Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1939 — Page 6

They're firing Drive. In this quartet, which turned

breath, Russ Holler, F. C. Newman and C. E. Flick.

away at the clay birds again these days at the Indianapolis Gun Club on 8 Lyndhurst out for a trapshooting drill during the week-end are Forrest Gil-

Here is a view of the refurnished clubhouse with eager marksmen | awaiting their turns on the ranges. Four traps are in operation at

the reopened

club.

Mrs. Harry Lord seems quite pleased with Mr. Lord’s score with the gun. The next big event sched« uled at the gun club is a special target shoot for hunters, to be held Aug. 26.

marksmen without previous trapshooting experience.

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By Eddie Ash

BIG NIGHT AT THE BALL PARK

LEGIpNNAIRES THERE TOMORROW

IT looks like Indianapolis Voiture 145, of the Forty and

Eight, American Legion fun and honor organization, has something worth while in sponsoring the Minneapolis

vs. Indianapolis A. ‘A. game at Perry Stadium tomorrow night.

An interesting program of sidelights and ceremonies will get under way at 7:15 and continue full blast until game time. . . . Diamond-studded Legion pins will be presented to the Legionnaire managers, Tom Sheehan of the Millers and Wes Griffin of the Indians. Special tribute will be paid members of the teams who got their start in Legion Junior baseball. . .. They are Pitcher Bill Butland, Shortstop. Jimmy Pofahl, Catcher Otto Danning and Outfielder Jimmy Wasdell of the Millers and Tribe players Barrett, Sharp, Latshaw, Moore, MeCormick and Balas.

Incidentally, Butland, a Hoosier from Terre Haute, just has been | sold to the Boston Red Sox. for spring delivery. . . . A large delegation | will come over from Terre Haute to honor Butland ‘and a special presentation will be made to the young star by Mordecai Brown, oldtime Chicago Cubs pitcher.

Color Guard Champions on Hand

Altogether, the “Pack the Park Night” will have a little bit of everything at no advance in prices. . Forty and Eighters and other Legionnaires are coming in from surrounding cities. . . . Danville is! to send a German band, Anderson a drum corps and its State championship color guard. A formation of massed colors of Legion posts will parade before the grandstand. Participating from Indianapolis will be the Legion drum corps, Legion auxiliary women’s drum corps, Tilman Harpole Post drum corps, Wayne Post junior band and girls drill team and the Perry Stadium Knothole Gang band. ; : » 2 8 » ” »

How BROWN, general chairman, reports a large advance ticket sale but points out that the Tribe’s park is spacious and with plenty of seats for all. . He is being assisted in boosting the event by workers from Legion "Posts and auxiliary units of Indianapolis. . . . Tickets are on sale at 15 booths downtown and at the Stadium. : The Legion’s share of the receipts will go to support Legion and Forty and Eight activities for the benefit of needy children of World War veterans. It is the plan of Forty and Eight to make “Pack the Park Night” an annual affair and every effort is being extended to put the first venture over in a big way.

Fans May See Homer Battle

MN Sarous is here for two games this trip—its last through Eastern A. A. territory. . ... The Millers play the Tribesters tomorrow and Wednesday night and then trek to Louisville. . . . The . Miller-Tribe series is expected to develop a home run battle. The Indians’ chief distance clubbers are Don Lang, Allen Hunt and Jesse Newman while the Millers have heavy hitting threats in Phil Weintraub, Hub Walker, Otto Denning, Jimmy Wasdell, Lin Storti and Roy Pfleger. . Legrant Scott, newest addition to the Redskins, also is supposed to blast a long ball. - At any rate, the Millers feel themselves slipping in their pennant ‘chase with Kansas City and are sure to be in a fighting mood.

8 ” s ” 2 2 HE American Association will stick to its old method of conducting the post-season playoffs. . . . After the close of the regular chiampionship race on Sept. 10, the ‘pennant winner will meet the No. 3 finisher and thé runnerup will battle the fourth-place club. Winners of the two series then will clash for the right to represent the A. A. in the Little World Series against the International ~ League playoff winner. .. . All series will be for four best games out of seven. : Last year Indianapolis, finishing fourth, was defeated by Kansas City, flag runnerup, in the opening round of the playoffs. 8. 2% 8 2 B= . YLVESTER JOHNSON, coach of the Philadelphia Phillies this year, but on the side one of Doc Prothro’s active pitchers, has always been one of those impressive-in-defeat® characters. . , . Detroit purchased him from Portland in a deal involving $40,000 cash and several. players, following a season in which Sylvester had won 12 games and lost 26. Later, in 1926 Johnson won 3 and lost 17 for Vernon, of the Pacific Coast League, whereupon the St. Louis Cardinals drafted him for his second big league job.

Four Under Par in City Links Meet Charles Harter Shoots a 71

And Wins Qualifying Medal Laurels.

~ By TOM OCHILTREE

Indianapolis golfdom’s already crowded memory book today contained the name of Charles Harter, whose brilliant 71 yesterday at Pleasant Run gave him qualifying medal honors in the City Amateur championship over a field that broke all records as to size and ability. . Harter is 24, plays from Coffin and has learned a lot about coinpetitive golf from matches in the Industrial League. A few weeks ago he qualified for the championship flight in the National Public Links tournament at Baltimore. In the 18-hole qualifying round in the City event yesterday the other 188 players in the field discovered that you can’t trump trumps—and Harter definitely was trumps. His long game was well-hinged and his approaches raced to the greens with the accuracy of well-shot arrows.

Four Under Par

Three others joined with him in besting the course’s par 73. They were Clayton Nichols, South Grove; Mike Pollak, Speedway, and Bob Shuman, Pleasant Run, all of whom posted 72s. By virtue of his round, Harter won the William Reed Sr. trophy and plaque, and he will go into match play, which begins Aug. 26 at Pleasant Run, as an oflds-on favorite. The field was shooting for the 64 positions in the championship flight and when the firing was finished all

while the 12 players who posted 81's! will be required to p:ay oft at noon next Sunday at the East Side course for the remaining four positions. This playoff is to be on a “sudden death” basis.

Two Consolation Flights

inated in the playoff through the 84's. There were six 84 shooters, however, and the name of one of that group will be drawn and placed in the second consolation flight which will include those posting 87s. Prizes for the other players who (Continued on Page Seven)

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Resume Against Millers Tomorrow; Lose Two at Louisville.

Beginning with the second-place Minneapolis Millers tomorrow night, the Indians open their final home stand against the Western clubs and the pastiming at Perry Stadium will be continuous = until Aug. 23. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City . and Milwaukee will perform here in that order before the Tribesters take off on their final swing through the West. The Redskins, like five other clubs, are not entertaining any pennant hopes, but there probably will be plenty of hot competition during the remainder of the campaign for positions 3 and 4 to win

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the right to participate in the postseason playoffs. . The third-place Indians are 16% games behind league leading Kansas City, 142 behind Minneapolis and 42 ahead of fourth-place Louisville.

Drop Two, Win One

The Hoosiers had their five-game winning streak snapped at Louisville over the week-end as the Colonels annexed two out of three. d In Saturday's tilt the Kentuckians beat Lloyd Johnson, 3 to 1; got edged out by Red Barrett in the first fracas yesterday, 4 to 2, and

to 2, by breaking a two-all tie in the ninth. Mike Balas and Johnny Wilson worked on the Tribe rubber in the closer. The Hoosiers slipped into a mild batting slump just as soon as they got away from home. They were held to six blows Saturday, seven in yesterday’s opener and six in the wind-up affair, which was scheduled for seven innings but had to g0 nine for a decision.

French Against Millers

Don French is slated to go out after his 14th victory in the series opener with the Millers tomorrow. He has won 13 and lost six and is

Niggeling departed for the big show. Manager Wes Griffin hopes to get some work out of Bob Logan this

the shelf since July 16 when a line drive fractured a small bone in his right forearm. Incidentally, the Indians have yet to lose a home game in six starts under Griffin’s management. Moreover, while Ray Schalk still was at the helm, they knocked off Minneapolis four in a row at Perry Stadium when the Millers last visited the Hoosier Capital.

Newman Pounds Sphere

.Big Jesse Newman’s bat caused a lot of anguish to the Louisville pitchers in the Sabbath twin bill. ‘He belted five hits in the two games, including a home run in seven trips to the plate. The splurge boosted his batting average to .315, placing him second high on the Tribe team. The first sacker has walloped the horsehide at a “terrific” clip for the last month. Legrant Scott, down from the Phillies, replaced Allen Hunt in left field for the Indians and got one hit in the first tilt.

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Fanfare Marks Night Opening At Sox Park

CHICAGO, Aug. 14 (U. P.).—The Chicago White Sox, with something of the fanfare of a Hollywood premiere, make their debut under the floodlights at Comiskey Park tonight in the major league's first night baseball game in Chicago in 29 years. The Sox, with John Rigney starting on the mound, will meet the St. Louis Browns. Installation of the lights, totaling 144,000,000 candlepower, cost $100,000. They were installed on orders of the late Lou Comeskey, Sox president and ewner, wno died three weeks ago. His father, Charles A. Comiskey, tried Chicago’s first exhibition under the lights in 1910.

St. Louis Junior Nine Takes Tilt

PRINCETON, Ind. Aug. 14 (U.P) —The Aubuchon Post team, St. Louis, won a four-state championship of the American Legion Junior baseball tournament yesterday by defeating Knoxville, Tenn, 5 to 4, in 10 innings. The title was for the Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana district. It was St. Louis pastimers’ second - game of the day. They defeated Richmond, Ind. in a morning game to gain’ the finals, 14 to 1. The St. Louis-Knoxville line score:

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Net League Matches

Riviera Club defeated Florsheim Shoes, 3 to 2, and Richman Clothes downed the North Side Merchants, 4 to. 1, in the only two matches played in the Indianapolis Amateur Tennis League yesterday. Week-

iend rains forced postponement of

all the rest.

Of Dumping Cincinnati

tragic to the Reds’ pennant cause.

the Reds moved out of St. Louis last night with their pennant drive slowed down to a walk, and all because the Reds’ pitchers persisted in tossing “home run balls” to the Cardinals. , By knocking the Reds off twice the Cards trimmed Cincinnati's lead to 62 games, and made it 12 victories in their last 13- games. The Cards are now in a spot to make a real pennant bid. Enos (Country) Slaughter slammed a homer off Lee Grissom with a mate on base in the opener and that was the pay ball. It wiped out a 2-1 Cincinnati lead and enabled Curt Davis to carry on to his 16th victory, 4-2, before an overflow throng of 40,000. Pitcher Slams One But the home run fireworks didn’t really break out until the nighteap. Whitey Moore was breezing along behind a 3-0 lead in the seventh when Slaughter hit another one and Don Padgett hit one with two on to tie the score. Thén Morton Cooper, Cards’ rookie pitcher, hit a round tripper in the eighth to win his own game, 4-3. Dizzy Dean, making his first start since Aug. 1, pitched the Cubs to a 5-4 victory over the Pirates. He al-

weak start in which Paul Waner tripled and Chuck Xlein hit a homer The Giants slapped. down ‘the Phillies twice, 11-2 and 6-2. The Terrymen hit seven homers in the opener The Bees snapped a five-game losing streak by belting the Dodgers twice, 13-6 and 8-2. Ruffing, Feller in Race Two three-hit games featured ac-

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Red Pilot McKechnie Shudders at Thought - Of the Home Run Ball -

{ Cardinals in Spot to Make Pennant Challenge as Result

in Twin Bill; Slaughter

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 14—Don’t speak of home runs in the: presence of Deacon Bill McKechnie today unless you are prepared to suffer the consequences. McKechnie shuddered at the [thought of what the “home run ball” did to his Cincinnati Reds y

rday. It was downright

lowed 10 hits but steadied after a:

Red Ruffing of the Yanks and Bob

Feller of the Cleveland Indians cone tinuing their neck and neck race for pitching laurels. Each hung up No. 17 in stopping the opposition with three hits.

Ruffing’s victory was most ime - portant as he enabled the Yanks - to get back their six-game Ameri-

a couple of hours. After losing the first game, 12-9, to the Athletics, the world champs ran amuck in the nightcap to tie the modern record. for a lopsided shutout with a 21-0 triumph. The Red Sox trimmed the Yanks’ lead to five games by extending their winning -streak to seven straight when they beat Washington, 9-1, in the opening end of a twin bill. But they dropped the nighcap, 6-3. Feller mowed down the White Sox, ° 2-0, and fanned 11 men to run his , strikeout total to 173. He fanned - nine men in the first four frames. Thornton Lee stopped Cleveland in the nightcap, 3-0, allowing only i hits.

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