Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1940 — Page 14

Sheriff Al Keeney, left, and Mayor | Sullivan in action at the mibs tourncy , , , “No fudgin’ there AL”

warns the Mayor,

SPORTS.

By Eddie Ash

INDIANAFOLIS INDIANS wind up their Eastern wing in Louisville Sunday and then return to meet the | séason’s second invasion of the Western clubs. . . . A . postponed game with St. Paul will be played off Monday | night, June 3, and it will be ladies’ night at Perry Stadium.

3 ... Monday is an open date in the American Association

i and the Saints will stop off here for the single attraction while en . route to Columbus. ] On Tuesglay the Milwaukee Brewers will move in and will be followed by the Kansas City Blue Streaks, St. Paul again and then Minneapolis. . The Tribe-Miller series will § nd on June 12, after - # which the- Redskins will hit the: road and pl in seven cities for . their longest trip of the season: The Indians have played fifty-fifty ball against the four Western teams and are looking forward .to improving the record during the home stand beginning Monday. . . . Tribe club officials are confident attendance will pick up during the June home series , . . if the ‘weather behaves. . . . It was a little too frigid for night ball at some of the games in May. . . . The after sundown chill was penetrating after an hour or so of play.

Blue Streaks Average 3300 Per Game

. #& IN THEIR first 16 home games the Kansas City Blues played be- : 3 fore 53,000 paid customers, an average of 3300 ‘per game. ... . In the ~ % Midst of an argument with Umpire Dan Tehan, Manager Mickey Heath of the Brewers asked: “Did you ever play baseball?” . .. “Thank goodness, no,” was the arbiter’s surprising reply.

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irs BIG LEAGUE scouts watching A. A. games at this. time are. eine Groh, Giants; Pie Traynor, Pirates, and Jewl Ens, Reds. . ¢ ‘yoli know? ... that the Indianapolis Indians used to entertain ‘ene of their best crowds of the season on 500-mile day. . At Me-. orial Day double-headers (afternoon), the attendance would double’ after the first game as the race fans poured in from the Speedway to catch up on their baseball.

Young Southpaw Phenom on Card Farm

¥ SEASONED Texas League observers rate Howard Pollet, who is of French extraction, the greatest left-handed pitcher the’ Lone Star seircut -has seen since 1928, when Wild Bill’ Hallahan was hurling “Houston to the Dixie championship and Carl Hubbell was ‘compiling a 3 “brilliant record for Beaumont.

i No ~ §°° Pollet, with Houston, a Cardinal farm, will observe his 19th birth- - | 4 "dayson June 26.

.. .-He won his first 10 starts this season and is “8 "leading the league in ‘strikeouts. Six feet tall and weighing 170 ponds; Pollet is-in his second year of professional ball, é ih a 8 8) 2 8 8 . IT’S ONLY a shor time since Pollet made a sensational record Jn American Legion junior play in New Orleans. . . . His perform‘ance in the kid ranks attracted the attention of a number of major ‘eag scouts. Manager Eddie Dyer of the Houston Club gave Pollet a bonus 3 ‘tor joining the Cardinal chain after a chat with the lad during the | minor league convention in New Orleans in December, 1938,

2 ad Moore Released at 43

BABE GANZEL, St. Paul manager, figures that Kansas. City will ‘ iB the pennant by at least 12 games. . . . The Millers cut the Blues’ big three games yesterday. . . Wiley Moore, veteran righthander, F Fa: his sebond term with St. Paul the other day when the Sainté 8% Yhanded the 43-year-old pifcher his unconditional release. ¢ + In 1930, Moore won 2§ games for SH) Paul, being drafted by the | {Boston Red Sox that fal

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THE COLONELS are happy over the refusal of the Louisville Board of Aldermen toc adopt daylight saving time, the proposal “having been voted down last week. (With daylight saving time in effect, it would not be sufficiently dark to start night games until 9 p. m. Night double-headers L d be impossible, because they would stretch out too far into the sehy morning,

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: Another Heath

SEATTLE, May 30 (NEA).— Laury Heath, younger brother of Jeff Heath, Cleveland outfielder, pitches for the University of Wash-

ington. Safety First

BOSTON, May 30 (NEA).— - Dominic DiMaggio, Red Sox outfielder, spreads tar over the handle .of his bat to prevent it from slip-

Major Leaders

By UNITED PRESS BATTERS NATIONAL LEAGUE Playe Denn, "New York.. Walker, Brooklyn .. 2 7 Lombardi, Cin’ we fen Leiber, Chicago 35 13 Ross. Boston AMERICAN LEAGUE

HOME RUNS Mize, £arqjval .12 | Kuhel. White Sox Foxx, Red | Johnson Athletics. . Trosky, Indians 10]

bl :s champion.

champ and he’s anxious to congr tulate the ‘500-mile race winner, just as one champion to another. “merging from the largest marbls tournament field in recent yefars, Gene defeated Danny Brosnin, 10, of 3509 W. Michigan St. tv'o games out of three at the Ind anag, World War Memorial Plaza y sterday. The secret of Gene's success was hs uncanny ability to make his sl iooter stick smack in the center oi the ring once it hit a marble. Fe was presented the gold tournanient trophy. and the Speedway t ckets by Mayor Reginald H. Sul1 van, himgelf no mean marbles g£10t. X The .Mayor defeated Sheriff Al

( Lowheys Take

"Track Honors

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 30 (U. I .).—Oklahoma A. & M., whose varsity teams have won the last three Missouri. Valley Conference

track championships, showed promise of future power by scoring In every event but the shot put to {ake .the loop’s freshman track title, results of the telegraphic competition showed here today. The Cowbeys, showing weakness c¢nly in the weight events, won only six of the 16 events, but displayed great team strength to pile up 724 joints. Drake, with its power centered in the distance races, finished second with 37%. Tulsa’ scored 28 points to take third “place, largely on the perfrrmance of Vickers, who won the “70-yard dash with a new record of 41.6 seconds, the 100-yard dash and {ire broad jump. Ist. Louis University, which produced the .outstanding weight men of the freshman ranks, was fourth 1 lith 262 points and. Washburn sought up the rear with 7%. Washngton ‘and Creighton did not comjete. Tate of the Oklahoma Aggie tram entered 10 of the 14 individual events and won points in seven. He won the two hurdle races, was sccond in the broad jump, high ‘jump and javelin throw, fourth in the pile vault and tied’ for fourth in the 100-yard dash. {He piled up 20% dividual Honors. oid with 15.

points for inVickers was sac-

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13 Get Letters At Indiana Central

Eighteen Indiana Central College ¢ithletes received track and baseball sumeral and letter. awards yesterjay on the honors day pLrogram eld in the college chapel.( Letter awards, in baseball were iven to Ray Bloomingdale, Clyde jolzhausen, Mervin Holzhausen, Angus Nicoson, Orville Salzman,

i. Norris Trowbridge and Arthur Wed- | dell. warded to George Crowe and Ricn-

Freshman numerals were

ard Kessler, In track, letter awards went to

8 were awarded to Robert Pippin.

303 Gordon Adams, Ulas Halt, Wilbur

Kenoyer, James Miller, Joaquin Montoya, Daniel ‘Rothenberger, Alva Stoneburner -and to Lester Kirk, senior manager. Numerals

"| the, last wobble.

THE INDIANAPOLIS ‘TIMES

7,.e e Vaughn Captures City Marbles

| The champ, Gene Vaughn, 113! Bellefontaine St., shows how its

done.

Conqueror of Record Field To Greet 200-Mile Winner

By RICHARD LEWIS

The little fellow with the freckles in Grandstand C at the Speedway to lay will be Gene Vaughn, 12, of 113% Bellefontaine 8t., the City mar-

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Gene won't be.there only as a spectator. He'll be there because he’s

Feeney in a single shot game dur- | _

ing the intermission at yesterday's

final playoffs. In addition to Gene Vaughn of!

School 10 and Danny Brosnan of awthorne, the finalists were

Toor Mildner, 13, of 249 S. State of the English Ave. Boys’ Club i William Bise, 14, of 2160 Wheeler St., of Brookside.

|: Defeats Danny Brosnan In the initial playoffs, Danny Brosnan defeated William Bise in two close games by’ scores of 7 to 6! in both games. George Mildner defeated Gene Vaughn in the second preliminary playoff in the first game 7 to 2. But Gene came back to blank his opponent 7 to 0 in the next two games, taking best out of three. : In the final series, Gene won the lag to take the first shot. He hit a marble close to the ring edge, but not out, leaving Danny a point possibility which the West Side youngster made easily. From then on, it was close, until Gene finally made his shooter: behave and stay in the ring. The score was 3 to 1, Gene leading, when the School 10 entry began clipping the marbles in rapid succession, winning 7 to 1. Danny Brosnan won first shot in the lag of the second game. The crowd of about 150 ‘persons who had gathered about the playing field grew tense. Danny missed his first shot, but Gene’s shooter hit and stuck in the ring’s center. It looked like the end of the game, for when Gene once got into the ring center, he stayed there until he won. But Danny got a reprieve when Gene missed at close range, Seizing advantage of his opportunity momentarily, the little West Sider scorech a point, but missed on his second shot. Then Gene struck again and his shooter spun in the ring center. In six successive shots he clearsd the circle to win the championship. In the unofficial contest between the officials, the City’s chief executive demonstrated that he has no” forgotten his marbles technique. The* Sheriff shot first, his shooter skipping over every obstruction, including the 13 marbles in the ring center.

The. Mayor Shows Em

Then. the Mayor knuckled down. The crowd screamed encouragement: The Mayor let go a shot which wobbled, but which wound up squarely behind two marbles on Sheriff Feeney conceded the victory to the Mayor. Following the presentation of the

gold trophy and the Speedway |

tickets to the winner, Sheriff Feeney presented the sectional and district medals. As 'runncrup champion, Danny Brosnan received a gold medal in addition vo medals for winning hig sectional and district battles: A WPA band lent color to the finals contest, which was held under ‘gray and uncertain skies. The contestants played on a court constructed by the City Recreation Department. - Tournament reférees” and judges were H. W. Middlesworth, Recreation director; Hugh McGinnis and A. J. Thatcher of the WPA recreation division and Paul Haagsma and James Reed, City recreation

‘I supervisors.

.Nurses on Hand .

Brass Monkey Bows Out

BOSTON, May 30 (U. P.).— Brass Monkey, with 247 horse races and one night club appearance behind him, headed today for the green pastures of retirement. Long known as “New England’s favorite race horse,” the 12-year-old gelding was guest of honor at a farewell party given by 500 of his fans at the Cocoanut Grove night club here. The staunch old campaigner snorted and pranced like a 2-year= old as he was led onto the dance floor. to receive a bouquet of flowers, and then calmly polished off a meal of oats and carrots.

Banquet sponsors and Owner |

Lillian C. White, of Plymouth, Mass, said Brass Monkey was honored as a symbol’ of determination—a horse that never quit. Never a really great horse, the Monkey thrilled thousands with his terrific stretch drives.

Race Tightens In 3-Eye Loop

y UNITED PRESS Race Pd the Three-Eye League

leadership had tightened today with Clinton and Cedar Rapids, winners in games last night, still tied for second place, half a game away from Springfield which lost to Mad-| ison, 8 to 1. Schmitz whiffed 11 Brown Sox. Madison, spurred by Hugh Gus tafson who made four hits, score a run in the fifth, sixth and seventh and then put five hits togethe in the ninth to add five more The. game : was featured by thr double plays, two by Springfield and one by Madison. - Cedar Rapids kept pace wit Clinton by giving Waterloo its 18t trouncing of the year. The score wa 6 to 3. Clinton won from Decatur, 7 to 5, in a hitfest. Poat and Fran were the respective winning pitchers for Cedar Rapids and Clinton. TODAY’S GAMES

Decatur and Springtield wo), Moline at Evansville (t ¥o) Clinton at Madison_ (tw Waterloo at Cedar Ra wal (afternoon), Cedar Rapids at Waterloo (night).

Rochester Wins

Over Montreal i

By UNITED PRESS Rochester's Red Wings bludgeoned three former major league pitchers for a 6-3 victory over the Montreal Royals in one of two International League games last night, Syracuse blanked Baltimore, in the other. The Wings pounded Lee Grissom aut of the box with a four-run blast in the second inning and added two more off Freddy Hutchinson, highpriced Detroit rookie, in the fifth. Al Hollingsworth former Dodger held them scoreless for the final two innings. pind Tising limited the Orioles to four hits while his mates, although held to three blows, took advantage: of four Baltimore errors to win,

Trains Greyhounds SANTA CLARA, Cal, May 30 (NEA).—Jack Roche, Santa Clara fullback, will help his father train greyhounds this summer.

During Tea Period PHILADELPHIA, May 30 (NEA). —Pennsylvania, Princeton, Haverford, and Ursinus will form a

cricket league ‘next fall.

: | Vanderbilt has arrange

k hall game in Florida}

To the victor. belongs the spoils, Freeckled, smilin g Gene receives the hr trophy from the

hands of Mayor Sullivan,

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, May B30.—Sports have started to rally to the support of the war victims. ‘Young Alfred a match race between two unbeaten two-year-olds to be held at Belmont track on June 6. The Bross receipts are to go to the Red Cross. . It appears that this gesture by Vanderbilt was self inspired, Anyway, it is the first offer

r fo help that as come to the Red Gross from far. That Shown the

any sporting group so other tracks here and country and other sporting groups will follow seems reasonably . sure. This happens to be a matter in which all persons with feeling land sympathy must be interested. Business leaders, industrialists, publishers, the whole front of American enterprise, regularly rallies to [Red Cross necessities. There is no reason’ why organized sports shouldn't, a big’ business in itself, | participate.

Others Surely will low

Vanderbilt has shown the way, and we are sure the others will follow. As a matter of fact most sports organizations are unfailingly generous in the support of lany charity. Here and there you find stubborn exceptions which barricade themselves. behind the tec nicalities of corporate law. But noo these are in the minority. This seerhs as good a time as any to report on the concluding phases of the Finnish Relief Fund. That is, the sports end of it., Incomplete figures show sports poured approximately $700,000 into the fund. This was the result of a far flung and diversified program in which small owns and big cities, heavyweight champions and scrawny kid basketballers, played a part. The individual returns ranged from a ‘check for $560 from a kid basketball game in rural Tennessee to $21,295.96 from the All-Star basePractically every sport known Americans was represented, including the not s0 American sport of skiing; the skifers turned, in over $8000. They couldn’t build a fence around a mountain so they sold lapel buttons

er's call,

different sports events were put on

By Arranging War Relief Program |

tom ten cents to anything the purchaser wanted to pay. A lot pf expert help was needed in putting the program over and this was forthcoming from men like

Ed Barrow, Ford Frick, Will Har-|

ridge, Larry MacPhail, Asa Bushnell, "Robert Harron, Dan Ferris, Jack Flaherty, Fred Corcoran, ike Jacobs, Jimmy Bronson and Is Beiber. The list is too long to hn sent a complete roll «call. But with all due credit to these men, and they deserve much, we think a major part of the success of the national program. was due to the energy and enthusiasm with which - the sports wiliters of the country responded to Herbert HoovIndeed, we haven't yet been able to tabulate how many

for the fund in so many different towns and cities by the sports writers. There was one regrettable incident in the national program-—the professional tennis matches, the handling of which provoked some criticism; still does, in fact. The receipts were $10,781; the expenses $6,774.40. This caused us to wonder whether the matches had been played for the benefit of the Finns or the promoters. We couldn’t get away from the baseball contrast where the receipts were $21,913.06 and the expenses only $617.10. Richards Takes Exception Vincent Richards, who helped run the matches, too exception in the form of a letter which he sent to the leading writers of the country, being gracious enough to send us one, too. We haven’t been able to make it out yet. Somehow it seems we are largely to blame for the unsatisfactory results. For one thing we didn’t write a column on the

matches as we had promised. Fo Christian Park either

another we weren't around here fo help run things.This, is flattering of course. We mean the implied appeal of our column. We happened to be in the South at the time on assignment and incidentally helping to promote the All-Star game. But why were we needed here? In the statement

of expenditures we find that Mr. Richards is down for $500 for. serv-

After 15 Years

By JERRY BRONDFIELD NEA Service Staff rrespondent NEW YORK, May B30.—He’s just a little guy as ball players go, and when he stands up at the plate h® doesn’t look particularly mean or dangerous. But pitchers have a doublebarreled fear of Melvin Thomas Ott. Keeping him off base is a problem, because ‘iff he doesn’t belt the ball out of the park he’s just as apt to walk. + Whether it’s because he has the knack of working the pitcher, or because hu’s such a [feared hitter in the clutch—or both-—the fact remains that Ott has been given free passage to first more often than any player in National League history. If he has a weakness at the plate pitchers have been able to find it. Ott has an eye that isn’t easily fooled by a curve or change of pace. When Max Carey, greatest Na-

tional League base-stealer, hung up his spikes‘in 1929 he had set a mark

Ott Still Toppling Records

‘new National League record also is

of 1040 bases on balls. Ott: broke

in Big Time

that mark early last year, closing the season with 1135. A Now. with each succeeding pass he receives his record will become just that much more secure. Before he’s through the Giant outfield star easily can set a loop record that will stand forever. In the first place, it isn’t likely that many more players will see” as many as 20 years of full-time service’ in the majors. Mel reported to John McGraw when he was a pink-cheeked lad of 16. McGraw

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Vanderbilt Sets Example for Sports World

ices, Mr. Rip Dolman is down for $500 for services, Mr. Al Ennis is down for $250 for services. Jush how many managers does a tennis show need? In his letter Mr. Richards breaks down the $500 he received and in the end shows he is actually :$2.18 out of pocket. One of the items. is r {$100 for expenses from Miami when Mr. Richards actually came from Durham, N. C. Another item is $104.50 for tickets for “friends and employees.” This latter item gives us pause. We will merely point out that according to Mr. Richards’ own statement these tickets were paid for out of money he received from the fund for services. We arer’t a Euclid at figures but in view of these facts we fail to sce where Mr. Richards could be anything out of pocket. On the cone trary. Mr. Richards got a pretty good press on his letter telling us off, particularly in the trade magazines, Moreover, a columnist’ in the Chijcago Daily News was moved to write: “We must report that Vine cent thinks Williams is something of a stinker.” And the Boston Transcript headlined: to Williams: Wants Public To Be The Judge.” That's all right with us,

job:

Amateurs

The Olive Branch Christian

for the next several weeks. having permits for Garfield or

Monday, Wednesday or Friday nights, please | contact Sheppard, LI-4541, or evenings, IR-1696.

Goldsmith’s ‘Secos softball team

team Sunday morning in a BushFeezle League game at Willard Park. Manager Goldsmith desires the following men to report at Wile lard Park not later than 9:45 Sune day morning: Frieje, Dosch, Reiswerk, Brunner, McBride, cCloud, Shaw, Stein, Carl Martin, Woodrum, Kinnett, Mahaney, A. ‘Goldsmith, Dale Burge and Kenny Delk, | Secos desires| night road games with strong state teams. Write 535« 7 S. Illinois St.,| or eal LI-1612, un= til 5:30 p. m. or LI-2136 after 6 p. m. |

Play in the Ww. M M. C. A. spon sored industrial softball league will brings the Roberts Milk Co. and Kiefer-Stewart squads together tomorrow afternoon at Willard Park. The Crusaders will oppose the Bookwalter team at Christian Park while the Indianapolis Street Railways will oppose the Y. M. C. A. squad at Riverside, All games or set for 5:30 p. mL [or

Following are| e the r results of gam

kept him on the bench for two|at Belmont:

seasons, content ‘to let him watch how things were done. This is his 156th year of active duty and at the age of 31 he has at least four or five more seasons ahead of him. By the time Ott is through he should ‘have more than 1500 walks to his credit, considerably under | A Babe Ruth’s all-time mark of 2056, but there was only one Ruth. Every time Mel hits a homer a

made in that department. His 369

National ‘Cushion Springs, 11, Oma Bakin i

Balsrds, 9;! Inenapole Bankers, 0. piooster Ye r, 9; Railroad Federal an, 8.

In the Friday night Em-Roe Girls’ Léague R. C. A. will play Midnigh Orb at 7:30 _ ‘m. and the Hoosie ..C. will meet 7 Up at 8:30 p. m.

Outhoard Marathon

ST. AUGUSTINE, May 30 (NEA). —Outboard | enthusiasts are plane

round-trippers at the .close of last season were more than any senior leaguer had ever made in a lifetime.

ning a marathon to Jacksonville and back, a distance of 110 miles over inland waterways.

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will play the Paramount Hardware

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too. We wn think it was a messy |

Church softball team would like to | schedule games with strong teams Teams