Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1942 — Page 27
PAGE 26 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES RIDAY, APRIL 24, 1942
i Tribe Gives Birds Something To Remember—10 To 7 Licking
McCarthy Bats Tech High School, a Cradle of Future Baseball Players
7 Runs Across Home Plate
Gabby Hartnett Alters Batting Order
SPORTS By Eddie Ash
JOHNNY McCARTHY, the Indianapolis Indians’ first sacker, didn’t hit a nickel's worth in spring training games but the tall fellow is doing all right now. . .. He has collected 11 blows in eight league games, including a
double and two triples. Three-baggers are the thing. . . . He unloaded one with the bases loaded at Columbus yesterday. . . . McCarthy was on the Red Bird roster for a couple of weeks during the off-season and the experts in Columbus still moan a little about the situation. . . . The Indians won the right to McCarthy's contract on a protest to Judge Landis. . The New York Giants tried to put something over on the Indianapolis club. . . . It didn't work. . . . The Tribe bosses knew their baseball law too well. Look at that Wayne Blackburn step on it! . . . He's biffing ths ball at a cool 484 in eight games. . . . The Tribe's up-to-the-minute batting averages:
Times Special COLUMBUS, O. April 24.—1It will be a long time before Columbus baseball fans forget the pounding dished out by the Indianapolis Indians at the expense of their beloved Red Birds yesterday. The score was 10 to 7. The Birds are the American association’s defending champions and they were celebrating the 1942
opener before a worshipping crowd pf 4900. And the home boys stepped right out and chalked up a 7-to-1 lead at the end of the fourth stanza. Yeah, everything was lovely from the Columbus standpoint, But Gabby Hartnett’'s Redskins refused to surrender. They roared back with a vengeance and there was no stopping them. The Birds were plucked clean of their glistening feathers. Six Indians clattered over the plate in the fifth canto, Harry
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Coach Charles P. Dagwell (center above) hands out the signals to his battery prior to the Broad Ripple game. A left is Jim Kafader, senior catcher. On the right is Den Roller, senior pitcher, who tossed a three-hitter at the Rockets yesterday as the Big Green scored in every inning except the first.
Lafe McCall, a sophomore, and Francis Denton, senior, spell “Victory” for the Tech baseball team. Denton tripled in the second yesterday with the bases loaded as Tech beat Broad Ripple, 16-3.
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CLAUDE LINTON, catcher, who walloped three home runs for the Millers at Minneapolis yesterday, is a typical “rookie of 1942. ... He's an old-timer picked up as a free agent. , , . Looks like a big vear in baseball for many forgotten veterans.
Baseball Red Book Makes Appearance
THE LITTLE RED BOOK of major league baseball has made its 1942 appearance and is a neat package of information and records. . It is published by the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau, Inc., New York, and it is the 17th edition. Something about major league batting champions: When Chuck Klein, Indianapolis, led the National league in 1933 he batted .368 for the Philadelphia Phils and batted in 120 runs. . . . He belted 23 homers that season. In 1931 Chick Hafey won the National loop batting crown mn a close finish. . . . His percentage was 3489. . . Bill Terry was second at 3486 and Jim Bottomley was third at 3482.
E J = t J 2 = os OWEN J. BUSH, the Indianapolis club’s president, piloted Washington in 1923; Pittsburgh in 1927, "28 and 29; Cincinnati in 1933, and the White Sox in 1930 and 1931 Three big league pitchers participated in 12 double plays in one Arthur Nehf, New York Giants, 40 games, 1920; Ed RomCurtis Davis, Phila-
season. .. . mell, Philadelphia Athletics, 43 games, 1924; delphia Nationals, 51 games, 1934. In 1933 Gabby Hartnett caught 146 games for the Chicago Cubs. .. And at 41 he’s still agile and full of vigor.
Triple Play Made on Opening Day
ALTHOUGH SELDOM SEEN on an opening day, a triple play turned in by the Baltimore Orioles against Rochester only helped keep down the score, as the Red Wings had their batting clothes on, The triple killing came in the fourth inning, when with runners on first and second, Sam Narron grounded to Bob Leomon, Orioles’ third sacker, who tagged one runner going to third, tossed to Sammy Bell to force another at second, and Bell relayed the ball to First Baseman Robinson for the third out.
” = ® 2 o ” ROY HENSHAW, southpaw. on the Detroit Tigers’ staff, picked 18 men off first base while performing with Jersey City last season. . And he nabbed two in the eighth inning of the April 14 game between the Tigers and Cleveland, erasing Manager Boudreau and Catcher Desautels. ’ The veteran portsider has a deceptive motion that opposing teams declare is a balk. . . . But the umpires say it’s legal.
Baseball at a Glance
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ra] RESULTS YESTERDAY C
Brecheen was belted out of the box | and Frank Gabler relieved him. |
That brought the score tc 7-all and, a “new game.” Johnny McCarthy batted in seven Maston Rolls of the Tribe's 10 runs. His triple in the big fifth P f : accounted for t G three. He also er €C ame smacked two singles. Wayne| Charles (Red) Maston rolled the Blackburn's the eighth perfect game of the season league's leading|last night when he toppled 300 pins hitter biffed ain his middle game of league play double and two at the Parkway alleys. singles to fatten| Maston, a 165 bowler, opened his average, with a mediocre 168, then rolled his ’ i aa on alleys 5 and 6. He closed ie lndians with a 170. It was the first perfect Johnny McCarthy starting pitcher, 12- strike game ever rolled in league was sent to the showers in the third! play at the Parkway alleys. Masby the Birds and George Gill took | ton was bowling with the Soconyup the Tribe mound toil. The Birds vacuum Oil quintet. His threegot to Gill for three markers in the! ame total was 638. fourth, after which he settled down| A bowling ball and a pair of
and blanked the home team the! 'b owling shoes have been added as fers o RE . i oi prizes to the $150 prize fund for Innings > the mixed doubles tournament toAfter the Indians’ fifth- nning|TOTOE sg oe he a
uprising they had the Birds on the ropes. In the sixth the Redskins ceived at the alleys until tournament time.
hammered Gabler off the mound ‘ and scored twice, giving them the] Last night's leading bowlers: lead, 9 to 7. Preacher Roe took | Harry Sontheringlll LL a
over for Gabler and in the eighth Tony Rea, In | n Tow, niversa the Tribesters increased their run/H. Lewis, Automotive
Lak Printeraft ........ total to 10 for ollie A pier i the afternoon. Bren, or miorall i rame n . Once the In- : Hornberger: Printeratt Ri vi : 3 3 arles Stich, Major alans got into : H. Duszdale, Universal 3 stride they put Dick Nordholt, West Side Rec the crusher on fonian, Jrinteraht sativissisvinsssass § a = intcra “aun the horsehide by {harles Maston, Parkway Recreation. . . Harrell, Universal collecting 15 ° Yor Springer, Automotive hits. Columbus’ rR Nae SL interant . 3 . +» Shrine base-hit total 3 Hall, Shrine Kriner, Printcraft .. . was 10. Ray George, Fletcher Trust .. The Tribesters RN aren, Wsstrin en - om niversa “e got by with one _ | Walter Ryza, P. R. eifor, the Rey ~~ George Gl °F Gisde, Star Ke, . Birds made four. It was the Birds’ 3eb Harbor, St. aS erine’s 4 turn to look bad. On April 16, at | Senoeh, Printcraft the Indianapolis opener, the Birds; tr ee Syren smothered the Indians, 13 to 2. The Rudheck. Universal Renfrow Lawson, Prest-0O-Lit Hoosiers looked terrible in that one.| Barnara, L. S. Ayres ... pe But the shoe was on the other foot Seeder. Universal. EN Lily |. here yesterday. The league champs, Ee i oro ve were pathetic as Hartnett's gang Peis Cersare: Alpha Coo rine “ae turned it on. Leo Hale, Intermediate Skipper Hartnett altered his bat- Fo hd M ting order. Joe Moore hit second,|vollett, rsal _. . Johnny McCarthy third, Jake Powell [p8 Westerielt” rR Mallory pi in cleanup and Joe Bestudik fifth.! | iam Brebob, Yi table Growers ... - 55 - Tr, nter Wayne Blackburn remained in the paul Weatherley, John Koch Furn.. leadoff spot. | Strieheck, Printeraft . . vy nter Blackburn returned to left field, Robert Kusgmaul, Bill Skelley remained at short and LADIES Packey Rogers held down second.
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GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
INDIANAPOLIS at Columbus. Levisville at Toledo. Milwankee at St. Paul. Kansas City at Minneapolis.
AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Beston. Philadelphia at Washington. Chicago at Detroit. Cleveland at St. Louis. NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Boston at New York. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. St. Louis at Chicago.
Gets Big 10 Medal
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| Philadelphia 000 040 000— 4 New York 010 200 03x— 6 Knott and ves; Berowy, Queen, Branch and 1 Dicker.
Cleveland . 008 0 034 3 13 St. Romis ... . 101 000 000— 9 Bagby and Desautels; {worth and Swift
STATIONAL Alig {Cincinnati .. . Pittsburgh . | Vander Meer and Hemsley; Strincevich, Klinger and Lepe:
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Crimson pole vaulter, Athletic Di- {Eeraentes,
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BASEBALL
ClendS A+ wants a Jay. Pau MecIlvain, Pp.
Tomorrow's scheddle Tor iy opening
NF Rhodius No. 1. . Atkins vs. art Warner at Gar-
Cam S. Tires vs. P. R. Mallory at River- picker, New Fork
of the AD, Falls City vs.
Re.© side No. 2.
Sunday's amateur schedules are: BIG SIX
Eag erside No. 2.
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HOME RUNS Elliott, Pirates ...
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Sraour Vs. dius No. 2. Bchwiizer- Cummins vs. Morse erside No. §.
MUNICIPAL Gold Medal vs. Leonard s No. 1
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Miller Named Sports Head
Dale Miller, long associated with Hoosier basketball and former secretary of the Indianapolis Indians baseball club, has been named athletic director of the Curtiss-Wright Propellor plant here, it wss announced today. Miller who refereed Indiana high school basketball from 1921 to 1931 and was associated with the Big Ten as a basketball official from 1926 until 1334, left the Indians last year when the ball club was sold to Ownie Bush and Frank E. McKinney. I. A. B. A. Secretary Recently he was elected secretary of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball association, an organization he helped organize. At the Curtiss-Wright plant Miller will organize 16 softball teams and will enter one team in the 2 Manufacturers softball league that cus patted in already Influges Yams from Allison arthy 7. Angle, Marshall, Bergamo, An-| General otors Division, IndianWore: “ERckburn” renee apolis Street Railway, Indiana Gear Powell Sacrifie’ Moore Double play | WOTkS, Kingan & Co. and SchwitzerHeath. Moore to Hartnert te nee e Co. BASSE Sa Struck out—By Breechen. i Gill, 2; Ro SOFTBALL 2. Hits—Off Rich. 5 in 2 innings; Gill, Bavters TepRth, 7 Gabler $"T (on five] The La Pinta Wholesale team will play I er in Rem nb Hi the Wayne park, Stage . a aay by pitcher—BYy Breechen pitcher—Gill. mires Wiethe.”
outfeld. ¥arl Reid, righthander, was expected to receive the Indians’
the series this afternoon. Lefty Bob Logan also is ready. Reid defeated the Red Birds at Indianapolis last | Saturday although he had to have help in the ninth. Starting time today was 4 p. m.
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Parker.
Pro-Am Meet
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LAST 7 NIGHTS
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6> a “Big Bim” fail for the first time.
3» | figure . . 3 name is Dogpatch and he's a rangy son of Bull Dog out of Rose Leaves. 1 That makes him a full brother to i|Bull Lea, who flattened Stagehand
a|/you can say for him.
5 | Speed, winning only two races in 11 818 starts. Belmont Futurity 609
. 602 : Lo any improvement at three.
i the first he lagged in fourth posi-
from then on were never in serious trouble. The Rockets bunched their lone three hits along with a walk to tally
Aided by some loose fielding and the brilliant pitching of Dan Roller, who allowed only three hits while whiffing 14 batsmen, Tech's base- {jee markers in the fourth. ball team ran their winning streak| “Woody” Litz banged out a triple, to three straight as they swamped |a double and a single, while Bobby
Broad Ripple, 16 to 3, yesterday aft- Meyer collected three singles to ernoon on the Tech field. pace the Green attack. Score:
The Greenclads drove five runs pions LPPie Sra
05 across the plate in the second and |, Siricker. Davis and Rickert;
Waldron Pulled Miracle With Gallahadion: But Dogpatch?
By CHARLES MOREY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 24—Two years age, Milky Way Farm's Gallahadion stunned an army of turf-fans and saddened the heart of a weary, old sportsman when he toppled Col. E. R. Bradley's Bimelech in
Roller and
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Roche Matched With Longson
Dorve Roche, the “iren man” from Decatur, Ill, has been select“Wild Bill” Longson, heavyweight champ, in the wrestling ring next Tuesday night at the Armory. Longson’s title will be at stake in the bout which is listed for two falls out of three. “Wild Bill” is one of the “roughest and toughest” performers to be seen here in many seasons. He is from Salt Lake City. Roche had easy sailing against Bad Boy Brown last Tuesday at. the Armory.
Promoter Lloyd Carter also has
the Kentucky Derby for the greatest upset in the Blue Grass classic since Donerail paid off at 31-1 in 1913. In the pre-race dope, Gallahadion had been brushed off as lacking
Chief Little Wolf, highly rated heavy from New Mexico, signed ior the semi-windup.
TONIGHT’S FIGHT
“CARD AT ARMORY
Main Event—10 rounds— middleweights. Toughy Gib Jones, 159, Cincinnati, vs. Curly Denton, 160, Dayton. Semi-windup — 8 rounds — welterweight. Bobby Nichols, 147, Cincinnati, vs. Sam Rutledge, 145, Columbus, O. Prelim—6 rounds—midd 1 eweights. Clinton Brooks, 160, Indianapolis, vs. Gene (Baby Face) Luker, 158, Cincinnati. Prelim—4 rounds — middleweights. Tony Vogt, 160, Evansville, vs. Tiger Kiggans, 159, Indianapolis. Prelim—4 rounds — featherweights. Herb Brown, 126, Indianapolis, vs.. Billy Reed, 125, Indianapolis.
everything a Derby horse needed—) class, speed and stamina, And| Bimelech, the undefeated juvenile champion of 1939 and an oddson post-time favorite, was considered already “home.” On Derby day, Bradley was so ill he stayed at his Idle Hour farm, 70 miles from
Derby Doings
Shut Out—Breezed to impressive triumph in the $10,000 Blue Grass stakes at Keeneland.
Bless Me—Tired after setting pace and finished behind Shut Out. Equinox—A teuiler back of Shut Out. Mar Kell—Started for first time this season and spun off six furlongs in 1:122/5 to win a sprint at Keeneland. Put In—Also ran back of Mar Kell. Hyacinthus—Fourth at Harve De Grace after showing early speed. Coochs Bridge—Unplaced at Harve De Grace. "Recap — Third in Jamaica sprint. America Fore —Unplaced at Jamaica.
AA Cellar Clubs
Smack Leaders
broadcast of the race—which saw
Colt Doesn't Figure This spring Milky Way again is | approaching the $75,000 run around the Downs with a colt who doesn't . in the pre-race dope. His
three years ago in the $50,000 Widener Cup. And so far that's all
Dogpatch as a 2-year-old didn't set any tracks on fire with his
His best race was in the trial where he defeated the flashy Devil Diver and Contradiction. But in the $75,000 Futurity four days later he trailed! badly and finished 12th.
Likes Longer Distance The Bull Dog colt has yet to show
If You Pride
He has raced twice at Keeneland and neither time was he impressive. In
By UNITED PRESS The American association's three. leading clubs seek revenge today | from a trio of cellar teams who stole the ball game from under their noses yesterday. | St. Paul's Saints handed Milwaukee its first defeat of the season, 3-2, scoring all of their runs in the last of the ninth. My Vanderberg, Milwaukee righthander. had heid| the Saints to five hits in eight in-/ nings, but yielded three in the final frame. Jimmy Grant, rookie! pinchhitter, led the assault with a triple after two were out. It wac St. Paul's first victory of the season. Minneapolis went 10 innings be-, fore ending Kansas Citl’s ves
tion behind Valdina Alpha and Shut Out in a six furlong dash. In the second, at the same distance, he finished fourth again, this time behind Harvard Square and Sun Again, Roy Waldron, the Milky Way trainer, thought last fall that Dogpatch would be a hard running horse this year. He was certain Dogpatch would like the longer distances of the 3-year-old races— especially the mile and one-quarter of the Derby. “Waldron is a good man with a horse. He may be pointing his colt for the Derby without regard to the
preliminary races. Roy pulled a miracle once with Gallahadion— Perhaps he can do it again. Dogpatch now is 20-1 in the future book.
winning streak, 12-11. Toledo beat out Louisville, 4-3, in the 14th inning, when Chuck Ste-' vens singled Carl Schultz across the plate.
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