Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1940 — Page 44

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940

4 Working Men _ Softball Tourney Seek Publinks Finals Berths

Furgol Continues to Be Crowd’s Favorite

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BULLETIN DETROIT, July 26 (U. P).— Robert Clark of St. Paul was two up on Ed Furgol, Utica, N. Y,, at the end of the first nine holes in their 36 hole semi-final match in the National Public Links Golf Tournament. In the lower bracket semi-final, Mike Dietz, Detroit auto worker, was two up on Roy Dolce of Denver, Colo, at the end of the first round.

By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, July .26 (U, P.).—It's| a semi-final round for working men| were discussing the allotment of exclusively in the National Public| When this picture was snapped. Links Golf Tournament today with a metal-polisher out against a salesman and an auto - wrecker bucking a man who makes rubber tires Over the sun-baked turf at Present, Boys Rackham Municipal Course, these four will travel 36 holes or less for{ WICHITA, Kas. July 26 (U.P). he igh peer in Saturday's Arguments with umpires being RO | what they sometimes are, the Edward J. Furgol, 22-year-old | world’s premiere of the “periscope metal polisher from Utica, N. Y.| mjerophone” last night was conwho tied for the tournament medal| ciqerablv more than its sponsors with a record of 138, vs. Robert expected. Clark, 31-year-old ph:sician, sup-| at the touch of a button, the ply salesman from St. Paul, Minn, | pjerophone springs from a hidden holder of the St Paul City title. receptacle at home plate and Roy Dolce, Denver, Colo, rubber| feeds the vocal part of umpireworker who went to the guar ee | player disputes into the public finals last year, vs. Mike Dietz, De-| a5qress system so that spectators troit auto-worker. can head what is going on. The Last of 2600 Leftfielder Ernie Miller of ChaThey're the last survivors of a| nute, who was batting, didn’t like field of more than 2600 who en-| the way Umpire Paul Fair was tered qualifying trials weeks ago. calling them in the Kansas State Furgol, favorite of the galleries| semi-pro baseball meet. He since the tournament started be-| turned around to tell him so and cause of an old injury which left| the microphone sprang up in his him with a erippled left arm, fought| face. Some of the spectators his way to the semi-final round| blushed. The public address syswith important victories over| tem operator pressed a button and Worth Stimits Jr, Colorado Col-| the microphone retired. Miller lege junior who tied him for the| and Fair finished their argument medal, 3 and 2, and over Labron| in comparative privacy. Harris, husky wrestling instructor | at a Guthrie, Okla, high school, 4' and 3 { Clark had just as much trouble in the tough upper bracket which originally included all the favorites nd defending champion Andy Szwedko of Pittsburgh. Clark ran|

Set for Gold Cup up against the hottest scorer of the

tournament, 18-year-old Charley! INGLEWOOD, Cal, July 26 (U. Lind, Denver High School boy | P) —One by one, the outsiders whose five tournaments round stepped out today until but 11 of totalled two under par and he{the sharpest thoroughbreds at finally won in the 19th hole, Hollywood Park appeared ready to Downs Gary Golfer g0 in tomorrow's running of the then eliminated Lou Jen-|30.000-added Gold Cup. Portland, Ore, bank em-| As trainers and owners began ployee, who recently won the Ore- | dropping the names of their horses gon amateur championship. He into the White entry box shortly downed Jennings by the same one. after dawn, the fight for the richhole margin. . est stake in California's summer The lower bracket had consider-|Se3S0n shaped up between three— ably less fireworks, although Dolce Challedon, Kayak II and Can't was forced to 20 holes to dispose] Wait. 2 of Edwin Harper, Pocatello, Idaho,| The favorite is expected to be 1 up. He then defeated Mike Stef-|Challedon, W. L. Brann’s horse of

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anchik, Gary, Ind. steel mill work-|the year in 1939, which he sent |®

er. 2 up. | westward this week in quest of the Dietz entered the fifth round by |Tich pot. At approximate odds of defeating Donald Shoc¥ of Day-|8-5, there will be little choice at ton, O. 6 and 5, and Jack Larose, the mutuels between him and Ka-

Detroit 3 and 2. yak II, C. S. Howard's black Ar-

Mrs. Lentz Set Pace and a quarter fixture, f th For Guests at P. R. |are given an outside EAI,

A gross 90 carried Mrs. Dale Lentz an upset. Advocator, stablemate to to victory in yesterday's guest day |Kayak, was shipped from Chicago golf tournament at the Pleasant!/last week expressly for the Gold Run course. Second among the|Cup, and experts say he probably guests, with a 95, was Mrs. E. D.| will be sent out fast by Ralph Lukenbill, while Mrs. L. L. Lykins|Neves to set the pace. A, A. Baroni’s placed third with a 98. | Specify, always a front running Mrs. Carl Cutter led Pleasant Run | threat, is believed likely to fade after members in the gross division with ja mile; Viscounty, with a liking for an 81, while Mrs. Robert Layock, | the route, is a consistent performer, with an 87, was second. Mrs. Joe and Hysterical, also with blinding Falta fired a net 77 to pace the early speed like Specify, is able to guests. {open much ground.

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United Press Staff Correspondent

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| Baker of Detroit, who has shifted Rudy York from behind the plate NEW YORK, July 26.—Putting |to first base and Hank Greenberg the sport shot here and there: from first base to the outfield? I can’t wait to pick Can't Wait| Just the other day I challenged in the $50,000 Gold Cup at Holly- | Joe Gordon of the New York Yankwood Park tomorrow, and I'll bet |€es to a personal decathalon match, you can't wait to know why. . . The [each of us to choose our own list reason is that my horse was a medi- {of 10 events. . , . Knowing Gordon ocre 2-year-old, a poor 3-year-old|didn’t play golf I included such and a bad 4-year-old and he nwust |1'éms as driving, putting, getting either improve now or take his |out of bunkers, getting out of traps place on the backs of postage (and such devious pastimes. . .. I stamps. . . . The Cincinnati Reds |felt a bit guilty about this until I and Brooklyn Dodgers have both | received the Gordon list. Joe had established fine marks of con-|listed such purely unselfish tricks sistency this year. . The Reds | as throwing to first base, sliding

Entries Due

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haven't lost more than two games in a row except once and the Dodgers haven't won more than two in & row except once. . . . How did sports writers ever man- | age to get interviews from athletes before the invention of the shower. | « .. You can hardly pick up a news- | paper these days without finding a | picture of a ballplayer or prize | fighter scrubbing his back while telling his life story, or how he won | or lost, to some reporter. Any shot in the arm that tennis hoped for in the form of the younger California players simply isn't materializing. . . . First Welby Van Horn was given the heave-ho by some unknown in the current Seabright tournament, and now Jack | Kramer also has been eased out. . . . Speaking of tennis, Gil Hunt pre- | fers sleeping on a floor to sleeping | on a bed. Maybe he is just getting | in training for the new eight-week | expense regulation. Weren't | Bill McKechnie and a few other | baseball men hailed as master- | minds for converting Bucky Walters | from a third baseman into a | pitcher? What does that make Del |

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into third, fielding a Texas Leaguer and stopping a line drive. His last note—in typical 1940 Yankee fash- . So we gave both lists to an unprejudiced third party and are both eagerly awaiting the outcome. . . . Watch this space for further details. ‘ce Just to confuse the horse-race bettors, we've now a horse named Thirty Eight to add to Eight Thirty. The chronological factor is becoming important on the turf, There now are horses named One o' One, Two © Two, Three o° Three, Four o’ Four and Five 0’ Five. . . . Personally, I still like the rhythm of 10 to 1, particularly if he arrives on time.

Under Discussion

Joe Kelly of Stout Stadium and L. D. Fink of Softball Stadium | dates for the city softball tournament the Manufacturers’ League,

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SOFTBALL

Bob Mathers, Indianapolis Softball Association president, warned team managers today that entries for the city softball tournament | must be filed before the deadline at’ noon tomorrow. Mathers emphasized that no extension of the deadline

[will be made. |

| Entry blanks are available at two | stadiums, Stout and Softball, and, with the customary $3 fee, may be filed with Wally Middlesworth, city recreation director and tournament manager, at 302 City Hall. Play in the tourney probably will begin next Wednesday. More than 40 teams are expected | to enter the Amateur Softball Asso- | ciation's county sectional tourna- | ment, which will open Monday night, Aug. 12, at Belmont Stadium. | The county winner and runnerup will be eligible to compete in the regional, also scheduled at Belmont, while the regional winner will take on the northern Indiana victor in a two-of-three-game series at South Bend. The conquerer in this state series will compete in the national tournament to be held at Detroit. Nick Carr's Boosters of Covington, Ky. are national champions, while Hammond Civics won last year's state crown. Douglas Theater's title is at stake in the sectional meet.

Peerless Foundry, 7-4 victor over Mutual Milk, wants a game for next Tuesday at Spades Park. Call Fred Hinds at Cherry 6122. Tonight's schedule at Stadium:

7:30—Associated Gas & Oil vs. Brookside

8:30 Richardson's Market

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vs. Morris Last night's results: Irvington Merchants, 6; Delaware FlowCurry Barbers, 10; Chiropractors, 9

Aluminum Finish, 16; Schwitzer-Cum-mins, 6.

This evening’s pairings in the Industrial League at Stout Stadium: 7:00—National Veneer vs. Beveridge Paper. 3-R. C. A :

1 . C. A, vs. Stockyards 9:30—Blue Print vs. Meat Cutters.

Finch A. C. defeated Fountain Square Athletics, 4 to 0. Zenite players will leave 3537 Garden Ave. at 6:30 this evening for their game at Mooresville. Goldsmith's Negro Secos scored a 9-5 victory over Goldsmith's Seco All-Stars last night at Softball Stadium. Jess Beck clouted a homer for the Negro Secos, while Delk of the All-Stars also hit for the circuit, Louie's Market has a diamond for Sunday but no opponent. The number to call is Market 0912,

State Sectionals To Begin Aug. 11

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. July 26 (U. P).—S. Harlan Vogt, president of the Indiana Recreation Association, said today that the association would sponsor the state amateur baseball tournament this year with sectional tourneys starting Aug. 11. Eight teams will meet in the state finals at Kokomo starting Aug. 31, he said, and the winner will com=pete for the national crown at the American Baseball Congress at Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 21.

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Hi-Brus Face Busy Two Days

Take On Basca Nine And Exterminators

Busy days are ahead for the Falls City Hi-Brus in the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association's leagues. These brew boys who do double duty every week-end have a pair of tough ones coming up tomorrow and Sunday. Tomorrow they will

risk their record of seven victories |

and three defeats against Basca, leader of the Industrial League, and on Sunday they will hook up with General Exterminators in a Municipal League scrap. In the Municipal League the Brus have won seven and lost three, while the Exterminators have a record of eight victories and two defeats. E. C. Atkins, unbeaten leader of ought to have little trouble tomorrow against Link-Belt, while the secondplace P. R. Mallory hand Schwitzer-Cummins its 12th straight setback. Prospect Tavern, winner in nine of its 10 Municipal League games, takes on Empire Life, while Sacks Auto Parts, co-leader in the Capitol City League, moves against Triangle Market. The other co-

leader, Garfield A. C., meets Klee's|

Soda. The complete week-end schedule: MANUFACTURERS LEAGUE

Lily Varnish vs. U. 8S. Tires at ius, 1 Link-Belt B. CO side 3, P. Rn. Mallory vs. at Riverside 1. INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE Falls City vs. Basca at Garfield 8. Polk's Milk vs. Richardson Rubber at Riverside 1. Pure Oil vs. Solitare at Brookside 1. MUNICIPAL LEAGUE Empire Life vs. Prospect Tavern at Brookside 1. Indiana Fur vs. Beech Grove at Beech 0

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Beanblossom vs. Fireside Tavern at Rhodiue 2. General Exterminating vs. Falls City at Riverside 1. CAPITOL CITY LEAGUE Silee's Soda vs. Garfield A. C. at Riverside 3. Sacks Auto Parts vs. Triangle Market at Riverside 7. Indianapolis Aces win by forfeit from Usher Funeral Home. BIG SIX LEAGUE Union Printers (6-2) vs. U. S. Marines (1-3) at Garfield No. 3 (two games).

Seeking Games

Indianapolis Kautskys are in the market for games on Aug. 4 and 11. Joe Kelly will accept bids at Lincoln 8662.

city team champion will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Ellen-! berger pool. Rhodius, last year’s winner, has scored 164 points in the three meets this year. Garfield, second with 163'4 points, is expected to become the new titleholder, having beaten Rhodius last week, 62 to 44. Ellenberger and Willard Park] pool teams also will compete in the 17-event program arranged by the | City Recreation Department and

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Pepper Martin lays one down for purpose of moving runner along

as St. Louis Cardinals try for important run late in game.

By JOE CRONIN Manager Boston Red Sox Clubs do not sacrifice now until it is definitely established that a game is going to be close. Until then, the percentage is to play for more than one run. Managers dislike to use up a | good hitter for the purpose of | moving a baserunner along until it is deemed absolutely necessary in the late stages of a game, { A manager frequently is playing the winning percentage when he lets a good batter hit a 3-0 pitch with a runner in position to score on a long fly. pecially true if a team is going into the tail-end of its batting Someone has to hit the ball, and the chance of scoring may be lessened with the batters

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Walking a batter intentionally to make possible a play at every base is percentage baseball. A rather weak hitter sometimes is passed for this purpose, but not | with any idea of getting at a |

Many things enter into percentage baseball . . .

pulling in the in the ninth with the | winning run on third base and less than two out, for example. long fly will end the game, any- |

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This is es- | well over .300.

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way, so you take the chance of the batter lining to an outfielder and his being able to hold the runner on third or making a play at

The lively ball took some of the inside out of baseball, but it still pays to play ‘em close to the vest.

Sox Sign Rookie

CHICAGO, July 26.—Elmer Wein-

baseman, from

the Evangeline League, Class D, Semi-finals at 2 p. m. and finals at | today reported to the White Sox| He has been batting

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Hoosier marksmen began banging away at Capitel City Gun Club tar-| gets today as the 12th annual state | skeet championships opened. Although no title events are scheduled until tomorrow, shooters were getting their eye today in the 100-target preliminary practice shoot. Title competition will get underway at 9 a. m. tomorrow with the sub-small gauge event, which will be followed by the small gauge and 20-gauge championships, and the junior, sub-junior, women’s and | shooting industry events. Marksmen will compete in class championships, beginning at 8 a. m. Sunday. Also scheduled Sunday are events for members of the shooting industry, two-man and five-man team competition and the individual high-over-all title event. Ed Beker will act as chief referee.

A. A. U. Selects Pool for Polo

The Indiana A. A. U. State outdoor water polo championship meet | is to be held at Longacre Park pool Aug. 18, it was announced today by Randle Willis, committee chairman. The Longacre team is defending champion and will compete against other squads from Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Ft. Wayne and Noblesville. Six competed in last year’s title event. : Sebi minal Gold, silver and bronze medals are | 203 E. WASHINGTON ST. to be awarded winners and run-| Opposite Courthouse ners-up by the A. A. U. Drawings| are to be held at 9:30 a. m. Aug. 18, first round matches at 10 a. m.,

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