Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1927 — Page 10

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PLAYING the FIELD

With Billy Evans ■M., . j INNING a major league penIVTTj nant is just about the last IW I word in the managerial line. Such a happening, as a rule, makes the pilot of the champions the outstanding figure in the community, for the time be-

ing at least. Ownie Bush, who led the t h e Pittsburgh Pirates to a glorious triumph in the National League, under adverse conditions and after one of the toughest races in the history o f baseball, is not experiencing the

conditions that confront most managers. Even with the pennant tucked safely away, there are a lot of the “wolves,” ball players’ name for the fans, on Bush's back, literally speaking. Bush's extraordinary situation has been created by his differences with “Kiki” Cuyler, star outfielder of the Pirates. • * • A MAN OF COURAGE 1 HORTLY prior to the start of V the opening game of the *** world series, I sat on the Pittsburgh bench, chatting with the great little manager of the Pirates. I always have had the greatest admiration for Bush, a former American League star. I umpired the first game he played in the American League, when he joined the Detroit Tigers late in the fall of 1908 and saved the pennant for them by his remarkable play at short. Always aggressive, with oodles of courage, Bush was ever a man of strong opinions. An umpire might have a rumpus with him today but tomorrow the affair would be entirely forgotten, the slate wiped clean and anew day started. Not knowing all the details, I have no desire to take sides in the matter, but on acquaintance of twenty years has convinced me Bush is a square shooter. if * * FEELS IT KEENLY - _i MILE not overly sensitive, Yly Bush feels keenly the adverse attitude a great many Pittsburgh fans have taken in the Cuyler situation. “Look out there in left field, Bill, and read that banner,” said Bush, as he pointed in that general direction. Spread from one end of the bleachers in the other was a sign which read: “We want Cuyler.” “I doubt if they get him,” said Bush. “Each club can have only one manager. Just as long as I am working for Mr. Dreyfuss I am going to be the pilot of the Pittsburgh club. “I am going to make mistakes, but I am willing to ride along with my judgment and accept the verdict.” Bush’s position is a most unusual one. He burned his bridges when he removed Cuyler from the lineup in August. He had nothing to shoot at but the winning of the pennant. After that, however, it would have taken a world championship to silence Cuyier’s admirers.

Tribesmen Seleet Plant City for Spring Training Camp Next Year Indians Going Back to Florida in 1928; Thirty or More in Player Squad.

Plant City, Fla., will be the 1928 training camp of Bruno Betzel’s Indians, it being the same spring home the Tribesmen used under Ownie Bush in ’24 and ’25. Secretary Clauer made the announcement today concerning plans for next year and stated there would be thirty or more players in the Tribe squad that would head to the far South around March 1. The Hotel Plant, anew and modern hostelry, will be headquarters for the Hoosiers while they go through their practice paces in the strawberry city on the Dixie highway. Other Camps Near By Plant City is ideally located for the business of getting a ball club in shape, owing to the fact that it is in the midst of several big league camps and Secretary Clauer started today to line up exhibition dates. Games will be played at Plant City and elsewhere. Arrangements for tlje Tribe spring camp were made by Owner Perry and Clauer, and E. H. Thompson, Plant City city manager, and Sam Adelson, one of the chief boosters in that town. Plant City is between Tampa and Lakeland and is a thriving business center. The Indians trained in Sanford, Fla., last spring and at Hot Springs, Ark., in 1926. The only objection to Sanford was the fact it was not in the big spring training area of the Sunshine State.

Favorite Songs of Stars on Air

Bu United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 10.—Favorite songs of the ball players in the late world series will be played and warbled by others in the# course of Tuesday night’s ’’Everready hour” over WEAF and twenty other radio stations. Early in the series the United Press found that both the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates were music lovers to the extent that singing often passed the off-the-diamond hours. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, the Waner brothers, the opposing managers and other stars of each team were asked to name their pet tunes and did so. The story, carried on United Press wires, was seen by sponsors of “E , :en'eady hour” add the program then arranged. "Casey at the Bat” and "In the Bull Pen.” a sketch from a Broadway hjt of past seasons, also will be broadcast.

Midwestern Football Outfits Prepare for Important Contests

Wiley Moore to Receive Another Boost in Saldry

Bu United Press . „ NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Wiley Moore will be one of the high N priced pitchers of the game nextyear. When he came to the Yankees this spring a farmer prospect of no known ability, he was given a $2,500 contract. From the start he was an asset. Soon he came to be known as the greatest relief pitcher in the game. Along about August, Moore went to Miller Huggins and, with no little hemming and hawing and a mounting embarrassment asked: “Do you suppose you can get me SSOO more this year?” Huggins said he didn’t know, but he’d ask Colonel Ruppert. The following week Moore had anew contract. It called for $5,000 covering the full season. After watching him save a game for Waite Hoyt and win another for himself in the 1927 series, the colonel admitted he was worth more than $5,000. So next year the Oklahoma farmer, who imagined he had risen to Rockefellerian affluence when he got his first Yankee contract, will get anew one, and it will call for SIO,OOO or better. He’s worth it. The colonel says so. and the colonel has a human sort of way paying the athletes what they are worth. Cubs Defeated by Cincy Team Indianapolis Cubs, city Class B champions. w r ere eliminated from the national championship series Saturday by the Cincinnati Kroness club. 5 to 3, in the second of a three-game series. Sunday the two outfits met in the final conflict and the Cubs nosed into a 7 to 6 victory. The first tilt of the series, played in Cincinnati Oct. 2, was won by the Kroness. A crowd of about 700 attended Sunday’s game. Goldsmith, Cub twirler. was the best individual performer for the locals.

Series Statistics

STANDING Team W. L. Pet. Yankees 4 0 1.000 Pirates 0 4 .000 RESULTS OF GAMES First Game—Yankees. 5; Pirates. 4. Second Game —Yankees. 6; Pirates, 2. Third Game —Yankees. 8; Pirates. 1. Fourth Game—Yankees, 4; Pirates, 3. FOURTH GAME FIGURES —Attendance, 57,909 — Receipts 5208.097.00 Plavers’ pool 106,129.47 Advisory cofincil 31,214.55 Each club’s share 17.688.24 Each league's share 17,688.24 FOUR GAME TOTALS —Attendance, 201,105 — Receipts Advisory council 55 Each club's share ..J 66.573.44 Each league's share _66.573.44 Players’ share 399,440.67 TO COACH AT TEXAS R tf United Press SPRINGFIELD. Mo., Oct. Fred M. Walker, former athletic director of Drury College here, has been appointed head basketball coach at the University of Texas.

The Columbus Senators were at Plant City this year and desired to return, it is said. The Boston Red Sox also were reported angling for the site. But the Indians in some manner got the “inside” on the camp and landed it. When the Hoosiers were there in ’24 &nd ’25 they got in wonderful condition and won the majority of their exhibition tilts. In fact the Indians beat so many big league teams Plant City gainted wide publicity throughout Florida and in the North. SUNDAY PRO SCORES At Detroit —New York. 13: Cleveland. 7. At Chicago—Chicago Cardinals, 7; Dayton, Os At Green Bay—Green Bay. 20: Duluth, 0. At Providence Chicago Bears-Provi-dence, no game, rain.

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Notre Dame to Clash With Navy at Baltimore Saturday. PURDUE MEETS CHICAGO Minnesota Is Big Favorite to Down Indiana. BY CLARK B. KELSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 10.—Having worked the kinks out of their systems in practice clashes, midwestern football teams today prepared for “games which mean something.” Football contests scheduled for next Saturday may determine important championships. Notre Dame, playing the Navy at Baltimore, will get a test determining whether the 1927 Rocknecoached squad may hope for another national football title. Northwestern, playing Ohio State at Columbus, meets the toughest foe on its schedule, and the victor in this contest is likely to smash through the Big Ten to a championship. “Stagg Fears Purdue” Purdue, dark horse of the conference, meets its ancient rival, Chicago, and the slogan, “Stagg fears Purdue?’ never was truer. The Boilermakers beat the Maroons for the first time last year and the team that beat Harvard Saturday should not fear the team that represents the veteran Chicago coach this season. Another, and perhaps more important, elimination contest is scheduled at Madison, where Wisconsin takes on Michigan. Michigan is given a big edge, but the Badgers who marched over KdTisas last o*turday may surprise the experts. Minnesota plays Indiana, and with Herb Joesting back in the lineup to crash the line there should be little doubt as to the outcome. One game, which was expected to be an important contest, has turned out to be “just another intersectional game.” Drake, badly drubbed by the Navy, will meet Pittsburgh at Des Vloines Saturday. Pittsburgh ran up a 40-to-0 count against the West Virginia Mountaineers Saturday. Wabash at lowa lowa plays Wabash at lowa City, and Illinois meets Ames at Champaign. The game between Notre Dame and Navy promises the biggest national thrill. The team from South Bend plays,elevens from practically every quarter of the country during its season, and in the Navy meets what remains of one of the best collection of gridders in the country last year. Notre Dame plays Southern California here Nov. 26, and if the “Fighting Irish” can down the Navy that Nov. 26 tilt may develop into a national championship affair. The Ohio-Northwestern 'game promises to be all -the more interesting because of the desultory showing made by both teams last Saturday. Both won by 13 to 6 scores.

CHANGES AT YALE Rn J iiifcil I*re** NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 10.— Several changes in the Yale team may be made before the Brown game Saturday. Hoben, quarterback, is not likely to be used at that position a;iain. Hall, sophomore, may draw the field general’s post. Changes also are expected at center and halfback. VALLEY 1928 DATES Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 10.— Athletic directors of the six Missouri Valley schools, who withdrew from the Valley Conference recently, drew up a tentative football schedule for 1928. Each team is matched with each of the others, outside games to be chosen later. BORG BETTERS MARK fill United Press BERLIN, Oct. 10.—Arne Borg of the Illinois Athletic Club has set a new world's recorrd for the halfmile swim, negotiating the distance in 10:14.5. Borg set the record three years ago at Gothenburg, Sweden, his native country, when he swam the half mile in 10:30.4.

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Koenig Upset Dope in Play and at Bat "Goat’ of ’26 Comes Back to Bat .500 and Star v Afield. BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Mark Koenig, the 23-year-old shortstop of the New York Yankees, once more has observed the old copy-book maxim, "if at first you don’t succeed, get mad and show ’em.” Now that the world series of 1927 has been writteii/into the baseball record books and

| the Yankees have shown themselves a real group of champions b y trimming the Pittsburgh Pirates in four straight games, the case and name of Mark Koenig arise for conscientious applause. For he was one of the outstanding heroes of the series—a star both at bat and in the

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field —and his feats were all the more remarkable because he was the flop of 1926. Took Punch at Babe Mark Koenig is constituted peculiarly. He hides his grievances until they pop out all over him and then he runs wild and woolly. In his first year with the Yanks, he stepped up and swung at Babe Ruth because he fancied the team’s star slugger was razzing him. That uprising made him solid with Babe. Mark proved he could not and would not be prodded too far. As a matter of fact his stand against Ruth probably made permanent his position as a Yankee regular. Then came the series between the Yanks and St. Lauis Cardinals last year. Mark was'dreadful. He was worse than that. In the seven games he was at bat thirty-two times and he made four hits—an average of .125. He had forty chances in the field and muffed four of them—an average of .900. W’as ’26/ Series Goat It was pointed out and rightfully that the difference between the play of Koenig for the Yanks and Tommy Thevenow for the Cardinals gave St. Louis the edge in that close series. And thus when it became certain

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Purdue’s New Flash

.. 1 Cotton• Wilcox.

Here’s Ralph Welch, newest luminary in the football world who flashed into stardom Saturday when his team romped to a 19-to-0 victory over Harvard in the outstanding intersectional contest of the week-end.

j the Yankees and Pirates would ! meet this year there was scarcely a sports writer that did not compare Koenig unfavorably to Glenn Wright, the Pittsburgh shortstop. The composite box score shows that during the 1927 series. Koenig t hit safely nine times in eighteen | trips to the? plate—an average of .500. He handled fourteen chances afiield without an error—an average of 1.000. He made three more hits than any other player on either | club and only Babe Ruth Had more J total bases. 1 Wright, on the other hand, batted at a .154 pace and fielded at .947. i Thus the San Francisco boy, j completing his second year in the ' majors, has reason to be proud. TILDEN BEATS HUNTER ' LOS ANGELES. Oct. 10.—William T Tilden defeated Francis T. Hunter, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. for Uie Pacific Southwest singles tennis championship. Kea Bouman, champion of Holland, won from Mrs. Mallory, 6-2, 0-6, 6-4, to win the women’s title.

Welch, a Texes youngster, has been an outstanding star in secret practice and Saturday competed in his first college football game. He scored two touchdowns and played an important part in making of the third. He is a sophomore. Will he eclipse the feats of Capt Chester (Cotton) Wilcox?

IMPORTANT COAST TILT Stanford, Southern California to Clash at Palo Alto Saturday. 111, Times Sllreiat _ _ _ PALO ALTO. Cal., Oct. 10.—PaI cific coast grid fans are working themselves into a high state of exj citement over the Stanford-Univer- | sity of Southern California clash | here Saturday. Stanford won last I year, 13 to 0.

Big Ten Figures

SCORING LEADERS •TP T PG Almqutst. Minnesota 46 7 4 Jbv. Ohio . 24 4 0 rTiilbert, Michigan 23 3 5 I Glassgow. lowa 20 3 2 ' Rose. Wisconsin 19 Z 1 Gustafson. Northwestern 19 3 1 Smith. Wisconsin 18 3 0 i Mills, Illinois 17 2 5 I Nydahl. Minnesota 15 2 3 I Crofoot. Wisconsin . 14 2 2 I Lewis. Northwestern 13 2 1 •TP, total points; T. touchdown: PG, I point goal after touchdown.

How N. Y. Yanks Divided Profits Gained in Series Bu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—For winning the world series each Yankee regular has received a check for $5,702. The Yankees divided $167,765.08, the winner’s end of the world series receipts, which exceeded all previous records for four games. Manager Miller Huggins, Coach Fletcher and Coach O’Leary were paid full shares of $5,702 each. Don Miller, young college pitcher, who recently joined the club, was voted half a share. “Doc” Wood, trainer, received a three-fourths share, as did Mark Roth, traveling secretary. Benny Bennett, mascot, was voted S7OO, Oroundkeeper Schenck, $750 and his assistant $250.

Final World’s Series Tilt in Figures

PITTSBURGH AB R H O A E L. Waner. cf .4 1 3 o 0 1 Barnhart. If 6 0 1 2,0 0 P. Waner. rs 4 0 1 0 0 0 Wright, ss 4 0 1 1 6 0 •Travnor. 3b 4 0 0 1 4 0 Grantham. 2b 4 0 2 0 2 0 Harris, lb 4 0 2 IS 0 0 Smith, c 3 0 0 6 0 0 Yde 0 1 0 0 0 0 Gooch, c 0 0 2 ? 5 2 Hill, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 Brickfll 1 i 2 2 S S MIIJUS. p 1 0 0 0 0 0 Total 3 10 *26 12 1 Brickell batted for Hill in ieventh. Yde ran for Smith in seventh. •Two out when winning run scored. NEW YORK AB R H O A E Combs, cf 4 3 B 2 0 0 Koenig, ss 5 0 3 0 3 0 Ruth, rs 4 1 2 1 0 0 Gehrig, lb 5 0 0 14 2 0 Meusel. If 5 9 2 19 9 Lazzcri. 2b 2 0 0 5 4 1 Dugan. 3b 4 0 1 1 4 0 Collins, c 2 0 3 2 1 0 Moore, p 4 0 1 0 3 1 Totals 37 *4 12 27 17 * Pittsburgh 100 000 200—3 New York 100 020 001—4 Runs batted in—By Ruth. 3: Wright. 1; Barnhart. 1: P. Waner. 1 Two-base hit — Collins. Home run—Ruth. Sacrifices. L. Waner. P. Waner. Stolen base—Ruth. First base on error—Pittsburgh. 2. Double plays—Lazzeri and Gehrig: Dugan, Lazzerl and Gehrig: Travnor. Wright and Harris. Left on base—Pittsburgh. 8: New York. 11. Base on balls —Off Hill. 1: off Miljus, 3: off Moore. 2. Struck out—By Hill. 6: bv Miljus, 3: by Moore. 2. Hits—Off Hill 9 in 6 innings: off Miljus, 3 in 2 2-3 innings. Wild pitches—Miljus. 2 Losing pitcher—Miljus. Time of game—: 15. Umpires—Ormsbv at plate. Quigley at first, Nallin at second. Moran at third. DRILL FOR COLGATE Bu United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 10.—Intensive drill for the Colgate game Saturday was started today by Columbia.' Coach Crowley has settled on his first string lineup except at quari ter, where Kaplan and Lumps are j fighting for the position.

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Purdue Soph Takes Place as Grid Hero V Ralph Welch Hoosier Star; Irish Romp to Victory at Detroit. A young sophomore from Texas, Ralph Welch, who filled the place of Capt. (Cotton) Wilcox for Purdue in Saturday’s contest against Harvard today was the hero of Indiana collegiate football. Puraue sprang the biggest surprise of Saturday’s games walloping the Crimson club, 19 to 0. Welch, filling the injured Wilcox's post, sprang into the limelight in Grange-like manner. He romped through the Harvard line, around the ends and through the broken field almost at will. Knute Rockne’s Notre Dame eleven, or rather elevens, had little of the expected trouble from the University of Detroit and scored an easy 20 to 0 win. The South Benders exhibited a baffling aerial attack. Wabash helped Hoosierdom boast slightly better than an even break by dropping James Millikin. 12 to 7. Pat Page's Indiana University squad, doped to beat Chicago, toppled over with the dope bucket and came straggling home on the short end of a 13 to 0 count. Butler was handed a crushing defeat in its annual conflict with the University of Illinois at Urbana. The Zuppke-coached crew hurled forward passes in all directions, completing fifteen out of twenty attempted. The final score was 58 to 0. De Pauw rolled up a 51 to 6 score over Rose Poly. Indiana Central smeared Earlham. 18 to 0, while Central Normal put the hooks into Evansville to the tune of 18 to 0 . VARSITY END INJURED h PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 10.— Stinson, varsity end, will be out of the Princeton linf-up until the Cornell game because of an ankle injury suffered against Lehigh.

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