Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1939 — Page 18
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' HE ISN'T THE SAME PIE OF OLD PIRATES HAVE GOT HIM DOWN
PIE TRAYNOR, who has many friends and admirers in
Hoosierland is one of baseball's chief sufferers in eat. . . . Once the No. 1 third sacker in the game, he has had more than his share of bad breaks as a manager
the Pirates.
As Ray Schalk, Indianapolis’ ex-manager, said,
Si ‘managing a ball team drives you crazy but you go ~ back for more because the game is in
right your blood and the
appeal is too strong to forget it.” :
- Les Biederman, writing in the Pittsburgh Press, pens
| a sad picture { follows:
. of the distressed Traynor, in part, as
| = "The Pirates slowly but surely are making an old man out of Pie Traynor. The fellow who had that bright
look in his eyes and weighed the greatest third-base in the years ago, today is haggard,
180 pounds when he played | National League just a few worn, gray-haired and has
lost weight in such an alarming manner that his baseball uniform clings to him only because his hip bones act as a safety catch to the trousers. |
race the feelings of a manager, g
0 .into slumps,
. or mentally,
of losing last year’s to remedy the situation.
~ Just One of Those Things
Pirates simply aren't
who sees his star sluggers
his fielders slow down to a wa. _ of the pitchers unable to cope with the situation, Be Sn Saves) Y and you have the dejected picture of | “The team is licked, never has fully recovered from the shock pennant, and there isn’t much Traynor can do
either physically Traynor today.
playing the baseball of which they are
: = > capable. It would be a mis-statement to say that the boys aren't ‘butting out, because they all love to win and they could a all the extra money that comes to'a team finishing in the first division. Mace Brown blames himself for the mental lapse the other night In Cincinnati when he picked up a tap by Hershberger and tried to
head off McCormick, while
: the latter actually was already on the bag. Brownie wound up throwing ly y- standing
the ball into center field
and then blew sky-high. He hasn't -any alibis, but it was Just
Jone of those things. 3 » 2
“MANAGER TRAYNOR and his two coaches, Johnnie Gooch, walked the four miles from
Jewel Ens and the Reds’ park to
the Sinton Hotel in Cincinnati after that hectic game Monday
night and not a word was said.
“‘That was a tough night for me to slee ,'- Traynor wake up in the middle of the night and rg aly.
smoke a cigaret and then try to go
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‘Id turn on th | back to sleep.’ ” s light,
Tq = five Reds who signed, for a vaudeville tour may be in for
an unpleasant surprise,
even if Cincinnati does win the pennant.
In 1933 an ambitious agent signed up Hubbell, Schumacher, Fitz-
simmons and Parmelee,
guaranteeing them each $1000 And then found that nobody wanted the act. © > "ook
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Usually when Jack Ogden, former business manager of the Orloles,
praised a pitcher it was a sign Giants, as was the case with and Wittig. Ogden, however, recently came
without any commercial taint when he to be the best pitcher in baseball today.
Baseball at a
he was getting ready Gumbert, Melton, Lohrman, Vandenberg
to sell him to the
out with a blurb for a pitcher
declared he believed Bob Feller
Glance
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Hot Dogs and
To Clash a
Frankfort. High School's State championship basketball team will continue a summer tour in what,
“up until now, has been classed as a-
winter game, when it meets a picked squad of all-stars at 8:30 tonight in the Butler Fieldhouse. Following this game Everett Case and his Hot Dogs are to move on.to
: . Hammond to play another group of
all-star seniors next Friday. They will play a third contest of this type at Ft. Wayne, Aug. 30. ‘+ Coaches for thé All-Stars are Tom Downey, Rossville, and Doyle (Buck) Plunkitt,. Southport. Members of this squad were selected through vote of the fans with George Crowe,
der, Curlee, Fisher and Ticachek.
All-Stars t Fieldhouse
giant Negro center from Franklin, leading the list. | Other members of the All-Stars, listed according to the votes they received, are George Fields, Mooresville; Don Frazier, Greencastle; Oscar Goodwin, Bloomington: |Fred Krampe, Shortridge; Roger Bundy, Salem; Wayne Payton, Spencer; Georges Taylor, Greencastle; Johnny Williams, Southport, and Howard Mitchell, Crispus Attucks. | The Hot Dogs already have played two other all-star tilts. Regulars to appear in the Frankfort lineup are Charlie Johnson, Lewis Cook, Billy Joe Wetzel, Ernie McGill, Harold Pyle and Loren Brower. :
AMATEURS
Fairfax Merchants want a game for Sunday with a local nine. Write Bud Kaesel, 516 Somerset Ave, : SOFTBALL Em-Roe Independent League results at Stout Stadium last night: * Blasengym, 8; Hoosier Pals, 1. % 4 %. Ai Sa 2; Beanblossoms, 'O. _ Games to be played at. Forest Park, Noblesville, tomorrow:
100" Sheridan. 3 ees “Gas and OL vs. NoblesAn-
a Merchants. 5 2 Ie 00—Davis Dairy plantmen vs. drivers
x Beer vs. Davis Dalry,
o ). gh B. wil play the Goodwill
Buddies at Belmont Stadium at 8:30 p. m. Sunday for the WPA ent championship. C. F. B. rday defeated the Brookside at Willard Park, 6 to 0.
~ © Members and first-year bowlers are urged to attend a meeting of 2 = * Night Ladies’ League at
Alleys today at 6 p.m.
{36 Teams Survive
In Softball Play
Thirty-six teams. remaining in the
‘|Indianz Recreation Association’s
state softball play will battle this week-end in 10 regional centers. Semifinal tournaments are scheduled for next week. : In the local regional at Softball Stadium, WIRE, Marion County champions, will meet the Rushville A. B. C's in the opening game at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow. At 2p. m. Sunday the Shelbyville Merchants will play Kitchen Steel of Connersville and at 3 p. m. the WIRERushville winner will take on Plainfield Merchants. The final game is scheduled for 8:30 p. m. Sunday.
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SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—Pipe-smoking Jug McSpaden paced the parade today as the field teed off in the second round of the Canadian Open golf championship. The Winchester, Mass., pro played around 18 holes of the Riverside links in three under par 67 yesterday to set a new tournament record for the course and take a two-stroke lead over the 82-man field. Former U. S. Open champion Ralph Guldahl was tied with Ted Bishop, Boston ama-" teur, and Arthur Hulbert, Toronto pro, at 69.
Douglas Theater Cops Softball Title
Douglas Theater today held the city championship of the Softball Association of America. The Theater
; team © bested Schwitzer-Cummins
Stokols in the tourney’s final game
‘at Belmont Stadium last night, 2-1.
A crowd of 1200 attended the conLeRoy Davis turned in a one-hit game to give the Theater team its victory, but a streak of wildness deprived him of a shutout. He gave the Stokols an early lead when he walked four men in the third to force in a run. The winners came back in the fourth to score two runs and a victory. Davis walked to open the inning and went to second as Whitfield struck out. Bridwell’s single plated Davis to tie the score. After two were out, Bridwell advanced to second on a passed ball. Beck grounded to third on a hit-and-run play, Bridwell scoring when the throw to first was too late to catch Beck. : The sportsmanship medal, awarded by the Softball Association of America, was won by Charley Gunn, Duke & Shaw pitcher. In a consolation game, Duke & Shaw defeated Ermet, 6-4. The two teams were eliminated in the semifinals of the tournament.
Series to Be Aired By Mutual System
CHICAGO, Aug. 18 (U. P.)—Officials of the Mutual Broadcasting Co. have announced signing of the first contract providing for the exclusive play-by-play broadcast of the 1939 World Series games. Mutual officials said the Gillette Safety Razor Co. of Boston paid $100,000 ‘ for the exclusive rights, and that they had an option on the 1940. World . Series broadcast. The money will go into the regular World Series money pool of which the major portion is distributed. to players in the National and American Leagues. on : Officials said the system will
work.
DETROIT, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—Alvin Everett, 30-year-old Rome, Ga., salesman, who is naturally righthanded, held the National Lefthanders golf championship today. Everett defeated Bill Smith of Platteville, Wis, an ambidextrous former basketball star, 4 and 3, in the 36-hole finals of the tournament over the Birmingham Country Club course.
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Bows Out
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\Plays Finale With Redskins
‘Tonight; Barrett Barely Misses No-Hitter.
It will be farewell to the Saints in the series finale at Perry Stadium
i|tonight and tomorrow the Indian-
apolis fans will look over the
k | Kansas City league leaders as they, P| too, open their last 1939 visit at the + 4 Tribe park.
The Tribe-Blue series calls for a Saturday night tilt and a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon. Long John Wilson probably will
{Ibe sent out to oppose the Apostles
tonight in the “ladies’ attraction” and it will be Don French’s mound
tl turn again tomorrow.
Charles (Red) Barrett dished out nine goose eggs to the Saints last ‘night and all but pitched a no-hit-terras the Redskins won, 5 to 0. It
i= | was his 13th victory against 11 de-
feats. . The young righthander got a bad
i{break on a ball hit by the Saints’ jl Rufus Jackson in the second inning. After two down the visitors’
catcher rolled one toward right field and Jimmy Adair, second sacker, moved over to pick it up. However, he was a bit slow reaching the proper spot and the sphere escaped his glove.
A Scratch Single
handled with’ ease by Jimmy, but
it dribbled beyond him for a scratch single: Barret struck out five and issued one pass. He retired the side in order in seven of the nine rounds and had the Saints swinging under the ball for easy fly outs. Red opened the fracas by whiffing
free ticket. Fleming. That one walk and Jackson’s “bleeder” hit represented the Saints’ left on bases—just two—and neither saw second. : - Hunt pulled down a long drive by Anton in the second frame after a run to the left field wall. That ball was well. hit and so was Fleming's deep blast to Milton Galatzer in the fourth. Myron McCormick : also went deep for Fleming’s ball in the seventh, otherwise Barrett had the Apostles eating out of his glove.
Baker Gets 4 Blows
The Indian tallied in the first stanza’ ‘on. ‘McCormick’s single, Hunt's single and an outfield error. Lefty Lloyd Brown pitched a fancy brand of ball for St. Paul and the Redskins didn’t score again until the sixth on-a walk, infield out and Bill Baker's single. 3 Baker was the ‘batting fool” of the game with four straight hits, including a double, and two runs batted in. He has foungd a safe spot in his last six times up and has garnered eight blows in his last nine times at bat. The Indians got to Brown for a third marker in the seventh on a walk, a passed ball and Galatzer’s double. In the eighth they got going again for two runs on a walk, a fielder’s choice, a single and a sacrifice fly. : In games between the clubs this season the Saints have won 10, the Indians eight.
Johnny Riddle Fined
—Caftcher Johnny Riddle of Kansas City was fined $10 today for using “abusive language” to Umpire Jocko Conlan in Wednesday night's game between Kansas City and Columbus. The penalty was assessed by George M. Trautman, American Association president.
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: Just Misses
Red Barrett of the Indians came close to hurling a dream game last night when he set St. Paul down with a lone hit.
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Campbell Hits 13¢ In Speedboat Run
LONDON, Aug. 18 (U. P.) —8ir Malcolm Campbell covered a measured: mile at the officially attested speed of 134 miles an hour today in his new 1800-horsepower speedboat Bluebird II. : Campbell exceeded his own record of 129.5 miles an hour, but he made the run only in one direction as a test because of trouble in the boat’s cooling system, so did not make the return run necessary for an official record.
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Play Begins
: | predicted today tiiat a record field
| tournament to be held over the sce--|nic Beechwood course here tomor|\row and Sunday.
‘led Wednesday and is expected to |reach its peak this afternoon. The {record field in the quarter-century | history of this event was enrolled :|at Erskine course, South Bend, in {1937 when 129 players competed. |Herman Uebele, Beechwood . pro, hopes there will be 150 here.
s—Off |South Grove; | Tommy Vaughn,
ters here, and Tom Walsh, national 338| P, G. A. secretary, has been invited 3301 to speak.
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%|P.).—Ed Rack of McKeesport, Pa.,
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Tomorrow
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Linksmen Tune Up for Meet|
In Todays Pro-Amateur - ‘Tournament
Times Special ; LA PORTE, Ind. Aug. 18—With golfers flocking to this links mecca from all corners of the State, it was
might start in the Indiana Open
The influx of players really start-
_ As a tuneup for the tournament, the players now on hand were competing today in a pro-amateur event. The Open itself is to be for 36 holes of medal play tomorrow and a like distance on Sunday.
Champ and Runnerup
Defending champion is Bob Hamilton, Evansville pro, who. defeated Bill Heinlein; Noblesville pro, in the playoff at the end of the 1938 tournament at Syracuse, Ind. Both of these men will be in the field again this year, and oddly enough, of the two, Heinlein is regarded as the greatér- threat. In six years of competition in the Open, Heinlein has won- twice, placed second three times and fourth once. Henry Kowal, new State Amateur titleholder, and John David, Indiana Intercollegiate king, both of whom are from Indianapolis, are among the highly regarded amateurs entered. Others are Jim Scott, New Albany, former State Amateur king; Dale Morey, State junior champion, and Mike Stefanchik, Gary, who was the second high amateur in the Western Open.
From Capital City
Indianapolis has sent a strong professional group including Chuck Garringer, Speedway; Al Collins, Highland; Russell Stonehouse,
Pleasant Run; Bobby Dale, Willowbrook; Roy Smith, Hillcrest, State P. G. A. secretary, and George Start, Woodstock. Bob Tinder, Fortville pro, also is entered. Following tomorrow’s play a P. G. A. dinner will be held in the Hotel Rumely, tournament headquar-
Crown on Block
Holy Cross and Cathedral will meet at 9 o'clock tonight at Softball Stadium in the city championship game of the Catholic Youth Organization. Winners in eir respective leagues this season, [these two teams) have each won two previous championships. C. 'Y. O. officials predicted the largest softball crowd in the - history of the city would be present. The teams will be competing for a 16-inch Knights of Columbus trophy. The runners-up in both
leagues, St. Philip’s and St. John’s, ||
will meet in a preliminary game to the championship tilt.
2 Local Printers Finish in First 10
COVINGTON, Ky. Aug. 18 (U.
today held the International Printcraft Golf Association championship
carded a 75 on the final 18 holes yesterday for a T2-hole total of 301. Among the first 10 were two In-
dianapolis golfers, Harold Erner with 332 and Phil Allio with 335.
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Big amateur threat in the State Open golf tomorrow over the Beechwood Course, La Porte, is Henry Kowal, Indi. anapolis, who won the Indiana amateur crown recently at Anderson, In the history of the tournament only one amateur, Terre Haute, ever has won the title.
tourn:
ent which opens
Johnny Simpson,
The fifth annual Shakamak State Park swimming and diving championships to be held tomorrow and Sunday have attracted entries from
all sections of Indiana and from five
other States. Sponsored by the State Conservation Department and the Jasonville Industrial Bureau, this event is supervised by the Amateur Athletic Union and staged under its regulations. : | The State Park pool, where - the championships are decided, is located near Jasonville, and the program regularly draws a crowd of several thousand spectators. Trial heats for the championship events are to be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow and Sunday with the finals starting at 2 p. m. the same days. Among the entries announced were those of teams from the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Hoosier Athletic Club and the Rivera Club.
Splashers From 6 To Compete at Shakamak’
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Miss Barbara Cook, I. A. C. star, will defend her title in the women’s three-meter diving event. Miss La« Verne Herber, Fort Wayne, runner
up in this event last year,.1s again
to compete.
* Miss: Ann Har h and Miss Mary
Ryan again will head-the Lakeside | Athletic Club team from Louisville,
Ky., high-point winner at the 1938 meet when Miss Hardin scored 35% points for individual honors “and
Miss Ryan scored 22% points for |
second place. | RE ‘Al Rust, Indianapolis Athletic Club, who set anew record for the 100-meter free style event in 1938, is among the entries for the 1939 meet :
Atheltic Club, 1938 winner in the boys’ open 50-meter free-style, and Stanley Alcorn, Bloomington, Ill. Country Club, winner in the men’s 100-meter free-style event, also are entered. |
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