Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1941 — Page 21

THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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SPORTS...

By Joe Williams

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ST. PETERSBURG, March 27.—We were sitting in a box at the local ball park with Ed Barrow, president of the Yankees, and Tommy Connolly, umpire in chief of the American League, and some one commented on Bob Feller's new interest in hitting. “Who was the best hitting pitcher vou ever saw?” inquired an innocent bystander. An assortment of nominations followed. There was George Uhle of the old Cleveland Indians, a long ball hitter and a dangerous man in a clutch; there was Red Ruffing of the current Yankees who has won his own game more than once, and there was— “There was only one hitting pitcher,” broke in Mr. Barrow. “I ought to know. I had him.” M.r Barrow named Babe Ruth and that ended that. The Yankees were playing the Brooklyns at the time and Joe Gordon, who has moved over to first from seecond, made a particularly fine play at the bag and some one remarked Gordon was the type that could play any position on the field.

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WHO WAS THE best inquisitive bystander asked Mr. Connolly's nomination was Larry Lajoie. the Frenchman around whom legends as a second baseman have beer: built.

“Tt surprises me,” said Mr, Connolly, “that when all around players are mentioned nothing is ever said of Lajoie. He was one of the best. With my own eyes I saw him play everv position on the field except pitch and play them well. In addition, of course, he was one of the greatest hitters the game ever saw.” “T'll grant you Lajoie was good,” agreed Mr, Barrow, “but I think I can name vou a better ail around player. I ought to know, I had him too.” Mr. Barrow mentioned Hans Wagner and if that didn’t end that it at least slowed things up. Wagner played all over the infield and all over the outfield and led the National League in hitting eight times. Mr. Barrow turned to Mr, Connolly. “Speaking of Lajoie, do vou remember the dav you threw him out of a game and forfeited it to us?” Mr, Connolly remembered very well. He was a young umpire at the time. Mr, Barrow was managing the Detroits. Lajoie was starring with Cleveland “The Frenchman picked up a ball and threw "it out of the park,” said Mr, Connolly. “No umpire would stand for such a thing.” Mr. Barrow smiled. “That was a dirty old ball T had rolled out te our pitcher. You didn't see me do it but Lajoie, who was at bat, did. I can't say that I blamed him for doing what he did and at this late date IT want to thank vou for giving us the game.” Mr, Connolly glowered at him. “To think you would employ such treachery at the expense of a voung umpire.” he hissed “Was Lajoie the greatest second baseman of them all?” persistent bystander asked

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THIS LED TO an animated discussion by all parties and carried to several fronts. Apparently, like the question of whether the egg or the hen came first, it is destined to go on and on for years. Three nominations stood out, Lajoie, Eddie Collins and Charley Gehringer. There were scattered votes for others but these emerged as the big three of all time second basemen. It seems that Lajoie had a weakness. He couldn't go to his right as well as to his left. This wasn't true of Collins and Gehringer. They could go to both sides with equal skill and speed. Lajoie was the best of the three in putting the ball on a runner coming into the bag. Collins was the smartest; he was in there trying to outfigure the catcher and ‘the pitcher all the time. Lajoie and Gehringer were just up there swinging. Also Collins was an excellent base runner, next to Cobb probably the best the American League ever had, and he was made of whale bone. Only one player ever lasted as long. Collins had a run of 25 years. Rhoddy Wallace, another infielder, set the record Collins equalled. He had a lifetime batting average of .333, compared to Lajoie’s .338 and Gehringer's (up to now) .327. Listening to the debate we found ourself influenced in favor of Collins. He could do more things and had an agile bean.

Indians Honored Chairman Sees

With Trophy

Anderson's Indians, North Cen-| tral Conference basketball champions, received a trophy emble-

Times Special FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, Ind. March 27.—The 1941

matic of their 1941 basketball title | pyoypyy Mav 3 will be run before mission, 18 to 13.

at the annual conference banquet Tuesday night at Anderson. Representing Tech at the meeting were R. V. Copple, athletic director; Bavne Freeman, varsity coach; Charles Gilbert, reserve coach, and Alvin Shumm and Howard Longshore, freshman coaches. It was announced that the rcon-| ference track meet will be held at! Muncie, Friday. May 9. Also the method of selecting officials was changed for the years 1942 and 1943. Formerly a list of officials was

history and by the classiest the 67 years of its existence, the prediction made here by Samuel A. Culbertson, | chairman of the board of Churchill Downs Culbertson, who is making one of

his semi-annual visits to the spa, declared that he “could not recall a time when there were so many topnotch horses entered for the Blue Grass classic.”

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selected, and a conference commit- | tee assigned the officials for the N. C. C. games. The new plan is a mutual agreement between the competing schools. The old plan will b discarded. ‘ Jockey Injured SAN MATEO, Cal., March 27 (U. | P.).—Jose Martini, 18-year-old ap-| prentice Jockey under contract to! the C. S. Howard stable, today was | in serious condition from head in-! juries he suffered when his horse, Ernie Boy, fell during the fifth race vesterday at Bay Meadows.

| thoroughbreds’ Who's Who! there are a good many other fine

“Just look over that list of nomines,” he advised. “Blue Delight, Bold Irishman, Our Boots, Whirlaway, Swain, Dispose, Curious Coin, New World, Agricole, Porter's Cap, Little Beans—why, it reads like a And

horses I haven't mentioned.” Culbertson based his prediction for a record crowd on several factors; namely, increased employment and greatly improved business con-

ditions, the classy field and the fact |

that there are now many soldiers quartered at nearby Ft. Knox.

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Memorial Loses Tourney Test

Evansville Five Falls 31 to 29

CHICAGO, March 27 (U, P). Abbey high school of Canon City, |

{Colo., short one player in the clos- | ling { Memorial high school of Evansville,

minutes, rallied to defeat] Ind., 81 to 29, tedav in the National Catholic Interscholastic basketball tournament at Loyola University. Abbey lost three players on perfouls and had to finish the game with only four men. Johnny Arambel, Abbey forward. pushed in a one-handed shot from the side just before the game ended Coach Art Cosgrove of the Indiana Catholic champions protested that Arambel shot after the siren ended

[the game officially, but officials over-

ruled the protest | Tournament rules allow each squad eight players, but in addition to those lost on personal fouls Abbey was unable to use Capt. Dan Costigan because he had been substituted twice. Memorial led. 7 to 4, at the end |of the first quarter. At the half | Abbey was ahead, 11 to 10. Memo[rial again led, 24 to 22, at the end! [of the third quarter. Joe Arambel, Abbey guard, tied

{the score at 27 midway in the last) { quarter. John Arambel put the team |

A Great Derby

ahead with a short shot and George | Ellspermann, Memorial guard, made | a long shot to again tie the score. | Cletus Wannemuehler of Memo- | rial was high scorer with 11 points. | Last night Indiana entrants broke even as Central Catholic of Hammend bowed to St. George of Evanston, Ill, in the opening game, 41 to 26, and Central Catholic of Ft. Wayne took a close decision from Cathedral of Superior, Wis, 32 to 28, in the following contest | In the Hammond game the taller Evanston team jumped into a 6-to-|

0 lead during the first two minutes |

Kentucky ang continued to lead at the inter-

Central rallied in the third period but was never able to overcome the St. George] lead. | Hammond cut the lead to 25 to late in the final quarier but (Continued on Page 23)

‘Manual Starts Track Season

Preparing for their first track meet against Gerstmeyer of Terre] |Haute April 8, Varsity Coach Ray-| {mond VanArsdale of Manual High | School issued the first official cinder | call, yesterday, with approximately 50 boys reporting to Delavan Smith Field for practice. Returning lettermen are John| and Mike Mascari, Fred Emmelmann and Raleigh Warrenburg. {Other veterans are Wendell Gar‘rett, Joe Nahmias, Mike Bisesi and | | Frank Mike. Assisting VanArsdale this season | are Volney Ward coaching decath- | lan events and Bowman Hall who! will have charge of distance run-! ners.

CY. 0. Squad

Resumes Play

Play will be resumed tomorrow | evening in the C. Y. O. Senior bas-| | kKetball tournament at Sacred Heart gymnasium. | Holy Rosary clashes with Little Flower at 7 o'clock with the Holy! | Cross Crusaders and St. John's mixing at 8 o'clock. The Crusaders captured the championship in League No. 1 with 10 victories out of 12 starts. At 9 o'clock the other league] champion, Cathedral, will play the! (runner-up in their league, Holy Trinity. Saturday night the winners of last Sunday, St. Joan of Arc and Plaza Club, will meet and the |winners in the first two Friday night contests will meet. Semi-finals will be played Sunday afternoon at 2 and 3 o'clock with the finals at 8:30 o'clock Sunday evening. |

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The big men who aren’t there when the Butler Bulldogs start spring |

football practice next week are Stanley Crawford at end, tackle John 1 * h ( h | ATISN Load

Rabold, guard Doyle Dugger and three backfield men, Harold Feichter, Will Speak

Ralph Swager and Henry Abts. Coach Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle has a i

The lone backfield leftover is Elwood (Woody) Norris.

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 27. Leading high school coaches from four different states will join with Frank Leahy, of Notre Dame, and members of the Boilermaker staff in conducting the program for the

tenth annual Purdue Football Clinic to be held here on Friday and Saturday, April 4-5, it was announced

Hockey Teams Continue Wars With Championships Near

National League Hockey By UNITED PRESS Stanley cup competition in the National Hockey League resumes on two rinks today with the Boston Bruins invading Toronto for the, fourth game in their best-of-seven | series and the Chicago Black Hawks colliding at Detroit with the Red Wings in their best-of-three semifinal The Toronto Maple Leafs hold a 2-1 edge over the Bruins while the | Wings eliminated the New York Crowe. Huntington: Wally FromRangers in three games and the | hart, Mt. Carmel, Chicago, Ill., and Hawks ousted the Montreal Can-|W. J. Foster, Newport, Ky. adiens also in three contests.

American League Hockey I By UNITED PRESS Pittsburgh has a chance to cop the Series D championship of the American Hockey League tonight when it meets Hershey on the Hershey ice. Pittsburgh's Hornets captured the first game of they best-of-three match Tuesday night by a 4-1 score A win bv Pittsburgh would give the Hornets the right to meet Cleveland, Series A winner, for the league championship and the Frank Calder trophy. Cleveland defeated Providence to win the series. The final series, between the Series D winner and Cleveland, probably will open Saturday night if the Hornets take their second game from Hershey. If the Pitts-burgh-Hershey series is forced into three games, however, the Series will start Tuesday night as schedule.

director and head football coach. High school mentors who will appear before the two-day session to discuss various phases of the grid (game will include Walter “Pinky” Wilson of Findlay, O.; Ed Diederich of Broad Ripple, Indianapolis; Jim

the Buckeve League championship last fall with a record of eight victories and but a single loss, will open the program on Friday, April 4, with a discussion of backfield play. The Ohio representative will be followed by Diederich, who has made an outstanding record at | Broad Ripple, Indianapolis, with a resume of coaching problems. To complete the morning program, : ' Crowe, whose Huntington eleven set champions, monopolize the spotlight fy Hoosier offensive record of 415 tonight at the 41st Annual American | inte in winning nine ‘games in a Bowling Congress. | row last fall, will stress the imThe Hermanns won the national portance of timing in building an match two years ago from Heil's| offense, while Fromhart, who has Quality Products of Milwaukee and peen unusually successful with his have never relinquished it. Their Mt. Carmel teams in the Chicago previous appearances at A. B. C.|area, will take up the value of a meetings have been dogged by bad weak side attack. luck, but tournament officials looked | On Saturday morning, prior to for a change this year. | Leahy's closing address, Foster, who Yesterday's session was devoted to has achieved considerable success in Minnesota booster teams and there the Bluegrass state, will speak on were no changes in the top stand- “Assignments Against a Switching ings. | Defense.”

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| ST. PAUL, Minn, March 27 (U. P) The Hermann Undertakers team of St. Louis, National match

Fencers Test Foils Sunday

The second annual tournament of the Indiana Amateur Fencing Association will be held at the Riviera Club Sunday morning and afternoon. Fencers have entered from Evansville, Morton High School of! Richmond, Park School, Shortridge, Ft. Wayne Turners, Culver, Notre Dame, Purdue, Indiana University and Rose Poly. Action will begin at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. Medals and prizes will he awarded individual and team winners.

here today by A. H. (Mal) Elward, |

Wilson whose Findlay eleven won |

Cards Look to Olsen Defends A Great Year Net Playoffs

They Are Strictly Collegiate, He Says

| (This is the 10th in the series on 1

| major league baseball clubs.) | By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent | ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. March |

27.—Big things are expected from | the St. Louis Cardinals this season.| KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 2% They started to come with a rush, (U. P.).—Eastern Ivy League last mid-season and played the best | schools, the Big Ten conference ball in the National League from | members and other independents the July all-star game the which frown on post-season foot= season's end. all, ore Willing PATCIpEnLS nw the i 3 Nationa ollegiate hletic Asso= a ve A ance Wal luiation basketball playoffs because challengers. | thev are strictly in the hands of the Some changes have been made, colleges, Harold Olsen, executive

with Mickey Owen sold to the Secretary of the N. C. A. A, said

today. Dodgers and Joe Orengo and Bob . Browman to the Giants. However, , Olsen denied that there was any

: . inconsistency in the case of Wiscon= Pe joss = re A sin of the Big Ten and Dartmouth : Re : : . “lof the Eastern Ivy clique, in extendean ii Jw no SIN Bly Sou ing their basketball i for the a y . "|N. C. A. A. playoffs when post-sea= Blades’ dismissal last June, seems|_ . ; to know how to get the most out as ively VR of his talent. | different,” Olsen said. “Dartmouth Gloomiest part of the St. Louis never before had let its athletic foutlook is the unsettled condition teams play in any post-season afe |of their infield and the big re- fairs, However, the athletic board | sponsibility placed on 35-year-old | realized that the N. C. A. A. play= | Gus Mancuso, brought back from | offs were a national collegiate ven= |the Dodgers to do the catching. ture, absolutely in control of the |Only first base has a permanent | colleges. |guardian in the Cards’ infield.| Olsen said that through the | Johnny Mize, after a long holdout |gustem of regional playoffs and (siege which ended with a $17,000 eliminations, the N. C. A. A. probe | contract, is rounding into form and |,p|y had obtained the eight strong- | is expected to continue to blast out | ast and most representative teams | (Continued on Page 23) available, because all eligible schools | -_ a were willing to compete. Teams (XY 3 : qualified strictly on merit and parLike Father Like— ficipation was not on an invitational | Times Special | basis : BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 27. | The Wisconsin quintet, which plays | —Vic Aldridge Jr. Indiana Uni- | Washington State for the N. C. A. A. | versity baseball pitcher, is the son |title Saturday night, likewise got a | of the famous Pittsburgh hurler, | faculty go ahead to play in postwho was pitching the Pirates to [season basketball from the same | World Series victories two decades group which has voted against Big ago. Young Aldridge is a senior. Ten participation in football bowl { He lives at Terre Haute, Ind. | games.

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