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_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES =

__ THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1940

r. E. Ash Grabs a Limb. Gives Nod to Purdue, Ohio State -

By EDDIE ASH

This is the week limbs

of trees all over the land be-

come laden with football experts doing: the crawl stroke. A few sharpshooters tested the branches last week but were not confronted by what is known in rah rah circles

as big-time crystal gazing.

Grid dope has been simmering for a couple of weeks, though the boiling oint was held up to a large extent by the torrid basebail race in the American League. Therefore, for the majority of sports professors it’s a case of jumping from the frying baseball pan into the football fire. In this week’s main events on the grid menu this writer favors Purdue over Butler, Ohio State over Pittsburgh, Michigan over California, Southern California over Washington State, Tulane over Bos-

ton College, Minnesota over Washington.

University of

Week-end selections on all fronts: STATE COLLEGES

Purdue over Butler.

Stiff opener for the Boilermakers.

St. Joe over Valparaiso. Pumas vs. the Uhlans.

Denison over Wabash. Reaching out in the dark. Cape Girardeau over Rose Poly. Pedagogues vs. Engineers. Franklin over Transylvania. Battle in the Blue Grass. DePauw over Hanover. Hilltoppers won it last year. E. Ill. Normal cver Central Normal. Meet in Illinois. Ball State over DeSales. 1t’s a guess, more or less. Manchester over Wooster. Woo, woo, at any rate.

Lawrence Tech over Ind. State. It was close a ygar ago.

Evansville over S. II. Normal. Short of dope on this.

MIDWEST Ohio State over Pittsburgh. The Bucks are fast and tricky. Minnesota over U. of Washington. dope. Cincinnati over Louisville. Looks safe for the Ciney boys. Case over Miami, QO. Pair cf old rivals have it out. Missouri over St. Louis. Another heated «rivalry contest. Ohio U. over Youngstown. That's how ratings indicate. Toledo over Detroit Tech. The Rockets did it in 39. Kentucky over Xavier, Cincinnati. Wildcats keep rolling. Detroit U. over Wayne U. A. Warmup and easy sailing. Dayton over Wichita. The Flyers face some trouble.

Picking against the

Baldwin Wallace over Hiram. Without calling on any steam. Kas. State over Emporia Teachers. old ’em, Emporia!

EAST Dartmouth over St. Lawrence. pounding. Holy Cross over Providence. plus.

N.Y. U. over Penn Military. The Violets bloom early. Carnegie Tech over Geneva. Picked for an easy lidlifter. Navy over William-Mary. Middies tune up their guns. Duquesne over Waynesburg. The Dukes carry a punch, Temple over Muhlenberg. The Owls step up their exercise. Syracusé over Clarkson. Another curtain affair, : ~ SOUTH Tulane over Boston College. Another Battle of New Orleans. Mississippi State over Florida. ratings. Duke over Yiteinia Military, Duke is reported in high gear.

The Big Green starts

Crusaders possess power

Based on pre-season

Miss. U. over Lou. State. tacle.

Tennessee over Mercer.

An early-season major spec-

The Vols take it in stride.

Texas U. over Colorado. In a warmup for Indiana Oct. 5.

Texas Aggies over Texas A. and L

it again.

Tex. Christian over Centenszy.

superior. Georgia over Oglethorpe. Vanderbilt over W.-L. thing.

N. Carolina over Wake Forest. N. Car. State over Davidson. A springboard for the former.

Alabama ever Spring Hill.

The Aggies have :

The Christians look -

Cracker Bulldogs get going. Vandy is reported showing some-

Look for a close one here. May not be too easy.

Auburn over Howard. Alabama Tech boys start traveling. FAR WEST

Michigan over California. the coast. South. Calif. over Wash. again.

State.

Even after that ong hop to

That Trojan Horse

San Francisco U. over Stanford. An upset, if it goes :

that way. Gonzaga over St. Mary's. Oregon State over Idaho.

Trying for another upset. Looks like it’s in the bag.

Santa Clara over Utah. Bronco speed turns the trick.

One Victory and the Tigers Will Get at Least a Tie;

Meet Cleveland Tomorrow

Vittmen’s Plight Brightened Only by Bullet Bob; Yanks Must Win All of 6 Remaining Games

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The unpredictable Detroit Tigers were knocking at the door today and waiting for the answer that would beckon them into the American League

throne room

champion New York Yankees. With a two-game lead and only three games left to play, the Tigers are just around the corner from the pennant. victory is all they need to clinch at least a tie for the title. and third-place Yanks are backed against the wall waiting for the boom to be low-

ered.

The only way the Indians can win the pennant is to sweep the three-game series with the Tigers, opening tomorow at Cleveland and even in that case the Yanks must

Schoolboy Rowe

as successors to the four-time

The second-place Indians

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Is He the White Hope?

lose one of their remaining six games to make the Tribe's |

victory certain. one, the Tigers will be in.

Cleveland's plight is almost hopeless but there's one ray They have Bullet Bob Feller to rely on tomorrow against the Tigers. have pinned Feller’s ears back on occasions this season, he’s still an even money bet to win any game he pitches.

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of hope for the Mutineers.

At Home With The Yanks

By HENRY M’LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—There are few things more pathetic to watch than the suffering of big, strong men. This is particularly true when they're suffering about $5800 each. I know, because yesterday 1 watched some big and strong men hard at work suffering. They were New York Yankees, who, unable to play themselves because of rain, had to sit by radios and listen to the Detroit Tigers move closer to the American League pennant and a shot at the World Series swag. I visited Joe Gordon at home and the description of the first game of the double-header between the Tigers and White Sox was coming in full blast. The White Sox didn't know it, but Joe was playing second base for them during that game. He was all over the room, shifting with each hitter. He played deep and near the reading lamp for Greenberg, next to the piano for Gehringer and hugged the fireplace when McCosky came up, With the Yankees’ slim chance of winning the pennant dependent on somebody knocking off the leading (Continued on Page 23)

Tilden, Perry In 3d Round

CHICAGO. Sept. 26 (U. P.).—Big Bill Tilden and Fred Perry meet their third-round tests today in the National Professional Tennis chamships. Pe was matched with John Whalen, Larchmont Shores, N. Y,, the winner to meet John Nogrady of Montclaire, N. J., in the semi-finals Saturday. Perry will meet Art Hendrix of Annapolis, Md,, in the quar-ter-final match and the winner will meet Don Budge in the semi-finals. Three quarter-finals dou bles gaiches also were scheduled for to-

da) ge advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Walter Senior, Louisville, Ky. 6-1, 6-3, 6-1. Nogrady moved up by default of Karel Kozeluh, former Czech star, who left the match after two sets because of an injured knee. Tilden and Vinnie Richards, New York, beat Ken Napier, Phoenix, Ariz, and William Kenny, Newport, R. I, 6-1 6-1 in one doubles match. perry and Budge defeated Ray White, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Jack Macy, Chicago, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1. Kozeuh and Whalen beat Ed Bax Lake Geneve, Wis, and Ed Stillman, Brooklyn, N. Y., 6-0, 6-1, 6-0.

Fonseca Lauds Kuhel

CHICAGO, Sept. 26 (NEA).— ‘Lew Fonseca, who played the position himself, says Joe Kuhel of the White Sox is the finest fielding first baseman he has seen in either major league in years, i

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If the Indians lose one and the Yanks lost |

Although the Tigers

Another is Detroit pitching staff. Tommy Bridges has been knocked out in his last two starts. Buck Newsom pitched a complete game and also did a relief stint yesterday and won’t be ready for action again until Sunday. Rowe Has Three on Indians

So the Tigers must lead with their clutch-man, Schoolboy Rowe, against Feller tomorrow. Rowe has beaten the Indians thrice this season with-

out losing to them. The Tigers showed the stuff they're made of yesterday when they blew a 4-1 lead, wiped up an 8-4 deficit and then came on to beat the White Sox 10-9 in a 10inning struggle. They followed that dramatic triumph up with an uphill 3-2 victory in the nightcap. It was tough going all the way for the Tigers but they proved they could swim upstream. Cleveland stayed in the scrap by winning from the Browns, 4-2, behind Al Milnar's six-hit pitching. It was No. 17 for the Tribe lefty. Ben Chapman's single with the bases packed drove in the Indians’ two winning runs.

Yanks Have Six Left

The Yanks were rained out and thus had to transfer their final game at home to Washington. They have six games left, three at Washington and three at Philadelphia. A clean sweep is virtually mandatory for them to figure in the race. The champion Reds divided a pair —Gene Thompson holding the Cards to two hits to win his 16th victory, 5-0 and Bucky Walters failing in the quest of his 22d triumph, 4-3. The Cubs continued their battle to get back into first division by taking a twin bill from the Pirates, 2-1 (11 innings) and 6-4. They are now only one game out of fourth place. Bill Lee bested Truett Sewell in the opener to win his first game in seven starts. Rookie Vern Olsen, with relief, won his 13th in the afterpiece.

consideration

Major Leaders

LEADING HITTERS

American League

G AB DiMaggio, Yankees. ..126 Asplig. White Sox. 147 Radcli Browns ...147 Greenberg, Tigers ..147 Williams, Red Sox..138 536 124

National League

G AB R Garms, Pirates 100 349 176 Hack, Cubs 45 585 101 Lombardi. 109 376 50 ooney. Bees 107 365 41: F. McCormick, Reds.150- 604 92 189 HOME RUNS RUNS BATTED IN

Mize, .Cardinals.. 42|Greenberg, Tigers 150 Greenberg, Tigers 41 Mize, Cardinais.. 131 Foxx, Red Sox ... 36! DiMaggio. Yanks. 130 York, Tigers .. 32| York, Tigers ... 129 DiMaggic Fanks. Sie. McCormick, R. 126

6-Man Gridders on Field Tomorrow

‘Coach Burke Anderson will send his Decatur Central High School team against Speedway in a sixman football game tomorrow afternoon at Stout Stadium. The game, scheduled for 3 o'clock, will be De-

catur’s first start of the season.

Pat, the Big Irish Lad, Rules A75 Favorite Tonight

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor

Gehrig Gets Apology

N. Y. News Writer Says ‘Doubly Sorry’

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (U. P.).— The New York Dailv News and Jimmy Powers, ‘the newspapers sports editor, apologized today to Lou Gehrig and the New. York Yankees for suggesting, in a column published Aug. 18. that the retired first baseman had infected his teammates with poliomyelitis. The apology followed by several weeks the filing, in Gehrig's behalf, of a $1,000,000 libel suit against Powers, who wrote the story, and the newspaper.

Admits Error

In the apology Powers explained that he had been led into error by theereport of the Mayo Clinic in June, 1939, which said Gehrig had “a form of chronic poliomyelitis— infantile paralysis,” and had assumed the malady was the ‘“communicable” kind known to laymen The News has since learned, Powe: ers wrote, that Gehrig's malady was not the form of poliomyelitis “commonly known as infantile paralysis/’ and was not communicable, “Unfortunately.” Powers said, “Lou Gehrig's feeling were hurt. “I am sorry.” he added. “I am doubly sorry and so is the News...” Powers said he had been motivated only by desire to find a reason for the Yankees' slump this ‘year and that “hurting Lou Gehrig's feelings was far from my mind.” Throws Lou a Bouquet “The News," he added, “is glad to learn Lou Gehrig has ho communicable disease and that the Yankees

infected since Gehrig himself was not infected.” The Yankees spurted spectacularly after Aug,” 18, thus proving they were not, afflicted, and “they still have an outside chance to win the pennant,” Powers said. Powers concluded by proposing Gehrig’s admission into the Baseball Hall of Fame. ;

Truthful Shooting

The new photo chart camera being used at West Coast tracks is reported to have reduced the frequency of dead-heat horse races 75

themselves could not possibly be!’

per cent.

'Feelings Hurt’

Lou Gehrig shown as. he entered Mayo's last year,

South Grove Holds Tourney Sunday

South Grove golfers will hold their final tournament of the year next Sunday—the Krouse Memorial affair for handicap golfers. Norman Cooke is the defending champion. Players intending to compete are asked to be at the clubhouse by 12:30 p. m. Winners will receive their prizes at a chicken dinner Oct. 4 at Swift's chicken dinner house in Ravenswood.

Boys School Wins

Robert Crousore of the Indiana Boys School stepped over the 1.8 mile course in Terre Haute's! Dem= ing Park in 8:49.1 to lead his teammates to a 16-39 cross country victory over Wiley High School's team yesterday. It was Crousore’s. 10th record in as many races.

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Blues, Colonels

Resume Play

Newark, Baltimore to Clash Tonight

By UNITED PRESS

Big John Lindell. the Kansas City Blues’ fast right-hander, is scheduled to start today against Charley Wagner of Louisville in the finals’ of the American Association playoff, but Manager Bill Meyer of Kansas

“| City may. give the nod to Charley

Stanceu, his ace hurler. 1t was too cold last night to play the second game of the series, - and it was scheduled to be played

"| this afternoon.

Louisville won the first game and may throw in his best” pitcher in an effort to even the score. Stanceu won the deciding game of the series with Minne apolis. The third game of the series willbe played tomorrow afternoon and the series then will be shifted to. the Colonels’ Ridgeway Field inLouisville, The winner will meet the Inter= national League representative in

{the Little. World Series.

Hank Borowy and Floyd Stromme will start on the mound for Newark and Baltimore, respectively. tonight in the third game of their final International League playoff. The series now stands at one victory apiece and is a four- out-of-seven -

(affair,

After rain washed out last night's contest. International League Presi dent Frank J. Shaughnessy announced that the series would open inh American Association territory this year and the first three games would be played either in Kansas . City or Louisville.

Salica Isn’t Champ

In Honolulu 1 ‘HONOLULU, Sept. 26 (U. P.).—

‘The Territorial Boxing Commission

today refused to recognize Lou Sa= ° lica as world’s bantamweight cham pion despite his deteat of Georgie Pace, and demanded that the Na-= . tional Boxing Association - declare David Kui Kong Young the leade - ing contender for the crown. In a Jeter ‘to .the N. B. A, the . commisison said it would refuse to recognize any champion until he defeated Young.

himself. But if Comiskey gets by this one, he certainly is headed for a shot at Joe Louis’ title in a bout that should be one of the great slugging matches of all time. There will be two former heavy-! weight champions in the ring when the gong sounds—Baer and Jack] Dempsey, who will be brought over from New York for the important job of referee. The referee is a vital factor in New Jersey fights because judges are not used in this state. If the bout goes the limit, Dempsey will be the one who decides the winner, Baer, 31 years old and past his peak, is talking a whale of a fight. He is receiving a $30,000 guarantee tonight on the strength of a knockout he scored in this same ring /recently over Tony Galento. But he remains the most erratic, in-and-out fighter in the heavyweight ranks, and the general feeling is that if he doesn’t. nail Young Comiskey inside of four rounds he will tire and lose. The big question mark about Comiskey is his inexperience. Part of Baer’s’ strategy in the ring is to clown around, catch his opponent off guard and then try to belt him with a long right. The big test for the kid will be whether

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to throw punches after Baer goes into the comedy act. When the match was made Baer

» their 15-round bout tonight.

was a 2 to 1 favorite, But the way

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punishment to sparring partners,! plus a flood of Irish money on Pat,|

JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. 26.—On the chance that they may get a look at the next heavyweight champion of the world, some 30,000 customers will -flock into Roosevelt Stadium tonight to see Patrick Edward Comiskey try out his deadly right hand punch on the jaw of Maxie Baer. Comiskey became a T to 5 favorite today despite the fact that he is only 19 years old, that this is his first battle against a topflight heavyweight, and that old man Baer can throw a fair-to-middling right hand

Max Baer will have a 16-pound advantage over Pat Comiskey in At the official weighin-at noon Baer scaled 223!'4, Comiskey 20714.

changed the picture and Maxie will go into the ring as the under-dog. Three years ago Bill Daly, Comiskey’s manager, was making a tour of Ireland in search of a heavyweight prospect. He had no luck and came back to his home town of Paterson to find the thing he wag looking for on his front doer stép. Comiskey had a job parking cars in Paterson and Daly took him under his wing and told him he would © be the next heavyweight champion. Whether Daly will be able to make good on that promise will depend greatly on what happens tonight.

Railmen on Links FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, Ind, Sept. 26.—Some 70 members of the L. & N. Railroad Golf Club will compete over this resort's 18-hole

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