Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1940 — Page 36

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By Eddie Ash

Song Pe Pas 1 Test Kings

Of Conference St. Joe Already Has Two

; BULLETIN ; ; The Indianapolis Indians today purchased John Deets, & right-handed pit¥her, and Joe Bestudik, an infielder, from |3% _ the Durham club of the Piedmont League, according to | ~ word received here from Vice President Leo Miller in

Atlanta. It was an outright deal for cash, Miller said. Am —————

DAN DANIEL, New York World-Telegram baseball write, has authored a “behind the scenes” yarn in the big show that is causing some eyebrow-lifting in the hot stove league. The story goes all 4 this fall and involves th delphia Phillies. But permit Daniel to tell i as he picked up the strings and built his article: “In Philadelphia the other day the writer ran into the most interesting, story. The boys there insist that when Larry MacPhall gave $100,000 to Gerry Nugent of the Phillies the Dodgers got not only Kirby Higbe but Frank Melton, another righthander, as well,

way back to the baseball draft Brooklyn Dodgers and Phila-

“Young Melton, who won 10 and lost 10 with Columbus of the

American Association last season, was drafted by the Phillies on the ve of the World Series opener. | The story is that there was a slipup _ on Melton in the office of the St. Louis Cardinals and that when Branch Rickey learned that the cousin of Cliff Melton of the Giants had been selected he offered tub o if the Phillies would sell the hurler to the Cardinals, parent ¢lub of the Columbus team. “Philadelphia investigators insist that when MacPhail made his proposition for ‘Higbe he stipulated that President Nugent of the Phils, with first call in the draft; get Melton for the Dodgers.

Philly Fans Reported Up in Arms

“OF COURSE, Nugent and MacPhail deny the yarn. Nugent also protests that he knows nothing about a $25,000 offer from Rickey, which Branch has confirmed to & Philadelphia writer. “There has been a hue and cry over the Melton situation in Philadelphia, and if Nugent really did intend to turn the hurler over to the Dodgers he is one terrible pickle.”

Melton broke into pro ball in 1936 and stands well over the six-

foot mark. , . . He was in 43 games for Columbus and worked 207 innings. . . . His earned-run average was 3.48 and it is known that Manager Burt Shotton was high on the pitcher. . , , It's a safe guess that somebody in the Cardinals” front office got a punching around for slipping up on the player by, leaving him open to selection.

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JAKE WADE, southpaw, a recent addition to the Indianapolis staff by purchase from the St. Louis Browns, is another “wild man.” . « « Working 34 innings for Toledo this year, Jakie issued 29 walks, had four wild pitches and hit one man. . In the 34 innings Wade was punched for 35 runs, 27 of them earned. . . + We'll pass that problem to Manager Wade Killefer. George Gill, also coming to the Hoosier Indians from the Browns, looks like fair investment, though his earned-run average with Toledo in 1940 was 4.79. . This was an improvement over Pete Sivess, Indianapolis, 4.89, and Don French, Indianapolis, 5.18, a couple of Tribe flopperinos the past campaign. ‘ Indianapolis finished ahead of Toledo in the second division, sixth and seventh, respectively, Indians, 275 to .262, and outfielded them, .970 to .964.

Ray Starr Taken on by Hoosiers

A THIRD PITCHER purchased by the Indianapolis club during the minor league convention at Atlanta, Ga., is Ray Starr, last season with Ft, Worth and Dallas in the Texas League, a Class A-1 circuit, % « « Starr, a righthander, formerly played on the Minneapolis Millers. Starr won 12 games and lost 16 in the Texas loop, participated in 39 games and had 145 strikeouts to his credit. . . . He is described -

as a hurler with good control. ® : The Tribe executive staff also reported from Atlanta that deals are on the fire for the purchase of two more pitchers, with official announcement to be made when final papers are signed and filed with the National Association.

Red Barrett, of last os Tribe staff, who was recalled by

Cincinnati, has been transferred to Birmingham of the Southern Association along with Don 2, infielder who also failed to make the grade with Indianapolis. ” ” 2 ” ” ” ROGERS HORNSBY says iat he still would like to buy the Milwaukee Brewers with a friend’s financial backihg but thinks the price, reported to be $225,000, is too high. . . . Bill Killefer, the Brewers’ new field manager, has Srnoureed a housecleaning in the player ranks. > “President Henry Bendinger has given me complete control of the club and I am free to dispose of any and all players now on our reserve list,” said Killefer. “The only ones sure of their jobs right now are Ted Gullic and Hal Peck, outfielders. From what I have pean ou this year's averages the only dependable hitter on the club Gullie.” Well, the Brewers without Gullic would not be the Brewers. The big fellow has dressed in Milwaukee livery about 10 years.

but the Mud Hens outbatted the

son.

All but One of

Only the Irish of Cathedral remain inactive this week-end as the city’s schoolboy forces charge into a heavy schedule of basketball war-

are The Irish open their season Dec. 13.

and Technical will get top billing tomorrow night when they play hosts to Greencastle and Kokomo, respectively. It will be a revenge affair for both the Indianapolis teams.

Both Lost Last Year

Last year the Blue Devils went to Greencastle and lost by three points, 24-27, and the Big Green bowed at Kokomo by a bigger marin, 21-39. "Alfred (Peedad) Campbell's Kokbmo squad has yet to win a league tilt, having lost a 38-22 decision to Frankfort in a recent clash, but the upstate boys have turned in victories over Rossville and Elwood so far this season. Tech, a tearn which at one time led Anderson 9-4 in its game last week, will probably present the same starting line-up: . Harry Hagans and Bob Evans, forwards; Roy Hurley, center, and Dudley Jole and -Dick Plummer, guards. In all, there will be eight games involving city teams tomorrow night and five tonight. i

A City Game Carded

Manual’s Redskins—surprise champions of Indianapolis last year -~will meet their first local foe, Eroad Ripple, at the Rockets’ gym tonight and tomorrow night they'll

victory there in nine years. Right now there’s quite a scuffie in progress for the 10th position on the Manual varsity squad, and Coach Oral Bridgeford doesn’t plan te award the prize until three of four | Boo

games have been run off. The Manuals got off to a very

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City’s Teas

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TONIGHT

Manual ‘at Broad Ripple; Washington at Columbus. East H. S. (Xenia, 0.) at Crispus Attucks. Howe at Warren Central. Silent. Hoosiers at Union Township. TOMORROW Greencastle at Shortridge. Kokomo at Technical. Southport at Washington. Manual at Ben Davis, Thorntown at Howe. . Harrisburg at Park School. St. Paul (Marion) at Sacred Heart. Morton Memoria] (Richman) © at Silent Hoosiers.

bad start last Friday at Southport. Manual’s varsity squad completed their practice yesterday with a light drill on plays, shooting and fundamentals. The probable starting lineup: Joe Nahmias and Wendell Garrett, guards; Bill Arnold, center; Sidney Feldman and Ralph McFall, forwards. Park School opens its season tomorrow night at home against Harrisburg, ° Coach Lou Reichel’s Parksters, youll remember, have quite a reputation to live up to in view of their winning the Midwest Prep School - Conference tourney last ‘season at Chicago. ‘Scrimmages have narrowed Coach ichel’s first - string candidates own to six. Forwards are Al

Terry; at center will probably be Mike Keene, and at the guards will probably be seen Larry S. Gerand Herman W. Kothe. Jim Magennis, guard, will be out for some time with : study troubles, weakening that department. The ashington Continentals travel to Columbus to tackle George

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Capitals Lose \

At Providence

Times Special "PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 6

Indianapolis Capitals with

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laté: in the frame. Bucko McDonald put the Reds out in: front soon

converting’ a rebound from a shot by Art Giroux and Demarco belted in another late in the same period. Doug Young, recently acquired defense man, netted the final tally less than a minute later. mary. Providence (4). Karakas

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Irish Practice

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Times Special TUCSON, Ariz., Deo. 6.—The Irish

of Notre Dame held a practice ses- - {sion behind locked stadium gates at

the University of Arizona here today as they prepared for their game with Southern California at Los Angeles tomorrow. It was the third secret practiee held by the Irish since arriving here at dawn yesterday. Prevalence of influenza in this area made Coach Elmer Layden doubly cautious in protecting the health of his men. Changing climatic conditions so far have not affected the team. Because of the influenza threat, Layden would not premit his players to attend a movie last night. However, the. boys insisted they needed recreation and it was arranged to have home movies shown the squad at the university. ' “Wild Innocence” was the title, of the feature attraction of the movie show, and none of the players had seen it before. It pictured the life history of the kangaroo.

Kelly, Gallagher and O’Brien—three truly fighting Irish who are about to weather their-last battle in the Notre Dame line that has seen rough going in a not-so-good seaPete Kelly (left), guard; Tom Gallagher (center), the left tackle, and Johnny O’Brien, right end, will play their last game -for Notre Dame at Los’ Angeles tomorrow when they try to Stop the thrusts of Southern, California,

‘Rugged Individualism’

Guest at Purdue Dinner

Football teaches initiative, courage and tolerance—the foundation of success, Coach Mal Elward of Purdue believes. That was the message he left with 15 Indianapolis all-star high school football players at the Purdue Association's annual football banquet last night at the Columbia

ub. “In the world today you have to be a rugged individualist,” ’Elward told them. “You can’t depend on the fellows on each side of you to do your work. You boys have shown that you do have initiative, courage and tolerance. These are the foun dations of success.” - The 15 selected by local high school coaches, athletic directors and newspapermen were special guests at the banquet. They were Bob Akin of Cathedral, Chuck Benjamin of Shortridge, Tom Broden of Cathedral, Harry Brown of Washington, Jim Dilger of Cathedral, Kenny Geiman of Cathedral, Dave Hannum of Technical, Bob

Hennigar of Technical, Ott Hurrle of Cathedral, William Keers of Washington, George Kraeéger of Shortridge, Jim Mitchell of Shortridge, Allan Nolan of Shortridge, Bill Steck of Broad Ripple and Dave Strack of Shortridge. Each received a medal and certificate, Previously Elward cited each member of Purdue’s varsity and announced that end Dave Rankin had been selected on Grantland Rice’s all-American team. Nor did he express any regrets over the 1940 season.

. “We didn’t boast or crow when we were winning, Nobody wants to cry now,” he said. takes this ‘year, and I'll take the blame for all of them. But we'll try to remedy them next year.” Chief speaker of the evening was Jack Ryan of the Chicago Daily News Sports department, who claims the mortgage on his alma mater has been foreclosed and that now on home-coming he has to re-

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Victories Chalked Up State College Card

TONIGHT

St. Joseph’s at Purdue. City at Wabash, Huntington at Taylor. Concordia at Valparaiso.

TOMORROW Georgia at Indiana.

Ball State at Indiana Central. Manchester at Franklin, Rose Poly at Earlham. James Millikin at DePauw, Giffin at Concordia.

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dec. 6— There’s ' nothing of a "“breather” tinge to the St. Joseph’s College basketball team which meets Coach Ward Lambert’s Purdue club in the Big Ten titleholders’ opening game at the Fieldhouse tonight.

have taken up where they left off last year by swamping Huntington College, 74-34, last week, and defeating a strong Illinois Wesleyan qtint, 44-33, Tuesday night. The visitors will be led by Neal (Moose) Mosser, outstanding center, who established a new state score ing record when he chalked up 300 points in season competition last year, not counting performances in the national invitation tournament

counters. . Lambert, opening his 24th year as Boilermaker tutor, still seeks goal defenders to replace such fellows as Fred Beretta and Elwood Yeager, guards, and Dan Fisher, center, all graduated. : It's pretty certain that Lambert will utilize the speed bound up in

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zel, center, and Bob Riley and John Conrad, guards. Two Indiana conference games and one inter-sectional contest also are scheduled for tonight. ington plays at Taylor, Oakland

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Illinois Wesleyan at Noire Dame. -

Joe Dienhart’s invading Pumas

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Ben Korschot, forwards; Bill Neut- _

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