Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1939 — Page 6
By Eddie Ash
WALTERS ONCE WITH RED SOX WAIVED OUT OF AMERICAN LOOP
VERY time Bucky Walters wins another game for the Cincinnati Reds, it makes Tom Yawkey wince. . . . Tom, who has spent approximately $2,000,000 for talent since buying the e Boston Red Sox in 1933, had this prize on his team in 1934, and let him go to the Phillies for the waiver price. Walters then was just a mediocre third baseman and Bucky Harris, Yawkey’s manager that year, didn’t think he would hit enough to fit into Yawkey’s plans for building a strong first-division club in Boston. Walters, who had been up once before, with the Bees, played 23 games for the: Red Sox in 1934 and hit a poor 216, when the club asked waivers on him. All American League clubs passed him up and he was picked up Hy the Phiilies, then managed by Jimmy Wilson. His batting picked up in Philadelphia, as he wound up the season with a .270 average for 83 games. It was late in that same 1934 season that Wilson experimented with Bucky as a pitcher, as he hurled in two games. . . . With Walters on their staff today, the Red Sox would have a better chance of catching the Yankees.
Louisville Alters Spring Policy
F the 23 Louisville players who were at the ¢lub’s Arcadia, Fla., training camp last spring, only five—Pewee Reese, Teddy Olson, Wes Flowers, Freddy Shaffer and Eddie Madjeski—are still with the club, though a few of the others are out on option. As a consequence of the Colonels’ poor experience with its spring crop of players, Business Manager Bruce Dudley said the club would not spend much money in the future on giving green youngsters a Florida vacation trip, but would use the same money in purchasing players who have experience in the higher leagues. The club, of course, will continue to look to the Boston Red Sox for a good percentage of its young players.
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EBASTIAN SISTI, young Buffalonian scampering the infield for the Boston Bees on their last Western trip, celebrated his 18th birthday with a complete day-off in Cincinnati July 26, due to the night game played at Crosley Field on the 25th. This is Sebastian’s second year of professional baseball, fresh out of Canisius High School. . . . He was hitting at a .312 clip for Hartford
When President Bob Quinn sent for him to join the Beantown Naionals.
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Vols Show Sooners Semething
Eas STIDHAM reports that he saw something new in football the first time his Oklahoma team played this year, which was on Jan. 2 in Miami's Orange Bowl. “Tennessee,” says Coach Stidham, very much like the Notre Dame system. ence. “Tennessee never shifts its quarterback. He stays right behind the center even when they are in deep punt formation. He is in position to handle the ball on every play or to fake. Generally he fakes. Against us he never touched the ball, but he drove us a little crazy. . . . He'd fake reaching for the ball, let it go back on a direct pass to the tailback, and then would pivot out of his spot and come around to block the tackle or end. That style of play, combined with the balanced line and shifting backs, was a bit of new wrinkle to us.”
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ONG ISLAND'S coaching school, scheduled for Aug. 21-27. at Manhattan Beach, New York, is one of the most ambitious ever attempted. Clair Bee, Long Island University athletic director, has engaged Bill Kern of Carnegie Tech, Bo McMillin of Indiana, Andy Kerr of Cblgate, Tad Wieman of Princeton, Dutch Bergman of Catholic University and Potsy Clark of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional eleven to handle the football clinic. Bee himself will handle basketball, aided by Ed Kelleher of Fordham, Joe Lapchick of St. John's and Paul Mooney of Columbia.
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Baseball at a Glance
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Indians and Birds Open
Tribe Wins 10, Drops 11 on Road; Outfielder Scott To Report Tonight.
After playing 21 games on the road, the Indians resume operations at the home grounds tonight in a series opener against the Columbus Red Birds. Don French is the likely starter on the Tribe rubber, and probably will be opposed by Nate Andrews. The
Birds are scheduled at Perry Stadium through Wednesday and will be followed by the Toledo Mud Hens, after which the Hoosiers will invade Louisville for the week-end. - The fourth and last invasion of the East by the Western clubs starts a week from. tomorrow and Minneapolis will open in Indianapolis on American Legion Night.
Down From Phillies
Reporting to the Indians tonight will be Outfielder Legrant Scott, sent here on option by the Phillies who drafted him from the Indians last fall. The Redskins purchased the fly chaser from Birmingham near the close of the 1938 season only to lose him a few weeks later. After their ordeal at Toledo yesterday, Manager Griffin and the Indians were reported “doing as well as could be expected” as they trooped back home today. They lost both ends of the Sabbath doubleheader to the last-place Mud Hens and even veteran John Niggeling. the Tribe's ace pitcher, was knocked out trying for his 16th victory. The scores were 7 to 3 and 6 to 0. Floyd Giebell, down from Detroit, subg/dued the Indians in the first tilt and old Red Phillips, once an Indian, held the Hoosiers to five hits in -the nightcap while achieving a shutout. Phillips was released outright from the Southern Association this summer “and Toledo picked him up ‘as a free agent without a job. He’s doing all right, too, especially when Indianapolis is his opponent. He has turned back his old club four times.
Pitcher Hits Homer
Pitcher Giebell stroked off a home run in the opener yesterday and Dixie Parsons and Frank Secory belted the horsehide out of the park in the seven-inning finale. . Anyway, the Indians didn’t fold up on the road this time and won 10 games and lost 11. Lefty Bob Logan is about ready to return to action after a long absence due to a fractured arm. He will give the team five starting pitchers, which it needs to retain third position for the post-season playoffs in which No. 1 finisher meets No. 3 and No. 2 meets No. 4. It’s ladies’ night at the Stadium tonight and a large crowd probably will be on hand for the home-com-ing. The Indians tacked up their fourth: straight victory by winning
1 at Toledo Saturday, 7 to 5, with Red
Barrett pitching.
By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—The American Davis Cup tennis team won’t be officially named until just before the matches with Australia, but I
‘|have it on what the Washington
correspondents call “unimpeachable
authority” that our side will consist of Bobby Riggs, the man who walks like Charlie Chaplin; Frankie Parker, the “million dollar legs” boy, and Don McNeill, the Oklahoma Kid. Riggs and Parker will handle the singles and Parker and McNeill the. doubles. Alice Marble, Miss Tennis of 1939, thinks it is good enough to retain the cup, and foresees two victories for Riggs and one for Parker as the point getters. Miss ‘Marble is the young lady whose tennis hat—a baby blue contrivance resembling a cross between a baseball and a jockey cap—was
0| complimented by the Queen Mother
after this year’s Wimbledon final. This must have pleased Miss Marble, a sportswear stylist, immensely, because the Queen Mother has long been famous for her taste in millinery.
Maureen Orcutt will be the senti.|mental favorite in this year’s
-{ National Women’s golf championtS sp. Miss Oreusk is the Mac Smith S
Series Here
Times Sr
Pros and amateurs participated in the best ball exhibition match at Highland yesterday. Left to right— Jimmy Thomson and Dick Metz, pros, and Henry Kowal and Maurice Rogers. State amateur leaders.
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Silent as the players were shooting, the sallory. part of which is shown above, alternately groaned and cheered ‘as the contestants made or rimmed putts. There ere approximately 850 persons al the match,
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John Niggeling, Tribe Ace, Sold to Cincinnati Reds
Deal Is for Cash and Two Players; Vet Reports in
Chicago Tomorrow.
Leo T. Miller, president of the Indianapolis Indians, today announced. the sale of Pitcher John Niggeling to the Cincinnati Reds for an undisclosed cash sum and two players to be named and delivered later. 4 ; Winner of 15 games and loser of seven, Niggeling is to report to the National League leaders in Chicago tomorrow. It’s a great break for the 34-year-old rignt-nander who has had two trials in the majors, with the Pirates and Boston Bees. Niggeling came to the Indians after the start of the 1938 season and won 14 games and lost 11 last year. He is a knuckleball artist and control pitcher. He dropped his last tilt as a Redskin, to Toledo yesterday, but has hurled well enough |: this season to warrant a promotion : in spite of his age.
John has rolled up a lot of strikeout and believes his control will get him by in the fastest of company. Some of Cincinnati's pitchers have not been up to big league grade recently and for that reason Manager Bill McKechnie decided to reach out and bring in a seasoned Class AA man who is cool under fire. . . Tribe President Miller hesitated about selling his ace before the
end of the American Association | -
season but explained that the low attendance at home games led him to accept the Cincinnati offer. “The Reds demanded immediate delivery and were willing to pay for it,” Miller said. “They were not interested in waiting until after the close of our schedule. “They believe Niggeling will help them remain in first place down the National League stretch, and, of course, Niggeling will get an increase in salary and some extra money in the event the Reds compete in the World Series.”
Firemen Annex : Semi-Pro Crown
LEBANON, Ind, Aug. 7 (U. P.)— The Indianapolis Firemen won the state semi - professional baseball championship here yesterday by defeating the Indianapolis Black Indians, 6 to 1, in the final game of the state tournament. With the victory the Firemen qualified for the national champion- |B ship tournament which starts Friday in Wichita, Kas. Twigg hit homers for the Firemen. Stanisha and Stackhouse shared
the pitching for the Winners,
(golf to win 10 Nationals, but the
championship always slips by her.
Just about the hardiest animal of them all is the trotting horse, who
has his day of glory at sleepy little Goshen, N. Y., this Wednesday. Unlike the running horse, trotters and pacers are bred to take punishment and revel in it. It is not unusual for a trotter or a pacer to prepare for a race with two. miles of warming up, then 80m another mile or more in scoring at the start, and then pace or trot three
or more mile heats. And all of this|
pulling a racing sulky equipped with a stout old gentleman driver. And trotting horse times don’t suffer badly in comparison with nning horse times. :
Dick Metz believes that a match play tournament between the professionals and amateurs would out-
draw any other golf tournament |
save the National Open. ; Bi Bud Ward of “should win the National Amateur cham-
Chamberlain .and | Aqui
John Niggeling Marion Riders Best on Cycles
Times Special BROWNSBURG, Ind, Aug. T— Two motorcycle riders from Marion, Ind., one riding in the expert events and the other as an amateur, swept high honors in the HarleyDavidson .Motorcycle Club's first Tourist Trophy Race at the new
raceway near here yesterday. J. B. Jones of Marion, who is also national Tourist Trophy champion, took the expert honors, and his running mate, Mark Thompson, also of Marion, ran in the novice and amateur races. More than 2000 persons watched the series of races on the twisting, up-and-down-hill course. ‘The club, an Indianapolis organization, plans a hill-climbing contest to be held Oct. 1.
Tribe at Bat
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‘Mac Jumps Gun and Names Davis Cup Net Team—Riggs, Parker and McNeill
He only finished a shot off the pace in the Open in June and from tee to green played far and away the best golf of any player in- the field. Had his putting been a shade better he would have beaten the pros by four or five shots..
Seventy-five thousand Finns are studying English in anticipation of
‘the 1940 Olympic games in Helsing-
fors, the idea being that English and American visitors will have a more comfortable stay if their hosts talk their language.
Jack Hurley, who who: managed : Billy Petrolle for so many years, now claims he has Petrolle’s successor in Billy Marquart, “135 pounds of class, brains ‘and dynamite” to . jquote Hurley's unbiased opinion. .
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BASEBALL TONITE
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1939
140 Women In Western
Edith Estabrooks Is Favorite In Detroit Golf.
: : ; DETROIT, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—The largest entry list in 10 years teed off today in the qualifying round of the 39th Women’s Western Golf championships at Oakland Hills. . A total of 140 of the nation’s, topflight women golfers from 11 states and Canada sought the title vacated by Patty Berg of Minneapolis, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis. Heading the list of favorites to succeed Miss Berg as champion was Miss Edith Esto brooks of Dubuque,
.| Iowa, who lost to Patty last year, 4
land 3, in the 3&-hole finals. Miss Estabrooks holds the course record at Oakland Hills of 77 set in the 1936 Western Girls’ championships. Former champions entered this year include Dorothy Traung of San
| Francisco, winner in 1936; Marion
Miley, Lexington, Ky., winner in 1935 and 1937, and Lucille Robinson Mann of Milwaiikee, 1933 titlist. - The low 32 players in the 18-hole qualifying round today will participate in 18-hole match play. each gay until the Sirhole finale Saturay Top pairings ‘today include Miss Miley and Miss Estabrooks; Miss Traung and “Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis; Mrs. Mann and Ellamae Williams of Chicago.
Jones Is Tops As ‘Slammer Downer’
MUNCIE, Ind, Aug. 7 (U. P).— Herman Jones, 140-pounder, heaved a steel-shafted putter 74 yards down a practice fairway yesterday to win the rank of champion club “slammer downer” of the Minnetrista municipal course. Jones defeated 23 of the city’s brawniest club: flippers to win first in the contest sponsored by Roy Byrd, course pro. His comment was: “I just remembered that four-foot put I missed or No. 16 and let ’er y.’
Garfield Swimmers Take Close Match
By a close 79 to 75 margin, the Garfield Park swimming team defeated Willard at the latter’s pool yesterday. With a record of three wins and one loss, Garfield is in sec-
ot: ond place in the league sianding be19 hind: Rhodius.
Bud Morical and William Stump of Garfield shared high point hon-
$/ors when each scored two firsts, a
second and a third place. The losers were paced by William Hinman, who had two firsts and a second.
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Thomson Thrills Crowd
the game today.
Metz in an exhibition match tour one stroke off the course record and four better than par. He was able to make this :score even though he had two three-putt greens on his cafd, which shows that most of the time he was getting his approaches straighter on|3 line than crows are supposed to fly. The whole exhibition, which was arranged by Al Collins, the Highland pro, was great spectator golf. Metz and Maurice Rogers, Frankfort, runnerup in the State Amateur, scored a best ball 3-and-2 victory over Jimmy Thomson, the human powerhouse from Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa., and Henry Kowal, the new State Amateur king. He Really Smacks Em Metz may have more shots and greater control, but Smashing Jimmy does a little better than even on the matter of color. He has that glorious way about him on the tee that Babe Ruth used to have when he stepped into the batter’s box and made menacing gestures with his bat. Thomsor| really hits ‘em, but there seems to be some question in his own mind as to just where they are going. For that reason the large gallery that formed narrow lanes in front of the tees on each fairway worried him since he apparently was afraid he would uncork a wild one that would hurt someone, | Off the tee he was scrambling yesterday like a man chasing a
straw hat down the street. His medal
of 72 was exactly the same as that posted by Kowal, while Rogers' had an 81. «Their cards compared with par follow: PAR. i Hr gun In
. 445 344 434-35 : teense, 4385 443 4443570 METZ Gao Out .c.oceoccessensss 344 345 423-33 In esssssss 434 542 444—34—06
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Metz scored a birdie 3 on the first
hill putt, and the second went to Thomson when }Jie was in the rough
approached up to within eight feet away and got down for a 3. This put the two teams even, and Kowal matched Metz’s 4 to halve the third. The par 3, 173-yard fourth gave all
of them trouble but Metz, who had
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|Lake Forest Pro Star Tours Course in 66, Beating Par by Four
Dick Demonstrates Famed Short Iron Skill in Exhibition
With Distance Drives;
Kowal and Rogers Help Entertain.
. By TOM OCHILTREE It has been said with great regularity that Dick Metz—the. Lake Forest, Ill., pro who probably could do all right in the movies, too, with his smile and profile—is one of the truly great short iron players in
The justice of that statement was as apparent as a red flannel shirt at a formal garden party to the 850 paying patrons who yesterday saw
Highland Country Club in 66, Just
the only par. He was on 35 feet away and got down in two more. The fifth was halved with everybody tak= ing 4’s. On the sixth, Kowal holed out a 30-foot putt for a 3 to win for: his team, and just to show it wasn’t luck he hit another ball in practice after the hole had been played out and made that one, too.. It was on this
hole that Metz had a three-putt,
green. Everyone but Rogers got a 4 on No. 7 to halve that one, and Metz sank a six-foot putt for a duce to win No. 8 He also took the par 4 ninth when he holed out a 35-footer for -a birdie. This made the team of Metz and Rogers 2 up at the turn,
Thompson’s 3 on No. 10: cut. down
that margin, but Metz won the 12th with a birdie 4, andthe 15th with a 2, while the rest’ were halved.
No. 13 Hard for Pros
Rogers was a sort of non-voting partner most of the way, but his 4 on No. 13 held Kqwal to a fie after both pros ran into trouble there and took 5s. It was on this same hole that Metz three-putted aga But Metz and Thomson have th muffed shots like any duffer, a least they did yesterday. Severa
When he made a weak out from trap on No. 11 his sneer would hay made a piker out of Simon Legree. Metz was wide with his approach
at the 14th and topped an iron on
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