Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1941 — Page 6
SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
A STIRRING battle for base hits. is promised when the big leaguers stage their All-Star game in Detroit next Tuesday and the fans who will pack Briggs Stadium are sure to get their fill of entertainment in the art of rapping the horsehide high and far away. Joe DiMaggio, by virtue of his spectacular consecutive-game hitting in the past few weeks, has become the sensation of the baseball world . . . but there are other top flight hitters in both major loops and they will be on hand in Tigertown Tuesday to share the lime-
light with Jolting doe.
Mentioning a few, Ted Williams of the Réd Sox, Jeff Heath of Cleveland, Rudy York of Detroit, Roy Cullenbine of the Browns, Pete Reiser of Brooklyn and Johnny Mize of the Cardinals. . . . They
- really form a Hit Parade.
At the moment Williams is the leading American League swatsmith in the averages. and large Johnny Mize has wrested the National League lead from young Reiser of the Dodgers. Mize’s spurt to the top in the senior circuit is no startling news. « « «» He has been a member of the coveted circle of sluggers practically from the first season in the majors, or 1936,
when he joined
the Cards. . . . He holds a life-
time major league mark of .339, and once, in 1939, annexed the National loop’s batting champion-
ship.
In his first big league year Mize whacked the
ball at a formidable .329 average . . .
and the fol-
lowing year racked up the highest average of his career, a sizzling .364, but only got runner-up
honors to teammate Joe Medwick.
« +» In 1938,
large Johnny got by Medwick, but Ernie Lombardi of the Cincy Reds nosed him out of the batting championship by three points, .342 to .339. In 1939, Mize chalked up a .349 mark and
Mize
grabbed the hitting crown . . . and added the
National League home-run championship to his record by collect-
ing 28.
Last year the Cardinals’ first sacker dropped in pace to 314 but picked up in home runs and cracked out 43 to lead both major
leagues in this department.
Millers Win Despite Bad Breaks
A BLOW over the eye from a pitched ball suffered by Mickey Owen, Brooklyn catcher, in Monday’s game with Philadelphia, had
some dire effects on the Minneapolis Millers also. .
. « To replace
Owen, the Dodgers recalled Angelo Giuliani, who has been going great guns for {Tom Sheehan’s
‘pennant-hungry Millers.
Giuliana is going from one flag race into another, departing the league-leading Millers to join the Dodgers in their bristling battle with the
Cardinals. .
dianapolis Indians when Cincinnati
Chuck Aleno. | Giuliana was batting 315 for
. « Now the Millers feel like the In-
recalled
Minneapolis,
caught 24 consecutive games, and according to
Minneapolis baseball scribes, much of the success of the Miller pitching staff has been his.
5 . Owen Giuli-
ani’s departure left the Millers with only one available catcher at the time, Otto Denning, who had been playing first base since the military draft took Zeke Bonura away from the team. You’ll have to give the Millers credit for the fight they are putting up despite the loss of two key stars like heavy-hiting Zeke and
the hustling Angelo.
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Jake is Tall Frog in Little Pond
OF ALL THINGS! ...
Jake Wade, the southpaw who started the
current season with Indianapolis and whose brother, Ben, is still pitching for the Indians, bids fair to do an about-face after all these
years.
He’s down in the little minors, in the Class D Coastal Plain League, serving as pitcher-pilot for New Bern, N. C. The Sporting News’ corréspondent at New Bern gives Jake a boost in this fashion: “Recently signed as pitcher-manager, Wade has won four straight. In those games, Jake fanned 43 men and walked only seven. Winning in Class D is one thing and winning in Double-A " or the majors is another, but Jake looks like a new man. “The tall left-hander was born at Morehead City, 36 miles east
pitches.”
: of New Bern, and many home folks are on hand every time he
The Coastal Plain is an eight-club league and Jake's team is in
sixth place.
Baseball At
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College Tennis
MONTCLAIR, N, J. July 3 (U. P.) —Defending Champion George Toley of Southern California moved into the fourth round of the Annual Eastern Intercollegiate Varsity Singles Tennis Tournament yester-
day with a straight set victory over Revaend Meats of Muhlenberg,
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STRIP SHINGLES,
on : finals from a hospital bed.
Bartell, 33 Hale, 33
fall into the second division, but to
Willie’s castoffs, particularly a the eye.
latter a human bandage, are 32.
anti-draft team. Perhaps that is the last.
Jurges, 33 Whitehead, 31
Pros Divide Western Title
Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 3.— Their wallets bulging with firstprize money from the Western Indiana Open Golf Tournament, Frank Champ of Bedford and Bill Heinlein of Noblesville were en route to Denver today for the next week’s national P. G. A. meet, In too much of a hurry to wait for a playoff, the two professionals split the top cash after finishing with identical 142’s in the 36-hole tournament yesterday. Champ had a 70 total on the morning round and a 72 in the afternoon, while Heinlein's scores were reversed. Third place in the tournament and first place in the amateur division was taken by Dick Taylor of Lafayette, whose one-under-par 71 in the afternoon gave him a 144 total. Right behind him came Charles Harter, Indianapolis amateur, who produced a 74-71—145. Wayne Timberman, pro at the Meridian Hills course in Indianapolis, carded a 148 to finish in a four-way tie for eighth place. The second flight among the amateurs was won by Waynes Carrico of Terre Haute. It was a two-foot putt he blew that actually cost Champ first place. He missed the shot on No. il on the second round after being
‘one under par for the first nine.
His 70 on the morning round was best score reported. Heinlein fought back into a tie with a birdie on the 17th. He was two-under-par for the entire 18hole afternoon journey,
Johnny Ray Gets A Good Trimming
PITTSBURGH, July 3 A) It’s one trimming after other for Johnny Ray, manager of Billy\ Conn. Ray figured he was
trimmed when Conn grew careless against Joe Louis late in the 13th round. He was in a barber shop when word came that Lou Nova, not Conn, has been awarded a September match with Louis. Lucky for Ray, the tonsorial artist wasn’t using a razor when the little handler leaped angrily out
guilty of a frightful blunder when he let Bump Hadley go. fitted into the picture well at 37. Joe Orengo wasn’t hitting, but at 24, Terry probably figured he was too young to play the infield for this outfit, The New York's gravest danger is Johnny Rucker, the Georgia Express, running over one of the old-timers. The old blokes make no mistakes and the age limit makes this an
of the chair.
Hartnett, 40 Moore, 32
By LUTHER EVANS NEA Service Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 3.—If the Giants finish fourth, and they should, because there is nothing much to stuff into the second division of the National League, Willie Schaeffer ought to be named manager of the year. Schaeffer, the one-time lightweight who trains them, has managed to hold the Old Gentlemen of Upper Harlem together. Baseball men have been expecting the Polo Grounders not only to
fall gpart.
Of course, factories have been forced to work double shifts to furnish Schaeffer with sufficient tape, court plaster, rubbing liniment, vitamin pills and crutéhes for him to do the work.
pair of 33-year-olds named Richard
Bartell and Odell Hale, are among the principal reasons why the gaffers from the lee of Coogan’s Bluff are not looking the futile Phillies in
Carl Hubbell is winning and is still something of a meal ticket at 38. Walter Brown, the Moose, is 34.
Mel Ott and Joe Moore, the Frank Demaree is 31. Hadley
Bill Terry's idea. A strategist to
Mel Ott, 32 Demaree, 31
Amateur Notes
The Delaware Flower Shop softball team has reorganized and will be known as the Indiana Commercials. The team is undefeated in league play.
Glenns Valley will practice Friday at 5:30 p. m. Mars Hill A. C. team will play Glenns Valley at 2:30 p. m. Sunday.
Fall Creek Athletics will play an exhibition game tomorrow at Beech Grove at 2:30 p. m. Players are requested to report at 1 p. m.
George J. Mayer, Majestic League leader, took a 9-8 defeat from Domont Beverage in the feature game last night at Speedway Stadium,
Mitchell A. C. players will meet at 308 W. 21st St. at 11 a. m. tomorrow for their trip to the Frankfort tournament,
Em-Roe July 4th Girls Tourna-
ment at Zionsville: p. m. R. C. A. vs. andor m. Hoosier A, C. vs.
Glass Shoy m. Kokomo Moose vs. Gary C. 0. P.
3p. Semi- finals will be held at 4 p. m. with the finals at 7 p. m. at Memorial Park, Lebanon. Em-Roe July 4th Tournament at Memorial Park, Lebanon: 9:30 a. m. Brosnan Tavern vs. Labor Temple. 10:30 a. m. Kingan Whitesox vs. Hoosier Veneer. 1 p. m. 2d Friends vs. Zionsville 2 i: m. Lebanon Canners vs. Riverside Bud ies. Semi-finals will be held at 3 and 4 p. m. with the finals at 8:30 p. m.
Schedule for tonight's games in the Bush-Feezle Manufacturers Softball League: 7:00—A of L. No. 165 vs. Hot Point.
IAs. St. Railways vs. nga A. A. 9:30—Local 1001 vs. vs. Big Fou
STOUT STADIUM
Results in last night's games: Riverside Park Buddies, 9; Wayne Park Garage, Labor 1] femple. 13; City Sanitation Pt, 2. Market, 5; Bridgeport, -Tonight’s schedule in the Evangelical and Reformed Softball League
at Longacre: 7:40—Friedens vs. Second Roiormed, 9:10—~Fenton vs. Immanuel
tcher Suspended
DURHAM, N. C, July 3 (U. P.). —Pitcher\ Julio Bonetti of Los Angeles in the Pacific Coast. League has been placed on baseball’s ineligible jist hy President W. G. Bramham of the National Association of Minor Leagues. Bramham charged that Bonetti has associated with gamblers.
Delco Remy of Logansport
DENVER, July 3 (U. P.).—Denny Shute, the doctor’s meal ticket, was ready today for the Professional Golfers Association 24th championship tournament.
Golfing time has been ‘ailment time for Shute, 36-year-old Chicagoan, more often than he cares to think about. Twice winner of the P. G. A, 0| Shute was ready to start match play in the tourney a year ago at Hershey, Pa., when pains shot through his side. Appendicitis, said the physicians. So they operated and Shute heard about Byron Nelsons 1-up victory.over Sam Snead in the
Then last winter Shute was getting ready for some earnest campaigning. But he had to have a cyst removed from his wrist and part of his shinbone grafted to it. That nealed and Shute once again put his golf sticks to work. Looking not at all like a convalescent and certainly not playing
MOTH HOLES REWOVEN LIKE NEW
Shute, Doctor's Meal Ticket, Is Ready for the P. G. A.
golf 'ike one, Shute banged out a 287 total in the recent National Open which was good enough for second money—he was beaten by Craig Wood, whose ailing back was |p encased in a wide polo belt while he played. Shute’s latest trip for medical attention was a minor one: He has just returned from the dentist where a bad tooth was yanked. “I'm glad that’s over,” he said. “Now for some golf.” "With Shute practicing on Cherry Hills Course, where the tournament will be played next week, were the first contingent of 117 of the nation’s best golfers. Already two score have begun warming on the 6888-yard layout. Ben Hogan, betting favorite at 6 to 1, has been scorching the course for several days. Ralph Guldahl, who won the National Open over the same course in 1938, shot a sub par 70 yesterday.
(Master a to the Last Out, Terry Gets a Decision Now and Then From His Nine Old (Anti-Draft) Men
Terry was .
Mr. Grodzicki Is a Magician, Or So Our Indians Say
The Indianapolis Indians were taken to the cleaners by the Columbus Red Birds again last night, but this time the visitors became more generous with their service and stored the Tribe’s bats away in moth balls. As a matter of fact, the Hoosiers not only were shut out, 10 to 0, but were held to one hit by Johnny Grodzicki of the Nanticoke, Pa., Grod4 zickis.
He is the same big lad—6 feet 1 inch of him and weighing 195 pounds—who held the futile Philadelphia Phillies to one hit in an early-season big league game While doing a stint for ; : the St. Louis Cardinals. The 24-year-old righthander toiled through 6% innings last night without giving up: a bingle, The spell ; was snapped in’ the seventh when: Kermit Lewis, Tribe right field-: er, poked a clean single to center. John Grodzicki With a no-hit game within his grasp, Grodzicki did not wilt after Lewis ruined it and went on to pitch beautiful ball the remainder of the game. Big Johnny was wild at the start of the game and walked Wayne Blackburn, first Indian hitter, on four wide pitches. His first two pitches to Ambler also were wide, after which he settled down and mowed ’em down. The Columbus star walked Blackburn again in the third, but affer that it was Katie-bar-the-door until Lewis got the Tribe's lone hit in the seventh. In six of the nine innings the Indians were retired in 1-2-3 order. Bennie Zientara led off the Tribe seventh and was tossed out by Bert Haas, third sacker. Allen Hunt hit a slow roller to Second Baseman George Myatt and with the pressure on, the Red Bird infielder bobbled it and Hunt was safe. The One ‘Fat’ Pitch
Then Grodzicki fried to catch Lewis off stride with a half-speed ball and Kermit lined it to a safe spot. When Grodzicki got through six innings of hitless ball, Manager Burt Shotton of the Birds withdrew Cow-
.
boy Jones from left field and re-|.
placed him with Carden Gillenwater, one of the best flychasers in the business. The Birds had six runs by then and Shotton decided to strengthen his defense to protect Grodzicki. And Gillenwater came through in the ninth with the most dazzling catch of the season at the Stadium. Zientara smacked one high and to deep left over Gillie’s head, but like a dog catching flies, the Columbus lad leaped, twisted in the air and then snapped at the falling horsehide—and it stuck in his glove. From “Sweet William” to “Bad Bill” is quite a turnover in baseball nicknames but Louisville’s Manager Burwell has accomplished just that, if you believe what you read in the papers. During Bill's long tenure as a pitcher for the Indianapolis Indians —and one of the best—he got out there and toiled and seldom raised his voice to umpires. As a matter of fact, Hoosier fans called him “Smiling Bill” Burwell. , But that was before he became a
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manager and got into the thick of a frenzied pennant race. And just the other night the former “Sweet William” kicked over the traces around the home plate in Derbytown and was fined $50 and suspended indefinitely. The. old pressure gets ’em all in baseball. Bill's boys are only two
games behind the league-leading
Minneapolis Millers and any kind of a close decision against his team is hard to take. Tonight’s contest at the Tribe park will get under way at 8:30 and Bill Cux is slated to do the mound chores for the Redskins. Ray Starr, the Tribe's ace, is on the shelf recovering from a bad summer cold. A double-header is scheduled tomorrow, both tilts in the afternoon for the price of one admission. The first fracas of the holiday attraction
oe and Youth Are Served
By UNITED PRESS Age and youth both were served in the American Association last night. Served were young John Grodzicki of Columbus and Old Elon Hogsett of Minneapolis. They pitched a one-hit ball games. Hogsett had
ball for eight innings and had retired two Kansas City Blue batters in the ninth when his almost-perfect game was spoiled by a line drive which put Buster Mills on first. The Millers won the game, 6 to 0, and ! mov. a note nearer the all-star Elon Hogsett game while the Blues slipped to fourth place. Hogsett, one of the Association’s oldest pitchers, fanned 12 and
walked five. Grodzicki had his no-hitter
spoiled in the seventh inning when Kermit Lewis of Indianapolis pounded a single into left field. Louisville held its position in second by nosing out the Toledo Mud Hens, 7 to 6. Bill Butland struck out 11 Toledo batters although scattering nine hits. St. Paul battered the Milwaukee Brewers again last night and won, 12 to 4. The Brewers got 11 hits from two St. Paul pitchers but a big sixth inning in which they pounded Frank Makosky for seven runs cinched the games for the Saints.
Western Golfers Begin Matches
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, July 3 (U, P.).—Match play began today in the 42d Western Amateur Golf Championship with a small band of collegians forming a dark horse phalanx. Five Stanford University students had qualified gover the mountaincradled = Bro oor «Course and three: of them were within five strokes of the /medalist, big Harry Todd, of Dallas; Tex., who had a one over par 141 for the 36 holes. They were strong contenders for the crown of Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spokane, Wash., who qualified with 142 and who, with Todd, is cofavorite. Todd, winner of the Western title two years ago, today meets Lman Wright, Colorado Spring, who had a 152 to qualify. Ward meets Rodney Bliss, Omaha, a tournament veteran who qualified with 150.
Three Events on
Golfing Program
Three events comprise the holiday week-end golfing program at the Meridian Hills Country Club. Tomorrow members will compete in the annual Flag Day tournament, with prizes going to the five best scorers. On Saturday the Meridian Hills team will meet Hillcrest in a match at the former course. . A special tournament for members will be conducted tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday by pro Wayne Timberman. This event will be for 18 holes on a full handicap. The player having the lowest new score for any one round will win a com-
is to start at 1:30.—(E. A.)
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Real Winners Are Those Who Didn’t Go
By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 8.—The real winner of last night's
thousands upon thousands of fans who had sense enough te stay away from the Pole Grounds.
For everyone else it was A double-barreled disappoints
ment. : Promoter Mike Jacobs took ® worse beating than Private Bummy Davis, who suffered a technical blocking Weltétweight Champion schnozzola all evening. Summed up, this scheduled 12« round mon-title bout was probably, the most complete fiasco in the hise tory of the “big time” outdoor New a (York boxing. The fight was a lop-sided dud, and the surprisingly small gather ing of 8968 fans contributed a gate of only $36,185 for the questionable privilege of witnessing it. These figures proved a solare plexus punch to Promoter Jacobs® pocketbook. He had guaranteed the Army Relief Society $10,000 of the gate in return for Private Davis’ services. Or, at least, that’s what his publicity men stated. Champion Zivic achieved this second victory over his hated rival, Davis, with such ridiculous ease that many of the welter king's admirers accused him of “carrying” the soldier. / :
First Knockdown
The opening round found Moone Faced Bummy on the canvas for the first time in his career. ‘A short straight right achieved the lone
was just rising at the count of seven when the bell rang. Thereafter Pittsburgh Fritzie contented himself with playing “taps” on the artillery man’s bugle, No matter how or where Zivio thrust his left jab, Davis adroitly blocked it with his nose or mouth, No better catcher ever appeared there on the Giant’s ball field. After the fifth, it became appare ent that it was merely a question of how long Davis could last—or how long Referee Arthur Donovan would permit Zivie to continue sharp-shooting at his bloody target. Came the eighth, and Bummy’s nose looked like a squashed tomato and his lower lip seemed to have been slashed with a sabre. Donovan wanted to stop the butchery at the end of the eighth, and again at the end of the ninth, but he listened to the pleas of Bummy's handlers. He had to halt it at 1:12 of the 10th, after two body smashes ale most jack-knifed Bummy, who was reeling around the ring, holding his mid-section, It was Bummy’s first kayo.
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