Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1938 — Page 18
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PICKS THE DODGERS SEVENTH
BURT SHOTTON, manager of the Columbus Red Birds, the American Association’s defending champions, will be the pilot of the Brooklyn Dodgers by May 15, if the “Flatbush nine is in‘ seventh place then, believes James Cannon, New York baseball scribe. “Larry MacPhail, Brooklyn’s new vice president, thinks Shotton, former manager of the Phillies, is one of the best pilots in baseball,” reports Cannon. MacPhail believes he has the right to win or lose with the man of his choice. Grimes was a left-over from the old Brooklyn regime and signed this year’s contract before MacPhail entered the picture. ~ “MacPhail was undoubtedly angered by Grimes picking the Dodgers to finish seventh. The pick was made for a news syndicate. Originally, Burleigh selected his team to finish last, but a considerate reporter suggested that
Brooklyn couldn’t possibly outfumble the Phils. So Grimes -
corrected himself and ‘lifted’ his team to seventh.”
. ” » » # = » READING Grimes’ statement, MacPhail is said to have commented, “If our club, on May 15, isn’t better than a seventh-place outfit, we’ll proceed to get rid of that team and build a new one. Meanwhile, Grimes revised his prediction, declaring that with his cripples on the mend, the Dodgers had fifthplace possibilities, “barring accidents.” Burleigh probably had the right slant when he said “seventh,” but that isn’t the point when a new boss is at the helm. . . . It’s bad taste for any manager to give up on his team before the race starts.
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N an effort to increase the home ‘run production on the part of the home boys, the Cincy Reds moved their home plate 20 feet out from its 1937 location. . . . It was an easier job than moving the fences in. . . . So what happened? . . . In the opening game of the season Tuesday the visiting Cubs walloped two prodigious drives out of the park to none for the Rhinelanders. . . . It’s always a good idea to figure the other fellow. Bill McKgchnie, Cincy manager, says he isn’t going to give advance notices of his pitching selections this season. . . . Jimmy Collins, _ veteran first sacker who played second fiddle to Phil Cavarretta during the -Cubs’ exhibition games, served notice in the National League opener that he’s determined fo stick. . . . Home run, double and two singles. Noe ” 2 # - ® EFTY BOB LOGAN, former Indianapolis chucker, was sent to the mound in a tight spot at Cincy Tuesday. . . . The Reds rallied against the Cubs in the seventh and had the bases loaded with one out and one run in when Logan relieved Charlie Root. . . . George ‘Davis, 8 righthand swinger, pinch hit for Ival Goodman, who swings lefthanded. . . . Logan promptly fanned Davis and got Riggs on a tap to Jurges to retire the side. Two walks and two errors after one out put Logan in the hole in the ninth but he worked out of it with only one run scoring, and that on a wild throw by Gabby Hartnett. » » ” 2 » » HE Indianapolis-Toledo coleadership of the American Association was broken up yesterday as the Indians fell before St. Paul and the Mud Hens got knocked off by Kansas City. . . first place and are the first official undisputed leaders in the new race. Red Killefer’s Hollywood Stars recently won six out of seven games with Lefty O’Doul’s San Francisco Seals. . . . The former Indianapolis pilot stirred up a feud in the Coast League with an assertion that it is an inferior double-A circuit and does not rate with the American Association and International League.
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NIZZY DEAN spent two years and nine months in the Army before ' league baseball lured him, changed his career and put him in the big money. . . . Frank Snyder, former Giant catcher and present Giant coach, was Dean's first manager, at Houston ‘in the Texas League. SBaseball and golf are Dizzy’ s only sports. . . . He neither bowls nor plays billiards. . . . He's too restless to go fishing and is not interested in hinting. n pitched the San Antonio Public Service nine to the Texas Rly rs in 1929
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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938
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FELLER STEALS HERO ROLE FROM DIZZY
Scratch Infield Hit by ExTeammate Only Safety Off Young Hurler.
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 21.—Plaster up the 24-sheets, haul out the headlines and turn on the mazdas—not for Dizzy Dean, the Cubs’ $250,000 pitching prima donna, but for Bob Feller, the 19-year-old fuzzy-faced Iowa schoolboy who missed baseball’s hall of fame by the narrowest of margins. Yesterday was to have been Dean’s big day. He was to prove that his arm wis sound, that he was baseball’s greatest pitcher and worth every cent P. K. Wrigley paid for him. Dean did well enough, scoring his first triumph in easy fashion for the Cubs. But something happened he hadn’t counted on—Bob Feller, without uttering a single word, stole the spotlight not only from Dean but from every other major league player. He pitched a one-hit game for Cleveland against the Browns.
Now 19, wiser, stronger and more confident, Feller cut down the hardhitting Browns with a dazzling fast ball and a bafiling change of pace which stamped him as the foremost young pitcher in baseball. Teaming up with Rollie Hemsley, the catcher Cleveland obtained especially to catch Feller, blazing Bob gave a masterful exhibition. The only hit made off him was a bunt by Billy Sullivan, ex-Cleveland catcher, in the sixth inning. Feller himself fielded the ball, and threw to first baseman Trosky. It was a close play. Umpire Ed Rommell, an old Athletics’ pitcher himself making his American League debut, called Sullivan safe. Feller’s teammates protested violently but the umpire has the last word. Feller fanned six men, and gave up six walks.
Needs More ‘Work
As for Dizzy Dean, he scored a 10-4 triumph over Cincinnati without extending himself. The Cubs gave him a 9-run lead in the second inning, and he coasted until taken out in the seventh for a pinchhitter. Dizzy permitted eight hits and two runs in six innings but was masterful in the pinches. Manager Charlie Grimm removed Dean because he wanted to rest him for Sundays game against the Cards and felt that with a 9-2 lead the Cubs had the game won. During the spring, Dean suffered a severe cold and he hasn’t regained his full strength. “I was satisfied with Dizzy in every respect,” Grimm said. “I took him out because he was tired. He pitched only about 15 -innings in spring training and needs more work. He'll do a lot of running and throwing the next few days and that will help his legs and wind. Babe Pinelli, who umpired behind the plate, and Catcher Hartnett assured me Dean’s arm was okay.” Red Players Divided Cincinnati players were divided over Dean’s prospects for a big season. Catchers Virgil Davis and Ernie Lombardi and Manager Bill McKechnie said. Dizzy wasn’t the “old Dean yet.” “This game didn’t test him,” said McKechnie. “He doesn’t look like the old Dean, not yet anyway. Maybe he needs more work.” Billy Myers and Alex Kampouris were Dizzy’s biggest boosters on the Reds. “Dizzy showed me plenty,” Myers said. |, Rookie Coaker Triplett and veteran Tony Lazzeri were the Cubs’ batting heroes, getting four hits each to top a 16-hit attack which blasted Grissom, Barrett and Kleinhans, Jim Turner Wins
In the other National League games Pittsburgh defeated . the Cardinals, 9-4, with a 20-hit attack. The Bees, with Jim Turner pitching, beat the Giants, 6-4, on Gene Moore’s homer with the bases loaded, and the Phillies made a 4-run rally in the ninth to beat Brooklyn, 6-5. In the American League, Washington won its third straight from the Athletics, 3-0, behind Emil Leonard’s 7-hit pitching. Leonard is a Brooklyn castoff who couldn’t make the National League grade. Rookie Rupert Thompson's pinchsingle in the eighth drove in the run by which the Whites Sox made it two straight over Detroit, 5-4. Thompson is another National League castoff, failing to make the grade with the Bees. The Yanks and Red Sox were idle.
CARL BURT TO SPEAK
FT. WAYNE, April 21 (U.-P).— Carl Burt, athletic director at Manchester College, North Manchester, will head the program at the, sixman football clinic here Saturday. Burt will use two teams of players to demonstrate rules of the sixman game. A. L. Trester, Indiana High School athletics commissioner, and a number of prominent coaches will speak.
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No Fanfare Preceded Bob's ‘One-Hit Shutout of Browns; Shakeup Planned by Schalk
Left-Handed Batters Badly Needed in Lineup, Says Tribe Pilot.
After watching his Indians stand helpless before Ray Phelps’ benders and change of pace yesterday, Man ager Schalk of the Indians announced a shakeup in the Tribe roster for the finale of the series with the Saints today. “I am not sure just what the changes will be,” he said, “but there’ll be changes which will bring some lefthanded swingers into the starting lineup. That exhibition of feeble hitting against Phelps convinced me that an all-righthanded offense is out of order’ in this league.” Buck Fausett, Bob Latshaw, Vic Mettler and Otto Meyers are the only lefthanders available among the reserves since Oscar Eckhardt, who hit .341 with the Redskins last year, was shipped to Toledo.
Last Year's Figures
Fausett batted .278 in 1937, Latshaw .231 and Mettler .269. Meyers spent last season in the little minors. Vance Page and Bill Baker will form the Tribe battery this afternoon and Chief Ganzel of the Apostles nominated Hugo Klaerner, another righthander, to handle his chucking. Big Ray Phelps, at 34, who won 13 games and lost 11 with St. Paul last year, held the Hoosiers to three hits, all singles, and for six innings nary an Indian hit one to a safe spot. McCormick’s blow to center in the seventh was the Tribe's first safety of the game and the first sacker got another single in the ninth. Glenn Chapman lined one to left in the eighth for the Tribe’s other hit. Phelps issued six walks and struck out five as he achieved the first shutout of the season in the A. A. The veteran was cool and collected and didn’t seem to be working any too hard, it was that easy. Not a single Indian got beyond second base and nine were left stranded. Phelps’ mates were alert and backed up his good pitching with a tight defense with no errors.
York Belts Triple
Lauri Myllykangas turned in a fair brand of hurling for the Indians and Don French also worked well in the relief role. The visitors got six hits and three markers off Myllykangas in seven innings and one hit and no runs off French in two. A walk, York's triple and Stumpf’s roller which went: for a hit accounted for St. Paul's two runs in the third stanza and in the fifth Stumpf’s double, a sacrifice and Bejma’s long fly put the third marker across. Incidentally, five of the Saints hits were obtained by batters against the Tribe's righthanded hurlers. Fielding features were contributed by Doljack, Pofahl and Pilney of the Indians and by Anton and Bejma of the Apostles. Bill Meyer's Kansas City Blues are scheduled to open a three-game series at Perry Stadium tomorrow and it will be a ladies’ day attracion,
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Pat Malone Quits Millers, Goes Home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. April 21 (U. P.).—Ownie Bush, manager of the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, said today that Pat Malone, former major league pitching star, left the team Tuesday night. Teammates believed Malone had returned to his home at Milan, O. Bush said he knew of no reason Malone should leave, “except that he might make more money at home.” Minneapolis signed Malone this
year after his outright release by the Yankees. He was suspended a few days ago for violation of training rules. i Malone is 35. He entered major leagues in 1928 with the Cubs, was traded to the ‘Cardinals in 1934 and joined the Yankees the following spring. BELCASTRO PINS ORTH FT. WAYNE, April 21 (U. P).— Pete Belcastro, Pacific Coast grappler, pinned Paul Orth, Cleveland, in the main bout on a three-match wrestling card at the National Guard Armory last night.
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Joe DiMaggio Speeding East After Ending Holdout Fight ‘Glad It's Over, Says Slugger; Hopes to Arrive in Time for -Saturday’s Game.
ABOARD STREAMLINED TRAIN, CITY-OF-SAN-FRANCISCO, En Route to Chicago, April 21 (U. P.).—Joe DiMaggio, fourth highest paid baseball player, who is losing $162.35 for every game he does not play
-| with the New York Yankees, sped Eastward to join his team today after
ending one of the most stubborn holdouts in the game’s history. Until noon yesterday the dark-haired Italian youth was lying in bed figuring the receipts of his cafe in &-
San Francisco. Only Monday, he had denied vehemently that he had any intention of accepting the $25,000 offer of owner Jacob Ruppert. Yet today he is 1500 miles away from his cafe. He will be in uniform at Yankee Stadium Saturday. “It just came to me like that,” Joe said when asked why he gave up his demands for $40,000 so suddenly. He snapped the fingers of his powerful right hand to indicate just how suddenly the decision was made. “I called the Yankee secretary Ed Barrow,” he continued, “and told me to wire my acceptance to Ruppert. I did, and it only took me three hours to pack, install my brother as manager of the Grotto (Joe’s cafe), and get aboard this train, I got the last accommodation, and I'm riding an upper berth, but I don’t care. Once I'd made up my mind, I couldn’t wait to get started.” Joe hasn't signed his contract yet because he thought so little of the $25,000 offer the Yankees mailed him in February, that he lost it. “I just decided I'd rather play baseball than hang around San
box scores,” DiMaggio said, “and I can’t tell you how glad I am this holdout business is all over. It was hell all the way through. I got no rest and I collected a fine bunch of headaches from all the Yelephonis ca
NEW YORK, April 21 (U. PIS Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, said today that Joe DiMaggio had been the most stubborn holdout of his experience and that included salary bickerings with Babe Ruth, Lefty Gomez, Red
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“Joe is. decidedly the toughest young man I've ever had to deal with,” Ruppert said. “Ruffing held out longer last year, but he wasn’t bullheaded like DiMaggio. This young man left my office on Jan. 21, and I didn’t hear from: him again until yesterday.
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