Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1938 — Page 24

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Johnson, French Turn Back Young Birds; Eckhardt Reaches Camp.

Times Special BARTOW; Fla., April 1.—No fooling! Ray Schalk’s Indianapolis Indians have won five games in nine starts in the Grapefruit League and were in Ybor City today to tackle

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Ybor City is the Latin quarter of Tampa where Sunny Jim Bottomley is gending his Chiefs through the spring paces. Brilliant pitching by Lloyd Johnson, the slender southpaw, marked

. the Hoosiers’ 5-to-1 victory over the

Columbus Red Birds here yesterday. He worked six innings and allowed one run and three hits. Don French finished out the Tribe mound duties and blanked the Birds in the last three frames. .. Columbus, American Association pennant winners last year, presented a lineup of rookies. The Indians sewed up the contest with a threerun rally in the opening round. : Fausett Gets Triple \ Vic Mettler batted in two of the Tribe’s runs and Buck Fausett unloaded a triple to feature the team’s offense. The Indians were held to five safeties.

Only one of the Tribe's hits fig- '

ured in the opening splurge which clinched the decision. Mixed with the hit, a single by Vic Mettler, were two walks, two errors and a sacrifice. Manager Ray Schalk’s holdout worries were reduced by one with

_ the arrival in camp of portly Oscar

Eckhardt, veteran outfielder. Still unreported are Joe Hoover and Jimmy Crandall, both -of whom are said to be waiting at their California homes for better terms from the Indianapolis management. The three-cornered battle for first

‘ pase duties was no nearer a deci-

sion today as a result of the showing of Bob Latshaw and Mike Martineck, two of the candidates. While Doug Wheeler was idle, these two shared the initial sack yesterday. Latshaw got a hit in his only legal time at bat while Martineck turned

in several good fielding plays.

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Runs Batted In—Doljack, Mettler (2), Gleason, Latshaw, Fausett. Three-Base Hit —Krowski. Sacrifices—Hibbard (2), Pofahl f.eft on Bases—Indianapolis, 7; Columbus, 3. Base on Balls—Off Johnson (1), Dreisewerd (2), Fralick (2). Struck Out -- By Johnson (2), French (2), Dreisewerd (3), Fralick (3). Hits—Off Johnson, 3. in 6 innings: French, none in 3; Dreisewerd, 4 in 6; Fralick, 1 in 2. Hit oy Pitcher—By Fralick (Lewis). Wild Pitch—Fralick. Umpires — |Roscoe and Johnston. Time of Game—1:50.

Perry Assails Amateur Tennis

OUSTON, Téx., April 1 (U. P)). —Fred Perry of England, professional tennis player and formerly world champion amateur, charges that some so-called amateurs make more oney at the game than some professionals. | Currently engaged in a crosscountry exhibition tour with Ellsworth Vines, Perry charged that some amateurs get most of their money through wagers. “For example,” the Englishman said, “a man desires to promote a tennis tournament at a resort. He doesn’t deliberately hand the amateur player a check for $500 or so, but he makes him a bet like this—" Perry tossed a keyring on the floor of his hotel room. “The promoter beis the player he can’t jump over the keys. The bet runs to $500. . : “The player promptly hops over the keys, the promoter says, ‘shucks, I lost, and the money is handed over,” Perry said. He advocates a “house-cleaning”

among amateur tennis ranks and.

believes that there will be no such thing as professionals and amateurs within 10 or 15 years—but tennis players receiving straight salaries.

Baseball

The General Exterminating team will practice for the first: time this year at: Riverside No. 1 Sunday at 10 a. m. All last year’s players and new candidates are asked to report for this session. The G. E. Club will be in an Indianapolis Amateur Basebsall Association league this year.

The Indianapolis Umpires Association will meet tonight and every Friday night at 7:30 p. m. at the

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Sports Editor,

as has Connie Mack, they’ll win the

their 75-year-old manager. Colonel Mack—made so just the other day, when he was appointed to the staff of Governor Leche of Louisiana—had one foot in the grave last winter. Suffering from a gall bladder ailment, the tall tactician fell away to 119 pounds. “I don’t mind telling you I was worried along about that time,” beams the genial Colonel. “I was afraid I wasn’t going to make it. But I've got it licked, and I'm coming. It now looks like I'll go 10 more years.” Colonel Mack now scales more than 140 “pounds, and his good health is reflected in his squad. The A’s looked like one of the worst outfits ever assembled at the outset, but improved with the old Colonel so rapidly and to such an extent that they copped seven consecutive exhibition engagements, topping the New York Giants, among others. : Bank on San Franciscan

Colonel Mack's principal hope for a rise from seventh place, where the A’s finished in 1937, is based on Dario Lodigiani, who veterans like Mule Hags say will do at second base if he gets some of the lead out of his back pockets. A bulky share of the Athletics’ defeats last term were traced to second base, where Colonel Mack played no less than five hired hands, including the wayward veteran, Bill Cissell, and the Duke University kid, Wayne Ambler. So Colonel Mack spent $60,000 for second basemen during the offseason, purchasing, in addition to Lodigiani, Stanley Sperry, who batted .356 and scored 99 runs for Oklahoma City in 111 games. But Lodigiani—pronounced “Load-e-Johnny”’—has the call. San Francisco’s famous Italian baseballplaying colony’s latest contribution to the majors performed for the Oakland Coasters for two cam-° paigns. He batted 327 in 1937, banged 35 doubles, 14 triples, and 18 home runs to account for 84 runs batted in. Sperry will be carried. Col. Mack once more is building his pitching staff around the veteran Harry Kelley and George Caster. Lee Ross is about due to arrive. The left-handed Chubby Dean, too slow to play first base, beat

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5 Improved Health ~~ Sixth Victory a

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(11th of a Series) By HARRY GRAYSON

NEA Service

GULFPORT, Miss., April 1.—If the Philadelphia Athletics come back

American League pennant and bag

the World Series in four straight games. That is by far the most pleasing feature of the current spring training trip of the men of Shibe Park—the condition and appearance of

1 Bob Feller and Cleveland at Shibe

Park last fall. | Luther Thomas, Randy Gumpert and Edgar Smith, a left-hander, are promising. Almon Williams, recalled from Atlanta, is coming along. Lynn Nelson is a competent relief worker, and will be assisted in this department by Nelson Potter, who was drafted from Columbus. : Mack thinks a great deal of Bill Kalfass, a six-foot-three-and-a-half inch southpaw who is as sca-rew-y as he is tall. Kalfass and his jerky motion, which throws batters off balance, was purchased from Trenton last autumn in time to win one game for the A's. Frank Hayes is. expected to do most of the catching, but the New Jersey lad isn’t hustling, and it looks like Harold Wagner, a tall and slender Duke product, will return next spring to take over the first-string job. Wagner, a tall and slender chap who got in 28 games with Portsmouth of the Coastal League last term, is to be farmed out. Meanwhile, the well-seasoned Earle Brucker once more will share the backstopping responsibilities with the disappointing Hayes. Col. Mack is sold on Gene Hasson at first base, and has L.ou Finney and Haas as backstops for the 22-year-old left-hander. Recalled from Williamsport last fall, Hasson broke into the American League with a home run.in his first trip to the plate. He played first base brilliantly for the A’s in 28 contests, not making an error, and taking part in 31 double plays, five of which he started and finished. He batted 306 in those 28 battles, his swats including three home runs. A Hasson is a 197-pounder, standing six feet one. He hits left-handed, too. He seems too good to be true. Skeeter Newsome and Bill Werber complete the infield. Ambler, who broke in so auspiciously last

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summer, and. fielded so well until he broke his thumb, is ‘to be sent out. - The outfield will be composed of the redoubtable Bob Johnson and Wally Moses, who had to be satisfled with $10,000 per, and Paul Easterling, who larrups the leather for

magnificent distances. Easterling, purchased from Okla-

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refused to behave, The handy Finney and Haas are flychasing reserves, too. The A’s are not the best club in the American League, but a lit-

SUNNY JIM BO Peps Up A's

Speed Pilots Tune Mounts

Roar of Motors Heard at Track; Increase Prizes.

The familiar roar of racing motors has returned to the Speedway as the early birds check in to tune their mounts before seitling down to the serious business of grooming the cars for the 500-mile classic on Memorial Day. . Bill White of Los Angeles, noted race car owner and former pilot, whirled one of his machines around the bricks at a 113-mile-an-hour. pace yesterday. The car, bought from the Italian team which competed in the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup event, will be driven by Rex Mays this year, according to Owner White. Announcement came today from Speedway officials that all starters this year would receive a $500 prize money guarantee. > With this change, the $50,000 added purse will be swelled by additional awards to a total approximating $100,000, and each of the 33 starting ‘drivers this year can face race. day with the assurance that he will receive at least the minimum award. pod The Ofer prizes remain the same. The winner receives $20,000; second,

$10,000; third, $5,000, and decreasing amaqunts to, tenth place.

Hawks, Americans Tied in Ice Playoffs

CHICAGO, April 1 (U. P.).—The two surprise teams of the National Hockey League—Chicago’s Blackhawks and the New York Americans —headed east tcday for their third and deciding battle in the semifinals of the Stanley Cup playoffs. One game down, the Blackhawks squared the series at*the Stadium early today by defeating the Amerks 1 to 0, after 33:01 of overtime Winner of the semifinal series will meet the Toronto Maple Leafs, who carried off the first place series with Saree ‘straight victories over Bos-

n. : Cully Dahlstrom, Chicago center who was voted the year’s most valuable rookie, proved his right to the title by thumping in the only goal of the game in the second overtime pericd.

VINES BEATS PERRY TERRE HAUTE, April 1 (U. PJ). —Ellsworth Vines, showing top form, defeated Fred Perry here last night, 7-5, 6-3, in an exhibition tenBADGERS BOUNCE BACK When Lawrence Lederman, Wisconsin’ wrestler, won the Big Ten 145-pound championship, he became the first Badger mat man to win a Conference crown since 1929.

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Stricken With Appendicitis As He Prepares to Play.

HOUSTON, Tex. April 1 (U. P.). —Bryan M. Grant of Atlanta, Ga., one of the nation’s top tennis players and a Davis Cup star, underwent an operation today for appendicitis. Grant defending champion in the River Oaks Country Club tournament, became ill yesterday.

Hospital attendants said he was progressing nicely. Today he was

FRIDAY, APRIL 1,

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Santa Monica, finals. : Bobby - Riggs, Chicago, second ranking player in .the nation and regarded the biggest threat to Grant's title aspirations, won his way into the semifinals by defeating Arthur Hendrix, Lakeland, Fla., 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 and 6-2. Wayne Sabin, Hollywood, upset the veteran Wile mer Allison, Austin, Tex. 6-2, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2, in the only otHer singles match of the day. =

LOCAL BOY HONORED Times Special ’ . : CULVER, Ind. April 1.—How Morton, 4012 Central Ave., Indiane apolis, was one of 11 varsity baskete ball players at the Culver Military Academy to receive varsity sweaters this week, it was announced by Coach Russ Oliver. Morton played center.

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