Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1941 — Page 22
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Shooting War
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By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 -—-Don't choot while they're sitting on the ground, men. Get ‘em on the rise and give the poor devils a sporting chance. Bang. Bang, Bang! It's open season on major league baseball managers today and the shooting has started. The shooting is especially heavy in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit and New York. but that doesn't mean that the legal limit is confined to the managers who shall be discussed in this essay. You, too, can shoot at a manager. Remember that game back in June when he sent a pinch hittér in for good old Joe Doakes and the pinch hitter fanned with the winning run on second? Fire the manager. He should have had sense encugh to let Doakes hit for himsel. The easiest target for the hunters is poor old Roger Peckinpaugh of the Cleveland Indians. What right has he got to blow the pennant when everybody told
Prothro . . . too poor,
him last spring that the Indians were a cinch? It seems that Pecks chief crime is that he is too easy going. He doesn’t crack
down on the players and make them hustle. Why, he even told them last spring that they could take a beer now and then if they wanted it. What that Cleveland bunch needs is somebody to crack down on them, to bawl the boys out. Let's see, somebody like Oscar Vitt would be just the ticket. Don't remind me that the hunters got Vitt last season because he was too tough and the boys ran to the front office crying. That was 1940; this is 1941. Time marches on, tempus fugit and how are you? Off with Peckinpaugh’s head and get a new manager. And that about Del Baker of the Détroit Tigers? The hunters are after him, too. Imagine a guy winning the American League pennant and coming within one game of the world series in 1940, and then bringing out a second division ball club in 1941. What
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Declared On Managers—Pick Your Target
do you think that Baker did when the Army drafted Hank Greenberg? Did he offer to go out there and play left field himself and hit .340 and bat in 100 runs or better? He did not. He just said he would try to get along the best way he could with the material at hand. Fire the bum. Shoot quick and maybe you can get Bill Terry of the York Giants on the wing. He's a wily duck, however, because people have been shooting at him all season long. Why all he needs to have a championship ball club is a third baseman, a shortstop, two outfielders and a couple of pitchers who can win 20 games. A guy ought to be able to pick up that kind of a talent anywhere. And don't give me that stuff about the Giants not having the money to lay out for ball players. Let 'em get a printing press and make some money. the Government does, doesn’t it? Shoot that Terry at sunrise and then start looking for a new manager. Ah, there, Doc Prothro, come out of that canebrake and give the boys a good shot at you.
Peckinpaugh . , . too soft.
Those Phillies are going to be in last place forever unless they get a new manager, What's the idea
of letting the U. S. A. draft Hugh Mulcahy, Doc, when you needed him to pitch? Why didn’t you tell the Army where to get off? And what's the idea of not finding another pitcher like Kirby Higbe after the front office sold him to the Dodgers? Scram, Doc, Easy, easy, boys, Bucky Harris is about to get on the wing. Get him quick. Why, the guy doesn't even volunteer to go in there and pitch these days. And is he going to take Buddy Lewis’ place if and when the kid goes into the Army? He is not. He's just going to sit on the bench and try to run his ball club. Yeah, that's what those Washington Senators need, a new manager. As of this writing, Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals is not a target. But he will be if he wins the pennant and the world series. Remember Bill McKechnie, Rogers Hornsby, Frankie Frisch and Gabby Street? Anything that St. Louis crowd hates is a winning manager,
FRIDAY, AUG. 22, 1941
Baker . . . too carefree.
SPORTS
By Eddie Ash
INDIANAPOLIS sports
goers finally supported a
professional boxing show in a big way and it was hot stuff
at Sports Arena last night as
3000 customers sat in on a
five-bout card promoted by Lloyd Carter's Hercules A. C.
The semi-windup and main feather pleased the fans no end as th see In top attraction between and Neviile (Tiger) Beech of Memp
the
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in which heavyweights threw e big fellows exchanged punches.
Johnny Denson, the local pride,
his the adversaries were
Tenn.
well-matched. both voung and willing mixers after getting up a sweat. This battle ended in the eighth round and Denson won by a
Knockout. . . rounds and did switched to a furious got hit too hard and to often in the
Beech absorbed Johnny's a fair job of punching himself . . body attack the Southern boy folded. . . . Beech
Sunday punches in the early . but when Denson
bread basket and was down for
seven in the early part of the eighth But that seven-second knockdown set him up for the kill and
Denson swarmed in and flattened ond heavy
-t
atl
tack to the wind in 2:23 of the eighth
him for the ten-count with a sec-
canto
The fist-throwing six-rounder between Jethro Jeffers, the former
local Golden Glover. and Red Bruce
by the referee and two judges
into their work and it was a dandy sl
Bruce was down for a2 no-count scored him the winner by and landed the more punches
het 1 rignt i
and when his r
2
of Pittsburgh was called a draw
. These gladiators put everything
ugfest.
the fourth but this observer
mn
a shade because he usually led the going But
anded Bruce respected it
Jeffers was in there pitching
Denson’s Fine Condition Pays Dividends
JOHNNY DENSON benefited by
a course of diligent training for
the Beech match and was all set for a strenuous evening when the
opening bell sounded
the heavies glared and stepped around getting up steam looked the winner of the second heat and . This was a snappy session
loose in the third
. Nothing happened in the first round as
. Beech then the home boy cut and give-and-take,
with Denson putting more on his punches.
Johnny edged ahead again in
even as Beech rallied and it looked But Denson was smart enough to lear
the thir fifth his one-two attack worked to perfection
d and fourth and in the . The sixth looked even again in the seventh. . . . m that Beech’s jaw wasn't made
of glass when the Southerner declined to wilt after being struck on
the button. But Johnny the end of the sev the Tiger have it and after being dou out.
wasnt
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nsta
iad
tired while Beech showed signs of wear at enth and in the eighth Denson wound up and let '... It was the beginning of the end led up twice by body blows Beech was counted
Beech’s corner claimed Johnny plunked a blow below the belt but
the referee and judges within bounds 5 THE JEFFERS-BRUCE bout cal any rate the fans would “go” for it with that righthand wallop and Bru profession. . . . His left is superior is pretty potent. :
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said the vict
ictory punches were legal and = Is for a rematch, maybe. . . | At again. . . . Jeffers is dangerous
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to Jeffers’ southpaw and his right
Brown. Blue and Sheridan Win IN OTHER BOUTS Cleveland Brown, Cincinnati featherweight,
decisioned Jue Yee Kong, Indianapo diznapolis middleweight, decisioned rounds, and Al Sherdian. Indianapoli
lis. in six rounds; Bob Blue, InJim Tudor, Incianapolis, in five s middleweight, won by technical
K. 0. over Norman Tierre, Indianapolis, in the fifth round.
Brown has too much reach for 1 spare at the finish
ittle Yee Kong and had points to . Kong danced in and out but generally out
trying for an opening while Brown waded in and took advantage of
his long arms.
Blue's victory over Tudor was by a narrow margin. . .
. On The
Times’ score sheet he won the second and third rounds, Tudor won
the fourth and the first and fifth w winning the first round from Sheridan, Tierre was dumped the second and Sheridan took charge.
After for a nine-count fifth a right Sheridan 2gain sent stopped the brawl and awarded the
1 Majors, A.
mn al u
his
uppercut floored Tierre for nine seconds, foe sprawling Referee Happy Atherton
ere even
. In the and when
duke to Sheridan.
A. Baseball At a Glance
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And the Saints Pass Into Sad Tribe History
Times Special
ST. PAUL, Aug. 22.—The 'Indianapolis Indians say goodby tonight | to they meet the Saints in the series finale at Lexington Park. The Apostles are one club the Hoosiers can beat, at least they off the Saints 14 times in 21 clashes this season and after tonight
kee, home of the Brewers, another
hand.
header here last night, skins taking the seven-inning first | game, 8 to 4, and the Saints the |
tance. George Gill worked the tw lighter | and racked up his 1ith victory of the season for the Kiliefer clan. A big fourth inning, Tribe splurged for five runs, decided the issue. Ken Raffensberger, St. | Paul southpaw, was knocked out! of the box in the fourth and Dway ne| Sloat finished out the home mang) toil The Indians blew themselves to] hits. the Saints got nine and: it was an errorless fracas. Gryska smacked a two-run homer off Gill] in the second stanza In the second game Bill had the Indians eating out glove and held them to four safe-| ties Glenn Fletcher opened on the Tribe slab and the Saints | { pounced on him for four runs in the first inning. hey climbed on him again in the fifth for two markers and Ben Wade went to the Tribe rubber in the seventh. Red Kress, St. Paul skipper] bumped Fletcher for a two-run! homer in the first stanza and put! the Indians out of the ball game. | The Tribe's lone tally was chalked in the fourth.
Birds Split; Keep 6% Lead
By UNTTED PRESS Having been unable to do better than split a double-header with con-last-place Milwaukee last night, Columbus’ American Association lead remained at 6!2 games today Milwaukee took the seven-inning| opener, 2 to 1, behind Campbell's three-hit pitching. Columbus pounded five Milwaukee pitchers for 22 hits and a 15-to-8 victory in the nightcap, scoring 10 runs in the first three innings. Sam | Nahem, who went the route for Co-| lumbus, scattered 11 hits. Second-place Louisville and thirdplace Minneapolis also swapped blows. Louisville's Oscar Judd held the Millers to eight hits in the opener as the Colonels worked over the hurling of Harry Kelley and Buck Fausett for 18 safeties and a 14-t0-0 shutout. The Millers came back in the nightcap to win, 3 to 2, with Elon Hogsett pitching a fourhitter The Toledo Mudhens, laboring to oust Kansas City from fourth place and break into the first division, beat the Blues, 7 to 4, with a fourrun rally in the eighth. Bud Parmelee was the winning pitcher.
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An open father and son golf tour-! nament will be held over the Pleasant Run course Sunday. teams have already entered.
Net Singles Carded
The men’s singles of the Brookside tennis tournament will begin Tuesday and continue through Aug. 31. Entries close Monday noon.
town sporting goods stores or from City park custodians. ROOFING :-. pared roofing. Complete with fixtures, T SHINGLES, slate
90-1b. slate surfaced prefaced, per square
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the § Tribesters will move on to Milwau-|§ club over which they hold the upper | § Indians and Saints split a double-|§
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posture of John L. Sullivan that Lou Nova stepped into during training
for his Sept. 19 title battle in New it shows one of the “cosmic” punch
York with Jee Louis. But even so man’s muscle-building exercises.
This May Be Billow’s Year
CHICAGO, Aug. 22 (U. P) —Ray|champion from Toledo, O., 6 and 8,
Billows figures vear. At 28, the young veteran from | Poughkeepsie, N. Y. has been in
close at the finish of the last five]
U. S. Amateur Golf Tournaments and the way his putts were hitting {in vesterday’s finals of the Great Lakes Amateur Tournament indicates he will be grouped with defending champion Dick Graham and former champion Marvin (Bud) Ward as the trio to beat in next week's national tournament at Omaha, Billows whipped 18-year-old Frank Stranahan, Trans-Mississippi
maybe this is his| in the Great Lakes final. One up at
| the end of 19 holes, Billows ran out four of the next five hdles, picked up the 27th and required no more than a haif on the next four holes to close the match on the 31st. “Things were beginning to fal} my way in this tournament,” Billows said. “Maybe I can catch up with those percentages this year.” Billows and Stranahan both left for Omaha today. Approximately 15 of the other original Great Lakes field already have gone ther: for practice rounds before Mon'ay’s
first qualifying round.
‘Dope’ Stories Are Breaking
Riviera Marks
“Dope” stories floating around at the Riviera Club in advance of the National Swimming Championships today had it that the biggest con-
test of the event would be between James Councilman, 19-year-old St. Louis swimmer, and John Dilley, a Hoosier from Huntington, both of whom probably will be contesters for men’s high-point honors. Another story advanced favored pretty little Joan Fogle, 13-year-old Riviera swimmer, who copped second place at the Women's Senior National Championships in the 200meter breast stroke, to set a new pace in the girls’ 100-meter National Junior Breaststroke. J. Edwin Aspinall, tournament chairman, predicted this to be one of the records that probably would be shattered. Sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the trial heats will get under way at 3 p. m. today with some finals scheduled tonight. Additional preliminaries will be held tomorrow morning, with other finals carded for tomorrow afternoon. Aspinall said he expects swimmers to “point” for wins more than they might ordinary because of the trophies to be taken by the winners. A. A. U. rules provide in most cases that only medals be given. Also, a number of merchandise prizes have been donated which will be divided among the winners. In the race for men's high-point honors, Councilman and Dilley rate as the two favgrities. Councilman is a fast-moving breast stroker and Dilley is the National Y. M. C. A. backstroke champion.
1000 Toe Line In the ‘Grand’
VANDALIA, O. Aug. 22 (U. P)—
A field of close to 1000 nervously toed the line today as the firing started for trapshooting’'s most coveted title—the Grand American Handicap Placing his “Grand” title on the block today was E. H. Wolfe of Charlestown, W. Va.. who won last year with 98 hits in 100 targets from a distance of 23 yards. The championship carries a minimum award of $1000, which plus options and trophies makes for a total purse of $10,000. The most important title next to the Grand American—the preliminary handicap—was won yesterday by Elmer E. Lucas, Peebles, O. He cracked 99 out of 100 targets from 18 vards and walked off with the $500 prize. Vic Reinders, assistant chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin, won the North American doubles championship, breaking 06 of 100.
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Freddy Wins In Comeback
NORFOLK, Va. Aug. 22 (U.P.) ~ Freddy Apostoli, 27-year-cld former middleweight champion, Suoroseruay
launched his comeback campaign last night by scoring a technical knockout over Wild Bill McDowell of Dallas, Tex., in the second round of a scheduled 10round bout, Apostoli, sical instructor at the Norfolk Naval Training
phy-
Station and a member of Lieut.-C o m m. Gene Tunney's stable of Navy boxers, punched McDowell into submission without difficulty and the referee halted the match at 1:43 of the second round. Btarted downhill by losing two straight fights to Billy Conn in nontitle bouts, Apostoli lost his title in a third fight—almost two years ago —to Ceferino Garcia, hard-hitting Filipino.
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Racing’s Best |
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. Aug. 22 (U. P.).—Bronze plaques, emblematic of supremacy in thoroughbred breeding, training and riding during the 1940 seasoh were
awarded to Edward R. Bradley, Ben Jones and Basil James by the New York Turf Writers Association last night
All-Stars Set For Net Battle
Ten populace-picked Hoosier high school basketball stars take to the Butler Field House tonight hoping to reveal again to some doubting Kentuckians that Indiana hoopsters are still the best in the business. This will be the third annual alle star clash between a Hoosier five
{and the hovs from over the Ohio,
Glenn Curtis, Indiana State College coach, will map the campaign for the Indiana team and Eddie Diddle
1| of Western State Teachers’ College,
Bowling Green, Ky., will handle the substitutions for Kentucky. The game will serve as a climax to a basketball clinic headed by the two coaches for the edification of State mentors and athletes. Leading the Kentuckians’ attack will be the Inez High School five who held the State crown in their domonion last year. The boys, who will probably perform as a unit, include Alex Herman, Lester West, Joe Kirk, Robert Cooper and Bill Taylor. Others on the Southern team are John Padgett, John Sieweke, Gibb Stout, Ed Hansel and Paul Butcher. Representing Indiana talent are Carl Campbell, Kokomo; Leroy Mangin, Washington; John Bass, Greenwood; Bob Rowland, Martins= ville; Marshall Koontz, Newcastle; Don Server, Madison; Max Pear= sev. Rushville; Muff Davis, Elwood; Bill Butler, Decatur Central, and Dave Strack, Shortridge Both teams have been working out at the Field House all week and are set for the big contest at 8:30 p. m.
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