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Fords Of Beatrice To Meet Hastings HASTINGS, Aug. 2, Beatrice and Hastings meet to night in ft baseball battle for the championship of Area in the American Legion junior diamond series. Hastings eliminated Seward last night, 11 to 5. Game time is 8:30. If the once-beaten local boys stop undefeated Beatrice tonight, another game will have to be played tomorrow niglil to decide the winner of the double elimination tournament, If Beatrice wins, it.

will lake the title and a ticket to the slate tourn-y then and there. Hastings decided things last night in the third inning when St. John's Loses One Of Players 'Whitey' Aden Chips Ankle Bone As Lutherans Win 8-1 RESULTS LAST NIGHT St. John's Elk Creek 1. Commercial Travelers of Fairbury 6, Currier Lumber 5.

GAMES TONIGHT DeWitt vs. Havelock VFVV at 7:30 Pawnee City vs. Fairbury Hardware at 9. St. John's Lutheran Softball team advanced to the second round of the Beatrice Invitational softball tournament last night.

defeating Elk Creek 8-1, in a first-round contest. But they lost, too. Their loss was "Whitey" Aden, a speed merchant who played in the centerfield spot for St. John's. Lost for Season He is lost to the local team for the rest of the tournament, and season, because he chipped an ankle bone while sliding into third base during the 1 sixth inning.

"Whitey" was taken to a local hospital where a cast was put on his leg. Adolph Gerdes, tournament director, announced that a benefit softball game will be played in the near future, the proceeds to help Whitey's cause. Aden sparked the Lutherans' win over Elk Creek with a home run. Millard.JBoehmer also collected a circuit clout and Al Knispel whacked a triple. St.

John's scored in every inning but 4th and 6th. The team collected 11 hits off the Elk Creek pitcher. Cleo Aden, St. John's hurler, held Elk Creek to five scattered hits. Last Ditch Stand In the other game of the evening, the Fairbury Commercial Travelers made a last ditch s'and in the bottom of the seventh inning, collecting a pair of runs and a 6-5 victory over Currier Lumber.

The lumber outfit led going into the bottom of the seventh, 5-4, having scored three in the first inning, adding another pair in the third. It was a hard game to lose because when Fairbury's runs came. Curried had two out on their opponents The score by innings: Elk Creek 000 001 '5 4 St. John's 311 030 11 0 two a double, two singles and an error produced half a runs for the victors. The line score: Hastings ....206 210 14 9 Sewnrd ....002 000 532 Davey (W), Hasse (71 and Perdew; Beckman (L), Woods (5) and Suhr, Polman.

OMAHA, Aug. 2. Deckers and McFaydens were winners in the opening games of the Omaha area American Legion Junior )aseball tourney here last night. Deckers beat Sidles 7 to 6 ind McFaydcns halted Murphys 5-4. Sidles and Murphys are matched onight and Art Millers will take on Deckers.

McFaydens got a into Thursday night's play. Curriers 302 000 6 2 Fairbury Ill 100 2 6 6 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 60 New York 60 Cleveland 60 Boston 55 Washington 44 Chicago 39 St. Louis 34 Philadelphia 34 Pet. G. 34 .638 36 .625 1 38 .612 2 43 .561 7 50 .468 16 60 .394 23 Va 62 .354 27 63 .351 21 Vz NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 59 40 .596 St.

Louis 54 41 .568 3 Brooklyn 52 40 .565 3 Boston 53 41 .564 3 New York 45 47 .489 10 Chicago 41 51 .446 14 Va Cincinnati 39 56 .411 18 Pittsburgh 34 61 .358 23 WEST POINT, Aug. 2. Fremont and Grand Island, ach with ono loss in the Area American Legion Junior baseball double elimination touma- mcnt here, will meet tonight. Last nipht Fremont eliminated West Point 9-1. Millard Grand Island its first defeat, 12-5.

The winner of tonight's game play unbeaten Millard tomorrow night. Kremkc, who hurled for Millard last night, pitched no hit mil until the seventh when Grand Islnnd pushed across three runs. The line scores: Fremont 323 000 12 3 West Point 000 010 2 5 Lord and Ostrand; Kaup, Gus- tnfson (3) and Pcatrowsky. Millard ....302 021 0-40--12 9 G. Island ....000 000 31.1—5 4 Kremkc and Backhaus; Brooks, Senkbile (5), Mangelson (8) and Rajewich.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Aug. 2. Platte won a place in the State American Legion Junior baseball finals by beating Scottsbluff 8 to 4 in the finals of the Area A tourney here last night. Dick Gilman pitched the winner, fanning 15 batters and allowing only four hits, two of them in the third and held Scottsbluff to a single unearned run until the ninth when''the home team made its two hits count for three tallies. Gilman had hurled North Platte to 6-3 victory in the tournament opener.

Scoreboard AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 000 012 6 0 Detroit 002 005 11 1 Byrne. Ford (6) and Berra; Trout and Swift. Boston 003 010 10 0 St. Louis 030 000 7 3 Parnell and Batts; Marshall, Johnson (9) and Lollar. Philadelphia 000 001 5 2 Chicago 123 002 9 0 Burtschey, Schantz (3) and Guerra; Pierce and Masi.

Washington 010 010 10 1 Cleveland 001 231 11 0 Hudson, (6), Singleton (8) and Evans; Wynn and Hegan. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 000 024 8 0 Boston 000 010 6 3 Boyer and Rice; Chipman, Hogue 18) and Cooper. Pittsburgh 410 322 18 2 Brooklyn 017 105 25 0 (Completion of June 24 game) Chambers, Dickson (3), Queen (3), Papish (4), Werle (5), Borowy (6), Lombardi (7) and Turner. McCullough (8); Branca, Barney 2), Bankhead (5), Roe (6) and Campanella.

Pittsburgh 010 000 5 0 Brooklyn 200 000 4 0 (Regular game) Chambers, Law (8) and McCullough; Palica and Campanella. Cincinnati 300 010 13 0 Philadelphia 010 040 8 1 Wchmeier, Smith (5), Hetki (6), Perkowski (8) and Landrith, Howell (8); Miller, Konstanty (9) and Seminick. (Second game) Cincinnati 200 100 8 0 Philadelphia 000 010 4 2 Blackwell and Howell; Simmons, Candini (4), Konstanty (9) and Lopata. QUICK Nashem of Greenwich, sails head over heels over fence while her mount, Monmouth Boy, stops on the other side to think things over during the Lakeville Horse Show. Football Great Still Has Skill Guy Chamberlain, formerly of Blue Springs, currently living in Nebraska City, hasn't lost the knack of making the kind of a flying tackle that helped him become one of Nebraska's gridiron greats.

Chamberlain who played his football at the University of Nebraska, and his wife, the former Bernice Weekes, Beatrice, returned homf: late the other night. When Chamberlain put his hat in the closet, it came right back out the head of an intruder who had been in the apartment, closet. The intruder got the same treatment that Nebraska's football opponents once got from the ex- football star. A' Flying Tackle floored the visitor and when police Chamberlain had a firm hold on the man who identified himself as Philip Roberts of Alameda, who said he was "just looking for a glass of 1 Chamberlain played in 1915 and '16. He was an end, but was generally shifted to the backfield on offensive plays.

Phils Lose Curt Simmons; He's First To Go To War YESTERDAY'S STARS BATTING: Vic Wertz, Tigers- Hit two homers and single, driving in three runs, as Detroiters protected their league lead with 7-3 win over New York. PITCHING: Dizzy Trout, for Art Houtteman, checked Yankees with six hits to give Bengals one game lead in tight American league race. NIGHT BASEBALL Sunday. Aug. 6 8:15 pan.

at Odell Ball Park ODELL FAIRBURY Thursday, Aug. 3 at Odell Qdell vi, Humboldt INDIANTOWN GAP, Aug. 2 Like a lot ot guys who arc going to have dreams turn to nightmares, I'll make the best of it." says youiiH Curt Simmons, the first major league player to trade baseball flannels tor army khaki in the current war. The 21-year-old southpaw of the Philadelphia Phillies was called to active service with the army yesterday when the war department activated his National Guard 28th Division of Pennsylvania. Curt will report to Camp Atterbury near Ebensburg, on or about Sept.

1. Special Pass Simmons got a special pass from the Pennsylvania guard's summer encampment here last night to seek his lath National league victory against Cincinnati at Philadelphia. But the Reds wouldn't cooperate. In the second game of a twi-night twin bill they knocked Curt from the box in the fourth inning. Simmo'ns took the kayo in his typical unruffled fashion.

"I hope I have better luck against those Reds in Korea," he joshed, The youngster really couldn't be blamed for his inept pitching last night. He was on his feet from the sounding of the bugle at: 5:15 a. Tuesday morning until he arrived via private piano in Philadelphia and was rushed to Shibe park, where Trainer Frank Weichec rubbed down the boy's tired muscles. How does Curt feel about the quick chain of events that lifted him from a pitcher battling for a pennant to a soldier fighting for his country 1 "Of course it's a tough break but I'll do what thousands of other fellows are going to have to in and help get the war over so I can get back to playing baseball." Simmons probably will pitch several more games before he says goodbye to his team mates. He, can obtain passes for night game chores while finishing out the present guard encampment at Indiantown Gap.

After that he'll have to leave to clean up business affairs before reporting to Camp Atterbury. Only Pitching Business "I haven't any business to clean up with the exception of maybe winning a few more games that might help the Phillies win the pennant. I'll pitch as much as I can before leaving." An army officer in Washington said yesterday that it will be up to individual commanding officers whether major league players like Simmons will be issued passes to play occasional games with their teams while stationed in the U. S. Club President Bolv Carpenter was philosophical about tire loss of his $65,000 bonus investment that, was just beginning to pay "Curt, like a lot of other boys lias been called to win a bigger fight than the no for the National league pennant.

Naturally it's a tough blow to our team but that's life," Carpenter said. The Phillies' president said he has no immediate plans to replace Simmons with any one from the club's farm system. "We'll have to wait a while and see what develops," he said. Four Yearn Ago Simmons, a native of Egypt, came to the Phillies four years ago after graduation from high school. A host of major league clubs tried to sign the boy but the Phillies grabbed him for $65,000.

Each season, Curt displayed signs of greatness on the mound, but he never quite made the grade. He seemed to lack the stamina that is so vitally necessary to a consistent winner. Owner Carpenter and Manager Eddie Sawyer were patient. They agreed with baseball men from all over the league that the slim built kid with the blazing fast ball would find himself and more than pay off for their investment in time' and money. This year, Simmons grew up.

He is the leading pitcher on a young, hustling team that presently leadn the National league and quite possibly may win a pennant. His call to active tary duty can mean the differen between the Phillies' first pennant in 35 years and a. second, third or fourth place finish. From Fremont comes word about the State American Legion Junior baseball tournament which starts Sunday, lasts through Wednesday, or Thursday, if necessary Four games will be played Sunday, two in the afternoon, two in the evening. Two games will be played Monday night and a single on Tuesday, Wednesday, and if necessary, Thursday.

The winnei to the York Regional, Aug. 20-23 to compete against othei state champions from Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. Sunday's games will start at 12:30 3:30, 5:30 and 8:30 p. m. Monday night games will begin at 5:30 and 8:30.

The single games from Tuesday on will start at 8 p. m. lest Beati Coke 8-6 In Extra Frame It took extra innings, but the Best Plumbing division midgets conquered the Coca Cola 8-6, last night at the Scott street diamond. With the score tied at 5-5, at the end of regulation playing time, Best unloaded in the extra inning with three runs while holding their ooponents to one. Oddly enough, in the fifth inning, the Best kids, scored on run in their half, the Coke kids, three.

The box score: ah Brainard, 3h ..4 1 1 Wursler, ss 2 0 0 Eyth, ss 1 0 1 Brainard, Ib 3 1 Knowles, If 2 0 0 Newton, If 1 1 1 William, 2b 2 I 1 Hausman. cf 3 0 0 Vontz. rf 0 1 0 rf 1 1 0 Simic, 3 1 1 Jansen, 3 1 1 Totals 24 8 fi Coca (6) ab Turnbull, cf 4 1 2 Gruoe, 3 2 0 Engler, 2b 3 1 1 Morris, ss 3 0 2 O'Neill. 3b 3 0 0 Wollenberg, Ib 3 0 0 Skalla, If 3 0 1 Scoegins, 3 0 0 Williams, rf 1 0 0 May, rf 2 2 1 Totals 28 6 7 Score by inninks: Best 110 6 3 Coke 7 4 Beatrice Daily Sim, Beatrice. 2, Merchants Uproot Marysvillettes 16-4 (The Sun's Own Service) MARYSVILLE --The Beatrice Merchants' rode roughshod over the Marysvillettes here Monday night by a score of 16-4, The Merchants held their opponents scoreless until the bottom half of the seventh inning when the Mai-ysvillettes collected their four runs.

The Beatrice gals scored 11 of their runs in the first fchree innings, added another in the sixth, then topped off their total with another four in the top half of the seventh. Marg Wieck, playing shortstop, and Gwen McCoy, rightfie'lder, wielded the big bats for the Merchants. Wieck got four hits' for five times at bat while Gwen collected a being officially at bat three times. J. Roschewski, Merchants hurler, pitched a good game, allowing (lie Marysvillettes but five hits.

The local gals played errorless hall. The score by innings: Merchants 263 001 10 0 Marysville 000 000 50 Beatrice and Hastings decide to night, or perhaps, tomorrow night which will enter in -the tournament. We've got our fingers crocs-' ed for the Fords. We're hoping they'll come out of tonight's game the winner and representative to the state meet. They, in our opinion, have the edge.

Hastings has played three games in a row, while the Fords had a well-earned rest last evening. They wilt be comparatively rested tonight and ready to go. Tribe Sells Bearden To Washinrrton Team Aug. 2 UP) Cleveland Indians sold Pitcher Gene Bearden to the Washington Nationals for the $10,000 waiver price. The lanky southpaw, hero of the Tribe's 1948 pennant drive, will be in a Washington uniform when the two clubs meet here to- riight, for the sale is effective immediately.

Bearden 'has pitched in only 14 games for the Indians this year and has a record of one victory against three defeats. The Indianaool's Clowns won the first half Eastern title in the Negro American Baseball League while the- Kansas City Monarchs won the Western section. Detroit's Vic Wertz Again Gets Tigers Over The Hump BY JOE REICHLER AP Sports Writer The sensational stickwork of Vic Wertz is keeping the Detroit Tigers on top in the pulse-pounding American league pennant race. If Werlz hadn't picked this week to go on a .764 batting tear, the Tigers might be deep down in third place today instead of leading the field by one full game. His big bat has personally accounted for four Detroit triumphs in the Tigers' current home stand.

Tommy Byrne, an old Tiger tamer, found the feat impossible last night. As a result the southpaw lost his first game of the season to the Tigers, who went on to whip the New York Yankees, 7-3, in the first of an all-important three-game series. Two Home Runs Wertz hammered two home runs and a single and drew a walk in four times at bat, to drive in three runs. The pair of four- baggers gave the 200-pound outfielder seven homers in five consecutive games. That tied a record set by Babe Ruth in 1921 and equalled by Jim of the St.

Louis Cardinals in 1929. Dizzy Trout, a last minute pitching replacement for ailing Art Houtteman, turned in a masterful job in turning back the Yankees with six hits. He was behind only once when he served a two-run homer to Jonhny Mize in the sixth. That gave the Yankees a short-lived 3-2 advantage. The Tigers bounced back with five runs in their half of the sixth on Wertz' second homer and two-run singles by Johnny Lipon and George Kell.

Houtteman came up with a sore side muscle before he was to pitch. Cleveland's third place Indians shot to within a game of second when they defeated Washington, 8-2. Jim Hcgan paced the Tribe's 11-hit attack with a double, triple and home run. He battered in four fourth place Boston Red runs. The Sox continued their domination ever the St.

Louis Browns with a 7-3 victory. Mel Parnell went the route for his eighth triumph. Walt Dropo rapped three hits for the victors, drove in two runs and took over the league's RBI lead with 101. Chlsox Win Billy Pierce pitched the Chi- cago White Sox to an easy win over Philadelphia. The National league race tightened when Brooklyn swept two- games from Pittsburgh, 21-12 and 3-1 to close wtihin three and a halt games of the pace setting Philadelphia Phils.

The Phillies split a pair with Cincinnati, winning the opener, 6-4, and losng the second, 4-1. The Cardinals regained second place, three games off the pace, thrashing the Boston Braves, 6-1. The defeat dropped the Braves into fourth place, one percentage point behind the Dodgers. Del Ennis smashed his fifth homer in six games and drove in two more tallies With a single to pace the Phils to their first game triumph as Rookie Bob Miller notched his 10th win. Ewell Black well gave the Reds an even break with a four-hitter in the nightcap.

Knocked Out Of Box Army-bound Curt Simmons, who flew in to pitch for Philadelphia after getting a special pass from the National Guard, was knocked out in the fourth inning. He was charged with his sixth defeat. He has won 14. It took the Dodgers five weeks to get their June 24 victory over Pittsburgh in the official records. But they finally did it last night when they concluded the suspended game prior to playing their regularly scheduled one.

Erv Palica allowed only five hits in the regular game. A homer by Pete Castiglione depi'ived him of a Shutout. The scheduled game between the New York Giants and Chicago Cubs was postponed by rain. Exhibition Ball At Athletic Park An exhibition baseball game will be played in Athletic park tonight, under the sponsorship of Bitting-Norman Post 27 of the American Legion. Playing will versus Hanover.

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