Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1958 — Page 6

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tmu i. , . Major Leagues Launch Season Coast To Coast By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer The tradition of the Presidential first pitch out of the way, major league baseball breaks with its "trolley car" past today with an opening day program from the Boston Common to the Golden Gate. Some 225,000 fans, encouraged by generally favorable weather, should turn out in eight cities to o — Last Time Tonight 4Walt Disney Color Hit! I “SNOW WHITE & I The 7 DWARFS” I | ALSO — Shorts 25c -50 c i O 0 WED. & THURS. imi | story of postwar Japan! imohs iSHSSHKESSSJ COLOR by oe Luxe In (he wonder ot STEREOPHONIC SOUND ROBERT JOAN EDMOND WAGNER COLLINS O’BRIEN -0 Fri. & Sat.—“ Monolith Monsters” & “Love Slaves of the Amazon” —o Sun. & Mon. — Robert Taylor “Saddle the Wind”—Color —o t OPENING FRIDAY! DECATUR DRIVE-IN THEATER Get More Out of Life — Go Out to a Movie!

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herald in the game's new coast-to-coast era. A new world champion. a new geographical alignment, some 20 new faces, and another 20 old faces in new uniforms all help to mark it as a pivotal opening day in baseball history. Pivotal, because such spokesmen as Commissioner Ford Frick are proclaiming the dawn of a “golden era" while others insist expansion carries seeds of the game's destruction. Exhibit A in the critics’ list of arguments is the New York City area without a game on opening day for the first time since 1883. Big Hoopla Whatever the case, the pros and cons of the expansion issue are certain to be drowned out in the hoopla of the West Coast’s grand opening between the transplanted Dodgers and Giants at San Francisco. A crowd of 23,600 will jam its way into little Seals Stadium while a total of 110 reporters bang out the retails of the historic festivities. Don Drysdale, a native Californian, has been named to start for the Dodgers against the Giants’ Ruben Gomez. Sharing the spotlight — at least locally — with the big West Coast opener are the defending league champion Milwaukee Braves and New York ' The world champion Braves openjbefore 46,000 at Milwaukee with Warren Spahn facing Bob Friend of the Pittsburgh Pirates while the American League champion Yankees are sending Don Larsen against Willard Nixon at Boston. Philadelphia is at Cincinnati and Chicago plays at night in St. Louis in the other National League games. Detroit, at Chicago. Kansas City at Cleveland and Washington at Baltimore round out the all day-time AL schedule. There will be about a dozen rookies in the starting lineups, headed by the Redlegs’ 19-year old Vada Pinson, outfielder Willie Kirkland of the Giants and sec-ond-baseman Billy Moran of the Indians. Fans also will see exCincinnati slugger Ted Kluszewski in a Pittsburg uniform for the first time; ex-Yankee Billy Martin performing at shortstop for Detroit, and sluggers Minnie Minoso and Larry Doby back in Cleveland uniforms. New Manager in Debut The Kansas City - Cleveland opener also marks the debut of the only new manager — Bobby Bragan of the Indians, who succeeded Kerby Farrell during the winter. San Francisco warmed up Monday with its biggest parade since Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s return from Japan. The excitement should reach a peak at 1:30.p.m. ps.t. today when Gino Cimoli leads off for the Dodgers. One rookie — Dick Gray — is expected in the Dodger lineup while the DON’T TAKE A CHANCE TAKE PLENAMIKS Smith Drug Co.

Giants will have three — Kirkland, Orlando Cepeda and Jimmy Davenport. Drysdale, a 6-6 right-hander, has a 7-3 lifetime record against the Giants while Gomez, a slender six-footer, is 10-11 vs. > the Dodgers. The Braves will have Harry Hannebrink playing left field in place of the injured Wes Covington but otherwise will present the same lineup that beat the Yankees in the World Series. Milwaukee’s first world championship pennant will be hoisted in pregame ceremonies. Gil McDougald returns to shortstop in place of the injured Tony Kubek for the Yankees, which like the Braves, are solid favorites to repeat. The Red Sox, who lost to the Washington Senators, 5-2, in Monday’s opener, are regarded tn some quarters as New York’s principal rival for the pennant. Robin Roberts, one of the big disppointments of the 1957 season, draws his eighth straight opening-day assignment for the Phillies against Brooks Lawrence of the Redlegs. Frank Robinson, beaned in an exhibition game last Wednesday, returns to the Redlegs’ lineup for the opener but Willie Jones, whose son died at pneumonia the other day, will be missing from the Phillies’ batting order. Roberts was 10-22 last season and Lawrence, 16-13. Last-Minute Switch Jim Brosnan (5-5> is the Cubs’ surprise starter against the Cardinals’ Vinegar Bend Mizell, another big 1957 disappointment with an 8-10 record. The Cubs ' have two rookies in their lineup— John Goryl and Tony Taylor The Cardinals made a last-m in u t e switch when they benched shortstop Eddie Kasko in a move that returned Ken Boyer to third base and Alvin Dark to short. Martins debut at short and Harvey Kuenn’s in center field feature the Detroit-Chicago opener in which Jim Bunning (20-8) faces Billy Pierce (20-12). The White Sox, although one of 'he weakest-hitting pennant contenders in years, are the odds-makers choice as the Yankees’ chief rivals — Herb Score, AL strikeout king until sidelined most of last season by an eye injury that threatened his career, is on the firing line for the Indians against Kansas City’s Ned Garver (6-13) while the Senators are protecting their first-place position with Chuck Stobbs (8-20) facing Baltimore’s Connie Johnson (14-11). Bowling Scores Merchant League W L Pts. Slick’s Tasty Freeze 22 14 31 , Begun’s Clothing --23 13 30 State Gardens ..22 14 30 t Ziintsmaster 20 IS 26 Painters ----- I 9 17 i ■ Lynch Box ----- 18 18 23 * Citizen’s Telephone 15 21 20 Western Auto - - 14 22 19 ■ Alps-Brau 14 22 18 Krick - Tyndall .. 13 23 17 Krick- Tindall won 2 from Citizens Telephone, Alps - Brau won 2 from Western Auto, Painters won 2 from Lynch Slick’s, Zintsmaster won 3 from Slick’s, Beguns won 2 from State Gardens. High games; J. Moser 228, B. Dull 201, P. Thatcher 202, K. Butcher 208. I, Davis 231, C. Turnbleson 210. Minior League Kimpel’s Cigar 25 14 32 Smith Pure Milk 23% 15Vfe 31% Child Life Shoes 22% 16% 30% Sherwin Williams 20% 18% 27% Dunbar Furniture 20% 18% 27% Clem Hardware 19 20 27 Conrad’s Phillips -.19 20 27 Holthouse Highway 17 22 23 Price’s Men Wear 11% 27% 13% Moose —— 11% 27% 13% Price’s Men wear on Three points from Kimpel’s. Smith Pure Milk won three points from Child Life. Conrad's Phillips "66” won three points from Sherwin Williams, Dunbar won four points from Moose. Holthouse won three points from Clem Hardware. High Games: John Stucky 225, Ted Gage 207, Harold August 202, Dick Maloney 201, Bob Bolinger 200. Mied xDoubtes ; Jo and Jim Meyer 1193, Helen McClure and Ralph Hobbs 1175, Irene and Harold Hoffman 1150, Donnabelle and J. B. Sprunger 1150, Doris and Merle Affolder 1134, Alice and Don Harman 1129, Marge and Lee Gage 1128, Peggy and Ed Laurent 1126, Ruth Sugler and Jim Parent 1126, Marty Reef and Dave Sheets 1125, Coreta and Red Pierce 1076, Norma and Jim Markley 1063, Lucy and Woody Call 1035, Pat and Paul Morgan 1034, Donna Allen and Bob len McClure 175, Corita Pierce Gag 6 1001. High games: Jo Meyer 199, He--170, Harold Hoffman 202. Grass Fire Results tn Department Call A grass fire in the back yard of the Harold J. Hoffman home at No. 32 Homestead, was extinguished about 12:45 p.m. today by the Decatur fire/department. The fire was confined to the back yard, where damage was done to several evergreen trees. Vermont, with 1/400th of the nation’s population produces 10 per cent of the nation’s machine tools, 40 per cent of its structural apd monumental marble, 96 per cent of its asbestos and 33 per cent of its monumental granite. <

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Senators Wir Season Opener From Red Sox .afy JOHN GRIFFIN i -BWed Press Sports Writer Nt>. dear reader, you are not holding your newspaper upside . down — the Washington Senators are really and truly in first place , in the American League today. , But you’d better look fast, and , manager Cookie Lavagetto better i enjoy life while he may. Because i his has happened to ther Wash- • ington teams that won the opening game of the season while > other teams were idle, and we all ’ know what happened to them. • Nasty Thought But that’s a nasty thought to . bring up on a day when Lavagetto and his merry men, particu- • larly Cuban pitcher Pedro Ramos, . are the toasts of the game for their stirring 5-2 triumph over the ■ | Boston Red Sox in Monday’s tra- > ■ dition opening game before Presir Cent Eisenhower and a crowd of ’ 26,675. After Ike went tradition one better by tossing out two “first balls’ — one caught by the Sen- ■ ators’ Whitey Herzog and the - other by the Senators’ bat boy—- ’ Ramos took ever the hurling > chores and did right well. All told ■ he gave up only five hits. ? Ramos got in a bad jam almost ? immediately when Boston loaded ■ the bases on a walk, a single, t and an error in the first inning. : But third baseman Eddie Yost bailed the Cuban put of that with I a swan-dive, catch of Jackie Jenl sen’s line drive bid for a double. ■ After that Ramos’ only trouble came when he served Jensen a ) home run ball with one man on ' in the third. That gave Boston’s Frank SuHi--7 van a 2-0 lead but Jim Lemon ■ homered for the Senators in the fourth and then Washington tied it in the fifth with a run on Yost’s ■ single, a walk, and Roy Sievers' single. Then Washington scored ; three times in the’ sixth with the help of Bosox miscues. Error for Buddin First Lemon reached first on i Don Buddin's error and Norm Zauchin walked. Then, after two out. Ramos singled to left to score Lemon When left fielder Gene Stephens kicked the ball around. Zauchin reached third and Ramos second and second later Yost put the game on ice with a single that scored both runners. A mighty big day for the Senators. And one they probably will recall wishfully on many hot days this summer. The Senators put their “winning streak” on the line today when they visit Baltimore, in the opener there. ; 39 Racers Entered 1 i In Speedway Classic INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A field . of about 50 racers is expected to • vie for 33 starting berths in this year’s 500-mile Speedway auto race. Five more entries were an- , nbunced late Monday, boosting the ’ total to 39 with the midnight deadJ line only hours away. ! Johnnie Parsons, 1950 winner of ; the Memorial Day classic, was one of the new entries. He will drive for Fred Gerhardt, Fresno, Calif. In addition to Parsons, who won i a rain-shortened race, Freddie ‘ Agabashian. Walnut Creek, Calif., 1 Tony Bettenhausen, Tinley Park, , 111., both veterans, and 'rookie . Dempsey Wil son, Hawthorne. Calif., were entered. Agabashian entered earlier but withdrew as a member of the local Bowes Team. He now will drive for Pat Clancy of Memphis, Tenn. Clancy also is owner of a car to be handled by Al Keller, Green Acres, Fal. Bob Veith, Oakland, Calif., replaced Agabashian on the Bowes team. Bettenhausen drove one of the powerful Novis last year. But this year he is scheduled to drive a new car for John Jones, Indianapolis Wilson will drive for W. Thayer Martin, Mitchell, Ind. The other entry with no driver names, came from Lee Elkins, Kalamazoo, Mich. MAJOR American League W. L. Pct. G.B. Washington .... 1 0 1.000 — Chicagoo 0 .000 % New York 0 0 .000 % Baltimore 0 0 .000 % Detroit — 0 0 .000 % Cleveland 0 0 .000 % Kansas City —. 0 0 .000 %' Boston .... 0 1 .000 1 MONDAY’S RESULTS American League Washington 5, Boston 2. Only game scheduled. I National League I No games scheduled, h- ’ Trade in a good town — Decatur

Decatur Softball Team Is Organized For 1958 Season The Decatur softball team will practice at the Homestead diamond next Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock and also on Wednesday evenings at 6 o’clock. Anyone interested in playing is invited to these practice sessions. This is a new team, started last year, with uniforms purchased by merchants of the city and the Decatur VFW. The team would like to enter the Vim rural league but needs a sponsor. Any one interested In sponsoring the team is asked to call Ellis Shaw or Bill Fisher at the VFW, phone 32610. A league meeting will be held at the Vim store in Fort Wayne at 8 p.m. April 24. Other teams planning on entering the league are Walfe Lake, Berne, Hoagland, Huntington K. of C. Huntington Reilerland, Markle and Uniondale. Decatur will play its home games at Hoagland, as no lighted park is available in this city. The team has two games scheduled, with Wolf Lake at the Stratton Place diamond Sunday afternoon, April 27, and Huntington Rollerland at Huntington Sunday, May 4. Huntington Is Easy Winner Is Quadrangular Huntington’s Vikings swept every event, including both relay races, to swamp their opponents in a quadrangular meet at Huntington Monday afternoon. Huntington scored 112 points to take the event. The Decatur Yellow Jackets were second with 33, Huntington Catholic third with 10. and Huntington township fourth with eight. Moses gained a tie for second and third in the high hurdles, and Hebble was second in the shot put. Decatur also placed second in the mile relay, but its half-mile relay team was disqualified. Decatur picked up its other points on third and fourth places The Jackets will meet the Panthers at Portland at 4:30 p.m. today. The summary follows: High hurdles — Hastings (H) first; Moses (D) and Stringfellow (H) tied for second and third; Locke (D) fourth. Time— l 6.3. 100-yard dash—Weber <H> first: Williams (H> second; Moses <D) third; Murphy (D> fourth. Time10.7. Mile run—Develbliss (H) first; Walker (H» second; Daly (HC) third; Franklin (D) fourth. Time—--4:55.3. 440 yard dash—Wasmuth (H) first; Williams (H) second; Smith <H> third; Hebble (D> fourth. Time—s 4.3. Low hurdles (H) first; Stringfellow second; Vanhorn (D) third; Locke 'D> fourth. Time 21.8. 880-yard run—Tewel (H) first; Sands <H) second; Eichenauer (D) third; Hammel (H) fourth. Time -2:10.8. 220-yard dash—Weber (H) first; Ziegler (H) second; Murphy <D> third; Ed Nelson (D) fourth. Time —23.4. Shot put—Reeves (H) first; Hebble <D) second; Wetters (H) third; Smith (H) fourth. Distonce —44 ft. 2% in. Pole vault—Buzzard (H) first; Reeves (H) second; Bond (D) third; Rambo <D> and Meyers (H> tied for fourth; Height—9 ft. 9 in. Broad jump—Watress (H) first; Buzzard (H) second; Murphy (D) third; Polsome (H) fourth. Distance—2o ft. 8% in. High jump—Buzzard (H) first; Reeves (HL second; Eichenauer •D) third; Banks (D), Hutker (D), Ross (D), Rambo (D) and W. Snyder (D), tied for fourth. Height—--5 ft. 6 in. Mile relay—Won by Huntington (Wasmuth. Tewel, Smith, Develbliss); Decatur second; Huntington township third; Huntington Catholic fourth. Time—3:4s.l. Half-mile relay—Won by Huntington (Weber, Watress, Ziegler, Stringfellow); Huntington Catholic second; Huntington township third. (Decatur disqualified). Time —1.38.7. The first Poney Express rider i arrived in San Francisco from St. Joseph, Mo., on April 14, 1860. The textile industry has more than $6lO million invested in South Carolina. .

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Pleasant Mills Is Winner In Triangular Meet The Pleasant Mills Spartans, winning seven of the individual events, stored 71 points Monday afternoon to defeat Monroeville and Arcolq in a triangular meet at the Pleasant Mills field. Monroeville and Arcola each scored 41 points. Luginbill won both hurdles races for the Spartans and Snyder won both the 880-yard and mile runs. Other Pleasant Mills winners were Smith in the 220-yard dash. Johnson in the high jump and Jackson in the pole vault. High hurdles — Lug inbill (P) first; Dafforn (A) second; Archer . (P) third; Smith (A) fourth. Time —18.4. 100-yard dash—Pusey (M) first; Smith (P) second; Bienz (A) ’ third; Bell (A) fourth. Time—ll. ■ Mile run—Snyder (P) first; Salway (M) second; Von Gunten (P) third; Oman (M) fourth. Time—--5:01.3. 440-yard dash—Elliot (M) first; Smith (P> second; Brumbaugh (A) third; Colpetzer (A) fourth. Time -59.2. Low hurdles—Luginbill (P) first: Bienz (A) second; Jackson (P) third; Dafforn (A) fourth. Time—--22.5. 880-yard run—Snyder (P) first: Hart (M) second; Kurtz (A) third: Lortie (M) fourth. Time—2:l2.s. 220-yard dash—Smith (P) first: Bienz (A) second; Pusey (M) third; Wilson (M) fourth. Time—--25.8. Shot put—Etzler (M) first; Elliot (M) second; Bienz (A) third; Mclntosh (M) fourth. Distance—--37 ft. in. High jump—Johnson (P) first; Brunner <P) second; Smith (A) Bell (A) and Archer (P) tied for third and fourth. Height—s ft. 4 in. Pole vault—Jackson (P) first; Brunner (P) and Bell (A), tied for second and third; Riley (P), Smith (A) tied for fourth. Height—B ft. 9 in. Half mile relay—Won by Arcola (Byerly, Bell, Bienz, Dafforn); Pleasant Mills second. Time—l:so. Mile relay—Won by Monroeville (Elliot, Hart, Bailey, Pusey); Pleasant Mills second. Time—--3:59.4. * Milwaukee Braves Reach Player Limit MILWAUKEE, Wis. (IP) — The ’ Milwaukee Braves, 15 minutes before the midnight deadline, announced Monday they have asked major league waivers on pitcher ’ Phil Paine. The action brings their opening day roster down to the limit of 28 players. It will take three days for the waivers to expire, the Braves 1 said, and if Paine is not claimed he will be assigned to one of their farm clubs.

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Dates Announced On High School Meets INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indiana’s three-week high school track and field championships will get underway May. 9-10 with the sectionals, the IHSAA announced today. Regionals will be held May 16, the state finals at Indianapolis Tech Field May 24. t Sectionals will be held at Bloomington, Elkhart, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Frankfort, Gary, Hammond, Huntington, Indiahapolis (2), Kokomo, Mishawaka, Muncie, New Albany, Richmond, and Terre Haute. Bloomington, Fort Wayne, Mishawaka and Indianapolis are regional sites. The first four in each event except the 440-yard dash and both relays qualify for regional competition. In the 440. only the first three advance. In the relays, the first two qu’alify for the next round. Bedford, Indianapolis, LaPorte and Fort Wayne were announced as sectional golf sites May 16 or 17. The state meet will be held at Coffin here May 24 Decatur’s Golfers Win Opening Match Decatur high school golfers opened their season Monday afternoon with an 8-6 victory over Fort Wayne Concordia in a sevenman match at the Decatur Golf club. It was also Concordia’s first match of the season. The meet summary follows: Kruse <C) defeated Edwards (D). 44-55. Bosker (C) won the match play from Conrad <D> and halved the medal play, 49-49. Theye (C) defeated Leming (D), 49-54. Dailey (D) won over C. Moeller ing (C) in medal play, 47-48. and halved the match play. Beery, Burk and Ratliff, of Decatur, came through with two points each to win the meet for the Yellow Jackets: Beery over R. Moellering, 46-49; Burk over Dickmeyer, 47-52. and Ratliff over Congdon. 54-58. Cardinals Cut Two Pitchers Off Roster ST. LOUIS <W — Right-handed pitcher Lynn Lovenguth and Lloyd Merrit were cut by the St. Louis Cardinals today, leaving the player roster at the Iqgal ; limit of 28. The Cardinals said > they had not as yet decided to - which clubs Lovenguth and Merl rit would be sent. • S. D. Hunting Mishaps PIERRE, S. D. (W — The South , Dakota Department of Game, Fish . and Parks reported six persons [ were killed and 32 injured in hunt- . ing mishaps during 1957. Most of the accidents involved juvenile rabbit hunters.

TUESDAY, APRIL 15. 1958

Commodores Win Baseball I Opener Monday The Decatur Commodores opened their 1958 baseball season with a 7-5 victory over the Bluffton Tigers at Bluffton Monday afternoon. The teams each scored a run in the second inning, and then went scoreless until the Commodores broke out with four runs in the sixth on three hits, a pair of fielder’s choices and an error. Bluffton came back with two in the bottorrl of the sixth, and each scored twice in the seventh. The Commodores were scheduled to play at Willshtire, 0., this afternoon, and will play at Wren, O. Wednesday afternoon. Commodores ' AB R H E Beal, 2b .... 3 0 0 1 O’Campo, If .... 4 10 1 Kahle, c ..—... 3 10 0 Reed, p 3 113 P. Gross, lb 3 110 T. Gross, ss .... 3 110 Gillig, 3b 2 0 0 0 Kitson, 3bo 10 0 Ellenberger, cf _. 3 11 0 S. Omlor, rfl 0 0 1 J. Omlor, rs .... 1,0 1 0 Totals 26 7 4 *6 Bluffton AB R H E Leonard, 2b .... 3120 Betz, If 3 0 0 0 Beaty. If 0 10 0 Murray, 3b, p .... 4 0 10 Bowman, p, cf .. 4 2 2 1 Cupp, cf 2010 Lepase. cf 10 0 0 Biery, rs 2 111 Milholland, rs .... 10 0 0 Flaningam, lb .. 3 o—l0 —1 0 Creed, ss 2 0 0 0 =SuritopiseE ? 6 Kaehr, c 3 0 0 2 Totals 30 5 8 4 Scoring by innings: Commodores .... 010 004 2 -7 Bluffton 010 002 2 - 5 Trade in a good town — Decatur MOOSE 1311 Membership Dues are Due 2nd Quarter April 15, Midnight, is deadline to keep in good standing. And those in arrears please pay up at once. Examine your-re-ceipts now and get in beneficial standing in 30 days.