Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1940 — Page 18
SPORTS... By Eddie Ash
CINCINNATI'S REDS of 1940 were the greatest field“ing team in National League history . . . Official averages ‘ released today showed the champs achieved a fielding average of .981 to better the previous record set by the Boston Bees in 1933 and tied by the Chicago Cubs in 1938. The Reds’ 117 errors over the season were the fewest in National League history, cutting 18 from the Cubs’
former record of 135 set in 1938. : . Three Cincy regulars were tops at their positions, Frank McCormick, first base, .995; Bill Werber, third base, .962; Ernie Lombardi, catcher, .988. Harry Craft, Red’s reserve outfielder, led the senior loop’s pasture patrolmen with a mark of 997 ...... Other individual fielding leaders were Ham Schulte, Phillies, second base, .980; Eddie Miller, Bees, shortstop, 970; Terry Moore and Country Slaughter, Cardinals, outfielders, 987 and .989, respectively; Harry Gumbert, Giants, pitcher, 1.000. | Twenty-nine pitchers had 1.000 per cent fielding averages, but Gumbert handled the most chances—T76. Boston’s Bees led the league in double plays for the second straight year with 169 . . . The Pirates were second with 161 and the Reds third with 158. . . . Pittsburgh had the poorest fielding club with 216 errors and a percentage of .966. Several National League freak records were tied last season, including: ; No chances for Pirates, Sept. 10. “" "Assists for second baseman, Harry Marie, Phillies, 11 assists against Giants Sept. 27. : : Shortstop errors in one inning, Martin, Marion, errors against the Dodgers, June 19. :
‘Crashes Select Circle in First Year IN HIS FIRST SEASON as a regular with Cleveland, Lou Boudreau, shortstop, crowded into the select circle of run producers .. . . He batted in 101 . . . . However, he had a streak of bad luck by grounding into 23 double plays, an ugusually high total . . . . Ten American Leaguers batted in more than a century of runs. Boudreau was named “most valuable. rookie in the major leagues during 1940” by the Chicago Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and will receive the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award . . . « The former Illinois University star Is 23 .... ."Sid ‘Hudson, Washington ‘pitcher, finished second in the voting and Peewee Reese, Brooklyn shortstop, landed third. Gee Walker, Washington, who will perform for Cleveland next year, batted in 96 markers. . . . In club totals, Cleveland was sixth in banging the ball to safe spots when runners were in position to .score, which explains the team’s eagerness to bolster its “clutch” de-
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” ” ” JIM HENRY, pitcher, on the staff of Meridian in the Southeastern League, gets Baseball Magazine's 1940 medallion for streak-stopping. . ... Facing the Selma team one night late in August, he found First Baseman Ted Mueller, who had hit in 21 straight games, Outfielder Joe Mene in 19 straight and Outfielder Allen McElreath in 15, all in the enemy lineup. But Henry pulled a lot of extra stuff out of salary arm and halted the three streaks by letting the trio down without anything that looked like a safety. '. It was a fancy job of flinging the apple, since he was facing heavy odds on a three-way problem. . . . Proving that big things happen in the little minors as well as the big show.
Dipping Into Basketball—and Records
WHEN BILL HAPAC, Illinois’ All-American basketball player, established a new Big Ten single game scoring record against Minnesota last season—he alfo tied the Western Conference record for field goals in a single game, recent researches discover. Hapac caged 13 field goals, which, with eight free throws, made up his record-breaking total of 34 points in the game with the Gophers. . ... Four players had previously made 13 baskets in.a single game, as follows: ’ Kk 1912—Stangel, University of Wisconsin, against University of Iowa. 1930—Murphy, Purdue University, against Ohio State University. 1937—Young, Purdue against University of Illinois. 1938—Andres, Indiana University, against Illinois. Dr. W. BE. Meanwell of Madison, former Wisconsin coach, recalls that Stangel made his 13 in the last ten minutes. 7
; z = 2 A DEADLOCK in the all-time Purdue-Illinois basketball series will be broken Jan. 6 when the Boilermakers open the Big Ten seae son on the Illineis floor . . . . Since the two teams started competition, each has won 30 games. The Illini have an all-time margin over all other Big Ten rivals
except Wisconsin, which has won 29 while losing 24.
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By FREDDIE FISCHER > World All-Events Champion
MOST TOP-NOTCH bowlers are spot bowlers.
That is, they do not watch the pins at the moment of release, but pick out a particular spot on the alleys and try to hit it on every roll. If the delivery is reasonably uniform, and the ball passes over the same spot on each roll, it is bound to hit the pins at the same
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By UNITED PRESS Far from the banks of the Wabash, Indiana University’s roaming basketeers furnish the major interest for Hoosier basketball fans this week. Tonight the undefeated Crimson will play University of California’s Golden Bears at Berkeley, and then go south to play U. C. L. A. at Los Angeles Friday. The Hoosiers wind up their Coast visit Saturday night by playing Southern California at Los Angeles.
The Crimson narrowly escaped Everett Dean’s Stanford Indians Saturday in an overtime thriller, 60 to 59. Illini at South Bend J Hoosier colleges engage in only four other games this week. Illinois invades Notre Dame tonight while Butler entertains Pittsburgh. The Bulldogs play DePaul at Chicago Friday night and Centenary plays at Evansville Saturday. Notre Dame goes after its fifth victory in six starts when the Irish play host to Illinois. The Wisconsin Badgers gave the Irish their only defeat, 44 to 43, at Madison. Illinois and Notre Dame each has four veterans and a new center. Frank Quinn, Indianapolis junior, will start at center for Notre Dame. Art Mathisen will be the Illinois center. At forward for the Irish will be Riska and Sobek, while Ryan and Smith complete the starting squad. Illinois will have Drish and Evers at the forward positions with Sachs and Richmond a¥ guards. Now to the records. Among the state's “Big Four” only Indiana’s defending national intercollegiate champions are undefeated. The Crimson veteran team has swept through - Georgia, Butler, Marshall and Stanford in a row. Toughest competition came from Stanford which pushed Branch: McCracken’s boys all the way and only lost out in an overtime period. Purdue’ defending Western Conference champions opened their season with four straight victories by top-heavy scores irom St. Joseph's, Western Illinois Teachers, Wayne of Detroit and Wabash. These wins were all hung up on the Boilermakers home floor. Then Piggy Lambert’s crew traveled to Chicago to meet strong DePaul and lost its first game, 37 to 33. They bounced right back, however, to hand Loyola of Chicago a 50-to-35 defeat.
Butler Is Tough
Butler began its season playing four straight games with Big Ten teams and proved itself a mighty tough_customer. The Bulldogs were flattened by the Indiana steamroller in their opener, but picked themselves up and came from behind to down Ohio State and Northwestern. Their loss to Michigan last Satur(Continued on Page 19)
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By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.—Connie Mack, born Cornelius McGillicuddy, celebrated his 98th birthday today ‘by announcing he was going to “stay in harness” be« cause “I'd die in a year if I didn’t manage the Athletics.” “Don’t ask me whether I'm ready to retire,” he said in his annual birthday interview with the United Press, “I'm not.” “I know I am showing my age. I can see it in people’s faces when they look at me that at times they don’t think I look so well. “I know I have changed since I was sick two years ago, but I feel fine now and am ready to go to work with the team at Anaheim, Cal,, in February.” "And if Santa Claus, as a sort of combination birthday and Christmas present, will give him two pitchers and a shortstop, Connie believes his 1941 club will have “a fighting chance.” :
Feller Is Voted Player of Year
Robert William Andrew Feller, or just plain Bob Feller, who can rear back and throw a baseball with more speed than any other moundsman in baseball, is the player of the year— and maybe the player of the era if i® comes to that. Officially, however, the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers’ As-
“player of the year” award for 1940 to the Cleveland fireballer and will present a plaque to him at their annual banquet Sunday, Feb. 2. Having added poise, control and savvy to his blazing fast ball, Feller has developed into the game’s greatest ‘pitcher. Although he’s been pitching in organized baseball only fivz seasons, all of them with the Cleveland Indians, Feller already is beginning to draw comparisons with Walter Johnson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy. Mathewson and other pitching immortals, =
HAVANA, Dec. 23 (U. P.).—Cubans paid off their bets today, but they still were not convinced that Sam Snead is five strokes better than their own Rufino Gonzalez. They were ready to back their champion against the North American again—if the match is played on a clear, dry day. There was applause for Snead’s terrific drives and his sure putting stroke as he posted a 137 to Gonzalez’ 142 over 36 holes at the Havana Country Club yesterday, but the natives felt that their man was handicanped by the first rainstorm |of Cuba’s dry winter season. The crowd also bothered Gonzalez while the tournament-toughened Snead took the excitement in sfride. Probably the biggest betting match in golf history, it was the culmination of a $5000 wager between Thorwald Sanchez, Cuban sugar heir, and Thomas Shevlin of New York. Sanchez wagered that Shev-
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AMERICAN LEAGUE Western Division
1 hiladelphia . © 12 RESULTS LAST NIGHT
INDIANAPOLIS, 3; Cleveland, 3 (tie), 9; Pittsburgh, 2., Providence, 4; Hershey, 3. Philadelphia, 3; Buffalo, 1.
NEXT GAMES
ESDAY—INDIANAPOLIS at Providence, Buffalo at New Haven, Cleveland at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh at Hershey,
« Happily enough our hockey Capitals haven’t the Christmas spirit and aren't playing Santa Claus to any of their American League companions. Over the week-end the Caps visited Pittsburgh but left no .gift for the Hornets. Cleveland's di-vision-leading Barons were badly fooled if they expected something precious last night, for all they got, materially speaking, was a poorly wrapped trinket. It’s assumed the Caps won't have any change of heart before Christmas evening when they pay a call on the Reds at Providence.
Pittsburgh the previous evening, the Caps appeared headed for a pasting last night against Cleveland. By the middle of the second period the Barons were three goals to the good and playing it the conservative way.
Two Goals in 17 Seconds
And apparently the Barons misjudged their up-and-coming hosts. It took the Caps just 17 seconds to get back two of, those scores and they had the third and tying marker three minutes after the third period started. But they couldn’t chalk up a fourth, and had to be satisfied with a 3-3 overtime tie. The tie, however, added a point
on defeat in as many night, put the Hoosiers just a single point out of third place in the western division. : Maybe the Caps were a ‘bit slow on their getaway, but after Butch McDonald poked the first one past goalie Moe Roberts at 13:53 of the second period, the argument became more heated. Seventeen seconds later Joe Fisher broke away and scored with one of the most beautiful bits of ice work seen on the big Coliseum cake.
Neat Work by Fisher
Joe went deep down the right side and had to jockey past a couple of burly defensemen to get in to the goal. Usually a player loses his balance or the puck or both on such an expedition. But not Joe. He zoomed in on Roberts and let go with an unstoppable short
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oke. Jack Keating, Bill Thomson and Ken Kilrea teamed for the tying tally at 3:16 of the third period. Keating took the final pass from Thomson close in, letting fly an accurate shot. into the meshes. The Caps were confident they could get another in the remajning 16 minutes, but luck was against them. Twice Ken Kilrea broke loose and twice Joe Jerwa of the Barons stopped him with illegal taetics. Jerwa was properly jailed for the misdemeanors but the Caps couldn’t
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By UNITED PRESS . Indiana’s major high school hoopsters have been under heavy fire for more than a month and today the. teams setting the pace over the state are beginning to emerge. In the North Central Conference, long the league of state‘champions, it’s all Ariderson. The Indighs have posted six Conference lIvictories against one defeat to force’ most of the competition into the background. Their single loss was to Logansport in an overtime tussle, but since then the Indians have won five straight while the Berries have gone into a tailspin. : Not that Anderson has a completely clear field. Far from it. Breathing on its neck is onrushing New Castle, gaining momentum all the time. and currently standing three wins against no defeats. Kokomo has the same record as the Trojans to complete the picture of top teams in the-North Central. Franklin's Grizzly Cubs dominate the South Central. Undefeated in nine starts, Fran Conference standing is as spotless &s a new shoe at four wins and no defeats. So far their hasn’t been a team to stop Franklin, but maybe Columbus will make life tough for the Cubs. The Bulldogs have lost but one game in eight and that, sure enough, was to Franklin, Their record of four league wins and one defeat rates them as a distinct threat to Franklin supremacy. The Southern Conference boasts
Anderson, Franklin Among Early Leaders in Title Race
two powerhouses in Evansville Central ‘and Vincennes. The two were
tied for the league leadership in the minds of fans and experts downstate] : The Bears vanquished Vincennes last (week, 25 to 17, and thereby grabbed the loop leadership with four victories and no defeats. Ruling the peak of the Central Conference is Elwood with a perfect score of three straight wins. Their conquests have been at the expense of Tipton, Alexandria and Wabash, distinctly not the class of the confererice thus far. Peru's Tigers, who have snapped Plymouth’s six-game and Huntington’s five-game winning streaks, follow Elwood closely with two || victories against no "defeats. Huntington, standing three and ‘one, appears to be the power in this league.
MONDAY, DEC. 23, 100% ulldogs . PPittmen Hope Butler Quintet «; Is Their Dish . §
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Pittsburgh’s pantin’ Panthers, their team roster reading like a . Smoky City symphony, place their
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Fieldhouse at 8:15 o'clock. Coach Doc Carlson’s “ice ¢ream boys” are stopping over on | their return home following a rather successful invasion of the Big Ten. After winning two-point decisions from Wisconsin and Illinois, the latter being an overtime, Pittsburgh lost to Northwestern, 48 to 28, last
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cats last Wednesday, 32 to 30. Like Pitt, Butler can boast of two Big Ten victories, but its record, also, reveals two setbacks administered by Indiana and Michigan,
Fail to Connect
The: Bulldogs, while losing to the Wolverines, 32 to 25, last Saturday night, did not shoot their lightest player's weight in field goal percentage. They fired away 72 times, tonnecting on 10 while Michigan was making 11 of 40 field goal attempts to do the trick with less ef« fort along with 10 of 15 foul shots. Butles missed seven of its dozen free throw attempts. | Coach Carlson, ‘who feeds his players ice cream after every prac-
| tice session and game, probably will
start a five that will include Eddie Straloski and George Kocheran, forwards; Mel Port, center, and Sam Milanovich and Jim Klein, guards. i Tony Hinkle of Butler will use Capt. Bob Dietz and Wilbur Schu= macher, forwards; Bill Hamilton, center, and Lyle Neat and Jim McCray, guards. This combination has accounted for 130 of the team’s 144 points scored to date.
Shoots at Record
Hamilton with 39 points leads all Blue and White scorers. . Dietz is second with 29 and needs 131 more points during the 18 remaining games to establish a new all-time Butler scoring record. Following Dietz in this department are Schumacher, 26; Neat, 22, and McCray with 15. Last season, Butler sent Pitt score. © °° Next. Friday night, Butler will play in the "Chicago Coliseum against DePaul, as part of a double - header attraction. DePaul tripped Purdue, 37 to 33, last week Loyola of Chicago and Yale will meet in the other half of the twin bill, A curtain-raiser game will be
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lin couldn’t pick a golfer who could beat Gonzalez over his home course. The natives quickly jumped on the Gonzalez bandwagon and found ready takers among the American tourists, who never had heard cf the | 32-year-old former Cuban caddy, but knew that Sam Snead was one of the greatest shotmakers in the game. After the match Sanchez revealed that he agitually had not lost $5000, since GonZalez’ friends had insisted they be allowed to buy the majority of the bet. It was reported that Shevlin gave Snead $1000 for winning in addition to all expenses for |, himself and wife at the Havana Country Club. P. Hal Simms, the bridge expert, who also is quite a golf follower, refereed the match, and he was one of the first to say that he would be willing to back Gonzalez against
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