Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1956 — Page 6

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SPORTS

Annual C.C. Golf Tourney September 20 Robert Heller, president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, has announced that the annual C. of C. open golf tourney and picnic will be held Thursday, Sept. 20. George F. Laurent will serve as general chairman for the day, assisted by tlxe following committees: Prizes— Dr. H. R. Frey. M. J. Pryor. Joseph Kaehr, Cliff Brewer and Dick Wertzberger. Food—Bill Gass, ehairman; Andy Appelman and Wilbur Petrie. Tickets — Fred Kolter, thairman; Bob Holthouse, Virgil' Don Koos, George Litchfield, Art Burris. Dick Wertzberger and George Laurent. Ticket* were placed on sale today by all members of the ticket committee. "The tickets are priced at SL which includes tourney entry and the following picnic. Each player will pay hia own green fees. The tourney Is not limited to C. of C. members but is open to the public. Nongolfers may also purchase tickets, which will entitle them to attend the evening piente. — ■ ■ The picnic, featuring chicken-in-the-basket. will be held at the Elks home on North Second street at approximately 6:30 p. m. Golfing will start at 1 P-iKt at the Decatur golf club. AIT play-

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ers will have an equal chance for prises since the Calloway scoring system will be used. Everett Hutker was last year’s low handicap champion, and Jim Wall was the actual champion. All prizes for the tourney are donated by the Chamber of Commerce. World Series Set To Open October 3 NEW YORK (UP) — Baseball fans at least knew when the World Series will be played today, even though they don’t have the foggiest notion about just who will be In it Commissioner Ford Frick met with representatives of five clubs Monday and set the opening date for Wednesday. Oct. 3 in the city of the National League winner, wherever that is. Actually, he wasn’t 100 per cent sure about that either, because he had to make provision for a posslsible two or three team playoff in the National League, which conceivably could delay the start of the series as much as a week. But if everything winds up normally on Sunday, Sept. 30 and Milwaukee, Cincinnati, or Brooklyn is an undisputed winner in the National the series will begin three days later in the park of that winner. The club owners regarded it as a foregone conclusion that the Ne# York Yankees will be the American League winners. Association Opens Playoffs Tonight By UNITED PRESS Four teams open battle tonight 1 playoffs to determine the championship of the American Association. —X —# —— Omaha was at Denver and Minneapolis at Indianapolis in the opening contests for both best-of-seven series. Winners of the two playoffs will eventually meet \to fight for the league crown. \

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Commodores Open Season With Victory The Decatur Commodores opened their 1956 fall baseball season, with a 12-1 victory over the Pleasant Mills Spartans Monday afternoon at pleasant Mills. Phil Reea. commodore burler, limited pleasant Mills to two singles an£ the lone run, In the seventh inning, was unearned. Reed also led his team at bat with four hits, including a double, and also fanned 12 of the Spartans. Tom Meyer added three hits to the winners’ total of 14. The Commodores will play Monmouth at McMillen field in this’ city Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. The remainder of the schedule: at Berne Sept. 17. Haftford here Sept. 20, at Geneva Sept. 24 and Adams Central hefe Sept. 27. Commodore* AB RHE Beal, 2b .X.---—. 5 3 10 Gase. 2b ... 0 0 0 1 Meyer, ss 5 13 0 T. Gross, ss —0 0 0 0 Reed, p 5 2 4 0 Kable, 3b -- 5 110 Litchfield. 3b .... 0 0 0 0 Hake, lb — 5 0 10 O’Campo, c - 4 111 Gage. If 4 110 P. Gross, rs - 4 110 Schultz, rs 0 0 0 0 S. Omlor. cf 4 2 10 Hackman, cf —.. 0 0 0 0 TOTALS- 41 12 14 2 Pleasant Mill* AB RHE Butler. 2b 3 0 0 0 Brunner. 2b - 0 0 0 0 J. Williamson, lb— 3 0 0 0 Snyder, 3b, p 3 0 0 1 Meyers, rs ...— 0 ’ • f McCullough, If .... 3 10 0 Frey, p. 3b 3 0 10 Cohn, ss ...—--— 3 0 0 0 Irwin, cf — 3 0 11 MefferS, c 3 0 0 0 Light, c 0 0 0 0 Wabie. c 0 0 0 0 Harrison, c - 10 0 0 TOTALS —2B 1 2 2 Score by Innings: Commodores 100 321 5 —12 Pleasant Mills — 000 000 1— 1

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Big Tenn Teams Concentrate On Conditioning By UNITED PRESS n Most Big Ten football teams concentrated on light conditioning drills Monday while an outbreak of influenza struck the Michigan State squad. A severe setback was suffered by the University of Minnesota team when it was leanred. 235 pound tackle Norm Sixtra probably would be lost for the season. Sixtra suffered a knee injury in scrimmage Saturday. Coach Murray Warmath continued to emphasize fundamental in Gopher drills. Three more Illinois football players were added to the Jnjury Mst Monday. Fullback Gene Chernby. recently moved from the fourth team to the third, suffered a bruised knee while guard Joe Bellephant suffered a knee injury that will sideline him about a week. Tackle Bruce Dollahan was out of action With a bruised shoulder. Purdue conducted a light practice to polish its offensive attack. The Boilermakers also worked on defensive assignments and smootla ed rough spots noticed in their full-scale scrimmage Saturday. Fundamentals occupied the Hawkeyes of lowa in morning session Monday, but the squad slammed through a bruising scrimmage in the afternoon. Frank Bloomqttiit, sidelined with a foot infection, was released from the hospital and was expected at drills in a few days to bolster the Hawkeyes* llnb. Wisconsin’s passing attack was sharpened. Passers were rushed during the drill by hard-charging linemen. Meanwhile, halfback Billy Lowe’s pulled leg muscle was more serious than had been expected, and Lowe did not tike part in Badger drills. Coach Ara Parshegian of Northwestern made player shifts in his search for a strong first team. Two sophomore tackles—Frank Caiazta and Andy Cvercko—were promoted to the first team along with halfback Bob McKeiver. The changes were due to the showing made ia Saturday’s scrimmage. ’4The University of Michigan held its first pass defense session of fall workouts and the squad appeared ragged. Capt. Tom Maehtz, right end, and Terry Barr, playing in the secondary, however. Were reported to have been outstanding on defense. Raih ent short tfclfe Wolverine practice. Ohio State ran through a light workout, but coach Woody Hayes scheduled some rough work for later in the week. Reporting back for practice with” injuries recovered were end Hubert Bobo, halfbacks Don Sutherin. Red Thompson and Carl Peggs, and quarterback Lynn Theis. Coach Bernie Crimmins put Indiana through a hard 45-minute session to prove that Saturday’s scrimmage was "highly unsatiefactory.” Crimmins said the team was offside too much and backs In motion too often. Tackle Ted Ross and halfback -Willie Jones were sidelined with ankle and foot injuries. ■ Notre Dame concentrated on offensive assignments and short line scrimmages. Capt. Jimmy Morse, who had been operating «t left left halfback during drills, was switched back to right halt. Working with Morse in the first string backfield were Paul Hornung at quarterback. Aubrey Lewis at left half and Norm Odyniece at fullback. COURTESY WEEK H-osUnned froi Page O»e> Lions and the Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 16. Ronald Reagan, who will be visiting the Decatur General Electric plant that day, Will be guest speaker for the joint meeting. The public will also be invited and it will be ladies' night for the Lions and Rotary chibs. It was announced that ments have been made to hktb Miss Indiana, Miss Mary Jane McNulty of Fort Wayne, in Decatur Oct 25, to crown the soybean festival king and queen. The soy* bean festival will be held in connection with the annual fish fry sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Trade lu a Good town — Deca Ytf

CHANGEI from SEPT. 10 to SEPT, 15 Because of Big Celebration Friday and Saturday of thia week the drawing for a FREEZER-FULL OF FOOD advertised on postcards delivered last week, wilt be held this coming Saturday eve. You do not need be present to win. You must mall or deposit a card at our store before 8:00 p. m. Saturday. SCHMITT FOOD SERVICE 107 North Second St. Decatur, Ind. If you do not have a card for this drawing, toitoe in er Phohe 3-8603.

Horseshoe Tourney Friday, Saturday Announcement was made today that an open horseshoe tourney will be held at the Union township courts FHday and Saturday. The 10-shoee qualification will be held Friday night from 7 to 11 o’clock, and the playoffs with 10 men in a class will be held Saturday. Independent Teams Meet Next Monday Independent basketball managers have been asked to meet next Monday night at the Stop Back on Madison street at 7:30 o’clock for the purpose of reorganising for tbe 1956-57 basketball season. It is hoped that representatives of all Independent teams will be present so a strong league can be organised here. Bulbar Polio Fatal To Two-Year-Old Boy LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UP) — Charles Poisel, 2, Francesville, died Monday in St. Elisabeth hospital here of bulbar polio. The child, son of the Walter Poisels. was ill only three days. He was admitted to the hospital Saturday. Trade it a Good Town — Decatur.

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Chicago 54 82 .397 28% MONDAY’S RESULTS (No’games scheduled). AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York -— 88 49 .642 -—- Cleveland .— 76 59 .563 11 Chicago f 76 59 .563 ? 11 Boston 75 61 ,551 12% Detroit ...» 69 67 .507 18% Baltimore .... 59 77 .434 28% Washington — 57 79 .419 30% Kansas City -- 43 92 .319 44 MONDAY’S RESULTS (No games scheduled).

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ft. 1958

Bowling Scores Claalc League Riverview Carens 3 0 4 Leland Smith Ins. 2 13 Mies Recieation ...—- 2 13 Peterson Elevator 2 18 GuUer’s Garage 1% 1% 2% Burk Elevator —l% 1% Vfrst End ißestaurant —1 2 1 Lumber Co. --—- 12 1 Team No. 2 —— 12 1 Acker Cement 0 3 0 High Games: Q, Selking 254, P. Bleeke 202. E. Korte 202, G. Biehz 200, Wltutewiler 201, 215. J. Ahr 200. J. Beery 209, Erv. Bultemeier 203.