Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1940 — Page 30
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 1940
~ Cleveland and Detroit Oren Cut- Throat Race for Pennant
Buck Newsom . .. he’s beaten the Mel Harder . . . his teammate, Indians twice. Feller, will be ready.
SPORTS . By Eddie Ash
ONLY ONE GAME was up on the big league board this afternoon but it was a dandy for working the fans into a frenzy. . . . Cleveland at Detroit pnd the American League lead at stake. ; An exact tie at this stage of a race is something out of the ordinary, since the major league season closes on Sept. 29. { The White Sox and Browns are to meet in a night game at St. Louis, the only other major tilt scheduled for Sept. 20. . All National League teams are idle and in the American, New York, Boston, Washington and Philadelphia had the day off. National IL.eague supporters hereabouts who wish to watch the Roaring Reds in their final tuneup for the World Series will have the opportunity on Sept. 27, 28 and 29 when the Pittsburgh Pirates meet the champs at Crosley Field. The World Series, you know, starts on the diamond on Wednesday, Oct. 2. . . . It finished there last year when the Yankees
crushed the Reds who suffered an advanced case of the jitters from the very outset of action that was launched in New York.
Where They Finish in the American
SEVERAL FANS have requested the complete remaining sched‘ule in the American League for all teams, contenders and the also rans ... It goes like this:: : Sept. 20—Cleveland at Detroit; Chicago at St. Louis, night. . Sept. 21—Boston at New York; Cleveland at Detroit; Chicago at St. Louis; Washington “at Philadelphia. Sept. 22—Boston at New York; Cleveland at Detroit; Washington ‘at Philadelphia; Chicago at St. Louis. _ Sept. 23—Open date. | Sept. 24—Boston at Philadelphia (2); Washington at New York (2); St. Louis at Cleveland; Chicago at Detroit. Sept. 25—Boston at Philadelphia (2); St. Louis at Cleveland; + Washington at New York; Chicago at Detroit. ‘Sept. 26—New Yerk at Philadelphia (2); Washington at Boston. : Sept. 27—New York at| Philadelphia; Washington at Boston; . Detroit at Cleveland; St. Louis at Chicago. Sept. 28—New Yawk atl Washington; Philadelphia at Boston; Detroit at Cleveland; St. Louis at Chicago. ’ Sept. 20—New York at Washington; Philadelphia at Boston; ' Detroit at Cleveland; St. Louis at Chicago.
. Hoosier Dizzy Comes Through for Tigers
PAUL TROUT, the Hoosier Dizzy of baseball, glorified himself I yesterday by pitching the Tigers into that American League tie. . . .. * The big fellow held the Philadelphia Athletics to four hits and one run. : Trout was developed by the Indianapolis Indians and was quite a “card” at Perry Stadium. . . . He hails from the Terre Haute district and always maintained that he developed his pitching arm by throwing rocks at squirrels. ‘I didn’t need a gun,” Diz used to say, “just give me a rock and there was one squirrel less and the Trouts had some tree food at the next meal.” : 2 2 » EE RY TROUT had one leg over the wall when Judge Landis purged the Detroit chain last. winter and was looking forward to getting a rich honus for signing up with another club for 1940. His name was included in the original list of| players made free - agents but 12 hours later Judge Landis issued a correction and Dizzy’'s freedom was short-lived. . . . Meanwhile he had set in motion several deals to sell "himself to the. highest bidder. : It was terrifice biow to Trout when Landis corrected himself, ‘ and the pitcher went into mourning. . . . But if the Tigers cbp the pennant Trout will be right in there for a full share of World Series sugar.
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By GEORGE KIRKSEY
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United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, ‘Sept. 20.—The
bitter American League pennant
race was narrowed virtually to a two-horse race today between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians, two teams not given a look-in
last spring.
All tied in the league standings and in games against each other, the Tigers and Indians opened a three-game cut-throat series in Detroit to break the deadlock. The winner of this series will move into the favorite’s position but unless there is a clean sweep of all
three games the pennant is likely
to hang in the balance until the
final three-game series between the Tigers and Indians at Cleveland
at the tag end of the season, Sept.
27, 28 and 29.
The Tigers] and Indians also are even choices in the betting. . Jack Doyle, Broadway betting commisisoner, quotes them at 5 to 6 each in the pennant race and at 9 to 10 each for today’s game, Doyle's odds are 11 to 5 against either team winning the series opening today. The Yankees, shortest-priced betting favorite, in history at the
start of the season, are hanging on the ropes ready for the kill,
It
either the gers o or Indians break even in their remaining eight games
. the Yanks would have to win 9 out of their remaining 10 games to
tie and 10 out of 10 to win. Doyle giotes the Yanks at 8-1 naw
with no play.
Opposing pitchers for today’s Tiger-Indian game are Buck Newsom, Detroit's eccentric right-hander who has beaten Cleveland twice without losing to them this season, and Mel Harder, veteran Tribe
righthander who hasn't registered Tigers.
a decision this year against the
In case he’s needed in a relief role, Bobby Feller, who won
his '26th game Wednesday, will be rushed into the fray. ; Detroit's )powerhouse attack brought the Tigers a double victory yesterday over the Athletics, 13-2 and 10-1, and enabled them to move into a first place tie with the Indians. : Hank Greenberg hit his 39th homer and Rudy York his 31st in the opener and York added his 32d in the nightcap. The Tigers’ vicious hitting enabled tliem to get by with a rookie pitcher, Floyd Giebell, fresh up from Buffalo, in the first game and . Dizzy Trout, who had previously won only two games all season, in
the nightcap. . Three double plays helped Al
Smith best Dutch Leonard in a
tight pitching duel as Cleveland trimmed Washington, 3-1. Smith allowed eight hits but the only run off him was Johnny ‘Welaj’s homer in the eighth, Two Washington errors figured in two Cleveland runs. Red Ruffing pitched the Yanks to a 10-1 triumph over the White Sox and the Browns nosed out the Red Sox, 2-1, in the other two
‘American League games. The White Sox loss eliminated them from the American League race. Rounding out a clean sweep of 10 games during their tour of the East, the Champion Reds beat the Phillies, 4-1, and increased their National League lead to 13% games. Paul Derringer, allowing only seven hits, scored his 20th triumph to draw even with his teammate, Bucky Walters. The Cardinals strengthened their hold on third place by grabbing a double-header from the Pirates, 2-1 and 8-2. Bill MeGee won his 16th victory, allowing but five hits in the opener. A 14-hit attack gave the Cards the nightcap. Claude Passeau hung up his 19th victory as the ‘Cubs beat the Giants, 8-2. It was the Giants’ 11th straight defeat, their longest under Bill Terry’s management. Jeter and Hack hit homers. ;
Hot Blues Win Another
Four. Pitchers Used to Whip Millers, 8-6
By UNITED PRESS The Kansas City Blues had another leg on the American Association playoff prize—the Governor's Cup—today after their second victory over Minneapolis in three
games. The Blues used four pitchers to finally set down the Millers, 8 to 6. Charley “ Wensloff, Bill Gill, Jack Haley and Al Gerehauser were called on to stop the Minneapolis team. - They were aided with Jerry Priddy’s home run in- the first inning. Elon Hogsett, Russ Evans and ‘the Miller pitchers, with the loss chalked against Hogsett. “The other first round playoft series between Louisville and Columbus will be resumed today. The teams, sharing ‘the series at one
-| game each, rested yesterday.
Jersey City Heads For Blackout
By UNITED PRESS The Newark Bears dropped the Jersey City Giants within one game of elimination from the post-season International League playoffs last night while the Baltimore Orioles scored their first victory in three Governor's Cup starts against the Champion Rochester Red Wings. Hank Borowy, who held the Giants to three hits for a 1-0 victory, dueled with Veteran Frank Pearce until the ninth when the Bears squeezed over the winning run. Nick Etten’s ninth-inning home run with two mates. aboard, gave the Orioles a 3-2 win over the Red Wings.
Jenkins Gets $20,000 Bid
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20 (U. P.). kins has been offered a $20,000 guar-
Montgomery, Philadelphia Promotor Herman Taylor said today. According to Taylor, the offer stated that the bout could be held either at Philadelphia or Atlantic City, N. J., on any date suitable to, Hymie Caplin, the champion’s manager. Jenkins won a 10-round decision over Montgomery- at Shibe Park here last Monday night in a non-title bout.
Major Leaders
LEADING HITTERS American La,
G AB DiMa, go; Yankees..122 487 8 164 Radel Browns ...143 552 79 Appling, White Sox.1 Greenberg, Tigers. . Williams, Red Sox. 1134 518 121
National League
Hac! oars *Reds . Cooney, Bees F. MeoGormick, Reds.143 575
HOME RUNS
Mize, Cardinals. Greenberg,
41 89 RUNS BATTED IN 41/Mize, Cardinals. 130
In a Low-Down
By J. E. O'BRIEN
Butler spirits were so low today that “Mood Indigo” was becoming the No. 1 tune on the Campus Clup jukebox and Trainer Jim Morris was wrapping black and blue bruises in bandage to match. Without even a windup, Coach Tony Hinkle administered a reverse hook to the old Ted Lewis line and asked: “Is anybody happy?” Correspondents present took it that the obvious dearth of cheerfulness was the result of tomorrow’s football opener against St. Joseph's. The coaching staff and second guessers sat silent as the pigskin ners, free of their toggery, limped to and from the showers. One bold guy finally queried: “Anybody going to be out with injuries Saturday, coach?” “We can’t have any injuries, ». Tony shot back. “We're all iron men this year. Anybody that can walk plays. And if it happens
This dressing-room wake was celebrator, whose approach was
the eve of the battle.” “The good word, huh? Look at
Dugger —-Lightweight Champion Lou Jen- Dezela
antee for a title defense against Bob |SW Negro, | Abts
these boys after that long drill in the heat. Stanley Crawford and Bob Roberts, our two ends, lost 15 pounds between them in this afternoon’s practice. Three or four more workouts, and they'd -disappear completely. And somebody said we were pointing for Purdue.”
BUTLER Crawford.. Rabol ¢
ST. JOE
*sa3p .Scollard -Juricich
Breall: Varini Place—Butler Bowl. :
Kick: Off Time—2 p. m. tomorrow.
Officials—Referee, Skinner; umpire, Hungate; head linesman, Yarnell,
“Yeah,” growled Wally Middlesworth. “Our only chance up there is to win the toss and receive. With a break then, we should have | the ball for at least two plays.” Then Hinkle took the floor again. “Things wouldn't be so bad if I could figure how to get at least one passer, one kicker and one signal calier in two different teams. Maybe we should have tried six-man football this year. Who is enjoying life around here, anyway?” Nobody apparently was—not even
Pet. I'the two reporters, the poor sopho-
somebody can’t walk, we'll have to: call for volunteers from the stands.”
Toscanini Hinkle Directs the Butler Chorus Rendition of the Blues
Its the Yanks’ Turn to Cry; They Got Rid of Beggs
And for the Reds He Turns Out to Be the Best Relief Pitcher in the Business
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (U. P.)..~When the Yankees get rid of a ball player, the first reaaction in baseball circles usually is that there's something wrong with him, So when the Yanks pulled the sleeper deal last January with the Reds, Joe Beggs for Lee Grissom, the first question propounded ameng) the critics was: “What's the matter with Beggs?” © | As it turned out, that was the smartest deal made last winter in the majors—from the Cincinnati angle. "The Reds might have been hardpressed to win the pennant this season without Beggs, who, developed into the greatest relief pitcher in the big show. He's won 12 games, including nine in a row, lost only two and saved many another.
| Yanks Weren't Hoodwinked
Although the deal turned lout to be (a bloomer for the Yanks, they went in with their eyes open. They took a long gamble that Grissom, a southpaw with good speed, might gorne through for them. But’ he shawed. little and failed to fit into the Yankee scheme of things. They
quifting baseball and teaching school when the Yanks sent him back to Newark in 1939. “It was George Weiss, president of the Newark club, who talked me into staying in baseball,” Beggs said. “He told me he'd get me a chance with another major league club if the Yanks didn’t want me after the 1939 season. He kept his word and that’s why I'm with the
Reds today.” Beggs has a rubber-arm and
joined by some flippant uninformed §
“What's the good word, coach, on
Ralph (Red) Swager . . . he’ll probably do most. of the passing.
more whose shoes wouldn’t fit and {ment about the other candidates. the fellow who'd promised to have|at center there are 225-pound Bob
sold him to the Dodgers who sent him te Montreal and then Tecalled him.
But the Yanks didn't try to hornswaggle the Reds. When they made the deal Ed Barrow, president of the Yankees, told General Manager Warren C. Giles of the Reds “You are getting much the better of the degl.”
Beggs Happy to Leave
Willard Hershberger, the tragic little figure who committed suicide in a fit of despondency in August, played a major role in prompting the! acquisition” of Beggs. Giles, a former International League man, had a good line on Beggs and liked him. Bill McKechnie saw Beggs pitch in the 1938 International League playoffs and was impressed Wich his control and low ball pitchmg, But Hershberger who caught Beggs in most of his games at Newark in 1937 when he won 21 and lost, only four, never missed a chance to put in a plug for his former battery mate. Beggs is one player who was hap-
thrives on work. He's in the Reds’ bull-pen every day warming up, ready to come in on a few minutes’ notice and put out the fire. He’s been in 33 games this year and in. one stretch from Aug. 30 through Sept. 4 he was in six games in: six days, including a double-header on Sept. 1. Beggs gives McKechnie credit for: making him a finished pitcher, and building up his confidence, which * had been frayed as a result of ex-. perience with the Yanks. :
American Nine Wins. Over Puerto Rico
‘HAVANA, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—The United States amateur baseball team ; scored a 4-2 victory over Puerto Rico in the second game of a double--header here yesterday. Cuba won over Mexico, 6-0 in the first game. The Americans hammered out 10 hits and made one error while the Puerto Ricans: collected only two safeties while playing errorless ball. Scott, Woelfel and McLenahan
Butler's new jerseys here in time for the Purdue game. But maybe things aren't so bad if you sit down in some cheerful nook and catalog the Bulldog ma-
Y | terial,
Tomorrow's starting backfield is composed of four “B” winners and contains a capable. signal-caller, kicker, passer and blocker. Both Ralph Swager and Henry Abts can direct maneuvers and pass, while the latter is a qualified kicker. Add Richard Fruechtenicht, and you have a ball-lugging trio, with the blocking left to Harold Mossey, a converted guard. At least three ends—Crawford, Roberts and Claude (Cloud) Stropes —have had experience and, to everyone's joy, have proved themselves satisfactory. The situation is no less pleasant at tackle, with the trio of John Rabold, Joe Dezelan and Don Zavella pronounced okeh for action. Caught unawares, Hinkle might even sing about his two first-string guards, Doyle Dugger and Lowell Toelle, but he is withholding com-
* Duncan and Hutton Clash in Boxing Headliner Tonight
Two heavyweights, winners in their last local engagements, will take
Purkhiser, who has been moved in from tackle, and Zane Powell! who should hold up his end. If there's any crying to be done, shed thy tears for the eight lettermen who are gone with the sheepskins. second Tom Harding or another Bob Connor or a duplicate Bill Kreag or a twin to Victor Lanahan, have you? And please wire us collect if Phil Reisler, Don Rudd, Melvin Vandermeer or Channing Vosloh have any brothers of college age,
You haven't run across al
py to get- away from the Yankees. pitched for the U. S. squad while In fact he was thinking’ seriously of | Krywicki did the catching. .
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won’t you? In the meantime, all our: efforts | will be directed at hoisting Coath Tony's spirits, even if it means turning loose a troupe of tumbling | clowns in the Butler half-shell during the intermission tomorrow.
You can do your part by |
a pennant in the head linesman’s facé or popcorn down that St. Joe rooter’s neck. But remember to smile, brother, when you’ pin on that chrysanthemum.
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It’s Kickoff Time in Hoosierland
SEVEN HOOSIER COLLEGE elevens lift the lid. tomorrow on the new football season and if the heat doesn't) get em down all ‘ will be well. . Butler's Bulldogs are reported in fine shape to
gigers. Sox
York, Tigers .... DiMaggio, Yanks.
3 Greenberg, Tigers 145 35/ DiMaggio, Yanks. 120 32| York, Tigers ... 124 31|F. McCormick, R. 116
the headline spot on thq weekly arnateur mitt card at the National Guard Armory, 711 N. Pennsylvania St., tonight. Charles Duncan, West Side A. C. 185-pounder who stopped Del Eagleston, a 200-pound National Guardsmen, in the second round of last week’s feature, will collide with Vic Hutton of Anderson, winner over Jethro Jeffers in his last local
. battle through a "tough schedule. : Grid fans will get a pretty good line on the Bulldogs’ power tomorrow afternoon when they tackle Joe Dienhart’s snappy St. Joe warriors. . This department's first week's grid picks on Hoosier games: Butler over St. Joe, Wabash over Rose Poly, Miami over Ball ! State, Cincinnati over Hanover, Indiana State over Louisville U. * ” s ” ” EJ ” IN OTHER Saturday games involving “name” schools: Boston College over Center, Kentucky over Baldwin Wallace, . Jowa State over Luther, Louisiana over Louisiana Tech, Mississippi over Union, Clemson over Presbyterian, Wash.-Lee over Hampden- : Sydney, Hardin-Simmons over Centenary, North Carolina over * Appalachian, Virginia Military over Roanoke, Virginia -Poly over Gatawaba.
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Al Davis Is 9 to 5 To Win Tonight
NEW - YORK, Sept. 20 (U. P.).— Al Davis of Brooklyn; N. Y., ruled a
"19-5 favorite over Tony Marteliano
of New York City for. their 10-round welterweight title contenders’ battle at Madison Square Garden tonight. Promoter Mike Jacobs has promised the winner a crack at the 147pound title in December against the victor of the Henry ArmstrongFritzie Zivic championship clash on Oct. 4. Loss of only one bout in 41 professional fights, a decision to the then Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers, has installed Davis as the He has knocked out 24 opponents. Marteliano has lost but twice in 49 fights and kayoed 11. Davis is only 23 years old and Marteliano, 22. %
Added Prestige
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20 (NEA). —Tulahe has promoted Football Coach Lowell (Red) Dawson to an adsociate professor of physical education.
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appearance. The bout is billed for five rounds. The complete card: Five Rounds— Heavyweights
Charles Duncan, Westside A. C. vs. Hutton, Anderson, Ind.
Four Rounds—140 Pounds.
Charlie Boone, Anderson, Ind., vs. Buddy Jones, Leeper A
Three es oti Pounds
Owen Gilbert, unattached, vs. Bill Hutton, Anderson, Ind.
Three Rounds—130 Pounds
Earl Paul, Rhodius C. O. vs. Raymond Glenn, unattached.
Three Rounds—115 Pounds Bill Cummings, Leeper A. C. vs. Raymond Reed, Bess A. C. Three Rounds—130 Pounds
Louis Hewitt, Leeper A. C. Vs. Shotts, Washington A. C.
Three Rounds—160 Pounds
Harvey Malek, Anderson, Ind.;, vs. Al McReynolds, Ft. Harrison. Three Rounds—118 Pounds
Eugene Miller, English Ave. B. ©. bert Woodson, Leeper A. C.
Three Rounds—126 Pounds Jerry Poke x Northeast C. OC. vs. LeRoy
The first Boe is scheduled to start at 8:30 o'clock.
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