Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1941 — Page 9

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1941

Grove Will Win His 300th Game

His Stuff's Gone but He Still Fools Em

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editer NEW YORK, May 6 ‘he old guy t game of the sea-

has won his firs \ now he

son and anv day t on the mound STO p iS & ve ‘won 300 games in their league careers ies the only men ached that circle Cleveland Alexanaer, son Christy Mathewson, Plank and Cy Young But Robert Moses Boston Red Sox is knocking N now and it but a serious injury can keep He only pitches about a week, the fast one has lost but he still can nip the and fool the batters Louis Browns was the 294th of his career that

who nave are Grover Walter JohnEddie

Glove of the at the

hte ir corners victory over the St he other day areer—an incredible

the Blue Ridge League

Lyons Has Won Only 233

league games 13 vie-

Io win 300 sitcher has ries a vear f

major to average 20 years. Considto which pitching that is almost too ask of any man The 1 Hubbell, for instance, has major league games; still has his magic

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128 won nong the pitchers still hin striking distance f1cle of 300 - only of : It 1939

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he crisis came ye allowed to start agaiffst the Cincinnati Reds consented and Grove four good innings. He opened the 1939 season Io he Red 1G went on to win 15 games while losing

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tl e seemed he would reach of 300 and now will be the year record is studded incredible facts. He has an| earned run average of 3.95 for his major league career, he has appeared in eight World Series games and three All games and he has struck out 2217 men. Many baseball experts believe that in his palmy davs he threw a baseball as hard as any pitcher who ever lived. Whether not that is so, he had blinding speed | and when he was right it was! hopeless to try to hit against him

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By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

some of the boys may have forgotten, Bud Pegler used to be a sports writer, and just about the best. He was writing Pulitzer Prize pieces back in the days of Man O° War, Dempsey, Tilden and Battling Siki. Maybe you never heard of Battling Siki. He was a primitive creature, a Senegalese with nat- | ural fighting instincts and he | fent on to win the light heavyweight championship. This was in Paris. They matched him with Georges Carpentier Everything was supposed to be “all right,” as the boys say. But Sikis jungle savagery overcame his discretion

| and he made a shambles of the

orchid man who had believed he had nothing to do but go through the motions, Later Siki came over here. He had a lion or tiger cub for a play-

mate. This was about the only living thing that could understand him or he could understand.

We don't recollect the details, but Siki was bumped off in a

brawl in New York and Pegler, even in those days trying to blast deep thoughts out of his skull, speculated on the irony of this jungle man’s life, how he had had his own kind of simple peace and happiness among semi-savages and how a slight exposure to civflization had brought him to a violent end. We don't make it sound like much, but it was a piece that is still remembered in the newsrooms.

Pegler's present attitude toward sham, fraud and corruption isn't new. He was always like that in sports. He was at his best when he could sink his fangs into a stuffed shirt or a larcenous promoter and provoke a Donald Duck fury all over the premises.

And he was writing at a time when the field was rich. Rum,

running racketeers were high up in professional sports and the pomposity of the overlords of amateur sports was unbelievable. For Pegler's rapier they were a soft touch. Pegler grouched easy, but seldom without cause. The press box ghosts of his day didn’t annoy the rest of us partciularly; to Pegler they were lepers, on the conservative side. It was something to see him stand and fume when Christy Waish would unloose his writing ghosts at the World Series; and it was something else to read his burning scorn and contempt at this journalistic three-card monte game the next day. As you may have noted Pegler still has this loathing for anybody or any device which cheapens the newspaper game as he knows it. In light of

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Some Day Now Pulitzer Prize Winner Pegler Used to Be a Sports Writer d He Could Go Into a Donald Duck Over Fraud or Sham

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| later accomplishments, it was a minor triumph but Pegler ulti-

Illinois Quintet

ST. PAUL, Minn, May 6 (U. P). The Vogel Brothers quintet of Forest Park, Ill, was awarded team championship of the 1941 American Bowling Congress today on a score posted more than a month ago. A cash prize of $1500 and individual diamond medals will go to the five members of the team, John | Erben, Jim Frana, George Vogel, | Stan Kosobucki, and Jim Veverkn. Their sponsor will be given a trophy. On March 30, the Vogels scored to take top place in team events. Their victory was assured when the last of the teams in competition last night failed to change standings of the 10 leaders. Tournament officials said 933 teams in all will share $62,553 prize money. Lowest money - winning score is about 2670, they said. Doubles and singles competition late today end the 55-day Congress, whose 150,000 spectators set a new attendance record. Chicago teams won the next three places after the Vogels, and the East] Side, Los Angeles, was fifth. Teams and their prizes were: Rheingold, Chicago, Joseph Gill, Chicago, Chapin and Gore, Chicago, East Side, 3029 $800. Jack Mahar Jr, a 17-year-old Belding, Mich., high school student in his first ABC missed landing among the 10 leaders in all-events by 14 pins as he piled \ nine-game total of 1930 last

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3054, $1200; 3034, $1000; $875;

Hooker Elected

Coaches’ Prexy

The Indiana High School Coaches Association yesterday elected Orville Hooker of Marion High School as its president. Other officers are Marion Crawley of Washington High School, vice president: Russell S. Julius of Shortridge, secretary-| treasurer, and Burke Anderson of] Decatur Central, sergeant-at-arms. | These officers will be instailed at | the meeting of the Association at! the Tech gvm May 24.

Amateurs

SOFTBALL There is still one opening in the | Bush-Feezle Sunday Morning Softball League and one opening in the | Bush-Feezle Wednesday Softball League. Teams interested should contact Carl Callahan at RI. 4453.

was adjudged [player on the team.

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By E. C. OATES

Times Special Writer

COLLEGE STATION, Texas,

May 6.—Some college athletes are beat content to try for two or three single-handed by catching eight i sports, but Bill Henderson of Texas| consecutive passes for 117 yards to A. &. M. believes in wholesale lots figure in every touchdown of ne! 0

{ action. Jitterbug Henderson, 6 feet 4, is

a letterman end in football

Basketball captain-elect, he twice the most valuable

He is a letterman in track? in

rin Sports

Name Your Game, Henderson

Will Play It, and Play It Well

ceptions. Coach Jess Neely will probably never forget the Saturday afternoon last fall when the lad his Rice Owls practically

{25-0 score.

| Billy won his track letter in the!

| first major meet he was in, stacking {up the required number of points (with participation in the javelin throw, discus throw, high jump, {broad jump and shot put. That was

The Bush-Feezie Softball Associ-| Which he competes in the javelin,/in a meet with Texas and Abilene ation will meet at 7:45 p. m. tomor- discus, shot, broad jump and high Christian and when he finished on

1a ~ | league

plaving Wednesday or al

tend. Goldsmith's Secos, 12-8 conquerors of Continental Optical, want night games for June and July. Write 535 S. Illinois St. or call LI. 1612. BASEBALL Plainfield, 6-4 victor over Moores-

Teams interested in a junior jump.

Henderson is a pitcher and first

Sunday morning league are to at-|baseman in baseball and won the] {heavyweight {of the 6500-all-man military college. for the heavyweight boxing cham-

boxing championship

One Year By winning a baseball letter this

He also holds U. S. Army medals

the track he pitched part of a baseball game against Raylor. A few nights later Billy stepped into the ring and beat Bill Sibley

pionship of the school. His nickname, Jitterbug, was won on a dance floor. Several times he

year, he will not only be the first| has won prizes for his jitterbug four-sport letterman in the 48-year stomp. Texas A. & M. athletic history, but | will accomplish the feat in one this elongated athlete was elected school year.

It's Captain Henderson now as

basketball captain only a few nights ago and that along with his other

Schumacher and Robinson

Butler Tennis

Team Blanked

“he University of Cincinnati rac- | queteers gave up only one set in | the entire match as they defeated the Butler Bulldogs, 7-0, at Cincinnati yesterday afternoon. It was the fifth consecutive trouncing the| Bulldogs have absorbed this year | without a victory. | Cincinnati swept the five singles | and two doubles matches and never | lost a set until the final two-man | event when Jack Shackleford and | Stanley Trusty copped the second | one from Bortz and Freedburg. | Summary: Singles—Hoople (C) defeated Schumacher (B) 6-1, 7-5; Dunbar (C) defegted Robinson (B) 6-2, 6-1: Boxill (C) | defeated Shackleford (BY 6-4 6-3; Zim-| merman (C) defeated Trusty 6-0, 6-2; Bortz (C) defeated Smalley (B) 6-4, 6-1. Doubles— Hoople and Boxill (C) defeated | (B) 6-2, 6-2; Bortz and Freedburg (C) defeated Shackle- | ford and Trusty (B) 7-5 3-6 6-3.

Miss Kirby Sets Pace at Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 6 (U. P.). —Dorothy Kirby, Atlanta ace who | tied the qualifying record and set a! new Memphis Country Club mark of 4 to win the medal in the| Women's Southern Golf Tourna-| ment, set out today to regain the championship which she held in| 1937. As 18-hole match play began in the tournament, the slim, 21-year-| old Atlanta miss, who clipped three | strokes off par, was favored over al field of 78. But stiff competition ap- | peared to be forthcoming especially | from Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, of Chapel Hill, N. C,, who finished the qualifying round with a 75: Mrs. Dan Chandler, of Dallas, and Louise Suggs, of Lithia Springs, Gr. who

finished with 78's and Marion Miley ||’

of Lexington Ky, twice Southern! champion who carded a %9.

Central Wins No. 5

Indiana Central's baseball record showed five victories and two defeats today following the Greyhounds’ 12-3 triumph over Taylor. The Greyhounds combined 12 hits with seven Taylor errors for their run total, and Crowe and Martin hit homers for the University Heights club,

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these recognized sports. If time permitted, he would play

distance events. racquet in tennis. The Aggies believe Henderson will be just as hot in football next fall as Jarrin’ John Kimbrough was last trip. Texas A. & M. loses heavily by graduation, but Coach Homer Hill Norton is not as bad off as he is pictured. He has Henderson. Houston's former all-state high school basketball player was named Robert William Henderson, Sept. 5, 1919, but since has collected as many nicknames as he has athletic awards. In high school he devoted his time to basketball with the exception of one year when he went out for football so he could make a trip te Mexico City.

First Time Out

Jitterbug came to Aggieland in the fall of 1938 as a basketball player. In intramural and freshman games that season it was common for him to drop in from 30 to 60 points in a game. Last fall Billy reported for football practice with 195 pounds draped on his ample frame and after two or three days of work he was down to 160 pounds, but then the 21-year-old lad with the broad shoulders and spindle legs began picking his weight back up about as well as he was picking passes out of the air He went into his first college football game at 203 pounds. Billy shared time at end with Bill Buchanan, but at that he led the conference in yards made on pass receiving with 334 yards en 18 re-

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Wotta man!

Blue Devil Netters Down Tech Squad

The Shortridge tennis team won its second match of the season yesterday, when it walloped Tech,

6 to 1, at the east side courts. The defeat was Tech's first of the season. Both squads have turned in vietories over Burris of Muncie in other matches this year. Tech plays its next match with Burris on the Tech courts Thursday in the second meeting of the season between the two teams. Tech ran away with the first, winning six of the seven matches.

I. U. Linksmen Win

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 6 (U. P)—Indiana University's golf team defeated Purdue, 12! to 5's, yesterday in a Big Ten dual match.

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