Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1939 — Page 6

" This is the way the Cincinnati Red Stockings traveled in the pre-Pullman days, and a little investiZatin would prove that the actors behind the false whiskers are members of the P. R. Mallory team.

By Eddie Ash

CUBS AND SOX NECK AND NECK BUT IN DIFFERENT FLAG RACES

T this late stage of a big league season it probably never happened before, not often, at any rate . . . that coincidence in the major standings showing the ‘two Chicago teams with a similar record. : The Cubs have won 65 and lost 53 in the National, the White Sox have the same record in the American. . .. And both are holding down third place in their respective circuits. The difference, of course, is in “games behind the leaders” . . . and the Sox happen: to be in the same loop with the Yankees. . . . Enough said. Don’t. look, now, but the Cubs refuse to be counted out and still entertain hopes of slipping by the Cards and

Reds. . . . They have won 11 out of their last 15 and are within 2% games of St. Louis. . . . That would be something . . . for Gabby Hartnett to come through after being subjected to a load of ridicule and placed in the managerial doghouse. The Bruins have four games to play with the Reds and nine with the Cardinals. . . . They have won eight and lost 10 in skirmishes with the league leaders and yon seven and lost six in battles with the Gas Bousers. | ; j # | 2 8 = Dodgers Losd In Home Attendance ROOKLYN’S Dodgers are the only team in the National League leading the Cincinnati Redlegs in home attendance. .. . In 60 home tilts the Flatbushers’ gate shows 830,031 paying customers. . . . Freshman Manager Durocher is doing all right, what with his club in fourth place and the bex office stacked with velvet. The Dodgers blame Lonnie Frey, Reds’ second sacker, for crippling their mound staff. . . . They allege Frey deliberately tripped the pitcher in a game at Cincinnati two months ago and knocked his knee out of commission for an indefinite period. Wyatt still is on the shelf. His record was eight won and three lost before the injury compelled him to remain idle. » = #® # 8 &®

* z= of the Milwaukee Brewers say there is nothing to repeated rumors that Ray Schalk will manage the Milwaukee club next season. . Schalk vies with Al Simmons for the distinction of being the Cream city’ s most illustrious home grown ball player. The Cracker still has many friends and hero worshippers in Milwaukee, where

he played a year before going to the White Sox, A 5, 1912, remain for We hoz 6 years. ae : »

Ruffing Sets ‘Goal at 25

WN Jia 19 Jiotoslss Ruming is the first Yankee pitcher in five yours come e last week of August with so resplendent a BSc. In i Letty Somes at this stage had padded the 20 mark. was the year oof won 26, a season he is in effectiveness again. i This year Gomez is moving at half h and g is 1934 speed, with 11 won That Ruffiing will top his own mark of 21 victories, set last year, . Is a certainty. . . . He'd like to wind up with 25 and has asked Manager McCarthy to work him regularly every fourth 995, = 2 2 8 #

J= DEMPSEY disapproved of the many f rs called on apparently light punches by Henry Armstrong h his bout with Lou Ambers the other night. “Every fighter wears a protective belt now, I understand,” Jack said. “How can there be fouls if a fighter can’t be hurt? I think they should ignore easy taps below the waist. Boxing isn’t a sissy’s game. “In the old days we had no belts like that. If a f you just fouled back.” Sliow Jovisd. you, Promoter Mike Jacobs of New York railed at skeptics who had hinted that Ambers’ triumph over Armstrong was framed in order to ballyhoo a return match in Madison Square Garden on Nov. 1. “They never have put over a phoney fight on me and they never will,” he asserted. “If there is the slightest reason to guess that a fight . is a fake, I'd be the first one to know about it. I'd hold up purses until I was completely satisfied. This is my business and I'll protect its reputation.”

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Baseball at a Glance

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Local Nines Step Out in

Cavalcade Staged in Grand

Style; Whiskers Adorn Baseball Actors.

By TOM OCHILTREE When a short stop picks up his left shoe instead of the ball and lets a grounder go through him, whistles of surprise are mingled with moans from the stands, but such an incident 100 years ago apparently would have attracted only mild interest. For if the script used for the Cavalcade of Baseball, being presented tonight in Perry Stadium, is sticking within chipping distance of the truth, it was nothing for a base runner in 1839 to go from first to second via left field or even center field. They called it “town ball” in those days. For one thing; beaning a runner with the ball was an accepted practice, but they wouldn’t let the fans bring any rope to the park, for the idea of doing a little hanging probably would come quickly to the more ardent, Brooklyn-type of rooters. Catchers Were ‘Isolated’ Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday, the father of the modern game, straightened the boys out on some of these points, but even after his time it apparently took years to overcome the timidity of catchers. Without the paraphenalia which gives the modern receiver something of the appearance of a Greek warrior, the old-time catcher stood from about 10 to 20 feet back of the plate. This must have made things sort of lonesome for the pitchers, but there wasn’t much prestige in that job either, since the score in a good tight game usually read something like 35 to 29. These facts were gleaned last night at the opening performance of the Cavalcade, which is put on in grand style with 1200 performers, bushels of false whiskers, both black and hay colored; some coaches and horses, a high-wheeled bicycle, band music, fireworks and a charming queen.

Coronation Ceremonies The queen is Miss Betty Jean Bowers, Tech sophomore, and Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker presided over her coronation ceremonies. Sponsored by the Forty and Eight Voiture 145, American Legion, the festivities are designed to commemorate the 100th birthday of baseball. Four amateur teams competed in two games. The opener, between Link Belt and Union Printers, resulted in a 4-to-4 deadlock at the end of the sixth inning when it was called to permit the show to go on. These two teams were to meet at Riverside diamond this afternoon to decide the issue, and the winner will play the Hosiery Union team for the special Indianapolis Baseball Centennial Trophy tonight. The Hosiery Union squad gained a 4-to-1 victory over the Adjax Beer team last night to qualify as one of the contenders for the title. Opening feature on tonight’s pro(Continued on Page Seven)

Old Regalia

What the well-dressed pitcher

wore 100 years ago. This role is

portrayed with feeling by Dick Eberly,

Lieut. ‘Gov. Henry F. Schricker presides over the coronation of Miss Betty Jean Bowers, Rg sophomore who will continue her reign tonight at Perry Stadium as Miss Baseball Queen,

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1939

Links Teams

Sub-Par Golf Features Play In Hagen Classic.

CHICAGO, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—Harold (Jug) McSpaden and Ralph Guldahl, victors in the last two major Open golf championships, went ‘after the lead in Walter Hagen’s silver anniversary golf tournament today, meeting Denny Shute of Huntington, W. Va., and Ernie Harrison, the Arkansas "Traveler. Shute and Harrison, the hardluck team of the week, are exactly 10 points behind the field of 16 hand-picked professionals competing for $5400 in prizes in the fourday tournament held in honor of Hagen’s victory in the U. S. Open championship 25 years ago at the Midlothian Country Club. McSpaden, winner in the Canadian Open, and Guldahl, winner in Pittsburgh’s $10,000 Dapper Dan

place yesterday by defeating Ed Dudley and Billy Burke, one up, and routing Hagen and Gene Sarazen, five up. McSpaden’s 66, nine under par, and a 68, led the way into a 54-hole margin of five up on the field. Tied for first was the team of Paul Runyan, White Plains, N. Y,, and Horton Smith, Oak Park, Ill.

Newark Grappler To Make Bow Here

A young Newark grappler, Joe Millich, makes his first appearance on the Sports Arena wrestling. program next Tuesday night and steps into a real test, for he is matched with Dorve (Iron Man) Roche, experienced 222-pound Illinois performer. Millich weighs 215. Four instead of the customary three tussels will be staged. Hans Kampfer, 236, skilled German who has won his four local bouts, tries for another victory in the main evenit when he takes on the 284-pound Chief Sanooke, North Carolina Indian. Sanooke is better than six feet tall and totes a lot ‘of power. Fans who have been waiting for a Danial Boone Savage-Popeye

windup of one fall, or one hour. Swenson, weighing 236, is from Minnesota, while Savage, sporting a heavy crop of whiskers, is listed as a Kentucky hillbilly grappler. He scales 241.

Gridders To Drill

Holy Cross Crusaders football, team,

ers and C. Y. O. members wishing

tryouts are requested to attend.

Martha Pich is expected to be one of the serious contenders in the City swimming championships today and tomorrow at the Garfield Park pool. She will com“pete in the free style, backstroke and breaststroke events. Her ‘home pool is Willard.

Ready to Kick Up a Few Waves |

In Deadlock

Open, stepped into a tie for first].

Swenson match get their wish when |H the pair meets’ in a special semi-|Moor

playing in the 150-pound |Eofe class, will practice tomorrow at Wil=| wri lard Park, 4. p. m. Last year’s play- s

Hawaii Swim “Team Annexes

Lead in Meet

DETROIT, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—Top-}

ranking swimmers of the United States battled today against the onslaught of a determined little band of Hawaiians who threatened to take major honors of the National A. A. U. outdoor meet home to Honolulu. As the meet entered its third day, five bronzed swimmers representing the Alexander = Community House Association of Maui, Hawaii, held team honors with 12 points and threatened to add heavily to their total in today’s freestyle events, the 830-yard relay and the 440-yard individual event. Kiyoshi Nakama, the diminutive Hawaiian, won the 220-yard freestyle last night.

Ritchie Takes ‘Grand’ Title

VANDALIA, O. Aug. 28 (U. P). —Dwight L. Ritchie, southpaw marksman from Goshen, O., today held the Grand American trapshooting handicap championship after winning one of the most thrilling shoot-offs in/the 40-year history of the tourney.

The 48-year-old merchant yesterday snatched victory from George A. Wagner, a factory worker from Dayton, O., after both had tied with 99x100 targets. In the shoot-off, Ritchie, firing from 22 yards, missed his first, eighth and ninth clay pigeons, and it looked like a breeze for Wagner. But Wagner, shooting from 23 yards, missed No. 14, 17 18 and 19, while Ritchie smashed his last 16 straight for 22x25 to his opponets 21x25. Blazing away from 17 yards, Mrs. H. B. Rader, Jeffersonville, O., wen. the women’s title with 93x100. s

Indians

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Play 4 Tames in in 5 Days; Lang Stops Millers.

Times Special ST. PAUL, Aug. 26.—After nosing out Minneapolis, 5 to 4, last night, the Indianapolis Indians moved across the river to play two games with the Saints today and another double-header tomorrow. These four tilts will wind up this season’s hostilities between the Indianapolis and St. Paul teams, and they are expected to tax the pitch-

ing staffs of both clubs. It was Don Lang’s power at the

the downfall of Minneapolis. In the fourth inning he accounted for two runs when he slammed out a home run with a mate on the paths, and it was Lang’s double in the ninth which drove across the winning run. Don was credited with four hits out of five trips .to the plate, and played faultless ball in the field. Elon ‘Hogsett, usually effective against the Indians, was knocked out in the final inning to be charged with the defeat and Herb Hash relieved him. The Indians and Millers finished exactly even in their season’s .clashes, with 11 victories each. Charles (Red) Barrett, the starting Indianapolis pitcher, also failed to last the distance. He was driven from the hill in the eighth when the Millers touched off a two-run rally to break a two-all deadlock. Jim Sharp, who succeeded him, pitched tight relief ball and was credited with the victory.

Enters New Car In Speed Races

Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind, Aug. 26— Charlie Szekendy, Svuth Bend, is. to drive a new car with a Crager motor in the Bartholomew County Fair Grounds dirt track auto racing program here tomorrow.

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, Winner of the last Midwest Dirt Track Racing Association meet here July 30, Szekendy is said to have a faster car this time, and he is one of the favorites to take the event. «Other drivers entered, all of whom are among the leaders in the Association’s point standing, are: Chick « Smith, Frankfort, Ky.; Les Duncan, Indianapolis, and Paul Miller, Cutler, Ind. Bill Rogers and Chuck Gray will drive twin cars from Lexington, Ky. Also entered is Don Mack, Chicago, who will be making his first appearance on the Columbus track.

Pate to Name Davis ° Cup Team Tomorrow

HAVERFORD, Pa. Aug. 26 (U. P.)—The United States Davis Cup team, which will defend the International Tennis Trophy in the challenge round here next week-end, will be named tomorrow at the

its | Merion Cricket Club, Capt. Walter

Pate announced today. “The cup committee leans toward

nis experts believed this indicated

Joe Hunt and Gene Mako teamed

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that Bobby Riggs and Frankie| alls| parker would play the singles with

stretch with a 10% game lead.

meled ‘the Browns, ‘11-0 ‘and 8-2. The Red Sox suffered a 9-2 reverse from the White Sox. With Steve Sundra, the American League's only unbeaten hurler, letiting the Browns down with four hits, the Yanks coasted to victory in ‘the opener. It was Sundra’s eighth straight triumph. Joe Gordon blasted out two homers, Nos. 22 and 23. Lefty Gomez turned in a three-hit job to chalk up victory No. 11 and stretch the Yankee winning streak to seven straight . in the nightcap. A seven-run outburst in the eighth off Emerson Dickman en-

abled the White Sox to route the Red Sox. Lefty Grove started for the Red Sox but was taken out for a pinch hitter in the seventh. Dick-man-was charged with the loss.

Eric McNair had a perfect day, getting “5 for 5.” Jimmy Foxx

(homer No. 34) and Joe Vosmik plate which ultimately resulted in| hit for the circmit to score Boston's

two runs. Buck Newsom let Washington down with four hits as he pitched

Little Hope for Red Sox | As Yanks Stretch Lead

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—The last, lingering hope of the Boston Red Sox to upset baseball dope and dethrone the New York Yankees virtually faded away today as the Bronx Bombers headed into the

The Yanks gained a game and a half yesterday when they pum-

the Tigers to a 5-2 triumph. It was Newsom’s 15th ‘victory. Earl

‘Averill,’ with ‘two ‘doubles and a

single, led the Detroit attack. Cleveland won its fourth straight by downing the Athletics, 6-0, behind Harry Eisentat’s six-hit pitching. Hal Trosky clouted ‘homer No. 20 with one on. All National League clubs were idle yesterday.

Canadian Ice Hockey Ace Is Swim Victim

‘ST. JOSEPH, Ontario, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—A search was organized today to recover the body of Aulbert (Babe) Siebert, star defense man of the Montreai Canadiens hockey team, who drowned while swimming

in Lake Huron late yesterday. The 35-year-old athlete recently was appointed coach of the Canadiens for next season. -

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