Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1940 — Page 28

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SPORTS When Those Reds Have the Pitching, Lc k Out!

; ad Ol' Man Newsom Left Happy Prof. Walters _ Tigers Jolted by This Battery = 3 1-Duke Game = | LL roves That 8 AFTER yesterday's World Series game Cincinnati's

victory-deli iti iy to deed the t Point stadium at Knoxville or -delirous citizens were ready to deed: the town iq “to Bucky Walters and. Jimmy Ripple lock, stock and | ot Near Big Enough He Wouldn't Let Tigers

barrel, It was worth anybody's money to see the Redleg Gang Up on Him Probable Lineups

rooters prance, dance and yell themselves blue in the face after the last out. The Queen City still is on the oldfashioned side to a large exDETROIT Bartell, ss McCosky, cf

tent in- its home-team enthusiams and even the cowbells were dusted off yesterday and used to step up the din at Crosley Field. Gehringer, 2b Gresubole, 1f

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Y YORK, Oct. 4 (U. P) — be comin’ round the moun- > Wy the thousands tomorrow to he top game on the nation’s card—Duke vs. Tennessee

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Werber, 3b i : Gem x .} is the “big one”—the game I =r jas captured the fancy of fans F. McCormick, 1b he Gulf to the Great Lakes, Wilson or ‘e it not only sends two grid Jorombaral, e into battle, but it marks Myers, ss lenewal of a coaching feud Turner or 2n two of the most. successful Thompson. » irs in the game—Wallace Wade Aaj. Boh Neyland. Re they all cannot see this one, 4 will be plenty of eyes for such ich attractions as Minnesotaka, Southern. California-Ore-ate, Princeton-Vanderbilt, In(Texas, |*T. C. U.-Arkansas, {issourj and California-St. . And, some of the experts

Starved for a World Series game triumph since 1937, National League officials, club directors and associafes finally got a chance to crow over their friendly enemies in the American loop. - “We carried the torch for the junior league so long we had . major burns,” said one joy-crazed National Leaguer, “and from now on in it will be a different story—" _ “You hope,” chimed in an American Leaguer who still was slightly dazed because the Tigers’ Schoolboy Rowe was made to : look foolish by the Reds.

Reds Ahead In Hits for Two Games

WHEN the teams departed Cincinnati for Detroit last night to resume play today the pre-series statistics and ratings were in reverse. , . . The Reds had a total of 17 hits to 13 for the Tigers in the two games and three errors to two. Yet the Tigers were rated the superior batters and the Reds

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By JOE WILLIAMS

Times Special Writer DETROIT, Oct. 4.—From the beginning this was supposed to be a series between

pitcher and power and it's Happiest of all Cincinnati Redsmen as the team evened the series i

standing by beating the Detroit Tigers, 5 to 3, in the second game were

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Superior on defense. Rowe's poor mound form yesterday disturbed the Detroit board of strategy more than Maul Derringer’s fadeout on Wednesday irked the Redleg chiefs. “We've snapped the American League spell over our circuit's standard bearers and that will mean a lot to the Reds,” one Cincinnati club chief remarked. “The tenseness is off as well as the stage fright that affected some of our. boys Wednesday.”

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DEL BAKER, Tiger manager, though disappointed by Rowe's showing yesterday, showed no signs of backing down on his preSeries estimate of his team. “I still think our power will master the Reds,” he declared. “And how did you like the way Johnny Gorsica handled the situation after relieving Rowe?” 5 Tiger followers said they would settle for a split in two games away from home any time. . , . Since the next three are to be played in the Detroit park.

Mike McCormick Goes Hitless in Four Tries

- MIKE M’CORMICK, the ex-Indianapolis star who patrols the center pasture for the Reds, had a bad afternoon at the plate yesterday. . . . He failed to get one out of the infield on four trips. In the second frame, with the bases loaded, Mike popped out to Shortstop Bartell for the third out. Ripple’s home run that landed in the right field bleachers put the sun worshippers in a dither and they started throwing things on the playing field to emphasize their joy. . .. The bluecoats lost no time in checking that type of hilarity. 2 = = s

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JIMMY WILSON, who has found life doesn’t begin at 40 for

8 backstop, collected two hits and scored a run yesterday. . . . He scored from second on Myers’ single and gave the laugh to “overage” as he jogged to the dugout. “If I'm going to stooge for Lombardi I've got to hit like him,” the veteran chirped to his cheering mates who were shouting, “Atta boy, pop!”

Fans Remain Seated Until Last Out

THE CROWD knew three tough Tigers were coming up in the ninth and all present remained seated. . .. Would Walters continue his mastery and hold that 5-to-3 lead? to Hank Greenberg stepped to the plate to lead off. . . . It was a tense moment for the Redleg supporters. . . ‘| Hank belted one high and far-to left. . . . For an instant it looked good for a homer but suddenly the fans judged the distance and saw that the blow was short of power and that Ripple was set for the catch near the

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NO CHANCE to hear yolr neighbor talk now. ... The Tigers’ No. 1 slugger was out of the way. . . . Then York was called out on strikes and Campbell popped out te Myers. . . . The Reds were in! Whereupon the Cincy rooters “blew their tops” 100 per cent.

Series Facts

Colonels Still

1:30 p. m. (EST).

Probable Pitchers—For the troit Tigers, Tommy Bridges; for Cincinnati Reds, Jim Turner Junior Thompson.

Probable Attendance—54,000.

Standing of the teams: boii] Won Lost Detroit .|.....cc000. 1 1 Cincinnati ......... 1 1

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Oct. ¢ (U.P). —The Louisville Colonels, champions of the American Association, send Charlie Wagner to the hill tonight against the Newark Bears, Interna&¥ional League titlists, who have won the first two contests of this Little World Series. Steve Peek will pitch. for the Bears. 3 Ed Levy's home run in the seventh inning last night gave the Bears a

Today's Game—DBriggs Stadium at

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3-2 victory over the Colonels behind - the seven-hit pitching of George . Barley. The Bears collected 12 hits off Jim Weaver, including a home run by Alex Kampouris, his second in two nights.

Schedule—Games here tomorrrow and Sunday. Games in Cincinnati Monday and Tuesday if necessary.

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The boys who handle such things for the papers told how sad the service was, there in the little undertaking chapel, with. only his family and a few friends to hear the good words said. They told of tears and sobs and hurt. I'm wondering if it really should of been sad. I'm wondering if Ol’ Man Newsom didn’t come mighty close to leaving this earth in the perfect way.

Only a Few Hours Before—

There can’t be any denying that he left it happy. Only a few hours hefore he had seen his boy, his Buck, his Bobo, stand out before 30,000 cheering persons and pitch his team to a World Series victory. And Bobo had been a large part of his life for a long time. Bobo, the swaggering, blustery, happy-go-lucky, big-of-frame fellow who kept making the headlines and whose name kept coming in over the radio. When OI’ Man Newsom left Hartsville, down there in South Carolina, a few days ago, to watch Bobo pitch for Dee-troit (that’s” what they call Detroit in Hartsville) he knew he wasn’t coming back. When he got his grip all packed, and called the station for the 10th time to see if the train was a-coming through on time, he spent an hour or two calling on his friends.

So Long, Boys

He called on ‘em to say .goodbye. Up and down the little streets he walked, knocking on doors, ringing bells, and calling from the sidewalk to old pals rocking on the porch or lazying in the swing “Goodby,” Ol’ Man Newsom said. “I'm going to Dee-troit to see Bucky pitch.” ; : The friends all asked what was

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OI’ Man Newsom (left) and his Buck . . . ‘they told of tears and sobs and hurt.’

Cheer His Bobo

And Then He Died, Easy Like

By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 4—0O1’ Man Newsom's dead. They held a little service for him in Cincinnati yesterday, and by now his body's on the way to South Carolina, there to join the dust he had known and loved since hea kicked it up. barefooted, as a kid.

Hershberger's Mother Voted Full Series Cut

DETROIT, Oct. 4 (U. P.).—The Cincinnati Reds have voted a full share of their World Series money to .Mrs. Maude Hershberger, mother of Catcher Willard Hershberger, who committed suicide during the season. Full shares also were voted to all the regular players and Manager Bill McKechnie, Traveling Secretary Gabriel Paul, Coach Hank Gowdy and Trainer Richard Rhode. : Half shares went to Jim Ripple, who came up late in the season; Lee Gamble and Assistant Trainer Larry McManus. Johnny = Vander Meer, who

spent a large part of the season at Indianapolis, received a quarter share.

the meaning of the goodby-—shucks, Dee-troit was gonna win in four straight and OI’ Man Newsom would be back before the week was out. But ‘the goodby was said all the same. Buck’s dad knew his heart was bad, mighty bad, and that at 68, with a weak heart, you can’t afford to take a long trip without saying goodby. He came on to Cincinnati. He saw his boy, his big boy, stand the Reds on their ears. He heard the thunder of voices, Yankee voices, too, cheer his Buck. He was tired when he got back to his hotel, was OI’ Man Newsom. Feeling sort of po’ly, Had the miseries here and there. But he had the strength to hug his boy, to tell him how proud he was of him.

.Go Back to Bed, Son

Then he went to bed. Around 2:30 in the morning the doctor called Big Buck. Said you'd better come over. Your dad’s had an attack. When Buck got there his dad was feeling a little better. Said lissen,

son, I'm all right; you go back to 3

your room and get some rest. But he hugged Buck again before he let him go. Put his shaky hand in Bucky's big hand and as his son went out the door, waved a soft little goodby. Just before dawn OI’ Man Newsom died. Easy like. Just drifted out. You just know that he went with music in his ears—the sweetest sort of music. The music of 30,000 persons paying tribute to his boy—his Buck. : : or mighty easy in Hartsville.

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working out that way. When the Reds get the pitching they can win as they showed yesterday behind a masterful three-hit job by Bucky Wal-

ters. Sparked by Walters’ performance they played: heads up, brisk, energetic baseball and became the first National League team to win a World Series game in three years. The fielding was arp and sure and. the hitting was timely and sustained. Th looked very different, from the way they did the day before when the great Derringer unexpectedly and shockingly failed them.

Tigers Couldn’t Gang Up

They didn’t have any real big inning because they are not a biginning club. They got their runs in neat, attractive parcels of twos and ones. This proved sufficient because all the time Walters was disorganizing any attempt on the part of the Tigers to gang up on him. That’s how the Tigers have got to win: They must gang up on a pitcher and knock him cold. The slender, bow-legged young man from Philadelphia, who was a mediocre infielder for years before he was persuaded to take up pitching, got off to a faltering start in the opening inning when he passed the first two Tigers but after that he was the boss of the diamond. To beat the Tigers you must stop McCosky, Gehringer, Greenberg and York, who come to the plate in that order. Walters stopped McCosky cold, held Gehringer to a single, Greenberg to a double and pitched to York as if he owned him. York actually lobked feeble. He hit only one hard ball and that directly into the hands of an outfielder. Twice he fanned, once to end what had started out to be one of those big innings. Battery: Walters and Wilson

There was a nice little human interest story in the game. Jimmy Wilson caught Walters. He's the old coach who had to come out of retirement for this series when Lombardi hurt his ankle. It was Wilson who almost literally forced Walters to quit playing third base and take up pitching. Wilson was managing the Phillies at the time and Walters was his third baseman. Wilson didn’t have too much pitching and he was impressed by the way Walters threw the ball around the infield. “Hell, you've got more stuff on the ball than any of my pitchers,” Wilson said, “From, now on you aren't a third baseman, you're a pitcher.” Well, you can imagine the extreme admiration and happiness Wilson enjoyed yesterday as he caught Walters in a World Series game and as Walters went along, inning after inning, pitching one of the masterpieces of the October classic. We noticed them from the press box after the game was over. The first thing Walters did was to shake Wilson's hand.

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Runs Batted In—Gehringer, Joogt, Myers, Ripple 2, Werber, Greenberg. Two-Base Hits—Walters, Werber, Higgins, Greenberg. Home Run—Ripple. . Double Play—Werber to Joost to F. McCormick. Left on Base —Detroit 3, Cincinnati 5. ‘Base On Balls— Walters 4 (Bartell, McCosky 2, Greenberg), Rowe 1 (Werber). Strikeouts—Walters 4 (York 2, Rowe, Gorsica). Rowe 1 (M. McCormick), Gorsica 1 (Myers). Rowe: § runs and 8 hits in 33 innings; Gorsica: 0 1 hit in 425. Losing Pitcher— o mpires—At plate, Ormsby (AL):

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League playoffs. But in one of those sudden rags-to-riches moves for which baseball is famous, Ripple wafted off the Montreal club int a regular berth on the pennant-bound Reds during the last days of August. Property of the Brooklyn club, the Reds were able to land Ripple by a quirk of the rule book. The Dodgers sent him to Montreal early in the season with the intention of recalling him. They changed their minds and asked waivers in August. The Reds claimed him and despite protests from the Montreal club were upheld by Commissioner Landis. 2, j It was a break for Ripple and ah even bigger break for the Reds. Because of him, the National League champions are all tied with the Tigers at one game each as they move into the third battle today. . One lusty swing by Ripple yes terday put red blood into the Reds’ attack. With the score. tied, 2-2,

and Ival Gooodman on first, Rip-

ple slashed one of Schoolboy Rowe's Sunday pitches on a line into the right-field bleachers, some 370 feet away. ‘He Hits de Treeple’ Thus far the Reds have scored seven runs in two games, Ripple has driven in three of them—one in the opener and two yesterday. He's made only two hits but both came in the. clutch. It’s terifying to mild Will McKechnie to think of how close he came to losing Ripple for the World Series after pulling the ‘sleeper

Montreal. In the Reds’ last game of the season Sunday against the Pirates Ripple was hit by a pitched ball thrown by a rookie pitcher. It landed on Ripple’s right wrist, and only the two days intervening before the first game of the World Series saved Ripple from ridig the bench with the Reds’ other two casualties, Ernie Lombardi and Lonnie Frey. Thirty-one years old, Ripple was discarded by Bill. Terry of the Giants toward the end of the 1939 season as washed up. The Dodgers took a chance and claimed him on waivers. In his old days at the Polo Grounds, Ripple was a favorite among Giants’ fans, who used ito sing ‘a verse in his honor. It went something like this: Jimmy Reeple, hero of de people, he hits de treeple. If you can figure a way to rhyme home run with Ripple, you'll have the Reds’ new war seng.

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Ripple, 5 Weeks Out of TW, Turns Into a Red Tidal Wave |

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent +} DETROIT, Oct. 4—The Ripple—Jimmy Ripple of the Reds—turnedss’

Only five weeks ago, Ripple was across the border in Canada, playing |! the outfield for the Montreal International League club and little dream- |. ing he’d be one of the stellar performers in the 1940 World Series. In|! fact, his chief ambition ‘was to help Montreal get into the International

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