Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1940 — Page 10

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Don't Believe Your Eyes --- Higgins Is Out

It looks as if Pinky Higgins, Detroit third baseman, was safe on this play, but he wasn’t. before the picture was taken, he was tagged out by Red catcher Bill Baker.

A moment Higgins tried to score from

second when Birdie Tebbetts grounded out in the eighth inning of the third World Series game.

SPORTS

By Eddie

°

Ash

BILL KLEM, the veteran National League umpire, is appearing in his 18th World Series after being absent His associate from the National, Lee is officiating in his first fall classic.

since “1934. Ballanfant,

Emmet Ormsby and Steve Basil, League umpires, served previously in World Series. . In 1934 Judge Landis fined him $50 for

language unbecoming an official in a chance hotel meeting with Goose . Goslin, then of the Detroit club, following their run-in in a World

Bill Klem is 64. .

Series game in St. Louis.

Klem didn't believe he had the assessment coming, and told his league chief he would not umpire another World Series as long

as Landis bossed the show.

But here he 1s back in the picture collecting that $2500 plus No umpire has appeared in as many baseball classics

expenses. . as the “Old Arbitrator.”

Klem has schooled more good umpires than any other man in . He originated the system of calling balls and strikes over the catcher’s shoulder nearest the batter,

Called ’Em for Many Famous Flingers KLEM called balls and strikes for Wild Bill Donovan, Three-

the game's history. .

Fingered Brown and Orval Overall

watched the slants of Christy Mathewson, Babe -Adams, Jack Coombs, Rube Marquard, Smoky Joe Wood, Jeff Tesreau, Bullet Joe Bush, [Dick Rudolph, Bill James, George Tyler

Eddie Plank, Chief Bender,

and on down the line.

Long ago, before foul lines were marked on fences, there was only a dent to show where a ball hit by Larry Doyle of the Giants New York, and called foul by Klem, had

at the Polo Grounds, landed.

Manager John McGraw of the Giants had a surveyor—transit and all—take a look at it [the next day.

proved the ball foul by two inches. ” " 2

When Gov.

stay in the aNtional. . .

wrong, William?” he asked.

“Nothing at all, Governnor,” replied Klem, “but to me substantial

is a $1000 word.”

Six Current Pilots Led Champions

SIX present major league’ managers have piloted one or more teams to a world's championship during their careers. . sextette includes Joe McCarthy of the Yankees, Connie Mack of the Athletics, Bill McKechnie of the Reds, Bucky Harris of the Sein-

ators, Bill Terry of the Giants and

Harris, Terry and Frisch achieved their goals in their first come-

plete year at the helm. . .. Harris, the time, led the Senators to thei

{eating John McGraw's New York

Frisch's triumph came in 1934,

after he had taken over in August, 1933, over Detroit, the last vic-

tory for the National League.

McCarthy's initial World's Series conquest took place in 1932, his second year in command of the Yanks. . title came in 1910, his 10th year on the job, and McKechnie's in 1925,

his third full season as & pilot. » " n

GEORGE KELLY, who played first base for the Giants in the 1921 ‘World's | Series, leads in chances accepted among players with perfect fielding averages in one series. . eight games handled 93 chances, made 86 putouts and seven assists for a percentage of 1000 and was a standout in the battle with the

Yankees.

Other leaders at various positions for highest fielding average, one series, with most chances accepted, al having a perfect 1.000 per-

centage, are:

Second Base—John Rawlings, New York N. L., 1921, eight games, 20 putouts, 27 assists, 47 chances, no errors.

Third Base—Charles Herzog, New 11 putouts,

no errors.

Shortstop—Charles Gelbert St. Louis N. L,, utouts, 29 assists, 42 chances, no errors. Catcher—Mickey Cochrane, Philadelphia A. L., 1929, five games,

69 putouts, two assists, 61 chances,

Outfielders—John Murray, New York N. L., 1912, eight games, 23 putouts, one assist, 24 chances, no errors.

John K. Tener, then president of League, suspected Klem might jump to the outlaw Federal League in 1914, he promised him!a substantial raise in pay .| He increased Klem's annual salary $500. The next time Tener saw Klem, his umpire looked glum. “What's

first werld’s championship by deiants in 1924. Terry, in his initial complete campaign as McGraw’s successor, defeated Washington for the world's title in 1933.

16 assists, 27| chances, no errors, * Chicago A. L., 1919, eight games, nine putouts 18 assists 27 chances,

the American

in 1908. . . His eve has

. Actual measurement

o 2 #

the National

if he would

The

Frankie Frisch of the Pirates.

Washington “boy manager” at

with the St. Louis Cardinals,

. Mack's first world

s » 2

New York

. Kelly in

York N. L., 1912, eight games,

and George Weaver, , 1931, seven games, 13

no errors.

Football Results

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS Withrow (Cincinnati), 19; Shdriridee, 6. Washington, 40: anual, Broad Ripple. 0; Sheridan, 0 (tie Crispus Attucks, 19; Bates | | So nvine,

v.). Eatmdral, 12: Southport, Muncie, 38; Tech. 6.

0.

STATE HIGH SCHOOLS

Crawfordsville, 21: Lafayette, 7. West Lafavette, 32: Perit, 0. Wabash, 19; Wars aw, Shelbyville, 21+ a theld, % Anderson, 26: New Castle, 0, Rushville, 12; Morton Memorial, Bloomington, 25; Washington, 0. Kokomo, 44: Elwood.

Rensselaer, 21; Cr int, 0. ‘ Traiana. Boys’ School, 18; State School or Deaf, 6. Warren Central, 19; Plainfield, 6. Central (Evansville), 14; Vincennes, 8.

Columbus, 14: Seymour, Libby Toledo, 0),

(Gary), 0. Whiting, 7: Emerson (Ga Hammond, 7: Monigomery ki bamay, 2 ow Elston (Michigan City), 13; St. Mary's, 0.

1%.

Horace Mann Tolleston (Gary)

SIX-MAN TEAMS! Speedway, 20; Lawrence, 8.

. COLLEGES ord. 26; Ozlethrope, 14. Wen (Ky.). 12; Rio Grande, Culver-Stockion. 30; Tarkio, Capital, 8; Marietta, 6. Tllinois Sate Normal, mal, 0 (tie { Eastern Teachers,

st, 6. i it, 13; Catholic, 0. | ’ : no ive, 0.

0. 19.

0; Michigan Nor-

Illinois 19; Elm-

Central, i Youngstown, 3: Western Reserve, 6; Akro Ohio Northern, 7: eric, %. Muskingum, 21; Mount Union, 0. Rudelvess, 3%; Ashland, 13

PDetroit Tech, 8.

rua Teachers, 34; Pittsburg (Kas.) e Lgbanen Valley, 28; Arkansas A. and ? George Washington, 21: Manhattan, 18. Lagrosse Teachers, 25; Milwaukee Teachers )

St. Mary's (Moorhead), Citadel, 45; Erskine, 0. Transyivania, 13: Findlay, St. Thomas, 19; Hamline, Towa State Teachers, 15: Noth Dakota, 0. St. Louis, 0; Missouri Mines, 0 (tie). Peru Teachers. 14; Midland, 0.

Doane, 26; York, ‘0. Hillsdale, ‘14; Kalamazoo, 6. Albion, 19; Adr ian . 0. Alma, 19; Ho Grand Rapids, oe ‘Ferris Institute, 0. St. Ambrose, 18; Parsons, 0. Drake, 20; Grinnell, 7. Hastings, 14; Kearney Teachers, Wayne Teachers, 26; Nebraska Wesleyn,

(Winona) ’ Concordia

2%

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0

Eatior, Gone New Me

114; Denver, 7. ia, 6; Hebron, 2. xico, % New Mexico State, 0. Emporia Washburn, Oklahon ; Ft. Hays State, 6 (tie). South D § ;: Omaha U., 7. Millsaps ix, 7 Louisiana Tech, 19: Texas Mines, Arkansas Tech, 12; Central Teachers, ' 6. Santa Clara, 9: U. C. L. A. 6. San Diego State. 20; Qcidental, 0. Bethany, 13: Baker, Greelev State, 21: tdaho Southern, Rockhurst. 18; William Jewell, 6 Austin College. 19; Daniel Baker, PROFESSIONAL al Leag Philadelphia, 17.

' (Okla. )

6.

Brooklyn, oy

Pigskin Kin South Caroline has two brother combinations on its grid squad— Elmore and Maurice Carter. and Stan and Steve Nowak.

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Colonels Win Their First

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 5 (U. P.). —The Louisville Colonels, can Association champions, staged a four-run rally in the ninth inning last night to defeat the Newark Bears, 5-4, for their first victory of the Little World Series. .

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

this piece should be written.

fooling. They knocked him o

It was in the seventh inning and the score was tied at one all. Up to then it had been the best game [of the Series, tight pitching, flashy defensive work, innings in which anything could happen. The customers were limp from emotional stress.

Turner was pitching a magnificent game, Only twice had the Tigers been in scoring | positions. He certainly looked as|good as Tommy Bridges, his rival. | From where we sat in the altitudinous press box he

looked better. We had that kind of

ia feeling you sometimes get watch-

Ameri- | 1N§ | miss.

ing a ball game that he couldn't He had to win.

Turner Disappears And then all of a sudden he wasn’t

around. The Tigers had driven him | to the showers. In|less time than it]

Turner Is Going Great Gulls

And Then All of a Sudden— Detroit Whips Up a Storm

Big Jim's Downfall Is Almost Incredible—but OI Man Mack Has the Reason: ‘The Tigers Can Hit.’

By JOE WILLIAMS

Times Special Writer

DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 5.—We aren’t quite sure just how

Tigers’ power and no one could protest. to work on Jim Turner of the Reds yesterday they weren't

and all the way to neighboring Canada. There probably never was a World Series pitcher who took such brutal treatment in such a short Space of time.

It could be written about the When they went

ut of the box, out of the park

Rowdy Bartell Is Tiger Claw

By GEORGE KIRKSEY

no. ®

SATURDAY, OCT. 5, 1940

Tiger Power and Bridges’ Heart are Too Much for Cincy

United Press Staff Correspondent

DETROIT, Oct. 5.—A little ban-, tam rooster shortstop who toured | around the National League for 12! years and finally was waived out of the circuit as a washed-up ball player is making a new kind of niche for himself in World Series! competition. With a strident voice that can be heard all over the ball park Rowdy Dick Bartell is driving the Detroit Tigers onward to their goal of the world’s championship.

Bartell Tells ’Em

game, 40-0.

players in Indianapolis. for local elevens,

This little fellow who was prac-| (tically kicked off the Chicago Cubs {is telling a lot of big guys weighing

Four hits and two Newark errors takes to tell he had lost all his stuff. | 1185, 200 and 210 pounds where t

before a man was out gave the vic- | tory to Tex Hughson, righthander, who relieved Charley Wagner in| the eighth. In seven innings the Bears piled | tp a three-run margin for their big righthander, Steve Peek. Wag-| ner allowed only six hits in that | stretch, but five of them went for] extra bases and one was Alex Kampouris’ third home run of the seires. | Peek, who had won 15 of! his last 16 games for the International League club, yielded a run in the opening inning on scratch hits by Vince Sherlock, Chet Morgan and Art Parks, but it was an unearned tally for an error by Ed Levy preceded the run. The Colonels didn’t score again until the ninth when another error started Peek's downfall. Shortstop George Scharein made a wild throw on Woody Williams’ grounder, allowed the runner to reach second and Williams scored on Buddy Lewis’ single. Baxter Jordan batted for Hughson and singled, whereupon Peek was replaced by | Norman Branch. A safe bunt by| Paul Campbell filled the bases. | Hank Majeski, third baseman, boot- | ed SHerlock's grounder and Jim- | my Shilling running for Lewis tal- | lied. Johnny Johnson, a lefthander, came in to pitch to Morgan, a for- | mer Detroit outfielder, who lashed | a single to right field to drive home | Jordan and Campbell with the tying | and winning runs. Branch was] charged with the defeat. The two clubs will spend today | {raveling and will resume the series | tomorrow in Newark, where all remaining games will be played.

Cycle Track Opens

Here Tomorrow

A resurfaced bicycle track at 21st St. and Sherman Drive will be opened tomorrow afternoon and the Irvington Cycle Club will stage a series of races, getting uunder way at 2 o'clock. Work on the course was finished this week by the City Parks Department. The program will be open to any competitors and bleachers

‘have been erected to accommodate |-

spectators. Among the star riders to compete will be Bruce Burgess, state champion; James Tolle, who won first in a 50-mile road race last week-end at St. Louis, and Robert Keene, who placed second in the St. Louis grind. These three men are members of the Irvington Club. The South Side Cycle ‘Club and the Edgewood Wheelmen also will be represented. Class A, B and C races will be held, with half-mile and mile sprints and exhibition team and

pursuit events on the schedule.

It was almost incredible. Here one moment you looked at a pitcher who seemed to be in complete control of

[the game and the next time vou

looked he wasn’t even in the game. !It all happened that quickly. Greenberg started it with a single. He was the first hitter and he hadn't ‘been looking any [too well either. | Turner had fanned him the first] {time up and made him hit into a double play on his next trip. This time he hit a line single to center. It wasn’t a cheap hit; it had a lot of authority back of it. And as it turned out this was the spark which | ignited the conflagration. From then on it was boom, boom, boom. York followed with a home run, Campbell singled sharply = to left, Higgins put the ball into the left field stands. The next thing you saw Turner was jamming his glove into his hip pocket and walking dejectedly to the bench.

‘Mack Has the Answer

But, of course, if you wanted to be coldly realistic it wasn't difficult to [find the answer. Old Connie Mack had it. We rode back from the park with him. “How could that happen to a pitcher so suddenly,” we asked. “It could happen to any pitcher

facing the Tigers,” he answered in|,

that soft, slow tired voice of his. (way of emphasis he added, Tigers can hit.” That would be one way to write the ‘story. It would help confirm some of the things we have been [writing about the Tigers. But there was another story to the game, the story of the little guy. That's what the Tigers call Tommy Bridges. He isn't any bigger than a minute, weighs 150 pounds to be exact, and looks like a standin for Mahatma Ghandi. But he's all heart. It so happens he's an old man now—old as ball players go. This was probably his last Series game. He isn't strong enough to come back and work again in this Series. The little guy had to last it out for the Tigers to have a good chance to win the Series. This was the vital game. The Tigers’ pitching is not good, certainly not dependable. Rowe showed that in the second game. He's their top pitcher in the averages and yet he couldn't last four innings. And to be honest about it, it was just a guess whether bridges could. Admittedly he had help from the Tiger power house but he started and he finished. When he had to be good he was good. When he had to fight his way out of tough situations he had just enough in reserve, arm and heart, to do it and in the last inning when he was weary, fatigued,. and almost staggering, he fanned Myron McCormick for the third out with two on. You could almost see the little guy's arm going with that pitch. It was as if he had said to himself: = “This is my last stand. I'm going to make it good.” He did.

By! “the

that win and save ball games.

{get off and making ‘em iike it. Se ¢180b a field genius and his bat dec=s! not carry much authority but when | {it comes to putting hustle and gin- | {ger in an aging and lifeless infield E he's the goods.

Buck Newsom felt the stinging! lash of his words on opening day | when he neglected to back up third | | base late in the game. Billy Wer- | ber had doubled with one out. Thenl Mike McCormick roled to Rudy | York at: first. Newsom failed to | make a move to back up third to protect a bad throw in case Wer|ber tried to advance on the play. | Bartell went charging toward the) box and in a sharp tone that coud | be heard in the press box on the|Y roof said: “Get qver there and back up third on a play like that.” Just because the 210-pound New- | som was out in front, 7-1. was no| reason he could get careless and | give the Reds an inch of daylight.|$ | Bartell told him so and ‘Newsom | didn’t argue back. He knew Bartell was right.

He Like. to Hustle

In talking about .it in the dress-| ing room afterwards Bartell said,! “We won about five games during | the season hustling and playing up to the hilt every minute. There's no reason for us to stop doing it now.” A tiny squirt weighing only 160. Bartell believes it's the little things! In| the third game yesterday he: prob- | ably saved one base hit by his quick thinking and loud voice. With the score tied, 1-1, Frank McCormick hit a slow roller down the third base | line. It looked like it would stay | fair but Bartell yelled at Higgins and Bridges from his shortstop po-| sition: “Let it roll!” | i They did and at the last second] it rolled foul by an inch. Bartell figured Higgins didn’t have a chance to throw McCormick out if he] fielded the ball and so he took | charge of the situation and yelled, for him to let it roll.

It May Mean a Title

Then later when Lumbering Ernie Lombardi hit a hot smash id Higgins, Bartell chirped up, “take your tme.” Higgins probably had | the situation sized up as well as| Bartell but the little guy with the! big voice makes certain there's no doubt about the play and how to | make it. | Bartell is in there scrapping, hustling and barking every day | from bell to bell. The Tigers’ in-| fielders may be old and creaky but to see them respond to Bartells’ urging makes one wonder if the National League didn’t make a serious mistake in letting him get away. Even Bartell, who'll be 33 next November, makes an occasional fancy play reminiscent of his palmy days with the Giants.

Thompson or Turner, W hich Can Throw Most Home-Runners—It's a Red Issue

By HENRY M’'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Oct. 5.—Rumor has it that the World Series hopes of the Cincinnati Reds have been jeopardized by internal dissension.

From an authoritative source the writer has learned that the Reds are battling among themselves over the question as to which of their pitchers throws the most perfect home run ball. There are reports of pitched battles between the men who support Junior Thompson as the ideal home-run pitcher and the players who side with Jim Turner as the possessor -of the pitch easiest to knock out of the park. There have even hints that a third party, which supported Joe Beggs, took part in the hand to hand fighting. Thompson's supporters counted heavily on Junior's work today against the Detroit Tigers in the third game of the World Series. They pointed out that hefore night fell Junior would establish himself, for all time, as the one man with complete. mastery over the pitch which could be lifted out of the lot. There is no denying that Thompson has class. But Turner challenged Thompson's superiority in yesterday's game which the Tigers won, 7 to 4. An unknown, insofar

Jim Turner . . . Thompson may spoil Jim's prestige.

as home-run pitching was concerned, Turner came through with a performance that stamped him as one blessed with infinite possibilities. In the seventh inning he threw two of the most gorgeous home run balls any fan has ever seen. One split ‘the middle, chest high, when Rudy York was at bat. York expressed his appreciation of such artistry by belting the ball into the lower left field stands. Encouraged, Turner determined to throw Pinky Higgins an even better one. He did,

The one Turner threw Higgins was worthy of a museum. It came straight and sure. Fast and dead down the line. Higgins showed his appreciation by stepping into the ball and lifting it 100 feet past the point where York's homer landed. Turner was just preparing to deliver an even more perfect throw when McKechnie, a man who scorns records, took him out of the game: But Turner walked to the dugout with the cheers of 52,000 Detroit fans ringing in his ears. The customers appreciated his skill, even it McKechnie didn’t. The Beggs clique was formed when Joe came in as a relief hurler. He didn’t work very long but Hank Greenberg hit one of his early throws for a rousing triple. This naturally caused his supporters to contend that Joe, given a little more time, could quickly develop the knack of throwing home run pitches. As for myself, I lean toward the Thompson group. I have a sneak(ing f@eling that Junior, given his head and not handicapped by instructions from the bench, will give a dazzling performance today. My guess is that Gehringer, Greenberg, McCosky and one other Tiger will get home runs before he is taken out.

the best.

| Bridges,

| bardi, Campbell. Higgins. McCosky.

Ma Come on Junior! Show ’em you're

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Runs batted in—Godman. York 2. Higgins 3. M. McCormick, Campbell, Joust, Werber. Two-base hits—Werber, Lom- | Three- | Home runs—Yark Double plays—Werber to Jaost McCormick; Meyers to ; to Baker. Left on bas€s— Cincinnati. 7. Bases on balls ges, 1 (Werber). Struck DU = Br (M. McCormick 2. Rip oe Mve : Turner, - 4 (Grecontin. | York. Bridges. Higgins): Beggs. 1 (York). Pitching summary: Turner—5 runs, 8 hits in 6 innings (none out in seventh). oore- =~ 0-runs. 2 hits in 1 inning. Beggs] —2 runs. 3 hits 1 inning. ore] pitcher—Turner. Banier, Plate— FalJanfant (NL). First base—Basil (AL) Second base—Klem (NL). Third base— Ormsby (AL), Time—2:08.

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Are Tied Up

CHICAGO. Oct. 5 (U. P.).—The | see-53w battle for the Chicago city.| championship was tied at two-nil today with the Cubs and White Sox scheduled to fight it out again in a night game. Big Bill Lee held the Sox to {ive hits yesterday while his Cub mafes knocked out 13 to win, 4:to 0. Lee, who has had an on-and-off record since his great 1939 season, was In trouble during only one inning and his job was made easier by Sbx Shortstop Luke Appling’s three errors. Stanley Hack, third baseman, accounted for four of the Cubs’ hits. Johnny Rigney, who won 15 and lost 18 during the season, started on the mound for the American Leaguers and was replaced by Clint Brown in the ninth.

Villmer Wrestles Here Tuesday

As an added feature on the Armory mat card next Tuesday night, Ray Villmer, 222, young St. Louis star, will try for his eighth consecutive local wrestling victory. Villmer has been here seven times and has annexed all seven bouts, two of them against Dorve Roche, Decatur, Ill. Matchmaker Lloyd Carter yepotts that local and state fans are displaying keen interest in the feature event between The Angel and Joe Dusek, top man of the “Rioting Dusek brothers” from Nebraska, It is for two falls out of three and will give the spectators and idea of what a rough and tumble as well as skilled matman like Dusek can do against the so-called super-human strength of The Angel, who is fiye feet nine inches tall and scales 2%5. Joe weighs 232 and is better than six feet tall.

Third Polo Match

Due Tomorrow

The third of a series of polo matches between the Army and

Rolling Ridge teams will be played:

at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow on the Ft.

Harison field. The Army team has been strengthened by the addition of Maj. Worford and Capt. Riepe. The lineups: | ROLLING RIDGE

Carl James «Re Sutonin, Jr. Maj. Worford ..... 3 Alfred Buck Capt. Reipe «i.e... 44,Conrad Ruckelshas

| DOOD OODIDOOO

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Fullback Richard Gingery of Washington dAndicated. by arrow) went for jaunt before being dragged down by William VanderMoere of Manual.

Shortridge, Manual and Tech Hit the Gridiron Dust

Saturday dawned a dark day for many of the schoolboy football outfielder, Friday's engagements had their of course, but a goodly portion of the major forces | the 1940 major league batting cham|were found punch-lacking Shortridge, Manual and “Tech were | beaten by handy scores as Broad |

bright spots

Ripple fought to an 0-0 tie with, Sheridan. Manual lost to Washington’s, 40-0, while Crispus Attucks’ won over Bates of Danville, Ky, 19-0, and Cathedral wor over Southport, 12-0. The Blue Devils, considered the class of Indianapolis high school foothall, fell before Withrow of Cincinnati, 19 to 6, Tech lost to Muncie] in a night game upstate, 38 to 6.

Gieman, McCalley Face Irish

Kenny Gieman and Dick McCalley (sparked the Cathedral attack as the | Trish bounced back after taking a | trimming last week from Evansville Memorial. McCalley smashed over from the five-yard stripe in the second quarter after Gieman had set | the play up with his ground-gaining. And then in the next quarter, Mec- | Calley’s long pass to J. Devine paved the way for Gieman's smash across (from the two-yard line, A star Negro halfback named Dick | Hill was too much for the Green and White at Muncie. This flash-| ling runner made three of the Bearcats’ touchdowns’ and in | the i

pions

quarter the Tech forces crumbled a Muncie scored eighteen points to Te local lads’ six. Houston Meyer scored the Green and White's only score by cracking |through from the one-vard marker, |after his team had driven 66 yards down the field. The City contest at Washington {was strictly a one-sided affair, with | Washington scoring in every period. | After completing a 25-yard tess to | | Bob Alkire, Bob Millspaugh plunged | | trom a yard out for the Continen|tals’ first touchdown in the opening period. ; | Cole smashed over for the West | | Siders’ second score after he and] | Gingery had allernatec at toting | 3 ithe ball to the one-yard line. Wil-

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|bert -Allanson’s fumble .on a re-|%

turned punt opened the way tor the third Continental touchdown, with Millspaugh trating his left end to score. Gingery was given the honor of scoring the third Washington sixpointer after Cole had set it up with a 28-yard tour to the twovard stripe. Again it was Millspaugh who went over for the fifth six-pointer- on a 48-yard sprint. Coles’ payoff pass to Pgino in the last minute of play completed the victors’ scoring. Allanson was the lone sparkplug in the Redskins’ feeble attack, his galloping and kicking being the highlight as far as Manual was! concerned.

‘Withrow Scores Early The fully-manned Witihrow eleven went to work on Shortridge in a hurry and punched over two | touchdowns in the first quarter. A poor Blue Devil punt that bounded out 31 yards from the Shortridge goal set up the first score. After the Ohioans had advanced to the one-toot mark, Horace Pumphrey slid over for the score, ,and Paul Pusateri kicked the extra point. Quick thinking by Carl Duning netted the second Withrow tally. On an intended punt play, the pass from center was bad, and Duning took out around his right end for 75 yards and a touchdown. A precise double reverse from midfield, with Bob Sperry doing the lugging, gave the Tigers their final score. ~ Shortridge’s second Stringers threatened once in the second period but stalled three yards from the goal, and it wasn’t until late in the game that the North Siders counted. Capt. Bill Allerdice went over from the six on the payoff play Lateral Scares Ripple Neither Broad Ripple nor Sheridan had the oomph to put the leather over that important chalk line in their encounter at Sheridan. And even in the matter of first downs the two teams .shaped up pretty evenly, Broad Ripple gaining five to their hosts’ four. Perhaps the most spectacular play of the contest was Sheridan's return of the kickoff opening the second half. Robert Land’s lateral to John Pearson moved the Hots to the Broad Ripple 42 but they were unable to cash in on the attempt. Capable “kicking by Pearson and {Herb Eaton of the Rockets kept both goals protected. Eaton booted several that soared 60 yards and thrice put the pellet out of bounds within his foes’ 20-yard line. Spinner plays starring Tom Mayfield were responsible for Attucks’ first two touchdowns against Bates. His first was a four-yard jaunt in the first period and his second was one of eight yards in the | | third

period.

A Continental Takes a 25-Yard Jaunt

25 yards on this third-quarter Washington won the intracity

DiMag. Garms Rule Hitters

NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (U. P.).—Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees’ star and Debs Garms, Pitts‘burgh Pirates’ third baseman, are

and Freddy = Fitzsimmons, Brooklyn Dodgers’ side-armer, and Schoolboy Rowe of the Champion Detroit Tigers were the year's best pitchers, unofficial averages released today revealed. DiMaggio finished the season with an average of .350, 31 points below his last year’s winning American League batting mark. It is the first time that a junior league slugger has held the batting lead for two straight seasons. Since Al Simmons did. it with Philadelphia in ’30 and ’31. : Garms walked away with the National League's hitting title with an average of .355.

Fat Freddy Surprises

“Fat Freddy Fitzsimmons, who started the season as a coach whose only aim was to gain the 200th victory of his major league career, won 16 games and lost only two for the second-place Dodgers to lead the National League hurlers. Fitzsimmons now has won 208 games. Schoolboy Rowe, staging a comeback, nosed out his. Detroit Tiger mate, Buck Newsom, in the final. week to top the American League pitchers with 16 triumphs ahd three losses.

Other leaders follow:

Runs—(N) Vaughan, Pirates 112; (A) Williams, Red Sox 132. Hits—(N) Hack, Cubs and F. Mc= Cormick, Reds 191; (A) Radcliff, Broyns McCosky, Tigers, and Cram- , Red Sox. Ponies — (N) F. McCormick, Reds 44; (A) Greenberg, Tigers 50. Triples—(N) Vaughan, Pirates 15; (A) McCosky, Tigers 19. Homers—(N) Mize, Cardinals 43; (A) Greenberg, Tigers 41. Stolen Bases—(N) Frey, Reds 22; (A) Case, Senators 35. The -ten leading hitters follow: RATIONAL LEAGUE

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Franklin Re Record Is Race Target

FRANKLIN, Ind. Oct. 5—The two leading drivers of the Mid West Racing Association will try to lower the half-mile track record tomorrow as pilots from six states in the Middle West compete in the dirt track races here. = Bob Simpson, 1940 champion of the Mid West Orginaztion, and

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ond place winner, are co-holders of the record and will battle it out to break the tie. Earlier this season they did the fairgrounds half-mile oval in 28 and 3 tenths seconds. First of five regular races will begin at 2:30. There also will be a 25-Tap feature. Buss Wilbert, Vern Trester, and Cliff Griffith, all of Indianapolis, will compete.

Tech Netters Win

The record of Tech High School's tennis team was still unmarred ‘t0- - day -after the Big Green scored a 3-0 victory over Kokomo in a North Central Conference match on the East Side courts. It" was Tech's third straight triumph.

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