Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1957 — Page 6

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Gene Littler Wins Tourney Os Champions LAS VEGAS. Nev. (UP) — Horses for courses, they say at the race tracks. And the same adage applies to golf courses. Gene Littler, who had not won a tournament for a full year, annexed his third consecutive SIO,OOO jackpot when he won the $40,000 Tournament of Champions here Sunday. As the touring brigade headed for Louisville. Ky., and the Derby Week Open there, the blond young swinger from San Diego again vaulted into the ranks of “men,to beat” for the money on the summer tour. Badly off his stock for the last eleven months. Gene wdnt to work with a vengeance a month ago preparing to defend his title here. It paid off—because he won by three strokes from four men who tied up for second—Jimmy Demaret, Dow Finsterwald, Billy Maxwell and Billy Casper. Par for the 72 holes was 288 and Littler, playing in rains, high winds and cold was three under par for the distance with a 285. Last year he won by four strokes and in 1955 he made a run-away of it with a 13'stroke lead. The only man possibly happier than Littler at the triumph was singer Frankie Laine, who mad purchased Gene again in the big Calcutta pool. The triumph was worth $95,000 gross (SBO,OOO net this time to Laine. In the three years, Frankie has netted $190,000 off the superb playing here by Littles* The four men who tied for second each collected $2,230, while Dick Mayer, Dea January and Ed Furgol each got $1,326. Seven strokes behind the lead came Masters champion Doug Ford and 'Arnold Palmer, each with 292, good for $1,270. Dardeen Is Named As No. 2 Player INDIANAPOLIS — ffl - The No. 2 player on the Hoosier AllStars who meet Kentucky next June will be Terre Haute Gerstmeyer’s Howard Dardeen, top single-game scorer in this years Indiana high school basketball tourney finals. Dardeen was named during the weekend to join John Coalmon of South Bend Central, named last week as “Mr. Basketball.” Dardeen, nearly 6-5, sewed. 1.650 points in four seasems, and canned 33 in an 85-71 loss to exchampion Indianapolis Attucks in the afternoon round of the state finals. Pirates Outfielder Spiked By Umpire BROOKLYN (W — Four stitches were taken Sunday in the right in- - dex finger erf Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Lee Walls as a result of an accident Saturday with umpire Tom Gorman. The impire, hurrying to get “on top of the play,” nicked Walls’ finger as the outfielder slid past him into third base, " If you hdve something to se’l 'a rooms tor rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. it brings results.

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High Jump Record Is Sei By Johnson By UNITED PRESS Mishawaka boasted a new alltime Indiana high school track record today by virtue of Leroy Johnson's high jump of 6 feet 6% inches in the Goshen relays. Johnson, defending state champion. turned in the only all-time mark recorded at a handful of meets Saturday. His leap broke his own outdoor record of 6 feet 5% inches set last, year, and tied his indoor record. At least four other season “bests” fell in Saturday’s relays. At Muncie, Mike Johnson of Anderson topped previous marks with 13 feet in the pole vault. Richmond’s Bill Satterfield had a "best” in the 100 yard dash at :09.9, and Richmond's mile relay team had the best state mark of the season with 3:30.9. Muncie Central copped the Muncie team title with 44% points. Next came Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, Richmond and Kokomo. . - At Goshen, Mishawaka’s John Ronchetti had a season “best” in the high hurdles at :15.1. Elkhart’s mile relay team had another with a 3:31.2 clocking, but it fell short of the Richmond time at Muncie. Elkhart dethroned defending champion Gary Roosevelt for the team title, ending 11 years of domination by Calumet region schools. The Blue Blazers collected 73 1-3 points, ahead of Gary Froebel, South Bend Central, and Roosevelt, in that order. Hammond beat second-place Michigan City, 69 1-3 to 39, to cop the Hammond relays. Sweetser edged the hosts 59*4 to 54*4 to win the Marion carnival, and Hobart outdistanced runnerup Huntington 80 to 62 in the Culver relays. Rural Youth Plan Sports, Game Night Sports and game night will be the special feature meeting of the Adams county rural youth for the month of April. Thursday night, all rural youth members and rural young people are invited to meet at the Geneva high school gym at 8 p.m. to enjoy all kinds of sports and quiet games. Sports to be -included are: volleyball, basketball badminton, pingpong and musical games.

American League W L Pct. GB Chicago a—. 4 0 1.000 • New York _4 3 1 .750 1 Boston ——— 2 2 .500 2 Baltimore ,-- 2 3 .400 2’4 Washington ■- 2 3 .400 2% Detroit ———— 2 3 .400 2% Kansas City 2 3 .400 2% Cleveland 1 3 .250 3 National League W L Pct. GB Milwaukee ——— 4 0 1.000 Brooklyn 4 1 .800 % St. Louis 2 2 .500 2 , Chicago 2 2 JOO 2 Pittsburgh ——- 2 3 .400 2*4 New York — 2 3 .400 2% Philadelphia 2 3 .400 2% Cincinnati — 0 4 .000 4 e American Association W L Pct. GB Charleston — 5 1 .833 Wichita 2 1 .667 1% St. Paul- 3 2 .600 1% Omaha —- 3 3 .500 2 Denver 4 1 - 500 2 Indianapolis > 2 4 .333 3 Minneapolis — -t— 2 4 .333 3 Louisville 1 3 250 3 SATURDAY’S RESULTS American League Chicago IL Kansas City T. Washington 6, Baltimore 4. Detroit 7, Cleveland 0. New York 10, Boston 7 (12 innings). National League Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 2, Pittsburgh 0. Philadelphia 6, New York 5. Chicago at St. Louis, postponed, rain. American Association Omaha 5, Indianapolis 4. St. Paul 6, Louisville 3. Charleston 6-1. Minneapolis 5-0. Denver at Wichita, postponed, rain. SUNDAY S RESULTS American League Detroit 3, Cleveland 2 (12 innings.) Chicago 1, Kansas City 0 (10 innings). . Boston 5, New York 4. Baltimore 11-1, Washington 9-2 (Ist game 10 innings, second called end of 5, light failure, not included in standings.) National League Pittsburgh 6-4, Brooklyn 3-7. New York 2-5, Philadelphia 1-8. Chicago 5-3, St. Louis 3-6 (Ist game *1 innings.) Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 1. American Association Omaha 8-3; Indianapolis 6-4. Charleston 3. Minneapolis 2 (10 innings.) St. Patil 3, Louisville 1. Denver at Wichita, rain.

White Sox And Braves Leading Major Leagues By FRED JMWN United Press Spsrts Writer The 35-year-old wings bt Jim Wilson and Warren Spahn enabled the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Braves to remain unbeaten. today and soar into undisputed possession of first places in the major league pennant races. Wilson, who turned 35 on Feb. 20, pitched the White Sox to their fourth straight victory when he outduelled ex - Yankee Tom Morgan in a* 1-0, 10 - inning thriller over Kansas City Sunday while Spahn, who'll celebrate, his 36th birthday Tuesday, scattered nine hits in the Braves' 3-1 win over the Cincinnati Redlegs. The White Sox took over the top rung in the A.L. when the Boston Red Sox dealt the New £ rk a£’ffl s 5-4, and thq graves achieved a similar pinnacle in the N.L., when the previously unbeaten Brooklyn Dodgers split a doubleheader with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wilson Comes Close Wilson, who pitched a nb-hltter in 1954, made a bid for his second classic with a perfect game for seven innings and a no-hitter for eight. Hector Lopez finally broke the hitless spell in the ninth and the Athletics collected two other hits. Wilson struck out eight and walked two for his first win. Pinch-hitter Sherm Lollar, Who knocked in five runs on Saturday, delivered a sacrifice fly in the 10th to send home rookie Jim Landis with the decisive tally. Morgan, who pitched a four-hitter on opening day, yielded only one hit in the first nine innings and was touched for only three in all. Spahn settled down after a shakey four frames to hold the Redlegs to one hit in the last five innings and chalk up his second win of the year. Del Crandall singled home two runs in the fourth and Hank Aaron doubled and Joe Adcock singled for Milwaukee's other run in the eighth. Hie loss was the fourth straight for the disappointing Redlegs. Homer Barrage Frank Thomas, Paul Smith, Dick,Groat and Bob Skinner walloped homers as the Pirates beat the Dodgers, 6-3, in their opener but five runs in the second inning enabled the N.L. champions to breeze to a 7-4 decision in the nightcap. Don Newcombe was routed by the Bucs in the first game, but Clem Labine relieved 20-year-old Don Drysdale to save the nightcap. Jack Dittmer, ex-Brave second baseman. singled with the bases filled in his first A.L. appearance to give the Detroit Tigers a 3-2 I victory over the Cleveland Indians and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Washington Senators, 119, in the other A.L. games. The , Senators led the second game, 2-1, , after five innings when a power , failure shut off the Griffith Sta- ’ dlum lights and the umpires asked A.L. President Will Harridge for a ruling on the “contest." Two other N.L. doubleheaders wound up in splits. Sam Jones struck out 11 of his former teammates as the St. Louis Cardinals ' gained a 6-3 triumph after the Chicago Cubs won their opener, 5-3, in 11 innings and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the New York Giants, 8-5, after Johnny Antonelli out-duelled Robin Roberts, 2-L in their first game. If you have something to sen or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad — they bring results.

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Freshman Sets New 600-Yard Record COLUMBUS. Ohio W> - Michigan State loomed a little larger in track heavens today with freshman Willie Atterberry the brightest start amid the galaxy erf cinder greats. < Unknown, unhearalded and unconcerned before Saturday’s 15th annual Ohio Relays here, Atterberry chopped off seven-tenths of a second from the world mark for the 608-yard run. He grabbed first place in the 300-yard to leave the meet one of two double winners. Atterberry’s 1:08.5 edged the old mark set by Ben Eastman of Standford in 1983. Only other two — time winner of the meet sponsored by Ohio State University was Ted Wheeler from the« Chicago Track Club. Wheeler, an Olympic 1,500 - meter entry, won the mile in 4:16.9 and the 1.000-yard run in 2:13.8. Two other meet records went by the side during the huge meet. Greg Bell of Indiana University, Olympic and Big Ten broad jump i champ, set a new Ohio Stadium record with a leap 25 feet 8% inches. Bell’s mark fell a foot short of the collegiate world mark of 26 feet B*4 inches set by Jesse Owens of Ohio State in 1935. Notre Dame’s mile relay team sliced off 2-10 seconds of the cold relay mark of 3:14.7 set by Michigan in 1955. The Irish also won the shuttle hurdle relay for big schools. Hans Schmidt On Coliseum Program FORT WAYNE. Ind — Hans Sehm’djt, wrestling's “Terrible Teuton”, returns to the Coliseum Friday, May 3, after a year’s absence to headline a six-man tag team bout. Schmidt, the arrogant Prussian who is tabbed as the biggest box office attraction in wrestling, will be teamed with Boris and Nicoli Volfoff. The will meet the LisoWsM brothers, Stan and Reggie, and Angelo Poffo in the first sixman tag match to be seen in the Coliseum. Matchmaker Bruff Cleary, excited about the dramatic wave of interest in wrestling forecast a crowd of 5,000 for Schmidt’s return. More than 4,000 saw Cleary’s offs defended their tag title against April 13 card in which the ValkWilbur Snyder United States heavy-weight champion, and Billy Melby. Two Children Die Os Mysterious Ailment Others In Family Rushed To Hospital GARY (UP) — Two children died within a few hours during the weekend of a mysterious ailment and their four brothers and sisters were taken to . a hospital tor observations — JoAnn Smith, 3, died Saturday night in the emergency room of Gary Methodist Hospital. She was taken there by her parents, the Algie Smiths, who said she complained of a stomach ache and a doctor could find nothing wrong. On Sunday, "her 18-months-old brother Dwight also became ill of an ailment with similar symptoms. His parents took him to the same hospital and he died shortly afterward. Other Smith children—Delores, Florence, Dennis and Algie Jr.— were rushed to Children’s Hospital in Chicago when they complained of pains. 1 Trade in a good town — Decatur

Senators' Game Is Halted By Light Failure CHICAGO (UP) - American League President Will Harridge promises to dig up an answer today to baseball's biggest riddle so far in 1957 — what happens when the lights go out? Everybody was left in the dark at Washington’s Griffith Stadium Sunday when a short circuit prevented eight arc-light towers from functioning. The incident occurred when umpires ordered the lights turned on at the end of five winnings of the second game of a Senators - Baltimore Orioles twin bill, with the Senators leading, 2-1. The umpires waited an hour and. when nobody could fix the lights, called the game. But what happens now)? Is the game finished or isn't it? Umpires Joe Paparella, Ed Hurley, Ed Runge, and Frank Umont admit they don’t know. They said this was the first time such an incident has occurred. There doesn’t seem to be anything in the rules that covers it and there is no such thing as a “suspended game" in the Ameri-

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Purdue Star Signs With Los Angeles LOS ANGELES - «B Purdue’s Lamar Lundy will have defensive end duties with the Los Angeles Rams during the 1957 season. General Manager Pete Roszelle announced the signing of Lundy

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