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REESE IS “FIND”

ACK in 1928 a New Albany, Ind., youngster by the name of Billy Herman, after starring with the New Covenant Church team of the Louisville Amateur Baseball Federation, was signed by the Colonels and started on a climb to the position he now holds, premier second

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Herman, however, wasn't ready for Double-A baseball and needed two seasons in leagues of lower classification before establishing his right to play with the American Association Colonels. . . . He put in two campaigns of brilliant work with Louisville and late in the 1931 season was sold to the Chicago Cubs.

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‘Battle Colonels Under Lights It's the Old Familiar Story Tomorrow: Niggeling Is Again in Major Races,

Now, exactly 10 vears later New Covenant Church ee has sent another player to the Colonels, a youth who may | Added to Mound Staff. Experts Believe. ho hi : , | AMERICAN LEAGUE

reach the same heights of stardom as that attained by | Wack in second place and ‘Only By GEORGE KIRKSEY New Work 14 Billy two games behind the league leading United Press Staff Correspondent | Washington 15 | Blues, the Indians were scheduled NEW YORK, May 12. —Thumb the | Cleveland ... . 18 [to roll into Indianapolis early this baseball calendar back to October. | Boston ..... 13 afternoon after completing a road 1937 and take a 100k. Then g0 back | Detroit... (trip which brought them four vic- another vear to October, 1936, and | Chicago tories in seven starts and five post- have another peek. Come all the | Philadelphia | ponements. way back to May 12, 1938, for | St. Louis

| The Redskins another glimpse | V SUE UE ALL ONE PRICE

Colonels’ spring training trip, but did not open the season a * . . Ssor > that Mana Bert Niehoff fearing that the swing throuzh Sr See We Nn . . ox ankees and the nants natural nervousness caused plaving before home town |lcky to get high as the GoRInBHL team: 100 $

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NHE newest Louisville “find” is Harold (Peewee) Reese, a Derbyvtown boy who will be 19 vears old on July 23. Yeese plaved sensational ball at shortstop on the

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. [since rain and cold JE } cause Reese to get off to a bad start. pared their activities ¢ | Dall. In two years and . month the other 14 teams haven't pinch

the four rities | The Tribesters been able to make any serious inthe might ball srasoh at Perry | '0ads into the supremacy of Man Stadium and are scheduled to swing, hattan’s high-priced baseballers into action under the lights against After a shaky start, the Yankees | the Louisville Colonels tomorrow | moved into the American League | (at 8:15 o'clock. Tt will be a ladies’ lead yesterday by throttling the | night attraction and Vance Page is | Cleveland Indians, early season sen(slated to open on the Tribe rubber | sations, 4-1. While the Yanks were with Bill Baker back of the plate. | putting the pressure on for their New Hurler From Bees seventh straight triumph, Washing- | ton fell from the top by bowing to the Tigers, 4-1. The question now is: “Who's go- | ling to head the Yanks off?” The | | answer seems to be—no one. Cleve- | land has drifted into its usual jitters away from home with a record {of five defeats in eight games on | their present Eastern road trip. Washington seems to be playing over its head. The Tigers are strug- | eling to get up among the leaders. The Red Sox are making threaten{ing gestures but aren't frightening the Yanks. The situation is even more acute | in the National League, where the Giants have won six out of eight in the West, and knocked off their | toughest rivals, the Pirates. Cubs and Cards, in their last five straight | victories. Combining fine pitching Louisville is booked here for three with steady defense and hitting tilts, tomorrow night, Saturday |power the Giants have piled up a night and Sunday afternoon, after | five and one<half-game lead. which the Indians will visit Toledo Spud Chandler outpitched Mel for & series and then return to |yarder to notch the Yanks’ seventh entertain Columbus and Toledo at straight. He allowed nine scattered the stadium [hits in winning his second game.

Schalkmen Snatch ———— ‘Tilt From Blues

i victory over the Blues in the after- | noon in which they tallied four runs in the last three innings. It was a frenzied windup to a stirring struggle and the Tribesters climaxed the Garrison finish in the ninth when Fausett walked, ad- | vanced on Wasdell's sacrifice and scored the winning marker on Glenn { Chapman's single. The Indians won and errorless ball by important factor in

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the game. Then in the first inning of the Colonels’ final tilt of their first home stand, an injury to second baseman Leo Ogorek caused Niehoff to rearrange his infield and Reese went in at shortstop. . . . The youngster promptly proceeded to go on a hitting spree and in what | amounted to seven full games connected for 10 bingles

in 26 trips to the plate. »n » 5 NINCE 1887 Indiana and Purdue have been carrving on a bitter S warfare on the diamond which has been more or less Jdverlooked by Hoosier sports fans who have been more interested in the football and basketball annual classics. . . . A total of 75 games have been plaved by the Hoosier schools with Indiana winning 42 to 32 for Purdue, and one game stopped by darkness with the score knotted at 8-8. However, since Coach Dean took over the coaching reins at Bloomington, Indiana has shown a marked superiority over its upstate rival. . Dean's proteges have won 24, lost eight and tied one against Purdue since 1925 » » » 4 » » HE first game plaved between the ancient rivals dates back to 1897 Hoosiers won a slugfest, 21-11 In 189¢ Indiana to be dominant, winning 3-1 and 8-8 . Purdue opened 20th Century with a 16-0 win in 1900 and continued to hold the upper in games won until Dean came back to his alma mater mn 1925 Until tage In

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TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Kansas City at Milwaukee, St. Paul at Minneapolis. Only games Scheduled.

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| John Niggeling, veteran right- { handed pitcher, was purchased by the Tribe from the Boston Bees last night, Leo Milier, general man-

ager announced. He played with both Kansas City and Newark last vear, winning seven games and dropping 12 with the [Blues and winning two and losing [two with the champion Bears. Nig- | | geling is 32 vears old and hails from Remsen, Towa Two Tribe members are hospital list, Buddy Lewis, catcher, who is ill, and Jimmy Pofahl, shortstop. whose right ankle is sprained Lewis probably will be ready to work tomorrow if an emergency arises Shortstop Pofahl hardly will be in {eondition to perform for another 10 davs

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Tommy Henrich belted homers Vernon Kennedy to a 4-1 win over | snapping the Senators’ streak Lefty Grove won his fifth straight game in pitching the Red Sox to a 4-2 victory over the White Sox A triple play executed by Hughes-Kress-M2Quinn and five Philadelphia errors helped the Browns win | their first Bastern game over the Athletics, 9-5

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Indianapolis Kansas City Runs batted in-—Mille: gher, Latshaw., Chapman I'wo+-base hits Joost, Breese Gallagher, Miller. Home run--Gallagher Stolen base--MeCormick | Sacrifices oyle, Baker. Waxdell. Left oh | bases—Indianapolis, 12; Kansas City Base on _ balls— Off Hamner, 6; Johnson. |

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limes Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, May 12— Wabash was loser today after its first home track and field meet since the sport was discontinued in 1926. Victorious in three of 15 events, the Little Giants lost to DePauw yesterday, 99 to 32.

| PARK MEETS DANVILL E

Park Schools baseball team will be out for its ninth victory in 12 starts this season when it meets the Danville nine today on Park's dia- | of one game in the series. mond. The Reichelmen won an | City collected 12 blows but | earlier gahe with Danville, 22 to 8. | mitted three miscues in the

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Anthony McCann duties as president of Columbus Bowling League. He was elected last Norris Maher will serve as vice president and Joseph Kirkoff was re-slected sec-retarv-{reasurer About IB) attended the meeting and decided to continue the league's bowling active ities on Wednesday nights next fall

Baseball

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