Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1940 — Page 9
. MONDAY, oC. 7, 1940 Vitt Is Alone On the 1940 Casualty List
But Only a Fat Contract Saves Terry
: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES National Leaguers Finally Have Their Day; Reach 6th Game First Time in 4 Years
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CINCINNATI, Oct. 7.—The National Leaguers finally have arrived at the dessert course. It’s the first time in four World Series they've gotten down to the sixth game, ‘
Rough Stuff World Series Roundup hisox Again; Fifth Game 0 Hum!
"0 Lyons Beats Cubs; 5-4, 0 | For City Title
( HICAGO, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—The 1 cago White Sox took a new lease @0 al the city championship today “iar defeating the Cubs, 5 to 4, in | 10-inning game that ended the 3 intracity series. / eddy Lyons was on the mound ii the Sox and allowed only seven i's, one of them a home run in y last of the 10th by Zeke Bonura. ‘he Sox tied the score in the ith inning on a single by Taft “ight which brought Julius Soli's in from second. They took three Totals s off Vern Olson, the Cubs southCincinnati w pitcher, in the overtime period Detroit ( 01x—f © 4 scored two runs on Jimmy cs eT uk ‘sbb’s single, Joe .Kuhel’s double
run—Greenberg, Sacrifice—Newsom. Doui = =~ ing’ i x ble play—Bartell to Cehringer to York. a Luke Appling’s single
Today’s game—12:30 p. .m. (Indianapolis time). At Crosley field. . 5 Standings of the teams: | sixth game and had to go with : W. L Larry French. The Tigers beat 92 him for the 1935 World's title. 3 But in 1934 the Cardinals came down to the sixth game with the Brothers Dean ready to go to the firing line. That series stood exactly as this one does today, the Tigers leading by three games to two. The Dean boys Diz and Paul, cooled off the Tigers in the last System. (WIRE). | two games and the Cards Won | "prohaple lineups for the sixth ‘the title—the last one annexed |g me: by the National League. DETROIT CINCINNATI or Reds, De the Cards of Bartell ss Werger, 3b %.ich , are coming into the stretch cCosky, c¢ « McCormick, .c with their two aces, Bucky Wal- Grecnbere. he £ McCormick, 1b ters and Paul ~ Derringer, ready ork; Inple, for duty. From the word go, the el Ls ont Reds figured to have to win with | Zeboets. © Walters and Derringer and now ? Earned runs—uincinnati, 0; peiroit, 8. Le
Myers, ss that’s what they have to do. f 3 3 4 on bases—Cincinnati, 4; Detroit, 13.
Walters, ' p Considering everything that has ° | Bas, i on balls—Off Thompson, 4 (Higgins, Camp bell, Sullivan, McCosky); Vandér Meer, [
happened in the Series, the Reds can consider themselves fortunase to have come this far. They've been playing without the services of two regulars—Ernie Lombardi, (Bartel, Higgins, McCosky): Hutchings, i: who hobbled through part of one (Higgins), oote, 2 : Gehringer, York) i Newsom, (Myers, e). ruck out-/ aves tll on 1 the bot oe re ell > or- . | e eer, (Sullivan, ork), 4 . g (Continued from Page Eight) (thompson, Werber, Baker, Joost, man, Riggs, F. McCormick). Pitching sum:
And in the other two it didn’t do them any good because they had played all their aces getting that far. In 1936 the Giants had ‘to go with Freddy Fitzsimmons in the sixth joust and he was licked by the Yanks. The year before the Cubs came down to the
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Remaining schedule — | Another game here tomorrow unless Detroit wins today. i Probable pitchers—For | Detroit, Schoolboy Rowe; for Cincinnati, Busky Walters. Broadcast—Mutual
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By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Service Sports Editor DETROIT, Oct. 7 (NEA).—Oscar Vitt of Cleveland was the ‘only Casualty among major league managers in 1940, but it is said that only & two-year contract at $42,000 keebs William Harold Terry at the helm of the New York Nationals. Paying Bill Terry off would be expensive, so the old first baseman and Horace Stoneham are outwardly palsy-walsy again, but World Series followers close to the situation know that the young president of the club no longer regards the manager of the Giants as a miracle man. Terry and Stoneham disagreed repeatedly during the disastrous season just closed . 7. the first since 1932 that the outfit has finished as low as sixth,
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mary—Off Thompson, é runs, 8 hits in 34 4 innings; Moore, 1 run, 1 hit in 23 inning
Vander Meer, 0 runs, 2 hits in 3 innings. i
\ Bad Time
NEWARK, N. J, Oct. 7 (U. P).— _corge Washburn, winner of the ‘ening game of the Little World en ‘ “iries for the Newark Bears, faces What, No Breakfast! ‘x Hughson of the Louisville Colgate is one-of the few majo ~ Jolonels .in the fifth game of the football schools in the East whici ampionship playoff tonight. doesn't run a three-meal-a-dai = ‘The International League's Chamtraining table for varsity warrior} © , hn Bears gained their third vicThe Raider squad gets only OI {ry last night with a 6-2 triumph meal dinner, on the cufferoo. | |) er the American Association winY LA Newark took a one-run lead So There! HE
- {iE asrs. hi inning on Bud Sports fans squawked about goin: Vietheny’s
Hutchings, 1 run, 2 hits in 1 nha pitch—Hutchings. Passed ball —Wilsox' Losing pitcher—Thompson. Umpires—Kles © (NL), plate; Ormsby (AL), first base; Bais lanfant (NL), second base; Basil (AL; third base. Time 2:26, ; E
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Here's a little rough stuff at the plate in the first inning of the fifth World Series game yesterday Ting ren Detroit flingers have at Detroit. Jimmy Wiison, Reds’ catcher, has been upset by Dick Bartell, who was trying to score from ad ile to worry about. second on Charley Gehringer's single. But Rowdy Bartell was out, Mike McCormick to Wilson, Um- ut from here in the Tigers are
i s h fe h und to get out of the way. Hank Greenberg of the Tigers is the by- going 10 have to swing against the Pate Blem gels both feet off the gro 0% z 8 2 Y* | Reds’ two top flirigers, Walters
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Thompsons, Moores, Beggses, | . Matchmaker Lloyd Carter's first
There were 65,438 at the football game between Michigan and Mich-
igan State; 54,093 at the baseball game, 20,000 at the race track and a night football game between the Lions and the Cardinals drew 20,619. That would be unusual even for New York. Before the Series started the Cincinnati pitchers said York could be pitched to and they are proving it. The four-fifths Indian went hitless yesterday when practically every‘body in the Tiger lineup was massacring the enemy pitching. The second guessers thought! Bill McKechnie left Junior Thompson in too long. He walked four and gave
Giants are no longer the attraction of old on the road, however, this year’s total at foreign parks, 594,122, being below that of 1939. What upsets Stoneham and Leo J. Bondy, the vice president and treasurer and the executor of the Stoneham Estate, is that the once proud Giants now play third fiddle in Manhattan, the Dodgers, like the Yankees, having stepped far out in front of them.
Considerable ‘Cash Wasted | On top of that, Terry has paid Jarge sums for players who have done the Giants little good—Johnny
in the Canadian Royal Air Force. Stevenson was rejected from the American forces on his final physical examination because of a slight defect in one eye.
Knox Athlete Gets Canadian Wings
LEBANON, Ill, Oct. T (NEA).— Roger Stevenson, former Knox Col-|
lege athlete, was rejected by the UMPS to Dine | U. S. Army Air Corps after nine| The Indianapolis Umpires Asso-
etcetera. That is, unless the “Lucky Bucky” can’t hold the fort today or “Bill Paul” folds up tomorrow. Walters and Derringer each has proved that the Tigers can be pitched to. But shoddy pitching won't stop Greenberg, York, Higgins et al. It takes the very best
the opening double which scored to the Baer-Comiskey fight and se¢ | Iommy Holmes and were never ing only 2 minutes 39 seconds ¢ 1z2aded. : action, yet they travel even farthe © \Borowy allowed the Colonels only
McCarthy, Zeke Bonura, Nick Whee ahd others, Brooklyn established an all-time record for victories against the Polo Grounders. The total number of turns taken by Giant pitchers in
1940 was 317. The Giants had 1136 men left on bases. Instead of buying players Jast winter, Stoneham & Co. put |the money into lights, and the nocturnal version didn’t work out well at|the Polo Grounds largely because of bad breaks in the weather. Stars dug up by the late John McGraw are worn out, and |Bill Ferry and the Giants are |left stranded. : 1 : Vitt is out in Cleveland because he lacked tact and could not contrel a grand reunion of the High Order of Terrible Temperaments, especially when its members were encouraged to come up to the office after games and play bridge, or something, with President Alva Bradley and Vice President Cyril C. Slapnicka. | Vitt had nothing to do with | the construction of the Indians, and| the Cleveland organization, whatever its faults may be, certainly has met with good fortune in uncovering young ‘players of real worth.
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. . : The “warmup tourney” starts tomorrow at the Pennsy Gym. The schedule: TOMORROW %7:13—Mayer's vs. K. Stars. : 8;15—Pure Oil vs. Hill Top Market. © 9:15—Wiedeman Beer vs. Mt. Jackson Fires. WEDNESDAY
'7:15—Drikold vs. Stewart-Warner. .8:15—Kay’s vs. Dual Temps. . 9:15—Monarch Steel vs. Beveridge Paper.
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“big league” wrestling bill of the indoor season has been completed for tomorrow night at the . Armory where The Angel has the top spot against/ Joe Dusek. Ray |Villmer, 222, the young and rugged, St. Louis grappler, tries for his eighth consecutive Indianapolis victory when he takes on Len Maca-
luso, 226, Buffalo, in a special semiwindup. Two of Villmer's triumphs have been over Dorve Roche. Another promised action-pro-ducer pits Dynamite Gus Sonnenberg, 216, a former heavyweight champ, against George Tragos, 216, St. Louis, while Al Lovelock, 219, Toronto, meets Powerhouse Frank Sexton, 233, Akron, O., in the third supporting tussle. Joe Dusek, 233, heads the Rioting Dusek Brothers from Nebraska and is a skilled and aggressive front liner. He is above six feet tall as against the five feet, nine inch heighth of ‘The Angel who scales 275. They mix for two falls out of three.
Great Day for Ellis Family
It was a big golfing afternoon yesterday for the Ellis family at Me‘ridian | Hills. Dorothy and Don, a couple of sweet shooters, already have collected numerous honors this season
but yesterday they talked their mother, Mrs. H. R. Ellis, into joining the two-ball mixed foursome
party.| - Dorothy Ellis teamed with Howard Gammon for a low 80 in the gross division, while Mrs. Ellie and son Don led the parade of net shooters with a neat 68. Mrs. Dan W. Flickinger and Dick Stackhouse shot an 84 for second honors, and Mr. and Mrs. Alan Sweetser finished in a like position in the| net «division with a 74. Goings-on yesterday at the other clubs: At Pleasant Run—Top gross honors in| the two-ball mixed foursome tournament went to Marvin Heckman and Mrs. Robert Laycock, who shot a 72. Robert Schuman and Mrs. [Fritz Wuelfing were second with a 75. In net play Max Mayer and Mrs. W. C. Kelly led with an 83-24—59, while W. C. Kelly and Mrs. Max Mayer finished second with 83-23—60. At Hillcrest—A gross 88 won top honors for Dr.' Fritz Morris and Mrs. William Binder in the two-ball mixed, foursome tourney. The teams of George Eidson-Mrs. Lucille Bowstrom and George Stewart-Mrs. Lorraine O’Nell tied for second with 89s. Mr. and Mrs. Fran Riebe shot a 69 to lead the net competitors. At Speedway—Jim Kirby won the Knights of Columbus tournament with an 81. Chuck Brown and John Cargo shot identical 83s for runnerup honors. - Tom Owens registered a a hole-in-one on the course's 14th hole. | A | At |Indianapolis Country Club— Class| A gross winners in the twopall foursome play were L. W, Leath
and Mrs. George Enos, with a 73.
Col. and Mrs McLeod won net honors in this class with an 86-15—71. Class B winners ‘were Hal Keeling and Marjorie Bain with a gross 95,
with a 97-22—75. In Class C, J. S. White and Mrs. R. A. Wall fired a
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