Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1941 — Page 8

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SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

LOOKING AHEAD to night baseball at Perry Sta-

. « .» and it’s going to be nine fans at the first after-dar

Falls on May 14, a week from tomorrow night, »dnesday happens to be a regular “ladies’ day”

Colonels—the current league leaders—Wwill oppose naugural and it will be the first meeting

a soft touch for the femik game of the new season.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 6.—Roger Peckinpaugh, the fired and rehired boss of the Cleveland Indians, was very conservative this spring when he picked his club to win the American League flag. From the present looks of things the Indians not only will win the pennant but will run away with it. The Indians are handling everything that comes their way, no holds barred, and doing a very impressive job of it. In running off 11 straight victories they've proved themselves opportunists.

Twin Cities Is Next Stop for Touring Tribe

Redskins Play Finale At Milwaukee Today

Times Special MILWAUKEE, May 6 —Completing the second leg of their swing through the Western half of the circuit, the Indianapolis Redskins were scheduled to battle the Milwaukee Brewers today in the series finale before taking off for the Twin Cities tonight. Having played yesterday's scheduled game as part of Sunday's double-header, the Indians and Brewers got a vacation on washday, and both clubs welcomed the rest and were all set for spirited action this afternoon. The rivals met three times in the season’s opening series at Indianapolis and the Tribesters made a clean sweep, but in the two games played here at ancient Borchert Field with its short fences, the Brewers grabbed bath and now the Indians hold the long end of a short lead, three games to two. Manager Wade Killefer of the Tribesters indicated he had three pitchers rested for this afternoon's warfare. These are George Gill, Mike Naymick and Gleen Fletcher. Despite four defeats in five starts on the road, the Redskins are only

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College Golfers on College Cou

WHEN GOLFERS from all ate University

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course

Jun nel will mark the 44th time ti national meet and yet it will be t -owned course.

In spite

C.A A Now the third N. C. A. A. tour 36-hole. course and a well-planned t taken in college golfing. . . . WOMEN GOLFERS from Ameri

first Women’s National Collegiate t

recognized queen among college golfers will be ineligible to compete. te. Patty Berg is not currently

Although she has yet to gradua enrolled at her alma mater, Minnesot at Ohio State's course But the women’s tourney will h men’s championships for it will prec week over the same Buckeye course

Brewers Hope to Cash in on Koslo

MILWAUKEE BASEBALL offici

a voung phenomenon in young George (Dave) Kolso, a lefthander brought up from the Paducah Kitty League team. . . .

writers describe the rookie as a rare ative and neither is he eccentric. hough he says little, Koslo is

the advice he receives from older heads. . . to get big league offers for the youngster before the season is two

months old Only 20 destined to become an idol to Milw his third vear in professional ball minors

JOHNNY PESKY,

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nee Pavesko

job in the shortfield for the Louisville Colonels, is of Jugoslavian traction and not quite two vears out of high school. inior Legion ball in Portland, Ore, when only 13 years old and

during the summer of 1939 he got out his family

Pesky was signed by a scout for the Boston Red Sox farm system while the kid was playing on his lumber mill nine. . .

grade school years he made himself

park where he served as bat boy for the visiting leaguers.

the 14th has been set at

over June 23 for the National Collegiate Golf Tourna-

of collegiate golfing’s long career, its strength has just

The dates are June 23-28.

Koslo is a native of W

He may be the answer to the Brewers’ financial troubles, as young southpaws with control are not found on every bush.

h there will be a fireworks disbe the real article, according to 1g the arrangements. . . . “The pyrotechnics, and after it is til game time said Perry. 8:30 and the Stadium an early rush of fans er in baseball falls on “ladies’ 1 custom to charge the regular has decided to try it the “barworks to hoot . got it down. g and plenty of it rse assemble at Ohio

the nation

1at college golfers have staged e first to be played over a uni-

nament will have Ohio State's ourney to show for the strides

can colleges will tee off in the ourney on June 30th, but the

a, and will thus miss the lineup

ave to take a back seat to the ede the women’s playoff by one

als and fans think they have

Milwaukee lefthander. . . . He is not talkeager to listen and benefit by . The Brewers expect

isconsin and for that reason is aukee sports goers. . . . This is | !

and his first out of the little |

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vitch, is He played a job at a lumber mill to help

. In his useful around the Portland ball

Baseball At

a Glance

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Pet. Louisville Minneapolis Kansas City INDIANAPOLIS Columbus St. Paul Toledo Milwaukee \ *Games behind leader.

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

w St. Louis 13 Brookiyn 15 New York Cincinnati Boston

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Pittsburgh Chicago shabbiie Philadelphia . “hhh “Games behind leader.

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St. Louis 1 *Games behind leader.

GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

INDIANAPOLIS at Milwaukee, Columbus at St. Paul. Toledo at Minneapolis. Louisville at Kansas City.

NATIONAL St. Louis at Beston. Pittshurgh at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, Chicage at New York.

LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE

New York at Detroit BR ton ot Cleveland, Binanhis pi

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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION civeess DOL B18 00-6 5 Kansas City 110 140 20x— 9 11 Powell, Butiand, Harris and Lacey: Car. nett and Robinson, Only game scheduled.

NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis . 000 111 020-3511 © Boston 000 000 0l0— 1 5 1 Other games postponed, rain or threats ening weather.

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|league-leading Colonels, two games

| ner,

two and a half games behind the

back of second-place Minneapolis and a game and a half behind third-place Kansas City. After departing Milwaukee tonight the Indians will battle the Millers three times in Minneapolis and the Saints four times in St. Paul to bring the journey to a close next Monday.

Kaycee Blues

Rout 2 Jinxes

By UNITED PRESS The Kansas City Blues’ victory over Louisville didn’t lift them out of third place in American Association standings, but it marked the end of two jinxes. The jinxes were] Louisville and left-handed pitchers. Up to yesterday, the Blues hadn't beaten Louisville this season, although Louisville had beaten them four times. They had been such suckers for left-handers that word went along the line to “start the southpaws when you play Kansas City.” The Blues defeated Louisville, 8 to 6, in the only Association game played yesterday and they knocked southpaw Larry Powell out of the box before he could get the side out in the first inning. Bill Butland, lean right hander, who usually fares well against Kansas City, finished the inning but got into trouble later because of wildness. He hit three] batters with pitched balls, felling] Billy Hitchcock, Blue shortstop with a pitch which struck his face. Hitchcock recovered and stayed in the game. Louisville got two home runs off Ed Carnett, the Kansas City hurler, Earl Lacy landing one in the fifth and pinch hitter Tex Fiarito getting one in the sixth. Lloyd Christopher clinched the victory for Kansas City in the eighth when he hit a homer with one aboard.

Manual Netters

They've shown a happy faculty of coming up with a run when they have to or making a great play when they must to win. The only unanswered question about the Indians is whether they have the heart to stand up when the going gets tough. They've been out in front before and faded. The Indiahs themselves are supremely confident of their ability to make the pace and hold it from now until the World Series. Winning their 11th straight— the majors’ longest streak this season and Cleveland's longest in 19 years—the Indians increased

500-mile Memorial Day race. Mays, his runnerup last year.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Good Boys—Too Good for the

The nation’s two top race drivers Wilbur Shaw (left), three-time winner of the classic, cocks an ear to Rex

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their American League lead to 41, games over the second-place Yankees. Bob Feller hung up his fifth straight victory in outdueling Ken Chase, Washington southpaw. = ” » ROLLIE HEMSLEY'S single in the ninth drove in the winning

run to enable the Tribe to best the Senators, 2-1. Cleveland came from behind to win after the Senators picked up an unearned run in the third and went Into the last of the seventh leading, 1-0. Lou Boudreau tied the score

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with a homer. Then in the ninth Chase's first walk put Boudreau on, and Buddy Lewis’ low throw to second on Trosky's bunt set up the winning situation.

Feller struck out 12, giving him 41 strikeouts in six complete games. He walked seven, making his walks for the season an even 40. Feller gave up only three hits, and the lone Washington run scored on Keltner’s error. The red-hot Cardinals kept on their spring offensive by beating the Braves, 5-1, for their 10th straight triumph, in the only National League game. The others

By J. E. O'BRIEN

It's not unlikely that the Bowes crew at the Speedway will Rex Mays’ driver's badge to his belt or some other piece of sturdy apparel. For that shiny badge—or rather its disappearance—caused several anxious minutes in the Bowes pit yesterday. Rapid Rex was doing a few turns

backstretch.

blooey under the hood and was, conservatively speaking, a worried

wrecker, Finally Rex rolled inte the pits, the motor purring as it should. Rex was grinning, and that was a dead giveaway nothing was wrong. “I just dropped my badge on the previous lap,” he explained, “and I understand they're hard to replace. So I thought I would slow down apd look for it. Then the motor died on me.” The badge? Oh yes, a guard found it and Rex has it now.

Dapper Wilbur Shaw announced that his spin of last week didn’t injure the big Maserati, No. 1 car of the Boyle team. “Just filled the car with dirt,” Wilbur said. “Now it looks like I drove it under a steam shovel.” Apparently Mr. Cotton Henning has a clean-up job on his hands, = s J late afternoon Mays

In the

Fancy Firing

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 6, U. P.).—The lowest scoring in Notre Dame's 12-year golfing history was recorded in a

Get Awards |

Thirty-six members of the fresh- | men, reserve and varsity basketball | squads were the recipients of awards) presented in the Manual auditorium | yesterday. i Joe Nahmias, Ralph McFall, Wendell Garrett, Charles Wilson and Richard Phillips were given block M sweaters for four years’ service. Block M's were awarded also to Joe Boarman, Sidney Feldman and Bill Arnold, while Thurman Bishop, Pat Stark, Bill Smiley, Bill Allanson, John Knox and George Stoynovich were presented six-inch MT's. Five-inch MT's were given to Albert Nahmias, Charles Sanders, Donald Strietelmeier, Donald BlettBernard McIntosh, Morris Bernstein, Robert Baker and James Riley.

Major Leaders

AMERICAN LEAGUE

New York ...... 000 102 o— 3 6 |} Detroit . 005 002 Ox— 7 6 1

Gomer, Branch and Dickey;

SARE:

(Eleven Innings) oo. 000 300 010 B1— 3 10 1 foage .......... 000 200 O11 0O— § 12 2 MeCrabbh and Hayes: Smith, Apph and Tresh, yes Apron Washington ......... 001 900 P00 3 2 Cleveland Ciirhese. BON BOO 101-2 YT 1) Chase and Ferrell; Feller and Hemsley. |

Boston at St. Louis, rain,

2 Boston Athletes

Are Penalized

BOSTON, May 6 (U. P) —James (Jim) Cassidy, basketball captainelect and football star, and William | (Red) Madden, freshman standout! in the same sports, have been de-! clared ineligible for further partici- | pation in athletics at Boston Uni-| versity. it was announced today. | Athletic Director John M. Harmon said they had been banned for “having played on outside basketball teams under assumed names dur

the past yean" .

NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R Slaughter, St. Iouis... 18 8 17 Etten. Philadelphia .. 19 69 12 Jurges, New York .... 18 64 11 Lavagetto, Brookiyn .. 21 81 18 Vaughan, Pittsburgh.. 13 50 10

AMERICAN LEAGUE G AB R 8 Pct

24 2] . 28 . 23 3

Travis, Washington .. Heath, Cleveland Cronin, Boston DiMaggio, Boston .... 17 2 19 Seibert, Philadelphia . 17 68 13 HOME RUNS Camilli, Dodgers.. 7/0tt, Giants 5 Nicholson, Cubs... 6 DiMaggio. Yankees 5 York, Tigers 6 Keller, Yankees... § Gordon. Yankees... § R.Johnson, Athlet's, § F. McCormick, s Si

College Baseball

Hanover, 10: Ball State, 9. Missouri, 5; Kansas, 6 Richmond, 6: George Washington, 4, Michigan Normal, 11; Northern Illinois Teachers, 10 (11 innings).

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.|the Thesz match.

match yesterday in which the Irish nosed oft Michigan. 14 to 13. Jack Harrigan, Los Angeles, end Billy Wilson, Feri Huron, Mich, turned in sub-par rounds to overcome the Wolverines’ morning lead of 6-3 in foursomes, and 5-1 in singles.

Garibaldi, Thesz On Armory Mat

Ralph Garibaldi, 221, Italian grappler from New York, goes on the spot in the Armory wrestling ring tonight where he grips with Louis Thesz, 233, a skilled and rugged St. Louis performer who ruled for a short time as heavyweight king. Ralph had little trouble in beating Don McIntyre last week, but is up against “big time” opposition in It is for one fall. or 60 minutes and, tops a double windup. In the other feature, Frankie Talaber, 185, of Chicago, meets Buck

| Weaver, 181, aggressive Terre Haute 8 wrestler. Talaber has won the favor

of Armory fans and has tossed such standouts as Stacey Hull and Billy

» Thom, twice beating Thom. The

bout also is for one fall, or 60 minutes. A prelim is between The Great Mephisto, 181, Newark, and Cowboy Len Hughes, 194, Canada.

MOTH HOLES REWOVEN LIKE NEW

89°

Ex. DELAWARE 4

BLUE POINT

rivet!

turned a lap at about 126 miles| to roli any day now an hour while the Bowes crew was| padge-losing incident reminded

experimenting with larger rear tires, Rex pronounced the larger [tires the correct thing for high | speed, but

as he could with smaller “shoes.”

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pounds makes him [lifted out the leather seat to show two rabbits’ feet he carries there. = ” Obviously the drivers are going | to have to condition themselves for the newly paved Surface at | the head of the homestretch. | Both Snowberger and Mays remarked that their car had a tendency “to take off and land on all four” when coming out of the northwest curve. ”

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The only other car on the track | yesterday was the rear-motored Gulf job that will be driven by George Barringer. The task here was to adjust the carburetion to | eliminate the smoke screen being [laid down on early laps. ” s 2 ODDS AND ENDS ON A QUIET DAY ... Car 29 of the Marx team is at the track and should be ready

Bo’s Boys Go On Exhibition

Probable Starters

VARSITY Nash

SENIORS E. Rucinski Uremovich W. Smith .. Liscinski

Swihart

. Smith .... S Doloway

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Time—3 p. m. Tomorrow Place—Memorial Stadium.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 6 (U. P.) —Indiana University's football fans get their last look at the 1940 senior football players and their first look at the 1941 varsity here tomorrow afternoon in the first annual Foundation Day “pigskin preview" between the graduating players and leftovers and rookies. The game is being sponsored by the Indiana University “I” Men's Association. The admission price is 15 cents, and everyone who sees the clash will “fork over” the cash, coaches and officials included. Red Zimmer, who at 145 pounds was Indiana's chief ground gainer in 1040, is the player-coach of the seniors.

SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT

Rapid Rex Mays Loses His Driver's Badge and Causes Some Worrying in the Bowes Pit

confessed he couldn’t|credentials | get as much acceleration from them ticket. And he had to stand out-

Russell Snowberger’s front-drive, stands have received a new coat of in the high-powered four-cylinder Miller that will bear | paint, and the workmen yesterday eream-and-black No. 1 when word | the name Sportsman's Club Spec-| were daubing the outside fences came that he was “dead” on the ial this year was put on the track| Medical examinations are to be late yesterday, and Snowberger was given May 16 . Chief mechanician Bud Winfield | timed at 1:15 for one lap. Trans-| Alhambra, Cal, who made his dehad fears that something had gone lated into m.p.h. this is about 120. but on the bricks last year, showed | Snowberger, who believes his 205 | up at the track yesterday. the heaviest|to man when he rode out with the pilot since Deacon Litz’s retirement, Walsh entry . . .

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Billy Devore of the race day several years ago when he had all his except an admission

side the main gate until he found a friend with $250 to spare . . .| Several of the Speedway grand-

. . Sam Hanks of

He is drive the four-cylinder Ed Since rules prohibit any driving on the track while the fire engine is in service, two delays were caused yesterday afternoon. The laddies made runs to extinguish blazes on the Speedway grounds . . . Cliff Bergere was a visitor and said he and his Noc-Out Hose

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were rained out. Again Manager Billy Southworth came up with another sensational rookie. This time it was southpaw Ernie White, who held the Braves to five hits and had a shutout until the eighth when the pinchhitter Max West hit a homer. Enos Slaughter hit his third homer with one on off Dick Errickson. 2 » =

THE CHAMPION TIGERS made it four in a row by defeat-

ing the Yankees, 7-3, and climbed into a tie with the White Sox

the tricky Speedway layout.

The defending titleholder will be Wayne Timberman who fired his way to victory at the Kokomo Country Club last year. Since then Timberman has moved from the Terre Haute Country Club to Meridian Hills. In a date-setting mood, the P. G. A. also selected June 16 as the day for the 36-hole trials to determine the state's representative in the national P. G. A. championship tournament. This test will be over the Kokomo course. In the pro's state sweepstakes yesterday, Bob Grant, host professional, turned in the low score with a 35-36—171, one below par. Second place went to Pug Allen of Ft. Wayne, who paired two 36's for a 72 total. Bill Heinlein of Crawfordsville and Gene Conway of Crawfordsville tied for third place with 73's while Vaughn put togéther a 38 and a 36 for a 74 and fifth place. Marion Smith of the Crawfordsville Country Club was advanced from vice president to president, and Vaughn was named honorary prexy. Other officers named were: John Watson of South Bend, vice president; Fred McDermott of the Tippecanoe Country Club, secretary, and Grant, treasurer,

Y’ Will Sponsor

Badminton Games

The Y. M. C. A. Badminton Club will sponsor the 3d annual citywide Open Badminton tournament May 8, 9 and 10 at the Central “YY”, it was announced today by Clarence

Huetton, president. Entries must be in at the “Y” by Tuesday evening. Already more than 30 entries have been received. Defending champions will be Huetton, mens’ singles; Ethel Ryle, ladies’ singles; Miss Pyle and Miss Lillian Preston, ladies’ doubles; Homer Fulton and Floyd Wilson, mens’ doubles; and Frank Hoke and

Clamp Special were ready to go...

Mrs. A. H. Fisk, mixed doubles.

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for third place in the American League, Tommy Bridges limited the Yanks to six hits and won his third game. Joe Gordon hit homer . No. 6 with one on. Lefty Gomez failed to finish for the first time this season. Rookie pitcher Les McCrabb won his own game with a single in the 11th as the Athletics nosed . out the White Sox, 5-4. Pete Suder opened the 11th with a . single, went to second on a sacri fice and tallied on McCrabb's hit. : Boston at St. Louis was rained - out. |

State Open Golf Tournament To Be Held Aug. 12, 13 and 14 Over the Speedway Course

Timberman to Defend Title in 72-Hole Test; |

‘Marion Smith Named President of Indiana P.G.A.

The Indiana Open golf championship, trying 72-hole test for the state's top amateurs and pros, will be held Aug. 12, 13 and 14 over

The West Side course was chosen yesterday at a meeting of the Indiana Professional Golfers’ Association at Kokomo. usual pro-amateur on Aug. 11, the competitors will go 18 holes on the . following two days and then 36 holes on Aug. 14. will be Johnny Vaughn, retiring president of the state P. G. A.

Following the

Host professional

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Brooklyn Gets Billy Herman |

NEW YORK, May 6 (U. P). The Chicago Cubs traded Billy Here man, one of the National League's standout second basemen for the

past decade, to the Brooklyn |. Dodgers today for outfielder Charlie Gilbert and cash. : A part of the deal, the Cubs purchased infielder Johnny Hudson from Montreal of the International League for $25,000. Hudson was sent to Montreal earlier this year by the Dodgers. Cash terms of the trade were not disclosed. Herman, 31 and a native of New

Albany, Ind., was purchased by Chie

Billy Herman

cago from Louisville of the Amere-

jean Association in 1931. For 10 seasons, his major league batting average is .310. He has played in 14

World Series games and batted .259. Last year, Herman batted .292 and his average to date this season is .190. Gilbert was used as a reserve out fielder by the Dodgers. He batted 246 in 57 games last year. Hudson, sent to the minors after three years with Brooklyn, batted .218 in 1940. The Dodgers also made a deal with the Phillies today, sending Lee Grissom to the Phils in exchange for Vito Tamulis. Both are lefte

handed pitchers.

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