with Nilt l h fciy I'lavi fs ho .iPioml [ hrt»u tiifin Ibijjlfy^dhien l , :I9; Ihltd limoyiimit ; peaky, I?; ahiu lHlitll Vei it R|p|ihptm .31 and tphlmflelder Itotti. ItiMagglo, 33. l|e also said he dldt\'f pttt much rto|k In suggestions that big Walt f Driypo. his homerun hitting first baseman, might fall victim to the sopjiomore Jinx. ' If* p’Nelil should get the pitching he expects, it is hard Ip wee ,how the-Red Sox can be beat. That infield of Doerr, Stephens and Pesky with Boudreau ready Vto 4 te P ln ’ at any time, is the heaviest hitting in the business. And 5 there’s nothing wrong either with the outfield of Ted Williams'. , DJM'uggio and Goodman, who will plays right field in the place of Al > Zarllla, shipped to the White.Sox in the Wight-Scarborough deal. O'Neill i» planning to use onl; one ’of his regular starters of last - " ' .'"j .■■■ ', ■ '

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Exhibition Baseball ■fc, New Yorff (Nj 5. Boston (N) f» 1 (culled end of X.innings Io allow teams to catch t|rains.)7 ■ |, Jacksonville (SAL) jX, Boston (A) 7. ’ 1 <! F Cincinnatl. (NJ 3, Washington (A) 11. • ' New York (A) 'jlGj El Paso (Aiiz.-Tex.) 10; ’ \ ■ Chicago.(Al 9 Pittsburgh (N) ,° (io innings 1 Chicago (N) 7, Hduiton' (Tex.) 4 (night). Philadelphia (A) G, Birmingham (SOU) IF (night). | 7 Brooklyn (N) 5, Philadelphia (N) 4 (11 innings-nighj). St. Ixmis (A) 13, San Antonio (Tex.) 5. < . ’ . .| | i ■ i year in his pitching rotation | southpaw' AJel Parnell, who won IS while losing in last (season. The other siarterp will be Wight (10-16); Willard Nixp.nV ,(X (D and Harry Taylor (2-0). Twq lefthanders. Charles Stobbs (12-7) and .Mickey M(T>ermott I (7-3) also have a good chance to' get into that starting rotation. O’Neill plans to use Ellis Kinder* (14-12) strictly for relief unless those seven should r faller as Hi arters V. i ' i A. t 7- ' • : .. ' JULIUS . (('«in|lnu«-ii From rage Ql»> band llu slide ihe Ailrnmli sec loth from Hie Now Mmilco"aioinic renter und Hirnttd iliejii over tn Ihe Hon.’iilx-i f.'.i A h«|. deliveicd llittiii hi ItiissiH bv way of Him ■in, I, I ,1. r ,~n ' ill In .(, vi \m i, 'A imt id 11 iiikii, mid mm num mnini iim t(iip»iiiih'i r > und ■■odii ii I'uiiiv hut 1 imtho’d ' mu’ Hl'i’h lli'ii I‘lH’lf 111 11 nfl‘ iimim nd in udvimui oi; iim smd emhig iliHf they Wtuijd tiiiflprtl Io flip hleheuf* C'lilll f" ; \ ; . X| ■. Courthouse Lawn Trees Are Pruned ; Workers hive been bury th6 patit two days pruning the trees on the] (•ohrthouse lawn, and their labors; have left the trees isb, .pare as to seem almost immoral. All that Is left now are towering trunks w’ifh but an'idea remaining of what the Jlmbs looked like. .1,- i Though shade will be limited on ,the codrt house laWn thljs summer, syminehy\ shade and scenfery are promised for future years, according to a lithe' bird who suddenly suffered from the acute housing shortage Jacob J. B. Rctjwkrtz and assistant are completing’the work.

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1 1 I I.U. Opens Baseball Four More Dtivors Season With Victory In 500-Mile Race < Bloomington. Indi April Indlanapolh. April f.,—(UP)*(I Pl Indiana Vnlvetnify took The entry list for the fitto mile advantage id six Taylor errors to MembHal Day race a( Hie Indiana open its home baseball card- site polls Motor R freed way was tipped < essfully yeMterdpy with an X to hi 2!) today with the nomination <) shutout victory over the TrpjffnM. of four cars and freshmen drivers The losers 12 of whom went to pilot them. down swinging at the plate before Roy Sherman, Bedford, (). was three Hoosier pitchers, managed named drive a new <ar entered to get only one man as far as by George H. Leitenberger of third ibase. Don Colnitis hurled Johnstown, Pa. the first four innings and was ” Johnnie Tolan, Denver, Color., credited with tpe victory. will ,drive a egr entered by' Pete. . t -7. Wales Dayton, ().; John Eedricks, GOV. SCHRICKER j*M.. wm-dH<.'tor tMw.ni t .. ■> .. . Gdula, Hamtramck, Mich., and (Continued From Page One) —; ;—e_ Jimmy Bryan, Phoenix, Ariz. w|ll ternplating this tor quite st,me j n driver's seat of a car time. He said it was, not. directly entered by D, J. Caruthers, linked with 1 ecent Alnkhtehn, Cajif. crime investigations. ; “1 have received Utters almost , , ■ . daily from persons asking enforce* t(> certain necessary and legitimate me.nt of the state law making slot business interests of the fctiite and machines illegal, the governor are often used to make Up losses ‘ said. “Moist of the letters were from that aris,e from selling alcoholie I women whose husba, nd s had beverages and food products al squandered their wages on (he mar ridiculously low prices.” he sai<>.\ ‘■Hint’s. , Schricker said “slot machines an* Although the order was aimed being harbored and operated in principally at slots, Schricker said, open defiance of the laws of ouit it also applied to the "other gamle state, and in 7 many known ln>ling devices. including punch- stances have contributed to the boards lie said it would go into moral breakdown and economic | effect immediately,” distress of our people." : A United Press survey of slot “AU of our peopl© must realize machines “declured'* to the govern- the evils 1. . and the incom islency meat showed several months ago of tolerating a flagrant law violathpt iratnnal Hulnj, including vet- tlon simply because It is carried (•runs’ organiz itions, will be hard* °n behind closed doors,l' he suldj. est hit by (he ban. Thu survey re- “Indiana is a great state, but our vc.ih-d th i( federal tux stumps for claim to •greatness (itn never lie "oiH-urmed bandits” were purehus* ,fully Justified until we place reed mostly by fraternal grofips in MlHU’t for (he law ut lhe very top of Indiana ' our patriotic d»vothm” Hi liricki cited, "many Instances” in which tire laser and fund were 4 . used m halt ' to liirreaso th« jf y OU ngve aomatl»; t iM to sell or lake fnuq slots room for rent trjr a Damoerat "TIiW ) tt» «rt»»i injury Wtat Adv It brings r»aultß. ‘ ■ AW — J J . BREAKFAST IN BED up with a busted arm? Worried about doctor bills? Relax. Let simple, inexpensive, I I • \ ' '■ j v . . \ I easy to use Democrat Want-Ads come to your rescue. Get easy cash by selling ihose unused u items in attic or garage. Phone tomorrow. PHONE -2121 Want Ad Dept. New Spring Hats.... ik \ t V7 ijCg# Kt* .■.' 1 I 7 ■ \ STETSON ' no ’ oo / Light > ADAM Weights 35 to $7.50 EWI SOCIETY Newest Wv iI \ 'CLUB Shades $5 to $7.50 v J Holthouse Schulte & Co. .„ . I ....... ; Decatur's Store for Men & Boys 7 k . | ' ' "A’

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Yankees Threatened With loss Os Mantle jiah Antonio, Tpx„ April fi—(tJP) New York Yankees; jycre ih|TntFncd today with \U(t*ir “boy wonder" Mickey Man liU’ to the army. tWantic was ordered yesterday to for an army physical .examl* on April 11 ‘‘to verify rnedicui findings which- classified him 4-£." Clive Murray; selective wervdirector of Oklahoma, said the oilier was Issued a( the request of Yankees and after numerous in* diaries had been received concern* lag his status. ~ "inquiries” werei believed tO/have been mostly of (he “poison p|p” type from jjepple demanding t<£, know how a 4-F could\ be rated Of the greatest young prospects baseball ha.s known. It was learned Yankees requested verlf leaf ion dfylhe youngster’s classification to shield him from such criticism. Braves > City, April 5-(UP) - relations between the Boston Braves and newspapers. ‘ (leveling with them came tp light when manager Billy South.worth adniitted he had ordered tfil’m Segregated when they travelgßoutiiWorth told the newsmen he hsd issued the order “to carry out f|§» demands of the players” after ma’h*r came to a head yester* d&y said the players api blStntly 'resented some of the twigs wilt ten about them R®<H I i|lalm sville, Flu . Al»i ll 5 (UP) - vitetttli hGlmmlttl Ken RurfensliFtgei It l«- no doubt today about he Wollhl |»e able l(» team with-l-iw.ll Hlmhwrll to give Ilia , UMi IlinuG Reds a poWetliil mi.* (WO l>&rhhitf pwiu h' I lijaftc.iMbrig* t loohttd. In ull'siar «l(|b< fmill vnalrulav ua he he who* ihn H'*i ('ltuinnuil plbhar nlli»- Ihli-nga |l«* ohul.oill llm WdphlllMlttn Manahll'o <1 IO 11, al hi«l||« imlv five lilt# Wild IWt» »Hol It tlk Illg I 111 *” ven 'M Dodgers , : iat-ksimvillp Fla i 6 (UP) Manw’»r Dlcssen of the Hrooiklyn IH'dten said Imlay (hat bookie Dnoj ,I’hompMon probably wist open the season In leftfleld and Bobby Morgan probably will be'ht third ba«e. : That would mean the benching of ilefte Hertnamki and Billy Cox — botli nominal regulars last season although neither played without oc* caqional relief stretches. • Meanwhile, the Dodgers met the Philadelphia Phillies again today on their journey north. The Dodgers woii last night, 5 to 4. in H innings. Red Sox Savannah, Ga.. April 5 r —(UP) — The Boston Red Sox were heartened today by the news that slugging hrsVbaseman Walt Dropo Is en route to reJoin them. Propo. injured last Surtday, now appears certain to open the season for the Sox. ~ Browns .|' (Corpus Christi. Tex., April 5 — (UP)— The St. Ixiuis Browns, who dropped 11 straight games, now are Off on a twogame winking “atreak.Y Ttie Brownies beat their San nsr* Regular Meeting ■ < ' and Installation of Officers 8 P. M. Thursday, April 5 Fifth fry after meeting *■ V F 'l' -t |

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