Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1939 — Page 18

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WINDY KOLP IS MILLER COACH HENS STAND STILL, TAKE LEAD

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HE Minneapolis Millers have a prize goat getter in Ray (Windy) Kolp, their coach. . . . He grew up in the A. A. with St. Paul and later pitched in the big show. « « « Ray is one of the best baseball barkers in the

business. » ® 8 » 2 ® Look at Toledo, in undisputed possession of the A. A. leadership « +». and the Mud Hens were consigned to seventh or eighth place by the league experts in their preseason selection. . . . The Flock took over while idle again yesterday. » 8 8 » 8 8 Long Tom Sheehan, the Millers’ new manager, used to hit .400 in the e¢ld local home brew leagwe when he pitched for the Saints and the Blues . . . and never batted out of turn. ® ” ” ” » »

Two Cohens are on the Minneapolis roster, Andy and Al ... The former is the old second sacker, the latter a southpaw chucker.

= = » » » » The Indians reduced their player roster to 24 last night by re-

turning Pitcher Ed Bastien to Cincinnati . . . who in turn shipped him to the Columbia Sally League club. <

Dean of A. A. Scribes

EORGE BARTON, Minneapolis Tribune sports editor, on the road with the Millers, is the dean of American Association sports scribes. . . . He remembers more way-back-when stuff than an old record book contains. . . . Other scribes trailing the Millers are Halsey Hall, Minneapolis Journal, and Dick Hackenberg, Minneapolis Star. = = 8 » ® ®

Chicago White Sox players are wearing flaming red leather jackets this year. ... Where's the fire? ® ® ® 2 » ®

Mike Kelley, president of the Minneapolis Millers, is starting his 43d year in baseball. . . . When the American Association organized in 1602, affable Mike was manager of the St. Paul Club.

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Chicago's Cubs are playing indoor baseball. . . . The 124th Field Artillery Armory has been their home grounds the last two days.

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In the big flood two years ago last Jan. 21 feet of water covered the home plate at Crosley Field, Cincinnati. . . . If that established a precedent the Reds fear theyre sunk. . . . Late yesterday the water covered the first half dozen rows of field boxes and the dugouts were inundated.

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= 2 » » » ® Pete Reiser, Brookiyn’s spring training batting “find,” has been shipped to Elmira for more seasoning. . . . His fielding around second was too crude for the big game. * &» = * * w

The Brooklyn Dodgers got 2 normal on the first day of the season. + » » They won their pennant in spring training games.

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Fifty-five horsé race tracks operated in North America in 1938. . +. The Agawam track, located near Springfield, Mass. was voted out by a referendum after the ’38 meeting. ® = » = = 8 A feud is on between Minneapolis and Columbus. . . . In their opener Jimmy Bucher, Bird captain, and Phil Weintraub, Miller first sacker, were all set to throw punches when the umpires stepped in.

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939

Ice Follies

Perry Rink

Indians Play Millers Again After Dropping First Of Series, 6-5.

It probably will be Jimmy Sharp against Belve Bean when the Indians and Millers resume their ice follies series at the Perry Stadium rink today. Young Sharp was ticketed to “go”

yesterday but Skipper Schalk changed his mind and started the veteran Bob Logan. Bob wasn’t around at the finish of the fracas which was snatched by the visitors, 6 to 5. The defeat eased the Redskins out of a piece of the league lead and Louisville also was knocked down by St. Paul. Since Toledo's undefeated Mud Hens didn’t play they perched on top today, kind of dizzy like for them, but still wp there after engaging in only two games. The contest here was played in frigid atmosphere, played because the athletes needed the work and not because the management wished to numb the fans. However, 124 hardy souls sat through it, a jump of 42 over Monday’s gate of 82.

Rebound Misjudged

Minneapolis won by making eight hits count for 15 bases and a triple in the ninth sewed up the tilt. Denning led off in the last stanza and belted one over Pete Chapman’s head in right field. Pete misjudged the rebound off the wall and Denning checked in at third. Walter Tauscher pumped a sacrifice fly to McCormick in center and Denning raced home and broke a 5-all deadlock. Horace Lisenbee, third chucker used by the Redskins, was charged with the defeat and

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the victory went to Tauscher who relieved Harry Smythe in the seventh with none out. Walter let the Hoosiers down hitless in three innings and batted in the winning

run. Jimmy Pofahl, former Tribester, smacked a double after one away in the first and tallied on Hub Walker's single. In the fourth the Indians broke loose and grabbed the lead on Dee Moore's home run, Kermit Lewis’ double and Lindsay Brown's single.

Error Starts Trouble The Tribe kite soared in the

high pop fly, Chapman misjudged Wright's drive and it went for a triple, Paul Weintraub doubled, Lin Storti singled and Lefty Logan was derricked. Don French went in and erased Cecil Trent on a pop fly. Denning crashed a double and the big splurge was over shortly afterward. The rally was good for four runs and a 6-to-2 lead. Indianapolis got going in the sev~ enth after Latshaw reached first on Weintraub’s fumble. Brown singled, Fred Vaughn batted for French and singled, Tauscher relieved Smythe on the Miller mound and Chapman

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Patsy Patterson, Kentucky featherweight, in the eight-round main go; Walter Johnson, local lightweight, tangles with Frankie Lockwood, Cincinnati, in the six-round semi-

Wright, eintraub, Storti, Denning, Vaughn, McCormick, Chapman, Tauscher. Two-base hits—Pofahl, K. Lewis, Weintraub Denning. Three-base hits—Wright, Denning, Home run—Moore. Stolen bases—Walker, McCormick. Sacrifices— Chapman, Tauscher. Double play-—Tauscher

Walker, Millers, thefted second yesterday. time and was nailed.

hit a sacrifice fly. Three runs rolled in and tied the game at 5-all. Then the visitors settled matters in the ninth. ” » » Coach Wes Griffin got early walking papers to the locker room. He questioned a decision by ‘Umpire Harvin in the fifth and discovered the young ump couldn’t take it. : ® ® ® Newnian failed to get the bail out of the infield in four attempts and Don Lang punched out twice,

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Milton Galatzer ( batted for Brown in the ninth and fanned. Moore’s home run cleared the left field wall at the 360-foot mark. * "0 Cold weather baseball prevents a manager from getting a true line on the athletes, but it’s a safe guess Schalk will make a change in the Tribe lineup today. Cs ow ow Myron McCormick, Indians, and

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Here is the colorful Fred Perry, former amateur tennis champion

of the world and Don Budge’s opponent on their present tour, hitting a forehand shot while on the run. Perry is scheduled to meet Budge, 1938 amateur champion of the world, at the new Naval Armory tomorrow night. Their match will follow a singles battle between Walter

Senior and Ben Gorchakoff at 8 p.

NEW YORK, April 20.—Plans to stock the Yankee Stadium with

trout and open it to public fishing were being discussed today as the World Champion's opener with the Red Sox continued to be rained out. With the infield and outfield so deep under water that high and low tide bulletins are now being issued, and with pelicans nesting in the bleachers, there is no telling when the first game will be played. The report is that Yankee officials, disturbed by the loss of revenue due to the postpontments, have called in a fish and game authority for an estimate. The plan, as I got it from a very questionable source, is to operate the park on the lines of a fishing camp until the weather gets decent. Manager Joe McCarthy will serve as warden, and the players as guides. Instead of peanuts, hot dogs, and soft drinks the concessions department will handle hip boots, canoes, dry flies, rods and reels, and the like. April Is Too Early

The plan is a sensible one. Certainly something has to be done t offset the stupidity of the major league officials in opening the baseball season so early in the year. April is no time for baseball in the East and Middle West. You might Just as well select July for a skiing carnival or Jan. 1 for the celebration of Washington's Birthday. Of the 19 major league games booked for the first three days of the season only five were played, and they were played in weather that Walt Disney wouldn't have sent Donald Duck out in. Pneumoniaish sort of weather, with wind and rain

They ’re Ready to Put Fish In Yanks’ Park, Mac Hears

Questionable Source Says Pilot McCarthy Will Be Warden, Players to Be Guides.

By HENRY M'LEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent

Doubleday had wanted his game to be played in this sort of business he would have designed the original uniform of oilclioth; put 10 men on a team, the tenth to be a prominent eye-ear-nose and throat specialist, and arranged for an intermission between the seventh and eighth innings in which the customers could make their wills. y

Little Chance of Change

There is little chance that the major league schedule will be changed and a later date set for the opening games. To baseball officials progress is just another word in the dictionary, and. they can change their minds with much less rapidity than a leopard can his spots. As a result, the same schedule will be in effect next year, and all the years after that, so at least one owner I know has made plans to change his opening day ceremony , next year. Instead of the usual procedure, with some politician throwing out the first ball, and the march to the flagpole, he has lined up the following program: 1. T. O. M. Sopwith or Skipper Mike Vanderbilt will throw out the first lifebuoy. 2. Players of both teams will stage a water polo game in front of home plate and then swim freestyle to the centerfield flagpole, . 3. There will be a massing of the life insurance agents in the stands, and cheap, sound policies outlined over the loudspeaker. 4, A sailing race for star class boats, And, as a finale, the game will be called off and all fans in the stands given rain checks entitling them to one free observation by an alienist

and sleet in abundance. If Abner selected by Judge Landis.

Seven Clubs Still Trying

To Get Off

Only Five Games Played So Far in Major Leagues; Bees Triumph.

NEW YORK, April 20 (U, BP) Improved weather conditions ex pected across the upper half of the country today gave hopes of getting the baseball season going. The season opened officially last Monday, but rain, fog, and cold have caused postponement of 14 of the 19 games scheduled since, Six American and one National League olub still have not lifted a bat or thrown a ball. Only one of the nine games carded for yesterday was played, Boston’s Bees nosing the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-6, in the morning half of a Patriot’s Day doubleheader that could not be resumed in the afters noon because of rain, This sent the Bees into a first place tie with the New York Giants and St. Louis Datuamminie for the National League ead. Pittsburgh, the only team in either league which has played two games, was behind the three leaders with one victory and one loss. Detroit leads the American League with a victory over Chicago in the only game played thus far in that cir cuit. Al Simmons, beginning his 16th year in the big leagues and his first in the National, gave warning that he was going to be a big help to Manager Casey Stengel when he punched out three singles, including the one that drove home the Bees’ winning run in the 12th inning against the Phillies yesterday. Another newcomer to the Bees, Bill Posedel, was accredited with the pitching victory for his hitless hurl. ing over the last three frames. Buddy Hassett, a former Dodger teammate of Posedel, also participated in the victory with a pair of singles that accounted for one run.

I. U. Spring Teams In Big Ten Tilts

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, April 20.-In-diana University's baseball, track and golf teams will open their Big Ten conference seasons here this week-end while the tennis team plays DePauw at Greencastle tomorrow and Notre Dame at South Bend Saturday. The Hoosier pastimers will be making their second attempt to open the conference schedule when they play Wisconsin here tomorrow and Saturday. Tomorrow's game will start at 3:30 p. m., while the Satur day tilt will commence at 2:30. Coach Hugh E. Willis has selected Capt. Walter Cisco, Pete Grant, Frank Penning, Jack Mueller and Bob Sill to represent the Hoosier golfers when they open their Big Ten schedule against Purdue at the Bloomington Country Club. Indiana's thinlies will play host to Ohio State Saturday.

Tarzan Brown Wins Boston Marathon

BOSTON, April 20 (U. P).— Ellison (Tarzan) Brown, a Narragansett Indian who lived up to his tribal name of Deerfoot as he spread-eagled the field to win the 43d annual Boston A. A, Marathon in record-breaking time, looked ahead today to the 1940 Olympics. Brown clinched a team berth by annexing the B, A. A. classic yesterday. The 24-year-old Westerly, R. I, stonemason’s time of 2 hours 28 minutes 514-5 seconds was the fastest ever made for the full marathon distance of 26-miles-385-yards.

Umpires to Meet Commissioner Blauvet of the State Umpires Association will address members of the Indianapolis Umpires Association at a meeting at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at Fire Head-

quarters.

Al's Bat Booms

Al Simmons was yesterday’s hero in the one major league game, The veteran outfielder got three singles, including the one that drove home the Boston Bees’

winning run in the 12th against Philadelphia. The score was 7 to 6.

Few Tickets Sold in A. A.

Small Crowds See Blues and Saints Come Through.

By United Press Only a few tickets were sold at any of the parks, but six American Association teams managed to sand-

wich games into the bad weather schedule of nature yesterday. Vince DiMaggio, brother of the New York Yankees slugger, Joe, proved that there is something to the family name, and pounded a home run into the left field bleachers at Columbus to help the Kansas City Blues defeat the Columbus Red Birds, 5-3. Two runners trotted over the plate ahead of DiMaggio. In the eighth inning DiMaggio's teammate, Bill Hitchcock, duplicated the feat, with the bases empty. John Babich pitched for Kansas City, Nathan Andrews started for Columbus, was succeeded by Kleinke and Lewis Krausse finished it, Only 75 fans watched, At Louisville the home-town Colonels, who had sailed through their first three games without a loss, bowed ignominiously to the St. Paul Saints, 8-3. Lloyd Brown, pitching for St. Paul, had only two bad innings—the fifth when Louisville collected two of their runs, and the ninth, when a slight rally proved too late in arriving. The Milwaukee-Toledo game at Toledo was rained out.

Roller Rink Race Draws to Close

LeRoy Kerst and Helen Stewart, current leaders in the Riverside Roller Rink 250-mile race, will have only four miles to go when the event resumes tonight at 11 o'clock. The leaders have 246 miles to their credit, The team of James Marvel and Bonnie Brown, with 243 miles is in second and Paul Thompson and Mary Lemon are third with 242 miles. The winners will receive $50, second gets $25 and third place carries $15. Charles Boring and Armeta Dolittle were first place wine ners in the waltz contest held at the rink last Tuesday.

season for the Boilermakers. meet Wabash tomorrow.

Investigation of Louis-Roper Match Likely

Purdue Bows

LAFAYETTE, April 20 (VU. P.)=Indiana State yesterday defeated the Purdue tennis

in the first home match of the Purdue will

California

Ring Probe Under Way

Committee to Hear Charges Of Asserted Payoffs, Fixed Fights.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, April 20 (U. P.).—A special Assembly come mittee began hearing charges to= day of asserted payoffs, fixed fights and mismanagement involving state boxing and wrestling promoters and the personnel of the California Boxing Commission. Committee Chairman Chester D, Gannon, Sacramento Democrat, ine dicated the inyestigation would embrace Joe uis’ one-round knockout victory over Jack Roper in Monday night's heavyweight title bout at Los Angeles. “Everyone knew that Louis would Knock out Roper, vet the commis= sion sanctioned such a match and the press played it up—this is one of the reasons the present setup needs investigating,” Gannon said.

Promoters Summoned

The inquiry was authorized by the Assembly after Dr, Peter Mc Callum, board member from Los Angeles, assailed commission pro cedure.: Financial records of boxe ing and wrestling promoters were subpenaed, Summoned to appear before the committee were Jack and Lou Daro, Los Angeles wrestling promoters; Suey Welch, former matchmaker at the Los Angeles Olympic Audie torium; Mr, Helen M. Copin, Daro’s bookkeeper, and Joe Malcewicz, San Francisco wrestling promoter. Assemblyman Morris Poulson (R. Los Angeles) said the books of the promoters were being examined because “we intend to find out just where those payoffs are and who gets them.”

‘Fixing’ Charged

Gannon said the committee probe ably would not take up matters re= lating to the Louis-Roper fight for a day or two, “We'll start out with testimony dealing with financial transactions of the (boxing) ‘commission,” he said. Welch, the Southern California matchmaker, will be questioned on charges the Big Boy Bray-Chuck Crowell fight in Los Angeles last Seager was “fixed,” Gannon said.

Barbara Cook 3d In Diving Event

CHICAGO, April 20 (U. P.).= America’s Olympic women’s swime ming team counted on a bright new prospect today in Dorothy Leonard, a 17-year-old high school girl, who won a National A. A. U. freestyle race in her first big meet, The tall young star from Wore cester, Mass., came from behind in the last 20 yards last night and de« feated the defending champion, Halina Tomska, Detroit, at 220 yards. Miss Leonard’s time was 2.35.3. Arlite Smith, Chicago, won her third straight low board diving crown, but she almost lost it on her last two dives to Claudia Eckert of Wilmette, Ill. Her point total was 120.35 to 11820 for Miss Evkert, Barbara Cook of the Indianapolis A. C,, was third, with 106.33.

New Castle Victor

NEW CASTLE, April 20 (U. P.).—= New Castle High School's track team defeated Richmond, 60 to 56, here yesterday.

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