Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1937 — Page 7
| SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1937
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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JOE WILLIAMS HEARKENS BACK TO HIS BOYHOOD DAYS
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Young Fi Feller Has Achieved
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His Ambition
Writer Thinks Bob Should Be
Pretty ‘Happy About His
Priceless Arm. |
By JOE WILLIAMS
Times Special Writer NEW YORK, April 17.—The most talked of ball player in the major leagues at the moment is Bob Feller —the 18-year-old right handed pitcher of the Cleveland Indians. Tomorrow Feller will pitch against the great Carl Hubbell of the Giants at the Polo Grounds. What a thrill this must be for a youngster! Among the legends of life is that all
“boys want to be President of the United States. It is likely this is a manufactured legend, consciously promoted by doting parents, It may be, of course, I was not brought up in the proper company. : Anyway 1 can't recall of any of my boyhood companions who had any such aspirations. Perhaps they were an unduly modest lot. They had wagons but they were not ‘looking for stars, They wanted to be policemen, firemen or circus performers—preferably clowns. One of them reached this latter ‘estate. He became. a sports expert. There always came a time, as I look back on it, when all the boys I grew up with wanted to be ball players. Their aims were ma jestic- . ally high, too. They wanted to be big league ball players. In those days there were only two teams in .baseball—the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs. And strangely there was only one base-
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ball park—the Polo Grounds. Somehow—possibly because it was in New York—the Polo Grounds meant something extra special in youthful minds. : I don’t remember who was President in those days, but I remember very distinctly that ThreeFingered Brown was the star pitcher of the Cubs and Christy Mathewson the star pitcher of the Giants. I remember, too, that it was always an epic struggle on the mound when the two came together.
Made Impression
These classic duels left a definite imprint on the youthful mind. They overshadowed everything else in the national scheme. Particularly to the youngster who looked upon schools as silly things, who thought it was outrageous to go to bed at 9 o'clock, who snickered at old-fashioned parents who deemed milk and spinach an appetizing combination. At all times men like Brown and Matty received their full homage but there were some of the youthfuls who received them with reservations. These were the ones who had not mastered the miracle of the curve or the out in-curve. In short they could not pitch. They had to be satisfied with a position in the outfield or inthe infield. Catching was different. Johnny
Kling of the Cubs and Roger Bresnahan of the Giants were just about as well known to the youngsters in | those days as the two pitchers. Tt was a mark of distinction to be a kid catcher. To begin with your dad had to be pretty avell off —he had to be able to buy you a big mitt and a mask, and that cost money. Chest protectors? Only sissies wore them. J rode back from the race track th: other day with a successful business man. We got to talking about baseball. He has three sons. . . “When I was a boy out in . Missouri I would walk miles in my bare feet td see a baseball game,” ha said. “Today I don’t pay any agtention to the league races. And wrnat's more my boys aren't interested—never have been.”
Lost Its Luster
To his mind baseball was no longer the game it used to be. But as we talked it was not hard to put a finger on his twisted illusion. | Born a poor boy who had become reasonably wealthy; he sent his boys to college; they took up tennis, golf, football, bridge. They had a diversity of attractions. Somehow baseball was the least appealing. The father on the other hand had no such diversity. It was baseball or nothing. And I still can’t help thinking a youngster misses something if he doesn’t play a little baseball. There is nothing more startling to the youthful mind than, for instance, the freak behavior of a curve ball—the first curve ball he ever looked at. - The sensation of standing at the plate waiting for the customary straight one and then seeing the
ball break suddenly to the outside |
as if pulled by a string is an appalling thing. And not without its educational values, either. The first curve ball has given more than one - kid his first understandable insight into tine mystery of gravity and physics. And the youngster who has gone through life without catching a ball game has missed a lingering thrill that is not easy to describe. In the youthful mind all the bravery in the world is concentrated back © of the plate. To be able to hold on to the ball the first time a batter has swung and missed is a tremendous thing. . At least for the moment. You have faced a swinging bat and a fast-traveling ba'l and you have conquered both. You often wondered how the professionals were able to bring off this miracle. But there on a sunny afternoon with our dad sitting on the sideline you #64 it yourself, and you were still “unbelievably alive. From then fon you were a man. Yes, it must be nice to be in the shoes ‘of young Bob Feller today. His dream has come true. He's a Big Leaguer, the most talked-of player in the majors and tomorrow he unlimbers that priceless right arm of his in the historic Polo Grounds. : .. It’s cherry blossom time in ‘Washington now, but who wants to
be President? ,
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Shortridge Thinlies Win From Lafayette, 91-28
Shortridge High School's track team today had a record of two victories and one defeat after trouncing.the Jefferson of Lafayette thinlies, 91 to 28, in a dual meet held yesigtiay afternoon on the Butler Uni-
versity track. The Blue Devils scored four dams yesterday and placed first in every event with the exception of the pole vault. A new Shortridge record was set when Dick Rehm, Blue Devil shot putter, heaved the 12-pound ball 46 feet 1: inch. Last week Shortridge dropped a lopsided decision to Kokomo on the latter’s track, but the week before! opened its season with an easy victory over Southport Summary: 100-Yard DS —paym (8), Korty (L), Carter (L). Time, :10. Mile Run_sStrong (S). Mauch (L), Cortney (S). ‘Time, 4:45.3. 440-Yard Dash—Thienes (8), (S), Gribben (S). Time, :54. 120-Yard High Hurdles—D. Crockett. (8), J. Crockett (8), Gershuny (L). Time, :16.3. 200-Yard Low Hurdles—D. Crockett (S). Brown (L), J. Crockett (Sy. Time, :24.3. Shot Put—Rehm iS), Boone (L), B:eler ( Distance. 46 feet !2 inch. Eickenberg feet 13%
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Broad Jump — Carter (W). Schneider (S). Distance, 19 inches. Mile Relay—Shortridee (Ziegner. Evans. Schlake, Dawson, Beaning). Time. 1:36.6.
Half-Mile Relay—Shortridge Schneider. Schlake, Dawson. Beaning. Tim 1:36.6. Pole Vault—Brown (L), Pack 1S). Decker (Si, Height. 9 feet 8 inches. 880-Yard Dash—Cline (S), Rash (8S), Hicks (Ly. Time. 2:06.5. 220-Yard Dash—Dawson (Sy). Korty (L), Young (L} Time. :23.9 Hieh Jump - Carson J5 Schlake- (8) D. Crockett 1S), Hel 5 feet 4 inches.
Continental Triumph In 3-Way Meet
Monopolizing the first-place honors, Washington High School's track team gathered a total of 94 points to win a triangular meet yesterday afternoon on its home field from Greenfield and Broad Ripple. The Greenfield thinlies came in second with 12 points and the Broad
| Ripple trackmen trailed the field
with 11 points. The Continentals won every individual . title and made - clean sweeps in four events. Bob Kersey, Washington hurdler, set a new record of 16.6 seconds in the 120-yard hurdles. The old mark of 16.7 sec-
| onds was held by Sartor of V’ash-
ington. Summary:
100-Yard Dash—Menchoffer (W), Read . Spicer (W). Time, :10.5. Mile Run—Johnson (W), Sprow (W), Dulmody (BR). Time, 4:5 ‘6. 440-Yard Dash—Stewart (W), Griffith (G). Proyer (BR). Time, :55.4. 120-Yard High Hurdles — Kersey (W), Wilkenson (BR), Goode (W). Time, :16.7, Half-mile Run—Dolan (W), West (W), Boston (W). Time, 2:11.3. 220-Yard Dash— Menchoffer fy, Pottenger (W), Sipe (W). Time, :22.9 Shot Put — Read (W). Schaub (W), LI (G). Distance, 41 feet 11 (W), Irwin (W),
inches Cy Vaulb—Carter 10 feet 6 inches. (W), Carter (W),
Learkamp (W). Height, Height, 5 feet 5 inches.
igh Jump—Kersey Vy. iam BR). Broad Ju..p—Carte (W), Eickenberg cy 3 Prover (BR). Distance, 20 feet 2'2 inc 300s Yard Low Hurdles — Kersey (W), Rickenback (W). J. Bars (G). Time, :25.3. Mile Relay—Washington (Bruning, Reid, Dolan, Stewart). Time, 3:4 Half-mile Relay — Washo ton (Read, Tanger, Rickenpack, Menchoffer). Time,
Tech Trackmen Beat Kokomo
Times Special KOKOMO, Ind. April 17.—Victories in the two relays, final events on the program, enabled Technical High School to edge out a victory yesterday in a dual track meet here with Kokomo High School. The score was; 72 to 63. The E Siders won seven of the 13 events and scored a slam in the 440-yard dash. The Wildcats made a clean sweep in the pole vault. Denny. of Kokomo turned in the best performance of the day when he raced over the 120-yard high hurdles in 16 seconds despite a strong head wind. Summary:
100-Yard Dash—Hawkins (K), (K), Karnes (T). Time, :10.9.
Cameron Hawkins I'), Dalrymple ‘Vogler (T), Ritchey (K),
me, 4. Half- Mile Roar iLy T) Rayl (K). Time, 2:11.8. Mile Run—Monroe (T), Harvey (T). Time, 4:52.
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120-Yard High Hurdles — Denny (K), Flynn (K), Devine (T). Time, :16 200-Yard Low Hurdles — PE aistond (K), Denny (K), Reed (T). Time. :24.5. Pole Vault—Deschamps (K), Lees (K), Lucas (K). Height, 11 feet. High Jump—Flynn (K), Christensen (T), Deschamps (K). . Height. 5 feet 10 inches. Shot Put — Atkins (T). Crawford (T), Dowling (K). Distance, 43 feet 9 inches. Broad Jump — Frazier (K). Halstead (K), Atkins (T). Distance, 20 fect 4'j inches. 1500-Yard Relay—Tech (Yogles. Lyday. Dalrymple). Time. 3:06.4. 750-Yard Relay—Tech (Wilson, Meloy, Shafer). Time, 1:;21.2.
Sixth Season For Kautsky’s in Loop
The Richmond Kautskys, formerly known as the Kautsky A. C.s of Indianapolis, are to hold their first practice of the season at their new park in Richmond tomorrow. The team is starting its sixth season in the Indiana-Ohio League, the schedule opening on May 2. A game is desired for Sunday, April 25. Indianapolis and state | players desiring tryouts should re- | port at the Richmond park .tomor‘row at 1 p. m. For games, address { Joe Kelly, 1114 S. . ot St., Indian- | apolis. ;
3 EARLHAM TEAMS | IN CONTESTS TODAY
| Times Special RICHMOND, Ind. April 17— Three spring athletic teams from Earlham College were scheduled to go into action this afternoon. The tennis team was carded to meet the Indiana University squad in Bloomington; the baseball team was to play Ball State on the Muncie diamond, and the track team was to entertain Indiana Central, Central Normal and Taylor in a quadrangular meet here. PARK BLANKS MORTON The Park School baseball team today held a victory in its opening game of the season, shutting out the Morton Memorial nine of Knightstown, 10 to 0, yesterday on the Park diamond. Hackleman, Park hurler, yielded only three safeties in six innings and fanned 12 batters. Corriden led the Park nine at bat with three hits. Score: Knightstown ark
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Hackleman, Clauer and Cusack; Chilcott, Montgomery and Tutt
HAWKEYE GOLFERS WIN
By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind. April. 17.—The University of Iowa golf team trounced Purdue, 10% to 7%, in the opening matches of the season for the Boilermakers yesterday. The Hawkeyes piled up a 5-to-1 lead by winning both the morning foursomes but their margin was whittled down when Purdue came back to win the afternoon individual matches.
DECATUR BEAT CENTER GROVE Decatur Central defeated Center Grove, 11 to 3, in a high school basebali game played yesterday on the Decatur diamond. Shanklin, winning pitcher, struck out 11 men. Butler led the winners’ attack with three hits.
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Free-for-All Fight Climaxes Session at Coliseum Last Night.
The lead in the Roller Derby at the Fair Grounds Coliseum today was shared by two teams after the Ivy King-Wes Aronson pair forged to the top position in last night's session despite a free-for-all in which the two were leading figures. When the hectic session closed the Hazel Roop-Buddy Atkinson team were clinging to their top berth gained Thursday night. The Elizabeth Gades-Bill Roskopf pair, in second place after the first day, to-
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—=gave impetus to the fight which was carried on even after the contestants left the track. Bitter feeling was caused among the leading teams when Miss Runne tripped Miss King in one of the jam sessions. Fight Crops Out Later The free-for-all cropped out later when the boys took over the track. “Fuzzy” Pierz, Miss Vizena’s partner, tripped Aronson while rounding a turn. Aronson swung at. Pierz after getting up from the track and the battle was on. Officials separated the skaters only after four others had joined in the scrap. Everything was quiet until the boys left the track at the end of
the period and retired to the med-
ical room. Aronson and Pierz met again and another tussle resulted. The small enclosure started coming apart af the seams before the skaters were separated. The Aronson and King team went ahead to win the nightly Roller Derby award, despite the fighting. All the skaters today had completed 171 miles, "except the two solos—Eddie Dove and Al. Stoppleman—who have only 85 miles to their credit. The standings: Pos. = Team Laps Points Roop-Atkinson
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The Goodwill Industries softball team is to hold its initial practice of the year at 2 p. m. tomorrow. Players and tryouts are to report at the Goodwill Store. Eleven players have been named for the team and are to report along with new candidates at the practice tomorrow. They are Mahoney, Foust, Dible, Eversole, Smyser, Souders, Noone, Harnishfeger, McLinn, Stauck and Hook. Players unable to be present are to call DR2725 before 5 p. m. today.
SEMIPROS, Al AMATEURS The American Valve and Enameling Company team, which recently entered the Sunday Municipal
League, Is to practice at 1:30 p. m. | tomorrow at Mars Hill. Gail Smith !
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All former players and new can- |
didates for the Rector Grocery team of the Municipal League are to hold 4 practice session at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow on Brookside diamond No. {1. In case of bad weather the play[ors are to report at 1226 E. Michian St. or call CH-4960.
| The Baby Lincolns baseball team | |is to practice at 1 p. m. tomorrow .on the Belmont Park diamond. All
players and tryouts are to be present,
Twelve players have been named to be present at the Norton Beer baseball team’s practice session today and tomorrow. They are Ashcraft, Kresbach, Scott, . Yelton, Krachenfels, McCleery, P. Branham, Brocking, Erickson, Hager, Hodges, Beaseley and Jones. New candidates also are to report at the drills.
The Hoosier A. C. team desires to schedule games in May and June with Fortville, Bloomington and Elwood teams. Write Roy Gaults, 2255 Sheldon St., Indianapolis.
The Bowers Envelope baseball team was to practice at 1:30 p. m. today on Riverside diamond No. 3.
The Seven Up baseball team is to hold a workout at 1 p. m. tomorrow on Riverside diamond No. 9. The club’s probable lineup is Tracy, Collier, Hazelwood, Whitehouse, Thiese, Chapman, Perkenson, Zigler and Elam. - State teams| desiring games with the Seven Up Club on May 2 or May 23 are to write Bill Rider, 921 E. 19th St.
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LET'S GO FISHING
By G. H. D. HIS is chapter III of “Joe, the Flyfisherman.”
I hope he
brought a sandwich. He's been on the bank of that crick since
Tuesday.
Now that we actually are ready for the first cast we are going to reverse judgment on the niatter of fishing the pool from the
tail to the head.
Joe is a beginner and he needs all the help the
current, however slight, can give him. When he has learned to handle the line with his left hand and slowly raise the rod tip with the right, without getting it too high for the retrieve, he will be
ready to take it the hard way.
We are at the head of the pool.
Joe's first cast hits the strong
current near the far bank and the little spinner flickers down and across and begins to sink in the slow backwash of the near eddy. Let it sink a foot or two, then work it in by pulling line with the left hand and raising the rod tip. Before the rod is near the vertical, bring the lure to the top of the water and stars the backcast with a
clean, sharp backward flick. ® al»
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IGHT here is where Joe will ruin his new rod unless warned. He will try to drag the spinner from the water and make the
backcast all in one move, rather than two.
Even if he isn’t using
a spinner it is best to bring the fly or other lure to the surface be-
fore snapping it up and back.
Joe's first cast will tell him how much more line to pull from the reel in order to reach the far bank. After he has been flyfishing for a few years he will be able to drop the initial effort within a couple of inches of the end of a log 30 feet away, but now he will have to approach his goal by degrees.
Keep trying that far eddy and those rocks, Joe.
hit on the first cast and it may
A bass may
not. We have seen an oldtimer
stand in one spot for an hour, patiently working an eddy where he
knew bass lived, before he teased one into a strike,
Nine of 10 fish-
ermen try a spot once or twice, then splash on to the next pool.
Poor stuff.
No matter how quiet the approach, the chances are that the fish
know an enemy is near.
It may take five or 10 minutes for them
to forget that gravel-crunching and bank-shaking and get used to the tiny splashes of your fly. Not until then can you expect action.
Of course there are exceptions to all these rules.
We have
watched a kid with a cane pole splash out into a pool, slap a spinner down by a rock 15 feet away and at once be tangled up with a three
pounder we had been delicately flirting with for an hour.
us feel kind of silly.
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It made
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Oo" Joe’s 10th or 12th cast a bass followed the fly and swirled and missed as it was lifted for the back cast. Tough, but a common occurence. A fish will follow the lure clear to the top, then strike too late as it is lifted. Cast back in that same spot, Joe, and if you have no results in two or three tries, change flies and try again. There's a fish on the move, at least, and it will be worth while to keep after
him.
Likewise, if you see a swirl or splash as some bass chases minnows or rises at a bug near where you are fishing, try for that fish at once. He has blood in his eyes and often will close the deal on your first
offer.
Well, well; Joe has hooked that bass.
It didn’t follow the fly this
time; it smashed it right away. Now, after a couple of jumps it is boring for the tangle of branches at the center of the pool. Time to close. * Will Joe land his fish? See us on Monday.
Gulotta Is Timed at
116 m.p.h.in Tuneup
Tony Gulotta, Detroit race pilot, today loomed as a leading favorite in the 500-mile motor classic May
31 after turning his Burd Piston Ring Special around the Indianapolis Speedway yesterday at 116 miles per hour in a preliminary tuneup. He was doing 136 miles per hour on the straightaways. Gulotta also is a challenger for Ralph DePalma’s record of the most miles traveled on the Indianapolis Speedway during the races. He has a record of about 3800 miles now and if he lasts only half the distance
on May 31 he will surpass DePalma's mark.
HANOVER TRACKMEN OPEN 1937 SEASON
Times Special
HANOVER, Ind. - April 17.— Hanover College was to open its track schedule here today in a dual meet with the University of Cincinnati. Members of the Hanover team include Barnes, Carmichael. Garretson, Troy, Wilkinson, Lods, Griffin, Vance, Spandau, Hargraves,
Dendinger, D. Miller, R. Miller, Hine,
Fidger, Potter, Hannah, White, McKeand, Hartley and Griffin.
{ when the Phy-Eds rallied.
Lake Shore Favored in Water Meet
| Trailing Washington Club by
One Point, Chicago Team Seems Certain.
By United Press CHICAGO, April 17—The Lake Shore ‘Athletic Club of Chicago was favored to capture its second straight National A. A. U. women’s swimming title tonight in the last three events of the four-day meet. Trailing the Washington A. C. of Seattle by one point Take Shore appeared to be certain of points in all three remaining events—the 500yard free style, high board diving and 100-yard backstroke. Two new women’s champions were crowned last night but again left the record breaking to men. Three American men’s records were bettered in exhibitions—two by Adolph Kiefer and the other by the University of Michigan's 150yard medley relay team. Scores Surprise Virginia Hopkins, slim red-haired Floridian, scored a surprising victory in the 220-yard free style. The 15-year-old star was awarded a hair-lihe decision over Halina Tomski of Detroit, Claudia Eckert of Wilmette, Ill, and Doris Brennan of Providence, R. I. after a quarter hour conference of the finish judges. The Washington A. C. captured the 300-medley relay from the defending title-holders, the Women’s Swimming Association of New York and Lake Shore.
GREYHOUNDS DOWN 'N.C.A.G.U. NINE, 9-8
Indiana Central's baseball team edged out a 9-to-8 victory over the N. C. A. G. U. nine in a game played yesterday afternoon on the Heights diamond. Dysen Cox started on the mound for the Greyhounds but was relieved by Henry Potter in the last frame Baer, N. C. A. G. U. hurler, hit for four bases in the third inning with one on. Score:
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Postmaster - Adolph Seidensticker Sr. (above) is in charge of the - Indianapolis contingent of bowlers scheduled to roll in the annual National Postoffice tour= nament -.in Detroit tomorrow, Seidensticker is one of the game's veterans, having been active in local circles for the last 42 years.
Boxcar Jacobs Was U. of C. Athlete
Boxcar Jacobs, the 335-pound Californian who makes his initial appearance on the Armory mat next Tuesday night, 1s one of a small number of Jewish heavyweight wrestlers. He is 26 years old, six feet, four inches tall and is a former University of California athe lete. Jacobs meets Chief Saunooke, 326, Cherokee, N. C., who ‘has wrestled here twice and won each bout in rapid-fire manner. Jacobs is six feet, three inches tall. The. two “dreadnaughts” will clash in the headliner for two falls out of three. It is the “heaviest” match staged here in several years. Two other bouts will be staged with Walter Podolack, 225, Hungarian, making his first appearance. Juan Humberto, Spanish matman, also will be on the program.
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