Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1955 — Page 7

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Berne, Maumee In Finals Os Area Tourney Maumee Valley and Berne were victors in a pair of hard-fought games to open the area Little League tourney Tuesday evening at Worthman field in this city. As a result of their triumph, these two teams will meet for the tourney championship at I:1S o’clock Thursday evening at Worthman, with the titlist to advance to the district meet at Auburn next week. Maumee Valley advanced by edging the Decatur all-stars, 4-3 in the opening game Tuesday in seven innings. Maumee held a 3-0 lead after five innings of play, and had held the Decatur team hitless. However, in the sixth, Baker singled for Decatur's first hit, and a walk and two errors enabled Decatur to seore three times and tie the score, sending the game into extra inning. " The locals got two men on base in the top of the seventh on a walk and a lit, but could not score, and their defense collapsed in thebottom of the seventh, Maumee scoring the winning run on three errors and a fielder’s choice. The Berne all-stars broke a 3-3 deadlock -with a pair of runs in the fifth inning to defeat Adams township (Allen county), 5-3, in the nightcap. Schwarts, Berne hnrler, drove in the first two runs of the game in the first inning with a home Ynn, Berne's final runs scored in the fifth on one hit, three walks and an error. DecatUr AB R H E Blythe, cf .... 2 0 0 0 Canclno, cf 0 0 0 0 Knavel. 3b 2 0 0 0 Lose, 3b .... t ...... 2 0 0 0 Agler, 2b, c 4 0 1 2 Baker,rf, 2b 4 111 Walters, ss 3 0 0 0 Rambo, Ifo 0 0 Cowan, p 110 0 Townsend, lb 2 0 0 0 Morris, c ... 10 0 0 Grabill. c —*•*— ® 0 ® — — ; ;

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Kleinknight, rs 10 0 1 Totals 33 3 2 4 Maumee Valley AB R H E Eubank, lb 4 0 10 Adreon, 2b2 0 0 0 Gordon, 2b 1' 0 0 .0 Richards, If 4 2 3 0 Porter, p . 2 111 DeLong, e 2 110 Robinson, rs — 2 0 0 0 Dawson, rs .... 10 10 Fogle, cf 3 0 0 0 Hall, ss. 3 0 2 0 Delagrange, 3b 2 0 0 0 Graham, 3b 10 0 0 x — I Totals 27 4 9 1 Score by innings: Decatur 000 003 o—30 —3 Maumee Valley .... 010 030 I—4 Runs Batted In — Dawson 2, Fogle. Two-base hits — Richards, Porter. Bases on balls—Oft Cowan 2, Porter 7. Strikeouts—By Cowan 12, Porter 10. Umpires—Krauss, Frey. Adarps Twp. AB R H E D. Kummer, cf 3 0 0 0 Stanley, cf, pL 0 0 0 0 Vollmer, rs -— 2 110 Bnsche, rs 16 0 0 Whitacre, 3b 3 0 2 0 Wollan, lb 3 0 2 0 Lake, ..If 3 0 0 0 Fogel, c 2 110 Miller, c 0 0 0 0 Baker, ss .. 3 0 0 0 Parmin, 2b ...- 2 0 0 1 Emenhiser, 2b ... 0 0 0 1 T. Kummer, p 2 10 0 Walts, p, cf ...10 0 0 Totals ... 25 3 6 2 Berne AB R H E Inniger, 2b 4 0 0 1 Herman, 3b 3 111 Schwartz, p 3 12 0 Kingsley, lb — 2 0 0 0 Mason, Ih/C1....0 10 0 Sprunger, if - 2 10 0 Striker, cf 2 0 0 0 Graber, c 110 0 Habegger, ss 10 0 0 Stahly, ss 2 0 0 0 Nussbaum, rf2 ( 0 2 1 Totals ... 22 5 5 3 Score by innings: Adams Twp. 101 100 —3 Berne .... — 200 12x—5 Runs Batted In — Schwartz 2, Inniger, Home runs — Schwartz. Bases on balls—Oft T- Kummer 3, Waltz 3, Schwartz 1. Strikeouts —By T. Kummer 2, Waltz 1, Schwartz 7.. Hits—Off T. Kummer 4 in 4, Waltz 1 in 1. Loser, Waltz. Umpires—Frey, Krauss.

Berra's Homer Gives Yankees Win Over Sox NEW YORK (INS) — Lawrence Peter Berra not only Intends to keep the New York Yankees in first place this year but is going after Gabby Hartnett’s all time homo run mark tor catchers. Yogi has hit only 17 for the year as compared to Al Kaline’e league leading 23 but his latest Tuesday night beat Chicago, 1 to 0, and expanded the Yankees’ American League lead to two games over both the White Sox and Cleveland. It was also the 198th oi his career and sent him ahead of Brooklyn’s Roy Campanella as the deadliest home run hitting cacther in the majors. Only two other catchers In history ever have hit more homers than this pair and both of them | are in the Hall of Fame. Hartnett,; who caught for 2d years, leads With 236 and Bill Dickey, who played 17 years, is next with 202. Berra, who holds the all-time high for A. L. catchers with 30 homers in one season (1952), be- 1 gan his first full season in 1947. ■ “I hope to be the catcher to hit the most,” Berra said Tuesday night. “I figure I’ve got five more ■ good years left That is, if I don’t i get hurt. "I think I’m out of my slump,” Yogi said before stepping to the plate in the sixth to smash Dick Donovan's 0-1 pitch depe into the lower deck of the right field stands before 37,369 Yankee Stadium patrons. “The ball I hit in Kansas City was one of my best all season.” I The squat backstop meant his homer In the ninth Sunday which kept the stumping Bombers ahead of the onrushing Chisox, Indians , and Red Sox. Ironically, Berra got the Bronx, cheer before cricling the bases. His wild throw to second had let Jim Busby take third after stealing and he dropped Chico Carrasquel’s low foul pop behind the plate in the sixth. Each could have been disastrous were It not for Tommy Byrne’s four-hit pitching. The 35 - year -old lefthander, whose amazing comeback since his acquisition from the Pacific Coast late last summer has made him I the ace of the staff, didn't permit a hit beyond the third inning to post his ninth win in 11 decisions and his third shutout. Denovaw. Who had beftten tM’ Yankees three times before, yielded only seven hits In going down to his fourth defeat in 17 verdicts. The Red Sox kept four games off the pace by turning back the Indians, 5 to 1, before a sellout crowd of 33.423 in Fenway Park and Detroit moved to withiti, seven games by defeating Baltimore. 8 to 6. in 12 innings and then, 7" to 2 in the nightcap. Washington beat Kansas City, 9 to 3, but lost the second game, 3 to 1. Don Newcombe won his 17th game for Brooklyn—a 4to 2 decision at '‘Cincinnati; Milwaukee cooled off Philadelphia, 6 to 3; Pittsburgh defeated St. Louis; 3 to 1, and New York topped Chicago, 6 to 5, in a 12-inning day game. Frank Sullivan's five hitter over Cleveland was his loth complete game and 13th win. Larry Doby's 17th home run put him behind in the fourth inning. But the Bosox beat Herb Score, who struck out six in the first three inniif£s. when tie walked Norm Zauchin with two out in the bottom half, wild pitched and gave up singles to Grady Hatton and Jim Piersail. Ted Williams and Sammy White added the fffilshing touches with subsequent homers. “MAJOR AMERICAN LEAGUE Club W. L. Pct. G.B. New YorkW 37 .619 Chicago 57 38 .600 2 Cleveland 58 39 .538 2 Boston ... 56 11 .577 4 Detroit - 52 43 .547 7 — Kansas City 39 58 .402 21 Washington .. 34 62 .354 25% Baltimore ....28 66 .298 30% Tuesday’s Results New York 1, Chicago 0. Boston 5, Cleveland 1. Detroit 8-7. Baltimore 6-2 (Ist game. 12 innings). Washington 9-1. Kansas City 3-3. national League Club W. L. Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 67... 31 .684 Milwaukee 53 44 .546 13% New York .... 52 46 .531 15 Philadelphia 51 50 .505 17% Chicago St.-Louis 43 51 .457 22 Cincinnati 41 55 .427 25 Pittsburgh 38 61 .381 29% Tuesday’s Results New York 6, Chicago 5 (12 innings) Brooklyn 4, Cincinnati 2. Milwaueke 6, Philadelphia 3. Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 1.

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Results Are Listed In Horseshoe League Results of Inst week's matches In the Adams county horseshoe league: Union 5, Berne 4; Ohio City 5, Preble 4; Geneva 6, Salem 3; Monroe and Monroeville not reported. Individual leaders: Maitlen 71, Knittie 62, Buuck 58, Van Natter 57, C. Landis 56, J. Johnson 54, Christner 53, Campbell 52, Green 50. Thursday night's schedule: Salem at Monroeville, Ohio City at Monroe, Berne at Preble, Union at Geneva. A doubles tourney will be held at the Berne park Friday night, with the drawing to be made at 7:30 o'clock. League Standing W L Pct. Geneva 9 1 .900 Monroe 8 1 .889 Union 6 4 .600 Ohio City 4 5 .444 Berne 4 6 .400 Monroeville 3 5 .375 Salem 3 7 .300 Preble ■.. 1 9 .100 Ford Defeats Middlecoff To Win PGA Title DETROIT (INS) — Doug Ford, the second freshman in history to win the prized PGA golf championship, moved to Akron today in pursuit of more golfing dollars. The husky Kiamesha, N. Y., pro packed his wife and three children 1 in their trailer and took off for the Akron open Tuesday night a few hours aftre defeating Dr. Cary Middlecoff, an associate pro at Kiamesha, 4 and 3 for the professional golfers’ association crown. Ford’s great stamina, and his hot putter overcame the precise, slow playing Middlecoff on the 26th hole and finally subdued the Tennessee dentist on the 33rd, Middlecoff, golf's leading money winner this year, obviously was suffering from fatigue in the 95 degree heat after the long, hard week st play leading to the finals. -He summed up Ford s v ictory this way: “I ran out of gas and gave it to him. I just didn't have it . . . That’s all.” Ford, quiet and unassuming, said Simply? “*Y6ti know;can say is I feel pretty good.” The curly haired, 32-year-old blaster, who has been a pro only six years, not only became the second player in history to win the PGA the first time he entered the tournament, but only the fourth medalist to go on and win it. He qualified with a near record 135 for 36 holes and continued to shoot brilliant, sub par golf as he knocked off six foes in match play on his march to the championship. Tuesday, he fell -behind on the very first hole when Middlecoff came up with a birdie and was two strokes down after nine. He squared the match by birdying the 12th and 13th, but Middlecoff got them right back on the next two holes. Ford picked' up a stroke on the 17th to finish the morning round one down although shooting a three under par 68. . s Ford put the pressure oh for real in the afternoon, and by the 26th hole had taken a permanent lead. He said the 29th was the* deciding hole. On that greeq, after Middlecoff had taken a bogie 4, Ford sank a twisting, 25 fool putt for a birdie to go 2 up. His 10-year-old son, Doug Jr., who followed his Dad around in the finals, was overcome with excitement at this and ran across the green to Ford's side screaming: “Wow! Did you see that one?” For' his victory Ford got possession of the championship trophy, an automatic berth on tile U. S. Ryder Cup team and. of most immediate importance, $5,COO. This moved him from 15th to sixth among the money winners. , - - , ■ — ' V . . i Harry Martz Honored By National VFW Harry Martz, route 6, Decatur, has been appointed a national aide-de-camp in the recruiting class of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States' by corhmander-in-chief Merton B. Tice, of that 56-year-old. 1.250.000-strong organ* ization of veterans of overseas-war-time sei-vice. - — At national V'.' F. W. headquarters.. it was explained that these appointments are made by the cqmmander-ih-ehief in recognition of those who have signed up at least 50 new.-or reinstated members of the organization. . Along with the appointment goes a specially designed, appropriately lettered forest green and white'V. F. W. cap and a national citation. Special honors are paid these recruiters at national, encampments of the V. F. W. I Trade in a Good Town — Decatur i

Rural Youth Tourney Finals On Saturday The finals of the district rural youth softball tournament will be played Saturday night when the Adams county rural youth team travels to Kokomo to play Howard county. The Adams county team has a record of three wins and no defeats while the Howard county team has a 3-1 record. Their lone defeat was at ' the bands of Adams county during ..tournament play. ~ The winner of the Saturday game will enter the state tournament and w-ill draw Cass county of the third district as their first opponents. Ray Worden, manager of the local team, has stated that all team members will meet at the county extension office in Decatar at 6 p. m. Saturday. Other rural youth members will accompany them. Major League Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE Battihg AB H Pct. Ashburn, Phila. ... 35ff 118 .337 Campanella. Bkn. . 270 89 .330 Snider, Bkn. Home Runs — Snider, Brooklyn, 34; Kluszew'ski, Cincinnati, 32; Mays, New York, 30. Runs Batted In — Snider, Brooklyn, 102; Ennis, Philadelphia, 79; Kluszewski, Cincinnati, 72. Runs — Snider, Brooklyn, 84; Bruton, Milwaukee, 74; Gilliam, Brooklyn, 71. •Stolen Bases — Boyer, St. Louis, 17; Bruton. Milwaukee, 14; Gilliam, Brooklyn, 12. Pitching — Newcombe, Brooklyn, 17-1; Roberts. Philadelphia, 16-7; Arroyo, SL Louis, 11-5; Conlye, Milwaukee. 11-7. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting AB H Pct. Kaline. Detroit ... 383 137 .358

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No-Raiding Pacts Signed By Eagles HERSHEY, Tffli. (INS) — The < Philadelphia Eagles have signed 1 "no-raiding” pacts with two Can- i adian professional football clubs. QS* Eagles' general manager Vince McNally disclosed that the agreements were made with the Edmonton Eskimos and Calgary Stampeders. He added similar pacts with other Canadian teams are expected to follow. The negotiations came after Edmonton signed end Don Lust and j halfback Dom Moselle last month although both players were under ’ option to the Philadelphia club. After the Eagles protested and threatened legal action, a settle- ' ment for damages was made. Me- 1 Nally said, and the discussions 1 paved the way for a "no raid" 1 agreement. The terms of the pact reportedly were that the teams would respect ' each other’s contracts and options, that players would not be signed until four years after they enroll in a U. S. or Canadian college and . that disputes to rights over players are to be arbitrated. Kuenn, Detroit 363 118 .325 Smith, Clevelando - 393 123 .313 Power, Kansas City 364 114 .313 Home Runs — Kaline, Detroit, 23; Mantle, New York, 21; Zau- , chin, Boston, 20. . Runs Batted In — Boone and Kaline, Detroit, and Jensen, Bos- ( ton, 76. Runs — Kaline, Detroit, 87; Mantle, New York, 81; Smith < Cleveland, 75. Stolen Bases — Rivera, Chicago, ( 15; Jensen, Boston, 12; Minoso, Chicago, 11. Pitching — Donovan, Chicago, ■ 13-4; Sullivan. Boston, 13-8; Wynn, Cleveland, 12-5; Lemon, Cleveland. 12-7.

Little League To Play Three Nights Rest Os This Week Games are scheduled in the Decatur Little League on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings of this week. The schedule follows: Thursday—6 p. m.—-Homestead —Tigers vs Red Sox. Friday—6:ls p. m. —Worthman —Red Sox vs’ Senators, Indians vs Yankees. Saturday—6 p. m.—Worthman — Yankees vs Senators; White Sox '■ vs Indians. Morning 'Big League' Games Are Cancelled Robert Worthman, athletic supervisor of the summer recreation program at Worthman field, announced today that there will be no more morning “big league” games on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the field. So many of the boys are bn vacation that it is impossible to field complete teams. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Club W. L. Pct. G.B. Toledo 62 47 .569 Louisville 59 47 .557 1% Omaha 60 49 .550 2 Minneapolis .. 59 50 .541 3 Denver 60 51 .541 3 St. Paul 53 56 .486 9 Indianapolis .. 62 .431 15 Charleston ... 35 73 .324 26% Tuesday’s Results Denver 4, Charleston 1. Toledo 4, Omaha 0. Indianapolis 13, St. Paul 6. Louisville 5, Minneapolis 3.

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Indians Beat Tigers In Morning League ' The Indians defeated the Tigera, 10-6, in morning “Little league" game this morning at Worthman field. The Indians lead with a 3-0 mark, The Dodgers are 1-1 and the Tiger? 0-3. The Indians will play the Dodgers at 9 a.m. Monday. The “little league” will conclude play nest The line Score: RHE Tigers 102 3— 6 5 4 Indians 802 x—lo 4 2 Swygart, Shulman and Jonee; Cookson and Suman. Morgan. White Sox Practice Thursday Evening The White Sox of the Little League will hold a practice session at 6 o'clock Thursday evening at Stratton Place. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results. f. GORDON’S WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE 152 N. 2nd St. Decatur