Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1952 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1952

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Collins Pates Yanks To Win Al St. Louis By UNITED PRESS They say the best baseball deals are the ones that never are made, and that was exactly the way the Yankees felt Tuesday about first baseman Joe Collins • the kid from Scranton. The 29-year-old guy from the Pennsylvania hard coal country Was in the midst of the hottest batting streafr of his career and it started significantly about the time he was sure he wouldn’t ’be traded away from the three time World champs. I Monday night, extending his consecutive hitting streak to 14 games he blasted a pair of two run homers and a double as the Yankees twice came from behind to defeat the Browns, 14 to 10, and extend their first place lead in the American league to 2% games. • During his hot run he has collected 26 hits in 53 times at bat for a .491 average, which was a tar cry from his poor start this ripring when handicapped by injuries. He go t’only nine hits ih his first—s 2 times at bat. ‘ Collins' first homer Monday night broke a 7-7 tie in the sixth inning and the next one sparked a four-run rally in the seventh as the Yankees pulled aWay /with a 17-hit attack. Phil Rizzutd, Hank Bauer and rookie Jim Brideweser also got three hits apiece in the three hour and 22-minute maratijhon played in 90-degree St. Louis Heat. \ ’ . , The Red Sox took over second ijlace by winning another slugging Hattie, 12 to 6 from the Tigers with an 11-run fourth inning rally, While Washington cooled off the. White Sox, winning 6 to 4. In the only National league game, the Braves defeated the Pirates. 9 to 3. The Culr : Phils. Reds Giants, and Cards-Dodgers games were rained out in the National and Cleveland and Philadelphia were not scheduled ih the American, | George- Kell and Sammy White each singled twice during the big Boston r uprising at Detroit in which 15 men went to the plate. Ivan Delock went on to win his fourth game, although he needed fldief help when Detroit scored four Tuns in the last two innings. Walt Dropq homered for the Tig‘ersq .',■■■ ■]' - / Jackie Jensen, Mickey Vernon, Jim Busby, and Mickey Grasso made two hits apiece a's the. Senators totaled 11 at Chicago. Frank Shea. . with late relief help from Joe Haynes, gained his fifth victory since coming tothe Senators

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from the Yankees. \ Giis Bell started Pittsburgh off in front with a tferee-run homed but the Braves caught up in the sixth and went ahead, 4 to 3, after rookie Ed Matthews hit his 10th homer. Then they blew the game wide open with five more runs in the eighth, as they batted around and Pittsburgh committed three errors, .two by catcher Joe Gar* .giola. Boston made onlj\ two hits in the rally. f T.. T“ ' , Reds Are Leading \ In Boys' League The Reds edg? the Red Sox, 10-9, and the Yankees whipped thri Indians. 12-2, in boys’ softball league games Monday at Worthman field. Scores by innings: RHE Reds 520 30—10 9 2 Red Sox 430 20— 9 7’3 Myers and Rambo; Reed and Fravel. R j H E Indians ‘ 000 11— 2.5 s 8 Yankees J 416 lx—l2 10 2 , Jacobs, Ballard and Sheets; Gase and Conrad. i ! j | Wednesday morning, the Dodders will hieet the Indians -and the Red Sox will play the Yankees. The'league standings: > \'/A W L Pct. Redsj— 3 0 1.000 Red Sox 2 1 .667 Yankees 11 .500 Dodgers _JiO • / 2 .000 Indians I__ 0 2 . .000 ■ -.. 7 ..7.. i , MAJOR (eayueßcAJutitS, - A ’>. NATIONAL league W L Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 42 15 .737 New York —|--J ?4 20 .649 5 / Chicago 34 26 .567 9% St. Louis 34 31 .523 12 Cincinnati 29 32 .475 1.5 Philadelphia 25 34 . .424 18 Boston 25 37 .403 19% Pittsburgh 17 48 .262 /29 ' AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. New York ___ T __ 35 23 .603 Boston 35 28 j .556 2% Chicago '____■ 35 29 .547 j 3 Cleveland -- |35 29 .547 3 ... Washington _u_ j3O 28 -517 5 St, Louis r _ 29 34 .460 8% Philadelphia — 25 30 .455 8% Detroit -I——i 19 42 .311 17% ' YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National \ League Boston 9. Pittsburgh 3.j , All other games postponed- :■ » American League Boston 12. Detjroit 6. Washington 6. Chicago 4. NeW York 14, |Bi. Louis 10. : ' Only games scheduled. V \

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K.C. Softball Team Practice Wednesday All members of the Knights of Columbus interested in forming a softball team are asked to report for a practice session at McMillen field Wednesday evening at 6 o’* clock. Size of the turnout and interest shown Wednesday will determine whether or not a team will be fielded tipis year. | Soviet Paper Says ‘ Korea U.S. Defeat MOSCOW, UP- The Soviet Literary Gazette said Tuesday the United States had suffered a military and political. defeat in the Korean War that was unparalleled in American history. An article published on the eve of the war's second anniversary claimed that American casualties in one year of the war totalled more than half of the U.S. losses in World War 11. It placed total United Nations losses at oi’O.'ooo men. Teacher Shortage Critical In State \l BLOOMINGTON. Ind. UP — Tin teacher shortage in Indiana is critical, an Indiana University educator warned Monday. V ' \ 1? Dean W. W. Wright of the LU. school of education told the annual conference of principals and teachers Indiana will need 4.000 more teachers by 1057 than state and universities now are graduating. Not Funny to Cops MUNCIE, Ind. (UP) —Police here couldn’t seei the humor in the situation when 'a young woman ami her, male companion admitted: stealing a safe coritaining $712 “just for a, joke.'’ Poljce caught the ‘ jokesters” when they saw the safe protryding from the trunk of the couple's car. ’‘Seiche’ is the oscillation of tli'b surface water in a lake or landlocked sea. . , 4

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Toledo Franchise To Shift To Charleston CHICAGO, (UP)—Tine defunct Toledo Mudhens of the American Association, now the Charleston. W. Va„ Senators, will swing into action in their new 'home grounds Friday. r The directors of the Amercian Association voted Monday to move .the club’s franchise to the West Virginia city after attendance at Toledo faltered. Club owner Dan Mendenez. who will maintain control the club said thy team would open at Charleston Friday against the Louisville Colonylrf. Y “Wt» take this step with no Jiatticular gayetjt.” said League President Bruce Dudley, “because wr have) been with Toledo so long and love 'them” ■ The league directors decided to shift -the franchise after a fivehour conferenc - With ' representatives t>f the Ohio and West Vir ginia cities. > Charleston supporters called the shift “tone, of the greatest moments in the history of Charleston." ' Mayor John Pppenhover said In thought th|e move "would he pro fitable for both Charleston and tin association?’ Charleston owns the 5,000 sea: ball park ainl representatives asured Mendeaez and league officials of an average attendance ot at least 2,500. Copehhoysr said the city pad advanced |4o,t*rh) f ()r expenses but that part of the money would, go to pay off the Toledo ticket holders. ' , Junior Legion Plays Montpelier Wednesday '\AH members of the Junior A'merienn Lotion baseball team arc asked to report at ’Worthman ijield by .l:do o'clpck Wednesday afternoon to go to Montpelier foif a game.. The Legion team Will also play Mariop here Friday at 5 p.m.

PGA Golf Tourney Info Semi-Finals LOUISVILLE. Ky. (UP) — They play, the semi-finals of the pGA golf ehampionship Tuesday and three guys who have been there before are casting anxious glances at a cooky young war hero who never knows when he’s Licked. Bob Hamilton, the 1941 champion from Evansville, Ind., and Chick Harbert, the 1947 runner-up from Northville, Mich., meet in one semi-final. . And in the other it is little Jim j'urnesa of Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., pie 1942; runner-up, against the upsetting youngster of the field — thrfee-tirne purple heart winner Ted Kroll Os New Hartford, N. Y. - Kroll, a rising tournament star whose chief victory to date was in the San Diego open last winter, awed the veterans Monday as he tn*Hied' back on the 36th and final iiple to square his match with favpred Cary Midtilecoff—ahd then Wipe<l but the Memphis'dentist on the second “sudden death’’ extra liole. Add in that whole, gasping gallery. 'scprched by a blistering sun and that dense run to the wire, Kroll was the most unperturbed of the" lot. He hail seen it tougher, once when he was wouiide<l at Anzio Beach apd twice again as he ,iwa.s hit during those - grim' bat.tles tn the muddy mountains. Evie times he got the jump on Middlecrtff in their scheduled 36liole match, but each time the slender Tennessean caught him to make -it level, it looked, on the 32nd,‘ When they were all stiuare, as ii Middlecoff might take the lead. For Dr. Cary banged hotnp a UH’oo: birdie putt and stood back to wall'll Kroll try to match him with h 15-footer. Ki-01l <lid and thumlred his nose deliberately at the chagrined Cary:

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MIIWR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ' W L Pc*. G.B. Milwaukee 41 22 .651 1.. Kansas City __L 44 24 .647 St. Paul ..-2—-. 35 33 .515 8% Louisville 34 35 .493 10 Minneapolis 33 36 .478 11 Columbus 31 37 .456 12% Indianapolis 28 36 .438 13% Toledo 22 45. .328 21 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Tdledo 2-4, Indianapolis 1-1. Louisville 2-3, Columbus 1-4. Kansas City 6-10, St. Paul 2-1. -7 Mhin'eapolis 2, Milwaukee 0. Democrat Want Ads Bring Resuits

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Decatur Merchants Win Over Dunbar The Decatur Merchants defeated Dunbar, 9-3, in a rain-shortened Decatur Softball league game Monday night Rain ended the game after four and one-half innings and prevented the second game between McMillen and Rural Youth. Two games will .be played at Worthman field tonight, Beavers Oil meeting Rural Youth and McMillen playing Preble. Last night’s score: R M E Dunbar .j..... 210 00 —3 3 4 Decatur 304 2x—9 5 5 Neuenschwander and Sprunger; Gillig and Knittie. Pago Pago, Samoa, is known as the best harbor, in the South Pacific. , /