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JUNIOR CLASSIC ON IN EAST

LAST *3 SERIES TAKEN BY A. A.

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THE 19th Little World Series is scheduled to open in

Newark this afternoon and the American Association’s Columbus Red Birds are there to battle Oscar Vitt’s Bears. . . . Both are “chain store” teams, Columbus under the Cardinals’ wing and the Bears under the Yankees’. ... It’s a four-best-games-in-seven affair and the first three tilts will be held in the International team’s park. . . . The Junior Series standing is 10 to 8 in the Association’s favor. . . . The A. A. has won the last three post-season

classics. Largest attendance at a single game was at Kansas

City in 1923 when the Blues and Baltimore Orioles battled in a Sunday game before 23,105 paying customers.

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HE records reveal two one-hit games, by Al Gould, Toronto, against Indianapolis in 1917, and by Jimmy Zinn, Kansas City, against Baltimore in 1923 on the day of the record crowd. . . . Indianapolis’ Little World Series record is nine games won, two lost and one tie. . . . The Tribe years were 1917 and ‘28. Commissioners in charge this year are Elmer Daily, Mid-Atlantic League president, chairman; Frank Shaughnessy, president of the International League, and George Trautman, president of the Association.

» » » » ” 8 EWARK'S club batting record for the season was .300 and CoN lumbus’ .302, but the Bears collected more extra base blows. . . Their home run output was 142 to 70 for the Birds; triples, 81 to 68; doubles, 286 to 281. . . . Columbus had the bulge on total hits, 1668 to 1572 and in stolen bases, 97 to 50. . . . In runs scored Newark tallied 882 to 858 for the A. A. champions, and in runs batted in, 882 to 780. Newark won its pennant by a margin of 25'2 games while Columpus was pushed to the last day of the A. A. season before cashing in. The Bears also had an easier time in their two playoff series, but Burt Shotton’s Red Birds are game and alert and we are stringing ith them . . . Barring postponements at Newark the first game at Soros will be Saturday night. : 2 3 ” ” n ”

—I\HIS is the fifth consecutive season Carl Hubbell has won more than T 20 games. . . . Best year in the string was 1936 with 26 and 6. . . . In 1933 it was 21 and 12; in 1934, 21 and 12; in 1935, 23 and 12; this year, 21 and 8. . . . Total, 112 victories and 50 defeats. . . . King Carl is right! . . . The fact that Brooklyn has lost 12 straight games doesn’t cool off other clubs who have designs on certain Dodger pitchers. . . . Mungo, Hamlin and Butcher look good to the teams in the National League's higher bracket and Manager Grimes expects to hear several offers at the winter hot stove sessions. ‘Manager Dykes of the White Sox carded a 77 on a Chicago golf course the other day. ... He also is some shakes as a bowler.

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Wo the Chicago Cubs are looking for some punch in their outfield: Demaree, .325; Galan, .251; Marty, .289; Cavarretta, .282; Stainback, 213. . . . And their injured first sacker Rip Collins was down to .279 when he went out of action for the second time this season. . . - Collins and Bill Jurges, shortstop, are reported through for the season, which ends Sunday. : . Hartnett, Herman and Demaree are the only Bruin regulars batting above .300.. .. A search for “long ball” hitters is under way.

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F it's an all-New York World Series (with a bow to the Cubs) the combined seating capacity will be 127.470. . . . Yankee Stadium seats 91.303, the Polo Grounds 56,437. . . . The ball players’ dream of a $7000 cut for each winner may be realized . . . Last year each Yankee got $6430, and the Giants split $4655 a share. . . . Lefty Gomez has . . The Yankee mound staff's total isl5 ... The American League record by one pitcher is 13, posted by Jack Coombs of the Athletics in "1910 before the days of the lively ball.

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JOE M'CARTHY says his Yankee team is stronger than last year, a statement he hopes will harass the National League. . . . Jack Winsett, outfielder, probably will be back in the American Association next year. . .. He has been a bust with the bat for Brooklyn. . . . Long Jack is earmarked for Louisville. . . . Bill Dietrich’s claim to fame this season rests with that no-hit game he pitched. . . . The White Sox hurler has had just a fair year. Chief Meyers, big league catcher for many years, is a boxing inspector for the California Athletic Commission. . . . He got his start with St. Paul. # an 8 2 7 » OSTON in the American League thinks it has landed a comer in B Joe Nonnekamp, Little Rock outfielder. . . . Southern Association scribes say the young fly chaser has everything. . . . Six International League clubs will train in Florida next spring. . .. The camps chosen are: Buffalo, Plant City; Newark, Sebring; Toronto, Avon Park; Montreal, Lake Wales; Rochester, Tarpon Springs; Syracuse, Ybor City. . .. Baltimore is to train at Thomasville, Ga., and Jersey City at Lafa-

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Baseball at a Glance

Detroit St. Louis

Gill and York: Trotter and Giuliani.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Pct. GB i ] : (First Game) 541 12% (10 Innings) 531 13 507 17% 412 31%

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Philadelphia at New York (2). Detroit at St. Louis. Cleveland at Chicago (2). Boston at Washington (2).

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NATIONAL LEAGUE New York at Philadelphia (2). Chicago at Cincinnati. St. Louis at Pittsburgh, Brooklyn at Boston: postponed; grounds; two games tomoITow.

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Pearson, Malone and Jorgens; Krakauskas and R. Ferrell.

"HOME ATTENDANCE RECORD SMASHED BY DETROIT TIGERS

ETROIT, Sept. 29.—Although the New York Yankees have made a. runaway of the 1937 American League race, Detroit. has smashed attendance records at Navin Field this season. More than 1,135400 persons have paid to see the Tigers this -year, eclipsing the previous high mark of about 1,100,000.

Habich Court League Planned

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ing to be held at the Gus Habich Co. 136 E. Washington St. tonignt at 7. Church and independent teams take notice.

State Cage Loop

Being , Organized Two Indianapolis teams will be among 10 members of a state baskethall league sponsored by the EmRoe Sporting Goods Co., this season. Teams representing the U. S. Tire Co. and Eli Lilly & Co., are local entrants in the league, which already includes members from Anderson, Shelbyville, Kokomo, Muncie, Marion and Crawfordsville. Two additional teams will be selected at a meeting to be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the Em-Roe store. Any state team within a radius of 100 miles of Indianapolis desiring information regarding the league is requested to get in touch with Carl C. Callahan at the EmRoe Sporting Goods Ce. :

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1937

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GIANTS MAY END PENNANT RACE TODAY

Outfield Stars Lost to Yanks Most of Time

McCarthy Hopes Henrich and Selkirk Will Be Ready for Series.

(Third of a Series)

By RICHARD M'CANN NEW YORK, Sept. 29. — The Yankees won the pennant the hard way this time. They beat Joe Jinx. Usually, you know, a team that leads the parade owes much of its success to the fact its star players escaped injuries. Take the Tigers of 34 and ’35... there was hardly an ingrown toenail on the squad during those two seasons and the boys, disgustingly healthy, won the pennant both years. But then came ’36 ... Greenberg broke his wrist, Cochrane broke his heart, and the team broke down. Now, the Yanks this year haven't

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length of time that the Tigers lost Greenberg and Cochrane, but they have been deprived from time to time of the valuable services of Bill Dickey, Tony Lazzeri, Monte Pearson, George Selkirk, and Tom Henrich. Dickey wasn’t out for long; Lazzeri’s absence was not felt so badly with Don Heffner, a better fielder, filling in; and Pearson’s loss was somewhat equalized by the unexpectedly brilliant return of Lefty Gomez. Subs Weak at Plate

But the loss of Selkirk and Henrich ... well, just look at the records: The outfield of Joe DiMaggio, Selkirk and Henrich has a composite batting average of .343 for the time it has played together this season. Whereas, the outfield of Powell, Hoag and DiMaggio has a mere 305 composite average. Of course, the Yankees, at that, have been fortunate to have such capable reserves as Hoag and Powell, but try as they will the steady Myril and sometimes sensational Jake can’t quite come up to Henrich and Selkirk, as you can see by the above statistics. Yankee medicine men have worked furiously over the two ailing outfielders, trying to get them ready for the series. But even if both are able to play they hardly can be themselves after rusting on the bench. However, Manager Joe McCarthy would rather have a bad Selkirk and Henrich than a good Powell and Hoag. Especially would he like to have Selkirk in the lineup. Joe can’t forget those eight hits, including two home runs, that George bashed out last fall against the Giants.

Selkirk Started Strong

Nor can he forget the way George started out this season. Until he dove after a dipping liner, skidded on his shoulder and ripped a muscle from its moorings, Selkirk looked like he might do more than fill Babe Ruth's right “No. 3” shirt. It looked as though he might fill the Babe's role of home run leader. When he was hurt July 1 in Philadelphia he had 17 homers to his credit and was giving the rest of the hoys a merry fight for league leadership. Selkirk, as well as Henrich, has made infrequent appearances in the Yank lineup in the last few weeks, testing out his shoulder and elbow (he hurt the elbow when he tried to throw with an unnatural sidearm motion after the shoulder injury), but he hasn’t had enough work to whip himself into good condition. However, don’t waste too many tears on Manager McCarthy's outfield problem. You know he still has Joe DiMaggio and a lot of managers would be willing to spot the other side two extra fielders and settle for DiMag. Joe has had a great year—lots of runs batted in, and homers, and other extra-base hits. He ‘slowed down his terrific pace in the last few weeks of the campaign and some of the boys blamed it on his movie work. The kleig glare hurt «his eyes, they say. . Which may be so. After all, bright lights may affect a guy who can hit, like Joe, in the dark.

O’Connor Pinned By Orville Brown

Orville Brown of Wichita, Kas. headlocked Irish Dan O’Connor of Boston into submission to win the feature event of last night’s bargain wrestling show at the Armory. The Wichita heavyweight won the first fall in 27 minutes with a headlock and used the same hold to take the third in eight minutes, after O'Connor had downed him in the second with a flying scissors. In other bouts Johannes Van Der Walt, South African hewcomer, detfeated Jim Wright, New York; Rube Wright, New York, won from Juan Humberto, Mexico City, and Jim Morris, Memphis, lost to Red Ryan, Philadelphia.

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McCarthy Owes His Success to Ability Birds Clash To Handle Star Players, Joe Says

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—One of Charles Dana Gibson's celebrated sketches was entitled “The Champion.” It was a free hand, loosely but expertly drawn pen and ink picture of a heavyweight fighter walking down the street trailed by a miscellaneous multitude of worshippers. : Gibson knew art. He also knew human “nature. The crowd always follows the champion. It is probably a good thing for the tradesman that the average human doesn’t possess the woolgrowing quality of sheep. Otherwise his merchandise, meanrer ing long underWilliams wear and such, would have a meager market. In other respects the average human and the sheep in the meadows have much in common, except perhaps for halitosis. Don’t be alarmed. This is no fuzzy attempt to muddle through a sociological or psychological problem. It concerns nothing more profound than the public acceptance of men who happen to be in charge of teams that win baseball championships. - Specifically, it concerns a squarejawed Irisher named Joe McCarthy. The man is distinctive. The sheep don’t follow him. Year after year he goes along winning championships or coming so close that a gentle caress of a whimsical breeze might well have been the determining factor, one way or another. And yet ... “What's McCarthy done? Say, with the kind of ball players he’s got he ought to be made to pay his way into the ball park. I could win the championship with guys like Gehrig, Dickey, Di Maggio and Gomez. And I'm a plumber. Say—"

A Paradox Explained

To my mind McCarthy's greatness lies in the very fact that he wins with great ball players. Paradoxically there are times when it is harder to win with great ball players than ordinary ball players. And when you look for the answer it isn’t hard to find: Great ball players are difficult to handle. They are individualists. They rebel at regimentation. Team play? They say: “I'm the star. I'll do it my way.” McCarthy was never a great ball player himself. Perhaps this was fortunate. It may have taught him the virtue of humility, the necessity

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proach to success, the wisdom of accenting team play over individualism. The Yankees are a team of stars without a star. In the headlines, yes, there are several stars. But not in the dugout. Not in the dressing room. And certainly not in the reflective recesses of McCarthy's mind. They are just a bunch of fellows out there doing the best they can—and whenever they cease to do the best they can, they won't be out there. Everybody on the club understands this, from the high-prided fellows to the obscure substitutes. There is no one man on the team who is bigger in the practical McCarthy scheme of things than another. Just. precisely how he has managed to create this atmosphere I wouldn’t know. All I know is that it exists, I can speak only of the business am familiar with—newspaper

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Gronauer Given Battle by Brown

First round matches in the Pleasant Run championship flight were completed over the week-end. Freddy Gronauer, the favorite, had a tough time putting away Mel Brown, 2 and 1. Other results in the upper bracket were: B. Reeve won over R. Grimes, 1 up; A. Wehrl over S. Tomlinson, 4 and 3; P. Rainey over W. Charles, 2 and 1; R. Shuman over R. Briggs, 3 and 1; E. Werner over L. Carter, 5 and 4; W. Smith over E. Davis, 6 and 5; J. Hale over R. Sparrow, 1 up. In the lower bracket, defending champion Clark Espie had little trouble in disposing of R. Skillman, 6 and 4. Other results were: H. Stricklin over J. Kissick, 3 and 2; E. 1 up; J. Reeve over L. Moore, 3 and 1; H. Erner over Dale Lentz, 3 and 2; F. C. Smith, defaulted to H. Horton; R. Von Spreckleson over W. Ransdall, 1 up; L. Boggs over O. Peters, 2 and 1. In the president’s flight, J. Draper defeated P. Allen, 1 up; H. Kohlman defaulted to B. Chandler; W. Cox took an extra hole match from G. Dale, 1 up, J. Delker won a 20-hole thriller from "E. Hollingsworth, 1 up; R. Bennett disposed of P. Ernst, 1 up; H. Baker defeated C. Krause, 1 up, and M. Sianangl polished off J. Kirkhoff, up.

CONTINENTALS DRILL FOR SHELBY GAME

Coach Henry Bogue sent his varsity squad through a lengthy and strenuous practice session at the West Side field yesterday. The linesmen spent much time on the charging machine while the backs were working out on the blocking dummy. The team is expected to show marked improvement over last week when they clash with Shelbyville at the latter’s field Friday night.

Duncan to Race In Dirt Track Finals

Les Duncan, Indianapolis dirt track race pilot, will have his last chance

‘Sunday to win the state champion-

ship. He is second in points after two series of title events, at Frankfort and Columbus, and will return to Frankfort, Oct. 3, to compete in the finals. : Chic Smith, Frankfort, Ky., speedster, is leading the standing and will be at the Frankfort Fair Grounds Sunday afternoon to battle it out with the contenders. It's a half-mile track. x W. R. Caine, Indianapolis, president of the Indiana Auto Race Association, announced that a field of at least 10 will have cars in the windup series.

where nothing matters but the story of the hour. A charlatan may do this. from time to time but it takes a man of deep understanding and feeling to keep on ‘doing it year after year. And McCarthy has been doing it too long to be called a soap box orator. He is typically Irish, high in suc-

| cess, low in failure, even when the

ups and downs are measured on a day by day basis. He exults with his players. He grieves with them. And, mature as he is, independent as he is to the vagaries of the front office mood, he means it. Just by being natural I think he has managed to communicate to his players the honesty of his emotions and I think their play reflects the concern of McCarthy. For substantiation I again point to the fact that the Yankees haven't lost an important series. in two

years. Not once in this stretch of time have they failed in a crisis. I have been in McCarthy's home after the Yanks dropped a ball game. It didn’t have to be an important game, either. At such moments he is not the most companionable man in the world. Presently he will say, “If you don’t mind I'm going to bed.” And then you will sit there and listen to Mrs. McCarthy ... a “He's always like that. Sometimes

'I wish he'd get out of baseball.

Every game to him is life or death —and when he loses it might as well be death. He certainly isn't any company around here. Bui then it was always like that. Even back in Louisville , . .”

Cummings and Fried Team Leads Derby

The Roller Derby today went into its second day of competition with the team of Jack. Cummings and Grace Fried holding a two-point

lead over Joe Nygray and Gene Vizena. The derby opened last night with several thousand persons crowded into the Fair Ground Coliseum. Standings of the five leaders: Miles Pts. Cummings and Fried 68 Nygra and Vizena Bos ash and Bogash

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Little ‘World Series Starts Today in Newark.

NEWARK, N. J, Sept. 29 (U. P.). —The International League champion Newark Bears and the Columbus Red Birds, American Association playoff winners, meet in Rupert Stadium today in the first game of the “Little World Series.” It will be the 19th meeting between champions of the two leagues. The American Association has scored 10 victories to eight for the Internationals. i : The Bears, New York Yankee farm club and one of the most powerful minor league outfits ever assembled, outclassed the rest of the International League by 25% games over the regular season, then won the Governors’ cup playoff in eight straight, dusting off Syracuse and Baltimore in succession. The Red Birds took four out of six from: Milwaukee, 1936 “little world champion,” in the American Association final playoffs, and: will be seeking their third victory against an International team. They trounced Toronto in 1934, and Buffalo in 1933. > They have lost only once—to Toronto in 1907, the year the two leagues inaugurated the annual series. Newark will be out for its second win, having triumphed four out of six over Minneapolis in 1932 in its only previous start against an Association champion.

HIGH SCHOOL SCORES

Marion, 12; Cathedral (Indianapolis), 0.

Columbus, 46; Seymour, 0.

PLAY DECIDING GAME

ATLANTA, Ga. Sept. 29 (U. P.). —The Little Rock Travelers and Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association play the deciding game today for the right to meet Ft. Worth, Texas League champions, for the Southern Class AA baseball title.

Can Take Flag By Two Wins Over Phillies

Need Only One Game, However, if Bruins Are Defeated by the Reds.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The New York Giants can put the clincher on the “Subway World Series” today either by winning a double-header from the Phillies or by taking one game from the Phillies while the Cubs are losing to the Reds. Even the weather is conspiring to get the Giants home in a hurry in the National League race. Rain and cold weather permanently cancelled the Giants’ doubleheader yesterday with the Boston Bees, who were tough enough to hold the Terrymen to a 10-10 even break over the season. The cancellation was equiva« lent to two Giant victories. The off-day was a great break for the Giants’ pitching staff which would have had to labor under the burden of four doubleheaders in four days. Cliff Melton, Giants’ Ichabod Crane, who has won 19 and lost 9, may get his last prep before the World Series today. Bryant Cubs’ Hero Hanging on by a slender thread the Cubs turned back Cincinnati, 2-0, behind Clay Bryant's two-hit performahce. In addition Bryant drove in one run with a triple and scored the other on Hack's single. The Cubs have five games left to play. The only way they can win the pennant is to win all their games and the Giants lost 6 out of their remaining seven. Pittsburgh took over third place by defeating the Cardinals, 6-2. Ed Brandt held the Cards to seven hits, winning his 11th game. Only one of the Pirates’ runs was earned, three runs counting on errors and two others on Bremer's passed ball. The Yankees need one more victory to reach the century mark after splitting a double-header with Washington. Red Ruffing allowed only two hits and won his 15th game as the Yanks took the opener, 9-0. He retired the first 20 men to face him and only three men got on base. Rookie Joe Krakauskas southe pawed the Senators to a 2-1 victory in the second game. Joe DiMaggio hit homer No. 45 with two on in the opener. Detroit strengthened its hold on second place by beating the St. Louis Browns, 6-1. George Gill allowed only five hits, winning his 11th game, Clevgland nosed out the White Sox, 7-6, in the tenth on Solters’ homer after Mike Kreevich’s error had permitted Cleveland to tie the score in the ninth. Bob Feller won his eighth game in a relief role, allowing one hit and striking out three men in one and two-thirds innings,

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