Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 1957 — Page 7

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Braves Score Sixth In Row Over Redlegs By FRED DOWN United Preks Sport* Writer The Milwaukee Braves have silenced their most severe critics today with one of the fastest starts in National League history featured by five one-run victories and a glittering 2.70 staff earned run average. And, in the process, they are threatening to turn the N.L. race into a two-team fight with the Brooklyn Dodgers instead of the three and possibly four - team Power Mowers \ No bondlag ... so pulllngl Just stop down on th* \ ~ Step-O-Matic starter X X “d you're ready to * MW ' Bol *“ safety. engineered rotary mowers cut rr » line iawn> X^^^KgmHgMKePw smooth, tough weeds fa*t. HE«3EI33EEEBuuh3EQ£ESBk» TRY — KLENKS — FIRST Open at 12 Noon Monday Open Friday tiU 9 P. M- ' —4— ,—

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struggle predicted by the expert*. The Dodgers, with a 7-3 record, are the only other team in die league over .500 after two weeks of play. The Braves dealt the Cincinnati Redlegs a staggering blow over the week end when they made it six straight victories for the season over them. Sunday's 3-2 triumph, in which 35-year-old Red Murff picked up the first win of his big league career, dropped the Ted Kluszewski-less Redlegs three games under .500 and 5% games behind the front-running Brave*. Yielded One Run Murff, taking over from Taylor . Phillips, yielded one run and , three hits in the last 5 1-3 innings. The Dodgers suffered their third loss in 10 games when Bob Friend fired a seven-hitter to give , the Pittsburgh Pirates a 3-0 decision. Hank Foiles singled home Pittsburgh’s first run in the fifth and the Pirates added single tallies in the seventh and eighth. St. Louis pitching limited the , Chicago Cubs to a total of five hits in the doubleheader as the Cardinals scored 6-2 and 4-0 victories while the Philadelphia Phillies walloped the New York Giants 11-2, tn other N.L. games. The Giants led in the nightcap, 8-7, when it yr&s suspended in the seventh with Philadelphia's potential tying run on base. It will be completed Aug. 16. The Chicago White Sox opened up a one-game lead in the American League when they beat the Kansas City 5-3. Chicago has won seven of nine games. Yogi Berra’s lOth-inning homer lifted the New York Yankees to a 3-2 victory and snapped the Boston Red Sox’ five-game winning streak. A crowd of 36,971 saw Don Larsen pick up his first win of die year after the Red Sox tied the score against Bob Grim with two runs in the ninth. . Jim Busby scored on catcher Frank House's error to give the Cleveland Indians a 10-inning, 3-2 verdict after the Detroit Tigers won their opener. 2-0. Jerry Snyder singled home Whitey Herzog in the 10th to. give the Washington Senators a 7-6 victory but the Baltimore Orioles won the nightcap, 3-2, as relief pitcher Billy O'Dell turned in 3 2-3 hitless innings. Extension Group To Meet This Evening The Adams county extension committee will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the home economics room in the Decatur high school, reports Raul Yoder, chairman. , All JXNnmditee members are urgm io attend. 4 S ;

Roosevelt Os Gary Wins In Kokomo Relays By UNITED PRESS Gary Roosevelt nosed out Muncie Central for the Class A team title in the 32nd annual Kokomo Relays Saturday, a meet which saw Muncie’s Curt Childress upset Richmond’s state champ Bill Satterfield in the 100-yard dash. Roosevelt nipped Muncie 47% to 44%, despite winning efforts by Childress and Muncie’s 880-yard relay team which set a 1:32.3 season record for the event. In the second major meet of the weekend. Huntington copped the third edition of the New Haven Relays by outscoring Angola, 50 2-5 to 35%. Satterfield, holder of the season best of 9.9, finished a step behind Childress as he breezed home in 10 seconds flat. The only records set in the meet were by Muncie'S 880-yard relay team made up of Curt Childress, Cammie Childress, Don Oyler and Jack McKeever, and Anderson's Mike Johnson who leaped 12-11% to take the pole vault. Roosevelt won the final event, the 1,500-yard relay, to take the title. Following Muncie in Class A came Anderson, Richmond, Kokomo, Fort Wayne pentral and Logansport in that order. Garrett easily won the Class B title by scoring 53 points to 36 16-55 for runnerup Plymouth. The two wefe followed in ordetby Tipton, Bremen, Fairmount, Deaf School, Nappanee, Auburn, Kendallville, Edinburg, Pike Twp. and Rossville. The New Haven meet was strictly no contest as Huntington easily outdistanced the field despite a one-man performance by Butler's Woody Blaker Who won the 100-yard and 220-yard dashes as well as the broad jump. The only meet records set were by Huntington's mile relay team in the time of 3:37.9 and in the shot put where Jack Weller of Huntington won with a toss of 45-11%. Following Huntington and Angola were Butler, New Haven, Fort Wayne Catholic, Fort Wayne Concordia and Bluffton respectively. * Jerry Steiner In 11th Year In League Jerry Steiher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Steiner of Decatur and former Berne athlete, is starting his Hth year as one of the directors of the Indianapolis junior baseball league. Steiner is one of the roving directors, and part of his duties consist of holding baseball clinics throughout the city. The league has in excess of 300 teams. A stand-out athlete at Berne high school, Steiner went on to Butler University and attained All-Ameri-can basketball rating under Tony Hinkle. Registered Guernsey Completes Record A registered Guenrsey cow, Signets N Typette, owned by Peter B. Lehman, Decatur route 4, has completed an official production record in the Advanced Registry division of the American Guernsey Cattle club. This record was for 9,867 pounds of milk and 505 pounds of fat. “Typette” was a five year old, and was milked two times daily for 305 days while on test. This official, production record was supervised by Purdue University. yimji Would you • I Sell Your Home For the Amount [ J of Your FIRE INSURANCE Take a good look at your fire policy and you probably won’t I In the past ten years the Cott ' of building and furnishing • home ha* just about doubled. ■ Ha* your fire insurance kept pace? Remember the time to I, examine your protection is now, not afttr the fire! | ("‘sto’*] It pay* fa irssw year ’ STATE FARM Agent I iNtoessK* | FRED CORAH I Insurance Agency 207 Court Street * Phone 3-3656 > MM aaaat MeMSt MM*

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National League W. L. Pct. G.B. Milwaukee .... 9 1 .900 Brooklyn 7 3 .700 2 Philadelphia - 5 5 .500 4 New York .... 5 6 .455 4% St. Louis 4 5 .444 4% Cincinnati .... 4 7 .364 5% Pittsburgh .... 4 7 .364 5% Chicago 3 7 .300 6 American League W. L. Pct. G.B. Chicago 7 2 .778 Boston 7 4 .636 1 New York .... 6 4 .600 1% Kansas City .. 6 6 .500 2% Baltimore — 6 6 .500 2% Cleveland .... 5 6 ,455 3 Detroit 4 8 .333 4% Washington 4 9 .308 5 American Association W. L. Pct. G.B. , Denver 5 2 .714 % Wichita 7 3 .700 Omaha 8 5 .615 % St. Paul 6 6 .500 2 Minneapolis ... 6 6 .500 2 Charleston .... 6 7 .462 2% Indianapolis .. 4 8 .333 4 Louisville 2 7 .222 4% SATURDAY’S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 6, Pittsburgh 2. New York 10, Philadelphia 2. Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 4. St. Louis at Chicago, rain. American League Cleveland 2, Detroit 1. Baltimore 4, Washington 0. Boston 2, New York 1. Kansas City 3, Chicago 2. American Association Wichita 4, Minneapolis 3. Indianapolis 5, St. Paul 1. Omaha 4, Charleston 3. Louisville at Denver, rain and snow. SUNDAY’S RESULTS National League

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Philadelphia 114, New York 2-8 (2nd game 6% innings, suspended, to be completed Aug. 16), St. Louis 6-4, Chicago 24. Pittsburgh 3, Brooklyn 0. Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 2. 1 Ameriean Leacue Washington 7-2, Baltimore 6-3 (Ist game 10 innings) Detroit 2-2, Cleveland 0-3 (2nd game 10 Innings). New York 3, Boston 2 (10 innings). Chicago 5, Kansas City 3. Ameriean Association Omaha 8-6, Louisville 5-1. Denver 5-9, Charleston 2-8. St. Paul, 9, Indianapolis 0. Minneapolis 6, Wfhlla 3. Bill Casper Winner Os Kentucky Open W ii. 1 - LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UP)-Steady Bill Casper Jr. wasn't able to shake a lingering cold during the $30,000 Kentucky Derby Open golf tournament, but he can buy a lot of cold pills today with his $4,300 first prize money.

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The Bonita, Calif., pro moved up from 11th to third place on the PGA money list by finishing with a 72-hole total of 277, one stroke better than Peter Thomson. It was Casper's oil-smooth putting thdt gave him a five stroke lead on the front nine Sunday. But he ran Ihto trouble while playing the leg-tiring back nine in a dowfapour and bogeyed three holes, including the last two. He almost blew it by taking a three-over 39 on the back-side, while Thomson finished in 34. Thonuun picked up $3,000 for his four days work. Julius Boros, former U.S. Open champion from Mid Pines, N.C., carded a final round of 65 and finished in third-place at 280. A 67 by Bob Harris of Winhetka, 111., gave him a total of 281 and tied him in fourth place with Bo Wininger, Odessa, Tex., who had a final round 68. . Art Wall Jr. of Pocono Manor, Pa., was next with a 282; Jack Fleck, of Rochester, Mich., had a 283; and Al Besselink, Grassinger, N.Y., and Marty Furgol, Lemont, Hl., were tied at 284. ■———*»—« i ■' » *<■' —W ■»«, — i«! .iiihw i i » liman

American Bowling Congress Is Ended FORT WORTH, Tex. OB - The record 54th American Bowling Congress Tournament is history, ahd executive secretary Frank K. Baker said today. “We are very pleased. We think it has fulfilled our expectations. It has lived up to its potential. We are quite satisfied-" The entry*, avas small, 3,056 teams, in this "fringe area’’ of bowling; but the score* Were large. Jim Spalding of Louisville, Ky., won the all-events title with 2,088, breaking a record that had stood for 20 years. Peter Hand Reserve Beer of Chicago took the team championship with 3,126, the ninth highest winning score in' ABC tournament, history. Bob AUen of Yonkers, N.Y., became the third consecutive left hander and only the fourth sin, history to win the singles title j

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with his 729. Ronnie Jones and Jdl Meszaros of Sterling, Ohio, posted the sixth highest doubles score M tournament history in winning with 1,« 369. The high individual series of the tournament wasM 757 in doubles by John Sands of Harlingen, Tex., and the high individual game was a 299 id singles by Stan Williams of Dayton, Ohio. The 1958 tournament will be held in Syracuse, N. Y., starting March 29. Columbia City Plays Jackets Here Today The Decatur Yellow Jackets will , play the Columbia City Eagles in a Northeastern Indiana conference game at McMillen field in this city at 5 o’clock this evening. The game was transferred to McMillen when Worthmfui field was deemed unfit for play. The Jackets’ home game with Kendallville Wednesday at 5 o’- , clock may Miso be transferred to McMillen field. -a — '