Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1951 — Page 8

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A|l-SfarVofe Ends Tonight At Midnight Chicago, Jane 29. —(UP)--6ut of about 400 major league baseball players, the race for the starting teams in the annual all-star game July 10 had narrowed down*to 24 men today With the polls due to close at midnight. The league - leading Brooklyn Dodgers appeared a sure bet to dominate the National league’s lineup as at least three of their candidates practically nailed down their starting assignments. Over in the American league the Boston Red Sox were the most powerful contenders, with two apparent and two'players still in the running. The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees, pennant-winn-ers in their leagues last season, were running second-fiddle to the powerful Dodgers and Red Sox. Five players appeared sure of winning starting assignments in the National league and three in the American. All the other races had narrowed down to only two candiI dates apiece. ! The three Dodger candidates who seemed assured of winning were Gil Hodges at first base, Robmson at second and catcher Roy Campanella. The apparent Red Sox victors were center fielder Dominic Di Maggio and Imt fielder Ted Williams. | Other players enjoying overwhelming leads were second baseman Nelson Fox of the White Sox, third baseman Bob Elliott of the Boston Braves and the redoubtable Stan Mnsial of the St. Louis Cardinals. Muslal was the top vote-getter with 1,138,419; Trailing him were Appx with 1,126,454, Williams with 1314.604 and Robinson with 1-.102,-

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Juntor Legion Gome Cancelled By Rain Rain Thursday afternoon hashed out the Decatur Junior Ameri-’ can Legion baseball game with Montpelier, scheduled to be; play-: ed at Worthman field. . Decatur has three games Scheduled in the next four days,splaying at Hartfqrd City this safter- , noon, at Van; Weyt, O„ Sunday ' afternoon and at -Berne Monday afternoon. , I p ; ,u.-... ,i - * 63a - i * ■■ i/ ’■ st. In the American! league, f'erris • Fain of the- Athletes was favored to beat out Robinson tff the White Sox in the contest,for'first 1 base. He was leading Robfrison, 1,031,863 to 1,007,429, today. 1 Favored George Kell of Detroit led Vern Stephens of the Red Sox, 1,062,384 to 1 >433,151, in the third base contest and Phil Riztuto of New York was expected to hold his 1,048,756 to edge over shortstop Chico, of the White Sox. | j Detroit’s Vie Wertz was pulling steadily ahead of ; Billy Goodman in the right field race and Goodman, x who has recently been assigned to first base, wasn’t;;given much chance i:p B overcome Wertz’s 1,029,266 to lead. V Jim Hegan cf Cleveland was given only an outside chance of catching up to Yankee catcher J Yogi Berra’s 1,053,173 to 1,037,868? lead. In the National loop, Alvin- Dark of New York and Peewee Reese of the Dodgers were in a dingdong battle for the shortstop assignment, with Dark, leading hoday, 1,034,852 to 1.022,61 fe. y Chicago’s Frank trailing Del Ennis of ths Phillies in the right field race, wasn’t expected to have enough local support left to overcome ft to lead. x ! B In the center field contest, Biehle Ashburn of Philadelphia wasnheading Brooklyn’s JDuke. Spider, 1J)61,105 to 1.013.780 and was expected to win. V The nation-wide\ yoking started June 10 and has drawn 3.564,558 ballots so far, Final results will be announced Sunday. \ ■ i

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Rural Youth, Preble Are League Winners Rural Youth edged out Dunbar, 9-8. and Preble Restaurant defeated the Decatur Merchants, 6-’3, in Decatur softball league games played at Berne Thursday night. picked up an early 5-2 lead but Rural Youth tallied seven times in the fourth and fifth innings and staved off a Dunbar rally for the victory, Rural Youth’s tirs|t of the season and Dunbar’s initial league IQSS.W A-' In the hlgfßcap/a four-run fourth inning paved the way for Preble’s 6-3 win over Decatur. The line scores: RHE Dunbar 302 003 o—B 7 I Rural Youth — 101 340 x—9 7 2 RHE Preble .—J 010 410 o—6 71 Decatur, 020 001 o—3 8 0 - \ Week’s Schedule Monday— Dunbar vs Decatur Merchants; K. of C vs Willshire Merchants. Tuesday—VFW vs Rural Youth; Preble vs Willshire. n Thursday (at Berne) —Dunbar vs K, of C.: McMillen vs Rural Youth. \. League Standing W. L. Pct. VFW 3 1 .750 Dunbar 4-—. ; _l 3 1 .750 K. of C. —AI-l 2 1 .667 Decatur Merchants 2 2 .500 Preble r 2 2 .500 Rural Youth , -I y 3, .250 McMillen*, 1 3 .250 Willshire 0. 1 .000 ft- -U- R. ’ . •W't , 'BULLETIN Today’s baseball game between the Decatur Junior Legion teani and Hartford City was cancelled because of wet grounds at Hartford City. Members of the Decatur team are asked to meet at Worthman field at 12:45 p. m. Sunday to go to Van Wert, 0., for a. game.

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MAJOR AMERNCAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct G.B. Chicago 42 23 .646 New York I_J— 41 23 .641 % Boston 39 26 .600 3 Cleveland -p- 34 30 .531 7% Detroit _-_--4— 31 30 .508 9 Washington -U- 25 37 .403 15% Philadelphia -L— 24 41 .369 li\A St Louis 10 45 .297 22% ;\ NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct G.B. Brooklyn 41 24 .631 New York 30 31 .551 5 M St. Louis 33 32 .508 8 Cincinnati 32 33 .402- 9 Philadelphia -1— 32 33 - 4ft ; 2 9 Boston 1 30 34 .469 10% Chicago 28 33 .450 11 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS American League New York 3, Washington 0. Detroit at Chicago, rain. Orily games scheduled. National League New York 5. Brooklyn 4. Philadelphia 3, Boston 2 (10 innings). \ . Chicago 8. St Louis 0. Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 5. — ' \l If you have something to sell or rooms for rent., try a Democrat Want '.d It brings results. Moose Club TONIGHT FREE QUIZ SHOW '.'.l' 3 and DANCING

Lutheran Teams Tp Hold Softball Meet The Lutheran scnoois of circuit A will compete in a circuit softball tourney, opening Saturday afternoon at the Bingen and Preble diamonds. Nine teams are entered in the tourney. Four games will be played tomorrow afternoon, one Sunday afternoon, with the semi-finals Saturday, July 7, arid the tourney championship Sunday, July 8. The schedule follows: Saturday, 1:30 p.m.—Friedheim vs Bingen at Bingen; Preble vs Decatur at Preble. Saturday, 3:ls p.m.—Flatrock vs Ossian at Preble; Trinity vs Union at Bingen. | '' * Sunday, 2 p.m. — Fuelling vs Friedheim-Bingen winner at Bingen. Saturday, July 7 (3 p.m.)—Fuell-ing-Friedheim-Bingen winner vs Flatrock-Ossian winner at Bingen; Trinlty-Unlon-wlnner vs Preble-De-catur winner at Preble. Sunday, July 8 (3 p.m.)—Winner of July 7 games in tourney championship tilt at Preble. ■

MINOR AMERICAN LEAGUE \ W. L. Pct G.B. Milwaukee ... — 41 29 .58$ Kansas-City --- 40 32 .556 2 St. Paul 36 31 .537 3% Minneapolis 36 34 .slAa 5 Louisville— 34 37 .479 7% Toledo 34 38 ~472 8 Indianapolis —3l 36 .463 8% Columbus \27 42 .391 13%

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