Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1937 — Page 29

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1937

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- JOE HEARS THAT DIZZY ISN'T WHAT HE USED TO BE

But Williams Won't Believe He Is Slowing

Cardinals Would Feel it if Dean Really Was Ailing.

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer SEBRING, Fla., March 25.—From the training base of the St. Louis Cardinals, hard by the murmuring sea af Daytona, word comes that Mr, Dizzy Dean, the one-man broadcasting station, is beginning to lose his stuff, that he 1s no longer the supreme pitching artist. The authority for this revelation | 1s a gentleman who is as close to | the National League as the Landis fright wig is to the C o mmissioner’s skuil

“Dean began to fade visibly last season,” insists the gentleman. “His fast ball wasn't jumping like it used to and his curve wasn't

Williams breaking with

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thrashing administered by Square Garden last night. Perry, professional 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0

a Tilden audience

old opponent.

troit, Chicago and Boston.

in the final set.

its customary sharpness. There were times, too, when it looked as | if he were tired and it was an | effort for him to throw the ball.” | This is the first time any ob-] server has professed to see a basic | weakness in the Dean technique. If | such a weakness does exist the coming season should demonstrate whether it is transitory or a chronic condition. Off hand, it is hard to believe the great man has started to fade so soon. He is a big strong fellow with a smooth pitching motion and not addicted to any known excesses beyond sounding off. Nevertheless, the records would seem to justify the alarmist attitude. He ranked no better than fourth among the pitchers in his league and for the first time in four years he failed to set the pace for the strikeout performers. Van Mungo of the Brooklyns topped him by 43 victims. And this is one department in which Dean has always striven to stay on top. |

Worked More Games

But, as usual, Dean worked in more ball games and pitched more innings than any of his contemsporaries, though the slender Carl Hubbell of the Giants was not far behind him in this respect. Specifically, Dean worked in 315 innings as against Hubbell’'s 303. Heretofore Dean seemed to thrive on work. | Last season he didn’t. Despite the melancholy observations Dean may be just as much pitcher as he ever was, It is certainly conceivable that he might | lose some of his effectiveness and still be a great pitcher for several vears to come. It is significant that at least three clubs were willing to pay big dough for his services last | winter when Mr. Branch Rickey | was threatening to dispose of him, From a critical point of view Dean has made himself a marked man by popping off so fluently about his extraordinary gifts. When one of these popper-offs begins to show even the slightest symptoms of fading, his case is examined much more minutely and militantly than that of the normal breed.

Best Lifetime Record

Among the regulars of the league Dean has the best lifetime pitching record with 121 victories to 65 defeats. Hubbell is the only other standout who is reasonably close to him. Dean won 24 games last season—and yet he was supposed to be in a slump! A number of managers would welcome that kind of slump, don’t you think? Even at his best Dean has not been able to pitch the Cardinals into championships with any degree of consistency. It requires no great imagination to picture a rough journey for the Missourians if Dean is really on the down grade—and this is something I insist on seeing before I accept it as an established fact. The experts in a national poll have nominated the Cardinals along with the Yankees as the top team of 1937. Unfortunately, the experts have been known to be wrong at scattered intervals. Indeed, with respect to the Cardinals there are some authorities who are disposed to question their class, Dean or no Dean. Mr. Chuck Dressen of the Cincine nati Reds refuses to concede them anything that the Giants, the Cubs or the Pirates haven't got and Mr. Joe McCarthy, who is just about as conversant with National League affairs as with similar activities in his own league, came away from the Cardinals’ camp some days ago not overly impressed. “The day we played them,” said Mr, McCarthy, “they had only one left-handed hitter in the lineup, and unless Frank Frisch plays they don’t figure to have more than one at any time.” The Yankee manager seemed to think this offensive arrangement dangerous. He wasn’t so sure about the two young catchers the Cardinals are counting on either . . . “It’s always best to have at least one old head back of the plate,” he reflected. Mr. McCarthy admitted he had heard Dean wasn’t so tough to beat last season. . . . “But you don’t have to worry aout him. He's a great

pitcher and he’s still young.” Asked if the addition of Lon Warneke,

formerly of the Cubs, wouldn't give the Cardina! pitching a vital impetus, Mr. McCarthy nodded. “Certainly a pitcher like Warneke is bound to help any club, but whether it will make the difference between a pennant winner and a runner-up is another matter, Warneke used to pitch for me and I like him but if youll check the records you will find he had only one big vear in the box” . . . The implication seemed to be that Warneke was something less than a ball of fire.

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KTH 27 MORE MEETINGS VINES AND THE SIX W SHOULD BE ENAOYING

who ruled the world’ amateur courts until he turned three months ago, made Tilden look like a very tired old man. He won as he pleased, It was strictly

WRAL RR

NEW YORK, March 25. — Big Bill Tilden’s curiosity about Fred Perry’s tennis ability was satisfied today by a sound, Pin e debonair young Englishman before 15,000 spectators in Madison

It was the first Garden defeat for the 44-year-old Philadelphian, and the customers paid $30,433 to see him massacred by his 28-year-It also was their initial meeting and the first of a five-match ‘‘Age and Experience vs. Youth and Speed” series that will take them to Pittsburgh, De-

Perry mastery was apparent from the time the first ball was hit, and how Tilden ever salvaged the third set after trailing 2-4, is a mystery that only the tennis professionals can answer. At the top of his game, Perry suddenly went to pieces, but he literally blazed Big Bill off the courts as he triumphed at love

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TILDEN , PERRY NR IMMEN SELY

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent TAMPA, Fla, March 25.—The Cincinnati Reds are the talk of the | preparations were rushed for the grapefruit league with their rough and ready, cut and slash tactics in | Green and White thinlies opening

exhibition games.

the St. Louis Cardinals, and they aren’t kidding.

Manager Charlie Dressen has the

Reds running bases like a gang of wild men. In three days they cut down three men at second base in plays that looked like the World Series rather than a practice game. Jimmy Outlaw, Nashville rookie husling to win the Reds’ third base job from Lew Riggs, crashed into Frankie Crosetti, New York Yankees’ shortstop, at second last Friday. Outlaw’s spikes cut a deep gash in Crosetti’s right ankle, putting him on the shelf for several days.

Wreck Brooklyn Combination

On Sunday the Reds wrecked Brooklyn's second base combination in two innings. Les Scarsella, Cincinanti first baseman, collided with Cookie Lavagetto, Dodgers’ second baseman, on a hit-and-run play in which the batter fanned. Lavagetto had to leap for a high throw and when he came down Scarsella slid into him. Lavagetto’s sprained ankle will keep him out of action for two weeks. In the next inning Alex Kampouris, Reds’ second baseman, smashed into Tony Malinosky, Dodger shortstop, so hard in an attempt to break up a double play that the Brooklyn player received a severely injured knee. He'll be out 10 days. Burleigh Grimes, Brooklyn's hard boiled manager, and the diminutive Dressen almost came to blows after Malinosky was injured. Grimes came out of the clubhouse, where he had been looking at Lavagetto's injury, just in time to see Malinosky on the ground.

Grimes Blows Up

Grimes blew up, and straight for Dressen. “You'd better watch out after starting that kind of stuff,” yelled Grimes, “We Dressen. “Yeh, you always could take it,” Grimes said, “and hit .280.” “You don’t win with your mouth up here, Grimes. You've got a job. Let's see you hold on it.” “Well, I'll hold on to it and I don't need a couple of giants as a bodyguard to protect me.” (Grimes referred to the Reds’ coaches, George Kelly and Tom Sheehan, who are both 6 feet 6 inches in height.) The warning spread to the players of both clubs, and Heinie Manush and Johnny Hudson, Brooklyn base runners, charged into Kampouris in plays at second base, Then Whitey Moore, Reds’ rookie pitcher, made Buddy Hassett, Dodgers’ first basemen, dive into the dirt with a pitch at his head. Later Moore hit Johnny Cooney with a pitch, but it appeared to be accidental.

BRITONS OKAY BAER

By United Press LONDON, March 25.—The British Board of Boxing Control decided today that Max Baer, American heavyweight, might box Tommy Farr at Harringay Stadium April 15. The board rejected the protest of the New York State Boxing Commission that Ba

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Chicago Glovers Lead New York

By United Press CHICAGO, March 25.—Chicago’s Golden Gloves amateur boxing champions held a 5 to 3 lead over New York today after capturing the tenth of their intercity series before 21,280 fight fans at the stadium last night. The Chicago squad won nine bouts and dropped seven. After losing the first two matches, Chicago won four in a row and gradually increased its lead until Heavyweight Lem Franklin clinched the team title by scoring a oneround technical knockout over Ed Crawford of New York. Five of eight champions in Chicago’s amateur tournament won their bouts. New York's alternates kept the team race close by winning half the consolation matches. —————— RS ———

Cubs Face Lengthy Working Schedules

By United Press AVALON, SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, Cal., March 25.—The Chicago Cubs, preparing to sail for the mainland to open their exhibition season against the White Sox in Los Angeles Friday, faced long working schedules. Because bad weather the past two weeks has retarded training, Manager Charley Grimm ordered all hands except the day’s pitchers to be ready to practice each morning at 10:30 a. m. French and Parmelee were slated for pitching Friday, Shoun and Bryant against the Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday, and Lee ow Carleton against the Sox Sunay.

BALL PLAYERS ARE MYSTERY TALE FANS

Times Special COLUMBUS, O., March 25.—Detective stories, and not sports stories as you may suspect, are the favorite reading material of baseball players, according to a poll of American Association players. Thirty men voted for the mystery yarns, 21 voted for sports stories, and 12 replied “just fiction.” Interesting, if true, one player said that he preferred to read “philosophical matters,” another one put down scientific books, one said he liked legal literature, and still another vowed he doted on theological works.

BACK AT HOME CAMP

By United Press LAKELAND, Fla. March 25.— The Detroit Tigers came back to their home base today to play the Brooklyn Dodgers. Both teams won vesterday, Brooklyn upsetting the Yankees, 9 to 6, while the Tigers the Philadelphia Phillies,

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meet on April 9 with Warren Cen- | tral. { Tech’s hopes in the distance events were dashed when it was | learned that two of its stars would not compete this spring. Elias Poulos has been declared ineligible | and John Carr did not return to | school the second semester. | Coach Myers is depending on

Warren Harvey, Ralph Monroe and | Frank Kottlowski, all veterans, in |

the mile event. Half-milers who

will be in uniform are George Lyday, | Millard Dobbs, Bill Garrett, Everett |

Hayes and Bill Martin.

St. Louis Cardinals | will Play Columbus |

By United Press i DELAND, Fla.,, March 25.-—The St. Louis Cardinals, who have won only two exhibitions against major league opposition this year, came here today to meet their Columbus Smeriean Association cousins to- | ay. | The Cards, heavy favorites to ! win the National League pennant, dropped a 5-3 decision to the | Washington Senators yesterday. | Feature of the game was Joe Medwicks home run with two men on | base in the ninth that sent all of | the Cards runs across. Cascarella | blanked the Cards for the first five innings.

MUNICIPAL DIAMOND LEAGUE WILL MEET

The Indianapolis Sunday Municipal baseball league is to make arrangements for the coming season at a meeting of club officials at 8 p. m. tonight in the Smith-Hass- | ler-Sturm sporting goods store. Six teams are members of the | league, They are Fashion Cleaners. | Bowes Seal Fast, University Heights, Beanblossoms, Rector Grocery and ! Beech Grove Reds.

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last night over the Purdue All-Star | team. The final score was 50 to 41. The former Indiana players held | a 28-to-15 lead at the end of the half. Kessler and Cottom starred for the former Purdue players, scoring 17 and 9 points, respectively. Etnire accounted for 19 Indiana

Perry Continues on Road to Fame and Fortune by Downing Big Bill National Intercollegiate

Swimming Meet to Be Held At University of Minnesota

Eastern Teams Are Given Edge in Advance Dope on Annual Championship; University of Michigan May Have to

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Bow to Flashy Natators From Yale.

MINNEAPOLIS, March 25.~The nation’s leading swimmers, including world-record holders and 1936 Olympic stars, will meet at the University of Minnesota tomorrow and Saturday for the 14th annual National Inter ‘| collegiate swimming championships. As the entry list swelled, following ®—

completion of conference schedules by collegiate teams throughout the country, Yale University loomed as the favorite to dethrone Michigan, 1936 champion. The Eli string of 133 consecutive victories in dual meets, however, was snapped by Harvard on March 13. It was expected Robert J. H. | Kiphuth, Yale coach and mentor of {the 1936 Olympic swimming team, { would bring an Eii squad of 15, | headed by John Macionis, sensational Olympic star and an out-

standing performer in the 100 and |

| 220-yard free-style events. | Michigan to Be Strong | Michigan, perennial water king |of the Middle West, will endeavor | to stave off Yale's challenge with a | strong team built around Jack Kasley, world’s champion in the 200- | vard breast stroke; Ed Kirar, free- | style dash swimmer, and Capt. | Frank Bernard, middle distance | star, | Harvard's national champion in the free-style, Charles Hutter, is ex- | pected to be another of the out- | standing natators to represent | East, along with Howard Willey, of | Princeton, backstroke expert. Columbia, Dartmouth, Fordham and Rutgers are among strong | eastern teams. R. Roveto, Columbia | diver, J. Smith, ace diver from Dart- { mouth, and W. Geisen, | free-style swimmer, were leading | threats in last season's national | meet held at New Haven, Conn.

Towa's Team Strong

Pacing Michgan in the Middle | West are several Big Ten aquatic squads certain to place high in na- | tional competition. Foremost are: Iowa, defending Western conference champion, with Ray Walters, national intercollegiate champion titlist in the 50-yard event; Ohio State, led by James Patterson, Western Conference diving champion; Chicago with Charles Wilson in the middle distances, and Northwestern, headed by Dan Zehr, national backstroke champion. The Far West is expected to offer several strong contenders from among the squads of Southern California, Stanford, Oregon and Washington.

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BIKE RIDERS EASE OFF Times Special NEW YORK, March 25.—Bike riders have to de-bike after a sixday grind. The first day after the race they ride 50 miles, then the [next day 40 miles and so on until ‘their legs are “set” again.

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Wally Zale Wins At Midget Races

An accident halted the feature event on the midget auto racing card last night after 23 of the scheduled 30 laps had been completed. Wally Zale, who was lead« ing at the time of the mishap, was declared the race winner. The midget cars of Cecil Zend “Cowboy” O'Rourke crashed and turned over on the southeast curve. The drivers were not injured seriously, but both cars were damaged badly. The officials called off the race a few minutes later, ‘ Marshall Lewis was trailing Zale at the time of the mishap. In third place was Paul Russo, tollowed by Everett Rice in fourth and Roscoe Hough in fifth. Rice won two of the six preliminary races, Zale, Russo, Lewis and O'Rourke won the others.

26 Will Receive Letters at I. U.

Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 25,

| —Twenty-six letter varsity awards

in basketball, wrestling and swime

ming and 14 freshman numeral awards in basketball today had been approved by the Indiana University Athletic Board of Control. The awards were granted as follows: Varsity Basketball—Ernest Andre - fersonviile; James Birr, Indianapolis: ik ert Etnire, Logansport; Fred Fechtman, Indianapolis; Cocaptain Kenneth Gunning, Shelbyville; Willis Hosler, Huntington: Cow captain Vernon Huffman, Newcastle; WilHam gornson, Jedtersonville; Joe Platt talveston; Henr : rn Sa aR. y Decker, manager, Varsity Swimming—Theron Feigel, Hunt ington; James Herdrich, Indianapolis; Carl Jacobson, Hammond; William Lucas. Co lumbus; Robert Marsh, South Bend; Arvy Rothschild, manager, Indianapolis. Wrestling Awards Given ~ Varsity Wrestling—Thomas Bryce, Bloom«~ ington; Robert Haak, Hammond; Raymond Hyde, Rushville, O.; Clifford R. Myers, Bloomington; James Sefton, East Chicago; Christopher Traicoff, Gary; Clifford Basse ham, New Albany; Chaucey McDaniel, Bloomington; John Keeler, Hammond; Stanley O'Hair, manager, Greencastle. Freshman Basketball—David Bowman, Veedersburg; ax Davis, Louisville, Ky.; Harold C. Day, Windfall; James Fausch, Michigan City; Dale Gentil, Mount Vernon; William Hubbard, New Albany; Robert Huegel, Rushville; Joseph Klemeyer, Vine cennes; Eugene Lundahl, Hobart; Lawe rence McCreary Jr., Frankfort; Kelsey Mo= Daniel, Mooresville; Clarence Oley, Spencer: Edward Page, Shelbyville; Gregory Ricke, Shelbyville

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