Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1937 — Page 9

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FELLER'S ARM OKAY, BUT EXPERTS FEAR RETURN OF ARM

SORENESS AS YOUNG HURLER AWAITS CALL TO

Delivery Is Tricky, Johnson Says; Youth’s Bosses Not Worried.

By RICHARD McCANN NEA Service Sports Writer

(CLEVELAND, May 10. There is nothing serious about the soreness in Bob Feller's long right arm; according to himself and the Cleveland Indians’ management, but many of the experts around and about are shaking their heads and saying-that he'll have this lingering ache after each game he pitches. ‘Naturally, Feller’s long idleness,

-Soreness developed in his million-dollar wing while he was striking out 11 St. Louis Browns in six innings, in his first start of the 1937 campaign. Some say soreness will retnen, They consider his delivery jerky. |

Long and strong is the right arm of Bob Feller, young st rikeout artist of the Cleveland Indians. Left is a front view |- of the arm; right, is the rear view; center is a closeup of th e schoolboy phenomenon, serious but not perturbed over the

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THREE-EYE BUSY DES MOINES, May 10.—The Three-Eye League, composed of Clinton, Iowa, Bloomington, Ili, Moline, Ill, {Terre Haute, Ind, Peoria, Ill, and Decatur, Ill, wiil play a schedule this

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after he strained his arm in his iirst appearance of the 1937 season, worried Cleveland's fans, who are rather excitable citizens. They began fearing the worst after a week. ; But Business Manager C. C. Slapnicka, Manager Steve O'Neill, Trainer Lefty Weisman, and Master Feller himself have all taken turns in trying to assure the public that everything's going to be all right. Some experts, however, insist that this is just one of the many sore arms that Feller is going to have this season. They don’t like his delivery. . . . “He uses ‘an exceptional wrist and arm snap on the ball .and it strains the muscles,” says Umpire George Moriarty, for ane. “There’s nothing wrong with his delivery,” Manager O’Neill retorts, “He's just got a sore arm —every pitcher gets a sore. arm now and then.” One gentleman close to the Cleveland affairs blames the “sore arm on -the pitching mound in League Park here, It wasn't Feller's fault, at all.

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OU see,” says the gentleman, “the mound had just been built up after being leveled during the football season and the ground wasn’t firm. The dirt would give way when Feller put his foot down and he ‘was thrown off stride. It caused him to be a little wild and the extra effort of trying to overcome this handicap put too much of a strain on his arm.” Walter Johnson, who never had a sore arm in a score of years of truckhorse work, thinks that Feller's delivery is deceptive. . . . . « .» “He lets the ball go in such a manner and in such a position,” says the old Big Train, “that his is right in the background and the batter has a hard time picking out the ball against such a setting.” Al Schacht, the comedian coach who pitched five double- headers in the International League in 1915 before he picked up a permanently sore arm, sees nothing to be alarmed about over Feller's condition. “I had more sore arms in my day than an octopus,” says Mr. Schacht. “I had to stop playing cards because I always got a sore arm dealing. So I ought to know what I'm talking about when I talk about sore arms, “Feller’'s arm is sore in the forearm, . close to the elbow. That's nothing to worry about. “The only times you've got to worry is when you get sore up here”—and Mr. Schacht punched his finger into the point of his sheulder—*“or right in Rere’—and : he jabped his finger ifito the depression aroungl ih lh bone, which |is, even in his case, the elbow.

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SCHACHT agrees with the ajority of observers. He thinks that Feller's pitching motion is rather jerky... . “It’s not smooth and easy like Johnson's or Grove’s,” he says. Rogers Hornsby, who has seen his St. Louis Browns succumb to Master's Feller's swing music, doesn't find there's so much wrong with his rhythm, but he doesn’t think the young fellow is going to be a winning pitcher this vear. , . . ‘He'll have one bad inning a day—at least one—just like he did against us in that game when he hurt his arm. He's still too wild and a little flustered with men on bases. One base hit is liable to beat him on a half dozen occasions during a game. He won't win any 20 games this vear by a long shot. But he will in time to come.” Clark Griffith, who handled the great Johnson in his early days and led the American League pitchers himself once, although he never had anything more than his fingerprints on the ball, doesn’t think that the Cleveland management should worry over whether Feller has a change of pace. . . . “They should just concentrate on him improving his curve, his control, and the way he stands in the box.” Mr. C. C. Slapnicka smiles appreciatively at all these bits of advice and laughs at the fearsome predictions of the experts, and assures the Cleveland fans: “Don’t worry about Feller. He's all right. We're just not taking any chances. | So long as there is the trace of sereness in the arm we won't pitch ‘him?

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Times Special MINNEAPOLIS, May 10.—Frantic over the manner in which his ball club has slipped into a tailspin, Manager Killefer of the Indians was in communication with Mickey Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers this morning and was promised mound help at once. The Tigers still owe the Tribesters a pitcher in the Paul Trout deal of last winter and Cochrane was urged to complete the transaction immediately. It is said one of four hurlers will be turned over to the Hoosiers and the flingers designated are Vic Sorrell, George Gill and Pat MecLaughlin, right-handers, and Jack Wade, southpaw. The Indians have four more games to play before they head for home and it looks like the cellar, sure. Six straight defeats on the road have sent the Tribesters sprawling and they were seventh today, just barely ahead of the St. Paul Saints.

Resemble amateurs

The week-end saw the Redskins finish on the short end three times, and in the first half of yesterday's double-header with the Millers the Hoosiers looked like amateurs. The score was 16 to 1. Manager Killefer shook up his batting order in the second tilt and got better results. As a matter of fact the Indians came close to winning that one, but they had 15 runners left stranded and Min-| neapolis repeated, 5 to 4. These two defeats came after a 5-to-1

The third and final fracas with the Millers was on the books this | afternonn and Pilot Killefer was in a pickle for a pitcher. Anyway, the game had to be played .unless weather interfered.

At St. Paul Tomorrow >

The Nicollet Park visit will be fol- | lowed by a 3-day stand in St. Paul, beginning tomorrow, dians will leave for Thursday night for a

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day. riday is an off-day. A crowd of 8000 watched the Millers collect 21 hits in yesterday's first game and Dusty Cooke paced the attack with four. Vance Page and Lloyd Johnson were hammered hard, the former for 12 blows in four innings. Latshaw’s home run in the second stanza accounted for the Tribe’s one marker as Walter Tauscher pitched 7-hit ball for the home team. Tauscher also contributed a home run, double and single.

Tribe Rally Falls Short’

Minneapaclis jumped off to a lead of two runs in the second contest, added two more in the fourth and one in the fifth. Indianapolis tallied one marker in the second and in the eighth put a scare into the Millers by scoring three times. The Indians outhit the home pastimers in this game, 10 to seven. Sharp ahd Nelson toiled on the Tribe mound and Henry and Wagner ‘worked for Minneapolis.

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Runs batted in—Cooke, Reynolds, Kress, Thompson, Cohen, Eckhardt, Lewis. Twobase hits—Cooke. D. Taylor. Three-base hits—Reynolds. Eckhardt. Double plays— Kress to Cohen to H. Taylor; Dickey. Left on bases—Minneapolis, 3: In15. Hit by pitcher—By Henry Base on balls—Off Henry, 5; Sirieonig gy Henry, 3: Wagha arp, 3; Nelson, 2. Hits—Oft Henry, 10 in 2-3. innings: Wagner, none in 1 1-3 innings: Sharp. 5 in 4 innings; Nelson, 2 in 3 innings: Galliven, none in 1 inning. Winning pitcher—Henry. Losing pitcher—Sharp. Wild pitches—Henry. Nelson, Passed bhall—Dickey. Umpires— Thompson, Johnson and Grieve, Time—

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By United Press . NEW YORK, May 10.—Cincin- |! nati's “Rough-House” Reds who | got off to the most disappointing | start of: the major league season, have done an abrupt about face and today were only a game out of the first division.

The Reds climaxed a four-game winning streak yesterday by walloping the Philadelphia Phillies, 21-10, with a burst of power unequaled by any team this year. The Reds’ 24-hit attack, including three home runs by Alex Kampouris, was the feature of a banner line day that embraced these occurrences: Carl Hubbell's 20th straight National League win. Dizzy Dean's fifth consecutive win this year. Philadelphia and Cleveland tied for American League lead. World champion Yankees fifth piace.

Game Behind Cubs

Though still in the National cellar with five won and nine. lost, the Reds were only a game behind the Chicago Cubs who have seven victories against nine setbacks, and are in fourth place. Hubbell pitched the New York Giants to a 4-1 verdict over the Cubs for his fourth victory of the season which ran his two-year streak to 20, tying the record of Rube Marquard who ran 19 straight in 1912 and had a carryover from the 1911 season. It was- fitting that Hubbell's win should come over Bill Lee, last hurler to best him in 1936. In defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-1, Dean was the whole show. It gave him more wins for the year than any other major league hurler. And he contributed two singles to his own cause. In 46 innings, only two runs have been earned off him. The victory enabled St. Louis to keep within a game and a half of the leading Pittsburgh Pirates, who defeated the Boston Bees 6-3 behind Ed Brandt's eight-hit pitching.

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to hurry home and “cram” for his | final examination at the Van Meter, ! Ta., high school. The 18-year-old pitching sensation of the big leagues took along a { Cleveland Indians uniform, a ball and two baseball gloves—he thought he might find time to play catch with his father, William Andrew Feller, out behind the barn on the Feller farm, three miles from Van Meter. Bob obtained permission from C. C. Slapnicka, vice president of the Indians, to travel in a private plane to Des Moines so that he would ar-

rive in Van Meter in plenty of time | { to brush up on his history, psychol- | ogy, English and physics for exams !

on Thursday and Friday. He had been studying under a private tutor since the baseball season opene Feller will rejoin the Indiafis in Chicago May 16, and Iowa fans planned to make that “Bob Feller Day.” Special trains will run to Chicago if the Indians’ management will promise that Bob will be given the pitching assignment against the White Sox. “He'll pitch,” said Slapnicka. “What else can we do? We probably couldn't hold him out of .the box, anyway. He's so eager to work that he insisted on taking his uniform home with him. He said he wanted to ‘keep in shape. “We had to lecture him against giving that right arm any stiff workouts, other than pushing a pencil.” Bob recently pulled up with a

sore arm after putting too much “zip” on his fast one. It has been slow in healing, but the Indians’ physicians were confident he would | be ready for action when he returns.

Hoosier Women Set Bowling Mark

By United Press ROCHESTER, N. Y. May 10.— Crack Chicago, Detroit and Milwau- | kee keglers pocketed the greater

| part of the $16.000 Women's International Bowling Congress purse to- | day. | Windy City bowlers walked off with $598. Milwaukee women took $515 and Detroit keglers $510. With the scoring consistently higher than ever before in the 20 years of the congress, the highlight was provided by the Ft. Wayne, Ind, pair of Lorrana Frank and Armette Weber, who posted a 1230 mark to cet a new world’s record in the dou-

bles. . Heil Uniform Heat, Milwaukee, took top honors in the five-woman event: A. Gottstine, Buffalo, won the singles, and L. Stockdale, Detroit, was crowned all-events champion for 1937.

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