Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1938 — Page 20

By Eddie Ash

INDIANS ALERT ON THE . BASES # 2

THEFTS IN

CHALK 17 12 TILTS

NDIANAPOLIS has made a head start in the stolen base department ‘of play and the Indians’ record on the paths shows 17 thefts in 12 games. . . . Buck Fausett of the Hoosiers holds the A. A. record for a single game. . . . He pilfered five times against Milwaukee in 1936. . .. The league record for a season, 72, was posted by Doug Baird of Indianapolis in 1921. Mike McCormick. is leading the 1938 Tribesters with six thefts. The Western clubs of the Amierivaii Association have only to. shoot;at Louisville’s 8516 to break the best mark in the East in opening day attendance. . . . The Western: teams were to stage their home openers today and the guess is that Kansas City will be tops, followed by St. Paul, Minneapolis and Milwaukee. : St. Paul has consistently outdrawn Minneapolis for

the past three years in the opening day attendance competi-|

tion between the Twin Cities. 2 a = "of wo IMMY WASDELL saw batting action in 32 games with ‘Washington last season and while his ‘average ‘was down to .255 he got into the extra base hit statistics with four doubles, four triples and two-home runs... . He played 21 games at first base and got by with only one error on his record. > In 118 games with Chatisnioogs, where he batted .319, his extra base hit production consisted of 15 doubles, eight triples and 12 home runs. . . . The Lookouts used him at first base in 98 games, in left field 14 games and in six games as a pinch hitter. . . . He was credited with eight stolen bases. , . . Chattanooga finished seventh in the

Southern Association race. #2 ‘nn = 2 #8 TEVE MESNER, Indianapolis’ third sacker, batted in 91 runs in 138 games with Los Angeles in 1937. . He collected 38 Soules, eight triples and 10 home runs. .. . Not too fast on the paths, though. . , . Just four thefts. Bill Baker, Tribe catcher; hit .292 for Oakland in 111 games. . . . He belted 24 doubles, two triples and two home runs. Jimmy Pofahl, Indianapolis shortstop, is not hitting ‘em to the safe spots thus far, but the lad evidently has some power. . . . While patting .295 for Springfield in the Mid- Atlantic League the youngster pounded out 26 doubles, eight triples and 13 home runs. He stole 16 times and batted in 71 runs. ... . His weakness was striking out—165 times. . . . And he has fanned eight times in 12 games with the Indians. xe 8 8 = 2 8 0»

OU GEHRIG, old Two-Gun of the films and famed’ cleanup slugger with the New York Yankees, is an example of baseball’s strange ways. . . . Larrupin’ Lou has gone to bat 34 times in 11 games this sea-. son and only three hits have rolled off his bludgeon. . . . Like the time Gehrig got his breakfast foods mixed up while doing a radio commercial, he is unable to pick out the proper time to swing on the ball this spring. . . . His batting average is down to .088. / Evidently the trouble with that Yankee outfit is mental brought on by the absence of Joe DiMaggio, who was given more space in the New York press while holding out than the regulars rec ceived during their

spring training grind, for which they received no pay.

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VERYTHING is breaking just right for Di Maggio and if the Yankees break loose after his return to the lineup the Italian will be

credited with furnishing the spark. . . .

Giving him all the reason

in the world to support his demand for that $40,000 which he didn’t

get.

Col. Jake Ruppert, Yankee owner, has been ill since wrestling it

out with DiMaggio on a new contract and was unable to inake the

trip to Kansas City for the Blues’ home opener today. .

. The Blues

returned home leading the American. Association and ‘Mr. Ruppert

had set his heart on being present at his new club’s inaugural. —

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NQLUMBUS is in the A. A. cellar with two games won and nine A lost, but the defending champions may come to life at any ime

and: start climbing.

Chain store teams are that way.

team that Manager ‘Barney Shotton of the Red Birds piloted id

the West for the first road trip of &

started the season two weeks ago.

e year resembles little that which . The disastrous home stand of the

champions caused the club officials to send out calls for help, and the result has been the addition of three experienced performers to the

_roster. —

Two infielders and one outfielder have bolstered the Birds and

more aid is expected while the club is on the road.

. Dick Seibert,

first sacker of the 1937 American Association pennant winners, was obtained by the purchase route this week as was outfielder Eddie

Morgan.

Art Garibaldi, star third sacker from the Sacramento club, has been holding down the hot corner in early games when the young talent brought north failed to deliver.

Rascher Booked On Mat Program

Am Rascher, 218, former Indiana University mat star and Big Ten Conference heavyweight champ, gets the top billing on the Armory wrestling card Tuesday night. The Cedar Lake, Ind., wrestler is rated tops in Hoosier pro grappling circles. Rascher, appearing for the first time in a year, tackles the rugged young St. Louis stalwart, Ray Villmer. Ray, weighing the same as Am, has an impressive record here. Rascher has been in the East and

South where he scored against a list of topnotchers. He is remembered here for his ability to “give and take” and for his burst of speed in the ring. After lining up the main event, Promoter Lloyd Carter had a chance to obtain the services of Henry Piers, 227, Dutch champion, and is sending him against Jim Wright, 235, powerful Pacific Coast “meanie.” Wright is six feet four inches tall and Piers six feet three. Piers extended Everett Marshall last Tuesday, winning one of three falls.

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Pos Laurels With:

By: GEORGE KIRKSEY: : United Bress Stag Correspondent ;

NEW: "YORK,"

and swaggering: Joe" ‘Medw : { baseball's ‘main. attractiol today because: of meritorious. Service 4n yesterday's games. : Grove, - who at 38; lacks “only a month of being the. oldest pitcher

(Earl Whitehill is the oldest). in. the American League, creaking soupbone and pitched the Red Sox to a 6-1 triumph over the Yankees. He yielded only five hits. Hal Schumacher, the ex-St. Law= rence ' collegian, brightened the Giants’ hopes by giving his second brilliant pitching exhibition. He hurled the Terrymen to a 4-2 victory over the Bees, allowing but five hits—four more than he gave up in his last start. Buddy Lewis, Washington third baseman who is ranked by many as the game’s greatest all-round hot corner guardian, batted in six runs as the Senators triumphed over the Athletics, 7-2, and held their distance half a game behind the pacesetting Cleveland Indians. Joe Medwick, playing his second game of the season for the Cardinals after a siege of lumbago, hit a triple and a single to lead the Gashousers to a 5-3 victory over Pittsburgh. The answer to “what was wrong with the Cardinals?” seems to have been the absence of a young man named Medwick.

Pirates Fall Back

to second place as the Giants took undisputed hold of the lead as a result of their eighth straight victory, longest winning streak of the current season. Hank Leiber’s homer with two men on in the first inning was the Giants’ winning punch. Bill Lee, notorious for his “one bad inning,” had Cincinnati shut out until the ninth and staggered out under fire as Clay Bryant rescued him and enabled the Cubs to down the Reds, 12-5. Augie Galan hit a homer and double and drove in five Chicago runs. The Reds scored five runs in the ninth ‘with Frank McCormick getting a homer. Brooklyn made six hits count. for as many runs and the Dodgers turned back the Phillies, 6-3. Walks to Camilli and Winsett forced in the winning run. Relief pitgl or Max Butcher, reinstated after be suspended and fined $500, hit: 3 homer with a. Fate on base in “the eighth.

White Sox Rained Out

Wes Ferrell scored his third straight victory as Washington flattened the A’s. Outfielder Mel Alamada was ejected from the game for kicking umpire John Quinn during an argument over balls and strikes. Home runs by Lyn Lary, Ken Keltner and Jeff Heath featured Cleveland's 11 to 6 victory over the Browns. Umpire Bill McGowan tossed pitcher Johnny Allen out of the game in the fourth inning after a hot 10-minute argument over the arbiter’s decisions on balls and strikes. Denny Galehouse finished the game and received credit for the victory. The White Sox-Tigers game was rained out in the third with Detroit leading, 2-0.

Yesterday’s Hero—Jimmy Foxx, Red Sox first baseman who snared Joe Glenn's hot liner and converted it into the season’s first triple play,

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FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938

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Maybe

He'll Need Some Help

the Cubs are going to win

_ the pennant this year with the help of Dean, but -somebody ought to tell

Charley Grimm that OU Diz can’t win

‘em all.

AT IONAL LOOP

Form Is Hailed by Terrymen; Tribe in Saints’ Opener on ar 3

Ray. ‘Sohalk. 4

pitchers, ancient. ‘Lefty. “Grave: and Prise 4; college-educated Hal Schumacher, ® and two Jatters,- FOung uddy’ Lewis

: Tndianapolis, - ‘were

s Ganzel’s © Saints”

open season at Lexingion; Park thie ernoon.:

dianapolis and are .in ‘third-place

skins. Other Western. openers ‘today found Louisville'at Minneapolis, Co=

Kansas City. With ‘Vance Page out! of action with a charley horse, the- Indians’ mound staff is upset and Manager Schalk was undecided on his pitcher for the series opener here. It was believed Art Herring would occupy the rubber for the home team. The Indians arrived late last night and will remain here three days before moving across the river to Minneapolis. The Schalkmen are booked for 12 games on the road and will wind up the trek at Kansas City on May 11,

Baseball

The Indiana Avenue Markets, entered in the All-Star League playing at the Belmont Stadium, have open cates Sunday, Monday and Thursday of next week for practice games. Out-of-town teams desiring games with the Markets write John Mont824 W. 19th St, or Call RI-0652. ;

All team managers in the Sportsmen’s Store Sunday School League, playing Thursday evenings, are to meet at the store at 8 p. m. Monday. Schedules will be completed and. officers elected.

The Little Flower team of the Bush-Feezle League will open its season Wednesday against the State House club. The Blossoms want games for Friday and Monday evenings. Call Louis, CH-4772.

The Grain Dealers Mutual team will meet the Washington Street Boosters in a practice game at 5:30 p. m. today at Rhodius Park.

The following are to report to Rhodius Park at 10 a. m. Sunday to get uniforms for a game in the afternoon: Sanford, Hasiley, Hodges; F. Milton, H. Goodwin, L Goodwin, Jacobs, Hoffa, Skiles, M. Dean and Oakes.

Those interested in trying out for the Irvington Legion team report to

George,

‘The ‘ Apostles “annexed two gut of three from the: ‘Hoosiers'at In--

a step behind the. second-place. Red~:

lumbus at Milwaukee and Toledo at |

Dizzy Dean Ducky Medwick CHICAGO, April 29 (U. P.).—Dizzy Dean of the Cubs said today that it was all right with him if Joe Medwick of the Cardinals’ wanted to feud, but added that it was going to be a one-man affair. , . "TT don’t want no part of it,” Dean said. “That's baby stuff, by George.” Medwick, in a letter written to sports editor Lloyd Lewis _ and

Dean telephoned Medwick in Pittsburgh yesterday to make sure yMedwick had written the letter.. “He told me it was right,” Dean said, “but I didn’t try to make no peace with him. Confidentially I think they’re just trying to build up the St. Louis gate.” Medwick’s letter referred to statements attributed to Dean in which the Cub pitcher accused Medwick of starting the row at Tampa, Fla., in April, 1937, in which the Cardinals scrimmaged with Jack Miley of New York and Irv Kupcinet of Chicago, sports writers. “Dizzy started that row,” Medwick’s letter said. “Miley and Kupcinet will tell you the truth about it, which is that we merely came to Dizzy's rescue. We were always doing that, as he always did a craw-

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published in the ‘Chicago Daily News, accused Dean of ‘“crawfishing.” |

fish whenever a row got hot.’

STANDINGS

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Won. Lost. Kauiisas City E INIJANAPOLES

Louisville caseseseece Toledo “en ss0e0000049 ‘Milwaukee. ...c.co00.

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AMERICAN. LEAGUE

: _ Won. Lost. Cleveland . ce 0s0e00ce 7 Washington vewass eed Boston ... Chicago ...ceoc0000New York seeds 0 00000 -St. Louis

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NATIONAL VAL LEAGUE : Won. Lost. Pittsburgh .......... Chicago .... Boston T80sQ NTR RRONNS Brooklyn ....cccoce0 Cincinnati .....c000. St. Louis .

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TODAY’S GAMES AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at St. Paul Columbus at Milwaukee. Toledo at Kansas City. Louisville at Minneapolis.

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE ‘New York at Boston. Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Chicago. - St. Louis at Pittsburgh.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS No Fa aERIUAN AssoriaTioN .

NATIONAL LEAGUE 514 1

Oinsinnats 005 Chic 080 2035 03x—12 15 0

ott, Benge, M : pickets. Lee, Bryant nl Lombardi

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500 | Bos

.Lavagetto, Dodgers

‘| Ripple, Giants

Baseball at a Glance

120 000—3 9 3 010 030 02x— 6 6 1 "Walters and Atwood: Hamlin, Butcher and Spencer.

011 100— 5 12 1

gh Louis ttsburgh 010—3 8 ©O

Weiland, Noes and Owen; Tobin,

New, ork 300 100 000— 410 1 ‘002 000 000— 2. 5 1 Schumacher and Danning: Shoffner and Lope x Sp ——

AMERICAN LEAGUE 110 400. 000— 6 12 1 001 000 000—1 5 2

* ‘Grove and Desautels; Gomez, Stine and Glenn. .

020 100— 7 8 1 © 900 001 000—2 8 3

Ferrell; Caster, Kel-

Yi ihington . Philade W. Ferrell and R Liev and Brucker, Hayes

areas 101 303 030-11 16 3

Clevel a St. Louk ui 001 400 100— 6 12 4

bones Galehouse and Pytlak: Tamulis,

¥ Cole, Linke and Sullivan. 1 chicago at Detroit, rain. Ey

Major Leaders

BATTING Player and Club A H 11 Seive enn PAPEETE | 9 Trosky, Indians . 15 Steinbacher, White Sox.. 27 14 Hayes, Athletics 9 9

HOME RUNS

Pct. .688 .600 484 481 478

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‘|'Greenberg, Tigers ...scccce.cecccsnssoas 3

Johnson, Athleties cecnccencsscsenneanss 3

ss stents atesinstgatnenenn 3 Lodigiani,” Athletics cccassccsscicsscases 3 Trosky, Indians ...ccceececcoccscggece. 3 Klein, Phillies <..cceoeccosecssccccsans. 3 Leiber, Giants ........ Vaughan, Pirates RUNS BATTED IN Foxx, Red Sox veseess 15 Vaughan, Pirates ....... sasssssssnssssn: 14 McCarthy, Giants «..oceee. esissunenes 18 Leiber, Giants 12 Ott, Giants ......co000s ssvessssrcsense 11 Lodigiani, Athletics .. sssisnaseess KL Rizzo, Pirates ......ccecciececcaccessse 11 Lewis, Senators

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* POLSON TAKES NEW POST MITCHELL, Ind. April 29. Henry Polson, basketball coach at Paoli, today had signed a two-year contract as athletic director of Mitchell High School, succeeding Wesley E. Abel. ;

COLLEGE SCORES

DePauw, 6; Indiana State, 4. Maryland, 7; Lafayette, 3.

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Ellenberger Park at 9 a. m. or 2 during May will be formed. The annual meeting of the Indi-

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tion for drawing of diamonds is to be held at 8 p. m. Monday at the association’s office, 28 S. Delaware St. Teams desiring to enter league play are requested to attend.

The Wiliam H. Block team will meet the Goldsmith Secos at 10

. | a. m. Sunday on Riverside 2.

The East Side Merchants want a game Sunday with a city or out-of-town team. Write Paul Coffin, 1010

St. Paul St., or call Paul, LI-9160,

p. m. tomorrow. A league to play |ing

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Kempler Radio will play E. C. At-

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erside 5. Kempler players are requested to report in uniform. The Southport Red Birds will play at Lebanon Sunday. For games with the Birds write Ken Osborne, 1083 Hanna Ave. Indianapolis.

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