Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1958 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, AfRIL 16, 1958

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Jackets Take Season Opener From Portland The Decatur Yellow Jackets opened their baseball season with a 5-2 victory over the Portland Panthers. as three Decatur pitchers pooled their efforts to hurl a nohit Kame. Decatur picked up its first run in the second inning on a hit by Shraluka, his stolen base, and a balk. The Jackets scored their other four runs in the third on hits by Lytle and Ritter, plus a walk, two stolen base? and an error. Portland scored its first run in the fifth on a walk, a passed ball and an error, and its final tally in the seventh on fbur bases on balls. The Jackets will open their Northeastern Indiana conference scheduled Friday, meeting Concordia at Fort Wayne at 4 p.m Saturday, the Jackets will be hosts to Marion in a double header at Worthman field,, with the first game starting at 2 o'clock. Portland AB.R HE Williams, cf .... 2 0 0 0 Avers, cf .• 1 0 0 0 Boyd, 3b. p .. 3 0 0 0 Elmore, ss 2 1 0 0 Inamn, If :. 11 o 0 Pyle, rs 2 0 0 0 Ronald, lb 2 0 0 1 Roch. lb 1 0 0 0 Bash, c « 2 0 0 f Minch, p 1000 Gierhart, 3b 1 0 0 f Takats. 2b 10 0 0 EBgle. 2b 1 0 0 € Totals 20 2 0 1 Yellow Jackets AB R H E May. cf . ....... i „ 3 10 0 Daniels, p. If 3 10 0 Reidenbach. ss 10 0 0 Shraluka, c 3 110 Ballard, rs ’ 3 0 0 0 Bischoff. 3b 2 0 0 0 Harvey, p 0 0 0 0 Holtsberry, If 1 0 O ' Wolfe, p ........ 10 0 0 Lytle, lb 3 1 2 0 Ritter. 2b 2110 Cowans. 2bo 0 0 0 Grabill. 2b 0 0 0 0 Gay. 3b ... ...0 0 0 0 Canales, p 0 0 0 0 **< • ...aJS Totals 22 5 4 1 Score by innings: Portland 000 010 I—2 Yellow Jackets . 014 000 x—s White ants are not ants but termites. ' LET’S GO SQUARE DANCING AT THE MOOSE Every Friday Nite. It’s Fun! r The Melody Rangers Playing This Week. — MEMBERS ONLY — DANCE and SHOW With Speck Hebble SATURDAY NITE

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Kubek's Military Status Unsettled MILWAUKEE. Wis. (UP)— The immediate military status of versatile Tony Kubek, the New York Yankees’ American League “rookie of the year” in 1957, was up to just Tony Kubek today. Maj. Gerald Mulrine, commander of the South Side Army Reserve Center here, said the baseball star had firmed up plans last week to be inducted into the Reserve Thursday and leave for six months’ active duty May 24. “But until he raises his hand and takes the oath of induction, Kubek can change his mind,” the officer said. “He came to us voluntarily last week, passed our physical and written tests and approved of the induction schedule we set up” Kubek, in New York for treatment of an injury suffered in spring training after his physical, sheds no light on his military plans. His father, Tony Sr., continues to tell newsmen in Milwaukee his son “is not going in the Army." Kubek, 22. does not face the draft for at least thiu month and next month. It is too late to draft him in April, and a spokesman for the Wisconsin Selective Service headquarters at Madison, said his local draft board will not induct any men in May. “Kubek and a friend came to see us last week, inquiring about our Reserve setqp,” Mulrine said. "We talked Socially for about 10 minutes —about baseball and things — and then he took our tests and passed." Decatur VFW Third In State Tourney Team number 1 of the Decatur VFW post rolled a 3993 over the weekend to move into third place in the VFW state bowling tourney at South Bend. Team members are Don Reidenbach. Paul Hodle, Don Burke, Pete Smith and Lloyd Reef. Reef rolled 669 actual in the singles and a 723 with handicap ror first place. He had 1897 in the all-events for first place, with Paul Hodle second with 1825 Hodle has high game in the tourney with a 255. miiwr American Association Indianapolis —1 0 1.000 — Minneapolis .. 1 . 0 1 000 — Charleston 11 1.000 — Omaha 1 0 1.000 — Charleston 11 .500 Mt St. Paul 1 , 1 .500 Denvero 1 .000 1 Louisville 0 1 .000 1 Witchita ...... 0 1 .000 1 Tuesday’s Results Omaha 2, Witchita 1 (12 inings> Indianapolis 2, Denver 0. St. Paul 6, Charleston 4 (11 innings). Minneapolis 9, Louisville 5. Ten million convention guests visit U. S. hotels every year, attending an estimated 18.000 meetings, the American Hotel Association announced here today. Each delegate spends in the convention I city an average of $93.69 in "new I money."

All Top-Rated National Loop Teams Beaten By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer ■Die “new look” 1958 season is : only 48 hours old but the situation Is normal in both leagues: > the underdogs are kicking up®»a fuss in the National and the Yan- . kees are off and running in the . American. That’s the sum-up of big league ; baseball’s first day of coast-to-coast activity —a day on which: —Ruben Gomez stole the big show .in San Francisco by pitchI ing the Giants to an 8-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers —Two rookie pitchers scored • victories on splendid relief efforts and seven other rookies figured in the headlines. —The world champion Milwaukee Brave J lost the longest opener the National League had seen i in 35 years. —And Stan Musial tied Mel Ott’s National League record of 5,041 total bases for his career. But most of all it was a day on which upstart National League teams upset “contenders” and the mighty Yankees got off to a typi- ! cal start by winning while two of their chief rivals lost. , Second over First In the National, four second-di- , vision teams of 1957 beat four first-division teams of last season. , In the American, the Yankees ; “did it themselves,” 3-0, over the Red Sox and the Tigers helped i out the New Yorkers by beating i the White Sox. 4-3. Gomez, a temperamental righthander from San Turce, PR., ushered San Francisco into the majors by pitching a six-hitter and contributing two important singles to an 11-hit Giant attack A crowd of 23,448 at Seals Sta- • dium saw three rookies — Jimmy , Davenport, Orlando Cepeda and , Willie ’Kirkland — come up with ’ a total of four hits and drive in a run apiece. Rookie first-baseman R. C. Stevens and rookie pitcher Ron • Blackburn were the heroes as the 1 Pirates beat the Braves. 4-3, in 1 14 innings Stevens, who replaced ! hitless Ted Kluszewski in the t ninth, hit two straight singles and l the second with two out in the : 14th inning drove in Dick Groat with the winning run. Blackburn, appearing in his first major league game, limited the world champions to one hit in the last three innings for the victory. Ed Mathews hit two early homers for the Braves who dropped their first opener since going to Mil waukee. Rookie Roman Semproch tossed three innings of one-hit relief to gain credit for the Phillies’ 5-4 decision over the Redlegs and rookie Tony Taylor started two rallies as the Cubs defeated the ’ Cardinals, 4-0. on a combined ’ pitching effort of no less than four ! hurlers. >. Tebbetts to Protest I Semproch got the run he needL ed in the eighth inrting when rookl ie Chuck Essegian walked and exRedleg Wally Post and Ted Ka- - zanski followed with singles. Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbetts announced he will protest the game after a seventh-inning dispute over whether a fan. interfered with a double hit by Granny Hamner. The umpires permitted Richie Ashburn to score the I Phillies’ tying run from first base. Taylor doubled and scored lhe Cubs’ first run in the first inning and then touched off their tworun third inning rally with a walk in the new season's Jirst night game. Jim Brosnan and Don Elston throttled the Cardinals on six hits with Dolan Nichols and Ed Mayer seeing brief action during a seventh-inning jam. Musial singled in the seventh inning to tic Ott for the National League total base mark. Don Larsen, the perfect-game pitcher, got the Yankees off to a perfect start with a four-hit shutout of the Ted-Williams-less Red Sox, who dropped their second straight game. Yogi Berra’s tworun homer and doubles by Bill Skowrorr and Andy Carey accounted for all the Yankees' runs against “jinx-pitcher” Willard Nixon in the seventh inning. Billy Pierce Outpitched Jim Bunning oui-pil|ched Billy Pierce in a battle ofthe AL s only 20-gatne winners of 1957 as the Tigers spoiled the White Sox home getaway Bupning scored the winning run himself in the seventh inning when he doubled and scored on Billy Martin s single. An error by Lou Skizas made the White Sox’ three third-inning runs unearned. * Ned Garver, who won only six games last season, pitched a sev-en-hitter to spoil .Scores comeback and give the Athletics a 5-0 win over the Indians and Billy O’Dell’s four and a third innings of hitless relief ball enabled the Orioles to beat the Senators, 6-1, .in other openers. -Bob Cerv’s two-rup double Was the big blow for the Athletics as they ran up a three-inning, 3-0 lead on Score, who made his first competitive appearance since his tragic eye injury last May 7. Score’ struck out six in three innings but’ walked four and committed a wild pitch. - 0 Dell faced only 13 ( batters "over the last 4 1-3 innings^’after taking ov’er in a jam from Connie >i Johnson. Gus liiyndos Knocked in

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MAJOR American League W. L. Pct. G.B. New York 1 0 1.000 - Detroit 1 0 1.000 — Baltimore 1 0 1.000 — Kansas City —1 0 1.000 — Washington .... 11 .500 % Chicago 0 1 .000 1 Cleveland- 0 1 000 1 Boston — 0 2 .000 1% National League W. L. Pct. G.B. Philadelphia —1 0 1.000 - Pittsburgh 1 0 1.000 - San Francisco . 1 0 1.000 — Chicago —1 0 1.000 — St. Louis 0 1 .000 1 Cincinnati .....2 0 1 .000 1 Los Angeles .... 0 1 .(foo 1 Milwaukee 0 1 .000 1 TUESDAY’S RESULTS American League New York 3, Boston 0. Baltimore 6. Washington 1. Detroit 4, Chicago 3. Kansas City 5, Cleveland 0. National League Philadelphia 5, Cincinnati 4. Pittsburgh 4, Milwaukee 3 (14 innings). San Francisco 8, Los Angeles 0. Chicago 4, St. Louis 0. 11 ———————— — Adams Central Wins Tuesday In Triangular The Adams Central Greyhounds scored 691/6 points Tuesday afternoon to register a victory in a triangular meet at the Adams Central field. The Lancaster Central Bobcats were second with 58 5/6 points, and the Monmouth Eagles third with 11 points. Monmouth com- ' peted without any seniors, as the 1 senior class is on its annual trip. The summary follows: ■ Shot put — Heyerly (A) first; 1 Cowan (L) second; Foreman '(A) ‘ third; Trimble <L( fourth. Distance—36 ft.,6% in. ’ High hurdles—A. Habegger (A' , first; Gerber (L> second; Lantz . <A) third; King <M) fourth. Time -17.3. r 100-yard dash — Heyerly (A) r fqrst; Hoffman <M> second; Ger- . ber <L» third; A. Habegger (A> fourth. Time—ll. 2. j Broad jump—Heyerly 'A> first; j Lobsiger (L) second; Gerber tL> 1 third; Trumble (L> fourth. Disti ance—l9 ft. Is 4 in. )’ Mile run — Steffen—(Lt first; ? Schlickman ( A> second; J. Lam--1 bert (A) third; Peck (M) fourth. ■ Time—s:22.2. 440-yard dash — Hoffman (A) first; Kructzman (E) second; ■ Foreman (At third; Bultemcicr ■ ( M) fourth. Time—s 9.2. High jump—Lobsiger (Lt first; ■ Jotmloz (Aland Trimble 1 1.) ■ tied for second and third; Hoff- > man (A> and Kruetzman (L> tied for fourth. Height— 5 ft. 5 in. •> Low hurdles—A. Habegger (A’> first; Gerber <L> second; Lantz (A) third; Kruetzman (L) fourth. Time—23.l. 880-yard run—Steffen (L> first; Yoder (At second; Macon (L> third; Mendoza (A) fourth. Time —2:45.5. 220-yard dash — Heyerly (A> first; Hoffman <F> second; Trimble (D third; Wulllman (A) fourth. Time—2s.9. Pole vault—Egly (A’t, Lantz (A>, and Gerber <LI tied for first, second and third; ■ Johnloz <L) fourth. Mile relay; —Won by Lancaster; Adams Central second; Mon- ■ mouth third. Time—4:ll. i Half-mile relay — Won by AdCentral; Lancaster second; Monmouth third. Time—l:47.B. i x _—: Decatur Golfers Win Over Arcola i Decatur high school golfers de* seated Arcola, 7-3, at t heDccatur Golf club Tuesday. Blumenhurst, 1 of Arcola was medalist with a ’ 40. The Decatur team went to Garrett this afternoon to mect.thg ‘ Railroaders. ; Tuesdays results: Blumcnhurst (A) won over Beefy (D), 40-46; ’Burk (D) over Miller (A), 49-68; Dailey (D) halved with Bell (AL 45-45; Conrad (D) over ; Brumbaugh (A). 45-51; Ratliff (D) . over Abrl (A), 53-64. » i Amok ( TOWNER, N. D. —Wi - A driverless tractot which ran amuck near here eluded five pursuing . cars in an eight-imle chase j through fields and farmyards be- ; fore crashing into a shed. The runt away, dragging barbed wire and 5 fence-posts, careened across ditch- . es and country road at 18 miles - throwing its driver, Edgar Her- - man. • o ; ; two Baltimore runs with a homer and two singles ,and Brooks Robinson had a perfect day with a triple and two singles.

Commodores Are Defeated By Willshire The Decatur Commodores, making their seebnd start of the season, were handed their first loss Tuesday afternoon, dropping a 5-3 decision to the Willshire, 0., Bearcats at ’Willshire. Willshire combined four bases on balls with one hit for two runs in the third inning. The Commodores picked up a single run in the fourth inning on hits by O’Campo. Kable and Gillig, and took the lead with two in the fifth on a walk, hits by J. Omlor and Kable, plus a Willshire error. The Ohio team won the ball game in the sixth inning on three walks and two hits, good for three runs. The Commodores were scheduled to play at Wren, 0., this afternoon. Commodores AB R H E P. Gross, p 2 6 0 0 T. Gross, ss 2 0 0 0 O’Campo, ss, p 4 110 Kable, c 3 0 2 0 Reed, lb 2 0 1 0 Gillig, 2b ..., 2 0 10 Kitson, 3b 2 0 0 1 Ellenberger, If .... 3 0 0 0 Gage, cf 2 110 J. Omlor, rs 2 110 S. Omlor, rs 10 0 0 TOTALS 25 3 71 Willshire AB R H E R. James, 3b 2 10 0 Caffee, lb 3 0 10 F. James, p 2 0 0 1 Duff, cf 2 0 0 0 R. Medaugh, If .... 3 0 0 0 Schaadt, ss 3 111 Schaffner, c 2 10 0

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Byers, rs 0 2 0 0 M. Medaugh, 2b .... 3 0 2 0 TOTALS 20 5 . 4 2 Score by innings: Commodores 000 120 o—3 Willshire 002 003 x-5 Opening Attendance Above 1957 Figures By UNITED PRESS ! Despite the entry of California into the major leagues and a record opening night crowd in St. . Louis, attendance at National ’ League opening baseball games ’ Tuesday was less than the turnout on inaugural day last season. However, a United Press survey ’ also disclosed that ’ American J League attendance i n eye a sed ' enough to pull the overall majorleague opening day attendance for * this year to 259,108 as against 1 252,763 a year ago. ‘ The Giants-Dodgers’ opener at San Francisco accounted for only 23,448 admissions, but, of course, • that wasn’t the fault of the en- > thusiastic California fans. The total represented all that could be squeezed into little Seals Stadium. 1 The Cubs-Cardinals game in St ) Louis set a new arc-light opener ) record there, but the total for this ) also relatively small park was ) only 26,246. Thus the National ) League overall total declined from ) 127,300 to 125,882, a drop of 1.1 [ per cent. ) The American League total in- ) creased from 125,473 to 133,226, an ) increase of 6.2 per cent. j The overall major-league increase was 2.1 per cent. I The day’s biggest crowd was 43,339 at Milwaukee. • The true African chameleon, > quite distinct from the native ‘ American variety, has the inter--1 esting ability to swivel its eyes in * two directions with a sort of turret ' effect. • )

Portland Wins In Dual Meet Over Jackets Portland’s Panthers defeated the Decatur Yellow Jackets. 74-35 in a dual track meet Tuesday afternoon at the Portland field. The Panthers won seven Individual events and both relay races for their decisive triumph. The Yellow Jackets took only four first places, with Moses accounting for half of these by winning both hurdles races. Decatur’s other firsts were by J. Sheets in the 440-yard dash and Hebble in the shot put. The summary follows: High hurdles—Moses (Dt first: Starr <P» second; Bashia (P) third. Time—l 7.2. ( 100-yard dash—Cline (P) first; Moses (D) second; Plummer (P) third. Time—lo:4s. Mile run—Dujardin (P) first; Franklin (D) second; Freeman fP) third. Time-5:14. 440-yard dash—J. Sheets (D' first; Smith (P) second; Hebble -'DI third. Time—s9.s. Low Hurdles—Moses (D) first; Starr (P) second; Williams (P)

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