Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1959 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JUNE 16. 1959

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Braves Beat Cardinals In Pony League Decatur’s two Pony League teams tangled for the first time this season Monday night at Worthman field, with the Braves defeating the Cardinals, 9-5. Each team scored twice in the second inning, but the Braves pul the game out of reach with six big runs in the third .scored on four hits, two walks, two errors, five stolen bases and a wild pitch. The Braves added their final run in the fourth, while the Cardinals scored a singleton in the fifth and their final two runs in the seventh. Steve Gause ed the winning attack with a double and a home run. The Braves will play at Monroe at 6 o’clock this evening, while the Cardinals are idle until next Monday, when a double header will be played at Worthman field. The Cardinals meet Monroe at 6:30 p.m., followed by the Braves and Geneva. Braves AB R H E Kohne, ss —— 4 10 1 Beery, 2b 3 0 0 0 Elliot, rs .... 4 12 0 Conrad, cf, c, 3b .. 3 2 2 0 Ladd, lb. p ...L 2 2 0 0 Rolland, If 3 11 0 Ybarra, If 1 0 0 0 Gause, c, cf ... 3 2 2 0 Custer, 3b 2 0 0 0 Mclntosh, 3b —----- 10 0 0 Hakey. p, lb . 4 0 10 Totals 30 9 8 1 Cardinals — ; — AB B H E Lose, ss 4 0 11 Gay, p, 3b 4 0 2 0 Martin, cf 11 0 1 Baker, lb, p 110 0 Raudebush, c ——— 3 111 Minch, 3b —- 3 10 0 Custer, rf2 10 0 Cowans, If - 10 10 Ballard, lb —...— 0 0 0 0 Totals 23 5 5 3 Braves 026 100 o—9 Cardinals .... 020 010 2—5 Two-base hits — Gause, Hakey. Home run — Gause. Umpires — Krueckeberg ans Snyder. ! Secaur Member Os Championship Team Pfc. Ronnie Secaur, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Secaur, of route 5. Decatur, is a member of the Ft. Sill, Okla., army post championship volleyball team. The team will compete in a week-long tourney at Albuquerque, N.M. Fifteen post teams will battle for the 4th Army championship. Secaur will complete his tour of duty late this summer. He is a draftee.

MAJOR — NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Milwaukee 34 25 .576 —/ San Francisco 34 27 .557 1 Pittsburgh 32 29 .525 3 Chicago 31 29 .517 314 Los Angeles -- 32 30 -516 3% Cincinnati 28 32 .467 6’4 St. Louis 25 33 .431 814 Philadelphia 23 34 .404 10 ‘Monday’s Results Los Angeles 4. Milwaukee 0. Only game scheduled. Today's Schedule Pittsburgh at Chicago. Milwaukee at Los Angeles (night). Cincinnati at San Francisco (night). Philadelphia at St. Louis (2, twinight). Wednesday’s Schedule Pittsburgh at Chicago. Philadelphia at St. Louis (night)... Cincinnati at San Francisco.

Milwaukee at Los Angeles (2, twinight).

AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. Cleveland —- 32 24 .571 — Chicago 33 25 .569 — Detroit 32 27 .542 114 Baltimore 30 29 .508 314 New York .... 27 29 .482 5 Kansas City -. 26 29 .473 314 Boston 25 33 .431 8 Washington 25 34 .424 814 Monday's Results Washington 8, Kansas City 5. Detroit 6. Baltimore 4. Cleveland 5, Boston 1. Only games scheduled. Today’s Schedule Chicago at New York (night). Cleveland at Boston (night). Dettoif at Baltimore (night). Kansas City at Washington (night). Wednesday’s Schedule Kansas City at Washington (night). Detroit at Baltimore (night). Chicago at New* York. Cleveland at Boston.

Baseball Schedule Pony League J Tuesday—Decatur Br» v e s at Monroe (6 p.m.). Friday—Berne at Geneva (6 p.m,). Little League Tuesday—Red Sox vs White Sox; Indians vs Yankees (6:30 p.m.). Friday—White Sox vs Indians; Senators vs Tigers (6:30 pjn.). High School Wednesday—Petroleum at Decatur (6 p.m.). Thursday—Decatur as Lafayette Central (6:30 p.m.). Junior Legion Tuesday—Decatur at Huntington (8 p.m.). Federation League Wednesday—Klenks vs AFL-CIO at Dwenger (8 p.m.). Sunday—Kl en k s vs Braves (Worthman, 2 p.m.).

Decatur High Beats Ossian Monday, 74 The Decatur Yellow Jackets, under Coach Bill McColly, scored their second victory in as many starts, beating a tough Ossian team on its home field, 7-4, Monday evening. Rudy Kleinknight allowed the Bears only two runs in five innings as he pitched the second game of his young career. He received support from reliefer John Cowans in the sixth, who finished up. The big Decatur bats belted five extra base blows of their nine hits as Jim Gay homered and tripled and Dennis Ahr tripled twice to lead the Decatur attack. Tom Grabill joined the hitfes,t, driving in a pair of tallies. Decatur scored in the first on a walk to Grabill and a fielder’s choice on Steve Marbach’s grounder, two errors and a passed ball. They counted three more in the top of the third when Kleinknight and Bob Walters walked and scored on Grabill's double, and Marbach’s infield single. Grabill scored on Snyder’s hit to right. Ossian broke into the scoring column in the bottom half of the inning on a pass and two singles. But Decatur added two more in the fifth on Walter’s single, two throwing errors, Grabill’s fielder’s choice, and the second of Ahr’s booming triples to left. Gay opened the sixth with a blast for four bases to conclude the Decatur scoring. Ossian jumped on Cowan in the sixth for a pair with two out on a walk, and pair of singles. The Bears also countered for one in the fifth on a triple and double. Decatur AB R H RBI Walters, ss, cf — 3 2 1 0 .GpsbaiKlb--..-..- 3 2 1 2 Marbach, lb 4 111 Snyder, cf, If 3 0 11 Ahr, rs —— 4 0 2 1 Cowan, ss, p 3 0 0 0 Gay, c 3 12 1 Rambo, 3b 3 0 0 0 Kleinknight, p 110 0 Sharpe, ph -------- 10 10 Eichenauer, If ■. 0 0 0 0 Fawcett, rs 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 28 7 9 6 Ossian AB R H RBI Kreigh, c —- 2 111 Diehl, If 3 12 0 Giesel, 3b —------ 4 0 2 2 Archbold, ss -- 3 0 0 0 Fosnight, 2b 4 0 0 0 S. Archbold, lb - 4 0 0 Wilson, cf 3 0 0 0 Heckle, rs 11 0 0 Smith, p 3 111 TOTALS 27 4 6 4 Decatur 103 021 o—7 Ossian —- 001 012-o—4 Errors—Kreigh, Giesel, D. Archbold, Fosnight, Grabill, Gal. 2B— Grabin, Giesel. 3B—Diehl', Ahr 3, Gay. HR-Gay. LOB—Decatur 4, Ossian 13. SO—Kleinknight 5, Cowan 3, Smith 9. DP—Kreigh to S. Archbold. BB—Kleinknight—4, Cowan 1, Smith 4. T-r-2:10. Lifers Are Leading Adams Central League The Lifers, with a 2-0 record, are leading the Adams Central Little League. Funk's Hybrid and Master Mixers are tied at 1-1 each, and Stucky’s Store has lost both starts. In Monday’s games. Funk’s defeated Stucky, 7-3, and the Liters downed the Master Mixers, 9-5. Batteries: Funk, Morningstar and Ringger; Stucky, Hutchinson, Miesse and Busse; Lifers, Ehrsam, Zurcher and Brokaw; Master Mixers, Harmon, Hammond and Roth. Water Bugs A little kerosene poured down the kitchen sink at night. i& a precaution against water bugs.

Pro Football Clubs Report Heavy Sales NEW YORK (UP!)—National Football League owners are smiling because the advance sale of season tickets already indicates the professional game will have another big year in 1959. A United Press International survey showed today that 11 of the 12 clubs are selling tickets faster than in 1958 when they set a record paid attendance of 3,006,124. The league has set attandancfe records the last seven seasons. The Baltimore Colts, defending league and western division champions, have sold about 33,000 season tickets for their 52,622-capa-city field. That’s 3,000 more than they had sold last year at this time. The New York Giants already have sold a club record of 20,000. The Colts, Detroit Lions, San Francisco Forty - Niners, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears of the western division are all selling tickets at a fast clip. The Lions finished only fifth last year but had sold 39,406 season tickets as of June 3—400 more than they had sold at the same time in 1958. Los Angeles, which has drawn more than a million fans to its home and road games and exhibitions each of the last two seasons, reported sales were about 5,000 ahead of the 1958 pace. San Francisco, the other California NFL entry, reported 34,000 tickets sold aS compared with 27,000 last year at this time. The Bears, who usually have near - sellouts for their home games, said business was ‘‘terrific.’’ Business Manager Rudy Custer said sales were 10 per cent ahead of last year’s pace. The Packers have sold 26,000 season seats for their games at Green Bay, about 4.(XX) more than they had sold last year in June. They have sold 6,300 for their home games in Milwaukee, nearly as many as had been purchased for their 1958 games there when the season began. The Cleveland Browns reported their season ticket sale would finish 20 per cent ahead of last year’s total "if sales continue at the present rate.” Cleveland had a big home attendance last year —370,781 for six games. In Pittsburgh, the Steelers said they had sold about 12,000 season tickets at this time last year and were about 400 ahead of that figure. The Philadelphia Eagles reported they were about 500 ahead of their 1958 pace. Business Manager Arch Wolfe of the Cardinals said that club was about 70 per cent ahead of its 1958 fiture in season ticket sales. The! Cardinals, who have been hurting at the gate, have shifted from Cqmiskey Park to Soldiers Field for the 1959 season. r The Washington Redskins were the only club reporting their sales were trailing the 1958 standard. They have sold 15,731 compared to 16,652 at this time last year.

Club House Chatter City League W L Steffen Motorslß 7 G. E. Club —— — I? » Decatur Industries —— 15 15 Vigortones . 1214 1214 Yetters ...... Hl4 1314 Central Soya —.—7.—. 1114 1314 Smith Insurance 4)4 2014 Low scores —R. McClenahan 37, B. Helm 38, K. Gaunt 39, Hammond 39, D. Mac Lean 39, E. Hutker 41, J. Bauman 41, H. Engle 42, N. Highland 43. P. Edwards 43. June 22 schedule — Yetters vs Central Soya, G.E. Club vs Steffen. Smith Ins. vs Vigortones, Decatur Industries bye. Ladies League Last Wednesday, Mary Jane Gage carded a 47, the best round played in the .league Ihiss season. She required only 13 putts for her 47. Ethel Mae Sanmann and Nancy Majorki received prizes for placing second- in low putts. ,> Any ladies interested in- playing in the league are asked to contact the.prp. sjjqp, . - • *' .. a y m V -■ -'4»r ‘.'He's a Little-League-* umpire!”

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Morning League Is Opened Here Today play/was opened today in the Morning league at Worthman fiek|, with three games played by the six league teams. The Dogs edged the Cats, 3-2, the ,Cows squeezed past the Pigs, 2-1, and the Cubs defeated the Bears, 7-i'. Three games are scheduled Wednesday morning, with the Cows meeting the Cubs at 8:30 o’clock, the Cats against the Pigs at 9:30, and the Dogs playing the Bears at 10:30. Today’s line scores: . ■ RHE Cats .- 200 0-2 11 Dogso2l I—3 11 J. Schultz and Miller; Melchi, Schultz and Sheets, Pettibone. R H E Cows -101-2 4 1 Pigs 001—1 0 3 Birch and Conrad; Kenny and Allen. RHE Bears - 100 o—l 2 2 Cubs- 142 x—7 3 0 Hemus Places Self On Inactive List ST. LOUIS (UPI) — St. Louis Cardinal Manager Solly Hemus went on the inacitve list Monday, making room for bonus rookie outfielder Jim O’Rourke in the lineup for tonight’s twi-night doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies.

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Detroit Hands Hoyt Wilhelm First Defeat '' ■> By FRED DOWN United Press International Who’s gonna hold that Tiger if even Hoyt Wilhelm can’t? Seven American League rivals wish they could answer the question as Jimmy Dykes’ Detroit Tigers continue their drive toward first place. They're only a game and a half from their goal now and they’ve been rolling at a .714clip since losing 15 of their first 17 games, The Tigers ended Wilhelm’s nine-game winning streak and knocked him out of the box for good measure Monday night with a 6-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. The coup de grace was a two-run homer by Harvey Kuens that marked the first

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round-tripper off the knuckleball ace in 97 innings. Hoyt Tagged, so 6th, Jth Wilhelm, who seemed to be throwing the next best thing to an invisible pitch in compiling a 9-0 record and a 1.00 earned run average, shut out the Tigers for five innings but then they tagged him foie three runs in the sixth and finished him with Kuenn’s homer in the seventh. It marked only the third time in 11 starts that he failed to finish. The Cleveland Indians ran their winning streak to six games went into first place with a 5-1 win over the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators ended a five-game losing streak with an 8-5 decision over the Kansas City Athletics in other American League games. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Braves, 4-0, in the only National i League game. Detroit’s Ray Narleski went 7 2-3 innings before giving way to Dave Sisler to gain credit for his foujjh victory of the year. Beti Tfirows 3-Hitter Gary Bell pitched a three-hitter and struck out nine batters to win

his sixth game for the Indiana. The Indians made only eight hits themselves but three were homers —by Minnie Minoso, Mike Bax#s and Woody Held. Bill Mon,bouquette was the loser. ♦ t Harmon Kiltobrew clouted Mis 22nd homer and Jim Lemon hit his 17th to lead a 10-hit Washington attack that routed Bud Daley in three timings. John Romonosky shut out the Athletes for eight innings but then was kayoed when the A’s scored five runs in the ninth. Don Drysdale struck out 12 Braves to raise his season total

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to 103 and win his sixth ftaM. Bob Buhl shut out the Dodgers for six innings but Los Angeles scored four runs in the seventh on a walk, an error, a double by Jim Gilliam and Wally Moon’s three-run homer. It was the eighth loss in 12 games for the Bravds and Hank Aaron went hitless in four trips. Over 2,500 Daily Democrats are sold and delivered in Decatur each day.