Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1941 — Page 8

SPORTS...

By Joe Williams

NEW YORK, April 2—We realize it is nothing short of heresy but in the interest of truthful reporting we find it unpleasantly necessary to warn the good people of Brooklyn that their delightful Dodgers are going to have to fight for the pennant this year. We found nobody down south who was conceding it to them. This may come as a shock because all winter long the Dodgers have been winning the pennant. From the moment Mr. Leland Stanford MacPhail, the muted magnate, announced the purchase of Pitcher Highe from the Phillies the fans of Flatbush have been living in a dream world. Their only problem in connection with the World Series has been the problem of taking care of the cash customers. Regret that the park was not as commodious as, sav the Yankee Stadium, was generally expressed.

n n on IT MAY DEVELOP in due time that all this optimism was not in vain but for the moment a more realistic attitude seems to be in order. Under the generous if somewhat noisy auspices of Mr MacPhail the Dodgers have been getting steadily better. They won 84 games to finish third in '39: they won 88 games to finish second in '40. They figure to win even more games this vear. But, to repeat, we found nobody willing to bet .they would win enough games to beat out the Cincinnati Reds. From what we are able to observe, learn and hear the Dodgers are destined to fight it out with the St. Louis Cardinals for second place. Some of the older Dodgers even agree that this is how the race shapes up. “We aren’t Kidding ourselves,” they tell you. “Cincinnati is the team to beat and unless we can do something about second base we aren't going to do it.” If anvthing can be done about second base Mr. MacPhail will do it. He's that kind of tomato. The last we read he was trying to lure Billy Herman away from the Chicago Cubs. Herman is beginning to fade but even so he'd still be better at the bag than a bale of hav. To be more specific, it seems to be generally agreed he would be better than Pete Coscarart, who fields with brilliance and hits with nothing more solid than good intentions. n n ” STRANGELY. THE DODGERS have at their disposal a man who can play second base well enough for championship purposes, meaning Leo Durocher. Durocher’s getting along but he can still play 90 or 100 games as a regular. Durocher ig one of those fiery little pepper guys whose presence in the lineup contributes something to the team that cannot be measured in terms of putouts and basehits. He's what you might call a take-charge guy. It is probably significant that in the past the Dodgers have played their best ball with him on the field. f Mr. MacPhail feels Lippy Leo can help win the pennant by playing we imagine he'll be playing, under protest or otherwise. One way or another, Durocher seems to be on something of a spot. From all accounts voung Harold Reiser is going to be a mild sensation in the outfield this vear: Muscles Medwick is going to be a better plaver than a year ago. though it would be a mistake to assume that he's ever going to be the great Medwick ne once was: Peewee Reese can’t miss coming close to greatness at shortstop, the eccentric Lee Grissom may be a pleasant surprise in the box. Mickey Owen, the new catcher, has his boosters and his rappers. We were surprised to learn how little the Cardinals thought of him. All in all the Dodgers’ situation is one that neither calls for extreme excitement nor bleak despair. It could be better and it could be much worse. But we can assure you it'll get better before it gets worse. Mr. MacPhail will see to that,

eeu. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Masters Golf Odds Read Like Maniacs Manual ,

By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 2.—As dawn’s rosy finger smeared its nail polish over Manhattan's cauliflower canyon today, two sensitive souls were at variance over the question: To slug or not to slug? Reading from left to right, the parties involved were manager Ray Carlen and heavyweight contender Lou Nova. Nova, a tawny-haired ex-col-legian from California, did an about-face on his espoused erudition and insisted, "I'll slug! I'll knock Maxie Baer stiff in the first round when we tangle at the Garden Friday night.” Carlen, who was exposed only to grade school, has a great yen for the scientific—for the triumph of brain over brawn. Carlen said, “Lou will concentrate upon his superior boxing Friday night. His ringeraft will lead to Baer's ultimate and certain downfall.” This rift over the proper means

Dawn Comes to Cauliflower Canyon, Two Souls Are Apart

of mayhem became public property late yesterday immediately after Nova completed training for his tilt with madcap Maxie. The betting favored Nova at T': to 5. But that price was based upon the assumption that Lou would come out boxing instead of slugging. During the seven weeks that Nova has been training for this return bout with Baer, Pilot Carlen has been assuring the boxing writers that Nova has lost his Dempsey complex—and will not try to slug. In fact, during Lou's last four rounds of boxing at the pioneer gymnasium yesterday, Carlen was putting punctuation marks on this thesis. Imagine Carlen’s consternation when Nova—draped under the towels on a rubbing table—said, “I'll come out slugging. I'll knock out old man Baer in the first heat with my new cosmic punch. I'll hit him as he's never been hit

before.”

A High Flier

Cadet Billy Southworth Jr, son of the St. Louis Cardinals man-

| ager, and an outfielder like his father, flies out at Randolph Field, Tex. Last year he was named the most valuable player in the CanadianAmerican League, while playing with Toronto,

Midwest Golf Dispose, Jinxed Test Friday

FRENCH LICK, Ind. April 2 (U P.).—Outstanding midwester n|

1 s are t the | amateur golfers are to open | NEW YORK. April 2—A homely, 1941 season this week at the 10th| Jadling-sized colt Win already DIAS annual Midwest Amateur Golf 0 CN CEN Kn dliest finxes Tournament beginning here Friday | : he turf Vas ardened and continuing through Saturday Known to the tur 3 :

By JACK GUENTHER

United Press Staff Correspondent

Our Boots

Are Co-Favorites in Derby

sire who produces!

and Sunday. 2 Linksmen from Cincinnati, Louis- |]

with a third today when America’s | the roses was inaugurated back in!

eading winter bookmaker marked | 1875 has the advance favorite man-

ville, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, piv down as co-favorite to win the | 28ed to beat his rivals to the wire,

Milwaukee, Detroit and other! centers will compete for the Thomas | Taggart trophy in the 54-hole medal | play event,

fend his title captured last

when he hung up a 223, five strokes | ledger of J. J.

under John Hobart. Moline, Ill, and |

John David. Indianapolis, who tied the same as that of Florida

for second spot. Expected the give stiff competition are Chick Evans and Jack Hoerner, both of Chicago, and Gus Moreland, Peoria, Ill. All are former champions. while Evans| and Moreland are two-time winners. Other prominent entries include Jim Frisina, Taylorville, Ill.; Jimmy Manion, St. Louis: Curtis Busher. Decatur, Ill.; and Johnny Lehman, Russell Martin and Earle Wilde, all of Chicago. |

Butler Net Star

the defender |

67th Kentucky Derby.

The task was too much for such | prospects as Pompoon, Stagehand, His name 1s Our Boots, he sports| El Chico and Bimelech although

| the gaudy silks of Roy Martin and each was the standout of his season.

Gus Novotny, Memphis, will de-!he hasn't felt a saddle on his back vear since last November.

All the Jinxes

Carroll, who makes the prices, and the public, which accepts or rejects them, will keep Our Boots at 4-1 until he makes his debut from two to 998 points lower than!in another few weeks. Then, if those of 111 other assorted eligibles. | he wins, he'll take command hy In most cases top billing in the | himself. If he loses, he'll gradually winter book is regarded as a tribute, | slip back of the low-priced choices but in this instance it may prove to take his spot somewhere in the to be the extra straw that sways middle of the herd.

the dark bay's back. For if he| (while our Boots odds were fixed

does manage to hustle his Colors | ot intl on his performances in 1940

home on top at Louisville on May 3, | . " iv . Our Boots will have carried the hen he won three of SIR Tar 2d

d ._ (never finished out of lie to the oldest set of supersti-| . tions on the tracks. those of Dispose and most of the

The Ohio-owned colt earned his |Other short-priced horses were based claim to fame with a victory in|%" their showing in California or the Belmont Futurity and in all Florida this year. Dispose, for inhistory no futurity winner ever has St@nce, won both of his outings— been able to score in the Blue | The Flamingo and the Bahamas— Grass Clssic. Secondly, he is the and his companions in the lower son of Bull Dog and Bull Dog is brackets turn2d in feats almost as

Yet on the Carroll his price is The figure is exactly King Ranch’s | sensation, Dispose, and]

fixed at 4-1.

Is Tennis Head

Wilbur Schumacher, co-captain-elect of Butler University's 1941-42} basketball team, was given another | ranking today. He will captain this | year's tennis team. | Schumacher’'s appointment and a | nine-match schedule were announced today by Prof. Warren R.| Isom, chairman of the faculty ath- | letic committee and director of | tennis. Schumacher, a Louisville

In a double tie tor third at 6-1 are C. S. Hovrard's Porter's Cap, who triumphed in the $50,000 Santa Anita Derby, and Coldstream Studs Curious Coin, who finished a head behind Dispose in the Flamingo. Behind these the prices range through the 8-1 of Calumet Farm's Whilrlaway, who vied for the Juvenile championship with Our Boots last year, and on up to the 1000-1 laid against something known as Burmar. The prices of the more promi-

impressive, Meets Pine

Pictures Aid Purdue Clinic

Times Special

tion pictures of professional and college football games will be used to facilitate discussion and exemplification at the 10th annual Purdue Football Clinic here this Friday and Saturday.

tures will open the two-day program Friday morning when {Purdue-Iowa game of last fall will be screened while pictures of the {Chicago Bears-Washington Redskins national professional tilt will be used to open the afternoon session. Friday night, following the coaches’ round table discussion in charge of Carl Heldt of Peru, special arrangements have been made to show the Sugar Bowl game. (Other films of outstanding plays and events will be used throughout {the two-day session. | James Kearns of the Chicago |Daily News sports staff, will be banquet speaker Friday night.

Marine Downs

Buck Weaver

Buck Weaver, 180-pound matman {from Terre Haute, ran into a one {man blitzkrieg by Sargeant Bob |Kenaston, of the United States Marines, and was defeated after 42 {minutes of tussling in the main event of the weekly wrestling program at the Armory last night. Both grapplers were tiring as the finish came, after plenty of fast mat maneuvers had kept the crowd on edze from the opening gong. The | Devil Dog employed a double pin {hold to end Weaver's streak of seven [straight local victories. Frankie Talaber, of Chicago, [pinned Mike Chacoma, Detroit [Italian, in 25-minutes of the semi(windup with a cradle hold, and

LAFAYETTE, Ind. April 2—Mo- |

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Who Is This D. J. Wilcox? Asks McLemore

Hogan and Nelson All Favorites

By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

AUGUSTA, Ga., April 2.—A general search, complete with blood-

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1941

hounds, deputy sheriffs, and a fel-|

low with a peach switch divining | rod was being made today for the |

swamp-fevered creature who made! up the pre-tournament odds on the | Master's invitation golf championship. | The search had a two-way angle. | The fugitive is wanted on two counts. Either he is crazy as a| {loon with earache or he knows |something. The betting boys in| [these parts want to collar him and] {find out just where he belongs. Is the odds man crazy when he gives you Bobby Jones at 50 to 1} in one line and then quotes Deland |

(J. Wilcox at 40 to 1 in the next? | | Can you imagine a man taking De- | land J., at 40 when he can get Robert Tyre (plus immortality) at 50? Even if Bobby never had won a] tournament, was a complete un-| known, you would still take him| over a man named Deland J. Wil-| cox, I don't know Mr. Wilcox. He may have the smoothest swing in the world, and be able to get down in two from the back of a camel, but I'm telling you this: No one named Deland J. Wilcox is ever going to win a major tournament. The gods will see to that. They know that no newspaperman, no matter how great could possibly work that sort of a name into a dramatic, rhythmic. first paragraph. Hog-Wild Jones at 50 and Wilcox at 40 is just one example of the working of the official Augusta Masters bookmaker's mind, - He runs hog-wild in 15 or 20 places. He has Max Marston at 40 to 1 and Dick Chapman at 50 to 1. This wouldn't add up, even after two puffs on your favorlite opium pipe. Marston is marchjing briskly into the middle 50's | (without having won a major title since Pershing was a private), while Chapman is threatened by the draft | and holds the national amateur title, I could name you the sea-sick {odds the Augusta sharp has listed (from now until breakfast Which | would you rather have — Jerome | Travers (beard equipped) at 50 to 1 or Wilford Wepple, Sam Parks, Charley Yates, Johnny Goodman, Ray Billows, Willie Turnesa, or| Johnny Farrell, at the same price? The fact that Travers isn't within 100 miles of the place is not calculated to make you like him more. |

Just Senseless

When the official bookmaker deals with the real threats in the tournament he is just as senseless. His co-favorites are Benny Hogan and ‘Byron Nelson. Someone must have | given him a tip that these two boys | were fair country players because he quotes them at 7 to.l1 to win,| 3 to 1 to place, and 3 to 2 to show. Foolish prices, of course. If Hogan and Nelson are 7 to 1,| why should Little, Wood, Guldahl, | Sarazen, Heafner be anywhere from

Schricker Pitching, Sullivan Catching

Honorary starting pitcher for the Indianapolis Indians’ opening day game against the Milwaukee

Brewers is Governor Henry Schricker

(right)

while behind the plate will be Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan

(left). Here the two warm up in the Governor's of fice where Norman Perry Jr. has just asked them to

form the initial Tribe battery.

No Conference

Butler University went on record today to discredit any previous rumors that it would become a member of a new collegiate athletic conference that has been proposed by Harry Baujan of Dayton, O. In a statement made today by Prof. Warren R. Isom, chairman of the university faculty committee, it was revealed that Butler was not interested in becoming a member of this particularly proposed conference, and that it would remain in the Indiana College Conference where it has enJoved comparatively success in recent years. The distances between the colleges, also, were given as reasons to decline any acceptance into the new league. Baujan has favored a new association of small colleges that would include Butler; Bradley Tech, Peoria, Ill; Wayne University, Detroit; Toledo University, Toledo, O.; Xavier University, Cincinnati; University of Dayton, Dayton, O.; and Marshall College, Huntington, W, Va. Q

| 3 5 ¥» 3 8 Victory-Starved Indians Are

Finally On the

By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Edifor BARTQW, Fla, April 2.—The |victory-starved Indianapolis baseball | | pastimers had time out from travel-|

{ing the highways today and were in|; suffering an- |!

[no jolly smood after lother 8-to-3 thumping by the To-| |ronto Internationals at Avon Park | yesterday. The string of defeats (eight in Inine starts) in the grapefruit exhi{bition circuit has finally got under | the Indians’ hide and they are determined to break loose and go on ‘the warpath in a big way. | The fact that the Tribesters have | played seven of the nine games on the road has held their daily batting | practice to a minimum, or for an

average of only “three times around” |

[for each player. But today and tomorrow will be spent in Bartow with no games scheduled, and all members of the squad hope to sharpen their bat[ting eyes by indulging in prolonged {drills “in bludgeon swinging. |

Hockey Finals Approach That Win-or-Else Stage

American League Hockey Plavoffs

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just as well, have won just as many titles, and are always an even money bet against any But enough of this. I am off with ot or fv the posse to look for the Augusta t..

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Zivic, Manager Are Suspended

PHILADELPHIA, April 2 (U, P). —World welterweight champion Fritzie Zivic of Pittsburgh and his manager, Luke Carney, both were under indefinite suspension in Pennsylvania today. They were suspended by - the

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The Redskins do not go on the road again until Sunday when they make the long trek to Bradenton to battle the Louisville Colonels, and with four consecutive days in Bartow the Tribesters will get going n the batting department or start warbling “where do we go from here?” General Manager Leo Miller sent out a string of wires to friendly clubs last night hoping to scare up new talent. He has some surplus | outfielders and infielders to disposz of and desires to use them in trades [instead of selling them outright. (But it may be a case of “any port in a storm” unless certain Tribe|sters turn on the heat and fulfill the part of Double A performers. “But don't forget we are still in {the spring training and that some fof the boys who are not hitting now may come with a rush during the next two weeks,” said Miller, “I have seen ball clubs stagger and stumble in spring training and then suddenly break the spell and deliver up to the hilt when the chips (are down. Therefore, I am in no [hurry to make deals unless I feel [sure we are bettering. ourselves.” | Field Manager Killefer was disappointed no end, when Toronto beat the Indians and shut them out [for six innings yesterday although \he shared the view of the players on the shortage of batting practice since the exhibition series opened. [Two games scheduled in Bartow {were rained out and during the {first week of training practice was | “We have six games remaining are in Bartow, which will show a difference in hitting and run mak-

went | with two goals in the final period, ing, I am sure,” said the genial pilot |scoreless, each made two scores in to defeat Toronto last night, 2-1.|who is doing his level best to make [the second period and the third Herb Cain's tally at the 12-minute something out of last year’s sixth [period ended in a 3-to-3 tie. Jack Milford, Les team Ossie Ashmundson and Oscar Au-| of captured their second straight game |buchon did the scoring for Cleve-|lead was short-lived as Bobby Bauer nounced trips away from Bartow at Red raced in at 10:39 to knot the count. | night. yesterday by scoring two runs in Hamill and Gordon Pettinger made Less than two minutes later, Cain open for possible deals, like any |came through to win the game.

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