Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1939 — Page 29
American Favored NEW YORK, April 14 (U. P.)—Sammy Angott of Louisville, Ky., was the 6-5 favorite over Aldo Spoldi of Italy in their 10-round fight at the Hippodrome tonight. Spoldi holds the European lightweight title.
Signed for Bout
DETROIT, April 14 (U. P).—Bob Paster, New York heavyweight, has been signed to meet Roscoe Toles, Detroit Negro, in a bout here May 12, it was announced today by
imes Sports
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1939
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Promoter Jack Kearnt.
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All in motion, including the catcher’'s mask and Ham Schulte's bat. | The Kansas City second sacker crashed one to Don Lang at third and was tossed |
It happened in the sixth inning at the local league opener.
By Eddie Ash
® a 8 SINGS UNDER SHOWERS IN TRIBE OPENERS
SCHALK
RATS 1.000
like to get that first one in the bag.... or less jittery, particularly the voungsters, while the curtain goes up. . . . Manager Ray Schalk dosen't carry a tune very well but he was singing under the showers in the cool of the evening vesterday after his Indians bumped off the Blues. Ray is batting 1.000 in the opening-day league here. . . His Tribesters won the inaugural candy at Perry Stadium last April, his first year at the Redskin helm. The home team's raily in the seventh caused the fans the polar bearish weather and they rooted and tooted in midseason form. . It was one of the best red flannel openings in the history of the league. . . . The customers had ‘em on were not backward about showing oft the long drawers.
Redskins’ Chiefs Are Pleased ( aU STOMERS came early and customers came late. . . . The frigid, blustery weather of Wednesday kept many away from the opener. ... They figured the same kind of Arctic atmosphere would prevail 24 hours later and made no arrangements to get away from their jobs. President Leo Miller and Manager Schalk were satisfied with the turnout and were convinced the hardy fans who braved the low temperature also were satisfied after the Redskins went on the war path for four runs in the “stretch” inning ® ” » 2 = » DEERY. City Controller, pinch-pitched for Mayor Sullivan «J as the honorary chucker and chucked a wide one to Governor Townsend . It was just another problem for the “Gov.” to solve and he came up with the solution by going into the dirt to make the catch. The Knothole Gang Band put on its usual snappy show. . | . J A detail of Marine Legionnaires directed the flag raising and they sent Old Glory aloft as the ball plavers and crowd stood at attention The hot dog venders couldnt heat ‘em up fast enough and a river of hot coffee was poured down by the shivering rooters.
Harry Watches Others Work
ARRY GEISEL, Indianapolis’ American League umpire, watched the local opener He'll be wishing for some of that White River breeze in St. Louis along about August. Harry doesn't have to report until Tuesday and from then on it will be every day on the field until Oet. 1 But he's had a long rest and is anxious to call ‘em again It was shameful the way the Toledo Mud Hens treated St. Paul's defending champions on the banks of the Maumee vesterday. Three Hens clouted home runs and the Aposties were kicked around and buried under a lopsided score
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NDIANAPOLIS was the lone 1938 first division team to land on the top side in the A. A. openers The other winners were Louisviile, Minneapolis and Toledo The rejuvenated Colonels set the Louisville fans agog by edging the Brewers . Nice start for Indianapolis’ Ownie Bush, part owner, president and manager. 2 2 » 2 os » INCINNATI and Washington will be the battle grounds of the opening big league games, Monday, April 17. The Reds entertain the Pirates and Senators oppose the New York Yankees. The next afternoon all major clubs swing into aetion. as follows:
NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE Cincinnati at Chicago. Boston at New York, Philadelphia at Boston. Cleveland at St. Louis, New York at Brookiwn, Washington at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Pittsburgh, Chicage at Detroit.
Bruins Look Like Shoo-In For Stanley Hockey Cup
* ing the opener
TORONTO. Ontario, April 14 (U. P.).—The Boston Bruins, holding a 3-1 game lead over the Toronto Maple Leafs, looked like a shoo-in today for their first Stanley Cup in 10 years. The price-makers skyrocketed the odds to 4-1 favoring the Bruins after they had blanked the Leafs, 2-0, in the fourth game of the bestof -seven series last night
Both squads leave tonight for
Boston, where the fifth game will be | played Sunday. The Bruins were! made 8-5 favorites to take the cup! with the fifth game. Roy Conacher, who lives in To-! ronto when he isn't plaving hockey for Boston, scored both of the Bruins’ goals last night. He put the Beantown club in the lead before the game was three minutes old, and added the clincher midway | through the final 1 period.
Indiana Plays Illinois Nine
BLOOMINGTON, Apri 14 If the weather man has kept his promise the University of Illinois
and Indiana University today will
play their first baseball game since]
1937. Last vear the Illini traveled to Indiana and were rained out. Coach Roettger of the Illini will bring six pitchers with him. John Pacotti, the Illini ace hurler, will probably not pitch and Meyers Schuckman is reported not to be in top shape but may be available.
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Ball State Nine Wins.
From Taylor U., 5-0
Times Special MUNCIE, April 14 —Ball Sttae has a no-hit, no-run pitching staff. Yesterday the Cardinals took the measure of Taylor University by a 5-0 margin in a game here but four Ball State hurlers went to the!
mound for the winners.
Pirates at Evansville
EVANSVILLE, April 14 (U. P) — The Pittsburgh Pirates moved 20 miles from Owensboro, Ky. to
| Evansville today to play the Evans-!P.).—The Philadelphia Phillies en- | ville Bees, after defeating the Chi-
cago White Sox, 5-4. Evansville lost
a 3h
out.
a 5-2 margin,
Logan Allows 6 Blows As Redskins Win, d to 2
Rain Interrupts First Series. | At Perry Stadium: 5200 At Opening Tilt.
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Off on the right foot by snatchfrom the Blues |vesterday, the Indians today had {their first series at home interrupted {by rain and resulting wet grounds. The scheduled “Ladies Day” affair lat Perry Stadium was called off {after heavy showers this morning | had thoroughly wetted the playing field. The two teams will resume] { their series at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow. | Kansas City's pennant favorites got a good look at Lefty Bob Logan’'s 1939 assortment of benders vesterday and were held to six | blows. The popular Robert was the {happiest man in Indianapolis after (Gnishing on the long end of a 5-| [to-2 score and told his mates that {he felt he is in for a big season. | Break Ice in Fifth Frigid atmosphere held attendance down to 5200, but it was tops over Columbus and Toledo where cold weather also horned in on the inaugurais. Louisville reported more {than 9000 “paid” and that was best lin the league The Redskins and Blues fought through four scoreless innings and | (in the fifth the visitors broke the | lice. Vincent DiMaggio singled, advanced on an out, stole third and | tallied on Joe Vance's pop fly single in short right. | After two away in the Tribe's] (half, Myron McCormick singled to center for the Indians’ second hit. Pete Chapman, the husky Hoosier | {from Richmond, ripped off a double! [to deep left center and McCormick | |dented the plate to deadlock the! game. In the seventh the Blues thought | they were headed for the promised | ‘land when DiMaggio reached third | (With none down. He was held there as Newman tossed out Sturm and! {Lindsay Brown followed with ‘brilliant catch on MecCullough's fv | {in short left. DiMaggio held base! ‘and was left when Logan threw out | | Vance. | After fanning two Redskins in the! |sixth, Vance weakened in the sev-| lenth and walked Bob Latshaw, first up. Brown tried a bunt and forced | Latshaw, and Schulte tossed out Logan. McCormick hammered a single to right and Brown raced home. Chap-| jman got a life on Phil Rizzuto's | fumble and Lang's single plated Me- | | Cormick. Vance was derricked and! {Don Hendrickson relieved him and ‘walked Newman, filling the bases.
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Dee Moore slashed a single to left | {and both Chapman and Lang rode! (home. Kermit Lewis beat out a | roller and the bases were jammed | again. John Babich took up the | Kansas City pitching and fanned | Bob Latshaw for the third out. . Jack Saltzgaver's triple accounted] for a K. C. marker in the Sighs, and Logan then pitched a careful {ninth inning and finished the Gel ner. Four of the Blues’ six hits were! | for extra bases, while only one of] | the Tribe's seven was better than| a one-baser, Manager Meyer said Logan had! too much in the clutches for his {boys while Chief Schalk just smiled | and in his quiet way remarked: “Well, we won 12 in 17 starts in the South and maybe we've got some-| thing after all. That was a pretty, fair test out there in the opener and | it's a cinch we don’t fear the Blues! as they stand today.” |" Vance rolled up six strikeouts be- | fore he was sent to the showers and his undoing came unexpectedly. But it was all right with the customers to see him travel the long road to bench. They were out there freezling to root the Indians home.
Purdue Travels Times Special | LAFAYETTE, April 14 —Purdue's track squad. 28 strong. left here {today and will be in Lansing, Mich. | for its first outdoor meet of the] |season with Michigan State tomor- | In row afternoon.
Phils Have Spree
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Runs batted in—Vance, Chapman, Mec-
{ Cormick. Lang. Moore 2, Saltzgaver. Two-|
base hits—Bovie, Chapman, DiMaggio, Mc-| Cullough. Three-base hit — Saltgaver. | Stolen bases—Chapman, DiMaggio Left on bases—Indianapolis, 8: Renae City, 7.
Base on Dahis Off hogar Vance, 3; Hendrickson, Struc out—By Logan, 3: Vance, 6: Babich, 2. Hits—-Of Vance, 5 in 623 innings; Hendrickson, 2 in 0: Babich. 9? in Ls Hit by pitcher—Vance | (Latshaw) sing pitcher—Vance, Umpir res—Weafer and G and Genshiea. Time—2:14.
‘Rockets, Park Open Season
Broad Ripple and Park School | {baseball teams opened their seasons, today against Marion County teams outside the City. The Rockets were at Decatur Central and Park will be host to the Warriors. Meanwhile Manual was scheduled to provide competition on the track and field for two other out-of-town teams in the Redskins’ second [triangular meet of the season. Southport and Ben Davis will vie {for honors with. the South Side school. In a game at the Tech field yesterday afternoon the Big Green baseballers chalked up victory No. 2 whea they took the measure of Southport, 10-0. It was the Cardinal's first defeat. Charles Shipman, Tech moundsman, allowed two | hits. Tech's frosh track team made it a perfect day for the East Side school by entertaining and beating Howe and Warren Central 52 to 39: for Howe and 25'2 for Warren Central. The unbeaten Washington High School track team was to meet | Wiley at Terre Haute this afternoon. Thirtv-two Continental thinlies made the trip.
To Face Mephisto
Whitey Wahlberg, the skilled and {speedy Duluth, Minn. grappler, has been named to tackle The Great Mephisto, Newark, in the top at|traction on the Armory mat pro{gram next Tuesday night. Both are undefeated in local tussles. The two light heavyweight wrestling aces will meet for two falls out of three and their bout promises to produce an unusual amount of action. Wahlberg, a favorite with Armory patrons, is expected to have a good chance of turning in a victory over his opponent next Tuesday night. Whitey has a style that may be difficult for Mephisto to solve.
third run of the game.
Lindsay Brown of the Redskins rounds third in the “big” seventh and scores on Myron McCormick's blast to right.
It was the Tribe's
Ti Pete Chapman checks in at the payoff station in the seventh. Tribe right ficlder tallied on Moore's bingle to left,
Times Pho*os.
The Catcher Clyde
McCullough of the Blues is standing by.
Roosevelt in Serious Training for His Job as Starting Pitcher, Mac Finds
By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent ASHINGTON, April 14—I wound up the baseball training camp season today with a call where President Franklin D. Roosevelt is getting in shape to open the major
at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave,
league season next Monday.
He has been selected by the Washingtons and the Yankees as their starting pitcher and will throw out
the first ball.
The President should be in great condition, because his training camp is far and away the nicest I visited. Known as the “White House" better than anything the Yanks, It is a notch or two larger than tha and it's the only chauffeurs, Even Babe Ruth,
Athletics have. Yankee Stadium, saw equipped with footmen, and a fleet of slick motor cars.
when he was hitting 60 homers a year, such a setting, even though he got $5000 a year more.
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HE President has a mighty fine playing field to practice on. The infield was a little cut up to- |
Sounds Fishy
MARINETTE, Wis, April 14 (U. P.)—Six wrestlers go to the mat blindfolded tonight in two tons of slithery, green smelt for the smelt wrestling championship. The match will start the annual Marinette Festival signalizing the opening of the smelt spawning season. Four grapplers will start the fray and as soon as two have been submerged the others will take their places until one man is victorious.
Indiana Baseball Umps Organize
limes Special
FT. WAYNE, April 14—The Indi-| ana Umpires Association is being | formed here for semipro and sandlot officiaters, O. K. Blauvelt, presi- | dent, announced today. The first local charter in association which has a ship of 20, Blauvelt said. Only, certified umpires will be eligible to officiate in any tournaments sanc-| tioned by the national association. Members in any community or] city desiring to organize an association under a state charter issued by the National Semipro Baseball Congress are urged to communicate | with Blauvelt, 2936 Broadway, Ft. Wayne.
Cooke Awaits Foe in Tennis Semifinals
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 14 (U. P.).—Elwood Cooke of Portiand, Ore., seeded third, waited for an| opponent to join him today in the) semifinal bracket of the Tennessee Valley Invitation Tennis Tournament. Cooke advanced to the semifinals yesterday by defeating Johnny Frank of New Orleans, 6-2. 6-3, in the only singles match of the day. In the doubles, Cooke and Bobby Riggs, top-seeded team, defeated two opposing tandems with little trouble.
Final Cue Contest Scheduled Tonight
DETROIT, Mich., April 14 (U. P). —Arthur Thurnblad, Kenosha, Wis., and Clarence Jackson, Detroit, meet tonight in the final game of the world’s three-cushion billiard championship. Joe Chamaco, New York, already has won the title and the contest tonight will decide only Jackson's and Thurnblad's final standings. Jackson is now seventh in. the standings and Thurnblad eighth.
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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION | Minneapolis . 220 010 200 FT 10 1 Columbus 21 9 2 Smythe and Denning: , Fishy, Macon, Todd, Curlee and Bremer
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the first ball.
mentioned quite ballyard I ever gardeners | kins. out to gain more never had
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dayv—some Kids got rolled eggs all over the lawn—but there were plenty of Secret Service men about to handle any bad
Chief talk, however, rookie, Tom Dewey. everything. Dewey hasn't been in the majors yet, but has been striking out some heavy sluggers in his
in there around Easter and
I've been through here before about the time the major leageus jump the gun with a day-early season opener in the capital, and there is a great difference I hadn't been here more than a few hours before I got the feeling that the President was
the pitching out of the first ball,
and was in serious training. There is talk all over town that by 1940 there will he red-hot competition for the job of throwing out There is a veteran slow-ball pitcher from the Texas League, Jack Garner, who is being
a bit, and the 'Three-I League
has a candidate in a fire-baller named Harry HopThe latter recently voluntarily farmed himself
experience. centers around a New York To hear his backers talk, he has
(Copyright. 1939)
Winchester Gets
New Cage Coach
RICHMOND, April 14. — Cleon Eb basketball coach at| 1 Redkey for three years, will take]
Butler Battles Franklin Nine
‘Bulldogs Down Wabash, 6-1, in Conference Opener.
Butler University’s baseball team was in Franklin today for its sec= ond conference game in as many days and the Bulldogs hoped to chalk up victory No. 2 at the Grizzlies’ expense, Butler opened its assault for a third conference crown this year against Wabash yesterday by tak ing a 6-1 decision from the Little Giants at Wabash, The Indianapolis school already has annexed the football and basketball titles this year. Yesterday's tilt was featured by the five-hit pitching on the part of diminutive Jerry Steiner, Butler, hurler. Steiner also fanned five opponents in going the route. Paul Herrmann, Butler third sacker, aid-
ed the cause, by collecting two of his team’s six plows. Lyle Neat, sophomore. was eX pected to pitch against Franklin today with Dick Wilson, senior, doing the receiving. Coach Tony
[the place of Shirley Blake who has | Hinkle increased the number of his | Down Brewersia as Toledo resigned as coach at Winchester traveling squad to 17 today by add-
And Millers Triumph.
By United Press Top attendance honors were tak-|
len by Louisville as the American | Association opened its 1939 season! before a total of 24,000 shivering| | fans, | The Colonels, behind the two-hit| pitching of Charley Wagner, defeatjed the Milwaukee Brewers, 3-2, he{fore 9600 spectators. A walk, fol- | lowed by Roy Johnson's homer, ac=| counted for the Milwaukee runs. |
At Columbus, O., the Red Birds {disappointed 4000 local enthusiasts) | by losing a 7-to-4 decision to the {Minneapolis Millers. The Millers gave their veteran southpaw, Harty | (Smythe, a four-run lead in the first | two innings and thereafter he manlaged to keep the Red Birds’ 10 hits well scattered. Most ignominous defeat of the] day was handed the St. Paul Saints] at Toledo, where the Toledo Mud | |Hens knocked three pitchers from! |the mound, gathered 15 hits and! [three hole runs’ to defeat the vis«| jitors 12-2. A last inning rally gave {the oh their two runs and, robbed Junie Barnes, Toledo left-| hander, of a shutout. There were {5000 persons in the stands.
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Indiana Stake Race Sites Named
Times Special CONNERSVILLE, April 14.—Stake | races in Indiana will be held this {year in Anderson, Franklin, Columbus, Lawrenceburg, Muncie, Shelbyville, Connersville and Indianapolis. Sites for the races were announced at a joint meeting of officials of Eastern Indiana and Southeastern Indiana Fair Associations. Members of the fair associations are Montpelier, Muncie, Portland, Fairmount, Converse, Ft. Wayne, Logansport, Connersville, Anderson, Franklin, Columbus, Lawrenceburg, Greenfield, North Vernon, Corydon, Washington and Osgood. Highlight of the racing season will be the Two Gaits Farm $1000 stake races sponsored by Leo McNamara of Indianapolis.
N.Y. Skaters Win, Pull Up on Locals,
New York's representatives in the annual Roller Derby at Butler Fieldhouse today were within two
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games of pulling into a tie with the long-time leading Indianapolis skaters, The New Yorkers’ led by Jack Cummings, pulled out a last minute one-point victory over the locals last night to bring the series scores to 8 to 6 in favor of Indianapolis. Cuminings came out of last place in a jam in the last “open house” of the night and skated his rivals into the track to roll across the finish line first and count the two
that gave the New
after serving three years there. Blake will be head of the physical
education department,
ing three sophomore pitchers, Harold Braden, John Noel and Bill Eggert to the team.
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