Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1939 — Page 12
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COLUMBUS AIMS FOR COMEBACK MOUND STAFF IS WELL STOCKED
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BY taking a close one from Indianapolis yesterday the Columbus Red Birds indicated they are well on the way to happier days in the American Association after floundering through the 1938 season. . . . This is the ¢lub that won the pennant in 1937 and wound up in seventh place a year later. The return of the two Maxes—Macon and Lanier— from the St. Louis Cards has given the mound staff considerable strength. . . . These two brilliant southpaws of the 1937 championship club are heavily counted upon to make the Birds a flag contender again. The Cards dropped a mint of money on their Columbus chain franchise last year and probably will go to any length to bolster the team and restore confidence among Buckeye fans. Pitchers Al Fisher and Pete Hader proved by their performance against Indianapolis that they are set for the regular race.
Bucher Hit .317 Last Year THER Columbus hurlers of Class Double A standard to round out starting six are Nate Andrews and Norb Kleinke. In addition to those hurlers mentioned Manager
Burt Shotton has under his wing Lew Krausse, who
won 18 and lost 12 with Elmira last season. . . . Burt is also working a rookie crop and hopes to develop a couple of surprises. The catchers are Herb Bremer, Joe Schultz and Gerald Burmeister. _. Joe Mack, obtained from Cincinnati, is the Birds’ first sacker, th 1e capable Jimmy Bucher is at third, Rookie Bob Sturgeon at short while second base remains a problem. . . . Bucher played the keystone last year and batted 317. The picket line has punch with Eddie Morgan, Earl Browne, 1 Bpps and Coaker Triplett, last year with the Millers, slated as HR ars . . . and Pilot Shotton still has some youngstérs on deck who warrant further trials. » » » » » 8 . UOTH the New York World-Telegram: “Leo Miller, president and Q general manager of the Indianapolis club, is being touted as the new George Weiss of the minors. Leo, who has sent many plavers to the big leagues, is a cinch to wind up with a front-office job in the majors some day.” 2 s » 2 » ® Butch Henline, former Indianapolis catcher who saw plenty of action in the majors, will umpire in the Southeastern League this season.
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Jose Olivares, perpetrator of the old hidden ball trick as a member of the Louisville Colonels, now is an officer in the Cuban navy. . He was a slicker around the keystone bag. 8 L& ¢o £ & £ Indianapolis fans who have made opening day reservations are requested to pick ‘em up by 5 p. m. Monday. . Otherwise the ducats will be tossed back for general sale. . . . The announcement is from Dale Miller, Indians’ secretary. 2 2 ® 8 EJ » Thomas D. Taggart graduated from Yale in 1909 and is remembering his old class and Alma Mater. . . . His Derby candidate is named Yale O’Nine.
Jo oe e Williams—
EW YORK, April 8 —Miss Sally Rand once said there is much more to fan dancing than the fan, as if anvone ever doubted it, and we suppose the same is true of pitching. We mean to say there is more to it than just throwing the ball. That's why some voungsters have so much trouble when they first come to the big leagues. They have more natural stuff than many oldsters but they can’t win. They lack savvy and know-how.
Bob Feller of Cleveland broke the all-time strikeout
record in a game against Detroit last year and was beaten. A spectacular performance but a wanton waste of energy. A pitcher must know all about the hitters and it takes time to learn this. But this is only one detail; he must be familiar with the physical peculiarities of the parks and must be alert to capricious wind conditions. » »
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T may not be generally known that pitchers vary their tactics to . meet changing wind conditions. When the wind is whistling in from the outfield they pitch one way. when the wind is whipping into the faces of the fielders they pitch another way. Wind resistance curbs the flight of the ball, so if the wind is blowing into the park, the pitchers keep the ball high. They know the possibility of a home run or a long safe hit is negligible. If the wind is blowing out of the park they throw low curves and bait the hitter into batting in the dirt,
No Two Parks Are Alike
ASEBALL would be a better game and hitting averages would mean more if all parks were uniform in construction, but no two are alike. Thus you will find a Chuck Klein who will go like a dwells 2 in a small park and will be a bust in a reasonably large par Pitchers are more effective in large parks than small parks for the obvicus reason the outfielders have more room in which to roam. They will bring down fly balls that go for home runs in the more dainty structures, Add helpful wind conditions such as almost invariably exist at the histan National League club's park and the pitchers have a paradise, It seems agreed the toughest park in which to pitch is the Polo Grounds. This is due to its scanty dimensions. It is the shortest park in the big leagues measures by the right and left field foul lines; and it is the longest from home plate to center field. ® 8 ” 2 ® ®
CU can get yourself a home run to right at the Polo Grounds by nudging the ball only 257 feet and if you hit to the left the ball doesn’t have to carry more than 279 feet. But if you hit one into center no one can question its authenticity. The distance is 505 feet. So how do the pitchers operate at the Polo Grounds? Naturally they try to get the hitter to hit straightaway so the ball will fiy to
left fhe, center or right center. This involves a delicate burden of contro
Giants’ Pitchers Feature Downers
MST home ball clubs are picked to fit the parks in which they perform. Practically all the Giants’ pitchers, for example, ave low ball pitchers. They feature what the dugout calls a downer, a pitch that dips at the knee. It is difficult to hit this ball high ot far, Mostly it is topped. For a long time the greatest hitters were lefthanders, Cobb, Ruth, Ciehrig, ete. Tn those days the parks were built to favor the lefthanded hitter. This was done by shortening the right-field fence. Most of the right-fleld fences in both big leagues are still disproportionately short, even though the power is beginning to swing to right-handers. . oo o $s & @
O handicap visiting sluggers who hit lefthanded some parks erected screens in right field. One of the most talked of youngsters of the spring season is Ted Williams of the Red Sox is a lefthander and he hit 3868 for Minneapolis last season. He had one of those short right-field fences to shoot at. In Boston he will have a long right-field fence and baseball men are wondering how much this Ww will affect his batting.
Teddy Weed Favorite in $10,000 Tropical Handicap
MIAMI, April 8 (U. P) —Tomara
Stables Teddy Weed was the favors ite to capture the £10000 added Tropical Handicap, feature event of today's official getaway program at Tropical Park. Thirteen thoroughbreds were . named for the climax of the Flor- . {da racing season. Teddy Weed was the choice because he finished ~ fourth in the Widener Cup race at k ‘Hialeah March 4. Darby Dan Farm's Francesco and J. B, pp re Our Ketchum were
gram, Florida's season will end ith jodays 8 gine. fae, card. Yi Par -day spring meeting ion weil patronized. Held after Hialeah’s 47-day run, it surpassed expectations. The success enabled stewards to double the purse for the Handie which heretofore was only Receipts from Monday's benefit gram will org AL finance Eehin at th York Worlds
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North-South Finals
PINEHURST, N. C., April 8 (U. P.)— Frank Strafaci, defending champion, will meet Bobby Dunkelberger today in the finals of the 39th annual North-South ama. teur golf championship.
Pitcher Red Barrett Is Optioned to Indians
Bagged 16 Games at Syracuse
Earned-Rur Average Best in International; Joins Tribe Tomorrow.
Indianapolis baseball hopes for a winning team in the new A. A. pennant race took on added glow today with the announcement that the Cincinnati Reds have released Pitcher Charles (Red) Barrett to
the Tribesters. : The 25-year-old righthander comes to the Indians on an optional agreement and is to report to Manager Ray Schalk in Chattanooga tomorrow. Barrett was one of the International Lieague’s foremost hurlers last year and won 16 games and lost three as a member of the Syracuse club. Won Two for Reds
Late in the season he was called in by the Reds and turned in two victories over National League teams. He stands 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 183 pounds. His International League earnedrun average was 2.34 and in the big show it was 3.10. He resides in Hollywood, Cal. His 234 average was tops in the International loop. Barrett was on the Muskogee club in the Western Association in 1937 and helped bring to that city its first pennant in 30 years by winning 24 games against 11 defeats. The National League Green Book describes Barrett as the “sorrel thrush of the pitching mound, sweet singer in lighter moments, tough man on the twirling tee.”
Redskins Say Florida Farewell
Times Vp ecial BARTOW, Fla, April 8 —With all hands reported in sound physical condition, the Indianapolis Indians said farewell to Florida today and pushed off for Chattanooga, where their training chores
will be completed in a three-game series starting tomorrow against the Southern Association Lookouts. The Redskins departed the Peninsula State far ahead in games won in the Grapefruit circuit. They captured 10 in 15 starts and hope to score a grand slam at Chattanooga before opening the American Association championship schedule - their home grounds next Thursay. The Schalkmen will arrive in Ine dianapolis Wednesday afternoon and they will not drill on that day. However, the Kansas City Blues, Tribe opponents in the lid-1ifter, will will work out at Perry Stadium Wednesday. The Blues do not make any stops after leaving Fiorida and are to reach Indianapolis Tuesday night. Two Home Rung
The Indians’ finale in Florida was a defeat in extra innings here yess terday os the Red Birds shatched a tight tussle, 2 to 1, in 11 rounds. It was a home run 1-to-1 tie for 10 innings. The opposing pitchers were in rare form and Joe Mack's circuit wallop off Tribe Hurley Mike Balas in the seventh finally broke the scoring ice. In the cighth Boh Ta'shaw of the Indians deadlocked the count hy clouting the sphere out of the park. The blow was belted off Pete Hader. The home runs by Mack end Latshaw both traveled over the right field tence, 310 feet distant. The Red Birds put across the winning run in the iitth on Walter Schuerbaum’s single, a sacrifice, base on balls and Hader's single. Columbus collected 12 hits and played erroriess ball afield. Indianapolis was held to eight blows and three miscues were chalked against the losers. Jimmy Sharp shut out the Birds for six innings and kept six hits scattered. Al Fisher opened on the Columbus mound and was relieved by Hader in che eighth. Bill Lewis caught the full gane for the 'Iribsters while Herb Bremes and Gerald Burmeister divided the Columbus catehing. The Ine dians and Birds split their twogame series in Florida, the first ing to the Redskins, 11 to 5, at inter Haven on March 24. Manager Schalk had the Indians report un he field ‘or practice at an early hour yesterday but the exs tra work failed to give the team that needed batting punch. Schalk and Leo Miller probably will wait until they get to Plans apolis before getting their heads together to cut the Indian squed by at least six men by May il. The box score:
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Metz and Bulla Post 70s in Land of Sky Event.
ASHEVILLE, N. C, April 8 (U. P.) —Two young Chicago profession= als shared the lead in the $5000 Land of the Sky Open golf championship as second round play bes gan today. Dick Mets and Johnny Bulla each carved two strokes off par in posts ing 70's over the first 18 holes of the 72-hole tournament yesterday. Jimmy Thomson, Gene Kunes, Denny Shute and Paul Runyan fol= lowed with 71's. Johnny Revolta, Jack Toomer, Ky Laffoon, Jimmy Hines and Clay Heafner had 72's, and Ralph Guldahl, National Open champion, trailed with a 76.
Butler Nine Stays Indoors
Bulldogs Drill for Wabash In Fieldhouse.
Butler will opén its 10-game base ball schedule Wednesday, April 12, against Wabash at Orawfordsville, despite the fact that only two drills have been held outdoors. The cold and rainy weather this week has forced the Bulldog dia< mondmen to practice inside the Fieldhouse. The Butler nine this year probably will be stronger at the plate and on defense than last year. The pitching, however, will probably be weaker with only one moundsman, Jerry Steiner, left over from last
year, Three of the six returning letters men are expected to retain their in= field berths. They are Silvio Cos« tantino, second base; Frank Oarbon, shortstop, and Paul Herrmann, third base. Bob Conner, captain« elect for the 1030 football team, and Woodrow Mikkelsen are vieing for the initial sack assighment. Dick Wilson, senior, will assume again the first string catching duties, aided by Augie Seulean and Lester Coombs, sophomores. in addition to Steiner, Coach Hinkle is working with four sophomore pitchers. They are Lyle Neat and John Noel, right-handers, and Harold Braden ‘and Bill Eggert, left handers. Tom Harding, 1038 veteran, is the only eineh for an outfield position.
Boys’ School Wins
Timer Special MARTINSVILLE, April 8-Indi-ana Boys’ School track team defeat ed Martinsville High School, 744 to 26%, in a dual meet here yesterday. I. Johnson annexed high peint
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Johnny Revolta Six Putts a Green
By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent
SHEVILLE, N. ©, April 8~The hope that
springs eternal in the duffer’s more than that today.
It was broad jumping, high hurdling, and doing hand springs, because the news had gone out that Johnny Revolta had six-putted a green in the Ashes
ville $5000 Open golf tournament.
This information gladdened duffers’ hearts from Bangkok to Battle Creek, brought joy and new hope to every sad swinging son of the fairway the world
over. If Revolta can six-putt, the
from discouraged hackers, then there still is hope
for us.
Men who faced the new spring with dismal memories of five-putt greens last fall felt the sap rising In every locker room men telephone numbers
through their veins. whose handicaps read like breathed a prayer for Revolta, ® 8 @
BVOLTA'S six putts from the edge of a threes
par hole for an inglorious
greatest golfing boon since Ray Ainsley, a profess
sional from Ojai. California, took
par four hole in the National Open at Denver
last year. How, you probably would like
great golfer like Revolta take six putts on a green,
and from 20 feet, too. There is
At least, Revolta hasn't one, and neither has Dick
Metz, who was playing with him,
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OHNNY REVOLTA, rated one of the finest put-
professional ranks, didn't six-putt
because he got careless or mad. By his own admisgion, and Metz backed him up, Johnny lined up each
with the utmost care, and stroked
them as well as he knew how.
“The ball just wouldn't go in,” Revolta told me. “No matter what I did, or how close I was to the cup, the ball always went around the cup to the My first putt hit the cup and rolled four feet My second putt went four feet on the
“My next one again was four feet too strong. I eased up a bit on the next one and was only three feet past the hole. After careful study of the green I missed that one, and finally got down in six putts.”
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HE star's bad hole wasn't the only freaky happening in the first round of the tournament. Jimmy Thomson took a seven on the eleventh hole, requiring five to get down from the fringe of the
Denny Shute was out in 35, one under par, without a four on his card, and Lawson Litte missed a
the 18th green. Lawson's slip was
understandable, however, he having played with me and Frank Willard, father of Moon Mullins. By the time he reached the home green Lawson was a pushover for an opium salesman or a revolver drummer, We are playing in the same threesome today, but
sure that one of Lawson's 14 clubs
GOLF
By TOM OCHILTREE
BATHER of the kind we have been receiving recently always
creates quite a dilemma for a golfer.
He can either bundle up
warm enough and run the chance of hampering his swing and adding a few strokes to his score or he can risk pneumonia.
Life insurance companies probably could give you some good hints
on what course you should follow. 8 ” » EMBERS of the Industrial Golf League have announced that Rex Behrman has been selected as their president. Other officers selected were Harold Shuman, vice president, and Charles Brown, gee retary=treasurer, First matches in the league are scheduled for April 30 at the Speed=
wag Course is loop is composed of eight man teams representing Armour & Co., Btewart-Warner, U. 8. Rubber, Real B8ilk Branch 36, Fairmount Glass, Kingan's, Bookwalter-Ball« Greathouse Printing and Interna tional Harvester. ® & 8
Freak Shots His Forte
EWS services declare, without crossing their fingers, that Leonard Dodson, Springfield, Mo, pro, helps pay his way around the winter golf eireuit by making and winning freak bets. One of his favorite stunts is to wager he can break 77 while making every shot standing on just one leg. He has probably seen the time when the pressure wag on in a tours nament when he couldn't do that Sood with both legs and a camp
CLUB tournament for women members of Hillerest Country Olub is to be held Tuesday, and Mrs. R. A. Staudt is to be in charge. It of | Originally was scheduled for last
Tuesday but was postponed because | chase
of the bad weather and the school Spring vacation which sent a numeof families vacationing out of het city.
tennis and play golf on the finest 18<hole course in the South.” There's one links with variety. ” ” “
Riverside players in their meet ing Monday night at South Grove are expected to choose James A. Senteney, City policeman, presi-|eX dent, and, of course, Herbert W. Stewart, attorney, will be re-elected to the board of directors. Mr. Stewart first was chosen to the board in 19028 when the club was having difficulties and he has been reurned to He Posk ever since.
NE of the first jong hitters of history was John Patersone, a Scotch shoemaker, He was a partner to another Scot, James, Duke of York, afterwards King James 11, of Great Britain, when they turned back the challenge of two English nobles who had remarked rather dryly “that the Scotch may have invented the game but they didn’t play it well.” Although the accounts of this mateh gave the Duke more space than his game warranted, the writers agreed that Patersone's shots “rose like frightened quail.” Some shooting, boy! ” » » OLF is a great game because it leads a man to self restraint if poise. There is the ® caso report= ed by Tommy Vayu Jahn , Pleasant Run pro, of the philosophic player who, after topping three drives, threw his driver down the pitched his bag after it, and with difficulty stifled an impulse the caddie back to the Slub-
house.
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Hoosier Team Widens Margin
Indianapolis Skaters Win Third Straight Game.
The New York skating team of the roller derby at the Fieldhouse was trying to figure some way to stop the protracted Indianapolis
Hoosier winning streak which has extended to three consecutive
games, The Indianapolis team won again last night by a 13-12 count to put itself out in front in games won, 6 to 3. However, the highlight of the evening's events was the special match race between members of the Indianapolis crew and a group of Hollywood All Stars, which was won by the Indianapolis team.
Rosasco Cools Heels
The local duo composed of Alicia Gaidas and Johnny Rosasco nosed out Hazel Love and Carl Count of the All Stars for the first prize of $100. Jeanne Goette and Joe Nygra, All Stars, won second money by beating Peggy O'Neal and Toddy Geffinger. Johnny Rosasco, captain of the Indianapolis team, was ruled from the track in last night's games for accuraulating more than 12 minutes in penalties. Johnny's “crowning” infraction came when he engaged in a scrap with Paul Milane of the New York team and in the mixup, Jerry Alan, referee, was spilled over the track railing.
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PHILADELPHIA, April 8.—Mozel
Galan Out Of Action; Sent Home
Old Injury May Necessitate Operation; Reds Continue Hard Hitting.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. April 8 (U, P.).—~The Chicago Cubs had another worry today in the case of Outfielder Augie Galan, who was en route to Chicago headquarters for treatment of an old injury to his left knee, He suffered the injury last year and the recurrence of the trcuble may necessitate an operation, it was
reported. The Cubs play the second game of a six-game series with the St. Louis Browns here today. The teams tied at 2-2 yesterday at Corpus Christi with Gene Lillard pitching for the Bruins and Buck Newsom and Bill Cox pitching for the Browns.
clubs to catch a train.
GREENSBORO, N. C,, April 8 (U. P.)=The Cincinnati Reds led
the Boston Red Sox, five games to three, as they resumed their Spring exhibition series here toay. The Reds continued their hard hitting to win, 7-2, yesterday at Lexington, N. C. Today's pitchers probably will be Walters for Cincinnati against Ostermuller for Boston.
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 8 (U. P), ~The Detroit Tigers and Brooklyn Dodgers came here today for the seventh game of their spring series. The Tigers were leading, four games to two. The Bengals walloped two pitchers for 16 hits including a home run by Hank Greenberg with two on, for a 14-6 victory at Sumter, S. C, yesterday.
NEW ORLEANS, April 8 (U. P.).~The Chicago White Sox meet Cleveland here today. They came here in an unhappy frame of mind from Abilene, Tex. where their ace pitcher, John Whitehead, had a bad day at the hands of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates whipped the Sox, 16 to 14, after beating out an eight-run rally in the seventh while Whitehead was on the mound.
+ MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 8 (U.P), -A squad of 14 New York Giants, headed by Manager Bill Terry, meet the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association today in a two-game week-end series. Clyde Castleman is expected to be the starting pitcher. Hal Schumacher looks like the probable Sunday choice. Carl Hubbell also may see service.
BATON ROUGE, La. April 8 (U, P.)—Harry Gumbert will be the starting pitcher today for the New York Giants, who remained here to meet the Pittsburgh Pi-, rates. Coaches Pancho Snyder and Travis Jackson indicated that Cliff Melton would pitch against the Chicago White Sox Sunday.
SALISBURY, N. C., April 8 (U. P.).—The St. Louis Cardinals seeking their 20th win in 27 exhibition games, meet Catawba College today and hope to keep slugging at the pace which allowed them to make 21 hits in beating a team made up of minor leaguers from Gastonia and Asheville yesterday. The score was 17 to 9.
CHATTANOOGA, April 8 (U. P.).~The Phillies moved northward with renewed hope today following their most impresssive victory since leaving their New Braunfels base. Claude Passean and Jinx [Poindexter shared mound duty yesterday and shut out the Chattanooga Lookouts, 5-0, allowing but three hits.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 8 (U. P.). —Sam Chapman, who started strong at bat in his first year with the Athletics last season and then faded, appeared today to be on the comeback trail after altering his batting stance. The former California fullback slapped a triple and a single yesterday, but Connie Mack's team still lost to the Meme phis Chicks, 6-3.
Teams Resume Hockey Playoff
BOSTON, April 8 (U. P.).—The pennant-winning Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs held light practice today in preparation for a crucial hockey game in the Stanley Cup finals at Boston Garden tomorrow night. The Bruins, one up and three to go in a best-of-seven series, will be topheavy favorites to win the trophy if they can win a second straight game against the Leafs. When the series opened the Bruins were but 10-7 favorites. They became 5-2 favorites after winning the opening game. If the Leafs resume their playoff spell over Boston in tomorrow night's game, they would stand nearly an even chance of annexing the cup as the third, fourth and games of the series will be played at Toronto where they twice shut out the Bruins during the regular league season.
Wolverines Go South Times Special ANN ARBOR, Mich, April 8.— Michigan's spring sports teams are
sixth
going for Southern trips in a big
lejway, The Wolverine tennis team
The game was called to allow the -