Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1951 — Page 8

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Summer League Play Continues . I ■ Another Round ;77 '•■ ■■ i The summer baseball and softball leagues will start another round of play next week at Worthman field, with regular schedules to be completed within two weeks, followed by tourneys in\ both leagues. I \ • ' t • V Bob Wbrthman, Decatur high . school athletic director, will be the supervisor, replacing Deane , Dorwin, who i will attend summer school at Ball State Teacher’s College. \ Th.e schedules follow: • > Baseball July 16—Pirates vs Cubs; Dodgers vs Giants. July 18—Giants v» Cubs; Pirates vs Dodgers. * , July. 23—Dodgers Vs Cubs; | Pirates vs Giants. - July 25 —Rain date. • July .",o—Tourney starts. AOg. t —Tourney ends. Softball July 17—Indians vs White Sox; Red Sox vs Yankees. July 19— Red Sox, vfs Indians; Yankees vs White Sox. ' ‘ July 24—Red Sox vs White Sox; Indians vs Yankees. - July 26 —'Rain date. \July 31 —Tourney starts. ’ Aug. 2 —Tdurney ends. The present league standings as follows: Baseball W L Pct.: Giants — -* 4 2 .667 Dodgers 4 2 .667 -i I —2\ 4 .333 Cubs —-- T —- 2 4 .333 \ Softball W L Pct. Red Sox — — 4 2 .667 Indians — T ---— — 3 3 .500 Yankees __l 3 3 .500 ; White Sox 2 4 ,333

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION < W. L. Pct. G.B. Milwaukee — i*- 50 3.S .568 Kansas City xl. s<> 38 .568 - St. Paul 46 40 .535 3 r Minneapolis --j, r 43 43 .500 6 f Indianapolis 41 41 .500 6 ' s Toledo 1- 40 46 .465 9 , Louisville 41 48 .461 9% i Columbus 33 50 .398 14% YESTERDAY’S RESULTS i .Milwaukee 15; Minneapolis 9. > Kansas City 3, St. Paul 2. Toledo 4-4. Louisville 1-5. Indianapolis 1 Columbus 1. Tour Held Here ' “Having 150 people on your ■ dairy 4-H club tour makes it the largest '.our I’ve been on. tljjs year,” s was the statement made«to the calf club comhiiltee by Jack Ralston, state 4-11 Qlub leader Friday. The first stop wh.s at the P.B. Lehman farm.' seeing the Lehman herd sirel a class of fdur junior heifers w|ere judged by the group. The official placing; on the class was then ?made by Ralston, Leonard Kingsl|v, . and Vaughn Miller. At \ the Reinhajrd Werling farm, Ralston discussed and demonstrat* - ed preparing a calf tor the show Ting. ' : J Alton Bittner furnished four calves for a sh£W ring dejhonstra- ; tion, after which the tour moved to the Hanna-hf|ttman Park for a picnic dinner, basket style, Theo. I Graliker. Herman Krueckeberg and Avon Bgrk dinner guests. Ice cream for dinner yvas furnished by the adult club committee. The First State bank supplied soft drinks. —.—l i— .11 , . French Equatorial, Africa exported 343,906 tons .of merchandise in 1950. H" .! It ■

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Putter There Golf Fans * • ' i i ■ v jnbl. W I p’W - •" ” 2 3 * iXwmuii Ik ‘ V - ’ Pretty Winnie Jones, queen of the $15,000 Fort Wayne PGA open golf tournament, uses a putter to point out the dates tor the toutnament Aug 22-26, which she has circled on her calendar. Minnie,,a professional in a fort Wayne department stohe. is taking golf lessons for the first time this summer. She will present trophies and prize checks at Die conclusion of the second annual tournemeiit, scheduled this year at the Elks Country Club. Eqrly entries for the tournament include Lloyd Mangruiji. the defending champion; Carj Miitdlecoff, Jack Burke. Jr.. Ed (Porky) Oliver, E. J. (Dutch) Harrl* sonl John Palmer, Ed Joe Kirkwood; Jr., Ky Laffoon, Clayton Heafner, Herman Keiser and Skee RiegeL \' .-/jl..

First Prize Winner 'I. In District Contest Dick son of Mrs. Frances ReidenbaSh,' of 412 South First street, and a 1951 graduate of Decatur high school, recently was named first prize winner in the district poppy poster contes which is sponsored by the Arneri can Legion auxiliary. Reidenbach’f entry will now be entered in state poster competition! The Decatur youth was awarded third prize honors in the locally sponsored contest which was sponsored -by the auxiliary .ot Adams post 43. American Leglbn, vnder the chairmanship of Mrs. Lawrence Rash. ( . . —__ _ - x If I You Have Anything To Sell fry A Democrat want ao—lt Pay*

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MAJOR ’ NATIONAL LEAGUE . !' )• W. L. , Pct. G.B. jflrooklyn 52 26 .667 |>iew York x 44 37 * .543 BL Louis 41 36 .532' I|% Cincinnati ’ 37 38 x . 493 I|% Philadelphia 37 11 .471 15 Boston 34 41 ~45’5 , .45’S Chicago 30 4f .423 18v ; Pittsburgh 31 46 .403 20 1 V AMERICAN LEAGUE : W. L. Pct. G.B. Boston 49 30 .620 Chicago 50 31 .617 New York . r .... 46 30 .60&\ 1% Cleveland — 45 33 ' .577 i’/ 2 Detroit 35 39 14% Washington 32 45 .416 16 Philadelphia 31 49 .388 3t. Louis 23 54 .299 25 YESTERDAY'S RESISTS; | National League ' Brooklyn 8. Chicago 6. i Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 2.|Cincinnati 2. Boston 0. j TjNew’ York 14, St. Louis 4. ' American League > Washington 3. Detroit 1. J; i Cleveland 11, New York 8? St. Louis 5. Philadelphia 0. 'Chicago 5, Boston 4 (19 ,H ■ M ■ ‘ H Corn Prospects In State Termed Fine I I N. . I J i v Lafayette, Ind., July 14— In<Ji- s cha corn prospects on July 1, uicatted the second largest crop <)n record, being exceeded Ohly by Is4ißL according to agricultural statisticians of tlie U.S. department of agriculture at Purdue University; ijCqrn prospects are for a 263,648,eQO bushel crop, which is 23 percent more than that produced last year and 24 percent more thah average. Tills large crop comes 4 8 ' a of nine percent larger ■: creage than last year and also ah estimated 56 bushel yield. ■< . i i

& "wi 1 La I* / yESsi P Xxl ' ! j n!eWL» y ELECTED Shrine imperial potentate, Judge Robert Gardiner Jr. (right), is congratulated at Shrine convention in New York by outgoing imperial potentate, Dr. Hubert Roteat of Wake Forest, 111. Wilson is from Aleppb temple, Boston. (Internatiobaij ■H. !J y ' Ai

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White Sox Win Over Red Sox In 19 Innings New York, July 14 —(UP)—Don (Footsie) Lenhardt, a guy who loves his slumber, was the toast of the sleepy-eyed White Sox today for his \ game-winning, 19th inning fly ball which sent Chicago into a virtual .tie for first place everyone home to bed. Lenhardt, who, insists “I don’t feel right unless I get 10 hours sleep,” went "0-for-eight” In the four hour and 47-ininute marathon last night but the long fly he hit |o center in the 19th scored Nelson jFox with the winning run and Sent the Red Sox; down to a 5 to 4 defeat. \ Ji There were several White Sox bqroes in the victory that brought 4’hieago to within three percentage points of the first plate R>ed Sox. Pinch-hitter Eddie Stewart delivered a single in the 19th to drive in the tying runs and before that, Floyd Baker, Bob Dil Unger and Nelson Fox each hit Singles. Harry Dorish was the winning pßcher after coming into the game in the 14th inning. “Hard luck” guy of the nigh Vks Skinny McDermott, who hurled the first 17 innings so • boston and left in favor of Harry Taylor, who was the loser. The Ped Sqx got their two runs in the 49th on Bdbby DoerFs double, a • Walk, Clyde Vollmer’s single and two errprs. Ijast night's game marked a total of 45 Innings the two team • played in- two days. On Thursday, they played a nine-inning twi light game and then struggled through U 17-inning nightcap before Boston won. '• ' Cleveland toiped out a 6-0 deficit . to overcome the Yankees, 11 to 3. Although outhit, 15 to 13, the Indians staged a fivernin fourth inning and a four-run fifth. Skintiy Duane Pillette continued his fine pitching for the Browns l.y scattering four hits to defeat •he Athletics. 5 o 0. Bob Poterfield gained his second victory of the season by pacing Washington to a 3 to 1 decision over Detroit. \ Brooklyn continued to dominate the National league race with an b tb 6 triumph over Chicago, despite fivte Cub homers. Grand-slam homers 6y Wes Westrum and rookie second baseman Dave Williams helped tho Giants to a lopsided 14 to 4-victory over lhe .Cards. The Giarits rhlped into Red. Munger for eight hi|s and eight runs in four innings and coasted \ from then on; 1 Howib Fox of the Reds hurled his second straight shutout to humble the Boston Braves. 2 to 0, and lead Cincinnati to its fourth consecutive victory. . ' Homers by Tqm Brown and Del Ennis coupled with Robin Roberts’ Tine two-hit pitching gave the Phillies a 3 to 2 decision over .Pittsburgh. f j <. | -y.t —| —— future Farmers Win Over Geneva, 8-3 The Decatur Future Farmers of America defeated tlie Geneva FFA, 8-3. Friday evening for Decatur’s seventh win without a defeat. Ralph Bqsse hit a home run for Die winners. The line score: * R HE Geneva - 000 102 0 3 2 2 pecatur 1- 002 123 x—B 5 2 | Lester and Mathys; Busse, Walphle and Miller, Walters. Medical, statistics show that rheumatic heart disease has been responsible for more than 90 per cent of all diseases of the heayt.

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Fairway Leading City Golf League While the Fairway restaurant maintains its lead in the citv golf league, which it has held, since the opening tee-off, the General Electric team is drawing closer to the leaders. According to the standings released today by Decatur golf club’s assistant manager Bob McClenahan, the Fairway team has won 13 matches, lost one, and tied one. The General Electric team has won a like number —12 —but has lost two matches while tying none. Other teams in order of thei r “landing in the' league areu West End xestauranC Holthouse drug, Goodyear, Hill and Smith, Post Office and Central Soya. Leading low Scorers for the week’s play were Johnny Baumann, 37; Bob McClenahan, Bob Mutcheler and Charles Ehinger, 39's; Kenny Gaunt, 40; Glen Oswalt. 41; Harold Engle, 42; John Smith, 43, Virgil Doyle, 41; Ted Hill. 43, and the Rev. Edgar Schmidt, 43. Coffee is mope than twice as popular a U.S. beverage today as it was .40 years ago. Americans now consume about 18 pounds per yesfr. In 1910 the average annual per capita consumption was 7.6 pounds. In a lifetime, the average Ameri can woman washes 2,500,000 dishes. This is enough to make 72 stacks, each as high as the Empire State building. Trade in a Good i'own — Decatur

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