Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1937 — Page 28

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A Braddock Supporter Bill Dwyer, the race track man, is hot for Jimmy Braddock. He thinks

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the champ can belt over both Max

Schmeling and Joe Louis.

NEW type of ball may be adopted by the American Association this year, if it meets with general approval. . Club pilots have been asked to experiment with it... . [he seams of the new pellet are higher, giving the pitchers an advantage. . . . The major leagues also are experimenting with a new horsehide, supposed to be less lively than the current official sphere. . .. The aim of league officials is to reduce slugging and cut playing time. Outfielder Tom Henrich of Milwaukee has appealed to Commissioner Kk. M. Landis for a decision on his status. . The player says he has been shifted around so much that he doesn't know who he belongs to. . . . Milwaukee, New Orieans and Cleveland are involved and may be called to explain it to the judge. Two opening games in the American Association scheduled for April 16 will be played on April 17, instead. Indianapolis first made the shift in the Indians’ inaugural with Columbus, and Louisville then followed with a similar postponement of the Colonels’ opener with Toledo.

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. LOUIS baseball writers have this to say about the Dick Siebert situation, which the Indianapolis club is watching with eyes wide open and with a landing net poised to swing: "General Manager Rickey and Manager Frisch don’t know what to do about Dick Siebert, the first baseman cbtained from Indianapolis via the Chicago Cubs. If linals want to keep him in a St. Louis uniform, well and good, they cannot send him anywhere for another year’s experience, as was drafted from Indianapolis by the Bruins and Indianapolis has in a claim for his return, in case he doesn't make it in the majors.” Which is the first time St. Louis has revealed that the Hoosiers still have a chance to regain popular Dick's services. . . . It looks encouragng, as any rate.

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Chicago open golf tourney, to be staged on July 23, xd 23, has been awarded to the Medinah Country Club. . . . The smeit run is on. . Carrying bushel baskets, sacks and other containers all sizes, the smelt fishermen are gathering on the west shore of L.ake Michigan prepared to scoop in supplies of the silvery little that are now running out of the big lake into the small streams. It's festival time in that territory

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is to have a baseball league this year with play starting in June. . . . The continent's northern-most circuit, the Colliery League, will: operate as a five-club ‘oop with the following teams: Sydney, Glace Bay, New Waterford, Dominion and Sydney Mines. . . . Bert Daniels, former diamond pastimer with Notre Dame, New York Yankees, Cincinnati and Louisville, has been named pilot of the Dominion Hawks. . . . Nick Tremark, pint-sized outfielder, has been released to Louisville by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Heinie Groh'’s famous bottle bat of another day has been revived by Manager Dressen of the Cincy Reds in an effort to jack up the batting average of Alex Kampouris, the swift fielding Greek second baseman.

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Dee Moore, versatile rookie with Cincinnati, has no given name, just the initials, D. C.. .. It looks as if Tony Majinosky, last year with Louisville, will get the call at shortstop over the Veteral Woody English when the Dodgers face the Giants in the 1937 opener at Ebbets Field next month,

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Fitzsimmons, the Giants’ knuckle ball expert, is 2a Brooklyn neme He has defeated the Dodgers more than any other pitcher in baseball—32 times. An interesting individual in the Boston Red Sox camp is John Gaston Peacock, rookie catcher from Nashville where he batted 335 last year... . He hails from the University of North Carolina and is a rather independent young man for a rookie. He ignored Manager Cronin’s edict not to bring his wife to training CRIP. ... / And not only that, but Mrs. Peacock sent for three of her sorority pals to partake of the sunshine at Sarasota. . . . Catcher Peacock was declared a free agent during the winter and got a bonus of $10,000 for signing with the Red Sox . Indianapolis tried to hook Peacock in the draft only to learn he was a draft ineligible,

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Team Pl; Plays Anderson in ~ 3P.M. Game

Coach Lyle’s Quintet Gan, Use Either Fast Break or | Delayed Style.

By GENE DAILEY United Press Staff Correspondent Rochester, back in the finals’ field

after nine years absence, looms as the dark-horse entry of the four teams which will compete at Butler | University Fieldhouse next Satur- | day for the 1937 state high school

| basketball title. The Zebras nave not been an outi standing or headline type of ball

{ club. But in a quiet business-like | they have beaten 26 op-|

| manner

i ponents this season and dropped

| only three contests, one to Logans- |

| port, one to Goshen and another to | { Wabash, an arch rival. | Coach Clyde Lyle, who guides the | destinies of Rochester, reveals a very logical and workman-like philosophy | {about winning basketball games. | Perhaps it explains Rochester's : Cess.

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“We just get in there and try to |

| do our best to keep the other fellow { from scoring and at the same time try the ball game,”

to make enough points to win! explains the former |

{ pupil of Purdue's famed Piggy Lam- |

| bert, Use Either Style

“Sometimes we use the fast break ! {and other times we take it slower. | | It’s all according to what the other |

| fellow is doing.” { At the Logansport

[ tourney, the Zebras showed plenty |

{ of speed, accurate shooting ability,

{and a fast-break that sent Lafay- |

ton | Cunningham Calms

| ette—trained amidst Piggy {bert’'s “fire department” basketball | env ironment—down in defeat. { Rochester last appeared in the

| finals in 1928 and lost by one point | By United Press

| to Martinsville ‘which subsequently | | was defeated ny Muncie. The Zebras probably will stack! | up as the smallest outfit on the!

| ly 148 pounds in weight. | Backers of the aggregation claim |

{ the team spirit will make up for from their seats in howling when a heat of the one-mile relay “There have been greater indi- | race was awarded to University of | vidual players on Rochester teams| Washington over Washington State. had a| They | better five-man team, or a group of | proceedings were in a bad way when |

these handicaps. They say:

| but never has Rochester

players with finer spirit.”

| Zebras were to take it fairly easy | | this week, with just enough prac- |

semifinal |

| opening engagement against Ander- |

{ son next Saturday afternoon. !

BING CROSBY

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WORLD'S LARGEST RETAILER OF

The soothing voice of Glenn Cun- | ningham, the Kansas distance run-

{ Cunningham reached Coach Lyle issued orders that the | phone and started talking.

| brawl, he begged the audience’s in- | tice to keep them in shape for the dulgence while he expressed his appreciation of the meet.

ROCHESTER HAILS ITS ‘FIVE LITTLE MEN’

Zebras Important in Basketball Circus Saturday

the above, are, Smiley, Charles Coplen, Shaler,

Although it hasn't played a season of flashy basketball, Coach Clyde Lyle's little Rochester outfit has shown what patient and consistent plugging will do. They have knocked off some of the best teams in their end of the state. Saturday they will meet Anderson in

second game of the state tournament finals. (left. to right) front row--James Smith, Dean Smiley, Don Tom Baldwin. Carl Gordon, Trenson Kline, Fred Gordon, and Norman Meiser.

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Page, Sharp, Red Phillips Tribe Pitchers

Trio Probably Will See Action In Exhibition Game Next Sunday Afternoon.

Times Special BOWLING GREEN, Ky. March 26.—Manager Wade Killefer of the Indianapolis Indians, in training here, let out his first hint today as to whom he might use on the Tribe mound against the Bowling Green Barons, local semipro outfit, in the exhibition game Sunday. He said Red Phillips, whom the Redskins obtained from Detroit, probably would pitch the first three innings, Vance Page the next three and with Jimmy Sharp hurling the last three frames. A heavy rain yesterday morning caused muddy going at the Warren County fairgrounds park and pre=vented a scheduled practice tilt bee tween Tribe regulars and yannigans, the first of the training season. The sun came out late in the morning and a brisk wind dried out the play ing field rapidly, but it was still too wet in the afternoon to suit Chief Killefer and he said efforts would be made to stage the intra-club con= test today. Keeps Men Busy

In the absence of a drill on the | diamond yesterday the Hoosiers went through their paces on the turf in the outfield where the usual limbering-up exercises, chasing and batting practice were held. Louis Whitehead, outfielder, took

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makers are to meet Centenary in Shreveport, La., on Monday and Tuesday. Four games have been carded with Louisiana Tech at Ruston, La., the first contest to be played Wednesday and the last on Saturday.

The remainder of schedule is as follows:

April 13, Wabash, there; 2, Wabash; April 23, Chicago, there; April 26, Butler, there (tentative); April 27, Notre Dame; April 28, Butler (tentative): April 30, May 1, Indiana; May 5, Illinois, there; May 7, Chicago; May 10, 1, Louisiana Tech; May 14, Michigan; May 15, Notre Dame, there: May 18, Illinois; May 19, Wabash, there; May 21, 22, Indiana, there; May 24, Ohio State; | 27, 28, Minnesota, ‘there.

28 Games Carded

Crowd wi Spokane For Purdue Nine

SPOKANE, Wash, March 25.—

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 25.— Purdue University is to open its 28game baseball schedule with a series of six contests in Louisiana next week. Coach Dutch Fehring plans to leave Saturday on the Southern trip with about 20 players. The Boiler-

the Purdue

April 14 and

Many of the 2500 spectators leaped rage

Olympic Ciub runner was leading | a pack around the oval in the mile | event at the time and they were | headed directly into the milling | ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. crowd. | 25. ~The New The voice of Cunningham drew spectators back to their seats in| time to seé Bright win. | Cunningham had run earlier in the Spokane press half-mile event. He won it.

swarmed onto the track and

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Without referring to the brewing Boston Bees as they clashed in an

exhibition game.

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Norman Bright,

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The Bees yester- | day defeated Cincinnati as Babich, | Lanning and Harris held the hard- !

Manager Bill Terry named Catcher | Gus Mancuso as field captain of the | show up today. | New York Giants today after viously announcing there would bein appearance and Bob Kahle and no appointment caused by Travis|Joe Lawry are being used at his Jackson's removal to Jersey City as | position. manager.

his first work-out vesterday afterjnoon. He is a new arrival. Fred | Berger and Oscar Eckhardt, regulars, also are in camp in addition to | several rookie gardeners. March 25.—| Outfielder Danny Taylor still “is on his way” and was expected to Buck Fausett, regular third sacker, has failed to put

Gus Mancuso Named Giants Field Captain

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