Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1941 — Page 8
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Joe, You Should Have Seen Cotton Henning As Chief
Police Chief Mike Morrissey (left), Chief Steward ~ Cotton Henning (center) and Fire Chief Fred 'C. Kennedy
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SPORTS...
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NOW THAT the Columbus Red Birds have edged into first place in the torrid American Association race the league press bureau. is not overlooking any- angles to give the pre-season flag favorites a little extra sugar . . . as a reward for climbing over the strong Minneap-
olis and Kansas. City clubs. ‘At any rate, “Cappy” is back in the league and he’s doing all right for¢ Burt Shotton’s “Little Cardinals.” . . . “Cappy” is Harry (Dixi¢) Walker and his return to the Red Birds was welcomed with open arms. : The “Cappy” part is not an indication that “Little Dixie”—to distinguish him from his brother “Dixie” of the Brooklyn Dodgers —is or ever has been connected with the Army, or that any member "of his family ever bore the title of captain. ' Instead, it was wished on him during the 1940 season by Columbus sports writers and comes from his habit of taking his cap oft and putting it back on innumerable times during -a-game, especially when he is batting.
When he strolls to the plate, Walker invariably rests his bat
on the ground, takes off his cap and smooths his hair back. ... When he steps into the batter's box, it's a 5-to-1 bet that he will . repeat the process. : After every pitch it is the same thing... . Off comes the cap at least once... . On occasion “Little Dixie” will even step out of the batter's box between pitches, to take off his cap and put it back on.
Late-Season Schedule Favors Cincinnati
BILL McKECHNIE feels that the time has come for his Cincy
Reds to rise in the National League race. . . . They were 9% games off the pace today after gaining ground the last few days. McKechnie is greatly encouraged by the pitching form shown by. young Elmer Riddle, the Indianapolis product, and also thinks Gene Thompson's recent performance in New York should help that young fellow get started again. . . ..Thompson. found the Dodgers tough going yesterday and was removed after six innings. « + . But the Reds eventually won. ; Thompson suffered greatly this spring because of lack -of control and perhaps the advent of warm weather will help him cor=
: rect this. fault.
There is no doubt that the National League schedule is in favor of the Reds staging a late-season drive. ... They will spend the .greater part of the second. half of the season on their home diamond. : . : ” # » » t 4 8 THE REDS will open a 13-game home stand against the Giants at Crosley Field Saturday afternoon, then meet these same Giants in a double header Sunday and a single game Monday. . . . Tues day, the Boston Braves will oppose the Reds, then on Wednesday, June 18, the Reds and Braves will battle it out in a night game. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 20, 21, and 22, will be big days for the Reds. . . . Opposing them will be the Brooklyn Dodgers. . . . A double header against the Dodgers is on the books for the Sunday, June 22.
Giants of 1912 Were Quick Starters
WINNING 22 games before taking their seventh defeat of the ‘ season made a great start for the Brooklyn Dodgers. . . . You have to turn back the clock 20 years to find a club that had more wins than 22 while giving up its first half-dozen decisions. The 1921 . Pittsburgh Pirates had 25 triumphs before suffering their seventh setback, but the real flying start of all of them was the getaway of John McGraw’s 1912 Giants. . .. On Memorial Day
those ancient Polo Grounders swept a double header with the Phil- .
lies for the 27th and 28th wins. ... When a St. Louis southpaw named Joe Willis threw a five-hitter at them the next day for a ~ B-1 Cardinal win, it was the seventh New York defeat of the season. This decision ended a nine-straight winning streak of the Giants, incidentally, but undeterred, the McGrawmen won five - straight before their eighth loss of the season, a 9-8 Cub conquest on June 10. Their great spring reached its statistical peak at 37 wins against eight defeats. ... Then came a crusher from the invading Pittsburgh Pirates, who took three out of four at the Pqlo Grounds, Howard Camnitz harfding the Giants their ninth defeat of the year in the opener and coming back in the series finale to administer their No. 11. :
Joseph Copps, Esq., c-o Steve Hannigan, New York, N. Y. Dear Joe:
Unless you were hiding behind a Noble’s fez or a Potentate’s cane, you weren't at yesterday’s Speedway races. At least nobody saw you. And that is news—two Speedway races, mind you, without Joe Copps here to ballyhoo them. u : Of couse, Joe, it wasn’t quite the spectacle you help put cn for ’em on Memorial Day. The crowd was a wee bit short of your 162,000 and the starting field was a scant 27 cars shy of the customary 83, and nobody. thought to get the Weatherman’s okeh the way you usually do. But otherwise it was a good show. age
And by the way, Joe—we found an efficient apprentice
for the job of chief steward. You'd never guess whom—:
Cotton Henning. It was Cotten’s party and he ran ‘it smoothly, although just between us, we'll have to get Cotton out of those white ducks and into some checks or plaids if we ever expect to make another Ted Doescher out of him. Coiton, who's strictly an anti-pit-stop man in his
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to tell the various’ drivers
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when .to make their stops.
Actually stops were to be made only in the 25-mile race, but Lou Moore crossed everybody up by taking one during the 15-mile sprint race. His No. 3 Maserati, it seems, was. troubled with water in the magneto. . rh And you might remember that Charley Merz is an ideal flag waver and a good starter. The only question is
whether the drivers could see slim Mr. Merz so long at the weighty Mr. Kl
after looking ein. : 7 :
\ The only complaint, Joe—and it’s hardly. that—might ~ be entitled “The Case of the Missing Timer.” This gentleman, armed only with stopwatches, disappeared immediately after the sprint race under the pretext of seeking an adding machine. But Johnny Moore at Firestone said he hadn’t been around and, Tom Beall vouched nobody had
* he“was last seen wandering
"" beén tinkering with his cash register. Somebody said
through a sand trap on the
Speedway golf course looking for a missing Shrine camel.
“was true.
Li But 1 wouldn't believe that, Joe—not even if you said it
Yep, that’s the only complaint. As it was, everybody
Steward |
Maybe you'd like to know who raced and who ‘won. Well, there were six drivers and an equal number of cars: Lou Moore in No..8; Harry McQuinn in No. 15, Chet Miller in No. 41, Russell Snowberger in No. 42; Rex Mays in No. 54 and George Connors in No. 16. se eo Gl : Harry McQuinn won the 15-mile sprint race in a photo finish ‘with Chet Miller. The 25-mile race, in which each car had to make one pit stop, was won by Miller. Miller's pit crew distinguished itself, too, by changing a tire in 13.9 seconds, but'in the excitement these guys might have put-on the same tire they took off. : hid And this is where the publicity sagged. Neither Mr.: McQuinn nor Mr. Miller drove into the winner's cage. Nobody asked for a certain brand of buttermilk and nobody had cold lemonade poured over his grimy head, In fact, McQuinn’s only statement was a grunt, and Millet in a short interview, said: “Welk we won.” a You might also like. to know’that Wilbur Shaw was present, wearing his plaster Paris underwear and feeling in the pink—or so he said. J : ?
had to guess at the winner's time, and the best estimate was 118 miles an hour. No Joe, you wouldn’t have let that happen. Why I've heard tell that you've held timers in-
usual role as Boyle mechanician, went so far yesterday as
communicado for days until the press arrived.
So sorry you weren’t here, Joe. I'll try to let you
know when we have another
Best regards,
Speedway race. :
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J. E. O'BRIEN.
The Sad Story Of Mr. Terry
He Made a Trade With Mr. Rickey.
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor
NEW YORK, June 10 (U. P.).— William Terry, head of the brains department of the New York Giants, is suffering today from a bad attack of the St. Louis Blues. It is a fairly common ailment and
‘lis prevalent among baseball men
who make deals with the. St. Louis Cardinals. Mr. Terry’s condition® became critical at dusk yesterday. His temperature mounted at an alarming rate, his pulse died to almost a whisper and he saw white spots before his eyes. The spots were baseballs that a gangling gent named Harry Gumbert was throw-
Less than a month ago Mr. Terry decided that Gumbert could not throw baseballs with sufficient efficiency to remain a member of the Giants. Mr. Terry liked the way one Fiddler Bill McGee of the St. Louis Cardinals threw baseballs and he decided to venture inte the slave marts of the national. game and swap some human chattel with Branch Rickey, chairman of the think department of the Cardinals.
St. Louis Blues
When a man decides to swap with Rickey, he already is in the first stages of the St. Louis Blues. After. that the disease progresses rapidly and the crises arrives when the patient hands over to Rickey a bunch of folding money in addition to some ball ‘players. Mr. Terry's case history followed the familiar pattern. Rickey allowed that he would be willing to discuss swapping McGee for Gumbert, but he naturally added that Mr. Terry would have to lay some lettuce on the line inasmuch as he thought McGee was such a fine baseball thrower. Tossing feverishly in the critical stages of the St. Louis Blues, Mr. Terry muttered that he would give Gumbert, Paul Dean and a big wad of lettuce for McGee. Some say the lettuce amounted to $20,000. and some say $25,000, but that is a comparatively trivial point. What matters is that Rickey allowed himself to be argued into taking Gumbert from Mr. Terry. Whereupon Mr. Terry thought everything was going to be all right, dismissed the doctors and called for some thin soup.
McGee Flops
He didn’t know it, but the worst stages of the St. Louis Blues still were ahead of him. McGee reported to Mr. Terry, donned the garments of the Giants and prepared to throw baseballs. He lost
a game to the Cincinnati Reds and then he lost one to the Dodgers. Mr. Terry began to feel dizzy and phoned his doctor. McGee lost another one to the Reds‘and then one
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to the ‘Piartes, and Mr, Terry todk to his bed once more. Meantime, Gumbert found the climate in St. Louis was just what he needed, and he immediately began to throw baseballs for the Cardinals better than he had ever thrown them for the Giants. Up to yesterday Gumbert had won four games
Rickey had become almost as fond
came along in the package. Yesterday Mr. Terry had a complete relapse. He led his young men into the Polo Grounds to play
{who should he find out there throwing’ baseballs but ‘that same: Gumpert. All afternoon Gumbert threw ‘baseballs - at the Giants and all afternoon Terry saw. white spots. That is more than the Giants did— they didn’t see anything as Gumbert buzzed the ball past them and only four times could they obtain ts. They lost 5 to 2, and Gumbert won his fifth game in the garments of the Cardinals and pitched them into first place. } Mr, Terry is expected to be up and around in about six weeks.
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By EGAN LECK “I'm not going to worry about it until they tell me about it.” Dominic DiMaggio, 23-year-old center fielder for the Boston Red Sox, who played the Indians at Perry Stadium last night, didn’t know anything officially about his being called for a Selective Service examination at Boston Saturday. DiMaggio had played two innings and .was sitting in the dug-out. He's a very pleasant, soft-spoken young man. He wears glasses and was dressed in a brown business suit, looking like a lot of things besides what he is, a .340 hitter in his second year of big-league baseball. Joe Cronin, manager of the Red Sox, didn’t have much to say, either. He wasn’t taking anyone’s word ex-
they've been travelling quite a little lately, the mail has been slow. “You don’t think of buying Christmas presents at this time: of
don’t know anything about it!” Those seemed to be just about all
the draft. : Dom looks like his famous brother Joe, but then so does Vinc, the other member of the baseball-play-ing brotherhood. Dominic has the shiny, curly black hair which by now: is. a DiMaggio trademark, and his features are much’ like Joe's. It doesn’t bother him particularly that his: brothers blazed the way. “I feel like it's pretty much my
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Dominic DiMaggio « « « having a drink on the Indians. He didn't play long enough to get a hit off them.
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own job; it doesn’t make any difference how I got started,” he said. He was graduated from the Galileo High School in San Francisco and played center and left field. He says that is the only time he ever played anything but center. But as for the Draft situation, DiMaggio unconsciously quoted Will Rogers: “All I know is what I read in the papers!” The team left at 2 a. m. today, and will be in Boston Saturday, where Dominic has been instructed to appear before his Board for a physical examination, according to the Massachusetts State Selective Service headquarters.
Major Leaders
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Tribe Gets Back in Its League, Far, Far From the Red Sox
Boston Steamrollers Over the Indians to a Town-Ball Score of 23 to 14
The Indianapolis Indians will return to their own league tonight by taking on the Kansas City Blues under the lights at Perry Stadium and, needless to say, they don’t want any more truck with American Leaguers, not after what happened to them last night. The Boston Red Sox used a steam roller in an exhibition game and the Redskins were crushed and spread out over the premises under the town-ball score of 23 to 14. But more of that later.
The Indians resume American Association competition tonight and Italo Chelini, southpaw, will be sent out to face the third-place Blues.on the mound. And tomorrow night, guess who?
It will be Steel-Arm Starr who will be sniping for his 11th victory of the season. Before tonight's series opener rolls
laround, attention is called to the
fact that the A. A. has a traffic snarl on its hands. For example, the Indians, in sixth place, are only 41% games behind the Columbus Red Birds, the new leaders.
It’s a Running Race Columbus is leading Minneapolis on a percentage point basis but in the “Games Behind” column they are event. Kansas City is one-half
game off the pace, Louisville one] §
game and Toledo three games. St.
| Paul follows Indianapolis at six-and
Milwaukee trails at 13. ~ After the Tribesters play the Blues tonight and tomorrow night they will shove off on a second invasion of the Western half of the circuit. Al Lakeman, catcher, has returned to harness after a long spell on the hospital list; Bill Brubaker, third sacker, is about ready to return to action and Art Graham's shoulder is fairly well on the mend. Graham is the new outfielder obtained from Baltimore. to get one safe against the Red Sox last night and may require additional rest. He was biffed on his lame right shoulder by a pitched
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in the game. : : College Catcher Signed
The Indians bobbed up with a collegiate catcher today by signing Orville Bolton of Western Kentucky
State Teachers College. He's a six-|
footer weighing 178 pounds, 19 years old and bats righthanded. A place in the little minors will be found for him after Manager Killefer sizes him up. Oh, yes, that exhibition with the Red Sox. Some 2600 fans turned out despite threatening rain and they saw what they wanted to see, a bunch of major leaguers powdering the horsehide. Twenty-five hits, including two home runs, a triple and a pair of doubles rolled off the bats of Joe Cronin’s Bostonese. Bobby Doerr and Pete Fox slammed out the round trippers. | Exclusive of the batlery, Manager Cronin started his regular lineup and the Indians launched the slambanging by scoring one run in the first and four in the second. But it was the first time under the lights for the Red Sox this season. And
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Pleasant Run Leads Women’s Tourney
Pleasant Run golfers are leading :
the Indianapolis Women’s Golf Association’s interclub tournament today with 42 points. Highland is second with 37, Hillcrest has 35'2; Riverside, 32; Meridian Hills, 27; Broadmoor, 242; Indianapolis Country Club, 9%, and Woodstock, 8. Yesterday the Indianapolis Couns try Club played host to the other
sextets in the third round of the series and victories went to Riverside, Highland, Hillcrest and Pleasant Run.’
Golfing Patly Firesa 71
CINCINNATI, June 10 (U. P.).— Patty Berg, Minneapolis’ ranking women’s golf professional, plays Mrs. ‘Jake Searl of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, in the opening round - of match play today in the 12th annual Women’s ! Western Open golf champion= ship. Miss Berg, who lost the tournament title in an extra-hole : match to Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City three years ago, won the medal in the 18-hole qualifying round yesterday with a ° two-under - per Patty 71 that tied the tournament record set by Mrs. Hill in 1936.
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76 and National Amateur Champion Betty Jameson of San Antonio, Texas, third with 79. Miss Dettweiler plays Dorothy Foster of Springfield, Ill, in the opening round and Miss Jameson meets Mrs. George Wilcox of Mia=mi, Fla.
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