Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1939 — Page 21
"Conn to Try His
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor
EW YORK, July 183. —The issue of whether magic can overcome a left hook to the kisser will be settled in Madison Square Garden tonight when Melio Bettina, who fights in a hypnotie trance, takes on Billy Conn, a slick article from Pittsburgh, for the light heavyweight championship of the world. Betting men, who rate a smash on the jaw above any amount of mumbo-jumbo, have made Conn the favorite at odds ranging from 2 tol to 13 to 5. They are betting on one of the neatest boxers to ' come along since Jim Corbett proved that a little brain work doesn’t handicap & fighter. It seems Bettina’s manager, Jimmy Grippo, is a magician and hypnotist and that before every fight he makes passes in front of his boy's eves and says “You are invincible; no one can hurt you; you are a terrific puncher.” Then Bettina is supposed to bounce cut of his
Minneapolis Maulers Check in at Stadium For Three-Day Stand
‘Second-Place Club to Meet Indians in Twin Bill Tonight; Brewers and Tribe Battle to Nine-Inning Draw in Final Game of Series.
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Long Tom Sheehan's mauling Millers, who have mauled the Indians seven times in 11 clashes this season, checked in today on their third invasion of Perry Stadium.
Left Hook on Bettina's
corner, sort of half in this world and half out-like a college boy listening to Benny Goodman's band. ” & ® 8 8 NFORMED that Bettina would be wandering in a trance through never-never land when the opening bell rings, Conn issued this manifesto. “That's swell. in a trance that he won't come out of for 15 minutes.” Grippo’s hypnotism is supposed to work both ways: he also tries to put the evil eye on Bettina's opponents and reduce them to a quaking heap of bones and flesh. Conn says he will combat this Svengali strategy by knocking Bettina into Grippo’s lap, sending them both to the floor outside the ring. Ater the boys get through having their little flight into the meta« physical world, it likely will turn out to be something to see. Bettina, a southpaw puncher from Beacon, N. Y, is recognized by the New York Boxing Commission as light heavyweight champion by virtue of a technical knockout over Tiger Jack Fox. He has a pecculiar style that may bother Conn and he carries a good wallop.
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After I bust him a couple of times he'll be
ONN, gaining weight all the time, has just moved up out of the middleweight ranks. He probably will go in around 172 pounds tonight, and eventually he will grow into a full-fledged heavyweight. He is trying to do that as rapidly as possible, because he has an idea he can take Joe Louis to the cleaners. The kid from Pittsburgh is poetry in motion when he gets inside that square of ropes. He has a great left hand and plenty of courage, and he fights a shrewd battle. The only thing he hasn't picked up on his march upward is a knockout punch. Conn claims he is developing that now that he has begun to take on weight, and if he proves to be a killer tonight he has a better than even chance to wind up as heavyweight champion. There is going to be wailing and moaning along the Hudson River Valley if Bettina loses, for Beacon is hocking the family jewels to get aboard the home town boy. Around 5000 persons will come down to New York from Bettina's neighborhood, and they will bring with them two bands to parade around the ring before the fight. Conn says a very appropriate thing for them to play would be a
Smith One Of 8 Pros
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THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1939
Melio Bettina |
By Eddie Ash
CROWDS OF 100,000 IN FUTURE? NIGHT BALL EXPERT THINKS SO
HE 53,000 gate at the Cleveland Americans’ first night game at home recently, which set a new record for major league after-dark attendance, is but a fore-runner of the larger gates at major league night games of the future. This is the belief of Robert J. Swackhamer, of the General Electric Co., who has grown up with night ball and has designed a hundred or more baseball lighting systems, including those at the major league parks in Cincinnati, Brooklyn and at the Cleveland Muncipal Stadium. “In the major league cities where lighting systems have been installed, night games have boosted attendance,” Swackhamer points out. “Night game attendance has run
The second-placers, who are just one percentage point back of Kansas
| City’s league leading Blues, are to battle the Redskins in a double‘header tonight with action starting at 7:30. The One Per Cent Boys have [plenty of biff and Manager Schalk is prepared for them. He plans to send Red Barrett to the Tribe mound in the opener and John Niggeling in the second fracas. Red land John are the Redskins’ aces land it will be up to them to silence the Millers bats, which are great, big bats manufactured for {and distance. | The Millers still are racing neck land neck with Kansas City for the [league lead and still are hardboiled {because they lost out in the sprint [to play host to the American Association All-Star game by a single | percentage point. | They Are Hard Riders | Sheehan's rough and ready gang will play here thre \gh Saturday and | the series promise some extra fire- | [So hel Manager om is irom the | “old school” and is a hard rider on | the diamond. Supporting him, of | course, is Mike J. Kelley, Miller pr es- | | ident, another “old school” product | A takes keen delight in crushing |
power |
After |.-O. League Pacesetters
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Guy Price Jr., University of South-
Ocean-to-Ocean Golfer on 17th, Four Above Par
PHILADELPHIA, July 13 (U, P).
Berth in Quarterfinals Something New for ‘Joplin Ghost.’
NEW YORK, July 13
ern California sophomore, today There Was a
neared the end of his ocean-to-
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Billy Conn
| ocean one-hole-a-day golf marathon ‘after scoring a par four on the the | 16th hole at the Philadelphia Coun[try Club Spring Mill Course, site of | the National Open. | Price, accompanied by his father, |a Los Angeles realtor, his mother fand a 15-year-old sister, played [here yesterday and later left for | Newark, N. J, where he plays his | 17th hole today. His jaunt ends tomorrow when he plays the 18th hole at Fresh Meadow, N. Y | The 19-year-old Trojan sopho|more, who is four over par after | playing 16 holes in 14 states, said that his marathon was just a ‘vacation and denied id comPOR, ne
Outdoor Ring Card Is | Filled
Patterson and Willoughby | To Clash in Feature.
Horton Smith, among the eight men
who set out today in the quarterfinals of the 22d National P. G. A. tournament, Being in the round of eight is nothing new to the lanky fellow they used to call the “Joplin Ghost” back around 1929 and ’'30 when he had a putter that could do more tricks than a magician’s wand. But getting past the quarterfinal is something else for Smith, who now operates out of Oak Park, Ill. Today, Smith faces E. J. (Dutch) Harrison of Oak Park, Ill, after having beaten Clarence Doser of Ardmore, Pa, 4 and 2. At the end of eight holes, Horton was five down, but he won the next eight holes to be two up at the end of the first 18. Then in the afternoon, he added to his lead. All the stars who started out yesterday were still in it today except Denny Shute, whose eligibility produced the first golfers’ strike. He was defeated by Emerick Kocsis of | Orion, Mich. Today, Kocsis gets Open Champion Byron Nelson. Defending champion Paul Run- y
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feat that Cocker Triplett,
ond, third and home. Triplett’s unusual
11-2 against Louisville May 10, 1924.
the league-leading Kansas
The experts had to go back to 1024 today to find an equal to the oute fielder for the Columbus Red Birds, accomplished last night when he singled and scored by stealing sece
performance occurred in the third inning during which Columbus scored four runs, The Red Birds won over St. Paul,
Johnny Neun of St. Paul stole every base consecutively in a game
Minneapolis kept on the heels of City | Blues by winning the final game of its series with Toledo, 9-7. A sevenrun bombardment in the second ine
ning was too much for the Mud
van, who had a 2 and 1 victory over Benny Hogan, faces Dick Metz. Rod Munday, a virtual unknown, plays Henry Picard.
‘an opponent with base hits and runs. | FTN TER 3 ; N | Since the Indians are 12 games be- | & 3 3 REE Sa : | {hind Kansas City and 111s behind | § 3 Mk : 3 SR Th TE [the Millers, the series starting to-
Hens. Kansas City won from Louisville, 12-5. The Blues are half a game ahead of Minneapolis.
With the signing of Patsy Pat- . | terson, Somerset, Ky., to meet Biff | Willoughby, Dallas, Tex, in the [eight-round main event Match-
from four to seven times higher than the average day at-
ions ope: I believe club owners in the majors eventually will build bigger
and better stadiums to accommodate 100000 fans for night games. “Since 1830, when we were called in to light the first park at Des Moines, Iowa, more than half the teams in the National Association have installed floodlighting systems,” continued the General Electric expert. “Night ball has been the savior of many minor league
teams, and has bolstered dwindling attendance.”
Pepper Martin—Barrett’s Favorite
ASEBALL, especialiv the St. Louis Cardinals, will miss Charley Barrett, the veteran scout who died on July 4 of a heart attack at 68 Barrett had been with Branch Rickey since the latter started building the vast Red Bird chain on a shoestring. It was the wealthier clubs outbidding the Cardinals for any plaver they knew Barrett recommended that led to the farm sys- . Barrett uncovered many great players, but his favorite was hn Leonard Martin arrett stumbied upon Pepper Martin in June of 1925 in the little East Texas League . He liked to relate the story of his landing
the Wild Shi o ne Osage. "Me of "the pl ay ers in that home-spun league were broken1 own old-timers,” Barrett used to say, “but this time I'd heard of a couple of newcomers that warranted attention. The day I reached Greenville I went to the ball park and sat on the bench with i ager. As soon as the game started I was attracted by a g second base. The first thing that attracted me was his
Ww id Man on Diamond
ECOND ae was too narrow to hold him. He rushed into the and behind second and first. “Not ty did he leave second base uncovered part of the time but he was a positive menace to every other player on the field. He was just as wild at the plate. His bat would often slip from his hands and flv in some crazy direction. He couldn't hit a high ball, but when he did connect he rode the ball as far as he can today. “The things I look for are power and running and throwing ability. Barrett purchased Pepper Martin for $2500. . . . No one connected with the Cardinal organization ever regretted it. . . . Charley Barrett knew a ball player when he saw one. 6-4 & & »
RANK M'CORMICK hasn't missed a single inning of play since he took over first base for the Cincy Reds in the opening contest of the 1938 season. . . . Henry Johnson, the Reds new relief hurler, had an unusual record with the Yankees in 1928. Lefty Grove lost just eight games that season, and four of them were stirring duels in which Johnson bested him. . | . Johnson is a 32-year-old veteran of 13 years experience. He was a schoolboy wonder in 1925, coming up from Bradenton, Fla. Last year Bucky Walters won 11 games for the Reds while dropping six after coming to the ¢lth in June. . . . Now he has already surpassed that total and is losking forward to his greatest year in the majors, 2 = = 2 = = EADQUARTERS for the American Association All-Star game in Kansas City next Tuesday will be established at the President Hotel. . . . Players will be quartered at the Continental Hotel. . . . It will be a night game and will start at 8:20. The atiraction will be sponsored by the American Association Chapter of Baseball Writers and the league.
Baseball at a Glance
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
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{night looks hopeless for the Tribe. |
{On the other hand, the Redskins|}
[believe the worm is turning. They knocked off Milwaukee three in a [row and fought the Brewers to a| [tie in the finale last night, which | 'is something, and they hope to pick | up ground at Minneapolis’ expense.
Hill Poles Homer
The Redskins were trailing, 5 to 1 lat one stage of last night's fracas. The Brewers jumped off to a 2-to-0 lead in the first stanza when Johnny Hill smacked an inside-the-park home run off Don French with a mate on base. The blow was to right center and McCormick and Galatzer used poor judgment on it and it rolled into a round-tripper. The Brewers got a cluster of three [in the fifth and knocked French fout of the box. Lloyd Johnson re[lieved and applied the brakes to the extent that the Milwaukee scoring stopped then and there. The Indians got a run in the fourth off Tex Carleton and added two more in the fifth. In the seventh they tallied
[locked the score at 5 to 5 and sent |cized Manager George | the Chicago Cubs, . ilioh of the Na-| Blachoider rushed in from the Brew- | | tional League team in the all-star! {er bulipen and there was no further | | game,
{Carleton to the shower.
| Tribe scoring.
nings, to allow the Brewers to catch a train for Toledo.
[visit to Indianapolis in August. |
Galatzer Smacks 'E
| doubles and a in an unusual play.
| swing, Catcher Hernandez tipped his bat. Umpire McLarry awarded Mil[ton first base on interference, but [it didn’t “cost” the Brewers because {he was left stranded. | Jesse Newman's blow in the seventh, scoring Galatzer and Me- | Cormick, knotted the score. Fielding {honors were shared by Allen Hunt jof the Indians and Steve Mesner of | the Brewers. The former robbed Bob
sixth by snaring a drive against the wall near the scoreboard. Mesner's work at short was superb and on a [play in the fourth he scooted behind | second and threw out Latshaw by |a step.
| Chandler Ready NEW YORK, July 13 (NEA) — ‘Spurgeon Chandler must be ready {to pitch for the New York Yankees
. his contract. He broke an ankle | working last winter and did not join the club until June 186.
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John Twigg, winner in eight of his nine starts, will be on the mound for the Indianapolis Firemen Sunday when they tackle the Richmond Kautskys in an Indiana-Ohio League game at Richmond. The Firemen are deadlocked for second place in the circuit, while Richmond is on top. A large delegation of local fans is expected to make the trip with the Firemen.
—President Gerald Nugent of the] | series,’ twice. dead- ‘Philadelphia Phillies
y | headed” for not using Morrie ArnoWith no decision after nine In-{yich, star Phillies outfielder, in the
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Gabby’s Piloting Draws Fire of Phils’ President
PHILADELPHIA, July 13 (U. P). | mishandled contest in the entire Nugent said. criti-| The Phils play the Cubs here to-
toiay | night.
Franklin Speed Schedule Is Set
as “either dumb or bull-
The statement came as the result
The choo-choo was|of increasing public resentment here | Times Special scheduled to depart at 10:50, but ggainst Hartnett for his failure to railroad officials agreed to hold it use Arnovich, leading hitter in the! for 10 minutes to get the ball play-| National Ieague, and presaged a| ers aboard. The “tie” will be played feud between the Phils and the off during Milwaukee's next and last Cubs.
| FRANKLIN, Ind, July 13.—Dan | Sheek, president of the Mid-West | Dirt Track Racing Association, today announced the schedule of “To have left Arnovich out of the] levents for the speed program to be
National League lineup, with the held here Sunday, sponsored by the flimsy excuse that he wished to send Leading the Tribe attack last) in a team of left-handed hitters ‘night was Milton Galatzer with two against the American League rightsingle. He also figured | handed pitchers was bad enough,” Stepping vo the Nugent said, [plate in the second and ready to] used a right-handed pinch-hitter |10-lap elimination race, the next six | batting below .280 instead of Arno-| fastest to the second 10-lap elimina- | vich, who is hitting 383, he showed tion and the third fastest six to the that he was either dumb or bull-|third 10-lap race. land those which do not try against] “The whole game was handled in | time will be Sesigni to the consola-~ | very y poor fashion.
Franklin Post, American Legion. Time trials will be held between [11 a. m, and 2 p. m. The six fast"but when Hartnett est cars will be assigned to the first
It was the most ‘tion race.
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Northwest League, believes pitchers
Kelse McClure announced today that tomorrow night's boxing card at Sports Arena has been completed. They are featherweights. Patterson fought Herb Gilmore, Ohio featherweight champion from Cincinnati, here twice and drew each time after lively sessions. The Kentuckian has a powerful punch and endurance. Willoughby comes here for the first time with a good | record according to McClure. He whipped Gilmore recently. Four five-round tilts are on the card with a four-rounder opening the show. Wesley Kemp, local middleweight, will see action against Chester Saunders, Louisville, in the semi-windup. In other tilts Herb Brown, local lightweight, will fight Mickey Saunders, Louisville; Hard | Rock Stone, local heavyweight, is | paired with Johnny Such, Barberton, Pa.; Bill Brownlee, local junior welterw eight, is matched with Marshall Allison, Shelbyville, and the opener brings together young Tony Canzoneri, Indianapolis featherweight, and Frankie Fay, Coatsville.
No Place to Throw Sharp Curve Ball
SEATTLE, July 13 (NEA).—Bob | Heaman, Broadway High School coach who plays first base in the
should use curves only to fool batters. When Earl Johnson, Bremerton pitcher, threw to Heaman to catch a man off first, he inadvertently tossed a curve, which broke and caught Heaman on the thumb | of his bare hand. Heaman has the thumb in a cast and will be out for
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