Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1941 — Page 6
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But Kirksey Sees Cincy Making a Bid Yanks Are Running Away With American League
By GEORGE KIRKSEY ". United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 21.— True to tradition, the American League race is dewEloping into a runaway and the National League race is beginning to tighten up for a red-hot September finish. Back from the West after one of their greatest. road trips in years, the Yanks hold a commanding seven-game lead over the second-place Cleveland Indians. From all appearances, the Yanks are going to win it in a cake-
walk. Only Bob Feller is saving the Indians from complete rout. The Red Sox, hit hard by injuries to Ted . Williams and Jim Tabor, have shot their bolt. But in the National League there is an entirely different picture. The Dodgers are finding the pacemaker’s role difficult and their lead has melted to a game and a half. The Cardinals came out of a five-game slump with a bang and are knocking again at the door. In fourth place, only .002 points out of third, the Reds are making gestures indicating that they are going to make a spirited bid to battle their way back into the flag chase. Cincinnati closed its eastern swing with seven victories and four defeats and, although 10% games off the pace, can still make trouble if the hitting improves.
Yankee March
But the baseball story of July is the Yanks’ maruading march through the west during which they won 11 games and lost only two. * They put the crusher on the Indians by taking an important series, two games to one, losing only to Bob Feller in rain and mud. They wound up their trip yesterday by winning a 17-inning thriller from the Tigers, 12-6. Twice the Tigers tied the score, 4-4 and 6-6, but in the 17th Keller and Henrich hit homers to pace a six-run rally. . It was No. 22 for Keller and No. 17 for Henrich. Joe DiMaggio clouted out four hits, three doubles and .homer No. 21. Cleveland lost ground by dividing with the Senators. Steve -Sundra stopped ‘the Tribe, 8-4, in the opener, featuring a two-run triple by Verncn and a two-run homer by Bloodworth. Jim Bagby pitched the Indians to a 5-1 victQry in the nightcap. The Browns put the slug on the Red. Sox twice, 6-3, and 10-0, and extended their winning streak to four in a row, their longest of the season. It was the Brownies’ sev- - enth win in eight games. Pinchhitter Ted Williams’ ninth-inning homer with two on provided the Red Sox, only scoring of the day.
Rookie Bob Muncrief hurled the]
shutout in the nightcap. Lyons Wins Again
Ted Lyons pitched his 242d victory and the White Sox trimmed the Athletics, 2-1, but Chicago got only an even break when the A’s won the nightcap, 4-1, in 13 innings. + The Cardinals ripped off two victories over the Braves, winning the opener, 4-2, in 12 innings and the nightcap, 7-3, called end of eighth because of the Sunday law. Brooklyn lost a full game by breaking even with Pittsburgh. The Dodgers won the opener, 5-1, but John Lanning handcuffed Brooklyn in the nightcap and the Pirates triumphed, 5-1. Freddy Fitzsimmons was hit on the elbow by a liner in the opener and had to retire in the fourth, with Curt Davis . coming in to become the winner. . Excitement ran high in the second game when Manager Frisch and Outfielder Elliott were ejected by Umpires Barr and Jorda. An elderly fan ran onto the field and at-' tempted to reach Jorda but was led from the park by special officers. With Paul Derringer snapping a five-game losing streak in the opener, the Reds beat the Phillies twice, 7-1 and 3-2. It was Derringer’s eighth win.. Mike McCormick had a perfect day at bat in the . opener, “four for four.” Joe Beggs relieved Jim Turner to stop Philly rally one run short of a tie in the afterpiece. Johnny Rucker’s first homer of the season with a mate on base gave the Giants a 7-5 decision over the Cubs and an even break as Ghicago grabbed the nightcap, 7-4.
Big Pebble Takes Gold Cup Race
INGLEWOOD, Cal, July 21 (U. Pp.) —Harry M. Warner's Paperboy, the three-year-old speedster which | 4 came within a nose of grabbing victory from Big Pebble in Saturday's Hollywood Gold Cup race, today topped the list of probable entries for the $25,000 Sunset Handicap, getaway race of the summer season at Hollywood Park. Big Pebble, surprise winner of the $75,000 Gold Cup, will pass up the Sunset race. The Circle M Stable will leave tomorrow for Saratoga. ~ Charles S. Howard’s Mioland, third in the Gold Cup, will be back this Saturday in the mile and five-
a eighths run.
Softball Sites Named
For Regional Meets
: COLUMBUS, Ind, July 21 (U. P.).—Sites for 12 regional softball - tournaments were announced today by Indiana Recreation Offi.cials
. They are: Hammond, Knox, Garrett, Marion, Noblesville, In‘dianapolis, Lebanon, Connersville, Columbus, Bloomington, Washington and Jeffersonville, Softball play starts early next month in 48 sectional tournaments ‘ar Banar
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KANSAS CITY, July 21.—Wow! Everything usually happens to
Mr. Horace Greeley’s advice.
”
goes up comes down.
Wow! Our Good Indians Are Turning Western Badlands
Into Happy Hunting Grounds
Ray Starr and Bob Logan Add Two More to the Growing List of Victories in the West
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! Those Indianapolis Indians are
turning the Western badlands into a happy hunting grounds.
the Hoosier Tribe on its Western
tours, and the folks back home have come to doubt the wisdom of
But all that spparenily is changed. The Redskins have been in
the West now for nearly a week
|and haven’t dropped a single game.
Today they were to conclude their annoying stay here, after which they move to the Twin Cities for
‘la six-day stand.
Virtually saturated with their own warpaint, the up-and-coming Indians have won 14 of their last 15 games and five straight on the current road hop. The only loss marring the record is that 2-0 defeat the Redskins accepted at twilight last Monday in Indianapolis,
Saturday, Too During a pleasant week-end the
and took two more from the Blues
‘here yesterday afternoon. On Satur-
day Bill Cox rationed the Brewers six hits in the first game of the twin bill to win, 4-3. In the second encounter the Tribe also triumphed,
of Glenn Fletcher. The Blues had no better luck yes-
"| Fabian Gaffke’s home run, 5 to 4,
Indians won a pair from Milwaukee an
8-1, behind the eight-hit twirling Hite
‘Milt Galatzer .
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2 title bout at Shibe Park tonight in
|Angott Meets Unbeaten Ray
PHILADELPHIA, July 21 (U. P.). —Ray (Sugar) Robinson, Harlem's lightweight Joe Louis, goes against Sammy Angott, the N. B. A. 135pound champion, in a 10-round non-
what promises to be the most important lightweight battle of the year. The bout is a natural. The slim,
tan Negro, only a year out of ama|teurs, has won 20 straight bouts as a professional—17 on knockouts. Che 20-year-old Harlemite never nas been held to a draw in winning every one of his 120 bouts as an amateur and pro. Angott, a Washington, Pa. lad who fights out of Louisville, Ky., is an unorthodox and “busy” puncher. Referred to as the “White Armstrong,” Sammy reputedly is a faster hitter than Robinson but not so deadly. A walloping weaver, Angott has a sharp left hook. He has an added incentive here, for he must stop Robinson or lose his chance to face Lew Jenkins for the lightweight crown at Madison Square Garden Sept. 3. Mike Jacobs issued this ultimatum when Angott signed to face Robinson. Robinson ruled a .12 to 5 betting choice when the match first was scheduled but the odds have dropped Yo 8 to 5. However, by ring time the odds were expected to be even. 4
Reviera Swimmer Enters a Record
Times Special . CINCINNATI, O., May 21.—Dave Gastineau, member of the Indianapolis Riviera Club's swimming team, today put in his claim for a new national junior A. A. U, 800meter record. Gastineau swam the distance in 11:19 ‘here last night to trim the old mark by 222 seconds. Joan Fogle, also of the Riviera Club, won the women’s 100-meter breast stroke event, and Betty Bemis, jandther Riviera entrant, paced the fleld in
terday. Iron-Arm Ray Starr scattered six safeties in the first game
triumph and Lefty Bob Logan gave
i lup only four in the abbreviated|Me
second encounter for a 2-1 decision. During the whole road trip to date, Indianapolis hurlers have granted a measly 28 hits in 41 inNo wonder the Toledo Mud Hens fear that fifth place is in grave jeqpardy. > Starr's victory yesterday was his
of the runs scored off him was unearned. Meanwhile Milt Galatzer, subbing in the outfield after Wayne Blackburn was injured, drove in a run with one of his two hits, and First Baseman Eddie Shokes counted two more with a second-inning
triple. ‘ Logan Looks Good
Lefty Logan was in the pink in throttling the Blues in the nightcap. Catcher Johnny Pasek and Galatzer drove in a pair of Indianapolis runs in the second inning; and Logan proceeded to protect his slim advantage.
far as second in the sixth, but no further damage was done. Then in the. seventh and final inning, Lefty fanned the first two gentlemen to face him and forced the third to hoist an easy fly to Galatzer.
Hammond Ten
Breaks Even
The Continental Steel team of Hammond set back P. R. Mallay, 6 to 4, in an extra-inning opener of a twin bill at Softball Stadium last night, but Stewgrt-Warner sal-|J. vaged the Indianapolis pride by triumphing, 4 to 1, against the same club in the second tilt.
hind to whip Mallory but couldn't st overcome a lead that Stewart- |="
Warner had built. Parkman hit a two-run homer to tie the count at 4-all for Hammond in the seventh inning of the first game~and the|p Calumeters won out in the ninth when Pitcher Emil Neiner scored on a long fly and Grahos tallied on a wild pitch by Porter Steenburger. Paul Pollikan’s home run was the glamour blow as Stewart-Warner went into a.4-to-0 lead in the second game. A tally by Pollikan on Elmer Dietz’ bunt and a score by Joe Curtiss on a long fly, plus Paul’s two-run homer, made up the S. W. runs. Bass walloped a four-bagger for Hammond in the seventh, but except for that Leonard (Grandpappy) Vails prevailed for StewartWarner, allowing Hammond only three hits, In the Downtown Merchants League games tonight at Softball Stadium L. S. Ayres and Indiana Gear meet at 7:30, with the Gibson
the 100-meter ‘back: ‘stroke.
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as the Hoosier Warriors scored a 4-3 |:
17th of the season, and at that one,
One Kansas City runner got aS| rev
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By HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Service Sports
NEW YORK, July 21 —What's wrong with
the Reds?
Nothing trivial. That's
time it is evident there isn’t a thing wrong with ‘the Cincinnatis that practically an entire new
ball club wouldn’t cure.
The 1941 Redlegs are a striking example of ‘how a championship outfit can disintegrate
from one season to another.
Having rolled to their second straight peti nant and the world championship, the Rhinelanders generally were picked to make it three in a row, but they are hovering around a dozen games off the pace and fighting desperately to
remain in the first division. What is worse, genuine
that several of the boys are through. Paul Derringer and Ernie Lombardi were a tremendous battery, literally and figuratively, while the aggregation rode high, but this is an-
other year.
Derringer had tough luck at the outset, but appeared back on the main line until he appar-
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‘a cinch. By this
the Brooklyns. Vince DiMaggio, the original All- Arserican out with two strikes on him, belted the ball over the left field wall of Forbes Field to finally convince Bill McKechnie the Yankees were right about Monte Pearson. Gene Thompson hurt his leg in camp and his control went with the injury. Hitters get Junior in the hole and tee off. Schnozzle Lombardi has lost his timing with a bat in his huge hands. Like Derringer, he is no springer. A slight hernia was all doctors could find ailing Ival Goodman, but the former home run. hitter has lost weight to a point where it is
alarming.
fear is expressed
Millers Gain A Full Tilt
By UNITED PRESS Minneapolis grabbed a full game lead over the rest of the field in the American Association yesterday by taking both ends of a double bill with Columbus. The Millers won the first behind Mickey Heafner with the ‘aid of
and took the second game with Elon Hogsett’s four-hit pitching and another Gaffke circuit blow, 8 to 0.
Milwaukee emerged briefly from the slough in which the Brewers had recorded eight consecutive defeats to take the first game from Louisville, 2 to 1, the winning tally coming in the last half of the ninth. The angry Colonels opened the second game, however, by filling the bases in the first inning and bringing all the runners home ahead of Ernest Andres’ homer. The final score was 4 to 1. Eaves pitched the Brewer victory; Dickman the Louisville triumph. Toledo and St. Paul split their doubleheader, Toledo winning the
nightcap, 3 to 2. Toledo pitcher John Marcum had a shutout in the opener until the fourth inning when Leo Wells stole home with two out.
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Capitol City Quintet Takes Skeet Crown
Times Special AKRON, O.,, July 21.—A five-man skeet team representing the Capitol City Gun Club of Indianapolis today held the Midwest championship. The Hoosier fivesome, composed
of rom Metzger, Ed Graf, Dick Steinhoff, Joe Shelt and Da a n
first game 4 to 1 and St. Paul the|
‘|joined the club.
! fireball, because there isn’t any fire-
2|change of pace.
8| and for nine innings'it was nip and
p| wise the game would have ended
. | for Old Man Mose and 110 this hill.
Bill Werber is a step or so slower than he was before his attack of water on the knee. The two McCormicks—Frank and Mike— * and Eddie Joost are the Cincinnati high rollers at the dish with averages around .270, but First Baseman Frank is driving in mates and is coming on now that he has quit trying to pull the ball for home runs.
MONDAY, JULY ”n, 194
Gone Are T he Days When The Reds Were Young and Gay
ently shot his bolt in that 16-inning defeat by Shortstop Joost doesn’t come in on a ball
any too well and isn’t too strong in making the
deep throw. Harry Craft is
a superlative center fielder,
but doesn’t hit his long ball often enough. Left field, which can be played in a rocking
- chaiF, is an unusual place to have a problem, but
that easiest of all posts has been a continuous source of annoyance to McKechnie. Of the world champion Reds of last autumn,
Shortstop Billy Myers and Outfielder Jimmy
Ripple are in the minors. The 1941 edition can’t hit a lick and the de-
fense cracks up now and then.
to set an all-time that close. Riddle, the proud paigns would not
seventh place . . .
Bill McKechnie
The 1940 version won 45 games by one run
major league record. The
1941 printing frequently can’t even make it
Had McKechnie not obtained pitching help from a rather unexpected source, Elmer Ray
Reds of the past two came be in the neighborhood of keeping company with their
poor relations, the Braves.
put the Reds up there in a
hurry, but what goes up must come down.
Public Links Champion
William Welch of Houston, Texas (right), whose rally on the last 18 for a 6 and 5 victory over Jack Kerns of Denver, Colo., won the National Public Links championship at Spokane, Wash., receives the trophy from Charles V. Rainwater, chairman of the Public Links Association.
United Press nobody home.
immortals again. And maybe this “Come right in, Mr. Grove. We've been expecting you.” For a fortnight now Robert Moses Grove of the Boston Red Sox has been standing on the brink of great things. Every time he goes to the mound these days he is filing an application for membership in one of baseball's most exclusive clubs—the modern pitchers who have won 300 games. Only five men since 1910 have Here they are with the years they played and the number of games they won:
Walter Johnson, 1907-1927....414 Eddie Plank, 1901-1917. ...... Christy Matthewson, 19001916 Grover Cleveland Alexander, 1911-1930
Has 299 Victories
Old Man Mose has 299 victories in his long and sensational career. The batters don’t worry about his
ball any more. The years that have put frost in his hair and weight around his middle have stolen it away. He’s knocking at the door with nothing except his marvelous control, a knowledge of batters and a
On July 11 in Detroit Old Man Mose made a great bid for his 300th victory. Working slowly and easily, he-held the Tigers to ¥ hits and would have won eight out of 10 ball games. But he ran into the great Bobo Newsom on one of the few good days Bobo has had this season, and Grove lost, 2 to 0. If you think that was a hert--breaker, listen to what happened in Chicago last Friday. - Old Man Mose tangled with Johnny Rigney in a pitchers’ duel
tuck, with nejther team ever more than one run ahead. Jimmy Foxx’ arror was responsible for one of the runs the White Sox made. Other-
in victory for Grove. Tomorrow the Red Sox go into their home grounds. The — time Grove starts it will be before friendly faces. Come on, dice, roll seven once get him over
Rutherford First
Times Special SALEM, Ind, July 21.—Slim Rutherford of Whiting, Harold Shaw of Indianapolis and Eddie Zalucki of Detroit finished one-two-three in the feature 20-lap race on Josterday s dirt track racing program here.
nett, broke 482 of 500 birds y{the crown suing yestadays —
“Yes, Come Right in Mr. Grove, We've Been Expecting You’
By HARRY FERGUSON
NEW YORK, July 21.—Old Man Mose knocked on the door a Detroit and he knocked on the door in Chicago, and both times there was
Tomorrow he goes back to the home folks in Boston for a long visit, and some time this week he’s going to knock at the portal of the
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time a voice will say:
An All-Star, Too
NEW YORK, July 21 (NEA)— Even after his two home runs in the all-star game, ' Arky Vaughan couldn’t crash the Pittsburgh lineup. Frank Frisch didn't want to break up a winning combination, so
Hall Speeds Home First at Langhorne
LANGHORNE, Pa. July 21 (U. P.)—Roy Hall of Atlanta, Ga., today held the Langhorne Speedway 200-mile stock car racing championship after winning the title in a race that was marred by seven accidents, Hall took first Boros before 42,000 spectators yesterday in 2 hours, 55 minutes, 25.4 seconds’ Injured in the accidents weresJim Stonebraker, Hyattsville, Md., jaw fracture; Doc Ashbaugh, Miam - burg, O., arm~fracture, and Larry Bloomer, Collegeville. Dave Randolph, Long Island City, escaped injury when his machine overturned and burst into flames. Larry Darner, Zanesville, O., rolled
Alf Anderson continued: to play shortstop.
Hi on
over Ywies but walked away unh
Pros Follow Hogan Toward All-Time Mark
Mite From Texas Takes Chicago Test
By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July 21.—Little Ben Hogan, who has split prize money in 51 consecutive golf tournaments, headed for St. Paul today on ane other leg of his campaign to break Sam Snead’s all-time record earne ings of $19,534.49 set in 1938. The mite from Texas already has passed the total of $10,655 with which he led all golfers in the nae tion last year. His two-stroke victory over U. 8. Open Champion Craig Wood in Chicago's $5000 Open yese terday brought him $1200 more and lifted his season’s winnings to $11,« 5117. Hogan is the probable favorite in the St. Paul Open renewed this week-end at Keller Course. Ten under par for 72 holes at Elmhurst Country Club, Hogan won the Chicago Open with a tournae ment record of 274 and his rounds of 66-70-69-69 gave him a come manding lead in the race for the Vardon Scoring Trophy, which he now holds. . Wood was in the locker room with an eight under par 276, made possible by two Sunday rounds of 67, when Hogan stepped to the 15th tee of Lis final round needing at least one birdie to beat the U, S. Open champion. He got not one but two with ale most identical approach shots on the 15th and 17th. Each iron shot left him putts of eight feet and he poured them in with little hesie tation. Going to work on a 136 after 36 holes, Hogan picked up a 35-34—69 in the morning and 34-35—69 in the afternoon. Defending Champion Dick Metz, who set the previous tournament record of 278 last year, wound up third with 279; Jim Ferrier, the home club pro who was the low amateur in this event in 1940, was fourth with 284 and Lloyd Mane
grum, Monterey Park, Cal, was fifth with 286.
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