Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1941 — Page 6

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110£13 Qualifiers Beat Speeds Made in Last Year's Trials;

Pole Position Goes to Rose

Rex Mays Rolled Half Mile Faster But Couldn’t Regain the Pole Position This Year

oks Faster Than In "40 [Starr Will Go |Against Hens in Tonight's Tilt “Steel Arm’ Will Be After His Seventh Victory

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SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

) ~The Three Kings of Speed

CUSTOMERS at the Tribe park over the week-end saw an up-and-coming pastimer perched on first base for the Columbus Red Birds. . . . The youngster’s name is Ray Sanders and he’s only 23 years old and stands 6.feet

2 inches. ; ; For a fellow who had practically nothing to do with baseball until a few years ago, this. stringbean has done pretty well for himself... . . In three years of organized ball before graduating to the American Association this season, his lowest batting average was 322, and he left a “runs batted in” record down in the South At- _ lantic League that probably will stand up for years. ° + In the Red Birds’ three-game sweep over the Indians, Sanders got fout hits, including a double, and batted in two runs. .. He also left the impression he’s an agile gent around that first sack as well as a fine target for the infielders, considering his height and reach. . . . His average is hovering around .315, fair enough for a rookie up ‘from Class B. fl At Columbus, Ga., last summer, Sanders batted .349 to rank second among the regular hitters. . . . Only Hooper Triplett, a teammate, had a better average. : Before Sanders planted foot in the Sally circuit, the all-time “record for runs batted in was 126. . . . When Ray packed up and left at the close of the year, there was a new total of 152 opposite his name. ; rs i When the scribes got around to picking the loop’s most valuable player, they named Sanders. . . . He was also selected on the annual all-star team. Sanders is St. Louis Cardinal property and is Grade A “insurance” for Johnny Mize, at least he is developing fast and apparently will be ready for a big league call next spring. . . . At any rate he performed like major league timber in the three games at Perry Stadium. Played With Legion Team One Year

SANDERS, A ST. LOUISAN, never played high school baseball, But he spent one year in the American Legion junior ranks. . . . With only a little softball experience added to that, he jumped right into the pro ranks, joining Paducah of the Kitty League in 1938. . .. He hit 322 that year, although he played only half the season, due to a fractured bone in his foot. : Moving to Kilgore of the East Texas League in 1939, the new Red Bird touched the pitching there for a .333 ‘average and then followed his devastating year in the Sally loop. One night last summer his bat drove in eight runs in one game, something which is not often done in any classification. ® 5 = 8 8 2

: 7 EDDIE FERNANDES, doing backstop duty for the St. Paul Te Saints by permission of the Pittsburgh Pirates, left one of the oddest batting marks ever compiled in the Pacific Coast League when he pulled out of Portland early last June to report to the Pirates. Eddie had been at bat 153 times and had secured 51 hits. . , . He had drawn exactly the same number of bases on balls—51. . . . That made a total of 204 actual trips to the plate. Thus, his “reach-first-base” average was an even .500, landing safely 102 times in 204 attempts. . . . His batting average at the time of departure was .333.

, Offered “Contract” at Tender Age

T_BACKSTOP. who is of Portuguese and Hawaiian parefitage, was-a big prize on the West Coast for several years. . .. When he\was only 14 years old, Eddie Collins of the Boston Red Sox offered him a “contract.” Joe Devine of the Yankees, Joe Cronin, then of Washington and Willis Butlér-of the St. Louis Browns, all tried to sign young Fernan-

By J. E. O'BRIEN i Eighteen of the 33 places in the Speeaway Memorial Day race lineup were occupied today, and already it looked like the full 500-mile field will be faster than last year’s. Of the 18 who qualified during the week-end 17 were in last year’s starting lineup, and of these 17 eleven bettered their four-lap speeds of a year ago. Although Rex Mays found another half-mile of speed under the hood of hjs Bowes

| Seal Fast Special since yinning the 1940 pole, this increase wasn’t enough to hold the No. 1 spot. The pole this year will go to Mauri Rose, who turned four laps in.the Lou Moore-owned Maserati at a 128.691-mile-an-hour clip. Moore also could boast the best lap of the qualifiers. His second trip around the track was completed in 1:09.15, a speed of 130.152 miles an hour. All three front-row drivers—Rose, Mays and Wilbur Shaw—improved on their 1940 qualifying speed; sO there shouldn’t be any danger of these boys slowing the rest of the 500-mile field a week from Friday. It should be said, however, that of the 11 who bettered their, qualifying averages, only five were driving the same cars they qualified last year. These five were Mays, Shaw, Harry McQuinn, Merrill (Doc) Williams and Cliff Bergere. Here's the comparison of 1940 and 1941 speeds: ; 1941

Speed 128.691 128.301 127.836 125.449 124.014 123.890 123.890 121.770 121.540 120.653 120.104 119.860 123.984 123.478 122.299 122.266 121.576 121.106

Having lost a game while serving as a relief pitcher yesterday, Ray Starr, the Indianapolis Indians’ ace, today volunteered to go in as the starting pitcher tonight in the series opener with the Toledo Mud Hens.

“Steel Arm” will be ning for his seventh victory ai four setbacks. It will be the customary “ladies’ night” at the Tribe park i |and action is scheduled at 8:15. It will be Toledo's first appearance here this season and the first clash |between Indians and ' Hens. The teams did not meet in\spring train ing. Manager Zach Taylor's boys are fifth in the league race or’ one position ahead of the slipping Tribesters who have dropped four in a row, ? The home pastimers lost to Louis. ville Friday and then the Columbus ' |Red Birds. invaded Perry Stadium and swept the three-games series. Saturday night it was 5 to 2 with Italo Chelini and Charlie Moncrief pitching, and in the bargain bill yesterday played before more than 3000 fans, the Birds annexed the first half, 7 to 4, and the seven-inning second contest, 5 to 4. Drop Eight Sunday Games The Redskins can’t shake off the Sunday jinx. In 10 Sabbath starts the Killefer hirelings have lost eight, won one and tied one. The only team they beat on Sunday was St. Paul at St. Paul, when a doubleheader was divided. ' In other words the Indians have yet to win a Sunday game at home, jon the day they are most anxious to please their supporters. Bert Haas, Columbus was like a thorn to the Indians in the threegame series. On Saturday night he belted a two-run homer and batted in a third run with a single, in yesterday’s first tilt he batted in four runs. In the first inning Haas scored two mates with a _ sharp single and in the fourth stanza he walloped a two-run homer off Lefty bob Logan. In the second game yesterday the score was deadlocked at 4-all in the Red Bird seventh, one out and one

starting line when the canary creation emitted a puff of smoke and scattered engine parts along the straightaway. Investigation showed that the rod had punctured the crank case and that there were several days of labor ahead for the Sampson crew. The mishap sprayed hot oil over Cantlon’s foot, but a Speedway physician | : pronounced it nothing serious. Since the acciaent occurred before Cantlon crossed the starting line, |: Speedway officials ruled it would not be counted an attempt. So Shorty|: still has three chances coming. i

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AFTER SPENDING a day at the: track, the two French drivers, Rene LeBegue and Jean Trevoux, were back in New York today to await the arrival of their cars on Thursday. - : Both were here yesterday, and LeBegue surprised everyone in the pit section with his mastery of the English language. A year ago the slender Frenchman had to have an interpreter to get through , the simplest conversation, but this year he can answer virtually any queson. The two Talbot cars, according to LeBegue, are two years old and have competed in three European races. LeBegue would make no prediction on their performance here, but he said he was confident they could equal the speed of his Maserati in 1940. LeBegue wasn’t surprised that Mauri Rose won the pole with the Maserati engine that he and Rene Dreyfus drove to 10th place last year. He explained that the motor wasn’t perfectly tuned. for the 1940 race.

1940 Speed 125.624 127.850 127.065 122.486 122.963 123.216 123.673 122.179 121.322 123.860 121.564

% 2 3 Ti po ‘The three top qualifiers for the 500-mile race on Memorial Day hoist their soft drinks to the forthcoming classic . . . and may the best man win. Left to right they are Wilbur Shaw, Rex Mays and Mauri Rose. They are shown in exactly the positions they will hold in the front line when the race begins. Rose on the pole, Mays next and then Shaw. Las: year they finished in reverse of their 1941 starting positions

with Shaw winning, Mays second and Rese third,

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Blues Regain

The A. A. Lead

The highly unstable American Association lead was back in the hands of Kansas City today.

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himself in the big show while wearing the livery of the Cincinnati

fellow has collected six hits in

12 times at bat, including a double and triple. Aleno’s sensational start won an advancement in the Reds’ bat-

ting order yesterday, from eighth to fifth.

Howe High Comes Into Own |.

With Sectional Track Victory

Howe High School’s athletic teams have been growing up with #i stitution and Saturday afternoon at the Southport track oval they became of age, capturing the first sectional high school track and field meet from the defending champions,

lett of Howe. Mile Run—J. Mascari and T. Mascari of Manual.

ton), Cropo (Howe). 120-Yard High Hurdles—Graham (Howe), James (Southport).

It was up to car owners today to decide whether the mext qualifying attempts will be held Wednesday or next week-end. Speedway officials said that if six owners ask for trials on Wednesday, the request will be . granted. Otherwise action will be deferred until Saturday. ®

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a speed of .123.478. will. be his teammate, Barringer

OF YESTERDAY'S six qualifiers, he most interest perhaps was shown in the runs of Al Midler and George Barringer, pilots of the un-|. .. i.ins ota life” orthodox rear-engined Miller Spe- take trips. What & cials. Miller was uhable get on}, " CAIT" "<I had to have all the track Saturday while mechan- e was carrying to But he

took several warm-up rides early -440-Yard Dash—King (Washing-| yesterday afternoon and qualified at

Right beside him in the fifth row

worked in the Hotchkiss Co., manufacturers of engines, tanks and machine guns, and Trevoux having been employed in the Talbot factory at Paris. LeBegue said that two mechanics were accompanying the automobiles, but that his wife was unable to make the trip. Last year she came along with LeBegue and Dreyfus and watched the race:from a plat= form behind the pits. “It’s difficult to leave France now,’ LeEegue said. difficult to enter. It’s. difficult to

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IN AND ABOUT GASOLINE ALLEY. . . . Everett Saylor, the newcomer from the dirt tracks, does things in a hurry. He completed his driver’s test Friday, qualified Satur-

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Harry McQuinn Doc Williams Frank Wearne

Clift Bergere Billy DeVore Chet Miller

Ralph Hepburn Russell Snowberger Everett Saylor

George Connors Al Miller George Barringer

Emil Andres George Robson Floyd Davis

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125.449 124.014 123.890

123.890 121.770 121.540

120.653 120.104 119.860

123.984 123.478 122.299

122.266 121.576 121.106

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The Blues swapped places. with Minneapolis yesterday and boosted a winning streak to four games by winning a double-header, 5 to 3, and 4 to 1, from St. Paul. George Barley pitched the first game, and scattered. nine hits. The second win was easy, with Rinaldo Ardizoia’s steady hurdling, and home runs by Lloyd Christopher and Boze Berger. . . The Milwaukee Brewers ended a victory . over Minneapolis, in the second game of a double-header. The Millers won the first, 6 to 5. Big Zeke Bonura accounted for the Millers’ victory, hitting a triple to score a run tying the game in the ninth, and clouting a homer in the

Louisville, at the bottom of the first division, dropped the first game of a double-header, 1 to 2, to Toledo, but finished even with; a 9

on. So Mr. Haas promptly smacked a double off Ray Starr, who had relieved George Gill in the sixth And that double batted in the Red Birds’ winning run. ~ Logan Off Form

and the Birds took liberties. He was touched for eight hits in five innings, including two doubles and a

up the Tribe toil in the sixth and held the Birds hitless the remainder of the game. Tribe errors paved the way for two of the Birds’ runs off Gill in the second clash and the Indians also got one on a Bird boot. Allen (Continued on Page 7)

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Logan didn’t have his old “stuff

home run. Young Ben Wade took:

880-Yard Dash—Haynes (South-|who drove the 10 miles at a speed port), Warrenburg (Manual). of 122.299 and zipped through his 220-Yard Dash—Toney (Howe),|second lap at 123.153. Crowe (Franklin). 200-Yard Low Hurdles—Morrisey| 2.% 8 Lou Moore hoped to have his

(Howe), Ash (Shelbyville). Mile Relay—Washington and Man- | ‘entire stable eligible Saturday, but Floyd Davis complained that

ual. . 880-Yard Relay—Howe and Wash-| his four-cylinder Noc-Out Hose Clamp Special wasn’t handling

ington. High Jump—Brown (Shelbyville),| satisfactorily. Moore substituted larger front tires for the smaller.

Crowe (Franklin). : Shot-Put — Sadler (Shelbyville),| “skins” and Davis proceeded to Rickenback (Washington). 1 win a place in the field with an Broad Jump—O'Toole (Southport),| average speed of 121.106. ” » ®

Rickenback (Washington). Pole Vauli—Ricke - : ckenback (Wash-| oo. nN GEORGE CONNORS qualified the Offenhauser-powered

ington, Morrisey (Howe). In the other sectionals throughout the state the meets went pretty|Boyle Special yesterday ‘at 123.984, much to form. The powerful North Cotton Henning, the Boyle team Side of Ft. Wayne squad retained its|captain, was ready to admit that unbeaten record to triumph in the three gaty ue ons Nae are Pleaty. home town meet. Five recor re| Cotton already had prepare e PEON were steeds of Wilbur Shaw and Chet Miller, and he wasn’t ashamed to

broken. confess he was worn out. After Connors made his run, Cotton sent Wilbur Shaw to the track in the maroon Maserati for a series of fue] test trips. ” ” A MIX-UP in signals nearly cost George Robson one trial attempt. ‘Preparing to qualify, Robson was attractéd by Leon Duray’s: waving and brought the Duray Special back to the apron. It turned out that Duray -merely was signaling for Robson to take the green flag. That he did on the next lap, and he qualified at a speed of 121.576.

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The six-cylinder Lencki Special that Emil Andres is handling failed on its first qualification attempt. The trouble was in the water jacket, but Andres returned to the track within 30 minutes and cut four laps at 122.266. i : 2 2 =»

~ PLENTY OF WORK was in store for the Sampson garage today after the big Sixteen threw a connecting rod just as Shorty Cantlon was starting on his four-lap examination. Cantlon already had accepted the green flag and was nearly tothe

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Washington, 44% to 35. . Manual collected 21% points for third; Shelbyville scored 14%; Southport, 13; Franklin, 6%, and Fairland, Mitchell and Greenfield failed to score. Two new records were entered in the sectional books as Tom Sadler of Shelbyville boosted his own shotput mark to 52 feet 2 inches, and Robert O'Toole of Southport added 51 inches to the broad jump with a 20 feet 4 inch leap. . Individual honors went to Ralph Toney of the winners who raced to victory in both sprints and anchored home the Hornets in the mile relay. Harold Rickenback of the Continentals gained a first in the pole vault and placed second in the broad jump and shot. * Those who qualified for the state meet at Tech Saturday afternoon

to 0 victory in the nightcap. Harry Kimberlin held the Colonels until the eighth of the first game, but he faltered, sa Bad to have help rom Ben Sorelle and Ralph Wine- A i Tl garner. In the second, the Colonels LCAGUCL Specia da collected seven runs off Johnny — 16 W. OH1D Whitehead in the first inning, and SSSR : added two in the third frame, aS

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Week-End College Scores

Navy, 5: Noire Dame, 4. Franklin, 5: Indiana Central, 4. _ Purdue, {; Minnesota, 7 (10 innings). Michigan 8: Indiana, 3. Columbia 12: Penn, 1. Iowa, 8: Northwestern, 7 (11 innings).

Wisconsir 5: Chicago. 1. Ohio Sta ». 3: hloaze. 2.

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day and then finished second in the 20-mile feature at Langhorne, Pa., yesterday. . . . Kelly Petillo still wants to buy a faster automobile. But meanwhile his strategy is to qualify his car himself and then allow Roy Russing to. complete his driver's test. Then Russing will be eligible to handle another car or to relieve the boss, should Kelly get a chance to drive ‘relief. You wouldn’t know the Petillo car had been in an accident since it has been repainted. It’s now white. . . . . : The Chrysler pace car was at the’ track over the week-end and carried newspapermen on -one-lap : excursions. It idled along at 75 on the backstretch. . . . The two Joe Thorne-Art Sparks should be ready for the next qualification trials. Thorne had his out yesterday... .

COLLEGE TENNIS

Northwestern, 5; Notre Dame, 4. Purdue, 6: Earlham, 1. Iowa State, 11: Drake, 1. Nebraska, 38: -Missouri, 3 (tie). Michigan State; 6: Kentucky. 3. Navy. 9: Pittsburgh, 0. . Wisconsin, 7: ‘Illinois. 2. Dartmouth, 6; Army, 3.

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COLLEGE TRACK

Notre Dame, 9112; Marquette, 394. Butler, 75: DePauw, 56. Rose Poly. 51; St. Joseph's, 44: Taylor, 36. Biz Ten Meet—Indiana, 48; Michigan, 43; Ohio State, 37; Northwestern. 27: Wisconsin, 22; Illinois, 213%; Minnesota, 17: Purdue, 5: Chicago, 43%. , Pennsylvania, 58; Princeton, 42%2:- Harvard, 39; Yale, 33: Cornell, 29; Dartmouth, | * 2514, and Columbia, 13, . $ ; Midwest Conference Meet—Coe, §73%: Grinnell, 5212; Lawrence, 3312: Beloit. 26; Knox, 17; Carleton, 15; Cornell, 11; Monmouth, 6, and Ripon. 5%. Michigan State, 74; Michigxan Normal, | 115. : ' Colorado College, 66 5/6: Colorado State, 64 1/6. : Nebraska, 74; Iowa State, 57. - Army, 110; Rutgers, 16. Missouri, 80; Kansas, 51. «ind Pittsburgh. 93%¢: Temple. 3215. Kansas State, 75: Oklahoma, 56.

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Baseball At a Glance

(First Game; 10 Innings)

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Petersen Selected

For US.G.A. Post

George Petersen of the Coffin Golf Club has been appointed representative for Indianapolis in the public links tournament for the United States Ciolf Association. Petersen has served as treasurer of the Indianapolis Public Links; Association and chairman of the city amateur committee in the past. He was appointed by. Charles V.| Rainwater, Pensacola, Fla. chairman of the U. S. G. A. public links committee and supervisor of the 12th public links district for the organization, which includes Indianapolis. : . Qualifying rounds will be held June 29 at Coffin to select finalist for the national finals in Spokane, Wash. ’ | As local representative, Petersen will have -charge of the Indianapolis Harding cup team in intercity competition at the national meet, and will serve as contact man for the U. 8S. G. A. with the local public links association, which anmally sponsors the Indianapolis m. !

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Purdue, 17; Butler, 7. Western State. 18: Valparaiso. -0.Northwestern, 16; Notre Dame, 11. Minnesota, 1414: Iowa. State, 12%. Iingis, 231%; - Michigan, 12%. -*. Towa, 2212; Chicago, 14. :

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