Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1953 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1>53

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Yanks Wallop Cleveland To Increase lead NEW YORK fU’P — No wonder Hank Greenberg hates the Yankees. Look what they keep doing to *his Cleveland Indians,) especially with the pressure on. Tuesday night in the first socalled big game of the season; Casey Stengel’s swaggering New Yorkers won with the authority of world champs, pouncing out an eight-run rally in the fourth for an 11-1 victory. And the way they did it was almost contemptuous. Cleveland offered Its (best, ace Bob Lemon, but Stengel rode along with his cocky little ex-GI left hander. Whitey Ford. In this first game against the club that is supposed to offer the Yankees their most serious opposition in the path to a fifth straight pennant, Stengel might, have countered with lefty Ed Lo'pat, who holds an incredible “hex” over the Indians, or Allie Reynolds, who no-hitted them in the same Cleveland Stadium two years ago. But Ford, pitching with the class of a seasoned veteran and the cold nerve of a sock-footed burglar, held the Indians to eight hits, struck out five and contributed two clean

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singles. It was all over when the Yankee 'hitters 'began peppering away at Lemon like iMarsmen with rifles in the big fourth. They put together seven singles, a walk and a hit batsman for their eight runs. Gil McDougald came up twice and singled each time, driving in three runs. They kayoed Lemon and, in the following inning. Impped out Al Alber, his successor, with three more runs. A homer by Wally Westlake gave Cleveland 1 its only Lefty Mel Parnell of the surprising Red Sox won * his fourth straight game, 5-1 at Chicago, and Virgil Trucks pitched th e Browns to a 2-1 triumph over the Athletics at St. Louis. Washington topped the Tigers, 14-4 at Detroit as winning pitcher Bob Porterfield hit a grand slam home run. All National League games were rained out. The Red Sox, who weren’t supposed to be much but a bunch of green kids, made it six victories in seven games on their western trip with Parnell’s fine six-hitter. Ted Lepcio. playing at third in place of the injured George Kell, hit a home run and Jimmy Piersali collected three hits to give him a mark of seven in his last 10 times at bat. Trucks gave up eight hits in winning bis third game for the Browns and gained his margin of victory over rugged Harry Byrd when Vie Wertz hit a two-run homer in the sixth after a single by Hank Edwards. A walk to Eddie Joost and Dave Philley'® double gave Philadelphia its only run in the third. Trucks encountered trouble in the ninth when the first two batters singled, but he got Ray Murray on a pop-up and pinch hitter Tom Hamilton hit into a double play, Washington and Detroit each made 16 hits in their slugfest but the Senators had more thunder in their blows. In addition to Porterfield’s homer Jackie Jensen hit a double and triple, and Les Peden and Mickey Vernpn also hit doubles. The Nats put together two six-run innings.

Phils, Dodgers To Battle At Brooklyn PHILADELPHIA, UP — The Philadelphia Phillies today stamped the Brooklyn Dodgers as the biggest threat to their slim National league lead, ‘and already were preparing their hottest pitchers for a three-game weekend series at Ebbets Fields. Manager Steve O’Nejll, whose Phillies lead the- league' by one game before tonight’s battle with Cincinnati, named Curt Simmons to start against the Dodgers Friday night, Karl Drew’s to follow' on Saturday, and Robin'Roberts to wind up his team's first 1953 invasion of Brooklyn. The robust pilot also nominated Roberts to face Cincinnati tonight and called on right hander Steve Ridzik to hurl the second and final encounter against the Red, legs Thursday. - ' 1 O’Neill said he was pleased punch with the Phillies’ three* game sweep of the Dodgers two weeks ago in Philadelphia. “We played like We really want that pennant,” O’Neill said, “and the player? realize who they’ll have to beat.” “There’s no doubt the Dodgers are the best around,” Steve continued, “but we hope to get the jump on them as early as possible.” \ ■ 4—<—.—4-4- . George Connor Turns Best Practice Lap INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Veteran George Connor turned the fastest practice lap of the young season at the Indianapolis Speedway late Tuesday, with an unofficial clocking of 134.328 miles per hour for the 214 mile course. Mima AMERICAN ASSOCIATION - W L Pct. G.B. St. Paul 11 j 6 .647 Indianapolis 9 6 .600 1 Kansas City 10 7 .588 1 Charleston 10 8 .556 114 Louisville 9 9 .500 2Vs Toledo 8 11 .421 4 Columbus 6 10 .375. 4% Minneapolis 511 Jl3 5% Results Tneaday.Toledo 6-2, St. Paul 5-1. Kansas City 4. Columbus 2. Charleston 8, Louisville 4. Minneapolis 10, Indianapolis 4. Democrat Want Ads Bring Results If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings resuns.

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Jackets Compete In Relays At Marion | -Fort Wayne North Side won the' Class .A title and Wabash the Class A crown in the annual Marioh relays, held Tuesday afternoon at iMarion. • H K The Decatur Yellow Jackets placed in three events to secure a itotal of 10\point» in the B division. Ferris Kohne took first place in the high jump at 5 ft. 6 in., Roger Blackburn was second in the;! 100yard dash, and the Jackets finished third in the distance medley (880, 440, 440, and mile). J IPoint scores in the two divisions were: Class iA —Fort Wayne North 68, iMarion 34 1/3. Kokomo 31. Warsaw 17 1/3. Anderson 11' 1/3. Class B —'Wabash ; 42 1/2, Muncie Burris 35 1/2, Huntington 38. Hartford City 21, Northwestern 16, Bluffton 10, Decatur 10,. Indiana Boys (School 6, Royierton .3. (Summary* in Class B: High hurdles—Meyer (Binffton) first; Barrett (Wabash> second; Uiptgraft (Hartford City) third. Timo—46.3. 1 100-yard dash —Stringfellow 100-yard dash—-S tri ng fellow (Huntington) first; Blackburn (Decatur) second; (Boys School) third. Time —40.8. Mile run—Gilland (Hartford City) first; Ratliff fltoyerton' second: >. Mitchell (Burris’) third. Time—l:4s.2. Distance medley — Huntin Jton first; Ratliff (Royerron) eecond; Mitchell (gßurris) tltird. Time—--4:45.2. ] Distance medley — Huntington first; Burris second; Decatur (Halterman, Kelleip. Krick, (Engle) third. Time—B:24. \ Low hurdles—>Mever (Bluff t|on> first; Lancaster, (Huntington) sec-, ond; Barnhisel (Huntington) tli|ird. Time—2l.o. Sprint medley—(-Hartford City first; Walliash seconc, Burris third. Time—3.s4. Two-iplle relay—Burris first; Wabash second; Huntington third. Time— 8.49. . Mile relay -Burris Wa-Ibas-h second; third. Time—3:4s. i Half-mile relay—Wabash first. Huntington second, ■ Burris third. Time—l.3B.3. (Shot put—Pane (Northwestern) first; Conner (Burfris) secoipd. Wolfrnff (Huntington) third. Distance—so ft. 10 in. Pole vault—France (Wabash) •first; McDermott (Hartford City) second; Sewell (Northwestern)’ third. Height—to ft. ! 8 in. | Broad jump—(Ellis (Boys School) first; Ileptee (Wabash), isecohd; ; iteton < Buris) third. Distance—lß . ft. 11 in. High jump—Kohne (Decatur* first; Barrett (Wabash) (second: Yeager (Burris) and Moore (Wabash) tied for third. Height—sft. 6 in. LL. Five County Schools In Track Sectional Five Adams county high schools will compete in the annujal sectional track meet, to be iield at Fort Wayne North Side Friday afternoon. I . .IF County teams in the meet are the Decatur Yellow Jackets, Geneva Cardinals, Jefferson Warriors. Monmouth Eagles and Pleasant Mills Spartans. A total of 21 schools. with 290 contestaas, will participate. «, 1. t \

Says Native Dancer Bumping Accident NiEW YORK t’P —( Jockey Eric Guerin’s charge that the (bumping suffered by favored Native Dancer in last Saturday’s Kentucky. Derby "was no accident’’ /draw a denial today from fellow rider Al Popara. It was Popara’s mount. Money Broker, which knocked Native Dancer off stride* on the first turn of the’Derfoy run and possibly set up his stunning setback at the hands of longshot Dark Stai\ Guerin, generally close-mouthed and reticent, blamed i the incident on -Money Broker and his ; jockey’. Btft ’Poparh, reached at Chfirchlß Downs where he still is sitting out a suspension for rough riding two days ’before the Derby, attributed it to “racing luck.’’ “There 'were a lot of horses together when we hit the turn,” Pc para Said, "and 1 couldn’t get back of Guerin’s horSe. .So I tried to circle him. I actually thought we had Cleared Native Dancer all right, 'but my horse changed stride and I heard Guerin yell. "It’s entirely possible the bumpIng' -kept Native Dancer from winning. But, you know, when you have a string cfj victories, racing luck is (bound tp catch up with ybii.” \ I | ■ ■ bowling Scores MAJOR LEAGUE Team Standings ' W L Pts. State Gardens 70 32 95% Midwestern. Lifers 54% 47% 76% First State Bank . 50% 51%. 69% Adams Co. Lumber 50 52 65 Clem's Hardware _ 4.7 55 61 Mies (Recreation _ 47 55 60% Schafer’s 44% 57% 59% Hoagland , 44% 57% 56% 600 series—House (194-186-236) 616; P. Bleeke (219-226-165) 610; Stickler <2OO-192-232\ 624. 2b(7 games—Reinking 207, Eichhorn 214, Cook 213, Gallmeyer 211, Bracey 210. . ' First Place At Stake* At Game Thursday First place in the Central Indiana Catholic conference will be at stake Thursday afternoon when the Decatur Commodores mee"t Huntington Catholic at McMillen field in this city. The Commodores are leading the CIC with two victories and no defeats, ahd Huntington has won its only loop contest. St. Mary’s of Anderson has a 1-1 record and St; Paul’s of Marion has lost all three of its starts; Democrat Want Ads Bring Results

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o - $ i * *■-' - O I Today 7 ® Sport Parade { (Reg. U. 8. Pat. Otf.} | By Oscar Fraley i-—i— . -e< NEW YORK, UP —Now’ It can be told, how Casey Stengel won four straight world championships for the New York Yankees. The secret is this: The stars which Stengel sees aren’t the ones which general manager George Weiss gets for him. Casey doesn’t do it with mirrors. Nor does he have anything up his sleeve except fewo well-worn elbows. ; Old Case is an astrologist. The secret of how the one-time Pagllacci of the basepaths became ringmaster of the baseball big top slipped out the other day when Stengel announced, in his usual forthright fashion that he expected a . big month coming up for Ewell and Whitey Ford. Everybody within hearing was knocked flatter than a patrolman’s arches' when Casey asserted: They’re both Libras and their star is in the ascendency/’ Thl? i# the most startling statement Bince the Nazis were invfted to a banquet at Bastogne. First bff, old Case Is so hazy when it coibei to names that he still refers to fancy-fielding Billy Cox of th| Dodgdrs as “The Circus Man.”f Anybody who knows him’ would ■ bet that Casey’s diagnosis of the word “Libra” would consist of ? drink made in Cuba or a pitcjier in the Venezuelan league. | An -amazing man. as he has proved, in each and every one of the past’ four years. And it may send tfee rest of the major league managers scurrying to the closest planetarium. \ For -Old Case really has something there. Take, for instance, the game the other day in which the tattered Detroit Tigers every- , body’s ;Cpußih for a couple of seasons npw —: upended the mighty Yankees. According to the horoscopes tof the players involved, the Yanks couldn’t have won that day if they^ ; had been playing the patsies of|tne Epworth League. As a Sample, Gene Wood ling has been the Yanks' leading hitter. His as|rological warning for the day “Beware of being foolhardy.’*) S 0 he went to bat four times didn’t raise a loud foul. Yogijl Berra comes under the sign of; Taurus, the bull. No comment. But Yogi also went zero-for-four in the woodwork department and his astral admonition for the day was: “Don’t be too op-j ttanistiC.” yic Raschi, who puts the Yanks in hoc£ by giving up 10 hits in five innings, would have known had he; studied his horoscope for that d|y) that it warned: “Don’t aim abbve your head.” Well, that is where) his pitches were going, and you can scoff if you like.. Black)W£ll came in at the end and was manhandled, too, but Casey’s still sriiiling. Blac|ie’s chart encouraged: “Have .:no misgivings over what happens today.” On ihe other hand, Detroit’s Dave hjadison won the game and you cfnt blame Stengel if he points |>ut that the pitcher’s morning live promised “better than good results.’’ And Att Hdttteman. iMpbj mopped up, had a forecast wWich “bids fair to top most days this past week.” That’l feally an understatement. Considering that it was only the Tigers’ fourth win of the season, yon could say it topped most days this year.' As Old Case probably would point put, the stars had a bad day. Not his| the ones upstairs. Hearing May 27 On Squirrel Season INDIANAPOLIS, UP — The state conservation department today announced it would hold a public Rearing May 27 at its headhere to ppening of the |953 squirrel Season. Trade ih a good Town —Decatur SHAVEMASTER OWNERS! FREE Sharpening and Oiling Service by Factory Representative SATURDAY, MAY 9th . 10:00 A. M. to T:00 P. M. Gutton'd. ■■■ Numii—i m

NATIONAL LEAGUE L W L Pct. G.B. Philadelphia ._ r _ 12 5 .706 Brooklyn 11 5 .647 1 St. Louis 8 5 .615 2 Milwaukee — 8 6 .571 2% Pittsburgh -C-..- 810 .444 4% Chicago 5 8 .385 5 New York 6 11 .363 6 Cincinnati 3 10 .231 7 Tuesday's Results All games postponed. I AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct G.B. New York 13 6 .684 Cleveland 10 6 .625 1% Boston 10 7 .588 2 Philadelphia 10 8 .556 2H Chicago: 10 9 .526 3 St. Louis 8 9 .500 3% Washington Ur-— 712 .368 6 Detroit Tuesday’s Results Washington 14, Detroit 4. New York 11, Cleveland 1. Boston 5, Chicago 1. St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 1. Major League Leaders By UNITED PRESS 7 American League i Player A Club GABfi H Pelt. Kell, Boston 16 65 15 27 .415 Philley, Phila. 18 75 11 28 .373 Rosen, Cleve. 16 54 9 20.370 National League Player A Club G AB R H Pel 1 . Wy’tek. Phila. _■_ 16 54 1 9 23 .426 Snider, Bkn. 17 67 17 25 ,J 73 Jafo’ski, St. L. 14 47 7 17 .362 ) Home Runs: CampaneTla, Dodgers 6; \Mathews, Braves 6; Wertz, Browns 5; Ennis, Phillies 5.

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Runs Batted In: Campanella, Dodgers 26; Ennis, Phillies 19; Elliott, Browns 18. Runs: Mantle, Yankees 20; Gilliam. Dodgers 17; Snider, Dodgers 17; Robinson, Dodgers 17. jHits: Philley, Athletics 28; Kuenn, Tigers 27; Kell, Red Sox 271 Pitchers: Parnell, Red Sox 4-0; Wynn, Indians 3-0; Stuart, Browns 3-0; Surkont, Braves 3-0. — .S . Hamburger Sandwiches, 15c, Ehler’s Restaurant. > ; 106t3 Trade in a good Town —Decatur Tommy Dorsey *The Sentimental Gentleman’ and his Orchestra in person at Edgewater Park Celina, O. Sunday, May 10 Dance 9 till 1 . t- ■