Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1939 — Page 17
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Extra Racing on Fair Grounds Oval Promised Harness Fans
By TOM OCHILTREE stretch rail banked three deep with heat started. The horses finally were #
lower and dancing girls off to)day here. Some of the promoters off 50 minutes behind schedule due _
The icing on the cake this after- Spectators was expected. nogn for Hoosier harness horse fans| As a mattc. of fact, if the horses —and it turns out there is a sur-|troubled their pretty heads about priéingly large number of them— |such things, they would be quite wa§ the $2500 Hal Dale Stake in| flattered about the size of the Which 10 pacers were scheduled to! crowds their charms thus far have compete over tle State Fair grounds | attracted. The horsemen of the track. | Grand Circuit are in a state borderWith a program that included not |ing on acute enthusiasm about the only this feature but also the $1500 Whole thing. L. 8. Ayres Co. trot and two events| The faithful are to be rewarded with $1000 purses, the Free-for-All|for all this too. On Sept. 19, after Page and the Commissioner of Agri-| they have shipped the last fat pig, custure Stake for 3-year-old trotters,
a “full grandstand and a homelstands and carted the sword swal-
torn down almost all the lunch|
another metropolis, they are going to hold a special racing program on the track here. All the details haven't been entirely completed, but it is certain that the champion stallion stakes for 3-year-old trotters and pacers are to be held. Peter Astra, this year’s Hambletonian winner, is scheduled to go in the trotting division for which 23 colts are eligible. Purse for the trotters is $7000 and for the pacers $1600. In addition, Dean Hanover, whose present record is 1:58!4, is expected to be sent against time in
swamped in the running race venture were scheduled to back a Grand Circuit meeting in that city|P after the Indiana Fair. Since the two stallion stakes have to be run, it was felt the best place they could be held was Indianapolis where
to their own misbehavior and a
arade of high’ school bands that
lasted longer than expected.
Lonesdale All Alone The field hit the quarter post in
draw a crowd.
The Countess Acts Up
there is every indication they will
The program here yesterday produced the kind of close finishes [in several events that keep the crowd screaming as those babies hustled down the stretch for home.
30 seconds, and the half in 1:01. They were all well bunched at the three quarters but Lonesdale, who was off to a bad start and was acting about as enthusiastic as the kind you ride on a merry-go-round. It was William Cash and Ann
son of Cold Cash-Eva Potempkin, showed the stuff he was made of.
Vonian in the stretch.. Then the T°
William Cash, a sweet stepping black colt that was something of an outsider, captured the centerpiece of the program, the Fox Stake for 2-year-old pacers, in two straight heats. This is the country’s major event for this gait and this time
an attempt to break the world's stallion trotting mark. The present mark of 1:58'4 was established in 1916 by Lee Axworthy.
No Word About Greyhound
He matched the favorite Ann Vonian stride for stride and put on enough drive to cross the line a winner by half a length. Time for this heat was 2:04, fastest mark posted by a 2-year-old this year
By Eddie Ash
EXPECTS GABBY TO RETAIN JOB STILL AN ASSET, SCRIBE SAYS
J) ISCUSSING the possibilities of Gabby Hartnett’s reappointment as manager of the Cubs for 1940, John P. Carmichael of the Chicago Daily News asserts that “on a gamble we'd have to string along with Gabby for another season if only because his position in the Cub scheme of things is unique.” Carmichael continues: “He is playing manager and while he perhaps can’t stand the strain of continuous serv
ice any more, he is by no means through as an active combatant,
“Even if he wasn’t a 10-year man and entitled to an
outright release, it would be unlikely that other clubs would waive on hin.
“Obviously, then, Hartnett is still an asset to the Cubs. Just as obviously the Bruin management can't very well demote him to the ranks again. It can be done, of course, but it is doubtful if Gabby would find such a position tenable. “So, if the Cubs want to hang on to him for a couple of more years, ‘they're almost bound to leave him stay as pilot. Just as an observation we'd say that Gabby is sitting fairly pretty.
No Other Club Than the Cubs
“I\OR Hartnett there has been no other club in baseball than the Cubs. It is a good bet that for him there'd be no other club. He'd feel sort of lost wearing any uniform other than the one he has sported for nigh’ onto 18 years. “Besides, there's the little matter of Hartnett’s record to date. After all he has been manager a little over a year and has won one pennant and is not yet counted out of another race. \ “If there is a flaw in Gabby's generalship, it might be tabbed in those moments when the big guy is not behind that plate. “Gabby can’t play forever. Nobody has as yet. But unless the Cubs figure they can afford to let him g0 NOW as a player, how can they drop him as manager?”
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Fr the American Association post-season playoff, the winners receive $4000 and the runnersup $2000. . . . This is in addition to $4000 for the winner in the regular race and $2000 to the second-place club. St. Paul and Louisville are engaged in a “war of nerves” fourth place, tue last position eligible for playoff competition. Should St. Paul win and meet Minneapolis in the first round of the playoff, the scheduled seven-game series probably would alternate eqch day as has been the custom when the Twin City rivals meet, with the first game in Minneapolis.
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Hash and Kash Are Moundmates
3 and Kash are members of the Minneapolis mound staff. . . « And the Millers sold Hash to the Boston Red Sox for plenty of cash... . It’s been a profitable season for the Millers both at the gdte and in the sale of players. ... And under a freshman manager, too Tom Sheehan probably will receive a fat increase in salary next year. . . . He brought the club from sixth to second in his first year. . Bill Meyer is set for 1940 at Kansas City and Babe Ganzel at St. Paul. . . . Indianapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee, Columbus and Toledo hve yet to comte out with definite statements regarding their next year's pilots Indianapolis fan sentiment favors Wes Griffin who did a good jab after stepping into Ray Schalk’s shoes. . . . “Big name” managers ddn’t pull an extra dime at the gate in the American Association.
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NLESS the Cincinnati Reds get away from the strain of playing extra inning games they'll be so used up by World Series time (if they make it) that the Yankees will have the bulge in physical condition. . . . For the past three years National League winners have been dog tired at the end of the trail while the Yankees have coasted. , It is said the Chicago Cubs are waiting for the perfection of a baseball lighting system that will shove all other plants out of the picture. . . . It's a cinch the Cubs are not going to stand by and watch the White Sox collect all that night sugar in the Windy City. It’s a safe guess that Wrigley Field will be “illuminated” for night ball by next July.
Grid Star Back in Harness
OUTHERN CALIFORNIA probably will be tougher than ever on the gridiron this fall. . . . Ambrose Schindler, hard-driving back who missed the 1938 season because of a Knee operation, is reported all set to return to football warfare. . Amby’s injured leg is pronounced fully mended and the triplethreat star, at 23, is expected to pace the 1939 Trojans. ... In 1937 he tallied nine touchdowns and also was one of the Coast's leading ground gainers with 599 yards in 134 tries. , Southern California's Rose Bowl winners come East this year to nteet Notre Dame on Nov. 25. ... The Trojans, without Schindler, finished like champions a year ago and Coach Howard Jones’ new squad is stocked with experienced talent.
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Baseball at a Glance
AMERICAN ASSOCTATION AMERICAN ASSOCAITION Roansas City Ww. L Pet. (First game, 7 innings by agreement) Minneapolis A . hiSt. Paul .... coviiiinn 203 000 0— 5 8 0 INDIANAPOLIS B¢ > Milwaukee .. .. . 000 010 0— 1 2 1 Ste Paul oocionee. 32 33 N00 29 | Louisville Milwalkes Io lumbus 8¢ .39¢ 21% | Solum! 2 371% | St. Paul 001 401 200— 8 12 © - | Milwaukee 101 250 00x— 9 16 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Himsl, Phelps, Reis and Silvestri; Marrow L. Pet. G.B./|and Hernandez. 48 613 |
54 568 39 346 59 A524 60 520 67 464 A444 .320
(Second Game)
515 | Minneapolis ......... 030 000 102— 6 9 0 8 Kansas City 000 200 300— 5 11 2 J1 | Hash and Lacy; Bonham, Makosky and 111% | Riddle, McCullough. 132 Lonisville ........... 220 010 010— 6 8 4 361, Toledo ... 0... 0. ©. 100 000 110— 3 § 1 | woison and Mad jeski: LEAGUE & ehie, I L. » Ge B.| 38 . 33
Brooklyn Pittsburgh 6 Philadelphi 8 > a = Phi ave'p McLaughlin and AMERICAN RT . AMERICAN LEAGUE 1515 | Washington 120 100 200—6 11 Chicago 15 ©! Philadelphia 000 010 002—3 9 hve uu G8 33 93 | Teonard and Ferrell; Beckman, Joyce, Detroit g BY 23 |Dean and Hayes. Washington 443 S45 — iladeiphia 16 d J . 8 4 8S}. Louis .
35 . . 001 000 01x—2 TT © xe Grove and Desautels: Gomez and Dickey, GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Detroit 000 200 600—2 5 Cleveland Hn 000 000-0 9 (Indianapolis at Toledo, night. 1 Louisville at Columbus, night.
McKain and York: Milnar and Hemsley. ‘Minneapolis at Kansas City,
'St. Paul at Milwaukee. . 200 " 8-1 3 3 ) LEAGUE
} NATIONAL Mills and
{ Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. ' St. Louis at Chicago. New York at Boston. ! Only games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston at New York, : { Washington at Philadelphia. Detroit at Cleveland. Chicago at St. Louis, two.
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night. Chicago
St. Louis Rigney and Tresh: Trotter, Harshany.
Major Leaders
BATTING AB . 380 458 461
. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE ’ - , (First Game. 11 Innings) Keller, Yankees .... 32% Sncinnatl 103 000 000 00—4 13 3 Arnovich, Phillies .. a1 " ttsburgh ........ 300 000 001 01—3 12 1] HOME RUNS Thompson, Niggeling, L. Moore, 31. John | Foxx. Red Sox . 3 Gordon, Jankees . 3 a and Hershberger, Lombardi; M. Brown, | niztageio, Yanks 26 Camilli, Dodgers . 24 . | Greenberg, Tigers 25 Williams, Red Sox 24
DiMaggio, Yankees Mize, Cardinals ... Foxx, Red Sox.....
Sewell, Swift and Susce, R. Mueller.
' (Second Game, 10 Innings) KUNS BATTED IN nemnati 011 010 000 1—4 13 0 W'ms, Red Sox .126 McCormick, Reds .103 tishurgh 011 100 060 0—3 14 0 DiMaggio, Yanks 118 Cronin, Red Sox.. 99 . Derringer and Lombardi; J. Bowman and | FOXX, Red Sox...105
ler. HITS % Muener ne Rolfe, Yankees . 184 Mize, Cardinals 000 001 020— 3 10 3 McCormick. Reds 168 Foxx, Red Sox . 304% 120 01x—11 13 2 McCosky, Tigers. 168
and Owen, Premer:;
| Red Raiders Raided
003 411 01010 16 0 . 0100000—13 9 3 FREEPORT, N. Y., Sept. 7 (U. Posedet, varniene P).—The Brooklyn Dodgers pro- | fessional football team scored their Philadelphia 000 000 001—1 8 1) second straight exhibition victory,
rookiyn 100 010 0Ox—2 § 0 14-0, over the F port Raid- — se Harrell and V. Davis; Hamlin ers last night. Red
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. Davis, Sunkel french and Mancuso. '
New York Boston ........ ! Gumbert and Danning: and Lopez.
There is some talk also of hitcin{ing a couple of pacers together i: {see if they can come up to the | world’s hitched trotting mark of |1:5814, set here Tuesday by Grey|hound and Rosalind. No announce{ment was made as to whether Greyhound, the big gelding that holds the world’s trotting record of 1:55%,
the purse was $11,980. As the officials tried to get the 10-horse field started, Hanover, one of the favorites, went into a sort of ballet dancing routine instead of her gait to the amusement of the 16,000 or more citizenry present.
attempts. mouth. The nosedive that a running race| Then Pine Ridge Alex lost a shoe, program took in Cleveland recently resulting in more delay. In all, it is responsible for this special race|took eight attempts to get the first
Countess
After she helped mess up
regardless of gait. The second heat was a repetition of the first, except that Ann Vonian seemed to know she was beaten when they hit the stretch. The time was 2:05%, Ann Vonian took second-place money; Brooklyn, third in both heats, took third place in the race,
would be sent out either alone or three starts the crowd began laugh- and fourth.place money was divided with Rosalind for record breaking ing out of the other side of its| between Martin Patch and Countess
Hanover, both of whom disappointed
|a lot of followers.
Walter Britenfield, Springfield, (Continued on Page 18)
Cousin Hal (left), ond heat of the Fox Stake. and the race,
Times Photo,
with Smart driving, leads William Cash as the field takes the east turn in the sece William Cash, with its co-owner, Walter Britenfield driving, won this heat
East’s Stars
Times Sports
Face Giants
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1939
PAGE 17
Nine Pitt Gridders to Be in Collegians’ Lineup.
Don to Go Up
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (U. P).— The New York Giants, world cham-|: pions of professional football, are 3-1 favorites to beat the Eastern
College All-Stars tonight in their “dream game” before 50,000 fans at the Polo Grounds. These long odds, quoted by Com- | : missioner Jack Doyle, were unex-! pected because the All-Stars are! rated the strongest collegiate outfit!" ever to tackle a professional team. | However, Doyle points out that the| Giants’ easy 9-0 victory over the Western All-Stars at Chicago last! week influenced the betting. | Tonight's contest is called the] “dream game” because it may vir-| tually answer that old gridiron ques- |
tion: “Can a first rate college eleven | beat a topflight pro team?”
This | question never has been answered | satisfactorily because of the impossi- | bility of getting any one college] team onto the field against professionals. This time, however, the collegians approach the one-school status bhecause nine of their starting eleven come straight from Pittsburgh's ex-| cellent 1938 varsity. In addition, the All-Stars are doubly blessed by having as their coach Jock Sutherland, who resigned as Pitt pilot after the "38 season. The only non-Pittsburgh starters will be Don Campbell, Carnegie Tech's great tackle at left, and Sid Luckman, Columbia's passing star at left half. The ex-Panthers will line up as follows: Fabian Hoffman and Bill Daddio at ends; Elmer | Times Special Merkovsky at right tackle; Steve| RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 7.— Petro and Al Leeson at guards; Bob | With 15 lettermen and a good crop Dannies at center; John Chickerneo of newcomers offering bright prosat quarter; Harold Stebbins at right pects for the season, candidates
half, and Marshall Goldberg at full. for the Earlham College football This Pitt nucleus and Sutherland | squad opened practice this aftercoaching is expected to provide more | noon. unity than was enjoyed by any pre-| coach J. Owen Huntsman conboys through limbering up exercises and asked the backfield playAMATEURS ers to throw and kick a few. Heading the list of returning letBASEBALL estrieri and Lou Gohring. The formre is an end and the latter a Fairfax Merchants will play Car-| tackle. Other veterans are Jimmy dinal A. C. at 2:30 p. m. Sunday. parker and Joe Hylton, ends: John p. m. | Robert Freeman and Winnie WalkKelley All-Stars will return to ac-|°r. guards: Harold Zimmerman, tion Sunday against the Beech Center, and Phil Ortwein, Dick Grove Reds at Beech Grove. The Wright, Garofolo and Henry Edi " 17 and 24. cail| Earlham opens its season Sept. Jamon Us on Be he 30 against Central Normal at Danmm ville. SOFTBALL Two games between Bush-Feezle S ofthall Tourne tomorrow night at Softball Stadium. y WIRE will collide with Muncie in the first game at 7:30, while Shelbyville will play Marion in the afterShelbyville has just won the Indiana championship, and Marion has won the State League title three years in a row.
Don French, Indianapolis Indians’ pitcher, has been purchased by the Boston Bees and will report to the National League club next spring. A righthander, French has toiled in 32 games this season, getting credit fo. 15 victories and being charged with 10 defeats.
Football Practice
vious All-Star aggregation. tented himself with sending the termen are Co-captains John BalFairfax players are to report at 1 ,r,ore and Robert Ball, tackles: All-Stars are seeking games on city Munds, backs. State League teams are scheduled Opens at Chicago piece.
CHICAGO, Sept. T (U. P.). Champions in both men’s and women’s divisions open defense of their national amateur softball titles toright in the seventh annual tournament at Soldier Field. The Alameda, Cal. girls’ champions meet Miami Beach, Fla. in the opener and Cincinnati men's champions play Park Ridge, Ill. titleholders in the Chicago district. Sixty games were scheduled in six parks tomorrow. Finals will be played in Soldier Field Monday night.
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The winner of the Bush-Feezle Commercial League will be decided Sunday night when J. S. C. mvets Shamrocks. Game time is 8 o'clock.
Salvation Army Red Shields will meet Salvation Army of Anderson at 7 o'clock tonight at Belmont Stadium. The Green Shields will oppose New Castle an hour later.
Opens at Earlham
Tribe Wins Third Place
Homers Boom at Columbus; Hens Next on Trip.
Times Special
COLUMBUS, O,, Sept. 7.—The In-
Garringer and Watson Battle For Pro Crown
LAKE WAWASEE, Ind. Sept. 7 (U, P.). — John Watson of South Bend and Chuck Garringer of In-
dianapolis will meet today in a 36hole golf match to decide the Indiana professional golf championship.
dianapolis Indians departed here to-
day, assured of third place in the American Association pennant chase. |
They will open their series with the
cellar-dwelling Mud Hens at Toledo| tonight and from there move into|
Louisville to haul down the curtain on the 1939 season. The Hoosiers grabbed off “show” position last night by splitting a double-header with Columbus. Indianapolis won the first, 10-3, and the Red Birds the afterpiece, 5-4. Lefty Lloyd Johnson worked on the mound for the Redskins in the first game and found his teammates’ stick work more than sufficient.
Build Up Huge Lead
Gathering 12 hits off Stan Todd| and Jake Drake and making the| most of four Red Bird errors, the] Indians built up a 10-0 lead be-| fore Johnson was nicked for three] Red Bird tallies. Home runs by Allen Hunt and Legrant Scott helped the Indian-| apolis cause along. Two were on| when Scott smashed out his. A late drive by Indianapolis in the second game fell short, and Bill Curlee, Columbus pitcher, managed to squeeze through. Red Barrett was solved for nine hits in five| innings by Red Bird batters. He was: removed for a pinch hitter in the fifth and Jimmy Sharp worked on the Tribe mound in the sixth.
Paul Dunlap Connects
In 22 clashes between the clubs this season Indianapolis annexed 15. In last night's second tilt Paul Dunlap, new outfielder from Birmingham, clouted a homer for the Hoosiers, as did Jesse Newman, first sacker. Scott and Don Lang paced the In-| dians at bat in the opener with three hits apiece. The former batted in three markers in the first tilt and Dunlap brought in three in the windup. Scott has pounded the leather hard since taking over the right field post after Milton Galatzer moved up to the Cincinnati Reds. Young Elmer Riddle, up from Birmingham, is slated to pitch the series opener for the Indians at Toledo tonight. He developed control in the Southern Association and Manager Griffin is anxious to get a look at him under A. A. fire. Two tilts at Toledo and three at | Louisville will conclude the Tribe's schedule.
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Watson was the medalist in the qualifying round with a 69 while Garringer was second with a 71. Yesterday Watson defeated Fred McDermott of Tippecanoe, one up, and Don Swisher of South Bend, one up in 19 holes. Garringer defeated Ralph Stonehouse of Indianapolis, 2 and 1, and Johnny Vaughn of Anderson, one up.
Cosgrove Coach At Sacred Heart
Art Cosgrove, former Butler University and Cathedral High School basketball star and captain, today was named hardwood coach at Sacred Heart High School, succeeding Johnny Sullivan. Cosgrove also will be an instructor in physical education at the South Side school. He piloted the Cathedral five in the 1930-31 season and led the Butler Bulldogs two years, 1936-37 and 1937-38. Coach Cosgrove is mapping out a 20-game schedule, including dates with several members of the Indiana State High School Athletic Association. He hopes to enter the team in the State Catholic tournament next March.
ADDITIONAL SPORTS, PAGE 18
Field Opposes
tional Singles tennis championships the West Side Tennis Club.
and as they wanted to return as a team, the Australian Lawn Tennis Association obtained permission for them to go ‘through with their original plans and depart on ‘the Mariposa Oct. 10. Rated off his fine play for the Cup last week, Quist is the logical favorite to capture the men’s title (left undefended by. Don Budge. Bobby Riggs, top-seeded American, then Bromwich and Frankie Parker were next in the line of favorites. Defending champion Alice Marbl will face a strong women's field. Four-time champion Helen Jacobs and Betty Nuthall of England, 1930 winner, should furnish formidable opposition, hut you can't get a bet against the blond Californian. Also in the field are England's No. 1 player, Kay Stammers, Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan of Boston, Dorothy Workman of Los Angeles, Valerie Scott, young English star, and Simone Mathieu, France's ranking woman player. : Players from nine nations are in the field of 88 seeking Budge's vacated title and the field of 64 out to dethrone Miss Marble. There are contenders from the United States, Australia, England, France, Canada, Cuba, Japan, the Philippines and Greece.
Bronko Bests Sexton
FT. WAYNE, Ind. Sept. 7 (U.P). —Bronko Nagurski last night defeated Frank Sexton, St. Louis, in two straight falls to retain his
National Wrestling Association title.
Quist Rated Favorite In National Singles
Riggs Ranked Second to Australian Tennis Star; Strong
Alice Marble.
FOREST HILLS, N. Y,, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—A date with war was post= poned nearly a month by members of the Australian Davis Cup team, who received last-minute permission to stay and play in the 58th annual Na-
beginning today .on the lush turf at
Adrian Quist, Jack Bromwich, Jack Crawford and non-playing Capt. Harry Hopman were handed their sailing orders immediately after wine ning the Davis Cup from the United States Monday. two berths available on the Monterey sailing from Los Angeles Sept. 13
There were only
Millers Still Annoy Blues
Cut Kansas City’s Lead in A. A. to 41, Games.
By UNITED PRESS A fighting band of Minneapdlis Millers continued today to delay the expected crowning of the Kansas City Blues as Association champions. They set them back last night in a red-hot battle, 6-5, the third of a four-game series. The loss cut the Blue's lead over the Millers to four and one-half games. Kansas City has seven more to play, Minneapolis six. Other games in the league brought these results: St. Paul and Milwaukee split a double-header, 5-1 and 8-9, and Louisville beat Toledo, 6-3. In pitching Minneapolis to victory, Herb Hash, young righthander, noted his 22d season win. He went the route, lost the lead in the seve enth, but his mates came through in the ninth with two runs to clinch it. The crowd of 13,633 was treated to sensational baseball and a half dozen violent arguments between players and umpires.
Lions in Meet
More than 25 Lions’ Club golfers were expected to compete in the
weekly tournament this afternoon over the Pleasant Run layout.
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