Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1938 — Page 16

He Could Do Worse

Jimmy Dykes is thinking about playing shortstop. After seeing some of the boys in action Jimmy apparently thinks a man is only as old as he fields.

S DIMAGGIO FINAL WARNING | an | Maranville Is Still Popular; } Has Made Grade as Manager.

By Eddie Ash

FROM SANDLOTS TO THE MAJORS ” 2

M’CORMICK HAS SUCCESS STORY

THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1938

Indiana

RUPPERT GIVE

Joe Must Sign for $25,000 - Or Remain Idle, Colonel Says; Redskins Take on Louisville By Jou WiLLiAMS

into the Crosley Field picture as Piedmond League batting | Without Star Outfielder, | ing Newark Club champion. . . . Then he bounced to Syracuse for some Dou- Owner Declares. : 7-2 Defeat ; ble A polishing and a .322 International League batting a . Sg average. Then back to the Reds in September, closing his By GEORGE KIRKSEY year with a .325 National League batting average for 24 A Di games. Maggio must accept the $25,000 offered to him by the Yankees or the game's brightest young star will not play in organized baseball this season. That's flat and final from Col. Jacob ~ Ruppert, multimillionaire owner of the Yankees. In an exclusive interview, Col. Ruppert issued this ultimatum: “The Yankees are all set to go without DiMaggio. He has my proposition and thefe’ll be no more negotiating—not even for one dollar. He either accepts the $25,000 contract or he does not play with the Yankees. I've made up my mind and I'm standing pat.” The clock struck 11:30 as Col. Ruppert, nattily dressed in a gray double-breasted suit and inevitable blue polka dot tie, came into his private brewery office. He had been in the next room talking malt, hops and beer. He sat on the edge of his huge mahogany desk and glanced at a newspaper story from San Francisco that quoted DiMaggio as saying: : “I'm not satisfied. That’s all. I think I'm worth more money and I want it.” Colonel Desires Balance

WAVE of new stars ushered into the National League brings to Cincinnati a new first baseman, a strapping young Irishman named Frank (Buck) McCormick. . .. As the home-bound Reds hit the exhibition trail through the ‘Southland, daily reports tell of triples and doubles by McCormick. Each lusty smack of the McCormick bat increases the. likelihood that on Opening Day in Cincy, baseball's all-time championship Opening Day, city, the towering figure of young Buck McCormick will make first base the focus of Redland fandom’s eyes. They saw him last spring for a while when he stepped

you?” barked the Rab, glaring at the umpires. | The foot, grotesquely limp and twisted, encased in a dusty shoe with gleaming spikes, rested dully on the rim of the plate. It had almost been torn loose from his leg but it had scored a run for the Rab, and even in this moment of physical agony he wanted to be sure the detail was not overlooked. You can imagine a player with so much intensity of spirit would be difficult to please as a manager. Hé ‘would be continuously looking for the flaming competitive urge in others and would be unhappy if he failed to find it. Apparently this is true of the Rab.

DUNLAP. FAVORED IN NORTH-SOUTH PLAY,

pinerdRST, N. C, April 7 (U, P.) —George T. Dunlap of New York, trying for his sixth North and South amateur golf championship, met a strong quarter-finals opponent today in Robert Knowles of Boston. Dunlap remained a heavy favorite, with both Bobby Dunkelberger, 1937 champion, and James T. Hunter, North Adams, Mass., last year’s run-ner-up, eliminated in the second round. | Frank Strafaci of Brooklyn, tours nament medalist, was paired today with Richard D. Chapman, Greene wich, Conn,

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i |nere for a few hours. They want " |to get a load of the Rab. That's / | what they call him—the Rab. You know him better as Rabbit Maranville, the old big league star.

The Rab’s managing Montreal in the International League now. Doing very well, too. He had his club in the championship playoffs last . |year and the year before. Every- “| body says he has the ‘makings of a successful manager and that one day he’ll be back in the majors as a master mind. . . : The Rab sat in the dugout watching his athletes take their cut dur- | ing batting practice. He was dressed ‘lin mufti. The index finger of his right hand was in splints, ... “I tried to show one of my infielders how to pick up a ground ball,” explained the Rab, sheepishly, “I ‘| came near sticking my finger clear through it.” 4 . This is the fourth time in his career the Rab has been on the sidelines with a broken bone, He has had his shoulder broken and both of his legs. He was always vigorously enterprising in his play. He played the game the hard way —but somehow managed to make jt - look easy.

A Run Is a Run

The Rab hastened his end as a big leaguer by trying to score a run against the Yanks in a spring exhibition game. The game meant little, the run less. But the Rab’s philosophy is when you get to third

Times Special BARTOW, Fla., April 7.—With a record of nine games {won in 15 starts, the Indianapolis Indians mo'tored to Arcadia today to tackle| the Louisville Colonels in a return exhibition tilt. The Redskins edged out the Derbytown team here, 4-3, on March 20 and hope to capture a second scalp from Bert Niehoff’s men this afternoon. The Hoosiers are fo break camp tomorrow and will begin the trek to the North on Saturday in an encounter with Nashville of the Southern Association at Tallahassee. Other dates program are: April 10—With Montgomery of | the Southeastern at Montgomery. April 11—With Birmingham of the Southern Association at BirApril 13—With Toledo at Bowling | | Green, Ky. | The Redskins are scheduled to reach Indianapolis at 10:30 a. m. on April 14. They will practice at Perry Stadium on April 15 and then take on the Minneapolis Millers in the American Association opener

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N the Reds’ ensemble McCormick stands as the tallest first baseman in the league. . .. In altitude and the length of his limber arms he’s the largest target any National loop infield will have. . .. His 6 feet 4 frame packs 200 pounds, plenty of heft to put into his swings when he’s at home plate and the runs are there on the bases waiting for a wallop to start them plateward. The great break for McCormick is that first base loomed as a major training camp problem with the Reds. . . . The new manager, Bill McKechnie, found himself with two Bucks to solve the problem, Baxter (Buck) Jordan, the veteran, and young Buck McCormick. . McKechnie knew all about the dependable Jordan, his first baseman when he managed the Boston Bees. . .. He had to find out about his other Buck. . . . It took plenty of performance to give young Buck the edge. - ‘Any time young Buck falters, old Buck is ready and

ripe to step in afd steady the machine. : 8 » # os s

VSonuMicas success story is just beginning in the big leagues,

left on the Tribe

. . . the next move is his.

Joe DiMaggi

New Faces Added but

put his four years of minor league warfare make inspiring

reading for ambitious youngsters. . . He grew up in Yorkville, just a five-cent fare from three . . But to get into any of them through the

native. . . big league ball yards. .

. . Young Buck is a New York

players. entrance he had %o travel all around the map.

He started 1934 as

the star slugging outfielder of the New York

Independents, a strong semipro team without any home grounds. . . .

On the side Buck worked in a shipping department downtown. .

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took the two jobs to make him a living. . . . Then the shipping department weakened on him, so he decided on ‘baseball as his career and obtained a Middle Atlantic League tryout with Beckley, W. Va.

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Yo would think that when McCormick hit .347 in 120 games for Beckley that his fortune was made. . . . But baseball isn’t that

way. . been in four

as a major league prospect. .

championed the Piedmont League with .381. 8 the only slugger with more than 200 hits for

run-driver with 138, was

_ . Buck started 1935 with Toronto, but before Labor Day he'd other leagues, battled his way through a tonsilitis attack, and had to start up the baseball ladder all over again. His rebound in 1936 was impressive enough to prove . . Swinging for the Durham Bulls, he

his soundness

He was league-leading

the season, his 49 two-baggers were exactly a dozen more than the

leagues’ runner-up double-knocker,

and he topped the league in the

fielding averages with .990 for his 140 games at first base.

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LL peak feat of last year ‘was

” ” ® ; staged -at ‘the Polo

‘Grounds May 4, before he went off to Syracuse for his final

prep work. . thbe twice. . » . Two times at bat. . . - game in the fifth inning as a

. . Hubbell was pitching and McCormick faced King. Carl

Two hits. . . . He came into the

pinch hitter and his single rolled

through the center fielder and nearly out the exit gate. . . . Three runs

scored on the blow and the error,

the thizd being McCormick himself.

He expects 1938 to duplicate 1936, because even years have always been his best. .347 at Beckley in 1934, .381 at Durham in 1936.

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: (CoAcH JAKE KLINE of the Notre Dame baseball team has issued

a general

invitation to all baseball fans and high school coaches

in the vicinity of South Bend to attend the Notre Dame baseball clinic

there on Saturday, April American

Lou Fonseca, former

League star infielder, will give a

demonstration of batting and fielding technique on Cartier Field,

using members of the Notre Dame

squad to illustrate his points. . . .

The American League baseball movie will precede the demonstration,

starting at 1:30 p. m. in Washington Hall.

“Words are cheap, aren't they?” said Col. Ruppert. “I think $25,000 is all DiMaggio is entitled to and that is my final offer. welcome to sign with the Yankees for that sum. If not the Yankees will get along without him.” DiMaggio asked for $40,000 when he conferred with Col. Ruppert here Jan. 21. There has been no communication since between the 70-year-old multimillionaire and the 23-year-old center fielder from San Francisco. Col. Ruppert, who pays the highest salaries in baseball and is the sole owner of the $10,000,000 Yankee organization, said that DiMaggio is the “most stubborn young man” he’s encountered in his entire baseball experience—and that includes the boisterous Babe Ruth, who once talked his pay up to $80,000. He Won't Trade Him “I do not like the situation,” continued Col. Ruppert, “but I will not make a move to sign DiMaggio. He must come to us. I do not like for people to say, ‘Well, here is Ruppert | arguing with a’ ball player over a few thousand dollars.’ It isn’t the money. It’s the whole organization. “You've got to keep balance. In two years with the Yankees DiMaggio has done extremely well. I paid him $8000 the first season and $15,000 last season. His World Series cuts for two years amounted to about $12,000. That’s roughly $36,000.

we don’t get in the World Series he

figures for three years. That's

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dependence.” Asked if he would trade DiMaggio, Col. Ruppert replied, “Never! He plays for the Yankees at the | figure offered or he doesn’t play.”

By United Press : ALEXANDRIA, La., April 7—The Giants and Cleveland Indians met

today in the 10th game of yesterday when they won Tex. Umpire Claude T¢ * in the ninth with the score

through the crowd in left field to pull a ground rule double. The Indians refused to co stormed the field in protest to Tobin's decision.

their spring series. The Giants took a 5-4 lead the ninth game on a 9-0 forfeit at Longview, Tobin awarded the game after a disputed decision tied 4-4. Even though Julius Solters rooig i dowiri Joe Moore's fly, it was ruled ntinue and the fans

Terry Silent on Deal With Phils

MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 7 (U. P.). -=Bill Terry, manager of the Giants,

report that his mission here was to

are in this vicinity.

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 7.— |

The Yankees made the first of two Oklahoma stops on their exhibition itinerary here today. They broke a three-game losing streak when they blanked the Dallas Steers ‘of the Texas League yesterday. Manager Joe McCarthy changed his batting order for the tilt and the drop from third to sixth evidently benefited outfielder Tommy Henrich for he got two hits and drove in the only two

The Bees emerged victorious 4-2 yesterday handing the Senators their ninth setback in 16 spring tilts. It was the Bees’ 12th win in 23 starts and their second victory over Washington.

Five Pirates Fined

For ‘Tomfoolery’ SWEETWATER, Tex. At

Longview, Tex. last night he told newspapermen he was going to try |to make a deal “and bring back a ball player.” ’ . Terry .planned to confer with pitcher Slick Castleman, who Las been convalescing from an operation. If Castleman feels he cannot pitch this season it seems certain that Terry will attempt to swing a deal, probably using outfielder Wally Berger as bait.

DiMaggio is.

If he signs for $25,000 and even if |; will have collected $60,000 in round | Kelcher. $20,000 a year. I should say he’s a 2 t

well paid young man at those fig-|M ures and on his way to financial in-| Ro

refused today to comment on the M arrange a deal with the Phillies who |. Stats Cc Before leaving the Giants in

on Saturday, April 16. Millykangas Shines

Ray Schalk’s hustling Tribesters trounced the Newark Internationals, 7-2, here yesterday and looked good while trimming the sails of the 1937 Little World Series champions. The victory evened the score with the Bears who downed the Indians at Sebring on March 26. It-was Newark’s first defeat in 12 starts. Laurie Myllykangas, the Hoosiers’ starting pitcher, held the Bears to seven hits in seven innings. A hard hit grounder struck Myllykangas’ throwing arm in the seventh and Tommy Gallivan worked on the Tribe mound in the last two frames when the Bears got their two runs. In addition to blanking Johnny Neun’s Newark team for seven rounds, Mpyllykangas also participated in the Tribe's attack by delivering a triple and double. He struck out three hitters and issued one walk. The Indians solved Spitler, Gay and Bithorn, Newark hurlers, for eight safeties and played errorless ball in the field. The Redskins’ big inning was the fourth when they put on a rousing rally and tallied five markers. Chartak, Newark center fielder, touched Gallivan for a home run with none on in the ninth.

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Score by innings: Newark : Indianapolis : ‘Runs’ batted in—Pilney (2), Myllyk (3), Sherlock, Doljack Kotiehep) hartak, Two-base its — ack ngas,

Three-base hits — My lykangas, Lele er, Home run—Chartak. Stolen base—Pofahl.

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busiest traders during the off-season They shipped and brought in wrestlers.

Still Seem

(Fifteenth of a Series)

By HARRY GRAYSON Sports Editor, NEA Service |

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. April 7—The St. Louis Browns were the

And Gabby Street, the Old Sarge, colonelcy by Governor Allred of Texas, talks good baseball.

Weak

, if that means anything. players like the trusts distribute

recently promoted to a lieutenant-

The swapping -and Colonel¢ Street’s speech-making h a v e brought one definite and favorable result, anyway. | The transactions were regarded so highly by the paying guests of St. Louis and Colonel Street is so popular there that a demand actually devoleped for stock in the club. This was good news to the Browns’ presider‘-salesman, Donald L. Barnes, for $5-par shares had dropped to $3. Then they went to $3.50, $4, $5.25, and are now being offered at $6.25.

Team Still Mediocre

They'll probably stay at that price until the fans get another look at the Browns, for with that pitching and catching and so much mediocrity in other spots, the outfit still looks like the best eighthplace American League club that you ever saw. tipoff on Col. Street's optimism is that he says Billy Sullivan Jr. will develop into a star catcher. . The personable Billy has been around for some time, and was passed along by Cleveland when the Indians didn’t need a first-rate catcher any worse than Mike Jacobs, who keeps feeding them to Joe Louis

It is true that the Browns had the second best batting average .in the junior circuit in 1937, hitting

1.2985, or two points better than the

New York Yankees. It also is true that the Browns fielded .972, or only four points worse than the Detroit Tigers, who showed the way in that department. | But it also is true that they finIshed a smacking last, and I can't

see where they are, improved with Sullivan for Rolly Hemsley, old Red Kress for Bill ickerbocker at shortstop, Buster Milly or somebody in left field in place and George McQuinn at first base. The Browns got more quantity than quality in their deals. Colonel Street has quantity in mind, as a matter of fact. He would like to carry .11 pitchers, eight right-handers, Buck Newsom, Oral Hildebrand, Jim Weaver, Jack Enott, Jim Walkup, Julio Bonetti, Les Tietje, and another to be selected from among Ed Linke, .Ed Cole, Bill Trotter, and Harry Kimberlin, His three left-handers are Vito Tamulis, Howard Mills and Russ Van Atta. | Col, Street’s other catchers are ‘Benny Huffman and Tommy Heath. Kress gives the Browns pepper and fight, but he is a grizzled veteran on whom the Washington Nationals gave up a year ago. Don Heffner covers plenty of

won't frighten any pitchers to death. Roy Hughes packs little power, and can’t throw well enough.

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the next stop is home, no matter how unimportant the game is. The “Yankee catcher, a rookie, blocked the plate that day but the Rab hit the dirt with characteristic fury. He couldn’t have tried harder if the winning: run in a World Series was at stake. The impact of the two crashing bodies could be heard all over the St. Petersburg ball park. The rookie catcher was knocked sideways. The Rab bounded back and lay strangely still. It was immediately evident he was hurt. The umpires - and players gathered around him. His ankle was broken. A shattered bone cut through his sweaty, woglen stocking. A pool of blood darkened the white sand. “You see where that foot is don’t

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TAMPA, Fla, April 7.—The Dodgers broke camp today and came here to meet Rochester of the International League. The Dodgers lost a 10-4 decision to the Tigers for their 10th defeat in 17 spring starts.

SPARTANBURG, 8S. C.,, April 7. —The Red Sox and Reds met in their seventh game today. They played to a 2-2 tie yesterday at Columbia that had to be called at the end of the 10th because of rain. It left the Reds leading the series 3-2.

LAKELAND, Fla, April 7.—The Tigers playetl their second minor league opponent today when they met the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International :League.. Rudy York clouted two home runs as the Tigers walloped the Dodgers 10-4 for their

day in Russell Bauers, pitcher, being sent to St. Louis for treatment and five players being fined. A knee injury to Bauers, who was suspended until he is able to play ball again, was the result of a playful wrestling match on a Pullman car after the team left Barstow, Cal., where, it was reported, the players were entertained royally. The five players who were wrestling with Bauers were fined. “I'm through fooling with you fellows,” Traynor said at Clovis, N. M., yesterday. “From now on, we want hustlers. The laggards will have to go.” .

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