Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1951 — Page 8

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Indiana VFW State Tourney Opens Saturday Eight Veterans' of Foreign Wars softball teams "from all parts of Indiana will battle at McMillen field in this city Saturday and Sunday for the state VFW softball crown. • *1 .■ -., ■'■. ' ~ v Pairings : for the tourney were drawn Tuesday night at South Bend, under the, supervision of Russell Sr., state VFW athletic director 5 . He whs assisted /by 1 Harry Martz, of Decatur, "state VFW softball commissioner; Bill Fisher, manager of \ the Decatur VFW >am, and Ernest Moore, of VFW oost 1167. Thirteen: teams were eligible to compete in the- tourney, but five of .1 them, including the defending champion team from Indianapolis, were unable Co make arrangements for the mevCL First round games will be played Saturday afternoon and Saturday night, with the semi finals Sunday afternoon and the championship game- Suhday night. Decatur will ’make its first start in the tourney at-7 o'clock Saturday meeting Post 9627 from Odon, in Daviess county.. There . will be no admission charged for -the tourney, and the publjc is invited to attend. Mayor Jphn M. Doan will, toss out the first ball to get the tourney underway officially at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. I The championship trophy will be awarded by the state department of the VFW. A second place trophywill be presented by the First State Bank of Decatur, and a team sportsmanship trophy by the state ASA. These trophies are on display at the First State Bank. f Officials for all games will be Mel Ladd. Roily Ladd. Harold Strickler and Floyd Reed. The winner of the statd tourney wall be elig|ble<t<> compete in the national VFW meet, which will beheld at Fort Madison, la., next month. / State VFW officials who will be in attendance at the Sunday, sessions of the meet will include Spencer Walton, state commander and mayor of Mishawaka; Clyde (Brick) Miller, of Greencastle, f senior vice-commander; and Carl Miller, state department adjutant and quartermaster. The complete schedule follows.: Saturday Game 1—1:30 p.m —lndianapolis 1587 vs Anderson 266. Game 2—3:30 p.m—Fort Wayne

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K. C., Willshire Win Journey Gaines The Decatur! Knights of Columbus and the Willshire Merchants survived first ■ round play in the Adams county softball tourney Tuesday night at McMillen field.. 1 Gillig limited the Future Farm-. ’ ers of America to one hit as the K. of C. team eliminated the FFA 1 nine, 6-1, in Tuesday’s opener. ' The winners scored in every ( inning except the sixth, while FFA tallied its lone run in the first on a walk and its only hitft l , I The Wi|4lshire; Merchants over- ! came a 44) deficit to defeat Smith Bros. Furniture of Berne, 7-4, in the nightcap. Smith took the early lead with four runs; in the third, but Willshire knotted the score-with four in the 'fourth and scored the winning runs with a three-run rally ini the sixth. Three games are oh the schedule tonight, opening ai 7 o’clock with Dunbar of \ Berne peeling, the De\eatur VFW. Graber Tin will play Preble Restaurant at 8:15, and Berne Oil will meet the Decatur Merchants at 9:30, in the final game of the evening. ‘Two quarter-final games will be played Thursday. kServ-Us Store will play Rural Youth at 7:30 o'clock, followed by Decatur McMillen and the Knights ot| Codumbus. The other quarter-final games will he played next s ) Monday, .the semi-finals Tuesday, land the final game Thursday night, July "26. Last night’s scored.: „ t, \ R H E FFA 100 000 o—l 1- 0 IL of C. 11l 210 x—6 10l 1 Rlumley and Walters. M. Miller; Gillig and L. Hackman. | R IDE Smith Bros. 004 Offo o—4 6,': 1 Willshire 000 4t|3 x—7 11 (3 D. Habegger and |Augsbufrger; Agler and Davis. £ . 1 | ■ i ' 857 vs South Bend 319|. | Game 3—7 pm-O<jon 9627 Vs Decatur 6236. i i ' I Game 4—8:30 p.di.-*Muncie 6.11 vs East Chicago 3151. q Sunday • | Game s—l-:30 p.m,— Winner game 1 vs winner gamd, 2. ? Game 6 — 3:30 pin’. — Winney game 3 vs winner ganje 4. Game 7 — 8:30 p.m.. — Winner game 5 vs winder garni* 6 (final). ' L:. t s ‘ . \ \ 1 ' <

Af/W AMERICAN ASSOCIATION \ ’-f W. L. Pct. G.B f St. Paul 51 40t 1560 ( Kansas City — &1 42. .548 . 1 ' Milwaukee 51 42£ .548 1, x' Minneapolis 46 47 .505 5 ? Indianapolis 1 43 4l| .500. s’s Louisville L 45 40 .470 7W Toledo L_i 41 s<| .451 10 ; Columbus 35 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS 1 St. Paul 11, Minneapolis 3. \ ? Kansas City 5, Milwaukee 4. / \ LouisvillV 7, 3. Indianapolis 3, Columbus 0. | 1 The huge fossil beds and glacial deposits of Nebraska give proof that in past geologic sges the region once was tlie bottom of ah inland sea which later .was elevated above ihe water. |. f g ' ''■■ ""

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MXJOR.’ national league I W. L. Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 53 31 .631 New York>46 40 .535 8 St. Louis 43 39 .524 9 Cincinnati 41 40 .506 lO’/g Philadelphia(_ 41 43 .488 12 Boston 37‘43 .463 14 Chicago 34 43 .442 15 Pittsbuigh 33 49 .402 19 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Boston _1 51 33 .607 Chicagos2 34 .605 New York4B 33 .593 l Cleveland ----- 49 34 .590 ' Detroit 37 42 '.468 11 » 2 WasliingtOn 35 48 > .422 15%.i Philadelphia 34 51; 400 17U St. Louis* 1 26 57 .313 24% YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Rational League Cincinnati 9-0, Philadelphia 8-10.

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Junior Legion Plays Berne Here Thursday The Decatur Junior Legion baseball team will play the Berne team at Worthfinan field Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Members of the Decatur team are to rbpor* :.t. the field ut 4 p.m. Pittsburgh 4. Brooklyn 3.1 .•' Bost (in 5, St. Lquts 0. , ■ Chicago 7. 'New York 4. '.I I American League Washington 7-0, St. Louis 22. Chicago 4, New York 3 (ilO innings). Y, • Detroit 8. Philadelphia (’lev. land S. Boston 6 The Inca Indians had a primi;ivV system of labor called the mit’a by Which,each taxpayer was required to give yearly a certain amounf of time to the Inca. ■ ; • • ■ : Bakers are the farmer’s best industrial customer, buying about $870,000,000 worth of farm produce I a year. • \

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Chisox Beat Yanks, Bosbx Lose To Feller New York, July 18—(UP)—Only .017 points and a game and a half separated the four contenders in 4 the scorching American league pennant rude today after the . start of two crucial series. At Clevt land Bobby Feller threw an eighbhitter but barely choked .offt a ninth-inning rally in time for the fouith-place ptdians to beat the leading Red Sox, 8-6, At Chicago, Ed Robinson’s single in the 10th inning; gave the second-place White Sox a 4-3 victory over the thirdplace Yankees. And that put Boston and Chicago in a virtual tie, with t|ie Red Sox on top by .002. .607 to .605. New York and Cleveland were one and a half gamep out of first, the Yariks with .59 : and the Indians with .590. ’, Now the teams go at one another again in the second of the threegame in each series, playing at Chicago in and at Cleveland under lights. Feller became the first major I league pitcher to win 13 games this season and Jje scored his fourth defeat oyer the Red Sox last night. Bpt he had a mighty scare vdeppite fiVe unearned runs the Indians grabbed in the third inning and the 8-2 lead he had going into the ninths Charlie Maxwell’s threerun hohier featured the four-run Red Sox ninth, but it came with two out and Feller fanned pinchhitting Mickey McDermott to save the game;and give Mel Parnell his sixth loss of the year. The Indians took a 5-1 lead in the third on Feller’s walk, Lou Boudreau’s error on Dale Mitchell's ’ groundef and singles by Bob Avila and Lukej Easter and Bob Kennedy's doiible. The Indians got another run in the fourth and two in. the fifth. While Boudreau homered in the Red Sox fifth. With 151580 fans surely prepared for overtime at Chicago. Sol Rogovin follow* d u\p his 17-inning stint against Boston with the triumph over the Yanks and no-hit Allie Reynolds. The payoff came in the 10th as Ed Stewart stretched his one-dut belt to short center into a double when Jackie Jensen was slow in throwing in. and Robinson ; singled him home. The Sox tied it . with three runs in the eighth on a 1 walk, three singles and a ground ( i / The Tigers scored five runs tn the second# inning to beat the Athletics, 8 5, and the Senators and ( Browns split a doubleheader in other American league action. Tommy Byine’s four hitter gave the Browns a 2-0 win in the nightcap after a 'six-run fifth inning won the opener for the Nats, 7-2. Earl Torgeson’s homer and five doubles featured the 12-hit attack that gave the Braves a 5-0 victory over the. Cardinals, keeping St. Louis in the National league's third position despite losses by Brooklyn and New York, Two ex-Card pitch-

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Giants, Pirates Win This Morning The Giant* edged the Cubs, and the Pirates nosed out thd Dodgers, 2-1, in summer basebail league games this morning at WofthiriAn field. The line scores: gP R H Giants ..L 000 35—8 51>3 Cubs 2_ 311 20—t 613 Wolfe and Callow; Duff apd Blackburn.

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