Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1952 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1952 '

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Klenk's Still Undefeated In Fed Loop Play Klenk’s of Decatur continued its ’7 domination of the Federation league Tuesday night, remaining undefeated in league play by defeating the i East End Merchants Os Fort Wayne. 5-2, under the lights kt\ Worthman field in this city. i The Merchants will get another crack at the Decatur league leaders Thursday night, when tlta two teams meo again at Worthman field, with an 8 o’clock starting time. Last night’s tilt was a playoff of a previously postponed game. Krueckpberg kept the .Merchants* six hits pretty well scattered last night, while Klenk’s bunched seven ' j| blows to good ! advantage to score in four different innings. \ The Merchants scored single runs in the third and ninth frames. Helm’s hit and East End’s lone error were good for a Decatur run in the first inning. A single, by. Kruetznaan, mixed in with -a cateh- - er’s interference play, a walk, hit batsman and an infield out gave Klenk’s two runs fn the second. Hits by Korte. Reed and Kruetz'man were good for another tally in the third and the final yun scored in the eighth on Kruetzman’s double. his third hit of the game, ants a pair of infield outs. Merchants AB R H E Wilson. 2b 4 0 10 i Clark, cf 4 0 0 0 Myers, rs t I’nderwood, ss 3 0 0 1 Towns, c 3 10 0 Koomjohn, lb _____' 4 0 3 0 Hughe, If 3 0 0 0 Elliott. If i___ 10 0 0 Hoover, 3 b .'.v-, 110 0 -t-Ring, 3b 2 0 0 0 I Ellenberger, p Totals 33 2. 6 1 Klenk’s, ~ ’ AB R H E Helm, lb .... 4 110 Bowen J If 2. 0 0 0 Crist, ss 2 0 0 0 Korte, c *4l 0 2 0 >L_ Reed. 3bj.L.______ !4f 11 0 Kruetzman, cf4] 2-3 0 Plumley, cf ,0. 0 If., 0 Miller, 2b '3 J1 0* 0 1 Hophainnier, rf4 0 0 .*1 ! Krueckeberg. p t • : ; ... __ » . Totals 30 5 71 '' i- < < Score by innings: Merchants 001 000 001—2 Kldnk’s ; 121 000 Olx—s \ ; ■’ • I

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Matthews Hopeful Os Cubs' Future CHICAGO. UP —wid Matthew!’ greatest -thrill in 33 years of baseball came when he was the opening dAy? leadoff batter against Walterpohnson. but be expects an even greater one iti the next two or thre|e Reasons. “That’ll be ' when the Chicago Cubs Win the National League pennant and! the world championship,” he said. 1 know we’ll do it. ‘Tye* been idscourajged at tjimes, so discouraged that Tye walked the floor at four in the morning, talking to myself to convince thyself that we’ll dp |t,” Matthews has been director df player personnel for fjie Cubs since February; 1950. and believes he is half way, through a “five-year pennant plan.’’ t ha’fc to go with kids we developed, ourselves,’’ he said ’’We couldn|.t buy players. I Mbney ii| no good. fW)iy, you wouldn’t believe .the deals’ I’ve offered! twp clubs in the lafelj weeks and j been turned down. Players were involved too, with allot of money, players enough so the|'4 have no :rbuble explaining the -trade, but (hey Wouldn’t take it. I ’ H ' j "Right-now we’d l|ke to get an outfiUpeE Since Frank Baumholtz was lijirt. we’re dofcn to four out j , fielder? jand we need; another one. We nejetl quantity npw, not quality. Os course, you always like td get a top; pitcher, but flow many ( pf those are around. f “Our pitching isn’t bail now. We’ve; got 10 pitchters and nine of them have allowed .fewer hits than! 1 innings pitched. And they’re young. "Out whole team-averages about 26 plijs; years of iage And Dutch Leonajd t he’s 42. brings if that high. Our snarling lineup'j Matthews was proud of his deals' with his v old organization, Brooklyn, i year ago i which brought Etldiel Miksis, Gene Hernianski. Bruce j Ed<vards and Joe Hatten to the Cqbs. ! i I —‘—Hr*nh ! - • I. S’ ‘ \xL J ’ ! i Annual Elks Picnic Sunday Afternoon Th<> annual Elks !stsig picnic will be hqM Sunday ait Pete Meyer's woodsj South of The picnic villiopeu with Jdtaper at noon! followed by varied Entertainment throughout the afthrnoon. 1 Tickets for the pidnid. which is for members only, may be obtained from committee; members or at th|. Elks club on North Secohd street,, I 1 \ <7 ■ I

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—41—4 I ' Phil Buck Appointed I. U. Freshmar\ Coach BLOOMINGTON, Ind. UP - Phil I f Buck, head coach at Flora high school for the past year. Wednesday was appointed freshman basketball coach at Indiana University. Buck, a three-year basketball letterman at 1. , V., succeeds Lou Watson.- who resigned to accept a coaching assignment at Huntington high;schoohj I 4-H Boys* Softball Games On Saturday The 4-H boys’ softball league games wull be played at McMillen diamond each Saturday night as announced by Gloria Koetfehiuiii county 4-H club agent. Kirkland Future Farmers, I nion Workers. Ro<it Roving Rangers, and Washington Variety Farmers 4-H < tabs tl)e league. The first game will begin at 7:30 pan. - The-’schedule for the games for the remainder of the season is: June 2J, Kirklapd and Root; Washington and Union; June 28, Root and Union. Washington and Kirkland: July 5, Root, and Washington. Union and Kirkland: July 12. Root and Kirkland. Union and Washington; July 19, Union and Root, Kirkland and Washington; July 26. Washington and Root, Union and Kirkland. The two tOp teams will play a two out of three series to deterni-\ toe the winner. A 'trophy will lUb presented the winning team at the 4-H club show August 5,6, a/nd 7.

’MAJOR ’ “ £ ~. '■’ —‘ ' 1 I * , NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 38,15 .71? J New York 34 19 .612 :4 Chicago4__. .*>4 22 .607 5,% St. Louis p__ 29 30 .492 12’ Cincinnati 25 30 455 Boston IL_ 23 31 .426 Philadelphia 23 31 .426/ Pittsburgh J + _-_ 16 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. New York -^ T 31 20 .608 Boston 32 24 .5.71 10 2 Cleveland - 32 26 .552 ( Chicago __J3l 26. .544 3 Washington 26 26~..‘>0t» 5 : 2 St L< uis 26-31 .456 8 Philadelphia, f 22 28 .440 BV 2 . petroit 18 37 1.327 15 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Philadelphia 2-0. St. Louis 1-4. Boston o. Cincinnati 1 (2nd game postponed). Brooklyn 9, Chicago 1. Pittsbiirgh 6. N.e w York 2. American League Chicago 13-2. Philadelphia <l-1 (2nd game 10 innings).. ■ Detroit 7, J New York 6 (11 innings). . . : Washington 4, Cleveland 3. St. Louis 3, Boston 1. j I I' A J ' 7 Another truck load of Strawberries in Tonight. Fresh Today. Open Till 9 m. Best Prices. Hammond’s, across from Court Hodse. ' ■ Grain Storage Improved, prefabricated grain bin« developed through research by the department of agriculture now provide a practical means of long time storage of grain on farms. 4 ' . - .Ji ' . n ’' , • > . J

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— SPORTS BULLETIN TROON. Scotland, UP — The Ii last surviving American was eliminated from the British Women’s Amateur golf championships Wednesday when!tiny Mae Murray of Rutland, Vu, lost to- Frances Stephens of England, 5 and 3, in the jsemifinals. .IdT : L_ ' I ’ ■ 'i 'F Holy Cross Winner Os NCAA Tourney OMAHA. Neb., (UP) — Coach Jack Barry’s Holy Cross Cruis.idets proudly curried the NCAA baseball crown home today after becoming the first pastern club to wifi the ZctJllf ge Wtn hi* The (’rukaders stopped Missouri S 4 Tuesday night in the final, dram.-jim: |game -of the double-’ elirniiiatioii meet, after winning six' 1 games and losing one. i Barry, star ,on the Vamous Philadelpma A hletic clubs of the early 19(M)js. choked with emotion as he told pearly 7,000 fans in Qmaha munhlpal stadium: “This i$ the greatest night of iny lifec” , I Barry’s team — fkhich played without a suhstitiitidn in tlue...gruelling sevqn game series — provided him with his 514th coltage victory in 32 ygars of coaching. His teains have lopt 113. The individual hero of the meet, who was also chosen by sport? writers tis most valuable player, was Barrys star pitcher. Jim G’Neill. wno became the Tirsit hurler in the tourney’s! history to win three gamos. O Neill earlier set down Western Michigan twice 5-1 and 15-3. The Crusader?’ lore series loss was ,a 1-0 heartbreaker, to Missouri in the second round, which- the Tigers won despite the one-hit pitching of Crusader .Lick Lonergan. The national finished the season with a record of 21 wins and three losses. They won live -■'’■ai.-.H s<-ri»-> game? after' the lossjto Missouri.

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Dodgers Boost League Margin To Four Gaines ■ jl p ijly UNITED PRESS A stater who finally finished and twii fltifshers who finally got a start,-, stirred things up in the National leggue race today. Roe, whose team mates were taking him oKf the hook so often he said he was beginning to feel likb a striver-mouth bass, finally completed his first game in a month in Brooklyn by beating the Cuba, 9 to 1 as the Dodgers increased their lead to four full gainer | j? Over! the river in the Polo Grounds.,Forrest Main of the Pirates, ffndlly getting a start after 19 relib&’appearances, topped the GiautsJ 6 ; to 2 on an eight-hitter as Gus Bell his a grand slam homer. <- r , ' At Philadelphia. Al Brazle, hurled a three-hit, 4 to 0 victory for the Cards over the Phillies, in his first ktart. after Bjill Nicholson had won the first game, 2 to 1, for Philly iwith a pihch-single in the . ninth. I \ , . I \ At Boston. Bickford won

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.-f j i ■ his first game in a month, 5 to 1 frQm the Reds, after which the secqnd game was rained out. Ih the American League, the White Sox closed in on the leaders with 18 to 1 ai|d 2 to 1 victories over the Athletics as Eddie Robinson’s hitting featured both games. The two wins put Chicago only half a game behind Cleveland which lost its fourth straight game 4 to 3, to Washington. The Tigers topped the Yankees, 7 to 6, in 11 tarings and Browns stopped the Red Sox, 3 to 1, by bunching three of their five hits in the sixth. , i Brooklyn had it all the~way against the Cubs who dropped their third straight game. The Dodgeite made four runs in the first inning to kayo starter Turk Lown with a barrage of singles. In the fifth they stepped up to extra base tempo, scoring five more runs as Bobby Morgan. Pewee Ileese and Jackie Robinson doubled, and Gil Hodges hit his 12th homer. A homer by 1 Eddie Miksis spoiled. Roe’s shutout, but he still came through with, a four-hitter and his sixth win without a loss.- . I Bell avenged the insult qf 'biing pitched to after slugger Ralph Kiner had been purposely passed and he tagged Hal Gregg |for a tremendous homer, his Seventh of the year. The blast offset an earlier I one by Bobby Thomson which had | given the Giants a 2 tO'l lead.

Stan Musial’s homer and Dick Sisler’s two-run single gave Brazle all the margin he needed. Curt Simmons gained his fifth victory in the opener, holding the Cards to five hits. Ed Robinsdn was the big muscle man all the way for the White Sox. driving in the; winning run in the 10th inning of the second game with a single after hitting two homers in the opener. Bill Pierce pitched six-hit ball to win his seventh game and Minnie Mtaoso also homered. Marvin Grissom outdueled lefty Sam Zoldhk to win his fourth game in the afterpiece. After Detroit took, a 6 to 0 lead over the Yankees on a two-run homer by Vic Wertz and a grand slata homer by Pat Mullin in the first two innings, the Tigers liquidated the margin and the game was settled in the 11th when Boh Swift was h’t by • a pitched ball with the bases loaded to force in the winning run. I The Browns came from behind to top the Red Sox on the four-hit pitchinig of Bob Caini as Darrell Johnson with a two-run single and Dick Kryhoski with a double accounted for all of their runs in the sixth. a T Earl Rapp paced the Senators with three hits lit Bob Porterfield and Sandy Conquegta survived a 13 hit clubbing by ('leveland. Porterfield gained his sixth victory as 1 Bob Feller was tagged with his | fifth loss.

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I MW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ;i W L Pct. G.B. Milwaukee 39 19 .672 Kansas City 39 24 .619 St. Paul r 31 30 .508 9% Minneapolis 30 31 .492 10% Louisville 31 32 .492 10% Indianapolis 27 30 .474 11% Columbus 26 34 i. 433 14 I’oltdo 4.___|____. 18 41 ‘.305 21% YESTERDAY’S RESULTS St. Paul 7, Columbus 6. , ' Minneapolis 5, Toledo 0. Kansas City 5, Louisville 1. Indianapolis 13, Milwaukee 9. FREE SHOWS " Every Monday and Friday CLEM’S LAKE