Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1934 — Page 21

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By Eddie Ash Plain Horse Sense, Is Hornsby System 9 9 9 He Doesn’t Believe in Master Minding

r J''HE best American League pennant scramble in years is under way and most surprising of all, of course, is the showing of the “despised ’ St. Louis Browns, a 200 to 1 shot at the start of the season. Nobody expects the tailenders of 1933 to snatch the flag, but just at the moment they are creating a stir, and their manager, Kajah Hornsby, is a source for interviews wherever his club plays. Rogers never has gone in for ‘‘master minding” and “miracle stuff,” and unlike a few of the prima donna managers in the big show, he is easy to interview and doesn’t hesitate to call a spade a spade. “Attribute it to horse sense and percentage,” the Brownie pilot told Harry Grayson, sports editor of the Newspaper Enterprise Association, when requested to explain his wonder working. k tt tt * n tt THE Browns finished last in 1933 by forty-three and one-half games. Today the cellar dwellers of a year ago, although gripped by a recent slump, were less than four games back of the league leaders. Quite a contrast there. The following, in part, is the way Chief Hornsby discussed baseball with Harry Grayson: “Knowing a league is important, but not the paramount problem some would have you believe. Baseball is played in the same way everywhere. The only difference between the majors and the minors is the tempo. Naturally, you must know how to pitch to and play hitters, but that isn't difficult to learn if you have been brought up properly, as I was —under smart baseball men like Miller Huggins, Branch Rickey and John McGraw. All I need is one peek at a hitter, be he right or left-handed. When in doubt, pitch low and away from him. If he consistently reaches over and lams that kind, mix ’em up—high, low, in and out. When that doesn't work, all a pitcher can do is deal and duck.” u a u THE Rajah of Hornsby went on to say: “You play a different game against different clubs and under varying conditions and switch your attack on the road. There is no question but that the home club has an advantage. When you are a visitor, the other outfit's last turn at bat always is hanging over your head. Unless the Browns have remarkable ‘pitching, which is seldom, we play for bigger innings while traveling. Nowadays, with jackrabbits keeping one another company in the ball, it usually is advisable to let the opposing pitcher have both barrels for the first five innings, wherever you happen to be. By that time you have a line on your own pitcher, and can reach a decision as to whether you might be able to win with a run or two. It then is time enough to sacrifice. Pitching determines your attack. Take the New York Giants of last year, for example. They could play the old army game because they had four chuckers, Hubbell, Schumacher, Fitzsimmons and Parmelee, any one of whom generally could cop with two or three runs.” 9 tt tt n tt tt HORNSBY asserted that the only pronounced difference between the Amercan League, in which he made his bow last August, and the National League, in which he spent eighteen summers, is the junior loop’s superiority in long-range hitting. The Rajah has been successful as a pilot, although it is no secret that he is disliked by numerous athletes, largely due to his domineering attitude and despite the fact that certain traits outside of the game may have had something to do with his frequent changes of scenery. Hornsby steered the St. Louis Cardinals to a pennant and world championship in 1926. When the Rajah substituted for John McGraw, who took sick, the New York Giants captured nearly every game played on their final western trip in 1927. The tactless Texan built the Chicago Cubs who won in 1932 and bossed them until the closing weeks of the campaign.

Red Birds Make It Two Out of Three on Indians Greer Holds Locals to Four Hits Under Lights; Finale of Series Carded Tonight. BY EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor In six of the nine innings last night only three Indians faced the lanky Ed Greer of the Columbus mound staff and when action ceased at Perry stadium the Red Birds were on the long end of a short score, 3 to 2. The visiting chucker held the Hoosiers to four hits and there was hardly a chance to check his winning stride except in the second and third stanzas.

The victory gave the Buckeyes two out of three in the series and the final battle of the set ‘Will be played tonight at 8:15. Returns of the Primo Carnera-Maxie Baer heavyweight fistic struggle will be announced beginning with the start of the fight. No Game Tomorrow Friday will be an off-day for the Indians and on Saturday night they will begin a series with the Louisville Colonels. There will be a dou-ble-header on Sunday afternoon. Jack Tising, Tribe hurler, beat himself last night. He permitted the Red Bird hurler, Greer, to lay his bat against the ball in the second round and the hit scored one marker and paved the way for a second, Greer struck out the next three times up. Moreover, in the fifth inning, with two strikes on Nick Cullop, veteran swinger, Tising grooved one with a runner on second base and Mr. Nick blasted the sphere to center for a whistling single, scoring Gene Moore, who was perched on the scoring bag. Nick fanned the other three times at the plate. Bedore Is Injured Columbus collected eleven safeties, several of the “very scratchy” variety that have become known as “night league hits.” Fred Bedore, popular and slugging Tribe third sacker, was knocked out by a bad bounder during infield practice and his nose was broken. It’s possible of course, that the Indian infielders, after seeing Bedore go down, grew a bit timid about taking chances under the night lights. Bedore was carried off the field and medical aid was summoned in quick fashion. He will be out of the game indefinitely. Myers Stars in Field Shortstop Myers turned in a great defensive game for the Birds and snatched everything within reach. He accepted ten chances without a bobble. The Birds are now within one-half game of the Indians in the race for the leadership of the eastern division of the American Association. Some fans think the Indians are playing too many night games and have become affected with eye strain. They have played three moonlight games since returning

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home and have lost ’em alll. They won all of the day games, three in number, since the start of the current home stand. They also lost the night game in Columbus before ending the last road trip. In Figures COLUMBUS _„ABR H O A E G Moore If 5 1 2 2 0 0 Wilson, 2b 5 0 3 0 4 1 T. Moore 5 0 0 0 0 0 gullop. rs 4 0 1 3 0 0 Heath, lb 4 0 1 12 1 1 Myers. ss 3 0 0 5 5 0 Rusks. 3b 4 1 3 2 2 0 Gooch, c 3 1 0 2 2 0 Greer. P 4 0 1 1 1 o Totals 37 *3 IT 27 15 *2 INDIANAPOLIS AB R H O A E Lee, ss 3 i o 1 0 0 Cooney, es 4 0 1 1 o n Cotelle. If 0 0 0 5 0 0 Wasninßton, rs 3 1 l 2 0 0 Sigafoos. 3b 4 0 1 0 1 0 J. Sherlock, lb 4 0 1 5 0 0 V. Sherlock, 2b 3 0 0 1 2 0 Riddle, c 2 0 0 12 o 0 Tising. p 3 o 0 0 1 1 Logan, p o 0 3 0 0 0 „ Totals 30 1 1 21 1 1 Columbus 020 010 000—3 INDIANAPOLIS 011 000 000^2 Runs batted in—Greer. G. Moore. J Sherlock. Cooney. Cullop. Two-base hit— Wilson Three-base hit—Cooney. Stolen base—Riggs. Left on bases—lndianapolis. 4; Columbus. 9. Base on balls—Off Tising 2: off Greer. 3. Struck out—Bv Tising,’ 8. bv Greer. 2: by Logan. 1. Hits—Off Tising 10 in 7 1-3 innings; off Logan. lin 1 2-3 innings. Losing pitcher—Tis—f 50 Umßires_ • Dun and Clayton. Time TRIBE BATTING AVERAGES AB H Pet. Bedoiv 189 73 .386 Rosenberg 164 55 .335 Washington 152 48 .316 Cooney 225 65 .289 V. Sherlock 176 50 .284 Sprinz 99 28 .283 Riddle 85 23 .271 Cotelle 104 28 .269 Sigafoos 158 42 .266 Lee 221 53 .240 J. Sherlock 74 17 , .230 Lawrie .... 4 0 .000 MRS. HILL WINS AGAIN By Times Special ATCHISON, Kan., June 14.—For the second consecutive year Mrs. O. S. Hill, Kansas City, won the Bellevue Country Club women’s invitational golf tourney here yesterday. Mrs. Hill triumphed over Mrs. Robert Guyer, PI. Leavenworth, 10 to 8.

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FISTIC MAULERS AWAIT BATTLE FOR CROWN

Camera Favored to Retain Title on Basis of Showing Made Against Jack Sharkey Baer Possesses Hard Right and Is Deadly Game, However; Champ Is Improved Boxer; Maxie’s Only Chance Appears to Be Early Knockout. BY JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Sports Writer NEW YORK, June 14.—This is the night Primo Camera defends his heavyweight championship of the world against Max Baer. If you like Camera, you must like him because he is big, strong and supposedly not easy to hit. If you like Baer you must like him because he is a puncher capable of dropping any man he hits solidly. Here, then, you have the basic elements of the fistic quarrel that is expected to draw something like $400,000 into the Garden bowl over in

Most men like to go to these things with a rooting interest in one of the fighters. This goes for men who make a business of writing sports for the newspapers. It is nice to know the next day you called the turn right. It is a bit distressing to realize you called it wrong. But it would be no fun at all not to try. Camera “On Own” I am guessing Camera largely on his durability, his concentration and the fact that he seems to be an improving fighter. We all know that once he was a notorious in-the-bagger. Which is to say that whenever he stopped into the ring everything was arranged for him to win. I am not sure precisely just when th£ great spiritual reformation set in, but I do know that for the last year or so Camera has been “on his own,” that when he won, he won legitimately. And during this time he has shown unmistakable symptoms of progress. Quite a few people were inclined to look with questioning eyes at Carnera’s knockout of Jack Sharkey in six rounds last summer. But apparently they forget to remember that two years before, when he was a great deal less than a finished fighter, Camera got up off the floor to last fifteen rounds with this same Sharkey, then at his peak. It is this first Sharkey fight that makes me feel Camera can’t be a complete bust. He showed ?, little fighting form that night, plus a lot of gameness, and it seems to me reasonable to assume that he must have gotten better with time and experience. Even now he is only 26 years old, so I don’t see how you can figure that he has gotten worse. Baer Question Mark Perhaps the most convenient way to dispose of Camera as a controversial subject is to say he is neither a very great fighter, nor a very terrible fighter. At any rate I am reasonably sure it does not require a composite of Jeffries, Corbett and Fitzsimmons to beat him. Well, Baer i s hardly that. In fact it is difficult to tell exactly what Baer is. He is certainly the question mark in this fight. All that we know about him is that he is a brash young man who can hit hard with a looping right hand and is apparently dead game. They are saying if there is to be a knockout Baer will land it. And that sounds reasonable enough, because Baer is a mad, charging battler for the most part, and he likes to throw heavy punches from all directions, on the other hand, Camera prefers to stand back and wait for the fight to be carried to him. They are saying also that if Baer doesn’t win by an early knockoutsay by the seventh or eight round—he will not win. And that sounds reasonable, too. it certainly sounds reasonable if Baer star s trying for a knockout from the start. A furious attack that yields nothing but futility can take a lot out of a man. It can actually beat him, if you must know. Slugger Gives Weight This is particularly true in a fight such as this, where one man —the slugger—is giving away about fifty pounds on the scales. If you demand an authenticated case upon which to debate this point, J refer you to the Toledo fight, where Dempsey spotted Willard about fifty pounds—and almost knocked himself out trying to knock Willard out. This may sound confusing and, if you rely solely upon the unembellished records for your information it also may sound cockeyed. But it’s a fact, just the same. Dempsey knocked Willard down seven times in the first round and the effort took so much out of him physically that he was leg weary and arm tired. Baer is being accepted as the greatest hitter since Dempsey’s time, but if Maxie does drop Carnera, he still faces the problem of keeping him down. Sharkey dropped him, but couldn’t keep him down. TRACK CAPTAIN NAMED By Times Special CHICAGO, June 14.—The Northwestern university track team yesterday elected George Farley, star miler from Fairbury, 111., as cinder captain for 1935.

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Fight Facts By 7'imcs Special NEW YORK, June 14.—Here are the salient facts on tonight’s heavyweight championship boxing bout: Principals—Champion Primo Camera of Italy and challenger Maxie Baer of California. Title at Stake—World heavyweight championship. Distance—Fifteen rounds. Site—Madison Square Garden's Long Island bowl. Expected Attendance—6o,ooo to 70,000. Expected Gate—ssso,ooo. Weather Forecast—Fair and warm. Betting—Camera favorite. Odds. 11 to 10 against Baer winning; 13 to 20 against Camera winning; 2 to 1 against Brer scoring knockout; 214 to 1 against Camera scoring knockout. Also 2 to 1 that Camera wins if the tight goes fifteen rounds. Distribution of Gate—State and federal taxes off top. New York Milk Fund receives 10 per cent of remainder. Carnera gets 37!4 per cent of gross; Baer 20 per cent, of which 714 goes to Jack Dempsey. tt tt tt THEIR RECORDS Primo Camera launched his pugilistic career on Sept. 12, 1928, and five years later won the title by knocking out Jack Sharkey on June 29, 1933. Carnera has engaged in eighty professional bouts, scoring fifty-nine knockouts, winning fifteen decisions and losing five. He fought one no-decision contest with Art Lasky. * Maxie Baer started his ring career on May 5, 1929, and soared to pugilistic fame last June 8 by scoring a technical knockout over Max Schmeling of Germany. He has engaged in forty-seven contests, scoring thirty knockouts, winning ten decisions and losing seven. Western Open Has Large Early Entry By United Press PEORIA, 111., June 14.—The field for the Western Open Golf tournament, opening tomorrow, had reached 187 today with several added starters expected, to increase the number to 200. The seventy-two hole medal play event will start with eighteen holes tomorrow. Another eighteen Saturday and thirty-six on Sunday. A pro-amateur event was scheduled today as a curtain-raiser on the Peoria Country Club links. BRUCE BARNES UPSET IN WESTERN TOURNEY By Times Special CLEVELAND, June 14. —AI Chapin, scored an upset in the western professional tennis tournament yesterday by defeating Bruce Barnes. The score was 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Keith Gledhill and Ellsworth Vines teamed together to defeat Phil Greenstein and Willis Fulton of Cleveland in a doubles match. TRACK STARS AT COAST North Carolina Cinders Team Prepares for Big Event. By Times Special LOS ANGELES, June 13.—Ralston Legore, javelin thrower, Thomas Hawthorne, low hurdler, and Harry Williamson, half-miler, arrived here yesterday from North Carolina to represent their state university in the national collegiate track championships. They intend to put in a week of preliminary work before the big meet begins on June 22.

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When the Giants Square Off for Title Tonight

PRIMO CARNERA

Art Krenz, artist for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, drew the above conception of how World Heavyweight Champion Primo Camera of Italy and Challenger Max Baer of California will appear in their title battle tonight at Madison Square Garden bowl. The bout is for fifteen rounds or less. Camera will outweigh the Livermore Larrupcr, more recently Hollywood “play boy,” by approximately fifty pounds.

Palfrey to Open Wightman Singles Helen Jacobs Will Oppose Peggy Scriven. By Times Special WIMBLEDON, England, June 14. —Sarah Palfrey, second ranking American player on the Wightman cup teahi, will open the international matches tomorrow against Dorothy Round of England. Helen Jacobs, skipper of the American squad, will meet Peggy Scriven, England, in the other singles match, while Carolin Babcock, Los Angeles, will pair with Josephine Cruickshank, Santa Anna, Cal., on the American side against Miss E. M. Dearman and Nancy Lyle of England. AMERICAN POLOISTS LOSE By United Press RANELAGH, England, June 14. — The Auroras, invading American pony polo team, were eliminated from the Ranelagh open cup tournament in the semi-final round yesterday by someries House, 6 to 3.

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(Bv United Press) Joe Cronin (Senators) —Hit six in nine trips in twin bill, doubled, homered, drove in ten runs. Fred Frankhouse (Braves) —Shut out Cards with six hits, won 9-0. Jimmy Foxx (Athletics) —Hit three in four trips, fielding seventeen chances without error. Bill Werber (Red Sox) —Hit three in four, drove in four, stole fourteenth base of season. Floyd Vaughan (Pirates) Doubled, hit two triples in four trips. Ethan Allen (Phillies) His homer with one aboard in eighth beat Cubs, 2-1. SHELBYVILLE ATHLETE DIES; BODY RETURNED By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 14. The body of Bernell T. Fortune, 33, former Shelbyville high school and De Pauw university star athlete, arrived here today for burial. Fortune died yesterday at Martinsville, Va., after an appendicitis operation. He was a four-sport athlete at De Pauw, competing in basketball, football, track and baseball.

It Really Could Be Worse During the first three days of the recent pro tennis tourney at Brookline, Mass., in which both Bill Tilden and Ellsworth Vines participated, five cash customers witnessed the first day’s matches; fifty, the second, and thirty-seven, the third.

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Sherry Is Added to Friday Show McLemore Completes Outdoor Wrestling Bill. To complete the all-star wrestling card for the formal opening of his new outdoor arena, located at 911 North Illinois street, promoter Jimmy McLemore has signed 'Young Jack Sherry to meet Tommy .Tassos, in the one fall prelim tomorrow night. In his last appearance here, Sherry held Roy Welch to a draw in forty-five minutes and Tassos lost a close match to the English star, “Lord” Finnegan. The main event will show Marion Mynster, Ohio veterai*. meeting Chief Little Wolf in a two-out-of-three falls fracas. Mynster, though a stranger here, is one of the leading light heavyweights. In the semi-final. Harry Burrus, Anderson youth, will come to grips with Freddy Kupfer, Swiss grappler. Kupfer holds wins over such stars as Billy Thom, Blacksmith Pedigo, Merle Dolby, Jack Domar and Billy Love.

Times Champs Will Receive Gifts Tonight Heinlein to Be Awarded Trophy on Stage at Palace. BY DICK MILLER Al Feeney, state safety director and former star athlete at Notrq Dame university, will present prizes to schoolboy golfers tonight who did best in the ninth annual Indianapolis Times interscholastic golf tournament at Coffin municipal course last week. The presentations will be made on the stage of the Palace theater and Jack B’lex, theater manager, has consented to break into the regular program at 9 p. m. for the distribution of the rewards. Eleven Are Winners Schoolboy linksmen who will be given prizes are Louis Heinlein, Cathedral, tournament winner as well as medalist in the qualifying round over Coffin municipal course with a 72; Paul Gentry, Technical, runner-up to Heinlein for the championship; Clayton Nichols, Manual, and Richard Keil, Washington, losing semi-finalists, and John David, Shortridge; Wemore Smith, Technical; Dick McCreary, Shortridge, and Chester Werner, Technical, losing quarter-finalists. Grade school boys who will be rewarded are Vincent Lockwood, school No. 75, winner of the medal score eighteen-hole championship with 88 on Coffin links; Arthur Weaver, school No. 44, who finished second with 93, and Ray White, al > of School No. 44, who finished tha with 94. Trophy to Heinlein \ These boys are requested to bb i present at The Times office tonight at 8 o'clock. Prizes to be distributed are The Times trophy and golf medal, a set of matched wood clubs by Happy Olyea, state representative of the Tyler Company of Muncie and clubs, balls, caps and other beauti- s ful prizes donated by the following professionals: Dick Nelson, Meridian Hills; George Soutar, Broadmoor; Neal Mclntyre, Highland; Roy Smith, Hillcrest; John Vaughn, Pleasant Run; Clayton Schultz, Sarah Shank; Ralph Stonehouse, Coffin; Russell Stonehouse, Riverside, and Harry Schopp, South Grove. FT. WAYNE CATCHER PLACES WITH MILLERS - ■ * By Times Special MINNEAPOLIS, June 14.—Guy Schatzer, Ft. Wayne (Ind.) catcher, and Butch Schmidt, hard hitting University of lowa backstop, have been signed by the Minneapolis Millers, president Mike Kelley announced today. Schatzer already has reported to the league leaders, and Schmidt was expected to report today. Kelly also revealed that south-■ paw Beryl Richmond had been returned to the Baltimore Orioles of the International League. MARSHALL PINS HAGEN READING, Pa., June 14.—Everett Marshall, 220, Colorado, pinned 1 George Hagen, 212, New York with a body press in fifteen minutes in the main event of an oudoor wrestling show here last night.