Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1941 — Page 6

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By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK, July 15.—Somebody mentioned that Johnny Cooney, Boston Braves’ outfielder, was hitting around .320 and had a fair chance to win the National League batting championship. That started an argument about how and where Johnny got the scars on his left arm. “I tell you it was at the Battle of Gettysburg,” insisted the old-time fan. “Johnny was a lieutenant of Rhode Island volunteers and Gen. Meade came up to him personally and said: ‘Lieut. Cooney, get your men on - top of that hill yonder on the double quick; Pickett is about to charge and you got to

stop him so this government of the, people,

by the people and for the people shall not

perish from the earth.’ That’s where Johnny got some grape shot in his left arm.” “It was grape shot, all right,” said the second fan, “but Johnny got it at San Juan Hill. Teddy Roosevelt came up to him and said: ‘Cooney, you lead the first battalion

in the charge; good luck, and remember the

Maine.’ Half way up the hill Johnny in the arm.” . . Before the legend grows any mere and before somebody’ offers to bét you that Johnny was the guy who carried the message about the Battle of Marathon, let us set down the facts about an amazing career: Cooney will not be 40 until March 18, 1942, . : He got the scars on his left arm in 1927

got it

"of 13 pieces of bone. : He has been a pitcher, a first baseman and an outfielder and has been in baseball since 1921. - At his advanced age he is having one of the best seasons in his career and there aren’t more than half a dozen outfielders in the business who can go get ’em the way he can. . This is the third comeback Cooney has made. He was a pretty fair pitcher for Boston until he developed arm trouble in 1927 and had to have his operations. The arm came around all right, but not enough to enable him to stay up as a big league pitcher. In 1930 he found himself in the Interna-

ung’ Johnny Cooney Didn't Fight In The Civil

* when he had two operations for the removal

tional League and he kicked around in the minors until 1935, playing for Jersey City, Newark, Toledo anf Indianapolis. The years were creeping up on him and most ball players would have been content to take it easy in their twilight days. : Johnny wasn’t built that way, and he kept working hard, studying pitchers, per-

fecting the technique of playing the outfield,

and hoping for another chance in the big leagues. That chan¢ée came when Casey Stengel, then manager of the Dodgers, brought Cooney up from Indianapolis in 1935. He hit .282 in 1936 and .298 in 1937, buf he was traded to the Cardinals in the deal that brought Leo Durocher to Brooklyn.

The Cardinals had plenty of young out- -

fielders so eventually they gave him his re-

lease because he was a 10-year man and couldn’t be sent to the minors. Meanwhile,

' Stengel had moved to Boston as manager of

the Braves and he signed Cooney, figuring to make him a coach and an instructor of young outfielders. : Instead, Stengel ran short of outfielders and tore up the coach’s contract and gave Cooney a player's contract. The first pay check that Cooney received was for twice the amount he would have received as a coach. He took the check to President Bob ‘Quinn and said: “I think there has been some mistake, Mr. Quinn.” “Yes, there has,” Quinn replied. “The mistake was ours in trying to make you a coach when you were still one of the best outfielders in the league.”

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Dorothy Ellis Tabbed the Lady To Beat as Match Play ~~ -

Begins in State Golf Tourney

Hillcrest Pro

. . Paces Victors

Times Special

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. July 15. — Par at the Crawfordsville Country Club is no more invulnerable than that “of courses already invaded this season by the proamateur golf nomads. Proof is contained in the list of yesterday's Scores. Massie Miller, pro at Hillcrest in Indianapolis, paced the winning team with a brilliant six-under-par 64, while teams (led by Bill Heinlein of Noblesville, Harry Allspaw of West Lafayette, Dick Taylor of West Lafayette and Wayne Hensley of Anderson tied for second-place * honors with 65's. The card of the winning team: Par Out ... 443 454 434-35 Miller ..... 343 434 334-31 Par In .... 443 454 434—35—35—170 Miller ..... 433 454 424—33—31—61 Besides conducting the winners on the 18-hole trip, Miller won the sweepstakes with a personal 34-36— 70. His companions ‘were John Striebech, Crawfordsville; Frank Schmedel, Hillcrest; Don Ross, Anderson; and D. F. Metzer, Speedway. . With Heinlein were Leonard King of Pl:asant Run, Bill Blaikie, Terre Haute; Frank Winegardner of Tipton and George Johnson of Speedway. Allspaw took along Perry Byard of Terre Haute, Dr. Byron Lingeman and Homer Flanigan of Crawfordsville, R. K. Stafford of Hillcrest and Paul Mills of Kokomo. Taylor was accompanied by Ed Hyde of Coffin, L. J. C. Freeman and Bob Taylor of Crawfordsville and Bert Davis of Frankfort. Hensley’s mates were Frank Hedge of Crawfordsville, B. W. Brant of Kokomo, Ray Kern of Frankfort, Carey Spicer of Indianapolis apd Curt Stanfield of Terre Haute.

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Faces ‘Mrs. Simmons In 1st-Round Dudl

SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 15 (U. P.).—Dorothy Ellis, Indianapolis school teacher, was the outstanding favorite today as match play opened at the Morris Park Country Club in the 20th annual Indiana Women’s Golf Tourna-

ment. : Carding a 79 in the qualifying round yesterday, two over women’s par, the defending champion toured the course three strokes under her nearest rival, 19-year-old Mary Jane Garman of Hammond, as the field of 106 narrowed to a championship flight of 16. In a play-off, Carolyn Pickering of Anderson annexed the 16th starting post when she eliminated Mrs. Max Stryker and Mrs. Calvert Shorb of South Bend, and Mary Gorham of Frankfort, all of whom turned in 90’s on their qualifying round. Miss Ellis shot three birdies and 10 pars yesterday. Against women’s par, her card read: Par Cut 545 355 543—39 Ellis Out ....c...... 544 455 544—40

Par In ......ce0s... 435-543 455—38 Ellis In . 435 444 546—39

Pairings for the opening round, and qualifying scores were: _ Dorothy Ellis, Indianapolis, 79, vs. Mrs. W. Hathaway Simmons, Indianapolis, 87; Margaret Kinerk, South Bend, 86, vs. Mrs. P. : Skillern, South Bend, 88; Carolyn Varin, Indianapolis, 83, vs. Mrs. E. D. Anderson, Anderson, 88; Mrs. Lester Emmons, South Bend, 87, vs. Mrs. Paul Graham, South Bend, 89; Mary Jane Garman, Hammond, 82, vs. Mrs. Frances Rubach, Gary, 88; Sue - Land, Richmond, 86, vs. Mrs. W. F. Dreves, Elkhart, 89; Irmagarde Grabbe, Terre Haute, 84, vs. Mrs. R. Eager, Lafayette, 88; Mrs. Leo Van Tilbury, South Bend 87, vs. Carolyn Pickering, Anderson, 90.

3 Bouts Carded At Arena Tonight

Three mat tussles will be offered local grappling followers at Sports Arena tonight when the weekly wrestling bill, sponsored by the Her-

cules A. C. gets under way at 8:30.

The complete card: Main Even

Orville Brown, 229, Wichita, Kas., vs. Dorv Roche, 222, Decatur, Ill. Two out of three falls, 90-min-ute time limit. Semi-Windup Jules LaRance, 190, Canada, vs. Steve Brody, 192, Holyoke, Mass. One fall, 30-minute time limit. Opening Bout Dave Reynolds, 180, Idaho, vs. Stacey Hall, 183, Columbus, O. One fall, 30-minute time limit.

McNeill in Duel With Old Rival

NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P.).— Don McNeill of Oklahoma City, national tennis champion, squares off against Joey Fishback of New York today in what promises to be’ the best of four fourth-round matches in the New York State clay court singles championships. - McNeill and Fishbach will resume a rivalry that dates back to their Junior days. On McNeill’s first eastern trip he beat Fishbach in the semi-finals of the Eastern Junior championships. . 7 Other fourth round matches pit Ted Schroeder of Glendale, Cal, against Leonard Hartman of New York; Ted Olewine of Santa Monica, Cal, against Frank Bowden of New York and Sidney Wood of New York against Seymour Greenberg of Chi-

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Phil Talbot Shoots 82 in Elks Meet

PHILADELPHIA, July 15 (U. P —Joe Vallace of Poieron, N. J, 0: the low handicap man in the field as entrants from all sections of the Souniry Somnpeted at Manufacturers ry Club today in the Nati iif Golf Tournament, onal ace led qualifiers with a 39-42 =. Among posner low handicap ayers was Talbot, - ton, Ind., 82. Blovmihg

M.. H. Splashers Win

The Meridian Hills swimming team scored a 106-57 triumph over Hishjand at the victors’ pool yesteray. 3

Cards Clout Ball

NEW YORK, July 15 (NEA) —Six St. Louis Cardinals—Johnny Mize, Enos Slaughter, Creepy Crespi; Terry Moore, Johnny

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Hopp and Jimmy Brown—are smacking the

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LUCIS CLAUDE ~-NOPE

Now Louisville Is the Leader

By UNITED PRESS ~The see-saw into which the American Association lead had developed

down for the Minneapolis Millers. The Colonels regained the lead and moved a full game ahead of Columbus by taking both ends of a double-head-er from the Millers, 1 to 0 and 11 to 4. Mickey Haefner, on the mound, for Minneapolis, and Bill Fleming, pitching for Louisville, yielded but three hits each in the opener, but Haef- : ner lost when Ulysses Lupien walt Cazen dou- : in the fin inning and was driven home ol Ulysses Lupien who also got a twobagger. The Colonels pounded three Miller pitchers for 13 hits ta win the nightcap. Columbus held second place after trimming Milwaukee in two games, 3 to 0 and 8 to 2. George Myatt's third-inning homer accounted for two runs and cinched the first game in which the Red Birds’ Francis Barrett gave up only five hits. Eaves, the opposing pitcher, yielded only four safeties, but one was Myaftt’s homer. Columbus scored in all but two innings to win the second game. Jack Bradsher of Toledo defeated the Kansas City Blues, 2 to 1, with his sixth-inning home run which broke up a fielders’ duel. Boyd Sorrell of Toledo permitted 11 Kansas City hits, but teammates choked off the champions with only

one run. Al Gerheauser yiel hits to Toledo. Vigided 20

Riviera Club Plans National Swim

Many of the big splash stars of the swimming world are expected to be among the 300 contestants who will enter the National g Championships to be held at the Riviera Club, Aug. 22 and 23. Held in previous years at Shakamak State Park, the event has been transferred to the local: club this year because of “low water,” Edwin Aspinall, tournament chairman, has' announced. The lake was drained for improvement to facilities there and it has not yet regained its former level. : Tentative plans call for five middle states championship events, two Indiana A. A. U. title races, seven open events and four National Junior classes. -

Eastern Indiana Net Tourney Postponed Times Special NEW CASTLE, Ind., July 15. — ‘Eastern t

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NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P.)— Coveted goal of all major league pitchers is a 20-game winning season and this is the time of year

moundsmen ‘give almost certain indications whether - they will hi that mark or not. ! Last season just five pitchers— Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer of Cincinnati and Claude Passeau of the Chicago Cubs in the National League and Bobby Feller of Cleveland and Buck Newsom of Detroit in the American League-—achieved the distinction of winning: 20 or more games. Of that: quintet, only Peller and Walters today are pitching with the effectiveness’ necessary to. earn 20 triumphs again. Feller- already is

among the- pitching elite with 18

makes him almost sure of winning 20. : Derringer and Newsom have been the most spectacular flops. The Cincinnati righthander has dropped

-}12 while winning only seven. Newsom

has been charged with 11 losses against seven wins. Passeau has won nine and lost eight and needs lots of luck to win 20. Replacing those left at the post in their bid to repeat 1940's success will be four - pitchers who look sure of winning 20. Two, Whitlow Wyatt and Kirby Higbe, are Brooklyn righthanders and have won 13 each. The othér pair is Elmer Riddle of Cincinnati and Thornton Lee of the Chicago White Sox, who have each won 10. Riddle, in his second year with the Reds, never has been defeated while Lee, who never- has won 20 in his eight years in the majors, seems headed in that direction at last. : Feller won No. 18 yesteday when he pitched Cleveland to a five-hit, 4-1 triumph over the’ Boston Red

seven and allowed the only Boston

when the records of baseballs |-

assured of his third straight year

decisions. Walters has won 11 and. the caliber of his mound work |’

Sox. He walked six but fanned|} run on Jim Tabor’s. double and Bob-1}{"

Major Leaders

AMERICAN LEAGUE

; GAB R H Williams, Bostoh .... 72 242 74 96 Travis, Washington... 76 307 53 115 eath, Cleveland ... 79 301 51 112 Cullenbine, St. Louis. 74 239 45 88 . DiMaggio, New York. &2 323 76 119 . NATIONAL LEAGUE / GAB R H

Reiser, Brooklyn .... 68 263 62 92 . Mize, St. Louis 62 8 Slaughter, St. Louis.. 81 315 51 103 Etten, Philadelphia.. 75 259 37 84 Cooney. Boston 64 241 Brown, St. Lo HOME RUNS DiMaggio. Yanks. 20Johnson, A's. .... Keller, Yanks... } ork, Tigers

Ott, Giants : RUNS BATTED IN DiMaggio, Yanks. 74|Foxx, Red Sox Keller, Yanks ... 73|Williams, Red York, Tigers 66]

... 63 Sox 62

by Doerr’s pop single. The Indians connected with Jack Wilson for four runs in the first two innings to hand him his sixth loss. The Chicago White Sox pounded out a 7-1 triumph over the league-

leading New York Yankees behind

the eight-hit pitching of Johnny Rigney. The defeat pared the Yanks’ league lead to four games over the Tribe and snapped their ing streak at 14 straight. Joe ’s consecutive hitting streak stretched to 54 games when he singled once in three times at bat, . The Detroit Tigers came from behind with three runs in the seventh to nip the Philadelphia Athletics, 4-2. Bruce Campbell doubled the first two runs home in that inning and scored on Pinky Higgin’s single. St. Louis, held to four hits by

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6 Pitchers—F eller, Riddle, Walters, Lee; Highe And Wyatt—On Their Way to 20 Victories

Ken Chase and Vernon Kennedy,|:

slashed out a 6-4 victory over the Washington Senators. Johnny Nig-

geling gave up eight Washington hits. Chase turned in his’ 12th loss after giving up three hits, seven walks and two wild pitches in 22-3 innings. Brooklyn picked up a full game on the St. Louis Cardinals and paced the National League by 3% games after blanking the Cubs, 1-0, for Higbe’s 13th victory. The Dodgers won in the ninth when, with the bases full, Manager

320| Leo Durocher pinch-hit a perfect

bunt on a squeeze play. scoring Joe Medwick with the only run off Vern Olsen. The Cub southpaw, seeing

|no chance for a play and the game

Like Tillie’s Punctured

have won at all.’

night's second fracas and escaped with that tough tus-

sle, 3 to 2, after pulling out of the hole in a frenzied ninth inning. Bill Swift, down from Brooklyn, stopped the home lads in the twilight game and shut them out, 2 to 0, on four hits. Swift was a winning pitcher in the American Association last year and now he’s back showing the same old crafty hyrling. Win 14, Lose Seven But you've got to give the Tribesters credit.

home stand that closed last night and won nine out of their last 10

12.

ment after losing everything but their sflirts on their last road trip. More than 5200 fans turned out for the pastiming at Perry Stadium last night and they saw two exciting contests. Even the game the Tribe lost was worth gazing at because the home athletes made a

the customers. Perry Stadium until July 30 when

visiting five league camps.’ Two Open Dates

The schedule calls for their next action to be at Milwaukee on Thursday. Today and tomorrow

row night. Lewis will representatives roster. Glenn Fletcher, who was defeated by Swift last night, had a run of bad luck. His mates couldn't hit Swift in the clutch and Catcher Al Lakeman couldn't throw out base runners in the early innings. thefts in the first stanza set up a run for the Saints and one theft put the Apostles in position to score in the second. Both teams played bangup ball in the field. In the second battle George Gill turned in a winner although allowing 11 hits. He was tight as a drum in the clutches and 15 St. Paul boys were left on base. »

Tough ‘Going in Clutch

But the Indians also were troubled by the problem of smacking the ball to safe spots with runners on the sacks and 12 of them were stranded. St. Paul's first run, scored in the first stanza, was unearned, an error accounting for it. But the Indians earned their three markers. It was a third inning three-run splurge, featured by Lewis’ triple, that put the Indians over the hump. They got to Dick Lanahan for three hits in that frame that was sparked after one out when Bennie Zientara was_ struck by a pitched ball. The ninth inning was packed with thrills as the Saints threatened to upset the apple cart. Three hits, after ‘two down, accounted for a run, but Gili finally settled and got

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the third out in time to emerge the victor.

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Anyway, Their Record at Home Shows 14 Victories And Seven Losses; Now It's Westward, Ho!

They won 14 games|; against seven defeats during the|H tilts—as well as 10 out of their last|y

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mild threat in the last inning of the seven-inning attraction. It wasps “ladies’ night” at the Tribe park|] and the weather was just right for|g,

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By EDDIE ASH

Romance, the Indianapolis

Indians’ winning streak came to an end last night after flourishing for eight straight games, but like Tillie and her boy friend, it’s better to have won and lost than never to

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