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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIME

SENAT ORS AND PIRATES SETT ING BIG LEAGUE PACE

J ohnny Rizzo Big Factor as

Bucs Sweep Cards’ Series; Tribe ibe Tackles Kansas City

Yanks Lest io. to Red Sox, Drop to Seventh; Press- _ nell Wins First Start.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 22.—Pacesetters in the major league pennant races today were those unpredictable Pirates and the amazing Senators, each with an unbroken string of three triumphs, The Pirates are on top in the National League because of a savage attack which raked 10 Cardinal pitchers for 19 runs and 44 hits in a three-game series. The big guns were Johnny Rizzo, the Houston, Tex., Italian sold to the Pirates by the Cards during the winter, and "Arky Vaughan. Rizzo, who last year was with Columbus, hit safely twice in each of the three games. Vaughan has collected six hits in three games. . Washington grabbed the Ameri--can League lead on pitching. In their three victories over the Athletics, they used only three pitchers, only club in either league to have three starting pitchers go the route. Wes Ferrell, Monte Weaver, and Emil (Dutch) Leonard did the trick. The world champion Yankees dropped to seventh place when they lost to the Red Sox yesterday, 3-2. Three rookies, Donald, Stine and Beggs, held the Sox to three hits, but issued 10 walks which proved the Yanks’ undoing.’ A walk to Cramer and Vosmik’s triple accounted for the winning run. The Yanks made 13 hits off Johnny Marcum and had 12 men left on " base. i Detroit Wins One

Detroit scored its first victory, downing the White Sox, 9-3. Hank - Greenberg hit his second homer of

the season, and three White Sox

errors helped, too. Elden Auker held the Sox to seven hits. In the only other American Teague game Cleveland nosed out ‘ the Browns, 4-3. Earl Whitehill, : starting his 15th season, held the Browns to four hits in eight frames, before he was taken out for a pinch hitter during the eighth inning rally which won the game and gave him credit for the victory. Lyn Lary’s two doubles drove in two Tribe tallies. Pittsburgh scored two runs in the ninth on Lloyd Waner’s double, a walk to Paul Waner and Rizzo’s single, which Bordagaray fumbieZ . to notch a 6-5 victory over the Cardinals. Easy for Derringer

Paul Derringer won his 15th straight game over the Cubs during a four-year period when he pitched _ Cincinnati to a 6-2 win. The Cubs - made only four hits, one a homer by Ken O'Dea with Lazzeri on base. Singles by. McCormick and Lombardi drove in the winning runs. Milburn Shoffner walked Hank Leiber with the bases loaded, forc- . ing in the run by which the Giants trimmed the Bees, 3-2. Carl Hubbell held the Bees to eight hits, one a homer by Tony Cuccinello, : Forrest Pressnell, Milwaukee "rookie, made his major league debut by pitching Brooklyn to a 9-0 shutHe kept nine hits well scattered. Rosen, Lavagetto and Camilli led the Dodgers’ attack with three hits each. Yesterday’s Hero—Joe Vosmik, whose single and triple comprised two-thirds of Boston’s hits and ac- © counted for two tallies, including the winning run, as the Red Sox won the first series in years from the Yanks, three games to one,

: Tribesmen Sell Crandall, Hoover

. Jimmy Crandall, pitcher, and Joe ° Hoover, infielder, were sold to the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League by the Indianapolis “ club today. The players were holdouts until last week when they accepted terms, but were ordered to remain at their California homes. Wade Killefer, Hollywood manager, then made an offer for the pair and the deal was _ closed by Leo T. Miller, the Tribe's general manager. Killefer piloted the Indians five years and both players were his proteges. Crandall turned from catcher to relief pitcher under Wade's instruction and he picked Hoover off the California sandlots. Young Joe showed flashy fielding ability in the few games he appeared in the Indians’ lineup last

season Both pastimers expressed a desire to play in California in their correspondence over terms with the - Indians.

SY —————————— GIVEN LINKS COURTESY Indianapolis pupils entering the annual high school golf tournament had an opportunity today to practice on city courses without charge, acgording to an announcement by

Lloyd Johnson con. ‘Shated to Pitch; Indians Defeat Saints in Finale.

Bill Meyer's league-leading Kan-

Indians come to grips today in the

Perry Stadium. It promises to be a rousing skirmish since K. C. has lost only one tilt and the Redskins two.

Johnson is slated to toss his southpaw slants at the visitors and if he

will take over first place.

on an overnight ride and are presenting an entirely different: team than the 1937 Kaws as a result of receiving a load of reinforcements from the New York Yankees.

Buck Pulls Fast One

Strife shook [the managers, players and umpires at the ball park yesterday and it was 10 innings before hostilities ceased with the Indians out in front of the Saints, 4 to 3. Buck Fausett’s daring base running won for the Redskins and the Apostles were vey much put out when they were Caught sleep-

ing. In the 10th frame Fausett led off with a single and reached second on Chapman's sacrifice. As pitcher Coombs was taking the signal from catcher Silvestri with McCormick at bat, Buck streaked for third. Shouts from his mates caused Coombs to feel something sinister was going on behind his back, and sure enough it was. The St. Paul chucker stepped off the rubber and let fly with the ball for third where Fausett was diving in. The hurried throw was low and wide, skipped by Bob Boken and bounced off the grandstand wall. Buck was up in instant and off for home where he made another slide under Silvestri and scored the winning run. .

Three Indians Benched

Manager Schalk altered his lineup yesterday by benching Doljack, Mesner and Pilney, righthanded hitters, for Fausett, Latshaw and Mettler, who swing lefthanded. The shakeup placed Latshaw at "first base, Fausett at third, Mettler in left field and McCormick in center. St. Paul took the lead in the fifth inning when Boken crashed a home run over the left field wall at the 365-foot mark. The Indians rallied in the seventh and tallied three markers on four hits and a walk, and the bombardment sent pitcher Hugo Klaerner io the showers, with Cooinbs relieving.

Tribe until the ninth when Vance Page lost his cunning and was sent reeling to the dugout. The Saints cute loose with a triple, double and two singles, scored twice and dealocked the game at 3-all. Wesley Flowers went to Page's aid and then dropped out for a pinch hitter in the Tribe's half of the

ninth. . Three Hits by Baker

Elmer Riddle worked the 10th for the Indians and received credit

charged to Coombs. Catcher Bill Baker got three of the Tribe's nine hits and Mike McCormick went hitless for the first time this season. Mike banged the horsehide |2 with violence on three accasions but | B SleHt Saints were in the way each | £2 me.

also starred afield and the former the defense by accepting 15 chances

three double plays. A play by Mettler in the 10th caused a long and loud rumpus. Coombs connected for a line drive to left and Mettler left his feet for the catch. He dove sideways, rolled

Conlan ruled it g fair catch and Manager Ganzel and the Apostle players put on the crying act. They swarmed around Conlan and at times he was lost from sight in the mob. Finally, Conian cansulted George Johnson, the base umpire, who reversed the decision and . awarded Coombs a two-base hit. Now it was the Indians’ turn to beef and with Manager Schalk in the lead they surrounded both umpires while the fans jeered the rsversed dAccision. Play was held up several minutes, but the Tribe lost the verdict and Coombs was on second with one out, where he was left as York and Stumpf both skied to McCormick. Mettler made a diving ecaich on Coombs in the eighth and knocked down York’s drive in the same inning and when the runner tried for two bases Mettler’s throw beat him to the sack. Glenn Chapman contributed a circus catch in the seventh when he ran to the bleacher wall and snared Silvestri’s long foul.

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Baseball at a Glance

TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Kansas City at INDIANAPOLIS. Milwaukee at Louisville. St. Paul at Toledo. Minneapolis at Columbus.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Washington at New York. Boston at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Detroit. Chicago at St. Louis.

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Philadelphia at Boston. St. Louis at Chicago. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. New York at Brooklyn.

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| Accepted 1 5 Chances at S hort Jor Indians Max to Repeat, Says Dempsey,

But Jim Braddock Disagrees

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, April 22.—Jack Dempsey and Jim Bradd old retired exchampions of the heavyweight division, were

k, the ‘two

drawing room on their way to Syracuse for the Bill Dinneen dinner. Mr. Dempsey who has a keen gift of physical humor was telling about the time he found Senator Wild Bill Lyons asleep and stripped him bare

of his store teeth and his toupee.

“When the Senator ape up,” roared Mr. Dempsey, “he was fit to

be tied. He pulled his gun and®

chased me out into the street. It

t [sure was funny.”

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Crowd Greets Joe in Chicago

CHICAGO, April 22 (U. P.).—Joe DiMaggio, en route to join the Yankees after a stubborn holdout

siege, stopped off in Chicago today,

signed so many autographs he almost missed his late breakfast, and immediately boarded a train for New York. The slugging centerfielder, a pound below playing weight, said he was “so anxious to play ball, he'd play for anybody right now. “But I'm glad it’s for the Yankees,” he added with a grin. ; Joe was swamped by autograph seekers as he stepped off the streamlined city of San Francisco. They tied him up for a half hour before

he pushed his way into the dining

room in the station. “Did that upper berth put you in shape to play?” Someone asked. Joe looked up quickly: “I'll fool a lot of people about that,” he said. DiMaggio’s pay—$25,000 for the season—will not start until he is in shape to play. Earlier Joe had said it may be five days to two weeks before he takes his regular turn in the lineup.

TECH BASEBALL AND TRACK TEAMS BUSY

Two. of Tech’s spring athletic squads will place their perfect season records on the block this after. noon, the baseball nine enfertaining Decatur Central while the track aggregation travels to Terre Haute for an engagement with Wiley. Coach C. P. Dagwell of the Green and White diamond pastimers has nominated Sam Johnson, who pitched two-hit ball his last time out, as his starting pitcher against

1| Decatur Central's Hawks.

Decatur defeated Tech last year, 4 to 3.

DEFENDS STATE TITLE

WATERLOO, Ind, April 22 (U. U.)—Butler High School will defend its state corner conference baseball title against Ashley April 27. The battleground had not been chosen today. Butler went into the finals of the conference tournament by beating Albion, 15 to 13. Ashley dropped Angola, 7 to 2.

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y. His listeners joined in the roar. One of them who seemed to:be more interested in prize fighting than subtle comedy mentioned the forthcoming fight between Max Schmeling and Joe Louis. “Well, I still like Schmeling,” commented Mr. Dempsey, wiping the tears of good clean fun from his eyes. “He has shown me that he knows how to whip Louis. All he has to do is to fight him the same way he did the first time and he can’t miss. He will go this fight with a fixed plan of battle and that’s always an advantage. If you know how to whip a fellow it naturally follows you have one less worry. “On the other hand Louis has yet to prove that he knows how to whip Schmeling. By naw he must know that he has to fight him differently than he did in their first fight. But in adopting different tactics he can't

be sure they will work out all right

for him until he tries them. In the end it might very well work out that he still hasn't hit on the right answer.” Mr. Braddock said he'd still have to take Louis. “It's on account of his reflexes,” explained Mr. Braddock. It seems Mr. Braddock has been studying reflexes in a profound way. “His reflexes will be better than Schmeling’s,” added Mr. Braddock, “and that’s what will win for

Dempsey Catches on Mr. Dempsey appeared interested. He wanted to know what Mr. Braddock meant by reflexes. “Those are the things that work quick for you when you are young and don’t work so quick when are old.” “Oh,” said Mr. Dempsey, as the great white light dawned. “It all comes down to this,” said Mr. Braddock. “Louis is a good 10 years younger than Schmeling. The record books say he won't be 33 until September, but I hear he’s all of 35. Anyway, Louis is much younger and this means he is bound to be much faster. That's where the refixes come in. He'll step around faster and he'll hit faster and that’s why I say he'll beat the German.” Again Mr. Dempsey appeared to be interested. “He was much younger the last time they met, too, wasn't he?” asked Mr. Dempsey. This was the kind of pure white logic that defied rebuttal. “Yea,” stoutly admitted Mr. Braddock, “but his reflexes were two years younger then, and don’t forget that.” Those Reflexes Again

“Y don’t know much about those reflexes” said Mr. Dempsey, “but I do kmow that whenever you hit Louis around the temple he starts to go. That's what Schmeling did in their first fight and you can bet all the tea in China that’s what he's going to do when they meet in June. For some reason Louis can't take a punch around the temples. He can take it anywhere else, but not around the temples.” “Why ‘was that?” “I don’t know,” said Mr. Demp-

sey. “Some Negro fighters are hatd to hurt around the head but Louis seems to be different. Maybe it’s some sort of peciiliar weakness that just happens to develop in his case. Watch him fight—even in training —and whenever he is tapped around the temples his Knees start to wabble and he gets contused. If I was going to fight him I wouldn't try to hit him any other place else.”

WINS PRO NET TITLE PINEHURST, N. C., A 4 —: Karel Kozeluh, C Ey Ee today captured the Pinehurst professional tennis championshiv. The European pro defeated his brother Jan in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 to win the finals.

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