Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1930 — Page 15

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NATIONAL LEAGUE PROMISES CLOSER RACE

Five Clubs Figure in Title Race Cubs, Pirates, Giants and Cards Top List of Contenders. BY GEORGE KIRKSEY Preen Staff Correnpondent r*EW YORK. April 10.—The National League race promises to be much closer this season than was the case last year when the Chicago Cubs won the pennant by ten and one-half games. Five and possibly six clubs may be regarded as potential pendant contenders. Last year's four first division clubs—Cubs, Pirates, Giants and Cardinals—are certain to figure prominently in the race, while Brooklyn and Cincinnati have been considerably bolstered. The Phillies, sensations of the 1929 season, may continue to improve and continue their climb which hoisted them from last, place in 1928 to fifth place last season. The Braves, under the new leadership of Bill McKechnie have made a jemarkable spring record and may furnish a surprise for those who expect Boston to trail the field again There arc four new managers in the National League. Jewel Ens, who replaced Donie Bush at the held of the Pirates late last season, will pilot the Pittsburgh team. Bill McKechnie, who won pennants with the Pirates and the Cardinals, will manage the Braves. Gabby Street takes over McKechnie’s job with the Cardinals. Dan Howley, former manager of the St. Louis Browns, has replaced Jack Hendricks at Cincinnati. Thumbnail sketches of the eight clubs follow: CHICAGO (CBS ’Finished first. Won 98. Lost 54, Pet 645) Only one rhunge has made in the Cubs, raster Bell replacing Norman McMillan at third base. Bel), bosom pai of Rogers Hornsbv. is expect’d to Ixilster the weakest lime in the Cubs' machine. The rest ot the infield will find Cirlmm at first, Hornsbv at second and English at short. The outfield will again be composed of Stephenson. Wilson and Cuvier. The regular pitchers will be Bush. Malone, Root. Blake and Carlson. If Gabbv Hartnett's arm is well, the Cubs will be stronger behind the bat. Each Taylor is the other rereiver. PITTSBURGH riRATFS Finished second. Won 88. Lost 65. Pet. .575* The Pirates figure to be an Improved team though the trading of Burleigh Grimes, who won eventeen games and lost seven last -enson puts a crimp in the pitching staff. Gun Suhr. San Francisco rookie who batted 381 for San Francisco last season, hitting fifty-one home runs, promises to strengthen the team. The Infield will be Suhr. Grantham. /Bartel! and Traynor. and the outfield will be the Waner brothers and Comoroskv Hemsley and Hargreaves will do the catching. The pitchers include Kremer. Brame. Swetonie, French. Stoner. Petty, j Meinc and Percy Jones. NEW YORK GIANTS i Finished third. Won 84, Lost 67. Pet. .556 1 The hopes of Giants rest with a trio of i southpaw pitchers and a rookie second 1 baseman. Eddie Marshall. If Hubbeii. Walker and Pruett. Newark rookie, a!' come through and Marshall does not waver at second, the Giants promise improvement. Besides the three southpaws, the pitchers include Fitzsimmons. Oenewlch, Benton. Parmnlee and Lucas, the latter two rookies from Toledo. Hogan and O Farrell are the catchers. Terr- will play first. Jackson shnn -nd 7 -’-’-i-’—-third. Leach. Fullis. Mosttl, and Ott will form the outfield. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (Finished fourth. Won 78. Lost 74, Pet. 513 1 A shift In the infield and the addition of three new pitchers are the major changes In the Cardinals. Frisch has been shifted to third base and Sparkv Adams, bought from Pittsburgh, placed at second. Gelbert will be at short and Bottomley at first. Hafey, pouthit and Orsattl or Roettger will make up the outfield. Hailahan. Grabowskl and Flint Rhein, trying a comeback, are the three new pitchers The other pitchers include Haines. Shcrdrl, Syl Johnson. Haid and Frankhouse. Wilson and Smith are the catchers. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (Finished fifth. Won 71. Lost 82. Pet. .464 1 Pitching will determine the fate of the Phillies. Offensively, they are strong. The infield has Hurst at first. Friberg battling hard to oust Thompson at second. Thevenow at short, and Whitney at third. The outfield will be O'Doul in left. Southern or Sigman In center and Klein in right. The Pitchers are Alexander. Benge. Collins, fpveetland. Willoughby. Koupal. Daiiev. S'nvthe. Milligan. Speece from Indianapolis. and Collard from Shreveport. The ertchers are Davis and McCurdy , BROOKLYN ROBINS (Finished sixth. Won 70. Lost 83. Pet. .458 1 The Robins are apt to be the darkhorses of 1930. With many invalids of lfst season back In form. Brooklyn looms as a dangerous club. Bisonnotte. Flowers. Wright and Gilbert will form the Infield. Hendirk. Frederick and Herman will make ua the outfield. Vance. Luque. Morrison Voss. Clark. Dudley. Thurston and Elliott are the pitchers. Ptctnieh. De Berry and Lopez will do the crtching. CINCINNATI REDS ’Finished seventh. Won 66. Lost 88, Pet. .429' Bob Meusel and Harry Heilmann. veteran American League outfielders, are two Important additions and are expected to increase the Reds' punch. Meusel will

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WHEN the assault on outdoor track records opens, one of the star performers who will be watched will be Rut Walter, former Kokomo (Ind.) high school athlete, now captain of the Northwestern university track team. Walter is considered the outstanding quarter-miler in the middle west and one of the best collegiate short distance men in the country. Walter injured a knee last season, but not until he had come within fractions of a second of breaking Ted Meredith’s long-standing 440 mark. The knee is bothering him again this spring, but he is expected to be in condition when the big meets roll around. Walter holds the Indiana prep records in the 100 and 220yard dash events.

MATCH LIGHT HEAVIES Light heavyweights have been matched for the main go of the regular weekly mat card at Tomlinson hall Monday night. Ralph Wilson. Indianapolis, will match his collegiate type of wrestling against the strength of Cowboy Jones of Wyoming. They will meet in a finish bout under the catch-as-catch-can rules. MANUAL NINE TRIUMPHS Grabbing a seven-run lead in the first inning, Manual high school diamond pastimers coasted to an 18 to 2 victory over Morristown in a five-inning contest Wednesday. The winners collected seventeen hits off two Morristown hurlers. Huebner, with a single, double and triple, led the local nine at. bat. play left. Ethan Allen center and Hellmann right. The infield will be made up of Kellv at first. Crit.z at second. Fr-j at short, and Stripp at third. The pitchers will bo Lucas. To on ■ " Kolp, MrWe-ney. S' John"-' Ash. Campbell and Frey. Sukeforth and Gooch are the catehe.s. BOSTON BRAVES ’Finished eighth. Won 56. Lost 98. Pet. .364 ’ Many changes have been made in the Braves. Neun from Baltimore will plaj' first. Rhiel bought from Brooklyn will p!"v second. Maranville will play short, and Randy Moore. Texas league rookie, win plav third. Wally Berger. Los Angeles rookie, and Clark and Richbourgh form the outfield. The pitchers include Brandt. Coonev. Cantwell. Cunningham. Seibold. Oximes. Bob Smith, Bob Brown an<t Al Smith. Spohrer and Gowdy are the catchers.

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Jones to Box Ohio Fighter hi Hall Ring Howard Jones, 138-pound Louisville scrapper, and Battling Kuzke, Toledo mitt tosser, were matched today to meet in the eight-round semi-windup on the Waiter Pick-erd-Joe Packo card Thursday night. April 17, at Tomlinson hall. Kuzke. a stable mate of Packo, is reputed to be a willing mixer. In Jones, he is pitted against a battler well known to local fans. The Louisville pug has shown to advantage on several ring cards here. P'.ckerd, local heavyweight youngster, engaged in another workout this' afternoon at the Arcade gym. Wednesday he took on three sparring mates and- watching him throughout the session was the onetime “giant killer,” the ever popular Jack Dillon. The local heavy will be trying for his sixth consecutive local triumph when he opposes Packo.

Base Hits News and Gossip From Big League Training Camps,

By United Press WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Topeka. 14: Browns. 8. Phillies. 4; Athletics. 3. Washington. 19: Braves. 13. Columbus. 7: Red Sox. 6. Toronto. 6: Tiger*. 1. Mobile. 9: Pittsburgh. 6. Louisville. 10; Cincinnati. 9. Yankees. 8: Nashville. 3. Brooklyn. 9: Charlotte. 3. White Sox. 8: Giants. . Columbia. 9; Giants Seconds. S. RICHMOND. Y a -fe ra xton Brown. Jones £ the nai exhibition K'^rtrtWTßraves. BROOKLYN. April M.-™' XT* Boston Red Sox. _____ FT. WAYKtlnd Ap, raeo White n? r x e( , *ames left in their serie a swith me h NewVo a rk Giants. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. April 10. The Detroll Tigers will complete their hibitton tour here today in * Toronto. i l,o a \7 S R^ E nla^ V the A L r o!ilsVVe T ColonV n is n r n e a Vodav d in D 'the deciding contest of a three-game MOBILE. Ala.. April 10._PUtsburgt.N Pirates will complete their two-game jeres with Mobile todav and move to Neff leans for three came* with the Pelicans. Dick Kartell, injured shortstop, i* exported to resume his position Friday. TULSA. Okla . April today" orowns will attempt to beat, Tulsa ’ o <r a y. Topeka halted the P Breams by pounding out P a 14 to 8 win Wednesday. BROOKLYN. April 10.— The Boston Red Sox came here today for a series with the Brooklyn Robins after losing to Columbus. ; 7-6 Wednesday. oSF'bkrssf-,. T 'iSSi.n/ p ;s.ic.'.y, from a Charley horse but salf he expected to be in shape for . tw York Yankeeopening game PHILADELPHIA. 10.—The Athletics and Phillies will y the fourth game of the annual city scries today. BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April >.—Th Cleveland Indians arrived here (today foi a two-game series with Birmingham. j KANSAS CITY, Mo.. April 10.—The Chicago Cubs returned to the middle west today after their spring training trip to California and will meet the Kansas City Blues in the first of a four-game series. LONDOS TOSSES RUSSIAN * j ST. LOtflS, April 10.—Jimmy j Londos. heavyweight wrestler, Wednesday night defeated Matron, Kerilenko. Russian. I

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Blue Loses to Warren Central Shortridge thinlies dropped their . first dual meet of the season Wednesday to Warren Central. 64 |to 35. It was the first meet the Blufe has lost in seven years. ! The Owls annexed first places in j all events except the mile and halfI mile and made clean sweeps in the | hurdle events. Muehl and Under- ! wood were the local first place wins ners. Danner, who won both hurdle events, and tied for first in the pole ; vault, and Hollis, who won both dash events and the broad jump, were best for the winners. TRACK COACH INJURED Bu United Press STERLING, 111., April 10.—R. L. Akey, coach at Rock Falls high ! school, was in a hospital here today ! suffering a skull fracture received when he was struck by a javelin hurled by an inexperienced athlete. Physicians said he probably would recover.

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Rockne Plans Grid Season Bu United Press ROCHESTER, Minn., April 10.— Evidence that Knute Rockne. Notre Dame football coach, is, as he says, “feeling fine” was presented today when he revealed that he already is mapping out his plays for next year. He said a few of the old formations would be retained but that in the main he would present anew offense. Rockne is here to undergo a thorough examination at the Mayo Clinic. He said he hoped to be back in South Bend, April 24, to take charge of spring football practice. STRANGLER LEWIS WINS Bu United Press MILWAUKEE Wis.. April 10.— Ed (Strangler) Lewis threw Carl Schultz, German heavyweight champion, here Wednesday night.

Helen Wills to Defend Titles Bu United Press NEW YORK. April 10.—Mrs. Wills Moody will defend her English and French tennis championships this year and will play for ! America in the Wight man Cup matches against Great Britain in June, it was announced here today. Mrs. Moody will sail for England on the Steamer Berengaria, April 22. ; Glenna Collett and her American | women's golf team which is to pla; :an international match with an English team also will sail on the Berengaria, April 22. OLIN BEATS LA ROCCO Bu United Press NEW YORK. April 10.—Bob Olin of New York, former amateur light heavyweight champion, outpointed George La Rocco of the Bronx in a six-round feature bout at Lennox Sporting Club. Olin weighed 176 1 ., La Rocco 185^4 .

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