Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1941 — Page 6

‘SPORTS. ..

By Eddie Ash

BILL BRANDT, keeper of statistics for the National League, declares that this baseball season is setting a record in the majors for shuffling the batting orders. . . . And as the pennant races swing into mid-June there's a

new deal every day somewhere in the picture.

Bill pictures the situation in this fashion: “That bright window at midnight in the manager's room is sometimes the lamp burning for the stayouts; mostly it’s the boss himself midnight-oiling his batting order combination.”, © In the National League this right-combination hunt was so brisk that by Memorial Day there were only six batters in the whole league, outside of catchers and pitchers, who stuck to the same spot in the order every day . . . one lead-offer, one No. 2 hit-and-run expert, ‘three cleanup men and a No. 5 guy who likes his spot so well he’s been leading the parent circuit in hitting most of the spring, Eno Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals. Finding the right combination means as much to the manager as the “combo” on the office safe... . If he can’t find it all season the office won't need a safe combination. : So your smart baseball tactician sweats his brain cells overtime figuring moves in his batting array to make the whole thing cligk. The Cardinals, renowned in other years for spectacular lineup shifting, pitcher-changes, free and handsome substitutions, are trailblazers the other direction this spring. . . . Busy Billy Southworth, with his hustling pitchers, his three-shortstop infield and his leagueleading batting array, has stuck closer to the batting order he had in mind when the season started than any rival pilot in the National. You never change your batting order when you are winning, and, conversely, the time to change is when there’s a famine or runmaking. . . . “Hold that combination” is the managerial slogan, but t you got to find it. ;

iants Baffled by No. 3 Spot

CLOSE JINXOLOGISTS report a whammy on the No. 3 spot in the New York Giants’ batting order this year, its most sensational Szyilment being the changing of Bill Jurges from a .395 hitter to an 056 man. The shortstop was topping the whole National League in hitting May 14 when Boss Terry decided his talents belonged further up in the batting order. . . . They certainly did; but No. 3 was not the right move, as promptly illustrated by the .056 representing one hit in 18 times at bat in the five games in which Jurges batted third. Prior occupants showed the same pernicious influence. . . . Harry Danning batted third the first 15 games of the season for an average of .288, but it was .235 for his last four games in that spot. . . . Then Babe Young moved in and after hitting like all get-out for six games, the Fordham Bambino got the collar three straight days. . . . Then came Jurges. . . . Now the veteran Mel Ott is holding down the “mystery” position.

THAT SPIRITED DUEL of words when Aldon Wilkie is pitching for Pittsburgh and Charlis Grimm is coaching for the Cubs at first base may not necessarily be baseball. . . . There’s a private feud on between these two left-handers. : It’s chickens. . . . Out in the Pacific Northwest the Wilkie farm at Newberg, Ore., is the No. 1 citadel of the Rhode Island Red brand of egg-dropper. .'. . Ribbons and cups-aré on view representing all the major poultry shows on the Coast. J If Grimm's scoffing, it’s because he’s a White Rock man. . . . Cholly has 1800 Whities on his Franklin, Mo., farm. . . . In his book the R. I. Reds are just a lot of under-done pot-pies. :

45 Purdue Senior Lettermen Graduate

- COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES last Sunday brought to a close the collegiate careers of a great group of 45 senior lettermen at Purdue University who have been big factors in the Boilermaker athletic successes of recent years. . Heaviest losses are inflicted on the football 13 major lettermen, followed by the track squad with nine. . . . Other squad losses are as follow: Basketball, seven; baseball, six; pistol, five; wrestling, four; swimming, four; golf, two; squash, two; tennis,

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AMONG THE SENIOR group are a number of Purdue perform who have won national recognition, including seven re Ter » + .-the double-letter winners are headed by Dave Rankin, Warsaw Ind, all-America football end and track star, and Mike Byelene, Massillon, O., who scintillated on both the gridiron and diamond. The other five two-sport men are Al Rossi, Pekin, Il, football and wrestling; Forest Weber, Plainfield, Ind., basketball and track; Si ai Mich es nd ps th: aed Chall a y y vy and football, an inson, 111, football and basketball, ERS oueL Mtn

When the fighters step over to toe the resin before the main go Friday night two of the oldest and shrewdest managers in the game will face each other across the diagonal. One is Nate Lewis of Chicago who handles Leo Rodak, a lightweight contender, and who although he has handled many fighters, some of them great, has never guided a champion. The other is a champion. He is Johnny Coulon, manager of Sicilia, who was Bantamweight king of the World from 1907 to 1914. : Coulon claims he will be in a tough spot . Friday night as both Rodak and Sicilia have grown up

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others. He has never been knocked off his feet. Lewis’s career dates beyond the days when Joe Gans was lightweight king and it was against this “Old Master” that Nate sent his first boy. He was a kid named Herman and Gans gave him the works in the eighth. But that was only the beginning. : Next came a featherweight with a hardy punch whose name was Charley White. White knocked Benny Leonard out of the ring and it looked for a few fleeting seconds as though Lewis had his champion but Benny came back to win. Lewis has the distinction of managing three challengers at the same

under him. Both boys boxed for the one time bantam king when : | he was promoting in Chicago. Aithough it almost breaks his heart, Coulon admits Sicilia is no boxer. But, he adds, he is one of the hardest punchers at his weight. His fighter has won 85 out of 100 : fights. Dumping such men as Ever- :

Wilson, Phil Zwick, Lloyd Pine, : Willie Joyce, Pete Lello and many :

Johnny Coulon.

dleweight and bantamweight but none materialized. 5 He had White in the lightweight class, George “Greek” Brown iu the middleweight ranks and Pal Moore in the bantam division, It was Brown of whom they tell how he once read a headline in a Chicago paper “Yale Beats Brown.” He rushed into the sports department with fire in his eyes. “That’s a lie—I never fought a guy named Yale,” he said. So for forty years Lewis has looked for title—a title which maybe this time Rodak will bring him.

time. One in the lightweight, mid-

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Conn seem to have reversed roles

Rigney Awaiting Deferment Okeh

CHICAGO, June 11 (U.P.).—John Dungan. - Rigney, Chicago White Sox pitcher, hoped today that a 60day draft deferment granted by his local board be upheld by National Selective Service officials at Washington. The action of the local hoard in granting Rig-

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ney’s request was challenged by State draft officials who re-. ferred the case to national headquarters. Cook * County Draft Board : Rigney No. 6 had scheduled Rigney for Army induction on June 20 but granted his appeal for postponement. Rigney said his request was based on “financial reasons.” Rigney, 26, is unmarried. He is engaged to Miss Dorothy Coniiskey, daughter of the late White Sox owner, Louis J. Comiskey,

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Joe Gives Interview--That Means He's Mad; And That Means Conn Is in for Trouble

and had to pital. . : - 3 7 It’s ‘true that Conn has been talking a lot about the coming joust with Louis, He has said that Joe is dumb and slow, that he has to go to his corner between rounds to obtain advice because he is incapable of .changing his plan of attack when the action is going on. Conn has threatened to pepper the champion with left hooks and left jabs, make him look ridiculous and then, after 15 rounds, lift the

By HARRY USON ~ United Press ‘Editor : ‘NEW YORK, June 11.—Things began to look pretty bad today for Billy Conn, the Pittsburgh light heavyweight who goes into the Polo Grounds a week from tonight in an attempt to win the heavyweight championship. -Joe Louis gave off a sensational interview consisting of the following five words: “That Conn talks too much.” ‘Whenever the Brown Bomber. gives off an interview it means (A) that he is talking - about fried - chicken or . (B) that he is talking about box-

be taken toa -hos-

Louis listened to that kind of talk for some time and didn’t lose his temper. He continued to give off his standard-brand interview which runs something like this:

A—MMMM., How do you feel?

ner! A--Chicken. ; Q—What round are you going fo knock him out in?

day Louis demonstrated how he feels about the Conn fight. He WAS into s g partners

heavyweight crown from his head..

Q—You going to win this fight, Joe?

—Good. QO What did you have for din-

MMMM, ; Up at Greenwood Lake yester-

savage training workout ‘he has shown since he was getting in shape for the second Schmeling " fight. Wearing big 16-ounce training gloves, he almost knocked out George Fitch. 0 It would be sound strategy for Louis to run out and try to give Conn the business in the first round. Billy, a slow starter, can’t punch hard enough to ‘hurt the champion and Louis could wade in without risking much . more than a couple of cuts. On the other hand, if he lets Conn get warmed up and confident, he is liable to discover that Billy will be elusive target for:15 rounds. Louis also is likely to find out that Conn has a hook and a jab hat can pile up points - pretty

So it looks Hike things will be over pretty quick next Wednesday or else there will be a new cham2» PERRY

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It’s Conn Who Is Confident and Louis Who Is Hard at Work

CUDDY

United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 11.—Champion Joe Louis and Challenger Billy

as they prepare to battle for the

heavyweight crown at the Polo Grounds a week from tonight. The sharply contrasting and unexpected attitudes of the two principals at their camps headlight training activities for this $500,000 brawl and leave the investigator a bit bewildered

At beautiful Greenwood Lake, Brown-skinned Louis is working with a fervor that verges on desperation—working harder and more seriously than he did as challenger for Jim Braddock’s crown. This, despite the fact that he is making his 18th title defense and has stoked six fights under his belt since December. Meanwhile, under the maples and elms at Pompton Lakes, handsome young Conn goes about his duties with the cocky sangfroid one might expect in a man who already wears the ring’s most coveted diadem. Not that the Pittsburgh whirlwind is slighting his duties. No, indeed,

but there’s none of the grim con-

centration at merry Pompton that one finds at Greenwood.

He’s Not Whistling in Dark The Carefree confidence that per-

meates Conn’s camp is somewhat flabbergasting | when: one realizes

'|that this fair-skinned, tousle-haired

Irish youngster—scarcely more than a light heavy--is prepping for the dreaded Detroit dynamiter, history’s most destructive heavyweight whose very presence has left many an opponent frozen with fright. -This cock-sure attitude is no act —no whistling past the graveyard. The challenger’s entire entourage backs its confidence with cash and spreads the gospel of Conn as far as press wires and radio can reach. This is a major reason why the betting, . which. opened weeks "ago with Louis favored at 5-1, has been hammered down to 13-5, and why 50 many experts are swarming onto

the Conn bandwagon. -| AS

Conn seeks for speed—and more speed—in his waltzing feet

358 and lancing jabs, Louis is grimly

tamping his dynamite — readying the explosive punches with which

pet. |he hopes to blast the challenger’s 363 ambitions in short order. Not since

jolting Joe- trained for his: second bout with Max Schmeling. three years ‘ago has he been so savage in his sparring sessions. His human punching bags certainly are earning their money this time. The dead-panned Detroit Negro smashes them about the ring mercilessly.

Joe Is Sharp

Despite all the reports that Louis, at 27, is humming down the toboggan, the world champion stil] is one fighting man, Rumors that Louis’ zest for the game was gone because of his wealth and because of the constant training grind in his recent “bum-of-the-month” campaign are not true. the. bomber thrown himself into prepping with more qager earnestness. And never . he seemed more fit. He's as sharp as the razor that did the tatting on trainer Jack Blackburn's brown cheek many years ago. Louis seems so sharp right now that the experts who watched his six rounds yesterday believe he is at his peak. And they wonder how he can carry out the strenuous duties mapped for him until next Tuesday without going stale— and leaving his fight in the camp. However, his handlers do not share this fear. Theyre grimly de-

pass. They'll grind him down to 200 pounds, and send him in to blaze away with both guns at the fastest and smartest heavy challenger since the great Jim Corbett.

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Home Runs and

Hurling Hoist

Those Yankees

~ They've Already Hit 54 Round-Trippers

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 11.—

baseball that’s unbeatable— home run power and pitching. The Yankees have the home run punch and it begins to look as if they’re going to get the pitching. That’s why the smart boys still back them to

|win the pennant. ; Demonstrating the aforementioned

winning combination yesterday, the Yankees thumped the White Sox, 8-3, and moved into undisputed possession of second place. Frankie Crosetti hit a homer with the bases loaded—his first this season—and Charlie Keller hit No. 10 with a mate on. Those two punches accounted for six runs, which is something less than par for the course. Rookie Steve Peek from Newark held the White Sox to one hit for eight innings before having a brief letdown in the ninth. Chicago rapped him for five singles and three runs in that frame but he showed enough stuff, including a baffling knuckle ball, to indicate that he will play a prominent role in tightening

the Yankee pitching staff for the chase of the league-leading Indians.

Cleveland Has 42

The Yankees have hit 10 homers in their last four games, giving them 54 in 51 games played. No other club can match that. Cleveland, for instance, has only 42 homers in 55 games. Here's the Yankees’ individual record: DiMaggio, 11; Keller, 10; Henrich, 9; Gordon, 8; Dickey, 4; Selkirk, 4; Rolfe, 2; Crosetti, Sturm, Rosar, Priddy, Ruffing and Rizzuto, one each. Cleveland held its four-game lead when Bob Feller pitched his eighth straight victory and 13th of the season, downing Washington, 4-1. He allowed only. four hits, fanned six and walked three. It was the Tribe’s fifth straight. Detroit scored a last-ditch victory over the Athletics, 4-3, but lost the services of Catcher Birdie Tebbetts for several weeks when a foul tip broke a finger on his right hand. Trailing, 3-2, in the ninth, the Tigers scored two runs on McCosky’s double and singles by Mullin and Gehringer.. Tommy Bridges fanned 14 men in 7% innings, but lost his stuff in the eighth and had to come out.

Dodgers Snap Back

The Browns-Red Sox night game was rained out. Long Lon Warneke yielded a single to Emmett Mueller, first man to face him, and then held the Phils hitless the rest of the route as the Cardinals shut out the tail-enders, 3-0, and held their one-game National League lead. It was Warneke’s seventh victory. Brooklyn came ouf of its slump with a 4-3 victory over the Pirates. Manager Leo Durocher came off the bench to play shortstop in place of Peewee Reese, and made two singles. Freddy Fitzsimmons, making his second start of the season, blanked the Pirates until the eighth when Arky Vaughan homered with two mates on. Frank McCormick’s three doubles paced the Reds to a 4-3 victory over the Braves, and elevated the world

Cincinnati's fifth = straight . Johnny Vander Meer fanned eight and allowed’ nine hits in winning his sixth triumph.

an 11-0 victory behind Verne Olsen’s seven-hit pitching. Hank Leiber homered with the bases loaded and Bill Nicholson hit No. 12 with two on. Bill McGee was knocked out of the box for his sixth straight defeat as a Giant.

Jersey. City Gets Bauers From Bucs

‘Russ Bauers, :big righthand pitcher of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has been optioned to Jersey. City of the In-

{ternational League subject to recall

‘on 24 hours notice, the: Pittsburgh baseball club announced today. Bauers, who gave promise of fire-

wildness, has been with the Pirates since 1937. In the last two seasons he won only one game.

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Sergeant Is Mat Wi at Winner With several of the visiting Shriners in attendance at the ringside and one of their number, Man Mountain Dean, acting as referee for one of the three houts on the program, the weekly wrestling bill

was staged at Sports Arena last night, in spite of rain laden: clouds

any moment. fall fracas.

minutes and three minutes, respectively. presses to win both falls, : _ Coach Billy Thom, Indiana University mat. mentor, employed a step-over toe hold: to subdue Jules (Speedy) LaRance of Canada, in the semi-windup after 25 minutes of rough tussling. ; Man Mountain Dean handled this one. The opening clash resulted in a draw between Davy Reynolds of Idaho, and Jack Hagen of New York. It was an all-lightheavyweight card.

Softball Tourneys Set for August

SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 11 (U. P.) —The eighth annual tournament of the Amuteur Softball Association of Indiana will be conducted in 32 centers during the month of August, Jack Ledden, association commissioner, announced today. Ledden said tournament centers and managers would be announced soon. : .

The Cubs battered the Giants’ for | . §

Betty Berg of Minneapolis, medalist in the Women’s Western Open at Cincinnati, takes time out for refreshments with Mrs. Jake Searl, whom Patty defeated in the opening of match play. Patty’s sub-par 71 set a new course record and tied the all-time tournament low for a

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Favorites Show

Way on Links

CINCINNATI, June 11 (U. P.)— Favorites led the way into the second round of the 12th annual Golf

Women’s Western Open Championship today.

Patty Berg of Minneapolis and Helen Dettweiler of Washington, D..

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Patty Takes Time Out

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| This Evening

Then the Redskins Move Into West

It’s Ray Starr’s turn again after resting all of two days and he'll be out there on the Tribe mound tonight exercising his iron arm against the Kansas City Blues. The veteran 'righthander will be shooting for his 11th victory of the ‘| season and hopes to give the fans another rare perfermance in the art of baffling hitters. Tonight’s game—free to women— will close out the Tribe’s home stand and the road trip coming up, starting in St. Paul, will keep the Indians in enemy territory until Saturday, June 28, when Toledo invades Perry Stadium. After tonight the Redskins will | make a complete tour of the American Association, Playing in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City,: Milwaukee, Louisville, Toledo and Colum=us.

Blues Win on Seven Hits

Last night the Blues defeated the Tribe, 4 to 1, on seven hits, and | Italo Chelini lost a tough one. As a matter of fact he was defeated in the first inning when Kansas City scored two markers on three hits, including Hitchcock’s double. : Runs tallied by the Blues in the fifth and eighth were unearned, Tribe errors figuring in the scoring, the markers drifting in after the side should have been retired. The Indians collected nine hits, all singles, as usual. It’s about the weakest team in power that has represented Indianapolis for some time. Wise to the Tribe’s shortage of players who can bang out an extra-base wallop occasionally, the

which threatened a downpour at

The main event was captured by the flashy Detroit Marine, Sergt. Bob Kenaston, who downed Frankie Talaber, light-heavyweight, after dropping the first fall of their threeThe Windy City grappler won the opening session in 30 minutes with a double reverse toe hold, but was outroughed by Kenaston in the last two cantos when the latter ended the msatch in 12

The Marine . used body

C., both soared six over par yesterday to win their first round 18-hole matches. Miss Berg, who won the

weiler defeated Mrs. George Wilcox of Miami, Fla., 5 and 4.

champion from San Antonio, and Virginia Guilfoil, Buffalo, twice tournament champion, both won their matches easily.

Motorcycle Race (Carded Sunday

The Midwest Motorcycle Club of Indianapolis will hold the season’s first motorcycle sports event Sunday in the form of a tourist-trophy race at Tracy Farm, 12 miles south of the city on Road 135. The four-tenths mile course, oil treated and dust free, is laid out in a series of curves, hills and natural hazards, and all of the track is visible from any point. Eight events are planned for novice, amateur and expert riders with the tourist trophy offered for the final race of 15 laps in which only riders who have won previous events will participate. The race is under sanction of the contest board of the American Motorcycle Association and will be electrically timed. :

medal with a sub-par 71, won 4 and 3 over Mrs. Jake Searl of] Cuyahoga Falls, O., while Miss Dett-.

Betty Jameson, national amateur!

‘| rival clubs are playing ’em that way

and it’s now a problem for Tribe runners to take an extra base on a single.

Reis Halts Threats

The Indians got their lone run last night in the first stanza on a walk to Zientara, Hunt's single and Lewis’ looper single in short right. After that Tom Reis, Kansas City pitcher, always a Tribe nemesis, dished out goose eggs, always having enough on the ball to quell threats, and not a single Tribe runner got beyond second the remainder of the game, ; The four hits obtained by Bennie Zientara in the Boston Red Sox exhibition game Monday failed to lift him out of his American Association batting slump. Up three times last night without a hit, the second sacker now has been held hitless in his last 20 official plate

| appearances.

But Bennie hit in bad luck against the Blues, and that’s something. It’s possible he’s gradually overcoming the jinx. In the fifth inning Shortstop Hitchcock made a circus catch on Zientara’s bid ‘for. a blow, and in the eighth the same Hitchcock made a one-handed stab on Bennie’s drive in deep short and got the throw to first in time for the out, : Buster Mills led the Blues’ attack with three safeties, including a double. : “3 In 12 games during the curren home stand the Indians have split even and the fiinale tonight is No. (Continued on Page Seven)

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