Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1941 — Page 6
SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
‘BIG LEAGUERS come to town tonight td play an
exhibition with the Indianapolis Indians as well as’ get"
_ some practice under the lights. . . . Yep, the Boston Red Sox are slated to do their stuff at Perry Stadium before ‘heading for St. Louis to meet the Browns in a night tilt
tomorrow.
Joe Cronin’s boys really are stepping on it nowadays and are holding down second place in the torrid American League race, four games behind Cleveland. The team finally got _some pitching and Béantown once again is agog over baseball and the chances of the Red Sox to remain in the thick of the flag fight. . . . Their leadoff man in the batting order is the “third DiMaggio,” first handle Dominic, brother of Joe of the Yankees and Vincent of the Pirates. ° Dominic wears “cheaters” but apparently een no handicap on the diamond. . .. He‘is a rabbit in the outfield and was batting 335 in last week’s averages. . Brother Joe's average. in the weekend statistics was .326 and Vincent's mark was down to .252. This is only the second year “up” for Dominic and he’s proving & sophomore sensation. The Red Sox big gun just at present is Ted Williams, the Minneapolis graduate who was tutored and trained in the American Association by Indianapolis’ Ownie Bush. . Ted was slapping the apple at a cool 434 when last week’s figures were compiled and Man- ~ ager Cronin was tagging the horsehide to the tune of .373. : Boss Cronin is another American Association product, going from Kansas City to Washington and later to the Red Sox. -. . . Jim Tabor, third sacker, is a former Minneapolis Miller and he's flirting with the .300 class with a plate average of .293.
. No More Sunday. Night Baseball Here
INDIANAPOLIS BASEBALL fans turned thumbs down on Sunday night games. , . . They prefér their Sabbath baseball in the afternoon and in double-header fashion, two games for the price of one admission. : Yesterday the ball club played one game in the afternoon and ~ one at night, but they were separate games at the box office. . . . . The fans had to shell out twice to take in both attractions, As g result the attendance took a nosedive and total attendance ~ Jor both tilts barely got over the 1900 mark, . And in addition ~ to the slump in gate receipts there was the added expense of the ‘lights for the night game. .. . And the afternoon game outdrew the ~ nocturnal offering. : Tribe officials experimented with Sunday night baseball and they - are cured. ... Week-day night pastiming is okay. ... The Indians will - return to the old order. . . . Two games for the price of one on future Sundays . « + Played in daylight.
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OLD MAN SLUMP is riding Bennie Zientara’s shoulders, . . . The Indianapolis second sacker has been up 16 times without a hit s . . and few of his efforts have passed the infield. . . . The slump act ; set in some time ago and his batting average dwindled by chunks, . " He is trying everything to emerge from the slide and hopes to get . going again shortly 5 Briar to hitting the toboggan, Zientara was the leading candi- ~ date for second base on the American Association’s 1941 All-Star ~ team and Tribe fans are pulling hard for the young man to regain . his eye at the plate.
- Ring Expert Discusses Billy Conn Myth
‘WRITING IN the Milwaukee Journal, R. G. Lynch, sports editor and a leading boxing authority, winds up and lets one go at the next is title fight. . . . Lynch looks at it in this fashion: “Tex Rickard, the master of ballyhoo, did some remarkable things with his drum beaters, building up ordinary opponents for Jack ~ Dempsey into huge gate attractions, but Promoter Mike Jacobs’ curTent performance with Billy Conn eclipses anything Tex ever did. ee “Consider the facts: Conn is not even a heavyweight. He has been. trying to fatten himself up for more than a year and he weighed only 180 pounds May 26 for his fight with Buddy Knox. He can’t punch a lick. : “Somehow the myth ‘has been created that Conn is a master ~ boxer. The kid is fast and clever all right, but as boxing form goes pe is ordinary. Louis is a much better boxer.
~~ CONN HAS BEEN built up as a heavyweight contender to the point where two leading weekly magazines of the country have fea-
tured articles about him and his chances with Louis, within the
~ fight June 18 at the Polo Grounds would be as great an upset as the Oorbete Sullivan fight. 5 P “Conn, himself, has exhibited nothing but serene confidence in his ability to lick Louis. His manager, Johnny Ray, is so close to the . boy that it is hard to believe that Ray would risk Billy in the ring with Louis unless Johnny thought his boy had a good chance. “The whole business is amazing. It just doesn’t make sense.”
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~ Cronin Promises To Start Regulars
Taking time out from their drive to emerge from the American Association’s second division, the Indianapolis Indians are to go “big time”! under the lights tonight by] meeting the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition. Then tomorrow night the Red-! skins will resume operations in the A. A. by opening a series with the Kansas City Blues who will perform here through Wednesday, after which the Tribesters will hit the Western trail. _ The Red Sox-Indian tilt is scheduled to start at 8:15 and Boston Manager Cronin promised to start his regular lineup, or at least the bulk of it. The Red Sox yesterday slipped into second place in the American league pennant chase and members of the team believe “this
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Perry Eliminates Budge for Title
NEW YORK, June ‘9 (U. P).— Fred Perry, former British Davis cup star, defeated Don Budge in straight sets at Forest Hills yesterday and added the World's Profes-
1 [sional Round-Robin tennis title to
the National Professional crown he won at Chicago two weeks ago. - “Someone had to beat Budge, and I just happened to be around at the g|right time,” Perry said. “Don
: just couldn’t go on winning for-
ever. And besides, ne was way off his game and I was at the top of mine. Put the two together and
what do you get? Me as champion.” 0
Perry, who defeated Budge 6-4, 6-2, 6-3, explained that the Californian has been off his game since he fell down a flight of stairs more than a month ago and injured his nose. Budge was hospitalized for nearly two weeks and had an operation on his nose during that time. He left the hospital too weak to last more than a short time in
ithe National championships.
Dick Skeen, Los Angelés profes sional, defeated Bill Tilden, 6-1, 7-5, 6-3, bh finish in third place. Perry teamed with Budge to defeat Keith Gledhill and Lester ‘Stoefen of California, 6-4, 6-4, for
and | the Sovbles title.
is the year.” suspended.
first - game (exclusive of pitchers) was like this: Dominic DiMaggio, cf; Lou Finney, rf; Ted Williams, If; Joe Cronin, ss; Jimmy Foxx, 1b; Jim Tabor, 3b; L. Newsome, 2b; Johnny Peacoék, ¢ In the second game, against southpaw pitching, Cronin used Pete Fox, the Evansville, Ind., product, in right field and with Frank Pytlak catching. Glenn Fletcher and young Ben Wade probably will divide the Tribe pitching against the big leaguers.
A. A. Race Tightens + The Indians won two out of three over the .week-end and remained five games behind the league-lead-ing Minneapolis Millers. However, the 'Tribe failed to climb out of sixth-place and is now threatened by seventh-place St. Paul. But it’s 4 dandy race from first to seventh, as the Saints are only six games behind the leaders. Kansas City and Columbus are deadlocked for second, one game behind, Louisville is fourth, two games behind, and Toledo is fifth, four games behind. After slaughtering the tailend Milwaukee Brewers, 10 to 2, Saturday night, with George Gill pitching. the Indians also annexed yesterday’s daylight game, 4 to 0, behind Ray Starr's glittering pitching. And Starr,” like Gill, held the Brewers to six hits. It was Starr's 10th victory of the season against five setbacks and his control was far better than it has been for some time. He only issued one walk and struck out four, as he achieved his second shutout over the Brewers this season.
Greet Koslo in Sixth The Tribesters got to young Dave Koslo in the sixth by rallying for three runs on a walk, two singles and Galatzer’s double. An extra measure run was added in the eighth on Hunt's double and Pasek’s single. Makasky pitched the seventh for Milwaukee and Dobernic the eighth. In last night's game the Brewers took a hand at the slaughtering business and subdued the Tribe, 9 to 3. After retiring. the first Brewer to face him in the third, Lefty Bob Logan fell apart, walked the
J-Inext hitter and then got bumped
for five hits in a row before he was derricked in favor of Bill Cox., The Brewer rally was good for six runs and the Indians drew blanks until the eighth when the scored
twice. They couldn’t master Gene
Lamber, with runners on the sacks and wound up with 14 stranded. The Brewers boosted their total to nine by scoring three runs off
o| Fletcher in the ninth, and the In-
dians got one marker in their half of the lasy round.
Art Graham in Uniform The Brewers tallied nine runs on 13 hits,” the Indians only three on tha same number of blows. The Indians also drew. five walks to four for Milwaukee. Hunt and Galatzer got three safeties apiece for the home team and Moser paced the Brewers: with three Art Graham, new outfielder, made his Tribe debut by striking out when sent up as a pinch hitter in the seventh. Al ‘Lakeman appeared on the premises after a long siege on the hospital list and got a hit in the. pinch role. Wayne Blackburn's consecutive
|game hitting streak was stopped at
14 when he was held hitless in the afternoon game. He bounced back at night with two hits, on a roller and a bunt. (E. A).
Reds Pay $300,000; Still No Left Fielder
NEW YORK, June 9, (N. E. A). — In three years the Cincinnati Reds have spent more than $300,000 for a left fielder and they still haven't settled on one. Seventeen have had a whirl. Vince 0, Berger, Al Simmons, Jim Ripple, Bongiovani, Hafey, Frenchy Bordagaray, Cooke, Davis, Phil Wein traub, Dick West, Mike Dejan, Morrie Arnovich, Mike McCormick, Johnny Rizzo, Jim Gleeson and the incumbent, Ernie Koy, eomprise | the
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ask for deferment. . The Cleveland hope is 22 and unmarried. Draft August, or later.
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Golf championship.| had a}
Samuel Jackson Snead sore back and he also won quite & victory. It was not a victory in the
handed Snead $1000;° no: crowd gathered to pump his hand and ask for his autograph:; no one brought bales of congratulatory telegrams and handed them to him. It was a quiet victory and one that was won at the cost of considerable physical pain.
Snead finished in a tie for 12th
place in the Open. He played his - last two rounds in agony and was
unable to stoop over to line up
putts or pick up a ball out of the| "He would have. been fully!
cup. justified in withdrawing from the
‘tournamerit, but he went limping
Bob Feller fills out his draft questionnaire and declares he will not Indians’ great pitcher and pennant
officials say he might be called in-
of the year:
bust of the year: Buck Newsom.
reformed Calumet cuckoo has been Gum Ben Jones would be the first to know about that, wouldn't he? Buck Newsom has been knocked out so often this year we are surprised he hasn't been added to Joe Louis’ Bum of the Month Club. Mr. Harold Pierce, one of the stuffier of golf's stuffed shirts, is being put in the grease by acidulous critics because he forced the competitors in the National Open to play through a cloudburst fringed with fire stabbing lightning. This is After all nobody was killed. No-Trade Rule Due to Go One of Clark Griffith's reactionary pets will be formally and officially exterminated at the American League summer meeting. This is the rute which prohibits the pennant winning team to deal for players in its own league. It was originally directed at the Yankees after they had won four straight. “It's a pointless, unprogressive rule,” Ed Barrow said fo us today, “and we are going to wipe if off the books.” The Yankee chief also revealed he had made no offer for first baseman McQuinn of the Browns and said he wasn’t interested in first baseman Kuhel of the White Sox. Says Kuhel is too old. “The only time we made a pass at McQuinn” added Barrow, “the Browns demanded the Stadium, and it so happens we couldn't get along well without the Stadium.” i Dick Andrade, the Texas oil tycoon, occupies an interesting position in’ the Whirlaway scheme of things. He is vice president in charge of the flowers. At the Derby Mr. Andrade wound up with the blanket of roses; at the Belmont he came “away with the blanket of gardenias. One of these days, if Warren Wright doesn’t keep a sharp lookout, Mr. Andrade is likely to lead Whirlaway off the track with him. It must .be true that ‘the Giants are building for the future; we note a fellow named Carpenter is the star of the staff. ‘ He Was Strictly Peoria And life’s little ironies: If Alabama Pitts had been a lifer at Sing Sing he'd still be alive Soday: Strange things about the fellow, if he hadn't committed a stick up and got caught nobody ever would have heard of him. As it was his violent death ' by stabbing commanded lengthy obituaries in the metropolitan press, and all because he had gained a certain celebrity as a bush league athlete. We saw him a baseball and football and he was strictly Peoria. We've been trying to make this one add up and can’t. A young bully of ‘a prize fighter named Bummy Davis is given a month's leave from
It is disclosed that Bob Feller may be drafted in the last month of the baseball season. Inasmuch as he appears. to be 95 per cent: of the Cleveland team the consequences would
take into account the thrill it would give the young farmer boy to pitch in "his first World Series—and poshh his last. Feller won't ask deferment. Nor will the Cleveland officials, We don’t think it's unpatriotic to ask why not? Certainly why not if a rough and rowdy prize fighter can abandon his Army duties for a month? Practically nobody. cares whether
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Whirlaway May Have to Take It Easy for Rest of Summer
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, June 9.—The horse of the year: Whirlaway: the golfer Craig Wood; the hitter of the year:
Ted Williams; the
Whirlaway may have to be raced sparingly from now on. Generally winter track ‘horses begin to go dull in mid-summer, and the
at it since December. But Chewing Mr. Bummy Davis returns to uplift the pugilistic art; if our guess is right practically everybody would like to see Bob Feller get a shot at the World Series, especially since it means such a brief deferment.
Casters Capture
Tourney Honors
Times Special | COLUMBUS, O., June 9.—Charles Sutphin of Indianapolis won the title in the junior five-eighths-ounce accuracy event during the Central States Casting Association's second annual tournament here this week-end. His winning score was 95 and he returned to score a 91 in the senior three-eighths event and take 10th place. Don Carlisle of Indianapolis finished second in the three-eighths-ounce accuracy cast with 95, placed third in the salmon fly event with a 136% -foot cast and finished fourth in the distance fly with a cast of 124% feet. Jack Moore of Indianapolis tied for top honors in the three-eighths and five-eighths-ounce accuracy events.
L R. A. Champs To Play Army
The champions of the Indiana Recreation Softball Association will travel to Camp Shelby, Miss. this year to take on fhe Army champions in a three-game series the latter part of September, according to Karl Huffine, I R. A. president. The I. R. A. softball tournament will get under way the first part of August in over 48 Indiana cities. Over 700 teams ate expested to take
Hammond and Columbus have already been awarded semi-final tournaments with the ional. 2d final sites yet to be selected. The Noblitt-Sparks team of Columbus is
the defending champion. Army Calls Riska NOTRE DAME, June 8, (N. E. A). —Eddie Riska, Notre Dame's basketball captain last season, will probably be kept from a profes sional career by the Selective service
act. Riska was leading Irish scorer for three campaigns.
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on around the fairways, giving his best to every shot. Many persons have written and spoken harsh words about Snead and I have been among them. We have said that he lacked courage, that he contracted the leaping jitters when the big tournaments rolled around and that the man possessing the finest natural swing in golf never would win a major event because the competitive spark just wasn’t there.
Ghost of the Past
After Seeing what happened at the Colonial Golf Club this would be a nice time for all of us to get together and tender Snead: an apology. Herewith is mine. Every-
here. His back hurt painfully, bul
what hurt more was that the ghost |
of his past was haunting him from he walls and fences of the Colonial Club. A magazine carried an article last week on the Open and one of the illustrations showed Snead just after he had taken his disastrous eight on the final hole of the open at Philadelphia in 1939. That eight cost him the tournament and adcdecl to the legend that he had no heart. The picture showed Snead wearing an expression on his face. Posters bearing the illustration were placed all around the course and it was impossible for Snead to walk out of the locker room without heing reminded of how. he blew the best chance he may ever have io win the Open. In the face of that he was up among the leaders at the half way point. On Saturday morning when the last two rounds started his back became so painful that he couldn't bend over and a fork of fire shot through his muscles every time he lifted his arms to swing a club: The crowd was all for him when ‘hel limped onto the 18th green at ‘the end of the morning round and tried to bend over to line up a tough putt. It was no use. The pain was too much and he had to hit it without lining the ball and the pin. He had a 77 on that round and when he went into the locker room many persons thought he either would soar into the 80's in the afternoon round or withdraw.
- Happened On lst Tee.
He did neither. Snead ate ‘a chicken sandwich while a doctor went to work on his back with bandages and adhesive tape. Occa-| sionally Snead’ would get off the table, swing a club and ask the
physician to readjust the bandages.
“My back started hurting when I
Craig Would Man Mountain
Will Referee
The widely publicized Frank Leavitt, better known in the sports world as “Man Mountain Dean,” will carry his 340 nounds of “beef” into ny wrestling ring at Sports Arena tomorrow night where he will serve as a referee in one of the matches. Dean, who is a friend of Matchmaker Lloyd Carter, volunteered to appear as referee. The bewhiskered Georgian‘is in town attending the Shrine convention. The “Man Mountain” is a Shrine member and leads the band from Yaarab Temple, Atlanta, Ga. Carter has a promised “thriller” for his main go offering, the bout sending Sergeant Bob Kenaston, a Marine, against Frankie Talaber, of Chicago.
hit one off the first tee this morning,” Snead said. “At No. 11 it felt like I pulled a muscle or some-
got worse.” -So ‘he went out that afternoon, clipped four strokes off his morning round and came in with a creditable 73. ; Snead said he played on through the afternoon because he wanted to finish among the top 30 men and thereby be automatically qual-
think the picture that leered at
‘|something to do with his decision I
to go out there and take it for 18 painful holes. I think something inside him caught fire and made him want to show us that we had been wrong about him all these years. That was the kind of victory Snead won and in its way is almost as important as the one Craig Wood won.
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baseball leagues and end the seas © son way above the rest. / Yesterday the unbeaten Armouf’ nine administered the worst defeat of the season to Fall Creek Ath="* letics, 30 to 4. Three Athletic pitch= ers were used and each was accord ed like treatment. In the other Capitol City tilt Boulevard Taproom behind the three-hit pitching ° of Hagan won a 13 to 1 decision over Charcoal Grill. Moose took & forfeit decision from Ford Metor. : Leonard Cleaners captured its * seventh straight victory—longest in any of the amateur Jeagyes—-hy downing International Machine, 4 to 1. Leonard only managed 5 hits to their opponents 10 but the score was in their favor. West Side Merchants blanked the Sacks Auto Part nine, 8 to 0, in
the other Big Six game. Baird's .
gained a victory when Mallory’s -- forfeited.
In the Municipal loop the stand= 3
ings were unchanged. Gold Medal . Beer and Empire Life held their lead with six victories in seven starts apiece. The Beers eked out . a 6 to 5 victory over Prospect Tavern and the Empire squad took a slugging match from Allison's, 10 to 9. In the other game Falls = City downed Beanblossom, 14 to 5. In the Saturday games U. S. Tires took over first place in the Manufacturer's League by handing
Stewart-Warner, 5 to 4, in an eleven inning struggle. - The Tires scored = all their runs in a big eighth inning | uprising in which Bob House doubléd with the sacks loaded. Stewart-Warner’s winning run came as a result of a dropped fly ball in the 11th. Lead by Ben Lady's two doubles and a single the New York Central team gained its fifth Industrial loop Victory by defeating Pure Oil, 9
Falls City Hi-Brus gained their Cummins a 7 to 2 setback. Rock-
wood defeated the Union Printers, 12 to 2. :
{Firemen Defeat
Lafayette Nine
Indianapolis’ two Indiana-Ohio . - Baseball League representatives split even in week-end encounters, the Firemen scoring a 5-4 victory -- over Lafayette and the Kautskys losing to the Muncie Citizens, 8 to 1. Williams’ single, a walk, an .error and a double by. Tobin scored . three runs for the Firemen in the ninth inning and brought them victory. The Kautskys were able to solve Bob Katz, Muncie hurler, for only five safeties. Meanwhile the Ctiizens cashed in on nine hits and seven errors for their eight runs.
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