Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1923 — Page 7

HOIST)AY, AUG. 6, 1923

Champ Saints, in Tie for First Place, Here to Battle Indians Four Games

KELLEY’S OUTFIT CAUGHT IN RACE BY WAS CITY They're Out to Slam Tribe, but Locals Feel Capable of Striking Back. No game at Washington Park this afternoon between Saints and Indians. Wet grounds caused the postponement. A single contest will be played Tuesday, a double-header Wednesday and a single fracas Thursday. Can the Indians do unto the Champion Saints as they did unto the Millers? Tou never can tell. At any rate the Saints were in town today to open a four-game series with the Tribemen at Washington Park and you can tell the world the A. A. champs are hard-boiled. They are looking to slam somebody. The K. C. Blues caught up with the

One for Hickey In one of the Sunday MillerIndian games Third Basemen Campbell dashed over near a front box to catch a foul ball. As Campbell attempted to make the catch a fan in the box, fearful of being hit, threw his arms up and struck the ball and Campbell’s glove and prevented the catch, but Umpire Daly didn't rule the batter out. It was the same thing that happened when Umpire Murray declared Rehg out in the Kansas City game protested by Indianapolis, and which protest President Hickey turned down.

Kelley crew In the association pennant race by winning a double-header at Toledo Sunday, while the Saints were being bumped off twice in Louisville. There's a race for you—two clubs tied for the league lead in August. They’re Feeling Tough With their grip loosened on the top rung, the Saints are said to be desperate and they threaten “to make the Indians pay.” But the Tribesmen are not frighten fcd, They have their batting clothes on and they were feeling pretty good today after taking three out of four from the Millers. The Indians broke even in the Saturday twin bill and then copped both ends Sunday, 9 to 1 and 5 to 2, the second Sabbath day affair being seven innings only because the six o'clock Sunday closing law overtook the teams. Petty and Hill Shine Jess Petty and Carmen Hill were in top form and were given strong support. In the first tilt Sunday Petty did not allow a hit until the seventh inning and the Millers collected only four hits the entire game. Not a visitor reached first base until Campbell erred in the sixth. In the closing fracas of the afternoon Hill held the Cantillon boys to four hits in the seven innings played and he got a single and triple for his share of the Tribe hits. The fielding feature of the warm afternoon was produced by Walter Rehg, who snared a long foul with his gloved hand against the left bleacher fence. He was on the dead run when he speared the ball and turned his body just in time to prevent serious injury as he crashed.

Big League Liners

John McGraw’s Giants Sunday grabbed a firmer hold on first place in the National League by taking their second straight game of a “crucial” series from the pursuing Reds at Cincinnati. Incidentally they sent their opponents scurrying back to third place, two points behind the idle Pirates. The Brooklyn Dodgers were nosed out by the Cubs in Chicago Sunday, despite Tommy Griffith’s homer in the eighth inning. The tail-end Braves, Rube Marquard. pitching, blanked the Card'nalj In St. Louis. In the American League Sunday, the Yankees increased their lead to thirteen and one-half games over their nearest competitors by winning a thir-teen-inning affray from the St. Louis Erowns at the Y'ankee stadium. Bab-* Ruth placed himself more closely behind Cy Williams in the race for home run honors by pounding out his twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh and contributing largely to the Yanks’ victory. Cy has twenty-eight circuit smashes. The Washington Senators nosed out • victory' over Ihe second-place Cleveland Indians in Washington Sunday. Boston won from the Tigers in Detroit by putting two runs across in the final Inning. Saturday’s Results AMER. ASS’N —Ind., 13-3; Minns., 12-7. St. P.. 9: Louisv.. 1. K. C.. 3: Tol.. 2. Col.. 7- Milw., ft-10. AMER. LEAGUE—CIeve. 15: N Y„ 7 Wash., 9; St. L.. 3 (second game rain). Det. 14: Phila.. 4 (second same rain). Boa. 8: Chi.. 1 NATL LEAGUE—N. Y.. 14; Cin.. 4 Phila.. 4-3: Pitts.. 2-4. Brklyn. 7-0; Chi.. 8- Bos.. 4-7. St. L., 2-0.

National League “If” Today

Win Lose Break Pet Win Lose Two Two Even New York 653 .660 .641 .650 Pittsburgh 606 .610 .600 Cincinnati 604 .612 .592 .602

BASEBALL STANDING —. AND . ■" ■ CALENDAR

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pet. St. Paul . 62 3? .626 Kansas City 62 37 .636 Louisille . . 66 48 .538 Columbus 50 48 .510 INIDANAPOLIS 49 63 .480 Milwaukee 46 65 .460 Minneapolis 42 68 .420 Toledo 35 68 .340 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet | W. L. Pet. N. York 67 32 .677! Chicago. 47 50 485 Cleve. . . 55 47 .539! Wash. . . 45 52 .464 St. Louis 61 48 .515 Phila 42 55 .433 Detroit. 47 47 .500 j Boston. . 37 60 .381 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet.f W. L. Pet. N. York 66 35 .653! Brklyn. . 50 49 .505 Pittsb. . 60 39 .6061 St. Louis 51 53 490 Cihein. . 01 40 .604lvhila .. 32 68 .320 Chicago.' 53 48 ,525| Boston. . 30 71 .297 Games Today AMER. ASSN.—St. P. at Indpls. (postponed. wet grounds) Mil. at Tol. Minn, at Louis. K. C. at Col. AMER. LEAGUE—CIeve. at Wash. Chi. at Phila. St. L. at N Y. Det. at Bos. NATL. LEAGUE—PhiIa. at Pittsb. N. Y at Cin. (2 games). Brklyn. at Chi. Bos. at St. L. Yesterday’s Results AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (First Game) St. Paul 020 010 000—3 8 2 Louisville 200 001 02*—5 11 1 Merritt. Gonzales: Deberry. Brottem. (Second Game) St Paul 000 010 020—3 4 4 Louisville 100 010 40*—6 13 0 Napier. Hall.. Sheehan. Gonzales: Cullop, Tincup. Meyer. (First Game) Milwaukee 000 000 000 —0 5 3 Columbus 040 100 CO*—s 8 0 Schaack. Shinault; Sanders. Hartley. (Second Game) Milwaukee 000 020 120—5 9 0 Columbus 030 000 001 —3 8 1 Keefe. Shinault Gleason. Snyder. Elliott. (First Game) Kansas City 010 030 001—5 13 1 Toledo 000 000 000—0 9 3 Allen. McCarty: Giard. Smith. (Second Game) Kansas City 020 010 000—3 10 0 Toledo 000 000 110—2 9 1 Saladna, Skiff: Malone. Anderson. AMERICAN LEAGUE (Thirteen Innings) St. Louis . . 103 022 000 000 o—B 14 0 New York.. 202 004 000 000 I—9 15 0 Kelp Bayne. Vangilder. Severeid: Jones. Hoyt. Schang. Roston 000 100 002—3 10 1 Detroit 200 000 000—2 8 0 Quinn, Devormer; Johnson. Basster. Cleveland 101 300 000—5 9 0 Washington 001 200 101_ —6 12 0 Covefeskie. Boone. Morton. O'Neill. Johnson. Zahniser. Ruel (Only games scheduled ) NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 001 010 000—2 9 1 Cincinnati 000 000 000 —0 6 2 McQuillan. Snyder: Rixey. Hargrave. Boston 7 200 110 000—4 J 1 0 St. Louis 000 000 000—0 7 0 Marquard. O'Neill: Pfeffer, Barfoot. A insmith. Brooklyn 000 100 020—3 9 3 Chicago 040 000 00*—4 8 0 Henry, Smith, Deberry: Alexander. Hartnett. (Only games scheduled.)

Two From Millers

Firs, Game INDIANAPOLIS AB R H O A E Chrtstenbury. rl . 4 2 2 2 0 0 Sicking. 2b 4 0 0 1 3 1 Rehg. II 4 1 1 2 0 0 Brown, cf 4 1 2 7 0 0 Kirke, lb 6 2 1 10 0 0 Whelan, ss 2 0 2 2 5 0 Campbell. 3b 4 1 1 0 1 1 Dixon, c 3 1 0 3 0 0 Petty, p 4 1 1 0 2 0 Totals 34 9 10 27 11 2 MINNEAPOLIS AB R H O A E Rondeau. If 4 0 1 3 0 0 R Fisher. 2b ... 4 0 1 2 1 0 Jourdan. lb 2 0 0 6 0 0 Massey, lb 1 0 0 1 0 0 East, rs . . 4 0 1 2 0 0 Smith, cf 3 0 0 4 '0 0 Grabowski, c ... 4 0 0 3 1 1 Shaughnessy. 3b.. 3 1 1 1 0 2 U. Fisher, ss 4 0 0 1 3 1 Ayres, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 •Scbauer 1 0 0 0 0 0 Griffin, p 1 0 0 1 1 0 Totals 31 1 4 24 0 4 •Batted for Ayres In third Minneapolis 000 000 010—1 Indianapolis 330 021 00*—9 Two-base hits Kirke. Christenbury, Brown, Whelan. East. Shaughnessy. Stolen bases—Christenbury. Rehg 3. Sacrifices— Sicking, Whelan, Griffin. Double play— Whelan to Sicking to Kirke. Left on bases —lndianapolis. 8: Minneapolis. 7. Bases on balls—Off Petty, 1; off Ayres. 2; off Griffin. 2. Struck out—By Petty. 2: by Ayres. 1; by Griffin. 3 Hits—Off Ayres. 4 in 2 innings; off Griffin, 6 in 6 innings. Hit by pitcher—By Ayres (Dixon): by Petty (Smith and Shaughnessy). Losing pitcher —Ayres. Umpires—Daly and Killian. Time —2:00. Second Game INDL4NAPOLIS AB R H 0 A E Christenbury. rs . 3 0 0 0 0 0 Sicking. 2b 4 1 1 2 2 0 Rehg. if 2 0 1 3 0 0 Brown, cf 3 2 2 2 0 0 Kirke. lb .'. 3 0 1 8 0 0 Whelan ss 0 2 0 1 2 0 Campbell. 3b ... 3 0 0 1 0 0 Dixon, c 2 0 1 4 0 0 Hill, p 3 0 2 0 1 0 Totals 23 5 8 21 6 0 MINNEAPOLIS AB R H O A E Rondeau. If .... 3 1 2 1 C 0 R. Fisher 2b 3 1 1 33 0 Jourdan. lb ..... 3 0 0 7 2 0 East, r 5........ 2 0 0 0 0 0 Smith, cf 3 0 0 1 0 1 Grabowski, c .... 3 0 1 2 1 1 Shaughnessy. 3b.. 3 0 0 1 2 0 L. Fisher, ss .... 2 0 0 2 2 0 •Milan 1 0 0 0 0 0 Ayres, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 Morisette, p ..... 0 0 0 1 0 0 Totals 25 2 4 18 11 1 •Batted for L. Fisher in seventh. Minneapolis 000 200 o—2 Indianapolis 000 230 • —5 Three-base hit—Hill. Sacrifice—Rehg. Double plays—Shaughnessy to 1.. Fisher to Jourdan to Shaughnessy. Left on bases— Indionapolls. 7; Minneapolis, 3. Base on balls—Off Ayres, 6: off Morisette. 1: Off Hill. 1. Struck out—By Ayers 1: by Morrisette, 1; by Hill. 4. Hit9—Off Ayres. 7 in 4 1-3 innings: off Morrisette, 1 In 2 innings. Wild pitch—Morrisette. Winning pitcher—Hill. Losing pitcher—Ayres. Umpires—Daly and Killian. Time—l:3s. MAJOR HOMERS YESTERDAY Ruth. Yanks. 2—27; K Williams. Browns. 1—19; T. Griffith. Robins. I—7: Jacobson. Browns. 1—0: Dugan. Yanks, I—s: Bums. Red Sox, I—4; Powell. Braves. I—4.

GIANTS POSSESS' NEEDED POWER IN EIGHT PLACES

Strength Comes to Surface When Danger Threatens and Down Go Reds, BY HENRY FARRELL United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-- -Possession of enough power to have gas left for the stiffest grade is what makes the New York Giants one of the greatest of baseball clubs. Time after tTme in the last three seasons the Giants have gone into desperate situations, only to rally out of them with brilliant baseball. As the champions did on their way to two pennants, they are doing this year on the journey to a third world’s series in succession. When John McGraw took his team away from New York for an invasion , through the strong Western points with a lead of only three games and a pitching staff that didn't look strong enough to hold up, it was generally accepted among the critics that the trip would make or break the champions. Up to the present time, with most of their strongest opposition behind them, It appears that the Giants are more likely to be made than broken on the trip. They spilt even with the Cubs, took the series with the Pirates, and so far they have the two first games of the series with the Cincinnati Reds. They have increased their lead to five full games, and even if the Reds should win the remaining games of the series. McGraw will take his teajn to St. Louis in first place.

INDEPENDENT AND AMATEUR BALL

Up to noon today twelve teams had entered the annual Times tournament for the city independent championship. Entries close tonight. A meeting of the tourney directors and managers of the clubs entered will be held at the Y. M. C. A. tonight at 7:30. Every team must have its manager or his representative present. The umpire fee of 81.50 must be toumod In and also club rosters. Teams which had entered up to noon today are: Riversides, St. Phillips Mapleton Maroons. F.agle Independents. Washington A. C.s. Arsenal Reserves. 1900 Cataracts. Brookside Cubs. Collegiate Stars, Lincoln A. As, Southeastern* end Spades.

There wtll be a meeting Wednesday night at the city hall of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association, and every manager and league president is expected to be present. The schedule for the city cham pionshlp series will be arranged Further reports will be made on the post-season games In St. Louis. Wet grounds stopped most of the league games here on Saturday, but very important contests were played The Odd Fellows demonstrated their superiority over the De Molays tn the Fraternal League and cinched the pennant by defeating the youngsters, 8 to 3. It made three out of four for the last year s champs. Saturday's game was the play-off for the Fraternal League pennant, as the teams were tied at the end of the schedule. In the Commercial League, where the raee is air-tight. Eli Lillys held on to their scant one-half game margin at the top by winning a ten-mnlng struggle from the Indianapolis Coal. Sagatowsky for the Coal nine was in form and pitched great ball for nine frames. In the tenth, however, the Lillys fell on his slants for three runs and the game. The final count was 5 to 3. Three teams. Eli Lilly, Prest-O-Lite and Fairbanks-Morse, have a chance lor the Commercial flag. The Brookside Cubs defeated Washington A. C Sunday. 4 to 1 The winners got only two hits, but won in spite of the light stick work. The Marion Cardinals defeated the Indianapolis Union Railway, Sunday. 4 to 2 Powers pitching for the Cardinals allowed only three hits and fan,. * thirteen Next Sunday the Cards will meet the Fountain Square A. A. The Southeastern A. A defeated Glenn's Valley. Sunday, at that place. Bto 0 Merrill. the Southeastems' regular catcher. *aa out with injuries and K-nnedy took his place Next Sunday the Southeastern* will be In The Times Independent city tourney. The team will hold a meeting tonight at Georges. 1125 Linden St. Kivil take notice. Henson was in form for the Lincoln A. A s. Sunday, and held tho Druid* to one hit and pitched a shut-out victory 7 to 0. The winners obtained eleven hits off Sehorn. The Collegiate Stars and Riversides played an exciting 6-to-6 tie at Riverside No 2 Sunday before a big crowd Percifleld and Sehmutte opposed each other on the mound. Each team scored twice in the last inning The game was called in the ninth. The Maploton Maroons defeated the Christafnores yesterday afternoon at Riverside diamond No. 1. 10 to 8. R. Queisser had a perfect day in right field, handling six chances, and got two hits out of four times at bat. Score by innings. Christamores .... 000 111 230 — 8 8 5 Mapleton Maroons 022 003 12*—10 12 7 Batteries—(Christamores) Peterson and Baldwin: (Mapleton Maroons) Ntedleman, Ewtng and A. Queisser. The Indianapolis Giants defeated the Favorite A .Ci Sunday at Douglass Park, 4 to 0. Hintin of the Giants was in great form, striking out ten men. For games with the Giants write Gus Fleming, Thirteenth and Yandes Sts. The Triangle A. C. club went out of its class to play the Cardinals and lost, 10 to 1. Hendxick6 starred at bat for the Triangles. The Indianapolis Cardinals want to hear from Lebanon for a game on Aug. 19. Address W. L. Deatrtck. 1014 River Ave., or call Belmont 0809. The 1900 Cataracts defeated Whitestown Sunday, 9 to 4. Web Hayes pitched good ball for tho winners. The Cataracts are ratin' to go in the Times tourney. SOUTH GROVE TOURNEY REACHES SEMI-FINALS Bing Butler, A. W. Black, Earl Finn and Vine Kereheval went into he semi-final round of the South Grove golf tourney by their victories Sunday at the local course. Some fine medal scores were turned in by the winners. Kereheval t-'ho: excellent golf for a 74. Finn mate the 18 holes in 76 and Butler took a 79. Bobbie Lee in Cincy Bobbie Lee, local welterweight, is In Cincinnati, where he has entered the fistic stable of Joe Levy. Bobble is doing a come-back and he is reported to be in fine shape. Manager Levy : s negotiating for a number of matches.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Happenny Told ’Em He’d Play Second and That’s Exactly What He Did

By NKA Service rj IYNN, Mass., Aug. 6.—A I I messenger boy ambled into I I the Cornet All-Stars’ dressing room one late June day. He carried a telegram for one of the players. That, in itself, was amazing. Nobody, except the (manager or secretary, ever received wires at the park. But more exciting still, it was from a big league pilot—“ Kid” Gleason of the White Sox. It was addressed to Second Baseman J. Clifford Happenny, 22 suprmiers old, fresh from the University of Illinois. The message asked “Hap" if he would mind reporting forthwith at Charley Comlskey’s park in Chicago. No Chance to Loaf The dressing room was agog. An - All-Star had a chance to try out in the majors. The boys all swarmed around their second sacker. There was much hand-shaking and back-slaping. "Well, I guess Gleason wants me to play second for him,” Happenny told them. “I’ll take Eddie Collins’ place.” , An injury, you remember, had forced Collins out of the game. Os course, the team thought Happenny was kidding. He really thought so himself.

A. B. C.S TO PLAY TWIUGHTGAMES Rube Foster's Team Here This Evening and Tuesday. Twilight baseball in Indianapolis today and Tuesday. The A. B. C.s, local team In the Negro National League, are going to play Rube Foster’s American Giants

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CLIFFORD HAPPENNY That night Clifford packed up and entrained for the Windy City. A

at Washington Park this evening starting at 5:30 and Tuesday evening at the same hour. The games will be staged immediately after the Saints and Indians of I the American Association finish their j contests. The twilight games were planned in order to provide visiting colored Shriners with colored league baseball entertainment during their stay here. The A. B. C.s lost to the Giants in Chicago, 1 to 0, Saturday, but did a come-back Sunday and won. 8 to 4. Long hits by Charleston and Day gave the A.s victory’ Sunday. Grant, former first sacker for Foster's club, is now with the locals. Moore, anew pitcher, also has been signed.

few days more and Gleason had his John Hancock on a contract. Right away Happenny jumped into Collins’ shoes, covering himself with glory until Eddie returned. And He’s a Scholar Since then he has been getting into action frequently. Sometimes he’s on short, sometimes he’s subbing for Collins. Matters not where he’s stationed, he gives a good account of himself. “Hap” has been playing ball ever since he was a kid in the grade schools in Waltham. After being graduated from Waltham High School In 1917 he matriculated at North Eastern College. The next year he went to Lowell Tech for an engineering course, receiving his diploma in May, 1921. In both these schools he had a happy faculty of winning letters. Followed then his two-year course at Illinois. Football, as well as baseball laurels, came his way. Likewise high scholastic honors. Just another bit of proof the college athlete of today is a3 proficient in his studies as hs is in his favorite sport. And that’s the type of rookie the majors are getting now.

HELEN FADES NEAR CLOSE California Girl Bows Before Molla Mallory on Rye Courts By United Press RYE. N. Y., Aug. 6. —Fading away under the intense heat and a relentless attack. Miss Helen Wills, California girl, was defeated in the final round for the New York State championship by Mrs. Molla Mallory the national N champion, Sunday. The score was 4-6, 6-1, 6-0. Noblesville-Shelbyville By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Aug. 6.—No ; blesville has scheduled two games with the strong Shelbyville nine, Aug. 12 at Shelbyville and Aug. 19 here.

State Baseball

Columbus, 5: Madison, 0. Delphi. 7; Flora. 5. Huntington. 6t Wabash, 0. Seymour. 3: North Vernon, 1. Indiana Travelers (Indpls.), 8; Cambv, 4. Broad Ripple. 3: Fishers, 0. Shelbyville, 3: Salem, 2. Elwood, 4; Arcadia. 3. WESBRiKTAKES WESTERN CROWN Hennessey Consoled by Victory in Doubles Finals, By Times Special CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—Walter Wesbrook of Detroit won the western tennis singles championship Sunday at the South Side Tennis Club courts here by defeating George Lott of Chicago in rather easy fashion, 6-1, 9-7, 7-5. Lott, who for two successive years has won the national junior clay court title and this year the Chicago championship, was not strong enough for the southpaw racquet wielder of Detroit. Webrook ,by his victory Sunday, adds the western championship to his Michigan State crown. Hennessey and Wesbrook retained their western doubles’ crown by defeating the Chicago pair, Hayes and Squair, in the finals, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.

Major Homer Leaders

American League Ruth, New York 27 Ken Williams, St. Louis 19 Heilmann. Detroit 13 Hauser, Philadelphia 12 Brower, Cleveland 12 Tobin, St. Louis 12 McManus, St. Louis 12 National Lea^rue Cy WilliaiiM, Philadelphia 28 Miller, Chicago 14 Fournier, Brooklyn 14 Hornsby, St. Louis 13 Meusel. New York 13

BIFF SENSATION OF ARGENTINE IN TOWNFORSCRAP Firpo Looks Our City Over on Barnstorm Trip Before Meeting Dempsey, Pugilism’s latest sensation, Luis Angelo Firpo, the big mauler from the Argentine and Dempsey’s challenger for the heavyweight crown in New York on Sept. It, is in town. Firpo arrived with his retinue Sunday night and is stopping at the Claypool while he awaits the time to collect some more shekels here on Wednesday night on his barnstorming trip through the Middle West, in which he slams various and sundry heavyweights at so much per slam. The Argentinian is a picturesque figure and the public is curious to see the strange sort of person from South America who doesn’t seem to do things like everybody else. Rules don’t seem to make so much difference to Luis in the ring or out and he is quite an attraction. He is scheduled to meet Joe Dow ney at the Hoosier Motor Speedway Wednesday night in a scheduled ton round scrap. He is accompanied here by his sec retary, G. Widmer, Alfred Mayor, rep resentative of the La Nacion, South American newspaper, and Hughie Cartland, business representative. The big Argentinian planned to work out at the Hoosier A. C, at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The report that Firpo’s right arm was bothering him was denied by the big boy him self. Matchmaker Druley announced that a fourth preliminary had been arranged for the Wednesday night show. Pinky Crosby and Joe Walters will meet in a six-round go. Joe Downey was scheduled to reach the city at 5 p. m. today.

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