Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1939 — Page 6
Yanks and R.
Joe Medwick, Cardinals.
Jimmy Foxx, Red Sox.
Vernon Gomez, Yankees.
Morris Arnovich, Phillies,
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Frank McCormick, Reds,
1923 WHEN SHEEHAN
By Eddie Ash
TWO-CLUB RACE RECALLED
WON 31 GAMES
M SHEEHAN, current Minneapolis manager, led the St. Paul fight in 1923 by winning 31 games and losing only nine, that being the last time a pitcher has won 30 or more games in the American Association. It was a two-club race that season and despite Sheehan's record performance, Kansas City beat out the Apostles for the pennant by a margin of two games. . . . Louisville, in third place, was 10 games back of the second-
place Saints. . . . Both Kansas than 100 games. on
= 2
T was a race similar to this year’
City and St. Paul won more
2 » Mr. Sheehan up to
” s which finds
his neck in the battle as chief of the Millers against the Blues.
The Millers and Kaws seemingly have outstripped
the rest of the field
and will have to crack wide open to permit a shakeup, which is not
likely.
The two clubs are cashing in with heavy sugar as a result of the
warm going. .
and Minneapolis wound up in sixth position. . . Freshman Manager Sheehan and
sunk in the second division. Owner Mike Kelley certainly did a in one year's time.
. Last vear Kansas City finished second to St. Paul
St. Paul is now
neat job in the comeback league
Fights Better When He Gets Up
ACK BLACKBURN, the old Indianapolis fighter, who is Joe Louis’ trainer and chief adviser, thought that the heavyweight champion should have taken a nine count when knocked over by Tony Galento
in their brawl the other night. . . .
glad to see Louis floored “because he
However, Blackburn said he was fights better when he gets up.”
“That boy has been winning too many fights in one round,” Jack added. “He needs someone to give him a little trouble now and then
to make him careful.”
Louis always could punch. even when an amateur in Golden Gloves
competition, and Blackburn became
Detroiter through a long schooling in the finer points. .
his instructor later and sent the . It’s per-
haps true that Louis is gun shy, but nd instructor can correct that
fault. . . his class to keep busy. . . like they didn’t exist. ”
. Blackburn took on all comers in his day and fought out of . He feared no man and shook off punches
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IMMY DYKES, White Sox manager, thinks Joe Kithel's success this vear comes from relaxation of pressure that goes with the second
vear of a trade. . to replace Zeke Bonura. is off and Kuhel is hitting the way the deal . .
. “Kuhel was pressing too hard last year trying Now that Bonura is out of the league the heat
I thought he would when 1 made
. his performance doesn't surprise me at all.”
Rickey Tells of Player Problems
RANCH RICKEY, director of the St. Louis
Cardinals’ far-flung
farm system, said recently: “Everv time I watch a big league game I see fellows who used to be with us. We couldn't keep ‘em all, and since we must, of necessity, show a financial statement of some proportions every so often, we simply try to separate two men of per-
For Sixth In a Row
Tribe Out
Bridegroom French Slated To Face Hens Tonight in Second of Series.
Having stretched their winning streak to five straight, the Indians are going to pitch a bridegroom to- | night in an effort to make it six| in a row. Don French, righthander, is slated to curve ‘em against the Toledo Mud Hens in the second of the se-| ries under the lights and strive to] keep the Tribe on the heels of the third-place Louisville Colonels. French got “hitched” yesterday. and will be given a rousing sendoff | by his mates before he goes to the] firing line against the American Association tailenders.
He Was Here Friday
The working agreement between the Cincinnati and Indianapolis clubs finally “worked” again today and the Redskins received a player from the Reds instead of via Durham of the Piedmont (Roll Your Own) Class B League. The new pastimer is Antonio Bongiovanni, outfielder, who played right field for the Redlegs here in Thursday's twilight exhibition with the Schalkmen. He got two blows off Mike Balas in that game. On his record prior to this year, Bongiovanni probably will shove somebody out of the outfield picture at Perrv Stadium. At any rate, he is a welcome soldier and will see action in the double-header at the Stadium tomorrow. He was cut off hy the Reds in Chicago last night and probably will be inserted in the Tribe lineup in tomorrow's first game.
Running Temperature
Myron McCormick, the Indians’ y
star outfielder, passed off the screen | for an indefinite period last night. | Sinus trouble knocked him out and Milton Galatzer played center field. | McCormick was given a prelimi- |
Times Sports
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SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1939
New Redskin
Antonio Bongiovanni, outfielder, is to join the Indianapolis Indians He is here on option down from the Cincinnati Reds, subject to recall. batted .321 with Syracuse in the International League last season and accumulated 181 hits, including 46 doubles, four triples and 12 He's 25, swings left, throws left and is a native of New
tomorrow.
and is
home runs.
Orleans,
Tony
The Indians —
TOLEDO AB 4
Hub, Wen, GALA Tayler, 1b JeCoy, 2h... Fleming, rf Secory, If Dwyer, Mueller, Mackie, Rogalski, p Lehnhardt Pyle,
nary going over by a doctor in the|
Stadium office and was found with | a temperature, which led to a dismissal from baseball for the time]
Totals
. 8 Lehnhardt batted for Rogalski :
INDIANAPOLIS
Say It Ain't So, Joe, Is Mac's Plea
Did Louis Want ‘Pleasure’ Of Butchering Galento? Henry Hopes Not.
By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 1.—Say it ain't] so, Joe say it ain't so. I mean that interview with you that was published in the New York papers yesterday. You know the one I mean —the one that said you had planned to wait until the 10th round to, knock out Tony Galento, so that for nine rounds you'd have the “pleasuie” of cutting him up, | butchering him, making him pay for the remarks he'd made about you.
That's not like you, Joe. You're] not that kind of a guy. In the time | you've bean champion you've con-| ducted yvonrself with dignity. You've carried your superior abilities with | becoming lightness. You've accepted | the power in your fists and the speed in your legs, as a natural heritage; something to he handled with care so that vou wouldn't hurt your opponents too badly. | You don't mean to tell the world | that you're throwing overboard all| your sportsmanship because of a few | remarks that were made. | Prize fighting is a bad business. | We all know it is, but we don't like | to be told that it is. Certainly not |
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Taylor Defeats Chuck Vickers In Ring Feature
An estimated 1500 fans watched Tito Taylor of Chicago punch his way to an eight-round decision last night over Chuck Vickers of Indianapolis in the feature bout on the Sports Arena boxing program. Taylor scaled 142 to Vickers’ 140.
The five-round semifinal between Marshall Allison, 135, Shelbyville, and Paul Bunten, 136%, Coatesville, went to Allison on a decision. Herb Brown. 133, Indianapolis, scored a first-round knockout against Bill Parker, 136, Indianapolis, in their: scheduled fourrounder, while Wesley Kemp, 168, Indianapolis, registered a technical knockout over Art Schalf, 158, Indianapolis. In the other preliminaries Tommy LeFever, 123, Indianapolis, knocked out Rosey Rosen, 121%, Inpdianapolis, in the second round, and Al Sheridan, 172, Indianapolis, scored a four-round decision over Jimmy Davenport, 168, Indianapolis. Jerry Martin of Cincinnati and Jimmy Grimm of Louisville will meet in next week's main bout, it was announced.
McCullough Is Hero of Blues
His Home Run Turns Trick Against Minneapolis.
By United Press
Clyde McCullough, a quiet fellow with a flair for long-distance hitting, was the No. 1 enemy of the
| Minneapolis Millers and the hero of
the Kansas City Blues today. McCullough came in as a pinch-
Bill Dickey, Yankees,
Paul Derringer, Reds,
World Champs Place 9 on American Team:
Cincinnati
ty i Junior League Newcomers Include Lyons, McQuinn, Hoag and Case.
CHICAGO, July 1 (U. P.).—Nine members of New York's thundering Yankees—an unprecedented selection—were named today to lead the American League All-Stars into
their own Yankee Stadium July 11 for the seventh annual contest with stars of the National League. The American Leaguers will hit in batting practice with a Yankee catcher in the cage, a New York coach will be on the baselines and the Yankee trainer will rub them down. Thus the eight managers of the junior league admit the dominance of the world champions.
CHICAGO, July 1 (U. P.), = Joe McCarthy, manager of the world champion New York Yankees, was chosen today to manage the American League all-stars in their game with a National League team in New York July 11, replacing the ailing Connie Mack of Philadelphia. League President Will Harridge said Mack had
notified him he would be unable to serve because of illness. Harridge said that Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman who held down the initial sack in every all-star game since the series started in 1933, was named captain of the American League team.
The selections by clubs: New York—Vernon Gomez, Red Ruffing and Johnny Murphy, pitchers: Frank Crosetti, Joe Gordon and Red Rolfe, infielders; Joe DiMaggio and George Selkirk, outfielders; Bill Dickey, catcher, Boston—Jimmy Foxx and Joe Cronin, infielders; Roger Cramer,
Gets Seven
Five Cards, Four Dodgers Chosen for Tilt July 11 At Yankee Stadium.
NEW YORK, July 1 (U.P. —Fop the second straight year the Cine cinnati Reds took the lion's share of places on the National League All-Star team, with seven men on the squad that will oppose the American Leaguers in Yankee Stas dium July 11, it was revealed toe day by Gabby Hartnett, Chicago Cub pilot, who will lead the Na= tional League team this year.
Behind the Reds came the Cars dinals with five, the Dodgers with four, the Giants and Cubs three each, and the Pirates, Bees and Phillies one each, Six players were unanimous choices, Paul Derringer, Ernie Loms= bardi and Frank McCormick of Cincinnati, Joe Medwick of the Cards, Stan Hack of the Cubs and Morris Arnovich of the Phillies,
Terry Named Coach
Hartnett named Bill Terry of the Giants and his own Red Cors riden as coaches. He picked Charley Root as batting practice pitcher, and Andy Lotshaw of the Cubs as trainer. Six newcomers were on the Naw tional League roster. They were Arnovich, Linus Frey of the Reds, Lou Fette of the Bees, Whitlow Wyatt and Dolph Camilli of the Dodgers and Terry Moore of the Cards. With eight hurlers, including the “big three” of the pace setting Reds, on the squad, it appeared the Nas tional Leaguers would rely on pitches ing strength as they did in last year's 4-1 victory. The 25-man squad follows: Pitchers—Derringer, Vander Meep and Walters, Reds; Curt Davis and Warneke, Cardinals; Fette, Bees} Wyatt, Dodgers, and Lee, Cubs.
Danning, Phelps Also Named
Catchers—Lombardi, Reds; Danse ning, Giants; Phelps, Dodgers. Inflelders—Me Cormick, Reds} Mize, Cardinals; Camilli, Dodgers;
haps equal potentialities . . . keep one and mé&ke a deal for the other,
: being. “Naturally, we endeavor to appraise them as accurately as pos- g
Behind John Niggeling's six-hit Leng, FE ol
bull-fighting of Spain and Mexico, hitter in the seventh inning for|Outfielder; Lefty Grove, pitcher.
Frey, Reds; > } Detroit — Tommy Bridges and cis) s; Herman, Cubs; Jurges,
Giants; Vaughan, Pirates;
3b Galatzer,
sible for our own benefit. Our success at that is one of the things that
keeps us in business. “When we sold Bill Lee to the parting with a possible prospect.
that same vear and we had a pretty well-set staff . . There wasn't exactly a spot for Lee. “Still, Lee deserved a shot at the majors.
starters.
you recall, Bill wasn't too good that helped us to a pennant.
Cubs in 1934, we knew we were
But we had Paul Dean coming up
. six or seven
So we sold him, and if first campaign while young Dean
“Since then, of course, Lee has become a great right-hand pitcher. Naturally, if we had known just how good he was going to, be, we would have retained both he and Paul.”
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ICKEY explained the sales of other stars of the St. Louis chain.
. . Billy Myers, Johnny Rizzo and some mqQre. New York or Chicago or Detroit,” he asserted. “
“St. Louis isn't e Yankees draw
more transients than we draw, including transients and home folk in
St. Louis. “We've hed some pretty tough the Cardinals.
sledding in my many vears with
We've disposed of players we night have kept for our
roster if it wasn't that there have been times when we've heen under
financial pressure. “There also is such a thing as
giving a boy a fling at the big
leagues even when you can't really use him at the time. Such was the case of Eddie Miller, the fine shortstop the Yankee organization sold
to the Boston Bees.
“When we sold Rizzo to the Pirates two years ago it was to keep a promise I'd made to him that if we didn't take him at the end of the 1937 season we'd still give him a chance provided we could make
any kind of a deal.
It's only being fair.”
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High Bowler Bob Jones took scoring honors a Sot st en in ‘the Barring Bow ague at the Central Alleys,
pitching, the Indians knocked off Toledo in the series opener, 11 to 1 The veteran was given a 2-to-1 head | start by his mates and tallied his ninth victory against five defeats. | After the second stanza, Niggeling dished out seven goose-egg innings, | struck out five and walked two. | Jesse Newman and Allen Hunt| led the Tribe batting attack with | three blows apiece. loped two doubles and a single, | scored three times and batted in| two runs.
Galatzer of the Indians turned
in an “unbelievable” catch in the nings. Wild pitch—Pyle. Losing pitcher— { i. Umpires—Conlan and Stewart.
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because it involved needless punish- Kansas City last night and parked ment of the helpless. There is no one of Herb Hash's pitches over the sentiment in this country for one left field wall, scoring two team-
who deliberately works distress on one who cannot fight back. You won't gain any popularity |
and torment a fellow for 27 minutes
I am speaking to you as a man | from Georgia, Joe, who was glad to include you among his friends. If that interview yesterday was from | your heart, and not dictated by those in charge of you—well, T hope | Lou Nova or Bob Pastor knocks | hell out of you. |
mates ahead of him. The 6-2 victory put Kansas City two games ahead of Minneapolis in their struggle for
[votes by deciding to spear, cut, rip the league leadership.
St. Paul won an 9-7 game from
ipefore finishing him with a punch. Milwaukee but was forced to go 10
inning to do it. Leo Wells drove in the winning run with a triple, Fred Sington’s homer with a teammate on base was an important factor in Louisville's 4-1 triumph over Columbus. Each team got eight hits, but Louisville managed to combine the most in the same inning.
Can You Imagine That? Those Doctors Were Giving Dempsey — Jack Dempsey - — Just a 50-50 Chance
By JOE WILLIAMS
Times Special Writer NEW YORK, July 1-—We picked up a newspaper and the headline said, “Dempsey has 50-50 chance.”
This of course was the hospital talking. Man Mauler into a stuck a knife into his middle,
seems there was something wrong
with his appendix.
But the headline . . | Has 50-50 Chance.” That would have to come from a hospital. [never could come from a
writer. Dempsey?
They had taken the Old kind of headlines you read when the surgery and| sports writers were handling him. Tt! “Rasy Kayo for Dempsey”
. “Dempsey
It sports You know the]
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when they were calling Dempsey a
“1 t6 4 on Dempsey” . . . “Dempsey Fights Whozit, Name Your Own | Price.”
go to war. There were thousands like him that didn't go to war. In Dempsey’s case it was different.
That's the way the sports writers Older and selfish heads kept him used to handle Dempsey when he OU} of war.
was in a tough spot. These hospitals, these doctors don't know the man. They don’t know prices. They can't be betting men. Dempsey never was a 50-50 against anybody. Peritonitis! So that’s what's floored Dempsey. A Greek of all persons. What's that? Not a Greek? Oh, something that makes an appendix case worse than it normally is. And still the odds are 50-50? Don't those hospital people know that this is Dempsey. Don't they know that the kind of prices that they lay on fellows like you and us don't apply to him? For Gawd's sake, this is Dempsey—this isn't John X. Smith. This is Dempsey. But maybe it can happen. You never can tell what those bugs will do when they start crawling around in your system. We just happened to think of Lou Gehrig, the iron man of baseball. They got him out. It was hard for us to bring ourself around to the grim fact that Gehrig would never play ball again. Of course, Dempsey is through fighting in the ring but there is that heavy pall that hangs over any hospital case and when a great surgeon like Dr. Bob Brennan talks about a 50-50 chance we are little alarmed. We seem to feel that the good doctor doesn’t know Dempsey like we do. He hasn't sat around with him and his manager and listened to him. Like the time, for instance, in Chicago, when he wanted to fight Jess Willard for nothing. That's
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v was
And then came the time to do a charity turn in Chicago. Willard the heavyweight champion. There was only one guy to fight him—only one guy he could make money with, Tt was to be an exhibition. To give Willard his due— he was in the patriotic grease, too —he didn't want an exhibition either. But when Dempsey’s manager demurred, the Old Man Mauler leaped out of his bed and demanded the fight. . . . “That's the bum we want!” he demanded. We are happily sure we aren't writing a Dempsey obituary. We somehow feel those 50-50 odds, and with all due respect to Dr. Brenan, are false. We firmly believe he will pull through okay. After all, we still remember the Firpo fight, He was all alone then. All that talk you hear about him being helped into the ring and being helped by the referee car be discounted He did get back in the ring, didn't he? And he did knock out Firpo?
Indianapolis Skeet Club Shoot Carded
Tomorrow's shoot at the Imdianapolis Skeet Club will include 100 16-yard registered targets and 50 combination handicap targets. It is scheduled to begin at 1 p. m. A five-event program is scheduled tomorrow at the Crawfordsville Community Sportsman's Club, while three events are ‘carded at the Ehdy Nook Gun Club,
Buck Newsom, pitchers; Henry Greenberg, first base. Charley Gehringer, second baseman in all previous games, was picked but injuries will prevent participation.) Chicago — Ted Lyons, Luke Appling, shortstop. St. Louis—Myril Hoag, outfielder; George McQuinn, first base. Cleveland—Pitcher Bob Feller and Catcher Rollie Hemsley. Philadelphia—Bob Johnson, outfielder; Frank Hayes, catcher. Washington—George Washington Case, outfielder,
‘We'll Miss Gehringer’
Five of the 25 have been selected for every contest. Cronin, Foxx, Gehringer, Dickey and Gomez haven't missed a game, although Gehringer will have to drop from the old guard this year. “We'll miss Gehringer,” admitted League President Will Harridge, “hut Joe Gordon of the Yankees will be plenty good enough. “Tt looks like one of our strongest teams. The pitching seems to be very good and it's a fine all-round team.” Since the first game in 1933, the American League has won four, 1osing only in 1936 and again last season, scoring a total of 29 runs to 21 for the National Leaguers,
Lyons Gets His Chance
This year's squad includes seven newcomers to the interleague game —Old Teddy Lyons, Murphy, Hayes, McQuinn, Gordon, Hoag and Case— but none of them lack experience. Tt's the first real game of national importance for Lyons, who has spent 17 years with the White Sox, most of them in the second division. Rounding out the squad are Coaches Lena Blackburne of Philadelphia and Art Fletcher, New York; Dave Xeefe, Philadelphia, will act as batting practice pitcher and his receiver will be John Schulte of New York; Earl Painter of the Yankees is the trainer,
Aussies Favored To Beat Mexico
MEXICO CITY, July 1 (U. P).— Australia was a heavy favorite to beat Mexico in today's doubles mateh and advance into the second round Davis Cup eliminations of the North American zones, The Anzacs took a 2-0 lead in the best of five series by winning both of yesterday's singles matches,
pitcher;
Hack, Cubs; Lavagetto, Dodgers. Outfielders — Arnovich, Phillies; Medwick and T. Moore, Cardinals} Goodman, Reds, and Ott, Giants. The baseball “experts” are expecte ing the starting lineup to be about as follows: Danning, ¢; McCormick, 1b; Frey, 2b; Jurges, ss; Hack, 3b: Medwick, 1f; Arnovich, ef, and Ott, rf. Pitchers will not be determined until the day of the game.
Rice, Deckard and Lash Are Matched
Timer Special NOTRE DAME, Ind, July l= Three of the nation's prominent diss tance runners—Greg Rice, Don Lash and Tommy Deckard—will meet in the feature event of the South Bend A. A. A's inaugural meet at School Field, South Bend, next Saturday. Rice, Notre Dame captain and N. C. A. A. two-mile champion; Lash, indoor two-mile world record holder, and Deckard, who ranked as one of the greatest collegiate dis« tance stars of recent years duri his Indiana University career, wil meet in a special matched race ag two miles, Athletes from Indianapolis, Chie cago, Gary, Ft, Wayne and Marion, nd, as well as South Bend, will compete.
Patty Berg Faces Former Champion
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. July 1 (0, P.) —Patty Berg, Minneapolis, des fending champion, meets Marion Miley, Lexington, Ky., today in a semifinal match of the Women's Trans-Mississippi golf tournament, Beatrice Barrett, Minneapolis, was mavthed against Yellen 2off= man, Salt Lake City, in the other semifinal. Miss Berg, an odds-on favorite to retain her title, polished off Mis, R. L. Pepper, Kansas City, 8 and $, in the quarter-final round yesterday, Miss Miley, twice former titleholder, Ly Phyllis Buchanan, Denver, and 2.
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