Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1952 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1952

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Plan Special Track, Field Meet For Boys Bob Worthman, recreation supL eryisqr at vWorthm.an field, today announced a series of special track and fjeld events for boys, starting ■- jirext week at the field. L The events, 10 in numbe.r, will be divided into four age groups; boys 9 and under; l{i>ys 10 and 11; ■ boys 12 and 13, and boys I'l, 15 and 16 years of age. / All bdyst desiring to enter these specail events are requested to file their entries at the field this week, with Friday the deadline for entries. Each boy may entef any number of events, choosing one or all,. • It i$ planned to run two events hlajly, starting next week, with all

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—~' ;T ; j ; evepfe in the afternoons. Special prizes will be awarded to tH*! first five places in each events in all age groups, Th| 10 events are as|follows: l&geball throw; softball throw; foot bill throw; high junyp; broad jum|)| 50-yard dash; 100-yard da-sbg 220-yard dash; j basketball freep throw (most out of 15);,football |ick (punt). (major ; ■sip 1 . TpCTyr i NATIONAL LEAGUE } 1 1 ' W L , Pct. G.B. Bro|ilfiyn +J' 37< I'sl 412 ' • t New |fork'.< 34 IS! .654 3 Cht&lo 34 21] '.618, ' 1 4% St. :t|iuis j 28 29 .491 11% Cindißmti 1': 25 29; .463} 13 Phjiallelphia ’—: 22‘30! .423 15 BosO 'i '2’2 311 .415 |\ls% I’ltWtirgh I 15 44] | .264 25% LEAGUE} W L Pct. G.B. NeWoik | 31 19 .fii'i j , BosftHi i 32 23 .582’4'1% Cleveland- 32 25L .061 2% 129 26; .527 1% WWgpgton —J 25 26’ .490, ' 6% Phiktgeiphia „ 22 26 45s 8 I St, pttilis 25 31j .446 9 - YESTERDAY’S RESULTS <•, National League \f New York 8, St. Louys 7. 5, Pittsburgh 4. i di< games scheduled. f[’ American League N|>jgames scheduled J iii——

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Bob Thomson's Grand Slammer Defeats Cards By UNITED PRESS This time practically everybody in the Polo Grounds expected it to happen,—just like Idst Oct. 3. And this time Bobby Thomson didn't fool around. He leaned into the first pitch like a man who kn.ew his business and the ball arched into the upper left field deck for a grand slam home! run that gave the Giants a fiction-finish 8 to 7 Victory over the Cardinals. Had Monday’s game been in a world series or in a crucial pennant stretch drive, the finish would have, been immortalized jus,t as was that golden victory that, clinche(l a pennant for the Giants over Brooklyn last October. As it was, fdlks who saw it won’t forget it for a long time. What increased the impact was that it was Thomson who was fated to supply the dramatics again at a. time when he had been in a miserable slump—hitless in his previous 17 times ht bat. In the final playoff game when Thomson’s three-run homer gave thd Giants a 5-4 victory over (Brooklyn, a relief •pitcher, Ralph Bianca, was summoned to handle the dangerous Bobby. That was the parallel again Monday as Manager Eddie Stanky hauled Rookie Willand Schmidt from the bull pen to sink or swim. It ti>ok Branca two pitches to blow the game—and the pennant. He at least got one strike on Bobby. But Schmidt f|red: the first pitch exactly where the slender Scot wanted it. * I The Cards, trailing most of the h way, had rallied late to go ahead with pairs of runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh, as they hammered out a total of 16 hits. They increased their margin to 7-4 with a final run in the ninth as Enos Slaughter and Peanuts Lowrey set the-paCe with three hits each. Sal Maglje, who had Sunday by the Cards, had been tapped for what appeared to be the winning runs in a relief role. But again providing! a remarkable parallel, Thomson took him off the hopk With his homer, jus.t.as he had done in the playoff game in which Maglie was about to be dharged with defeat. ’ Rookie Eddie Yuhas started the, trouble in the ninth. After pitch- ■ ing steady ball for four innings in relief of Harry Brecheen, Yuhas walked Hehry Thompson, who moved to second on an error by Red Schoendienst. The Catd second basenian threw wildly after snagging a line drive by pinchhitter George Wilson. When Davey Williams singled Thompson to third. Yuhas was removed and Willie Werle camd in to pitch to Whitey Lackman. Werle walked him to loud the bases. Out went Werle, in came' Schmidt, and bang went Thomson. The homer was the fourth in the game for the Giants. Williams, Alvin Dark, and Wes W/cstrum hitting into the seats pr< viously. The win put the Giants within thr.ee games of the idle f ' place Dodgers. In the only other ganie in the - majors', the Phils made it 1 three out of four over the Pirates, topping them 5 to 4 as Richie Ashburn tripled in the seventh and came home on a fly by Grin Hahrner.. .Reliefer Jim Koustanty, who pitched scoreless bail for the three final innings, gained his second victory. Ralph Kiner hit hjs 11 th holmer and George Strickland hifourth for Pittsburgh} Eddie Wartkus drove in two Phil runs with . three hits', Dick Groat Signed ( By Pittsburgh Club PITTSBURGH. UP — The Pitts- | burgh Pirates plucked Dick Groat from their backyard Tuesday but tlie iuyius paid for the former Duke star remained Branch Rickey’s “top secret.’' Tlte 22-year-old star from nearby Swissvale. Pa., signed a Pirate contract Monday night and said he fulfilled a dream of a lifetime.” There was no hint from Pirate brass of the cost of helping Groat fulfilling his ambition. — i Hartford Tonwship Man Taken Into Custody After threatening relatives and 1 going on a rampage last night, ■ William Biery, 78, of Hartford ! township, was jailed following the i filing df a petition of sate keeping by his relatives. Sheriff Robert Shraluka. deputy I sheriff James Cochran and city patrolman Dale Death took Biery in custody and found in his posession a .32 caliber derringer pistol, a .25 . caliber Spanish automatic and an bid-type .22 caliber target pistol. | Biery is being held pending-obser-vation. ■ < \ Erosion Loss in U. 8. Estimates are that the U. S. is | losing two hundred 40-acre farms ; (8,000 acres) a day through erosion. . \ • .1. \

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Maxim In Danger Os Losing Title GRASSINGER. N.\Y. UP — Unless he is putting on an act, Joe Maxing is in grave danger of losing his light heavyweight crown to smaller Sugar pay Robinson at Yanke| Stadium Monday night. Thai was the Unanimous opinion of sports writers in camp Tuesday as Cleveland Jo sy retired \ from training. . , \ The‘ supposedly “good big man” hasn’t -been looking “good” in preparation for his 15-round fight with the “good little man”—Robinsoh. .Jack qempsey v\as so surprised at Maiirufs sluggishness Monday, he declined to predict the winner of the June 23 fight- After he had flown jin from Montreal to make a forecast, Dempsey evaded a selection , by saying, “I never saw Robinson fight.” It wits the second consecutive day opi-whiqh spajrmate Joe Blackwood qjf Paterson, N. J., belted the champljon about (lie ring. Ai(d Black Wood is a middleweight, scaling oiiiy 161 poumls. Maxim registered 177. The weight difference betwe»m Maxim and Robinson will be sontewhat similar. Maxim became very angry at his ptxjr showing against the dusky middleweight who had knocked him dicjwn with a left hook on Sunday. Jjpey blamed everything on his headguard during the three round s.b Between rounds he' complained to ti'aihbrs Al Del Monte and Freddie Fierro: “I can’t see. This thing keeps ■ .slipping down over my eyes.’! Another headguard was sent for, hut it arrived after the sparring was finished. \ Sonfe observers believed Maxim “stale 1 ! because of too much work ,in the warm weather. He has sparred 107 rounds for this fight. However, Manager Jack Kearns said, "he’s in excellent shape. BlackWbod’s a very! fine sparring partnep. That’s why he's dble to hit Joey.” VFW, Rural Youth Win League Games VFty and the Rural Youth won a pair of w-ell-played games in the Decatur Softball league Monday night '. at Worthman field. VF(y defeated Beavers Oil, 4-1, , in tbefopening game as each team olUainpd six hita. Beavers scored its lone run ip | the first inning, whiieijVFW tallied twice In both the frst and fifth frames. Rural Youth tallied all its runs in the[ sixth ,to dow n Decatur Merchants, 4-2, in the niglitcap. and Beavers will play a league game at Berne at 7:3ff p.m. Thursday. Two league tilts will bpi played at WorthmWn field Friday VFW meeting McMillen at 7:30, | followed i by ,B.ecatur Merand Pebble. Last night's scores: RHE Beavers . A IflO 000 o—l 6 2 VFW; 290 020 x 4 6 ( 2 D. paumgaitner and J. Arnold; Il< i f pml I lowdysheil. \ R HE Rural Youth . . 000 (>’ol- o—4 5 3 C. betting ami Hatvey; J. Gillig a|d Knittlej. I'' ( , ■ | Shine Appliances EWctric appliances, such as toasters ahd waffle irons, should be wiped with a soapy cloth after each use to kfeep them new and sparkling Nevdr immerse them in water, ai \that will ruin the electrical unit

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Junior Legion ' I Team Defeated B I By Berne, 9-5 Trailing 5-0 ejarly in the game, the jL-rne Junior American Legion baseball team ralleid for a 9-5 triumplix over the Decatur Junior tearW-iat the Berne diamond Monday fatter noon. scored four runs in the firsvinning on a hit batsman, a walOan error anq singles by Rowand Reinking. The picked up their final run in theAAecond on a single by Mcand Pollock’s double. scored drice in the sec; ond{,Twice in the third without a hit, jahd won the game with a sixrun .flurry in the fourth on five hits’And tWjo errors. TTie Decaltur team will entertain Waftrim at Worthman field in this ctiy; Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock. DUatur AB R H E 2b 4 110 CoopHd. 3b ___ 3 11 0 Pollhfck. c A-l 3 11 o Geiief. If 3 0 0 0 ViiO, if -L-:— 1000 Rowiy, lb 4 11 0 Brokaw, cf 3 11 0 cf 10 0 0 Priee| ss 2 0 2 2 rf, p 2 0 0 0

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Brunton, p 2'o 1 2 Blackburn, rs 10 0 0 TOTALS 29 5 8 4 Berne ( AB R H E J. Sprunger, ss 4 110 Whitehurst, 2b, cf 4 1 0 O, O. Sprungre, p, rf3 2 10 Butcher, 3b, p 3 .2 3 1 c 4 0 0 0 Kirchhoffer, lb, 2b__3 0 12 Hilty, if 2 110 Rowley, Os 2 ; 0 0' 0 Reinhart, lb 1 -i'O 0 0 M. Sprunger, rs —— 0 2 0 1 Bixler, rs, 3b 1 j 0 0 0 TOTALS 27 9 7 4 Score by innings: Decatur 410 000 o—s Berde 012 600 x—9 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pct. G.B. Milwaukee -L_--- 39 18 .684 Kansas City 38 24 .613 3% St. Paul _] 30 30 ! .500 10% Louisville J 31 31 i .500 10% Minneapolis 29 31 .483 11% Indianapolis, 26 30 .464 12% Columbus _. v 26 33 .441 14 Toledo 18 40 .310 21%, YESTERDAY’S RESULTS St. Paul 8-4, Indianapolis 1-6. Minneapolis, 5-3, Louisville 4-2. . Columbus 6, Milwaukee 5. Toledo 7, Kansas City 2. ■ i - - .. !■■

Boys' Softball League Launched 1 The boys’ softball leagite, a part of the summer Recreation prograih at Worthman ;field, launched its schedule Monday mornipg with two games, thed Reds defeating the Dodgers 12-3, and the Red Sox troupeing the Indians, 22-2. Two games rire played each Monday and Wednesday morning, with the first-round schedule as follows: June 18—-Yankees vs Reds; lied Sox vs Dodgers. : Jijne 23 —Red Sojx Vs Reds; Indians vs Yankees. June 23 —Dodgery vs Indians; RedrSox vs Yankees. June 30—Dodgers vs Yankees; Reds vs Indians. The second round of play will strat July 2. Monday’s' scores i | ( R H E DoddersllDO 02— 3 3 5 Myers and Br|ittson; Krick. Fisher \and Shraluka. RHE Indians 002 00— 2 4 7 Red Sox 90(10) 3x 22 12 2 Ballard and Blankenbaker; Reed and France. \“ ■ : . JTeairi Rosters Red Sox—Willard, captain; 1 Andrews, Reed, Holtsberry, Schei'man, Fravel, L. Smith, Martz. • Dellinger, Ballard, Emerick, T.

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Strickler. '■ j Indians — T. Ballard, captain; Blankenbaker, L. Andrews, Omlor, Maines, Murphy, Krick, Jacribs, Augukt, Ehler. Dpdgers—Fisher, captain; Krick, Ahr', M. Ellenberger, Wolfe, Hess, DeVpss, P. Ellenberger, R. Reed, F. Strcikler, M.; Ehler, Gross, Dagley, Klehk. Reds > — Brittson, captain; P. Gross, Hoffman, Hakes, Dellinger, Myers, Yoder, Harshman, Highland, W. Strickler, Gage, Tester, Rambo. Yankees —> Conrad, caplain; Troutner, Baumgartner, Locke, Franklin, Gase, Beal; Vanhorn, Corah, Steury, -Bracey, Macklin, Omlor, Tayiojr. f Blinded in X Fifteen hundred American servicemen lost their sight during World War U. -- J —i —t— —t —.'\ Democrat Want Ads Bring Results '‘\ ; , ’ BP™ BIhHORSHEIMfIB