Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1937 — Page 7
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Vincent Can’ t Last S ason, Writer Says
Temperament May Cause Boston Rookies Downfall.
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer ~ EN ROUTE NORTH, April 10.— You get to talk with a lot of baseball people in the South—~managers, scouts, old players, current. stars. There were two things most of the baseball people I talked with agreed on unanimously. One was that Joe Di Maggio was going on to be an enduring sensation in the majors. The other was
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» that his brother | - Vincent wouldn't | last beyond midseason. And the odd, part of this is the | baseball ~~ pcople | concede Brother | vincent has al-| most as much mechanical ability as Joe. Ii seems to be a ‘question of temperament. One brother's got it and the other hasn’t. Nothing ever seems to disturb Joe. On the other hand, Vincent is addicted to nervcus moods. Joe plays as if he knows he's good, Vincent as if he isn’t sure. The two brothers are alike. in mannerisms at the bat and in the field. In the unimportant practice maneuvers it is difficult to tell them apart. But when the game starts and the pressure is on Joe. stands out and Vincent doesn’t. The baseball people say this is a mental condition. They say Joe ‘has made himself a great player because he has confidence in himself, something Vincent lacks. I recall talking with Lefty O'Doul in New York last winter shortly after the Boston Nationals had bought Vincent. O'Doul managed San Francisco, was instrumental in the development of Joe, and was familiar with Vincent, who played in the same league. . . . “He's got the stuff to make good in a big way,” said O'Doul, “but I'll be surprised if he does. Something happens to him in the pinches.”
Have Had Time
The baseball people have had two months to look over Vincent and they are now saying the same thing O’Doul said last winter, Some men have the temperament “to be great competitive athletes. Others haven't. | This seems to be the difference between the two, Di Maggio brothers who are by all accounts equally | gifted in most other respects. Old Bob Quinn who operates the Bostons is a wise baseball head. It isn't easy to sell him a gold brick. The chances are he knew all about the peculiarities of Vincent when he bought him from San Diego. Old Bob also happens to be a wise box office man. The Di Maggio name became widely publicized last season. He probably reasoned that even a thin carbon copy of the original would excite his clientele. At least for a while. As for Joe, there were some baseball men who were disposed to reserve judgment on him last season, and even after the season had ended. They recalled a number of other young players who had come to the majors, had a sensational first year, then faded into obscurity when sub- | | Jected to the test of time. They said, “We want to take another look at | him.” Well, they have taken another look and while it has been limited to exhibition games they have ecapitulated. They are saying now he is one freshman phenom who can't miss being a great star. They are saying he will be even better this year than last when it was generally agreed he was the No. 1 rookie of the season. Thrilled Customers
Besides electrifying the customers with his gaudy fielding exploits and dramatic throwing Joe, his first year up, took his place alongside the established sluggers in the Yankee batting order and hit .323. He was ital factor in the team's championship success. Had he been more rienced his record would have even more impressive. o first-year player could have d for a more satisfying year Joe had. Yet if the breaks
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one of those 100 to 1 stops. e was the goat of the all-star He could just as easily have To begin with it
of using him in the game at They argued this was a game
sponsibilities.. But the fans of the country had voted the rookie a place in [the lineup and Joe McCarthy, directed the American Leaguers, abided by their sentiment. Left to his own judgment he probably wouldn’t have started him; possibly he wouldn’t have called on him at all. : Failure Was Complete
The young Italian’s failure in the all-star game was complete. But as I have said if he had gotten the breaks he would be known today as the man who won the game instead of lost it. In five times at bat he failed to hit the ball out of the infield and did not reach first base once. He had chances to drive in seven runners and he left seven on the bases. He gave the National Yedguers two runs in the second inning when Gabby Hartnett’s drive skipped off the heel of his glove, and rolled to the fence. It was. generously scored a three-base hit, He made the only recorded error of the game when he fumbled [Bill Herman's single and . permitted the Chicagoan to take an
extra base. | this he should have
THe BoSS OF THE BROWNS 1S LEAVING IT UP To THE TEAM'S COACHES AS To WHETHER OR NOT HE 1S FITTED FOR ANOTHER SEASON...
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FOR THE LACK OF BETIER MATERIAL THE OLD RAJAH WILL BE BACK IN THE LINEUP,
Shanty Hogan Tells All
About His
Career Trials
By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor ORLANDO, Fla. April 10—J. Francis Hogan literally is the most amazing figure in the Grapefruit League this spring,
Intimates of his days with the
Giants and Braves scarcely recog- |
nize Shanty of Somerville, who has | shrunk to a mere 235 pounds, which is only 10 more than he scaled the year. he hit .340 for the Polo Grouriders The man who ate himself out of | the majors appears to have starved | himself back to stardom. last fall. No other ball player in history ever ducing feat.
In more ways than one, Hogan | Bucky |
is the largest reason why
Harris has an idea that his Wash-
ington club may finish as high as second in the American League this trip. Hogan Returned When CIliff Bolton ran out on | the Nationals last August he] brought back Hogan. Shanty’s metamorphosis can be traced to | that, a bump on the head, and his pride. Tumbling finally getting
into the minors a chance with the
Albany Internationals last season, | | Hogan was riding along in a bus
with that club one night. “We hit a bump, and I banged | my head a terrific whack on the ceiling,” beams the good- -natured | Irishman. “I'd been sound asleep. I woke up, and started thinking, something I hadn't often bothered to do. “I said to myself, ‘Hogan, you're a bum. “Why aren't you riding in air-cooled Pullmans? The next thing you know, youll wind up at Ashtabula, O., and that’s about as far as you can go, unless you leave the country.’ I suddenly got wise to myself. “Do you really want to know what I weighed when I first came to Washington? I'll tell you now. I weighed 286 pounds. That isn't what the newspapers said last August. They all said 263, but I didn’t lie about it. I didn't step on the scales for newspapermen. The boys just guessed at 263 or 265 and I let it go at that. . “I was ashamed, man, ashamed. A ball player weighing that much is a disgrace. You don't know how sensitive I was. When the fellows kidded me I had to laugh, too. But it hurt. It really did.”
Dinner “Sign System”
The late John McGraw always said that Hogan was a great catcher, but sent him back to the Braves in despair when he discovered his baby elephant’s “sign system” with waiters. On the dinner list, Shanty would order “spinach,” but it meant pie a la mode. “Salad” meant steak smothered with fried onions. “Consomme” meant mashed potatoes. “Peas” were pork chops. McGraw couldn't understand Hogan's ever-increasing tonnage, but believed him to be doing his best as a vegetarian until one of the club officials discovered the one flaw in Shanty’s system. The big backstop had overlooked swearing the biscuit-shooters| to secrecy. One of them remarked to this club official that Hogan was a funny man. “Why?” asked the club official. “Well,” answered the hash-dis-penser,” “he -writes down spinach and I'm supposed to bring him pie
and the winning run on second Joe hit the first ball Lon Warneke pitched and rifled it to Leo Durocher at short. Durocher made the same sort of miracle catch that Whitehead did in the world series. Na ball could have been harder or mare perfectly hit. Nine times out of iten it would have gone safe. This time it went for an out, decided a ball game and cast Di Maggio in the undeserved role of goat.
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Rinses, also, in soft water.
He ac- | tually has taken off 51 pounds since |
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a la mode and things like that. 2 Hogan soon was back with the Braves. | Couldn't Bend Over
| Hogan finally got too fat for loose. All National League clubs waived on him. No American Licague club wanted him. He played | for a’'while with Minneapolis at the end of 1935 and then went home for the winter, There, at Somerville, he blew up to 286 pounds. “I kept. writing to.a lot of major league clubs asking for a chance,” says Hogan, now able to flash a | victory smile, “but none wanted me. | “Finally Joe [Cambria of Albany | got in touch with me and made me a proposition. I had no spring i training and so Cambria offered to | give me 10 days in which to get in | shape. I couldn't have gotten in | shape in 10 wesks, but on the third day he caught me. “I got a double the first time I got up to bat and then didn't hit anything for a week. I was so fat that I couldn't bend over. I'd never played night ball, either, and I {hated it. Still, without trying, I had la successful year. I batted .359, and | then Bolton skipped and I came to Washington.” Hogan credits a diet that Al Simmons picked up in Honolulu with helping him. Here it is: For breakfast eat raw fruit—oranges, apples, grapefruit, and pineapple, and milk—no coffee, especially coffee with cream or sugar. For. lunch you may have starchy food in moderation—potatoes, rice, ete., but no meat. For dinner you may eat any meat except pork. No bread and butter, no gravies, no dessert.
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Detroit Team Is In Bowling Lead
Bn United Press NEW YORK, April 10.—A Detroit team held first place in the American Bowling Congress team standings today after turning in a score of 3118—173 pins more than their nearest competitor. The score turned’ in by the Krakow Furniture team gave Detroit its fdurth opportunity in 37 years to carry off the World Bowling Championship. But the total, far ahead as it is now, by no means ww a guarantee of the title as many big-time pin smashers were scheduled to bowl in the remaining 25 days of the tourney. In taking first place last night, the. Krakows started inauspiciously with an ordinary 929 for the first
game in which there were five misses and seven splits. In the sec-
up to total 1109—the second best of the present tourney. The team let down but little in the final game, turning in a 1080. A chance for 20 more pins was lost in the ninth frame of the second game when Dick Krakow, sponsor of the team, having struck in the first frame, bumped into No. 7 pin tap on a strike hit. He struck in the next frame, » Closing with a 269.
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fourth place with a 214.
the Braves, and they cut him |
Snead Takes Over Golfing Lead Again
Who Faltered.
By United Press CHARLESTON, S. C., April 10.— Sam Snead, West Virginia mountaineer, was back in the lead of the $6000 Tournament of the Gardens here today with a card of 209. Snead had a 36-34—T70, two | strokes ahead of the . defending champion, Henry Picard, Hershey,
' Pa., who faltered in the third round.
| to post a 37-39—76 for a three- -day | total of 211. Jimmy Thomson, Shawnee, Pa. was the only golfer besides Snead {to break par on the wind-swept | corse. He came in with a sub-par 70 for a 213 total. Lighthorse Harry Cooper, Chicago, earned Johnny
| Revolta, Chicago, out in 36,. finished with a total of 215. Lawson Little, former amateur king, was disqualified by the rules committee for improving his line of flight after the other players threatened a sit-down strike if the rules committee did not live up to the rules. On the eighth hole, Little's tee shot caught the ditch. Against the opinion of the rules committee, he dropped his ball on the fairway.
‘Donie Bush in
Hospital Here
resident and now manager of the Minneapolis Millers, was in St. Vincent’s Hospital today with a streptococcic infection which developed
Jdafter he received an injury to his
side at the Millers’ spring training camp in Texas. Mr. Bush arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and planned to rest in order to recover from his injury. Physicians were called and after an examination Mr. Bush was sent to the hospital for treatment. He will be there for about 10 cays, physicians sud.
Blue Devils Lose To Kokomo Team
The Shortridge thinlies today-had
ond game, however, the strikes piled |
{a record of one victory and one loss after dropping their second meet of | the season yesterday to Kokome, 70 to 49, at the Butler University traek. Denney and DesChamp led the Wildcats to their impressive victory, while Dave Crocket and Walter Thienes starred for the Blue Devils.
vault. Summary: 100-Yard Dash—Hawkins (K), (K). Dawson (Si. Time, :10. Mile Run-—-Strong 8). Ritchie (K), Gentrv (K). Time, 4:59 440-Yard Dast dene: (8), Hyman iS). Frey (K), Time, :53.9. 120-Yard High Hurdles—Dennev (K). D. Crockett (S). J. Crockett (8). Time. :16.4. 220-Yard Low Hurd'es—Denney (Ki. D. Crockett (8). Halstead (K). Time. :212. _ Shot Put-—-Rehm (S). Dowling (KJ), Rash (S). Distance. 42 feet 93 inches. Broad Jumn--Halstead (Ki. Hunter (8), Flynn (RK). Distance. 19 fe~* 41; inchss. Mile Relav—Shoriridge (7Zizgner, Cline, Time. 3:43.2. — Kokomo (Cameron, Hawking). Time. 1:36.65. DesChamp (K),
Cameron
Evans, Thienes). Half-Mile Relay Halstead. Dennev, Hich Jump—Flvnn (K). D. Crocktt (8S). Height, 5 feet 8 inches. Half-Mile Run—Cline (S) and Rave (K), tied for first: Rash (S.) Time, 2:11.9. 220-Yard Dash—Hawkins 200 Dawson (8), Cameron (K). Time, :23 : Pole Vault—DesChamp (K). ’ Hall (K), Lucas (K). Height, 10 feet 6 inches.
Grapplers Matched For Return Tussle
Frank (Rebel) Speer, 240, former Georgia. Tech gridman, has been matched for a return tussle with Dorve (Iron Man) Roche, 220, former Decatur, Ill, coal miner, as the main event on Tuesday night's allheavyweight wrestling card at the Armory.Roche, who upset Orville Brown twice at the local arena, beat Speer in a one-fall match here last Tuesday. He accepted Speer’s challenge to a longer bout, and the two were matched for a two fall out of three tussle. In the semiwindup, Chief Saunooke, North Carolina giant, will grapple with White Hewitt, 239, Memphis. Saunooke weighs 325 pounds.
SCRIBES ‘QUIP’ TUNE FOR ‘DAFFY’ DODGERS
By NEA Service BROOKLYN, April 10.—Kelly green will be sprinkled: generously through the uniforms of the Brooklyn Dodgers this year. Announcement to this effect by President Stephen W. McKeever promptly led the Flatbush scribes to compose this theme song to the tune of “Wearin’ o’ the Green” for the Dodgers: “Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear, The things that may be seen? The dear old Daffy Dodgers Are a-wearin’ o’ the green.”
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LET'S GO FISHING
By G. H. D.
OTHING is too good for our readers. For instance, we have just arranged, at great trouble (coming downtown in the rain) and expense (two beers) for a fishing correspondent on the island of
Hainan.
| Hainan is off the southern tip of China and we're not sure it ‘contains fish and neither is Nicol Smith, our correspondent. Mr. Smith is an explorer. He is heading an expedition to Hainan pretty soon now. He has heard there are rare bears and four-foot flying squirrels there and while keeping. one eye out for such beasts he says he will ' keep the other peeled for new or outrageous forms of fish. You can’t tell, you might want to go to Hainan some day and how would you feel if you didn’t know what sort of tackle to take? You probably have been worrying about it-quite a lot. It's comforting to know that Mr. Smith will be looking out for our interests in this
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E hereby plead guilty to offering some sloppy advice to Ike Walton Jr. the other day. Ike wanted to know about casting# outfits for beginners and when we came to rods we just mumbled something about five and five and one-half feet being the best lengths and let it go at that. Somebody who knows says we are sort of wrong about this and he sets us right as follows: There are three types of casting rods: bamboo, tubular steel and A light bamboo, to handle light lures, never should be shorter than five and one-half feet, and six is the standard tournaThe same balance and action in tubular steel will be Any longer hasn’t enough spine; _ And in solid construction, like rapier steel, you can get the same feel with four and one-half feet. These figures are approximate and it always is possible that a certain rod may prove an exception. In light bamboo a five and one-half foot rod will weigh about four and one-quarter ounces and a six footer a quarter ounce more. _We hope this straightens out the rod business.
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He's laughing at us, men.
He hasn't anything to say in particular; he just can’t keep his good luck to himself. Wants to crow about it. Trying to make us
feel bad.
He says he has a private stream within 30 miles of Indianapolis. An easy hour from his office. He discovered it a couple of years ago and is so sure that you can’t find it that he’s willing to describe it in
detail.
It is a short, spring fed tributary of a good sized creek. It is barely a mile in length and winds most of its way through one farm. Where it enters the creek it is so insignificant tht no angler would give it a second thought. But back in the woods and ravines where it trickles its lazy way are long, deep pools where some fine bass
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HESE pools are few and far apart and unless you look twice you won't see that they have cutunder banks and rocky ledges that afford real shelter. The stream never goes dry and is always cool and clear, Every trip means a couple of good fish; more if he wants them, » but he is careful to leave plenty of breeder stock in each pool. Well, this is the sort of a secret every fisherman would like to have for his own. About all we can do is congratulate Mr. and give him fair warning that if ever we discover who he is we will arrange to have him kidnapped and tortured until he tells all.
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S. S. hardly can be blamed for refusing to sign his name instead of his initials but just the same we don’t like his attitude.
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Four Win Positions On Tech Golf Team
Four golfers today had survived the preliminary tryouts for the Technical High School golf team and were named to compete in the East Siders’ first match of the season with Manual Friday at the Speedway course.
Those winning places on’ the team at tryouts and the scores turned in
were: Eugene Cox, 73; Wayne Montford, 76; Arthur Weddle, 78, and | Bob Laffey, 82. took part in the tryouts, which were | held yesterday at the Pleasant Run course.
HURLS TWO-HIT GAME
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Charles Shanklin, Decatur Central |
High School pitcher, allowed only two hits and struck out 15 men in|
a game yesterday with Ben Davis on! the Decatur diamond. The Decatur; nine won, 25 to 3.
Athletic Control Should Be Taken Away From Fans, Dr. Rice Tells Coaches
Believes Préssure Is Too Strong on Mentors Concerning
Certain Sports in Indiana; Football Game to Be Played Today as Demonstration.
By United Press
Now ° - -
LAFAYETTE, April 10.—Athletic control should be taken out of the
hands of the fans and placed with those . Thurman B. Rice, chief of the State
tional ideals and methods,”
“who have the right educa-
D Bureau of Health and Frys Education, warned last night at the
coaches banquet of the 6th annual
Purdue University Football Clinic,
More than 300 high school and®
college coaches from Indiana, Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, |Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and West |Virginia have assembled at Purdue for technical sessions and practical field work. “The vast majority of coaches are capable and competent on a ‘high plane, ” Dr. Rice said. “Overemphesis of certain forms of athletics in Indiana has placed such pressure on the coach that he has sometimes to resort to devices which are hardly in keeping with the deals of amateur sports. “It is not' so much the fa It of the coach, however,” Dr. Rice stated, “as of the public which demands that the home team shall win at any cost.” Other banquet speakers included Dr. C. W. Spears, athletic director and head football coach at the University of Toledo; President E. C. Elliott of Purdue; L. Trester, I. H. S. A. A. commissioner; Bill Cerney, Notre Dame, and Noble E. Kizer, Purdue athletic director and head football coach. Spears will hold an important part in today’s closing technical program during which a demonstration between two Purdue football squads will be held. - The opening morning session yesterday was devoted to a discussion of the evaluation of football material, backfield fundamentals, and early-season conditioning. Elmer Burnham, Purdue; Lundy Welborn, South Side, Ft. Wayne, and Douglas Kerr of Horace Mann, Gary, were the speakers. Preceding
the af ternoon field
work, Dr. Gordon A. Thomas, Pure: due team physician gave a demonstration ‘and illustrated lecture on prevention and treatment of injuries. Earl Pike, Garfield, Terre Haute, spoke on ‘‘Short Punt Fore mation Offense.”
Central Thinlies In 4-Way Meet
The Indiana Central : College trackmen journeyed to Kokomo today to open their 1937 season in a quadrangular. meet with Kokomo and Anderson Colleges and Taylor University. The meet was to be held this afternoon. Those making the trip from Ine diana Central included John Byers, South Bend; Ray Crowe, Whiteland; Jack Wonnell, Indianapolis; Reuben Smith, Crawfordsville; Kenneth Dorton, Hartford City; Clark Hoot, Orangeville, Ill.; Hayden Shepherd, Columbus, Ind.; Hugh Hise, Cayuga, and George Hinshaw, Gary. The Greyhound track schedule is: April .17, Earlham and Danville, at Richmond; April De Pauw and Danville, at Greencastle; May 1, Franklin, at Butler field (tentative); May 8, open; May 15, at Hanover; May 22, little state meet, at Greencastle; May 28, big state meet, at South Bend. The Indiana Central baseball team was to face the N. C. A. G. U. nine at ‘9:30 a. m. today on the Heights diamond. -
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