The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 August 1949 — Page 4

Tr DAILY BAHJWCT, BREENCASTLE, >4DIANA, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1949.

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VFW Team Lost In Semi-Finals

The Greencastle VFW softbaii team lost a heart-breaker to ■Princeton in the semi-finals 01 the state Veterans of Foreigr Wars tournament at Greenfieii: Sunday afternoon after troum: ing East Chicago on Saturday The locals lost the semi-final 1 Kittle, X to 0, in a thrilling contest that went 10 innings. Fells Knauer, on the mound cor Gree>castle, allowed only 4 DUt thal was enough to collect ine Iontally which proved to tie the whining marker. The local Vets got 8 hits but could not punch across the runs to win. I Saturday afternoon ,tho Greencastle squad walloped Ea.-u Chicago to the tune of 13 to 1. Knauer hurled a 1 hit ball game. East Chicago had been doped a j the dark horse of the tourney. The local VFW team was composed of the following prayers'. Knauer, pitcher; Bod Myers, catcher; Bill Myers. 1st base; Frank Bundy, 2nd ease; * Bi.l Thomas, shortstop; Jim Zeis. 3rd base; Warren Lear, left field; Harold Coffman, center field; Mike Tzouanakis, right field; Tim Grimes, utility.

Softball News LAST NIGHT SCORES COCNTY TOCRNEY Miller's Hardware 8, Fillmore 2. Moose 8, Mt. Meridian 3. Moose 10 .Miller’s Hardware 0. Finals. American Legion 4, Bloomington 3. Exhibition game.

IN LEGION RACE

T»>" only ancient carillon In I Unlveralty m Alleghany County, I BANNEK AI>S 8ELL n , the 17th century, ns on Alfre 1 ; N. Y.

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16 DIE IN MID-AIR COLLISION

M.I H.imer

1VTEW YORK Unfortunately or not, the char1 y acter known as the New York songwriter appears, like so many other Manhattan phenomena. to be disappearing There was a time when all the fine, tinny popular tunes were written by harassed little men with no talent, who sat In barren rooms above 48th street music stores and grimly sweated their way through the long hours until they could get a word to rhyme with "moon." It was very tough, sometimes, too. These days, however, all songwriters have a million dollars and their sons go to Groton. I cite you Irving Berlin, the squire of swanky Beekmun Place, or Rodgers and Hammerstcln, both of whom lead the lush suburban life complete with swimming pools. There are many

others.

It appears that all you have to do these days to become (a) a musical genius, and (b) financially solvent, Is to write a couple of eorny little songs. The country is ttme-hungry, and even if your masterpiece remains on the Hit Parade only two weeks, the average length, you're made. Dodo Hupfeld does nothing to dispel these impressions. It is true that he has kept his sense of proportion a little better than some iongwriters, and he is ready at the drop of a hat to kid the ears oft aay of the tunes that have made him famous within the trade, but he is not living in a garret and pressing his own pants, in the classic tradition of tunesmiths. No—Dodo lives across the Hudson -river in the peaceful town of Montclair, N J., in a handsome horn*; with gigantic rooms and a wonderful kind of undergraduate decor, and at first glance you might mistake him for the president of the local bank. However, that Is at first glance. Once past the impresstve face wtth Its graying mustache and hair, you come upon bright green tnd yellow sport shirt and baggy ice cream pants. When he leads you through the house and you note the ''42nd Street and Avenue of the Americas” sign leading to the bathroom, ind the assorted paraphernalia usually associated with a Dartnouth dormitory everything but a "Beat Yale!" sign—you know '.hat this is not a pompous man. The'ivory caps are falling off the alano keys and there is a little figurine of Richard Wagner, Dodo’s tiusical idol, which he salutes with "Wya, Dick" before he begins

;• play.

DODO (ONCE HERMAN) HCPI ELD WAS OF INTEREST to •ae because he has written one of those popular little songs that has lasted through the years It happens do very few—Stardust, maybe, and one or two others. A month i» a long time for the average tune to remain green In one's memory. However, many seasons ago. Dodo- Hupfeld wrote As Time Coes By, and today, helped along somewhat by its revival a couple of years ago in the Humphrey Bogart movie, Casablanca, it is beginning to take on classic overtones. I used to know the chief of the ushers at the Hollywood theater In Manhattan, and she had to listen to Dooley Wilson sing that song seven times a day for six months— and she never got tired •f It. I figure it must have something. Dodo sat down and played it for me last night. With his mother, M spry old woman known to one ami all as The Duchess, sitting critically by, he gave out with the whole routine—Bogart saying to Wilson. "Play it, 9am " “Oh, no. Mister Rick, you know I can't play that. You to!' me not to. Let's get out of here; let's go Bshlng, or " "Play it, Sam " Grinning broadly, Dodo recited the entire sequence. Just before plunging into the chorus, he meditated, "You know, this isn't my favorite; I've written a lot of songs that never got the play this one did, and I like them better," but when he got going on the Chorus, you figured him for an amtable liar. Because he played At Time Goes By tenderly, beautifully, the way a man talks about • woman with whom he is in love. • • • • IT 18 STRANGE, NOEL COWARD WROTE, how potent cheap aausic la Yet. It is a little condescending to call this cheap music. It la. Lord forgive the pretentious expression, an art form of today; It ia the music by which the world lives today. The life and times of a civilization are mirrored in its songs, and the catchy little ballads like As Time Goes By are the handmaidens to the more austere and »)lcmn facets of our existence. The high point of visiting Dodo, however, came when he played the entire score of South Pacific through on his beat-up old piano, after nodding politely to Dick Wagner on the music rack. This Is a score of which every New Yorker now is sick unto death, it having been thoroughly murdered by unending renditions In music •hops and radio stations and yet to hear Dodo play it was

tacltlng.

He has an almost small boy's wistful adoration for the score, a furprising thing to find in a songwriter when it isn't his own work, »ad he has learned the entire set of songs just for his own satisfaction. Thus, when he sits down to play them, in his baroque style, he Is Maying them out of love, and you almost could say It was more iatrigulng than hearing Pinza and Mary Martin sing them origi* •ally, because they were doing a skillful and competent Job for lay. and Dodo Hupfeld was playing them out of sheer enthusiasm The night wore on. and ultimately It was time to go But there •Iways Is time for Just one more I put on my Jacket and sat on lie edge of a sofa. "Play It. Sam." I ordered Dodo Hupfeld {Tinned and began, "A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh . .

LEAGUE STANDINGS . FAST LEAGUE-lst ROUND

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American Legion 6 Moose 5 High School 4 Miller's Hardware 4 Fillmore 3 Lone Star Local No. 39 3 Mt. Meridian 2 Webb's Studcbakers .... 1 2nd ROUND VFW 2 Moose 1 Miller's Hardware 2 High School 1 Fillmore 1 Lone Star Local No 39. 0 KittenbaU Cannon Clowns 5 Hooligans 4 Tiger Rags 2 Cement Mixers 0 - Jayree League Sportsman's Shop 5 White Cleaners 4 Mullins Drug Store 4 Banner News 3 Hursty's Gulf Station 2 Coan's Drug Store 2 Culligan Soft Water 2 Putnamville 1 SCHEDULE MONDAY, August 1 6:00 Mullins' Drug Store v Putnamville. 7:15 Tiger Rags vs. Camion

Clowns.

8:30 American Legion vf. Line Star Local No. 39. TUESDAY, August 2 6; 00 Culligan Soft Water vs White Cleaners. 7:15 Cement Mixers vs. The Hooligans. 8:30 American Legion vs. Mt. Meridian, Wednesday, August 4 6:00 Coan's Drug Store vs. Sportsman Shop. 7:15 High School vs. Miller's Hardware. 8:30 Moose vs, Fillmore. Thursday, August 5 6:00 Banner News vs. Hursty’s Gulf Station. 7:15 VFW vs. Lone Star Local

No 39.

8:30 Exhibition American Legion vs. Danville. Friday, August 6 7:15 Tiger Rags vs. The Hooligans. 8:30 Mt. Meridian vs. Moose.

Swick's Restaurant Girls softbail team will play a doubleheader under the flood lights at the Roaehdale hall diamond tonight. August 1st. First game to get under way at 8:00 DST with Roaehdale girls and at 9:15 with the Bainbridge nine. This will be the first scheduled game for Swick's. Batteries will be 1st game Eugenina Irwin, Pitcher and Dorothy Slavens, Catcher; 2nd, game Margaret Gilley, pitcher, and Here Cox, catclwi

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BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Aug. 1 At the request of his many friends throughout the state, Jack Mclntire, World War II Veteran, has entered the race for Indiana Department Commander of the American Legion, according to an announcement made today. Jack was discharged from the Marine Corps on April 5, 1946, with the rank of corporal, and has served Memorial Post, No. 196, in Bloomfield as post athletic officer, chairman of the house committee, and membership committee chairman. He was elected commander of t'i-3 Seventh District in July, 1947, and organized the first county council while serving tn this capacity. He was elected Indiana Department Vice Commander i i August, 1948. Mclntire is 33 years old, married, and has a son 9 years of age. He is a farmer and R. E. A. engineer. When he entered the Marine Corps he was secretary of the Indiana Association of County Surveyors and Engineers In addition to oeiug active i the American Legion, Jack is a |rmember of Voiture 107 of the 40 & 8 at Vincennes; belongs to the Knights of Pythias; F A.- A.. M No. 84. Bloomfield; IJ. P. O. Elks No. 866, Linton; Scottish Rite ,and is a member of the Christian Church In Bloomfield. Washington slate has ole of the highest unemployment compensation rates in the country $25 a week for 26 weeks. The jackrabbit derived its name from its long donkiv-like cars and is not a rabbit but a hare.

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