Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1937 — Page 25
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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JOR BELIEVES BALL PLAYERS ARE LEADING EASIL ER LIFE
F lashback Is ‘Enlightening On His Idea
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Diamond Clubs of of Old Relied | On Fewer Players and Less Money. |
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, April 22.—Mr. Clark Griffith of the Washingtons was talkihg about baseball and life in general , , . “If there's anything wrong with the country and baseball today it is that there is too
much pay and too little work.” Today Mr. Griffith is a capitalist. He owns the Washington ball club, But he came into his holdings via the hard way. He was a pitcher in .the old days—a very good pitcher whose salary was around $3000. He did a lot of working to get where he is. He hasn't had much chance to play. But if “too much pay and too little work” is what ails baseball Mr. Griffith and his fellow men must take the blame. | They pay the money and they govern the work. They think they can't get along with less than 25 players and the players think they jare donating their services if they play for less than $5000 a year. | These facts were presented to Mr. Griffith . . . “I guess youre right. I have a catcher, Cliff Bolton, who won't work for any amount of money. He just won’t report. It isn’t that he doesn’t like us—he won't go to any club. He- thinks catching is hard work. And haven't I been reading about Red Ruffling of the Yankees who demands an extra thousand dollars for pinch hitting?” Well, of course, there was a time when baseball was played by fewer men for less money. The Boston Nationals played through a schedule of 140 games in 1891 and won the National League championship with a roster of 15 players, including three pitchers—Clarkson, Nich- _ ols and Staley.
Repeated Next Year
They repeated the next year when the league embraced 12 clubs and the schedule called for 154 games. And they won a third consecutive pennant in 1893 when they played a schedule of 132 games. The club was managed by a gentleman named Selee—the Connie Mack of his time —and he never had more than four pitchers, and three of them did practically all the: work.The records show that Baltimore won the pennant in 1894 with a roster of 15 men that included five pitchers. They repeated in 1895 and 1896, and in none of the seasons did they carry more than 16 men, including catchers and pitchers. Boston came back with another championship team in 1897 and our
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1 imes Carriers Put on Own Roller Race
Last night was
Derby being held at the Fair Grounds Coliseum. field of 35 Times carriers raced around the banked The winners are shown ° above with Ivy King, girl member of the leading
oval in the competition.
“amateur night” at the Roller
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By G. H. D.
UST because the flood waiters dug out some new channels and left some new ponds when it receded, don’t be thinking you can net, pitchfork or otherwise illegally take any fish in these places, warns the Conservation Department. They are covered by the same regula-
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If you know of a stretch where backwaters are
drying and leaving game fish stranded, notify the department and
they will rush to the rescue. 2 ” A
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Your casting reel does more work than any other item in the box. Give it a drop or so of thin oil after each trip. On a full day's exercise it won't hurt to oil it at noon as well as evening. The fly reel should be large enough to hold a couple of hundred
feet of backing as well as the 30 feet of oiled line.
You may never .
need the backing to stop a fish but it keeps the expensive fly line from developing cracks and tight spirals. Change the fly line, end for end, at least twice or three times a
season. middle of the day.
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HEN you graduate to a dainty,
handle a quarier-ounce lure
If you are fishing dry it will help to change ends in the
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than 12-pound test—and this means that you must ‘dry it carefully
each evening. without.
It will last two seasons with care—less than one
We have talked to plenty of casters who feel that an eight or
10-pound test line is too light.
They can’t get used to the idea that
a big fish might snap it on the first rush. What they forget is that a leader that breaks at one or two pounds pull will land a five-pound trout when nursed through the
battle by an expert angler.
The biggest bass that swims in Indiana
can't break an eight-pound test line if you are careful. Your light casting rod will not stand a direct pull of more than
two or three pounds.
If you keep.
an arc in it the fish cannot exert
half enough pull to break an eight-pound line.
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Steam your bedraggled bass and trout flies over the spout of ihe teakettle to restore the bounce to the hackles.
o F the varnish is cracked on the
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get to the bamboo and do it no good whatsoever.
zn fly or casting rod the water will Touch up the
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team in the Derby. Left to right, those in the picture are David -Alamas, second place winner; Robert Tingle, the winner; Miss King, and Robert Delashmit, third place racer. The winners were awarded
the white sweaters they are wearing. ? ”
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Amateur Skaters Amuse Audience
By JOHN W. THOMPSON The professional skaters in the { Roller Derby were relegated to a | back seat last night as a flashy | field of 35 youngsters took the Fair | Grounds track to display skating { tricks which would have made { Sonja Henie blush — prettily, of course—with admiration. The youngsters, all carriers of The Times, skated in three heats to decide the fastest one one wheels— curly-headed Bob Tingle. Not so close ,behind him were David Alamas and Robert Dreahmit. The race was a riot from start to finish. The "kids made up for lack of polish with youthful courage and spun around the high-banked track shakily, but consistently. The crowd of 3000 which almost filled ‘the Coliseum, roared its approval as the boys attempted to gain enough speed to carry them up on the banked turns. More than one skater found that the altitude was too mugh and came tumbling down into the infield. Spills were numerous but, unlike the Derby pros, the kids didn't wait for anyone to pick them up. They were up and on the track again without hesitating even to adjust loose skates. In the regulation Derby. Wes Aronson and Ivy King went into the lead of the race last night, after Bobby Ferson and Esther Runne had been penalized to the point of dropping into 10th place. The standings follow:
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Rajah’s Hits Are Proof He Isn't Slowing
Hornshy Gets Three Hits as Browns Rout Chicago Sox By 15-10 Score.
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
. NEW YORK, April 22.—The bewhiskered Old Man with the scythe who's been chasing Rogers Hornsby for six years to mark “finis” to his major league baseball career had better put on a sprint if he expects to catch him this season. The St. Louis Browns opened their season yesterday and routed Chicago White Sox, 15-10, but that wasn't the important thing about the day’s only game. Hornsby; who'll be 41 years old next Tuesday, started his 23d year in the majors at second base for the Browns. The -same Hornsby they were saying was through as far back as 1932 when he started to slow up with the Cubs played the entire 2 hour and 29 minute game. The remarkable thing was that Hornsby not only played, but that he smacked out three hits, more than he did during the entire 1936 season, and handled three chances perfectly. One of Hornsby's hits was a home run. Not an ordinary homer —a, drive of more than 430 feet into the center-field stands at Sportsman’s Park. His other two hits were singles, one of which drove in a run. Hornsby has trained hard for this comeback. He worked like a slave at the Browns’ San Antonio, Tex, camp. Need 86 Hits
Hornsby needs 86 hits this season to crash into the circle of players who've made 3000 hits during their major league life. Ty Cobb tops them all with 4191. Others to make 3000 hits were Tris Speaker, Hans Wagner, Eddie Collins, Nap Lajoie and Cap Anson, the first to turn the trick. Hornsby’'s life-time major league average is .359. : The Browns crashed out 22 hits
yesterday, driving Vernon Kennedy,
a 21-game winner last year, to cover in the fifth inning after making 14 hits off him. They continued to pound Puncan Rigney, who re-
lieved him,
Oral Hildebrand gave up 17 hits,
| but kept the White Sox in check
until the eighth when they staged a 6-run stampede. The Browns’ leading hitiers were Harland Clift, who got “five for five,” Knickerbocker, who slugged
out four hits, and Rollie Hemsley, who also got four. Joe Vosmik was | the only Brown who went hitless.
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WARREN CENTRAL IS HOST FOR CONTEST!
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Dame full back), Hickman and Stivetts. - They won again in 1898 and once more they relied wholly on four pitchers. Coming up to date a little, we find that Ned Hanlon managed his Brooklyn Superbas into championships in 1899 and 1900 and he had no more than 16 men either season. His pitchers in the two years were McJames, McGinnity (the Van Mungo of that period), Kennedy, Hughes, Dunn and Kitson. Pittsburgh's first pennant came in 1901 when the National League had a schedule of 140 games. Fred Clarke was the manager—the old outfielder, remember him? Clarke's team repeated in 1902 and 1903 and each pennant was won by four pitchers—Leever, Tannehill, Phillipe and Chesbro, the same Chesbro who wild-pitched Mr. Griffith out of a pennant on a certain memorable occasion.
McGraw’s First in 1904
John MeGraw won his first pennant in 1904 and he did it with 16 players. His pitching staff including Mathewson, McGinnity, Wiltse, Ames and Dummy Taylor. It must be admitted in passing that Mr. McGraw had quite a pitching staff. If he had had any more it might have been difficult to find spots for them to work. When Frank Leroy Chance—you may remember him better as the Peerless Leader—led the Chicago Cubs to pennants in 1906, 1907 and 1908, to say nothing of two world series championships, he had .five pitchers. They were Brown, Ruelbach, Pfeister, Overall and Lundgren, and when the Cubs won again in 1910 the pitchers were Brown, Ruelbach, Overall, Pfeister, McIntyre, Cole and Richie. Getting back to McGraw, he led the Giants to pennants in 1911, 1912 and 1913 with a minimum of 17 players and at no time did he have more than six pitchers. And the following year, meaning 1914, when the Boston Braves. won, they depended almost entirely on three pitchers—Rudolph, James and Tyler. You wouldn't call any of the three a great pitcher, either. Something happened in baseball after that year. Either there was a sharp falling off in individual excellence or the managers decided there was a need for more man power. Anyway the ball clubs began enlarging their roster. Even so they rarely went above 18 players. .
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If there's any gadget calculated to arouse the unbridled possessive instincts of anglers more than these new anti-glare glasses, we can’t
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Grid ‘Round-up’ Opens Tomorrow
By United Press BLOOMINGTON, April 22.—Flying footballs will feature the spring football “round-up” which opens tomorrow afternoon at Indiana University. The instructional staff is headed by Ray Morrison, Vanderbilt mentor and Matty Bell, Southern Methodist coach, both of whom are rated as two of the outstanding exponents of the forward pass in modern offensive football. The two mentors and Jack Sisco of Northern Texas State Teachers College have been here this week working with the Indiana University varsity squad to prepare for the demonstrations. : Coach Bo McMillin expects more than 100 high school and college coaches from Indiana and the bordering area to attend the “round-up.” ®
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