Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1935 — Page 18

■VTEW YORK, April 17.—We were all sitting in the press box typing out pieces about the opening ball game of the American League season up at the \ ankee Stadium yesterday. The Boston Red Sox and the New York Yanks were about to begin their ball game and we had to exercise a lot of restraint not to begin our pieces all alike with the line “Ihe Ruthless Yanks.” For the Yanks, you see, were going into anew season for the first time in fifteen years without the services of the man who made them, made the stadium, and almost made the local American League franchise, if you care to go that far. Well, we had got pretty far along with the routine stuff about Joe McCarthy of the Yanks sending Lefty Gomez to the box and Joe Cronin of the Red Sox calling on Wesley Ferrell, and we were beginning to touch on the drama that surrounded the situation in which young George Selkirk found himself out in right field —the Babe's old place. a a a 808 FROM the clattery old machines, which sports writers seem to cling to w r ith an affection not altogether consistent w r ith their general scheme of living, came the thin white pages of paper, looking fearfully unclad in the icy winds, and these thin white pages told of the tough assignment young Selkirk faced. It was obvious sort of stuff and I guess we had our hearts in it at that, and the telegraph operators took the thin white pages and began Morse coding them into our offices without registering the slightest emotion. telegraph operators being the toughest audience in the world anyway—when all of a sudden the atmosphere of the press box took anew vibrancy. a a w bob THE Boston Braves had scored tw s o runs against the Giants in the first inning. That meant the Babe had had a chance to be in his first rally as a National Leaguer. Had he hit one? Everybody in the press box wanted to know. No he hadn’t. He had hit a single and driven in the first Brave run of the 1935 season but he hadn't “hit one." The Babe even had a phraseology that was reserved for him alone. When he hit one it meant he hit one for four bases. You never discussed him in such prosaic terms as singles, doubles and triples. aan n tt a AND so we went along pecking away at the clattery old machines with refrigerated fingers. It was a good ball game. For five innings neither side scored. Ferrell was outpitching Gom"., but only because he was pitching one of the greatest games of his life. He turned back the first eleven Yankees to face him. The twelfth, Selkirk, broke the spell with the first Yankee hit, a sharp single to center—and even the old Ruthians out in the right-field bleachers stood up and howled in delight, proving how easy It is to forget in the flush of new success. ana a a a WE drifted into the sixth Inning. With one down Werber doubled and took third when Gomez threw to center field. Reynolds missed a third strike. Dickey dropped the ball and when he threw to first, making no attempt to feint to third, Werber came home with the only run of the game. “Well, there goes your old ball game” someone in the press box commented dryly. Nobody heard him. For at this instant the telegraph operators, usually unmoved except by word that a six-horse parlay has come through for them, shouted in chorus: “The big guy got one.” a a a aan LISTENING in on the wires the operators learned before anybody else t in the press box that the Babe had slammed one into the right-field bleachers for a home run in the fifth inning to score a teammate ahead of him—and in an instant the word ran up and down the two rows of writers, “The big guy got one.’’ From that point on we didn’t have much more interest in the ball game that was unfolding in front of us. Somehow it seemed we were in the wrong place, that we had missed the story. And it still was. I guess in time we’ll get over it.

Snowberger and Bergere Are 500-Mile Entrants Ford to Have Ten Cars in Memorial Day Race Here, Is Report: Meyer, De Paolo Among Drivers. Russell Snowberger. Philadelphia, and Cliff Bergere, Hollywood, Cal., both of whom have completed the 500-mile grind in their last five starts at the Indianapolis Speedway, today entered the 23rd annual Memorial Day race.

Each has placed among the first ten in five of the seven races entered. Bergere finished seventh last year and Snowberger was eighth. Bergere has finished ninth three times and third and seventh once each. Snowberger has been eighth three times and fifth twice. Snowberger may drive the eightcylinder car which he used last year. Bergere is expected to drive a Ford. Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Cos., will enter 10 cars saicl to be “85 per cent stock models” in the 500-mlle race, it has been reported. The cars are being built in Detroit and will be ready for track tests within a week. Drivers will be Louie Meyer, Huntington Park, Cal., who has won the speedway event twice; Bergere, Pete De Paolo. Kansas City; Bill Winn, Kansas City; Bob Saul, Paterson, N. J.; John Hannon, Eastern dirt track champion; Rex Mays and Benny Hill, Los Angeles. TIGERS MEET CAVEMEN By Unitrtl Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. April 17.—Wabash College sought its third straight victory of the season •'•hen it met De Pauw Cniwr* ./ in a baseball game here tod?'

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Ray Sears* to Run in Princeton Meet Ray Sears, Butler University’s distance runner, again will compete in Princeton University’s “meet of champions” at Palmer Stadium on June 15, according to an announcement by Coach Hermon Phillips who received an invitation from the Eastern school. The Bulldog ace was defeated last year in the two-mile run in a whirlwind finish. John Follows, winner of the twomile run last year, has retired from competition, but Joe McCluskey, an arch rival of Sears, again will compete and Don Lash of Indir has been invited. Two others, one of which will be an intentional pacemaker, will be added to the event. The meet will be held one week prior to the national intercollegiate track and field meet at Berkeley, Cal.

Continental Track Squad Beats Cards Washington High School’s track team defeated Southport at the West Side field yesterday, 74 to 43. Individual star of the meet was Keene of the Continentals, who annexed firsts in the 100-yarl dash and the 220-vard run. and was a member of the winning half-mile relay team. He was timed in the 100 at :10.8 and the 220 at :23.2. Other winners; . 440-Yard Run Hickman. SouthDort. Half Mile —Rust. Washington. 2 12. Mi> Run McLaughlen. Washington. H:*h Hurdles—Sartor. Washington. 19.1. -70-Yard Low Hurdles—GimbeL Southport. .28 Fish Jump—Wasson and Banta. Southporv and Dean. Washington, tie. 5 feet 5 inches. Brane Jump—Yovanovich. Washington. 13 feet 7 inches Pole Vault —Banta. 11 fet Shot Put—F. WincheL Southport. 43 feet t inches. Washington won both relay events.

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RUTH’S HOMER ENABLES BRAVES TO WIN

Boston in 4-to-2 Triumph Over Giants as Bam Gets Circuit Clout; Dizzy Hurt Mound Ace Suffers Badly Bruised Ankle as Cardinals Lo£B to Cubs; Cleveland Edges Out Browns, 2 to 1; Yankees Beaten With Gomez Hurling. BY LAWTON CARVER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 17 ; — Dizzy Dean was crippled, baseball’s gn itest pitchers failed, but Babe Ruth delivered where brighter stars didn't. Thus the 1935 baseball season rode in on a cold wave that slashed attendance by thousands and furnished a drab setting for the get-away of the major league pennant races. But the old warrior Babe, spindleshanked, with the expansive waist-line of middle age, rose above the

Milwaukee Takes Extra-Inning Tilt From Kansas City St. Paul Pounds Millers; Colonels Nip Hens. By Unitei” Press The American A: ociation season got under way on tmee fronts yesterday afternoon, but at Columbus the cold weather forced postponement of the game with Indianapolis. In Kansas City, where fair weather reigned, the game with the Milwaukee Brewers went into extra innings before the visitors were able to establish a lead and hold it. The score was 8 to 7, w'ith Milwaukee scoring the deciding tally in the tenth. Polli and Wingard worked for the Brewers, the latter receiving the credit. Kansas City used Page, Browning, Moore and Niggeling. Lou Fette was in great form for the opener at St. Paul, and held Minneapolis’ sluggers in check while his mates pounded Marrow, Kolp and Petty for 18 hits and 13 runs. Fette allowed but four hits and no runs. The cold weather didn’t bother the pitchers in the Toledo-Louisville game at Toledo, which the Colonels won, 3 to 2. Sewell pitched for the winners while Boone and Doljack divided mound duty for the Mud Hens. Thr;e double plays featured the defensive game of the Colonels and helped Sewell out of tough spots. Kansas City, with 9225 paid admissions. had the biggest attendance. St. Paul reported 8585 and Toledo 2000.

Standings

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION , W. L. Pet. Louisville ] n 1.000 ft- Paul 1 o 1.000 Milwauke- 1 o 1.000 INDIANAPOLIS 0 0 .000 Columbus 0 0 .000 Toledo 0 1 .000 Minneapolis 0 1 .000 Kansas Citv 0 1 .000 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Cleveland. 1 0 1.000 Chicago . 0 0 000 Boston ..1 0 1.000 Detroit .0 0 .000 Phils 0 0 .000 New York 0 1 .000 Wash. ... 0 0 .000 St. Louis . 0 1 .000 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W L. Pet. Boston .1 0 1.0001 New York. 0 1 .000 Brooklyn. 1 0 l.OOOPhila. . . 0 1 .000 Pittsbrgh. 1 0 1 000 Cincinnati. 0 1 .000 Chicago... 1 0 1.000 St. Louis. 0 1 .000 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Columbus. Louisville at Toledo. St. Paul at Minneapolis. Milwaukee at Kansas City. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston at New York. Philadelphia at Washington. Chicago at Detroit. Cleveland at St. Louis, postponed, rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at Pittsburgh New York at Boston, postponed, rain. Brooklyn at Philadelphia, postponed rain. St Louis at Chicago. ’ Results Yesterday AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis at Columbus, ovld weather. Louisville 000 015 000— 3 6 3 Toledo 010 001 000— 2 5 1 Sewell and Thompson; Boone. Doljack and Susce. Minneapolis 000 000 000— 0 4 3 St. Paul 032 004 31x—13 18 0 Marrow. Kolp. Petty and Hargrave; Fette ana Giullana. iTen Inn‘nesl. Milwaukee 020 210 110 1— 817 4 Kansas City 000 033 010 0— 7 13 3 Polli. Wingard and Rensa; Page. Browning Moore. Niggellng and Gaston. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 000 002 000— 2 5 0 Boston .. 200 020 00X— 4 10 0 Hubbell. A. Smith and Mancuso; Brandt and Hogan. Pittsburgh 040 000 701—12 14 0 Cincinnati 010 030 002— fi 13 3 Hovt and Padden: Freitas. Frev. Schott. Hollingsworth and Lombardi. 2i°. ok J v , 303 002 103—12 13 1 Philadelphia 000 300 000— 3 5 2 Mungo and Lopez: Davis. Hansen. Bivin and Wilson. St. Louis 000 100 020— 312 2 Chicago 120 000 Olx— 4 8 2 J Dean. Tinning. Harrell and Delancer; Warneke and Hartnett. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 000 001 000— 1 6 0 New York ... 000 000 000— 0 2 2 W. Ferrell and R. Ferrell: Gomez and Dickey. • Fourteen Innings Cleveland 000 001 000 000 01—2 12 2 St. Louis 100 000 000 000 00—1 8 1 Harder and Mvatt: Newsom and Hemsley. Philadelphia at Washington: cold. Chicago at Detroit; cold. MANUFACTURERS’ LOOP IN MEETING TONIGHT The Manufacturers’ League will hold a meeting tonight at Smith-Hassler-Sturm s at 8 p. m. In previous meetings the league was organized and consists of six teams from as many manufacturing plants in the city. They are Eli I-illy, U. S. Corrugated Box, Indianapolis Glove, P. R. Mallory, Polks Milk, and Real Silk. The officers who have been elected are; Ben Kelly, president ; A D. H. Giffan, vice president, and Ed Reed, sec-retary-treasurer. This league plays Saturday afternoon baseball.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1935

handicap. He rose above strange surroundings, the weather, rose above younger, more brilliant players to open his National League career with a tremendous Ruthian wallop. It was No. 1 for the Babe. Babe Also Makes Catch While his former mates, the New York Yankees, playing without him for the first time in 15 years, lost to the Boston Red Sox, 1 to 0, the Babe hit a single besides his homer, drove in three runs, and furnished the power that gave the Boston Braves a 4-to-2 victory over the New York Giants. Ruth also made a running onehand catch that brought a roar of approval from his new admifers. The Babe’s homer, with Urbanski on base, came in the fifth inning, when he parked one of Carl Hubbell’s screw balls in the right field stands before 20.000 attracted to frigid Braves Field for his debut. Ferrell Stars for Red Sox At New York, the Ruth-less Yankees could have used that homer, and Lefty Vernon Gomez prayed for one as he held the Red Sox to six hits, but lost to the two-hit pitching ox Wesley Ferrell, nicked only by George Selkirk, Ruth's successor in right field, and Lou Gehrig, who hit a double. That was the outstanding feat of the day, and deserving of the victory which Werber’s score on a singla and Yankee misplays in the sixth provided, but the misfortune of Dizzy Dean overshadowed everything the other moundsmen did. In the first inning, third baseman Freddy Lindstrom of the Chicago Cubs belted one of Dean’s piches back at him and knocked him into the hospital with a badly bruised ankle, as the world champion St. Louis Cardinals lost, 4 to 3. Catcher Gabby Hartnett contributed to the champions’ downfall with a homer, double and single. Newsom Losing Hurler The American League’s curtailed action was completed by another heart-breaker—no less a heartbreaker than Gomez’ defeat—when Glenn Myatt doubled to drive Berger home and give Cleveland a 2-to-l victory over Buck Newsom, who yielded 12 hits through 14 weary innings, while Mel Harder went the route and held the St. Louis Browns to eight hits. The Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Senators were snowbound in the capital, arid similar 111 luck befell the Detroit Tigers, slated to begin quest of their second straight American League pennant at home against the Chicago White Sox. In National League games, the Brooklyn Dodgers cashed in on a 13hit attack and five-hit pitching by Van Lingle Mungo to defeat Philadelphia, 12 to 3, and Waite Hoyt hurled the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 12-to-6 win over the Cincinnati Reds, who used four pitchers and were blasted by a seven-hit seventh inning attack.

Baseball ana Independent, Amateur, League and Semi-Pro News and Notes.

Hosiery Union team will practice Saturday afternoon at Riverside No. 4 at 1 o'clock. Players and tryouts report. For information, call Riley 5005 before 1 p. m ana ask for Ted. Falls City Beers will meet E. C. Atkins nine Sunday at Brookside in a practice game. Falls City players report at 1:30. McLaughlin and Hurt call Dailey at Linco.n 5294. Indianapolis Reserves will work out Sunday at Riverside No. 5 at 1:30. Players and tryouts report. Reserves will open in their park at Greensburg May 12. For games, write A. Monroe. 2001 Roosevelt-av, Indianapolis, or phone Cherry 5411. Keystone A. C wishes to book a practice game for April 28. and will open the season May 5. Call Drexel 0676-M and ask for John before 6:30. or write Joe Hotopp 1202 Martin-st. Indianapolis. Cord Piston Rings will work out Sunday at Riverside No. 9at 1 o'clock Rings de--1 sire to book state nines on June 9. 23 and I 30. Write Bill Rider at the Cord Piston Pving Cos.. 879 Massachusetts-av, Indianapolis. Stilesville Merchants wish to book state teams on a 60-40 basts. Write Chancev Fisher. Stilesville. Ind. All managers of teams In the Manufacturers' League and the league secretary are asked to attend a meeting at the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association offices. .19' 2 S. Delaware-st. tonight at 8. Oak Hill Flashes will practice Sunday and uniforms will be issued for the opener at Glenn's Valiev Sundav. April 28. Flashes desire to hear from state nines. Write W. E. McCorkhill. 2306 Fernway-st. Indianapolis. Right-handed pitcher wishes to connect with strong team. Address K. Kennard. Kniehtstown. Ind. Ace Coals will practice Fridav evening at 4. Brenton Hoover. Cole. Clairborn. Lavton. Quinnette. Shuck. Bv'ers. Moore. Fender and Bowies attend. A meeting of the Bennett Coal Cos. team will be held Fridav evening at 7:30 at 130 E Morrts-st. All players and tryouts be on hand. Southern A. C.'s defeated Ace Coals in a prictice game. Cleary starred on the mound for the losers. South Side Merchants want a practice game with a city team for Sunday. State teams wanting games write to Harry Borinstein. 1121 S lllinois-st. Indianapolis, or call Drexel 5413.

SOFTBALL NOTES

Spades softball team will meet the Bob Long squad at Spades Park at 2 Saturday Manager of the Rockwood A. C. is asked to call Fltnore at Riley 5218, concerning game April 27. Imperial softbail team will practice at Pinch park Saturday morning at 10. Buerelin. Brunner. Dtbie. Paust. Preeland Kauffman. Shanahan. Thinnes, Wolf and all tryouts attend. Games are wanted in

Indians’ New Shortstop Is Wiry

Last Sunday the Tribe's new shortstop, Otto Bluege, shown in the picture, hardly was able to bend _

Last Sunday the Tribe's new shortstop, Otto Bluege, shown in the picture, hardly was able to bend his back, due to a sprain suffered in an exhibition game. But he expects to be in there today doing his share of the work if the Tribe and Red Birds open their season at Columbus. Otto, who was with the Cincinnati Reds in 1933 and fielded .958 with St. Paul last season, is 5 feet 9 inches In height and weighs 155 pounds. He was a real spark plug in the Indians’ spring training.

Selkirk Finds Baseball Fans Are Kind and Friendly in Ruthville

BY HENRY M’LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April- 17.—Rednecked Joe McCarthy said “Get out there, boys!’” The New York Yankees scrambled from the dugout and, deploying fanwise, ran toward their positions. I turned my glasses on the big, loose-jointed youngster with the big “3” on the back of his clean flannel shirt. Not long before, in the clammy Yankee dressing room. No. 3, or George Selkirk, had tried to tell me

Favorite Drivers Return for Midget Speed Meet Twenty-One Pilots in Races at Coliseum Oval; 30-Lap Feature and Borneo Handicap Carded. Regular favorites and a number of new contenders completed final tuneup W'ork on their abbreviated speed creations today and pronounced their cars ready for the midget auto races at the Fairground Coliseum

Butler Athletes in Heavy Action Ball Team Plays Central; State Netters Here. Two Butler University squads were scheduled for tilts and the track team is working for an outdoor meet with Hanover here Saturday afternoon. The baseball nine was slated to oppose Indiana Central today on the latter’s diamond in the first of a two-game series. The Bulldogs dropped two close tilts to the Greyhounds last year, but have prospects of a more formidable squad this year. Karl Sutphin was carded to do the mound work for the Bulldogs. Robert Pattie was the piching choke for the city rivals. Coach Gene Demmary’s tennis team was to be host to the Indiana State Teachers racquet squad in an indoor match at the fieldhouse. The Bulldog courtmen will entertain Wabash on Saturday. Two matches each with Earlham, Indiana State and Wabash have been arranged on the current schedule. The team also will defend the state singles and doubles titles at the state tourney at Richmond, May 23 to 25.

CRIMSON NINE PLAYS 12-INNING TIE GAME By United Press RICHMOND, Ky., April 17.—With the score tied at 7-all after 12 innings of battle, the baseball game between Indiana University and Eastern State Teachers College here yesterday was called by agreement. The Crimson nine forged into a 6-3 lead in the fifth inning when Hosier, the pitcher, clouted a home run, but Eastern State knotted the score again in the seventh. Each team tallied one run in the eighth and the next four frames were scoreless. Roberts also hurled for the visitors. MIDWAY A. C. PLAYERS MEET AT CLUBHOUSE Midway Athletic Club baseball players will meet tonight at the clubhouse. Naomi-st and State-av, and the following are urf.ed to report at 7 30; Schuck, Arvln, Becker, Brant Jenkins, Price, Williams. J. Bova, T. Bova, Holman, Seal, Martin, Brooks, Lauk, Pierson, Wolf, Foster and tryouts. Pitchers wishing to hook up with a good Saturday or Sunday club are also invited. Those unable to attend call Bauermeister at Drexel 0148-J.

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how it felt to be dressing to take Babe Ruth’s place. All about him, joking and laughing as they dressed were his teammates. George didn’t try to laugh or joke. He just stood there before his locker and dressed as solemnly as though he were going out to do a bit of pa 11bearing. You didn’t have to ask him what w r as running through his mind, how heavy a chunk of lead was riding on his chest. You knew he was dreading that moment when he would have to run out into the vast stretches of Yankee Stadium, with

tonight. Twenty-one “Tom Thumb buggies” have been entered in the various events, which will be climaxed by a 30-lap grind and a novel “Borneo Handicap.” Drivers ready to take to the track Include Tony Willman, Ronney Householder, Marshall Lewis, Wally Mitchell, Harold Shaw, Jimmy Snyder, Harry McQuinn, Ted Hartley, Johnny Sawyer, Jimmy Rogers, Gale Lower, Tudy Marchese, Harry Lewis, Art Foley, Ernie Carlson, Shorty Sorenson, Henry Meyers, Charles Andres, F. E. Brandt, R. Hough and L. M. Skelton. In the Borneo Handicap, final event of the evening, starting positions will be drawn by lot. Qualifying trials will get under way at 7:3C. Visiting Billiard Ace Whips Local Cuemen J. N. Bozeman, well-known billiard artist from Vallejo, Cal., proved a talented performer when he entertained local cue fans with an exhibition at Dougherty’s parlor last night. It took the Californian 39 innings to down Joe Bogue, 40 to 15, in a three-cushion contest. Shooting lefthanded, he then trimmed Lew Vogler in a special match, 15 to 6, in 10 innings. Twice Bozeman scored high runs of six. Bozeman’s visit here was sponsored by the National Billiard Association.

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30,000 critical pairs of eyes watching his every step. As George fumbled nervously at his belt buckle you knew that right then, for the first time, this big kid with the shock of tousled brown hair was beginning to realize that he was the Babe’s successor the man chosen above all others to fill Babe’s position in right, to take Babe's cut at the plate. A roar from the crowd above drifted down the ramps and into the dressing room. It had been music to the Babe's big ears. It made No. 3 jump a bit. “Kinda scared about going out, George?” I asked. “Naw, I ain't scared exactly, but I'll be glad when this one's over. What you reckon those bleacher guys’ll say when I get out there?” I didn’t get to answer, because he was sent out, and the next time I him was when I picked him up in my glasses as he ran toward right field —Ruthville. I watched his face. It was a study. He was happy and he wasn't happy. He was afraid and he wasn’t afraid. The set of his jaw told you that. He passed first base and his face was hidden from my view. The boys in the bleachers stood up and yelled encouragement when he reached right field. Then he turned around. That cheer had worked wonders. The frightened look was gone, and in its place was a schoolboyish grin. Nine innings later, after No. 3 had made one of the Yankees’ two hits and fielded perfectly, I went back to the dressing room. No. 3 was laughing now, No. 3 was cussing a little, No. 3 was wise-cracking, and No. 3 was swinging a wet towel. “Didn't find it so bad, did you?” I asked. “It was swell,” he said. “The first guy that yelled at me, a guy in a derby, said: “ 'Don't worry, kid. You'll put a lot of flies in your hip pocket that the Babe couldn't touch with a 10foot pole.’ Another, seeing me beat my hands together to keep from freezing, offered to come down and build me a fire. And did you see that hit I got? It sure did feel good.” BERG JOINS RED SOX By Times Special NEW YORK. April 17 —Moe Berg, catcher, was signed by Manager Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox here yesterday. Berg last season caught for the Washington Senators before he was made a free agent. Rick Ferrell is the Red Sox' first-string backstop.

Tribe Awaits Initial Action at Columbus Second Postponement Seen as Weather Remains Threatening. BY EDDIE ASH limes Sports Editor COLUMBUS. 0., April 17—Red Kiilefer's Indianapolis Indians and Ray Blades’ champion Red Birds were standing by this morning awaiting a signal from the weather man to send them into action in the delayed opening of the Ameri ican Association season here. A slowly rising temperature was promised. but early in the day it looked like another postponement. Tlie clouds were tnreatening and there was no sunshine. A wintry blast added to the gloomy outlook. The Columbia club officials ' planned to hold all pre-game cere- | monies that were scheduled yesterday when snow and ice wrecked a program that nad oeen built up all winter.

Killefer Shifts Lineup Manager Killefer of the Hoosiers said he would send Phil Gallivan to the mound with Joe Sprinz behind the plate. His original battery announcement yesterday had placed Johnny Riddle on the receiving end. Another lineup change was Como Cotelle in right field instead of Johnny Stoneham. The Tribe chieftain decided late yesterday that Sprinz and Cotelle had come through the curtailed training season in better shape than .Riddle and Stoneham. Bob Klinger and Brusie Ogrodowski were mated up as the starting battery for the Red Birds. The lid lifter was to get under way at 3 p. m. (2 p. m. Indianapolis time), following a downtown parade in which both ball clubs were to participate. Managers Willing to Wait Manager Blades of the champions indicated he might use Ankenman at shortstop instead of Delker and shift Delker to second base in place of Martin. No other lineup changes were discussed. It is doubtful if many fans will care to brave the disagreeable conditions today. But the teams are determined to pry off the lid in the event of no rain or snow. The opposing managers, however, don't want to take long chances with their athletes and a second delay may occur on account of cold weather. If and when the Indians and Red Birds get together, Mickey Heath, Indianapolis first sacker, will receive a rousing welcome at the Columbus park. He was captain of the Birds in 1933 and 1934 when they finished in front. The Red Birds are a young team this year, but they won’t remain young long if the club fails to click. Branch Rickey, general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, has guaranteed replacements when needed. He was in Columbus yesterday. Guarding against losing physical condition, Manager Killefer sent his Indians through light exercise late yesterday. They chased around the park and occupied themselves with a little throwing. No batting practice was held. The Columbus battcrymcn worked out back of the grandstand. Former Columbus pastimers with Indianapolis are Heath, Bluege, Bedore, Sprinz and Wright. Jim Elliott, nos yet in shape, also is a former Red Bird. N. D. INVADES PURDUE LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 17. A double-header was scheduled for the Purdue and Notre Dame baseball teams here today. The first of a two-game series was postponed yesterday.

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