Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1940 — Page 17
Joe Williams
NEW YORK, April 11.—It seems that to certain gentlemen in the professional football business the Storck is not a bundle of happiness after all, meaning Mr. Carl
Storck of Dayton, O., who has temporary president. :
The professionals gather here tomorrow for an executive session, the main objective of which will be to decide on a permanent president. Mr. Storck would like to have the job, but it’s not altogether certain he will get it.
As a matter of fact there is a very definite campaign on against him. - This campaign is headed by Mr. George Marshall, the glossy wet wash tycoon of Washington, D. C. that the gentleman has lined up enough votes to swing the election.
Mr. Marshall Is Burned Up Mr. Marshall's opposition to M
game of the Eastern season in which the magnificent soap and suds magnate saw his Washington Redskins go down to defeat at the hands
of the New York Giants.
There was a vital decision in that game and one of Mr. Storck’s officials, Bill Halloran, gave it against Mr. Marshall’s team. The decision represented the margin by which the Giants won and thus qualified for the play-offs in the West.
been serving as the league’s-
, and the advance intelligence is
r. Storck dates back to the final
CHICAGO, April 11 (U. P.).—Arch Ward, .Chicago Tribune ejected a 10-year contract to be president of the National Professional Football League at-$25,000 a year. The offer was made by a majority of the league's 10
sports editor, said today he had r
club owners, he said.
Very properly Mr. Storck stood by his umpire and upheld the de-
cision. Just what Mr. Marshall beli
to and with Halloran by way of punishment for calling a tough decision as he saw it, and calling it right, has not been revealed. If Mr. Marshall had a good case, it would be easier to listen to him with patience but we can’t see that he has. By implication, if not direct speech, Mr. Marshall is serving warfing to all football officials that if his club doesn’t get the best of things he is going to make war on them. We don’t see how his’ present activities can be interpreted in any other way. So far las has been made public the only rap against Mr. Storck
is that he didn’t send Bill Halloran
decision which cost the Washington club a ball game. Mr. Storck fits the bill as president most satis-
counts it seems that factorily. 2
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It'll Be a Plenty-Tpuchy Job
Personally we'd bé hesitant to take over the presidency under the circumstances which apparently Mr. Marshall approves, We'd feel
that we were put there because Mr.
favor when and if the occasion developed. How else could you look
at. it? Just the same Mr. Marshall ha presidency, Jim Farley was cne. J.
Chandler, now a U. S. Senator, was still another. Somehow he didn’t get around to mentioning Chief Justice Hughes and the Dionne Quin-
tuplets.
Mr. Marshall claims to have seven votes in his fancy hip pocket— the one with two pearl buttons on it. If this is so he is in a position to name anybody he may have in mind. \
eved Mr. Storck should have done
to jail or something for giving a On all other
Marshall expected us to do him a
s been talking big names for the Edgar Hoover was another. Happy
Mac Gives an Anxious Nation His Baseball Predictions
By HENRY
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 11.—Not one the way the teams will finish in come to my desk. 7 There hasn't been even so mu refrain from making a forecast on races. : After mulling this over In my mind I came to the conclusion that this lack of requests to lay off could mean but one thing: That everybody in the country must want me to make a prediction on the 16 teams. You can’t imagine how happy the arrival at suéh- a conclusion made me, and I want to thank each and every one of you for the faith and trust you showed in me by such an unprecedented, nation-wide appeal. Now before I start my selections, 1ét me get everything in order. First, let me see if I can name the - teams in each league. Well, never mind, I can always look them up in a baseball book. Secondly, let me try to remember how they finished last year. Well, never mind, that'll be in the baseball book, too. Okay, let’s start with the National League. | Cincinnati will be. first and St. Louis second, or vice versa. Brooklyn will finish third and New York fourth, or vice versa. Chicago will be fifth, Pittsburgh sixth, Boston seventh, and you guess who will be eighth. | : Comes Now the A. L. ‘Now, while you are running out "to gét your bets down, I'll collect my data on the American League. The American League -presents no such easy problem as the National . where it was possible to Jeune place each team in the spot it will occupy at the close of the season. The American gave me a lot of trouble and I must have spent close to $40 in collect calls to managers, utility infielders, groundkeepers, and professional eavesdroppers, seeking information. But here is how I finally figured it out: Yankees first and Red Sox second, or vice versa. Cleveland third and Detroit fourth, or vice versa. 'Chicago will be fifth, Philadelphia sixth, Washington seventh and you guess who eighth. In a way it's a shame for me to give you this information. It is bound to remove some of the thrill as you go to the summer ball games. What can it possibly matter who wins or loses on a particular day, because you and I know what the ultimate outcome is to be. As a - matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Judge Landis didn’t’ ask me to stop making my selections on the grounds that the players, after seeing my forecast, won't try as hard because they’ll have a fatalistic feeling that what I prophesy must necessarily be true. :
Now You Know Take last year’s forecast for example. Who did I pick? The Yankeés. Many called me a fool and a rodent when I did it, and I'll admit that at one stage of the race ‘when their lead was cut to 10 games, I had a qualm or two. The fact that I slipped up and picked Chicago in the National last year was perhaps the exception to prove he rule, ° ow that you know just what is g to happen in both leagues during the summer aren't you glad I picked them and you read it? Or vice versa?
And Only One 500
Only one 100-mile auto race is : scheduled this summer—at Syracuse. Programs at Langhorne, Altoona and Milwaukee will be con‘fined to sprint events.
M’LEMORE
single letter asking me-NOT to pick the major leagues this season has
ch as a postcard requesting that I the American and National League
5-Man Teams Invade A. B. C.
DETROIT, April 11 (U. P).— Eighty five-man teams from Los Angeles to Brockton, N. Y., fill the alleys of the American Bowling Congress tonight in another attempt to send leaders into the 3000 class. On the first squad the Hollywood Stars from the film colony get a chance to push scoring out of the doldrums while on the last shift Warner Bros. team will feature Max Stein, all-time all-events champion of the A. B. C.
Frisch Will Bench Both Waners
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 11 (U. P.) —Frankie Frisch today nominated Bob Klinger to hurl the Pittsburgh Pirates’ opening game at St. Louis April 16, with Max Butcher and Mace Brown to follow in the series. . Thus far, Frisch says he intends to go through with plans to start the season with both the Waners on- the bench, the first time in 14 years that a Waner won't be on the field opening day.
" for softball or baseball for the
players- desiring a tryout are to report to E. R. Morrison.
year’s players and those wishing a
Curry Clippers are to call at Curry’s Barber Shop, 26 S. Illinois St., at 6:30 p. m. today.
T he Grayson Winner
By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Service Sports Editor NEW YORK, April 11.—Only long shot stabbers are picking the -Boston Red Sox to beat out the New York Yankees in the Ameri‘can League this season. The St. Louis Cardinals to this . observer appear a. much better bet to get to the wire in front of the Cincinnati Reds in the National. - Once more it looks like twoclub races in both majors, although there is a chance of the senior circuit having another of its mad Ssptember scrambles ... with the rejuvenated Pittsburgh Pirates and the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs figuring in the firing. At this writing, the Cleveland Indians form the only other
junior loop outfit possessing the potentialities to stir up a great deal of trouble for the Yankees and Red Sox. 28» | BOSTON AMERICAN League hopes are largely based on three new pitchers, Herb Hash and Wilburn Butland, up from Minneapolis, and Maurice Harris, a southpaw recalled from Scranton, but there is no way of knowing whether even one of them will make the grade. Meanwhile, the well-balanced Yankees have at least one newcomer, Marvin Breuer, brought in from Kansas City, who scarcely can miss. And don’t forget that the world champions’ so-called second string, Atley Donald, Bump Hadley, Oral Hildebrand,
THE INDIANAPOLIS
American New York Detroit Boston i Cleveland
Chicago
n Philadelphia
son, Russo his last six. Dominic DiMaggio ma may not outhit Joe Vosmi
prevailed by 17 games in Cleveland has the ama Feller, after whom you mu a ‘question mark in speak Indian pitching. Frankie
National Chicago New York Boston Philadelphia
St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Brooklyn
“a first-class catcher, held out. A pair of youngsters are starting around second base and the outfleld may lack the required wallop. The White Sox have their cus-
tomary patched-up squad, one of
the biggest assets of which is the -clevér manager, Jimmy Dykes. Detroit has power, but debatable pitching and a lead-footed infield. The Cardinals easily might have caught and passed the Reds had not Jimmy Mize bumped into Jimmy Brown in Brooklyn just
I Yankees and Cardi
when the pace grew hottest toward the fag end of the last campaign. Sa » ” » : ALL THE CARDINALS require is satisfactory play around second
base, and they hdve been getting that this sprin They havea murderous: attack
provided by Mize, Joe Medwick, !
Don Padgett, Country Slaughter and Brown. They'll obtain good pitching every day from Curt Davis, Morton Cooper, Fiddler McGee, Lon Warneke, Bob Weiland, Bob Bowman and Max Lanier, Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer hardly can be expected to again win 52 games for the Reds. Junior Thompson and Jim Turner will pick up some of the slack, but the Cards have the Rhinelanders
outnumbered all the way along the line. With Frank Frisch in command, the Pirates are under the lash for the first time in years, and all the while have been a more capable
~ outfit: than most people suspected.
Brooklyn has the infield and the urge. : [orm The Cubs are wide open to criticism, but usually manage to be there or thereabouts. The| Giants lack pitching and have green hands on the right side of the infield. The truth of the saying, “Take nothing for granted in baseball,’ frequently has been demonstrated in the National League, but the Yankees will have to be headed off in the American before it can be accepted as being infallible, |
Purdue Students Take Up a Sporting
Here's how the Fieldhouse looked as Horton Smith got set to drive home a few pointers.
Amateurs
All team managers, league presidents and others desiring season permits on City park diamonds
coming season are to send written applications to the City Recreation Department, 302 City Hall. All applications should be in by Monday, April 15. Telephone numbers should be given with the applications.
H. W. MIDDLESWORTH, City Recreation Director. BASEBALL
The Kautskys will practice at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at Riverside. All
The Empire Life and Accident team will practice at 10 a. m. Sun-/ day at Ellenberger Park. Last
tryout are to report.
‘SOFTBALL Pitchers desiring a tryout with the
Park School N ine Beats Southport
In a surprisingly well-played game, Park School beat out Southport, 3-2, in a high school baseball game yesterday on the Redskins’ diamond. In the first of the seventh the Prepsters put together two walks by Fox, who up to that time had pitched almost flawless ball, and a second-base error for the winning run. Miller was the winning pitcher.
Tech Teams Face Two Encounters
Two Tech High School teams got ready today for engagements tomorrow, the tracksters for a Kokomo invasion and the baseball outfit for a game with Southport. Tech officials announced the school would enter the Southport Relays April 20.
It’s probably a very mechanic
his new creations which he intends the 500-mile race. new. motors for the Memorial Day
Offenhauser and Mays and a Motor
(left) and Driver Rex Mays are having here as Fred shows off one of Offenhauser, the master mechanic, is building 14
the rest of the boys to start thinking about, » -
al conversation Fred Offenhauser to send here from Los Angeles for
classic—and that’s: something for
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Golf Pros Do Some Explaining
By J. E. O'BRIEN |
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Times Staff Writer I LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 11.—In the next week or two Purdue University students are expected to make a practice green out of every fraternity house rug, a driving range out of the campus at large and splin-
tered glass out of every unprotected
At least that was the impression given visitors who saw t
go golf-daffy yesterday after the first day of the links clinic sponsored by the university and the Professional Golfers’ Association. This clinic, the first of its kind hete, started out as a school for professional golfers but the students
i stole the show last night at the
mass demonstration, and it was a question whether the pros would be able to get it back for today’s sessions. . Some 200 of these student golfers came trooping into the Fieldhouse last night, swinging their clubs with the same enthusiasm with which they swing their partners at the Riveters’ Rassle. They worked on stance, grip and control for about an hour and left with what seemed a determination to turn in more pars this spring than term papers. Pros to Blame If such comes to pass, the student affairs committee can blame Horton Smith in particular and more than 200 pros in general. These were the genial gentlemen who handed out free golf tips that they usually retail at no less than $1.50. These instructors went up and down the ranks of the students, answering lettermen’s questions, straightening left arms, cocking wrists or teaching Some cute coed how to cure that slice.
Horton himself had expected such
fellows as Byron Nelson, Dick Metz and Gene Sarazen to be on hand, too. Their failure .to show up, however, didn’t stop him. . He produced his pet woods and irons at the afternoon session and began firing away at the large netting strung up across the Fieldhouse. Several of Horton’s shots even went through the net and it looked suspiciously like he was trying to bag one of those pretty new windows at the east end of the Fieldhouse.
What's Bothering Horton?
During this demonstration he stressed the importance of the hip and shoulder swing and the large
part played by the left arm and
side in gaining shot control and power. Horton hinted that he hasn't been satisfied with his play lately and that he is giving his game a general overhauling. After he had banged out a couple dozen balls, it was suggested in several other quarters that Horton's game wasn’t bothering him as much as couple of other factors named Demaret and Hogan. Incidentally, the general impression at the clinic was that Messrs.
;Demaret and Hogan are the hottest “(two things on the links today. Of
course, that’s nothing new to the average golfer, but it’s. refreshing to know that experts can say no more after they've said that. ° After most of the Indiana champions had been introduced at the beginning of the night session, Horton Smith demonstrated some other shots on the miniature layout con-' structed in the Fieldhouse. First there were explosion shots from a sand trap, then some putts, which unfortunately refused to go down. After that Horton even lofted shots into a canvés in the balcony. It's a pity someone didn’t bring out a basket and ask him to sink a few from the foul line, Most of the microphone work for the demonstrations was handled by Tom Walsh, P. G. A. president. Assisting Smith in the shotmaking were Marvin Stahl, Michigan open champion; John Watson, Indiana P. G. A. champion, and Bill Reed, Indiana open titleholder. Earlier in the day the pros went to school and heard the psychologist’s and doctor’s angle on golf. Dr. F. L. Kelley, Purdue psychologist,
stressed the Importance of relaxa-
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window. he campus
tion in playing, and the necessity of self-motivation. i For those learning golf, he had this advice: “Don’t learn what you are not going to do. Learn the whole procedure rather than. parts
of the procedure.” | To the pros he stressed the importance of what he called “individual differences.” “No two persons are exactly alike,” he pointed out, “and no set formula can be applied for teaching. io : Dr. Robert E. Dyer of Chicago, assisted by an unidentified skeleton, gave the scientific reason behind that fundamental of watching the ball. Moving the head in the middle of a swing, he pointed out, sets up a reaction in the brain affecting other muscles and nerves, which in turn does plenty of damage to what would have been a good
f
swing. : After yesterday's sessions, there’s no telling what effect the morning, afternoon and evening meetings today will have on Purdue University. i The latest rumor—still unconfirmed—had it that Coach Dutch Fehring would equip his baseball players with brassies when [they go against the Pittsburgh Pirates tomorrow. But no doubt that was started by some malcontent after seeing that 2-0 defeat by Iowa yesterday. | ,
Yanks ‘Washed Up,’ Says Magazine
If what Look magazine said today is right, then Mr. Harry Grayson is wrong. i : “The mightiest team in baseball, ike Humpty Dumpty, is going to take a fall,” says Look. “The proud New York Yankees have reached the end of the trail this season after dominating baseball for four years. | | “Their successors to the American League pennant will be the Boston Red Sox, a team fired by flaming youth.” i Look says here's how they'll finish (in order): Nationa] League —Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Philadelphia. | / American League—Boston, Nev York, Cleveland, Detroit, Washington, Chicago, Philadelphia’ and St. Louis. : of lt
Evansville Bees Beat Tigers, 7-5
PORTSMOUTH, O., April 11 (U. P.) —The Detroit Tigers, wilted after their first defeat of the exhibition season by a minor league club, take on Cincinnati here today in the first of four gares. | | . The Tigers, aided by five errors, scored five runs on four hits against Evansville of the Three-I League yesterday, but were beaten, 7-5. Dizzy Trout and Arch McKain yielded 14 hits, Trout- seven in five innings and McKain an equal amount in
four.
Gold Medal Beers Practice Sunday
The Gold Medal Beer team of the Indiana-Ohio Baseball League will hold its first workout of the season at 1 p. m. Sunday at Riverside. Players still needing uniforms are to contact Manager Clyde Hoffa, 1228 Oliver St., or i-call BE-0340. Manager Hoffa said today there is
an opening for an experienced shortstop. a pate |
Field of Learning
will be defending champion in the / {low hurdles while Southworth has
‘ney of the season yesterday at Wil-
Tonight May Solve Cue Situation
# The Indiana billiard situation may be straightened out at 8 o'clock tonight at the Harry Cooler parlors. Cooler is to meet’ Guy Moore and if Cooler wins, he’s three-cushion champion of the state. But if he loses, then the situation returns to the state of a three-way tie— Cooler, Moore and Walt Ramsey.
Golden Glovers Gain 4-4 Tie
CHICAGO, April 11 (U. P.)—A close decision in the heavyweight division today gave the team of boxers from Europe's neutral nations a 4-to-4 tie in the ninth International Golden Gloves bouts. Olle Tandberg, Stockholm, Sweden, turned in the final victory of the matches, defeating Cornelius Young, Chicago. Italian fighters and Hungary's only entrant lost three matches on decisions. Guido Nardecchia, Rome, Italy, defeated Sam Stinson of Galesburg, Ili, in the 112-pound division, although Stinson claimed a blow was low. Leon Haire, St. Louis, Mo., won a decision from Frederico Cortonesi, Livorno, Italy, for the first victory of the night by an American. The most colorful match on the card was that between Anthony Jones, Springfield, Ill, and Karl Noren, Gothenburg, Sweden. Jones won the decision after three rounds of hard slugging.
Butler Teemen Open Schedule
» / Butler golfers 4were /scheduled to open their 10-match eard this afternoon at 1:15 o'ciack/when they meet Franklin College /at the Highland Country Club course. Coach Jim Hauss -announced his four-man team of Dick Martin, Al Dowd, Bob Phillips and Jay Ansen. Meanwhile; Ray Sears, Butler track coach, aphounced today that Charles Marshall, William Southworth and membérs of the mile relay team will compete in the annual Cotton Carniyal track and . field meet at Memphis, Tenn., May 11. Marshall
been entered in the special mile run,/ an event he ran in 4:12 last year at Memphis. The mile relay squad will be composed of Wayne Dunlop, James Stewart, Armsted Elkins and Marshall. Jack Flynn and George Blare, two sophomores and field specialists, may take part in the meet. Blare is a javelin thrower, Flynn, a high jumper. Sears also announced the certification of 14 trackmen: for the annual Drake Relays at Des Moines, Ia.,, April 26 and 27. The Butler mentor has entered teams in the quarter-mile, half-mile, 1 mile, 2mile, distance medley and sprint medley relay races. The Bulldogs will be favorites in the sprint medley event with a rival battle expected from Indiana University,
12 Wins Tourney At Willowbrook
Ralph Jordan and H. Dedarholm ||
fired a best-ball score of 72 to win. the opening all-amateur golf tour-
lowbrook course. Second place went to Walter Chapman and. H. L. Phillips with a 74 and BE. Flack tied W. D. Hamilton and O. E.;Cummings for third.
A similar tourney is to be held at|
Willowbrook next Wegnesday.
Diz Hurries to Wrigley Office
To Talk About
‘Persecution’
Quits Team at K. C. After Getting $100 Fine; ‘I Didn’t Expect to Play With Cubs, Anyway’
By STEVE SNIDER
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, April 11.—Dizzy Dean headed for Chicago today to have a showdown with Owner Phil Wrigley over what he termed “persecuetion” by Manager Gabby Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs. yin Dizzy’s latest brush with his boss brought a $100 fine for violation of training rules, whereupon the pop-off artist promptly jumped the team at Kansas City with the announced intention of joining a barn-
storming semi-pro team rather than pay the fine, First Dean departed for St. Louis to pick up Mrs. Dean. The next stop was scheduled to be Chicago— Wrigley’s office.
Wrigley’s Office Is Open
Wrigley was willing to meet his costly pitcher any time Diz wanted to drop into his skyscraper offices in Chicago’s loop. Last season, pitcher Larry French made a similar visit to Wrigley and was told to “go out and be as good a pitcher as he knew how.” - . ;
~ The youthful Cub owner indicated he had the same sort of reply in mind for the man for whom he paid $185,000 in cash and three players only two Aprils ago. Diz, sore arm and all, came from the St. Louis Cardinals. “That fine ain’t fair,” Dean told interviewers in Topeka, Kas., where he’d been notified a fine had been assessed for his late return from a visit to an uncle, the Rev. Bland Dean, who lives near Wichita. “Hartnett has been after me ever since I first reported. I don’t want to be ridden all the -time and I don’t have to be. I can make more money inithree weeks with a barnstorming team than I can with the Cubs all season. I didn’t e: pect-to play with the Cubs this year any. way. This barnstorming club is already organized and I'll pitch with them on a Sunday, too, any time the Cubs are playing at home.”
‘I'm Fed Up, Says Gabby
Hartnett was the first to agree when Dizzy decided he was through. “When Dean took off his uniform before our exhibition game at Topeka he was ali through—at least
until that fine is paid,” Hartnett
said. “I'm fed up with his antics.” Hartnett refused to permit Dean to travel from Topeka to Kansas
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City on the Cubs’ special. Diz followed on the next regular train, telephoned his wife, and decided suddenly to go tu St. Louis to pick up Mrs. Dean before returning by auto to Chicago. . 'Dean’s attitude has puzzled the
nals
Cubs and traveling newspaper men
all spring. When he pitched five scoreless innings against the St. Monday, most
“comeback.” Of that appearance, however, Dizzy said: : “Hartnett put
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were rated at no money for their ronto Maple Leats fifth game of the 1 series. 5 won two games seven series, the r the first two at Garden. The Rangers have not won the cup since 1933. The Leafs| obtained their last trophy in 1932. |
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Baseball
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Towa, 2; Purdue, Western State, § ) ; Davids , Princeton, 4; Rutgers, 1, - Michigan, 13; Navy, 2 Army, 8; Brown, 3. Kansas, 13; Rockhurst, 4. Delaware, 11; Swarthmore, 0. Lehigh, 6; Dickinson, 3. Susquehanna, 103 Haverford, 1. Penn State, 10; Western Maryland, 2. |
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