Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1937 — Page 18
By Eddie Ash RIZZO OVERLOOKED IN SPRING
NOW HE’S RED BIRDS’ BEST BET
ANY one of Columbus’ newspapermen who visited the South with the Red Birds this spring will affirm that the only similarity between the Johnny Rizzo of the Florida training camp and the one who is cavorting in left field for Burt Shotton, is the name. . . . Throughout the entire spring training season Rizzo hit just about the size of his hat. . . . Hit efforts with the bludgeon were laughable. . .. Then came the regular season and a surprise. . . .
It wasn’t the same Rizzo. The young Italian started out to set the league on fire, hitting hard and timely. ... He banged out safeties in 36 straight games before he was stopped in .a game in which he had only one official trip to the. plate, bases on
balls being issued on each of the other four appearances.
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HIS is Rizzo's seventh year in professional ball and he was shipped to the Red Birds by the parent St. Louis Cardinals. . . . Johnny played with Houston in the Texas League last season and batted .307. . .. Neither Rizzo nor anyone else is able to explain the reason why he is batting approximately 100 points higher in the American Association than he did in the Texas circuit. . . . The Italian has
plenty of time to make the big league grade. . .. He will not be 24 until July 30 and is a stalwart, standing 6 feet
and weighing 190 pounds. Rizzo bats and throws right-handed and if he continues his spectacular performances with Columbus for the remainder of the season, he'll have a chance to show what
he can do in the St. Louis training camp next spring. ” n o » ” »
ARL HUBBELL says anybody who can explain a slump can exC plain his trouble. . . . Declares his arm feels fine and that his health is good. ... One National League umpire thinks Carl has lost some of his speed, and Paul Waner, Pittsburgh clouter, says the screwball artist isn't as loose as in early season. . . Anyway, the baseball world is anxious to see Hubbell regain his stride. . .. And he’s due to face the Cubs, perhaps today. . . . There is no cure for a slump, and it will have to run its course, is the way Carl sizes up his own situation. Gus Mancuso, Hubbell's batterymate, agrees that the ace flipAll of Gus’ experiments to get Carl
per will have to cure himself... . . back into stride have failed. 2 ” ” s HARLIE DRESSEN’S Reds pulled away from the last-place moorngs yesterday and climbed “all the way” to sixth position. . . . The Browns and the Athletics are running a dead heat at the bottom of the American League. . . . Connie Mack had his boys setting the pace in the spring, but when the lads cracked the descent was swift and painful. . . . Midget Wolgast, who used to fight in Indianapolis out at Ft. Harrison when he was world’s fiyweight champion, is still filling fistic engagements in New York rings.
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RANK CHANCE, the peerless leader of 30 years ago, was to be honF ored at a Chance memorial game at Wrigley Field, Chicago, this afternoon when the Cubs met the Giants. . . . Before the game four members of Chance’s famous teams were to appear in uniform. Fete They are Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers; Mordecai Brown and Jimmy Archer. . .. Tinker and Evers were to present a bronze plaque of Chance to Charlie Grimm, pilot of the current National League leaders. .. . . Chance, Tinker and Evers comprised the most famous double play combination in baseball. Ly #8
Joe MEDWICK batted for an average of .529 in the recent CardinalBoston Bees series and his blows included four doubles and three homers. . . . The Bees were sent spinning on the downgrade during Joe's furious tirade... . Wally Berger of the Giants has a lame arm and it has put him in a batting slump. . .. Although they spent most of the first two months in the cellar, the Cincy Reds’ average home attendance so far is 7500... . Tommy Loughran, the veteran Philadelphia mauler, is feeling an urge to try a comeback. . . . Despite the advice
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30,000 customers, while the Giants in two games at Cincinnati drew only
PITCHERS HAVE FIELD DAY
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Pat Malone In Comeback For Yankees
| Holds Browns to Five Hits; Stratton Wins Another For - Chisox.
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NEW YORK, June 23.—Yankee Manager Joe McCarthy's pitching problem vanished into thin air today with pat (Blubber) Malone the apparent solution. Malone, in his first start of the year yesterday, turned in a five-hit game against the St. Louis Browns which the Yankees won, 8-5. It
200-pounder having won a relief role game May 25. Pitchers in both major leagues had a good day yesterday. Monte Stratton of the Chicago White Sox turned in the best twirling efifort by limiting the Philadelphia Athletics to three hits. The White Sox won, 2-0. It was Stratton's eighth win of the year. Two four-hit games were pitched in the National League. Rookie Luke Hamlin of the Brooklyn Dodgers stopped the St. Louis Cardinals, 2-1, and Cy Blanton of the Pirates shackled the Boston Bees, 4-1. Lee Grissom, who came up to the Cincinnati Reds from Nashville last
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New Giant
Wally Berger, above, obtained from the Boston Bees in exchange for Pitcher Frank Gabler and $35,000, is expected to strengthen the New York Giants’ outfield, “weakened by loss of Hank Leiber who was beaned in spring training by one of young Bob Feller’s speedballs. Wally is a brother of Fred Berger, Indianapolis Indians’
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Tribe Defense Wilts Against Saints
First division clubs in the American Association, including the rollicking Indians, finished on the short end in games last night and no changes occurred in the league standing. The Redskins will try it again to-
night against the last-place Saints
under the arcs at Perry Stadium and it will be a ladies’ night attraction. The Tribesters have won their last two ladies’ night tilts, Friday and Monday, and the customers hope the charm works in the third of the series with the Apostles. Lefty Bob Logan is due to pitch for the Killiferites and endeavor to lift them out of the epidemic of errors that handed last night's fracas to St. Paul, 10 to 3. Bdb has won seven games and lost two and holds three victories over the league-lead-ing Millers.
The Indians passed up an opportunity to gain a full game on both Toledo and Minneapolis when they committed éight errors, five in the sixth inning, when St. Paul scored seven runs on four hits. Pitcher Garland Braxton was the chief offender ‘with three miscues and was charged with the defeat. : Ray Phelps, visiting hurler, set-
tled down after the fourth and retired the Indians in order in the last five innings. He was shaky at the start and issued four walks and three runs on five hits in four rounds, but once settled, the big right-hander breezed along like a champion. He was given brilliant support, especially around the keytone sack where Shortstop Morrissey and Second Baseman Warner accepted a total of 18 chances without a fumble or bad throw. Warner also was the spearhead of the Saints’ attack with four
consecutive smgles, two runs scored and two batted in. The Apostles’ hit total was 12. After Braxton was knocked out in the sixth Nelson took his place and the Apostles chased him, too. Lloyd Johnson finished on the Tribe rubber and contributed to the din by making two errors on -one play. He fumbled Washington's roller and then threw wild at first. Two of the Indians’ three markers were batted in by Bob Kahle, rookie infielder, on a double. The other home marker was batted home by Taylor. The big fight broadcast kept the
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Ra AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
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AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. [New York. 34 19 .642|Cleveland . Detroit”... : Chicago... 30 25 .545/St. Louis . Boston.... 26 23 .531/Phildelphia 18 |
NATIONAL LEAGUE | W. L: Pct. WwW. L. Pct 34 20 .630!Brooklyn.. 24 32 22 .593iCincinnati. 21 33 23 .589|Phildelphia 21 30 24 .556/Boston.... 20 33
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Yesterday’s Results
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Minneapolis 020 110 002— 6 14 3 Louisville 012 004 00x— 7 12 2 Pean, Baker, Henry and Dickey: Eisenstat and Berres. re (Ten Innings) 000 020 000 0— 2 6 O 002 000 000 1— 3 8 3 Helf; Potter and
Milwaukee Columbus Winegarner Crouch.
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100 020 240— 9 14 1 100 010 000— 2 11 4
Stihe and Hartje; Johnson and Linton.
NATIONAL LEAGUE 010 010 000—2 8 1 000 001 000—1 4 1 Hamlin and Phelps; Haines, Harrell and Ogrodowski.
New York 000 000 Q00—0 7 1 Chicago 211 100 00x—5 9 ©
Gumbert, Baker and Mancuso; Lee 2nd Hartnett.
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St. Paul 001 107 010—10 Indianapolis 100 200 000— 3
Runs batted in—Taylor, Warner, 2; Pasek, 2; Kahle, 2; Coscarart, 2; orrissey, Steinbacher, Washington. Two-base hits—Taylor, Pasek, 2; Kahle. Three-base hit—Steinbacher. Stolen base — Mettler. Sacrifice—Phelps. Double plays—Coscarart to Warner to Todt: Warner to Morrissev to Todt; Kahle to Sherlock to Archie. Left on bases—Indianapolis, 4; St. Paul, 10. Bases on balls—Off Phelps, 4; Nelson, 1; Johnson, 2. Struck out—By Braxton, 2: Johnson, 2; Phelps. 4. Hits—Off Braxton, 7 in 5 innings (pitched to four batters in sixth): Nelson, 2 in 53; Johnson, 3 in 33. Wild pitch — Johnson. Losing pitcher — Braxton. Umpires—Tobin awd Johnson.
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000 010 000—1 4 000 021 01x—4 17
Turner and Lopez; Blanton and Todd. Philadelphia 000 000 000—0 6 © Cincinnati 005 100 00x—6 9 1
Passeau. Kelleher and Atwood; Grissom and Baker.
AMERICAN LEAGUE 100 020 200—5 5 2 240 020 00x—8 10 2 Knott, Walkup, Thomas and Hemsley; Malone and Dickey.
Boston
St. Louis
000 101 000—2 6 1 000 000 000—0 3 1
Ross, Smith and
Chicago .. Philadelphia Stratton and Shea; Conroy.
Cleveland 000 101 000— 2
9:3 Washington 300 311 30x—11 17 © Whitehill, Andrews, Feller, Wyatt and Pytlak; Fischer, Cohen and R. Ferrell.
Detroit at Boston; postponed, rain.
Games Today | AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St. Paul at Indianapolis (night). Minneapolis at Louisville (night). Kansas City at Toledo (2 A games). Milwaukee at Columbus. (night). AMERICAN LEAGUE St. Louis at New York. f Detroit at Foston. [ Chicago at Philadelphia. | Cleveland at Washington. NATIONAL LEAGUE,
New York at Chicago. | Brooklyn at St. Louis. | Boston at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
Major Leaders
Batting
Player and Club AB R Medwick, Cards .. 206 81 Gehrig, Yankees.. 202 44 Walker, Tigers ... 232 43 Hassett, Dodgers... 137 20 Vaughan, Pirates. 216 34
Home Runs
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Fct. 417 391 371 .365 .361
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HENRY HOOK LOSES
NEW YORK—Nat Lifkin, 124, New York, outpointed Henry Hook, 123, Indianapolis (8); Felix Garcia, 136, Puerto Rico, outpointed Joey Straiges, 135, Washington (6).
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