Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1941 — Page 9
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6, 1941
A Giant in
the Minors?
0'Doul May Bring His Two Stars to the Falling Giants
By HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Service
Sports Editor
If Horace C. Stoneham goes through with his current plan and rakes Frank Joseph O’Doul manager of the Giants, the new boss is likely to be accompanied by his newest developments. They are Ferris Fain and Froilan Fernandez, current stars of Frank
iants Held Up By Brooklyn
By JOE WILLIAMS NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—With the Brooklyn Dodgers charity begins at home, as it should, but at intervals it extends across the bridge to the Polo Grounds, home of the underprivileged and overrated. It is astonishing to us that no one has stressed the fact that the Dodgers consti-
_ tute one of the finest philanthropical agencies in baseball. We do not refer to their infrequent tendency to give away ball games. This would smack of cynicism. We have in mind the nobility of the higher virtues of 6 Sa brotherly love, Oye illi good old friendSoe Wintiawis in-need stuff. Specifically, we think it pertinent to ask, where would the Giants be todav if it weren't for the kindly pizers? he facts stand out like an ant ater’s beak. For the past several seasons the Dodgers have been supporting the Giants in the manner to which they were formerly accustomed. They've been on the upswing, the Giants on the down swing. The financial returns from their gamas have kept the Giants’
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state. This is the most vibrant and violent rivalry in baseball—and of recent seasons it has been mostly onesided. both on the field and in the matter of customer reaction. But happily for all concerned the Dodger fan apparently never geis tired seeing the Giants get kic around. The more brutal the kicking the higher his delirium mounts. The Giant fan, on the other hand, is more sophisticated, or perhaps practical is the word. He can stand only so much. This is probably near treason, as Secretary of War Stimson puts it. But you can imagine the envy that must well up in the soul of Mr. Gerry Nugent of the Phillies when and if he ponders this situation. Mr. Nugent operates the Philadelphia Phillies. They play what might be called ersatz baseball. To get along from season to season Mr. Nugent must sell his best ball players. ° It may be the thought of some neurotic minds that Mr. Nugent's Phillies actually are disporting themselves at the Polo Grounds these days and nights but that is not for us to say. For one thing, we have nothing against the Phillies. Besides we are mildly encouraged over the recent statement issued by forace Stoneham, Giants’ presit, in which he promises a new #rder for 1942. Everything's going to be different. Only Rucker and Young and one or two others are to stay. Money is to be no object. The Giants are to be restored to their once proud and respectable position and so on and so forth.
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Cocky Fain is a first baseman, Fernandez a shortstop, so they'd go 3 long way toward filling the New | York Nationals’ requirements. Fain is 20, Fernandez 22. Fain bats left-handed, Fernandez right. They are line drive hitters. Fain is batting .346, third in the Pacific Coast League and only a few {points below the leader. On the | Seals’ last road trip to Portland and | Seattle, the youngster batted more than 400. His average has increased with nearly every start.
Lefty Likes ’em
Lefty O’'Doul pronounces Fain and Fernandez ready for the majors now, and it goes without saying that theyll step up production with experience. ; Professor ODoul, one of the keener judges of ivory, goes into] ecstasies about Fain, who has the advantage left-handedness gives a first sacker. “Fain will be another Hal Chass,” exciaimed O'Doul, when I long distanced the San Francisco pilot in regard to his opportunity with the Polo Grounders. Then, suddenly realizing that the use of Chase's name is taboo in the better baseball circles, the two-time National League batting champion caught himself with, “Don't say Chase, say Ceorge Sisler.” Though he stands no more than 5 feet 11, Fain has a longer streteh than first sackers who tower in the air. Sisler was only 5 feet 10% inches in height.
Best in the West
Fain certainly obtained a flving start. He is considered: the finest all-round ball player in the minors was the only one named unanimously for the Coast League’s all-star game. v : Fain amazes old-timers with brilliant fielding feats and in starting double plays. Tom Laird asserts the young man is sensational, and those who know the veteran sports editor of the San Francisco News will tell you that coming from him such a recommendation at least makes the young man phenomenal. Owner Charley Graham has placed a $100,000 price tag on Fain. The Boston Red Sox are interested in him as a replacement for Jimmy Foxx, now on the retirement road. Vinegar Bill Essick of the Yankees has trailed Fain for weeks. So have foxy foragers for the Cubs, Pirates. Indians and other major organizations. But O'Doul himself is doing some scouting for the Giants with an eye to taking over the management. If Lefty O'Doul comes to the Polo Grounds, he'd like to be accompanied by Fain and Fernandez. And Ferris Fain and Froilan Fernandez would like to ride along with Lefty O'Doul, the man who taught them the business.
Team, Players
Dropped by LS. A.
Officials of the Indianapolis Softball Association today announced the draw for the first round of play in the eighth annual sectional-re-gional tournament and declared the E. C. Atkins team and several members of the Pepsi-Cola Boosters and Metal Auto Parts clubs ineligible. Four preliminary games will be held Sunday night at Softball and Stout stadiums, to enable an even field of thirty-two teams to begin a complete first round Tuesday night. The ineligible team and players were barred because of participaTon in the American Soft®all Association tourney at Speedway Stadium, a tourney uhsanctioned by the I. S. A, Dave Eader, I. S. A. tourney manager, explained.
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Nine Trotters Ready For the Sulky Classic
Perpetual and Bill Gallon Are Favorites
By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent
as thousands of visitors clattered into town to watch nine brawny standard-bred horses
the
stake. With the usual sultry weather and fast footing in prospect at kite-shaped Good Time track, the parades from the metropolitan centers of New York and New Jersey began forming early and the village square soon became snarled with traffic. A throng of 40,000 by post time at 4 p. m. CDT, was predicted.
The Horses
GOSHEN, N. Y, Aug. 6 (U. P.). —The field for the 15th renewal of the $40,000 Hambletonian stake, horses listed in order of post postions: Prob. Horse Odds Merwynna 20-1 Bill Gallon 3-2 Lucy Hanover 20-1 Florimel 0 Hollyrood Anna 3 His Excellency Perpetual Fast Train Double Guy
$40,000 Hambletonian
Driver Fleming Smith Thomas Pownall Bostwick White Parshall Whitney Caton
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The field for the 15th renewal of this backwoods trotting classic numbered nine starters, one of the smallest in years, but a brisk contest was anticipated. The somewhat dubious honor of favoritism was bestowed upon Bill Gallon, a heavily muscled colt owned by R. H. Johnston of Charlotte, N. C., but the race appeared open. Bill Gallon and his driver, Lee Smith, drew the second post position in the electric barrier and their odds dropped as low as 3-2 as city folk and upstate farmers alike clambered aboard, but many a professional horseman shied away from the favorite and turned instead to a colt who was reported ailing from a fever—H. M. (Doe) Parshall’s Perpetual. Although Bill Gallon was the 2-year-old champ he hadn't flashed his old form this season. Perpetual, meanwhile, had won five straight starts and the regulars knew that if anybody could bring him home it was Parshall, the match-chewing owner-driver who hit the finish stripe on top with Lord Jim in 1934 and Peter Astra
GOSHEN. N. Y., Aug. 6.— {The sleepy hush which characterizes Goshen for 364 days of the year was broken today
trot it out in that Kentucky Derby of the rural regions—
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After Louis
Two Big F ights Set for Melio
By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 6. — Melio Bettina, dangerous southpaw heavyweight contender from Beacon, N. Y. has closed for two California fights that may boost him into a
November title battle with Joe Louis. Bettina’s manager, Jimmy Grippo, completed negotiations last night for the hard-hitting Italian to engage in 10-round bouts with Pat Valentino at the San Francisco Auditorium, Aug. 25, and with Turkey Thompson at Los Angeles, Sept. 13. Grippo said, “Mike Jacobs promised us that if Bettina beats both Valentino and Thompson, he will be given a title bout at Los Angeles in November—if Louis is still champion then. Jacobs and Tom Gallery of Los Angeles would promote the bout.”
Attention Whirlaway
SARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug. 6 (NEA) —Attention, which broke Whirlaway’s remarkable streak in the Arlington Classic, is giving the wearer of the triple crown a return match in the historic Travers here, Aug. 16. The distance is a mile and a
in 1939,
quarter.
Larned Leads
BULLETIN CULVER, Ind, Aug. 6 (U. P.). —Victor Seixas, national interscholastic champion from Philadelphia, today led the field into the quarter-finals of the National Junior Tennis Tournament by defeating Frank Willet, Anniston, Ala., 6-4, 63.
CULVER, Ind. Aug. 6 (U. P). — Top-seeded Garner Larned, Chicago, meets Marshall Chambers, Cincinnati, today in the featured fourth round match.of the National Junior Tennis Tournament. Ten other seeded entrants were among the 16 survivors. In the boys’ division favorite Bob Falkenburg, Hollywood, was paired with Felix Kelly, Robstown, Tex, today in the third round. All eight seeded entrants were undefested. Other fourth round junior
Tenms Juniors
Victor Seixas, Philadelphia vs. Frank Willet, Annistan, Ala.; Robert Smidl, River Forest, Ill. vs. Walter Driver, El Paso, Tex.; Jimmy Evert, Chicago vs. John Howard, Hollywood, Cal.; Harry Likas, San Francisco vs. Jim Brinks, Seattle, Wash.; Budge Patty, Los Angeles vs. Ellis Slack, Long Beach, Cal.; Irving Dorfman, New York vs. Harry Buttimer, San Francisco. Third round boys matches: Jack Tuero, New Orleans vs. Eddie Radek, Chicago; Emil Martinez, San Antonio vs. Henri Salaun, Dover, Mass.; Don Harris, Los Angeles vs. Britt Schweitzer, Washington, D. C.; Henry Austin, Garden City, N. Y. vs. Dick Randall, Oak Park, Ill.; Sam Handel, Philadelphia vs. David Brown, Toledo, O.; Charles Tichenor, Indianapolis vs. Hubert Rance, Chicago, and Charles Oliver, Perth Amboy, N. J. vs. Lucien Barbour, Win-
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field, Kas.
30 Rounds of Boxing Carded
Five mitt clashes calling for 30 rounds of milling, will be offered local fight fans tonight at Sports Arena, with opening action scheduled for 8:30. The complete card:
Ten Rounds—Heavyweights Johnny Denson, Indianapolis, vs. Johnny (Bandit) Romero, Los Angeles, Six Rounds—Featherweights Jue Yee Kong, Indianapolis, vs. “Wild Bill” Reed, Indianapolis, Six Rounds—Lightweights Benton Cobbins, Macon, Ga., vs. Robert Simmons, Indianapolis. Four Rounds—Welterweights Paul Buntin, Coatesville, Ind., vs. Arnold Deer, Indianapolis. Four Rounds—Middleweights Bob Blue, Indianap®¥s, vs. Wes ley Kemp, Indianapolis.
| Double or Nothing
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (NEA). — Three National League teams— Boston, Cincinnati and St. Louis —averaged better than one double play per game during the first half of the season. The Braves, with 86 twin killings in 80 games, set the pace.
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'Now the Night Louis Got Licked,’ Up in Chi, Boston, Gotham, Detroit or Was It Dogpatch?
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Aug. 6—A quick survey showed today that there are three places inside the boundaries of continental United States which have not been mentioned as pos-
{sible sites for the forthcoming fight
between Joe Louis and Lou Nova: 1. The Grand Canyon. 2. Shelby, Mont. 3. A raft in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. And that means, fellow citizens, that the build-up really has started for what may turn out to be a million dollar gate next month. The first step in getting the ballyhoo under way for a heavyweight championship fight is to set the country speculating on where the Brown Bomber will do his bombing. It’s a two-way proposition. Many towns cannot resist the temptation to cut themselves a slice of the publicity by putting in a bid for the fight. Eliminating all the podunks that are out for a piece of pie and know they haven't a chance to get the fight, promoter Mike Jacobs has four bona fide propositions under consideration. The automobile industry in Detroit has offered to underwrite $200,000 worth of tickets and points
out that there is plenty of money in that city because of the national defense boom. A group of sportsmen in Boston have offered a $250,000 guarantee. Chicago is trying to get the fight merely by pointing out that the city always supports a heavyweight championship bout. New York is always in the running for a heavyweight title bout because of the immense population from which a promoter can draw. The agitation over the site will last for about another week or 10 days and then the ballyhoo will veer off on another angle. In fact, some of that has started already. Louis announced in the midwest the other day that he was getting tired of playing golf and putting his horses through their paces in shows. He said he was “itchin’ for some action,” meaning he wanted to get back to his trade of thumping people on the noggin until they dropped. That tends to abolish the idea that Louis is ring weary and getting ready to retire; it paints him as a hungry, thirsty tiger, rarin’ for the kill. Next week Nova will emerge from the Maine woods, and leave it to him
to come up with something that will
help the ballyhoo. It probably will
be recalled that Gene Tunney built himself into g title shot against Jack Dempsey by retiring to the woods and chopping trees. In addition, Nova probably will have some varia= tion on his “cosmic punch”—a mys. terious blow that has been explained to your agent three/tymes and still eludes him. On the surface, it looks
like a short right to the jaw, but
Nova insists it is the weapon that will destroy Louis.
The Louis-Nova gate will be helped by the fact that the ime pression seems to be loose around the country that the Brown Bombe er is about to be taken. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of persons will want to attend so, when they are graybeards, they can gather the grandchildren around them and— “Now, the night that Louis got licked . . .”
° Dodgers Buy Again NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (U. P). — President Larry MacPhail of the Brooklyn Dodgers has purchased first baseman Lester Burge and pitcher Bob Chipman from Atlanta of the Southern Association for an undisclosed sum of cash. They are to report after the Southern AssOe ciation playoffs.
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