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

PAGE 18 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1940

Ol’ Diz Once More Steps Into the Sun, Be It Only a Sunset

By HENRY M'LEMORE those fans who came out expecting to see the same old many good balls to hit. He's always slipping across the aay Sud ren Sia Corrersoraent Dizzy, with his arrogance, clowning and jesting manner. corners, and mixing 'em up. And the clutch doesn’t find NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—A busher up from Tulsa has He warmed up before the game without so much as a him wanting. In the sixth inning, with the bases loaded made good with the Cubs. glance at the stands, and once he started working he and two down, he silenced the crowd by striking out Thrown in against the tough Brooklyn Dodgers and concentrated on every pitch as though it were going to be Coscarart. : the tougher Brooklyn fans in his first start since leaving jis last one an earth. He was slow, cautious, and often He was an unbelievably subdued Dean, even when he the Texas League, the big fellow pitched a six-hitter to stopped to study the signals. walked into the clubhouse. He was one of the last players win, 3 to 2. “The big crowd, absolutely devoid of sentiment as ‘only to reach the dressing room and his only show of feeling He wasn't afraid of Ducky Medwick, Babe Phelps, a Brooklyn crowd could be expected to be, rode him un- came when he tossed his glove above his head and called Dixie Walker or any of the other Brooklyn sluggers. And mercifully for the full nine innings, 1 watched the game out, “Thankya fellers, Thankya. Thanks, all of you.” the raucous, cruel jeers of the toughest crowd in baseball from the stands, not the press box, and from every side of He started throwing things in his traveling case, but might just as well have been spoken in a language he me continual taunts were hurled at the aging athlete try- in twos and threes the Cubs interrupted him to shake his didn't understand. They seemed to make no difference to ing to regain a bit of his past glory. hand, pat him on the back, and tell him he pitched a him. ~ Dizzy’'s arm isn’t what it once was, but it's a whole helluva game. Because the busher who made good at Ebbets Field lot better than when the Cubs sent him down to Texas. “That was a good one to win,” Dizzy told me. “A vesterday was Dizzy Dean, once of the majors, late of the His motion is much more free now, and when he gets in mighty good one. Yeah, I had pretty good stuff. Naw, I minors. For one day at least he experienced the thrill of a tight spot he can dish up a fast ball that would pass didn't get tired. Even in the ninth there wasn't any walking the very last foot of the comeback trail, and of for a fast ball in almost any company. And there is ache in my arm. It felt good and loose.” once more stepping into the sun, be it only a sunset. nothing wrong with either his head or his heart. Then OI' Diz pulled off his clothes and started singing The Dean of vesterday was hardly recognizable to He knows how to pitch. He doesn't give the hitters in the shower.

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By GEORGE KIRKSEY pial ¥ | The blitz has invaded the Butler \ { United Press Staff Correspondent ; : football camp once again, Dizzy Dean . .. ‘there wasn't any ache in my ! | NEW YORK. Sept. 12—The New York Yankees, the people's choice : | While Coach Tony Hinkle was to win the American League pennant, moved into Detroit today to face 3 . ¢ drilling a scant 36-man team today, the club thev helped elevate to first place vesterdayv. And the Yanks § Ls y er TS was urs (aim to do the Tigers the same thing they did to Cleveland—knock them : | (Tremner Jim Morris RUrSine seven ailing men—and the Bulldog:

{Off the top perch. NY Re : The three leaders, Tigers, Vittmen and Yanks, were all tied in the : . (open the local season Sept. 21 all-important lost column today, each with 58 defeats. Detroit leads J § ; |against St. Joseph, e o o Cleveland by half a game by virtue of having plaved and won one 3a ; \ § | To make the picture blacker,

m or e game. _The ‘Tigers top the Yanks by a full game, having played

and won two more. RR backfield prospects are as scarce as | The task of caging the Tigers, : ® ‘ Democrats in a Willkie headquar-

* i 0 ) S 4 d d A D ] 1 h S a . pC ters. Or as Hinkle remarked to AsB y E 1 e > l 1 ng ure. | seven games, will be intrusted to X 2 bs b TRE TY : sistant C h Wally Middlesworth: | Marius (Rube) Russo, dark-eyved NR \ BE RECN 3 : sistant Coach all $

Italian southpaw who has won his “Wally, you and I are going fo be

Vitt Is Dome last seven straight. Last time RH NX SE EB Ee ¥ pretty lonesome on the bench this LOU NOVIKOFF, the Los Angeles outfielder who Russo was beaten was by them FL : wl i Boe year.”

: : y SE Tigers, 3-2, in Detroit July®21. The aa ; : : : ™ arding l try to make the big league grade with the Chicago old Yankee nemesis, Schoolboy : 3 Lk EE The loss of Tom Harding. Bill

next vear after knocking down the fences in the By JOE WILLIAMS Rowe. who's beaten the world's Kreag and Bob Connor by gradua-

: . : [champs two out of three times this W ; ; a Gi A R ‘ tion is greatly felt. oast circuit this season, has compiled an exceptional Tit, ‘Special Virre season and frequently in other §8 Sh Ye BW a ww i Harold Mossey, a 200-pound

hall | DETROIT, Sept. 12—As of today. vears. will fo the chunking for the Nall, { junior letterman whe played guard

[the fantastic Cleveland situation Tigers : Se {seems to be this: Win, lose or draw. Cleveland vs. Red Sox A Iason x bang converted ints batted under .351. | Oscar Vitt 1s through as the mana- Vi sities Ta series is for : i } Henry ABLE Farnes Garwood. and Mad Russian averaged 351 In the Western Association, ger. Luke Sewell, who was brought At the — time second-place § i i : Ralph Swager, senior lettermen. and ear out . He Jed the ree SB : ot Richard Freuchtenicht, junior let-

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} 1 1 uglan 1 os 513 id no anv league where he operated a full season he's

Jeague With a .obY in as Vitt's understudy. has declared Cleveland will be battling the paced the Texas League 121k, some 30 points ahead of his nearest rival iatest available averages, the big Russian Rogers Hornsby has something bet3 ae Coast League batters with a .337- average { ter than an outHe has held the batting lead since July, and during this o cide chance for period Novikoff's average has remained between 350 and .360 | 3 the job.

> in 1933 \ “3 : : terman, are being groomed for ballhimself out as t x - fourth-place Red Sox in three 3 3 3 2 himself out as the next manager Po toting berths and are being pushed

games. The Yankee-Tiger throat lav ye c cutting gives Cleveland another DS liooy Svortis pinging fullugek

lease on life, provided the mutineers can do a job on the pitcherless Bos- ~ The hard-luck player of the squad iin e : tonians. If the Yankee-Tiger se- is Bob Roberts, Columbus, O., end Several batters have challenged him for the leadership, but a : ; We had a long ries goes as have past meetings, one He reported for practice this week before the Russian’s consistent pace. { talk with Alva team or the other will emerge as : 3 ; bi after recovering from influenza. Now While Novikeff is a line-drive hitter, he nevertheless, leads { Bradley, ¢1u%! he club to beat = NS : : 3 ; i } he is watching from the sidelines his loop in homers, with 34. . . . And of these, 19 were hit in | Rae. | President, before) Rain interfered with the Yanks’ ENE pi : ; with an injured hand and shoulder, Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, considered the Coast League's home | 8 leaving the lake plans to deal a crushing blow to Other players on the shelf are Dan run paradise, while the 15 others were made in enemy parks. | 8 city to watch Cleveland vesterday. After beat- , Zavella, John Reno, Bennie Cohen turally, Novikoff is always out in front in runs-batted-in, : \ the Yankees injing Bob Feller for the first time Jimmy Phelan watches Dean McAdams’ form as Washington's potential all-America halfback gets oft and John Rabold, lineman. and now being right around 150 : another vital this year in Cleveland in the open- 50-vard punt. Steve Stoyko and Mossey, backs Some critics say Novikoff won't hit “smart Bs Manager | series againstjer, 3-1, the Yanks dropped the 5'igger Statz of the Angels es the big Ruslan is a better aR ETN the local Tigers. inning nightcap, 5-3. "A ‘double vic- * ® ter now than he has ever been WR Mr. Bradley said tory would have given the Yanks P f F th /l / / P f t L, B k Novikoff has a reputation of being a “bad ball hitter,” but is a \ he did not in- the No. 1 Sook Tho split Ma un ing mn : 00 a S as m or an as atta 00 ¢ lv to murder any pitch he can reach with hi eavy war club, tend to discuss the Tigers. who beat the Red Sox.

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subject until the into the lead rs Raleatrny 3 : T ro 3 Season 1s over Ernie Bonham. the brilliant | Honor Galatzer at Stadium Tonight ! Oy yn but it wasn't dif- rookie called In from Kansas City The second of five illustrated stories [tg handle. The receiver must be form 15 paramount Coaching ONE of the very few Indianapolis ball players who produced | ficult to interpret his mood: Vitt!in mid-season. outdueled the great| °° the Same's greatest coaches: nailed on the spot of the catch follows the same line as the golf cations this year is Outfielder Milton doesn't seem to figure in his pians Feller in the opener By JIMMY PHELAN | | The quick-kick and the punt professional's teaching — small i all times ia) d first base when {for 1941 at all Tigers Get 18 Hits | Washungton's Head Football Coach formation Kick are equally im- changes and one at a time. When Club bantamweight, will tangle 1d otherw laved Class AA { Ever since the now celebrated An 18-hit attack enabled the SEATTLE, Sept. 12—Punting in portant One school of thought top form is reached, the tapering- with Clifford Goodwin, Rhodius he 211 through the season {player mutiny when a dozen of the Tigers to beat the Red Sox and football iz as important as pitching is “Let them kick. We want the off process store® up the snap and Community Center, in the four the Redskins set cut on the 1%40 campaign, the team players marched inte Mr. Bradley's regain the lead. Hank Greenberg in baseball The punt is the real ball,” but having the ball inside sock in the leg for Saturday's . ' six “potential” 300 hitters but the popular Milt was office and protested against Vitt's hit homer No. 31 with a mate on long gainer of football. vour own 20-vard line is not much game who deuvered. | managerial tactics, Sewell, the third base. Charlie Gehringer collected! No other play is as productive. of a break The voung punter must be given boxing program at the Armory to{base coach. has been most promi- five hits and Barney McCosky, back| A well-placed kick in the cofin A fumble in this spot might plenty of Kicking scrimmage. Put! morrow night nently mentioned as the new leader in the lineup regularly after being corner can turn most games in favor lose the game the pressure on him on the prac-' mn. font | It develops Sewell doesn’t want the laid up with an injured back, of the kicking side. Punting form 1s analogous to tice field and not on his first time with Ne brs five-round mill be I CVEninE roti nk hg =n Tappeq out four. Protection, speed, placing and golfing form. except that the punt- out for Saturd®v's game. Let him, oo Charles Duncan. Westside A load him dowm Ou Sy El om i Wee per vn American League | covering kicks produce results. A er has-only one club, which is the feet the experience of kicking out r Night arrangements | At SAV Yate he called on Mr Rrad Piteer to en her pitched a five- 60-vard kick which is returned foot and leg. But this has an ad- from behind his own goal line under phone RI-6036 Coes es Sos ot give the Browns a 3-039 ‘makes a poor average. A 70- justable face and shaft. The simi- pressure. fr di ley Hiselt tHS ner Gay wrx) 20s I shutout ov the Athletics and | vag kick for a touchback is not larity is in stance, keeping the eye| Put the stopwatch on the Kicker "Bama Row ell Goes Far to Get 'E un Vi andl Poe Rx perfect day at bat (four | zo" cgective as a 40-yarder out of on the ball, follow through, meet- to test his speed and work with DID YOU ever hear of a second sacker plaving behind the Was being ered ” Sewell said 74 ve vite SOX 0 2 | pounds on the 10-yard line. ing the ball at the proper spoi, re- him until he knows what caused fielder? One play > by Second Baseman Alabama “and I just want you to know that| The Reds took ¥ another big] The old saying, “When in doubt, iaxation, speed, Hining and control every bad Rick and the slight Bees | this season is still talked of in Beantown I'm not interested.” This must be stride toward clinching the Nation. | Punt.” Sui fs Sud the M Tne goiter DE His his Joris otedy w Sl. a the vear. i y A . theory of kicking and waiting for es pall on 1e first swing. n windy days nsis i SE We chasing a sinking line drive from I I hal » Ne oupe Bernat Yhen oe at a break, vibe so effectively warms up slowly, gets his timing, kickers working against the wind for three rounds, will complete the Joos! the Cin ev fis and sensed world wet a —— | ters won his 19th To a the by Percy Haughton of Harvard swing and feel before he cuts because when they can control Program. An outstanding clash over

. ol y , ; and Andv Smith of California, is loose. Most punters want to hit the ball into the wind the down- the three-round route, added to the opener, allowing only four hits, Ns . card today, will pit Harvey Malek,

d out to right field from second base, got t} ed while Paul Derringer likewise | Still a safe and sane way of start- the first one a mile. Pitchers wind job is easy. eis a oh {i off the wall and b: relaved throw to shortsto a Cc 00 e copped his 19th in the nightcap, NE a game. warm up slowly and punters should | Anderson 160-pounder, against Clinat the plate |vielding six hits. The double win Success in Kicking depends on follow the example | NEXT: “The Passing Game,” by on Brooks, unattached Negro {combined with Brooklyn's twin loss # good average from the line of The better kickers make their) Dr. Eddie Anderson of lowa, increased the Reds’ lead te nine scrimmage with short returns. start on sandlots of grade schools of the Southern Aszsoriation won their

lL: ands 1 mn ug games | If the kick is not placed out of and the turf of high schools not for a dav after that time were thev € The Cubs polished off the Dodg- | bounds, 1t must be high and hard Constant py actice and and study of of And the pennant was clinched with some | {ers twice, 8-5 and 3-2 Claude

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C. Nearo heavywegiht, and Delbert Eagleston, 200-pounder from Lebeanon, Ind. in what Matchmaker Fred DeBorde believes to be the strongest simon-pure mitt ecard presented local fight fans this season. Seven supporting battles, including my another heavyweight fracas billed

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STk , famed Pittsburgh Pirates Dan allowed six hits, fanned five and walked four. aseball at a Glance spitball pitcher of a generation ag0,| "rye Cardinals won a double viein an alleged plot to victimize big tory from the Sion 7-4 and 3-2

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