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PACE SIX THE DAILY MICMlCAN SATURDAY, SEPT. 14,1940. Concede Title to Tigers OEWM Tommy Bridges Pitches as Bengaffr Blank Yanks, 8 to 6 I DETROIT, Sept. Encouraging news came to the TlgerS today when many of the baseball experts accompanying the New York Yankees on their Sports in the Open (By LOUIS BOCKSTANZ) I against carelessness with fire. Although your reporter had Although fall is usually a period no choice bxit to wear his white much rain, it is also a period shoes a few days past Labor drying leaves and high dav.

don't let it kid you, for, winds, both of which can con- Tribute to 'The Father of the Fleet' (Continued from Page 1) Ing, developed them into maturity to the position they occupy best-known, best- equipped carferry fleet in the world. Mr. Mercereau's active business life was entirely devoted to, and co-incident with, the creation of this modern, well-organized, well-operated fleet. For 31 years he lived carferries, declining for 25 years of the period i i. billing 1U1 jrcmo vi Cleveland Indians Stay ClOSe even to take a vacation.

summer is gone. are better than sandburr season which, after all, is the only time a person ill-fated trip here announced! actually wants to wear shoes. that' they had conceded the As we said, however, summer tb Detroit. Now all the is gone. It may have slipped out Tigers have to do is go out and the first of August this win on ball field.

year for all we know but we shoes tribute to a dangerous condi- bare feet in tion within a few hours. The conservation department is taking special to combat woods fires when the season for hunting opens but it is also largely up to the sportsmen to see that no fires are started. All I The business came! prefer to believe that it was as tfce Bengals and Yanks here at least during that awaited the "play ball" signal month, even if thoroughly for their final game of the year. In possession of straight victories over New York, the Ti- i) gersr, led with big Louie (Buck) Newborn, winner of 18 games 4 and Ibser of but three this sea- son. Chandler got the call from Manager Joe thy of the Yankees.

Friday the Tigers did every'- thing-but chase the Yanks off now the duck hunters will take the ipremises with 6h 8 to 0 vie- to the field and streams and, soaked in cold, rainy weather. We have no doubts that fall is here now for we have seen ducks on the wing, have seen small birds by the hundreds preparing for their annual mi- apply to lt matches. 1 0 to Tigers by Winning on Friday SPORTS OLD 2 By BILL WHITE (Associated Press Sports Writer.) For a team of "nine old men" that seemed destined to suffer from the altitude if it fifth place in the De- surprisingly spry. the rules of summer fires, cigarettes and See that no spark is left in your campfire or smokes for a spark is all that is needed to start a blaze and then a lot of Michigan's precious game cover and food will go up in smoke at can a season when Mother Nature is Twice they have stopped the no longer able to repair the! New York Yankees, the last Tagged last soring as an outfit that definitely had looked upon better days, the Tigers today are the not the in the Ameri- gration south and have heard! damage before winter and time Friday by a humiliating the plaintive fall call of the shortage of food in that partic- 8-0 shutout as little Tommy crow. A little over two weeks from ular area is bound to result.

Bridges curve-balled the Yanks That was victory in and tory, scored befbreva crowd of 25,514 fans. Today a crowd in excels of was expected to watch Detroit tt-y for its 15th victory in 22 starts against New this season. "It was a nice said one triumph. "But what made it nicer Tommy's pitching. He's back, in the groove and will help us plenty now:" Tommy.

Tommy, arid the veteran came up with a six-hit'master- piece in which the 'Yankees didn't get a runner past first base after the Second inning. Bridges was shaky at'the start, allowing three hits, in two frames and "lacking control. When he. finally found himself it was an over and such Yankee siege-gunners as George Selkirk, Joe DiMaggio and Red Rolfe we'nt witless for the day. In winning therrieighth; game in the last nine starts to stay a half game up on Cleveland, the Tigers made 16 hits, the blows including Hank Greenberg's 33rd'homer of the year and his seventh in nine games.

Rudy York had a double and three McCoskey bbetts tJhree No. for had trouble winning consistently. NEWYOBK O. A 1 Gordon, 2b 1 45 Rolfe, 3b 4 0,0 2 1 Selkirk, it 2 0 0 0 DiMaggio, ct 4 0 0 2 0 Keller, It 4 Olio Dickey, 0 2 5 2 Dahlgren, Ib 3 0 1 8 0 Crosettl, SB 3 0 1 2 4 1 0000 Sundra, 1 0001 Chartak, i 0 0 0 Hadley, 0 0 01 Totals 0 24 14 for Sundra In 8th. DETROIT Bartell, ea 4 00 1 2 McCdsky, ct 5 13 2 1 Qehringer, 2b ,...2 2 -'0' 3 7 Greenberg, if 5 2 21 York, Ib 5 1 4 10 1 Higglns, 3b 4 01 2 1 Stalnback, rf .5 0 1 4 Tebbetts, 4 1 3 3 0 Bridges, 3 12 1 ....37 27 12 New York OOfcOOO "etrplt Selkirk.

-Rung batted 2, Ttork 3v McCosky 1 2, Tebbetts. Two base Home Stolen Cosky. Higglns, Bartell Double Oehrlnger; Higglns, Gehrlnger and York; Gordon, Crosettl and Dahlgren. Left on bases- New York 6, Detroit 11. Bases on 5 aU8 Off UBSO 1, off Sundra 2, Hadley 1, off Bridges 2.

Struck Russo 2, by Sundra 2, by Bridges 2. Kusso 8 In 3 ln- nines (none out In 4th); off Sundra 6 In Winnings; off Hadley 2 In 1. Losing Umpires Moiiarty, Hubbard) Rommel and Plpgras. 2:09. should they feel like taking a chance with all the regulations that surround the taking of migratory waterfowl, there will probably toe more duck hunters this year than any year since the federal government stepped in and slapped a dollar toll on each and every duck.

goose, hunter. The outstanding reason for expecting an in- into helplessness, the Tigers' eighth the last nine times out the fifth straight win over their two toughest foes, the Indians and the Yankees. Meanwhile the second place Cleveland Indians stayed close to the Tigers as Al Milnar and Boston's The first of Ludington's bowling leagues to get started will be start rolling on Monday evening. y9ung Jim Bagby threl a 1-0 scor! hitter be- crease in wildfowl hunters is I The Commercial league will hold the fact that the season has 1 been stretched this ypar and will extend from Oct. 1 to Nov.

29; Another good reason for an increase in hunting is that the day has been lengthened for them and they may start banging away at sunrise instead of waiting until 7 a. as last year. This kindness to the hunters which comes as a surpiise to many, was brought about by an increase in the population of We hope this time it can be continued and not that the population will immediately decrease and cause the invok-1 ing of stricter rules again. Although trout season is officially a thing of the past cause the Indians bunched singles by Roy Weatherly, and He inherited the job of Pere Marquette marine superintendent somewhat by chance in 1899 when the "fleet" consisted chiefly of an idea, plus one actual carferry. The thought of a "railway across Lake Michigan" had only just been conceived and it remained for Mr.

Mercereau to carve out his own policies and management and operating details. It was his lot to pioneer in the carferry field, and it was his heritage to retire only after the task had been well and ably done. At the time of his retirement, he was regarded as the foremost expert in the world on carferry constuction and management. As with all pioneer business genius, he faced a new idea and built it into a seasoned, successful, generally-accepted operating system. His life is the inevitable story of faith, hard work and ability at organization.

ing period there were six marine So Mr. Mercereau stepped into a disorganized and uncharted assignment: The packet steamers, it was felt, were on their way out, to be replaced by the modern carferry idea. One carferry, the Pere when numeral designation was adopted, it became Pere Marquette been built and placed In service the year before, in 1897. It was the first steel carferry on the Great Lakes. Mr.

Mercereau set about the task with the directness and determination of the man who knows what he wants to do and how to do it. A master of business detail, he soon brought order out of chaos and organized the business channels of his department on an efficient working Sensing that the Orie car- ferry was insufficient to handle the growing volume of freight being offered, and that numerous and disastrous complaints were piling up because of delays, he threw his whole faith and effort behind the carferry idea. Backed by the Pere. Marquette management, a new steel ship. No.

17 was built in 1901. It differed from its sister ship, No. 15. chiefly in the matter of more extensive calDin This part of the ship was planned entirely by Mr. Mercereau who Born at Union, N.

he throughout the period of the ves- worked in a drug store as a youth isel's construction was almost born in a drug store, I constantly at the shipyard in a meeting on Monday evening at Jef Heath, so that Weatherly the alleys, time of the meeting i SC ored the only run while a sel at 7:30 o'clock. double play was erasing Heath. The Industrial league schedule The only blows off Milnar, for next week lists games forj wn has now woa 16 and lost Monday and Tuesday. The' 8, were singles by Jimmy Foxx, we call attention to the one exception to the rules. Rainbow and steelhead trout may be taken during the months of September, October and November, provided they are taken from specially desig- schedule: Monday Rotary vs.

Nelson's Service. Weyenberg vs. Eagles No. 1. Recreation vs.

Oriole Cafe. Tuesday American Laundry vs. Baltzer's. Park Dairy vs Carrom. Central Shoe vs.

Eagles No. 2. Coach at Albion Is Optimistic (Editor's Note: This is the fifth of a series of articles discussing football prospects at Michigan colleges.) IJoe Cronin and Roger Cramer. The Chicago White Sox crept into fourth place by running their victory string to five straight with, a pair of victories over the 6-2 and 8-4. The Sox relied on steady pitching by Thornton Lee and Jack Hallett, a righthander making his major league debut.

Bill Trotter of the Browns, ordinarily a relief hurler, went the distance for the first time this season and snuffed out the Washington Senators by 7-3. When the National league firing was over the Cincinnati VVI.A&UAJ. nated streams. In Mason coun- ALBION. Sept.

GTV- Sixty these streams include the North Branch of the Pere Marquette river down from the Indian bridge and the South Branch of the Pere Marquette river down from Riverview bridge. Pere Marquette lake is also included as a specially designated body of water, but in all three bodies of water, these teen members of the 1939 Albion college football team which ended Hillsdale's regime as Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic association champion are missing from this year's squad but despite this Coach Dale R. Sprankle is openly optimistic. Albion has at least one veter- choice fish may be taken only an available for every position with hook and line. Spears are except center and if Pete Blas- kiew, a Sophomore pivot-man from Grand Rapids, lives up to expectations.

the Britons should be set. Looming large in Sprankle's plans are Morris Trimble, of strictly taboo. as outdoor news this week is rather slow, it behooves this corner to cut loose again on a warning to hunters Major League Leaders AMEKICAN LEAGUE W. Petrolt 80 58 Cleveland 79 53 i New York 76 60 Chicago 75 64 Boston 73 65 Washington 59 79 St. Louis 57 82 Philadelphia 50 83 Friday's Results I Detrplt 8.

New York 0. Cleveland Boston 0. Louis 7, Washington 3. C-8, Philadelphia 2-4. Games Today New Yoik at Detroit.

Phllttil ipuift at Chicago. Wwjiunatyn at St. Louis, ut Cleveland. Pet. .580 .559 .536 .529 .428 .410 .376 (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston, Gleeson, Chicago, .318.

St. Louis, 100; Vaughan, Pittsburgh, and Werber, Cincinnati, 98. Runs batted St. Louis, 120; P. McCormick, Cincinnati, 115 McCormi.

Hack, Chicago, 168. McCormick, Cincinnati, 39; Vaughan, Pittsburgh, 36. Triples Vaughan, Pittsburgh, 14; Mize, St. Louis, and Ross, Boston, 13. Home St.

Louis, 41; Nicholson, Chicago, 24. Stolen St. Louis 17- Prey, Cincinnati. 16. Brooklyn 142; Sewell, Pittsburgh, 14-3.

AMERICAN LEAGUE St. Louis, Ap- Reds were still games ahead of the Dodgers. The Reds kept their pace by whipping Carl Hubbell and the Giants 5-2, thanks largely to Mel Ott who played a butterfingered third base and let the Reds have two runs by his miscues. The Dodgers kept in second place by busting the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-2 as Rookie Ed Head won his first major league victory by scattering seven hits. A sixth inning six run outburst was the big payoff for the Brooks.

Kirby Higbe pitched the Phils to a 6-1 victory over the Cubs for his 13th victory of seems as a lad I coudn't get away from them," he relates. Possessing an urge for adventure, he went as a youth to Montana and Idaho where, in each instance, he ended up as a drug store employe. Returning, he obtained an interview with Sanford Keeler, general superintendent of the then Flint Pere Marquette railroad, with headquarters at Saginaw. Slight of stature and weighing an even 105 pounds, he startled Mr. Keeler by asking for a job as Cleveland, where he gained a knowledge of every detail.

Meanwhile in the same year, through a railway consolidation, a third ship, the wooden carferry Muskegon. later to be named No. 16, was acquired. Business continued to grow and the three ships were still unable to handle the volume. In 1902, No.

18 was built and placed in operation under Mr Mercereau's supervision. In 1903 came two more steel ships No. 19 and No. 20, also built at Cleveland. locomotive fireman on the rail- one yearg Mr.

Keeler, he says, gravely ships, NO 21 and doubted his abilities in that line built at Manitowoc, Wis! but gave him a job anyway, expecting Mercereau to quit after a day or two. What Mr. Keeler didn't know was that young Mercereau, neither then nor after, ever quit 1929 and 1930, came the In two powerful turbo-electric carfer- ries, Pere Marquette City of Saginaw 31 and City of Flint 32, also built at Manitowoc. In addition, powerful a job because it was too hard. carferries were built for He stayed as a fireman for a year and a half, at the end of which he, to the mutual surprise himself, of his associates and weighed more than when 22 he pQunds started He quit as fireman to take a job aboard one of the sev- river Pere Marquette use across trie "Detroit river at Detroit, their construction and operation also coming under Mr.

Mercereau's management. Two of these ships, No. 12 and No. 14, are in operation today. No.

18, only Pere Marquette ship ever to sink, in 1910, was re- eral package and grain steam-(placed a year later by a new ship 4-Vm O- Al rf the season. Cubs to four He limited hits while the his Eaton Rapids, a Junior back, and triple-threat Willis Long, veteran end from Grand Rapids. Long will assist Trimble in handling the punting. Albion is well fortified in 'the backfield. Veterans include Robert Grimes, of Flint; Ed Alsip, of Roseville; John Ryba- chok of Grand Rapids anil Carl Renda, of Albion.

Then there are three speedy Sophomore Stevens, of De- mates were getting of them homers by Joe Marty. Working well behind Lon Warneke, the Cardinals hammered the Boston Bees for 11 hits and a 9-3 victory.War- neke kept the Bees' eight hits well distributed. William Dodds, of Ellwood City, and Albert Nicholls, of Ishpeming. Two fine line prospects from Junior colleges are Sanford, Flint, and pling, Chicago, and York, .341. DiMaggio, New Williams, Boston, 119; Greenberg, Detroit, 110.

batt ln Greenberg, Detroit, 127 I DiMaggio, New York, 117. Cramer, Boston, 187; Radcllff, St. Louis, and Wright, Chicago, 180. Doubles Greenberg, Detroit, 48' Boudreau, Cleveland, 43. McCosky, Detroit, 17; Flnney.

Home Foxx, Boston, 35; Greenberg. Detroit, 33. )a i i Ca sc Washington, 29; Walker, Washington. 21. Pitching Newsom, Detroit, 18-3; Rowe, Detroit, 14-3.

lotte, and Douglas Orth, of St. Clair Shores. Charles Vander Linde, of Muskegon, is the squad's second veteran end. Three veteran tackles available are Robert Hart, of Detroit; Robert Fles, of Muskegon, and Barry Beach, of Grand Rapids. The experienced guards are Walter Ptak, of McDonald, the 1939 "most valuable player." of the Albion squad; BOXING NATIONAL LEAGUE W.

U. Pet .652 .587 .522 .519 .489 .486 .420 .326 Hnolnnatl 88 81 I( 70 ItotulU New York lsn 0, mtebui J. The Albion schedule: Sept. Mt. Union William James at Albion; Sept.

28 Albion at Kalamazoo; Oct. 4 Adrian at Albion; Oct. 12 Albion at Defiance; Oct. Hillsdale at Albion; Nov. 1 Albion at Hope; Nov.

Alma at Albion; Nov. 16 Albion at Lake Forest. The German Reich has 11,000 amateur orchestras and ers which the Flint Pere Marquette then operated out of Ludlngton across Lake Michigan. He was ordered to report to Bay City where Pere Marquette No. 2 was taking on a load of salt.

He became purser, or ship's clerk as it was then known. He was employed on No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 for a few years, then went to St.

Louis, to augment his education. He was graduated from a business college, after which he returned to Saginaw as a special assistant in the Flint Pere Marquette general office. In August, 1898, Mr. Keeler ordered him to Ludingtpn on a special assignment which, although he little realized it then, was to become his life work. A few weeks later he was named superintendent of marine operations.

It was a turbulent period. Carferrying on Lake Michigan was just emerging and whether it would or could become a success was problematical. Much opposition was in evi- this great fleet. He was quick not only to accept but to reach out and create every new safety precaution. Pere Marquette ships were the first on Lake Michigan to adopt'wireless telegraphy, now known as radio.

It was" his almost single- fianded persistence which brought Ludington its present million-dollar harbor development, with protecting breakwater arms and other facilities which today make it one of the finest harbors on Lake Michigan. It is open to navigation the year around, with Pere Marquette car- ferries arriving and departing on regular cross-lake schedules every day of the year, unhalted by storm, fog or rain. His reputation as foremost authority on carferry operation was acknowledged by the federal government during the World war when he was named manager of all Lake Michigan car- ferry service, co-ordinated for the period of the war under the Pere Marquette marine superintendent. He held the post until late In 1920. Ailing eye-sight forced his retirement from active service In 1931, when he was replaced by Leland H.

Kent, present marine superintendent at Ludington. Mr. Kent, chief engineer of the fleet prior to his appointment as superintendent, took up where Mr. Mercereau left off. With a big increase''in cross-lake passenger business in recent years, the.

fleet has been sharply revised In cabin and dining accommodations under Mr. Kent's regime. In addition there now comes the new ship, City of Midland 41, finest, safest, most luxurious ever to be constructed for cross-lake freight and passenger service. Through it all, for the first pioneering 31' years, was the personality of W. L.

"Bill" Mercereau. He took the carferry idea as it was first conceived by others and developed it into the world's largest and finest that of the Pere Marquette Railway Co. Darr School DISTRICT NEWS Oldest Member J. H. Bagley recalled Wednesday, sept, that he is the oldest Farm bureau member in this district.

He was one of 15 men who met in tjcottville and organized a Farm bureau group with Cnarles Wing as presAuent. Each present paia a membership lee ol $5. Darr Parent-Teacher association will hold its first meeting on Friday evening, Oct. 11, witn healtn program to be arranged by Mrs. Albert Surrarrer, Freesoil township health chairman.

However that year the state organization was effected and the local group affiliated with it 21 years ago. Frank Crawford returned Thursday, Sept. 12, to the J. N. Sanford home alter being in Paulina Stearns hospital, Ludington, the past week.

Neignbors attended a birthday anniversary party Friday aiter- noon, Sept. 13, honoring Mrs. William Weaver. Mrs. Louis Backing and daughter, Mrs.

George Gilbert of Grant township, were Tuesday altcr- noon, Sept. 10, guests of Mrs. Albert Miss Leola Bertelsen, employed in Lansing by the state tax board administration, will return to Lansing Monday, Sept. 10, after spending a part of her vacation with her parents. She will spend Sunday, Sept.

15, with her sister, Miss Virginia Bertelsen in Mu.s- kegon. She was a Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 11, guest of Mrs. William Sadowski. Tuberculosis took 61,184 lives in the United States last year.

PENTWATER THEATRE Sunday, IVlomlay, Tuesday THE AMAZING REVELATION OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL'S EXPERIENCES! WV IBtWLING JOAN Jj BENNETT i A rt critic on N. Y. 's I FRANCIS LEDERER The huihand iht Itarntd to fear! dence, due to the from break-bulk with their large transition steamers, crews of freight-handlers on land, to the new-type ships by means of which freight cars were ferried across Lake Michigan without need of transferring their contents. It meant faster, more efficient service for shippers, but land crews viewed the trend with of the same number' Older ships have gone out of service. No.

16 and No. 15 years ago, and No. 19 and No. 20 in more recent years. All were sold by the railroad for other uses, being retired and replaced by the faster, larger carferries of the present day.

All, with exception of No. 15 and 16, were the children of Mr. Mercereau, product of his unusual genius as a marine operator. Such is a brief and factual summary of his life as builder and operator of the world's largest carferry fleet. It tells little, of course, of the early hardships of year-'round navigation in the days before well-protected ports and before radio and the many other modern aids to navigation.

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