Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1939 — Page 15

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UESDAY, MARCH 21,

Reds Option 9 Players to

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Three Infielders, Outfielder 5 And Pitcher Sent to ~~ Bartow Camp.

TAMPA, Fla., March 21 (U. P).— The Cinginnati Reds today optioned

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American Association. They ~ were Infielders Don Lang, Lindsay Brown and Einar Sorensen, Outfieldei Kermit Lewis and Pitcher Ed Bastien. All were leaving today to report to Manager Ray Schalk at the Indianapolis camp at Bartow, Fla. Lang, who is 22, played on three

clubs last year, Syracuse, Albany |{

and Cincinnati. He is a third baseman. His 1938 batting record: With

Syracuse, .375; with Albany, .400; |? with’ Cincinnati, .260. Lang bats|:

righthanded. John Lindsay Brown, a shortstop,

is 25. He played with Nashville last | 3

season and batted .263. - Binar Sorensen, second basemail, starred on the Waterloo club of the . Three-I loop in 1938 and batted .326. He is 25 years old. Both Brown and Sorensen bat righthanded. Outfielder Kermit Lewis pounded the sphere for an average of .306 and batted in 108 runs for Albany in the Eastern League last year. He is a righthanded slugger, 23 years old, stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 170 pounds. : . Ed Bastien, righthanded pitcher, won 12 games and lost 14 in the Three-I circuit in 1938. He played

on the Waterloo club. He stands|

5 feet 11 inches and is 23 years old. Another Practice Game Due Tomorrow Times Special BARTOW, Fla, March 21.—Manager Ray Schalk probably will send his Indianapolis Indians through another intersquad practice game tomorrow in preparation for the Tribe's opening exhibition tilt against the Kansas City Blues at Haines City Thursday. On Friday the Redskins tangle with the Columbus Red Birds at Winter Haven and on Saturday play their first home Grape Fruit League game against the Buffalo Internationals. The Buffalo attraction at Bartow will be in the nature of a reunion. President Leo Miller and Manager .Schalk of the Indians were together six years at Buffalo and had great Success with the Bisons.

. Over the Fence

In yesterday's workout Bob Latshaw and Doug Wheeler, both keen candidates for the first base berth, belted the horsehide out of the park. Pilot Schalk is eyeing Wheeler's slugging with pleasure, since Latshaw slumped last season after turning in a high average during the early months of the campaign. President Miller was expected to return to camp today after a twoday absence. He has been scouting the Cincinnati Reds and other big league clubs in a search for talent.

Spring Sports Start at Wabash

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, March 21. —=Seven veterans from last year are among the 21 aspirants for positions on the current Wabash College baseball team. Twenty games have been arranged for the T.ittlGiants but the schedule has not vet ' been released by Coach Alonzo Goldsberry. Meanwhile, Robert Vaughan resummed ‘his coaching duties last week when he took charge of the first spring football session. Vaughan has undergone two major oper-

"ations since he was first stricken

at a football banquet preceding the Christmas holidays.

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Basketball

Entries’ in the Community Tabernacle junior tournament close tomorrow night. The tourney is

. scheduled for Thursday, Friday and

Saturday nights. For particulars

- call HU. 3658.

Schedule for the first round of the

| . WPA Recreation Junior Tournament , . at the Meridian M. E. gym:

. TONIGHT 7:00—Indianapolis Flashes vs. St. Paul

“Juniors. 8

. :00—Indianapolis Blackhawks vs. Lauter Boys Club. Ray Meridian Cubs vs. Riverside Tro10:00—East S'de Roys Club vs. Ben

Davis Cubs. To : MORROW * 7:00—~McKinney Bear Cats vs. Mayer

Chapel. : 8:00—Wincel A. C. vs. Fairfield A. C. tei) —DeMolays vs. Fall Creek Ath10:00—Brightwood Merchants vs. Deacon Lunch.

A Central Y. M. C. A. all-star team will play the Walker Theater five at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Y.

First-round results in the gold medal tournament at Clayton:

Lang’s Market, 51; Wilbur, 34. Indianapolis Trojans, 38; Tic Toe Club, 29. Hazelwood Kinne bs, 45; West Washington Street Boosters, 30. wrence Denzells, 45;

Andres Honored

BLOOMINGTON, March 21 (U. P.).—Ernest Andres of Jeffersonville, all-Conference and all-America guard on the Indiana University basketball team, has been selected

Martinsville

i to receive the Balfour award in bas-

ketball, it was announced here today. It was the second year Andres won the trophy, awarded the player judged to have brought “honor and distinction to the university in basketball.”

\Present Team Picture

The Roines Club has presented Manual High School with a framed picture of the 1938-39 varsity basketball team. The picture was presented it a recent banquet given by the lub for members of the varsity and | feserve cage teams.

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By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

LAKE CHARLES, La. March 21 —The best news in the camp of the Philadelphia Athletics isn’t about the ball players. It’s about Connie Mack, only manager the A's have ever had and who plans to finish off his remarkable career with

his boots on and in the saddle. Coming on to 76 this December, Mack has made one of the greatest comebacks of the era. A little over a year ago, he weighed only 119 pounds and was hanging to life by the narrowest skein. ‘Today, he weighs 155, most he's scaled in 10 years, is hale and hearty again and is talking about his ball club in 1941. : He's at both morning and afternoon practices every day and takes an active part in directing his three lieutenants, his son, Earl Mack; Charlie Berry and Lena Blackburne. If you talk to Mack before seeing his collection of ball players you wouldn’t dare think of them as a seventh or eighth place outfit.

Lillard Best Rookie

With his eyes twinkling out from underneath bushy eyebrows and enthusiasm in every word, Mack says: “1 feel we are going to have a much. better club this year than we did last season. Older players will show an improvement and our infield should be better. Shortstop was our big trouble last year arfter little Newsome was struck in the head going north. He's back better than ever and our best rookie is Bill Lillard, shortstop from the Coast. “1 think our pitchers will be a little better all along the line. And I certainly don’t think of our club as a last place outfit.” The A’s spent about $150,000 for ball players last winter, the biggest checks going to San Francisco for Lillard (about $35,000) and to Chattanooga for Outfielder Dee Miles (about $25,000) who is still demanding part of his purchase price before reporting.

Expect Added Revenue

With night ball being introduced at Shibe Park this year, the Shibe and Mack interests, who each own 50 per cent of the club, figured they will get back their investments from players and the lighting system which cost nearly another $150,000, from the added revenue from nocturnal games. The Athletics’ infield will be Dick Siebert, a classy fielder, at first; somebody at second; Skeeter Newsome at short, and Joe Gantenbein, a surprise rookie from Toronto, at third. Second is a problem. Wayne Ambler and Stan Sperry are. battling for the job now. If they fail, Lillard may be moved there. The outfielders will be Lou Finney, Bob Johnson, Sam Chapman and Wally Moses. How Chapman, the all-America fullback of a year ago from California, responds will determine the setup.

Parmelee in Line

The mainliners of the pitching staff are George Caster, Ed Smith, Don Ross, Bud Thomas, Lynn Nelson and Chubby Dean. The most promising newcomers are Jim Reninger from Baltimore; Bob Joyce from Oakland; Henry Pippen from Sacramento; and Randall Gumbert, back up from Williamsport. Leroy Parmelee, drafted from Minneapolis, may make it if he can make up for lost time due to a holdout siege that ended yesterday. Earle Brucker, whose .374 batting average in 53 games gave him the consolation batting championship last year, and Frank Hayes will share the catching.

SEBRING, Fla., March 21 (U. P.). —The New York Yankees play their first minor league exhibition opponent of the year when they come here today to meet their International League farmhands, the Newark Bears. In nine games against major leaguers, the Yanks have won five and lost four. They beat the Boston Bees, 6-5, yesterday after twice coming from behind to

Talking things aver before their recent exhibition game in Los Angeles’ Wrigley Field are four eminent gentlemen of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs baseball teams.

From That Twinkle in Mack's Eyes, You’d Think A’s Were World Champs

Shown, left to right,

inning triple drove home the win ning run. ;

BRADENTON, Fla, March 21 (U. P.).—Boston Bees, who have only one victory in five exhibition starts, meet the Cincinnati Reds here today. The Bees were nosed by the Yankees in 10 innings yesterday while the Reds enjoyed their first off day since play began in the citrus circuit.

CLEARWATER, Fla, March 21 (U. P). — Brooklyn's Dodgers will try again tomorrow against the Cards, to whom they dropped a 7-5 decisioh yesterday. Despite losing, Dodger Manager Leo Durocher wore a smile because Dolph Camilli clouted three home runs. The Cards’ Johnny Mize bagged a brace of fourbaggers while Enos Slaughter and Mickey Owen got one.

BATON ROUGE, La., March 21 (U.,P.).—The New York Giants .take their last workout today mm preparation for the Philadelphia Athletics’ two-game invasion. The Giants scored easily over the As in their series two week-ends ago, but Connie Mack’s boys seem to be rounding into shape now. They won their second exhibition game of the year, 8-2, over Ft. Worth of the Texas League yesterday.

NEW ORLEANS, March 21 (U. P.).—The signing of Lyn Lary, Cleveland Indian shortstop, today left two of the Tribe outside of the tepee—Earl Averill and Willis Hudlin. Hudlin’s holdout was causing more concern than Averill's as the

‘Tribe is surfeited with topnotch

outfielders. Johnny Humphries, ‘the wild-flinging rookie pitcher, was to get another chance on the mound today against the New Orleans Pelican:

NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex. March 21 (U. P.).—Norman Deweese, rookie brought from the minors with apparently no thought that he would gain a regular berth, appeared today to have virtually clinched the left field post for the Philadelphia Phillies if he can bring his defense play to anything like the caliber of his hitting.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 21 (U. P.).—The St. Louis. Browns attempt today to defeat the Philadelphia Nationals for the seventh time in the 1939 training season.

LOS ANGELES, March 21 (U. P). —Gabby Hartnett’s Chicago Cubs returned to major league competition today, entertaining a Pitts-

already hold two spring training victories. The Cubs ran their spring schedule victory string to four yesterday with a 9-to-4 rout of the Los Angeles Angels.

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 21 (U. P.).—The hitting of Eric MecNair appeared today to have

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 21 (U. P). — With six victories in nine starts, the "St. Louis Cardinals were to tangle with the Detroit Tigers today. The Cards defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday, 7 to 5. : wm

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Purdue Stars Win Times Special TERRE HAUTE, March 21. — A team composed of former Purdue basketball stars defeated an Indiana

O'Grady’s 719 Kenninger Pounds Out 705

‘ Mike O'Grady topped the list of local league bowlers today as the result of his 719 total last night. in the Holy Cross loop at the Foox-Hunt

Alleys. Fourteen pins behind was Bill

O'Grady opened with a 244, dropped to 227 and finished strong with .a 248. Kenninger had games of 224, 244 and 237. Third place went to Joe Kernel, who smashed the pins for a 670 tally in the Kiwanis League at the Sturm drives. His games were 224, 226 and 220. A 66T by Jerry Merritt in the Hosiery Workers loop at the Fox-Hunt plant as good for fourth. Other leaders were Mike Patterson, 645, Universal Club, Indiana; Holman, 641, Telephone Traffic, Indianapolis Athletic Club; Ratliff, 640, South Side Businessmen’s, Fountain Square; Walter Pray, 640, Optimist Club, Pritchett’s; Johnston, 628, Indianapolis Church, Fountain Square and Heltzer, 626, Wege Marble and Tile, Indiana.

Jersey Pinman Takes

All-Events Lead CLEVELAND, March 21 (U. P.).—

Tops Pinmen:

Kenninger, with a 705 in the Evan-

gelical League at the Pritchett plant.

Mark Ertel to Lead Notre Dame Cagers

SOUTH BEND, March 21 (U. P). —Mark Ertel, a junior from Tipton, today was captain of Notre Dame’s 1939-40 basketball team. He was elected at a banquet last night. Monograms were awarded to Capt. Earl Brown, Gene Klier, Paul

Ducharme, Rex Ellis, Frank Gaglione, Ken Overbrunner, Eddie Riska, Ed Sadowski, Maurice Ziegenhorn and Ertel. =

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Tennis Meeting Set The Indianapolis Amateur Tennis League is to hold its first general meeting of the season at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at league headquarters,

126 N. Pennsylvania St. The meeting is open to organizations desiring to enter the league, as well as managers and members of last year's teams.

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A. B. Cs in Training The Indianapolis A. B. OC.s opened training today for the coming baseball season. Connie Day is

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