Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1941 — Page 9
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26.— Rain had washed out the ball game and we were sitting around punching the bag with Billy Southworth, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. He is still somewhat boyish looking despite "his 48 years and his thin, - graying hair. His eagerness ‘and intensity probably create the illusion. He's excited about his job, enthusiastic gbout his players and ‘calmly “optimistic about the Cardinals’ prospects of beating the Dodgers in the stretch the pennant “They may beat us but theyll never out-hustle us,” he Hustle is all-important Southworth baseball pattern .
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and win the vou might otherwise lose,” he explains. ® = z=
THEREFORE it 1s . why hustie is one of the chief characteristics the St. Loui club, hustle and its biood brother,
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run away with more games than |
any other club in the League. _ It is the painful the hysterical followers of our Bums, as the Dodgers are affectionately known, that this is one ‘department in which their swashbuckling rivals out-shine them:
not in hustle but in the basic in- !
:gredient which makes hustle pay off. which is to say speed. The Bums aren't going to win many -games on sheer speed; they aren't going to get that extra base, which so often proves so vital, nor are they going to score very
often from second on infield cuts. |
The Cardinals will “You might say we are fortunate in having speedy men” said Mr. Southworth, “and that’s true; but the point should be respected that we try to get men of that type. Our accent is on speed. Our mep ‘must always turn at first at maximum speed on a hit and keep going at that gait for at least 30 feet. They aren't supposed even to look up, that is to see what has happened o: the ball, until they have gone that far. Then they are to make up their mind whether to go for the extra base or to pull up. Wed Tather see one of our men thrown out making a legitimate try for ‘the extra base than to play it safe. You can't win games playing it safe. not in this kind of race anyway.” = = z
MR. SOUTHWORTH was
brought in as manager in mid sea- |
son or thereabouts last year. He replaced the jitterv Ray Blades.
Immediately the club improved. It Baseball At a Glance
the season with an had been
would
finished out average which, if it maintained from the start,
have been almost good enough to ! 1
win the pennant We wanted to know what his biggest problem was, what was the one thing he had to do to make the club a contender. “The infield. That had to be traightened out. We were all right at first base with Mize but we were confused about the other three places. For several years the club had been vulnerable around second base and there was much criticism, some of it, I thought, undeserved. Up to the
time this condition developed the | club had been remarkably strong |
around second base. There was Hornsby and then came Frisch, two of the very best. They set such a high standard it was difficult for the fellows who followed them to get a fair share of credit But even so there was a condition and it had to be remedied decision to play Crespi at second proved to be a solution.” = = = THERE IS nothing bogus about Mr. Southworth’s modesty and when he says “we, us and our,” with respect to the club, that simply reflects his philosophy about team play He's been
around long enough to know the |
manager doesn't win the games, that it’s the plavers—playing with feeling and spirit for the manager—who win the games. Just the same it wasn't any “our” decision that put Crespi at second base; it was Mr. Southworth's As vou probably know Crespl used to play shortstop. He was one of the best shortstops in the International League. When you talked about coming young shortstops you mentioned Crespi right along with Rizzuto of the Yanks, Reese of the Dodgers and Pesky who is headed for the Red Sox. Crespi knew himself only as a
shortstop. That's where he wanted | to play when and if he did come |
up. But Mr. Southworth had seen him play one particular game at second base in the minors, had seen him make the tougher plays instinctively and he was sure he could be made over with successful results.
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By HARRY GRAYSON Times Special Writer PRINCETON, Aug. 26 —Clarence Parker will step out before 75,000 people between halves of the meeting between Coilege All-Stars and Chicago Bears at Soldiers’ Field, Chicago, Thursday night. to be presented with the National League's most valuable player award. You'd suspect a young giant to win such distinction. but Ace Parker is a dyin’ lookin’ bloke, as James J. Johnston, the Old Boy Bandit of : Fistiana, would say.
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Parker stands no more than 5 {feet 102, weighs under 170 pounds. { He has only average speed. He has had more breaks than the St. Louis Cardinals of 1941. ! Yet, among men who know foot{ball best. it was Parker over his nearest rival, better than 2to 1. In {the voting, football writers gave him more than twice as many points as {Slingin’ Sammy Baugh of Washington.
| CHICAGO, Aug. 26 (U. P.).— Dave Rankin, all-America end | from Purdue University, was named captain of the college allstar footbdll squad which meets the Chicago Bears, professional champions, here Thursday night. The Bears at the same time announced that Danny Fortmann and George Musso, veteran i guards, would serve as co-cap- | tains during the 1941 season.
Ace Parker gets
Parker, the erstwhile darling of Duke, is the last man in the world! you would pick out of a crowd as | complete 4 of 111 passes, 10 for a football player. He walks with a|touchdowns, and score five touchouch Saih ska him appear | gowns and make 19 conversions. Parker 16 ik & Bald FLHREDR put | HES one of the more skillful place‘he’s a master of faking, and be- | Kickers. jcause of his all round ability the| Sparked by Parker, Brooklyn won opposition never knows what he is|eight and lost three to acquire the going to do. He makes clever use [eastern division championship. of interference. { The Dodgers trimmed the New He gives a team a tremendous | York Giants for the first time in 10] aft. campaigns. They upset Washington. | Parker, now 28, assists Wallace! OWner Daniel Topping had his Wade with the Dukes every spring, Diggest vear at the box office. Eb|and will become the Old Man's as-| Cet Fleld, accommodating 33,000, ‘sistant when he is through playing Plaved 10 cepacny. | the game. | So many were turned away that, They say that when Athletic Di-|h€rell be additional seats this
rector Wade has had enough of 2utumn. | |coaching. he intends to make Park. | _ 1° Brooklyn football fiiberts,| er. his favorite pupil, Duke's head Farker is what Dixie Walker, Joe|
coach. | Medwick, Kirby Higbe, Whit Wyatt, Play i ; {Delph Camilli and Pete Reiser ¥s While thjured {rolled into one would be to the! Parker played his first three baseball bugs. Parker is a crowd | games with Brooklyn last fall with {pleaser without being a showboat. a padded steel brace covering his| They even had an Ace Parker Day | left leg from knee to ankle , . gave the quiet Virginian an This was to protect a broken fib- automobile. | jula and a dislocated ankle suffered! Dan Topping garbed Parker in! In mid-May sliding into second base white so he would stand out when | |2s the Syracuse shortstop. {the Dodgers reeled off a lateral play | Coach Jock Sutherland says he for newsreel cameramen here. would rather have Parker with a, Parker fractured his right hand | brace than the average back with-in high school and his right wrist out one. {in college. He broke his left hand | No wonder. All Parker did was! with the Dodgers in '39.
there some way.
He broke his right ankle sliding into second for the Portsmouth, Va., club of the Piedmont League, which he managed this season. But, for-
tunately, when this break is completely mended, surgeons tell him it is such that the ankle will be stronger than ever. But the fact remains that Parker suffered his most serious injuries in baseball. Perhaps that is why he is the first really accomplished baseball player to quit playing that game to play football. He had trials with the Athletics and Pirates, batted .397 for Syracuse and .304 for Portsmouth. He completes a two-year contract at $10,000 per this fall. “First time Ah broke my laig, the
{doctahs said ‘No more football,’ but
Ah fooled em,” says Parker in his soft southern drawl. “Same thing this time, but this ankle’s going to be harder to heal safely. “That's because when Ah run most of mah weight is on the right laig and Ah sort of drag the left. “The brace on mah left laig last year didn't bother me, but Ah cain’{ shift mah weight to the right this time. “Gotta go on mah own, I gaiss.” Brace or no brace and on one good leg, Ace Parker manages to get there some way.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (NEA) — Six New York University football players have been lost to the services. Bernard Jovens and Raymond Rich, tackles, were drafted. Oscar Blomquist, guard, the Air Corps. Thomas Scott, end, was admitted to the United States Military Academy. Jeremiah Williams, listed in the Army. Martin Martinsen, center, joined the Navy.
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A—It was a balk, and the base runner should have been allowed to advance a base. -
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