Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1941 — Page 34

PAGE 14-A THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941

A. A. Looks For Lively Campaign As 40th Season Opens

Probable batteries for the localjton; Indianapolis at Bartow; St] The versatile members are Galatz« Ray Starr and Johnny Paul at Leesburg, and Milwaukee at' er and Blackburn, the former first Ocala. In Texas were Minneapolis base and outfield, the latter out= at New Braunfels and Toledo at field and third base. | Harlingen. Indians and Brewers completed their training yesterday and both

THE A. A. OPENERS ] . {lid -lifter: Milwaukee at Indianapolis. | Pasek for the Indians; George BlaeKansas City at Louisville. {holder and Bob Garbark for MilSt. Paul at Columbus. (waukee. Umpires George Johnson Minneapolis at Toledo. and Leonard Curtis were assigned

The American Association, em- |

1 > {to Perry Stadium.

George M. Trautman, American

bracing the same eight clubs that

Association president, changed his

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managers radiated confidence on the

teve of the inaugural game. Starting

time was set at 2:30.

| All games during the Indians’ first home stand will be played in day=- | light, weekday tilts starting at 2:30, | Sunday double headers at 1:30. Night ball here is to start on Wednesday, May 14, when the Louisville Colonels make their first 1041 » appearance at Perry Stadium. comple roster oh The Tribe's first home stand | schedule: Pitchers—Ray Starr, Glenn] With Milwaukee—Today, { Fletcher, Jake Wade, Bill Cox, Pete row and Saturday. | Sivess, George Gill, Charles Mon-! With Kansas City—April 20, Sun= {erief, Bill Phoebus, Ben Wade, Jack | day, two games; April 21. Bastien. Tuesday, April 22, is an open date,

started its first season in 1902, (plans at the last moment and atlaunched another year today—its tended the Minneapolis at Toledo 40th—hopeful that the league pos- | opener instead of coming to Indiansesses better balance than the last apolis to watch the “Battle of the two years 'Killefers.” Other openers were KanThe Kansas City Blues, who have sas City at Louisville and St. Paul dominated the regular season play !at Columbus Por we rr Jo ei Sal I Three new managers were to make a Vy th R en their bows today, including the loX ic \ N Rh ie Cw h an- | cal “brother act” with Wade KilleAT ong with several other key fer piloting the Indians and Bill ! Scr {Killefer directing the Brewers. Ralph Several other clubs strengthened | oo coach of the Detroit Tigers

since the 1940 race and prior to the} opening of the championship fire- |1ast season, succeeded Foster Ganzel

{as manager of St. Paul. Holdover

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Indianapolis’ 125 players:

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With St. Paul—April 23, 24, 25.

Ray Starr, pitching.

SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

IN AN EDITORIAL, “Battling Begins On the Amerjcan Front,” Sporting News, the baseball weekly, says, in part: “War broke loose on many fronts in America this week—war in which no quarter is asked and none expected—but instead of war of rifles, bayonets, cannon,

machine guns and airplanes, it is a battle of bats and

casuaities

a pennant is sought. can go home to

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The

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works today Columbus entered the

{pilots are Bill Meyer, Kansas City;

new campaign as the favorite of i murt Shotton, Columbus; Tem Shee-

the league's baseball writers to capture the pennant. i Indianapolis was to shove off sgainst the Milwaukee Brewers this

was right the Tribe club officials predicted an increased attendance over last vear's first-day crowd.

{han, Minneapolis; Bill Burwell, Lou-

isville, and Zach Taylor, Toledo.

[sas City at Lake Wales; lat Hollywood; Louisville at Braden-

Catchers—Johnny Pasek, Al Lakeman. . |

Infielders—Milton .Galatzer, .Joe | nie Zientara, Chuck Aije-| no, Wayne Ambler, Bill Blinstrub,! estudik. { Outfielders—Gilbert Brack, Allen] Wayne Blackburn, Kermit

With Minneapolis—April 26, April 27. Sunday, two games; April 28. The Indians’ first game on the road will be at Kansas City, May 1, and they will be “away” until May 14. First “ladies’ day” will be tomorrow, at the second of the series with the Brewers.

Keeping Busy

Shortridge’s thinlvclads will attempt their second straight win of the season tomorrow afternoon when the Crawfordsville Athenians invade the Blue's stadium. It will be the clash between Coach Don Knight's Blue Devils and Coach Charlie Cummins’ Men of Athens. Due to the excellent weather during the week, the thinlyclads have had good practices. The team is bolstered by the return of Captain Bryan (Pat) West, George Kraegor, the team’s ace shot put man, is expected to make

vet reported in the state, is fortyseven feet, five inches. The Blue Devil golf team, coached by Simon P. Roach, will play a dual

wav course with shotmakers from Franklin High School, and Howe. On Saturday the Blue Devils will journey to the Culver Military Academv for a match with the cadets. Monday will find them on

he Speedway course again, match- |

ng shots with their arch rival, Tech. {In two previous games, each team has won one and lost one.

Approximately 20 prospective

a fine showing. His mark, the best |

match this afternoon on the Speed- |

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 17—A BrookIyn fan leaving Ebbets Field after his beloved Dodgers (the Bums) had {lost their second straight to the {hated Giants sald himself a mouth- { fal. “You experts mumbled. wuz gonna nant.’ The Dodger fan's probably were echoed at Yankee Stadium, Cincinnati, and Detroit after the second dav of the baseball season The Yanks dropped their second straight to the Athletics, picked to wind up in the cellar. The World Champion Reds tripped over the Cardinals for the {second straight day. The American League Champion Tigers, with their ace of aces, ol’ Bobo Newsom (himself, on the mour.d were routed by the Browns in their initial start

can't believe a thing dese write nowadays,” he “I thought our Dodgers run off wid the pen-

sentiments

{Shortridge netmen turned out at |

{the annual spring tennis call issued {bv Coach Tom Wilson yesterday at ithe Riveria Club. Thev were: Stanley Davis, Bob! Paddock. Joe Boleman, Allan Greer, | Tom Pruitt, Charles | Tichenor. Jack Sutherland, Dick | Herb Weisman, Emil Iverson, | Harold Morgan, Don Simley, Major | Willis, Dick Wood, Bob Wood, Joe | Carev, Richard Moss, Robert Moss, | Kwitnev. |

Open Roller Derby

Series Monday

-» Another Roller Derby series will} the Fairgrounds Coliseum with & team

ing another designated as “New York.” The competition will last for 1g lineups have not been n-| nounced, but the teams will consist | of the customary five boys and five | girls, paired off into identically numbered couples, and several alternates The series will follow the plan of previous Derbies, with the teams ing points in jams and sprints i the one with the highest total t the conclusion of the series being | declared the winner.

Patty Berg Leads By Eleven Strokes

Patty Berg, former national women's champion, today led the field by 11 strokes &s the 18-hole

Dick SeibBt « + + Smacked two homers,

The Dodgers, Yanks, Tigers, rated as four of baseball's strongest clubs, have won only one game among them in eight starts. To be frank about it they all have looked horrible. But it's a long season and class will tell ever the route Giving a once over ment to the cause of defeats, we find: The Dodgers are showing defensive flaws that must be remedied. The Reds got one sloppily pitched

Reds and

lightly treatthe big four's

Blue Athletes |Reds, Yanks, Dodgers Fall So Discard ‘Dese Experts’

. Going? DETROIT, April 17 (U, P). —Tomorrow is opening day here for the Tigers, wha are playing Cleveland, but there's another little matter coming up just as important to Detroit baseball fans At 10 o'clock in the morning slugger Hank Greenberg has an appointment with the doctors That will determine whether or not he .will be drafted for the Army.

| game and developed a defensive leak in the other, The Yankees much to be desired The Tigers’ loss is plained—Buck Newsom is not in shape to g0 nine innings and may not be until May Sloppy Yankee { the way for the straight win at Yankee Stadium vesterday, 10-7. Dick Seibert hit two homers and Bob Johnson one

pitching leaves

easily ex-

pitching paved Athletics second

phy, Peek and Stanceu Joe DiMaggio clouted a 430-homer, two doubles and a single. Rizzuto smacked a double and two singles. Cleveland annexed its first win | by beating the White Sox. 6-0, behind Al Milnar's two-hit pitching Hal Troskv a homer with two on and Rov Weatherly hit one with one on. The Browns drove Newsom tired badly after innings to cover in the scoring eight runs off him and Trout to beat the Tigers, 8-1. Rudy York hit a 430foot homer for Detroit's only run. Bobby Doerr's homer with one on and Jim Tabor’s with none on enabled the Red Sox to score three runs in the ninth. The Sox then {went on to beat Washington, 8-7, {in the twelfth. Pete Fox's single drove in the winning run. The Giants beat the Dodgers for {the second straight day 3-1, with Harry Gumbert outdueling BrookIyn's $100,000 Kirby Higbe. Peewee

Tit

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| Reese and Cookie Lavagetto each

made two errors that hurt. Harry Danning’s single with the bases loaded drove in two runs. Jimmy Brown's ninth-inning double broke up a pitcher's duel between Morton Cooper and Johnny Vander Meer and gave the Cards thelr second in a row over the Reads. 4.2. Cooper allowed onlv five hits while Vander Meer gave up seven, walked six and fanned eight Manuel Salvo pitched a 3-hitter as the Bees won from the Phillies, 4-1.

| to manufacture a new fullback for]

in a 13-hit attack on Breuer, Mur- |

Little Phil |

| Botten, with Eddie Heineman as its star ern division championship but losing |

Bulldogs May

Lose a Star

Tony Hinkle of Butler may have his 1941 gridiron aggregation next fall if Elwood Norris doesn’t flun his Selective Service examination next month. Norris, a 190-pound line smasher and one of Hinkle's most consistent

| ground-gainers last season, received

his first papers yesterday, and is scheduled to report for the test] sometime between May 18-30. If he| passes, “Woody” says he is going to petition to serve in the U. S. Army Air Corps. Norris, who will be a senior next vear. is also a member of the Butler | basketball team and was recently elected co-captain for the 1940-41 | campaign along with Wilbur Schu- | macher, Jim Morris, the Bulldogs’ trainer, may also get a leave of absence from his futies. He is to report at Ft, | Benjamin Harrison today for his examination.

New York Teams Next for ABC

ST. PAUL. Minn, April 17 (U. |

P) —The American Bowling Con- hockey at the expense of teaching |

gress looked to three topnotch New | York teams to change standings |

(among the 10 leaders of the team

tomorrow. The American Bowling Billiards team featuring Sparando. the Lou Marcus five led | by Junie McMahon and Eddie! and Heineman's Bowling |

event

were to appear Friday night. Only change in leaders during |

the past 24 hours was in all-events, (were unable to hit their stride and ried

Johnny Pasek, catching.

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Detroit News Says Goodfellow

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hockey as a sideline rather than as his most important activity. He

Duluth, which produces him a comfortable income. The News gives the following as some of the reasons for dissatisfaction over his management: “Bob Whitelaw, who came up to the Wings in December after nearly two months with Indianapolis, needed another month of intensive workouts to get in shape when he should have been in good physical

condition before the seasen opened.

“Bill Jennings, who was with Indianapolis for three-quarters of the season, still did not know how to take out a man when he reported to the Wings. “Indianapolis, which finished first in its division last season, was last this year. “Too much stress on streamlined

defensive fundamentals.” Lewis, who was known as the “Duke of Duluth” when he played with Detroit's championship teams,

and | was named manager of the Capitals Tony with the beginning of hockey here]

a year ago last November. He enjoyed a successful first season, the Capitals winning the west-

to Providence in the Calder Cup playoffs. This year the Capitals

May Replace Lewis With Caps

Goodfellow, who has been with the Wing organization since 1928, | suffered painful elbow and knee | injuries late in the season and is

‘has a flourishing oil business in tXpected to retire from big-league

hockey next season. “He was playing coach this year {and he and Manager Jack Adams (of the Red Wings) are fully agreed in their system of coaching,” the News said. “Now 34, Goodfellow might be an asset to the Wing de« fense next season, but probably no Jonger than that, while he certaine ly would be valuable as Indian= apolis coach in developing players to fit the Wings’ close checking style.”

Derby Entries F ail to Shine

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Galway — (Hann Bros. 400-1)— {made Wednesday's best showing by ' finishing second, a half length behind Driving Power in a field of 11 non-eligibles. Carried top weight of 116 pounds on a fast track over six furlongs at Narragansett in [1:18 1-5. | Vaidina Paul — (Valdina Farm, 100-1) —finished fourth, six and & half lengths behind the winning {non-eligible, Dandy Fox, at Keene{land in a mile and 1-16 event. Car= top weight at 122. Time:

where Charlie Clark Jr. of Auburn, were beaten out by Hershey and 1:45 4-5.

N. Y., posted a total of 1930 to take | ninth place.

Tech Nine Tops Broad Ripple

Tech High School's baseball team made its hits count in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to score a 10-7 triumph over Broad Ripples Rockets vesterday on the losers’ diamond. The Greenclads plated four runs in the fourth, two in the fifth and another three in the sixth, Newland's round-trip blow highlighting the fourth-inning uprising. The Rockets collected 13 hits to Tech's 10 but couldn't keep pace in spite of Bill Reckerts’ homer in the third. Lux and Maloof toiled on the hill for the East Siders and opposed by Stricker and

were Duvall

Pittsburgh in their late bid for a place in the playoffs. During the season, however, Lewis

continually indicated he was dissat-|

isfied with the Wings’ manner of shuttling players between Detroit and Indianapolis. When the Wings were playing Boston in the Stanley Cup series, there were no less than

{10 former Capitals in the lineup.

New Englander—(Walmac Farm, {100-1)—fifth, six lengths behind | Valdina Paul. Carried 113 pounds. Bushwacker — (Walmac Farm, 40-1)—Wednesday’s worst showing. Blew up completely after running second most of the way to finish | sixth behind Valdina Paul, nine more lengths back, Carried 122 pounds.

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