Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1938 — Page 16

By Eddie Ash PIRATES HAVE ONE SOUTHPAW

AND GETTING ALONG ALL RIGHT

~ Indianapolis

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1988

Scots Are Late

Word comes from Scotland that the grouse season has opened. It began here after the Ambers-Armstrong decision with Al Weil, Ambers’ pilot, doing the grousing.

ITH Carl Hubbell out, the New York Giants are forced to play out the rest of the schedule with only one southpaw—Cliff Melton. . . . The time was when lack of a dependable ‘left-hander was regarded as pennant disqualification, but nowadays details of that sort get none

too much attention. For example, the Pirates ¢ are on their way to a pennant without a dependable southpaw. . .. Ed Brandt is their only lefty. . . . Not until the Bucs-began to show real signs of life did Brandt rouse himself from bullpen lethargy. . . . Now he turns in a game once in a while, but he still is far from a star performer. If the Pirates worked their way into the World Series . Brandt perhaps would be forgotten as a starting possibility.

2 #2 = 2 % = HE Yankees of 1921 and 1922 won pennants without left-handed pitching of consequence. .. . But in 1923 : they had southpaw quality in just one man—Herb Pen- * nock, one of the marvels of all time. Pennock never wasted a motion. . . . But time and effort got him, just as they have gotten Hubbell, another _ easy hurler and conserver of energy. They said Hubbell would go on and on. . . . But the strain of the screwball finally claimed him for a victim, as it had claimed so many users of that treacherous and ~ tricky delivery in the past. ” o 8 8 2 »

2 1= than a year ago any American League team that needed pitch- : ers tried first of all to deal with the Cleveland club, for Cleveland was thought to have more good moundsmen than one club could pos- : sibly use. But in the space of a tow months the team’s pitching rating has _ slumped .to a point very close to the lower bracket in the American League. From the team that was said to have the best pitching staff in the league it has become a club as weak in the box as the second _ division outfits. t ” 2 » » 2

N defending his umpires, President George Trautman of the Ameri- _ 4 can Association says they are the best available and that everybody connected with organized ball knows there is a shortage of talent in the “guess ’em profession.” Old ball players used to turn to umpiring but nowadays the average player of any length of service in the majors saves his money and * usually has a line of work or business picked out to carry him along after his playing days have ended.

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IGHT baseball also has made umpiring less attractive as a career, because of the hours. . . . It places an umpire in the night watchman class and takes the joy out of staying in the game. It’s no easy task to handle a double-header during a heat wave. . . . Schools for - umpires have helped to some extent but not enough to keep all leagues supplied with high class arbiters.

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OWLING Night in honor of Manager Ray Schalk is to be celebrated at Perry Stadium on the night of Aug. 31 when the Indians come in off the road to meet the Columbus Red Birds. . . . The Indianapolis Bowling Association is urging all members to turn out and pay tribute to the Tribe chieftain, who operates a big tenpin establishment in Chicago during the winter. The Schalk Recreation Alleys are ultra modern and several important tournaments are held there every winter. Many Indianapolis bowl ers compete in the Schalk tourneys and they always report that “a good time was had by all.”

HEN the Detroit Tigers purchased Ben McCoy from. the Toledo Mud Hens it’markee the first time in many seasons that they had bought a second sacker. . . . But Charlie Gehringer can't go on forever in the big time... . He's 35 and has been pounding the ball up there as a regular since 1926 after spending two years in the minors. Jack Zeller, who was appointed vice president of the Tigers to fill the vacancy caused by the release of Mickey. Cochrane, has served as scout under five Detroit managers. The Cubs and the Phillies will play a double-header at Wrigley Field Sunday. . for the Bruins,

Baseball at a Glance

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Only Blow Tallied Off Veteran Hurler.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Maybe

better off if they let St. Louis keep Dizzy Dean. The Cubs shelled out $185,000 and

three players—Pitchers Curt Davis and Clyde Shoun and Outfielder Tuck Stainback—for Dizzy. He has scrambled and picked his spots to win six games this season against one defeat: ‘Davis, a big righthander who will be 32 in September, has won 10 and lost 6. Shoun’s record isn’t so brilliant—he’s won three and lost five, but has functioned notably as a relief. hurler. on several occasions. With a team like the Cubs behind them, their records probably would have been better had they stayed in Chicago.

Issues One Walk

Davis almost entered baseball’s hall of fame yesterday. He pitched a one-hit game against the Brooklyn Dodgers and if it hadn't been for Ernie Koy’s bunt in the second ‘and a walk he gave Cookie Lavagetto in the fifth, he would have turned in a perfect ball game. The Cards won, 5-0. Koy, a fleet runner, beat out a bunt after Davis had pitched a perfect first inning. The next nine men after Koy went down in order. Then came Lavagetto’s walk and after that, first base remained untenanted—13 up and 13 down. The Pittsburgh Pirates increased their National League lead over the second-place New York Giants to six games. They whipped Boston, 6-2, while the Cubs walloped the Giants, 6-1. Vance Page, a rookie from Indianapolis, let the New Yorkers down with four hits.

McKechnie Fined $150

Cincinnati, in third place, drew to within half a game of the Giants with a 3-1 victory over the Phillies. Manager Bill McKechnie was fined $150 for alleged abusive language toward Umpire George Barr at St. Louis on Monday when he was ejected from the field for the first. time in four years. The Yankees increased their American League lead to 12 games by splitting their second successive double-header with the White Sox. Second-place Boston was defeated, 5-3, by Cleveland. The Vittmen moved to within a single percentage point of the Red Sox. Bruce Campbell was the big gun of the Cleveland victory with two homers .- that brought in three runs.‘ Mel Harder scattered ten hits to the Sox. Washington scored, 8-6, over St. Louis to sweep a two-game series. The Athletics broke a nine-game losing streak by licking Detroit in a 10-5 and 11-2.

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Western Association; V. V. Taggart, who played on the West Coast; C. E. Qundt, who was with Denver in the Western Association, and Cecil . Gibson, formerly with Terre Haute in the Three-I League. Batteries for the Forty and Eight, { all former members of the Ameri-

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Association without charge. Try- | play will be held at Riverside Dia- | ona 1 today at3eyp m.

JOCKEY FATOR GAINS GROUND AFTER SPILL

MONTREAL, Aug. 25 (U. P.).— Jockey - Elmer Fator, who was severely injured in a spill at Blue Bonnets race track Saturday, is improving steadily, Royal Victoria Hospital officials said today: Fator suffered a concussion and an injured hip.

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Soktner ‘Cub Pitcher Wins 10th Game, Giving One Hit; Frisch Discusses His Job

Cardinal Manager Unperturbed by Ouster Rumors; He Takes the Blame.

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 25 (U. P)— Rumor has it that the axe is swinging at Frankie Frisch's head, but if there is anything to the w that Vice President Branch Rickey is trying to ease out of the Cardinals organizatioh, the Fordham Flash is still unperturbed. “You can't prevent people from talking about my personal affairs,” Frisch said. “I've read stories predicting that I won’t be back next year to manage the Cardinals. But so far President Sam Breadon and I have not discussed any move for 1939.” The field boss of the once power-

ful Gas House gang said he did not |

expect any development regarding the Cardinals’ managership until the current season is over. “Breadon and I have not discussed it,” he declared. “He hasn't tipped me off to look for another job, nor has he indicated that I'm to be retained. “This is my 12th year with the Cardinals and my relations with the entire organization have been extremely pleasant. But this is Breadon’s ball club and if he doesn’t want me around any more

I'll bow out gracefully. I'm doing|

the best I can, but I'm still just one of the hired help. “Regardless of what the stories say, Mr. Rickey has never told me to my face that he disagrees with

‘the way I run this club.”

The Cardinal leader ascribed the poor showing of his club this season to over-optimistic reliance on rookies and inexperienced players. “The manager's always the fall guy in the end, so I'll take the blame,” he said.

Yankee Girls ‘Reach Finals

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Aug. 25 (U. P.).—Playing like the world champions they are, Alice Marble and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan gained the final round of the Na-

| tional Women’s Tennis Doubles

Tournament today with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over the English team of Kay Stammers and Margot Lumb. A crowd of 2000 saw the defending and Wimbledon champions blast the English girls off the court in 30 minutes. The other women's semifinal between Jadwiga Jedrzejowska of Poland and Mme. Rene Mathieu of France and the Australian team of Thelma Coyne and Nancy Wynne won't be played until tomorrow. ~ The remaining two men’s quarterfinals will be played today. In one the Frenchmen, Yvon Petra and Bernard Destremau, conquerors of Don Budge and Gene Mako in this year’s French championship, - will meet Harry Hopman and Leonard Australian Davis Cup spares. In the other match the No. 1 Australian duo of Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich meet Gardner Mulloy and George Toley of Florida. Two semifinal places were filled yesterday by Budge and Mako and Wilmer Allison and Johnny Van yn.

MAROONS’ FRANCHISE MAY GO TO ST. LOUIS

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (U. P)).--The future of the Montreal Maroons, one of the oldest teams in the National Hockey. League, will be decided today at an emergency session of the league’s board of governors. : It was believed that the meeting was called to act upon a proposal to transfer the Maroons’ franchise to St. Louis. The Maroons had their second disastrous season at the box office last winter. It was worse than that of 1936-37 because the Maroons failed to make the playoffs.

‘Baseball

The Bowers Envelope nine will play the Baird's Service team at Garfield 3 Sunday to break the Big Six League tie. The winner is to play the victor Sept. 4 of the Standard Nut vs. Kroger game on Sunday. Practice for the Bowers team is to be held tomorrow at Garfield.

The Indianapolis Fairfax Merchants, with a record of 15 victories and 4 losses, will play the Anderson Boosters Sunday at Grande Park at 2:30 p. m. For games with the Merchants, write or call Bud Kaesel, 516 Somerset Ave. BE-3003.

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VANDALIA, O. Aug. 25.—Joe Hiestand, Ohio farmer, was the possessor today of the most amazing record in the history of trapshooting—and he still had a chance to better it. . He had shattered 966 consecutive targets from the 16-yard line in competition, for a per cent score in every event an amateur can enter in the Grand American trapshooting tournament. When Joe, who iis 31, resumes shooting from that distance in future tournaments, his record string will grow until he misses. Hiestand had a string of 766, surpassing the former world record of 714, held by a professional, when he resumed shooting yesterday. Sixty-

The Indianapolis . Indians will hold their first practice Monday at Raymond St. and Pleasant Run Blvd. at 7:30 p. m. Several more backs and linemen with college experience are needed to complete the team. The Indians are to open their season Sept. 10. All city and state teams wanting to enter football leagues playing night and Sunday football call Bill Britton at Em-Roe’s, LI-3446. A new football league is being formed of teams within a 50-mile radius of Indianapolis. Ten teams are to be selected from Greenwood,

.Sheridan, Kokomo, Shelbyville, No-

blesville, Franklin, Frankfort, An. dersan, Alexandria, Danville and Indiana Indianapolis 1s to be represented by the Brightwood Merchants. Teams interested in playing night and Sunday games are requested to contact F. A. Bucksot, 2372 Olney St., or call Ross Smith at LI. 1200.

champion New York Giants to four hits yesterday

Hiestand’s Unfinished 966 Run Might Stand Forever

six had been shattered in a meet two weeks ago, and since Friday, he had scored a perfect 700 in Grand American competition. . Yesterday he clicked off 200 more in the Class AA championships—but failed to ‘win the.event. Phil Miller of French Lick, Ind. also had a perfect score. 100 targets both broke 75 at 16

yard line. . targets and Miller took the event, missing only one. Shootoff breaxs or misses do not count in a consecutive string record. Ac , Hiestand has shattered 1066 taxgets from the 16-yard mark. That includes the 75 in yesterday's shootoff and 25 from one on Tuesday. Whatever he eventually winds up with will stand, perhaps forever, as the world amateur mark. Fred Tomlin of Glassboro, N: J, ‘ran the professional record to 714 on Monday, then missed. No ‘one can break Hiestand’s - tournament mark of 900 straight breaks from the 16-yard line unless the Grand American program is changed. Only 900 targets are thrown from that distance.

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Millers Next On Redskins’ Western Trip

Tribe Plays Three Games in Minneapolis; St. Paul ~ Sweeps Series.

Times Special : , - MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 25.—The Indianapolis Indians, defeated three straight times by the American Association league leaders at St. Paul, invaded Nicollet Park today to battle Ownie Bush's Millers in a night game. The Hoosiers and Bushmen have met 19 times this season and Ine dianapolis holds the edge, 10 vice ‘tories to nine. After three tilts here in two days, the Tribesters will head for Milwaukee for another two-day stand with the Brewers opening on Saturday. ~The Tribe's last invasion of the West will close in Kansas City on Aug. 30 and the team will return to Indianapolis on Aug. 31 to meet Columbus.

Five-Run Lead Tossed Away

Times Special ST. PAUL, Aug. 25.—At the end of three innings last night, the Indians led the Saints, 5 to 0. At the

‘lend of nine innings the Saints led

the Indians, 8 to 5. % It was a sad ending to the Tribe's final 1938 appearance at Lexington Park as the Apostles made a clean sweep of the three-game series. A paid crowd of 8682 saw the home team come from behind and trounce the Redskins, and the Saints’ triumph put them eight and a half games ahead of the thirdplace Schalkmen and six full games ahead of the second-place Kansas City Blues. Ken Silvestri met one of Jack Tising’s offerings for a home run with two on in the fourth inning and Leroy Anton pounded Jack for a four-master in the sixth. In the seventh the Apostles rallied for four runs and salted the contest. Milton Galatzer hit a triple for the Indians and Steve Mesner and Pete Chapman collected doubles.

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