Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1936 — Page 24

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By Eddie Ash COLUMBUS SEEKS A STIMULANT mam GOSSIP HEARD ABOUND THE A. A.

club officials are at a loss to find a stimulant for their floundering Red Birds. . . . One has suggested that the left field fence be pulled in to encourage the righthanded hitters.... If they are going to put the baseball fences on wheels it’s time to give up.... Milwaukee has decided to start its Saturday games at 2.... Which is a wise decision. ... If “Saturday’s children” can’t get there at 2 they won’t appear at 3. . . . Moreover, it gives the fans more time to -;et home and brush up for the night out. Kansas City turned on the lights last night. . . . That’s nothing, Seattle staged its night opener in April. . . . Prexy Trautman of the A. A. has ordered his managers to cut out the profanity when fussing with umpires. . . . How about outfitting ’em with ear-rings ? ana a a a THE K. C. Blues may desert Mobile as a training camp and Join other tourists in Florida next March. ... At the same time the Hoosiers have decided to stay out of the Sunshine state and do home work. . . . A week at French Lick and the rest of the time at Evansville or Indianapolis in their own yard. . . . Efforts will be made to bring a few big league clubs here for exhibitions. To advise fans when the “game Is on,” the Columbus team has a balloon flown from the top of a high building in the downtown section Just before the Birds left on the road some culprit drew a bead with

a .22, and puff! . . . a a a In spite of the fact that rain stopped action after two innings in Xansas City’s home opener, the Blues were credited with the attendance figures and took down the trophy offered by League Chief Trautman. ... A crowd of 14,134 turned out. tt tt st RED KILLEFER’S Redskins are playing like they are undernourished. ... Can’t stand the hard going of the late innings. .. . Maybe it’s home cooking the boys need. . . . Vance Page didn’t permit a runner to reach base for four innings in St. Bnul yesterday. . . . After which the Apostles turned on the artillery and blasted him out of there with a four-run barrage. a a a Pitcher Myles Thomas, formerly with Indianapolis, is going to manage and play with the Tiffin club of the Ohio State League. ... He went from Class AA to X in one year, having been on the roster of the Hoosiers in the spring of 1935. BILL SUMMERS,* American League umpire, used to officiate in the International League and it was in that circuit that the “greatest indignity” was heaped on him. ... At a ladies’ day game in Baltimore the feminine fans became hysterical over his decisions and attacked him with their parasols. . . . And he is a giant of a man. tt tt Si JIMMY GLEESON, the new outfielder with Cleveland, is a graduate of Roclchurst College. . . . His professional experience consists of one season with Zanesville and two with New Orleans. ... At the start of the season Gleeson was the team’s fifth outfielder and third pinch hitter. . . . Bruce Campbell’s illness opened the way for the rookie to climb in the ranks. I

Curtis Cup Team Heads for English Title Meet Mrs. Vare Believes Tie Match Result of Foggy Weather; Final 30-Foot Putt Saved British. By United Press GLENEAGLES, Scotland, May 7.—Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, captain, and her United States’ Curtis Cup team went to Southampton today to get in “plenty of practice” before the British women’s championships

Paul Derringer Back With Reds Manager Dressen Reinstates Veteran Hurler. By United. Press CINCINNATI, May 7.—Paul Derringer, veteran ace pitched of the Cincinnati Reds last season, who was suspended for an indefinite period last Sunday, was reinstated by Manager Charlie Dressen today. Derringer was suspended for not sliding at the plate while trying to score from second on a single. He was waved in by Manager Dressen and was tagged out. The incident happened during a close game with the New York Giants. Cincy officials had intimated that the big pitcher was “through” in the Queen City. However, his 1935 record was too important to overlook. He won 22 games and lost 13 with a sixth-place club. Phillips to Select Cinder men (or Trip Coach Hermon Phillips is expected to take 18 Butler University track and field performers to Naperville, 111., for a dual meet with North Central College Saturday. Time trials were staged at the Bulldog cinder oval yesterday in an effort to determine the members of the squad. Another heavy drill was planned for today. STATE HORSEMEN MEET The Indiana Trotting and Pacing Horse Association will hold a meeting Saturday afternoon at the State Fairground Hotel, it was announced by President McNamara. SAVOLDI PINS ZAHARIAS LOS ANGELES. May 7.—Joe Savoldi, Michigan, threw George Zaharias, Pueblo, Colo., here last night in the main event of a wrestling show. PETERSBURG WINS MEET Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., May 7. Petersburg High School captured a dual track meet from Bicknell here yesterday, 76 to 39, with Young scoring 14 points for the winners.

15 Sectional Track Teams Vie Tomorrow Tech Seeks Fifth Title in Six Years Against Strong Field. Tech High School will be seeking its fifth sectional track championship in six years when 15 teams vie for honors tomorrow afternoon at the East Side cinder oval. The defending champions will bank on 28 capable performers to carry off top honors again this year and qualify for the state meet at Butler next week. The Myerscoached squad is undefeated this season and holds the city title. With strength in every event, Tech is favored to retain the title, but only after a close race with other contenders. Four schools, Martinsville, Greenwood, New Bethel and Paragon, did not compete last year, and are expected to share in the point distribution. One of the best matches of the day is expected in the mile run. Elias Poulos, Tech distance ace, will vie with Maurice Rowe of Ben Davis, last year’s state champion. Washington, Shortridge. Plainfield, Southport, Manual and Warren Central also have entered large squads and are expected to make a strong bid for the team crown. Other schools entered are Broad Ripple, Decatur Central, Greenfield and Danville. A record entry list of 202 athletes has been filed.

May 15-21. Mrs. Vare believed that the HA to HA tie with the British Curtis Cuppers was the only equitable decision in view of the unfavorable weather conditions that the two teams played under yesterday. In a colorful ceremony in the Gleneagles Hotel ballroom last night Norman Boase, captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, presented the Curtis Cup jointly to Mrs. Vare and Doris Chambers, now playing captain of the British team. In dividing yesterday’s nine matches the Curtis teams played in the most appalling weather conditions. A freezing mist descended all day that made it impossible to see the hole flags more than 25 yards away. Caddies walked ahead and were lost in the gloom before the players could get a direction on the holes. The teams each won three of the singles matches, one of the foursomes, and divided the third foursome. With Britain trailing iVt points to 3‘A, Miss Jessie Anderson gained a tie for the British when she sank a 30-foot putt to beat out Mrs. Leona Cheney of Los Angeles, 1 up. If she had missed it, Mrs. Cheney would have gained a half, and the United States would have won 5 to 4. “Miss Anderson’s putt on that final hole was a real thriller,” Capt. Vare said today. “It was a grand show and I certainly am glad it ended like it did.” CAMPBELL IMPROVING By United Press BOSTON, May 7.—Bruce Campbell probably will be out of danger by Monday if his condition continues to improve, Dr. William T. O’Halloran, the Cleveland ball player’s physician, said today. —. SPECIAL Fri. &. Sat. MacGregor Liquid Center GOLF BALLS SA.BS ■ D " WjXgggJi 3 far $ 1.48 Jlfligff C3 F White a ggM The Sportsman’s Store, Ine. 126 N. Pennsylvania St.

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TIGER OFFENSE WEAK WITH HANK GONE

Team Buckles as Greenberg Sits on Bench Detroiters’ Loss to Yanks Is Fifth of Last Seven Starts. By United Press NEW YORK, May 7.—Big Hank Greenberg, injured Detroit firstsacker and most valuable American League player of 1935, knew the value of his batting power to the world champion Tigers last spring when as a holdout he demanded and received a salary increase. On the sidelines with a compound fractured wrist, Hank has been

sorely missed by the floundering Tigers, who have dropped five of their last seven games. The only two they won were against Connie Mack’s lowly Athletics. The Tigers were shut out twice by the Boston Red Sox, dropped another pair to the Washington Senators and one to the New York

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Yankees. In their last seven games the Cochranemen have manufactured only 25 runs, an average of less than four a game. In this day of the lively ball that is not nearly enough to win ball games, and that is why the absence of the big Greenberg boy, who batted in 170 runs with 203 hits last year, is being felt so keenly. Manager Mickey Cochrane’s big hope for the future was that Al Simmons, the $75,000 outfielder he got from the Chicago White Sox, would plug the hole left by Greenberg. After getting off to a whale of a start, Simmons has slumped until his average is around the .260 mark. AI Comes to Life Simmons got two of the three hits given up yesterday by Monte Pearson as the Yankees plastered the Tigers, 14 to 3. His two singles drove in all the Detroit runs. The Yanks blasted Schoolboy Rowe and Roxie Lawson to the showers with 14 base hits including homers by Dickey, Pearson and Selkirk. Johnny Allen dealt out but seven hits in pitching the third place Cleveland Indians to a 7-to-l win over the Philadelphia Athletics. Homers by Gleeson, Trosky and Vosmik aided Allen’s cause. Half-game leadership in the National League was maintained by the Chicago Cubs, who choked off two late-inning rallies and defeated the Boston Bees, 8 to 6. Demaree homered for Chicago and Jordan for Boston. Carleton was the winning pitcher. Phils Crack in Ninth Frankie Frisch and his St. Louis Cardinals kept right behind the Cubs with a ninth-inning 3-2 fluke victory over the Philadelphia Phillies to give Dizzy Dean his fourth win of the season. Two wild throws, one by Curt Davis, the other by Gomez, in the last frame allowed the tying and winning runs to cross the plate. A tenth inning single by Gus Mancuso that drove in the winning run accounted for the New York Giant’s 6-to-5 decision over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The victory put the Giants in third place; the Pirates in fourth. George Earnshaw snapped a sixgame losing streak for the Brooklyn Dodgers with a seven-hit 5-to-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Yesterday’s Hero-—Gus Mancuso, catcher for the New York Giants, who singled in the tenth inning to drive the winning run home against Pittsburgh.

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THURSDAY, MAY 7,1936

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TEE TIME

WHEN a tournament approaches it is customary, and usually agreeable with other contenders, for someone to take inventory of the defending champion s new and leftover stock and summarize chances of same to win again. So, to be quite customary, here’s the dope on the Shortridge team which hopes to carry on the local school’s superiority over state high school golf rivals in the annual tourney at Speedway a week from Saturday: Invariably, the first thing to be considered is the matter of returning veterans. Shortridge has three. However, the contending field may not take that news too seriously since the two ace members of last year’s titular squad are not among the holdovers. Dick McCreery, who too c the individual title, is a student a > Wabash. John David has edged a silver lining on the golf outlook for old Purdue. * * VETERANS ready to go again are Seniors Bill Meyers and Albert Goldstein, and Frank Truitt, a junior. The fourth and only tourneynovice member of the squad is Robert Phillips, a junior. “Phillips will carry his part of the load just as Well as the veterans,” says Coach Simon Roache. Certified as alternates are Charles Owen and John Nelson, son of Dick Nelson, the Meridian Hills pro.

“Look out for Shortridge in a year or two,” says Coach Roache. He has uncovered a corps of talented sophomores he can hardly wait to start grooming. a a a THE defending champs have several important matches to play before the big day arrives. To-

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morrow it’s Richmond, which more than one coach will tell you is the team to beat this year. Tech is on card for Monday. And there’s the team to beat, according to the Shortvidge mentor. In fact, he wouldn’t bet you a good-sized divot on his team’s (Turn to Page Twenty-Six)

Record Southern Crowd Joe Engel, the Prince of Ballyhoo, president of the Chattanooga Southern Association Club, had 5i,639 fans in his park at a night game on May 1. It is anew high for the Dixie circuit.

Saints Soar as Tribesmen Hit Toboggan League Leaders Score Seven Runs on Seven Blows; Page Weakens. Times Special ST. PAUL, May 7.—The galloping Saints galloped again at the expense of the Indianapolis Indians yesterday and increased their winning streak to 11 straight. And for that reason the Hoosiers are delighted over the schedule. It calls for them to leave here tonight and head for Kansas City to begin a new series tomorrow. The Apostles appear to be a team of destiny. They weren’t picked as flag contenders, but have developed a winning punch that frightens enemy pitchers. For example, in yesterday’s tussle the Tribe outhit the locals, nine tc seven, but Gabby Street’s men won, 7-4. Homer With Two On Vance Page dazzled the league leaders for four innings, not a runner reaching base. Then in the fifth the Saints came to life and whipped over four runs, the high spot being Bill McWilliam’s homer with two mates aboard. Page was knocked out and Stewart Bolen replaced him. But Street’s hustlers kept pounding and tallied two more markers in the seventh and one in the eighth. The Indians scored in the second frame on Mickey Heath’s single, a stolen base and Fred Berger’s blow to left. In the fifth the Tribesters chalked up another when Berger walloped a four-baser. Run No. 3 was registered by the Redskins in the seventh, and in the ninth Otto Bluege hit for the circuit. “Big” Inning Needed It goes to prove a team must stage a “big” inning to win in the A. A. Getting markers in single doses doesn’t make the grade. The Saints flirted with defeat by committing four errors, but the Indianapolis pastimers couldn’t get over the hump. Two miscues were made by the losing Killeferites. The finale of the series was carded this afternoon.

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Game in Figures

INDIAN AFOLIS AB. H. O. A. B. Bluege, <8 5 3 14 1 Fausett, 3b 5 1 2 4 C Cotelle, et 4 0 1 0 0 Shiver, rs 4 0 0 0 0 Heath, lb 4 2 13 0 O Berger. If 4 3 1 O 1 Riddle, c 4 15 3 0 Sherlock, 2b 4 0 12 0 Page, p 2 0 0 2 P Bolen, p 1 0 0 0 O Dunlap 1 0 0 0 O Totals 38 9 24 14 3 Dunlap batted for Bolen In ninth. ST. PAUL AB. H. O. A. R. Warner. 2b 4 12 4 1 Rosenthal, cf 3 0 3 0 0 Steinbacher. If 4 l 2 1 0 Boken. ss 3 0 4 4 3 Norman, rs 2 0 0 0 O Todt. lb 3 2 14 1 0 McWilliams, 3b 4 1 0 3 1 Fenner, c 3 1 2 2 O Fette. p 2 10 2 0 Totals 26 7 27 17 4 Indianapolis 010 010 101—4 St. Paul 000 040 21 x—7 Runs batted In—Bluege (2). Berger (2). Warner (2i, Todt <2i. McWilliams <2t. Fette. Two-base hits—Berger. Todt. Steinbacher. Home runs—Bluege, Berger. McWilliams. Sacrifices—Fette. Boken. Stolen bases—Heath. Fausett. Left on bases—lndianapolis. 7: St. Paul. 3. Double play— Steinbacher to Warner. Htts—Off Page 4 in 4 2-3 innings: Bolen. 3 in 3 1-3. Basea on balls—Off Page. 1; Bolen. 3. Strikeouts 1: Bolen. 3; Fette. 3. Losing pitcher—Page. Umpires O’Brien and Guthrie. Time—l:44. WITH INDIANS AT BAT AB H Pet. . AB H Pet. Bolen .....II 5 .4551 Sherlock ..80 14 .833 Lawrie .... 7 3 .429!Tinnlng ... 8 .222 Uogan 9 . 3 .333iTurner ....15 3 .200 Crandall ..3 1 .333!Dunlap ... 27 4 .143 Riddle ....78 25 .321!Fage 8 1 .125 Berger ....74 23 .SlllEgerer .... 1 O .000 Fausett ...78 23 .295!I.athshaw ..1 O .000 Bluege ...77 21 .273|Trout 2 0 .000 Heath .. .64 17 .266!Sharp 3 0.000 Shiver .... 4 10 .250|Kahle .... 5 • .000 Cotelle ....04 15 .2341 Four Tech Squads Compete Tomorrw Four Tech High School teams will see action tomorrow afternoon with the track, baseball, golf and tennis squads all scheduled. While the track squad is defending its sectional laurels against 14 other schools on the Tech field, the baseball squad will entertain Shelbyville, the linksmen will meet Batesville here and the netters will travel to Shelbyville.

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