Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1926 — Page 22

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m r -lE3 Cardinals have their two pitchers left who defeated the Yankees. Manager Hornsby is In better shape for hurlers than Huggins. With Alexander and Haines to throw against New York Saturday and Sunday (providing a Sunday game is necessary) the National leaguers undoubtedly have the edge in the box The Yankee pitcher for Saturday is very doubtful as Shocker worked' In the bull pen Wednesday and Thursday. Shawkey may get his chance against St. Louis. It probably all depends on how Shocker feels. He is a smart and courageous hurler even though beaten in his first start. * • * If the truth must be known, we Just can’t get excited about football until this big baseball party Is decided. * • * I -iOOSIER grid fans asre IX—TI warned not to be too li.iJ optimistic on the outcome of the Notre Dame and Minnesota football game. Some are going wild and giving plenty of points. The “Irish" should be the favorites, but the contest is no runaway affair. Rockne’s crew won’t be playing Beloit. The Gophers are strong unless all advance dope is topsy-turvy. The sophomores of last year have had a season’s experience and they were no slouches in 1925. Os course, everyone says that Notre Dame also is better. But just watch your step; that’s all. It will be shift meeting shift. Both Coach Rockne and Coach Spears are exponents of the unbalanced line and shift formations. The game should be a great battle. • * * Babe Ruth had his day. Wonder when Rogers Hornsby is to break loose? • • * JE do not know how it strikes Y)y the average fan, but Man- .* * ager Hornsby broadcasting to the world at large that Hafey lost Thursday’s gan\e does not set very-well with U3. The Card leader would do well to let the baseball writers tell who Is to blame. Hornsby has not been such a hero himself. Such statements surely won’t give young Hafey a great deal of confidence at New York Saturday. • • Big Ten teams this Saturday have picked up some teams not in the conference which promise plenty of opposition. Don't think think any of the following games are setups: Kentucky at Indiana, Wabash at Purdue, Butler at Illinois, Notre Dame at Minnesota, Kansas at Wisconsin, and Ohio Wesleyan at Ohio State. * * * What a dull day *his is. No world series game. This is a day of rest to prepare for all the thrills sure to be uncorked on Saturday with football and baseball combined in a huge two-ring circus. • * * eOPE Illinois has that much talked of grid "umbrjella” over the football field if It rains at Urbana today. Butler likes a dry field for Its fast-run-ning back field. These grid coverings are something like baseball tarpaulins—never on the job at the right time. Last week at Illinois the grid covering was not put in place in time and the field ■was soggy in spots in spite of a bright sun Saturday. * * * Tjast Saturday Minnesota dofeated North Dakota, 51 to 0, and Notre Dame downed Beloit, 77 to 0. What will the verdict be on Saturday? One of those teams is going to wish for some of the points rolled up last week. • * * AH the sympathetic fans are saying, and very truly, too, “My, wasn’t that a tough game for Sherdel to lose.” Let us add that It would have been a tough for Pennock to lose, also. Breaks usually decide pitchers’ battles.

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DOESN’T GIVE UP ON CARDS Hendricks Believes St. Louis Will Win —Yankees Get Breaks Thursday. liy Jack Hendricks, Manager of the Cincinnati Reds. (Written tor the United Press) ON BOARD THE BASEBALL SPECIAL, RETURNING TO NEW YORK, Oct. 8. Although the Yankees are now logical favorites to beat the Cardinals in the w r orld series, I still think the National League champions will win the next two games in New York. I never saw so many breaks go against a bajl club as went against the Cardinals In Thursday’s Teninning game, and we who are close to baseball know that the breaks are not an alibi. The score Thursday was 3 to 2, New York, in ten innings. We were talking tonight on the train—old players and several major league managers—end ' we agreed that we never had seen anything such as happened to Bill Sherdel. Sensational Stops He made two sensational stops of line drives at his head. Curiously enough both were hit at him by Herb Pennock and he fielded tindrives for outs on the spectacular plays of the series. And yet, talking about breaks, Bob O'Farrell, the St. Louis catcher, who has been one of the big heroes of the series, tossed an easy ball back to the box to him and It hit him on the end of a finger of his pitching hand. The two drives by Pennock might j have hurt him critically, but he ; fielded them and then a weak harmless little toss from his catcher disabled him so badly that he could not control the ball for the rest of the game. Let Sherdel Stay v A lot of critics say that Hornsby should have removed Sherdel in the ninth or tenth innings, but I would have done just as Hornsby did. Sherdel had stopped Ruth, Meusel and the other Yankee sluggers during the game and Hornsby had to gamble that the Yankees would not be able to slip over the winning run. It looks like Alexander for the Cardinals in the Saturday game and Shawkey or Ruether for the Yankees.

Good Weather Is Promised

Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—Prospects of good weather, though partly cloudy, were held out today for New York Saturday for the sixth world series game. The weather bureau’s forecast for eastern New York said: “Fair tonight; slightly cooler in central and north portions. Light to heavy frost in central and north portions. Saturday partly cloudly; moderate to northwestern winds.”

Odds Shift to Yankee Club

Bv Tlmrs Rnrrial NEW YORK, Oct. B.—Odds on the world series have switched ends and W. L. DarfteH & Cos., brokers, quoted the Yankees a 3 to 1 favorite to capture the championship after Thursday's victory. One wager of $9,000 to $3,000 was placed on this basis. Before the debacle engineered by Babe Ruth Wednesday, Wall Street was offering ? to 1 on St. Louis. Odds on the sixth game were quoted by the Darnell firm at 11 to 10 with the Yankees on the long end. WILLS IS 8-5 FAVORITE Fine Showing of Negro in Training Lengthens Odds. Bu r'nitrd Prms NEW YORK, Oct. B.—Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight scheduled to meet Jack Sharkey of Boston in a fifteen-round bout here next Tuesday, is rounding rapidly into shape. His fine showing his lengthened the odds in his favor to 8 to 5.

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I Alexander Likely Choice of St. Louis in Next Game — Huggins in Doubt. By HENRY L. FARRELL United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD THE BASEBALL SPECIAL, ENROUTE TO NEW YORK, Oct. B.—With a 3 to 2 game margin On the St. Louis Cardinals, and only one game needed to win the world's baseball championship and Its rich prize, the New York Yankees were speeding East today, jubilant and confident that they will win the 1926 world series. Their edge was the result of a 3 to 2 victory, won In the tenth inning Thursday at St. Louis. The Yank players admitted that the baseball gods, If there are any, and the breaks, which all baseball players know there are, gave them j the fifth game of the series. The New York players. In better spirits than they were on their trip to St. Louis after last Sunday’s game In New York, were exultant, not only because they earned what is considered by baseball men to be the big jump, but because they beat Wee Willie Sherdel, ace soutnpaw of the Cardinals, for the second time in the series. Sherdel throws slow balls and benders, and the Yanks do not like slow balls. They won the American League pennant against fast ball pitchers and they are all clouters. Babe Elated Babe Ruth, who made world’s series history by hitting three home runs In the fourth game of the classic, admitted that he was elated that Sherdel was through for the series. “I can’t hit those jeoft ones, and Sherdel is one fellow who will not give you any kind of a good ball to work on,’’ the Babe said on the train. i St. Louis was distinctly “down In the mouth" when the players left on special tr.alns for New York. The banners were still hanging from the buildings in the main business section. the automobiles still had wind shield banners exhorting the Cardinals to “beat the Yanks” and “come on Cardinals," hut the St. Louis team left home for the rest of the battle in New York without any civic demonstration. No Ceremony There was no ceremony such as greeted the National League champions after they had won the pennant and when they returned from the first two games in New York as a 5 to 5 favorite to win the pennart. After a close game, such as the j final one In St. Louis and after a battle In which the breaks play I prominently, the losing manager is always criticised by the grand stann managers and the grizzled experts, j And today oi> the train, Rogers Hornsby was being criticised because he allowed Sherdel to remain in the box too long. It wafe pointed out that Sherdel committed every pitching blunder exteept a balk in the tenth and* decisive inning, and he may have been too tired to commit a balk. The Yankees certainly played much more spirited hall In the final St. Louis battle. The base runners didn't loaf as they did In the fourth game ad the players all seemed to be pepped up like college football players apparently because of the j Babe’s 'great demonstration In the | previous game. Bad Breaks St. Louis had all the bad breaks in the fifth game. There were hits over third base that dropped between Thevenow, Bell and Hafey; there were reversed decisions by the umpires and there was the erratic pitching of Sherdel after a bad break when Bob O’Farrell hit him on the end of the index finger of his pitching hand. Miller 'Huggins, manager of the Yankees, showed the first real sentiment he has displayed in the series when he was riding back on the train. “How about my old army game?” (Turn to Page 23)

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By Major Hoople SPORTSMAN’S PARK, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 7.—Egad, folks, the festivities hdld Wednesday night in celebration of the general outbursts of Babe Ruth Wednesday left me a bit foggy Thursday. At a dutch luncheon given by scribes Wednesday evening in the Jefferson Hotel I was called upon time and time again to deliver speeches. (This gave the others a chance to get at the dutch lunch counter)—linotyper’s note. I was in the company of Mr. OneEyed Connolly. I learned later from Nick Altrock that Mr. Connolly is a strong man in vaudeville. He specializes in crashing gates. An odd act, indeed! Jack Ryan of Bloomington. 111., introduced me to Mr. Connolly as "One-Eyed’s closest rival.” Egad, It Is true that one time I was a strong man, but I never splintered a gate. However, I have leaned on many of them.

A Souvenir T also have a very unique souvenir of the world series to show the boys back at the Owl’s Club. All the members of both teams autographed my wing collar. I am forced to wear it home, but after that, only on special occasions, by jove. Now then for the contest. When the yelling subsides I will continue. Most annoying-, drat it. In the last, of the first inning with the Cardinals at bat. two out and a runner on third, Bottomley hit the ball and threw his bat farther than the hit. I feared for the moment that the Yank pitcher would throw tbo out to first base with the bat. What an extraordinary play it would have been. The Cardinal business office complained about the expense of lost balls during Wednesday’s game and they saved $1.85 Thursday in tie fourth inning by walking Babe Ruth. First Run i ' Bottomley scored the first run for St. Louis and if I were near the bleacher section, I would go into the wholesale hat business selling discarded chapeaux back to the citizenry. Ruth saved the Cardinal club another $1.85 by catching a fly foul just before It fell in somebody’s vest pocket, by reaching over the rail of the left field boxes. He got a bigger hand for it than the statue of 1 Liberty, by jove. In the sixth chukker, Ruth struck out with two men on base. The howl that went up split the gray clouds which cast darkness over the field and the sun came, out. The Yanks scored one marker making the game of equal proportions. Egad, I have my fingers in my ears and I will tell you what happened in a moment. Wow. w-w-w----wow, St. Louis scored another run. By Jove, I wouldn’t mind being a throat specialist in this town for the next month. In the ninth inning the\Yanks scored a tieing run, and the fhlnt tootle of a passenger train could be h°ard in the offing, disturbing the silence. The game went into an extra inning with the Yanks scoring and

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Big Series Statistics

STANDING Tankers W s"' L 2 °*‘ Cardinals V o 3 . FIFTH GAME FIGURES attendance filth srame..„. SO 55” . flf ' h game.. .$l6B 380 00 ** orn , mip ? innprs Hh.ir® ox 7 (u\ Each club s share £.15‘780 75 Each leafruo’i share $35,780.75 FIRST FIVE GAMES Paid attendance 241 343 Gate reoeiGt* oo inninr payers *hare $158,366.21 lA)‘inir pit- s*fu*4 nharc .... i J<M "44 l l 1 iayors '-'.sre—Second, thin! r, f ? irth . siu.eoo.id C mmifwloier* **haro $134 7^7 K.c-h duh’s share $ 07.830>3 Ea.-h league * <>hare $ 97.830 93 four Yam"? m * h:,rP aft,r the hrst RFS| |,T OF GAMF.S 1 -ii ?f7, N,w Y P, rk - St. Louli, tv.* 1 ' 1 , VI V 1 —1 ennofk and Severeid' Sherdel. Haines and O’Fari-ll oft 1 ' 2“7, s ' Lol y? 1-12-1 New York, vk~ rl ’ A ndtr and O Farrell; Shaw cejr - J" n( -r and Severeid. O ft* 6 Sr?. t J^ uJ ?K., 4 ' 8 0: N>w York h'mJw B §w eri f^ — nnd G'Farrell; Ruether Shawkey Thoma. and Severeid . ; *~n s !, w York 10-14-1: St Louis, ft,*?'}’- „ Batu-ne*-—Hoyt and Severeid: and OTarreli art H Hallahan * K ~" „ ' ■ York. TO.!- St Louis. -4-7-1 (ten lnmngsl. Batteries—Pennoek and Severeid: Sherdel and (VFarrell SIXTH GAME At New York, Saturday 1:30 (12:30 Indianapolis timci Seventh frame if ncevswiry. at New York. Sunday. COLLETT MEETS WILSON Former National Women’s Golf ' Champ Replies Final Match. Bit ('nittil Brit* PHILADELPHIA. Oct. B.— (Miss f.lenna Collett, former women’s national golf champion, was to meet! Miss Virginia Wilson. 20, of Chicago in the final round of the Bertheilyn cup tournament at Huntingdon vaJley today. In the semi-final round Miss Col-! lett played the last three holes against Miss Helen Meehan, in one! under par and won 3 and 1. Miss; Wilson went to the finals by defeat-! ing Miss Edith Quier. Reading. Pa., j 3 and 2.

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Fifth Title Struggle

(At St. Louis. Thursday: ten inning*) NEW YORK AB R H 0 A E Combs, cf .... 4 0 1 2 0 0 Koenig, es . .. . 5 1 2 3 5 1 Ruth II 3 0 0 3 0 0 Meusel, rs .. . . 8 0 0 0 0 0 Gehrig, lb .... 3 1 2 14 0 9 Lazzeri. 2b ... 4 0 2 3 2 Q Dugan. 3b .... 3 O 0 0 1 0 Paschal I 5 I 6 0 0 Gazella 3b ... 0 0 0 1 2 © Severeid c ... 5 0 0 4 1 0 Pennock. p. .. . 4 I 1 0 2 0 Totals 35 3 9 30 IS 1 Paschal batted lor Dugan in ninth ST. LOUIS AB R H O A E Holm, cf ..... 4 0 0 1 0 0 Southworth rs. 4 0 0 2 0 0 Homsbv. 2b .4 0 0 33 VO Bottomley lb 4 1 1 12 0 Q L Bell 3b. ... 4 1 2 2 3 0 Hafev. If 4 Q 0 6 0 0 O Farrell, e .. . 4 0 8 2 ? O Thevenow *9 4 0 1 1 3 1 Sh-rdel. p .... 3 0 Q 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 2 7 30 15 1 Flowers batted for Sherdel n tenth. New York 000 001 001 I—3 St. Louis 000 100 100 o—2 Runs batted In —By L Bell. 1: by Koenig. 1: by O'Farrell. 1: by Paschal. 1: bv Lazzeri. 1. Two-base hits—Bottomley. Pennock. L. Bell. Gehrig Sacrifice hits— Meusel 2’ Lazzeri. Stolen base—Southworth First base on errors —St. Louis. 1. Left on base—St Louis. 5: New York.ll. Double nlavs—Hornsby to Bottomley: Lazzeri to Kocniz to Gehrig. Bases on halls—Off Sherdel 5: off Pennock. 1. struck nut—Bv Sherdel 1 bv Pennock. ■ *t.| nltbeed bd I —Gazclla. by Sherdel. Wild pitch—Sherdel Passed ~ -severeid Time—2:2B. Umpires—l> tieen al plat O Dsv at first base: Hildebrand, at second: Klein, at third.

Saturday’s Radio Grid Card

(Copyright. 1926. by United Press) ! WOI. Ames lowa (270)—Iowa State vs. Oklahoma Agcies _ •WMAQ. Chicago (148) —Chicago va. i Maryland. , „ _ •WON. Chicago (303)—NotreDame vs. Minnesota. _ , WFAO, Columbus (293) —Ohio State vs. Ohio Wesleyan ’ •WWJ. Detroit (353)—Michigan vs. Michigan Aggies. WSUI. lowa City (4841—Iowa vs. North PaU ota •W.IZ. New York (454) —Yale vs. Georrln wiP. Philadelphia (508) —Pennsylvania! vs Swarthmore. WBZ Springfield (333) —Harvard vs. | Holy Cross. \ • May broadcast world scries instead. EUROPEAN CHAMPS WIN Title Holders Retain Crowns In London Fights. Bu United Press LONDON. Oct. B.—Two European champions won their bouts here Thursday night. Tommy Milligan, middleweight champion of Europe, defeated Ted Moore, the referee ending the bout In the fourteenth round because of the challenger’s condition. The FYench flyweight titlist, Francois Moracchini was outpointed by Micky Clark, flyweight champion of the continent. In twenty rounds.

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Title Series Sidelights

BY JOE WILLIAMS NEA Service Writer ST. LOUIS. Oct. B.—Push ’em up Tony Lazzeri made the fifth jgame of the world disturbance safe for the blackshirts of Mussolini and the boiled shirts of Broadway with a fly ball in the tenth inning yesterday. It is an uncommon event when any individual can accomplish anyI thing of importance for a Broadway institution with a fly ball —usually a highball is necessaryThe Yanks got a lot of lucky ; breaks in yesterday’s game. One of them was a fast train out of the wildest, most delirious, most fanatical baseball town that ever used an umpirical noodle for target practice. This is a left-handed year in sports. Everything has gone wrong. Tennis players are being paid real money. Elocutionists are making mugsNsf fellows like Dempsey. Bobby Jones is missing three foot putts. So why he shocked out of your abdominal belts at the spectacle of a left-handed gentleman farmer like Pennock winning two straight games in a world series? The report had reached St. Looey that the Yanks played like a hunch of farmers, but nobody was gracious enough to tell them the difference between a dirt farmer and a gentleman farmer. At this writing the threatens to amount to $2,200 so far as each Cardinal is concerned, and that’s a lot of money in baseball whether you take it out in cheers, checks or foul lines. The Bam fanned in a pinch with two on the bases. There was honesty in his grunts, but vacuum in his willow.

The experts are now saying the Yanks can’t lose It would be i more assuring if the experts said they can't win. An expert is a guy who is never right except by accident. and this is a terrible year for accidents. St. Louis reluctantly remembers Mr. Ruth as the onery animal that drove the world series from the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the Harlem. There was no rousing hand of welccme for Ihe Yanks when they boiled out on the field yesterday In fact they couldn’t have got hand at that moment, If they had been drowning. When voting Koenig booted that grounder somebody barked: “Why j don't you turn professional and sign j up with Cash and Carry Pyle like all the other tamateurs?” Bill* Dlneen. the singing umpire, was behind the bat. They call him the singing umpire, because be came to th* B*-d Sox back in 1900 for a song, and a not-overly intriguing j song at that. VITAL STATISTICS If all the hot dogs sold since the series started were placed end to (Turn to Page 23)

OCT. 8, 1926

ST. LOUIS, SLIGHTLY DAZED Disappointed After Thursday’s Game—Fans Catch Up on Lost Sleep. By Mark YV. Childs United Press Stall Corresoondent ST. LOUIS, Oct. 8. —A comparatively silent St. Louis recovered today from the frenzied madness of three days of world series base-ball, the first baseball honor that had come to the city in thirty-eight years. The reaction to a week of noisy enthusiasm was doubly noticeablo because of the intense disappointment at the outcome of Thursday’s game. Before Babe Ruth began his mighty swatting of Wednesday, St. Louis fans thought that a world championship was within grasp. Today there were only a comparatively few optimists who expect a rally. A little wistfully the city took down its flags and removed the last traces of the welcome to Hornsby that filled the streets with a swirl of flying paper. The whole city, including ardent fans who sat up for three nights to get seats for each game, caught up in sleep last night. There was a marked absence of the noise-making devices that have shattered the quiet of the nights during the past week. There are some consolations remaining for certain baseball enthusiasts here. The owners of the team have several hundred thousand dollars. At least 3,000 fans hrve baseballs autographed by Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby and others, and Hornsby himself has, besides his share of the winnings, a brand new sedan, and Mrs. Hornsby, as her share, has anew fur coat and a diamond ring. Only a few of the team’s most enthusiastic supporters made the trip back to New York to follow the further fortunes of the Cardinals there. It was a much smaller number than started out on special trains when the series opened In the Yankee stadium.

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