Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1940 — Page 10

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Cincinnati Reds who oppose the Tigers in the World Series opener are (left to right) Werber,” M. McCormick, Goodman, F. McCormick, J. Ripple, E. L ombardi, L. Frey, Myers, and Joost. They are pictured in front of their Crosley Field dugout. Lombardi and Frey are out with injuries.

Life, They Say,

Born in 1900 and On

Behind the Plate Today for the Injury-Hit Reds

By JOE WILLIAMS

> Times Special Writer CINCINNATI, Oct. 2.—It has been whispered around in halls of literature and biological speculation that life

begins at 40. We may be-able

imony to this theory by the time the World Series ends. Se . We assume you arg acquainted with the fact that the Tigers and the Reds square off in

the first game

Jimmy Wilson

old Mr. Wilson

You may recall when he caught for the Cardinals and the Phillies and that for years he managed the latter| team. Two years ago he re-|

tired to become a coach here.

A mixed series of lurid and conventional circumstances forced him

- back into active service. First young

- Willard Hershberger,

a brooding| neurotic, took his own life. Next| Mr. Lombardi sprung a fetlock or| something akin to it. This left the Reds in what is] technically known as a predicament. | The only catcher they had left was! a bull pen laborer by the name of Bill Baker. It was either a question of going along with him or calling on the mildewed museum piece, the amiable portly relic known as Wilson. Right up to the last Bill MecKechnie had hopes Lombardi would be able to make it but it was evident yesterday in practice and again today that the gentleman who is variously known as Eagle Beak and Schnozz, a gay tribute to the excessive dimensions of his horn, would ‘not be ready.

Schnozz Limps Badly

So pronounced was his limp that some of the boys seem to feel he will not get in any of the games no matter how long the Series goes. | His absence from the lineup is likely to hurt, too, because he wields an explosive stick. Whats more, he's a good receiver, a very good

one. On the bases, of course, he is a loss at all times. Veteran scribes watching him lumber around the bases, huffing and puffing, comment cynically, “He's as fast as ever.” Where the Reds will miss him most is at bat. He was their one real power hitter. : Figuring one angle and another, McKechnie finally arrived at the decision to call on the ancient Wilson—very ancient as ‘baseball age! goes. He can't hit with Lombardi, | but that's about all. Despite the] fact that he has been out for two vears he's probably a better receiver. | At his best there were few better catchers in the majors. And obviously it would be impossible for him to be any ‘slower than Mr. Nose Face. Hero Wilson, Maybe!

There is something gallant and irresistible about these old timers. Wilson. actually feels he is going to play an important part in the Series. and it may be that he will, “Hell, I can still catch,” he said to us today. “The only thing is I'm a little old.” And it would be a stirring story if Wilson, now in his forties, once retired, turned out to be the hero of the series. That could happen, because those who seem to. know always say anything can happen in a short series. Wilson has been catching more or less regularly for the last several weeks. . . . “It was tough at first,” he told us. “Every time I bent down to give the signal I could feel strange noises all over my body.”

Six-Man Gridders Clash Tonight

Already victorious over Center Grove and New Augusta, Beech Grove High School's six-man football team will seek its third straight triumph against Decatur Central tonight at Roosevelt Stadium. Probable starters for Beech Grove will be Parker and Wright, ends; Falconer, center, and Holstein, Fields and Pierson, backs.

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Behind the bat for the Reds will be

will be there because Ernie Lombardi, the regular receiver, and the. gentleman who took the celebrated snooze at home plate a year ago Mwhile sundry and divers Yankees | : galloped fherrily over his supine carcass, has a sprained ankle. i Wilson is probably the oldest man who ever played in any World Series, though we could be wrong on that. Anyway, conservatively, ne is one of the oldest.

Begins at 40,

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Olsen on Hill

For Cubs

CHICAGO, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—Vern Olsen, rookie right-hander, who won

13 and lost nine in (his first season with the Chicago Cubs, attempts to even the City Series with the Chi- | cago White Sox today in game No. 2 at Wrigley Field. Opposing Olsen is another southpaw—Thornton (Lefty) Lee, who won 12 and lost 13 for the Sox. Old Teddy Lyons put the finishing touches on the Cubs in the series opener yesterday, 5 to 3. He let the Nationa] Leaguers pick up a total of 10 hits, but broke their backs whenever they drew close. Lyons doubled in the second, driving in two runs and knocked home another with a single in the fourth. A double by Claude Passeau, the losing pitcher, drove in a pair of Cub runs in the second.

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Purdue, 1. U. Harriers Run Friday

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 2.—Indiana University’s harriers: will test Purdue's cross-country team here Friday in the first of eight meets for the Boilermakers. Chief. attraction of the meet will be the renewing of the rivalry be-] tween Capt. Ed Holderman of Purdue and Wayne Tolliver of Indiana. Other Purdue veterans likely to run are Keith McLaughlin of Indianapolis, Carson Shulman and Charles Reeves.

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Probable Lineups

DETROIT

Bartell McCosky Gehlringer Greenberg York

Werber M. McCormick Goodman F. McCormick . Ripple Lombardi or Wilson Joost Myers Derringer Umpires—Bill Klem (NL) plate; Emmett Ormsby (AL) first base; Lee Ballanfant (NL) second base; Steve Basil (AL) third base.

Bobo Supplies The Color

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

CINCINNATI, Oct. 2.—There is no more picturesque individual in all the baseball world than Louis Norman Newsom, who will make his World Series debut today by pitehing the opening game for the Detroit Tigers against the Cincinnati Reds. Buck, as he's known to the profession, or Boho, as he calls himself is a man of a few thousand words, mostly about himself. But nobody can blame Newsom for talking about Bobo. There is so much to tell and it is all so interesting—like the time he pitched a game. with a broken knee.

Buck Comes Back

That was. when Newsom was pitching for Washington. Earl Averill hit him with a line drive and they were carrying him off the field when Buck overheard some remarks from the Cleveland bench about his courage. His Southern blood began boiling and he stormed back out to the mound and finished the game, losing by one run. That night in the hospital the X-ray showed his kneecap had been fractured in several places. Newsom has bounced around plenty since he first broke into baseball with Greenville, S. C,, in 1928. He's played with the-Dodgers and Cubs in the National League and the Browns, Senators and Red Sox and Tigers in the American League. He made two trips to the Browns, the club from which the Tigers rescued him in 1939. Some say that Buck has talked himself off more clubs than any other player in history. : But Newsom is harmless and the Tigers love him. They should, because . he was the first Tiger to get the pennant bee this spring. “We've got a lot of ifs on this club,” he said, “but you know if they all come through we’ll have ourselves a hell of & ball club. I wouldn’t be a’tall surprised if we landed in the World Series”

Won 21, Lost 5 Newsom won 21 games and lost

26 five and was ever ready to help

the Tiger cause. Many times during the season he picked up his glove

s33/and trotted down to the bull-pen 2| of his own volition just so he'd be

ready in case jManager Del Baker needed him. Newsom is one of the newspapermen's favorite characters but a man of his moods and words is bound

6 : 3 i ;| to get into an occasional jam.

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3 Like Red EVER WILLING to risk their reputations and self-esteem for the subscribers, The Times’ sports

“experts” say the World Series will come out like this:

Eddie Ash, The Times — We are stringing with. the Tigers. . . . The Tigers have the superior fence busters and are perfectly willing to match it against Cincinnati's mound aces.

George Kirksey, United Press— The Reds will win on pitching.

Harry Ferguson, Unifed Press— Cincinnati in six games with Derringer winning two.

Henry McLemore, United Press —Pitching still is the big thing in a short series, so I like the Reds in six games. Derringer, Walters and Thompson will put! the quietus on the Detroit bats.

Harry (on the fence) Grayson NEA Service — Cincinnati should give the National League one of its rare World Series victories, but don’t be surprised if Detroit's story-book season has a happy ending for the Americans.

Joe Williams, Times Special Writer—Joe always takes the American League team in a World Series.

Big Purses Await Winter Linksmen

BOSTON, Oct. 2. (U. P.).—An almost certain all-time high in purses will follow the competition of this year's fall and winter schedule, Fred Corcoran, tournament manager of the Professional Golfers’ Association said today. Seventeen tournaments worth

$100,000 in prize money were listed on the winter program for 1940, which included every major event of the past season plus the revival of the Mid-South Open at Pinehurst, N. C., Nov. 13 to 16.

Howe Harriers Lose

PLAINFIELD, Ind. Oct. 2.—The cross-country team of Howe High School in Indianapolis lost to the Indiana Boys’ School. here yester-

day, 45 to 15.

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Lombardi on Bench as Reds Ope

Paul Derringer, ace Cincinnati hurler, flashes a taunting smile at | a couple of vicious Tigers, just before the start of the World Series at. Crosley Field. The Detroit players, in street clothes, are Buck Newsom, opening game pitcher, and Schoolboy Rowe, likely Tiger

If Practice Makes Perfect. Greenberg Is the Tops

By HENRY M’'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent CINCINNATI, Oct. 2—The tumult and shouting of the Tigers’ final World Series workput had ended, but the captain and the king Long after the other players were in the locker room, and the groundskeepers had taken over the field, Hank Greenberg

12 Like Tigers,

labored on. Deep in left field, and with only the youngster who was hitting fly balls to him for company, Greenberg practiced the business of going to his left, galloping to his right, running back to the wall, and tearing in for short flies. He threw to all the bases, handled ground balls, and studied the drift of balls in the wind. - Hank's willingness to do a little more work, try a little harder, was remindful of Joe DiMaggio's determination to get his batting eye in this same park a year ago. Joe worked a full hour after his teammates had called it quits, swinging at pitches. He took his cut until he began to find the range of the walls, and you'll remember that it paid off in the series.

Hank Like Perfection

Greenberg didn’t have to work yesterday. Of all the men who started the series today he is the biggest star. His salary is tops in either league. He is the American League home run king with 41, the leader in doubles with 50, top man in batting in runs with 150 banged across the plate, a .340 hitter, and far from being the worst left fielder in the business. But Greenberg is a perfectionist. No one will ever know how many hours he practiced when he first went to Detroit as a first baseman. Not a natural player, he had to get his skill the hard way. He was in the park every morning, practicing the fielding of balls to his right then, because Charley Gehringer was in his prime as a second baseman and could get anything on that side of Hank. He worked himself into one of the best first basemen in the business. When they moved him to left field last spring, and gave first base to Rudy York, Greenberg started toiling all over agdin. He was the first man in the park and the last one to leave.

Learns the Outfield “I'm going to learn to play the outfield if it Kills me,” he said. “I just don’t want to be known: as a big guy with a big stick in my hand.” He was awkward as two left shoes when the season opened, but the finish of it found him a better than average outfielder, and the most valuable man "in the league. He not only did a good job of left fielding but he had the best year of his career at bat. Never before had he hit as high as .340. Big Hank is the fellow the Reds’ pitchers must stop if the National League is at last to win a World Series from the American. He was bouncing balls off the fence and in the bleachers in batting practice

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Series Campaign

Lined up in front of their dugout at Crosley Field for the first game of the World Series are these

‘Detroit Tigers (left to right): inger, McCosky, and Bartell.

Newsom, Sullivan, Teb betts,:Fox, Campbell, Higgins, York, Greenberg, Gehr=,

Series Facts

Teams—Cincinnati Reds vs. Detroit Tigers. Scheduled—First game today at Crosley field, Cincinnati, (12:30 p.m. (Indianapolis time), Second game at Cincinnati tomorrow. Third, fourth and fifth games at Detroit Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sixth and seventh games at Cincinnati Monday and Tuesday, if necessary. First team to win four games wins world champienship. Broadcast — Mutual Broadcasting System (WIRE). Betting—3 to 2 in favor of Detroit. . Probable attendance today-— 33,000. : Probable starting pitchers— Buck Newsom for Detroit and. Paul Derringer for Cincinnati.

13 Are Drafted

From Minors

CINCINNATI, O, Oct. 2 (U. P). —Major league teams drafted the following minor league baseball players at the annual meeting: Philadelphia Phillies—Frank Melton of Columbus, O. Athletics— Pete Suder of Kansas City. Washington Senators — George Archie of Seattle. New York Giants—Ace Adams of Nashville. Chicago Cubs—Bob Scheffing of Rochester, N. Y. Boston Red Sox—Oscar Judd of Sacramento. Pittsburgh Pirates—Ed Stewart of San Diego. : Brooklyn Dodgers—Bill Swift of St. Paul; Floyd Young of Atlanta; Thompson Swift of Springfieid, Mass., and Al Sherer of New Orleans. Cleveland Indians — Murray Howell of Baltimore. Cincinnati Reds—Mike ‘Christoff of Oakland, Cal.

Cathedral Boosters Meet Tomorrow

Coach Tony Hinkle of Butler is to show motion pictures of the Butler-Purdue football game at a meeting of Cathedral High School's Booster Club at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Cathedral auditorium. Pupils’ parents, alumni and boosters are invited to the free meeting.

Roy Sparrow Heads Pleasant Run Club

Roy Sparrow will serve as president of the Pleasant Run Golf Club during the 1941 season. Other officers elected were Les Carter, vice president; B. F. Walker, secretary, and Fritz Wuelfing, treasurer.

If the opening Big Saturday of going to be a colorful year.

the land. Opening crowds, topped banner season at the gate. It already looks as if the publicity di< i rectors had good § reasons to couch their advance publicity in optimistic superlatives. No. 1 personal surprise was the Washington State’s 14-14 tie with Southern California. The Cougers are : stronger than I § : a had expected. er Layde Another. headache awaits the Trojans Saturday. They'll need their best stride to beat Oregon State. Surprise No. 2 was Wake Forest’s 12-0 defeat of North Carolina. The Deacons were admittedly good, but not that good. ‘The Tar Heels are better than that. They should go to work now and prove it.

Super-Power Revealed

The one-sided victories in major games of Michigan, Ohio State and Boston College reveal super-power and at the same time set up a team psychology which will cause the respective coaches some concern until after the next game. That kind of opener is just what the doctor lorders for some teams—it generates self-confidence. For others it’s poison—Il8ads to overconfidence. Watch the next games of these three teams with that thought in mind. Michigan, Ohio State and Boston College, unless checked, are more likely to let down than gear up. Contrary is the case of Stanford under the leadership of Clark Shaughnessy. The Cardinals had a bad time in 1939. Shaughnessy is fresh from a protracted nightmare at Chicago, where major victories were nil and victories in ‘any class scarce. Both coach and team needed such a tonic as afforded by the 27-0 defeat of San Francisco -- a team that tied Santa Clara last year, beat St. Mary’s and was doped to be even: better this season.. A similar henefit should follow West Virginia’s 47-0 defeat of Westminster. Bill Kern’s new deal, however, will get a bettqr test this week-end against Fordham. Boston College's defeat of Tulane was not particularly surprising to me, inasmuch as I had picked the Green Wave mainly on accounf of (Continued on Page 11)

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As a Conference Contender

No. 1 Personal Surprise to Elmer Was the 14-14 Washington State-Southern Cal Tie

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Angel Coming

To Tovin

In case you didn’t believe your eyes or the pictures the last time, you'll .be interested to know that The Angel (known to his family as Maurice Tillef) will perform here in next week's wrestling pro= gram. Matchmaker Lloyd Carter, how= ever, has not announced who the opponent (and victim, we presume), will be. But The Angel will be here, That's the important thing.

VYillmer Beats Roche

Last night's fireworks at the Armory were furnished by Ray Vill= mer, a 222-pound young man from St. Louis, who got his start wrestling in YMCA. gyms. Ray grappled to his seventh straight victory here and it looks as if they're going to have to bring in a top-flight, A-No. 1 grunt-groaner before Ray is bested. He won in straight falls over the tough-talking, tough-looking ex-coal miner from Decatur, Ill, Dorve Roche, 220. Villmer took the first fall in 10 minutes with a simple body press and then Roche took care of the remainder of the match himself, Attempting a flying tackle in the second period, Dorve missed his target, flew outside the ring and made a one-point. landing on his noggin. He was washed up.

Dorve Is Counted Out

Before he could get his battered . thoughts collected enough to hoist himself back in the ring, the count of 20 hade passed and Tough Guy Roche was done for the night. The second setto consumed 30 minutes. The semiwindup went to Orville Brown, 229, of Emporia, Kas., who beat Goon Henry, 255, of Oklahoma, in 15 minutes with the celebrated Indiana deathlock, and the prelim=inary went to Frank Sexton, 232, of Akron, O., who bested Al Love= lock, 219, of Toronto, with a pile driver in 24 minutes. > Sexton substituted for Jack Hader of Omaha.

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