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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
Harry CraysOn 5
ScOrebOarl
Yanks Not as Bad as Believed;
Stirnweiss, Johnston Fill
InfieId CAPS
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor

NEW YORK - When the Yankees withdrew from
snobond and windswep Abury suffering clbans
and the snes TO drop exhibition to major
league the Dodgers and another to the Braves
baseball about the fall of empire the end OF an
You York winners of six of the last seven
the last H. 10 of the last II
and 10 of the % like the onehoss shay
DAaeGio his outfelding part
ne Tommy Absent Phil Rzzuo the shortstoppng
capable Red Rofe Frank Crosett who could fill
would get late start because he showed an umpire
World Series Buddy Hassett would be missed The hup
had the steadyng influence OF uu e ed u
fling Bill Dickey could not forever and the Yam
of their nfed ana wods OF their
oufield -,
cluster of whenever he chose to-
Yes Bombers had finally come back to the field
happened? Well the Yankees who couldn't WIN an
exhibition promptly launched winning streak Whe lhe
and while playing themselves INTO shape
overlooked that neither Charley Keller
Dckey and his big stick participated IN e losing eN
hibition string
The weather practically Yankees far work
was concerned Asbury club puffed through
exhibitions and into the regular campaign with muscles ach
Once the outfit settled approaching its real
stride however discovered that the Yankees had done
the of lining requirements than any other big
league organization
George Srnweiss the left side of the
Snuffy StrnwesS going to be even more
horsop off the surplus flesh which due
to build accumulates around chest
The outfield Kong Keller Tuck Stainback Roy
Weathery Johnny Lnd and Bud Meheny is satisfactory
Nick Een will do at first base There was
never any question about the pitching
Senators little than ouied the Red SoX no
the Athletics than usual
the longer wartime and only three ntersec
tiona trips likely for the first time
II with commanding lead and certainly IN cohooh 10
tackle the stronger western clubs.
By scribes found that their obituaries were
bit premature.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
Junior
Players
Sought

The hunt was on today for
young softball players who
would like to compete in the
Junior League this season.
So far only three teams have
signified their intentions of en-
tering the boys circuit, accord
ng to Bernard Ballantine, di-
rector of recreation. They are
Bowl o. Drome, d. N. Cooley
and an unsponsored aggrega-
ton.
1t is hoped to ronud up al
least three more teams within
the next two weeks so that ar
rangements for the 1913 season
may be completed. Players OF
teams interested in entering the
league are asked TO contact Bal
lantine, whose telephone mum.
Der is 203.
The age limit Of the league is
Is years.
In all probability the Juniors
will get their championship sea
son underway late this month Oh
early in June.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
BY yUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press sports Writer

The most valuable player
competition in the Major leagues
this year could very well be
styled the most versatile player
awards.
Wartime manpoWer shortages
are causing managers to trans
plant their players from one po-
si.ion to another faster than
most people can get the onion
sets started in their Victory gar
dens and if the Spring shuffling
is only the beginning, a
fan must wonder how his favor
tie pitcher will do at shortstop in
the fall
The Phillies, with a pathet-
ically small roster, are doing
the most shifting of jobs and
doubling up at two or more
positions. Last week they
brought outfielder Jim Was
dell from Pittsburgh and
made him their regular first
baseman, moving Babe Dahl
gren from that spot to short
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1913 Softba|I Season to Open May II
BatllerS
10 TRY .
Again

Already rained out three
times, Coach Ernest j. Buck
holz' Mount Clemens High
school baseball team will again
try TO tilt the 1913 lid at Covered
Wagon diamond today.
East Detroit will supply the
opposition at $3.50 p. m, weather
permitting.
The game with East Detroit
was rained out earlier in the
season Also postponed was a
game Friday with Hazel Park
and one with Romeo.
Buckholz said he will start
Lyle Bliss, slim Highlander who
starred on the mound year ago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
Tigers Open Series
with Little Brownies

ST. LOUIS, May 4 - tR -
Last year the Detroit Tigers and
the ST. Louis Browns spent
good deal of their time in a pri-
vate fight for position in the
American League and this year
they're up to the same tricks.
A three-game series opening
here today found the Tigers and
the Browns resuming the feud
with place in the first division
resting on the outcome as an old
story was being retold.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
Fifteenth of a series
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor

Denton Tecumseh Young won
51l major league games in %
years. and retired only when he
became too fat to field bunts.
Only a few men have pitched
that many games.
When Cy Young decided to
call it a career in 1911 at the age
of a., his arm was as good as
ever.
But the boys are taking un-
fair advantage of the old man,
arked Old TuscaraWas.
They know this big stomach Of
mine makes it difficult for me
to field bunts, so instead of
swinging at my stuff, they are
laying the ball down. When the
third baseman has to start doing
my work, it's time for me to
quit"
Denton T. Young never asked
for any favors.
Young was an Ohio farm boy
standing six feet two and weigh
ing 2l0 pounds. He had the
smooth motion Of Tiny Bonham.
In his heyday he would have re-
minded you of the Yankee right
handler, but he was faster and
had more on the ball He could
really pour the pellet through
there. Toward the fag end Of his
brilliant run, he rested more
and more to curves and finally to
tho cnithal1
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stop. They have SchOOlbOy
Rowe pinchhitting In almost
every game in which he isn't
pitching and they frequently
have had three or four play
ers swap positions during the
course of ball game.
Other clubs are doing it, too.
The New York Yankees moved
pitcher Johnny Lindell to first
base and then to the outfield in
Spring training and the Brook
Ign Dodgers switched Billy Her
man from second to third.
But one Of the prize swaps OF
the season was made yesterday
by that interchangeable inventor,
Frank Edison Frisch, who in
stalled catcher A Lopez ae third
abse for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Lopez has been one of the
best backstOps in the Nation
al league for many years, but
his previous experience at the
hot corner was limited to
about five games in an emer-
gency with the Dodgers a de-
cade ago. A few fans still
remember him stopping balls
with his chest, la Pepper
Martin.
BY putting Lopez on third
Frisch was able to give a try at
shortstop TO Bob Elliott, who
only year before last was an
outfelder. The result of the
newest experiment was that both
Lopez and Elliott made an err
ror yesterday and Cincinnati
copied the Major leagues first
morning game rs.
A crowd of 1888 was on
hand for the contest at ll.30 a.
m tEWT) in Crosley Field and
the Reds general manager, War
rem Giles, called his experiment
success. The fans thought so,
too, for they saw the usually
weak hitting Reds make IL
safeties off four Pirate pitchers
Having inaugurated morning
games the Reds are now ready
to lift the lid on night baseball
for the season, too. with a flood.
lighted fray carded against the
Pirates tomorrow night.
Only one other game was
>'aycd in the Majors yesterday
and in this the Dodgers downec
the Phillies again So. Kirby
Higbe made his second start anc
first finish of the year while
holding the tailcnders to sever
hits. Brooklyn made dozen
three by Dolph Camilli and two
a double and a triple for two
! runs, by Alex Kampouris.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
9MajOrTea1ns
Set to Play
Weather Conditions
Delay Opening Date

The 943 Mount Clemens sofbol season. with field OF
less than nine major teams will be launched officially on
Wondoy May 7, providing the weather allows
Date for the opening game set lost Friday night as
managers Of entered in the Department OF Receoons
Major League completed plans for the oncomn9 campaign
It originally planned to noueurote the season week
eoe but weather conditions this spring have not Poy-
opportunity do much practising doe Rather than
lacking fielding and bottne poctise the pilots
decide the May " dote
will be Hubarth Schot last
Covered Wagon They will away
a Covered Wagon diamond starting at GAS
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TEAMS LISTED
Besides Hubarth & Schott and
Covered Wagon, teams compos-
ing the Major League are Esch-
enburg Tires, who won the
tumble League championship
last year; Nesbitt's Orange, ST.
Clair Shores Merchants, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, Hillcrest
Studio. Spruce Inn, and ninth
team which is unspOnsOred as
yet. The latter is being managed
by Ray Lorway, a member of
the Bar SO team which last year
lost out to Hubarth & Schott in
the city finals.
At last Fridays meeting the
managers made one important
change in the game as played in
Mount Clemens for more than
20 years Instead of allowing the
baserunner to attempt steal at
any time, the runner now must
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04

remain on base until the ball has
left the pitchers hand.
The majority of managers, In
voting for the regular softball
rule pertaining to base stealing,
expressed the belief that by
curbing the baserunner the game
here would be frightened ap-
probably, resulting in more
closely contested games.
No other major changes were
made i'm the rules and regulations
which governed play here last
year. One minor change raised
the player roster limit from IL
to ID.
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DALLAS, Texas, May 4 - (P)
The majority of Texas League
baseball parks will not be a total
loss to their owners this season
despite the fact the circuit is not
operating. Six of the eight clubs
have managed to obtain suffic-
lent park rent to pay unkeep,
taxes, and insurance from anna
teur or semi-pro leagues, or city
recreation programs.
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bought him a complete new out
fit so his prospect would not be
ridiculed.
Cap Arson offered $1,000 for
"the big rube' following Young $
big league bow, in which he
twice struck out the White
Stockings m an ag er, Aug. 6,
1890. in holding the Chicago club
to three puny hits.
Cleveland saw a tall. wcll-put-
together young man who seemed
to have made a study of sharp
angles. The ball got to the bat
ter before he realized it. His
curves were unsolvable. He was
as cool as Greenland'S icy
mountains.
WON FIRST WORLD SERIES
On Oct. 4 of that year, Young
won both ends of a double head
er from Philadelphia Denton
Tecumseh was one Of baseballs
iron men as we'll as one Of its
great pitchers.
When he switched TO Boston
with the birth of the American
League, Young and Lou Criger
formed the most talked Of bat
terry of the period.
Against Sill victories Young
had 315 losses for lifetime av-
erage of .619. He struck out
1882, walked 1894
Young thrice beat the Balti-
more Orioles for Cleveland in
the Temple Cup Series Of 1895,
lost the only game he pitched in
the same show the following au-
tumn.
He was charged with defeat
in the first game, relieved in the
third and won the fifth and
seventh to give the new Ameri-
can League prestige in the bitter
and first World Series in 1903
between the Red Sox and Pitts
burgh Pirates.
Cy Young, pitching for the
Boston Nationals, was beaten in
his final game, 10. by a Phila-
delphia recruit named Grover
Cleveland Alexander.
He didn't do badly, either.
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
MORT IN SHAPE

CHICAGO, Man 4 = l4' =
Manager Billy SouthWorth Of
the ST Louis Cardinals was elat-
ed with the news today that
Mort Cooper, his ace pitcher, is
suffering only from minor
arm strain and the club physi-
clan did not consider the trouble
serious.
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LeOna IBrenniInan s
$40 Best for Ladies

Leona Brenniman' SO today
was the best series rolled in La
dies Minor League competition
at the Bowl-O-Drome while Hell
en- Dubays 236 was high game.
In Kings and Queens League
competition Bud Bible with 403
and Alice Lindsey with 1870 led
the women while Clarence
Breitmeyer had 81 and Bob BIZ
BILE 200 for the men.
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SoftbaIl Notes

Members of the softball team
managed by Ray Lorway are
asked to report for practise at
Griffith Field Thursday evening
at $50 sharp.
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PERFECT AGAINST
WADDELL

No one pitched as long or won
as many games, and his time was
almost evenly divided between
the two big leagues. He bagged
from 20 to SO games for the
Cleveland and st. Louis Nation
ais and the Boston Red Sox for
ID consecutive seasons. No other
pitcher participated in as many
games, 874.
Young is the only man who
hurled no-hit performances in
both big wheels. He recorded
three of them, shut out RUDE
Waddell and the Philadelphia
Athletics for the Red Sox, 80,
in perfect no-man-to-reach-
first base game, May 5, 1904. He
is one Of just five men to per-
form this feat.
Young wrapped % consecu-
tive hitless innings around his
masterpiece.
1t was a no-hit game in which
he struck out ID McKeespOrt
batters for Canton, Ohio, of the
Tri-State League, July 25. 1890,
that attracted the Cleveland
clubs attention.
Cy Young was right off the
moving machine when Davis
Hawley, then secretary-treasurer
of the Spiders. first saw him. He
had outgrown his clothes, his
sleeves failed to cover his wrists,
his trousers appeared sawed-off
at the ankles. He wore low
crowned derby hat. Hawley
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
SeIfridge Falls
10 M Nine
Torrid Attack
Swomps Filters

ANN ARBOR, Mich, May A.
P)-Michigan's baseball team
won its eighth straight game
yesterday. hammering three Sell
fridge Field pitchers for IA hits
and a l4to 5 victory.
Third baseman Bruce Blanch-
ard led the Wolverine attack
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with four hits, including two
triples. Four soldier errors help
ed the Wolverines.
The score:
Selfridge
Field 600 100 100 S 7 4
Michigan 002 622 llx-l4 Ia l
Waddel. Cordie. Covington
and Hedges; Cain, Savage, Mac
Itosh, Schmidtke and Swanson,
Bush.
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Selfridge will open play in
the siXteam service league at
Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Sat-
urday afternoon, meeti &
Crosse Isle. The game, part Of
a double header, will start eth.
err at 3 or ) p. m. The time
will be decided later.
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Pinky Higgins
Complies Ala
Batting Mark
Tiger Veteran
End to Stephens
in American Loop

NEW YORK. Nav I - Up -
Comparison Of the batting aver
ages of the National and Ameri-
can Leagues may or may not re
fleet the difference between the
1912 official baseball now being
used in the former and the new
balata ball with which clubs in
the latter loop are playing.
But it remains that the hittcrs
in the National League, who in
previous seasons usually have
trailed the marks set by the
sluggers in the Junior circuit,
now have better marks than
those in the American League.
The leading hitter in the Ma
lor Leagues at the moment IS
little Lonnie Frey Of the Cincin-
natl Reds with an average of
467. His lifetime mark in ten
years in the National League be-
fore this season is .272.
Danny LitWhiler of the Phil
lies, with 400. and Clyde Kluttz
Of the Boston Braves are also i'm
the 400 class among players
who have been at bat 20 or more
times. Kluttz average IS an even
400.
Top man i'm the American is
Vernon Stephens of the st.
Louis Browns with .448 and
the only other hitter in the
400 bracket is Pinky Higgins
of Detroit. with Ala.
There are ten men in the Ma
tional batting 1888 or better
while the tenth man in the
American has 1902.
Another criterion is in home
run production. In the National
League LitWhiler has hit three
and IL others have notched one
while in the American there
have been only five roundtrip-
pers-each by different batter.
The average Of the ten leaders
in each league:
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The Monitor-Leader
TUESDAY MAY a. 1913 PAGE 10
Catcher Plays Third
Experiments Feature
big League Play

stop. They have SchOOlbOy
Rowe pinchhitting In almost
every game in which he isn't
pitching and they frequently
have had three or four play
ers swap positions during the
course of a ball game.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04

NEXT: Roger Bresnahan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-03
HART REFLECTED
CHASE PRESIDNT
Annual Meeting Held Yes
terday; Prof, Schenker
Foremen's Guest

The monthly meeting Of the
Chase Foremen's association will be
held Thursday, Feb. 4, at the North
Main street, club rooms. Directors
meeting at 7:46 and the regular
meeting at 8;l5.
Professor Andre Schenker, assoc
ciate professor Of history at the
University Of Connecticut, and conn
mentator on Station VITO win be
the guest speaker. His topic will be
winning the War;, and winning
the Peace, with q question period
following his talk and light refreeh-
inents following the question period.
At the annual meeting Of the
stockholders yesterday afternoon, 8.
8. jackson, secretary Of the Chase
Brass & Copper 90. and w. O.
Hustled, factory manager Of the
waterbury Mfg. 90. on North Main
street, were elected directors Of the
company. Later In the afternoon,
the directors met and reelected oil
officers Of the company.
Reelected directors are: Charles
e. Hart, r. s.. Chase, e. T. 9tannard,
Q. T. Zurich, Robert l.. Coe. n. d.
Ely. Rodney Chase, John H. Gilbert,
r. A. Jackie and J. r. Van Brunt.
Officers are: Charles 4. Hart, pres
ident; Robert L. Coe, n. d. Ely and
]. r. Van Brunt, ice-presidents:
]. H. Gilbert, treasurer: 8. 8. Jack
son, secretary Rodney Chase, =. II.
Madison and g. X. LEM, assistant
secretaries; Louis ]. Schuster and
v. w. Eeyden, assistant treaSurers.-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-03

SuIner" may serve to illustrate some
Of the pamphlet material on foods
which the library Is already cir
culating:
Behind the Label--a guide To In
tellieent buying.
Brands and labelling - standards
and grades.
Fruit and vegetable guide for con-
stimers.
wise buying Of beef in wartime.
Wise buying Of eggs In wartime.
Wise buying Of tomatoes In war
time.
Suggestions for the lunch box
lunches for workers and school
children.
Information Reference Service
While In general, information
sought In the main Reference Room
reflects the entire range Of indivi-
dual interests, hobbies, school worE
and Intellectual pursuists many Of
the questions asked show definitely
how much present day living 4
focused upon the war.
Aliases and war maps were In
constant use. One fthe most used
reference tools, to which the Library
subscribed during the past year, Ia
q weekly map service emphasizing
current war zones and giving short
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-03

ton Center by undertaking the task
Of collecting, arranging. displaying,
filing and indexing material needed
for the Civilian Defense program
Requests for information on bombs
industrial cafnouflage, industrial
police training, and sabotage have
become everyday occurrences. A
collection Of all available printed
matter on these and other subjects
related to civilian defense was de-
veloped and o handy reference In
dex made 50 that all this material
would be quickly and easily acces.
sihle.
Consumer Guides
Books, government pamphlets and
worthwhile magazine articles have
also been collected and indexed To
answer questions on consumer con-
servation and substitution. The
whole subject Of Consumer Con.
servation and Substitution will be
Of even more vital concern In 1913
than II was in 1912. The Library,
anticipating this need, has prepared
for 1t and Is therefore equipped to
meet the recent appeal Of Claude
r. Wickard, Secretary Of Agriculture,
that libraries do their share In
education for food conservation. A
partial list Of "alds to the con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-03

THE MOON rs DOWN (presum-
ably Norway BY John steinbeck.
VICTORY THRoU OH AIR
POWER by Alexander P. De Sever
sky and PAUL REVERE AND THE
WORLD HE LIVED IN BY Esther
Forbes We'd for first place among
the books Of Ior.fictiofi. In q
lighter vein were: PAST IMPER-
Feet by Ilka Chase and SEE
HERE PRIVATE HARGROVE by
Marion Hargrove, Of which the
N. Y. Herald Tribune has said, "As
q contribution TO the lighter side
Of war SEE HERE PRIVATE HAIR
GROVE rates O medal" This book
Is the Deer Mable" Of World War
II.
Books o. Tools Of Industry
The war and an accompanying
speed-up in factory production and
training made new demands upon
the Business and Industrial depart
tnent. "
Early in the year o photography
entitled INDUSTRIAL HEALTH
AND HYGIENE--SATETY METH
DDS was sent to local factories and
training centers.
A second photography, WOMEN
WAR WORKERS. dealt with
women In war industries, listing ma
terial available In books and peri.
odicals on wages and hours; safety
and health; housing and recrea-
ton; and the care Of children Of
working mothers. This list was
most favorably received.
Requests for information on In.
spection methods and techniqueS
were answered by O list Of books
entitled MEASURING 1NSTRU-
MENTS FOR INSPECTION PRAC.
TTCE.
More recently, with the publica-
ton Of at least ten new books on
the subject, O list entitled FORE
MANSFIIP AND SUPERVISION
FOR WAR PRODUCTION, has
been issued. This photography lists
books, pamphlets and magazine ar
ticles to assist foremen and super.
Visors In the, placing and training
Of war workers.
Books and Technical Education
The planning for pre-irductiot1
| training In secondary schools saw
the addition to the aviation sec
ton OF much aeronautical material
OF the secondary school level.
Mathematics for Aviation" was a
popular request. Apparently the
magic Of the words "for aviation"
connected to modern youth some.
thing quite different from the dull
word mathematics"
This department continued to
serve as o center for the necessary
references and texts for the Engi-
neering Defense Training Courses.
Introduction into waterbury Of
University Of Connecticut extension
courses, particularly the Junior
Engineering courses and Advanced
and Graduate Courses for profess
sional groups, have made further
demands upon the resources Of the
Business and Industrial department.
War Information Center ,"
Early In the year the Library
constituted itself War Informa-