Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1936 — Page 17
By J Williams
LOOKING FOR BREAKS OF GAME
DIMAGGIO’S
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In 1anapolis
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All for Sake of Peanuts Stu Martin, the Cards’ rookie second-sacker, admit?
he is simply nuts about peanuts. playin’ so hard,” he says seriously.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1936
“That's why I'm “I want to make
enough out of baseball to buy a peanut farm whén
| I quit.”
LINER MOST VITAL
NEW YORK, July 8.—After a ball game you look for the
breaks.
Going over the score book we find that the
most vital break in the All-Star shindig was Joe DiMaggio’s liner to Leo Durocher, with bases filled and two out, in the + seventh inning. Another break was Augie Galan’s flagpole home run, which the Cub outfielder caught on the tip of his -bat. 1t was made off as well pitched a ball as anybody threw
all afternoon.
: Looking for more breaks, we discover that Jimmy Collins did mighty well for the National League in the fourth inning, when, with Charley Gehringer on second and two out, the Ripper made a fine play to rob Lou Gehrig of a hit and tossed him out with a throw to nimble Carl Hubbell. Frank Demaree’s catch of Luke Appling’s foul in that same
round also was a neat bit of baseball.
And while on_the sub-
ject of breaks there was DiMaggio’s playing Gabby Hart-
nett’s single into a triple for the ball game. There were a few things about the game which we did not like. For example, the absolute lack of hurrah and fanfare. A stingy management had neglected to dress up the park in the national colors. There was no band. The game got under way without the customary and
essential “Star-Spangled Banner.”
e umpires came out. The players
took their places and the contest got under way like the first half of a double-header between the Braves and the Phillies. ;
We also did not like the National League's starting team. True, the old circut had taken it on the chin three times and was desperate for victory. Charley Grimm felt that with Lefty Grove pitching he would have a noble advantage if he started nine right-handed hitters. ” ” ” RIMM got this all right-handed hitting array by sending out a nine made up of Cubs and Cardinals and one lonesome Phillie—Pinkie Whitney. In passing, let me commend Whitney for an adroit and useful afternoon. He played well in the field, got a hit and drove in a run with a long fly to Earl Averill which scored Hartnett. We believe it is the spirit of this All-Star game to make use of as many players from different clubs as possible. It would have been a fine gesture to have put Baxter Jordan on the National League side and used him at first base. It’s a slap in the face to the home club to open without a single one of its members and to go right through the game without ever calling on a home substitute. However, we are willing to let it pass this time. The National League just had to win—and it won.
2 ” s N past All-Star games, little old New York walked off the field «+ with a goodly share of the laurels. ~ Yesterday the old town did not do
quite so well. But well enough. On the American League side, Lou Gehrig blasted a home run into the right field bleacher. He walked twice and but for Collins’ play would have had another hit. Gehrig had gone through three inter-league
+. Jjousts without a safety.
Other Yankees who performed were Bill Dickey, who in two tries could not hit the ball out of the infield; Frank Crosetti, who fanned as a pinch hitter; DiMaggio, about whose contributions and lack of contributions we seem to have written, and George Selkirk, whose walk was a useful feature of the seventhinning rally, filling the bases. Lefty Gomez was on the sidelines and so was Monte Pearson. Of the Giants, Carl Hubbell performed in stellar style with three . beautous innings of pitching, and Melvin Ott got into right fleld for a while after having hit a single. Joe Moore was an innocent bystander. HE ” 2 ROOKLYN was in total eclipse in so far as the All-Star affair was concerned. Van Lingle Mungo warmed up starting with the seventh inning. Warneke and Van started together, but when the call came,
Lon got it and Mungo remained in
the bullpen. . National Leaguers will tell you that in spite of the understanding between the two majors on. a uniform ball, | the American League pellet is livelier. .: They point to the fact that the American Leaguars did not hit the ° National League ball in the first . half of the All-Star game, but did nearly all of their swatting after the American League leather had gone into play in the second half of the contest. However, the writer doubts it {there is any real difference between the two balls.
City Swim Matches at Willard Sunday
The City Recreation Department will conduct a swimming meet at Willard Park Sunday afternoon. There will be 16 events open to any +» amatuer park swimmer in Indian- . apolis. Awards will be made for the first three places. Swimmers have already entered from Rhodius, Riviera, Garfield, Willard and Ellenberger. Rhodius - Park is the favorite to win the meet ~ because of strength in the men’s ‘events.
MARBERRY GOES BIG FOR TEXAS LEAGUERS
Runner's Leg Once Crushed
San Romani Earns National Track Stardom After Uphill Fight.
BY HENRY M’LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent EW YORK, July 8.—The darkest moment in the life of Archie San Romani came on a hot afternoon in a little Kansas town 18 years ago, when they lifted his near lifeless body from beneath the wheels of a heavy truck. His right leg was badly crushed, and for a week the doctors debated whether to amputate. The brightest moment in the life of Archie San Romani came late last Saturday afternoon in Princeton’s Palmer Stadium when, with 15,000 people looking on, he came whirling down the stretch to beat out famed Gene Venzke and Bill Bonthron, and run second to Glen Cunningham in the 1500-meter race. “You know,” Archie said as he lay on a rubbing table and a trainer anointed him with pungent oils, “vou know, if I do all right in the final trials Saturday, and make a place on the Olympic team, a doctor I don’t even know ought to get all the credit. I know his name—he’s a Dr. Conley—and he is; or used to be, a doctor in the Marines. He happened to be in my little old town of Frontenac when that truck hit me, and he was the one who wouldn't let the doctors cut off my leg. He said he thought he could save it: 1 was only 8 then, and he left town while I was still in bed. But he told my people that when T got up, to run around a lot to strengthen it. I did, and I've geen running ever since.” 2 2 8
ND pretty. fast, too. He was only a yard or two back of the great Cunningham when Glen hit the tape Saturday, and he was full of run. Cunningham's time was 3:54.2, and Archie has turned the distance in 3:53. Last week-end marked the first time the FrenchItalian boy had ever finished in front of Venzke and Bonthron, and he’s praying he’ll be able to do it this week when the chips realy are on the table, for only the one-two-three finishers will be taken to Berlin. Archié said I might be interested in telling in my story how he has a rest pulse beat of only 44. This shocked me tremendously, for I had always believed that if a man didn't hit up a brisk 72 he was in grave danger of dying. Good distance runners, Archie explained, to the accompaniment of whacks on his ribs and flanks by the trainer, have a low pulse beat. “Mir, is exceptionally low,” he said. «Even when I'm walking about and exercising mildly, my heart doesn't beat but around 60 or 62.”
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ITH that fine flair for accuracy which has marked my career as a journalist, I called the Academy of Medicine after talking to Archie, and asked Dr. Iago Galston how about that 44 heart beat of Archie's. “Entirely possible,” Dr. Galston answered. “A low heat is very common among athletes who are good in gruelling contests. Not many athletes have a beat as low at 44, however.” Dr. Galston explained the advantages of the low heart beat to me, and as I made it out a low beat gives the heart more time to rest. The heart cycle consists of three phases—the filling of the auricle, the filling of the ventricle, and the rest period. With a slow beat the rest period is longer. : » s 2 2 UT to leave Archie's heart and get back to Archie. He's been running competitively for six years. He's a junior at Emporia State Teacher's College, and will get his degree in music—yes, music—in 1937. He plans to teath public school music. He's a cornet player. Carries his horn with him at all times. Archie offered to play me a tune, but having once heard a cornet, I said, no don't bother, and went out a side door.
OLSEN IS WINNER. By United Press NEW YORK, July 8—Olof Olsen of Sweden pinned Fred Grubmeier of Iowa in the feature event of a wrestling ,show here last night.
SPOLDI KAYOES SNOW By United Press NEW YORK, July 8--Alge Spoldi, 136, Italy, knocked Norman Snow, 1351%, England ih the first
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Series Stars Draw Praise for Conquest
Dean, Hubbell, Warneke Are All-Star Standouts in Game Review.
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent BOSTON, July 8. — National League banners were unfurled triumphantly from baseball's main mast-head today—hoisted there by the Gas House Gang of St. Louey and the rollicking Chicago Cubs, bitter rivals in their own circuit who battled shoulder to shoulder to end the supremacy of the American League in the All-Star game. Led by the Cubs and the Cards, the National League conquered the American League stars yesterday for the first time in four All-Star combats, 4 to 3. It was the most dramatic game in the All-Star series, played before the smallest crowd ever to see baseball’s carnival of diamond celebrities. * Only 25,434 paid to see the tensely fought struggle. Nearly
17,000 empty seats yawned before |.
an estimated $2,500,000 worth of ball players performing in a perfect basehall setting.
Shackle “Murderer’s Row”
Like ghosts out of the past three National pitching aces—Carl Hubbell of 1933, Dizzy Dean of 1934, and Lon Warneke of 1935—rose out of .the midst of recent world series triumphs to petrify the American League's “murderer's row.” The
sluggers who manufacture death in|
the afternoon for rival pitchers in their own league curled up before Dean’s blazing speed, Hubbell’s tantalizing screw ball, and Warneke’s baffling change of pace. Dean, who conquered the Detroit Tigers in 1934 World Series warfare, handcuffed the vaunted American League sluggers for the first three innings. He faced nine men, allowing no runs and no hits, and struck out three. It was almost perfect pitching, marred only by two walks.
Hubbell, who pitched the New
. York® Giants to two victories over
the Washington Senators in the 1933 World Series, kept intact the brilliant National pitching record for the next three innings, allowing no runs and only two hits.
Davis Gets in Trouble
Then came trouble. Curtis Davis, the National League’s third pitcher, replaced Hubbell at the. start of the seventh inning and the American League artillery shelled him for three runs and four hits in two-thirds of an inning. This was one rift in a magnificent display of National League pitching talent. It bordered on disaster. But Lon Warneke, who pitched the Chicago Cubs to two World Series triumphs over the Tigers last fall, had the heart and the
NATIONAL LEAGUE PROUD OF PITCHERS
line and was called fair.
CORING the run that staved off defeat in the All-Star game at Boston for the National Leaguers, Augie Galan of the Chicago Cubs is congratulated by a teammate as he crosses the plate after hitting his disputed home run in the fifth inning. The ball hit the foul
Standing Revised
Four Results.
The standing of the City Recreation Department Water Polo League teams was altered today when it was ruled that four games had been declared no contest and would have to be replayed. Because several of the players had not been registered with the A. A. U., the contests in whi¢li™they took part have been ruled out. Consequently, Hoosier A. C., one of ‘the leading teams, has no games to its
defeated. Ellenberger defeated Riviera Club, 5 to 1, for its second victory. The
revised standing follows: Ww. L. Ellenberger .... 2 0|Longacre . Rhodius ..... 2 0|Garfield . Indpls. A. C...., 1 O0|Riviera Willard 1 OjHoosier A. C.. Rhodius Park will Day Longacre at Rhodius, ‘Indianapolis will Day, Garfleld and Hoosier will take on illard in RS on tonight’s schedule.
Calendar AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won. Lost. Milwaukes . 4
arm to repulse the mightiest array | Colum
of offensive power the American League was able to generate. In two and one-third innings Warneke allowed no runs and one hit. Lon’s pitching under pressure protected a one-run lead through
the breath-taking stretch innings. |Boston
He stopped the American Leaguers with the bases loaded in the seventh, checked them with two men on in the eighth, and closed out the triumph with the tying run stranded on second base in the ninth. Sting With Hits
Those three, long, gangling sons of the southwest—Dean, Hubbell and Warneke—gave the assembled American League sluggers the measly total of three hits in eight and one-third innings. That's National League pitching the All-Star game has never seen before, The Cubs and the Cards ganged the American Leaguers. The Cubs scored all four of the National League. runs. The#Cubs’ manager, Charley Grimm, directed the National League team. Gabby Hartnett, the Cubs’ catcher, worked the entire game behind the bat, scored one run and drove in another. Only four players outside of the Cubs and Cards played for the National Leaguers and two of these, Lou Riggs of Cincinnati and Mel Ott of the New York Giants, didn’t get into the game until the eighth inning. The other two piayers were Hubbell, who shared in the brilliant pitching, and Pinkey Whitney of the Phillies, who played third base most of the game.
Rookie Is Minor Tragedy
The National League made two quick raids on Lefty Grove, lanky Boston Red Sox fireball pitcher, and Schoolboy Rowe, thd No. 1 moundsman of the World Champion Tigers. The game was a minor tragedy in: the budding career of Joe Di Maggio, the Yankees’ “little bambino who essayed one of the greatest starts ever made by a major league rookie. Everything Joe did seemed to be wrong. Fate kept shift-
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© GameS mes Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
INDIANAPOLIS at a Minneapolis. Columbus at St. Toledo at a lv. Louisville at Milwaukee.
AMERICAN LEAGUE No games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE No games scheduled.
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W. L. Pet. New York 39 3 534 ... 34 41 453 . 27 46 .370 24 5 324
Toledo s 301 001 000— Kansas Cit Boone and Tresh; Pane and Breese.
(Ten Innings) 8 1 18 Milwaukee rT Tising, Terry, DeMots sey. Bass, Pete or and Ringhofer; Hamlin, Hatter, Braxton, Presnell and Detore.
Louisville
NATIONAL LEAGUE No games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE ~ No games gcheduled.
CINCINNATI DEFEATS CHARLESTON CLUB, 6-2
Times Special CHARLESTON, W. Va., July 8— The Cincinnati Reds of the National League, with Derringer and Stine on the mound, triumphed here last night, 6 to 2, in an exhibition game with the local Senators of the Mid-
Atlantic League. Score: tio aa 4 01 1 Cincinnatl 001 010— 3 11 2 og Mun-
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Players Ineligible; Discard.
credit, and four other teams are un--
Woodward Is $70,000 Loser in Close Races
By United Press ? EW YORK, July 8.— Wil-. liam Woodward, noted horse owner and breeder who maintains a large stable of brood mares and stallions at Arthur B. Hancock’s farms in Kentucky and Virginia, is considering looking for horses with long noses. The famous turf figure has lost more than $70,000 in nose and head finishes in big stake races this year. :
Matches Start in
0 VonBurg, Johnson Seeded at
Hawthorne Courts.
Play was to be opened in the city junior and boys’ tournaments at the Hawthorne Tennis Club courts: Norman VonBurg is fop seeded player in the drawings for the
; | junior division made last night.
Other favored participants are Adrian LaFollette, Paul Buchanan and George Brickley of Muncie. Nelson Johnson has been placed
| above Raymond VonSpreckelson in
the ranking of the boys’ division. William Moore and Riley Hancock
515 | also are seeded in the group. First ‘| round matches were to get under
way at 2 today. The winner of the junior title will represent this city in the national meet at Culver Military Academy Aug. 5. schedule follows: JUNIOR DIVISION 2:00 P. M.—William Moore vs. Nelson Johnson, Gorge Borgman vs. Paul BuchanJames Lentz vs. Charles Barrett, Henry Holt vs. Riley Hancock, George Brickeley ys Edgar Surfac. 5:30 P. M.—Russell Burger vs. Frank BOYS’ DIVISION
2:00 P. M.—Richard Niles vs. Fred May nard, John Dean vs. Jack McCloud. ~—Elvin Seaton vs. Rober Smith, Donald Husted vs. Paul McCleary. 4:00 P. M.—William Moore vs. Elias Atkin, Riley Hancock vs. George Kennel-
KNIGHTSTOWN NAMES GREENFORK MENTOR
Times Special KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind, July 8.— Albert. Brown, basketball coach of the Greensfork High School team which upset Richmond in the sectionals and Muncie in the regionals last season, has been named hardwood menor at the Knightstown High Sc The Heh Soe, was announced by L. E. Rogers, superintendent of schools. Brown will succeed George Collyer, former Butler University player, who will remain here as
at Greensfork, prior to which time he was at Lynn High Schobl.
ZAHARIAS PINS BUCKEYE By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 8.— George (Cry Baby) Zaharias, Colorado grappler, tossed Hardy Kruskamp of Columbus, O., here last night in the feature attraction of the wrestling show. :
City Tennis Meet
Today's,
Thrilling Moments in All- Star r Pageant
UT trying to stretch a single into a two-bagger—that's the summary of this episode in the All-Star baseball game at Boston in which the National Leaguers beat the American League aces, 4 to 3; Durocher of the Cardinals is the vieum., Appling .of the White Sox
makes the putout.
Trip Assured I. U. Matmen
Matchmaker Lloyd Carter Provides Funds for Olympic Expense.
BY HARRISON MILLER The Olympic deficit was of no concern to three Hoosier lads today as they packed their grips for an excursion to yBerlin's 1936 games. One week from today they will board one of Unclé Sam’s big liners, carrying the colors of the United States, the hopes -of Indiana University and a profound admiration for one Mr. Lloyd Carter. Mr. Carter, who lines up the weekly scuffling matches at the Sports Arena, last night cut a good-sized share of the gate receipts off his net profit to provide the missing funds for expenses of the Indiana University. mat trio.
Outlook Was Blue
For more than a month, Coach Billy Thom who coached the Hoosier grapplers to a place on the Olympic squad, has been trying to raise funds to send the boys to Germany. As time drew near for bon voyage farewells, it appeared that Willard Duffy, Dick Voliva and Charles McDaniel would not make the trip with Thom, who, among other things, is the Olympic mat coach. As approximately 5000 spectators clicked the turnstiles to see the Sa-voldi-Sonnenberg tussle last night, Mr. Carter turned over enough funds to assure the trio a place in the German ring.
“Indiana” Night
arena. Coach Thom, acting as referee, mixed willingly in the melees to provide added entertainment. Joe Savoldi, best known for line-smack-ing activities in the Hoosier icotball provinée of Notre Dame, kicked his way to a victory over Gus Sonnenberg in the feature match. Otto Kuss, former Indiana University mat .ace, was given a verdict over Dick Lever, Texas. Topping that, was the announcement that Am Rascher is ‘to be "|given the top spot on- next week’s card against a major contender for the heavyweight title. Rascher, former Big Ten wrestling champion from Bloomington has been granted a match against Vincent Lopez, California matman who is recognized as “king of the heavies west of the Rockies.”
~ Thom “Helps” Joe
An Indiana-Notre Dame alliance was too mich for Dartmouth’s Dynamite Gus last night, when Thom unwittingly blocked out the opposition for Jumping Joe's game-win-ning drop kick. The match was replete with flying tackles and drop kicks, and when the ex-gridders| squared off for the final fall, each was intent on using his favorite trick. Otto Kuss became ired at Level’s tactics, and his savage rebounds from the ropes flattened his Texas
teacher. Brown coached two years opponent and snapped a corner
post loose from its base to win in eight minutes with a body slam.
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School Places Insurance on
Its Athletes
California Sets American College Precedent.
By United Press Si ERKELEY, Cal, July 8—The University of California next fall will inaugurate a system of insurance for the protection of its athletes, establishing a precedent in the history of American . athletics, Kenneth Priestley, graduate manager, said today. Long under consideration, the plan tentatively provides for the allocation of at least $2000 each year for an athletes’ trust fund until an undetermined sum of several thousands is built up, to be héld in €SCrow. Representatives of insurance companies finally agreed to the arrangement. William W. Monohan, retiring graduate manager, presented the outline of the plan to Priestley to put into operation with the beginning of the football season in September.
as far as their research into the program showed, it was the first time an American college ever had attempted to insure its athletes against injury: or death suffered while engaged in sports competition or practice for the institution. The insurance trust probably will be administered by a control board consisting of university officials.
Boston Bees Trim Dayton Team 8-4
Times Special : DAYTON, O. July 8. — Third Baseman Coscarart clouted a home run with the bases loaded to give the Boston Bees of the National League a 10-inning triumph over
8 to 4, in an exhibition game here last night. The major leaguers led throughout the game, but the locals overtook them to tie the score in the ninth. Gene Moore also hit a homar for the Bees. Score: 101 010 010 4— 8 Day 000
Eli MacFayd: 100 0ai = 4 41 3 bers” lady ‘snd ‘Laskdvsks, Co N° re fp ere BASEBALL VETERAN DIES LITTLE ROCK, Ark. July 8— James K. Lewis, 74, veteran sportsman, died here yesterday. Mr. Lewis played baseball with the old St. Louis Browns in the American Association more than a half-cen-tury ago and later became a scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Monohan and Priestley said that |}
Dayton of the Mid-Atlantic League, |
State Teams in Playground . Track Meets
Entries Close Friday for WPA ‘Radio’ Contests This Month.
Eritries for the satond annual Indiana playground radio track and field meet will close Friday, officials of the recreation division _of the Works Progress Administration of Indiana, who will sponsor the event, announced Monday.
Twenty-one cities in the state had entered the track and field meet Monday. Twenty-seven teams were in the 1935 meet.
Separate Meets Planned
The meet will be held during the period of July 27-30, inclusive Separate meets will be held in the various centers, and the winners and their performances recordad with the local officials. The wine ning individuals and teams will be determined by a comparison of the performances. The Indiana meet will be affiliated with the Midwest radio track and field meet of the National Recreation Association. Each city participating in the meet must enter as a unit. The various cities may hold elimination meets among their own teams. Three divisions will comprise the state meet, intermediate boys and girls and’ Junior boys. The events scheduled are: Intermediate Boys—T75-yard dash, running broad jump, running high. jump, basketball throw for distance and 450-yard relay race for team of six boys. Intermediate Girls—50-yard dash,
.| basketball] throw for distance and
360-yard relay for team of six girls: Junior Boys—60-yard dash. rune ning broad jump, running high jump, basketball throw for distance and 360-yard relay race for team of six boys. Mishawaka won the 1935 play ground meet with 50 points.
BEARS SIGN MICHAELS Times Special CHICAGO, July 8—The Chicago Bears of the National Professional Football ‘League have announced the signing of Eddie Michaels, cap-
tain and guard of the Villanova Cole °
lege team last year.
CASTILLO PINS M'SHAIN By United Press PORTLAND, Ore. July 8. — Pasequel Castillo of Spain threw Danny McShain of Los Angeles here last night in the windup event of the local wrestling program.
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