Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1941 — Page 25
| FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941
SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
CURFEW shall not ring tonight . . . curses! ... Only three afternoon games in the big leagues today, the rest at night . . . four under the lights, no less, two in the National, two in the American, two teams idle in the National. . . . Moon Over Baseball! Add Moon Over Baseball: All American Association games at night, too, making eight in the three leagues in one day. ... Ranks of baseball widows growing. : : On Wednesday the White Sox and Washington battled 13 innings. « « « Yesterday they extended the overtime to 16 innings. . . . Calls
for a walkout. Boy, are the three races torrid, National, American, American Association! . . . Now you're up, iow you're down, in the first divisions of each circuit. . .. A thousand regrets that Indianapolis is a weak link in the frenzied A. A. race. . . . More Ray Starrs and distance
hitters, please. © When the Tribesters return home tomorrow night the fans will
get their first look at Collegian Eddie Shokes, first sacker, who joined
the team on the road. ... He's fresh out of Duke University, where
oli# played rah, rah baseball under old Jack Coombs, one of Connie - Mack’s mound immortals.
The Redskins launch their longest home stand of the season under the lights tomorrow, camping at Perry Stadium through July 34. . .. Rivals will appear here in the order named, Toledo, Columbus, Louisville, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Hya, Fred! and Hya, Jess, Too IN THE Toledo series, Indianapolis fans will be interested in the reappearance of Fred Haney on the Mud Hens’ coaching lines. . . , He's an old A. A. figure, first as a third sacker for the Hoosier pennant winners of 1928 and later as Toledo’s pilot. . . . Then to the St. Louis Browns as manager and now back at the Mud Hen helm, Also with Toledo is none other than Jess Newman, former Indianapolis first sacker, traded to St. Paul early in 1940, and recently traded by the Saints to the Mud Hens, , . . But Newman is now a third sacker and is getting away with it. . .. The Hens obtained him to add batting punch to their infield.
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8 8 = Case» IMMORTAL is the name for Augie Galan in the baseball record book. . . . His name's in there as long as they print books. . . . Some time his record for not hitting into double plays might be tied. . .. They'll never beat it. Nimble-footed switch hitter of the 1935 Chicago Cubs in their rush to the pennant, Augie played in every Cub game of the season, right through the 21-straight winning streak, and not only hit .314 but at no time in any game did he hit into a double play. . . . When
ero is perfect, how can it get beat?
‘McGinnis Recalls Fight With Ketchel
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO a fight manager used oxygen on his boy between rounds in a bout held in Wisconsin, . , . It was announced as an “innovation” and boxing commissions were consulted to decide if the “innovation” was okay. . . . The question apparently was left in abeyance. At any rate, comes Hugh McGinnis, Indianapolis, disputing the use of oxygen in fights as an “innovation.” . . . McGinnis says when ‘he fought Stanley Ketchel, the old middleweight champ, May 18, 3909, in Pittsburgh, his seconds trundled an oxygen tank to his corner and handed him the.hose between heats. : 3 “Maybe I was Kid Hubert that night 33 years ago,” said McGinnis, “or maybe I was Hugh McGann. I used both names when I fought professionally.” a It was a six-round, no-decision bout,’and Hugh remembers going through the ropes twice. . . . “We battled toe-to-toe and as I recall it, .one newspaper called it for Ketchel, the others called it a draw.”
8 s ” ” s 2 WHEN KETCHEL fought McGinnis he was prepping for a champlonship heavyweight match with Jack Johnson. . . . Ketchel was growing out of the middleweight class that year and took on all comers. . . . After meeting McGinnis he knocked out Tony Caponi fn four rounds, flattened Philadelphia Jack O’Brien in three, decisioned Billy Papke in 20 . . . all in the same year. Then on Oct. 16, 1909, Ketchel clashed with Johnson ai Colma, Cal, and was knocked out in 12-rounds. i :
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Nova and Baer Are Contenders
" MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 27 (U. P.)—Lou Nova, California’s exponent of the Billy Conn, Pittsburgh, were classed as “logical contenders” for the heavyweight boxing title
Boxing Association, announced today. , Fred Saddy, chairman of the association’s rating committee,
Joe Louis won the title in 1937. Buddy Baer and Abe Simon, who lost recent fights with Louis, were
American title. : In the honorable mention group were Arturo Godoy, Lem Franklin, Bob Pastor, Max Baer, Red Burman, Tony Schucco, Roscoe Toles,
Savold. The championship ratings were unchanged in all other divisions excepting the light heavyweight class where Gus Lesnevich, New Jersey, replaced A n t o n Christofordis, Greece. Christofordis was listed
Jimmy Webb, Jimmy Bivins, Len Harvey and Tami Mauriello,
Amateur Notes
SOFTBALL STADIUM
A. PF. of L. turned on the big guns last night with home runs by Fisher and Hootin to take Kingan A. A. out of a three-way tie for first with a T-to-5 victory. Mallory 1001 Club swamped Indpls. St. Railways, 22 to ng Hot Point defeated Big Four,
Schedule for Em-Roe Girls State
League for rest of week: Tonight—R. C. A. Girls vs. Hoosier A. C. at Speedway Stadium. Saturday—Gas City vs. Kokomo Girls at Kokomo. Sunday—Kokomo Girls vs. Hoosier A. C. at ‘Speedway Stadium. Z
Schedule for Bush-Feezle Commercial League tonight at Softball
Stadium: 7:00 P. M.—Gem Coal vs, J. 8. C. Has P. M.—Seven Up vs. Holcomb Ponaes. x oo 2 Stewari-Warner vs. Schoettles Mar-
Schedule for Em-Roe Mercantile
| Friday Night League at Stout Sta-
dium:
7:00—R. R. Savings & Loan Ass'n. vs. Citizens Gas.
8:15—Fire Dept. vs. George J. Mayer. 9:30—Beveridge Paper vs. Hall Neal Fur-
nace. Results in Em-Roe Industrial League at Stout Stadium last night: Stock Yards, 9; L. S. Ayres, 1. Metal Auto Parts, 8; Crescent Paper, 2.
J. D. Adams, 13; Gibson Co., 10.
South Side Merchants will play Castleton Merchants at Garfield Park Sunday in the first game of a double-header. The initial game starts at 1:30 p. m. and they will meet the Irvington Merchants in the second at 3:30 p. m.
Labor Temple will play at Anderson Saturday night. All players are to contact the manager.
Hunt Battles Davis For Finalist Right
HAVERFORD, Pa., June 27 (U. P.) —Top-seeded Joe. Hunt of the Naval Academy battles Joe Davis of Vanderbilt at the Merion Cricket Club today for the right to meet Ted Olewine of Southern California for the 57th National Intercollegiate tennis championship. ?
day by defeating Bill Canning of California. The Trojan won by scores of 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Larry Dee and Jim Wade of Stanford meanwhile advanced to the semi-finals in defense of the doubles title by eliminating Bill Gifford and Ken Randall of Cornell,
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Frankie Stranahan, who also dabbles in weight lifting, belts prodigious drives. The 18-year-olé¢ Toledo lad won the TransMississippi 36-hole final in St. Louis with a first round of 64— just 8 under par. He won, 6 and 5.
Fight Pictures At Fountain Sq.
The Fountain Square Theater announces the showing of the complete pictures of the Joe Louis-Billy Conn heavyweight fight. The 12th and 13th rounds are shown in slow motion. The fight films will be shown tomorrow, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
‘Wait for Me, Joe,’ Nova Tells Louis
NEW YORK, June 27 (NEA).— A score or more who have had a whirl with Joe Louis will testify that Lou Nova made a silly reiquest when, after being introduced before the Billy Conn fight, he stopped in the champion’s corner, and cautioned: “Wait for me, Joe. Wait for me.” Well, he asked for it, and will get it in September. Nova was among the embarrassed prognosticators leaving the Polo Grounds the other night. He maintained Conn had no license to be-in the same inclosure with Louis, that the Irish kid wouldn’t be around at the end of five rounds. Conn returns the compliment by predicting that , Nova won't survive the first heat. But a lot of smart boxing men like the
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Sewell Wanted To Be Manager
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, June 27.—Luke Sewell’s decision to cut himself adrift from the league-leading Cleveland Indians three weeks ago and strike out on his own with the lowly St. Louis Browns has puzzled a lot of baseball’s heavy thinkers. “Why would Sewell give up a soft job as Cleveland coach at $8000 a year and a swell change, at a $5000 World Series cut to take one of the biggest headaches in baseball?” That’s what the boys along the baseball rialto were asking. Sewell, making his first visit to New York in his new role of pilot of the Browns, clears away & lot of the mystery surrounding his sudden decision to transfer from a firstplace to a last-place club. “A lot of people have wondered whether my decision to leave Cleveland to take -over the managerial job with the Browns meant I didn’t think the Indians would win the pennant,” Sewell said. “Well, I'll say frankly that I didn’s even consider the Cleveland situation in making my decision to accept the Browns’ job. It wouldn't have been fair to myself to have entertained any such question as whether the Indians would win or
Promotion and Opportunity
“My whole decision was based on, first, whether I wanted to manage and second whether I could get an opportunity under circumstances agreeable to me. Don Barnes called me one day at noon, and I went to St. Louis and by the next day at noon I had made up my mind. I decided I wanted to try my hand at managing and the proposition offered me was attractive. So I accepted because I considered it a promotion and an opportunity.” Sewell was cagey when questioned about whether he thought his former teammates would win the pennant. i “It looks like it’s going to be
“Cleveland has the best pitching staff, I guess, because they've got Feller, the majors’ best pitcher. But did you ever stop to think if a .500 pitcher was traded off any one of four or five other clubs to the Indians for Feller, what would happen? Well, I can tell you that the club that got Feller would be up there battling for the pennant.
‘Feller Is Their Staff’
“There was one stretch in early June where the Indians went 12 games without anybody winning for them except Feller, but he won four games. That kept them from falling apart. He probably could make a championship outfit out of the Red Sox, Yanks or Tigers and 1 think even the Browns, with our punch, could go a long way with Feller pitching every fourth day.” Sewell said that he'd been somewhat disappointed in the Cleveland pitching staff as the general outlook in the spring was for superior pitching. 3 “But the Cleveland pitchers outside Feller haven't looked too good lately,” he said. “What would happen if Feller had to go to the army in August?” “Well, I think it'll be very dangerous for the Indians unless they build up a good lead between now and then,” Sewell replied. “You've got to recognize the fact staring you in the face that Feller is the Cléve-
California collegian’s chance.
land pitching staff.
Which Usually
By ART KRENZ NEA Service Golf Writer From the top of the baekswing down to the hitting area the club has been. speeded up gradually through a combination of a turn of the body and the sweeping down of the arms. Hands are now ready to start whipping the clubhead through. The lateral hip shift has taken place. The left leg is beginning to brace to take the impact of the stroke. “Here one of the most common faults takes place,” points out Wild Bill Mehlhorn. “The hips are turned to the left too soon. ““This is due to overeagerness - + . trying to hit too hard and too quickly.” The hips should not be completely turned toward the left be-
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Thom Wrestles Again Against Talaber
Although Coach Billy Tho had three chances at Jas aber and has been defeated each time out, the Indiana. University wrestling. coach has been given abosher match with the Windy City ar. The two light heavyweights will headline the outdoor mat bill next
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Thom faced Talaber twice during the indoor season and was beaten both times. They met again last Tuesday and Talaber gained the only fall in a 90 minute tussle, thereby tossing Billy for a third loss. Thom figures this can’t go on forever and admits he is smarting under tke collar because of the
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