Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1940 — Page 8

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| FOOTBALL prognosticators who dare to tell their leaders who's going to win what game have had fairly even sailing for a couple of weeks, but from now on in they are likely to be invited by the public to go out and get a reputation. : | Some ofl the major college elevens took off the wraps last weeki and while a few upsets occurred, on the whole the guessing by the experts wasn't too tough. | The week-end upcoming, however, calls for a meaty menu and Hany problems that only a professio ole WA1E Washington State can hold mighty Southern California to a| tie, which | happened Saturday, the fall crop of surprises probably will reach a new high as the weeks roll by. This writer ground out selections on 51 games last week-end and had 42 winners, eight losers and one tie, and that was the Rose Bowl champ’s setback. The fired week's record in this column was 13 winners, one loser and two tie |scores. . . . Record over all: 55 winners, nine losers and three tie games. This builds up a batting average of .859 for the two weeks . and we would like to settle on that percentage for the season. . . . But you can't take it with you. . . . The grid war is just in its infancy and the robust strife is yet to strike on a large scale.

Panthers Crushéd After First-Stringers Retire

DEMONSTRATING de-emphasis, the Pitt Panthers, once powerful, were crushed by Ohio State. . . Pitt was short of stalwart reserves and after the first-stringers lpst their wind the Ohio State Bucks rolled to. a decisive triumph. | Big “money” game of the day was University of Washington at |Minnesota|. . . and it was a torrid|affair. , . . Yea, we had the Gagphers. | A big “money” tilt in the South ¥v . +» . No, we picked the wrong horse . From the manner in which | the Boston boys pitched strikes while tossing passes it’s strange that Joe Cronin overlooked them for his Red Sox mound , staff. |

nal seer would care to tackle.

ras Boston College at Tulane.

#| ” ” ” o ” | OHIO STATE trounced Pitt without having to extend itself “all out” ar unveil its bag of tricks mapped out by Coach Francis Schmidt. : - And the Bucks will. be stronger this Saturday when they meet the Purdue Boilermakers at Columbus. . Jimmy Strausbaugh, an ace, who didn’t see any action against the Panthers, will be ready for play against Purdue. 3 Well, Purdue didn’t go “all out” {against Butler, and like all Boilermaker teams, fears no foe, regartiless of size or reputation.

Baker Developed Several Tiger Stars

INEVER GREAT himself as a player, Del Baker concentrates on getting the maximum out of the hl on hand to take his place among the topnotch baseball managers, says Harry Grayson, NEA Service [spore editor, who has “known the Bengal boss for years. : The late Frank Navin, was right, declares Harry, when in the spring of 1936, right after the Tigers had bagged a world championship, he pointed to Baker, jumping and shouting in the third base coach's box, and remarked to/Will Harridge, American League president: rr a fellow Who/ willl be a great manager some

day.” | To Del Baker belonged much of the credit for Detroit's flaggathering clubs of 1934 and ’35. . s pilot of the Tigers’ Beaumont farm for ffitee years, he developed Lynwood Rowe, Elden Auker, Hank Greenberg, Pete Fox and Jo-Jo White. It was because of his knowledge of and the influence he had on these athletes |that Baker was brought| back to the parent club as a coach in 1933. . . . Auker is now with the Browns and White is in the Pacific Coast League.

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"| 0» ” BAKER has the homely Philosophy of the hop-grower he has been since a boy. . . . He still spends [the off-seasons on the farm near Sherwood, Ore., where- he was born. . . . The property passed out of the family’s hands for a time, but| Baker bought it back. Never a great player himself, Baker concentrates on getting the maximum out of the material at hand. | . . Reducing every problem to its simplest form, it didn't take Del Baker, the balance wheel, long to take his place among the topnotch managers. The Tiger | chief plays strict percentage baseball, and when he attempts something out of the ordinary, and it goes wrong, he doesn’t hesitate to take full responsibility. : . ” 2 vv = | 8 #2 THE MANAGER of the 1940 American League champs is the easiest fellow in the world to get along with, but can crack down when the occasion demands. . . . He i$ the hardest worker ‘on the club . . never sits down from the time he appears at the park until he leaves . . . insists on hustle . | . says a club giving everything it has all the while will beat one that is 20 per cent stronger

2 2 2

mechanically, -

Baseball at a Glance .

AMERICAN LEAGUE (Final)

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF

Kansas City at Louisville (night). (Louisville leads, 3 games to 2.)

RESULTS YESTERDAY

AMERICAN LEAGUE (Fourteen Innings) Detroit | 000 100 001 000 00—2 10 3 Cleveland 000 000 200 000 01—3 8 2 Trout, Newhouser, Hutchinson and Tebbetts, Sullivan; Milnar and Pytlak.

(Eleven Innings)

100 101 000 01—4 16 2 100 001 100 00—3 10 0]

Rosar; Leonard and]

New York Washington Bonham and Dickey, Ferrell. |

. | Sh Cincinnati

( Second Game; 8 Innings: Darkness) 100 000 00-1 5 : 001 011 1x— 4 6 Marchildon and Wagner; Rich and Peacock, NATIONAL LEAGUE 001 000 101— 3 11 030 051 20x—~-11 13 Rambert, Heintzelman and Fernandes, Schultz: Walters, Thompson, Vander Meer

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Chicago

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| Boston 000 000 000-- 0 $ New 055 020 20x--14 15 Piechota, Strincevich and Broskie; Lohrman and O'Dea.

Al ERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF (Final Round) : Kansas City 000 000 000— 0 6 Louisyille . 000 000 901 1 3

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Kirksey Picks Redlegs

Dizziest Grid Season Gets

Under Way

Three Real Darkhorses Show Up Right Away

By HENRY SUPER United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.— The first returns are in and it looks like all the dizzy football seasons of the past will. be nothing compared to

Already on the list of the

North Carolina, Louisiana State, U. C. L. A. and Tulane, and another great gridiron power, Southern California, has its record marred by a tie. : So hold your hats boys—we’ll be lucky to have one undefeated team at the end of the season if things continue to happen like they did

campaign officially - opened. On the basis of inaugural-day performances, we offer today a trio of real darkhorse teams — Boston College, Wake Forest - and - Mississippi. Everyone knew Boston College was good—but not good. enough to defeat Tulane, one of last year’s great teams, by a 27-7 score. Boston College had a pair of lads named Charley O'Rourke and Mickey Connolly operating for them, and paste these names in your hat because youre going ta hear more about them this year.

Look Out for Mississippi!

Wake Forest was tabbed as good, but not good enough to defeat North Carolina 14-0. And Mississippi, scoring 13 points in the last five minutes of play to defeat Louisiana State, 19-6, may be the team to beat down in that tough Southeastern Conference where at

chance to win the title. Out in the Big Ten, Minnesota roared up the comeback trail with a 19-14 victory over Washington,

and the word is out that the Gophers again may climb to the heights they oncé occupied in -the Big Ten. The defeat was a crusher for Washington because it had been talking about turning out its greatest team in history. U. C. L. A, one of the good teams on the coast, was defeated 9-6 by Scuthern Methodist, which looms as a real challenger to Texas A. & M. in the Southwest. Washington State, supposedly one of the “weak sisters” on the Pacific Coast, held mighty Southern California to a 14-14 tie—but don’t count U. S. C. out of it yet because those - Trojans are notoriously slow starters.

No Excitement in East

Ohio State and Michigan stack up, along with Minnesota, as the best in the Midwest with a few

over the past week-end when the|’

Posing That Question—Is Harmon Another Grange?

Tom Harmon, Michigan's great running halfback, is stopped by Davie Queen (66), California center

and smallest Golden Bear, after a gain.

BERKELEY, Cal, Sept. 30

Wolverines in 1924.

1. Like Grange, he carried the opening kickoff

to a touchdown. 2. After misjudging a second

finally corralled it and ran 71 yards to score. 3. Raced 86 yards from scrimmage, slipping by

(U. P.).—After all that hullabaloo last fall comparing Tom Harmon of Michigan and Harold (Red) Grange of Illinois, ending in Michigan's upset by the Illini, Michigan followers hate to mention it above a whisper but.

Harmon's performance against California Saturday was strikingly similar to that of Grange against

A neat twist man” sprawling.

goal himself. the

Like Harmon was voints in slightl time.

period punt, he’

11 Californians and a spectator, who, having seen enough of Harmon for a month of football Saturdays, icaped from the stands and set out in pursuit.

4. Ended a 76-yard march by plunging over the

5. Climaxed a 59-yard march with a touchdown rass te Dave Nelson. 6. Place-kicked four extra points. : nge in his historic game with Michigan, almost a point-a-minute man—28

of the Harmon hips sent the "12th

y more than 30 minutes playing

Football Renaissance Comes

To the Big Ten

By STEVE SNIDER : United Press Staff Correspondent : CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—It's time to haul. out the Webster special and find out if “renaissance” is spelled with one “n” and two “’s” or two “n’s” and one ‘s’ for it's a mighty important word around the Big Ten

today.

Michigan licked California, 41 to 0.

Ohio State buffeted Pittsburgh,

Minnesota defeated Washington, 19 to 14.

schools still to be heard from. Ohio State shellacked Pittsburgh 30-7 while Michigan, with Tommy Harmon leading the attack, humbled California 40-0. In the East nothing important

that played had pushover opponents. Off the records here's how the national picture looks as the boys get ready for the second week: Best teams on opening day— Boston College, Minnesota, Michigan, Southern Methodist, Wake Forest, Ohio State and Mississippi.

Tulane Biggest Flop

Teams which looked good against opponents ranging from pushovers to moderately tough—Duke, Ala-

bama, Auburn, Georgia, Texas Aggies, Tennessee, Texas, Oregon State and Santa Clara. Teams which should be good and will get their chance to prove it in opening games this week — Notre Dame, Northwestern, Cornell, Fordham and Georgia Tech. Biggest disappointment of the week-end—Tulane, undefeated all last year and whipped only by Texas A. and. M. in the Sugar

Bowl.

Those Who Don't Know Say He's Cold, But Dr. Jock Sutherland Really Isn't

y HENRY M'LEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 30— The Tobiba world knows him as a cold guy. Not only as a cold guy, but a hard one, who looks upon his players| as machines, and not as human beings to he patted when they did well, to be scolded when they failed. | ‘He Iped build up this legend, there's ho denying that. In the first place—and we're talking about Jock Sutherland—he’s formidable in appearande. Big (he stands six two or three and weighs 230 or thereabouts), he isn’t given to easy conversation. Intense, he lives, breathes, thinks football all his waking hours. A perfectionist, he rebels at a player failing to give his very best. as! been called the “Dour e “Sour Scot,” and “Dead-

"7 years of] coaching the Pitt Panthers. His team pkyed here - yesterday, against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The game has been the talk of the town for two months. A crowd of 27,000 e stands to see what Jock’s team could do. I talked to Jock before the game, in the hs of the Hotel Schenley. “I'd like to win this one,” he said. ~ *I would have liked, to tell you the

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Jock Sutherland . . . he wasn’t hungry. 1 for ‘me, but I ‘never have asked a team to play for me, and I never will. | I just hope theyll do their best.” : : ~ Then Jock told me how he felt coming back to Pittsburgh—a town he lived and worked in almost 30 years+—as a stranger. - “I didn’t sleep much last night on the train. I kept thinking about how 1, as coach of Pittsburgh, used to welcome arriving coaches. Now,

for me. It. seemed funny, I, who knew Pittsburgh as I know no other town, to be greeted and treated as a stranger.” The crowd gave him a great hand

when he walked on the field before the-game between the Dodgers and the Steelers. The band played, the customers yelled, and Jock just walked out, slowly, quietly, right hand in his pocket, left hand clutching a program. He didn’t look up, he didn’t look down. He just walked straight ahead to the Brooklyn bench. ; Not knowing him, the crowd resented his refusal to show emotion. Inside, the doctor was turning over and over. He hadn't eaten a bite of breakfast, Not a bite of lunch. “Not hungry,” he told friends. No, just a great fellow, a great coach, being human. Inside he wanted this ball game. Inside he prayed and hoped the Dodgers would come through. : They did. And without a speech, either. I talked to 10 or 12 of the players. They all said, in substance, the same thing. “We like him. We go for Jock. We knew he wanted to win, so we did what we could.”

Cuba Edges U. S.

HAVANA, Sept. 30 (U. Pp). Cuba's amateur baseball

four

truth, tp ask the players to win it iets was to be a welcoming party

United States squad, 3-2, yesterday.

team, despite only a five-hit attack and errors afield, nosed out the

Louisville One Up on Blues

By UNITED PRESS Louisville was in position today to finish off the Kansas City Blues and get down to business with the survivor of the International League playoff —Baltimore or Newark—in the Little World Series. The Colonels scored in the ninth inning yesterday to defeat the Blues, 1 to 0, and take a 3 to 2 lead in

the American Association playoff. Another Louisville victory today would make it the American Association representative in the Little Series. ! : Kansas City’s loss yesterday was a heart-breaker to Don Hendrickson, who held Louisville to three hits. One was out in the ninth when the Colonels’ Chet Morgan doubled, Artie Parks was passed purposely, and Ernie Andres, former Indiana University athlete, hit the first ball Hendrickson threw him into right field to score Morgan. Charley Wagner, who went the route for Louisville, allowed six hits.

Coulter Is City Archery Champ

F, M. Coulter won the men’s city archery crown in the annual city tournament yesterday. - Geneva Fledderjohn took the women's title, while Karl Patton topped the

juniors, Runnerup in the men’s division was Harold Layne, while Josephine Earl finished second among the women. Kenneth Giles and Mildred McNaught, both of Terre Haute, paced out-of-town archers. .

Here Are the Gents Who'll Get the Boos

CHICAGO, Sept. 30 (U. P).— Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis today announced umpires for the World Series, opening’ Wednesday at‘ Cincinnati. They were: National League — William = J. Klem and E. Lee Ballanfant. Larry

Goetz, alternate.

American League—E. T. Ormsby

alternate.

GOODYEAR TIRES TERMS AS 50c iw BLUE POINT

LOW AS

DELAWARE & MADISON

at Last

30 to 1.

That was the renaissance the Big Ten was looking for last year and couldn't quite achieve. On the opening Saturday of this season, they came through .with important victories in the three top games of the week and in their grand slam showed power of national significance. Michigan Tackles Old Rival Ohio State's western conference champions open their title defense against Purdue at. Columbus this week, while Minnesota and Michigan continue against tough nonconference opponents. Minnesota has a difficult assignment against Nebraska, hailed as the big gun of the big six. Michigan tackles its old rival, Michigan State. This week also brings into action all other conference elevens: Texas at Indiana, Northwestern at Syracuse, South Dakota at Iowa, Bradley at Illinois, and Marquette at Wisconsin. Off their showing in the three

and Minnesota apparently will make it a great dog-fight for the Western Conference title.

Scott at His Coolest

On Saturday they showed Tornado Tom Harmon at his stormiest, Don Scott at his coolest and George Franck at his speediest. This trio of "backs, representing Michigan, Ohio State and Minnesota, respectively, turned the tide in all-Ameri-ca fashion. Here's what they did: Harmon scored four of Michigan’s six touchdowns, running 95 yards with teh opening kickoff. He also passed to Dave Nelson for another score. Scott pitched two touchdown passes against Pittsburgh, sharing honors with tackle Charley Maag, the blond giant, who booted a 25yard field goal and blocked a punt, setting up a touchdown. Franck scored twice, once bring‘ing Minnesota from behind with a 97-yard kickoff return. He's the fastest back in the Big Ten, but on that zig-zag run blockers appeared before him as rapidly as he stepped off the yardage. ]

Red Sox Hold 3-2 Lead in I-O Series

Times Special

Lafayette Red Sox today held a 3-2 lead over the Muncie Citizens in the playoff series for the IndianaOhio Baseball Leagiie title. The Citizens won their second victory yesterday by taking a 4-3 decision from the Red Sox.

and Steve Basil. William Grieve, ||

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Supporting Mat Card Completed

Supporting card for the promised “heat” match between Ray Villmer and Dorve (Iron Man) Roche has been completed for the Armory wrestling. ring tomorrow night. Al Lovelock, 219, of Toronto, will grip with Jack Hader, 218, of Buffalo,

action is between Goon Henry, 255, of Oklahoma, and Orville Brown, 229, of Emporia, Kas. Both are for one fall, or 30 minutes. The © Roche - Villmer encounter

finds Ray seeking his seventh consecutive victory in Indianapolis. Dorve, a consistent winner here for several seasons, has plenty of respect for his rival, but intends to

come out on the winning side.

MONDAY, SEPT. 30, 1940

to Win in Six

Ros

Games -

Oddly Enough,

| Cincinnati

Should Do Better at Detroit Than at Own Crosley Field

Larger Briggs Stadium Goes Well With the National Leaguers’ Pitching and Defense

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

CINCINNATI, Sept. 30.——The longest lane has a turn. It can't rain forever. The sun has to break through the

clouds sometime. - a

After losing five straight world’s championships to the American League, the National League will come up for air along about next Monday or Tuesday and proudly

Packers and ,

Redskins Lead

Green Bay Swamps Cards in Feature

By UNITED PRESS" Green Bay climbed into possession of first place in the Western Division of the National Profession-

: al Football League yesterday while idle Washington automatically

gained the lead in the Eastern Division. The Packers, world professional champions, swamped the Chicago Cardinals in virtually every department to win, 31-6, before 20,234 fans

as only six out of 10 teams saw’

action Sunday. Whizzer White raced 20 yards for the only touchdown as the Detroit Lions won over the Cleveland Rams, 6-0, in the only other Western Division contest, before a crowd of 11,500. The Redskins took over undisputed possession of the Eastern League lead as the Brooklyn Dodgers knocked the Pittsburgh Steelers off the top, 10-3, while 26,618 fans

cheered Brooklyn Coach. Dr. Jock’

Sutherland in his pro debut at Pittsburgh. : New York's Giants defeated: th

1 Philadelphia Eagles, 20-14 Saturday

night.

Local Dates at A. B. C. Listed

A list of dates at the American Bowling Congress reserved fof local teams has been announced by Neil C. King, A. B. C. president. Following is a list of the dates, along with the number of teams to be accommodated: Friday, March 14-—17 teams (booster).

Saturday, March 22—40 teams (booster).

Wednesday, March 19—3 teams. Saturday, March 29-4 teams. Friday, April 4—4 teams, Saturday, April 5—4 teams. - Saturday, April 19—6 teams, Sunday, April 20-—8 teams. Sunday, April 27—6 teams. The entry fees for all such reserved dates" should be forwarded

to King before Jan. 15, 1941,

Ring Films Booked

Films of the Max Baer-Pat Comisky heavyweight fight will shown for three days at the Ambassador Theater, beginning Thursday, Manager Rex A. Carr an-

nounced today. .The pictures run for 10 minutes and show the first knockdown as well as the knockout in slow motion.

"|Tigers' power but neither can the

be |

|woast of the 1940 Cincinnati Reds, the team that ended the

drought. With magnificent pitching and stanch defense, the Reds will conquer the Detroit Tigers, champions of the American League, in the World Series, opening here Wednesday. It will be a long series, going perhaps six and maybe seven games.

The Reds will have to win on their smartness, their classy pitching and their tight defense. They cannot hope to slug it out with the Tigers. They have to muffle the Tigers’ siege guns—Hank Greenberg, Rudy York and Charley Gehringer. And strangely enough, they’ll probably have a better chance of doing it in Detroit's ball park— where the third, fourth and fifth games will be played—than [on their Crosley Field, their home diamond. Look at the comparative | dimensions: . | Briggs Stadium | 340 Ft.

Crosley : Field Left Field 328 Ft. Center Field .... 387 Ft. | 440 Ft.

Right Field .... 366 Ft. 325 Fh

Faul Derringer, Bucky Walters, the Reds’ two right-handed aces who are due to pitch the first two. games, can’t make any mistakes on the Detroit batting order and that even includes everyone from little Dick Bartell, the .234 hitting leadoff man, on down to Birdie Tebbetts, the eighth place hitter. Every right-handed hitter in the Tigers’ lineup is capable of belting the ball out of the Cincinnati park. The Reds cannot match the

American League champions offar anywhere near the pitching or de= fense that Cincinnati will field.

300 Hitters Scarce

With catcher Ernie Lompardi unlikely to get into the series before Saturday because of a | sprained ankle, the Reds will go |into the series with only one legitimate .300 hitter in their lineup—first| baseman Frank McCormick. Outfielder Jimmy Ripple is also batting lover .300 but he played in only 40 games

‘Isince coming to the Reds in late

August 1rom Montreal. He's a

"money player and will be dangerous

in a short series. The Reds’ strength is in their pitching and defense. They have four starters, Derringer, Walters, Thompson and Turner, and a great relief man, Joe Beggs. The Tigers (Continued on Page Nine)

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