Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1941 — Page 8
SPORTS... By Eddie Ash
RAY STARR NIGHT is to be celebrated at Perry Stadium on Tuesday, Sept. 2, when the Indianapolis Tribesters meet the Louisville Colonels. It will be the last home game of the season for the Indians and and as they say farewell the fans will be offered the opportunity of giving a big hand to the ace of the mound staff whose 20 victories kept the team from
falling out of the league. In his 15 years in baseball Starr has never had an Appreciation Night and Tribe Secretary Dale Miller believes he has one coming as a reward for extra-duty pitching throughout the summer. . . . Ray worked assignments with only two days’ rest over a long stretch and several of his defeats were attributed to erratic support and weak batting behind him. Bert Wilson, the WIBC radio baseball commentator, has been appointed chairman of the Ray Starr Appreciation Night Committee and hopes the fans will loosen up and swamp him with gifts for the veteran twirler. The ball park grandstand gate admission will be reduced to 45 cents for the occasion. . . . So jot it down as a “must,” Tuesday, Sept. 2... all out for Ray Starr and farewell to the 1941 Redskins , . . they finish on the road this time, playing in Columbus and Toledo after the Sept. 2 game here. When the Indians return from the West next Wednesday, Aug. 27, playing Toledo, Moose Night will be celebrated. . . . The International Supreme Council of the Loyal Order of Moose will hold its convention in Indianapolis next week and the ball game is included on the entertainment program, Thursday, Aug. 28, will be Defense Savings Bends Night at the ball yard . . There will be special exercises before the game.
Ray Star
Cleveland Overrated, Morale Shattered THE CLEVELAND INDIANS, like the Indianapolis Indians. are just plaving the season out. . . . However, the Hoosier Indians didn't have it at the start and are going to finish where they were consigned. . . . But the Cleveland Indians are a horse of a different color. . . . They fell apart after looking like coming champs. Fran klin Lewis, writing in the Cleveland Press, limits the reasons for the flop of his club to two—overrating and collapse of morale, » « « Expert Lewis winds up and pitches it out in this fashion: “It is apparent that there can be no place for normal reasoning when one considers the Cleveland Indians of the moment. I have run completely out of explanations in discussing their collapse but I cannot overcome my wonderment at this team. Its personnel, now shorn of a few thorns, staged the only mass revolution in baseball history. Its personnel let you know last March that it would win the pennant because all disturbing factors had been eliminated. “Some answer will have to be given to people who demand a reason for the Tribe's flopperoo. So near as I can discern, there is a total of two answers, or reasons, available.
Folded After June Series in Gotham “REASON No. 1 will throw most of the alleged experts in a rather purple light because it is very possible that we overrated the Indians by a fat 500 per cent. Obviously, we were guided along the blind path last spring by not looking beneath the surface to discover the weak points in what appeared to be impregnable armor. “Reason No. 2 is the more dangerous of the two because it concerns the morale of the Indians. Unquestionably, the Cleveland Indians lack a winning spirit. They lack fire even when winning, “They haven't been able to take a punch and hang on until their senses can operate normally once more. Go back to the middie of June for concrete facts of this. On June 14. the Indians began an Eastern trip in Yankee Stadium. They were four games ahead of the Yanks, who promptly clipped off three in a row. “Right then and there the Indians folded up. They could have stormed out of New York, heated their anger over the coals of six other teams and remained in a contending position until they could get another crack at the Bronx Bombers. But the Indians aren't like that. ey can’t recuperate.”
Baseball At a Glance
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GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Minneapolis
two). Louisville at St. Paul (night). Columbus at Kansas City (night).
Tolede at Milwaukee.
NOTIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis at Boston (two) Cincinnati at Philadelphia (two). Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Chicage at New York.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York at Detroit, Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Chicago. Boston at St. Louis.
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1941
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The throne of the heavyweight who believes his long legs may dangl
you may think yourself that he'll he; knodding his curly blond head to the newsie’s ery of “Howdy, Champ,” | some day. His big right first Gove into the Bandit’s stomach and e ploded. Romero was carried oe | pletely out of the ring by the re-| percussion. He had lasted one min-| ute and 22 seconds. Of course, this elusive dream of the title might be just restless smolterings of rich pie but it is the sincere goal of the young slugger who can fight and loves to.
Aware It’s a Big Job “I'm not kidding myself,” he says. “I'm really going after the title, and I realize it’s a hard climb.” The gist of the whole thing is that on the 12th day of this month the young prospect (the city's fest in many a year) started training in earnest for the first time in his life on a trial program which may come to be known as “The Sixty Days of Johnny Denson.” During that two-month program he intends to find out just how well equipped he is to take up a cauliflower career. Having been granted a 60-day leave of absence from his oil-gear hydraulic press which he operates! the big blond is battling! corpuscles and fresh air at a camp four and one-half miles north of Noblesville under the supervision of his manager, Kelse McClure, Here he shuffles off the miles of road work, chops wood, hand powers a boat and does all those little things fighters have gone through since John L. was buttoned.
First Real Training
“I feel much better and have stripped off all excess weight,” he| said. “It’s my first real training pe- | riod. Before I always got up around five and worked out before going to work and then conditioned myself in the evenings as best I could.” In the afternoons Johnny works out under the eyes of Whitey Fisher who supervised Roy Wallace, Tracey Cox and Jimmy Hackley during their tenure in the canvas square. McClure will provide the fights and fittings during the 60 days. Bouts are being mapped in Chicago and Memphis. And of course
Sports Arena. The Tiger comes up from Birmingham, Ala. with quite] a growl in his record. In 32 starts
sleep of peace movement.
Golden Gloves Graduate
For the factual minded, the young! heavyweight is 6 feet 2 inches tall, | weighs 188 pounds, is 22 years oid | and is married. There are two
old. Teresa Ann, mother, is two, A product of Brightwood amateurs and the Times Golden Gloves shows, Johnny has had around 40 bouts. Two went the wrong way. His biggest step so far was a semiwindup with “Irish” Dan Dowling in St. Louis before the Louis-Musto
named after her
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ILLINOIS
Two meetings are scheduled at the Illinois Alleys riday night. The Dairy League: ww organize and Saities are re0 send representatives o all Kin Carson, MA-3 i510 tt The Warhir tron League, an open circuit, vy four teams. Teams interested are ask to have representation at Fridav aeeet S$ meeting.
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The Indianapolis and Fox-Hunt Classic Leagues av, eet at Fox's Steakhouse at .
8:30 p. X
I. Looking for a suitable opponent is young Johnny Denson, local heavyweight, who brought along a couple of not too secret but honorable weapons of work to keep him in trim.
2. He is working out at a camp four and one-half miles north of Noblesville to condition himself for 60 days of fighting. Here he manhandles a White River boat upstream.
Neville Beech in the Sports Arena. Yes, he is really cutting wood up at his training camp and intends to get in condition.
Local Heavy Opens Camp and
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pew—one reserved for a great hulking shape of a man who's the best in the business—and there is a quiet, easy-going giant around town nant, don’t want the Indians to get
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Johnny Denson—His Goal’s Pugilism’s Top
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His name is Johnny Denson, and if you saw that trip hammer he! drove into the midsection of one Johnny (Bandit) Romero the other day, | {and are itching for more of the
battle last April. Johnny took the decision in 10 rounds and St. Louis | liked him. He is making an honest effort to prove that he can go far in the game and has a quiet faith in his own success. Out at the Allison
finance this trial, but Johnny thinks e can manage.
Fritzie Returns To Fistic Wars
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 20 (U. P.) —| Fritzie Zivie, former welterweight | Zi
(champion, will meet Milt Aron of!
Chicago in a 10-round bout at! Forbes Field Sept. 15, promoters Art| Rooney and Barney McGinley announced last night. The promoters are seeking a suitable “name” opponent for Harry |
Bobo, Pittsburgh Negro heavyweight | 1 ogan
who last week knocked out Lee! Savold of Des Moines, Iowa.
Play Resumes
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Aug. 20 (U. P.).—Contestants in the 69th national doubles tennis championships resume competition at Longwood Cricket Club today after a day of ping-pong, card games and other assorted indoor activity.
Rain forced postponement of
PRINCETON. N. J, Aug. 20 (U. P) —Jock Sutherland counted 22 vacant chairs in the training camp of Brooklyn's football Dodgers today and said sort of ruefully that he guessed he'd have to paint himself a sign to this effect: “Wanted— Two dozen husky men with football experience and no immediate prospect of being drafted into military service.” Less than three weeks removed from his first scheduled game, the themselves. Last year when he took charge of the Brooklyn team the {former University of Pittsburgh coach lifted the perennial cellar |dwellers from last to third place in the National Professional League by trimming off the dead wood and importing carloads of young talent. This action proved a boomerang. It was a good idea at the time except that the young players (A) hadn't had time to collect dependents, and (B) were just the sort of boys the Army and Navy seemed to want. For instance, the Chicago Bears lost only two men and the Washington Redskins, composed of many veterans, still are intact. The reasons are that the players are older and more of them are married. Sutherland right now doesn't know what can be done. Nor does anyone else In camp. The Dodgers have lost Shetley, George Cafego, Sam Francis, Ralph Kercheval, Lou Mark, Waddie Young, Mike Gussie and Art Jocher from last year’s
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Times Special MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 20.— Ancient Nicollet Park was too damp for baseball last night and the Indians and Millers got a vacation. However, it will be double duty for the athletes tonight when they will clash in a double header. First tilt is scheduled at 7 o'clock,
Central Standard Time, the second at 8:30. The teams got in part of their practice last night but at game time more rain fell and after a long wait it was no soap. This is the Tribe's last day in Minneapolis and for that reason there will have to be a twin bill tonight. The Millers, who still think they have a chance to snare the pen-
out of town without getting a couple more cracks at them. Tom Sheehan's boys have bumped off the Hoosiers 14 times in 20 games this season
same dish. After completing the Miller series the Indians will move over to St. Paul for three games, then to Milwaukee for three and on to Kansas City for one before returning to Indianapolis for their last home stand, beginning Wednesday, Aug. 27.
Tribe Averages
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Greys and Fagles Play at Stadium
The Homestead Greys and Newark Eagles will occupy Perry Sta-
dium for a Negro National League
game at 8:30 tonight. At the stadium last night. The Kansas City Monarchs blanked the Chicago Americans in a Negro American League game.
But All's Not Well With Football's Dodgers; The Army Invades Sutherland's Camp
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Jock Sutherland ... Pessimistic.
team to the Army, and Dick Cassiano to Dartmouth, where he will
coach. Eight rookies also have been inducted, among them such name
\}g | former
Red Birds Win There With 73
night, but second-place Louisville Red Birds’ American Association le City sank to 102 games rrom the
Helped along by four Kansas City errors, the Red Birds won the first game, 8 to 7. Despite the miscues, the Blues stayed in the run-
Fans Squawk As Roche Wins
Dorve Roche, 222-pound Decatur, Ill. matman, defeated Orville Brown, 235, of Kas. at Sports Arena last night, but there was plenty of squaking from the custoniers.
With the clash carrying no time limit and slated for two out of three falls to win, Roche surprised Brown with a back leg split and grapevine grip to take the first session in 37 minutes. They had been on the mat about five minutes of the second fall when they bumped heads violently as both tried for fiying tackles and the two.grapplers sprawled flat on their backs on the canvas. Neither was able to rise before the count of 10 and the referee ruled that each had captured a fall. On the two out of three basis, this made Roche the winner. The semi-final went to Am Ascher of Cedar Lake, Ind. when the Indiana University star pinned “Irish” Jack Kennedy in 18
301 | minutes.
Jules (Speedy) ILaRance flopped
L {Frankie Wolf, Columbus, oO, in 17- : minutes.
10 Bouts Carded
) On Park Program
Ten bouts are on the boxing pro-
5 gram to be staged at Washington 1 Park tonight under sponsorship of ithe North East Community Center
in co-operation with the WPA Recreation Department. Rusty Patterson of Willard Park and Earl Etheridge of the English Avenue Boys' Club, 135 pounders, meet in the main go. Bob Kennedy of the South Side Community Center and Bill Henry of Washington Park trade blows in the semi-final. A band concert at 7 o'clock will precede the bouts. The WPA also is sponsoring an all-Negro boxing card at Belmont
Park tonight.
players as Ray Frick of Penn and Jim Langhurst of Ohio State. football coaching dentist confessed that unless a few good samaritans rustle him up some talent he might not be able to field a team against the Chicago Bears on Sept. 9. “For once I have reason for my pessimism,” he said with a sickly sort of grin. “Between them, the Selective Service Act and defense industries have taken away eight regulars, eight of the best draftees and a couple of free-lance players. And to top all that, nine of the 30 men we have in camp here now Jee subject to call practically any ay.” The Brooklyn eleven has been hit harder by the draft than any other important sports squad in the United States. The sad news which greeted the doctor on awakening today was that Rhoten Shetley, the first-string quarterback, had been inducted at Ft. Bragg, N. C.—narrowing his supply of backs from 13 to four and leaving him with just one signal caller.
Sutherland says the trouble is
partly the fault of the Dodgers}
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-Game Lead
By UNITED PRESS Columbus took both ends of a double-header from Kansas City last
2 and Stay Up
also won a double-header and the ad remained at 72 games, Kansas top.
ning all the way and Columbus had to use three pitchers—Barrett, Gabler and Dickson. Gabler got credit for the win.
Columbus shut out Kansas City, 3 to 0, in the six-inning nightcap, behind Harry Breechen’s five hit pitching. The second-place Louisville Colonels stretched the distance between them and third-place Minneapolis to 1'2 games by taking both ends of a double-header, 5 to 4, and 5 to 1, from St. Paul. The Colonels put across the winning run of the opener in the last inning. Bill Sayles, the winning pitcher, scattered 12 hits among the Saints. Fleming held the Saints to six hits in the nightcap. Toledo's Harry Kimberlin lost a {heart-breaker. He pitched four-hit ball, but Milwaukee shut out Toledo, 2 to 0. Rightfielder Barney Olson made two hits off Kimberlin, one a homer. Dave Kosio, the winning pitcher, was nicked for six safeties.
N.Y. U. Can Use Him
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Henry Majlinger, end candidate at New York University, earned freshman ‘numerals in three sports last year
Neither Mud Nr Rain Can Stop The Dodgers
Drop $20,000 ’ But Win Two And Hike Lead
DiMaggio [Is Injured As Yanks Split Pair
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.— The Brooklyn Dodgers, making hay while it rained, toe day had cast an entirely different light on the National League pennant race. While the Cardinals wera rained out in Boston, the Dodgers sloshed through the mud and rain at Ebbets Field yese terday to a double triumph over the Pirates, 9-0 and 6-2, and ine creased their lead to two games, The rain cost the Dodgers soms $20,000 at the gate but gave their pennant hopes a million-dollar shot in the arm by helping them to knock down the Pirates twice. Only 9372 turned out because of the forbidding weather but the Dodgers laughed at the elements
and played like champs. Curt Davis handcuffed the Pirates in the opener, allowing only five hits. In the nightcap Tom Drake, righthander bought three weeks ago from Nashville, won his first start. He allowed only five hits until taken out for a pinch-hitter in the ninth.
Put Down That Umbrella
The second game was played in the rain, and Manager Frankie Frisch was chased by the umpires when he stood with an umbrella over his head while the umpires were conferring about calling the
game. With the Pirates behind, 1-0, in the early innings Frisch was { yelling for the game to be called.
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The Yankees received a tough blow when they lost Joe DiMaggio for possibly two weeks in dividing a twin bill with the Tigers. DiMaggio sprained his ankle in pulling up at second in the fourth inning and Tommy Henrich had to be shifted to center with George Selkirk taking over right. The Tigers slashed out 16 hits to win the opener, 12-3, Marius Russo pitched the Yanks to an 8-3 victory in the nightcap, winning his 12th. Charlie Keller hit homer No. 30 in the opener. Henrich hit No. 23 and Gordon No. 1 in the Yanks’ 16-hit attack in the nightcap.
Yanks Lead Chopped
The White Sox chopped a game off the Yanks’ lead—it's now 16— when they swept a double-header with the Athletics, 6-0 and 1-0, for their seventh and eighth straight. The Browns and Red Sox divided a pair, Denny Galehouse pitching St. Louis to a 3-2 decision in the opener and Boston driving out 19 hits to capture the nightcap, 10-7, Ted Williams hit three homers, running his total to 26. He made five hits in eight times at bat for the two games. Jimmy Bloodworth’s homer with one on in the 12th inning gave Washington an 8-6 victory over the
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