Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1940 — Page 20

Medwick andl Curt Davis Go

To Dodgers

Cards Get 4 Players and Reported $250,000

NEW YORK, June 13 (U. P.) .-~The balance of power in the National League today swung to Brooklyn with a $250,000 deal—the biggest in baseball history — which

brought Outfielder Joe Med“wick and Pitcher Curt Davis

from the St. Louis Cdrdinals

* to the Dodgers.

Joe Medwic Curt Davis

SPORTS...

By Eddie Aes

Cussed and discussed, the Indianapolis Indians limped out of town today to try their luck on the road until June 30. ... The grass in the next pasture always looks greener, but it's hard to improve on that brilliant turf at : Perry Stadium.k . . Well, what's wrong with the Redskins? ‘+ .. Nothing that several new faces, base hits in the clutch

- and better pitching won’t cure. ... A large order, no less. ; The situation dwindles to the fact that the Indians were over- - rated in the spring, tra la, by the management, the experts and the : fans. ... And the boys overrated themselves. * However, it was stated in this department early in March that [the Indians had left for spring training with a pitching staff consisting of one . . .JLefty Bob Logan. ... The fans also questioned the ‘ability of the team to come through with the squad of rookies that . formed the major part of the staff at the Bartow, Fla., training camp. - ‘And not a single rookie hurler made the grade... . Of the staff ‘‘ofi15 at Bartow, five remain on the roster, all veterans. . Logan, - Johnson, Wilson, Sivess and Sharp. . , . French, Caldwell ‘and Bar- - rett were obtained at later dates.

_. Staff Combed For 51 Hits In Three Games

» THE TRIBE management gambled over the winter on pitchets : and lost the decision. . . . In their three recent games here the Minne- . apolis Millers shelled the home hurlrs for a total of 51 hits... avrag= : ing 17 a game. 5 : In the other departments the Tribe management got bad breaks. Cash was paid for Third Baseman Jonony Hill and Outfielder y Legrant. Scott to strengthen the team’s attack. On the players’ : 1939 basing records the purchases looked okay. . . . But both pastimers . failed to come through and are still far off their 1939 pace.

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DICK WEST was obtained from Cincinnati and installed as No. 1 : catcher. . . . He looked the part in early season games but as the i pressure increased a lack of polish behind the plate came to the sur- - face. ... He is not a high class Double A receiver ... yet. And it is - said some of the pitchers are wary about his judgment on calling pitches and handling their stuff. . . . Another West weakness is : throwing to bases and clutching tall fouls. Last year First Baseman Jess Newman batted .300. . . . ‘This season his average is below decks. . . . The management could not « foresee that tragic tumble in a comparatively young ball player.

; Like Charley McCarthy, They're ‘So Tired’

: IT IS reported some of the Indians resent extra practice in the + heat of the day “because it tires them for the night game.” . .. The « extra practice was called in an effort to pull ‘’em out of a slump. . . It's a baseball custom. ‘When night baseball was first introduced in Indianapolis some of * the boys started showing up in the evenings fagged out before game time. Instead of resting in the afternoons they were playing 18 : holes of golf or sapping their strength in swimming pools. ,

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IT'S PROBABLY true that the long slump has caused ill feeling : to crop out between individual players, but slumps are that way. . . . And this is a general slump or disorganization that creates : jealousies and “every man for himself.” Ball players know that - lemotion means less pay and when faced with it the old nerves crack : under the strain. The Indians committed 10 errors in the Minneapolis series, six + of them last night. . That:will give you an idea of the crackup. . They can’t win for losing. The late innings knock them . : groggy when victory is within: their reach . . . and they flounder in : the stretch. ... Just brutal, that’s all. ! j 8 #2 = WITH the American Association All-Star game coming up next : month, the Indians at this date don't figure to land many places in : the selections. Based on performance Bob Logan probably will * earn a mound. assignment, and Bennie Zientara has an outside chance » of consideration as No. 2 second sacker. Zientara has been out of the lineup due to illness since Sunday 3 bw is expected to return to action on the road trip.

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Baseball at a Glance

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St. Lo 0 001 000—2 6 1 GB i Washington 010 100 10x—3 aN Auker and Swift: Chase and Early.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 000 100 000—1 Cincinnati Highe, Si _Johsison and Warren; ringer and Lombardi.

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000 300 10—4 i vatt and Phelps; M Brown, | panpuh and Fernandes.

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28 . Washington 30 . PHiladelphid 28

NATIONAL 1 LEAGUE

New York at Chicago, rain, Only games scheduled.

Box Score—

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GAMES TODAY AMERIGAN JOqIATION

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

Detroit at Cleveland. Only game scheduled.

NATIONAL LEAGUE No gamés schéduled.

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The deal, engineered by President Larry MacPhail of the Dodgers and

President Sam Breadon of the| §

Cardinals last night in. St. Louis, sent three Brooklyn minor league players—Pitchers Carl Doyle and Sam Nahem and Infieider Bert Haas—with alternate Outfielder

‘| Ernie Koy to the Cards for Med-

wick and Davis. The Cards also received the reported sum of $250,000.

Medwick Should Help From whatever angle the deal was

‘considered, Brooklyn gained, With

a daily outfield -gap to plug and a pitching staff generally upset by injuries, Manager Leo: Durocher today brings his team back home in first place, .017 percentage points ahead of the Cincinnati Reds. The addition of Medwick should, from all indications, strengthen Brooklyn immeasurably. Batting champion and adjudged the most valuable player in the National League in 1937, Medwick brings a 304 batting average to the club run by his pal, Durocher. Openly disgruntied at playing with the Cards. Medwick has several times expressed a desire to play with Brooklyn and all during the past winter he had traveled, eaten and golfed with Durocher while the Dodgers bid for him. He was a holdout until only a few days before the Cards broke spring training camp, and his erratic playing in the past few weeks brought jeers from. St. Louis fans. Davis Is ‘Dark Horse’

Davis is the “dark horse” of the deal. A 22-game winner for the Cards last year, he has been unable either to win or finish a game in

charged with four defeats, but is known as a “rubber-arm” pitcher. If he should regain his former effectiveness, he will round out a pitching staff, weakened by the sore arm of Hugh Casey, now in Baltimore for treatment. Davis went to the Cards from the Cubs along with a reported $185,000 in exchange for Dizzy Dean. St. Louis fans, already soured on the playing of their team, may have more reason for displeasure with the latest Cardinal gesture. Koy, now hitting .239, is the only player who may help the Cards. Haas! and Nahem are both in the minor! leagues and Doyle should be. Haas is a first baseman and ‘why the Cards need help at the position | Johnny Mize holds down so expeértly, cannot ‘be figured right now.

Nahem Found Wanting

Nahem has been tried and found! wanting and Doyle has beén. kept only because of the shortage of able-bodied Dodger pitchers. From this end it.appeared as if the Cardinals had already conceded the pennant to some other team and made the deal strictly for the money involved. Both players come to the Dodgers at a crucial moment. The sec-

ond-place Reds open a four-game |

series at Ebbets Field tomorrow and are followed by the Cards for three games.

Coffin to Meet

Tournament plans will be dis-

Club members at 7:30. o'clock to-

seven starts this year. He has been

cussed at a meeting of Coffin Golf!

'Elated,’ Says Ditrocher

PITTSBURGH, June 13 (U. PJ). —Manager Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers said today he was “elated” over the deal which sent Outfielder Joe Medwick and. Pitcher Curt Davis to the Dodgers in exchange for four players and cash reportedly in the neighborhood of $250,000. “I'm elated, in a hurry and have to leave,” Durocher said as he prepared to leave for Brooklyn following his team’s 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in a game here last night.

Bosses Pleased

ST. LOUIS, June 13 (U. P.).— Brooklyn President Larry MacPhail declined comment on the reported $250,000 figure irwolved in the Joe Medwick-Curt Davis deal. . “I like the deal,” he said. “And I know the Cardinals’ public will, too. Maybe not right away, but in a year they will.” Cardinal President Sam Breadon declined to comment but appeared pleased with the deal,

2 Butler Aces

Near Finale

Charies Marshall of Montezuma, Ind., and William Southworth of (Anderson, ' Ind., co-captains of" the 1939-40 Butler University track team, will. make their last home stand Saturday afternoon when they run in the Indiana A. A. U. state track meet,

"The meet - will. be held on the cinder track in back of the Fieldhouse with Butler Indoor Relay lofficials officiating the 20-event program. Coach Raymond Sears of the Bulldog. track teams will officiate. Sears has announced that both runners will conclude their college activities June 21-22 when they takg part in the National Collegiate track meet ‘at Minneapolis, Minn, Marshall is officially entered in the meet. He will run in the high hurdle events.

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Yanks and Red

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-Ponning gloves publicly for the first time in seven years, Jack Dempsey (left) sparred a couple of short rounds yesterday with Arturo Godoy, Chilean challenger. his return bout with Champion Joe Louis a week from tonight. | Jack is doing some training, too—for x “grudge bout” with Cowboy Luttrell in Atlanta, Ga., next moni

.|Godoy is training at Carmel, N. Y., for

Sox Head West

{Where Pennants Are Won

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 13.—American League pennants are won in the west. Seventeen out of the last 20 American League winners have been Eastern clubs and the hall-mark of all these champions was the fact that they got fat on Western junkets.

So beginning tomorrow, watch

the progress of the Red Sox and

Yankees through the Western end of the circuit for the tipoff on which

club is likely to win the American League pennant. Or if both clubs should falter, then the way will be left open for either Cleveland or Detroit to step up as a serious challenger. During the eastern invasion just ended by the Western clubs the Yanks showed some signs of making progress by winning 8 out of 12, with half of the victories over the Browns. The Red Sox had a bad home stand, losing six and winning five, : But just before leaving home to

open in Chicago tomorrow the Red Sox came to life and clouted out

two victories over Cleveland. They |:

trimmed Bob Feller Tuesday and yesterday knocked cut Al Milnar to win, 9-5. Jimmy Foxx atoned for

a near disastrous error in the sixth

which figured prominently in a three-run rally by hitting a double which tied the score in the eighth. Then the Red Sox went on to hang up six runs and clinch the game. Jim Bagby, who relieved Mickey

Harris, allowed only one hit in the |

last four innings and was the winner. The victory increased the Red Sox lead to two games. Charlie Keller's hitting led the Yanks to a 7-5 victory over the

Tigers for the Bronx Bombers’ first |

triumph of the season over Detroit at Yankee Stadium. Keller's homer inside the park with two mates on base in the seventh was the clineher. He also hit a triple to drive in a run and then scored himself on an infield out.

Thornton Lee, White Sox lefthander, lost a heart-breaker to the Athletics, bowing 3-2 after allowing only three hits. Benny McCoy singled in the first and Bob Johnson hit his 11th homer. Then in the fifth Sam Chapman hit his fourth homer. Those were the only hits off Lee. Nelson Potter gave the White Sox six hits. . Washington snapped the Browns’

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We Don’t Vom Donovan as

Referee~Weill

Claims Verdict Already Against Godoy

By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 13.—Manager Al Weill demanded today that the

boxing commission refrain from appointing Arthur Donovan as referee for the Louis-Godoy championship battle a week from tonight, because Donovan already has “voted in print” against Challenger Godoy.’ In his written demand, Weill charged that Donovan “passed judgment” on the fight in an article appearing under his name in this week’s issue of a national magazine.

Seeks Consul’'s Aid : Weill took this action because it seemed virtually certain that Donovan would officiate. Donovan refereed all 14 of Joe Louis’ previous New York fights and one in Cleveland. In the first Louis-Godoy tilt on Feb. 9, Donovan gave Louis 10 rounds and Godoy four. One of the two judges gave the fight to Godoy by a wide margin. In addition to mailing his own demand, Pilot Weill has asked Anibal Jara, Chilean consul general in New York, to intercede with the commission in Godoy’s behalf. Arturo Godoy is a Chilean. : Weill and Godoy are particularly incensed at the conclusion of Donovan’s article which emphasizes that Louis can cut loose against Godoy this time “and win,” since the champion probably will retire after this battle and hence need have ng fear of injuring his hands. ‘Says Louis Will Win’ “All through the article Donovan expresses open and biased admiration for the champion,” Weill declared. “Then he winds up by saying Louis will win, That's like a judge giving off his verdict before a case goes to trial. In the courts, we certainly could get a change of venue.. In the ring, we certainly should get a change of referees— particularly in this fight where the challenger is a South American and at a time when the United States is working overtime to help Pan-Americanism.” Weill said he hadn't protested Donovan’s scoring after the first Louis-Godoy scrap because he figured “there was no use crying over spilt milk.” But this time Donovan “has done his scoring in advance and he won't get away with it.”

Pittsburgh Signs Collegian Copple

PITTSBURGH, June 13 (U.P) — Despite “stiff competition” from other major league teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced today they had signed J. Addis Copple, righthanded pitcher who recently graduated from Washington College,

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Lockhart. It was a long creame colored racer and carried No. 32.

Missed Chance at Pole

Before qualifications actually started, it was thought that Swane son might win the pole position— or, at least, come close. His mechan= iesy however, were unable to get its revolutions up to the maximum and Swanson qualified it in second place in the seventh row at a 410-mile average speed of 124.619 miles an hour. . He was always in a “money position” in the 1940 race, and had not 1ain slowed the race from the 375mile mark onward, he might have

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