Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1929 — Page 31

OCT. 18, 1929

Rebuilding Yankee Pitching Staff Is Chief Task of Manager Shawkey

New Pilot of Wealthiest Ball Club to Get Busy Shortly. MANY YEARS IN MAJORS Important Berth Turned Down by Art Fletcher. BY GEORGE KIRKSEY I’nJted Pre** Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Bob Shawkey, new manager of the New York Yankees, was hunting moose in the Canadian wilderness today, but will return next week to begin a winter’s hunt for ball players to rebuild the team. He has been given a one-year contract. Colonel Jacob Ruppert made the announcement of Shaw'kev’s selection late Thursday. Arthur Fletcher, picked by t.ie late Miller Huggins several years ago as his successor, turned down the job. It is the third time within two years Fletcher had turned down managerial offers, having declined to manage the Cleveland Indians in 1027 and the Chicago White Sox last July. * Fletcher Stays as Coach After the death of Huggins last month, Colonel Ruppert offered the job to Fletcher. "If it’s all the same to you, Colonel,” Fletcher replied, “I would rather not have the job and the responsibilities. If I can stay as coach, that will suit me better.” So Fletcher will remcin as coach of the Yankees, and Shawkey will take over the task of rebuilding one of the wealthiest and most powerful organizations in baseball. The flrrt step in renovating the 1927 and 1923 world champions was the release of Bob Meusel. veteran left fielder, to Cincinnati Thursday. Other changes in the Yankees will be made shortly. Under Mack and Huggins Speculation over Shawkey’s future as manager of the Yankees has brought out two interesting points. He is a keen judge of pitchers and a product of two of baseball’s greatest managers, Connie Mack and Huggins. Rebuilding the Yanks’ pitching staff is one of the big tasks confronting Shawkey in his new job. Shawkey is given credit for the startling development the past season of Roy Shcrld. young righthander of the Yanks. Shawkey broke in with the Athletics in 1913. He joined the Yanks in July, 1915, and served almost fourteen seasons as a member of the Yankees’ pitching staff. He was in the navy most of 1918. In 1919, his best year, he won nineteen games and lost eleven for an average of .633. Praised by Landis Shawkey is 39, and was born in Brookfield, Pa. He now lives in Philadelphia. He is 5 feet, 10 inches in height and weighs about 180. In presenting Shawkey with his world series ring at a banquet in Montreal in April, 1918, Judge K. M. Landis referred to him as “a player who is of great credit to baseball.”

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Bob Shawkey THE Yankee Club bosses pulled a surprise on the baseball world late Thursday by naming Bob Shawkey as new manager of the team, succeeding the late Miller Huggins. Shawkey was given a one-year contract. Most of the critics picked Art Fletcher and they were correct in a way because Fletcher was offered the berth only to refuse. He will remain as coach.

Pleasant Run Golfers Receive Prizes.

Pleasant Run golfers talked 1939 plans at the annual banquet ending the season held at the course clubhouse Thursday night. Tilford Orbison distributed the prizes, awarding Leslie Muesing the troohv and clubs for club champion. Orbison was runner-up. Forrest Dukes received the award for championship consolation winner with Milton McGraw runner-up Peter Gilgrist wen the prize for president consolation flight with E. M. Irwin runner-up. R. W. Lewis was winner and Dr W. B. Gates runner-up in the vicepresident flight and Harry Perkins winner and Herbert Gelloway run-ner-up in the secretary flight. fcr' marott trophy Ed Lennox, general chairman .cf the Indianapolis Athletic ClubColumbia Club golf match to be held next Wednesday at the Country Club course for the George J. Marott $5,000 trophy today requested all members of the two clubs to get their entry in as early as possible. Fee is $lO and practically every golfer will receive some sort of a prize. Fee also will cover rha-ge for the banquet Wednesday night. Teams of twelve or twenty-four selected from the entry will play for the trophy. The meet will be played according to season handicap figures.

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Even Chances Given Teams in Struggles Many Major Elevens Over East in Tossup Contests on Saturday. BY DIXON STEWART United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Saturday promises to be one of those rare Saturdays which fail to provide a major football upset. These "upsets’’—unexplainable surprise victories by teams counted upon to provide easy opposition—have become so common that no Saturday during the season is considered quite complete without at least one surprise. I However, unless little Duke trips up the Navy, De Pauw upsets Puri due or Chicago drops one of its : “double-header” tilts with Terre Haute Normal and Ripon the "upset’' explanation can not be used as an alibi for picking the wrong team i to win in any of Saturday’s games. Many Close Ones Nearly every other major team in the nation is playing a formidable opponent and in no case is the result of the game a foregone conclusion. Harvard and the Army meet in the east’s most important game of the day, and while the crimson is a slight favorite, it will take a brave expert to predict that the Army will ! lose. California is quoted as a 2-to-l favorite to beat Pennsylvania in the most important intersectional battle of the day. However, Perm has not been defeated this season and while a victory over the Golden Bears would be surprising it could not ha ! rated as a true "upset.” Several Toss-Ups j The other bte eastern games, Col--1 umbia vs. Dartmouth, Fordham vs. : Holy Cross, N. Y. U. vs. Penn State, | Brown vs. Yale, Princeton vs. Cor- | nell and Carnegie vs. W. and J. are considered toss-ups and no book ma’-er would lay odds against any of the teams. In the South, Georgia vs. North Carolina, Georgia Tech vs. Florida and Tenne~see provide the days’ headliners. I ast week. Georgia beat Yale while North Carolina beat Georgia Tech. WALLACE IS HIGH GUN Wallace was high gun at the weekly shoot of the Spring Lake Skeet Club. Fair weather brought out a large gallery of fans. Most of the members of the Spring Lake Club are beginners at the traps and find the clay pigeons too tricky for their unpracticed aim. The scores follow: Wallace, 13 out of a possible 25; Richards, 10; Lewis, 10; Kelley, 9; Bohm, 9; Schuller, 8; Settle, 8; Curler, 5.

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Coach Fooled by Own Play liu \EA Service GAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 18. —The coach who has drilled his team in the use of deceptive plays so well that he fails to recognize the players might be said to have accomplished his purpose. When the University of Florida, one of the strongest teams in the south, scored its first touchdown of the season, Coach Charlie Bachman told sports writers covering the game that Captain Cawthon was the ballcarrier. That would have been all right had not some of the writers investigated further, to learn that Mills Smith carried the ball over the line on a play designed to make Cawthon appear as the ball carrier.

CARLIN MEETS OLSEN Johnny Carlin, Swedish speed star, will tackle Silent Olsen, deaf grappler of Cincinnati, in the feature on the weekly wrestling card at Cadle tabernacle Monday night for the best two of three falls. In the semi-final Hugh Nichols and Henry Burke, light heavies, will clash. Owing to the length of last Monday’s main event between Wilson and Routt, Promoter McLemore has decided to put a time limit of two hours on the feature matches in the future. fordhTm works defense NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—A freshman team, using Holy Cross plays, was allowed to keep the ball during Thursday’s entire scrimmage as Coach Frank Cavanaugh drilled his Fordham varsity on defense. COMPANY” B JjjH From the ffjl

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Teams First Met in ’B9 Em Timet Botcial LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 18.—One of the oldest grid rivalries in tLe middle west will be renewed here Saturday when Purdue and De Pauw meet in the Ross-Ade stadium in their twenty-seventh renewal of the scries that was started back in 1889. It was just forty years ago that the teams met, and since that time the two elevens have met twentysix times. Purdue holds a topheavy advantage in the series, with twenty-five victories to one bv De Pauw. * De Pauw’s only victory over the Boilermakers came in 1918, the S. O. T C. year, when it managed to eke cut a 9 to 7 win.

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Shortridge Ties Elwood Eleven in Last Period , Scoring all their points in just eight minutes of play, Shortridge Blue Devils earned a thrilling 1313 tie with Elwood at Shortridge field Thursday before 3,000 fans. The locals’ running attack advantage was offset by Elwcods’ aerial game. ’ Elwood opened the scoring early in the game by working a lateral pass that ended in a forward pass to Snyder. Underwood and R. Hunt staged a punting duel the rest of the first quarter. Goldsberry inserted his Shortridge varsity backs in the second quarter, and the invaders opened their passing A long heave from Hunt seemed

far out of Snyder's reach until a Shortridge player batted the bail up in the air and right into Snyder s hands. He scored and Schrenker kicked extra point. Elwood found Bulleit and Rose hard to stop after the rest period. Long runs accounted for touchdowns by the two local stars. Stewart’s line plunge brought the tying point.

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INDIAN MEETS M’MILLAN Bv Cnited Prcte NEW YORK. Oct. 18.—With the signing of Jim Clinkstock, Oklahoma Indian, to meet J:m McMillan, former Illinois football star In the opening match, the supporting card for the Richard Shikat-Vanka Zelesniak heavyweight wrestling bout has been completed.