Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1939 — Page 25

Johnstown, Gilded Knight Still Colts to Beat—but How. Indianapolis Times Sports

Jim Fitzsimmons (left) and Jimmy Stout are all smiles as they view the $75,000 Pimlico Preakness, to be run Saturday. . Stout rides Johnstown. Fitz also trains Gilded Knight.

By Eddie Ash

JOB NO BED OF ROSES SUSPECTED

GABBY'S PARTY LINES STILL

RITING in the New York World-Telegram, Tom Meany sizes up the Chicago Cubs’ situation something like this: “Gabby Hartnett has discovered, as did so many of his predecessors, that managing the Bruins is something than a bed of roses. “Although Gabby manages to keep a straight face and explain the slump on the grounds that ‘We ain't hitting a lick,’ it is obvious that various party lines which existed on the club since Joe McCarthy found himself in the middle still are functioning. “Briefly, the Cubs aren't playing as a unit. Which is no reflection on Hartnett, for the Cubs have been marked by internal strife for almost a decade.”

That All-DiMaggio Outfield

STATION over the possibility of an in Yankee Stadium has cropped up again the Coast that the Yankees have put in feelers for Maggio, San Francisco center fielder . and Brother tinues to go well in the Yankee chain at Kansas City. Vice President Bob Cobb of the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League is new in baseball and has become a typical “sophomore” o1 the game. “dying” every time his team loses a game. . His wife is Gail Patrick of the movies.

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ON WARNEKE takes the credit for having persuaded Gene Lillard to forget about infielding and take up pitching. . . . He told Lillard in 1936 that third base candidates with the Cubs were wasting their time as long as Stan Hack was around and about. Denver has a population of 300.000 but is not represented by a team in organized baseball . It's too far from the Double A Territory and the fans there won't support a team in the lesser minors The Mile “High city used to be a red hot ball town in the old days when the Western League was a fast circuit

Four Horses Have Scored ‘Triple’

NLY four horses have won the Triple Crown in the field Sir Barton swent the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1919. Gallant Fox and Omaha did it in 1930 and 1835. respectively, and War Admiral completed the cvele in 1937 Barring a mishap. Johnstown probably wiii achieve the threetriumph this year, according to the turf's leading lights

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Collegian Sinks 30-Foot Putt

OLLEGIANS know the art of dropping long putis, too North4 western U. owes its recent golf victory over Illinois to Art Bedrosian, reserve member of the squad, who startled the gallery by sinking a 30-footer on the 18th green to win his singles match and swing victory to the Wildcats . , . just like belting a home run in the ninth A recent poll of top-flight golfers to determine the No. 1 links money man resulted in the selection of Ralph Guldah! , . . and no dissenting votes. A poll of a group of managers to determine the best money pitcher in big league baseball resulted in the unanimous selection of Lefty Gomez,

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ACK CORRIDEN, whose father is a Chicago Cubs’ coach, is playing the outfield on the Indiana Univerzity nine . He hails from Indianapolis and his dad used to manage the Indians Cookie Lavagetto is probably the only major leaguer in the long history of the national game who never went on a road trip with his club in his first professional vear . The Brooklyn third sacker broke in with his home town team, Oakland. of the Coast League, aft the age of 17 His mother refused to let him go away from home with the rest of the players, so Cookie never wore a traveling uniform until his second season.

Baseball at a Glance

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Ww Pct 100 B66 650 566 155 100 300 2713

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Chicago . G.B. Boston “mri Harrell, J. Russell, » Fette and Lopez.

3. AMERIC AN LEAGUE Yi Philadelphia 110 010 100— 4 2 Cleveland 240 000 01x— 3 i Potter, Pipnen, Beckman, C. Dean and | Brucker; Feller and Hemsley.

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AMERICAN . LEAGUE Washington at Detroit. Philadelphia at Cleveland. Boston at Chicas 0. New York at Louis.

YESTERD AY'S RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

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Boston at Chicago, wet grounds.

Tech Frosh Favored In City Track Meet

Tech's freshman track teain was favored to take the city freshman meet when Indianapolis compete at today at 2:30 p. m Other teams in the *| Manual, Washington, Teg pe and Howe,

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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1939

Preakness

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Ring Favorite

Several Contenders for Pimlico Purse Frightened Away by Combination. |

City Track | Teams Vie In 2 Meets

‘Tech and Washington Risk | Titles at Sectionals Tomorrow.

| BALTIMORE, Md, May 11 (U.! {P. )—Horses worked and trainers | |schemed at double shifts today, but | [nobody found the formula that ap-| {parently is needed to stop the com-

'bination of Johnstown and Gilded | §\ | Knight from winning the Preak-| | ] ness at Pimlico on Saturday | Johnstown, the Kentucky Derby | ; | {winner owned by ihe Belair Stud, | {and the Knight, owned by the] : 3 | Wheatley Stable, both are trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, and | they wili run as an entry in the |

Two Indianapolis high schools will defend their sectional track | titles at Tech and Southport ovals | tomorrow afternoon. Tech will] mile and 3-16 fixture. The cou- | | be the defending champion cn its | pling already has dropped their] ¥ | own field while Washington won | odds to an estimated 1-50—one of | 3 % | the meet at Southport last year. the lowest prices in recent years. | 3 4 wh | The combination appeared =o : | Meanwhile, ouiser gyeate hugh formidable that several other con-! school cinder teams will swing into | (tenders were frightened away. i | action at the same time at 13 Woolford Farms’ Technician is out; | { centers. Winners at the various T. M. Dorsett has been shipped to | | sectional points will converge on New York, El Chico is nursing a | | Indianapolis for the state meet at | bruised leg. and Porter's Mite is! ¢ | the Tech field May 20. being indefinitely rested. % | Tech and Washington have i 3 ; | stamped themselves as the teams | \ Likely Starters Listed | to beat in the Marion County sec- | ( The other expected starters ap- | tionals by virtue of their recent | {peared to be: victories in the North Central and King Ranch’s Ciencia, winner of | South Central Conferences respec- | {the $50,000 Santa Anita Derby; W.

tively. T™ : a s i - Lr Brann's Challedon, second to The Big Green squad is the larg {Johnstown in the Derby;

est in its division as is the Conti ntingent in the SouthVanderbilt's Impound, Maryland's i 2 Tech has 28 enstrongest hope for its own prize; | tries and Washington 27. Saratoga Stable’s Volitant, and Johnstown’s stablemate Challenge,

# un North Is Strong who will go only in mud. \ I rt of the state Most of the stronger eueloles) The northern pa

Conn, Krieger | 11 be a power to be reckoned with Worked a fn To Fight Again; Se come here for the

steady restraint in 1:45, breezing, | | state meet. Although Tech was su{when Jockey Jimmie Stout tailed | h, preme in the North Central meet, | |r PT ns tena! - uke it was not until the last few ev ents| | Volitant, Stepped a ns — wg that the Big Green took command. in 1:553-5 Then Kokomo and Anderson fin-| | ished within a few points of the Ciencia Makes (U. P.).—|local school. Conn, youthful Pittsburgh! On a basis of results of the,

| {from slow to , Ciencia m { wm . + Northeastern Indiana meet, North good, Ciencia made stylist, was a 12-5 favorite today to Side of Ft. Wayne appears to be|

{her first appearance since her beat Solly Krieger of Brooklyn in| h ' withdrawal fro: .| the class of the schools from that | Om js Oaks lath Sateithair nibber maith in Madison | co tion. The North Siders piled up|

urday and showed she was in fine Square Garden tomorrow night. ; & Millers’ Heels diti ’ _183 points to 53 5-6 points for their gon ition with an impressive] Krieger, recognized by the Na | closest sivals South Side, |

1:55 3-5. handily. {tional Boxing Association as world! Chal , | Wiley of Terre Haute took the! Ae en nl .3 Jil but. middleweight champion, outpointed Wabash Valley meet while at Por Open Fight Today Today for First Place in Association.

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Tom Melton of Lowell, Ind., has been named winner of the Purdue Freshman Football Merit Trophy, awarded annually by the Purduc Alumni Association to the gridiron vearling showing the greatest improvement during spring drill. Melton, a husky guard, is expected to be a strong contender for the Boilermaker varsity next fall.

Billy to Have Edge of Yout | Weight and Speed. | i

Appearance NEW Later when the track had dried Billy

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lin t ti - , he good time of 1:414-5, Chal | Billy in their first meeting at | orsburg. Bosse of Evansville scored

lenge worked the same distance on| | Pittsburgh a little more than a year | the sibwer footing in 1:43 2-5. ago, but Conn, a fast growing lad, Regardless of how low the odds and a master boxer, reversed the! (plummet, state law provides the decision in a return match several | ‘track must pay 5 cents on the months ago. |dollar—win, place or show. | Solly, who was slowed up with the! = | ears, will concentrate on a knock- ana division in {out because he knows if the fight tory-margin of goes 12 rounds, Conn almost surely Hammond will earn the decision. Solly had

Silent Trackmen | Conn down for a count of nine in Here are the schools entered in

Win From Owls ltheir first battle, and a hard right the two Marion County meets and

| The Silent Hoosiers defeated to the head in the 11th round nearly | the number of entries for each | Warren Central, 55 to 40, in a dual changed the complexion of their| At Tech: Shortridge. 22: Ben Datrack meet between squads made up!second bout. Conn was dazed but vis, 21: Warren Central, 20; Plainlof freshmen and sophomores, at the hung on to win the decision easily. field, 7. Broad Ripple 6 and New Hoosier field yesterday. | Conn is growing so fast that this, Winchester. 1 | Mills of the Silents captured three | probably will be his last fight, At Southport: Shelbyville, 24: firsts, winning the 100, 220 and 440- | against a middleweight He will, Manual, 22; Greenfield. 15: South{vard dashes. He also anchored the have the advantage of weight, youth port, 12; Waldron. 6: Beech Grove mile relay team which won its event.'and speed tomorrow night. 5 Fortvill ce. 4 and Greenwood, 3.

It’ s a Wonder Terry Doesn 't Strangle The Way He Puts Foot in His Mouth

an infield as full of holes as alin the final two games of the season | honeycomb. {to let St. Louis grab the flag. Terry| Remembering Terry's optimistic | was still a supreme optimist when | i? ‘outlook for the Giants, imagine my he named Rate & HOL 30 Unhappy acu Of | surprise to find them on the bot-|championship at the beginning of Fuel’ putting a foot into their mouth tom of the standings tied with the [the '35 season when the Cubs and |Tayler. every time they open it, and after philadelphia Phillies this morning. Cards ran one-two. {ult av a quick look at the field, I am ready why it was unbelievable, this mir-| It was the same Terry who at the Dietz. to concede Bill Terry as the top acle manager of the Giants, who| beginning of the '38 season said, Younker toslortionist of hit day, won a pennant his first full season “We'll win it easier than we did last | Now Bill is a very successful base- at the helm, allowing such a thing year.” They finished third again (ball manager. He gets about $40,000 tq happen. | And then during the past off-sea-a year for his work up at the Polo| 1; was just a little more than a son Terry started a feud with the' | Grounds, He even has been called vear ago that Terry in a magazine readv- -tongued Larry MacPhail by Meares. ef .... | genius, and recalling some of the blast at the baseball writers gave casting covetous eyes on the Dodg- Lat thaw wrecks he has towed to the Na- his impressions of “a craft thatlers’ Van Mungo. MacPhail coun- | Rewman, ri tional League pennant, it is hard to would violate a public trust by mis-|tered with an offer to trade him for | Lewis. if doubt that he is one. But despite {informing millions of baseball fans.” | Harry Danning and pay Danning | Richardson, = ; his diamond successes, Memphis His impressions were not compli- | |twice what the Giants were giving | Willis can still get his foot|mentary, I assure you. (him. ‘This argument provoked Ford | crammed so far between his upper| But Terry's misinformation about | Prick into sending notices around to| bicuspids and his lower molars, it the Giants’ capabilities probably the boys reminding that there was, | Rede polis 400 000 20x—6 | 53 wonder he hasn't strangled. misled no one, because everybody a $1000 fine for player tampering.| Runs batted in—Mueller, Younker, This spring down in Baton Rouge remembers how at the beginning of Terry is still burned up over the Richardson 2, Newman, Lewis , Sacrifices Terry went so far as to say that the the '34 season, he remarked “We'll Dodger “steal” of Pitcher Red Evans, | a He Muir ro rayior, Leh: on’ hoses 1939 Giants looked like the best team win this year easier than last.” The who was drafted from the Giants | —ZToledo. 8: Indianapolis, 8. Buse on balls he ag ever managed. This state- Giants finished second to the Cards. farm club at Jersey City. Btoahk oot -By Lr Jonnson, & Dietz 1. MorBens was nade in the face of du-|1t was during tis season that Will! And, the next time Bill Terry IS 6 Balas 3. Hitz—Off Dietz, © in Gg (bious comebacks by Hubbell and so innocently asked, “Is Brooklyn | opens his mouth I'm expecting him | Johnson. 8 in B innings and to 4 men in | Schumacher, whose pitching arms still in the league?” The Dodgers to put his foot in it. They're big | Binth; off Balas none BL i {had been exposed to surgery, and showed him by licking the Giants {feet even for a ball player. Maybe |pitches—Morris 1. Winning pitcher—L. | he will strangle. ohnson. Losing pitcher—Dietz. Umpires (Copyright,

imore than 55 points to 52 for Bloom- | ington.

Marion County Entries By United Press

the Northern Indiview of its vicseven points over

Froebel rules in the American Association, its task eased somewhat by St. Paul's victory yesterday over the Millers, 9-7. In the Saint victory | Pete Fleming hit a home run,

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inning rally fell short. The Kansas City Blues were only a half-game out of first when they finished blasting the Milwaukee Brewers, 11-6. The Brewers scored

Pitcher John Lindell pulled out of the | base. The Louisville Colonels lost in 11 innings to Columbus, 4-2. { Colonels matched a Red Bird 10th inning tally but couldn't equal the] two runs the Birds scored in the 11th.

TRIBE BOX SCORE By HENRY M'LEMORE p United Press Staff Correspondent

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Stonehouse Cards

Steiner Knocking [. 69 At A+ Spevivny

"Em for a Loop An 18-hole score of 63 was record-

is RES ed at the Speedway links by gorse One of Indiasiai top-ranking Col- gionehouse, former Coffin course | lege Conference pitchers today is |, ,fessional, while playing in a | Jerry Steiner, Butler University foursome composed of Elizabeth junior, who turned back Indiana pan Dr. G. P. Silver and Herb Central, 8 to 5, yesterday at Uni- giewart. Miss Dunn shot 76, Stew- | versity Heights for his sixth con-|,.t 77 ang Silver 78.

secutive victory of the season. New Castle Victor

The little speed merchant from | Berne also leads his club in hitting, NEW CASTLE, May 11 (U. P). -New Castle High School's track

| maintaining a 487 pace. When he is not pitching, Coach Tony Hinkle | _ team piled up 77!: points yesterday to defeat Richmond Morton Memo-

{puts him in the outfield. Yesterday Steiner set the Grey-| rial and Muncie Burris in a triangular meet. Morton won second place with 40!'; points while Burris scored 39 points.

College Baseball

Butler, 8; Indiana Central, J. Army, 8; Syracuse, 4. 3| Columbia, 7; Pennsylvania, 3. 3 Amherst, 1; Holy Cross, 2. Yale, 8: Brown, 2.

his teammates collected eight and | pushed three runs across in the last inning for the deciding margin. A , base on balls, singles by Ralph, Swager and Silvio Costantino and a double by Paul Herrmann, third | sacker, accounted for the late rally.| Score:

| Butler .. -——. 300 001 103— 8 8 | Indiana Central 001 210 100— 5 3 weal’ and Wilson; key. Potter an Je

Tribe Dons New Coat of War Paint for Red Bird Series; Hens Bow Again

Toledo Throws Scare Into Indians Before Yielding, 6-5; Rookie Mike Balas Is Ninth-Inning Rescuer; Columbus Here for Three Nights.

Having put tories in a row on reservation, the Indians plan don a new coat of war paint to- |

night and defy the Columbus Red | Birds to rub it off.

together two vic-, singled and Johnson got jittery and

their own | plunked Parsons with a pitched ball, o filling the bases with none out.

Run Forced In Toledo sent up Ralph Younker

Kansas City moved into .Minne-| lapolis today to battle for first place |

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son and both clubs have come out lor. Score: Indians, 6; Hens, 2. |of the fog since their recent swing Schalk “died” for the first time, jaro he vse sdued i: then fought out of the clutches ile the Tribesters subdue 1e i Visa | Toledo Mud Hens in a pair at Of the Grim Reaper and pulled the |Perry Stadium, the Columbus out-| dugout box for a four-alarm. | fit bumped off the Colonels in two Young Balas was first on the scene, bases full, none out as John-

|extra-inning games at Louisville. {| As usual, the Birds invaded In- son took the long walk. Shortstop {dianapolis today with a flock of | Perry bounced to Don Lang at third new faces compared with their and the youngster became confused, 1938 team. The St. Louis Cardi-| hesitated on a throw home and nals, Columbus’ parent club, does|then tossed a wild peg beyond Latmore switching of talent in its| shaw at first. chain than any organization of its| Three runs scored on the bad type. throw and Perry pulled up at sec~ | ond. Score, Indians, 6: Hens, 5. | None out, runner on second with the [tying marker. It was “death” in the dugout ‘again for Pilot Schalk. Awakened | once more out of a bad dream, he was rewarded with a new lease on life by Balas’ sensational finish, Lenhardt lined to McCormick in

It's the first meeting between |the Redskins and Birds this sea-

Three-Game Series

The Birds are booked here for| three tilts, all under the arcs, tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. | Can the dead be restored to life? The answer is “yes” if you ask Cracker Ray Schalk, the Indianapolis chieftain. He “died” twice in | the ninth in the cool of the evening | - TY last night and was brought back io Senter for the first out and Myron gaze once more on the Stadium's | 8° the ball back in time to hold ivy-covered walls. Perry at second. The Indians finished in front of Toledo, 6 to 5, but not before the] national pastime proved to all and | sundry that a ball game is heVer!

over until it's in the official Be The winning pitcher was Johnson,

chives. : : | the losing pitcher was Dietz, the The hero was Mike Balas, rookie | Toledo starter.

second string chucker, who an-| Nolen Richardson, the veteran SWered foutsalard Maze and tes. | shortstop obtained from Cincinnati, caved in. broke in with two hlows and two You Never Can Tell | runs batted in. His steadying in- { fluence is expected to make a dif= Came the last inning and the ference on the Tribe infield as the Redskins were ahead, 6 to 1, and days go by. McCormick had another the 1800 customers were ready to good night in center and got two call it a night and ease toward the blows. He's a slicker in that spacious exits. Lloyd Johnson, Tribe pitcher, | middle garden. had turned in a neat job for eight! Lindsay Brown, shortstop, who rounds. | was released to Columbus yesterday, Harry Taylor, a lefthanded swing- will be back tonight playing against er was first up in the ninth facing his old mates. Jonnson’s southpaw slants. Harry, Clarence Rowland, Chicago Cubs’ was a dead pigeon on other trips chief scout, and Bobby Wallace, to the plate. but this time Lloyd Cincinnati's head ivory hunter, were lost control and passed him. Hufl visitors at the Stadium last night,

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