Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1956 — Page 6

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Braves, Cards Both Win Twin Bills Sunday NEW YORK (INS) — The Milwaukee Braves and St. Louis (ar dinals are two of the hottest teams in baseball today, but how Well they stand the test in the east this week may provide an early lead on the National League flag chase. . The two clubs, only .951 per-',! ventage .points apart atop the N.L. standings, were able to win only 23 of 78 games between them in New York. Philadelphia and Pitts- * burgh last year while taking 34 of 57 on western stops. The Braves naturally fared better than the seventh-place Cards, managing 19 victories out of 34 games in the east, but everybody knows the cards are as tough as the Braves this year, indeed having beaten them three times out of five. Both clubs made twin killings Sunday, the Braves shocking dangerous, homer-happy Cincinnati. 15 to 0 and 6 to 1, and St. Louis downing Chicago. 3 to 2, before taking 'the abbreviated nightcap, called after seven innings because of darkness, by a 14-to-7 score. Brooklyn slipped into third place by .096 percentage points over the Redlegs by overpowering New York. « to 4. And Philadelphia lost its 19th straight, 11 to 9, at Pittsburgh, then piled up a 6-2 lead only to have the second game suspended after seven innings because of Pennsylvania's Sunday curfew law. ' New York retained its one-game lead over Cleveland in the American League race, both teams splitting dbubleheaders. The Yankees beat Baltimore. 11 to t, and then bowed, 5 to 1. Cleveland whipped Kansa« City. 9 to 4, after first losing, i to 2. * i Boston deciaioned Washington, 5 to 3, and Chicago stopped Detroit, . 8 to 1, in single games. Veteran southpaw Warren Spahn and youthful righthander Ray Crone starred on the mound for the Braves before 28,089 disappointed Redleg fans. Spahn pitched his second straight 1956 shutout and the 36th of bis career while the Braves rapped Art Fowler and four relievers for 16 hits. The 35-year-old ace. who leads all active National Leaguers in number of shutouts pitched, also connected for a homerun in the five-run eighth after

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■■ , .-.A—— Chuck Tanner and Del Crandall hit two-run blasts. While Spahn scattered nine htts for his second victory in three de-* cisions, Crone stopped the Reds on six. one a George Crowe homJ er. The Braves tagged Johnny Klippstein and Hershell Freeman for 13 hits’ as they won their seventh game in the last eight starts. ' - i TMrty-nine-year-old Mtfrry Dickson made his first appearance since being traded to St. Louis from Philadelphia and beat the Cubs with ninth-inning support from Ellis Kinder. Dickson gave up six hits, struck out five and doubled in a, run. Jackie Collum won the Secopd game in relief as, Ken Boyer. Rip ißepuUki and Wally Moon homered for the Cards. Boyer hit two for five RBl's. Duke Snider also hit two for Brooklyn, Stan .Lopata cracked three for the Phillies and Bobby DelgfWco. two for Pittsburgh. s Snider drove In five Dodger runs with A grand-slam homer in the third, a solo blast in the fifth and a seventh-inning single. Carl Furillo also homered for Brooklyn. Don Newcombe gained his fifth straight win, against one loss, but needed help in the seventh from Clem Labine. . The Phillies started their newlyacquired southpaw- Harvey Haddix. who was routed in the sixth after the Pirates bad scored seven times. Delgreco got his homers off Haddix. Andy Seminick. Del Ennis and Lopata — the latter pinch-hitting in the ninth —homered for the Phils. Lopata hit bls others in the second and fourth innings ot the nightcap. The Yankees ripped five Oriole pitchers for 13 hits mid H runs in the opener, won wy Don Larsen, but were cheeked on seven in the second game by winner Bill Wight and his ninth-inning helper George Zuverink. The Orioles moved into fourth place when they scored four runs in the eighth inning. three on Dave Philley's . home run. it;. ». Art Ditmar pitched a four-hitter for the Kansas City victory as Bobby Feller was bombed for four runs in the first three innings. Herb Score won hte third in six decisions when Cleveland stormed back in the nightcap with a 12hit attack which included threerun homers by veteran Al Rosen and rookie Rocky CblaVito. Hector Lopex - slammed one for the A’s. mr-tttggeru by Jftn -Ptorsatl and Jackie Jetisea allowed the Red Sox to win their firtft road game of the year. George Susce won in relief. Rookie ton Berberet tagged starter Frank Sullivan for a Washington homerun. 'M Fourteen-hit support-helped Billy Pierce rack up his fourth vie* tory for Chicago. Pierce Was tagged for ten hits and was in trouble virtually all the way bnt timely hitting by Jim Rivera, Minnie Minoso, Sherm Lollar and George Kell helped beat Virgil Trucks. Nellie Fox homered for the White Sox. . .1 ■— W ‘ .

MAJOR! ~ AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York .... 16 9 .640 — Cleveland .... 16 9’ .609 1 Chicago ... 10 8 .556 2% Boston 11 ,10 .524 3 Baltimore 12 14 .462 4%' Washington ..'ll 13 .458 4H Kansas City - 9 13 .409 5H Detroit 8 15 .348 7 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. Milwaukee ... 11 4 .733 % St. Louis 15 7 .682 - Brooklyn 12 9 .571 2H Cincinnati .... 13 10 .665 2*4 Pittsburgh 11 10 .524 3H New York .— 9 13 .409 6 Chicago 5 13 .278 8 Philadelphia tT 5 15 .250 9 SATURDAY’S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 3, New York 0. Pittsburgh 6. Philadelphia 5. Chicago 14, St. Louis 10. Cincinnati 10, Milwaukee 6. American League Baltimore 1, New York 0. Cleveland 6, Kansas City 3. Chicago 7. Detroit 6. . . Washington 12. Boston 9. BUNDAY’S RESULTS : •‘ Natlbhal League TT Brooklyn 6, New York 4. Milwaukee 16-6, Cincinnati 0-1. St. Louis 3-14, Chicago 2-7 (2nd game called after 7 innings, darkness). Pittsburgh 11-2. Philadelphia 9-6 (2nd game 7 innings, curfew, to be completed July 3. . . American League Chicago 8. Detroit 1. Kansas City 5-4, Cleveland 2-9. New York 11-1, Baltimore 2-5. Boston 5, Washington 3. n ’ A . ...» Los Angeles — One 35,000 ton battleship requires 150,000 pounds of rubber, enough th equip 2.000 passenger automobiles complete with spare tires.

Ninth Inning Rally Defeats . Klenk's Team Klenk’s of Decatur fell victim to a ninth-inning uprising by Cold- ‘ water, 0., Sunday afternoon, with ’ the Ohio team scoring four runs to edge out a 9-8 victory in the opening game of the Western Buckeye ■ league schedule. 1 The Decatur team held an Brs ■ lead going into the last half of the 1 ninth but could not halt the Coldwater uprising. Hettinger led off the inning with a triple, J. Knapke grounded out, but Fortkamp SThgled. Myers fanned B. Knapke ' tor the second out. but the roof then tell in as two straight hits and a walk were followed by the . game-winning blow by L. Stahl, Coldwater hurler. Klenk’s scored one in the third on two walks, a hit batter and a single by Reed. Three more counted in the fourth", on hits by Shaw. Williams and Crist and an infield out. Coldwater tallied twice in the third and three in the fourth for a 5-4 lead, but Klenk’s bounced back with four in the fifth for an 8-5 advantage. A hit batsman, and safeties by Myers, Minnich, Williams and Crist accounted for the runs. The teams then went scoreless until the fatal ninth. Klenk’s will play at Cridersville next Sunday, and the first home game is scheduled at Worthman field Sunday, May 27, with Rockford. Klenks AB R H E Winiame, If ....'. 6 2 4 0 RoWden, 2b5- 1 9 9 Crist, ss —4 1 3 9 Hoehammer, lb 4 0 9 1 Reed. 3b 2 0 Andrews, rs ----------3 10 0 Bowen, cf 2 0 0 0 Myers, p -3 1 10 Minnich, e 5 1 2 o Shaw, p—_ ? L——l 111 Ackerman, cf 3 0 0 0 TOTALS - 41 8 13 2 hSS.'”.?’. A , B ? 1 Bdttinger,' 2b "5 2 4 0 J. — 0 0 -- 5 11 0 B.- Knapke, c i —±— 5 0 10 D. Stahl, lb 5 0 2 0 Steinbrenner, lb 0 1’ 0 0 LefeW, If ....L.. 5 2 3 0 Burger, rs 1 fi 00 Mater, rs H^...... 2 0 0 0 L. Stahl, p 5 12 0 r: w : , —-— J —•—- /TOTALS —— 41 9 13 1 Score by Innings: Klenks -— 001 340 000 — 8 Coldwater 002 300 004 — 9 Big State's Track Meet On Wednesday SOUTH BEND, Ind. (INS) — Kight Indiana colleges and universities have entered the annual “Big State” track meet to be held Wednesday at the University of Notre Dame. The Indiana intercollegiate event will bring into competition Indiana. Purdue, Indiana State, Butler, DePauw, Wabash, Ball State and Notre Dame. -Indiana will return with three of the 1955 meet's champs to defend the Cream and Crimson title w-hich I- U. has held since 1949 when Notre Dame was titlist. The I. U. bid for a sixth straight championship will be spear-headed by Braeion Donaldson, broad jump, Clarence Lane, in shot put, and Don Ward in the 440-yard dash. Notre Dame poses a dangerous threat to the Hoosiers with three returning champions from last year. They are Bernie Allard, high I Jump; Al Porter, half-mile, and Bill Squires, miler. DePauw has the only other defending champ making a 1956 appearance at the Big State. He is Len Yorke, who won both the 199 and 220 yard dashes. Greg Bell, of Indiana, sophomore broad jumper who won the Penn Relays title for this event, will be Intent on grabbing the Big State title also. I M/W .. . AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. G.B. Denver 18 7 .729 — Minneapolis —lB 8 667 Iti Louisville .... 13 11 .542 4H St. Paul- 11’ 11 .509 5H Omaha 11 1? .478 6 Wiehita—TO 11U417 Indianapolis .. 9 13 .409 7% Charleston —’ 6 18 . 250 11% SUNDAY'S RESULTS Wichita 4, Omaha 3. Indianapolis at Denver, both games postponed, rain. Charleston at St. Paul, postponed, rain. Louisville at Minneapolis, postponed, rain. I Trade in a Good Town — Decatur.

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Little, Pony League Practices Scheduled schedules for the six Decatur Little League teams and Decatur’s two Pony League teams were announced today by Edwin Kauffman, league president. Diamonds at Worthnian field. McMillen field and Stratton place will be utilized for the practice sessions, which will open Tuesday. .. The practice schedules follow: Tuesday—Tigers, 4 p.m', Stratton Place: Indians, 5:39 p.m., Stratton: Senators, 5:30 p.m., McMillen; Red Sox 6 p.m.. Worthman. Wednesday — White Sox, 4 p.m. Stratton: Yankees, 5:39 p.m., Stratton; Cardinals, 6 p.m., McMillen. Thursday — Tigers. 4 p.m., Stratton; Red Sox, 4 p.m., McMillen; Indians, 5:30 p.m’ Stratton; Senators, 5:30 p.m., McMillen; Braves, 6 p.-m.. Worthman. Friday — White Sox, 4 p.m., Stratton; Yankees, 5:30 p.m., Stratton. Tuesday Is Deadline For Bowling Tickets Tuesday night is the deadline for purchase of tickets for the annual banquet and meeting of the Decatur bowling association, which will be held at the Moose lodge home Thursday evening at 6 o'-J clock. Tickets may be obtained j from Oran L. Schultz, city secretory, or at Mies Recreation. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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Monmouth's Pony League To Practice The Monmouth Pony League will hold’practice sessions at 5:39 p.m. Tuesday and Friday at the Monmouth school. All team members are asked to attend. 1 Jackets Will Play Twin Bill Tonight Coach Deane Dorwln announced today that a double header will be played thia evening at Worthman Jfeld. The Yellow Jackets will play KendallviUb in an NEIC contest at 5 o'clock, and will meet the Willshire Bearcats at 7:39 o’clock. • > The Jackets will play at Bluffton Tuesday and will meet Bluffton here Thursday at 4 p.m. Next week. Fort Wayne Concordia will play here at 7:30 p.m. .Monday, and Columbia City will be here May 22, with a reserve game at 5 p.m.. followed by the varsity encounter to wind up the seasou. •

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Racers Are Plagued By Windy Weather INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Windy weather today plagued drivers prepping for the May 30th 500mile race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the ninth straight day. However, two drivers made laps above 140 miles an hour on the oval two-and-onehalf mile track Sunday. They were Jim Rathmann, of Miami. Fla., at 140.8 and Roger Ward. Los Angeles, at 140.4, One ot the new Novis at the track put down a smoke screen that added drama to the day but did little damage. The car. being driven by Paul Russo, ot Fort Worth, Tex., broke a valve guide with a loud noise that startled fans. Jimmy Bryan. Phoenix, Ariz., traveling at 138 mph, was forced to slow down and hug the outer

wall as the smoke obscured his vision. ' Two more rookies completed their test Sunday. They were Mike Magill, of Haddonfield, N.J., and Jim McWithey, of Anderson, Ind., the Sth and 9th of this,race. Nino Farina, Italian ex - world champ, started his familiarization test, A veteran Speedway driver and Uqited States auto club officials were scheduled to take over direction of his test today. ./ >, • ’ Cards And Phillies Trade Infielders PHILADELPHIA (INS) — Bt. Louis and Philadelphia completed a seven-player trade today with an exchange of utility infielders which sent Bobby Morgan to the Cards and Solly Hemus to the Phillies. Last week the Philadelphia team traded pitchers Herman Wehmeier and Murry Dickson to SC. Louis for hurlers Harvey Haddix, Stu Miller and Ben Flowers.

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Baltimore Orioles Buy Veteran Lefty z BALTIMORE (INS) — The Baltimore Orioles today bought Johnny Schmitx, veteran left handed pitcher from the Boston Red Sox for a reported 115,000. The Orioles also sold rookie Vighthander Mel Held to Minneapolis. a New York Giants farm club, 'it has been rumored that the Orioles may get Hank Thompson, veteran third baseman, as part of the Held deal. Held led the Texas League last year with 24 victories agaihst only seven defeats. Quiet Please! ETNA GREEN. Ind. (INS) — One of the few worn** cricket raisers in the fishing bait business has a quick response for ipen who talk about women who talk too much. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur.