Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1938 — Page 27

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iL "ER HIN S PURCHASE OF SEVERAL PLAYERS FOR TRIBE New Talent \McKechnie Banks on Hurlers 10 . Pull Reds From Cellar)

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Tribe Faces League Oppon2nt Today In Boston Bees.

Times Special BARTOW, Fla., March 25.—Bos-

: ton’s Bees furnish the opposition

here today for Ray Schalk’s Indi-:

anapolis Indians, vho have a rec- |

ord of two victories and one loss in Grapefruit League competition 80 far. Coincident with the appearance of the: Bees, firs: major league rivals to meet the Tribe, Leo T. Miller, general managers is expected to ounce a cut in the Redskin ranks. Miller revealed the impending cut yesterday, adding that hé expects several new arrivals in the Indian ¢amp by Sunday or Monday. This was taken to mean that

Miller's recent tour of other train-

ing camps in his efforts to bolster the Indianapolis forces, which are especially weak in the infield, has been successful. An indication of the innerworks’

° weakness was given yesterday when

Outfielder Vic Metilzr played shortstop as the regulars trounced the yannigans, 7-0. Mettler, a Hamsmond, Ind. product, performed -ereditably. Doug Wheeler beled a triple with ¢he bases crammed in the first inning and then galloped home on an error at third. : Wheeler played first base for the regulars while his rival for the initial sack duties, Bob Latshaw, turned in some excellent fielding for

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Times Speciai LAFAYETTE, en 25. — Purdue’s baseball I pilermakers, 18 strong, were sched: 2d to leave here this afternoon on 3 Southern training trip during whih they will play double-headers against Southern Methodist, Centenz ry and Louisiana Tech, | . Coach Dutch’ Fehring announced that the followinc men will make he trip: Arnold Zredewater, Stuart [eiss, Carroll Mangas, Murray Shut and Homer Warner, pitchers; Howard McAfee anc Elwood Yeager, catchers; and Johnny Vernon, outfielders, and ,Joe Doan, Wayne Hearne, Jim ” Kurtz, Sam Lybecult, Felix Mackiewicz, Obert Moan, Jimmy Thompson and Joe Waling, infielders. At Dallas, Tex.. the Boilermakers will play Southern Methodist MonThey will be at Centenary Wednesday and Thursday and will wind up their jaunt against Louisiana Tech Friday and Saturday. Accompanying the Boilermakers will be Carmen Hill, former big who will help Fehring coach {he batterymen.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 25 C0 (U. P.) —In workouts of the Indiana

University baseball team this week, Frank Filchock, who threw forward passes all over the gridiron last fall, has been selecied Tentatively for the “hot corner’—third bas Ernie Andres. who held it last

.. year, will be moved back to second.

Filchock also will be tried in the hurling department along with

- Henry Becker, veteran outfielder.

Baseball

Games with first-class teams are wanted by the Alexandria Merchants, who have leased Athletic

* Park at Alexandria for the coming

' haseball season. The Merchants will open their season April 24 and will play all games at home. For games write Harold Etchison, 701 S. Black St., Alexandris,

The Fairfax Merchantsewill practice at Little Eagle Park Sunday. The following players are asked to report: Scoggan, Richardson, Coyle, Zorman and Paul Noe. A pitcher and two outficlders are wanted. For games write Hud Kaesel, 516 Somerset Ave., Indianapolis.

Fairbarnks-Morse will practice Sunday at 10 a. m. at Rhodius Park. The following players should contact E. CO. Mack, 2708 W. Washington St.:

. W. Neville, Gale Smith, John

Smith, W. Pryor, W. Payton, Bep-

lay, Stevenson, Burkhardt, W. Cox and J. Walters. :

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servative Bill McKechnie,

By HARRY GI Sports Editor, TAMPA, March 25.—The Cincinnati Reds are runnin’, which wouldn’t be so unusual if not for the fact that they're managed by the ultra-con-

Willard Hershberger

(Fifth of a Series)

GRAYSON NEA Service

Wilkinsburg Will likes to play ’em close to the vest, but says that there are too niany AA players on the Rhineland roster to play

be played. * “This outfit has to run to get anywhere,” smiles McKechnie, pointifig

Leut that it finished a smacking last —40 games behind the New York Giants—in 1937. McKechnie was credited with having performed something in the nature of a miracle in guiding the stingless Boston Bees to fifth place last season—only one game behind the fourth-place St. Louis Cardinals. The “80-year-old right-handers, Jim Turner and Lou Fette, established a major league precedent to enable Wilkinsburg Will to do this. Never before in all the history of the big leagues had two first-year men each accounted for 20 games.

Fine Mound Prospects

And it is with superlative pitching that McKechnie this trip hopes to hoist the Reds from the dark ‘and damp confines of the cellar. Baseball clubs seldom have such a pitching nucleus and as many fine mound prospects as the Reds, and McKechnie hopes to do something

he considers Willard McKee Hershberger the most important individual ‘on his payroll. Will thought enough of Willard to pay the New York Yankee organization $25,000 for his contract, and to give its Newark farm First ast ng campaign. Has What it Takes

Schnozzle Lombardi is a splendid hitter and thrower, but a catcher has to be. able to do something besides ‘hit and throw to satisfy McKechnie, who emphatically does not, like Lombardi’s handling of pitchers. He would like to maké a deal for the large Lombardi.

mainstay of the Newark Bears, who bagged the International rag by 2512 games, and comes to the Reds with a background of eight years of. minor league stardom. He was rated the slickest backstop in the minors. McKechnie also has put the vet= eran Virgil Davis to work on his young pitchers. The versatile Dee Moore, with Syracuse last term, is another catcher. McKechnie has "an established pitching luminary in Paul Derringer. Long Lefty Lee Grissom should be the National League's new strikeout king. Gene Schott had an earned run average of 2.98. Peaces Davis’ sinker keeps the ‘ball on the ground. Al Hollingsworth

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cure, has everything a young righthander needs, and like Johnny Vander Meer, a left-hander recalled from the same c¢lub, has been a strikeout specialist in the minors. Dutch Gehrman, a big lumberman from Oregon, was voted the top right-hander in the Piedmont League last year, his first in the professional game. Joe Vitelli bagged 17 games for Albany. Ted Kleinhans, the left-handed workhorse, "is up again—this time from Kansas City, and Joe Cascarella completes the present stafl. Frank = McCormick, Alex Kampouris, Billy Myers and Lew Riggs will form the Red infield at the outset. McCormick, a flossy-fielding, right hand throwing and hitting first baseman, packs power, loves to play, and hit .322 for Syracuse, Buck

‘| Jordan is here to back him up, and

Linus Frey is the extra infielder. Ival Goodman, right now on the sidelines with an abscessed tooth, and Dusty Cooke, back from Minneapolis; where he hit 345, will play plenty of outfield, but McKechnie may start-with Harry Craft in center and Lee Gamble in left. Gamble and Oraft, Mississippi State football captain of 1934, are as fast a pair of flychasers as you would care to see.

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No Romeo

Gabby Hartnett Strikes Out in Big Radio . Love Scene.

OLLYWOOD, March 25 (U. P.) .—Charles (Gabby) Hartnett, 225 pounds of bone and muscle on a baseball field, but just so much quivering flesh in front of a microphone, went back to work with the Cubs today, daring anyone to call;him Romeo.

Gabby. made his first—and

probably his only—attempt to be-

come a radio artist last night. He was to play opposite Miss Fanny Brice in a skit scheduled for release by the National Broadcasting Co. But four minutes before he was to whisper, “I will

‘kiss you a thousand times,” Hart-

nett sfruck out. He tossed aside his script sheet and said: “It’s no use, fellows. go through with it.” Gabby’s part in the program was two-fold. First he was to be interviewed. (He went through this.) Then he was to. return after a musical number and take

I can’t

up the role of Francois La "Borscht, captain of the French | Miss Brice was

Foreign Legion. to portray Fedora Chapeaux, an Arabian princess. The combination was too much for Hartnett. He decided he wasn’t Ineant to be a lover.

Armstrong Fights Eddie Zivic Tonight

DETROIT, March 25 (U, P).— Little Henry Armstrong, world featherweight boxing champion, was prepared to produce an early finish tonight in a 10-round, nontitle bout with Eddie Zivic, a fast-punching and durable lightweight from PittsBurgh. They will meet in the feature of an Olympia boxing card promoted by Jack Kearns. There was more than one good reason for Armstrong to make an exceptional showing against Zivic. Promoter Mike Jacobs of New York, who rules boxing with a monopolis= tic hand, will be at the ringside to give Henry the once over. “Jacobs has promised to earn me $100,000 in the next six months, so I'd better look good or he’ll change his mind,” Armstrong said. “Next Jo fighting and prestige, I like money st.”

Training Camp News

By Unifed Press

NEW ORLEANS, March 25.—~The Cleveland Indians and Athletics clash today in their last game before the American League campaign The Indians went one up in the four-game series by winning 9-5. Feller: Allen and Heving held the Athletics to five hits. ff Caster and P last run in the eighth. It gave the starts, and was the sixth setback for ¢-

opens. yesterday, The Indians got 10

Philadelphia in 14.

SEBRING, Fla, March 25 (U. P.).—The International’ League Newark Bears played host to their

. Yankee bosses today ih the final

of a two-game training series. The Yanks won the first tilt 9-2 yesterday when iwo ex-Bears, Joe Beggs and Spurgeon Chandler held their former mates to seven scattered hits. It was New York's. seventh victory in 10 games.

Dorve Roche and Coleman Booked

Two fast and powerful heavyweight mat stars, Abe Coleman, 2086, New York, and Dorve (Iron Man) Roche, 220, Decatur, Ill, have been matched for the Armory wrestling headliner Tuesday night. Their engagement calls for two falls out of three. Roche, former Iilinois coal miner, has been “tops” with Armory patrons for the last two seasons and has turned in one victory aftér another. Coleman, generally recognized as Jewish heavyweight champion, is a nationally-known grappler with a strong record. He specializes in the “kangaroo kick.” Abe made

quick work of Angelo Cistoldi, rough

Boston heavy, here last Tuesday. Rube Wright, 239, back in action after almost half a year on the shelf, will appear in the semiwindup. Rube was en route to Indianapolis for a match last October when he met with an auto accident that sent him to the hospital for two months. He will oppose the rough John Kattan, 235, Canada.

St. Paul Pays $8000 For Former Redskin

MARSHALI, Tex., March 25 (U. P.).—Lou McKenna, business manager of the St. Paul Club in the American Association, said today that the Saints had purchased second baseman Ollie Bejma from San Antonio of the Texas League. Six clubs bid for Bejma and the Saints got him for $8000, McKenna said. Bejma, who formerly played with Indianapolis -and St. Louis

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ter. Potter homered for the A's digns their fourth victory in nine

‘Giants came from behind with a

Giants’ eighth win in 11 games.

BATON ROUGE, La.,, March 25.— The Giants and the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association meet in their second and final game of the training season today. The

three-run burst in the ninth to edge the Pels, 5-4 yesterday. It was the

: BARTOW, Fla., March 25.—~The ‘Boston Bees came here today gunning for their third straight exhibitio victory and their fourth of the season as they met the Indianapolis American Association team. The Bees were idle yesterday.

ARCADIA, Fla, March 25.—The Red Sox came here today seeking revenge for Tuesday's defeat by the Louisville American Association

club. The Sox won their third ex-

hibition game of the year when they bested the Cardinals 7-4 yesterday. Wilson and McKain kept 11 hits well enough scattered to win easily. Boston has lost six this spring.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 25~The Cardinals were seeking their sixth victory in 13 starts against the Tigers today. The Tigers suffered their first loss in four exhibitions when nosed out 6-5 by the Dodgers. Cookie Lavagetto’s 10th-inning home run was the Tigers’ downfall. 2

ORLANDO, Fla., March 25.—The Senators continued their exhibition games against the minor leaguers

fourth victory in seven starts as

Rochester 7-3 yesterday.

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