Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1941 — Page 22
his great year with the Milwau-
‘SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
PETE REILLY, one of the veterans of the fistic lanes, manager of Solly Kreiger, Freddie Steele and Featherweight Champion Petey Scalzo and a very astute individual, has come up with something new that’s bound
to cause plenty of comment before very long. : " Reilly, always on the lookout for something to aid’ his charges both in and out of the ring, for use in the corner during the actual fights and feeds the unadulterated oxygen to his fighters during their rest periods. ... It’s supposed to do them as ‘much good as three minutes of rest. b That's fine for Mr. Reilly and his string of battlers, but the opposition sort of figures that Peter is going a bit too far in the matter of respiration and stimulation and that there should be a law against it. He hasn't been in action in Illinois, but he used the odd contraption in Milwaukee, where Scalzo defended his featherweight chamsplonship successfully against Phil Zwick, and Scalzo said he definitely received benefit from the oxygen. . . . Naturally Reilly plans to use it on Solly Kreiger in his 10-rounder against Booker Beckwith on the Zale-Hostak middleweight card at Chicago Stadium on May 28. The Beckwith managerial team is sort of distressed by the news
and undoubtedly will ask the Illinois Athletic Commission for a ruling .
on the oxygen applicator at its next meeting. Beckwith’s managers figure it’s a type of artificial respiration that shouldn’t be used. . . . They say a fighter ought to be able to get along on the air in thé fight arena, and if the one-minute rest between rounds isn’t good enough for the fighter, he shouldn’t be in the ring. It’s still an interesting development in the world of fistiana. . .. Wisconsin fight legislators allowed Reilly to use it on Scalzo, but whether or not Reilly can use it on Kreiger in Illinois remains to be
The Illinois Athletic Commission has an outfit almost identical with the one Reilly had made for himself, but it is only for emergency
use in case a fighter fails to respond ‘to ordinary respiratory methods.
Slaughter Is Shoating for Bat Crown
UP WITH the National League's leading batters in mid-May, Eno Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals is out after his first major league batting championship, but it’s not the first time the flery North Caro“lina farmer-boy has blazed the trail for all the rest of the hitters in a fast league. Only two players ever won the American Association championship in their freshman years, “Country” Slaughter, as they called him at Columbus in 1937, and Ted Williams of Minneapolis the following season. . . . Both moved to the majors immediately. Neither has yet written his name on a major league batting crown, but early ‘indications this year hint that Eno may beat his American League rival in their race for big-time swatting laurels.
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OUTSTANDING SENSATION of the spring batting statistics of the National League is Billy Jurges, Giants’ shortstop. . . . Big question mark in Giantland during training season was whether Bill would do any ball playing this year and if so, whether his head injury of 1940 would make him plate-shy. i So what happens? . . . After 10 seasons in the National Leagug in which his top batting average was his .298 in 1837, Jurges was hitting ‘at a high clip when Terry’s New Yorkers embarked on their first western trip. . . . He had played in every game, and was tied for the league lead in hitting two-baggers. Maybe that wallop on, the head last June turned back Bill’s clouting clock to 1932, when he hit .364 in the World Series, even though his club, the Chicago Cubs, finished second to the Yankees in the Series itself.
Claude Passeau’s ‘Crown’ Trembles
BRISTLING HOME RUNS by Mel Ott and Babe Young, bunched in one box score when the Chicago Cubs invaded the Polo Grounds this month, threatened the supremacy of Claude Passeau in a department in which he has ruled the National League supreme for two , years past. Only eight homers were hit off the tall Mississippian’s twirling in 281 innings last year, and nine the year before in 274 innings. . . . The 1940 frequency index which crowned Claude king of the home run suppjressors was one homer every 35.1 innings, : Johnny Vander Meer, the Dutch Master of Double No-Hit Fame, averaged nearly a strikeout an inning in his first 50 innings this season, putting him far out in front in the race for the 1941 strikeout championship of the National Léague, thanks to that fast curve of his, called by experts the best southpaw curve in baseball, and by opposing players, “Vandy’s Vanisher.”
” 2 2 2 2 2 : “BRAINS BUILD BALL CLUBS,” the ancient baseball adage, is proved smashingly by the fact that three of the Big Four on Brooklyn's pitching staff came to the National League as draftees. . . . ignored by high-paid talent scouts, these men owe their chance for big league fame to the acumen of front office judgment. ° Whit Wyatt, Luke Hamlin, Curt Davis and Hugh Casey comprised the quartet which furnished the mound might for the Dodgers’ early
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But Lead in His Foot and Idea in His Head Did the Trick
Hinnershitz and Petillo Also Qualify in Third Trials for Memorial Day Speed Classic
: By J. E. O'BRIEN : " THERE'S STILL no monopoly on speed at the Speedway—not when some fellow has lead in his foot and ideas in his head. Sure it’s a Big help to have a Maserati or some other big powerplant spinning your wheels, but a driver willing to turn it on down the straightaways and barrel it into the
- : uns can usually fit himself : a “fat one.” B. Baer Seeks To Avenge Max
Take 27-year-old Paul Russo for example. He rolled up By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 22. — Will
for his time trial in the Leader Card Special, a car that hadn't even qualified for last year’s race. His practice laps hadn't surprised. any watch watchers, and his attempt was expected to be just a so-so run.
Cbs . INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — Russo Proves Theres He Di dn’t Have a Maserati
on
to the starting apron late yesterday| §
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big Buddy Bear dare go through with his professed role of family
‘|lavenger when Joe Louis confronts
But Russo had been talking to the veteran Frank Brisko, and Brisko suggested he gun the motor all the
A pat on the back for a fine performance is given Paul Russo by his manager Carl Marchese after
gong tossing dynamite—ready to
him?. : That’s the all-important question he ‘in’ Washington's
way to the end of the pits on the home stretch and to a comparable point on the back straightway. first heavy-| Heeding the advice, Russo came weight title|past the starting line under full fight tomorTow |throttle. He eased off just as his night at Griffith {white car touched the asphalt Stadium where | marking the beginning of the southsome 40,000 fans|west curve. . The wind brought back are expected to|the squeal of tires as he whipped watch Cham -|through the southern bend. . pion Louis make : .
his 17th crown defense against| He had done the first lap Buddy, the Cali-| at a speed of 126.369, the fasiest fornia giant. time of anyone other than the Baer says “he Big Three in the front row—Rose, is ready phys- Shaw and Mays. Although he jcally and men- couldn't match this pace on his tally to come three other laps, he rode to the out at the first Shsiferel flag at a clip of 125.217. That“was the fifth fastest time of
avenge the terrible beating Louis| 317 Of the qualifiers. gave his older Brother Maxie back 2 #2 =
in 1935. Remember that was the CARRYING RUSSO on this 10night Maxie took the count on one mile trip was the smallest motor at
Joe Louis
THURSDAY, NAY 2, 1041
the driver qualified for the Memorial Day race with a speed of 125.217. Russo was driving the car powered by the smallest engine of all the racers at Speedway but his time was the fifth fastest recorded
On Speed
{Pasek Sparks : Tribe's Win Over Mud Hens
Indians Move East for Series With Columbus |
After salvaging one series out of three during their sec ond home stand, the Indians departed for Columbus today, on a trip that will keep them away from the home grounds until May 31. : It’s the 1941 night ball opener in Columbus tonight, but just how the Red Bird fans will treat the situa<y tion remains to be seen. The Birds swept a three-game series in Indianapolis and looked like they were “on their way,” but when they in= vaded Louisville the Colonels had different ideas and knocked off the Birds three in a row. It was a stirring struggle out a% Perry Stadium last night, an oldtime see-saw battle between the
Indians and the Toledo Mud Hens, ‘won by the Tribe, 8 to 7.
Pasek Comes Through
The Redskins twice lost the lead but finally made it the third time they got out in front. The contest
‘By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent
Masters’ Golf Tournament, forced out
round of the $5000 tournament.
place was taken by little Penna of Dayton, O.
Adding Machines Humming Where Goodall Golfers Tee
NEW YORK, May 22.— Craig Wood, recent winner of the Augusta was of the Goodall Golf tournament today a few hours before the field teed off in the first ‘ |[major player to appear in olive Wood came up with a sprained back that was so severe he could not lift a club over his head. Wood’s Tony
The boys are scheduled to tramp
pardon us, we’ll dismiss the scoring briefly by saying that the player who finishes with the most net winning holes takes most of the money. The honor of striking the first ball went to Ed Oliver, who used to be known as Porky but now is hailed as the Corporal. Oliver, first
drab since World War I, teed off in the first threesome along with the two men he tied in the National Open last year before he was disqualified—Lawson Little and Gene Sarazen.
this year. Marchese, a former driver himself, is frpm Milwaukee while his driver is from Kenosha, Wis.
was held 0 seven innings to permit
No Soap, Sister
A woman con] Columbus, 0O., according to, United Press, reportedly en route here to attempt to qualify for the Me-" ‘morial Day 500-mile race will
Speedway officials said today. . The contest board of the American Automobile Association refuses to approve.driving licenses for women, it was explained. : Furthermore, the Speedway has a rule against women and does not permit them in the garages, pits, officials’ stand or press box. .
not be permitted on the track,
knee and was accused of quitting. Whether or not Buddy is in earn-
: est, he has gone through the mo-
tions of preparing for heroics. The towering leather-tosser of Sacramento. Cal, has pared down to the lowest weight of his career—237
the track, an eight-cylinder supercharged affair with a 135 ¢ cubicinch displacement. Originally it was a Miller, but Carl Marchese, the owner, has added and subtracted parts, and it’s’ now identified as a Miller-Marchese.
126 holes over the long and heavily
The Speedway office said
trapped lay-out between now and sundown Sunday in an array of seven match-play threesomes so confusing that comptometers, slide iruless and public accountants are considered merely normal equipment
Following the opening trio were the best golfers in the land. In
Paul ‘Runyan, Jimmy Demaret and Jimmy Hines and behind them were threesomes composed of Craig Wood, Dick Metz and Vic Ghezzy;
the second group were bracketed}
pounds — after a double - barreled RE
for the scorers.
Jimmy Thomson, Clayton Haefner
that a woman giving her name as a Mrs. Knierim telephoned in this week and asked about . qualifying but was informed that it would be impossible.
the Hens to-catch a train. Prior to the start of the action it was ane nounced that no inning would be started after 10:25, and the Indians skimmed through and beat the clock. by sewing it up in the sixth. : Johnny Pasek filled the role of Johnny-on-the-spot. The veteran catcher was called in to hit for Joe . Mack in the sixth with two out and the bases loaded, and with the Hens leading 7. to 6. Pasek rammed out a single to cen ter on the first ball pitched, scoring Ambler and Zientara, and that was the ball game. Young Ben Wade. third Tribe hurler to see service, |subdued the Hens in the seventh and received credit for the victory, his first of the season.
Two Toledo Homers
The umpires sent the Indians out to start the second half of the seve enth hut after one Indian was ree tired they called it a night. Toledo's train call had arrived and both the Toledo players and the umpires, rushed for their dressing rooms to
training seige. That’s what he weighed yesterday at his Olney, Md., camp, as he finished boxing four rounds against two sparmates. He had trained a month for this scrap, starting conditioning only 10 days after stopping Tony Galento. One can appreciate the achievement of this 237 pounds only when one realizes that Buddy packed 280 pounds on his six-foot six-and-one-half-inch beam when he became a professicnal back in 1934—the same year -that Louis
|launched his career and the same
year that boxing was ‘legalized in the District of Columbia. This 237 will give the challenger a weight advantage of about 35 pounds over the Detroit Negro who
“|registered 202 yesterday after fin-
ishing boxing three rounds against three sparmates at the Riverside Stadium. 7
THEY SAY sawed-off Kelly Petillo is the last of the natural show-
‘men on the bricks: We suppose
that’s right. = It was Kelly that gave ’em the show again yesterday at a. time when the conscientious highway motorist would be burning his headlights. : Kelly fretted and tinkered while the sun was high and finally appeared at Seth Klein's starting post a few minutes before the 7 p. m. closing hour. His crew didn’t bother to prepare the usual pit sign, designed to let a driver know how fast he’s going. Apparently Kelly knew what was in the Airliner Sandwich Shops Special and he intended to get just that much out of it. There was one slow lap while he threw out a glove. Then he was
away. He baited though four laps (Continued on Page 23)
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‘ spring sensationalism. . . . Wvatt was the only one who came to the National League via the big-dollar route, having been purchased by the Dodgers after
kee Brewers in 1938. 2 The Dodgers drafted Hamlin from Milwaukee in 1936 and Casey from Memphis in 1938. . .. Davis was drafted from San Francisco by the Phillies in 1933.
Castle Goes
The Indianapolis Indians today returned Carmin Castle; utility outfielder, to Columbia, S. C, in the South Atlantic League, who will in turn send him to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in the Eastern League.
Major Leaders
NATIONAL LEAGUE G Vaughan, Pittsburgh.. 24 ’ Slaughier, S. > cee 30 > a ire. St. Loui 30 115
Mize, St. Louis Handley, Pittsburgh... 23 90 12 AMERICAN LEAGUE
ullenbine, St. Loui 26 3% 18 e, Ss. . ee Mew York .... 25 96 10 ravis, Washington .. 30 123 25 Williams Boston 25 84 19 Heath, Cleveland .... : . HOME RUNS © 8/Gordon, Yankees... 7 8 Camilli, Dodgers... 7 8! F.MeCormi Reds 7
Heath, Indians .. York, Tigers Ott, Giants _....... olson, Cubs... ‘B. Johnson, A’s... 7 RUNS BATTED IN Keller, Yankees.. 32iGordon, Yankees.. 31 York, ‘Tigers .... 32 Doerr, Red Sox... 20 ~ Nicholson, Cubs.. 32
HITS
Cramer, Red Sox. 48iSlaughter, Cards.. 44 Cramer, eaators.. 46 DiMaggio, Yanks. 44 any Indians... 45] Te
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and Horton Smith, and Ben Hogan, Harold McSpaden and Willie Goggin. The latter replaced Sam Snead, who injured his back Tues-
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make the quick changes necessary to leave town. Toledo’s power at the plate was a terrific threat throughout. The Mud : Continued on Page 23)
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