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BUCS CHANGE THEIR PATTERN

PERHAPS THEY'LL TURN TABLES

PITTSBURGH backers were taken aback but not completely confounded at the April misadventure of Pie Traynor's Pirates. . . . The Bucs at their best in recent years have been fast breakers, early pacemakers and all too often exhausted by the long, hot race and nosed out at the finish, as in 1938. This year it was different. . . . The Bucs won their first game and then dropped the next eight before Traynor got the ship going again. .. . It was tough punishment while it lasted but maybe it wiii get the boys thinking their luck has changed and they won't fold come September. It would be strange, indeed, to see the Pirates nose some other front-running favorite this time and prance through the pack in the stretch to win the National League flag and bring the World Series to Forbes Field for the first time in 14 years. :

National League Merry-Go-Round PPARENTLY there are no soft spots in the National League this trip and every team appears capable of going to town on occasions. . . . Wonder how dizzy Bill McKechnie became when the Phillies threw that five in the eighth yesterday? The Redlegs will be home Sunday to battle the St. Louis Cards. ... It's a three-game series, starting Friday... . Gabby Hartnett relished his steak last night . .. the Cubs came through. Debs Garms, the Boston Bees’ hit-and-run star, didn't get to play much ball in his student days at Howard Payne College, down in Texas. ... They needed him more as a pointmaker in the sprint events for the track team. n o 2 3 o

OU GEHRIG receives $227 a day for his new job of carrying the Yankee batting order out to home plate and listening to the ground rules before each day's game. Monty Stratton of the White Sox will act as first hase coach in out-of-town games only. ... The walk from the Sox bench to the coaching line, around the diamond, is too much for the crippled itching star . Away from home it's only a few steps from the bench to coaching box.

Hi-Yo Is Rookie’s Name T didn't take the White Sox long to nickname Rookie Catcher Ken Silvestri. . . . He now is Hi-Yo Silvestri. . . . Ken's birthday homer came a day late. ... He was 23 on May 3 and got his first major league home run May 4, beating Washington, 2 to 1. Clint Brown of the Alabaster Hose is a walking ray of hope for the sore arm brigade. . . . He had a chipped bone removed from his elbow last summer and is back relief pitching better than ever. Manager Dykes once told eccentric Gee Walker he never would play on a ball club of his. . Jimmy is glad to have him now for Walker is hitting consistently n = n 2

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OU get a better idea of what a miracle man this Johnny Cooney, former Indianapolis star, is when you happen to notice in the files of long ago a trade story of about 1623 vintage The clipping said John McGraw offered a young first base rookie named Bill Terry in exchange for Southpaw Pitcher Johnny Cooney. The deal fell through, but today Terry has marked finis to his active playing career while the seasoned southpaw pitcher of 1923 is starring daily as the ball hawk patrol of the widest centerfield in the National League, the one in Boston's Bee Hive.

Baseball at a Glance

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Last Place Pirates on Reds’ Heels

Cincinnati Is Humiliated by Phils, 8-7; King Carl Hurls Two Frames.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 2—An eightclub pennant race—the dream of all baseball magnates—was an actuality today in the National League. Only two and a half separated the league-leading Reds from the last-place Pirates. The gap from second to seventh place was one slim game. It's only early May but the topsy-turvy state of affairs in the National League has left the soothsayers gasping. Five clubs already have been on top or shared the lead. No club can be counted out of the race. The Pirates, who looked hopeless in dropping eight out of their first nine, have bounded back and may be next week's pacemaker. Bees, who shot to the front sc bravely, toppled back to fourth today with five straight setbacks.

Giants Recover

The Giants have recovered from their early slump ana are making threatening gestures. The Reds, a game in the van, are blowing hot and cold. The Dodgers and Cardinals are now in a spirited battle for second place. The Cubs, wracked with injuries and internal problems, are fighting to rekindle their early spark. And the Phillies, who look

(so futile when you analyze them, are |

slapping down their foes without regard for reputations or reason. What were Sunday's second-divi-sion clubs all turned on the upper strata clubs yesterday and whaled them. Most humiliating defeat of all was handed the pacemaking Reds. Leading, 6-3, going into the eighth, Cincinnati blew an 8-7 decision to the Phillies. Johnny Vander Meer for the fourth time this season failed to finish and set the stage for the Phils’ triumph by his wildness.

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Boston at St. Louis, rain.

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SDAY, MAY 9, 1939

three times

Tony Has it Easy

May 9 (U. P.).—Tony Galento,

the New Jersey bartender, knocked Phil Johnson, New York Negro, to the canvas

here last night in their four-

round exhibition fight.

orary referee of the 27th annual

Named Honorary Referee

Tribesmen

Face Hens Under Arcs

Six American Association Clubs Lift Lids on Night Ball.

The night lid's off in the Ameri-

. | tonight

Col. Roscoe Turner of Chicago, famous speed flier, will act as hon-

500-mile race here Memorial Day.

T. E. (Pop) Myers, general manager of the Speedway, has announced.

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That old warning about “a stitch in time saving nine” has been revised by Floyd Roberts, the current auto oil gauge may save a race.”

event is to have two identical gauges instead of the conventional one To understand why it is necessary

speed king, to read “an extra

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3-2, when Pitcher Jim Tobin doubled [to think of race cars as the process in the ninth, scoring Lee Handley. |of mechanical evolution. Most Pepper Martin stole home to give cars are rebuilt each year. St. Louis a 1-0 victory over Brook-|ijmes new motors are put in old lyn and a tie for second place With frames or old motors in new frames

the Dodgers. Big Bill Lee pitched {ang occasionally a car may be as-|

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nd batted the Cubs to a 4-2 tri-|sembled from the pieces of two or mph over the Giants. {three other cars. High spot of the Giants’ game| priyers may refer to their cars as was Carl Hubbell's return to the box for the first time since Aug. 23 last lyears ago when maybe the only year. Coming in as a relief pitcher thing held over during the years was in the eighth, Hubbell was accorded the steering wheel or exhaust pipe. one of the finest ovations ever handed a ball player by the crowd Rose's 1937 Car the Polo Grounds. He| Actually the car Roberts is to faced six men, retiring them in or- drive is about 99.44 per cent new, but “the job

der, the first three in the eighth on he still speaks of it as Mauri Rose had here in 1937.” Rose's

three pitched balls. Yanks Take It on Chin experiences in that race have a lot i to do with Roberts’ present beliefs. Idle because of rain, the Red Sox Rose was running third that regained their American League lead | Memorial Day in an excellent posiwhen the Yankees were southpawed tion to win when he suddenly no-

being the one so-and-so drove five |

big Ten Baseball Leaders

Coach Tony Hinkle today picked a 12-man baseball squad to meet Purdue's Big Ten pace-setters this afternoon in a nonconference battle at Lafayette. The small squad that left this noon included Jerry Steiner, starting pitcher, and Dick Wilson, first string catcher, Others were James Kubal, Bill Hamilton, Silvio Constantino, Frank Carbon, Paul Herrmann, Ralph Swager, Jack Naylor, Methody Guleff, Rex Blacker and Lyle Neat. Meanwhile the tennis team was ready for its meet with DePauw at Greencastle tomorrow afternoon.

Michigan Golfers Lose to Notre Dame

NOTRE DAME, May 9.—Notre Dame's golf team shot its best golf of the season to best the Michizan team 17’: to 9!'; here yesterday. Capt. Tom Sheehan of the Irish led his mates with a 69, one under par in the singles while two of his teammates, Sam Neild and Rill Schaller made identical scores in the doubles to win that competition with a best ball match of 64.

Beavin Garners 678 Pin Score

Tom Beavin of the Little Flower loop at the Indiana Alleys topped the list of Indianapolis bowlers today with 678. He rolled games of 196, 236 and 246 in league competition last night. One other pinman, Charles Campbell, hit the maples for 662 in the Automotive division at the Antlers Alleys. Campbell rolled games of 244, 208 and 210.

Meet Postponed

A Manual freshmen triangular meet regularly scheduled for yesterday, with the rhinies of Ben Davis

and Warren Central, has been post-| 4s ; poned indefinitely because of rain, |lOWnhament at the Nancy Hanks cause heaven knows I am without a

Park School's pastimers were at Batesville today for their game with the high school team there this afterncon. Bob Bohlen and Bob Cusack were to form the Park battery.

| Yesterday the Bulldog | wielders scored their (of the year by d 14 t 2, house.

racquet second triumph efeating Wabash, on indoor courts at the Field-

Results were as follows:

| Butler will be host to Armour Tech of Chicago Thursday and will travel to Cincinnati, Friday.

and Dietz defeated Wall 8, 10-8.

Marshall Out to

Regain Mat Title

Everett Marshall, former w restling

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{champion who is making an effort to regain the heavyweight crown, tackles John (Wild Bull) Grandovich, rough and powerful New York grappler, in the main go on tonight's wrestling card at the Armory, It is for two falls out of three, Marshall and Grandovich have met on two occasions during the present season. The first match went to Everett on a disqualification, while he also took the second with his wel known pile driver hold after Grandovich had won the first all. Grandovich, rated one of the strongest grapplers in the industry, scales 240 pounds against 224 pounds for the La Junta, Colo., star. An added feature is the initial Ar(mory appearance of Luigh Baci(galupi, 230, Italian matman. He (grips with Warren Bockwinkle, 218, | St. Louis, in the semiwindup. Heavy- | weights Tom (Bull Dog) Marvin and | George Hagen open the show at 8:30 | o'clock.

Hoosier Archery Tourney Scheduled

| The Hoosier State Archery As-|

| sociation will hold its long-deferred |

j Lincoln Memorial Park at 9:30 a. m. | pext Sunday at Lincoln City. { There will be divisions for men, women and juniors. A double | American round will be held for (men, a double junior American {round for women and another double junior American round for intermediates and juniors.

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to defeat by the White Sox, 5-3. Edgar Smith, Athletics’ castoff, let the Yanks down with seven hits. | Wes Ferrell made his first start and, | despite only five hits, was beaten |

|by wildness.

The collapse of the Detroit Tigers continued as the Athletics plastered the Bengals with a 6-5 setback,

League cellar. Rookie Bill Nagel's homer was the winning blow. Scoring six runs in the seventh, Cleveland routed an old jinx, Ken Chase, and beat Washington, 6-2. The Indians had waited 29 innings before giving Willis Hudlin a run.

Purdue Nine Wins From Wabash, 9-3

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, May 9— Purdue University's baseball team resumed its winning streak at the expense of the Wabash Little Giants, 9 to 3, here yesterday. Paul Emmert, Wabash outfielder, got one of the four hits his brother, John of Purdue, gave to the Little Giant batsmen.

By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 9.—Men don't have much horse sense about the horse. Shown a great horse,

and the

| figures to back up his greatness, they

immediately begin to try to find a flaw in him. If this flaw is slow in revealing itself, they create an imaginary one and cast about for another horse to beat him. Take the case of Johnstown, the big and healthy hammerer who just won the Kentucky Derby, and before that the Wood Memorial, and before that the Woodhaven Stake in record time. He was an absolute standout in Louisville. ignored by half the experts in prerace selections, and one nationally known turf writer went so far as to predict that he wouldn't even finish | in the money. This is not a gloating story, prompted by the fact that I happened to name him to win. I am not the one to point the finger | of scorn at those who missed, be-

peer in picking losers. The newspaper experts were not the only ones who missed on Johnstown. Scores of owners and breeders of thoroughbreds said he didn’t have a chance to win a race longer than a mile. The fact that Johnstown proved

Yet he was |

|ticed with a start that the gadget on his dashboard showed no oil pressure.

Coming into the pits, Rose had his |

mechanics set the pressure up 100 peunds and roared back on the track to make up for lost time. Again the meter read “0” and again he came in. This procedure was repeated for yet a third time and on every stop he asked to have the pressure moved up 100 pounds. When he took the track again his motor blew out like a toy balloon. Although he didn't know it until long after the race was over. the hand on the car's oil gauge had come loose and fallen over to “0” even when his pressure was all right.

On Tandem Principle

The car should have carried 100 pounds presure and he had ordered that moved up to 400 pounds because of the trick this needle played on him. In the Roberts car, which has been entered by Lou Moore, the two gauges work on a tandem principle. He hopes if one goes out the other will stay all right. Roberts won the race here last year and the National Champion-

horse, and far superior to any 3-year-old rival, will not prevent | thousands of otherwise smart folks from betting against him in the Preakness at Baltimore next Sat{urday. Challedon will get a heavy play [Preakness Day despite the fact that |in the Derby he was such a poor (second to Johnstown that he all but finished in the dark. So will Ciencia, the filly, although |it is pretty generally known that [springtime finds fillies saddened and despondent by unrequited love. And so will Volitant, licked to a frazzle by Johnstown in the Wood. Johnstown'’s rousing win in the Derby must have been a sad blow to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the young sportsman who heads Pimlico and whose goal is to make the Preakness a bigger and better race than the Derby. Usually, the Preakness gains strength by the presence of the Derby winner in its field. But not this year. Johnstown looked so superior that he discouraged the owners of such

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Roberts to Have Two Oil Gauges on Speedway Car

(ship, and his car is to carry “No. 1.” | A big fellow who wears heavy shoes {and a battered crash helmet, Robrerts has a lot of driving control. During warmup spins yesterday | he turned one lap at 118 miles an

‘a good figure considering the stron wind his car was bucking.

n Cliff Bergere, the Hollywood stunt

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of the Man Who will be driving his 12th pgrler who took over at Toledo after | Some- | Face this year, has more miles in|preq Haney was elevated to the St.

competition on the Speedway track [than any other driver except Lou | Meyer. Bergere has gone 4440': miles here, To condition himself for this { race the tall Californian, who is rated the best dressed driver in racing, worked for three weeks in a Novi, Mich., factory owned by Lewis W. Welch, who has entered the car Bergert is to drive. was to operate a press and he has a few blisters on his hands to show for it. The idea was to strengthen his arm and shoulder muscles.

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Rain chased most of the boys into the garages yesterday afternoon, but before the showers Harry MacQuinn had time to turn a few in Bill White's Alfa- | Romeo which Babe Stapp is to] (drive, and Al Putnam had the| | Louis Kimel entry out for a short | trip. Plans were made to fix a new gear ratio for the last named car. ” n ”

The word being passed around the garages now is that the owner whose car won't roll up quickly to 128 miles an hour might as well enter the crate the things came in. The drivers have a word for these slow cars. They always refer to them simply as “iron.”

High School Coaches To Install Officers

The Indiana High School Coaches’ Association is to install its newly elected officers at a meeting Satur(day, May 20, at Tech High School. (The new officers are Wendall Bal(lard, Shelbyville, president: Charles | Ivey, Kendallville, vice president; S. Julius, Indianapolis,

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| Russell Shortridge, secretary-treasurer, and Clytie Lyle, Rochester, sergeant-at-arms. They were elected in a mail ballot.

And Still There Are Those Who'll Bet

Against Johnstown —Mac Is Puzzled

| horses as Technician and El Chico, land they won't start in the battle for the Woodlawn vase. If I am (not mistaken young Vanderbilt, in (his enthusiasm for the Preakness, did not go to Louisville to see the | Derby, and kept his best horse, Impound, out of the race to save him | for the Preakness. Very silly. If I |were on speaking terms with the | young master of Sagamore Farm, |and of course I'm not, as the Mc|Lemores speak only to the Cabots, |the Lodges, and the Butch Murphys, I would tell him that he might just as well abandon the idea of making any race bigger than the Kentucky Derby. He'll just wear himself out for nothing. The Derby doesn’t just belong to Matt Winn and associates. The Derby belongs to all of America. (Copyright, 1939)

can Association and six teams are |scheduled to play under the lights

Dream of 8-Club Race Realized in National

Tending to Business

for the first time this | |

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The Indians and Mud Hens will (get together at Perry Stadium at '8:15 o'clock in the moonlight in-| augural here, with Columbus at| Louisville and Minneapolis at St. Paul. Only the Kansas City at Mil- | waukee game is carded for daylight | hours. Nolen Richardson, veteran short- | |stop obtained from the Reds, is due [to perform at that position for the | Tribesters tonight and his presence) {is expected to put new life into the! |innerworks. He will have a steady-| ling influence, at any rate, on the youngsters stationed at the other three positions.

Schalk Still Hopeful

The Indians’ swing through the West was disastrous and dropped | the team in the second division, but Manager Schalk still believes his roster is stronger than it played away from home, Every Eastern club took a licking in the West and none of the four in this section is overlooking any bets to grab new talent. Indianap-| olis players are confident they will] get back on their feet in the home park. They won five out of eight before hitting the hard highways where they flunked nine out of 12. Chief Schalk has juggled his lineup several times trying for winning combination and perhaps

the newest adjustment—Richardson | |at short—will have more effect than, appears on the surface. Bill Baker, the Tribe's 1938 No. 1 catcher, who joined the team from [the Chicago Cubs in the Twin] Cities, will be a familiar figure at

The Phils’ five-run| For this reason the car the Van hour and jumped his speed up ex- (pe Stadium tonight. He hit well rally in the eighth was crowned by | Nuys, Cal, airplane factory worker actly one mile an hour each lap Chuck Klein's triple with the bases is to drive in this year’s 500-mile until he reached 123 miles an hour

as a Redskin last season and prob- | year. Thomas at Helm

Leader of the Mud Hens is Myles |

Thomas, a former Indianapolss|

It's a very serious Lou Nova who works out on the light bag as he trains at Nyack, N. Y., for his bout with Max Baer, June 1, in New

York. the heavyweight title,

A victory over his fellow Californian will give him a shot at

Cavarretta Out for At Least a Month

NEW YORK, May 9 (U, P.).—Phil Cavarretta, Chicago Cub outfielder, was in a hospital today suffering from a broken right ankle that will keep him out of the lineup for a month or longer. Cavarretta, playing the outfield | for the first time this season due

" to the benching of Joe Marty, stole

the second inning, and (when he slid into the bag he twisted [his ankle under him. He was called safe, but instead of getting up he rolled over in agony. Giant Second | Baseman Cavarretta’s torn

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ably will show more power this! DePauw Golf Team

Downs Little Giants

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GREENCASTLE, May 9.—DePauw | University golfers were victorious (over Wabash College's team, 10's to [714, here yesterday. One tie match g was played when Jackson, Wabash, land only recently the Tigers op-|

Louis Browns. | The Hens’ player backer is Detroit

; and Searle, DePauw, each scored 1% tioned Freddy Hutchinson to the points. Flock. Freddy lost his first A. A.|

Tech at Ben Davis

Jack Bradford has been named to see action on the mound for the Tech baseball team when they meet Ben Davis there this afternoon. The

Big Green has won its first eight tilts this year. John Olsen will catch.

Golf Pro Named

Times Special LOGANSPORT, May 9—Keith Campbell has been named professional at the Logansport Country Club golf course. He served in that capacity at the club last season,

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start to Milwaukee Sunday but| probably will get some winning] games out of his wing later. He won 25 in the Coast League last year. The Hens are booked here two nights and the Columbus Red Birds will follow them for three tilts, all under the lights. After Saturday, the {Indians will begin an Eastern swing, starting at Louisville Sunday.

| Red Sox Purchase

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Finney From A's

PHILADELPHIA, May 9 (U. P), —The American League Athletics [today announced the sale of Lou | Finney, first baseman and outfielder, to the Boston Red Sox. Officials did not disclose the purchase price but it was thought to {be approximately $10,000. Finney has been with the A's five years, but only once, in 1936, did he hit over .300. The National League Phillies simultaneously announced the release of Shortstop Eddie Feinberg to St. Paul of the American Association.

College Baseball

Purdue, 9; Wabash, 3. Dartmouth, 15-4; Princeton, 2-6. Missouri, 1; Kansas, Nebraska, 10; Iowa State, 5.

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