Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1940 — Page 26
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PORTS
y Eddie Ash
+ IT'S ALWAYS BEEN more or less puzzling to baseball fans in general when they read in the late fall that
the Cincinnati baseball club
is sold out of tickets for
the following spring’s opening day game.
The announcement “no more reservations exceeds the supply.”
is always brief and to the point, are being accepted, the demand
Since Indianapolis seldom comes close to winning any kind of
attendance honors on opening day,
despite the fact the home-town -
Indians are famous for winning their inaugural tilts, fans here
doubtless situation. o
will be interested in a story covering the Cincinnati
Gabe Paul, the Reds’ g nial road secretary and publicity chief, : Bl ome ‘research work on the ‘subject and came up with the
“Ia Gincinnat an opening day sellout before Christmas is hws
1 thing. It is the very usual procedure to allot the supply
or al ducats long
before most major league teams begin fo’
think about ticket pening alone a sellout.
“The Reds today are c
mendous crowd appeal in and out of Cincinnati. he| reason for the sellout announcement.
pionship appeal is not t Reaso!
n is that opening day in Cincinnati has appeal in itself. is a day that is different from other baseball days.
day. That is enough.
ampions of the world. They have tre-
But their chams-
It It is openirg
“Back in the dark days, when the Reds were wallowing in the cellar, there was no letdown in. opening day interest. There were Christmas sellouts then, just like today.
It’s Traditional With Redleg Fans
“OPENING DAY interest existed in Cincinnati since the days of the first professional club in 1869. It has been traditional for Cincinnatians to attend the first game.
“Forefathers of the present day baseball fans attended the opening game just as their descendants are doing today. It is something
that has grown of its own jpesord. have been stimulated. “There is such a deep feeling
It is something that could not
for it that it necessarily must
have been born into the chiliren of the people who placed Cincinnsti
on the baseball map years > 2's =»
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"MOST PROLIFIC example of the Cincinnati opening diy loyalty came in 1938, after the Reds finished a hopeless last in 1937.
behind the pennant winning They were so far off the behind the pennant-running
dropping their last 14 games.
Giants, and they closed the season by pace in 1937 that they were 40 games Giants, and they closed the season by
: - “Yet, in spite of all this, the largest opening day crowd in Cincinnati’s history: turned out the following spring when the Reds
started their 1938 season. |
“The unusual condition! that exists in Redland has been the
cause of attempts at duplication in other major cities.
But Cin-
cinnati’s opening day cansiot, be duplicated.” Jewel Ens,. World Series Unsung Hero
JEWEL ENS, the baseball pepperpot who recently tossed up the Indianapolis managerial reins to join the Cincy Reds as coach, continues to win acclaim for his part in the 1940 World Series. . . «
Writing in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
“Quite a few of the Edstern writers, along with a few of the Detroit scribes, are still dashing off pieces that the unsung hero of
the 1940 World Series is Jewel Ens. “They claim that Ens
Lou Smith says, in part:
'on the championship for McKechnie by
fnsisting that Paul Derringer, who had been knocked out in the
second inning of the first fourth contest.
game, be permitted to go back in the
“McKechnie had announced Thompson as his starter. But Ens kept working on the Deacon until he broke down his resistance. Derringer took Junior’s place—and won. Ens fought for Derringpr in spite of the rather unclubby action of the big right-hander. After he had been knocked out in the first game, Derringer complaingd that he had followed orders. This passed the buck vigorously to Eijs, who had scouted the Tigers and drawn up the book on ‘them. Jewel
got pretty hot under the collar.
“Derringer had not followed the book and didn’t have his usual amount of stuff that day. But Ens cooled down and kept badgering
McKechnie until the Deacon gave debut in the series.”
2 = 8 | MILKMAN JIM TURNER, the
in and postponed Thompsory’s
2 8 = : Cincinnati hurler who used lo
toss ’em up for the Indianapolis Indians, has upped his age a couple of years over the figure carried in the baseball records.
For years Jim's “baseball age”
has been carried as two years
less than it actually is, he admitted in a note to the Cincinnati
club when asked for his selective service registration number.
“Instead of being bom I was born on that date in scription,” the Milkman wrote.
Aug. 6,
1906, as the record books show,
1904, so didn’t have tO register for con-
"In making note. of Turner's “confession,” Sporting News, the
baseball weekly, carried a Hoy headline, to wit:
His Age.”
“Milkman Watered
Potsy Clark fo
Speak at
Butler s Football Dinner
George (Potsy) Clark, one of the ~ all-time great backfield men at the University of Illinois and more recently coach of the Detroit Lions essionals, will be the principal at the Butler University Blue Key football banquet next Monday night at the Athenaeum. Robert Nipper, Shortridge High School coach and a Butler luminary, will act as toastmaster.
Clark is an attached figure to Butler athletics, himself. He [coached here in ’27, 28 and ’29, winning 14 games, losing nine and tying one. He has been head coach at| Kansas State and Michigan State and assistant at Illinois and Minnesota in addition to a whirl at the pro game. He has coached the Portsmouth team whose franchise later was changed to Detroit, and the Brooklyn Dodger pro outfit for two seasons. Next year he ume the athletic directorship'of Grand Rapids College, Grand Rapids, Mich. Honored guests at the ‘banquet will include Butler's Narsliy eng e varsity cross-country ‘team, Local high school coaches and | Butler's opposing coaches this year also have peen invited. The 1941 Butler captain, elected by the entire team, will be announced, and the pi: resentation’ of
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the Sigma Delta Chi blanket to the outstahding senior player will be made. Stephen Hack, president of the men’s senior honorary, will preside over the banquet.
Central Is First For Ball State
With four consecutivé vigtbries already marked up, the diana Central Greyhounds will be hosts to the Ball State Cardinals Saturday night in an Indiana College Conference game. The game will be the first on the Cardinal 1940-41 schedule.
Last year the teams split a twogame series, each ‘winning cn the opponents’ court. - Coach Harry Good, Greyhound mentor, will start Walter Brenneman and George Crowe, forwards; Lee Perry, center; Ray Blodomingdale and Angus Nicoson, guards. Nicoson, 5° 11”, As the only starter under six feet tall. A. L. “Pete” Phillips, Cardinal coach, will have three regulars from last year around which he hapes to build an unusually strong qiiintet. They are Dick Stealy and Bill Clason of Goshen, and Ray Ashley of Winchester. Several reserve letterman . with considerable = experi-~ ence are on hand, however, ifclud-
ling Ned Bussard of Peru, Boli Reid
of Pennville, Goshen, Muncie.
Ernie Sample of and Howard Stout of
Boston College Is Eastern Champion
NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (U. P.).— Boston College has been awarded the Lambert Memorial Trophy, symbolic of the ‘Eastern ‘ football Championship, it was announced to= ay. . The high flying Eagles, who iy meet Tennessee in the Sugar’ Bo on New Year's Day, were nanjed every one of the 65 Eastern football writers and radio commeritators who participated in the poll.
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Chisox-Red Sox Deal Collapses At Last Minute
Red-Dodger-Cub Swap Helps All, Is Belief
By GEORGE KIRKSEY ‘United Press Staff Correspondent
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 5 More activity was expected on the major league trading marts' today ‘as the minor
{league convention moved into
its second day. Reactions to the Reds-Cubs and Dodgers-Cardinals deals of yesterday furnished many conflicting opinions among basebdll’s heavy thinkers but the majority inclined
toward the belief that other trades were on the fire. The Giants, Pirates and Cardinals were the National League clubs most frequently mentioned in the trade rumors.
Red Sox in the Mood
Action also was expected in the American League with the Boston
‘|Red’- Sox apparently the most
anxious to barter. Manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox came close to putting over a deal with the Chicago White Sox last night but had his applecart upset at the last moment. Cronin offered Outfielder Doc Crips, a left-handed hitter, to the White Sox for Outfielder Mike | Kreevich, a right - handed hitter, and shook hands with Jimmy Dykes, White S 0 Xx manager, over the deal only to have the whole thing called off later by ary Srali ner, ite Sox Cramer vice president. There is a slight chance that the deal may be revived at the major
{league meeting next week in Chi-
cago. Cramer, who is 34, hit .302 last season. and tied with Rip Radcliff and Barney McCosky for the league lead in the most hits, each with 200. Kreevich, who is 30, hit .266 last season, an off year for him. Most critics believe that the Reds, Dodgers and Cubs all helped themselves in yesterday's swapping. The Reds, in giving up shortstop Billy Myers to the Cubs, landed Outfielder Jimmy Gleeson, Shortstop Bobby Mattick and another player to be named by May 1. In giving up Myers, the Reds admitted that they are willing to go slong with Eddie Joost - at short next season. Joost had just about won the shortstop job from Myers last sea= son, and actual-
"lly outhit Myers.
Gleeson, who was the National League’s sixth best hitters last season with a mark of ER 313, is a good Kreevich all-round ball player. And he helps the Reds where they need help most —in the outfield and at the plate. Although some factions contend that the Reds got all the better of the Cubs’ deal, Jimmy Wailson, Cubs’ pilot, and big Paul Derringer, who is circulating here, don’t think. so. Wilson, analyzing the Cubs’ shortstop post. as the club’s real weakness, thinks that he solved that problem: without weakening his own clu “I consider Myers a great shortstop and I'm certain of his cooperation with the Cubs and me,” Wilson said.
He’s Okeh by Big Paul Derringer, the Reds’ World Series pitching hero, was emphatic in saying that he thinks the Cubs helped themselves. : “I wouldn't attempt to second guess Bill McKechnie on anything he did,” Derringer said, “but I believe it’s worth noting that no ball club could win 42 games by one run as the Reds did last season with a clown at shortstop.” Larry MacPhail is enthusiastic over getting Catcher Mickey Owen
which the Dodgers gave up no vital men, making the deal with Gus Mancuso, veteran receiver, and John Pinar, rookie pitcher from Dallas. The Dodgers had to put up $65,000 cash to swing the Owen transaction. By tossing out $100,000 to the Phils in the Kirby Higbe deal and now $65,000 to the Cards,
are really serious about winning the 1941 pennant. »
Purdue to Dine,
Talk of Bucket
ALUMNI AND FRIENDS of . Purdue University will gather at the Columbia Club this evening for the annual football banquet, : not in honor of the Old Oaken Bucket but to hope for its return. The dinner will t at 6:15 p. m. Tickets will be¢available at the door. Roger Sneden, president of the Purdue Association of Indian.apolis which is sponsoring the event, said that Mal Elward, his entire coaching staff and football seniors will be present. Also to be present are the 15 all-star high school football players from Ine dianapolis, chosen by coaches and sports writers. The players will be accompanied by their fathers or .
guardians. Walter Krull will be master of ceremonies and will introduce Elward, his staff and players. Main speaker of the evening will be Jack Ryan, sports editor of the Chicago Daily News.
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[More Baseball Trading Awaited at Atlanta
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undisclosed sum.
tance in seven.
traded to the Red Sox, then to the he was sent to Toledo.
Gill has served with Shreveport, Beaumont, the Tigers and the Browns. He is 29 years old.
‘The Jedge' Tries a .Drumstick
Judge K. M. Landis, high commissioner of baseball, sinks his teeth into southern. fried chicken in Atlanta, where he is attending" the minor leagues’ meeting for.the first time in several years. At right is Earl Mann, Atlanta club president..
Indians Buy Two Hen Hurlers From the St. Louis Browns
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 5—The Indianapolis Indians laid cold cash on the line today for a pair of pitchers and continued o scout the minor league gathering for further baseball talent. The two pitchers acquired were George Gill, a righthander, and Jake Wade, southpaw flinger. Both were purchased from the St. Louis Browns for an
Both hurlers worked with the eighth-place Toledo Mud Hens in the Association last season, Gill playing in 40 games," winning eight and losing 12, and ‘Wade being credited with two victories and two losses in the 21 games he played. Wade failed to finish any game he started, while Gill went the dis-
Wade, a 27-year-older, formerly saw action with Raleigh, Evansville and some Coast teams before going to the Detroit Tigers in 1936. Later he was
Browns, whence
Wade
Reel Glory
ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. 5 (U. P)—Tom Harmon, Michigan’s . all - America halfback, disclosed as he paused here briefly in the midst of personal appearance tours that he has received two movie offers. : Representatives of = Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have opened negotiations with him, Harmon said. Further conferences were scheduled for next week. A crate of raspberries, sent Harmon by the Minneapolis City Council because he said Michigan should have beat Minnesota by four touchdowns, arrived—crushed. Harmon gave them to the coaching staff.
Manual to Play Two Night Games
Three home games, two night tilts and games with two new teams, Columbus and the. Silent Hoosiers comprise Manual’s eight-game 1941, football schedule released by Russell H. Clunie, athletic director. Park School may be the ‘ninth team if a nine-game schedule. is decided upon. The schedule: Sept. 38 Qos, Wheve, Oct. 3—Washington; hom t. 10—Southport, there. Oct. 17—Technicals” here. He te, there. here, night. 1e—Deat: School, home.
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Times Special ' NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Nine individual records were broken and one tied during the 1940 National Football League season, according
Ito final statistics released today.
Sammy Baugh of Washington and Davey O’Brien and Don Looney of Philadelphia accounted for three new standards each, the first two named in forward passing and the latter, a rookie, in pass receiving. John Drake, Cleveland, Jimmy Johnston, Washington and Clarke Hinkle, Green Bay, all tied the previous record of three touchdowns in one game. Not one of last year’s individual champions regained their titles, al-
though Whizzer White, Detroit, won
back his 1938 ground-gaining crown and Sammy. Baugh reclaimed forward passing honors which were his in 1937. ° Undoubtedly: the greatest individual feat of the year was the 33 passes completed for 316 yards by O'Brien against ashington. This accounted for new records of completions and yardage for one game, and increased his season’s completions to 124, also a new
mark. Bapgh, though finishing second to O’Brien in completions, had a season total of 111 out of 177 tosses for 1367 yards, an efficiency mark of 62.7 per cent. The efficiency bettered the old figure of 61.7 by teammate Frank Filchock last year. White shaded. Johnny Drake, Cleveland fullback, 514 yards to 480. Tuffy Leemans, New York's league leader in 1936, finished third with 474. ‘Banks McFadden, Brooklyn’s rookie all-America from Clem-
$2 |son, was fourth with 411 yards and é01 |Dick Todd, Washington, fifth with 608 (408 McFadden’s average of 6.3]
yards in 65 attempts was The scoring race was closer than the one in ground gaining. Hutson had seven touchdowns, 15 extra points for 57 points, Drake had
nine touchdowns, the same number
as Dick Todd, Washington, but also|
added two extra points, for a total of 56 points to 54 for Todd.
i One College Game
Carded Tonight
» Only one college basketball game is scheduled this evening in Indiana —Tri-State College opening its sea~
Defiance on 20-8, at the half.
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Creighton Has Nation's No. 1
Ground Gainer
Detroit Back Listed as Best Rusher
SEATTLE, Dec.'5 (U. P.). —The American Football Sta-
days that Johnny Knolla of Creighton University was the nation’s No. 1 ground gainer for the 1940 collegiate season. With two more games than Michigan’s Tom Harmon, Knolla gainéd 1420 yards. Harmon, according to revised official figures from the Michigan-Ohio State contest, finished with 1346 yards. The bureau, winding up its season records, also revealed that Knolla carried or passed the ball in 298 plays, more than any other back this year. Close behind was Bill Sewell, Washington State College's ace passer, with 297.
Paul’s Tosses Gained Yards Only newcomer to the first ten in total offense was Johnny Supulski reported, Supulski was in ninth place. The tag-end of the season’s schedule failed. to affect the rankings of Detroit’s Al Ghesquiere as the best rusher and Sewell as the top passer. ‘Ghesquiere set a rtew record of 957 yards from ground plays this season while Sewell completed 86 out of 174 passes. Yardage honors in passing went to Paul Christman of Missourl, with 1131 yards. Best punter for 1940 was, Owen Price of Texas Mines, who establish the high mark of 48 yards per kick. Bryant of Virginia University led in pass receiving with 30 completions.
76 Allerdice Passes Good Other totals: Total Offense—Sewell, Washington State, 1333 yards; Christman,
Missouri, 1312; Jimmy Richardson,
Marquette, 1263; Jimmy Reynolds, Oklahoma A. & M. 1253; Ghesquiere, Detroit, 1242; Bill Dudley, Virginia, 1191; Supulski, 1127; Dave Allerdice, Princeton, 1025. Rushing—Harmon, 844, Knolla, 813; Bob Westfall, Michigan, . 807; Tony Gallovich, Wake Forest, 709. Passing—Allerdice, 76 completions; Christman, 69; Dudley, 67; Supulski, 64. Pass Receiving—Lach, Duke, 26; Krouse, Penn State, 25; Humbert, Richmond, 25; Jennings, Oklahoma,
125.
Punting—Jack Jacobs, Oklahoma, 44.94; Dick McGowen, Auburn, 43.59; Don Scott, Ohio State, 42.34; MecClung, Colorado, 42 (averages listed only for those who have punted 30 or more times).
Sees Death of College Football
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 5. (U. P.) —Dr. Forrest C. Allen, success- - ful basketball coach and former director of athletics at the university of Kansas, expressed the opinion today that college football would not last another 10 years. “Somebody has done something to football, and as a result football is on the way out,” he said. “In some schools under present condition football is more professional than it is on the straight out and out professional teams of the National League. Certainly there is less hypocrisy among the profes= - sionals.” Allen reminded ‘interviewers that he formerly coached football and that he had no prejudice against it. |
Umps to Meet The Indianapolis Baseball and Softball Umpires’ ' Association will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at fire headquarters. All members are requested to attend.
tistical Bureau confirmed to-|
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Blue Veteran
Shortridge’s Blue Devils, winners of their first two games, bump into an old rival Saturday night in Greencastle. An important cog in the veteran Shortridge machine is forward Bryan West (above).
Irish Will Hear Plenty of Talk
NOTRE DAME, Ind,., Dee. 5— Coaches from- Army, Navy, Iowa, Northwestern, Wisconsin and Notre Dame will collaborate with Gene Tunney, former world’s heavyweight boxing champion, outstanding base-
dinner to be sponsored by the Notre Dame club of the St. Joseph Valley, honoring the Irish squad. The affair will be held in the East Notre Dame dining hall Mopagy eve~ ning, Dec. 16. Tunney will be principal speaker. O'Malley, NBC artist, who appears with Alec Templeton, famous | blind pianist, and Ray Noble’s or-
‘lchestra, is one of ‘radio’s foremost
comedians. He will be toastmaster. Capt. Bill Wood of Army,” Major E. E. (Swede) Larson of Navy, Lynn Waldord of Northwestern, Dr. Eddie Anderson of Jowa, and Harry Stuhldreher of Winsoncin will join Notre Dame’s Coach Elmer Layden at the speakers’ table. Baseball will be represented by Jimmy Wilson, newly-appointed manager of the Chicago Cubs; Bill McKechnie, manager of the ‘world champion Cin-
manager of the Chicago White Sox, Representing Notre Dame on the program in addition to Coach Layden will be the Rev. Hugh O’Donnell, C. 8. C., president of the University; Capt. Milton J. (Moose) Piepul, 1940 football leader, and the 1941 captain-elect. The announcement of the 1941 captain" will be made at the banquet following an election - by monogram winners earlier in the day.
Ben Davis Wins
The Ben Davis High School freshmen won their fourth straight basketball victory yesterday when they trounced Manual’s rhinies, 28 to 15, at the Manual gym. McKiney Sears
was high point man.
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{ Times Special : : : PROVIDENEE, R. 1, Dec. 5.—A quarter of the way through . their schedule, the Indianapolis hockey Capitals today found themselves far behind the American League's western division leaders and only three points away from the division cellar.
in Indianapolis a week ago. After that, they will move to Hershey Saturday night and return hame to their own Coliseum Sunday to face Springfield's Eastern division lead-
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