Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 315, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1927 — Page 11

APRIL 11, 1927

MAJOR LEAGUE BALL CLUBS READY FOR OFFICIAL OPENING OF SEASON

Secrets /16 Years Successful Pitching BY GROVER. Veteran Pitcher of World's Champions

mAM one who believes the farm life and the small town is the place to grow the big league stars. Os course, there is the exception to all rules and big cities have given us many wonderful ball players. Take my case. Asa boy I worked hard. There is no B play to putting in ten hours daily on the farm at $1.25 per day, when the burning sun is 100 and up. That was my life before I took up baseball as my profession. What did it do for me? Why, it took the ease out of luxury. j Alexander When I got into baseball I appreciated the life. I wasn’t ducking my regular turn to pitch. I have heard many pitchers complain it was too 1 hot at 90 to pitch a ball game. A ball game played inside of two hours! ; I have felt like telling them what I had to do for my dollar and a I quarter and ten hours of it daily, i with the temperature over 100 in : the shade. Hard work is what the youngster i of today needs. He gets in baseball ! and he sees the difference. And he grows to prefer baseball, too. He. gets to it seriously. I know I did. Baseball is no place for a tender- ‘ foot. Take some of the old-timers. Did they go to specialists when j they cracked a finger or twisted an j ankle? They remained in the game. I They weren’t going to let the next

CITY BOWLING GOSSIP By Lel’ty Lee

The windup of the Indianapolis Ladies League finds the Silver Flash team the champion with sixty-five games won and sixteen lost. The A. C. Bradley team finished in the runnerup position with a record of six- j ty-tiiree wins to eighteen setbacks. The individua standing finds Mrs. Johns in the lead with an average of 168. Mrs. Weisman was next with 164. A late season spurt pulled Mrs. E. Meyer up to third place with 163. Twenty-eight women rolled an average of 140 or better. The records for the season in this loop were. High single game, A. C. Bradley, 953. Second high single game, Silver flash, 4150. High three games. Silver Flash, 2,620. Second high three games, A.C. Bradley, 2,534. High single game, individual. Mrs. E. Meyer, 241. Second high single game individual, Mrs. McDaniel. 233. High three-game total, Mrs. Kuthcnbcrg, 640. Second high three games, Mis. Meeker, 605. The Vollrath Apt. team showed j good sportsmanship by carrying on j in the face of three wins and sev-enty-eight defeats for the season. Better luck next year, girls. When this column predicted the Tennant of the Bankers League would bo won by the City Trust ,team the Royal Order of Razz got busy and ga.ve us the works. Now, the league has finished the season and perched on top the champions t are the CITY TRUST CO. To prove ; .that his world’s record as a sharpshooter is earned, “Jimmy” Hurt | i used the same method with a bowl- j ring ball and, let the league in indi- ' \ vidual averages with 189. Peterson f had high three games for the sea-

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fellow take their job away from them. Look at Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Zack Wheat, and the fellows who have been up for a long time. They came from farm life. C.v Young, too; also Babe Adams. Stanley Coveleskie was a coal miner. He served his bai-d licks and lie is still pitching. Go into the records and you will see that Coveleskie appeared in sixtyfour ball games in 1915 with Portland. Too many of the youngsters coming into baseball today try to duck hard work. When I started my only kick was failure to get enough work. I would have willingly pitched twice as many ball games as I did if the manager would have called upon me. Now, most of the youngsters are content to sit on the bencli and let the old-timers do the work. Can you picture two of the pres-ent-day crQp of pitchers, carrying the burdern of two-thirds of the team’s schedule? Fred Marberry t>f Washington is a pitcher of that type, but he is the exception. Yet, in 1915. Tom Seaton and myself pitched 100 of the 153 ball games played by the v Phillies. W/ won the pennant that year. Seaton worked in fifty-one while I toiled in fortynine. * If I ever own a ball club, some of my scouts are going in for the farmer boys and the youngsters from the hick towns. It has been my experience that the small-town boy is more appreciative of the opportunity when he gets a chance in the majors and as a rule he sets about to make the most of it.

son, a 676, and the team rollled 1,057 on the last night for high single game. What is an optimist? Boys, this question is the easiest one to answer we have ever found. Here goes. Optimists are a group of fellows who gave a bowling team composed of Hill, Mundt, Cray, F. Fox and Blue a handicap of 162 pins for three games and then tried to beat them. This club went out and copped top honors at the Central alleys in the Optimists annual tourney rolled Friday and Saturday with a grand total of 3,143. Mansfield, Ohio, was second with a total of 2,863, just 260 pins away. Blue was high* for the winners with a total of 621 on games of ISO, 197 and 235. Cray had 614, and Mundt 609. The State bowling tourney opened at South Bend Sunday. South Bend bo ter teams were on the drives and no large scores were expected. The play is on the Hotel La Salic Annex drives, and reports are that they arc in great shape for the meet. Due to the efforts of Clarence Myers, who handled the local entries, Indianapolis is sending the largest number of out-of-town teams, twenty-eight. Ft. Weyne. Terre Haute, Gary and Hammond also are well represented. This meet will run until May 9, after which date the season of 192627 will have expired and the plans and hopes for next year will be the topic in the stove league. Three hundred and fifty doubles at Illinois alleys Sunday. Call your e ntries in to Johnny Beam, Main 5747.

Exhibition Games

Mi l) HENS LOSE TOLEDO—Ray Sohalk’s battling White Sox defeated the Toledo Mud Hens, in the final training game Sunday. 210 1. Because of the exceptionally frigid weather, the “Craeker” took no chances on his pitchers developing sore arms, and used three hurlers. who held the Ohioans to six scattered hits. BROWNS RAP CARDS ST. I,OUTS. Mo.—Ernie Wingard was in fine form, holding the champion Cardin as to three hits, and enabling the Browns to win the city series, by beaUng the National Leaguers in the final game. 3 to 1. SENATORS TRIM GIANTS NEW YORK—After spotting the Giants five runs in the first inning, the Washington Senators staged a ninth-inning rally to beat the New Yorkers. 7 to 6. in the final exhibition game of the training season. The Senators pounded Grimes and Bentley for fourteen hits. PHILLIES LOSE TO ORIOLES BALTIMORE—The Phillies ended their training season hy losing a tight game to the Baltimore Orioles here Sunday, 4 to 2. REDS VICTORIOUS CINCINNATI—Three Indian pitchers were unable to bold the Cincinnati Reds, the local team drubbing their Ohio rivals, 5 to 3. ATHLETICS DROP FINAL NEWARK, N. .I—Connie Mack's Athletic lost their final training exhibition to Newark Sunday. 7 to 3. Newark made ten hits off Ehniki. Quinn and Gray. YANKS GO OVER Brooklyn—Four Robin pitchers were unable lo cheek the New York Yankees. Brooklyn dropping a 4-to3 game to the American Leaguers. Three Brooklyn errors aided the Yanks.

Scandals Cleared Away, Owneis Predict Another Successful Season. By Henry L. Farrell United Frees Staff Cor’-csvondent NEW YORK, April 11.—Disposal of the Hornsby case puts baseball back on the playing field after a winter spent in turbulent official offices and public investigating chambers. With Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker cleared of scandal charges and with Hornsby’s position with the New York Giants now secure by settlement of his stock fight, there is nothing to keep the boys from playing ball Tuesday without any extra pressure. Owners of the major league clubs predict another successful season. If competition encourages business, the cash registers ought to sing, because the two pennant races will look to be as tight as they j could be made if the dope is j correct. Five Clubs Have Chance Five of the eight clubs in the Na- j tional League have chances to win the pennant with the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants very closely grouped in strength. At least four clubs in the American League race are strong possibilities, the Philadelphia Athletics. New York Yankees, Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians. The Pirates and Giants are being backed heaviest in the National League speculation and they are probably equally good bets at about four or five to win. Athletics Outstanding The Athletics are the outstanding favorite in the American League. The American League with five new managers and a raft of changes in playing strength offers problems to pickers and it seems almost anything can happen to upset calculations. The Athletics, however, seem to be in better shape to survive bad j breaks than any other culb. The j breaks, as usual, will be big sac- j tors. It is the opinion of those who have given close attention to it and who base their opinion on observation that if baseball suffers from a business standpoint this season it will not be because of the winter scandals. The effort of the scandal talk may have created more inter-"! est than ever in the game. No Technical Charges From a technical standpoint the ■ game ought to be about the same as the magnets were too busy with ; other things during the winter to tinker with the playing rules or \ make any admitted changes in the ball. In some individual cases, such as with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the game may he a little bit faster than before, hut there aren’t enough new youngsters to make any marked change in the speed of the. game rr to cause a general change In man- ; agerial tactics.

Week-End Sports

BUTLER WINS TERRE HAUTE, Tnd. Butler ! University track team took first place in a triangular meet here Saturday, I it:i 75 Vi points. Rose Poly had 52U and Oakland City 7. Cant, j Herman Phillips of Butler carried off individual honors. MARQVARI) SIGNED BALTIMORE—Jack Dunn, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, signed Ruhr Marquard. former b)K’ league star pitcher. EARI.HAM TRACKMEN WIN RICHMOND—EarIham track team experienced little trouble with ndiana Central thinly dads here Saturday and won handily, 103 Vs to U"'™. OTTAWA DEFEATS BOSTON BOSTON, Mass. —Ottawa Senators j defeated Boston Bruins, 3-1, in the I second game of the Stanley hockey j cup, emblematic of the world’s 1 hockey championship., Saturday. The first game ended in a scoreless tie. MARION H. 8. VICTOR MARlON—Marion won a triangular high school track meet here Saturday with •53 points. Westfield had 21 and Elwood I 15. SHORTRIDGE IVINS Shortridge opened its season at the fairgrounds in a quadrangular meet. The B'uc and White gathered 87points. Warren Central had ,321i ; Southport. 10 la, and Greenwood, 10. • EI.TICS WIN TITLE NEW YORK—Brooklyn Celtics won tin world's professional basketball champion- j ship here Saturday defeating the Cleveland j Rostnblums, 35-33. WET GROUNDS LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Wet grounds | Saturday caused the cancellation of : the Purdue-Notrc Dame baseball j game. IVINS GO 1.1 TO! RNEY PINEHURST. N. C.—George /V eight. Washington, Saturday won the United j North and Sou\ amateur golf championship with a victory over "Eugene Homans, j Englewood, N. J., 1 and . in the final | round. INDIANA RI NSERS II IN ATLANTA. Ga.—lndiana University relay teams led the field in the annual Georgia Tech relays here Saturday. The Hoosiers won four first places. TIE FOR HONORS F. W. Young and E. K. Dickerson tied for high gnu honors at the weekly shoot of the Indianapolis Gun Club Saturday. Both had 05 out of 100. LOUGH RAN VS. STRIBLING fill United I’rcHK NEW YORK, April 11.—Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia, leading contender for the world's light heavyweight championship and Young Stribling, Georgia, have been matched to meet in a ten-round bout, in Ebbets Field on May 4, Humbert Fugazy,' New Y'ork promoter, announced. GAME ENDS IN TIE Bv T'nited Prtnß TIVERTON, R. I. .April 11.—A soccer game between the Uruguayan team and Fall River ended in a tie score of 1 to 1 here Sunday. SIX BIG WINNERS Here are the official figures for the past racing season showing the six biggest winners on the turf. They are led by Crusader, who copped $16fi,033 and followed by the others in this order: Boot to Boot, $114,920; Display, $104,420; Carlaris, $100,375. '

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Pirate, Bison, Indian

Owned by the Pirates last year, Pitcher Koupal of the Indians was sent to Buffalo, where he won ten and lost four games. The Tribe got him in the Carmen Hill deal. This riglilhander is making a strong bid to be numbered among Bruno Betzel’s mainstay hurlers.

Owned by the Pirates last year, Pitcher Koupal of the Indians was r”— "”~ r ' " r ” ’ If sent to Buffalo, where ho won ten and lost four games. The Tribe got 1 jRHft him in the Carmen Hill deal. This j * , riglilhander is making a strong bid i *

AMATEUR CUE TOURNEY First National Meet to Start Today —Five Games Daily. Bu United Press CHICAGO, April 11.—The First national amateur three-cushion billiard tournament under the auspices of the Amateur Billiard Association of America will start here today. Prominent amateur entered include: Dr. A. J. Harris, Chicago; Robert M. Lord, Glen Ellyn; Frank I. Fleming. Champaign; Dr. L. P. Maeklin, St. Louis; E. Z. Wain-

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wright, Pittsburgh; Galen Tate, Memphis; Edward Hoffman, Minneapolis; James N. Lewis, New York: Albert A. Primeau, £)etroit. Five games will be played daily throughout the week. BOLT NOT POSTPONED Bn United Press TUCSON, Ariz.. April 11.—Although Sammy Mandell, world’s lightweight champion, is in a hospital with an infested shoulder. Ids bout with Johnny Vacea this week will not he postponed unless the injury becomes more serious, his manager announced.

BOXER DIES Young Corbett Succumbs to Heart Failure. Bn United Press DENVER. Colo., April 11.—Young Corbett is dead. The tough little fighter knocked the featherweight championship crown from Terrible Terry McGovern in two rounds back in 1901, dropped dead from heart failure Saturday night. Young Corbett, starting to cross the street in front of a theater, stepped from the curb into the patli of an automobile. He dodged back, escaped being struck and then pitched forward on tjie pavement. Young Corbett's real name was William Rothwell. He was born in Denver, Oct. 4. 1880. He started his ring career in 1897 in the days when prizefighting was more of a game and less of a prefession. He fought hard and often, meeting and pushing over most of the tough boys in his class. For several years after he won the championship he met all comers. He finally lost his title to Britt in a match at San Francisco on Oct. 25. 1904. For a number of years after he retired from the ring. Young Corbett lived in New York. About five years ago he drifted back to Denver where he had since made his home. MANAGERS TO MEET Bu United Press CHICAGO, April 11. —A meeting of semi-proo managers of the Chi•eago Mid-West League will be held here tonight. A schedule will be drawn up for the doming week. The league opens play next Sunday. SETS NEW RECORD Bn United Press • BERLIN, April 11. —The Swiss walking champion, Schwab, set a new world’s record for the 23-kilo-meter walk when he made the distance in 2 hours, 3 mintes 12 3-5 seconds here Sunday.

Tuesday Openers

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ST. PAUL AT INDIANAPOLIS. Minneapolis at Louisville. Milwaukee at Toledo. Kansas City at Columbus. NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. St. Louis at Chicago. New York at Philadelphia. Brooklyn at Boston. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at St. Louis. Chicago at Cleveland. Boston at Washington. Philadelphia at New York. RING BOUTS The Phy-Cul vill stage its fourth weekly show Tuesday night, featuring some real mixers. The card will consist of twenty-eight rounds of boxing. Four boys from Terre Haute are scheduled to show. Referee Grammell, who is bringing the boys over, promises real action in these bouts. Billy Moore, lo- i cal middleweight, and Teddy Havis, Cleveland, will be seen in a sixround go. Joe Dillon and Ted Hunt are scheduled for the main event of eight rounds, which should be a slam bang affair, as they previously boxed eight sensational rounds. The Phy-Cul gym is located at Ohio and Delaware Sts., and plenty of seats are available.

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A. B. C. CHAMP Milwaukee Team Wins FiveMan Bowling Event. Bu United Press PEORIA. 111., April 11.—Th Tea Shops team of Milwaukee la champion of the five-man event of the American Bowling Congress for 1927. The last two squads of five-man teams rolled Sunday night. The tournament ends late today with four squads of doubles and singles. With a score of 3,199 the Tea Shops not only won the SI,OOO in cash and live gold medals, but established two records that are likely to stand for some time to come. They registered the high three-game total and the high single game total by a team —1,186. The Witter Razz of St. Louis finished second with 3,082 and the Koors 29 of Dayton, Ohio, third with 3,061. NICKNAME CHANGED . Bu United Press WICHITA, Kan., April 11.—The Izzies, Wichita's entry in the Western League, have had their nickname changed to “The Larks." The name Izzies was given the team when Frank Isbel was owner of the club. Isbel no longer is connected with the team.