Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1939 — Page 28
By Eddie Ash
THREE DIMAGGIOS GOING GOOD SPREAD OUT IN THREE LEAGUES
HE DiMaggio brothers are shining lights in three leagues. . . . Joe of the Yankees indicates he’s going to have his greatest season in the American League, Vince is doing a comeback with Kansas City and Dominic is giving Pacific Coast League fans something to rave about as he stars for San Francisco. Lack of hitting brought about Vincent’s decline from the Boston Bees to the Blues, but aided by the advice of Manager Bill Meyer, the black-haired Italian this spring seemingly has improved greatly. He’s regarded as one of baseball's finest defensive players and in the event of a marked improvement at bat the Yankees likely will be glad to call him in for a tryout next year. It’s been pointed out to Vince that the Yankee chain may have in mind a brother act in their outfield, and what’s more there's nothing to prevent them from trying for Dominic, too, if their scouts’ report warrants an offer for the No. 3 DiMaggio on the Coast.
Giants Miss Meal Ticket
HE sagging Glants miss their meal ticket, Carl Hubbell They've won three and lost four. . . . King Carl has been pitching in batting practice and is likely to start the first warm day. With the exception of Harry Gumbert, Manager Terry can’t get his hands on a pitcher capable of getting past the seventh. . . . Therefore, the 1939 unveiling of Hubbell may be rushed to uplift the morale of the team. The Giants won 12 of their first 13 games against Eastern National League teams last season. ge & & & § »
EEKING their level or just in a slump? . . . Indianapolis fans are asking that question as the Indians land on the short end of the score in their last four times out. The team has played 10 games and what was suspected at the outset, is not blasting out the long ones. . . . The old power is absent and they're going .tc meet plenty of that in the West. . . . Maybe the Hoosiers will get going, but if so some of the boys will have to do better than .200 and .250 and drive the ball for distance occasionally. Indianapolis still is hanging in the first division and the home fans hope the Tribesters don't lose heart as a result of the four set-
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FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939
East Has Derby Preview Tomorro
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Members of Bluegills, Butler University women’s swimming club. are in the midst of a successful season of water activities and swimming meets. Here they are ready for a dip in the Butler pool. In the first row (left to right) are Misses Judy Diddle, Betty Leikum, Lilly Gebhardt, Margaret Amos, Ann Johnson, Mary Ann Kibler, Jane
Aquatic-Minded Bluegills in Midst of Busy Season
Robinson, Ann Harder and Wilma Ambuhl. to right) are Misses Louise O'Hara, Betsy Murbarger, Dorothy Spring er, Mary Kershner, Harriet Shelhorn, Shirley Einbinder, Betty Wange=« lin, Lou McWhirter and Shirley St. Pierre. Miss Magdeline Adams
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backs in a row.
Ball Park on Lake Shore
PLAN is under way in Milwaukee to erect a new ball park on man-made land on the lake shore near the Lincoln Memorial
Bridge and lease it to the ball club
rental. Lou Novikoff, Milwaukee’s Russi
for a term of years at a nominal
an outfielder, is a former softball
player. . . . One month he played 30 softball tilts and belted 22 home runs. . . . Babe Ruth used to collect $80,000 a season for hitting a hard
ball in that fashion. Novikoff climbed off a truck in and entered league baseball via Ponc = = 8
the oil fields of Bakersfield, Cal, a City in the Western Association. 8 §
Gone STALLINGS JR, son of the Miracle Man who led the
Boston Nationals from a July
1 celiar spot tc the world cham-
pionship in four straight wins over the Athletics in 1914, is scheduled
to report to Chattanooga when his s
Georgia. . . . Young Stallings is a th Chattanooga's shoeless player,
season closes at the University. of ird sacker. Durward Hammond, a Southern
Cracker, departed the club when he became homesick. . . . Probably the tallest player in organized ball is Ray Dabbelt, 22-year-old pitcher who stands 8 feet 8 inches. . . . He's with Hamilton in the Pony League.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Milwaukee. Toledo at Minneapolis. Columbus at St. Paul. Louisville at Kansas City.
NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at Boston at P Brooklyn at New York. Pittsburgh at St. Louis.
AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Boston. St. Louis at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Washington. Deiroit at Chicago.
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First Since Dahlen
NEW YORK, April 28 (NEA) — Leo Durocher is the first playing manager the Brooklyn Dodgers have had since Bill Dahlen.
Detroit ... Chicago
It’s ‘Ha-Lappa Clown’: He’s Derby Contender
LOUISVILLE, April 28
Kentucky Derby they will be puz-
zled by the peculiar tongue-twist-ing name, Xalapa Clown. The name is pronounced “Ha-Lappa Clown” and the colt received it in & peculiar way. Fd Sims, Texas oil operator, dug wells in Mexico. Near the wells was the small Aztec Indian town of Xalapa. In Aztec, the word means “sand and river.” It was such a beautiful spot in the bleak country that Sims named his breeding establishment at Paris, Ky, “Xalapa Farm.” Three years ago a small coalblack foal was born on the farm. As he grew he adopted tricks never known to thoroughbreds. He would
Tech Rhinie Thinlies Trounce Shortridge
Techs frosh track team downed the Shortridge rhinies, 76 to 41 in a dual meet yesterday afternoon on the Tech field. It was originaily scheduled as a triangular meet. However, Kokomo, the third team, did not appear. Tech took first in all events ex-
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galloping across his pasture. In his stall he would lie down and cover himself with straw by kicking it over his body. : “What a clown that little fellow is,” said Mrs. Sims. “Xalapa Clown. That's what we'll eall him.” Sims died a few months ago and left the colt to his daughter, Mrs. Bessie Franzheim of Pittsburgh. Xalapa Clowns work at Santa Anita wasn’t so impressive, but he took sick en route to the coast. When he returned to Kentucky and began his training for the Derby, he again showed the tremendous speed which enabled him to run away from his opposition in three starts as a two-year-old.
Mat Show Cards Double Feature
The Hercules A ©. wrestling show next Tuesday will consist of a double-header main-go, Matchmak= er Lloyd Carter announced today. Dorve Roche, 220, Decatur, Iii,
¢ept the 220-yard dash, the mile run, and the highjump, as the Blue
Imps went down in their second |
will meet Johnny Plummer, 2928 | former Towa blacksmith, in the
defeat. Last week Washington defeated them, taking firsts in the jdentical events Tech won yesterday afternoon. -
Greatest Thrill
rimes Special EVANSTON, Ill, April 28 Johnny Goldak, star pitcher on the tern University baseball team, a8 well as guard on the footpall team, says his greatest athletic thrill was winhing the light heavyt championship in the St h Gloves tournament
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(final bout while Frankie Hart, 180, Toronto, takes on Coach Billy Thom of Indiana University in the other half of the feature bill. Plummer tossed Joe Corbett here last week and has met Everett Marshall, former heavyweight champion. Roche is a favorite with loeal fans. Hart has appeared here before and holds a draw with Whitey Wahlberg who drew this week with Thom. Hart 10st to Mephisto here recently while Wahlberg defeated the latter two weeks ago. Thom alsd has been beaten yg Mephisto, ie light heavyweight title elaims op
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EW YORK, April 28.—Down South we wrote that if the Detroit Tigers could come up with a hard hitting outfielder they would be dangerous. This was like saying if it rains it’s going to be wet. Anyway, the Tigers came up with Barney McCosky and he is hitting a cool .515, tax included. . . . Boy, has that Johnstown got us worried these days! An interesting thing about McCosky—how do you like that, McCosky!—is that the Tigers took him off the local sandlots. This doesn’t happen often. The home-town kids usually have to go away to make good. There haven't been many exceptions. The Yankees took Gehrig off the Columbia campus, and the Indians took Uhle and Vosmik out of the amateurs. . . . That Johnstown, and we've got Challedon across the board at 15, 7 and 3 in the winter books! Both the Yankees and the Giants could use Hank Greenberg today, don’t you think, but the Bronx husky wound up with the Tigers. Clark Griffith could use Chariey Keller who is having a tough time breaking into the Yankee lineup. They tell us Griffith never heard of Keller until he popped up in the Yankee chain and all the time the young man was piaying in his back yard . . . Whoever thought that Johnstown would go a dis tance? sg Bo B HE Phillies were beaten yesterday, but they have been the surprise of the early season. Doe Prothro, the new manager, is the main answer. The Doc is one of those up-and-at-'em gents. Even if you can’t play ball you've gotta to try for Doe— and everybody knows the Phillies can’t play ball. The best ball player they have is Chuck Klein and he has been too old for the Supreme Court bench for years. . . . Of course, something could happen te Johnstown. We once saw a horse that was leading by three lengths jump the fence in Florida. If they give Doc a chance in Philadelphia he'll do all right. We remember Doc around Memphis as a youngster and he always was Mr. Big. He didn’t
bass this week in largest bass Carr ever caught, was 22 inches long. erawler. each Wednesday at the Pennsy gym.
proof fopudish Sof.
Ralph Carr, 3100 E. New York St, caught this 6-pound 3-ounce Blue River near Morristown. The fish, He used a night
Cart is a member of the Hoosier Casting Club which meets
Tigers Fortunate—They Have McCosky; Williams a Bit Blue—He Has Challedon
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
just play on the baseball, basketball or football team—he ran it. The rest of us had plenty of re= spect for him, or maybe it was fear; even then he was a commanding, dominating personality and we don’t recall that anybody ever got tough with him. 8 5 #
E note the Cincinnati park has installed an electric device which flashes “H” for hit and “Fr for error on the scoreboard and why this isn't
done in every ball park in the big leagues we don’t know. As things stand now only the newsmen in the press box know whether the batter is credited with a hit on a questionable play or charged with an error. No small part of the fun at a game is in keeping score, agreeing or disagreeing with the official scorer. Years ago we suggested this idea to a club owner and he protested it would encourage gambling. He said we'd be surprised how many people bet whether a ball is a hit or an error. So what? They bet anyway, don’t they? And how about the thousands of others who want to be informed? We were talking with Will Harridge, American League president, some days ago and he said Babe Ruth was the only player baseball could point to as a definite box office draw. Harridge wasn't just guessing either, for he has a look-see at all the attendance figures. These figures show Ruth broke and rebroke every attendance record around the circuit. Cobb was a good draw but he didn’t aps proach Ruth. Nor did Walter Johnson. Washs« ington would hold Johnson out for the big days and announce in advance he was to pitch and the attendance would invariably jump. But Johnson was a pitcher and worked at detached intervals while Ruth was in the game every day. Ruth not only upped the attendance on the big days but cn the small ones as well. He was like money in the bank. . . . If Arnold Rothstein was still around we could talk to him and maybe he could take care of that Johnstown for us.
Reno Expects Tony to Fight
Warns Against Repetition of Coast Exhibition.
RENO, Nev. Avril 28 (U. P).= Reno fight promoters prepared today to welcome Tony Galento, New Jersey heavyweight challenger, with an ultimatum to “fight or get out.” Promoter Harry Mpyerfeld, aware of the boos that greeted the “bounding beer barrel’s” appearance in a San. Francisco exhibition bout, said Galento would not be allowed to fight tonight “if he wears tights and headgear.” “The customers expect a run for their money and Galento or nobody else is going to come in here, put on a sham battle and run with the money,” Myerfeld said.
Seven Net Teams in DeMolay Tourney
the Teams representing seven cities
will compete in the DeMolay state basketball tournament which opens at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow at the Dear-
ST. LOUIS, April 28 (NEA)=
Blades’ Efficiency Wave Takes Toll on Mascot
Somebody must have broken the
born Gym. The pairings: Tipton vs. Indianapolis. Anderson vs. Kokomo. South Bend vs. Peru. Terre Haiite (bye). The second round will begin at 2 p. m. with the finals scheduled for 7 p. m. Team and individual championship medals as well as a sports-
Reds in Spot To Grab Lead
Series With Cubs Is First Hot One in National.
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 28 —Leave it to the National League to put on the year’s first “crucial series.” It’s on out in Cincinnati now, with the roaring Reds, the team the experts picked to win the flag, and the champion Cubs, present. pacemakers and betting favorites, already at each other’s throats. The Reds drubbed the Cubs, 11-3, yesterday with an eighth-inning explosion which piled up eight runs. Only half a game out, the Reds can move into first place—a spot they haven't occupied since April, 1935 by upsetting the Cubs again today. Four years ago the Reds got a four-day taste (April 19-22) of first place only to wind up sixth that season. Last year they made threatening gestures but never climbed to the top, finishing fourth.
Win Four of Five
Since losing the opener to the Pirates (dropping the opener is a sevensyear jinx with the Reds), Cincinnati has won four of its last five
games. In pitching four out of five hurlers have gone the route, allowing only 38 hits, an average of 7 3-5 per game, In hitting five men are above 300. Goodman clouted a homer, triple and single yesterday, driving in five runs. Everybody in the Reds’ lineup got at least one hit. Derringer allowed only eight hits and outlasted Larry French, who weakened in the eighth, Simmons Homers
The Cards handed the Pirates their seventh straight defeat, 6-5, in 11 innings. Pep Young's boot al-
lowed the winning run. Al Simmons’ eight-inning homer enabled the Bees to nose the Phillies, 6<5. Mike Kreevich scored both runs as the White Sox outlasted the Tigers to win a 2-1 13-inning battle. Charley Gehringer’s homer sent the game into extra innings. Johnny Marcum’s seven<hit pitching enabled the Browns to trim Cleveland, 4-2. Emil Leonard scored his second vice tory as Washington beat the Athletics, 6-3.
Local ‘Y’ Grapplers In National Meet
In search of further competition the Indianapolis ¥Y. M. C. A. wrestling team is in Akron, O., today where it will make a bid for the national “YY” wrestling championship.
The local team has already won the Indiana-Kentucky A. A. U. and State Y. M. C. A, grappling championships. Four matmen, headed by Dan Kauffman, heavyweight king in both of the other tournaments in which he competed, will try for honors in the two-day meet. Others on, the squad are Carlos Freeman, state “Y” heavyweight champ; Louis Savioa, veteran middleweight, and Jimmy Angelopolous,
Sweetpea, age 11, has been given | his release by the St. Louis Cardi= (nals who are now operating oh a (basis of precise efficiency. Sweetpea . . . ho one knew him by any other name . , . was the Cardinal mascot, self-appointed, in the years 1037 and '38. He was willing, even anxious, to continue though probably his heart wasn't in the job as much as it was when Frankie Frisch was the ruler of the Red Bird scene. In the St. Louis dugout the other afternoon, Frisch's successor, Blades, turned to Buzzy Wares, and
inquired. “Who is that little squirt over there in the old uniform, with the No. 1 on his back?” “Oh!” replied the veteran eoaeh, “that's Sweetpea.” Wares said it with finality, but Blades didn’t reg ister. He apparently didn't know of BySstaea. he said to Wares: “He'll have to stay out of here. We can't have him around.”
news for on the following afternoon Sweetpea was absent. Frisch used to caution Sweetpea about his conduct in a major league uniform, Pepper Martin had "the regi« mentals made for the youngster. In December, 1037, St. Louis gave a large testimonial banquet for Joe Medwick, who had won all National League batting titles. The batting champion sent a taxicab to Sweetpea’s home to bring
Ray | him to the festivities. After Sweet«
pea, whose home environment is hardly lavish, had filled himself on turkey, ice eream and eake and fallen asleep, Medwick sent him home in a eab. Now he has been fired. Efficiency is the order of the day on the Cardinal beneh, where fun was once the ruling force. And BSweepea wasnt’ exactly efficient.
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a small field appeared likely. The most logical contenders were Joe W. Brown’s T. M. Dorsett, William Ziegler’s El Chico and Our Mat, George Widener’s Eight Thirty, Wheatley Stable’'s Gilded Knight, Mrs. Ambrose Clark’s Lovely Night, Saratoga Stables Volitant, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Impound, and, possibly, Wheatley’s Sea Captain. Another half-dozen eligibles at the track were counted out, but may be sent along on a gamble. Forty nominations were sent in for the Wood when the deadline passed on March 1 but from the excited talk around the barns and the paddock there may as well be just one horse in the race. That is Johnstown. Derby odds on the handsome bay have been hammered down to 5-2 and bookmakers agree he will start tomorrow as a short priced favorite. Johnstown drew his support from a sensational victory last Tuesday in the Woodhaven Purse, also at a mile and 70 yards. He finished six lengths in front of Lovely Night in 1:40 4-5, two-fifths of a second better than a 14-year-old Ja.naica record and only a fifth short of the world mark. After the race Trainer Jim Fitzsimmons said the colt may be better than either Gallant Fox or Omaha, the two he sent to victory at Churchill Downs in 1930 and 1935. If Gilded Knight starts he will be coupled with Johnstown. However, both horses are trained by Fitzsimmons and he may not approve of starting the pair in the same race until they meet in the Preakness. Gilded Knight, not eligible for the Derby, has whipped El Chico at six
Back in Service a M., April 28 (U. P)—Les | Handley, Pittsburgh's regular third sacker who has been recuperating at his home here from a "bean ball" injury, departed this morning to join his team in St. Louis.
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Johnstown Faces Fast Field of 3-Year-Olds In Mile, 70-Yard Test
El Chico, Our Mat, T. M. Dorsett and Lovely Night Among Likely Starters in Rich Jamaica Race; Clear Weather, Speedy Track Predicted.
By JACK GUENTHER ) United Press Racing Editor NEW YORK, April 28.—The East's big preview of the Kentucky Derby will be held at Jamaica tomorrow with William Woodward's Johnstown, opposing the best 3-year-olds on the grounds in the 14th renewal of the Wood Memorial, a $20,000 stake run over a mile and
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furlongs at Jamaica and then hume - bled Challedon and other Derby aspirants in the Chesapeake at Havre De Grace. The Wood will be the deciding race as well for El Chico, the 1938 juvenile champion, and should prove to satisfaction whether the son of John P. Grier has staying qualities or is strictly a sprinter. Eight Thirty and Volitant, Impound and T. N. Dorsett also must give good account of themselves to ree tain backing as contenders for 3= year-old honors. All but Volitant are Derby eligibles.
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formance. The Wood weight is 120 pounds with a five-pound allowance for maidens. The forecast was for clear weather and a fast track. A crowd of 20,000 is expected for the race, which is backed by the Jamaica Handicap. The latter stake is exe pected to draw Sir
ing Fox, The Chief and others,
Pitcher Doubled! '
CINCINNATI, April 28 (NEA).= Pitcher Whitey Moore of the Cine cinnati Reds was telling about an afternoon when “I doubled . . .” when Outfielder Harry Craft cut ing “, . . with cramps, probably.”
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