Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1937 — Page 16

By Eddie Ash

How Times Change! The Cubs’ losing share of the 1906 World Series was $439.50 each. Losers

FORCED CHANGES ‘MADE’ GIANTS

ALL SHUTOUTS IN 1905 SERIES

ASSISTIN G the Giants to the National League pennant and participation in the World Series this year was that old blessing in disguise. . . . This time the disguise consisted of injuries and slumps which made the Giants a stronger team and accounted for the blessing. . . . Lou Chiozza was obtained from the Phillies to play third base, one of the weak spots on the infield. . . . But Chiozza wasn’t

any better at the hot corner than Travis Jackson had been in 1936. . . . In desperation Manager Terry called Mel Ott . in from the outfield, his position 11 years, and placed

him at third. : Ott clicked on the bag and his batting, which had been a disappointment, suddenly improved to bétome a telling factor in the race. . . . The surge of the Giants really started with the transfer of Ott to the infield. 2 ” ® 2. 2. 8 US MANCUSO was marked down as the only real backstop on the Giants’ roster when the 1937 campaign opened and when he was disabled supporters of the team were inclined to surrender. . . . They decided the Giants couldn’t get along without the catcher who had been so largely instrumental in the winning of the 1936 flag. . . . Harry Danning, Mancuso’s stooge, who was forced into regular harness, soon silenced the defeatists. Harry the Horse not only did about as well as Mancuso behind the mask and at bat, but his handling of pitchers was so brilliant that the entire mound staff perked

up in confidence and improved all along the line. 8 8 8 # 8 8 OU CHIOZZA, warming the bench for weeks, answered a Terry summons to take outfield practice and shortly the bench warmer was shoved into a spot in the pasture. . . And Lou showed himself to be adept in the outfield where his speed and throwing cut down base hits and base runners. ... He is one of the fastest runners in baseball and he hit well enough to support Terry's judgment in using him as a fly chaser. Moreover, the Giants’ boss refused to give up on Johnny McCarthy at first base when the lefthander wasn’t hitting, and the Chicago Irishman found his batting eye when most needed—during the torrid race down the stretch. a 8 @® # #

ALF of the baseball world believes the Giants are destined to carry the breaks with them against the Yankees in the title ‘play opening tomorrow, the other half of the horsehide hemisphere thinks the opposite—that there is a limit to the law of averages and that the Giants have drained the fountain of fortune. . . . But you never can tell about that. ... The Yankees are the favorites and are the defending champions. . . . They had ‘an easier path to the goal, but proved their superiority time and time again by beating off challengers in important series. This writer is going to string with the Yankee power while’ admitting the Giants are a smart ball club which ‘hustles when the situation is tough. ... The encore of the 1936 show promises to produce lively entertainment in ‘spite of the absence of intercity and intersectional hysteria. 8 8 » 8

Vo may fans like to recall the World Series of 1905 when the Giants and Athletics clashed in a bitter struggle. ... In 1904 the National League declined to meet the American League in a post-season classic and arguments over the strength of the two circuits reached a new high. ... Not one fan who attended those games would have bet one dollar to a carload that the losing team would fail to score in any of the championship games, but such was the case. It was in this series that Christy Mathewson of the Giants pitched three shutouts, or 27 scoreless innings. ... Joe McGinnity also. hurled a shutout for the Giants, who won, four games to one.... And Chief Bender won the lone game for the Athletics, 3-0.

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ATHEWSON worked in the opener of the 1905 series at Philadelphia Oct. 9 and won, 3-0, allowing four hits. ...In New York on Oct. 10 Bender blanked the Giants, 3-0, allowing four .hits. ...The teams were idle Oct. 11....On Oct. 12.in Philadelphia Mathewson won, 9-0, holding the Athletics to four hits. . . . On Oct. 13 in New York McGinnity won, 1-0, allowing five hits, and on Oct. 14 in New York Mathewson turned in a 2-0 victory, allowing six hits,

clinching the series. Losing pitchers were McGinnity, defeated by Bender in the sec-

ond game; Eddie Plank, two; Andy Coakley and Bender, who opposed Matty in the finale. ... The thrill of the home run was absent in that classic and the longest hit was a double.

Jess Pritchett Rolls 677 To Lead Local Bowlers

Jess Pritchett tops the list in local league bowling competition today by virtue of a 677 rolled in the Optimist loop at his alleys. His games were 235, 246 and 196. The X-Rays, Mounties and Tickees won three games and the Highlanders registered a double victory. Bill ®€enninger turned in a 625 Menges hitting for 612. The White

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Sox, Cubs and Athletics made clean sweeps and the Giants, Cardinals, Dodgers and Senators captured the

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Pritchett’s, Knight showed the way with 601. Southern Pacific Lines was a triple winner and double triumphs were hung up by Chicago & Northwestern, Louisville & Nashville, Indianapolis Union Railway, Pennsylvania Railroad and Atkins Saw Line. The best count in the Reformed Church League was a 591 by Arnold. Second Reformed No. 2, Pleasant Run No. 2, Immanuel No. 2, Second Reformed No. 3, and First Reformed all triumphed twice.

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each came through with 552 in the State Highway loop. The Yanks and Senators won three games and the Giants gained two victories. The Fraternal League at the Illinois Alleys was headed by Green's 631, Fields getting 629 and Smith 604. Seven Up, Cassidy Oilers and Palm Garden scored shutout triumphs and Fisk Tires, Hank's Tavern, and C. V. Beer won the odd game. A Sloan Sr. led in the U. A. W. A. circuit at the same plant with 550. Ralph Roeder set the pace for the Kiwanis League at the Indiana Alleys, turning in a 573.

McGregor Rolls 627

At the Fountain Square Alleys, McGregor led the Indianapolis Church League with 627 while L. Brandt had 620. F. Kennedy's 571 headed the Holy Cross circuit. Maley swept its series and Mull’s Place, A. & J. and Freund Drugs registered a pair of triumphs. : At the Hotel Antlers, Weisman was best in the Lions Club loop with 608 and F. Dennerline’s 589 paced the Indianapolis Automotive League. In the Court House circuit at the Pennsylvania Alleys, Carson led with 593. - Township Assessors won three games and Prosecutors, Burford As-

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Clerks -and HOLC finished ahead twice. - Adams: hit for 541 to top the Kroger Grocery League and Louise Eppen’s 505 featured in the Stewart Radio Girls’ loop, both in action at the Pennsylvania plant. EF A. E. Smith came through with 584 for first honors in the St. Joan of Arc League at the Uptown Alleys. Hatfield Electric registered a triple victory and Ralston Purol Station, Speaks & Finn, and Fitzgerald Coal gained two-out-of-three verdicts. In the Uptown Ladies’ League, E. Schneider led with 485. : C. Robinson headed the South Side Merchants circuit at the Central Alleys with 579. Steele & Smith made a clean sweep and Stalhut Jewelers, Herther Coal and England's Market gained double’ triumphs. The Omar Baking League also was in action at the Central drives and Mills was high with 517.

Five graduate pin boys form the Otto Ray Boosters team rolling in the Pennsylvania Recreation League Tuesday nights. The lads, comprising what is believed to be the youngest team in local men’s competition, includes Lou Ostheimer, 15, Ed. Donlen, 17, Joe Vollmer, 17, and William Hurrle, 17. The youthful kegelers, who boast a team average of approximately 185, learned the maple-crashing game while pin boys at the St. Philip Alleys.

The Winter League will begin its season at the Parkway Alleys tomorrow night. H. Koller has requested that all members be on hand at 6 o'clock.

Combination poster-calendars announcing the 1938 A. B. C. tournament are being « distributed. The event will be run off on 40 alleys, all on the same floor, at the Chicago Coliseum March 3 to April 11. E. H. Baumgarten, American Bowling Congress - secretary, has announced that entry blanks for the tourney will be sent out Dec. 1. °

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Stretch Drive Record Tops That of Rivals

Injuries and Other Breaks Turned Out All to Good, Kirksey Reminds.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 5—The dope says the Yankees but Lady Luck, lurking in the background, whispers, “This is the Giants’ year.” Lady Luck picked the Giants early in August and rode down the National League stretch with the Terrymen while they overcame the Cubs’ seven-game lead. Misfortunes, accidents and injuries all turned out to be blessings in disguise for the Giants. Counting Lady Yuck as the 10th player on the side of the National League champions, this observer selects the Giants to win the world’s baseball championship in a sevengame series. It will be a bitterlyfought series in which the Giants’ southpaw pitching and stout defense will smother the Yanks’ vaunted

power, ta Luck Takes a Hand

The Giants have a better ball club than they had last year when the Yanks triumphed four games to two. And don’t forget how close the

Giants came to carrying that series into the seventh game. . - Luck played a big part in forming the Giants’ winning combination. Hank Leiber was: beaned by. Bob Feller in the spring. which led indirectly to the acquisition of Wally Berger who won several vital games with homers. Lou Chiozza’s flop at third brought Mel Ott to the. infield to play the hot corner and stationed Jimmy Ripple in right field.

added punch to. the attack. Sam Leslie’s injured wrist gave Johnny McCarthy his second chance and he made an amazing comeback. Gus Mancuso’s broken finger brought about the unveiling of Harry Danning as a star catcher,

Recent Record Better

months. Over the past month the Giants have outplayed the Yanks by a wide margin, winning 24 games and losing 10 for a mark of .708 to the Yanks’ 22 won and 15 lost for an average of .595. : s Luck was on the side of the Yanks last year. In looking back over the 1936 series the big break came in the eighth inning of the third game when Crosetti’s roller bounced off Fitzsimmons’ glove and rolled dead behind the box while the winning run raced over the plate. Last year the Giants’ infield was feeble. Bill Terry had to have his iegs massaged for hours and heavily bandaged to permit him to play first base. Travis Jackson finished out his career at third on uncertain underpinnings. Terry batted .420 and his crippled condition prevented him from reaching third at a vital moment in the sixth game. Jackson batted .190 and made: three erTOS. : Comparisons Misleading

Comparison of the two. clubs on their season's averages is misleading. The Giants didn't find their winning combination until August: Batting averages that dropped in early season have blossomed during the Giants’ August-September drive. Danning, batting only .197 when he was called off the ‘bench, ‘boosted his mark to 2838 playing. regularly. The Yanks haven't the all-round power they had .a year ago. Crosetti, Rolfe, Powell and Lazzeri all have slumped off their 1935 pace. The Yanks’ big three are DiMaggio, Gehrig and Dickey. Theyll carry the brunt of the Yanks’ attack. The Giants stopped Dickey last year, holding him to three hits and a batting mark of .120. If they can handcuff Dickey again (and Mancuso hints he found Bill's blind spot last year), the Giants will be well on their way to the world’s title. Yanks Have Slipped

A big factor in the Giants’ favor appears to be the fact that their two aces, Hubbell and Melton are southpaws. The Yanks are not suckers for southpaws but they haven’t thrived on smart lefthanded pitching this year. Precedent is against a rookie like Melton coming through in his first World Series but this lanky freshman from North Carolina has passed his test under fire of the National League race. Terry tossed him in against the Cubs in a vital game, and he beat them, 6-0. Summing up, the Yanks aren't as good as last year, having lost some of their batting power, while the Giants have a better balanced attack and a youhger team than in 1936. :

Giants, whispering in their ears: “You can't lose.”

BUCKY HARRIS STAYS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Stanley (Bucky) Harris was signed up today for another year as manager of Washington’s American League baseball club, the Senators. Harris signed with Owner Clark Griffith last night. Salary terms were not announced. '

That move made. the infield and,

So it has been during the last two.

On the basis of batting and fielding the infield of the New York Giants, National League pennant winners, is given the edge over the New York Yankee infielders. The Giants’ infield, left to right: Sam

Fairly heavy hitters are these five outfielders of the New York Giants, but they must concede much to the heavier hitting New York Yankee outfielders, when the New York nines meet in the World

Times-Acme Photos. Leslie, first base; Johnny McCarthy, first base; Burgess Whitehead, second base; Dick Bartell, shortstop, and Mel Ott, third base. ;

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mined expressions, you can see that theyll be in there swinging. Left to right are Lou Chiozza, Jimmy Ripple, Joe Moore, Wallie Berger

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. Series. There's nary a DiMaggio in this group, but from their deter-

Injury Wave Plagues Tech

Three Regulars Out and Schedule Is Tough.

Coach Robert L. Ball at Technical High School was “moanin’ low” today, with three of his regulars on

the sidelines, and consecutive games with Muncie, Manual and Cathedral coming up.

Harry Adkins, veteran right half, |

and Wayne Goodman, first-string end, sustained leg- injuries during the Jefferson of Lafayette .deluge Friday night, John Johnson, startcenter, received two cracked ribs and is expected to be out nearly two weeks. Quarterback Tommy Wilson is bothered by an infected elbow and will not be in top condition for some time. About the only bright spot in Coach Ball's gloomy outlook was the playing of Don Yelton at the pivot position in Johnson's absence during scrimmage yesterday. John Higginbotham has been pro-

moted to Adkins’ position, while

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WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BAD ALUMNI— NOT WALLY MARKS!

HAUTE, Ind. Oct. 5. A —To show that he is not afraid of the “big bad wolf” of the coaching world, the alumni, “Coach Wally Marks of Indiana State Teachers College each ‘Monday writes a letter to all alumni lettermen giving them thé “lowdown” on what happened. the Saturday before, --good or bad. ; : ¥ Coaches Harry Stuhldreher ‘rand G. E. Gauthier at Univer- . sity of Wisconsin. and Ohio Wesleyan tried the plan last year and liked its results.

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Earl West and Frank Mitchell are Bghung over Goodman's job at left end.

BASKETBALL SESSION A basketball meeting is to be held at the Sportsman's Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania St., tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. Girls’ teams, industrial and

Sunday School fives are requested:

to have managers attend or call McDaniel at Lincoln 4224.

and Hank Leiber.

Newark Hopes Ke pt Alive

21-Year-Old Hurler Beats Birds on Three Hits.

COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 5-(U. P)— Atley Donald, young fire ball ace of the Newark Bears, kept the International League representatives’

Series” here last night by hurling a 1-t0-0 trium Red Birds. The victory - was Newark’s second of the series. Columbus has won three games. Donald, winner of 19 out of 21 decisions during the regular campaign, yielded only three hits. The Red Birds were able to get only one runner to second base, that in the

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Yanks’ Feud Crew Ready For Melton

Rookie’s Opinion of Series Rivals May Lead to.. Heavy Riding.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (U.P)—A rising feud between the World Series rivals commanded the spotlight today as Manager Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees announced Lefty Gomez as the Pitcher who'll meet Carl Hubbell, Giants’ screwball master, in tomorrow's opening game at. Yankee Stadium. Principal character in the bude ding feud is CLff Melton, stringbean southpaw with the big ears and the rookie hero of the National League champions. It all started three years ago when Melton- was up for a trial with the Yanks. Lately he aired his opinion of the Yanks in an interview, saying they.had more brawn than brains. He was quoted as having said that. the Yankee regulars never spoke to him and that Bill Dickey cost him a major league job then by calling for the wrong pitch in an exhibition e. : Now the Yanks are on the -warpath and threaten to make Melton the target of some plain and fancy dugout jockeying. Even Manager McCarthy has taken exception to Melton’s quotations. “How does that guy get that way?” stormed McCarthy. “He had every chance to make good, but just wasn’t ready.”

Caustic Crew Gets Ready

The feud is likely to break: out in earnest Thursday when Melton faces the Yanks in the second game. The Yanks have a crew of caustic jockeys who can make even a vete eran lose his poise. With Gomez certain to oppose Hubbell, the greatest opening gay Southpaw duel in more than a ecade of world championshi a; is in prospect. oh Bplay Betting men quote the American League champs 7-5 favorites to take the first game. Gomez has never lost a World Series game, but He holds a decision over the Cubs in 1932 and beat the Giants twice last year In big score games. Hubbell has pitched ‘and won two World Series openers. Playing the percentages, Manager Bill Terry, nearly recovered from his recent attack of flu, will juggle his lineup against southpaws. When Gomez pitches, Hank Leiber, a righthanded batter, will play center field, and bat in the clean-up position. When right handers pitch, Lou Chiozza, a left-handed batter, will play center and hit sixth.

McCarthy on First

First Baseman Johnny McCarthy, who twisted his ankle in infield drill Sunday, will play first base for the Giants. Although his ankle is still Javed it doesn’t appear to bother Five Yanks are nursing colds, but only one of them, Outfielder Jake Powell, hero of last year’s series with a batting average of .455, is likely to be unavailable. , The Yanks oi Srsaument for colds are Lou rge Selkirk, Myril and Pat Malone. Hoag Heavy demands for tickets indie cate that the World Series record of 66,669 set in the fourth game last year may be endangered.

AMATEUR BOXERS SLATED FOR ACTION

If weather permits, the regu!..g - weekly amateur boxing show w } be held at Ww Park be

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