Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1941 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

NOW THAT President George M. Trautman has made his annual pre-season prediction that the American Association will enjoy a close race, it’s up to the eight

clubs to go out and prove he’s wrong again. Prexy George means well, however, and the law of averages says he'll hit it right some day and have the last laugh. . . . Last early April Trautman said the league looked so evenly balanced that he predicted a .500 race straight through; in other words eight clubs winning and losing the same number of games. . . . At the finish four were far below that mark and three far above it. . . . However, Louis=

Draft Is Big

(Question in Bettor's Book

Five Will Get You Seven If the Yankees Win

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NEW YORK, April 14. — The | world champion Cincinnati Reds |

and the rebuilt New York Yankees]

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ville made the league chief look good by closing out at a flat .500. ut Trautman is not to be censored. . . . In the first place the American Association is tough to pick, in the second place he has to appease the weak sisters, and in the third place he has his job to protect No amount of “ribbing” will get George down . . . . he always has an answer and is well versed in repartee. . . . He's also well-versed in baseball and directs the league with a firm hand and strictly according to the rules . A manager carrying a chip on his shoulder is soon put in his place, and when a fine is levied it sticks, Trautman is cautious in picking his umpires and he's above the average in judgment Two of his 1940 umpires graduated to the majors . These were Ernie Stewart and Jocko Conlan New guessers on the staff this season are Bill Kelley, from the Intermational League; Jim Bover, from the Eastern League, and Leonard Curtis from the South Atlantic loop

Dean of Staff Assigned to Indianapolis

UMPIRES ASSIGNED te Indianapolis Thursday are George Johnson, dean of staff, and Curtis, a freshman, whe broke in the A. A. at the tail end of last season as third base umpire and resin bag caretaker Assignments for the other American Association openers are: City at Louisville, Hal Weaver and Boyer. Minneapolis at Toledo, Paul Genshlea and Frosty Peters; St. Paul at Columbus, Bill Guthrie and Kelley Columbus and Louisville were the last A. A. clubs to pull training camp stakes The Red Birds moved out of Hollywood, Fla., today and the Colonels departed Bradenton last night . These teams and Milwaukee have completed their exhibition series Still barnstorming are Indianapolis, Kansas City, St. Paul, Toledo and Minneapolis un

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EVERY SPRING Minneapolis takes keen delight in pointing out that it has never finished last since the organization of the league in 1902 and the Millers feel safe from the cellar this vear. . . . Indianapolis has wound up in the hole four times. . . . But Toledo is the cellar champ. with 10 cheese titles St. Paul the pennant champ down through the vears with eight to its credit . Louisville, Minneapolis and Columbus are tied at six pennants each. Times teams finished in each position: ist 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th Sth place place place place place place place place 2

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Blaeholder to Face Tribe Thursday MILWAUKEE'S BREWERS arrived in Indianapolis late last night were to work out at Perry Stadium today They are bristling to tangle up with the Indians in Thursday’s opener and have designated the veteran George Blaeholder, righthander, to toe the rubber against the Redskins The Brewers took on a veteran shortstop over the week-end He is Lyn Lary, who was a free agent . Lyn has been around and about the big show and is banked upon to steady the Brewers’ young infield Like the Indians, the Brewers are weak in the box and are not talking pennant » » LOOKING IN on the fireworks here Thursday will be League President Trautman He is intrigued by the “Battle of the Killefers” and thinks it will be a grand show as brother strives to outmaster mind brothe: Bill of the Brewers and Wade of the Indians both face similar problems weak mound staffs—but have lost none of their enthusiasm and will be out there shouting for base hits and runs.

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Derby Choice, Is Whirlaway

(Following is the fourth dispateh in the itv United Press covering prominent ; contenders for the Kentucky Derby.)

By JACK GUENTHER

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| then came back a second time win the Walden and lead his| division in earnings. His trainer. ! Ben Jones, who sent Lawrin out tol United Press Staff Correspondent a Derby victory in 1938. neve: gave NEW YORK. April 14 —The big-'up, however. and insisted his colt juvenile money winner of 1940 had the stuff the second choice in the Ken-| Shipped to Florida for the win cky Derby future books of 1941 ter, the chestnut won one race and a small, nervous colt who seldom | ran third in another before he suf-| ts running until he reaches the fered a splint which threw him | stretch His name Whirlaway. lout of his most important engageHis price is now 4-1 and his hard- | ment, the $20.000 Flamingo Stakes, boot backers in the Bluegrass land! He finished third In one comeback | are countless race and since then he was one twn| Whirlaway was the glamour - | straight to bring his 1941 record | vear-old of the past season. Bred and [to three triumphs and two thirds ownea by Warren Wright's Calu- in five tries. met Farm, he was picked as a! His last victory, in the Derby probable as early as the mid- Handicap at Keeneland, was an imdle of last August. A son of the pressive one. He defeated the highimported Blenheim II, he came {rom | lv-regarded Blue Pair, among the same crop which dominated the others, and finished six furlongs in Saratoga yearling sales of 1939 and the good time of 1:11 3-5. He goes he was marked as a comer from the next in the Blue Grass Stakes at bey nning the same track and then moves on The of the copper-coated to the Derby. the Preakness and voungster's achievements is as long, the Belmont Stakes, as his lanky legs. He won the first SE — time he went to the post and he| Tomeorrow—Curious Coin. was still running fast and far when he ended the season With winnings of $77275. In some six months ne he had speed, heart and -but he alse showed that spirits made him ec-|

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Hugh Mulcahy already has gone Buddy Lewis is due to go in a month and Hank Greenberg in| June. What if Feller had to go? His loss would just about wreck the Indians I dont think any single fellow can count himself safe The current is moving too swiftly | “Another important angle about | the two races is that there's not aj real standout club in either league Of course, the Reds have a great pitching staff but vou couldn't call them a great club bevond that.” Doyle stressed that his opening line 1s subject to change on a day's notice and that the odds may shift quickly as soon as the public starts

“After all it's the public that | makes the price,” he said In making the Yanks favorites] Dovle admitted that he originally | had the Indians co-favorites but shifted at the last minute, dropping Cleveland to 3-2. Thus the Yanks (Continued on Page Seven)

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o'clock,

Starts Season

Coach Lou Reichel put his Park basebail players through a brisk work-out today in preparation for | the season's opener against Morton

Stanley Cup

BOSTON, April 14 (U. P.).—The! Stanley Cup, emblematic of world 4 e ockey Memorial Ie % che) ' and smelling faintly of champag as tion having hampered early-season | DS 2 Rack phe, was N i unpacked at a Back Bay Hotel todrills, Lou Reichel's starters I . 1 day for exhibition night with a few exceptions are uncertain, at the victory dinner of the Boston Bruins

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Coach tomorrow T'ony Francescon at third, Ownie Mears Arst are all 1940 team and

Mike Keene at hold-overs from the seem sure of starting I'om Binford. veteran second-baseman, will hold down that sack event that he isn't drafted for receiving dutv. His alternate behind the platter so far has been Carleton Palmer, a hardhitting reserve from last year’s squad Mound ment in

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scarred old mug arrived last from DeBruins added another their imposing list by trouncing the Red Wings in four straight games to win the 1940-41 title | Clanging bells and blowing horns (more than 5300 of hockey's most | rabid supporters stormed little Huntington-Avenue station to greet the weary players The Bruins left Detroit with their third Stanley Cup triumph in 17 years early yesterday after breaking training by drinking copious quantities of champagne | from the silver trophy in an in-| formal party at their hotel quarters

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duty falls in the depart the charge of Larry Gerlach, Jim Magennis, and Ownie | Mears, with the latter slated also for shortstop functions. Magennis will probably draw down left field, leaving Gerlach in undisputed possession of the box Others in line for outfield work are Bill Higgins, Palmer, Vachel Anderson, Frank Bixler and MacMiner. | Others working out daily with Coachh Reichel’'s tossers are Vachel Anderson, Al Huff, Herman Kothe, Bob Doeppers, Bill McWilliams. Alex Taggart, Eddie Dunn. Bill Griffith, Carl Lieber, Ab Metzger and Bob Dedaker,

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Denson Rooters Key for Friday

Allison plant employees are plan- | {ning a rooting party at the Armory | Friday when their fellow worker, (Johnny Denson, faces Charley Roth! (of Cincinnati in the 10-round fea-

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Signing of Sergeant Bob Ken- ‘ei . aston, the big Marine, adds an. (Business Men's Sports Club other outstanding mat star to the According list of “big league’ performers the club by Ed Johnson. manager of who will see actio , . : ion in the Armory the Queen City pug grappling ring next Tuesday in 40 fights, winning

night Renaston, the | knockouts, 20 by decisions the mat game, has been here [three and was the other two

twice and has the fans cheering for him. He halted Buck Weaver Golden Gloves followers will find two weeks ago. The “Sarg” scales | two of their former heroes on Friarcund 190 pounds (day's card-—-Milton Bess and Bud Headliners in a promised thril- | Cottey Cottey has been malched ler are Everett Marshall, 222, the | in a 6-rounder with Johnny Kelley of Cincinnati, and an opponent for

high-powered matman and Ray Steele, 218, the bronzed Californ- Bess is yet to be named. Another favorite, Gib Jones of Cincinnati.

ian Both are former champs returns this time to meet Mack

and both hope to be back on top. Joe Dusek, 230, of the “Rioting Thompson of Louisville, Johnnv Dusek” brothers from Omaha, [Cummins of Plainfield and Lawrence tangles with Louis Thesz, 235, the | Northern of Bainbridge, young skilled and young St. Louis stal- | heavyweights, are to clash in the 4-|

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Dr. J. William Wright contender for the 1941 title today. The Highland Golf and Country Club president registered the first hole-in-one shot of his golfing life when he connected for an ace on the 158-vard eighth hole. Handicapped by a stiff wind he used a

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Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind. April 14.-— On the last leg of their spring exhibition series, the Indianapolis Indians rolled into Evansville early today to battle Bob Coleman's Three-1 Leaguers in games tis and tomorrow These tilts will form the final tuneup for the American Association opener at Indianapolis Thursdav, and from all reports the Red skins are ready insofar as physical condition 1s concerned. The Tribe plavers will check in at Indianapolis tomorrow night at 10:45 o'clock

afternoon

and hold a final drill at Perry Sta- |

Wednesday morning, beginning at 11 o'clock Before the Indians departed Montgomery, Ala. last night they s0ld Bob Prichard, voung first hase man, to Charlotte in the Class B Piedmont League and he left immediately for the new joh The voungster was glad to go for a fresh start in the diamond sport, He was crowded off the Tribe's initial sack by Joe Mack and Milton Galatzer, both veterans. Galatzer's main trade is outfielding but he also is quite capable at first base and may take it over unless Mack comes to life in the base-hit department, In games against League clubs (Class B) over the week-end, the Indians got a split.

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| They lost to the Selma, Ala., nine

Saturday, 5 to 2, and defeated the Montgomery Rebels yesterday, 7 to 2. Ray Starr and Pete Sivess saw service on the Tribe mound Saturday and the former was batted hard in the third inning—and that rally sewed up the fracas for Selma Glenn Fletcher pitched six sessions against Montgomery vester-

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day and Bill Cox completed the at the Capital City Gun Club,

Reichel Nine Bruins Take [Tribe Rolls Into Evansville For Final Grapefruit Games

mound toil. Fletcher settled down after the opening frame and the Rebels were blanked the remainder of the distance, getting four hits and two runs off Fletcher and four hits and no runs off Cox in three rounds. The Indians collected 13 hits yes(Continued on Page Seven)

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West Point Gives Plaque

WEST POINT, N. Y., April 14 (U, P.) —A plague will be presented to the New York Giants today on behalf of the West Point cadet corps

before the National League club takes the field against Army's baseball team for the 12th exhibition game of their series. { The trophy will be awarded to [the Giants—who began playing {Army in 1914-—-as a token of the friendly relations between the major leagues and the Academy, Brig. Gen. Robert L Eichelberger, superintendent of the Academy, will make the presenta- | tion i The Doubled Abner 1 | Academy ally credited baseball.

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MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1941

Odds Favor Yanks And Reds As Season Opens

Managers Name Starters for

Opening Games

Feller Attempts to Repeat No-Hitter

ST. LOUIS, April 14 Manager Fred Haney Elden Auker as pitche {Louis Browns tomorrow against {the Detroit Tigers at Sportsman's | Park. Lon Warneke will hurl for the Cardinals in their opener at Cincinnati, Buck Newsom goes for | the Tigers.

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CHICAGO, April 14 (U, P,) — The Cubs and the White Sox rested for tomorrow's season openers, tuned up by a last spring series game played in midsummer {emperatures. The Cubs won cight of the fourteen games in the series, but the American League club took ves terday's windup to 2, with veteran Teddy Lyons and Rookie Jack Hallett holding the Cubs tn seven hits

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| PHILADELPHIA, April 14 (U, | P.).—The Philadelphia Phillies ar | rived home today from their spring

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NEW YORK, April P).—Opening day schedules for today morrow:

AMERICAN LEAGUE TODAY New York at Washington, TOMORROW Philadelphia at New York. Washington at Boston, Chicago at Cleveland, Detroit at St, Louis,

NATIONAL LEAGUE TOMORROW New York at Brooklyn, St. Louis at Cincinnati, Pittsburgh at Chicago. Boston at Philadelphia,

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ere re trip and were scheduled to { have their uniforms fitted and stage [a short workout at Shibe Park in [preparation for tomorrows opener [with Boston. The Phils walloped | Richmond at the Virginia City ves | terday, 12-5, for their 13th win in | 27 spring games. Bill Nagel laced | three homers as the team chalked up seven four-base blows.

CLEVELAND, O, April 14 (U P.).—Manager Roger Peckin. paugh has ordered a practice ses. sion at the stadium as a tuneup for tomorrow's opener with the Chicago White Sox. Bob Feller will attempt to repeat his last year's no-hit opening performance, The Indians yesterday rallied in the ninth te battle the New York Giants to a 4-4, 12inning tie at the Polo Grounds.

CHICAGO, April 14 (U, P) ~The Pittsburgh Pirates took their final spring workout at Wrigley Field today in preparation for their na- | tional League opener against the | Chicago Cubs here tomorrow. With | Bob Klinger, veteran righthander, | suffering a cold, Manager Frankie Frisch reviewed his hurling staff to select a starting pitcher against the Cubs—probably Rip Sewell or Dick Lanahan,

CINCINNATI, O., |P.) ~The Cincinnati Reds wens through a final workout today bem fore the season-opener here tomors= row with the St. Louis Cardinals

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