Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1941 — Page 8
Our Indians Seek Sweep at Kansas City In Ts win Bil. l Tonight
Dodgers Take Shaky Pitching
Staff and One-
Game Lead
Into the Wild and Woolly West
All the While Threatening Cards Will Be at Home;
Higbe in Hospital an
By PAUL United Press St
d Wyatt in Trouble
SCHEFFELS
aff Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 22.—The Brooklyn Dodgers, stag-
gering under four defeats in t third, and what may prove to
heir last five starts, begin their be their most important, west-
ern swing of the season in Cincinnati today.
‘Opening with two games
against the Reds, the Dodgers
then go to Pittsburgh for three contests, stop off at St. Louis for two and wind up in Chicago for three—all while the run-ner-up Cardinals are at Sportsman’s Park for a long home
stand.
What lends special significance fo this westward junket
is the Dodger’s current losing
spell which has cut their first-
place margin over St. Louis to a single game. It may be prolonged, too, by serious pitching trouble.
Ellis and Cole Golf Winners
Dorothy Ellis of Meridian Hills was the gross winner and Mrs. Ralph Cole of Broadmoor the net victor in yesterday’s gross and net tournament sponsored by the Indianapolis Women’s Golf Association at the Pleasant Run course. Miss Ellis combined a 38 and a 41 for 79, while Mrs. Cole shot an 88-14-74. Mrs. Robert Laycock, playing her home course, finished second among the gross shooters with an 84, and Mrs. I. G. Kakn of Riverside was third with 87. Other gross prize-winners: Mary Gorham, Highland, 88; Mrs. George Enos, Country Club, 90; Mrs. C. A. Jaqua, Highland, 92; Mrs. Fritz Morris, Hillcrest, 93; Mrs. Ben Olsen, Highland, 94; Mrs. L. L. Lykins, Highland, 96; Mrs. Ralph Flood, Meridian Hills, 97, and Mrs. J. L. Mueller, Broadmoor, 98. * Mrs. Walter Brant of Meridian Hills finished second in the net division with 87-12—75.
Four Heavies
On Armory Card
Four heavyweight grapplers will tangle in a double main event at Sports Arena tonight when the weekly wrestling card is staged by the Hercules A. C. The complete card follows: Dorv Roche, 222, Decatur, IIL, vs. Herbie Freeman, 235, New York. Two out of three falls, 90-minute time limit.
Orville Brown, 229, Kansas, Vs.|<
Alabama Bill Lee, 244, Utaw, Ala. Two out of three falls, 90-minute time limit. Steve Brody, 193, Holyoke, Mass., vs. Fred Carone, 191, Chicago, Ill One fall, 30-minute time limit. The opening bout will star at 8:30.
Whitlow Wyatt and Kirby Higbe, the club’s two ranking pitchers, will have to be in tip-top shape and winning consistently from now on if the Dodgers are to put on a drive that will out-distance -the charging Cardinals. But neither appear capable of such chores.
Maybe He's Overworked
Higbe was hospitalized Sunday with stomach pains which have since been diagnosed as appendix trouble. He left with the team last night, but he was ordered to keep off his feet for several days. Even if he does pitch soon, the threat of a sudden appendicitis attack will keep Manager Leo Durocher jittery. Wyatt's trouble has not been diagnosed. The veteran righthander—he’ll be 32 this September—has failed in his last three attempts to register victory No. 14. His 11-year major league career has been punctuated with sore arms before and it may be that his arm is in for another spell. Then again, Wyatt's trouble may be just too much work. His last starting assignment against the Pittsburgh Pirates was his 22d of the year and marked his 15th complete game. On baseball’s yardstick, he is measured as an oldster and the strain of pitching every fourth day may be too great.
Bullpen Artist Shelled
As Hugh Casey hasn't authored a full-time winning job since June 20 and Luke Hamlin has contributed only five victories this season, the Dodgers attempted to pull one out of the hat yesterday starting Newt Kimball against the Pirates. But Pittsburgh was foiled by the bullpen artist for just two innings and then shelled him from the box with a lead they never lost. The final score was 8-3. Elbie Fletcher's two-run homer in the fifth inning off Mace Brown and Vince DiMaggio’s 11th homer of the year in the ninth inning, also with one on, off Kemp Wicker, fourth Brooklyn pitcher, sewed up the game. Lee Handley, Bob Elliott, Maurice Van RoBays and DiMaggio each contributed two hits to the 11-hit Pittsburgh total. Brooklyn rapped Ken Heintzelman, who was credited with his seventh win, for 10 hits but was unable to bunch them for more than one run in any inning.
Harmon to Be at Mike for Michigan Games This Year
DETROIT, July 22 (U. P.).—Since Tom Harmon can’t carry the ball on the gridiron for Michigan next fall, he signed a contract today to do ‘the next best thing—broadcast play-by-play descriptions of Michigan’s games for thousands of his fans. Harmon, now in Hollywood ek ing a movie built around his own history-making football career, has
been signed as sports director of
Detroit Radio Station WJR, a CBS affiliate. His salary was not given. Station officials said the All-Amer-ican halfback’s first assignment “undoubtedly” would be announcing his alma mater’s eight football games, enabling him to start realization of an oft-expressed ambition to be a sportscaster—on home grounds. The contract, completed at Beverly Hills, Cal, by G. A. (Dick) Richards, station president, ended widespread speculation that the “Hoosier Hammer” still would play profes- |B sional football despite his many denials.
The contract probably also elim-|.
inated the immediate possibility of an extended film career for Harmon, although Columbia Pictures holds an option on his services for a second picture at a reported salary of $17,500. His first effort on celluloid, entitled “Harmon of Michigan,” will bring him $13,500. His friends were not surprised by
had majored in broadcasting during his four years at Michigan. But they called it “ironical” that the star’s final big-time football appearance probably will be Aug. 28 when he plays at Soldiers Field, Chicago, against the Chicago Bears, the professional team that holds an option on him—“but never got around” to try and sign him. According to latest tabulations, Harmon, who scored 33 touchdowns and 237 points for the Wolverines in a brilliant three-year career, led the all-star selections with 274,552 votes.
Major Leaders
AMERICAN LEAGUE GAB R H Pct
Williams, Boston DiMaggio, New York.. Heath, Cleveland Travis, Washington .. Cullenbine, St. Louis..
NATIONAL
81 264 47 9 LEAGUE GAB R H 64 98 . 7 38 .86 . 31 89 .
58 110 3 38 90 .
Reiser, Brookiyn FEIN Mize, St Lo " 68 Cooney, Bos Slaughter, ge D oilis . Etten, Philadelphia ... HOME RUNS Keller, Yanks ....22|Johnson, Athletics 18 DiMaggio, Yanks 21 York. Tigers 18 Ott, Giants
2 rd DiMaggio, Yanks. 159 Slaughter, Cards..110
the news, because they said Harmon
Heath, Indians...121/Cramer, Senators.110 Travis, Senators..120|
Baseball At
a Glance
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION w
55 56 veo 52 . 48 47 . 47 39 21
Cleveland §
Chi Detroit Phi St. Loui
Pittsburgh Guicate ove 442 Philadelphia cerns 253 RESULTS YESTERDAY
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
020 011 031— 8 11 1 065 010 32x—17 23 4
Fleming, Shaffer, Gelbert and Glen; Kolo, Makosky aud Tosa "0 H°%
010 002 012— 6 14 3 020 011 010— 5 10 ©
Himsl,
Toledo St. Paul
Sorelle, Kimberlin and Spindel;
; | Hildebrand and Fernandez.
Columbus at Minneapolis; postponed,
rain
NATIONAL LEAGUE 003 021 002— 8 11 011 001 000— 8 10 0
and Lopez; Kimball, Wicker and Owen.
Pittsburgh Brooklyn Heintzelman Tamulis, Brown,
Only game scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE No game scheduled.
GAMES TODAY ~ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Kansas City (2 night). Louisville at Milwaukee.
Columbus at iar polis. Toledo at St.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit at Washington. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Cleveland at New Chicago at Boston,
York.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston at Chica i . Pittsburgh, Brooklyn at Cin
Philadelphia a New ork at rg Couts.
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The Tape’ S Tale Has a Happy Ending
The telegraph ticker in the Perry Stadium office is the center of interest these days as members of the Indian family back home watch the Redskins’ western doings. This quintet followed yesterday's game, inning by inning, with Secretary Dale Miller showing jubilation as the final score came in. Others reading the wire are (left to right) Vernon Souviner, concession manager; Karl Scheick, treasurer; Helen Mitchell, stenographer, and Gil Norton, assistant secretary.
Bartender Is At Crossroads
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor
NEW YORK, July 22.—It would be too bad if one of the customers at the fisticuff fiesta at Ebbetts Field this evening yelled “TwoO beers” at the wrong time, for the “Belting Bartender” is just the type of guy who would stop belting and reply, “Coming up, sir.” There was a time when lots of people thought the Belting Bartender was the one who could give the business to Joe Louis, particularly after he made his first appearance in the big town. The Belting Bartender is a pleasant young man named Lee Savold who can move around well and punch hard.
Tonight he meets a trial horse named Solly Krieger, and if the Belting Bartender doesn’t get over the hill in impressive fashion it will be three times and out so far as his ring future around this town is concerned. More than a year ago Savold, now fighting out of Des Moines, set Madison Square Garden into an uproar with the handy way in which he smashed a giant named Jim Robinson to the canvas. fighting. for the heavyweight champijnship soon,” the customers were telling each other as they went home. Much malt, vinous and spiritous liquid has flowed since then, and on his way up the glory read the Belting Bartender came up against Billy Conn. That was a sight to see. Conn jabbed the Belting Bartender - silly. Just once was the Belting Bartender able to penetrate Conn’s defense, but when he did things happened. Savold threw a short right and in one punch broke Conn’s nose.
If Savold can get going on this, his third New York appearance, and climb back into contention for the title, it will be one of the great Cinderella -stories of the ring. A few short years ago the Belting Bartender was a disappointed, beaten man. He despaired of ever getting any place in boxing and took a job tending bar in St. Paul, One day Pinkie George, a Des Moines fight manager, rememsbered having seen a fellow named Savold who. had looked like he might have the stuff. The search started and finally ended in the St. Paul barroom. Pinkie talked long and fast, and the Belting Bartended agreed to give it one more whirl, He hung up his apron and went to Des Moines, where
off Savold. He came down to 225 and then to 190. Still George wasn’t satisfied, and he brought the Belting Bartender down to 180. That's what he weighed the night he was so impressive against Robinson. So this is pay-off night for the Belting Bartender. It’s either upward and onward or its back to his apron in the St. Paul barroom. Make mine ‘a cigar tonight,
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Your car washed, moniz cleaned, Sinonts Waseda a chrome Pols
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George began melting the blubber
Okay, Fellows,
Come on, hoys, they'll take those entries” now! That's for the Juvenile Court’s school-boy golf tournament, you know. Ever since Judge Wilfred Bradshaw announced the Court would sponsor a tournament for boys under 18 at Riverside Park on Aug. 22, the Court staff has been besieged with requests to enter. Well, today they completed their arrangements and all you have to do is send your name, address and age to Donald Smith, Room 12, Juvenile Court at the Court House. Then sometime before Aug. 15, you'll have to bring. Mr. Smith some proof of your age—a birth certificate or family Bible, for ex-
Floyd Davis Seeks $670 in Suit
A suit in which Floyd Davis, cowinner of the 1941 Speedway 500mile automobile race, seeks $670.95 from Lou Moore, Inc., and Louis H. Moore, owners of winning Car No.
16, was on file today in Superior Court, Room 4. In the suit, Davis contends that the amount is due him under a driver’s contract he signed with Moore early in May. The contract, according to the suit, called for Moore to pay Davis 35 per cent of the total winnings of the car. Davis explains that since he drove 71 laps. in the victorious car, he is entitled to 71-200 of the gross winnings. He further states that total winnings amounted to $26,575 and that his percentage figures $3288.01. He further claims that he has been paid only $2617.06. The suit also asks a court order for an accounting to determine the exact winnings of the car.
BLUE POINT, pr
You Can Enter
Schoolboy Golf Tourney Now
ample. Aug. 15 also is the last day to enter. The Juvenile Court trophy will be awarded to the boy who fires the low gross score over the 18-hole route. There also will be prizes for “hole-in-one” competition and for blind par winners. trance or green fees. Meanwhile, the list of indorsers and donors of prizes has been increasing until there now is assured at least $300 for prizes, an amount greater than many amateur tournaments have to spend. The complete list of indorsers and donors follows: Golf professionals Russell Stonehouse, Johnny Vaughn and Wally Nelson; the Sportsman's Store, Bush-Feezle Sporting Goods Store, the Indiana State and Indianapolis District Golf Associations, Thompson’s Lunch, United Taxi, Inc. the Advance Electrotype Co., Bruce P. Robison Post 133, American Legion; Jake Feld, the Lions Club, Kay Jewelry Co., 12th District American Legion, Hoffman Sporting Goods Co., Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Kiwanis Club. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. Klee & Coleman Bottling Co, Tom Joyce 7-Up, Bubble-Up Beverage Co., Dave Klor Sportsman's Jeweler, Indianapolis Speedway Golf Course, Theodore (Pop) Myers, general manager of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Wayne Legion Post 64, the Labor Temple Association, EmRoe Sporting Goods Store, Sheriff Al Feeney, Mooney, Mueller, Ward Drug Co., the Rodenbeck Insurance Agency, Judge Dewey Myers and the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Tie in Golf Tourney
Ralph Cole and Jack Stott shot gross 77s to share honors in the
recent William H. Block Co. golf|.
turnament at Speedway. C.:. C. Stump, Preston Stoner and John Hicks tied for first prize in the
blind par event.
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Rankin Leads The Wingmen
CHICAGO, July 22 (U, P.).—Nick Foran, St. Benedict's tackle, and Bill McMahon, Rockhurst guard, moved into the “first eleven” today in the poll to select a.college all-star team to meet the professional champion Chicago Bears Aug. 28. Foran trailed Nick Drahos, Cornell, by 13,078 votes in the tackle division and McMahon was 25,693 votes behind guard Augie - Lio, Georgetown. Tom Harmon, Michigan’s all-American halfback, led the field with 274,552 votes. The standings: * Ends, Rankin, Purdue, 239,814; Rucinski, Indiana, 228,597; Elrod, Mississippi State, 131,463. Tackles, Drahos, 171,794; Foran, 158,716; Uremovich, Indiana, 131,052. Guards, Lio, 273,116; McMahon, 247,423; O’Boyle, Tulane, 216,581. Centers, Hall, Warrensburg (Mo.), 231,143; Mucha, Washington, 201,856; Gladchuk, Boston College, 113,507. Quarterbacks, Evashevski,
hurst, 210,972; Pugh, Texas Aggies, 138,113, Fullbacks, Piepul, Notre Dame, 218426; Morrow, Illinois Wesleyan, 112,937; Paskvan, Wisconsin, 108,644. Halfbacks, Harmon, 274,552; Franck, Minnesota, 269,836; McGannon, Notre Dame, 267,144,
Clinton Shooter Wins Third Title |:
CLINTON, Ind, July 22—H. L. Cheek of Clinton, who won the state trapshooting championships in 1933 and 1939, added the 1941 title to his collection today. He won the crown at the Clinton Gun Club yesterday when he scored a 150-149 victory over Dr. Harold Atkins of Indianapolis in a shootoff. The shoot-off was required when 10 contestants finished in a 198 tie. In Class A the winner was L. C. Wise, while Phil Miller’ finished second and Elmer Harter, third. Norris Crawford won the Class B title, fol-
lowed by C. A. Campbell.
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Michigan, 233,864; Schulte, Rock-|Ambl
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Johnson Allows Six Hits For 2-1 Victory
Times Special
have almost forgotten the meaning of the term “relief pitcher,” will attempt to extend their current winning streak this evening in a dou-
ble-header with the Blues.
Manager Wade : Killefer, whose “percentage” strategy is paying off, has nominated Bill Cox and Glenn Fletcher to do tonight's twirling, and the pair likely will be opposed
loff of Kansas City. It's up to Cox and Fletcher to produce the same stingy style of pitching that has brought the redhot Redskins 15 victories in 16 starts. And the records prove both are capable.
Teamed for Wins Saturday
The pair was teamed on the mound for last Saturday's doubleheader in Milwaukee, with both turning in victories. Fletcher, however, had the misfortune of losing the only game that mars the Indians’ 16-game stretch. At that, he granted St. Paul only six hits
support at bat. Before Saturday's game, Cox worked against St. Paul on July 13 and rationed a mere four hits. The Indians’ march has brought" them within a half-game of fifthplace Toledo, and they have the chance of advancing a notch this evening. A double victory over the Blues also would imperial Kansas City’s fourth place standing, since the Redskins are only 3% games behind the Kaycee boys now. Yesterday it was Lefty Lloyd Johnson who pulled the Scotch act, setting the Kaycee club down with six safeties to chalk up a 2-to-1 vic tory. In addition to that, Johnion drove in the winning Indianapolis run and then pulled himself out of a bad situation in the ninth inning.
Johnson Emerges Safely
An infield hit and an error by Johnson himself put a pair of runners on in the final frame, but lefty proceeded to retire the side Before that, he had singled through the box in the seventh to plate first baseman Eddie Shokes. Shokes walked and moved into scoring position on Johnny Pasek’s sacrifice. Kansas City took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a single by Ed Levy, a double by Buster Mills and a long fly by Bud Metheny. Wayne Ambler singled home ' Joe Bestudik, who had doubled, for the tying run in the fifth canto.
Blues for Blues
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Bailey ran for Kearse in the ninth. Salisgaver batted for Gearheauser in the n .
Indianapolis Kansas City..
Runs batted in—Metheny, Ambler, Johnson. Two-base hits—Mills, Bestudik. Stolen bases—Metheny, Pier. Sacrifices—Blair, Pasek. Double s — Hendrickson to Kearse to Levy, PS ossop to Hitchcock to Levy. ett on bases—Indianapolis 7, Kansas City, 9. Bases on balls—Off Johnson 3, Sendyickson 1. Strikeouts—By Hendrickson 4, Johnson 2, Gearheauser 2. Hits— Hendrickson, 9 in 7 innings, Gearheauser,
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hat Is a Relief Pitcher? / Successful Hoosiers Hardly Know Meaning of the Term
KANSAS CITY, July 22.— The Indianapolis Indians, who
by Milo Candini and Charley Wens-
Lloyd Johnson , . . as stingy as the rest.
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would have benefited from timely
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Indianapolis Indian officials announced yesterday that Wayne Blackburn (above), diminutive centerfielder for the Tribe, broke his leg in the first game of the double-header at Kansas City Sunday and was being sent back to Indianapolis. The young hitter was leading the Indians at the plate and was the tenth ranking slugger in the American Associa tion.
McNeill Plays At Sea Bright
SEA BRIGHT, N. J, July 22 (U., P.).—Don McNeil, top-seeded national tennis champion from Oklahoma City, makes his first appearance in the 54th annual Sea Bright Invitation Tournament today when he plays Robert Kerdasha of Clinton, S. C., in a second-round match. McNeill and all other seeded plays ers in the men’s division, excepting Bobby Riggs of Chicago, drew firstround byes yesterday and will begin play today. Frankie Parker of Altadena, Cal,’ is pitted against Edwin A. Mark of San Francisco and fourth-ranked Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Cal, drew Henry Batjer of Dallas, Tex.
Riggs opened quest of his fourth singles championship in this tournament by trouncing J. Upshur Moorhead of Rumson, N. J., 6-1, 6-2. The four seeded stars in the women’s field advanced yesterday. Top-seeded Mrs. Sarah - Palfrey Cooke of New York walloped Mrs. M. H. Vosters Jr. of Sea Bright, 6-0, 6-0; Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Cal.,, breezed through Mrs. Elliott Coleman of Sea Bright, 6-1, 6-0; Dorothy May Bundy of Santa Monica, Cal, won qver Dorothy Wight man of Boston, 6-3, 6-4, and fourthseeded Virginia Wolfenden of Sag Francisco eliminated Cecile Bowes of Philadelphia, 6-0, 6-1. Mrs. Cooke plays Jane Stanton, Miss Jacobs plays Shirley Catton,
ofr | Miss Bunndy meets Helen Rihbany
2 in 2. Losing pitcher Hendrickson. Umpires—Weafer and Boyer, Time—1:4
and Miss Wolfenden meets’ Mrs, Millicent Lang today. :
Third-seededwd |