Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1939 — Page 6

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Highland Country Club’s hone in the State ‘Amateur golf tourna. x oe pl a

. ment which opens Monday at Anderson is Bill Reed.

(Ike) Cummings, who hails from the Indianapolis Country ns to keep his tee shots away from the trees.

Bob Shuman, Pleasant Run, is another of the , City's. golfers who will try to relieve Jimmy Scott of his crown.

By Eddie Ash

DIXIE WALKER MOVES AROUND PLAYER COMPLETES 16TH SHIFT

FRED WALKER, better kdown as Dixie, was prepared

for the news of his sale by Detroit to Brooklyn. . . . Experience has taught the player always to be alert for

front-office announcement of his transfer to another ball“

club. |

Owners have been doing that to the outfielder for 12 years. . . . When he joined the Dodgers, he completed his 16th shift. ; - . He has moved on an average of more than once a season since he made his professional debut in 1928. |

In his first sirotestions] ehmpalpn, when he couldn’t |

decide whether he wanted to be an infielder or an outfielder, Walker played with three teams in| as many leagues. . . . Albany, ~Ga., in the South Atlantic; Greensboro, N. C., in the Piedmont, and Gulfport, Miss., in the Cotton States. Vicksburg, Miss. .; Greenville, S. C., and Jersey City. saw him for fleeting periods before he reached the big leagues for the first time. . That was in 1930 when he reported to the Yankees. Walker stayed with the Yankees only long enough to take part in two games. . . - He was returned-to Jersey City, where he tarried for less than a season. before heading for Toronto.'. . . Toledo claimed him next and then Newark, where for the first time Walker: Played a full season as a regular. without Shenging uniférms.

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Tains In .350 Swat Average

VY z= batted .350 in 144 games for the Bears in 1932 and the Yankees signed him again. He remained with the New York club for more than two years. If he began to suspect that at last he had found steady employment in one place, he was jolted out of the feeling © of security in 1935 when he was ordered back to Newark. He was recalled by the Yankees the followi season and sold to the Chicago White Sox who traded him to lowing = Any old locker is home to Dixie Walker. ; 8 8 2 = 2 o ya MUNGO of Brooklyn, breaking his ankle as a pinch runner is remindful of the afternoon that Dizzy Dean ran out to run for someone or other in the World Series of 1934. .'Ol, Diz broke

up a double play with his forehead! . . There isn’t ‘much putting in a $200,000 arm to run. Seen

With Mungo and Whitlow Wyatt out, the Dodgers’ staff is down to seven. . . as a parting farewell to Mungo as the club shoved off én its Western trip, his roommate, the huge catcher, Babe Phelps, sak “How do you hold your curve, Van? . . . I'll be in there pitchg ’

#2 2 = # a's SOUTHERN high school baseball coach wrote Doug Mills for A a detailed explanation of his offense. . He offered to pay whatever Mills considered the Illinois attack was worth. . Mills, anxious to help a young coach, sent diagrams and descriptive matter, . toe 4 few SE ter he received a basket of grapefruit, uperior, Wis., where the New York professional football and Chicago Cardinals train next month, is the home of 2 ants mans, Ernie Nevers, Dave Bancroft, Morris Arnovich, Billy Petrolle, ‘Herbie Lewis, the hockey player, and Bess Ehrhardt, the fancy. skater.

Baseball at a Glance

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CAN LEAGUE

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Tribe Steps | Into Miller Stronghold

Sheehan’s Maulers Thirst For Indians’ Blood; French Hurls Shutout.

Times Special . MINNEAPOLIS, July 29.—Manager Wes Griffin brought his Indianapolis Indians to ancient Nicollet Park today to tackle the pennanthungry Millers who have won 10 straight games. It was a scheduled afternoon tilt. arn

ST. PAUL, July 29.—After John Niggeling, Tribe veteran trying for his 15th victory, lost a tough luck 4-t0-3 decision in the first half of last night’s double-header with the Saints, Don French pitched a fourhitter in the moonlighter and downed the Apostles, 7 to 0. The Indians gained a split in four games at Lexington Park and their road record reads five won and seven lost. St. Paul beat Niggeling on five

| hits as the Hoosiers got 10. How-

ever, the Tribesmen left 13 runners stranded and a three-run St. Paul rally in the third inning knocked them off. 2 French belted a home run in addition to his airtight hurling. Indianapolis collected 15 blows off two

_| St. Paul hurlers and iced the game |in the first stanza by scoring four

runs.

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(First Game) INDIANAPOLIS

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innings: 0 in 1; n (pitched Be a Baitels in fifth) : Himsl, Winning pitcher—Himsl. Losin Som P Umpires—Stewart an onlan

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SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1939

Down River

Gus Suhr, above, Pittsburgh, first baseman, was sent - to the lowly Phillies today in exchange for Pitcher Max Butcher. Suhr, 33, hold the National League consecutive game playing record of 822 games. He was nudged out: his Pirate job by Elbie Fletcher, formerly of the Boston Bees.

Finals On in Public Links

BULLETIN

BALTIMORE, Md., july 29 (U. P.).—Andy Szwedko and Phillip Gordon were all-even at the halfway mark of their 36-hole final 4today in the National Public Links golf championship.

BALTIMORE, July 29 (U. P.).— Phillip Gordon, Oakland, Cal. insurance clerk, and Andy Szwedko, Pittsburgh steel mill worker, met over the 36-hole route here today in the finals of the National Public Links championship tourney. Gordon eliminated Policeman Jim Molineri, San Francisco, 3 and 2, and Szwedko downed Arthur Armstrong, the tournament favorite, 1 up, in the 36 holes semi: fingls yesterday. Szwedko was 3 down at the 12th hole and waged a sensational rally to beat the shipping clerk from Honolulu. Gordon is 29 and Szwedko 31. The former was the fifth and last alter-

is Szwedko’s fifth championship try.

’ He reached the semi-finals in 1987.

Spotlight as Chase Outpitches Feller,

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 29.—The latest pitcher to storm the portals of the hall of fame and just miss a no-hit, no-run game is Ken Chase, the

Washington lefty who had an inglorious record of four victories and 13 defeats until he plastered a 2-0 shutout on Cleveland yesterday. He hadn’t won a game in 19 days. Chase pitched a perfect-game until- the ninth when Skeeter Webb, Cleveland shortstop, got a single. Then pinch hitter Solters followed with a scratch hit. Those were the only two hits made off Chase’s portside slants.

Feller, who gave up eight scattered hits and failed in a bid for. his 16th

8 triumph. - Instead he was charged| with his fifth loss.

It was the second time this week that a weak sister had come close to

Losing a no-hitter. Tom Sunkel, Cardinals’ |! rookie southpaw, held the Giants

nate from the Oakland area. This

Chase had to be good yesterday to 000 6= win. His opporient was Bullet Bob

DaleMorey Is King in

‘| Martinsville “Artist - Annexes

Crown by Decisive Win Over Sisler.

RICHMOND, Ind., July 29 (U. P.). —A putting and: chip shot. artist from Martinsville today ruled Indiana’s young golf players. He was Dale Morey, who smashed out a decisive 5-and-3 victory over Stanley Sisler of South Bend at the Forest Hills Country Club yesterday; to win the 15th annual State Junior tournament.

Morey, former Indiana High School Athletic Association titleholder and now a sophomore. at Louisiana State University, won his title . the hard way until the final match. Then, against’ Sisler, he swarmed to a 4-up lead at the midway point by virtue of winning three of the| last four holes. Until then: the match had been fairly even.

Rain Delays Play

Play was delayed by a rainstorm which blew up during the lunch

hour and when the contestants started their afternoon round the fairways and some of the greens were dotted with pools. of water in’ the low spots. Sisler won the first hole and Morey evened the count on the second. He repeated on the seventh to lead at the nine-hole mark, 1 up. Morey went two up on ‘the 13th, lost the 14th, and won the 15th and,

Morey won the 18th to go to lunch with his 4-up advantage.

Sisler’s Rally Halted

In the afternoon Sisler won the 20th and the 23d before Morey came back to capture the 24th, 25th and 26th. They halved the next. five holes. on the 32d Sisler dropped a four-foot putt to cut Morey’s. lead to four holes with four left to play. On the next hole Morey sank a par while Sisler was one over. Previously, Morey had been forced to a 19-hole 1-up victory over Jack Clements of Richmond, medalist in

Junior Golf|,

16th. They halved. the 17th and|

| Espinosa and

Harrison Lead St. Paul Open

ST. PAUL, July. 20. (U.. P.).—Abe Espinosa. and Ernie Harrison, both of Chicago, held the lead today as

more than 150 of the nation’s ace]:

golfers started out’ on the second half of the 36-hole qualifying round in the $7500 St. Paul Open. The 60 competitors who turn: in the lowest scores at the end of play today will qualify for the 36-hole final tomorrow. : Espinosa and Harrison went around in 67 yesterday, five strokes below par. They each bagged six birdies and went over par only on one hole each. : Byron Nelson, National and Western Open champion, Dick Metz and Len Mattson trailed Espinosa and Harrison with 68. Ray Mangrum, Henry Picard, P.- G. A. champion, and: Joe Coria, turned in 69.

N et Play Up To Weather

- As soon as the sun comes out long enough to dry off a few tennis courts in this city play will be resumed in the State tennis tournament, but Frederick W. Hunt, in charge of the affair, wasn't very optimistic about the chances of running off any matches today. At the earliest, the courts can't be dried before sometime late : this afternoon. If ‘they can. be used, ‘quarter-final and semi-final ‘match es in the men’s singles division: will be played. Matches {Ri the’ quarter-finals are Ted Olewin=, ‘Santa Monica, Cal, - |seeded .No. 3, vs. ‘John ‘Shostrom, |. Chicago, seeded No. 5; IL. Morey Lewis, Texarkana, Ark, No. 2, vs. Robert Carrothers, Jr. Coronado, Cal, No. 7. : ‘Jack Tidball, Hollywood, Cal., No. 1, vs. Ralph ‘Burns, ‘Indianapolis, No. 8, and Don Leavens, Milwaukee, defending champion, No. 4, vs. Larry Dee, San Francisco, No. 6. : These = matches originally were scheduled to be held yesterday, and the one between Olewine and ‘Shostrom had gotten under way when rain flooded the Highland Country

the Qualifying play.

hitless for seven and one-third: me nings Wednesday. and wound up with a two-hitter. The last no-hit, no-run game pitched in the majors was by Monte Pearson, Yankees, who did a perfect job against Cleveland last August. There have been four one-hit games and five two-hit games pitched in the majors this season. Sam West's triple accounted for both Washington runs in :Chase’s shutout over Cleveland. Manager] Oscar Vitt engaged in ‘a prolonged verbal debate with Umpire Basil over his decisions. Yesterday was a pitchers’ day in the majors. Only three teams made more than 10 hits and they were three of the weakest hitting clubs in the majors, the Browns, with 14; the Bees, with 11, and the Dadgers, with 13. ~~ The Browns broke their: 10-game| losing streak by hammering out an

Laabs walloped a homer with ‘the Joe Glenn hit two

for the circuit. Bill. Trotter: ¢

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Dick McCreary, Indianapolis Conntry Club, is a former State

4 Amateur si and he is entered ‘again this tim

rifles. the first time instead of mashies. Even if the two theaters|1 of operation are separated by several hundred miles, the terrain of both, as the brass bounders say, is almost identical. + They carved nine holes of the

of a forest, and apparently the work was done by woodsmen who believed in sparing those trees. ’ Another nine, laid out in comparatively open country, was: added four years ago and the holes were renumbered. The heavily wooded ones now are Nos. 1, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18. On these holes the fairways are narrow strips bordered by lines of trees on: both sides and in most cases are about 30 to 50 yards wide;

* ‘More Slicing Room

There are trees and thick roughs on many-of the other holes too, but these give: the players a little more hooking and slicing room with traps forming the penalty hazards. Because of these details of course construction, Jimmy Scott, New Albany, is more of a favorite ‘than ever to retain his title. Scott bangs ‘em off the tees with bridge span straightness, and that is what it is going to. take at Anderson. | Evidently he is at the height of his ‘game because in a tournament at Louisville last week-end he had rounds of 67 and 62 over a par 71 layout, which is very efficient Scotch shinny in anyone’s league. From present indications, though,

record field out to try to. relieve Scott of his. laurels. ois Late Entries Expected There were 150 entries when the early pairings closed: at noon today

and Clifford E. Wagoner, secretary of. -the- Indiana :- Golf - Association;

said that a: large number of: ‘last- |

minute entries were expected. “We: will be ready to take these late ones,” he said, “and there will be room in: the. field. I will be. at the club all day tomorrow to receive names. Tee pairings will be made from 7 to 8:30 a. m. and. after 1p. m, Monday. > "The “ present ‘record was established -at Kokomo two years ago when 210 golfers competed. = Size: of

— |the field in this event is always

tl Another Unknown Moves Into Major

great Job. - a relief vole: ‘allowing only five hits in 6 2-3. frames. Oral Hildebrand outdueled Edgar Smith to give the Yanks a 2-1 victory over the White Sox in the ninth with the score tied 1-1, on homers by Kuhel and Gordon, Red Rolfe singled past Jackie Hayes, playing | in for a play at the plate, with the

_ | bases loaded for the winning run.

Buck. Ross held the Tigers to six hits as the ‘Athletics won, 3-0. ‘In the seventh and ninth he stopped Detroit with the . bases jammed. enabled the Cubs to beat the Giants, Glen Russell's homer in the ninth 5-4. Tt was the Giants’ third straight loss.

Jim Turner held the Pirate to nine scattered hits to pitch the Bees to a 7-1 victory. Max West hit a homer with one on and. Tony Cuccinello batted in three tallies. . / ‘Hugh Casey stopped a threatening Cardinal rally in the ‘nr

11-6 win over the Red Sox. Chat Prookivn

hard to anticipate because players are in the habit of entering at the scene of the tournament regardless of the plans the association makes to get the names in early.

Looking ’Em Over

ready ‘entered are Dick. McCreary, the Indianapolis Country Club player who won the District, Junior

Kowal, a Chicago newcomer playing from ‘Speedway; Bob Smith, Anderson; John David, Hillcrest, the Indiana Intercollegiate golf king. ‘Clark: Espie, Pleasant Run, the Indianapolis district champion; Gene Pulliam Jr, Lebanon; Bud Kennedy, Martinsville; Bill Reed, Highland; Jack Taulman, Columbus; J. I. (Ike) Cummings, of the Indianapolis ‘Country - Club; Phil Talbot, Bloomington; Fred Gronauer, Pleasant Run, former District

Run, and a score of promising juniors. - The tournament is to open with

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‘Among the top-flight shooters al-|

and Amateur titles in 1937; Henry|

champion; Bob Shuman, Pleasant|

Defending Champ Scott’ To Have Hard Week in ~ Anderson Competition

Jimmy Is Favored, However, to Come Through on Tour« ney’s Tough Terrain; Top .Sharpshooters From Incionapols Area will Be There,

.. By. TOM ‘OCHILTREE | "The State Amateur golf tournament,” which opens Monday at. the Addn Country Club, probably will be referred to .in years to come as the Second Battle of the Wilderness. As everyone in the class will recall, the first: Wilderness campaign took place during the Civil War, and one of the major differences be tween that engagement and the one coming up was that the boys used

18-hole qualifying rounds Monday and Tuesday, and the 31 low score ers over this 36-hole route will gain positions in the championship flight. As. defending ‘champion, Scott, is automatically qualified. On the basis of qualifying scores, the titles for the men between the ages of 50 and 60, and for those

championship will be decided. Match

rounds Wednesday, and the 36-hole title mateh will be played off Friday. With all the natural diffiowl iiss of the course, there is one. ray of light. Johnny Vaughn, co pro, ane nounced that the greefis are in perfect condition and will putt true if a ball is smacked on the proper line,

The =

“Following. is the hole-by-hole analysis of the Anderson Country Club course where the State Amateur Golf championship will be fought:

border ‘both sides of fairway down to 275 yards, where there is a slight dogleg to right. It requires a drive and a three or four iron. | No. 2—361 yards, par 4. This’ hole is doglegged to the left wifh trees down left side. On. right is rough five to six inches deep, while green is trapped on both sides.

No. 3—483 yards, par 4. A Cluster of traps prevent a player from cute ting short the dogleg to right, and there are trees on left. Two good woods are needed. No. :4—347. yards, par 4. ‘The green here is in center of a clump of’trees, and after a drive the seven or. eight iron shot has to .be straight. No. 5-320 yards, par 4. This, is

a drive and a seven iron. iron from the tee has to be straight

trapped :all around. No. 7—570 yards, par 5. All the way down the left side is out of bounds with three large traps on right about 220 yards out. There is also a trap at left 400 yards down; woods and a seven iron should make it.

tournament: players use ‘a four iron from tee. The green is trapped -to right and there are trees to left and in back. No. 9—532 yards, par 5 There are traps down both sides. Yrwo woonls and a seven or eight iron are needed. No. 10—476 yards, par 5: This, is

the easiest hole on the course and

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Ne. 1—428 yards, par ‘4. Trees”

A- drive * land strong six or seven iron should ‘|get the player home.

another tree-bounded hole, taking. No. 6—185 yards, par 3. The two : since the large green is pretty well

No. 8—180 yards, par 3. Most