Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1940 — Page 12

SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

OF THE three players Indianapolis obtained from Cincinnati over the week-end, Dick West, catcher, rates as “most valuable” from the standpoint of the immediate needs of the Redskins. He undoubtedly will be pointed to be the No. 1 receiver, leaving Dee C. Moore, John Pasek and Roy Easterwood to fight it out for the other regular

assignment after championship play gets under way. ; . Louisville was hot on West's trail, according to training camp dope, and it is said the Colonels were a disappointed gang when Tribe ent Leo Miller cut in and walked off with the big Kentuckian. West was born in Louisville Nov. 24, 1917 and stands two inches - over six feet, or typical Kentucky height. . . . He makes his home in and for that reason the Colonels decided he would add to their gate attractions. ‘

Highlights of West’s 1939 Record

.+ WEST SPENT the greater part of the 1939 season with the Baltimore Internationals and in that strong league smote the sphere at a clip of 321... . As an Oriole he appeared in 108 games, with the Reds eight games, and with Birmingham seven games. ve . . With the departure of West, Bill Baker, up from Indianapolis, is assured of a big league job as the Reds’ No. 3 catcher. . . . The age ~ difference is Baker 27, West 22. . . . In 98 games last year Baker combed American Association pitching for an average of .338. On April 25 last year West hit a homer, double and two singles against Toronto; on May 12 he slapped four hits against Buffalo; on July 16 he had five blows against Montreal, and the next week bunched eight hits in 14 times at bat. = 2 2 = 2 2 = * THE KENTUCKIAN also supplied a couple of important hits in Cincinnati's flag drive. . . . Aug. 14 the Reds nosed out the Pirates in the ninth with a four-run rally and Dick’s single drove home the tying run. ... Three days later in the 10th inning against the Cubs with the score tied, 6-6, West's pinch single knocked the winning tally across. . This winter West enrolled at University of Georgia and studied for bar examinations.

Moran and Mack Act Broken Up

WHEN THE REDS released Firstbaseman-Outfielder Joe Mack to Indianapolis they completed the separation of their Moran and Mack combination. . . . Not a black face team, but a pair of promising pastimers. , . . Birmingham got Moran the day before Indianapolis landed Mack.

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They are first sackers by trade and outfielders in an emergency. « » « Mack is' a Chicago Pole and the highlight of his 1939 season occurred last (August with the Newark Internationals when he belted five round trippers in seven days in three different cities, Buffalo, Toronto and Montreal. y 2 ; 8 8 = : A FEATURE of Mack's batting in 1939 was his runs-batted-in record. . . . He drove in an even 100, 56 for Columbus’ Red Birds in 93 games and 44 for Newark in 58 games. : Arthur Luce may be the answer to the Y¥ndians’ prayer for a capable leadoff man in the batfing order. . . . It is said fluency afoot is his big baseball asset, useful in ball-hawking and in carrying runs around bases. . . . At any rate, that is the way the National League News Bureau sizes him up. . . . He is a Long Island Italian.

East-West Golden Glovers Battle

THE ANNUAL CHICAGO-New York intercity Golden Gloves bouts are to be held at Madison Square Garden tonight and New York followers of amateur boxing are expected to pack the huge arena... It’s the 13th annual battle between Western and Eastern Golden Gloves teams. : Joe Sgro, Indianapolis lightweight, did not draw a fighting assignment tonight. . . . Tony Ancona, the Western 135-pound champ, will battle Ray Robinson, New York champ, and Ed O'Connell, Chicago,

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will tackle New York’s leading alternate in the division.

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JOHNNY BEHR, Chicago coach,

= » EJ . picked O’Connell over Sgro and

Robert Simmons of Gary for the alternate assignment.

The show calls for 16 bouts, two

in each of the eight weight divi-

sions. . , . The radio broadcast will be over the Chicago Tribune’s WGN

beginning at 10:15 p. m.

The New York Golden Gloves team of 1934 was the last which

beat Chicagoland’s leather throwers, in a tie.

though the 1936 encounter ended

What's This About the Yanks

Being Too

Tough to Beat?

By HARRY FERGUSON ;

United Press Sports Editor

TAMPA, Fla., March 18.—Ball

games that are won and lost in

March may not mean much, but the National League feels pretty cocky today over having plastered a defeat on an American League all-star team made up chiefly of New York Yankees. That 2-to-1 victory, won under a cloudy sky at Plant Field, sent National League fans into the streets boasting that the tid ehad turned,

after all these years, against the superiority of the American League. The game was played for the benefit of the Finnish. Relief Fund and it turned into a surprisingly close contest for a bunch of ball players who are only half way through spring training. : The pitching was tight, the fielding brilliant in spots and it wasn't until the last of the ninth inning that the National League won on a single by Pete Coscarart, Brooklyn second baseman, who sent Al Lopez, Boston catcher, across with the winning run. . Most people had expected a balloon sized score with pitchers being belted out of the box in squads. Much of the credit for the National League victory goes to the pitchers—Paul Derringer, Kirby _Higbe of the Phillies, Luke Hamlin of the Dodgers, Bucky Walters of the Reds and Harry Gumbert of the Giants—who held the American Leaguers to five stingy hits. Such sluggers as Joe DiMaggio, Charlie

Keller and Ted Williams spent all

(Editor's Note: George Kirksey, United Press baseball expert, has been in Florida three weeks watching the major league baseball clubs in practice and in

exhil ames and talking to players eabibition Si Today he starts his annual series sizing up the 1940 baseball season.)

By GEORGE KIRKSEY

WINTER HAVEN, Fla., March 18 (U. P.).—The story of the New York Giants is again the story of those two remarkable left handers, Carl Owen Hubbell and Melvin Thomas

Oe Giants’ chances of beating back from second division to figure in the National League pennant race ‘depend almost solely on Hubbell’s crooked left arm and Ott’s piano legs. Hubbell and Ott last year and the Giants skidded with them all fhe way down fo fifth

place. But there's “the early evidence indicates may struggle back along the comepack trail. Hubbell, whose elbow practice. He can throw his screwpall without straining his elbow but moundsmen. : “I think the old type of Hubbell

afternoon vainly trying to get a piece of the ball.

Manager Joe McCarthy of the American League club sent seven of his own New York Yankees into the starting line-up. The Boston Red Sox contributed Jimmy Foxx at first base and Ted Williams in right field. Eventually almost everybody on both squads got into the game. Manager Bill McKechnie had only two of his Cincinnati Reds in the starting line-up —Derringer, the pitcher, and Frank McCormick at first base. Best ball player on the field was Frankie Crosetti, Yankees’ shortstop, who got two hits and picked up a ball that Charlie Ruffing knocked down to start a double play on what looked like a hit. . . . Hank Greenberg, former first baseman of the. Detroit Tigers and now an outfielder, looked mighty good in the seventh inning when he went far and deep to his left to drag down Coscarart’s fly.

“I have to get by now on what I know.” : To which Bill Terry replies, “Hub has been talking like that for years, even before his operation.” Hubbell didn’t start to win last year until July and then he captured nine out of his 11 starts. If he gets off right in April he may have a 16 to 18 game year and if he does the Giants may ride back into first division on “Old Crooked Arm’s” comeback. Last season Hub won 11 and lost nine but had the league’s second best earned run average, 2.75.

Ott’s case isn’t quite so bright as Hubbell’'s. He wound up the season with two charley horses so bad that he could barely walk. Those games Mel played at third base the past three years didn’t do him any good and

{last season he

paid the penalty for pounding the dirt around the hot corner. He's been taking things easy in camp, shaping up slowly. So far there hasn't been any sign of the leg trouble that laid him low Tast Aug. 28 but Mel, with 14 years of service behind him, has to treat his over-developed gams with extreme care. If they go bad on him again, that means he'll be out of the lineup for a long stretch. And there isn’t anyone who believes the Giants can go without Ott in there swinging.

Mel Ott

hope in the Bi camp because : : 2 and Master Mel was opened by a surgeon in 1938, has been looking great in early he hasn’t the speed of the early 30's “when he was one of the master game has gone forever,” Hub says. : y

Terry plans to open up with three

dianapolis Indians’ training camp The former is a southpaw.

Charles Bauers (left) and Tony Archinski, both up from Erie, are pitching hopefuls in the In-

Four veteran

at Bartow; Fla.

hurlers and a new

with the Indians last season.

Caps Fly Off To Providence

Final Standing

INTERNATIONAL-AMERICAN Western Division

Ww T GF 26 10 174 144 > 5 154 152 127 130 147

Indianapolis ..... Hersh

ershey Pittsburgh 25 Clevelan 24 2 Syracuse ......... 20

Eastern Division W L T GF Providence ....... 27 19 8 161 ew Haven ..... 2: 24 3 1M Springfield ....... 24 24 6 166 15 31 8 133 1% LAST NIGHT’S RESULTS

Hershey, 8: Indianapolis, 6 (overtime). Pittsburgh, 4; Syracuse, 3. New Haven, 4: Cleveland. 3. Philadelphia, 6: Providence, 2.

A plane-load of Indianapolis Capitals took off from Municipal Airport this morning for Providence, R. I, where they will open the International-American League’s Series A playoffs with the Rhode Island Reds, eastern division champions, tomorrow night. The first two games of the series, a best three-of-five affair, will be played in the New England city, with the teams returning here for the third game next Sunday night. A fourth, if necessary, will be played here a week from tomorrow with the fifth scheduled for Providence. Meanwhile, the second and thirdplace teams in each division sharpened their skates for a ' chance at the $24,000 playoff purse. Hershey, awarded second place in the western division because it had more victories than Pittsburgh, will meet New Haven in a three-game series, while Pittsburgh will tangle with Springfield. These playoffs are known as Series B and C, and the winners will meet in what is known as Series D. After that, the D victor will meet the conqueror in the Indi-anapolis-Providence get-together.

Good Night for Goals

If the 5541 customers who turned out for the final game of the season last night at the Coliseum wanted goals, they should have been weli satisfied. Fourteen times the rubber skidded into the cage, with Hershey’s B'ars getting eight and the Caps six. It was .a big night, too, for the Kilrea family. Altogether these two boys, Hec of the Caps and Wally of the B'ars, figured in seven scoring plays. Hec was credited with two Indianapolis assists, while brother Wally scored three goals and helped out on two. Incidentally, Wally poked in two scores without help from any mates. Playing it safe during the three 20-minute periods and 10-minute overtime, * our western division champions refused to use any muscle tactics on the defense and did most of the checking with their sticks.

Bars Fight for Gold

The B’ars, however, still were fighting to clinch second place and a larger share of the playoff gold. They jumped into an early lead while Bob Gracie was in the penalty box, Bobbie Kirk doing the damage on an assist by Reardon. A well-executed play climaxed by a neat pass from Les Douglas to Bill Thomson produced the first Indianapolis score seven minutes later,

Basketball—N. C. A. A. tournament,

; : City Bowling

(Continued on Page 13)

rookies in his infield—Babe Young from Knoxville at first, Mike Witek from Newark, the International League's most valuable player, at second, and Glen Stewart from Jersey City at third. Billy Jurges, rated by many the top shortstop of the circuit, will have his hands full holding that infield together. Burgess Whitehead, who played brilliantly at second in 1936 and 1937, is making a college try to oust one of the rookies and he may yet take over the third base spot. Whitehead looks good and is hustling like he means business after being in Terry’s bad graces. The outfield will be Joe Moore in left, Frank Demaree in center and Ott in right unless Johnny Dickshot, International League batting champ with a mark of .355, ousis Moore from left. Moore hasn’t looked too good in training whereas Dickshot, who was a spring sensation with the Pirates two years ago, has been going like wildfire. The brightest spot in the Giant's setup is behind the bat where they have Harry Danning, the league’s best receiver. He may get more out of Terry's pitching staff than would seem possible on paper. Hubbell figures to be the Giant's ace. His running mate will be

: Bill Terry

“headed again.

A Crooked Hubbell Arm and Master Mel's Piano Legs—

Therein Lie the Giant's Chances for a Pennant

Where to Go—

TOMORROW

Wrestling—Billy Thom vs. the Mephisto, Armory, 8:30

FRIDAY

Great

Butler Field House, 7:30 and 9.

SATURDAY

Basketball—N. C. A. A. tournament, Butler Field House, 8:15.

Kings Crowned

The city’s bowling gentry returned their attention to league competition today as new crowns were distributed to the winners of the 34th annual city tourney at the FoxHunt plant.- : Matt Pohl and Harry Jones teamed to take the doubles title with 1430, using a 215 handicap. Pohl added to his achievements by taking the all-events championship on 2151 (handicap, 366). Dave Prescott and Joe Wilson (1399) hold second honors; John Steele and Elmer Gehle (1382), third; Paul Clark and Roy Sparrow (1380), fourth, and Mose Collins and Ervin Huber (1377), fifth. In the singles competition Glen Yowler took top honors with 748, with Walt sStalhut(746), second; Lorenz Wiesman (740), fifth. Net total division winners were Johnny Murphy, who took the singles with 705 and also the allevents with 1967 and the doubles team of Tarrant and Manuel Schonecker, who won with 1303. Low figure to cash in the doubles was 1279 while 660 was the low payoff figure in singles.

Silent Hoosiers

Are Celebrating

Celebration was the first order of the day as the pupils of the Indiana School for the Deaf assembled this morning, for their basketball team is champion of the nation’s deaf schools; The Silent Hoosiers added this title to their record Saturday. They staged a fourth-quarter rally that downed New Jersey, 38 to 33, in the final game of playoff series. The national championship was the second high honor of the season for the Hoosiers. Two weeks ago they took the Central States title, giving them the right to meet New Jersey, Eastern champions. The New Jersey boys fell before the Hoosiers, 28 to 22, in the first game Friday night and then came back the next afternoon for a 3934 victory. Pease sparked the Easterners into a 26-all deadlock at the end of the third session of the final game but in the final quarter Berg, Hanyzewski and Henderson put the Hoosiers into the lead and they were never

his first 13 games last season, and then did a nose dive after mid-sea-

son, winning only 7 while losing nine. Hal Schumacher figures to be third man, but he’s never been the same since his arm trouble. Hy Vandenberg, the tall ‘righthander back from Jersey City where he won 15 games, looks as though: he’ll finally make the grade after failing in three previous trails with the Giants. Bill Lohrman and Cliff Melton will be in there somewhere. Terry’s other pitchers are Manuel Salvo, Johnny Wittig, Roy Joiner from Jersey City, and Slick Castleman, trying another comeback after a severe back injury. The tinoff on the Giants’ pitching is that Terry is bending every effort to land another pitcher in a major league deal. With another pitcher, the Giants might become a darkhorse. Right now they have to get the best out of Hubbell, Ott and the three young infielders to have any chance to climb. All in all it looks like a sad summer for “Vinegar Bill.”

Harry Gumbert, who won 11 out of

Dig In, Tribe Chieftain

one. Left to right the Tribe chuckers are Art Jacobs, Mitchel Balas, Jimmy Sharp, Harry Wolfe and Lloyd Johnson. Wolfe is the rookie. He was a tourist last year, pitching at Birmingham, Durham and Columbia. Jacob:

Tells 1940 Hopefuls

Times Special

BARTOW, Fla., March 18.—With Manager Wes Griffin on hand in training camp for the first time this spring, the Indianapolis Indians turned to heavy duty today as the infielders and outfielders joined the

batterymen. : Pitchers and catchers had three days of work under their belts before the main squad checked in and were ready to give their mates a load of batting practice. ‘As Chief Griffin took over the supervising duties from Coach Buck Crouse he commanded the athletes to dig in and hustle through the routine. : Batting eyes must be sharpened in double quick time if the Redskins are going to make any kind of a showing in their first exhibition game against the Cleveland Americans at Ft. Myers next Sunday. i The big leaguers are far advanced in conditioning process and their pitchers also are rapidly

Casters Vie for State Title

Casting addicts continue in competition tonight at the Sportsmen’s Show at the Fair Grounds with six more days of casting scheduled. The state skish tourney is being sponsored by the Marion ' County Fish and Game Association. Tonight’s entrants: Bell Conservation No. 4 (Briar, Cox, Poling, Hardwick, Gray); Five Points (Ridenour, Lotz, Johnson, Arnold, Theil); Broad Ripple (Kimmick, Sparks, Martin, McCormick Jr. Smith-Hassler (Zimmerman, Alvis, Horning, Busses, Litz); M. C. F. G. A. No. 10 (Mrs. Carl White, Mrs. F. Lotz, Evelyn Brandlein). Tomorrow night's entrants: Bell Conservation No. 5 (Meads, Weimer, Howerton, Mutterspaugh, Hoffman); Indiana Sportsman (Kistler, Whipple, Culman, Breidenback, Miesse); Mallory’s No. 1 (Salzman, Gilpin, Jenkins, Lull, Ban); Mallory’s No. 2 (Rearick, Carter, Baker, Whisler, Griffin). A late change in the program has removed. the entry fee and competitors may register any time at the Marion County Fish and Game Association booth at the show.

Mat Card Drawn

For Tomorrow

Matchmaker Lloyd Carter has completed his mat card for tomorrow night at the Armory where headline opponents are Coach Billy Thom, 179, Bloomington, Ind., and the Great Mephisto, 182, Newark. Opening the bill will be Juan (Wildcat) Humberto, 226, Mexico City, Mex., and Mike Mazurki, 1240, New York. It is for one fall, The popular Finnish performer, Lew Nyman, 215, goes against Gordon MacKinzie, 225, Edinburgh, Scotland, in the semi-windup, also listed for one fall; Ss Thom and Mephisto are rated among the best light heavies in

the game. The Indiana University | |

wrestling coach was undefeated here in five years until he met and fell before the rugged Mephisto last Season. in Mephisto was here several months ago and whi “Lord” Landsdowne. hipped

Ward and Smith Wait North-South

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 18 (U. P).—Marvin (Bud) Ward, national amateur champion, and Horton Smith of Oak Park, Ill, headed for the $4000 Nort and South Open Championship at Pinehurst, N. C., today, carrying the National Ama-teur-Professional title. Ward and Smith, only favored team to survive the tourney, defeated Harold Macdly, Westerfield, Conn., and Henry Poe, Reading, Pa., 4 and 2, in yesterday's finals.

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reaching the stage where they can cut loose. Crouse told Griffin the batterymen took full advantage of the Friday, Saturday and Sunday workouts and advised the Tribe leader that the boys were in fair shape to settle down to strenuous drills without suffering “too much.” Trainer Al Ritter has set up a medical room in the clubhouse and the sweet scented arnica has received a big play.

Lucky Spring, Trainer Says

Fortunately, Al nas had little taping to do so far and believes its’ going fo be a lucky spring for the Indians in escaping practice injuries. “Heretofore even the first two days in camp meant a lot of extra work for me as the ‘cripples’ limped in,” Ritter said. Among the players scheduled to reach Bartow today to don Indianapolis uniforms for the first time were the three latest acquisitions from the Cincinnati Reds, Catcher Dick West, Outfielder Arthur Luce and First Baseman-Outfielder Joe Mack. ; Tribe President Leo Miller visited the Reds’ Tampa camp yesterday and watched the big league Finnish Relief und All-Star: game. League Meeting Held Dale Miller, Tribe secretary, checked in from Indianapolis yesterday and is all set to keep books on the team’s exhibition games. Bartow became a baseball center today as American Association owners assembled for their spring meeting at the New Oaks Hotel, Tribe headquarters. League President George M. Trautman presided at the powwow, scheduled for afternoon. Tonight the Bartow Chamber of Commerce will “throw” a baseball booster party for big league and minor league notables whose clubs are training in central Florida.

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Roy Easterwood (left) and Tony Pasek are battling for places on the Tribe catching staff. The former spent most of last season with Durham and Birmingham, Pasek is a veteran from St. Paul.

W hat Girl Wants To Be a Queen?

A national table tennis tournament will be held here April 5, 6 and 7 and already plans are

under way to select a queen. And here's how it's going to be done: ] Photographs of candidates are to be submitted to George F. Koehnke, 920 Walnut Road, Lombard, Ill, public relations director of the National Table Tennis Association, who will, in turn, submit them to the judges committee.

This committee will consist of Governor M. Clifford Townsend and George Petty, the artist.. The contest closes March 23. All photos must be in Mr. Koehnke’s hands on or before that date.

Any girl may enter just so long as she is a member of the U. S. Table Tennis Association.’ The winner will be the guest of the local table tennis association, and will see the finals in company of an M-G-M movie star. This star will be brought from for the occasion. George M. Binger, local advertising man, is president of the local table tennis association.

Hollywood

Veteran Hoppe Takes Cue Lead

CHICAGO, March 18 (U. P).— Veteran Willie Hoppe of New York took an undisputed lead in the world’s championship three-cushion billiard tournament today with five victories and no losses. He defeated Otto Reiselt, Philadelphia, last night, 50 to 25. Allen Hall, Chicago, defeated Arthur Rubin, New York, 50 to 33, in 47 innings. Joe Chamaco, Mexico City, suffered his first defeat. He lost to Tiff Denton, Kansas City, 50-36. Johnny Layton, St. Louis, beat Jay Bozeman, Vallejo, Cal., 50-38, and Jake Schaefer Jr., Cleveland, defeated Welker Cochran, San Francisco, defending champion, 50-24. Matches today: : Rubin vs. Thurnblad, Chamaco vs. Reiselt, Bozeman vs. Schaefer, Cochran vs. Hall, Hoppe vs. Layton.

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State Keglers Led by Fox

American Bowling Congress officials who had forecast big totals in the current. pin carnival felt better today in view of a 2922 score posted by the Chicago Ambrosia Brew team to take first place in the five-man event. - The Ambrosia team was the first to break through the 2900 mark, most of the squads having rolled

gregations. Five-man standings: Ambrosia Brewing Co., 2922. Frank Gagligne and Sons, Buffalo, 2855. Silver Seal Soda, St. Louis, 2843.

Chicago,

Triangle Shirts, Rockford, Ill, Glen Park Diary of Gary set the pace for Indiana teams with a 2603 score. John Kiesel and Maurice Wellman, Indianapolis, were ninth in doubles with 1184, while Harry Fox, Indianapolis, led the Hoosier istate’s single delegation with 627. Other Indiana scores: Denny’s, Wabash, 2522. Gress Jewelers, Gary, 2503. Dobson Sporting Goods, Anderson, 2503. Diana Sweet Shop, Clinton, 2502. McGuff Coal & Supply, Muncie, 2489. ’ Jack’s Department Store, Gary, 2472. ; Vance Optometrists, Anderson, 2415. Mid-States City League, Crawfordsville, 2339. People’s Food Store, Muncie, 2318. Singles: John Kiesel, Indianapolis, 605. Edward Stevenson, Indianapolis, 605. T. Jackson, Kokomo, 584.

Browns Pound Ball

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 18 (U. P.).—Routine drills were on the St. Louis Browns program today. Yesterday the Browns evened their series with the Tulsa Oilers by winning 12 to 4. Homers by Myril Hoag, Walter Judnich and Chester

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