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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1927
Page
6
Barons move back atop the Southern circuit after a win over Birmingham. Pirates and Cubs battle. Red Sox, Senators, and White Sox show strong hitting in varied matchups. Dodgers rally as Brooklyn ties for first. Cards, Reds, and Macks compete in late evening games.
Courtland beat Sheffield 8 to 5 as Cotton Rida pitched well for Courtland. Sheffield faded late after a strong start, with Courtland's bats delivering timely hits to secure the victory. The scene drew local fans from the Valley counties, including Law Admostener and Morgan.
Leighton outpitched Jay starter as Colbert County’s Leighton leads a 7 6 comeback. Jays rally in eighth scoring four to take the lead before Leighton’s late homer and eighth inning hits seal the verdict. Short allows six hits and four earned runs with fielding miscues aiding the losses.
The Jays of the Junior Commerce face Courtland based Couca dents in two August games. One game will be in Courtland and the other at a neutral site. Courtland has won two of their recent two battles and aims to rebound in the next pair.
Southern League results include Atlanta 11 Nashville 7 Birmingham 4 Chattanooga 3 New Orleans 10 Little Rock 8 Mobile 0 Memphis 7. American League games show St Louis 1-3 New York 15-12 Cleveland 7 Boston 2 Chicago 1-5 Washington 5-6 Detroit 10-2 Philadelphia 4-5. National League had St Louis 10 Cincinnati 11 Pittsburgh 6 with two games scheduled.
The report shows Minneapolis 8-3 over Kansas City 1-7 and Milwaukee 3 over St Paul 8, with Toledo 7 and Louisville 12. Indianapolis Columbus had no game in the latest slate as play had occurred earlier.
Newark defeated Jersey City 3 to 1 as Syracuse beat Rochester 10 to 3. Buffalo topped Toronto 6 to 1 and Reading edged Baltimore 6 to 5 in the series of league games.
In Piedmont League action Winston Salem beat Durham 6 to 4 while High Point won 10 to 4 against Raleigh and Rocky Mount defeated Salisbury 6 to 2. In the Virginia League Norfolk edged Kinston 1 to 11 and Petersburg topped Portsmouth 3 to 4 with Wilson blanked by Richmond 4 to 4.
Pacific Coast results list Oakland 8 over Pacific Mission 4, San Francisco 4 over Portland 1, Hollywood 3 over Sacramento 4, with three games scheduled. Cotton States League scores Monroe 6 over Laurel 2, Gulfport 9 over Vicksburg 1, Jackson 13 over Meridian 3, Hattiesburg 4 over Alexandria 3. Southeastern League Savannah 1 over Montgomery 11, Jacksonville 1 over 1-1 Columbus 3 over 7, Waycross 6 over Selma 0, Albany Pensacola rain.
Springfield defeats Terre Haute 1 to 4, Peoria tops Danville 3 to 0, York 5 loses to Evansville 3, Bloomington 11 beats Decatur 6. Local standings show mixed results across the league.
Minneapolis and Kansas City split a doubleheader with final scores 8 1 and 1 0. Erne Smith and Bohne delivered two base and three base hits, Krueger homered, while pitchers Wilson Zinn and Oldham held the line. Zinn took the loss after allowing ten hits in 56 18 innings. umpires Goetz and Johnson worked the game.
Ace Hudkins gained a decision in his second meeting with Serjeant Sammy Baker last night. Baker had knocked out Hudkins in the first fight and the bout produced substantial purses, Baker earning around twenty thousand dollars and Hudkins twenty two thousand. Baker is described as a North Alabama native born at New Hope with parental home in Decatur.
Indications show many members will enter the Thursday afternoon tournament on the nine hole course. Handicaps have been rearranged to place players on even footing. Various prizes await the winners.
The Decatur Kiwanis will hold its regular weekly meeting Thursday at 12 15 PM at the Y M C A. All members are asked to be present at the appointed hour.
Byron Grant Jr of Atlanta captured the runner fee Memphis Tennessee title in the annual tennis tourney. Seventeen year old Cumpion emerged as the Souths young tennis champion at the Memphis event.
The likely season’s toughest test is set for Thursday at 4 PM as Leighton faces the Jays. Leighton will start Lefty Felton on the mound while Jays’ pitcher choice was not announced, with practice planned for this afternoon near Colbert Mountains. Leighton is viewed as a strong contender for the title in the region.
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig led the Yankees with powerful performances yesterday as Ruth belted his 38th homer and Gehrig added his 62nd of the season. Both stars contributed multiple hits, but fell short of Ruth’s 1921 single-season record of 59 homers.
Wichita Falls lost 4 to 5 at Dallas while Shreveport defeated Fort Worth 8 to 4. Heavy rain and wet grounds affected Houston Waco San Antonio and Beaumont games amid delayed schedules.
A clipped item notes adding machine rolls and references being chased at the Daily. It appears in a compact brief with minor OCR errors but preserves a local-paper flavor and a vague event or device mention.
The Northwestern University summer school opens August 17 with football as the main focus. Dick Hanley leads the football course with help from Dartmouth’s Jess Hawley, Harvard’s Arnold Hoween, Judge Walter Steffen, Duke Dunne, and John Schommer. Lectures cover strategy and athletic department organization under K L Wilson. Tom Robinson leads swimming instruction and Arthur Lenberg with Ted Payser supervise basketball coaching.
Today’s games include New Orleans at Nashville Atlanta at Little Rock Mobile at Chattanooga and three others. Western League results Wichita 9 Des Moines 2 Oklahoma City 7 Lincoln 12 Tulsa 18 Omaha 12 Amarillo 7 Denver 5. Farmers urged to read the Decatur Daily for Morgan county needs and views.
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