Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1941 — Page 10

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

THE ANNUAL Pack the Park Night is coming up at Perry Stadium Thursday and although the Indians are skidding again there will be enough attractions to offset their chagrin. . . . At any rate, 40 and 8 of the American Legion, the game’s sponsor, has mapped out

a rousing program, of which you have heard. Opposing the Redskins Thursday will be the Minneapolis Millers piloted by Long Tom Sheehan, World War veteran, who has his club very much in the running for the American Association championship. . . . Tom dotes on sluggers and he has a keen eye for them. When Zeke Bonura, Minneapolis first sacker, was called to the Army he was leading the league in batting, or close to it, and the slugger’s loss was a blow to the Millers . . . but Skipper Sheehan refused to surrender. . . He got busy on Babe Barna, a new man on his team this season, and now the huge Mr. Herbert Barna is leading the league in the swatting department. . . This 26-year-old outfielder is smacking the horsehide at a 358 clip and is pacing the circuit in stolen bases. . . . The big fellow weighs 205 pounds and stands 6 feet 2 inches, but the guy is streamlined and a demon on the base paths. . He has pilfered 24 sacks and is a pain in the neck to opposing batteries whenever he is perched on first. Incidentally, Barna was sold recently to the New York Giants for fall delivery and he’s a cinch to be an idol at the Polo Grounds if he makes the big league grade. . . They like their diamond pastimers huge in New York. Clarksburg, W. Va. is Barna’s home town. . . . He was a football end at the University of West Virginia, where he was a fourletter athlete in baseball, basketball, track and on the gridiron.

Bold Bucs Were Last in Early May

ON June 28 the Pittsburgh Pirates were 162 games from first place, and prior to that, in early May, they tumbled into last place in the senior big league circuit. . . . A lot of base hits have rolled off their bats since and the bold Buccaneer, Frankie Frisch, Pirate manager, at last is able to tear into juicy steaks— and smile. Frisch’s galloping Bucs possess a fiery competitive spirit and in this respect they follow their leader. . . . Frankie is out of the old John MeGraw school of baseball and he’s never lost any of the steam instilled in him when he played on the infield on McGraw’s pennant winning teams in the early Twenties. Sharing the Pirate glory and a man of the Frisch type is Indianapolis Mike Kelly, coach, who can be heard all over the park when he’s urging the Bucs to dig in and fight. . . . And for that reason, many Indianapolis fans are pulling for the Pirates to keep going . . . they want to see the popular Kelly cash in on his hard work. Up from nowhere, the Pirates are in third place now, two games ahead of the fourth-place Reds, the 1940 champs. . . . Ten games behind the league-leading Cardinals. and 8! behind the secondplace Dodgers, the Bucs are not talking pennant. . . . But stranger things have happened. In 1814. the Boston Braves moved out of last place in mid-July and set off on a gallop that carried them to the National League flag and to a four-straight World Series triumph over the Philadelphia Athletics. However, the 1914 Braves were only 11 games out of first place when they quit the cellar and launched their pennant climb. | The whole league was bunched, more or less, and Boston had a three-star mound triumvirate in Rudolph, Tyler and James to carry the load.

East Gets All-Star Grid Bid as Snavely Is Named Head Coach

By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Aug. 5.— The East moved in on Chicago’s annual allstar football game for the first time today when Carl Snavely of

Cornell was charged with the task of whipping 70 collegians into a unit to meet the Chicago Bears the night of Aug. 28. : Six of the seven previous head coaches were from the Midwest. One —Frank Thomas of Alabama—came from the South. Headmaster of Cornell's precise Rig Red teams since 1936, Snavely has an imposing record In varied positions ranging from Kiski Prep

Babe Barna

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‘Iron Man’ Has Won 6 Games in 13 Days

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—It has been a long time since a great southpaw pitcher wore the uniform of the St. Louis Cardinals but today the league-leading Red Birds have a 24-year-old mound star— Ernie White by name—who bears the distinct impress of

greatness. White is playing his first full season in the major leagues but already his fireball has carried him into a three-way struggle with veteran Lon Warneke and another

freshman, righthander Howie Krist, for club pitching honors, and within a whisker of leading the National League pitchers in the vietory column. “Iron Man” Ernie, so-called because he’s won six games in the last 13 days during which he has alternated as a bull-pen buffer and a regular starter, won his 13th vietory of the season yesterday when he pitched the Cardinals to a 4-2 triumph over the Chicago Cubs. Only Krist who has yet to lose a game and has won nine, is ahead of White in the league percentage tables. Mr. White Is Stingy

Sixth-place Chicago garnered only seven hits from White as he ran his record to 10 victories in 14 starts this year and seven straight. He has been defeated only three times—twice in starting rales. Johnny Hopp and Jimmy Brown collected two hits apiece to pace the Cards at the plate. Four singles, a walk and an error by l.ou Stringer gave the Cards all their runs in the third off Paul Erickson, enough to win their fourth straight game and keep them at the head of the league by 14 games. Brooklyn, minus Pete Reiser, the league's leading hitter, put together a 14-hit attack and trounced the New York Giants, 11-6, in a night game before 28,637 at Ebbets Field. Seven pitchers, four of them Giants, paraded to the mound in the 22-hit slugfest. Reiser in Hospital

The Dodgers blew a four-run lead in the seventh when Ken O'Dea clouted his second homer of the year with the bases full to tie the] score at 6-all, but Brooklyn blasted | ahead to stay with five runs in their half. Curt Davis, who went in in the seventh for Brooklyn, registered his seventh victory. Reiser, leading the league with a 340 average, went to a local hospital with an attack of sciatica and will be out of action for about three days. Pittsburgh made it 15 victories in 18 starts by polishing off the Cincinnati Reds, 4-1. Johnny Lanning fashioned a three-hitter for his fourth straight and seventh win of the year. Triples Help Yanks

The New York Yankees connected for four triples among eight hits to down the Washington Senators, 7-5, and increase their American League lead to 12 games. With two out in the seventh the Yankees won the game when Joe DiMaggio tripled and scored on Joe Gordon's bunt. Buddy Rosar then tripled Gordon across. Steve Peek and Johnny Murphy limited the Senators to eight hits. Jimmy Foxx’s 16th homer of the

7-6 triumph over the Philadelphia Athletics. Foxx had been bedded with a touch of fiu.

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TUESDAY, AUG. 5, 1941

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These Boys Are Sweet at Shooting Skeet

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By J. E. O'BRIEN Shotgun artists from as far away as Hawaii ganged on Indianapolis today for tomorrow's opening of the seventh national skeet championships at the Capitol City Gun Club.

Altogether 1000 of ’em are expected, and they are going to spend the next five days shooting up $10,000 worth of ammuition on more than two carloads of clay pigeons. One whole side of the Capitol City clubrooms is stacked with glittering trophies that will go to the most accurate of these sharpshooters. The 12 synchronized ranges of the Capitol City Club—which make it the largest skeet layout in the world—were pronounced ready for the firing, and most of the contestants were to sharpen their eyes on practice rounds today.

Three events are scheduled to-morrow—sub-small and small gauge competition and the champion of champions event. The sub-small and small gauge events call for the most careful shooting. In both, the ammunition loads are small and the patterns made by the shot are thin. So it's not hard to miss,

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National Shoot Opens Tomorrow at Capitol City Gun Club; Three Events Are Scheduled

[the contestants will shoot 100 tar- | gets—25 each on four fields. |” Felix Hawkins of Dallas, Tex. is | the defending champion in the sub{small gauge competition. He broke {98 of 100 to win the title last year, land the dopesters say it will take {just as good a score to win this {time. In the women’s division, (glamorous Pat Laursen, the pretty Akron, O., miss, is the current title- { holder, while Graydon Hubbard of Capitol City holds the professional crown. The national small gauge champion is Dick Shaughnessy, the gentleman with the keen eye from Dedham, Mass. Mrs. M. L. Smythe of Aurora, O. holds the ladies’ crown, and Hubbard tops the professionals. Chief competition to the current titleholders §s expected to come from Don Sperry, a Michigan sharpshooter, and Henry Joy of Detroit, who has a national average of 974. What makes these small gauge events more important is that the scores totaled here will be figured jon the high-over-all averages, along | with scores in the 20-gauge and all-

In each event,|gauge events.

These three gentlemen are among the favorites in tomorrow's opening day events at the national skeet shoot. nessy (left) is the national champion and a strong contender in both the sub-small and small gauge events. Graydon Hubbard (center) is a Capitol City member and one of the topflight professional shooters in the country. Don Sperry of Flint, Mich., (right) will bear watching in all divisions of the championships.

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This “champion of champions” competition is a new national event | and looks like tomorrow's piece de! resistance. It is open only to state

and district champions, and a field’ of about 75 is expected. The contest calls for 100 targets and 12-

Dick Shaugh-

Nine Entered in Hambletonian

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent GOSHEN, N. Y, Aug. 5—The nine best 3-year-old standard-bred horses in America were officially entered today to meet at Good Time Park domorrow in the 15th renewal of the $40,000-added Hambletonian Stake, the richest Eg trotting race in the world.

gauge guns. Capitol City's entrants will be Lymon Stahl, the Indiana | titleholder, and L. S. Pratt, who

their chance in the junior events, and a new national champion is certain, since O. L. Baldridge Jr. of Terre Haute, last year’s winner, is too old for this class now. The subjunior event, for shooters under 14, also will be run off, with William Handy of Bridgeport, Conn. defending his crown. Last year he broke 90 of 100 birds. Twenty-gauge competition also is scheduled Thursday with Robert Parker of Tulsa, Okla. tabbed as the man to beat. He shot a perfect round to win last year’s title. In the women’s division Miss Laursen will defend her laurels, while Leslie Webb of Richmond, Va. will attempt to retain the professional

boasts the southern Indiana crown. | On Thursday the youngsters get |

The comparatively small field, composed of five colts and four fillies, was topped by Bill Gallon, a brown son of Sandy F 1a s h, owned ‘by R. H. : Johnston of ee Charlotte, N. C,

Tribe Caught In Buckeyes’

Pincer Move

They’re Squeezing the Life From Our Boys

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COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 5.— The pincer movement as ems« ployed by the two Ohio meme bers of the American Associe

Indians has resulted in a corr plete squeeze and if there iss

troupe it probably will be ground out of them in Toledo tonight.

For a full week ending at Co= lumbus’ Red Bird Stadium last night the Indians fought a losing battle against Columbus and Toledo, In Indianapolis last Wednesday, after the Tribesters came in off of a brilliant road trip, Columbus #Mashed into the Hoosiers for two in a row. Then Toledo invaded the Tribe reservation and continued the ase sault by taking two out of three, The pincer tactics on the part of the Buckeye teams thoroughly softened up .the Indians and when they reached Columbus Sunday they, were staggering. So they dumped three more games into the hands of the Red Birdsy making their record seven defeats in their last eight starts. And now, after departing the red hot Red Birds, they must tackle the red hot Mud Hens again in Toledo tonight. Even Ray Starr fell before the Red Bird league leaders here last night who got to him for three runs in the third inning and two in the fourth, Columbus winning, 5 to 1, on seven hits. But two of the Columbus blows were home runs, by Jimmy Bucher and Cappie Walker, in the fourth stanza. Young Ben Wade took up the Tribe mound toil in the fifth an Glenn Fletcher went in the seventr: and finished it out. The Indians were held to six hits by Murry Dickson, the iron man member of the Red Bird staft It was the second time Ray Stare gunned for his 20th victory only to-land on the wrong side of the ledger. It was his 11th defeat. The Indians will play a brief series in Toledo, two games, tow night and tomorrow night, and then return home to battle the second-place Minneapolis Millers Thursday.

Summer

: and the probable Doc Parshall heavy As the entry box closed under cloudy skies the price-makers announced that Bill Gallon may go to the post at odds of 3-2 or lower. Although he was reported still suffering from a fever which ran his temperature up te 103 degrees yesterday, H. M. Parshall's Perpetual was named along with the others. Parshall, Urbana, O., veteran who drove Lord Jim to victory

crown.

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

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RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION First Game)

e 0 Kansas City 000 3 12 3 Hogsett, Kline and Denning; Barley and

3 Bartola, Robinson.

(Second Game)

Look Out, Here CometheBlues

By UNITED PRESS The Columbus Red Birds made it

three in a row over Indianapolis |

here in 1934, and handled Peter Astra, the winner in 1939, was noncommital about the colt's chances but paid the $500 entry fee on a gamble that he will be ready. Bill Gallon drew the second post position and Perpetual the seventh. The other entries were Merwynna, owned by Pat Sullivan of Machias, Me., No. 1; Lucy Hanover, owned by the Hanover Shoe Farms of Hané over, Pa.,, No. 2; the crack filly Florimel, owned by E. R. Harriman of the local Arden Homestead Stable,

favorite. |

The involuntary way that your eyes squint in the. bright sunlight means they are strained and continued strain of this sort may seriously weaken them. Guard them — have them examined today.

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Billy Thom, 183, Indiana University head mat coach, will clash st. (With Steve Brody. 192, of Holyoke, | Brockien Mass.. in the top half of a double Cincinnati windup on tonight's outdcor wrest-|NaNater® ©: ling card at Sports Arena.

last night, boosting their American Association leag to 2!2 games, Kansas City, apparently snapping! out of its slump, took the secondplace Minneapolis Millers in a dou-

ble-header, 5 to 4 and 2 to 0. It was the second double-header the

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to Bucknell, North Carclina and Comell. Since repiacing Gil Dobie at Cornell in 1936, his record shows 7 victories. 10 defeats and two ties. The Big Red was the terror of the East in 1939, sweeping over eight § consecutive opponents. Its victory §

No. 4; Hollyrood Anna, owned by D. W, Bostwick of New York City, No. 5; the probable second choice,]|: His Excellency, owned by W. H. Strang of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Fast Train, owned by E. T. Getty of New York City, No. 8; and Double Guy,

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string ended in the now famous | “fifth down” game against Dart- & mouth last year and was further dented by Pennsylvania. x When Snavely arrives to take over © the squad on Aug. 10, he will be joined by Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern, Fritz Crisler of Michigan, Kos ; Orin (Babe) Hollingbery of Wash-| S55 ) ington State and Homer Norton,| Carl Smavely... he Texas A. & M, his all-star assis-| the jinx. .

ware of

| renewal of the charity series may pl lop into a duel of the mousethe staff—he was Eimer Lay- deve n t i asssitant in 1939—so he knows raps. Its also a favorite weapon

sing | to George Halas, the T formatio tro and the jinx oy So hs oles , § ‘man of the Bears. .

Many of the All-Stars are head- . ing into professional football snd Mills Made Acting

h is strictly business for|__ . . the A tor Director at Illinois

them. Others, ih are on > Jast fling and ping eir | . minds on conditioning and tactics! CHICAGO, Aug. 5 (U. P).—Unihas harried nearly all the coaches |VerSity of Illinois trustees today Then there's the old all-star jinx. | Unanimously selected Douglas R. No head coach has had much Tuck | Mills, head basketball and assistant during the campaign immediately | football coach, as acting director of following his appearance with the athletics for one year beginning collegians. | Sept. 1.

The same. however, is true of the] Mills will replace Wendell S. Wil-

tants. It's Snavely’s second appearance

pressive victories since invading this territory and is confident of adding | Thom to the list. The match is for two falls out of three.

koff, 225, rugged and powerful Joplin, Mo., star, will take on Earl Wampler, 218, of Scranton, Iowa. Lee often has been hailed as the “uncrowned champ” and has beaten such huskies as Everett Marshall and Ed Strangler Lewis. It is his first local match. Buzz Jones, 184, Wyoming, opposes Dave Reynolds, 185, Idaho, in the opener at 8:30.

Ouch Again!

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Snavely, born in Omaha, Neb, in|at least another year. Wilson is

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GAMES TODAY AMERICAN AsoiATION

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Minneapolis at Milwaukee, St. Paul at Kansas City.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. St. Louis at Shisage. Boston at Philadelphia. Only games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia at Boston, New York at Washington. Detroit at Cleveland (night). Chicage at St. Louis (night).

Major Leaders

AMERICAN

LEAGUE G AB Williams, Boston Travis, Washington .. 94 33% DiMaggio, New York..104 415 ¢ Siebert, Philadelphia... 89 343 Heath, Cleveland 96 369 NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB

Reiser, Brooklyn .. Hopp, St. Louis Etten, Philadelphia ..

83 244 95 341 50 112 .329 Mize, St. Lo 83 31

7 48 108 .325 9 91 3%

nis Vaughan, Pittsburgh. 39 282 HOME RUNS

+19 Henrich, Yanks. . 21 0tt, Giants Williams, Red Sox 21|Nichelson, Cubs.. RUNS BATTED IN Keller, Yanks.... 96 Tabor Red Seox.... 33 Yor, Tigers

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. HITS DiMaggio, Yanks 135 Slaughter, Cards. 126 Travis, Senators.142 Cramer, Senators.124 Heath, Cleveland. 129) BUY

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6 8 024 50x—11 14 , Carpenter, Adams, Wittig and Danning; Hamlin, Casey, Davis and Owen.

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AMERIGAN LEAGUE 023 200-7 8 1 Washington 100 101 011 5 ® Peek, Murphy and Rosar; Chase, Masterson and Early.

050 001 000— 6 11 © Barris, "Hadley and Wagnors) M S, ey an agner; . Harris, Ryba, Hughson and Prilak, Only games scheduled.

Coach Jones Buried

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In Ohio Village

EXCELLO, O, Aug. 5 (U. P).—

. 1/Amid the shady quiet of this small

Ohio village of his boyhood, Howard

350 Harding Jones, who became one of

the nation’s most successful football coaches, was to be buried today. Young and old among the townsfolk, including several members of the “Dauntless Club” to which Jones

19 belonged when a young man here,

gathered to pay the last simple

19 respects to the University of South-

ern California football mentor.

i Blues had won in as many nights.

s | hander Milt Haefner's pitching.

1/place and faltering Colonels, 2 to 0.

Although George Barley pitched six-hit ball in the opener for the Blues, it was Second Baseman Al Glossop’s seventh-inning homer with two aboard that decided the game for Kansas City. Until Glossop's blow, the Blues had trailed two runs. Tommy Reis held the Millers to four hits in the second game, while his mates collected six off left-

The wins promoted Kansas City, in third place, to within four games of the lead. Emil Bildilli held Louisville to five hits, as Toledo shut out the fourth-

Singles by Christman ang Newman and a double by Stephens in the seventh accounted for the Hens’ tallies. . It took last-place Milwaukee 13 innings to edge out St. Paul, 4 {0 3, behind John Schmitz’ pitching. The Saints collected 13 hits off Schmitz, one more than the winning Brewers got off Smith, Sloat and Herring,

Lou Thomas Kayoed

ST: PAUL, Minn, Aug. 5 (U. P.). —Heavyweight Lem Franklin, Chicago, floored Lou Thomas, Indianapolis, for a count of eight, then knocked him through the ropes unconscious in the first round of a scheduled 10-round bout last night. The fight lasted two minutes and 17 seconds. Franklin weighed 199,

Thomas 204.

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