Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1939 — Page 16
. 88. SOMETHING ABOUT K. C’S BLUES A CLUB OF MANY NEW FACES
By Eddie Ash
: WEEK from tomorrow the Kansas City Blues will supply the visiting attraction when the Indians open the new A. A. championship season at Perry Stadium. . .. “The Kawtown brigade has many new faces since last year when the team finished second. . . . Likewise, the
Redskins have donned some new paint. It is said the New York Yankee chain directors are
satisfied to let the Blues start the campaign with their present playing personnel. . This opinion can be taken to mean that the chiefs believe as currently lined up the team is a pennant threat. It will be the youngest club in Kansas City’s history, according to the scribes who have covered the Blues for years. . . They size it up this way: The pitching is better than last year, the defense is good and the attack fair but ' might lack punch.
Manager Sweet on Shortstop THE K. C. catchers are Clyde McCullough, Johnny Riddle and Ed Kearse. . . . At first base is Johnny Sturm;
who was a Louisville Colonel in 1938. . . . Gerald Priddy, up from Norfolk, and Ham Schulte, a seasoned Double A pastimer, are fighting it out for second. . . . At short is Phil Rizzuto, up from Norfolk, who will make the fans forget Eddie Miller, Manager Rill Meyer says. Bill Hitchcock probably will play third. . . . He's just off the college campus but the management is sweet on him. . . . Battling him for the berth are Jack Saltzgaver, veteran. and Jim Nicholson, a rookie who is a corking fielder. & =» » a8 5
N the outfield the Blues have Vince DiMaggio, down from the Boston Bees; Bill Matheson, holdover from last year; Tommy Holmes, up from Binghamton; Ralph Boyle, 1938 holdover, and Arch Allen, up from Binghamton. Their 1938 batting averages: DiMaggio, National League, 228; Matheson, .289; Holmes, .368; Boyle, .280. Infielders’ averages: Sturm, .300; Schulte, 285, International League; Saltzgaver, .277: Priddy, .323; Rizzuto, .336; Nicholson, Wenatchee, Wash., .262; ‘Hitchcock, no league experience, played on Auburn College nine. ; Catchers’ averages: McCullough, .250; Riddle, .250, both in the American Association; Kearse, 319, Wenatchie, Wash.
Carload of Chuckers
INCE Pilot Meyer believes his mound staff is okay and may be strengthened later, just names and last year’s clubs will be listed. . . . The roster: Joe Vance, Kansas City; Al Piechota, Kansas City; Bob Miller, Kansas City; Ernie Bonham, Kansas City; Fred Gay, Kansas City; John Babich, Hollywood; John Lindell, Oakland; Tom Reis, Milwaukee; Hiram Bithorn, Binghamton; F. J. Collins, Binghamton: J. B. Prendergast, Birmingham; Ralph Hammer, Ft. Worth; Don Hendrickson, Norfolk. = = 2 » 8 2 X Minnesota stages an annual state high school baseball tournament and it’s one of the most popular sports events in the Northwest. . . . Carleton College sponsors the play... . It's something for the Hoosier state to think about. i . » » 5" Bill Hitchcock, Kansas City third base candidate, is a younger brother of Jim Hitchcock, who once was an All-America football player at Auburn. = = 5 Milwaukee's Brewers are.going to have a captain this year. . . . It's none other than the veteran Ted Gullic. . . . He will be the first captain the Brewers have had for more than a decade. = » 5 5 =" ”
Oregon University’s basketball players traveled 14,000 miles in playing a 34-game schedule, . . . The tall players were given a berth and a half on Pullmans and so got in their sleep without doubling up. = ® 8 8 ® 2
Babe Pinelli, National League umpire, has two sons at Notre Dame and both are baseball players. . . . Ray plays short and Roy is trying for the outfield. : 8 ” » 5 ® »
There hasn't been a major league exhibiiton game played in Miami, Fla, since the spring of 1935 when the Giants and Cardinals tangled. . . . ! As a winter sports center Miami is mainly horse minded.
Pilot Blades Frets Over
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Comeback of Paul Dean
ANNISTON, Ala. April 5 (U. P). —The St. Louis Cards made their last Alabama stop to play the Anniston Club today. Manager Ray Blades was worried about Paul
Dean's comeback. Paul pitched four innings against Birmingham yesterday and was found for three runs and three hits. His curve was working nicely, but his speed never approached his fire ball of 1034. The Cards finally beat the Barons, 17-11, in a ninth-inning rally climaxed by Capt. Pepper Martin's home run with the bases loaded.
DALLAS, Tex, April 5 (U. P). —The New York Yankees were trying for their seventh straight victory as they met the Dallas Steers of the Texas League today. The world champs beat the Ft. Worth Cats, 8-2, yesterday. Monte Pearson and Joe Beggs held the minor leaguers to three hits.
COLUMRIA, S. C., April 8 (UU. B). —There's been a Jot said about the Cincinnati Reds’ pitching strength, put little about batting power, and it was the punch at the plate that gave the Reds their fourth straight victory, 18-7, over the Boston Red Sox at Augusta, Ga, yesterday. The Reds collected 22 safe blows. They meet here again today.
LAKELAND, Fla, April 5 (UT. P.).—The Brooklyn Dodgers and Detroit Tigers after today’s exhibition game will travel northward for three games before the Dodgers join the Yankees for their final seven games. The Dodgers licked the Tigers, 3.3, yesterday as Catcher Al Todd hit two home runs,
BATON ROUGE, La. April 5 (U. Re New York Giants’ center. elding job probably will not be decided until the club is installed in the Polo Grounds. Frank Demaree, who came from the Cubs, was the early choice, but Bob Seeds is giving him a battle. Mel Ott and Jo-Jo Moore seem to have the flanking outfield posts sewed up. m an intraciub game today the Otts meet the Moores.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 3 (U. P.).—Manager Pie Traynor assigned Russ Bavers to open on the mound today against the St. Louis Browns, defeated yesterday by the Juiates ge the i seven nnings of yesterday's v vs Blanton, alowed seven hits an one run. Rip Sewell permitted one final two frames and
the ns his unscored upon reeSAN ANTONTO, Tek, April § (U.
P).—The St. Louis Browns were to ject the Pittsbureh a a 14-1 qe1 club
N hY day. "Browns AS Te § ANE 116 Yat oF The | Six errors.
EL PASO, Tex, April 5 (U. P).—Larty French takes the mound for the Chicago Cubs today in the 10th exhibition game with the Chicago White Sox. Ted Lyons and Thornton Lee will hurl for the Sox. The teams were rained out at Bisbee, Ariz, yesterday.
LONGVIEW, Tex, April 5 (U. P.).—Carl Byrd and Jim Renninger both showed good form on the mound for the Philadelphia Athletics, boosting hopes for a stronger pitching staff. The A’s coasted to an easy 9-1 triumph over Longview of the East Texas League yesterday, bunching 10 hits,
DALLAS, Yex, April 5 (U. BP). —Manager James (Doc) Prothre of the Philadelphia Phillies announced the purchase of Pitcher Harry Matusak from Baltimore of the International League for $25000 as he carried forward his building program The Phillies defeated Dallas of the Texas League, 3-1, yesterday although they were outhit, 10-86,
ORLANDO, Fla, April 5 (U. P). —Manager Bucky Harris of the Washington Senators planned to send Arnold Anderson and Bucky Jacobs to the mound today against the Baltimore Orioles at Daytona Beach, It will be their first chance to perform under big league fire.
MOBILE, Ala, April 5 (U.P) — Mel Harder and Johnny Humphries were slated to take the mound for the Cleveland Indians today against the Mobile Shoppers of the Florida-Alabama Leagwe with Sammy Hale going back to second base to test his sore arm. Tom Drake went five innings and Bil Zuber four yesterday against Pensacola as the Tribe took an easy 5-1 victory over the Class B outfit.
Ranks of Seeded Netters Unbroken
ATLANTA, Ga, April 5 (U. B) — The ranks of the seeded remained unbroken today as second-round
play began in the Atlanta Mmvitation Tennis Tournament. Noteworthy first-round triumphs were scored by top-ranked Bitsy Grant of Atlanta over Josiah Bacon, Portland, Ore, 6-0, 6-1; secondseeded EBiwood Cooke of Portland over Reg Fleet of Atlanta, 6-0, 6-0, and Johnny Doeg of New York over Glen MeConneli of Atlanta, 6-1, 6-0. Ernie Sutter of New Orleans, one of the seeded entries, was expected to see competition today.
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Reds’ Pitching Will Win Flag, Kirksey Says
Picks Cubs For Second
U. P. Baseball Writer Thinks Giants Will Finish Third, Cardinals Fourth.
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Sta? Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 5.—Pennants are won with pitching.
The Cincinnati Reds have the pitching, and that’s why they'll win the National League pennant. The Reds have their weaknesses but what National League club hasn't?
directed at their second base combination. It’s my prediction that the play of Billy Myers and Lonnie ¥rey around the keystone bag will be one of the big surprises of the 1939 season. Myers is far from the “dog” some critics hint he is and Frey will prove one of the league’s most im-
proved gaayers. The s’ main threats will come from the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants. The Cubs will make a real bid but the rheumatic condition of Shortstop Dick Bartell is likely to be a serious handicap to last year’s champions. The Giants can make trouble but their pitching and infield prob-
club to falter earlier, The astute handling of Cincinnati's pitchers by William Boyd MecKechnie will play one of the big
ters, Johnny Vander Meer, Lee Grissom and Whitey Moore.
hind the “big five” the Reds have stringers.
games last year, has really arrived. Grissom's arm fs strong and he looks like he'll threaten the 20-game class. Don’t believe those tales about Vander Meer’s physical con-
son opens,
NEW YORK, April 5 (U. P).— Here's how George Kirksey, United Press baseball writer, picks the National League race: 1. Cincinnati—After 20 years, pitching does it. 2. Chicago—Dizzy Dean’s cheer leading won’t be enough. 3. New York—Bill Terry weeps for another “meal ticket.” 4 St. Louis—Medwick, Mire and new blood makes Cards dangerous. 5. Pittsburgh—Disorganized and headed for a sad summer. 6. Brooklyn—MacPhail’s Follies, with a few ball players for a change. 7. Boston—Too many old arms and not enough young legs. 8. Philadelphia—Cavities too big fot even Manager Doc Prothro to
Walters is pointing for his biggest year. Derringer shows every indication of coming close to his 1938 success when he won 21 games. Addition of Bill Werbsr has “made” the Reds’ infield. All talk about his being a troublemaker narrows down to the fact that his conversation is on a somewhat higher plane than the average ball player’s. Goodman, McCormick and Lombardi are expected to pace the Reds’ attack, with help from Wally Berger. Some question of Berger's ability to go the 154-game route. if he fades, the Reds have an able replacement in lee Gamble, Harry Oraft, the National Lieague’s great est “ball hawk,” is due for big improvement, especially at bat. The Cubs loom as a strong cone tender again, and are picked to fine ish second. Bill Lee and Clay Bryant can’t carry the entire pitchin load. Gabby Hartnett's years an the burden of running the club will slow him down and the Cubs will miss him plenty when Gus Mancuso is catching. Two Cubs likely to show big ime rovement are Joe Marty and Billy rman, who had a subnormal sea« son in 1938, The departure of Bil Jurges weakened the Cubs’ super defense and Bartell, even if he is i can’t match Jurges’ field« ng. The Giants have more punch but are weak in the infield and their pitching has gone baek. Whitehead is a question mark at second, and Bonura at first and Myatt at third are no fielding wizards. Bonura's bat, howeven is likely to give the Giants more kick. But the big problem is pitching, where Carl Hubbell and Hal Schumacher may have gone over the hill, Gumbert, Melton, Diohrman, Castleman and the rookie, Salvo are likely to carry the pitching burden, but there's no “meal ticket” in that
gang. Cards May Surprise
The surprise elub will be the St. Louis Cardinals. Their youth, fire and punch will land them in the first division. You c¢an’t laugh off Medwick and Mize, and Enos Slaughter is going to have the year Ereiyone thought he would last sea-
Pittsburgh will fall th So ID the Seoond duis a chan ast year, Samora so pate rates ma ve : Brooklyn for fith place. Brooklyn Hay Le o dark orse. 1:20 Durochey
agers could have some fun, | who can tell what Mungo will do? The Boston Bees are IEely to sip as low as seventh place. They stil be tough in thelr own park but i Tae LN SRS is too slow and Al Simmons’ isn't going to make much Sr The have the worst elub
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The University of team has withdrawn from a trie angular meet with Notre Dame and the University of Missouri because of a controversy over the entrance of Bd Smith, Wisconsin's star Negro hurdler, nounced scheduled for next Saturday.
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Indiana Nine Plays Pair of Road Games Times Special BLOOMINGTON, April 5.-—Indi-ana University’s baseball team will play two road games today and tos morrow against Wabash and Eve ansville of the Three I League respectively. Fourteen players accompanied Coach Pooch Harrel on the trip. They were Pitchers Carol Cox, Don Hundley, Dale Gentil, Bob Hansen and Seward Wilshire; Catcher Bozidar Stoshitch; Co-Capt. Ernest Andres, Bob Woehr, Dan Danielson and Bob Dro, infielders, and
Co-Capt. Tom Gwin, Mike Kosman, Jack Corriden and Chet Francis,
outfielders.
Silent Pastimers
Open Tomorrow
The Silent Hoosiers are to open
their baseball season tomorrow afte ernoon against Hope High School at the School for the Deaf,
Smiley is expected to be on the
mound for the locals with Martin
catching. Other likely starters are: Hanyzewski, first base; Gee, second base; Patton or Gall, shortstop; Ele more, third base; Pavicich, left field; Berg, center field, and Grimes or Gibson, right field,
The remainder of the Silents
schedule:
April 20, Warren Central: April
24, Lawrence; April 26, at Plainfield; April 28, Danville; April 29, at Moyton Memorial (Knightstown); May 2, st Tech; May 5, at Ben Davis; May 9, at Broad Ripple; May 13, Morton Memorial; May 16, Park; May 20, at Boys’ Se¢iool; May 23, Tech; May 27, Boys Bchool; May 20, Broad Ripple; May 31, at Park.
Wisconsin Out Of Track Meet
MADISON, Wis, April 5 (U.P) sconsin track:
coach Tom Jones ane today. The meet was
Jones said Wisconsin's withe
drawal was decided upon in a tele phone Faurot, athletics director at Mise sour, perfectly agreeable to both sides”
conversation with Don He said the decision “was
The University of Missouri, Jones
sald, made no offer to rescind ibs action barring Negro athletics from the meet, :
Farlier the University of Wiseon« record as t of a uni«
contest in which any of the team is barred be-
Trials Changed
For Big Race
Four Laps for Qualifications; 0il Amount Unlimited.
Changes in the qualifying trials for the Indianapolis 500-mile Speed= way race have been made for this year, according to A. W. Ricken backer, field promotion man for the event, The trials will be limited to four laps or 10 miles instead of the cuss tomary 10 laps or 25 miles. Also an Unlimited amount of oll may be carried in the ears this year, provided the oll is not care ried in extra containers but is dee signed in the car. Rickenbacker said that the strictest enforcement will be made on cars leaking oil. The track is now reported to be in the best condition that it has ever been in. The back stretch was resurfaced last fall with asphalt, leaving only the heme streteh in its original state, with brick surfacing. Several other improvements, along with this have made the track not only safer but three to four miles an hour faster, in the opinion of drivers who have tested it ree cently.
Two Teams Tied . At Roller Derby
The New York and Indianapolis Roller Derby teams will take to the
Butler Fieldhouse saucer tonight to break a 3-3 tie in the standings. The Red skaters representing New York took a 14<11 decision from their White foes last night to move inte the deadlock. The winners re« ceived a $500 purse, which was at stake ag the result of a tie score the previous evening, One of the largest crowds this season was out to wee the event. The lead changed hands several times before the Reds went ahead on late vietories in jame and the “open house.”
Greyhounds Beaten By Central Normal
Indiana Central's baseball team today had been defeated twice in its first two efforts of the season. However, the first time didn’t eount as it was the rain that beat the Greyhounds out of playing a sched uled game with Franklin, Yestere day it was too much Central Nor« mal. The Danville teachers nosed out the Greyhounds, 4-3, in seven innings.
Southport Nine Wins
Southport School's baseball team today had won two games in as many starts. The rdinals beat Plainfield Wh asterday after have ing swamped Warren Central, 18+,
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Purdue University is proud of its twin battery. Ready to let one go is Pitcher Arnold Bredewater (left), senior, a righthander, In 1937 he led the Big Ten in low earned<run average; last year he was third best
in the Western Conference.
Arthur Bredewater (above) handles the big mitt for the Boller. maker nine. Like Twin Arnold, he’s a senior and is serving his third year on Coach Duteh Fehring’s team. The Bredewater boys hail from Greensburg and both are in the South with the Purdue club playing
against Dixieland’s strong college
diamond aggregations, Yesterday
Purdue downed Louisiana Teeh, 11 to 8,
Spring vacation has handicapped the Butler baseball team to such an extent that Coach Tony Hinkle has scheduled afternoon practices this
week-end to condition the Bulldogs for their season's opener, April 12, against Wabash at Crawfordsville. While the majority of candidates are enjoying the week's vacation, Hinkle has speeded up dally work= outs. Approximately 10 men have been drilling al] week. Tom Harding, outfield star, res ported yesterday and will probably retain his centerfield position. Harding paced the Bulldogs last year in the hitting department. The 1030 schedule calls for 19 games to be played within 43 days and Hinkle has but one returning piteher, Jerry Steiner, junior hurl-
Marshall to Wrestle Here
Mephisto Wins From Hart In One Fall at Armory.
Rverett Marshall, LaJunta, Colo, heavyweight wrestler, will return here in the feature attraction of next week's Armory wrestling card, according to Matehmaker Lioyd Carter, The Great Mephisto, 183-pound Newark claimant to the light heavy= weight championship of the world, defeated Frankie Hart, 180, Toronto, in the main bout of last night's show at the Armory. Hart was unable to return to the ring after he had conceded in 37 minutes of the first of three seheduled falls, to a hammerioek, Dofve Roche, 220, Decatur, Ill, von from Powerhouse Frank Sexton, 238, Akron, O, with a cradle hold off the ropes in 21 minutes of the semiwindup and Young Joe Stecher, 224, Lincoln, Neb, drew in the opening 30 minute bout with Mike Mazurki, 226, New York.
Butler’s Pastimers Lose Their Week-End Furlough
er, is the returning letterman. Other members of the pitching staff will be picked from a crop of sophomore candidates. Meanwhile, the Butler tennis squad is preparing for its indoor meet with Indiana University, here April 15. The mateh has been scheduled to be played in the little gymnasium of the Fieldhouse, The remainder of the schedule, however, will be held on the outdoor courts, Tennis aspirants are being led by Bob Dieti, sophomore, and the three lettermen from last year, Members of the 1038 “vietoryless”. squad are Arthur Mundt, Robert Fattig and Harold Howenstine, Other men striving for varsity berths are C. W, Lambert, Bob Wildman, Max Bird, Max Wildman, David Behr, John
Rabold and Eugene Smalley.
Table Tennis Scores
Results in the Industrial Table Tennis League last night at Jimmy MeClure’s Club: AEE Gaines Senos 150 Lumber, 4. : The Columbia Club defeated O. M. A OC, 11 to 7, in a National League contest at the Paddle Club.
Bears Arrange Telegraphic Tilt
BERKELEY, Cal, April 8 (NEA), ='The University of California base-
ball team has gone in for interna tional competition in a big way, by arranging a telegraphic contest with a selected team representing Vie toria, Australia. Competition will consist of three events: throwing a baseball {ov dis. tance; fungo hitting for distance and ecireling the bases for time, Three men will compete in each event, The mateh was a result of a chals lenge issued by Coach Clint Evans, through a San Franeisco corres pondent for a Melbourne sports
publication. ,
Purdue Battery Job in Family Baer-Nova
Go Moved To June 1
Site of Fight Changed From Garden’s Bowl to Yankee Stadium.
NEW YORK, April 5 (U, P), = The new Max Baer and Lou Nova, known as the “Alameda Adonis” were set today to meet in the ring June 1 at Yankee Stadium, The fight originally was schedsuled for May 25 in Madison Square Garden Bowl but Nova's manager, Ray Carlen, insisted it be leld in a baseball park. Mike Jacobs, promoter, finally got around to grante ing Carlen’s request yesterday. Max, according to himself, a changed man since he became a father, is dus in New York ‘this week, After a brief visit he will go to Grossinger’s training camp in ny New York to get into condi tion, Nova is on the Pacific Coast awaiting the arrival of an heir, After the event he will go to Hot Springs, Ark, for a week or s0 and then make his final training headquarters at the Olarkstown Country Club near Nyack, N.Y. That 2lub is headed by Dr. Pierre Bernard, who used to be known as “Oom the Oms= nipotent,” and is known as a cens ter of Yogi teachings. Haer, who was 30 in February, hasn't had a fight since he gave Tommy Farr a thorough going over last March in Madison Square Gar= den, He promised to win that nne for “the wife and kid” and made good, for a change.
I. U. Golfers Named For Opening Match
Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, April 5.—Indiana University’s golf team will run up against a formidable opponent in its first dual meet here with Alma College Saturday, Bix golfers have been named to oppose the visiting team. They are Capt. Walter Cisco and Bob Horton, Pete Grant and Bob Sills in the doubles with possibly Frank Penning teaming with Cisco. In the singles will be Oisco, Grant, Penning, and Bob Van Reissen.
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LONDON, April 5 (NEA) =Despite the fact Tommy Farr hasn't been able to win in America, Sydney Hulls, Britain's No. 1 boxing pro= moter; believes a Louis-Farr battle here would draw $1,000,000,
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