Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1939 — Page 13

By Eddie Ash » $ COXSWAIN SCHALK HAS AN IDEA MAY ENTER SHELL IN REGATTA

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(COXSWAIN RAY SCHALK was looking at that wide expanse of river just across the road from the ball park when an orchestra on the radio struck up “Red Sails in the Sunset.” . . . Turnthg to Skipper Leo Miller, Coxie remarked: “Red flannels. would be more like it.” . 85 $8 9 vy pit Ee The Indianapolis pilot is seriously. thinkitig of appointing a crew

coach and entering a shell in the Poughkeepsie: Regatta, come summer. . . . Pull for the shore! Fg ange = 2 =» = wpm, 8 : _ Just to be different, Louisville called off its:game with Kansas City yesterday on account of “cold weather.” . .'.-Elsewhere it was rain and gobs of it. wr #2 = = =

Navigator Schalk’s attention was called to an item reporting

an eclipse of the sun today. . . . Ahd the Cracker cracked: “What sun?” Sp $ # » : » & =

Minneapolis’ Millers, who are in town today, shuddered when they read that snow a foot deep is playing a return-engagement in Minnesota.

Stein Marches On

USTIN STEIN'S sale to Milwaukee came as no surprise to the player. . . . It's just one more jump in his life. . . . He lived out of a suitcase all.of last season in traveling baseball’s horn. . . . From Columbus to the Cardinals, to the Phillies to the Reds to Baltimore to Waterloo. . . . Passenger agents look to Stein to give them a lift when business is dull. ” » 2 American Association ball players got little more than a look at

their first pay checks. . . . They had to send em home to buy more coal. . . . The fans understand about that, tee.

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y 2 4 2 o 8 Minneapelis is the only club in the league which never finished last . —~. and Manager Sheehan is sure the law of averages will not catch up with the team this year—not by a long shot. # =# 4 “ » » Every time Manager Oscar Pepper Vitt of thé Cleveland ball club gets up, a pewder keg gets up with him. $ # 8 8 »

PBhisaus centennial year is off to a poor start in regard to attendance. . . . Rain, cold and threatening skies have kept thousanas away from the parks. . ries. . . , No payrolls to meet. = 2 2 ” ” » Clark Griffith says his Washington club is “a mystery team.” That's a fancy alibi for a second division outfit.

. . Abner Doubleday had no such wor-

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Cincinnati's opening-day defeat sort of removed Manager Bill McKechnie off the spot which the majority of experts put him on by predicting the Reds “couldn’t miss.”

Baseball at a Glance

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Pct.! Cincinnati at Chicago. 1.000 New 1.000 grounds). 1.000 Philadeloh'a at Boston (two games), St. Louis at Pittsburgh.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Raston at New York. Washington at Philadelphia. Chicago at Detroit. Cleveland at St. Louis.

Louisvine i ndianapolis Toledo . Minneapolis Columbus St. Paul Kansas City Milwaukee

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Chamaco Wins Two CHICAGO, April 19 (U. P.).—Joe Cha- _ maco, Mexico City, world three cushion billiard champion; last night won the third and fourth blocks of his 600-point billiard match with Jay Bozeman, Chicago.

Poised for National Swim Here

Among the entrants in the national swimming championships" at the Indianapolis Athletic Cldb Sunday are these representatives of the Firestone Club, Akron, O. From top to bottom: Misses Rhea Barry, who swims backstroke. Misses Genevieve and Betty Sibley, freestylers, and Marcia Perkins, breast stroke swimmer. The combination of Barry, Sibley and Perkins recently won the women’s 1939 national junior 300yard medley title.

The girls are entered in the women’s national senior A. A. U..

440-yard freestyle and 220-yagds breast stroke championships here.

Louis Thesz On Mat Card

Champ Signed for Armory; Mephisto Thrown.

Louis Thesz, St. Louis, recognized

of the world by the National; Wrestling Association, will appear (here next Tuesday at the Armory against an opponent as yet un-' [named, according to - Promoter) Lloyd Carter. Whitey Wabhlberg,!

Washed Out Games Fail To Worry A.

COLUMBUS. O., April 19 (U. P.).| —Although Old Jupiter Pluvius has | been returned winner in all but | eight of the 24 American Associa- | tion baseball games scheduled to date, the club owners are not dis- | couraged. The prize rainmaker of all time] has hung up similar early season]

[records in the last 37 years of the! one of the worst stretches league, but the clubs always have clement weather in its existence in|

survived, George M. Trautman,

A. President

the clubs’ encounters with rain and cold weather. “I don’t think a later start would help the situation any,” Trautman said. “The records will show more games washed out in early May than in late April over a period of

Minneapolis With Tribe

5: ihg on the green, the Indians will Hock oars with the = Minneapolis

. [ican Association boat race.

years.”

Last season the league ran into]

of in-

early May after an auspicious April

Locks Oars

Millers Scheduled for Three Days at Perry Stadium; Outfit Balanced.

NRRL RLS If theiweather opens the gates of.

Runs Batted In

First Game One of Woe

Cards, Tigers Win.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY

United Press Staff Correspondent

mercy and consents to some gambol-

Millers today and resume the Amer-

The Millers are scheduled here for three days and will be followed by the St. Paul Saints on- Saturday. Starting time for all games is 2:30. The Redskins have had four postponements and the Millers the same number, which makes it even on that score. On games won, however, the Hoosiers are sporting. an unmarred record in two starts against the Millers’ one won and one lost. Ordinarily two swallows .do not; make a season, but this yéar even

NEW YORK, April 19.—Baseball’s big opening having been spoiled by rain and cold, nine major league clubs hoped to play their initial games today. But in Brooklyn they wished they ‘hadn’t opened at all. One swallow

game doesn’t make a season, but the Dodgers quickly reverted to type in their moist opener with the | Giants yesterday, and Bill Terry's | rebuilt - club smacked them, 7-3. | Brooklyn fans, whose hopes had | been aroused by the punching | around the Dodgers gave the Yanks in spring training, have reverted to their old battle-cry, “Wait till next

one swallow is something to boast about. 16 Postponements

year.” Only" two other openers were played yesterday. The St. Louis

Joe Medwick . . . two.

There have been 16 postponements in seven days in the A. A. and old timers in the league vouch for it as a record covering the whole span of years back to 1902 when the circuit organized. It was a grand slam again yesterday in the no-game-today league and not a single club swung a bat. Three games were washed out—at Indianapolis, Toledo and Columbus —and the fourth, at Louisville, was called off on account of cold weather. Minneapolis is under new man-

Cardinals nosed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-2, and the Detroit Tigers blasted a 6-1 victory over the Chica= go White Sox. A total of 83,496 saw the three games, far below expectations because of forbidding weather, Leo Couldn't Resist

Leo Durocher, making his debut as Brooklyn manager, couldn't ree sist starting Red Evans, the New Orleans rookie pitcher the Dodgers “stole” from Bill Terry. What a story it would have made if Evans, bought by the Giants from New Orleans for $12,500 and a pitcher and then

agement this season and Long Tom

i plucked off the Giants’ Jersey City

Sheehan is the freshman skipper. He has assembled a bunch of

farm club by Larry MacPhail for $7500, could have beaten the Giants.

Hank Greenberg ... two. 2 Durocher appreciated the drama

sluggers, and while his roster leans mainly to veterans, he has injected some speed and crafty pitching to round out what stacks up as balanced outfit.

Three Ex-Tribesters

A couple of 1938 Indians are holding down regular positions on the Miller infield, Buck Fausett at third and Jimmy Pofahl at short. Phil Weintraub, . first sacker and outfielder, also played in Tribe livery for a short spell several years ago. Jimmy Sharp, the kid lefthander from California, probably will re- t ceive the Indian mound assignment today. Minneapolis has a lefthanded attack and it’s an opportunity for Sharp to get off on the right foot. ey The Millers haven't played since Sunday and the Redskins have been idle since Monday. Sheehan’s team

State Thinlies

Bulldogs in First Test Since

or” at the Butler oval this afternoon when the Bulldogs were to undergo their first test in dual competition Western conditioning trip earlier this month.

of the situation, and gambled with Evans but the loquacious redhead wasn't equal to the occasion. He lasted only five innings, giving up six runs and eight hits, and was charged with the defeat. Harry Gumbert kept the Dodgers’ seven hits well scattered and backed up advance notice that he'll be the Giants’ No. 1 pitcher, now that Carl Hubbell js headed over the hill,

Zeke Leads Attack Terry's: winter deals made “Vinegar Bill” look good for one day anyway. Zeke Bonura led the Giants’ atfack with a homer (in the third, two on) and two singles, and at field he handled 16 chances safely. His blows accounted for three Giant tallies. The two ex= Cubs, Frank Demaree and Billy Jurges, came through in splendid style. Jurges made two hits and Demaree one in a pinch.

At Butler Oval

Western Jaunt.

Indiana State's track and field eam were to be the “guests of hon-

since returning from a

Bonura Leads Giants to 7-3 | Victory Over Dodgers; - § J

Sh ARE

doesn’t make a summer and one

Teams Try Takeoff Again { Brooklyn's |

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Chicago Other games postponed, rain. : ‘ : ‘league president, said today. opening. Only one game was rained | ] : 180, Duluth, Minn.,, whipped The : : 3 [got | Great Mephisto, Newark Boned ‘Before the days of night base- out during the first two weeks of SOU In one game at Columbus and Ray Blades got off to a flying .

start in his debut as Cardinal pilot. §

Jim Garwood, who has heen “on the shelf” with a pulled muscle,

D AMERICAN LEA GAMES TODAY MERIC No RAGUR <

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Detroit Minneapolis at Indianapolis. Rigney, St. Paul at Louisville. and r Milwaukee at Teledo.

Kansas City at Columbus. Other games postponed, rain.

Joe Williams—

NEW YORK, April 19.—It may be that Mr. Joe Jacobs is getting around to the notion that Joe Louis can fight a little. And the supporting testimony has been piling up, hasn’t it? Three one-round knockouts in a row. The fellow couldn't be more destructive with a shotgun. Anyway, in the course of an informal social chat early today, Mr. Jacobs admitted there is a remote possibility that Tony Galento might be beaten when he meets the Negro heavyweight champion in June. We had asked Mr. Jacobs, as an old true friend, whether he honestly believed his beefy buffoon had even so much as an outside chance of beating the one-man World War; we didn’t want any ballvhooey, we wanted his down-to-earth-gpinion. “If it's a fight, he's got plenty chance,” Mr. Jacobs answered, almost defiiantly. 2 n ” = ” 2 ELL, it usually is a fight when the Negro is in there; we couldn't remember ever seeing him in a taffy pull or a knitting bee. ~1 mean if he comes in there swinging, if he opens up and trades punches. That's what I call a fight, and that's where my guy is at nis best.” We shuddered. After all Galento is a friendly soul, he has a sweet wife, a cute bambino and a nice flourishing suds dump in a neighborly town. ... “What if it isn't a fight?” we asked feebly. “If it ain't a fight it has to be a boxing match, don't it? With Louis standing there and pecking away with a left jab. My guy won't like that. It ain't his kind of moider.”

Joe Will Fight—You Can Be Sure of That

RESSED for additional details, Mr. Jacobs admitted that if Louis wanted to he could stab out a victory over Galento with a left Jab. Another thing, he is concerned about the heavy scar tissue around Galento’s eyes. Louis’ darting jabs might cut this so severely the referee would have to stop the fight. “That's the only thing we're afraid of” said Mr. Jacobs. “Him boxing us. If he fights us we are okay, we can win and I ain't trying to sell you a bill of groceries, either.” We said we didn't think that Mr. Jacobs and his fighter had much to fear on that score. Louis doesn't waste any time boxing these days. He just steps out and throws the whammy and the white wings come in and sweep up the scattered debris. 2 ” ” 2 2 2 “WPUT against my guy he’s liable to try to get cute. He don't like the way Galento’s been popping off about him. So he's liable to pin jabbing and I gotta admit my guy ain't so good at the fancy stuff.” We said, all right. then, suppose it is a fight and not a boxing ThHghon, how did his guy, as he calls the gallant Mr. Galento, expect to win? “With this!” screamed Mr. Jacobs. his lett first under our twitching beak. We wondered about Mr. Galento's courage.

Even Jacobs Is a Bum to Him

1.~= me tell you something about my guy,” insisted Mr. Jacobs. “He's got the heart of a lion. He ain't no pop off. He just talks that wav. “He never was a Nice Nelly. Even as a kid he was a toughy. Everybody's 8 bum to him. Say, he even calls me a bum.” We wondered if Mr. Galento didn’t have something there. “And let me tell you something else. Louis is one guy he never will be afraid of, and he’s one guy he wants to moider ‘on the level. You remember out in Chicago don't you?” \ 5 ” EJ os ” 2 ME JACOBS proceeded to recall a touching little scene in Jim . Braddock’s dressing room. Braddock has just been stiffened by Louis. Galento came in and put his arms around the battered Irisher and said. “Don’t you worry, Jim, I'll get that bum and moider him for you. ‘So you can see this bum stuff aint put on with Galento,” said Mr. Jacobs, earnestly. “He ain't saying it just to make copy for you newspaper ows: All I want is for Louis to come out swinging punches, at’s all.” We mentioned to Mr. Jacobs that it wasn't too late vet. “Too late for what?” ye “To call the whole thing off.” “Wise guy, eh?”

“With this.” And he shook

‘| scheduled outdoor match in the new

00° 000 3x— 61 © to the light heavyweight title, in. Dietrich and Silvestri; Bridges two out of three falls at the Armory

last night. The title was not at | stake as Mephisto came into the {ring overweight. Mephisto. Uses “Pile-Driver” The stocky blond from Duluth took the first fall in 15 minutes with an inside cradle hold off of a full Nelson. A near-capacity crowd went berserk as Mephisto came back to take the second fall from their choice with his dreaded piledriver in 14 minutes. Mephisto appeared well on his way to adding to his consecutive of Armory victims when Wahlberg took the deciding fall with a reverse body slam off of an attempted piledriver, by the Newark grappler in 15 minutes. Billy Thom won from Gordon Arquette, Spokane, Wash, light heavy, in 13 minutes with a series of body slams and a body press. It was Thom's first bout here in several weeks. 'The Indiana University grappling ccach challenged the winner of the Wahlberg-Mephisto go previous to the match. Mike Mazurki, 235, New York, threw Henry Piers, 228, Hoiland, in the preliminary hout with a headlock and body press.

Wabash Nine To Play Butler

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, April 19.— Wabash College's baseball team will attempt to even matters with Butler when the Little Giants play in Indianapolis tomorrow. The third game of the series will be played here Saturday. Sophomore pitchers Joe Miller, Monticello, and Sam Scheivley, Sunman, probably will get the nod from Coach Alonzo Goldsberry. The rest of the lineup probably will be Ed Marciniak, Hammond, catching; Wayne Hanscom, first base; Loren Schloot, second base; Martin Quinn or Walter Gray, third base; Fred Rhode, shortstop; Paul Emmert, left field; Jim Seiler, center field, and Bob Long or Walter Davis, right field. Meanwhile, the baseball game, track meet and golf match, all rained out last Saturday, have been rescheduled, according to Wabash officials. The Wabash-Franklin game will be played April 25 and the golf match between the two schools has also been set for that day. Both will be held in Crawfordsville. The dual track meet between Earlham and Wabash will be held on Ingalls Feld tomorrow. Wabash was to meet Wisconsiri’'s baseballers here today, weather permitting.

Netters Go Indoors For Purdue Match

Times Special LAFAYETTE, April 19. — Purdue and Indiana State tennis teams will chalk up a victory apiece over the weather here today by holding their

fieldhouse. The meet will be shortened to three singles matches and two

ball, there might have been some grounds for worry. But the postponements of the last six days| eventually may bring larger crowds | to the parks for night doubleheaders than would have attended if the games were played as scheduled,” the league prexy said. He denied the early mid-April starting dates were responsible for

the 1938 schedule in the eastern half of the circuit. Then the teams moved westward where not a baseball was thrown for 10 successive days in Minneapolis and nine days in St. Paul, Trautman asserted. He added that a later beginning would mean a later finish in the

one at Toledo over a six-day period.

Hoosier Casters

The Hoosier Casting Club will hold its regular weekly meeting tonight at the Pennsy Gym at 7:30 o'clock. The public is invited.

suffered on the trip was to return to action this afternoon and was expected to strengthen the Bulldog’s lineup. Butler counted on its star hurdler, Charles Marshall, and Rosy Southworth, distance man, for most of its points.

fall when weather conditions are no more certain than in the spring.

Park Nine to Meet Cardinals Monday

Rain again washed out Park School's opening baseball game and caused postponement of the prepsters first contest with Southport yesterday afternoon. Park is scheduled to meet the Cardinals again Monday, April 24, on the latter's diamond. :

C. Y. O. Softball Entries Are In

More than 40 teams have been entered in the C. Y. O. softball league, according to word from the local C. Y. O. office. ; Fifteen entries will compete in the parochial league, 13 senior teams in the K. of C. loop and 12%in the C. Y. Hi division. ® The parochial and Hi Leagues will open the week of April 24 and the championships will be the first week of June. Senior groups are scheduled to. play Sunday mornings and the championships will be held late in the summer. Three trophies will be awarded the winners of the C. Y. O. Leagues. The Knights of Columbus, Blackwell and Kreig trophies are to be given the winners of the senior, parochial and C. Y. Hi divisions, respectively.

Reds Gain on Hoosier Skaters

The New York Reds’ chances of finishing strong and possibly of winning the current Roller Derby at the Butler Fieldhouse appeared to be bright today. Last night, Joe Evans, a new member of the Reds, made his first appearance with them and to approximately 10,000 fans it was an impressive one. He led his team to a 16-to-13 victory over the Indianapolis Hoosiers, who still command a game lead of 10 to 7. Action will begin tonight at 8 o'clock and in addition to the regu-

lar skating an amateur feature will be presented.

I. A. C. Diver In A. A. U. sii

Barbara Cook, Purdue University | coed who is representing the In-| dianapolis Athletic Club in the women’s national low-board diving championships at the Medinah Club in Chicago tonight, will try to make good the predictions of her coach, Dick Papenguth, that this is her year. In 1937 Barbara was third, last year she was second and this year she hopes to be first. Other national titles under fire

A Showboat

ATLANTA, April 19 (NEA) — Steamboat Johnson has been umpiring down South for 30 years or more. He carries a notarized statement by an optician that his eyes are perfect and flashes it when players call him a blind man. Steamboat engages in arguments with the customers as well as the players. He is the only man who can

make Bill Terry laugh. Major

leaguers dub him Showboat. He is more dramatic than any two big league umpires combined.

Manual Enters 29 In Southport Meet

Coach Raymond Van Arsdale of Manual will take 29 cindermen to Southport with him tonight for the relays. Other meets on the Manual schedule this week are a triangular contests with Warren Central and Broad Ripple at Warren Central and the relays at Muncie. Coach Van Arsdale contemplates a change in the mile relay and will use Jack Hoyt in place of Wayman Byers. Other members of the team are Joe Shupinsky, Marshall Snoddy

tonight are the 220-yard free style and the 400-yard relay championships. Halina Tomska, Detroit, is the defending champion in the 220. Katherine Rawls Thompson will be among the challengers to Miss Tomska's title. : The 440-yard freestyle: and 220vard breast stroke events will take place in the Indianapolis Athletic Club pool Sunday. Eighteen entries for the freestyle and eight in the breast stroke have been received.

Johnson Signed With Lockwood

Walter Johnson, the Indianapolis “buzz saw” who made his first local appearance of the season at the Armory last Friday night, will meet

his kind in Frankie Lockwood, Cincinnati leather thrower, in this week's six-round semiwindup, Matchmaker Kelse McClure announced today. Lockwood was defeated by Chuck Vickers, Indianapolis junior welterweight, in last week's Armory show, but went over well with fans in doing so. He will come into the ring with more experience than Johnson. In other bouts, Herb Gilmore, Cincinnati featherweight, fights Patsy Patterson, Somerset, Ky. in the eight-round main-go; Jimmy Norris, Madison, heavy, tangles with Gilbert Hubbell, Coatesville, and LeRoy Dycus, Indianapolis feather= weight, scraps with Billy Wheeler, Cincinnati. The last two fights are four-round preliminaries.

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His club won with a three-run rally in the seventh. Joe Medwick singled with the bases loaded, driving in two runs. Then the winning run came in on Johnny Mize's sacrifice fly. Bob Weiland and Clyde Shoun scattered nine hits to the Pirates. Bob Klinger weakened in the seventh after blanking the Cards for six frames. Tommy Bridges let the White Sox down with seven hifs in a rain {drenched Detroit opener. Tommy, |after two years of arm trouble, seems definitely on the way to a hig season. Pete Fox led the Tigers’ 12hit attack with three singles. Barney McCoskey, Beaumont rookie, making his debut in centerfield for the Tigers, blasted out two hits, as

sponsible for two runs.

College Baseball

Purdue, 4; Towa, 1. Louisville U., 16; Centre, 3. Wisconsin at Wabash (rain). Chicago at Notre Dame (rain).

f 9. It's all in

America, too, may be viewed in a distorted mirror. But thanks to those who see with understanding, our country has

grown great. In this land blessed with

boundless energy and skill ...

human as well as natural resources... the successful man of tomorrow will give credit to his clear understanding of to-

day. New opportunities invite us daily

to share by doing our share...

courage for day-to-day problems and confidence for long-range planning. Such is the program of those who are young in heart and viewpoint... and it is they

whom America rewards.

and Morris Nahmias.

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