Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1939 — Page 17

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By Eddie Ash

RIGHT HAND HOMERS PREVAIL

IN SENIOR LEAGUE, AT LEAST

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"PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (U. P)—The _ /Athletics today announced that the team's

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"MEL OTT, Ival Goodman, Johnny Mize and Dolph “7 Camilli—the National League's 1-2-3-4 in homer “hitting last year—all do their apple knocking from the

left handers’ side of the plate. . . . The combined swinging

of this Big Four combination accounted for 117 home | “runs, more than one-sixth

of the 611 entered in the

‘official statistites of 1938. ® However, figures indicate that all the geography of the “senior loop ball yards leans “the other way. . .. It’s the “right-hand hitters who get :the break in the homer department even though the -four top men of last season “were left-hand hitters. Johnny Rizzo, Pittsburgh, led the right-handed homer brigade with 23 and runner‘up was reliable Joe Medwick, “Cardinals, with 21... . This “was 10 short of his 1937 ‘record. : Collectively, 347 of the 611 home runs were produced right handedly, as against 264 by the port-side sphere sledgers. . . . In : seven of the eight parks in which National League games will be played this year, the right-hand homer hitters

outslugged the lefties a year ago, even in Cincinnati, St. Louis and Brooklyn, where Goodman, Mize and Camilli played half of their games. Only in the Polo Grounds did left hand homer hitters hold the edge, and even with Homer King Ott and his able assistants, Joe Moore and Jim Ripple, totaling 37 round trippers in their home park, the margin was only 78 to 39, meaning that when Ott, Moore and

Joe Medwick

Ripple were not at bat, the heme run score at the Polo Grounds stood.

69 to 41 in favor of the righties.

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“JHE homer scores in the other’ fields were equally impressive in . favor of right hand slugging. . . . in the Bee Hive, the right Handers led, 26 to 5; in Chicago, 48 to 17; in Cincinnati, 50 to 31; in St. Louis, 54 to 49; in Brooklyn, 43 to 39, and in Pittsburgh, 23 to 21. In Shibe Park, where the Phillies finished their 1938 home season and will play their 1939 games, the righties won, 15 to 5. . . . Earlier. in the year, playing in the Phillies’ old park, the first half schedule showed an exact even break, 19 to 19. : inh Southpaw swinging Ott wen the individual over-all former cham-

pionship in the National with 36 and it was his seventh year of 30 or _

more four masters. a # = ® : ” fT is said that John Henry Lewis agreed in advance of-his heavy- { weight championship match with Joe Louis, to defend his light - theavyweight title against Joe’s stablemate, Dave Clark, within 60 idays after the Louis-Lewis meeting. : 3 And John Henry and Clark are to clash with the crown at stake Zin Detroit late in March. . . . A victory for Dave will give Louis’ ¢board of managers a monopoly on two divisions. . . . Advance agreeiments give pro boxing a black eye.

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»e ® Joe Williams— ‘NA IAMI, Fla., Feb. 23.—A chilling wind that whistled in 3 from the sea had stopped the prize fight and we sat in a box at the Hialeah Park race track watching the sport ‘with Jim Farley, the reformed boxing commissioner and icurrent Postmaster General. i Mr. Farley smiled his genial smile . .. “Do you know i've got a heavyweight fighter of my own now?” i We hadn't heard about that./ _. “Yes, and he’s only 10 years old.” This was not only interesting but startling—a heavyweight fighter 10 years old! ; “It’s my son Jim. He goes to New York Military iAcademy. They had a boxing tournament, graded the oungsters by weights, and young Jim turned out to be ‘a heavyweight.” :

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i OF course this was in a relative sense. But was young Jim serious i in his fistic aspirations? Was he looking forward to the day he Jroud be the heavyweight champion of the world? i Mr. Farley smiled again . , , “I don’t know. But it looks as if bs going 0 be a long time before anybody beats Joe Louis at that, oesn’ n : : 1 The man who was mainly instrumental in making Franklin Delano Roosevelt President of the United States, much to the mental disress of the tories, the horse and buggy fanciers and the Sixty Famdlies, is still a confirmed fight filbert. He hopes the fight will g0 on fonight. He has never seen Tony Galento.

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OME weeks ago Mr. Farley proposed a stamp for baseball's centennial year. Hundreds of suggestions have poured into his office. “If we honor an individual it will have to be Doubleday, who is ‘redited with founding the game,” he said. “But I'm not sure it should be an individual. I think it should be something that touches gn the game in a broader sense, something that presents the game @s a game.”

i We gathered that Mr. Farley favors a scene showing two kid teams dn action ‘on a’ sand lot. There may be something selfish about this «on the part of Mr. Farley. As ; $he was a fine first baseman. 2 8 =n 8 fl

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URING his incurabency ‘as Postmaster General, Mr. Farley has’ : All of these have gone through : routine channels.’ He took the baseball stamp directly to ‘the Presi- 2

authorized some 90 new stamps.

sdent’s desk.

: “This is something I'd like to see done,” he told ‘the Président: A the President answered, in words to ‘this effect, “What's stopping

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¢ It developed there had been some objections in the early stages of the proposal. Such as “if we do this for baseball, we'll have to do it for’

‘Stennis, golf, polo, fighting, etc.” : : LR : ® % = A PPARENTLY Mr. Farley has beer around Washington long enough Mh to know that the best way to beat down objections of this nature - S 1

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:game on the sand lots.

: © Mr. Farley likes to have a couple of potatoes riding on the horses.

Everybody ‘tries to give him tips. drightful.

: The fourth race was coming up. ... “I'm going to have a bet on :Williamstown in this one,” he said. And as an afterthought, he added, “Looks like that ought to be a hunch for you, Williams.” + Your correspondent and the Postmaster General wound up in the «Everglades. The oat muncher finished sixth.

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& kid in his home ‘town of Haverstraw:

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drop in and chew the fat with the boss. Anyway he tells us, the scentennial stamp will either ‘immortalize Doubleday or feature a kid’

600-Yard Event

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U. P.) — Lou Burns, former intercollegiate dmnile and half-mile champion, scored 2 photo finish victory over Sandy Goldberg of the Millrose ‘A. A. in he featured 600-yard race of the 69th Regiment ganies last night. Burns broke the tape an inch or wo ahead of Goldberg in the ex-

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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (U. P.). —Princeton toppled the University of Pennsylvania, defending titlists, to win the National Intercollegiate table tennis championship here last night. Dan Kreer and Abbott Nelson, the Tiger tandem from Chicago, whipped the Quaker combine of Izzy Bellis and Len Sarner, 3-1, to end the tournament with seven straight vieries, - ogee

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Red Devils to Be Hard Hit Next Season; Secrist’s Throw Recalled.

By LEO DAUGHERTY

ridge’s Fred Krampe has averaged 11 Points a game. . . . North Liberty, which has won 22, did it with an average of 45 markers. . . . Jeffersonville, which closed its regular season last night, loses five seniors through graduation. . . . They include Big Ed Denton, Fred Hunckler, Buddy Maschmeyer, Wayne Clapp and Hoss Edwards. Nothing in Hoosier basketball the size. of Ed Rommell, center of the Louisville Male team which Jeff beat, 41 to 34, last night. . . . He comes into the center ring at 240. ... . Coach Ralph Powell of the Valparaiso Vikings recently missed the first game which his team has participated in for 16 years. Sports writers and coaches in the North Central Conference will pick an All-Conference team of eight players, three forwards, three guards and two centers. ... It will be announced next Wednesday.

One Chance Left

Still trying for a decision after 18 losses, Noblesville has one chance left tomorrow night. . . . But Tough

floor. Charlie Secrist perhaps owns a record for tournament play. . . . He played in four, two with Muncie and two with New Castle, breaking into the semifinals with the former when only a freshman... . He topped off his tournament perform-

tween Muncie and Martinsville he tipped the ball to himself, aimed

give the Bearcats a 13-to-12 victory and state crown. In ‘a recent game at LaPorte’s big civic gym, Guard Irvin Swanson threw the ball so high it hit the ceiling, the first time that ever happened in the big goalhouse. . . .

to tomorrow night’s game there with Corydon, he can take a pupil pal in with him. . . . One way of slitting the price in half and letting a fellow take a coed without spending anything on her.

Praises New Albany

Walter Fisher, Muncie, referee, rates New Albany as one of the finest teams he has seen, despite the fact that he watched Ft. Wayne South Side shellack the Southern- .. Muncie Burris will risk stiffer competition next season, including the Archers and Hunting--burg’s Happy Hunters. Fuzzy Vandivier’s: Grizzly Cubs

are cherishing a 17-inch trophy for

winning the South Central Conference championship—and recognition as somewhat of a tournament threat. . . . Bloomington’s. basketball season is regarded as a success because it has been during the basketball season that its wrestling} team has won seven straight matches. . . . Vernon Huffman, former Indiana star and pro gridder, is playing a bit of independent basketball.

Anderson Freshies Win Among other reasons why Ander-

son always has a crack team is the attention Archie Chadd gives his

.|freshmen. . . . His.yearling team

recently won its 10th straight. . . . Johnny Wooden's growing a hairbrush on his second-floor lip. . . . Someone confributes the fact that in 1908 Rochester paralyzed Bremen, 139 to 9. i Tommy Smith of Perry Central Junior High School scored all his team’s points when it beat Whitestown, 11 to 9... . Lebanon's B team has copped 16 in a row and has only Lafayette Jefferson to hurdle to finish with an unblemished ledger. i! Here are the won and lost records of Indianapolis teams, outside of city tourney play, as they come into the stretch: . Shortridge, 10-5; Washington, 6-9; Manual, 9-6; Tech, 5-11; Broad 5-9; Cathedral, 10-10; Sacred Heart, 2-11; Crispus Attucks, 10-7; Park, 11-0; Silent Hoosiers

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Pro Fives to Use

. Intercollegiate basketball rules will be used in the game between the New York Celtics and the New York Renaissance when they play

. |in the Butler Fieldhouse Monday

night at 8:30 o’clock. However, five personal fouls will be allowed instead of the customary four in college ball.” The change is being made because of an expressed preference by Hoosier fans for the collegiate rules over those used in the eastern professional games.: Two future tilts are being planned on the same bill for local fans by Frank Kautsky, local promoter. At regular admission prices: Kautsky will present on March 6 the winner of the Ren-Celtic game against the Akron Firestones and in the other tilt the Kautsky team will meet the Hammond Ciesars. This will be the last professional basketball game in Indianapolis this season.

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i Cathedral Polishes Up for State Catholic Meet

Coach Joe Harmon gives the tactics he expects to use in the

ee of his cage 'stars an idea as to

State Catholic High School tourna-

to right: Harmon, Don Potter and Howard Barnhart, first string guards, and Joe Quill, second string forward. The boys are eager to

ment to be held at Ft. Wayne tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. Left | get going in the title meet.

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Jim Fitzgerald (left) brushes up his defense | junior, is Lew’s understudy at the pivot spot, and is against Lew Ostheimer, Irish center. Fitzgerald, a | expected to see plenty of action this week-end,

3 STATE HIGH SCHOOLS Delphi, 26; Southport, 24. Jeffersonville, 41; Louisville (Ky.) Male, 34. : Greencastle, 32; Brazil, 25. Shoals, 24; Ellettsville, 16. Dupont, 34; Holton, 33. Jamestown, 27; Brownsburg, 18. Masonic Home, 34; Trafalgar, 25. Whitewater, 34; Williamsburg, 26. Lynn, 23; McKinley, 21. Laurel, 40; Fairview, 13. ‘New Market, 27; Russellville, 22. Ladoga, 22; Pittshoro, 21. Romney, 37; West Lebanon, 12. Pinnell, 38; Perry Central, 30.

Round Grove, 36; Mellott, 6. ‘Walton, 36; New Waverly, 27.

Edison (East Gary), 46; Crown Point, 42. Carrollton, 43; Adams Township (Carroll), 15, : ; STATE COLLEGES . Akron, 29; Ball State, 28. : OTHER COLLEGES * Penn State, 54; West Virginia, 40. Pittsburgh, 40; Fordham, 34. Springfield, 48; Providence, 41. Massachusetts State, 42; Tufts, 41, Columbia, 51; Harvard, 82. » v DePaul (Chicago), 34; Kansas State, 80. Roanoke, 46: Marshall, 44. Waynesburg, 42; Duquesne, 40, Western Maryland, 43; St. John’s, 88. Toledo, 57%; Detroit, 40. Ohio Wesleyan, 36; Ohio University, 28. John Carroll, 47; Case, 36. ’ George Washington, 37; Maryland, 24. Navy. 52: Loyola (Baltimore), 25. Towa Wesleyan. 23; Parsons, 22. Syracuse, 49; Penn, 38. American U.; 53: Johns Hopkins, 44. Drake, 25; Tulsa, 24. Alabama Poly, 38: Georgia Tech, 24. Georgia, 41; Miami University, 18.

Adolphus, 35. 5%

St. John’s, 52; Manhattan College, 85.. Rhode Island, 100; Maine, 56. Clemson, 41; Furman, 28. :

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Basketball Scores

Tennessee, 44; Sewanee, 20. Howard, 63; Birmingham-Southern, 57. Stetson, 5%; Erskine, 37. Texas. 53; Texas Christian, 26. Colgate University, 42; Niagara, 41. Potomac State, 45; Shepherd, 25. ¢ Omaha University, 32; Morningside, 21.

Jim Miller Wins C.M. B.Table Title

Jim ' Miller defeated Homer Cornell last night in the finals of the Christian Men Builders’ table tennis tourney at the club court. The scores were 21-19. 26-28, 21-17, 21-19. In the semifinals Miller downed Dick Mather and Cornell eliminated Dale King.

Follows Father ITHACA, Feb. 23 (NEA) —Jim Bennet, Cornell's sophomore ° forward, is the son of an Ohio Superior Court judge who captained the Big Red cagers in 1911,

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Irish S eek ~ Fifth Title

Cathedral Cagers Take On South Bend Saturday.

. Cathedral High School will be

seeking its fifth state Catholic tourney championship when the 1939 event opens at Ft. Wayne tomorrow,

The Irish, making their, first bid under Coach Joe Harmon, will not see action until Saturday night. Then they meet South Bend at 7:30 o'clock. 2 : The local school has one of the best records in the state for tournament play. It has won four championships in the state affair and one national title. 8t. Mary’s of Anderson has won the last three state events and in each instance defeated Reitz Memorial of Evansville in the final game. Cathedral last won in 1933 and in the same year annexed the national Catholic crown. Other state tournaments were won by the local team in 1928, 1929 and 1932. They were beaten out by one point in There was no tournament in

Gets Cage Tryout

AKRON, O., Feb. 23.—Chuck Chuckovits, former great Toledo University forward, will get a tryout with the Akron Firestones March 5. Chuckovits will get his chance against the New York Renaissance.

Regular Play To Close on Prep Courts

School Fives Look Ahead to State Tourney; Shortridge Has Heavy Date.

‘TOMORROW

: ~ Anderson vs. Shortridge at Tech, Beech Grove at Manual. Broad Ripple at Warren Central, Dunbar, Dayton, O. at Crispus

Attucks. SATURDAY

Washington at Technical. - Kirklin at Park School. Crispus Attucks at Central, Louise ville, Ky. - Castleton at Sacred Heart.

This week-end will mark. the finish of the regular basketball sea« son for. Indianapolis high school teams. Local fives have done their share in making the current hardwood campaign one of the daffiest of recent years. : Outstanding events of the year

locally have been Manuals ascent to the City title, Tech’s disappoint

{ing season, brightened somewhat by

its victory over Anderson last week, Shortridge’s unpredictable form from week to week and Park's pers fect record. The latter ends its regular season against Kirklin Sat- ° urday night. To find a favorite for the local sectional one must look outside of the City this year. Southport, cure rent Marion County champion, stands at the top of the list.” After that it seems a hopeless task to pick a second choice. Indianapolis furnishes five tours ney teams and one of them may spring an upset; if it may be called that. | ; Anderson will play Shortridge tomorrow night at the Tech gym. The Indians finished second to Kokomo in. the North Central Conference race this year. . Coach Archie Chadd has a fast, shifty bunch that, ‘despite these qualities, has become known as more of a defensive team than offensive, Ora Davis, Indian forward, has led his team’s scoring this year and tallied 19 points against Kokomo. Manual will entertain Beech Grove and if the dope bucket isn’t upset should prove the perfect host even to tha point of winning.

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