Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1956 — Page 8

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Adams County Pony League Is Opened Monday Th® Adams county Pony League got underway with a double header at Worthman Heid In this city Monday night, with the two Decatur teams splitting honors in the twin bill. _2' ... ... Monmoutn, although held to a single hit. defected the Braves in the opener, 7-3, and the Cardinals downed Geneva, 6-4, in the nightcap. Both games were limited to five innings because of the late starting time. Call. Braves’ hhrler. struck out the aide In the first inning but MAIiF ALL THIS WEEK HU II INCL. SATURDAY ON THE STREETS AROUND ' THE COURT HOUSE [GOODING I AMUSEMENT CO. FORTH! J/Z ENTIRE FAMR.Y | (■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■iEßMEMV Tonite & Wednesday “OUTLAW GIRL” With Sy Ivana Mang ano — and — “WAYWARD WIFE” With Gina Lollobrlglda Firsts Decatur Showing of TMb {Double Shock Showl ■ n,—o—o— Thurs. &/Fri. —"Woman’s Prison" .* "How to Marry a Millionaire” GMO Tonite, Wed* Thurs. I OURBIGDA YS! 1 | Shows Tonite & We®. at 7 | Continuous Thur, from 1:30' 1 1750 Reasons to Attend! | ft — — 0 I Was Hilda I I Crane Really I I A Tramp? I g Fox presents ■Hilda Crane] ClNcmaScoPe AM by TICMMICOiOt B H \ •torrme ■ EM 6UT EMM I ■ SIMMONS - MADISON AUMONT I — Added Featurette — “The King Cole Story" - ' Coming Sun. — "Rose Tattoo” Burt Lancaster, Anna Magnini

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walked five batters to force in two runs. An error, fielder’s choice and a wild pitch accounted for another Monmouth run in the third. The Braves tied the score with « three-run burst in the same inning on two hits and a pair of errors, Monmouth counted tour time* in the fourth on its lone hit, plus four walks, a pair of errors and a wild pitch. in the nightcap, the Cardinals scored once in each of the first two Innings and came up with three huns in the third on three hits, two bases on balls and a Geneva error. Geneva bunched all three of its hits with two walks and a pair of errors for its four runs in the fourth inning. The The Cardinals wound up the scoring wHh a single run in the bot- ' tom of the fourth. The Tony League schedule for the balance of the week: Today. Berne at Geneva; Wednesday, Cardinals at Monmouth; Thurs, day. Berne at Adams Central (originally scheduled at Berne but latter diamond is not ready) Friday, Braves at Adams Central. Monmouth AB R H E Buseck, ss a..._ 12 0 0 Hoffman, 2b 3 10 1 Bultemeier, 3b 3 1-11 Snyder, c T 10 0 L. Bieberlch, lb .... 1 1 0 1 Bwick, cf 2 0 0 0 Schafer, rs 11 Q 0 ID. Bieberlch, If 2 0 0 0 Miller, If 0 0 0 0 Gaunt, p ... 10 0 0 Totals 16 71 « Braves AB R M E Schieman, if 2 110 Kelson, rs 3 10 0 Reiderbach, ss 2 10 0 Call, p 3 0 10 Sharp, 2b 2 0 0 0 Magley, 2b .... 10 0 0 Ornlor, cf 3 0 0 0 Conrad, c 2 0 14 Auguet, lb ... 2 0 0 0 Clark, 3b 2 0 0 0 , Tetals ———» .1 . * < Score by Innings Monmouth 2 0 14 0 Braves 0 0 3 0 0 Runs batted in Bultemeier, 2; Call, 2; Three-base hit Call;Double play Gaunt to Hoffman; Bases on balls off Gaunt 3. Call, 9; Strikeouts Gaunt 9, Call, 9; Um* pires, Krueckeberg, Kauffman Geneva AB R H E Amspaugh, p 10 0 0 Sprunger, 3b 2 0 0 4 Long, c 1111 lb ... T .—l. 2 110 ■Weaver, cf — 3 0 0 1 Lyons, ss 110) Newcomer, rs 2 111 Moser, 2b 0 0 1 Neyil, If 2 0 0.0 Totals 17 4 3 4 Cardinals AB R HE Gase. cf _... 11 1 0 Ralston, 3b... 10 0 0 Lose, 3b ... » 0 0 0 Gillig, 2b 12 0 0 Knodle, lb 12 0 Wolfe, p 3 11 0 Gross, m 110 0 Gay. c 10 1 3 Ornlor, If 2 0 0 0 Snyder. If 10 0 0 Gage, rs .. 2 0 0 0 Totals 17 6 5 3 Score by Innings Geneva 0 0 0 4 0 Cardinals 11 3 1 x Run batted in Knodle, Wolfe: Scariflce Ralston; Bases on ball, Laux, 3, Amspaugh, 5, Walfe, 7, Strikeouts, Laux, 2, Amspaugh, 2. Walfe, 10; Hit off, Laux, 2, Amspaugh. 3; Umpires, Krueckeberg, Kauffman. /gayießwifitZ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pct. G.B. Denver 34 14 .708 —— Indianapolis .. 24 19 .558 7% Minneapolis .. 24 22 .522 9 Louisville .... 22 21 .512 9% Omaha 23 23 .500 10 St. Paul 19 25 ,432 13 Wichita 19 27 .413 14 Charleston —ls 29 .341 17 MONDAY’S RESULTS Denver 8. Indianapolis 5. Louisville 7. Minneapolis 5. Charleston 4, St. Paul 2. Wichita 11, Omaha 9. If you have something to Mil or rooms for reuL try a Democrat Want Ad- It brings results.

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By WILLIAM EWALD ' NEW YORK (UP) —lt used to be "Take me out to the ball game.” ‘ but now it's "Stock the cooler ’ with beer, Dad, the Yankees play , tonight.”. . After a hesitant courtship, baseball ahd television have finally become real electronic bedfellows. \ But baseball still Isn’t siire whether TV ta trying to hug It-or strangle it. i The impact of television on baset ball, and vice versa, has been one i of the most interesting and trou- ■ blesome of all the outgrowths of i this communications miracle which I makes it possible to see « moving i object thtysize of an orange from ■ 50 miles away. > Last year 65 million different - people watched the World Series . on the video screens. The All-Star game alone was seen by 35 million. .{The regular season games draw a living room crowd that dwarfs the ' fans in the ball park. And all for ’ free. ’ But certainly television isn’t ' killing major league baseball. The national sport has made an adjustment more satisfactory, for ex- . ample, than have the movies. It is a valid point that TV has * made fans of millions of young--1 sters who, once caught by the ! game, manage several times a sea- ’ son to stir fathers out to battle 1 the traffic- 'jeta and get a real 1 live look at their team. * And fresh cash that runs into ’ the millions from sponsors usually 1 cigarets, beer or razor blades * bRM’t pained, the bin leamte club - owbers. retakes a lot-ofTurnstlle clicking ft> match IL '? • There is, however, no question 1 that TV has hurt minor league i baseball severely. In 1949 there i were 59 minor leagues and 454 i clubs. Now there are 27 circuits * and 206 clubs. Attendance has fali ten in seven years from 50 million to 19 million. Baseball men will also argue i that they aren’t getting a fair return for the entertainment the sport products. They contrast the TV revenue they get from a fivehour double-header with a cast in the dozens to what a sponsor would pay for another type TV show capable of holding a dedicated audience so long. * One solution advanced is the pay-as-you-see TV in which a set owner would put a quarter or 50 cents in a slot to see a game. But

Caroline Is Signed By Chicago Bears CHICAGO (UP) — J. C Caroline, former University of Illinois itar halfback, has signed a contract with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. Caroline, played with the Montreal Alouettes of Canada'! Big Four Union last season after being declared ineligible at Illinois. Max Surkont Is Sold By St. Louis Cards ST. LOUIS (UP) — Max Surkont, right-handed pitcher whom St. Louis obtained from the Pittsburgh Pirates a month ago, has been sold by the Cardinals to the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. Surkont. who has pitched a total o 5 1/3 innings, was traded to the Cards, or righthander Luis Arroyo. • Beavers Oil -Wins Major League Title /’ The major league bowling championship was recently won by the Beaver# Oil Service team in a roll-off staged with the Rooker Paint team at Mies Recreation. Team members include Don Burke, Herman Moellering, Bob Dedolph, Pete. Smith, and Lloyd keef. ' . Form Minor League Wednesday Morning Robert Worthman, recreation supervisor at Worthman field during the summer months, today announced that all Decatur boys, aged 9 to 12, who failed to be named to Little League teams are asked to report at the field Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock to aid in organizing Minor league teams for the season. A regular morning schedule of games will be played for the next several weeks and al) interested boys ar. requested to be present Wednesday. in rx. ;r r Tex Gonzalez Wins Against Smallwood NEW YORK (UP) — Middleweight Tony (Tex) Gonzales Mid today, "I was the most surprised guy in the house,” while explaining Mcnday night’s unexpected explosives that won a unanimous 10round TV decision Oyer Hardy (Bazooka) Smallwood at St. Nicholas Arena. A notoriously light puncher, Gonzalez of East Orange, N. J., suddenly seemed to have bombs in hla fists m be floored the worker from a Brooklyn bubble-gum

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that whole subject is extremely controversial and has a lot of kinks. The association between baseball and television goes back to 1939. It wa» on that May 17 that the first game was televised —a college contest between Princeton and Columbia at Baker Field in New York over station W2XBS. The first major league game was televised in AUgust of that /ear from Ebbets Held between the Dodgers and Cincinnati. ■ Larry McPhail, pioneer of so much novel in baseball, swung the first commercial deal in 1946 when the Du Mont station here paid 175,000 for televising Yankee games. Money talked from then on. NBC televised the first World Series in 1947 but it was seen only in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Schenectady. The All-Star game first got on the air via NBC on July 11, 1950. And shortly after Christmas of 1951, Commissioner A. B. Chandler signed a contract which brought baseball six million dollars for TV rights to the World Series from 1951 to 1956. Unsuestlonably that figure will be markedly surpassed in the future. ' 1 TV people argue that broadcasts will increasingly draw more people to the parks. Mel Allen, one of baseball's best known telecasters, doesn’t want to run down his specialty but Jbe concedes that baseball on TV is a poor substitute for the real thing. "The physical arrangement of a ball park is such that it’s impMsible on TV to get a whole picture of the game,” says Allen. "Yea really can't* see the whole story unless you’re at the park. ’’On TV the ball is lost after it leaves the bat You don't see It again until the fielder starts to put it away. And you can’t wateh all the complicated action that is going on—the shifts by the fielders, the moves by baserunners, all of which makes the game exciting. “There are reports that they’re working on a wide - angled TV camera to give a better view. I don’t know, maybe it’s so. But right now baseball and TV are poor, they just don’t go well together at all.” ■ -’-B (Next: Behind the scenes at a baseball telecast.)

Pete Thomson Wins Rich Texas Meet DALLAS, Tex. (UP) — Stocky Peter Thomson, the Australian who hftfi bin ?Xes qn a third straight British Open crown, won the 37(1,000 Texas International title Monday because he was the only one of the contenders able to master Preston: Hollow’s No. 2 "graveyard hole.” The imperturbable, 26-year-old Melbourne native defeated Gene Littler of Singing HUls, Calif., and Cary Middlecoff of Dallas in the second hole of a sudden death playoff after all three tied with 13-under-par 247 s after the regular tion 72 holes. Out of the four rounds of golfplayed in this rich tournament, Thomson was the only one of the top six finishers who was able to play the par four hole in even par—and he conquered It with a dramatic 12-foot birdie putt in the . playoff that was worth 313,478. ■ , MAJOR " AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York .... 29 16 .644 Chicago 21 16 .568 4 Cleveland .... 23 19 .548 4% Boston. 21 21 .500 6% Detroit 21 21 .500 6H Baltimore .... 20 24 .455 8% Kansas City .. 17 25 .405 10% Washington .. 13 28 .391 11% MONDAY’S RESULTS Cleveland 7, Washington 0. Chicago 13, Baltimore 4, , Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Pittsburgh ... 24 16 .600 Milwaukee ... 20 14 .588 1 Cincinnati .... 24 13 .571 1 St. Louis 25 19 .568 1 Brooklyn 21 19 .525 3 New York .... 17 24 .415 Philadelphia .. 15 24 .386 8% Chicago 13 25 .342 Iff MONDAY’S RESULTS St. Louis 11, New York 5. Brooklyn 3, Milwaukee 0. Cincinnati 8, Philadelphia 2. Only games scheduled. factory in the first round and staggered him a dozen times thereafter. If you have something to mH O’ rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

Junior Legion Team Loses In Season Opener One bad Inning proved costly to the Decatnr Junior American Legion baseball team in its seasbn opener Monday afternoon a| Worthman field. Bluffton scoring* five runa in that one frame for a 5-2 victory. Threb bases on balls, three hits,, a passed ball and a Decatur error accounted for Bluffton’s five runs in the third inning, after which Baxter blanked the visitors. ' Decatnr tallied both its runs in the third inning without benefit of a base hit Two walks, a hit batsman and a fielder’s choice accounted for the runs. Decatnr was limited to only two hits, singles by Kable and Shralfika. The Junior Legion team will hold * practice session at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon and all team members are asked to be present. Post 47, Fort Wayne, will meet the Decatur team at Worthman field Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Bluffton ( AB RHE Briber, 2b ... ... 4 110 Murray, Ifi2 110 Shepler, c 4 0 1 0 Reeves, 3b 4 0 0 0 Dunaway. of 4 1 3 p. Harnish, rs 3 0 0 0 Tangeman, rs 0 0 0 0 Emshwiller. lb 2 10 0 Clark, lb 0 0 0 0 Wasson, ss . 3.000 Bowman, p ,21 1 .ft Totals 28 6 71 Decatur AB R H E Moses, If 11 0 1 Hebble. If 10 0 1 Kelly, 3b -—1 0 0 9

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