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THE TIMES. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9. 1940 Hustling Boston Bees Hottest Team in National League Race PAGE FOURTEEN BY HAM FISHER JOE PALOOKA Knees, Head, Elbows, Etc. fY Outing Club Net Tourney to Open Aug.

19 'A'' y. "tyy -A a Phillies Drop Four Straight To Slengcliiicn Latest Spurt Pulls Club Out of Cellar Pitchers Come Through Total of 37 Entries Received All Members Are Eligible FELLER WINS 19TH WHAT A FI6HTER-IT WAS BEAUTIFUL- TOE WAS IN A TIGHT SPOT A SECOND AGO BUT HE WAS SUDDENLY OUT 'JOE SEEMS 70 HAVE RECOVER Cleveland Muffs Chance to Take Lead by Splitting With Browns OF IT AND TO THE SIDE-HE WHIRLED BALONKI'S KNEES BUCKLED-AND HE FELL TOWARD PALOOKA-NOW HE'S HOLDING FOR DEAR LFE-HS FACE-IS CONTORTED" HE'S OUT OF BREATH -JOE IS TRYING TO PUSH HIM AWAY. HOLDNb ON-- AND rLASTEREP RUFFS WITH A LEFT BALONKI 19 USING ELBOWS, KNEES AND HEAD-HE' THE DIRTIEST F6HTER I'VE EVER SEEN BALONKI TRIES FURIOUSLY TO TEAR HOOK TO HIS FAT SIDE-uta LOOSE -JOE HOLDS ON FOR DEAR LIFE. Entries in the Outing club tennis tournament, which will be held on the club courts from Aug. 19 to Aug.

25, now total 37, according to an announcement today by Mrs W. J. Lohmiller, chairman of the event. Wednesday is the deadline for entries. Open to any member of the Outing club, the tourney will be divided into four classes.

These are the boys' division for those under 16, the men's class for those over 16, the division for girls under 16 and the class for girls over 16. Two days will be allowed for the completion of each round. Assisting Mrs Lohmiller on the committee in change are Miss Jane Lohmiller and Mr K. Spelletich. The entries to date: Boys' division Wallv Priester.

Dick Driver Injured Play Semi-Finals In Country Club Event Tomorrow Night Baseball Erases Red Ink Of Major Clubs Halligan Meets McCabe in One Match Skinner Is raired With Norton Cedar Rapids Has Favorite's Grip On Legion Title Can Sew Up Crown Today by Defeating Ottumwa, 1939 Champion GAMES TOIAY Bancroft vs. nuncil nhiffs. Cfdar Kapids vs. Ottumwa. ROCKWELL CITY, la.

(AP) Cedar Rapids could sew up the Iowa American Legion junior baseball title today but first the Cedar Rapids boys must defeat Ottumwa, 1939 title winner. Cedar Rapids already has won Renty, Bob Jacobs. Ed Sitz, Steve Spelletich, Dick Schultz and Buddy Lusk. Men's division Nevin Jacob's. Johnson, Hill Johnson, Don Sitz.

Bob Friestrr. Ed Priester, Mr H. Priester, Tom Nobis. Dick Nobis. Don McDonald.

John Syverud, Ren Mueller. Harry Bartlctt, Stewart Burg and Neil Simon-son. Girls under lfi Terete Spaeth. Janet Nobis. Mary Muhs, Louetta Peters-berger, Janet Copeland, Kathleen Meyer and Shirley Meyer.

Girls over 16 Mary Weaver, Madeline Spelletich. Jane Lohmiller. Janet Larson, Marian Hanson, Jean Hanson, Katherine Englehart and Jean IXDIANOLA, la. (AP) Bayless Leverett, 26, was recovering in a Des Moines hospital today of Injuries sustained yesterday in a pile-up of racing cars on the Warren county race track. Leverett's injuries included a brain concussion and burns about the face and arms.

He Is from Glendale, Calif. Two other drivers injured in the pile-up were Glen Coffman of Ames, and Roger Ramas-cus of Los Angeles. Gus Schradcr, Cedar Rap-Ids driver, just missed being involved in the accident. He went on to win the event. Women to Qualify on Aug.

19 Women golfers of the quad-cities are invited to compete in the second annual Daily Times championship tournament which will get under way Aug. 19 at the Duck Creek course. Qualifying for the tournament will be held on Monday Auk. The low sixteen entrants will then compete In the championship flight. Match play is scheduled to open Tuesday, Aug.

20. The second round will be played on Aug. 21, the semifinals on Aug. 22 and the finals on Friday, Aug. 23.

Lower flights will be arranged for the entrants who do not qualify for the championship flight. The second 16 qualifiers will compete in Class the next 16 in Class and so on until all qualifiers have an opportunity to play in at least one round of match play. Entries are now being received by the sports editor of The Times. The tournament is open to any woman golfer in the quad-cities, members of private and public clubs being especially invited to compete. There is no entry fee but entrants will pay the usual greens fee at the Duck Creek course.

Mrs II. R. Staats of the Davenport Country club Is the defending champion. Last year the Arsenal club and the Davenport Country club provided many of the entrants, with the Davenport Municipal Women's club winning a large share of the trophies. Tournament chairmen at each of the private and public clubs are urged to secure a list of their entrants as soon as possible.

George Skinner, Paul Norton, Tom Halligan and George McCabe will tee off Saturday noon in the semi-finals of the Davenport Country club men's championship golf tournament. Skinner meets Norton and Halligan goes against McCabe in tomorrow's 18-hole matches. Survivors of these two matches BATES VTI.LE Ark -Bob Sikes. 192. Pine Bluff, knocked out Al Globe, 177, Chicago, (4).

CHICAGO. (AP) Night baseball, with neot assist from a tight pennant race, is rapidly erasing the red ink from the books of American league clubs. Even the St. Louis Browns, worst drawing club in the circuit, face a fine chance of breaking even this season for the first time in recent years, mainly because the team has 14 games under lights. American league teams have avernged 18,000 spectators in 25 ight games this season, indicating that close to 650,000 fans will see the 35 night games of the current campaign.

The increase in night baseball has done its part to boost the league's attendance, which is up a half million over this date in 1939. That there will be more night games next season than this year is a certainty. 4 LKi Vi3 UD Cl MenVFoiirney BY GEORGE KIKKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. (UP)- After July 4th the fans haven't much time or thought for clubs down in seventh and eighth places but Casey Stengel and his Boston Bees should be in line for special consideration as a result of their recent comeback. Beaten nine straight times and lodged in the National league cellar, the Bees got a grip on themselves a week ago when the league-leading Reds moved into the Bee hive.

The picture wasn't very inviting for the Bees with the Reds scheduled to play them three straight double-headers in three days. Stengel had tossed 26 pitchers into the battle pit in nine games in an effort to find a winner. How could he hope to halt the Reds with their polished pitching staff topped by Paul Derringer and Bucky Walters? But Stengel came up with four winners (Strincevich, Salvo, Sullivan and Errickson) in the Cincinnati series and the Bees gained momentum for the drive to get out of the cellar. After winning 4 out of 6 from the Reds, the Bees invaded" Philadelphia to battle the seventh place Phillies. Hitting and hustling like they were headed for a juicy world series cut, the Bees ran off four straight victories against the Phils and moved out of the dungeon.

Tobin Wins No. 1 The Bee's latest triumph was a 6-2 win over the Phillies yesterday. Jim Tobin, who has been laid up most of the season, outpitched Hugh Mulcahy to score his season's first victory, allowing only seven hits. Mulcahy was tapped for six hits in seven frames and suffered his 12th defeat against as many victories. It was the Phils' eighth straight defeat.

Eddie Miller's homer and single drove in three runs. Bucky Walters got back on the victory route by pitching the Reds to a 3-1 triumph over the Cubs. It was Walters' 16th triumph. He gave up nine hits but was aided by three Cinncinnati double plays. Ival Goodman's single in the fifth drove in what proved to be the winning run.

Larry French allowed only six hits in losing but walked five men. Dolf Camilli's homer with two mates aboard in the twelfth enabled the Dodgers to make it three straight over the Giants, 6-3. Bill Lohrman had the Dodgers licked, 3-1, going into the seventh when Peewee Reese hit a homer with a mate on base to tie the score. Wes- games in the round-robin tournament, knocking off Bancroft yesterday, 3 to 1. Ottumwa returned to the winning column yesterday at the expense of Council Bluffs, 5 to 3.

Ottumwa lost to Bancroft in the first day of competition. Council Bluffs was out of the title running because of its two losses. Yesterday's scores: Council Bluffs 001 200 0003 9 5 Ottumwa 001 000 4u' 5 8 4 Nnnset and Babbitt: Ware and Quinn. Cedar Rapids 101 010 0003 111 2 Bancroft 000 000 0101 6 1 Tvrdik and Knake; Smith and Dud-ding. Schedule Announced For New Pro League Comedians Beat Leading Men in Hollywood Game Fun Galore Furnished for 25,000 Diamond Gets Hard Useage 0: C0 will clash Sunday in the 36-hole title encounter to determine the successor to the title vacated by Dr.

Paul Barton, who defaulted in the first round due to his forced absence from the city. The Sunday rounds will be started at 9 a. m. and 2 p. m.

Youthful Halligan has provided the fireworks in the first two rounds played last week-end by ousting a pair of favored opponents. The young giant-killer dropped Arne Huhta in the first round, 1 up, and came through with a 3 and 1 victory over Joe Von Maur, former champion, in Sunday's second round. If he is able to continue the pace he set against Von Maur, when he posted a scintillating par total for the first 17 holes, Halligan will be a decided favorite to enter the finals probably against Skinner, who has been playing fine golf in the upper bracket. Lower flight survivors of last week will swing into action again tomorrow afternoon. Sixteen players, equally divided among the four classes, remain in the lower ley Flowers, Dodger southpaw up from Louisville, held the Giants to three hits the last six innings and was tight in the pinches.

No. 19 for Feller Cleveland muffed an opportunity to move into the American league lead by dividing a twin bill with the Browns. Bob Feller scored his 19th triumph in the opener, 7-4. He was rapped for 10 hits, including a homer by Rip Radcliff Men golfers of the Rock Is-land Arsenal club will begin their qualifying rounds Saturday for the annual club championship tournament. They will have until 1 p.

m. Tuesday to complete their qualifying test of 36 holes medal play. Match play will begin on Wednesday. Second round competition will take place on Thursday with the semi-finals scheduled for Friday and the 36-hole title match slated for Saturday. Defending champion Is Tom McCarthy who nipped Maurice Donrgan in the finals last year by a 1 up margin.

NATIONAL EAGLE CREAM OF KENTUCKY WALKER'S 93 99 Full Si 29 Quart 1 flights. The semi-finals in Classes and will be played Saturday with the title contests slated for Sunday. 79 79 Full Pint Full Pint COLUMBUS, O. (UP) President W. D.

Griffith of the new American Professional Football league announced today that the six members of the league would play home-and-home games with every other team in the circuit during the 30-game schedule this fall. In addition to league games, the teams Milwaukee Chiefs, Buffalo Indians, Boston Bears, Columbus Bullies, New York Yankees and Cincinnati Bengals have scheduled exhibition games with other pro teams, Griffith said. The schedule lists six night contests, three to be held at Buffalo and one each at New York, Cincinnati and Boston. The league opens its season Sept. 15 with Columbus playing at Milwaukee, and winds up Dec.

1 when the Chiefs play Cincinnati at Crosley field. Times Want Ads bring results. but had the game under control all the way. The Browns won the nightcap on three hits, 2-1, with Eldon Auker nosing out Johnny Humphries in a hurler's duel. An error and two walks loaded the bases and Don Heffner's long fly sent across the Browns' winning run in the sixth.

A 2-run rally in the ninth enabled the Red Sox to come from behind and beat the Yankees, 6-5, and make it four out of five over the ex-Bronx bombers. Joe Cron-in's single drove in the winning run. Emerson Dickman went the route, allowing nine hits. Jimmy Foxx hit homer No. 26.

Sam Chapman's single and doubles as Bob Johnson and Babe Siebert produced two runs in the tenth and the Athletics beat out the Senators, 6-4. Chapman previously had hit his 17th homer. 7 Standings Mike Jacobs Will Be Sole Owner if He Buys Brooklyn Does Not Want Partnership or Syndicate Ready to Talk Price BY ROBERT MYERS LOS ANGELES. (AP) It is always difficult to say whether Hollywood's annual baseball burlesque should carry a sports or a dramatic heading, and last night's hilarious production between the heroes and comedians of the screen was no exception. Twenty-five thousand men, women nd autograph hunters jammed Wrigley field, and what they and Bucky Jones' horses did to the park will be further determined tonight when the Los Angeles ball club takes over for its regular chores.

Suffice to say, Mr Wrigley's groundkeeper took one look at Andy Devine in a stagecoach drawn by four squealing nags rounding second base and hurried home in a state of nervous collapse. Had he waited, he would have seen Buck's equinine entourage arrive in a cloud of dust on the pitcher's mound, play musical chairs around the bases, and depart in favor of 200 Leroy Prinz dancing girls and boys, 'all in high heels. The crowd overflowed into the outfield, and gradually edged in to the base line. Everyone was perfectly safe that close to the batter's box, because few of the cinema idols could hit the ball out of the infield. THREE I LEAGtE Prt.

Sprlniffield SS 36 .609 Odar Rapids 39 Clinton 53 38 .583 Evansville SO 40 Decatur 47 44 Madison 43 46 .483 MOUSE 32 51 .352 Waterloo 28 3 .308 CAS Case of 24 Regular Size Bottles $IQ9 YESTERDAY'S RESt'LTS fpd.ir Rapids, Clinton, J. Evansville, 4: MOLIN'E, 3. Deratur at Sprineficld. wet grounds. Chicago (A), Waterloo, (exhibition).

GAMES TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MOI.INE at Evansville. Decatur at Sprinsfield. Clinton at Cedar Rapids. Waterloo at Madison. AMERICAN LEAGUE CANNED BEER I.

Pet. G.B. WW Detroit S3 41 14 BOO 548 Cleveland 42 Roston 57 47 ChlcaifO 50 49 .505 W'i PICNIC BEER 1 Galltn V' New York 50 51 .495 11'2 45 58 .437 174 Washington St. Louis 69 44 S3 .411 Zin-j Case of 24 Cans BY SID.FEDER NEW YORK. (AP) If and when Mike Jacobs buys the Brooklyn baseball Dodgers and Mike says it's more "when" than "if" right now the only "syndicate" involved will be Michael Strauss Jacobs, himself.

Laughing at the talk that he's only one of a group in the deal, "Uncle Mike" explained carefully today that up to now it has been strictly a "lone wolf" proposition. "Why should I take a lot of other men in the thing?" he pointed out. "The bank (Brooklyn Trust which controls 51 per cent of the Dodger stock) came to me as an individual and started the negotiations. We've reached the stage now where we're going to get down to talking price. "If it looks like a good thing from business standpoint, I'd be pretty silly to cut a lot of other guys in.

Sure, I may have to have help in the financing, but I know where to get the dough without getting tangled up with a lot of Mike can't see how any hitch can come into the sale now. Incidentally, he has no idea of giving up fight promoting just because he may own a big league ball club. "I get too much of a kick out of putting on fights, and maneuvering around," he said. "Why should I quit?" "Some guys are saying I don't know anything about baseball. Well, I wasn't a boxer, either, before I started promoting fights." He doesn't know yet what the price for the club will be, but the guess is within shouting distance of $2,000,000.

Philadelphia 40 61 .396 21 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Boston, New York. S. Cleveland. 7-1: St. Louis, 4-2.

Philadelphia, Washington, 4 (10 innings). Chicago-Detroit not scheduled. GAMES TOMORROW Cleveland at St. Louis. Philadelphia at New York.

Boston at Washington. Detroit at Chicago. NATIONAL LEAGUE All Popular Brands The show opened with a grand parade led by Paulette Goddard and Marlene Dietrich. After that, old reliable Butter Keaton drew a big hand and once again proved that he can really catch a ball. Dennis Morgan was the batting star, hitting one of Brodcrick Crawford's pitches clear into short right field.

The Three Stooges played third base, ail at the same time, armed with butterfly nets. The final score was something like 4V2 for the comedians they had a midget, Jerry Maringe, make one run to 3 plus for the leading men. Boris Karloff, in complete Frankenstein makeup, tallied once for the heroes, the comedians letting him round the bases without molestation, and their plus run came on a homer by the invisible man, who wasn't there at all. Or maybe it was Yehudi. It wasn't quite clear.

7 I j. I -v- -g "OvvV 7-A ft fa a tur 'tin-M Pet. G.B. Cincinnati S4 34 .653 Brooklyn SO 40 .600 5 New York 51 45 ,531 12 Chirago 53 51 .510 II Pittsburgh 49 48 .505 144 St, Louis 47 50 .485 16 '4 Boston 37 SI .378 27 Philadelphia 32 64 .333 31 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS 79 Case of 24 Bottles FALSTAFF MILLER'S BLATZ GRAIN BELT BERGHOFF DREWRY'S pbS finest atl. Straight Bourbon, the typical whiskey of America, is at its best in Century Club.

It is distilled in the heart of America's rich grain belt where production costs are low and you get more real whiskey quality for your money. 3 BOTTLES 25c Palmer Van Fleet Wins Medal Honors In Des Moines Golf Cincinnati, Chirago, 1. Boston, Philadelphia, 2. Brooklyn, New York, 3 (12 In-nings). Only games scheduled.

GAMES TOMORROW Chicago at Pittsburgh, Brooklyn at Boston. New York at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Cincinnati. YESTERDAY'S RESt'LTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis, Toledo, 4.

Columbus, Louisville, 4. St. Paul, Milwaukee. 2. Mlnneapoliss-Kansas City postponed.

"Let Your Own Taste Tell You" INTERSTATE UiU CLU DES MOINES, la. (AP) Palmer Van Fleet of Fairfield took medalist honors in the annual Schoolmasters' Golf meet here yesterday with a 76. Van Fleet finished a stroke ahead of L. C. Taylor, Eddyville instructor.

Taylor is the defending champion. G. C. Gamberling of Stuart fired a 73, but he was disqualified because he was not registered with a school. Match play in 13 flights started today.

Dodgers Win in 12th NEW YORK. (AP) The Brooklyn Dodgers maintained their mastery over the Giants Thursday with a 6 to 3 victory on Dolph Camilli's 12th home run with two on and two out in the 12th inning. It was the Dodcers' ninth triumph in 12 games against the Giants, and continued their record of not having lost a game in the Polo Grounds this year. Two of Brooklyn's other runs also came on a homer, a blast by Peewee Peese with one on to tie the score in the seventh. Score: Brooklyn 1 no 000 200 003 fl 10 1 New York 030 000 000 0003 12 2 Davis.

Flowers and Phelps. Lohrman and Danning. LIQUOR STORES Athletirs Win in 10th WASHINGTON D. The Philadelphia Athletics beat the Washington Senators, 8 to 4, Thursday with a splurge of doubles in the ninth and tenth innings. Philadelphia 021 ooo nni 2 8 1 Washington 100 020 100 04 1 0 2 Caster.

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