Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 205, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1953 — Page 6

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Braves Wallop [ 12 Homers In Double Header NEW YORK UP — Fans who Mill think the Braves have a chance to win the pennant are harder to find than a Phi Beta Kappa key Jn a hock shop, but I the Milwaultee-Madcdps may come j up with a consolation prize if Ed ' Mathews wins the home run i championship. . Malhews. who would he a cinch , tabe baseball's, -‘sophomore of the ; year ’ -if there were such an award, might even Win the most valuable 4 player Trophy if he keeps slugging thqyway he has been doing lately, j Once, again today he was only one hornet behind Babe- Ruth’s record pace of 1927 after pacing the Braves to 19-4 and 11-5 triumphs at Pittsburgh in which they banged records around like a demented disc jockey. Mathews hit .three homers in [the two games "to give him a \total of 43 for the season. That put him six ahead of his closest competitor in the majors. Ted Kluszewski of Cincinnati, who' has 37. Jim Pendietom also hit three homers in the first game wbgn Milwaukee collected eight homers to break a National league mark and tie a major league mark set by the 1939 Yankees. EighV National league clubs' had held the old

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mark of seven homers in a game. When the ’Braves al no.' came through with four more homers in the second game they cracked another National league mark of 10 homers in two consecutive games set by the Pirates of 1925. Mathews hjt. two of his homers in the opener and Pendleton with his three and Johnny Logan, Jack Dittmfr, and Del Crandall accounted for the others. In the second game ; Mathews, Sid Gordon. Joe Adcock and Logan came through. Mathews now has played in 131 games. In 1927 Ruth had 43 ■ homers in 127 games. The Braves picked up a half I game over the Dodgers and now j trail them hy 10 games even [though Brooklyn poured across T 2 runs in a hilarious seventh inning, I and went on to beat the Cardinals. J's-4. with 19 hits and eight walks. Roy Campanella tied a league record for catchers when he drove in , five runs with a homer and single, giving him a total of 122 for the season to equal that total held by Gpbh.v Hartnett of the 1930 Cubs and Walker Cooper of the 1947 Giants. Carl Erskine breezed to a six-hit 17th victory, tops for his career,- The Dodgers on May 24 againsjt the Phils also had a 12run inning. j. The Yankees stayed eight games ahead of the White Sox, beating them 10-6 as Gil McDoug-|. aid. Joe Collins, and Yogi Berra hit homers, but lost the second/ game p-0 when Billy Pierce pitch/ ed a four-hitter for his 17th vicl \tory and his seventh shutout. Feriris Fa in’s triple and Connie Ryan's it field but produced the only run. , •' The Indians, who are coming on nicely now when it really doesn’t matter any more, topped the Red, Sox. 6 5 and 8-4 as\Wally West-' lake csllected five hits in the two games singling in the winning run jjil. the opener. Ted Williams hit a towering 400-foot Boston homer in the first game and Sammy White also got one' in a losing cause. It was Cleveland’s sixth in a . row and 10 victories in the last . 12 I games. Don Larsen shut out Washington with two hits to'win 3-0 but the Senators came back to’ beat i7 ' '

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Many Hoosier Prep Teams To Open This Week UP — ’'Friendship” games usher in the Indiana high school football season for a number of the better clubs this week, !?but many other perennial powerhouses hope to sweat out the current heatwave before staging their openers. Nevertheless, four of last year’s six undefeated and untied elevens unveil their 1953 editions, Riclimond’s Red Devils showing the way. The Wayne county crew, under the new helm of Hub Etchison, seeks its 23rd win without a miss Friday aggihst Fort Wayne Central Catholic’s defending city champions. - Gone are such stand-outs as Lamar Lundy. Bob Barrett, and Tom 1 Holthouse, but Richmond’s North Central Conference titlists retain-’ ed speedy Tom Fletcher for another year. Fletcher was the state’s leading schoolboy scorer w’ith 177 points in 1952. , At Central Catholic, coach Fordy Anderson is starting out with seven lettermen, including veteran quarterback Jerry Hipakind. In last year’s opener, Richmond triumphedi 27 to 6. Action will be limited to drills in the far north, most of the deep south, including Evansville, Indianapolis, and Terre Taute for at -least another week. Indianapolis will serve up its second annual gridiron jamboree Saturday at the Butler Bowl, with 10 schools participating in the show expected to draw upwards of 15.000 fans. But Warsaw, Warren Central, Sftnd North Vernon, all nine-game winners in perfect seasons last year, also will try to lengthen their victory skeins. Warsaw, which switched from the Northeastern conference to the Central Indiana circuit, invades Plymouth of the CIC. Warren Central hosts | Southport, and Morth Vernon’s Southeastern Conference tiplsts entertain Mississinewa, all Friday. LOgansport and Kokonio, also of the NCC, test CIC neighbors. Logan. hurt last 1 year because, of an intra-squad isquabble which resulted in demotion of all its seniors, hopes to start off right at Wabash. Coach Bob Faris has 11 lettermen at Logansport and hopes to Improve considerably on last year’s 0-10 record, j Tuffy Layman starts with 13 lettermen,: including seven seniors. wh|n Kokomo travels to Peru’s CIC; qhariiips Friday. Still another NCC squad. New Castle, hosts Columbus, the defending South Central Conference champs who lost: key personnel in Roiinie Pence, John Hogue and Gary Reece. Sullivan ) will be the busiest team, meeting two area rivals — Jasonville on Tuesday and Dugger Friday. the Browns, 9-3, Jackie Jenpep setting the pace by driving in three runs with a homer and single. Cleveland castoffs Steve mek and Al Aber pitched seven hitters to give Detroit 10-1 and 9-1 victories over Ihe Athletics. Bob Nieman hit a twp run second game homer and Jim Delsing hit <a two run homer in the opener. '« . Phil Cavaretth’s three-run pinch double gave the Cubs a 6-2 second game victory over the Giants, who won the opener 10-1 on homers by Al Dark, Wes Westrum, Bobby Thomson and Daryl Spencer find, steady pitching by Jim llearn. Karl Drews pitched six-hit ball for the Phils to beat Cincinnati 4-2 and Smokey Burgess hit a ninth inning second game homer to make it a sweep 4-3 as Jim Konstanty gained his 14th ? victory in a relief job. r ; - 1 .600 Pace To Clinch Flag For Dodgers BROOKLYN VP — 'A .«00 pace tfor the rest of the season will clinch the National league pennant for the 'Dodgers; If Brooklyn wins 15 of its remaining 25 games, the pennant will be assured regardless of what second-place Milwaukee does. The Dodger’s season percentage s.i far is .690, and they are winning at an .813 clip since the All-Star game. J ♦ - L—-—-If you haye something to selLor rooms forwent, try a Democrat Want Addy It brings results. Trade in &od*T<4fl - catur j

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Bob Tonnelier Is, Tops At Speedway 'High winner at Clem’s 1 LLake speedway Sunday evening wks slob Tonnelier of Willshire, Q. .' ” . If those who attendedlust night’s races were looking i for thrills, they got them throughout the evening in big doseidpßars continually refused to stay : Where they belonged and broke through retaining barriers as well ding off into the infield. Minor bruises were the injuries suffered, Here’s the reported 10 laps won by Glen BoWnft® Second heat—(lo* laps) sKhath Kendall; Third 10 also ■ by Kendall; fourth and fifth I|i lap heats were taljen.by the ner. Bob Tonnelier. together j nth the feature that followed tiiji? o’s. i I The race was unusual the aspect that all the ere local boys, members of thS ron Bender’s Association.” It’s reported that the local —ub-ber-jockeys have received «|liallenge Yrom the rods from Imnhirk ami are to mix it up in thd approved manner next fl day night. Winners are in for t|pip lies for their efforts. |j ( ■ MINOR 4 AMERICAN ASSOCIATji&M W L ' Pctf ' Lb, Toledo 79 62 ,s«ql 1 j Louisvillq 77 62 .550 ' I Kansas City 76 62 .55| % Indianapolis 73 64 .533(1 I I Minneapolis _ A _ 70 70 .500’ St. Paul 567 72 .482|M i Columbus J. 59 78 .43i|! ' I I Charleston 55 86 .390 j/! I Saturday’s Results j g ! St. Paul 4. Charleston 3..t’='- ! Louisville 6. Toledo 1;' | [ Kansas City 3, Columbus 9, Minneapolis «. 4 Sunday’s Results Kansas City 2, Indianapoli? . ’ Toledo 6-1, Louisville '3-.‘t? ' ) Minneapolis 7-0, ColumbuOG- . St. Paul 6-1, Charleston M 2; > — li| |> 110 Little if At Game Saturday |l’ -Decatur Little Leaguers;-|n number, attended the Indians-New York' 4 Yankees itMr!* can league game at Saturday afternoon. 't > The boys were taken to land in individual autos, 23 adults volunteering to the leaguers tO the game. Leagljld| officials tdday expressed thanks to jhe volunteers whg bjiok the boys tb the. game. t I 8,000 AID . From Page built a house around it?’ Many families moved theit fjurniture into their new before the victory dance. of the dwellings still lacked th® finishing touches such as intgrtor painting and plastering, hist ; all were termed “livable.” Mayor Donald Riegle said of the volunteers asked that, they be allowed to return to the* today so they could complete the homes they started, * “There’s still a lot of work to be done on some of the homes,” Riegle said. “But the heavy Mtyrk is out of the way in most rakes. The owners themselves wIM? be able to put on the finishing touches. For. those who can’t do [the work themselves, there stHl Are plenty of volunteers avallajile to complete the jobs.” The volunteer army, including former General Motors Presiddnt [ Charles S. Mott, represented 30. Michigan cities. They used up more than 100 carloads of lumber and other materials. Working under a blazing sun. they drank more than 50,0.00 cups of coffee and consumed more than 10.0OQ box lunches. . ‘ L’ v

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Bobby Toski Wins ! > Insurance City Open WETHERSFIELD, Conn. UP Little Bobby Toski of Northampton, Mass., was bubbling with glee today because, he scoied his first major pro golf victory In the tournament he wanted to win more than any other — the Insurance City open. , Tqski, who said before the tourney began, “I’d gather Win this one than the National tOpei).” fired a sizzling four-under-par 67 over the final 18 holes Sunday jor a 72hole score, nt 269 — ii grand total, of 15 strokes* under pqr. Th«* Northamptoh [golfer, who weighs only 126 pounds, a one-under-par 34 going" out and- came home in three-under-pgr 33 to take the top prize which amounted to $2,400 of the total $15;o0o; Jiifri Ferrier of Sap Francisco, finished second to Toski with a three-under-par 68 ito wind up just, one stroke short with; a total 270, while To;nmy Bold qf; Maplewood, N. J., Ed Porky Joiiviier of Palm Springs. Calif,. Max Evans of Detroit/ and Jim Turnesa of 'Briarcliff, N. IL, wountj u f’ iP a four ‘ way tie for third with 27i’/s. —X. j; ■ . I DEMOCRATS A <Continued From P*Ke One) anything.” ';' ? ’ No certain candidaipiek shaped up at the get-.togeihe4 was mention of former Lti. Gov. John I A. Watkins fpr congt-e-s. former U. S. attorney Mathew of Vinclennes anti formeif sjkte Sen, Greyble McFarland of ItidianapoI lis for governor, and Adams cirI cult judge Myles Parrish for U. S. senator. ' \ : i Sehricker took Craig to, task for . “unjustified” salary ipfcrejases and i political dismissals. He said I rent talk about a special legislative session to appropriate money I for a state office building pointed up a GOP wrong. [>: < During his Sehricker said; a bill providing for construction of an office ♦building was pigeon holed by 4 GOl’ oftm-' mittee chairman "whojfdidn’t want, any construction during A Democratic administration."L , ’ Skillen said the building have cost less then lhan it will now. JI 1 » Johnston charged the GOP national administration ; is inqking concessions 'to wealthy Republicans which could “wrefck fho country." J President Eisenhower’s administration, he; said, would gjve away grazing rights, sell rubber and power plants to private Interests and turn over atomic energy to industry. . :. The state commjttee ' named Richard Martin. Fortjville’j editor, as state publicity chief and authorized Skillen to appoint a committke secretary. He liiay be Thomas R. Hutson, Indianapolis, former state labor commissioner. ; i _ ,; L _ -’i - " EAST GERMANS (Continued From Pnxr One) whein it was formed. j The newspaper said construction firrh employers voted to fire all j persons "who pick up ..packages; and therCljy. give their names for ■

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Holder Spree By Milwaukee Braves J ; Sets New Records PITTOBURGH UP — Tbe Milwaukee, Brave's 12 homer x spree agajhsti the Pirates in yesterday's dmiblebeader produced these change# today in baseball’s record book:J / 1. a new National League record for hoiners in two fonsecqtive 4«n’es. Gid record-10/ by the Pirates; Jun e2O and 22. 1926. 2. ||t a new National League record; for homers in one game with Hght- in first game. Old record ,by eight teams — Detroit 1886, New York 1888, 1939; Hew York Aug. 1939. St-I-ouis , 1940, Pittsburgh 1917', New 3. Mualled Aiajqr-league record fo>’ hofiersi in one; game-eight, by New (iork Yankees vs. Philadelphia A’s, June 28, 1939. " ; * -iX-- ■■ .- 392 Hunting, Fishing Licenses Are Issued County clerk Ed Jaberg has issued afe “Heavy” number of hunting aqd fishing licenses of all kindkib August, a total of 392. Hqrej is the breakdown: Resident; male fishing licenses, 289; 61 fOißle resident fishing; three annuiij non-resident; six 14-day ♦ishingr tickets; 13 non-resident hunting and fishing; and 20 trout, stamps (season today). ,- ! Jabefg pointed out. the figures he has on hand would swell considerably if the agents authorized throughout the county to sell licenses i!were also counted. L LEGION'S K owllnuea •‘Yom Pasre One) tion floor; i However, the delegates probably I will \ pi|t the legion on record for more money tor the veterans administiiatlon, more beds in VA jtospitais and universal' military training. . . Eleelion of a successor to Gough WillXecpie Thursday.'Prominent among those mentioned for the influenthii po*| are Arthur J. Connell of Mid|dletown, Conn.; Charles J. La Judn, Port Washington, Wis.; Seaboftirn P. Collins, Las Cruces, N MJ and Lawrence J. Fenloir, Chicago, ‘ ’ i "I""direct espionage against the \German Republic.” |j Herbert Warnke, leader of the Conimdhist-nmJ “Free German Trade Union Federation.” attacked workeiss and union leaders who occupy themselves with “economic problems’’ rather than political. iEast|:k>erman workers have bean demanding higher wages, lower production goals and more fodd since She? June 17 rebellion. In many factories, workers have gone strikqs or siow-dowijs to enforce, demands. (■ M’arnke made reference to these demands in an article published in the|'official Soviet newspaper Taeglighe Rundschau. “We must lead a: relentless fight against all provocateurs who »wish to undermine jthe state and attack the trade ininon,” he said. I ■ ‘ I Ii TX 1 | - i ■ Si * I Trade an a good Tovm — Decatur

MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By UNITE& PftESS National League Player A Club G AB R H Pct. Rchndst, St.L. 129 468 87 159 ,840 Dvin, N. Y. . 196 398 64 135 Furillo, Bkn. . 125 454 75 152 .jttSt Ashbrn, Phila. 132 525 94 175 .833 Uampla, Bkn. 123 447 g 9 147 .329 Robson, Bkn. 120 425 97 140 < American League flayer & Club G AB R H Pci. V>rnnJ Wash. 132 528 91 I*3 .328 Rosen. Cleve. ’ 129 498 85 162 Ajinoso, Chi. 128 466 95 147 .315 Mtchel, Uleve. 112 414 63 129 -312 Bauer. N. Y. 113 364 64 112 .398 HOME RUNS: Mathews, Braveß 43; Kluszewski. Redlegs 37; niah Athletics 35; Rosen, Indians . . j RUNS BATTED IN: Campanella. Dodgers 122; Rosen, Indians 122; Mathews, Braves 118; . Hodges, Dodgers 111. J RUNS:' Snider, Dodgers . 108; /Gilliam. Dodgers Tosj Darjt, plants 103 r | HITS: Ashburn, Phillies 11B; Vernon. Senators 173 J Kuenn. tigers 171. ... ! 11 X PITCHING: Lppat, Yankees 133; Burdette; Braves ‘l3-3; Roe, Dodgers 9-2: Spahn. Braves 19-6; Erskine, Dodgers 17-5. ; . ? ■ ’ , ’ ; } Trade in a good Town — pecathr

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MAJOR I (NATIONAL LEAGUE ! II Jr ~ " W L Pit. . G.B, Brooklyn 89 40 .eiff j Milwaukee 8b fyl .611-1 so \ FdiilaOelphia __ 7T 57( .542 ' 16M St. Ijbuis 70 57 .ssl i M New York 61i 58 .4jsl,r'2B' Cincinnati 56 73 .4<4 '33 < Chicago 50 79i .388 39 j Saturday’s Results; 'J: Chicago 2. Philadelphia 0. New York 4,, Milwaukee St. i|Louis 5, PiftsbuCgh 4Brooklyn 10. Cincinnati 3, J jl? J Sunday's Results 1 t iNegt York 10-2. ‘tlhlcago 1-6; Hi Brooklyn 20. St. Louis ,4. Si: Milwaukee 19-11, Pittsburgh 4-5. iPhliadelphia 4-4, Cincinnati p-3, - I (.AMERICAN LEAGUE ■ W L Pct. G.B k New York i 6 43 .607 f Chical) 78 52 .6(0 Cleveland 76 S 3 .5<9 jl] Bostqft 71 60 Washington 65 67 . 22tif} ; Philadelphia 51 78 .395 35,Ltf. Detroit ..57 St. IsuiS --a-- 46 85 . : Saturday’s Results J 1 5, Boston |. 1 Cleveland 6, New York 0. Washington 7, Detroit 2, Only games scheduled; , Sunday’s Results ' ! J ■ is 3-3, Washington 0-9.’ i * Yjork 10-0,, Chicago, 6-1. ' Defenoit 10-9, Philadelphia 1-1. CltiyelajiKk 6-8, Boston 5-4. -