Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1939 — Page 25

Snow, Rain Slow Pace Of Training

Yankees, Pirates and White Sox Are Kept Idle; 3 Giants Dropped.

ABILENE, Tex. April 7 (U. P).— Their scheduled exhibition game at Sweetwater cancelled yesterday because of snow, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago White Sox were expected to meet here today in a practice tussle. Pie Traynor of the Pirates has nominated Jim Tobin and Ken Heintzelman for mound duty, while Jimmy Dykes of the Sox will pitch Jack Knott and Johnny Whitehead

TULSA, April 7 (U. P).—New York Yankee pitchers are getting behind in their practice so Manager Joe McCarthy is praying for decent enough weather for a couple of them to get a workout against the Tulsa Oilers of the Texas League today. The Yanks’ second straight exhibition game was cancelled yesterday because of snow flurries and cold weather at Oklahoma City.

BATON ROUGE, April 7 (U. P) —Infielders Lou Chiozza and Tom Hafer and Catcher Tom Padden were the saddest in the New York Giant camp today When

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the club breaks camp after games|

with the Pittburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox here over the weekend the trio will report to the Giants’ Jersey City farm of the International League. Manager Bill Terry announced their release on option just before he hopped a train vesterday for Memphis, where half the club will meet the Memphis Chicks in a pair of week-end tilts,

SUMTER, S. C, April 7 (U PP.) ~The Brooklyn Dedgers and Deiroit Tigers meet today in the first of a three-game series. The clubs have met five times previously this year and the Tigers are leading, 3-2. The Dodgers licked the Washington Senators, 3-3, yesterday for a Florida exhibitien record of 11 against nine defeats. were idle as they broke camp at Lakeland, Fla, yesterday.

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St. Louis Browns. | who pitched a 2-to-0

tc meet Gene Lillard, shutout against the Chicago White Sox last week, will start the Cubs, but Diz Dean, the man with| the mystery arm. will be standing] by and may make his first appear-| ance of the year if Lillard needs

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NEW ORLEANS, April 7 (U PP.) —Manager Oscar Vitt of the Cleveland Indians today had the | problem of getting more power in | the bats of the Tribe. Held to | four hits yesterday by the New Orleans Pelicans, the Tribe shut out, 4-0. They have gathered Just 13 hits against minor leaguers in the last three games. The Chicagn White Sox and the Pitts. burgh Pirates were expected for the week-end games.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 7 (U PP) —Lerov Parmelees early inning wininess still was a cause of worry

today to the Philadelphia Athletics.!

The big hurlers unsteadiness in early innings was a big factor as the A's were held to a 6-8 deadlock by Little Rock vesterday Connie

Mack's boys outhit the home team |

9-5. however, after Parmeiee tightened up.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 7.—(U. P.). — The Philadelphia Phillies moved on to Chattanooga teday after dropping a listless, 8-3, decision to the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Asseciation. Hugh Mulcahy and Harry Matuzak, newly acquired from Baltimore, worked for the Phillies vesterday, yielding eight hits. The Phils were held to six base blows.

Cubs and Yanks Doyle Favorites

NEW YORK, April 7 (U. P)— Jack Ddrle, veteran baseball bookmaker, said today that the Yankees and Cubs will be the favorites in 1is list of odds on the American and National League races this season. The Yanks, whe were 3 te 5 to win last year, will be even shorter-priced favorites while in the National League Doyle figures the Giants and Cincinnati will be rated

in that order with virtually no dif-|

ference among them. He will reveal his odds Monday. Here's how Doyle figures they will finish: American League—1. Yankees; Detroit; 3. Boston: 4. Cleveland: Washington: 6. Chicago; 7 Louis; 8. Philadelphia. National League — 1. Chicago; 2 Giants; 3. Cincinnati; 4 Pittsburgh; 5. St. Louis; 6. Boston: 7. Brooklyn; 8. Philadelphia

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Indiana State Wins Times Special

TERRE HAUTE, April 7.—Indiana

{find more fertile grounds—so Dad { (J. C. Cook) joined the I. A. C. and!

victories | The Tigers |

. | the same year she won the National] CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. April 7

(U. P.) —The Chicago Cubs arrived | here today from San Antonio, Tex, !

{and Dorothy Mansfield in the 1937 “as fine as was ever staged.” {senior low board diving champion-| Bobbie specializes ships at the Medinah Club in Chi- diving at that.

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Barbara Cook Has Both Feet on Diving

Board, Both Eyes on Women’s Title

‘Nothing but First Place Will Satisfy Young Star From Jeffersonville.

Down in Jeffersonville, a city probably better known for its basketball players to most Indiana sport fans, they will tell you that they have other claims to recogni tion in the athletic world. And then they will tell you of Barbara (Bobbie) Cook, a Jeffersonville product who will represent the Indianapolis Athletic Club in the 1939 women's championship diving events at the Chicago Medinah Club April 19, Barbara is a trifle hard to keep track of. Her home is in Jefferson- | ville, she schools at Purdue Univer- | sity where she majors in home! economics or chemistry, but she spends the better part of her time in ve Indianapolis Athletic Club

Bobbie works out every week-end under Dick Papenguth, I. A. C. coach, and her week-ends mean from Friday afternoon ‘til school time Monday.

Knows Them All

She knows all the dives in the [standard table and her repertoire {includes the toughest ones. She is nothing less than an expert at maneuvering her body into all sorts of flips, jacknives. somersaults and contortions which come under the classification of fancy diving. ! Bobbie 1s no rewcomer te diving as she has been “crazy” about the] water as long as she can remember. {She took to the water at an early! {age and without any professional] coaching became the best diver in| {the vicinity. She often competed in {meets across the river in Louisville, | but the competition just wasn’t there. There was only one thing to do—

Barbara started diving with an eye! on national competition. Jefferson- | ville is more than a stone's throw] from Indianapolis but Barbara) faithfully made the trip every week! and sometimes oftener. This ail} happened in 1936. |

Ironed Out Rough Spots

It didn't take long for i rough spots to be brushed off for]

high board diving title in Washington, D. C. She now turned her attention to-| ward senior women's competition for | she, having won once a national! junior event, was barred from “novice” competition. Barbara had! also won Indiana-Kentucky A. A. U.! titles | ) Barbara was “scared stiff” as she Despite her nervousness, Bobbie up to the same Arlite Smith. The went into her first “big time” meet showed well in a meet that was ad-| Medinah Club retained the team against such stars as Arlite Smith! judged by attending coaches to be title with I. A. C. a close runnerup. And] Again this year Barbara will rephigh board resent the I. A. C. in Chicago and {her coach, Papenguth, points out. cago. But she managed to finish] Last April she stepped up a rung! “She was third in 1937, second in third behind these two who were in 1938 low board competition in| 1938, and the way she has been imone, two, respectively, in the meet. | Chicago and this time was runner-! proving, it looks like our year.”

GOLF

F you swing a golf club with all the grace of a window shutter banging against the side of a haunted house, this report. relayed here by an unusually reliabie local source, may give vou heart. This year, as always at the conclusion of the winter tournaments, the moving picture firms in conjunction with sporting goods manufacturers took miles of pictures of the leading money winners, Numerous copies of these movies are dis-| {tributed and the “stills” taken from out approaches in chocolate sun- | them are published in book form. [ies on the clubhouse porch. But when they previewed the ac-| 4g & # i ‘tion shots of Ralph Guldahi before’ HEY are holding swing ses- \ sions at Hillcrest but not the. his swing was so weird and kind that Goodman puts on. Roy j had SC many hitches that the avV- io. Smith, the club pro, is seeing | |erage golfer would be ruined if heli jt that his young stars wear off | | tried to imitate him. ; | the winter rust. | There was nothing to do but Junk He has held junior classes at the! the pictures even though they were cjub for the past 10 years and the 2 of the man who a few days ag0 policy has paid dividends. The! won the sixth annual Masters cy membership includes Miss Har- | Championship at Augusta, Ga., with pjett Randall, present women’s City | a final round of 69. | champion and runnerup in the! $$ & & | State tourney two years ago; John | OFFIN golf course, which Wwas| David, No. 1 man and captain of A closed during the winter, is toj the Purdue University team andl | be opened to players tomorrow, Les| holder of the State junior title; ! Smith, the pro there, announced.|Dick McCreary and Bob Hobbs, ! Although the official season launch- | powerful contenders and titie holding ceremonies aren't scheduled un- ers for the last few years. and| ‘til April 13, Mr. Smith said the|Miss Clara Morris, who won the'

Barbara Cook

Girl's State Junior crown in the first tournament of this type held last year at Anderson. Mr. Smith believes the secret of good teaching is to catch a swing defect in time and correct it before it becomes a fixed mental pattern.

By TOM OCHILTREE

New Angle HELSINGFORS, April 7 (NEA). —Finland is planning a demonstra« tion of “pespallo,” the Finnish version of baseball, at the 1940 Olympic Games.

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Powerful Fives on Alleys Today at A. B. C.; Two New Leaders.

CLEVELAND, April T (U. P)— Tenpin fans looked for another shakeup today among the American Bowling Congress five-man leaders. Powerful lineups from Chicage and other Midwest cities aimed at the leading 3045 total of the Old Reading Beers of Hazelton, Pa. and new leaders were expected after the 64 teams had bowled. Leading the parade of keglers was the Joseph L. Gills of Chicago, who captured recently the Ray Schalk Sweepstakes at Chicago, over 60 of the country's greatest lineups. Chi« cago’s Budweisers was another fore midable entrant. Two new names went up on the high-10 standing board during last night's bowling, although the minor event pace setters remained unchanged during the day's program. Krakow Furnitures of Detroit, | 1937 champions, disappointed with | a mediocre 2839 count, but Toledo! and Cleveland placed teams on the, big board when the Aubrey Realty quintet of Toledo smacked its way into fifth place with a 2992 total! and the Model Furnitures of Cleveland went into seventh place with a 2081 tally.

Illinois Turns Back Wabash Pastimers

Times Special CHAMPAIGN, Ill, April 7.—<Scoring 12 runs in two late rallies, the University of Illinois baseball team downed Wabash College, 17-6, in a game here yesterday. Score:

Wabash 000 030 210-68 #& 2 NHNOIS cooiiiiiiian 200 030 66x—17 11 2

Davis, Miller. Sheively, Hawkins and! Mariunk: Zeller, Longabaugh, Grant and McConnell, Richter.

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