Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1941 — Page 8
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SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
INTERESTING to veteran diamond fans 1s a recent declaration by Charlie (The Red) Ruffing that his old soupbone is feeling like new and that the dethroned New York Yankees need not fret over his physical condition. “A new season and a new arm,” said Red to Dan Daniel of the New York World-Telegram, who wheedled a snappy interview out of the huge righthander. “In four seasons leading up to 1940, I won 82 games and lost 33 in the American League,” Ruffing opened. “Last year I dropped to 15 victories. with 12 defeats. The boys wrote that I was getting old and fading out. I'll explain that bad year, and I'll tell it now for the first time, “I injured my arm in the March All-Star game and it did not respond to treatment until well past July 4 Now I am back feeling great, a load of new ambition, and a brand new delivery. Fact is, I do not believe any other pitcher ever threw anything like this latest discovery of mine. “It’s a sinking screwball, and yet it is neither a sinker nor a screwball, I throw my sinker sidearm. This one is pitched overhand. The screwball calls for a turn of the forearm, which places a lot of pressure on the muscles and chips the elbow. “This new pitch curls over the handle of the righthanded batter, and it is easy to throw. I picked up the delivery late last season, fooling around one day at Yankee Stadium. How I get the effect I do not know. I threw it to Bruce Campbell of the Tigers in our last series with them, and the ball fairly exploded “I would say it was the most amazing single pitch of my career. Campbell struck out and later asked, ‘Hey, what's this thing you threw me? I never before saw anything like it.’ Neither had 1.”
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“TWO YEARS AGO, while working out in California before reporting in Florida for spring training, I picked up the old fadeaway, which acts like a screwball,” Ruffing continued. “This did not work out so well, because it was while pitching the fadeaway with two strikes on Bob Johnson of the Athletics at Yankee Stadium in April that I hurt my elbow. “However, it was too valuable a pitch to discard, and I developed it pretty well last year. That fadeaway and sinking screwball I save for the tough ones. This bird Jeff Heath of Cleveland, for example. He batted only .219 last year, but you couldn't prove it by me. “With a fast ball, a slider, curve and the two new specialties, I think I have about as much equipment as any other hurler in the business YOU KNOW, as you go along, you have to get up new stuff. Take this kid, Bobby Feller, for example. He is in there throwing hard with every pitch. It's fast or curve, but it is in the same old groove. You have to develop pitches that will destroy the batter's timing. “With that fadeaway of mine, I will set up the hitter with a couple of sidearm fast balls—waste them, if I have to—then, the fadeaway, or the Ruffing Special. Last season I had to keep shaking Bill Dickey off on the curve time after time. I was afraid to throw it. And all on account of that March injury
Took Treatments All Through Season
YOU MAY RECOLLECT that I went into the spring All-Star game at Tampa with only a few days of training. Morrie Arnovich, the first man up for the National League, hit the first pitch for a single. Then came Cookie Lavagetto. I wanted to make him stroke into a double play, and broke off a pretty fast curve I wasn't ready for that sort of thing, but I was overanxious The curve injured the arm up at the shoulder. I took special treatments from a New York doctor all through the season—five bucks per, mind you, and out of my own pocket “Hot weather helped me, but it wasn't the old Ruffing me this time!”
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THE RESULTS of the 14th annual Golden Gloves Inter-City bouts between New York and Chicago will be brought to a coast-to-coast audience by WGN and the Mutual radio network tomorrow night from 10:15 to 11:30 o'clock (CST) The broadcast will originate in Chicago Stadium, where the amateur fisticuffers will do their stuff, . There will be 168 bouts in the Intercity Golden Gloves classic. . Champions must fight champions but the No. 2 selections (alternates) are left entirely to the team coaches. Chicagoland's Golden Glovers are unbeaten in this competition since 1934, Last year in New York, the teams fought to a deadJock, with eight victories apiece . All bouts count equally in the computation of the total score
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Johny Denson, Who Wanted
Tougher Foes, Fights Hutton
Afrer Johnny Denson, local heavyweight, had knocked out two opponents at the Armory in the last the fight followers began suggesting to Kelse McClure, matchmaker for the Businessmen's Sports Club, that he secure tougher foes for the Allison defense worker. and the matchmaker has responded by signing Vic Hutton to box Johnny in an eight-rounder Friday night. Fans who saw Hutton defeat tough Gib Jones of Cincinnati in the Armory ring last week should admit that Denton is not in there with a soft adversary this trip. In justice to Denton, it must be said that he had no say in the selection of his former opponents and that
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, | 25—It is my fervant hope that the |D . Louis Cardinals do not win the
because if they do their success will | be attributed to the taking of 25,000 vitamin tablets prescribed for them |
“Dr.” Sam Breadon.
Let the Cardinals win, and when | . spring training time rolls around Some $1000 for balking at Pablum
next year the railroads will have |for breakfast.” {to put on special trains to transport
- THE INDIANA
By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent March
jevery baseball club in training. The imanagers and coaches will be seclond in importance to the diagosticians and their assistants. “Dr.” Breadon will have the same sort of {meteoric rise that Dr, Dafoe did, ‘and magazines will be filled with larticles by him on how he helped
1 National League pennant race,
{give birth to the wonder team. uncelebrated physician,| Already I can see the headlines in [the sports pages. “Detroit Club fines Buck New-
that
“Feller’s failure to win attributed formulas, | to lack of ascorbic acid tablets.” to| “Odds on Yankees drop as train]
vitamins, calories, and assorted medicines
The Cards W.
| bearing their World Series codliver
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oil derailed near Harrisburg.” The headlines will be boring enough, but can you imagine having to read the interviews with famous players after the vitamin influence is fully felt in the Major leagues? 1 will give you a probable sample: By Henry McLemore Yankee Stadium, New York—Joe DiMaggio revealed in an exclusive interview with this reporter today, that the only thing that stood between him and a new home run record was a shortage of Oleumpercarmorphum,
Beauty got wet in Buffalo where these and other swim sirens splashed through national A. A, U. swimming and diving championships. Poised on the board
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Beauties Who Swim Too
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one-meter diving champion. Little Patty Aspinall, 14, (right) of Indianapolis, broke a record to retain her breaststroke title.
eighth of a series of
if This 's the the major
articles analvzing baseball clubs.)
By GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press Staff Correspondent ST
kees have the ingredients for another championship ball club that
one that may take two find the winning touch. Whether the Yanks regain their | lost laurels this season seems likely to hinge on: 1. How fast the young pitchers develop; 2. Whether Phil
former
Yankees Have Ingredients; Now They Have to Boil Over
league | | at
PETERSBURG, Fla, March|Chartak, all swing from the left 25 (U. P.).—The New York Yan-| qe
mav arrive with a bang in 1941 or carryovers and 10 newcomers. The] vears to best | Hank Rorowy, a last-minute addi-|
Frenchy Bordagaray, who hit .348 Kansas City, are right-handed The reserves, George SelTommy Holmes and Mike
hitters kirk,
McCarthy has 19 hurlers, nine
Rule Changes
Long Island Wins Invitational Tourney
NEW YORK, March 25 (U. P).— Fortified by data from the fourth
annual national invitation tournament, the National Association cf Backetball Coaches began its concluding session today with 17 proposed rule changes—five expressly designed as ‘speed-up’ moves—on the agenda. The two-day meeting opened yesterday afternoon but no action was taken except for the appointment
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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1941
ppy Day!
| “The other boys seem to get re-|catch is good, I am sure I will break | winter Breadon discovered that if
{sults with just pablum, coldliver oil, (orange juice, strained foods and vitamins A, B and C,” DiMaggio |told me as he sat in the Yankees’ new clinic, just off the dressing room. “However, I have to have | Oleumpercarmorphum, which is, as you know, the concentrated oil from the livers of 19 various fish.
“In hitting my last 40 home runs I have taken so mucin of this vital {food that there is a shortage of it. |I have all my brothers who are not [playing big league baseball fishing {day and night back in San Fran|cisco. If they are lucky, and the
Babe Ruth's mark.” As this reporter left the clinic he noticed Lefty Gomez who, under the| watchful eves of Manager McCarthy and a staff diagnostician, had just finished his afternoon feeding. Now that's the kind of stuff you] [may have to read next year if the Cardinals get from those vitamin] tablets what “Dr.” Breadon thinks they will, and come through to beat the other National League ciuns. If this comes to pass, I'll give you a tip on how to get your revenge: Every time you pass Breadon stomp lon his arches. Because they were {the cause of all. During the past]
he took vitamin B-Q tablets befors he played a round of golf, his arches didn't concede the match on the
15th or 16th hole, but continued to hold up beautifully for the entire 18 holes. Figuring that what was good for his arches ought to be good for his baseball team, Breadon ordered 25,000 tablets and to'd his team to start ealing them, It is his hope pearance of the coincide with the makes the Cardinals League champions,
that last last 1941
the disap= tablet, will out that National
of a three-coach group to sit in at the N. C. A, A. rules committee meeting next week-end at Kansas] City. Numerous revisions were discussed | but today’s votes will decide which of the 17 proposed rule changes will be submitted at Kansas City. The two most significant recommendations, almost certain to be approved, were: A rule permitting substitutions after a field goal, and a regulation requiring a player to toss the ball to the nearest official after all violations. Under the present code substitutions can be made only after a free throw. In the case of rule infringements, the player with the ball usually drops it, causing the official to consume valuable time in retrieving it. 150 Coaches
The 150 mentors in town for the convention attended last night's national invitation tournament final in which Long Island University won its second title in four years
Reaching for the pennant, or just oranges? crew of outfielders in training at the Bartow, Fla, camp Castle, Allen Hunt and Legrant Scott.
veterans. Not in the picture is Ke
with a 56-42 victory over Ohio University. City College of New York | won third place by beating Seton | Hall of South Orange, N, J. 42-27, in the first game. A third consecutive record crowd! —1837T7—jammed Madison Squares Garden for the final to set a new | tournament attendance total of 70,826 and make this series the most! successful in the tourney's short | history.
: ‘ ‘ ial looking pitcher in camp is]
tion to the squad who technically still remains the property of the
Yanks’ Newark farm.
Rizzuto, rookie shortstop, is drafted | lost 8 at Kansas and 3. Whether Bill Dickey, veteran| to camp rated the No. 1
Charlie Stanceu, who won 13 and | City and came |
rookie |
Yankee catcher, regains some of his, pitcher, has been a disappointment |
glory
about there
tell but
time will pitchers,
Only young
{but he is expected to come fast in| ; : i | | caging 19 points. Baumholtz’ game | Joe to First the berths are John | are | Hendrickson. The Newark group in-| total of new marks hung up during |
April and May. Others up from | Kansas City who are battling for | Lindell and Don
The attendance bettered by the previous single night's record | set last Saturday. Ohio's “fastest team in the country” was outscored but not out-| fought as the Blackbirds overcame a 25-21 halftime deficit to duplicate! their title win of 1939, Sol Schwartz of IL. I. U. shared! scoring honors for the game with]
Frank Baumholtz of Ohio,
each |
total helped set two new tourna |
ment records and brought to six the |
enough of those strong, rangy boys| cludes besides Borowy, George Bar- | the series. the Yanks love so well in camp to] ley, Red Branch, Allen Gettel, Steve build a complete staff for most | Peek and George Washburn, In the
clubs. If and when Rizzuto gets| first 12 exhibition games 10 Yankee]
Baumholiz Best Baumholtz, chosen as the “out-|
| nabbed in the draft, it'll hurt the rookies had an aggregate earned | standing player of the tournament” |
new Yankee team.
best
| looks good and, despite his 12 years in the harness, doesn't burned out. Buddy Rosar and Ken Sylvestri will back up Dickey
Rizzuto is the run average of 1.68. looking voung ball player in| Florida. Dickey nosedived from .302| Russo, the left-hander who is showto .247 at the plate last season. He|ing superb form. Ernie Bonham has
appear |
The grand experiment of shifting |
Joe Gordon from second te first|into shape. Spud Chandler, Johnny | base is a success. Gordon will be| Murphy, Atley Donald and Steve playing first base by the time the | Sundra are the other holdovers. season opens like he'd been there| When MeCarthy sets his pitchers
| all his life. Lack Right-handers Hitters | Red Rolfe, whose batting average | tumbled exactly 79 points to a puny
| 250 last season, has been looking | well at third. Manager Joe McCar-
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The Yankee ace may be Marius]
been bothered by an old back ailment. Marvin Breuer ranks just] under Russo. Lefty Gomez seems! likely to stage a comeback. Red Ruffing is taking his time getting
sorted it promises to be quite a! staff.
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Barons Skate
cast by a committee of writers, | games { Ohio rracked a team mark hy caging 40 fouls in three games to} better by 10 the record set by St. | John's in 1939. Carl Ott of the| same club scored the most indi | vidual foul points in one game when he registered nine against Duquesne in a first round contest. The other two new standards were posted by Rhode Island State for the most team foul points in one game with 18 against Seton Hall; and Seton Hall for the most
team field goals in a single game
Tribe's vet fly chasers last vear was Galatzer, who averaged 336. He ad Is a fair hand playing first hase, Hoosier Climbs High in ABC Rolling: Stassen Bowls
ST. PAUL, Minn, March 25 (U. P.).—Governor Harold F. Stassen of Minnesota, bowling with a St. Paul booster team, tonight adds his score
920 | to the hundreds already on record|competition.
at the 41st annual American Bowling Congress. Booster teams, all with averages
{of 850 or less, take over the alleys| mden
today and tomorrow with visiting team competition scheduled te resume Thursday Yesterday's high-
session was
lighted by the performance of Joe
Kruk, Gary, Ind.. who took over sec-
Minors Have 3 Day Session
DURHAM, N, C., March 25 (U.P) —The three-day 1941 minor league
| with 13 out of a possible 15 votes baseball convention will open Dee.
3 at Jacksonville, Fla., President W.
| scored a total of 53 points in three |G. Bramham of the National As-
sociation of Baseball Leagues, announced today. Bramham also ordered Milwaukee of the American Association to transfer the contract of Shortstop Claude Corbitt to Montreal of the International League under terms of a deal begun last December, Bramham said Milwaukee originaily had agreed tu sell Corbitt's contract to Montreal for $6000 cash. with Montreal to option player Ray Roche to Milwaukee. The Milwaukee club, Braham said, later refused to transfer the players. claiming other stimpulations in the ver=
with 31 against Rhode Island State.| ba) deal were not carried out.
Reaching for the Pennant
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At any rate, here are five of the Indianapolis Indians Left to right: Milton Galatzer, Gil Brack, Carmel Castle, the rookie, bears the earmarks of a comer. The others are rmit Lewis, down from the Cincinnati Reds on option. Best hitter of the
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Track Looking Up at Wabash
{ ’ i 44 Times Special tend place in the all events race with ‘ : . la 1092 total. Kruk and his partner,, CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, March Stephen Turner, rang up 1286 for | 25.-—~Prospects for the best track and fourth place honors in the doubles feiq squad in recent years looms at
Wabash College with the return of
The standings: three veterans to school for the sec«
| Five=Man Event—S8chweising Ice | Crean, Cincinnati, 2007; Walter C.|ond semester, the strong frosh squad Insurance, Chicago, 2011; from last year, and the increase in Brunswick Mineralites, Cincinnati, interest (2004; Nurre Undertakers, Cincinnati, g (2808: H. C. Packee Insurance, Mil-| Herman Berns, basketball | waukee, 2879. | will take over the coaching duties Two-Man Event — Elmer Koch=|from Dr. John P. Scott, (Ned Day, Milwaukee, 1307; Hilla, Approximately 18 candidates will | Kallas-Frank Caravella, Milwaukee, |
student coach,
(form the nucleus the Little G ) 1289; James Lynch-Howard Vauthe- for he nie i. ot th Lite Hani rot, Detroit, 1288; Stephen Turner-|cinder team. They are: Robert Joseph Kruk, Gary, Ind. 1286; Ed|Scott, Jack Evans, John Scott, Nowicki-Roman Kordus, Milwaukee, | Baynes Calwell and Ripley Harrie
sin i Hilla Kall Milwatikee son, all of Indianapolis, Singles— a as, i: lw " 797: Geo, Tishook, Milwaukee, 708. | Red” Moffat and Dan Moffat of James Berado, Chicago, 701; Edward | Chicago; Bernard Gronert, Prairie Bock, Hammond, Ind. 700; Russ|Du Chien, Wis. Miller Davis, Terra | Gersonde, Milwaukee, 694, Haute: William Fisher, Evanston, All Events = Geo. Tishock, Mil-= [Ill Ed Baldwin, Covington; Mel | waukee, 1061; Joseph Kruk., Gary, | Hollinger, Blue Island, Ill: Frank thd. 1022: James Berado, Chicago. Spencer, Greenfield, Ill: Bill Hess, 1003; Harry Orowley, Cincinnati, | Dowagiac, Mich. Ray Greve, Waves 1001; Rudolph Konar, Chicago, 1802, land, and Earl Dowd, Rockville
thy says Rolfe gives every sign of | coming back. If so, the Yankee in-| field is all set with Gordon at first, | the Kansas City kids — Priddy at | League Hockey second and Rizzuto at short—in the | BNET ; middle and Rolfe at third. If Uncle BY UNVIRY Viens Sam drafts Rizzuto, Frank Crosetti, Cleveland meets Providence on] | Will have to take over at short Cleveland's home ice tonight in an |
| again. Crosseti is far from through, | ; 3 & 1 , : although he hit only .194 last year. | ap to win the Series A of the The outfield worry—1lack of right- | American Hockey League playoffs. handed hitters—is a minor one.| Cleveland already has won two Charley Keller, who plans to give gr the five games in the series, |
up his home run king aspirations | 2 asp while Providence has taken the]
| and concentrate on straight-away i | hitting, will be in left: Joe DiMag- other game played. Cleveland can | clinch the title tonight by a victory. |
gio, American League batting | champ, in center. and Tommy Hen- | Meanwhile Pittsbureh and Her- | shey meet at Pittsburgh in the
| rich, a vastly underrated ball playv- | opening game of the D series. Pitts- |
er, in right. Of the seven outfield{ers in camp, only Joe DiMaggio and burgh won Series C by defeating Springfield twice in three games
Hershey trimmed New Haven in two straight games to win Series B honors Series D will consist of the best out of three games. The winner of | Series D meets the Series A winner “Then there were those tees for the league championship. Buck Weaver in 4 double Windup| FRENCH LICK SPRINGS. Ind | which were only piles of sand,” he - action on the wrestling card tonight March epoca to be the old-| continued. Later they came up at the Armory est active caddy in the United! with sand molds, and later they got Each feature tussle is for one fall |States, Bob Jennings, 75 years old, | tees made of rubber. Golfers wore or 60 minutes and ee will Bg looked back on his 35 years of long pants and a cap, then they two supporting encounters of ON hag toting and mused: “It’s a great] changed to knickers and Woolen
fall, or 30 minutes. h Weaver, well known Terre Haute | Bame, getting better all the time!” socks, and later back to long pants light heavyweight, gained a disputed| Borh only a vear after the close or slacks again. When I started verdict over Lansdowne earlier inlof the Civil War, Bob began caddy- caddying here, there were only the season and the latter hopes 0} ing in 1908. He has never been sick | seven holes and pow there are 36.” even matters tohight. ‘and attributes his good health to| Jenhings has caddied at every Thom, head mat mentor at In-|ihe exercise and fresh air experi- Midwest Amateur tournament, the diana University and a former light enced on the golf course. The 10th renewal of which will be staged heavyweight champ, will be oppos- father of 11 children, ke has a here April 4-6. Among his favorite ng another college grappling coach grandson in Louisville, Ky. who employers on the golf eourse were in Hall who is assistant at Ohio also is a caddy. : | George Dawson, three-time winner State University. | “Colt was a far different game|of the tournament, and the late In other matches, Ray Villmer, when I broke into it. reminisced Thomas Taggart. 224, of St. Louis, goes against Joe | Jennings. “THe Clubs Were fash]. e——
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he gladly accepted the challenge of the former national amateur champion issued by his manager Bud Taylor in the ring last Friday. Bud Taylor is busy lining up a number of ring engagements for his protege in Eastern clubs, and a defeat here at the hands of Denson naturally would not help Bud's campaign, However, Taylor states he is not worried over the outcome of Friday's match and is even predicting that his boy will stop Denson : { With both the local heavyweight : favorites in action, iol Thomas meeting Joey Parks of St. Louis in the 10-round feature, the matchmaker is busy lining up a strong supporting ecard, it is announced.
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