Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1939 — Page 22
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Wallie Berger, Cincinnati outfielder, foul tips one in the second inning of yesterday’s exhibition game "here between the National League leaders and the Indians. Later he doubled to left. The Reds won the eight-inning contest;-3 to 2. Jocko Conlan is the umpire.
By Eddie Ash
IMPOSING BASEBALL LIBRARY "GUIDES FROM 1894 ASSEMBLED
VIVID history of baseball, in the language of the game, will go into the archives of the National Baseball ' Museum on Minor League Day, July 9, at Cooperstown, 'N. Y., birthplace of the sport. . . . The minor league “All-Star game is to be played there on that date. ; A complete set of Baseball Guides covering the years ' from 1894 to 1939 tops the baseball library to be dedicated ‘during the minor league celebration of the National .Baseball Centennial. . . . The big library of the American national game is sponsored by the National Association .of Professional Baseball Leagues, the parent body of all
minor circuits.
The Baseball Guide books are the gift of C. E. Van “Alstyne, a farmer who lives in the mountains of northern ‘New York State. . .. It is one of the few complete sets in existence. . . . Van Alstyne had advertised his Guide
book set in the newspapers.
William Beattie, curator of the National Baseball : Museum, saw the “ad” in the classified section. . . . Beattie hurried to Van Alstyne’s farm home and asked to see the
collection. Makes Gift to the Game
ProvpLY, Van Alstyne displayed the guide books to his" visitor. .. . Smiling warmly, he then wrappéd them up and handed them
to Curator Beattie.
“I won't sell these books now,” he said. “I will give them to you for the National Baseball Museum. Baseball is 100 years old this year,
This is my gift to the game and to
the people who love it. Further-
more, I will send you five dollars a year to help take care of it in the
museum.”
Curator Beattie explained that would not be necessary. Then he
hurried back to Cooperstown, the precious prize. =
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HUS, quite by accident, the National Baseball Museum is coming ~ into possession of a rare history of American baseball, its origin,
its history and its players.
The farmer from the mountains, C. E. Van Alstyne, will come down to Cooperstown July 8 to see his own gift installed in the Museum during the big Minor League birthday party for baseball.
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LOUIS COMISKEY, like other major league owners who have tried the adventure, undoubtedly will find night baseball a profit-
able arrangement,” comments Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, on the White Sox’ decision to install lights for night games
by August.
“It doesn't require mental gymnastics to learn that a com-
paratively small percentage of a ball club’s potential customers find it consistently convenient to leave their business in the afternoon. Few teams could operate at a profit if it were not for the Saturday, Sunday
and holiday crowds. A night game is the equivalent of a Sunday attraction, provided the schedule is not overworked. “Certainly if Al Jolson in Rose of Washington Square or Fred Astaire in some other cinema epic can entice the old man out of the house after a long day at the office, it is reasonable to assume that the manly charms of Luke Appling or Ted Lyons would not leave him utterly cold.” = 2 2 2 2 2
{je BILL GUTHRIE of the American Association is expected to be out of action for six weeks as a result of an injury sustained in a recent game at Minneapolis. . . . Outfielder Hub Walker of the Millers slid into Catcher Vernon Mackie of the Toledo Mud Hens, upsetting Mackie, who in turn upset Guthrie, the umpire landing on his right elbow. An X-ray examination-taken the next day revealed that Bill had two broken bones in the elbow. . . . His arm was placed in a cast and he has returned to his home near Chicago.
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Hens Begin Four-Game Stand Here
Indians Anxious to Lengthen Victory Streak After Bumping Birds.
It isn’t often that the Indianapolis Indians have a winning streak and they are proud of their most recent efforts to get back into the American Association race. The Redskins have won four in a row and they hope to continue the string at Toledo's expense tonight when the Mud Hens open a fourgame series at Perry Stadium. It will be a ladies’ night attraction. A victory over the Flock from the Maumee will lift the Schalkmen to the .500 mark, an encouraging sign in any race. The Toledo series calls for single tilts tonight, tomorrow night and a double-header on Sunday afternoon. The fourth-place Tribesters are just a half game behind Louisville, but above the Colonels are Kansas City and Minneapolis who have been threatening to lap the field.
Batting Improves
At any rate, Manager Schalk believes his Hoosiers finally have learned how to smack the horsehide. Since returning home they slammed out 17 blows Wednesday and 10 last night. Their four victories in a row were achieved against the Red Birds, two at Columbus and the two here. Baseball had its biggest week-day of the season in Indianapolis yesterday. In a twilight exhibition the Cincinnati Reds edged the Indians, 3 to 2, and the Indians bounced back under the lights and knocked off Columbus by the same score. The novel double attraction drew 7398 cash customers, a big turnout as Indianapolis crowds go. It was a rattling good game and saw Rookie Mike Balas of the Tribe staff goose-egg the National League leaders for seven rounds. Chapman’s double, singles by Richardson and Barrett, Lang’s sacrifice and a fielder’s choice accounted for the Tribe's two runs in the fifth. In the eighth Riggs of the Reds led off with a single and Chapman made a fancy catch on Joost's low liner. Bongiovanni’s single put Riggs on second. Scarsella beat out a hit which Galatzer knocked down, then threw wide of first as Balas went over to cover. Riggs scored and Bongiovanni raced to third and Scarsella to second. Bongiovanni tallied on Hershberger’s sacrifice fly and Scarsella checked in at the plate on Gamble’s double. That ended the scoring and was just enough for the big leaguers to annex the honors.
Unassisted Double Play Cincinnati used three second string hurlers in: Gene Thompson, Peaches Davis and Wesley Livengood. The trio held the Indians to and Tompson, who worked four innings, held the Hoosiers hitless. He issued three walks in the first frame but got out of the hole when Frank McCormick snared Jesse Newman's line drive and stepped on first for a double lay. Cincinnati club officials and a group of players sat in on the In-dianapolis-Columbus game under the lights and watched Red Barrett, former Redleg, turn back the Red Birds in a thriller. Three doubles, a triple and an error figured in the Tribe scoring. Chapman doubled ahead of Barrett in the fifth, and in the eighth MecCormick got a life on Sturgeon’s high throw and after one out Newman doubled and Easterwood, new catcher up from the Piedmont League, walloped a triple to right. The Indians had a scare in the ninth. The Birds tallied in the seventh on Mack's double and Triplett’s single, and in the final frame, after two away and none on, Barrels struck Adams with a pitched ball. Triplett walloped a long one to left center and the ball landed on top of the scoreboard and bounced back to the playing field for a double, Adams scoring. Then Newman tossed out Sturgeon, ending the
game. 1
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lard Hershberger.
Nolen Richardson, Tribe shortstop, starts his slide for home in the fifth inning and scores, beating Eddie Joost’s throw to Catcher Wil-
iggest Week-Day Crowd of Season Turns
Birds, 3 to 2. 3
The fans turned out for the exhibition in a big way. watching the twilight attraction. The Redskins came back under the lights to defeat the Columbus Red
Times Photos.’
Attendance was 7398. Here's part of the crowd
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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1939
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer EW YORK, June 30.—For some time now the boys have been hailing Joe Louis as the “greatest heavyweight of all time.” That covers a lot of territory. It goes all the way back to the beginning of the game. For most people the beginning started with John L. Sullivan and Jim Corbett. They fought the first fight in this country with gloves. After them came other fighters whose truculent heroics have been presented in the history of the game.
Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, to name the better known and more respected champions. And we are told that Louis is greater than any or all of these. Well, maybe he is. How can you prove he isn’t? And by the same token how can you prove he is? You just can’t. It's a situation where one man’s opinion is as solid as the next man’s.
And what difference does it make anyway? It should be sufficient that a fellow is the best of his time, the ruler of his era. We have ample respect for Louis both as a fighter and a man. He's a clean, decent, earnest fighting man. He'll fight anybody, anytime, anywhere. That kind of a man compels your respect. 2 n ”
BY we are hesitant about climbing on the Louis bandwagon; we mean the one that carries the banner reading, “Greatest heavyweight of all time.” We just don’t think he is and we'll try to tell you why as we go along. Not that we hope definitely. to prove anything but— Well, to begin with we aren’t too impressed by the fact that Louis has defended his championship more often than any of his predecessors. Technically, every time Louis steps into the ring he is endangering his championship, but in most of these cases it’s a promotional turn. The public will pay a certain amount of money to see Louis in the ring with anybody. This being so the promoters toss him in there
Millers Move Nearer Peak
Kansas City Opens Series at Minneapolis Today.
Hall, entries.
Roller Skating Races Scheduled Tonight
The initial roller skating races of the Indiana Skating Association, scheduled tonight at Tomlinson have drawn more than 30
With several outstanding skaters
They Call Louis the Greatest Ever, But Give the Colonel Jack Dempsey
with practically anybody and call it a heavyweight championship. We have no doubt: Louis would fight as often if the proposition were tougher, and we concede it is no fault of his that the opposition is what it is today. The point we wish to make is that the frequency with which he defends his title isn't too significant in measuring his greatness. 2 4 o E don’t go all the way back to John L. and what we know of Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Jefferies and Johnson has been told to us before by others. And the same goes for Tom Sharkey. He never held the title, but we find he fits into this discussion. We think Dempsey was the greatest heavyweight we ever saw, and the more we see of Louis the more convinced we become. We don’t believe Dempsey could punch as fast as Louis and we aren’t sure he could punch as hard, but we are firmly certain he could take a punch better. And here's another thing, a delicate thing. We believe Dempsey was gamer than Louis. We know this sounds kind of silly when you consider that Louis got off the floor to whip Jim Braddock, and did the same thing the other night to slaughter Tony Galento. Maybe gameness isn’t the word. Anyway we never saw Dempsey hold on and we never saw him run and we saw Louis do both against Galento, a gallant, courageous man, but in no sense a great fighter. 3 o ” ” E think Dempsey would have taken Louis’ best shots, explosive as they are, and continued firing until he knocked the Detroit Negro out. And we aren't sure at all Louis would have been able to take Dempsey’s best shots and remain either upright or interested. : : We were talking with an old timer at the ringside the other night and he said Galento reminded him of Sharkey, the old sailor, except, he hastened to add, that Sharkey was a better fighter. . . . “You know. what Sharkey would have done to Louis?” he asked. “Made him jump right out of the
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By United Press Minneapolis moved a half game nearer the top of the American Association today but remained a full game back of the Kansas City Blues. The two teams start a series today which may settle the leadership dis
pute for a few days. The Millers made their 11 hits off Buck Marrow and Ed Carnett yesterday good for six runs while Milwaukee was unable to get more
With the game tied at the end of the seventh, the Millers scored in the last of the eighth to win the game. Kansas City divided a doubleheader with the St. Paul Saints. After losing the first game, 11-6, the Blues came back to win the second, 6-4. In the second game, St. Paul had three men on base on three occasions but was unable to push a runner across. Toledo, defeated twice by the third place Louisville Colonels, turned on its batting power last night to take a 7-4 viciory.
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of the Midwest participating, records for flat floor skating are expected to be set. The program, which includes quarter-mile, halfmile, one mile, two miles and fivemile races and a relay’ race for clubs, will get underway at 7:30.
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Phillips Gets Around
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. June 30 (NEA). — Eddie Phillips, WilkesBarre manager, has been with 15 clubs in organized baseball.
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North Against South.
DES MOINES, Iowa, June 30 (U. P) —It was West against East and North against South in the semifinals of the National Intercollegiate Golf Tournament today. Warren Berl, 19, Stanford sophomore, who eliminated last year’s runnerup, faced H. R. Merrit, retiring ‘Yale captain from East Aurora, N. Y. The other match paired Bill Hall, Towa State and former Iowa
.|amateur champion, against Vincent
D’Antoni, Tulane, a semifinalist two years ago. Merritt defeated Johnny Hayes, Marquette, in the third round yesterday morning and then eliminated Lee Ramsel, Louisiana State sophomore, one up in an extra hole match in the fourth round. Berl defeated Tom Hoak, Iowa State, 4 and 2, in the morning and then eliminated Bert McDowell, Louisiana State, 1938 runnerup, 2 and 1. Hall eliminated Don Kennedy, Stanford and Stewart Alexander, Duke, yesterday. D’Antoni defeated Harold Skow, Iowa, and Art Floberg,
Beloit.
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remunerative first to fight Pastor another year. meet Galento here in August. If the Louis-Pastor match is signed, it probably will be for 20 rounds in Briggs Stadium during the week of Sept. 17-23. Louis’ managers, John Roxborough and Julian Black, have tried to persuade Jacobs to swing one of the big heavyweight fights to Detroit for more than a year. And, they believe that Pastor is the logical opponent, - In addition Pastor, and his manager, Jimmy Johnston, have demanded a return shot at the Bomber ever since the New York collegian back-pedaled 10 rounds against Joe in 1937 at Madison Square Garden. Jacobs, however, may run into a hitch on signing Nova to meet Galento in August. Nova’s manager, Ray Carlen, was bitter and vowed he would not sign for a Galento match unless both Louis and Pastor signed contracts agreeing to defend the title in October against the Nova-Galento winner. “If that condition is not met,” Carlen said, “I'l take Nova to England to fight Tommy Farr. We have been offered $50,000 for a return bout in London.” Galento, whose gallant bid for the title came close to realization before he was butchered, clamored for a return shot, but the Louis camp opposed such a meeting soon.
Eddy Accepts Cage Post at Madison
Times Special MADISON, Ind. June 30.—Ray Eddy, former Purdue cage star, will become athletic director and basketball coach at Madison High School next fall. Eddy, coach at Tell City High School for five years, was appointed yesterday to succeed Chester Elson. Elson has accepted a position at Greencastle.
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Louis Camp Dickers For 20-Rounder With Bob Pastor in Detroit
Champion Would Like September Bout in His Home Town; Mike Jacobs Seeks Nova-Galento Go, But Lou’s Manager Is Cool.
NEW YORK, June 30 (U. P.).—Negotiations for Joe Louis to make his first home town title defense—in Detroit against Bicycle Bob Pastor—next September are expected to be completed by Promoter Mike Jacobs today, leaving young Lou Nova holding the sack. + Nova was promised a September title shot, but Louis’ close call with Tony Galento Wednesday night has changed the picture and the ‘| champion’s brain trust has decide
d it will be safer and additionally and postpone the Nova danger for
Frozen out of a title shot, Nova probably will sign to
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Announce Sites for Amateur Qualifying Tests.’
NEW YORK, June 30-(U. P.).— There will be only 28 district qualie fying sites for the 1939 National Amateur Golf Championship, four less than last year and the smallest total since 1934, the U. S. Golf Associa= tion announced today. aA The * Association eliminated : the districts of Indianapolis, Louisville, Huntington, W. Va., and Honglulu. It was explained that there were other established districts near enough to accommodate hopefuls from the U. S. cities eliminated, and that Honolulu qualifiers rarely found it convenient to make the trip. If the Hawaiian Golf Associa= tion recommends an outstanding player who wants to compete, the committee will consider granting him a place in the field. The same number of players, 170, as in former years, will be eligible for the championship proper sched= uled for the North Shore Country Club at Glenview, Ill, Sept. 11-16. Number of qualifiers in each sece tion will be announced after the ene try list closes at 5 p. m. Aug. 14, Last year 871 entered from 32 dis= tricts.
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