Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1941 — Page 16

SPORTS. ‘By Eddie Ash

ALTHOUGH RAIN washed out. game action on Ray « Starr Appreciation Night at Perry Stadium the ace pitch- . er of the 1941 Indians received his gifts in a ball park lobby session while surrounded by admiring fans. . . . He appeared in uniform and flashed a wide smile as pre- ; entations were made. Thereupon, the big righthander and 20-game winner returned to the Tribe clubhouse, changed into civies and caught a late night train for Pittsburgh to report to the Cincinnati Reds. Every effort was made to play the Indians last scheduled home game of the season ‘but the drenching the playing field received was too heavy to risk player injuries. . . . Indianapolis and Louisville players were anxious to get the game Wn and idled in their dugouts until 9:40 before it was called a night and the game canceled. Managers Killefer of the Indians and Burwell of the Colonels, and the umpires, too, decided it was “no go” in the goft going and the fans’ money was refunded. . . . Despite the electrical storm and heavy rain in the early evening approximately 1200 were in the park, "However, Ray Starr Appreciation Night followed this year’s usual pattern for “special nights” at the Stadium. . . . The weather turned thumbs down. : » It will be all over Sunday, with Indianapolis finishing at Toledo, ‘ Louisville at Columbus, St. Paul at Kansas City and Minneapolis at Milwaukee. ’ As Columbus is six games ahead of second-place Louisville, and six games to go for both, this column. conductor, personally, is readying to take a bow (with others) on experting the Red Birds as the pennant choice prior to the start of the campaign.

Ambler, Pasek and Monerief Depart

_AND SO THE INDIANS departed for Columbus this morning to meet the league-leading Red Birds tonight in the opener of a three-game series. . . . The Louisville Colonels departed for Toledo. Before departing for the last roundup, Tribe Manager Wade Killefer permitted three players to beat it home. . . . Wayne Ambler, regular shortstop, who is a hay fever- victim, headed for Jenkinstown, Ill.; Johnny Pasek; veterah catcher, took off for Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Charlie Moncrief, relief pitcher, set out on the long trail to Parlier, Cal. 4 With the loss of nine Tribe players to the majors by recall or purchase, Skipper Killefer is in no position to make 1942 promises. «+ « “Tt looks like a busy winter stove league for me and the chances are I'll have to come up with a squad of youngsters,” said the chieftain. >

~ Mr. Stair Collects—and How!

TOP GIFT to Ray Starr last night was $200 in cash presented __ by the ball club . . . four 50-buck bills . . . and, oh, boy, won't that buy a lot of extra chicken feed for the chicken farmer! , .. Among other gifts: Two sacks of cracked corn, baseball shoes, three cases of Wheaties, case of canned tomatoes, $10 in nursery stock, four ties, five gallons of gas, five quarts of oil, cigaret case, key chain, huge - “good luck” cake. Skipper Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Reds’ says he is not afraid to gamble on Ray Starr, the rubber-armed veteran. . . . Ray was with the Boston Braves when McKechnie was there. . . . He also saw big league action with the Giants and Cardinals and this, is his fourth major league opportunity. After the A. A. season closes next Sunday, Sept. 7, Bennie Zientara,; the Indians’ brilliant and colorful second sacker, also will check in with the Reds for some possible service during the waning . days of the major league campaign. . . . Cincy scouts are high on . Zientara’s defensive skill and baseball finesse.

‘Baseball At a Glance

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2| Monica, Cal. Miss Jacobs is seeded

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It’s Suicide, | This Schedule For McNeill

If He Gets By Sabin. He * Faces Kovacs, Riggs FOREST HILLS, N. Y,, Sep. 3

(U. P).—Don McNeill begins a suicide schedule today in defense of

> |his National Singles Tennis Cham-

pionship. His quarter-finals opponent at

who has won no tournaments on the grass this year but is a wellknown stumbling block in the path of favorites. If McNeill gets by Sabin he will face Frank Kovacs

and Bobby Riggs. The tennis fathers indicated they didn’t believe he was equal to the task when they seeded him behind that pair. In McNeill’s favor is the fact that he had very little diffigulty in his first three matches and was idle yesterday. Sabin, who is seeded sixth, had an off-day, ‘too, but might feel the effects of his gruelling duel that forced him to five sets Monday.

« Kramer Awaits Kovacs

The other quarter-finals match on the comical Californian who is seeded second, against seventh-ranked Jatk Kramer, First-seeded Pauline Betz, Los

Francisco, in the feature of the women’s quarter-finals.” Miss Betz was none too impressive in her first two matches but she put on steam yesterday to defeat Phylis Hunter, Watertown, S. D., with loss of only two games, 6-0, 6-2. Miss Krase reached the quarter-finals through Mrs. Virginia Wolfenden Kovacs’ default in the first round and subsequent victories over non- ~ranked opposition. Helen Bernhard, New York, ranked fourth, and sixth-seeded Margaret Osborne, San Francisco, meet in the other women’s quarter. final to be played today.

Bitsy Wins Again

In yesterday's matches Bitsy Grant, Atlanta, Ga., defied the seedings by ousting Gardnar Mulloy, ranked eighth, in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. And Helen Hull Jacobs, whose feats in the last decade in-

{clude four straight national singles . | titles, blasted highly regarded Va-

lerie Scott from the _‘purnament 6-2, 8-6. * Top-seeded ‘Riggs on the men’s division and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke, ranked second among the women, moved into the quarterfinals with easy wins and do not see action again until tomorrow. Riggs eliminated Charles Olewine, Santa Monica, Cal., 6-3, 6-3, 6-2, ‘and next plays the veteran Frank Parker, New York, seeded fifth, who eliminated Billy Gillespie of Atlanta, Ga., 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 7-5. ' Mrs. Cooke defeated Jane Stanton, North Hollywood, Cal. in straight sets, 6-2, 6-0, and will play Hope Knowles, Philadelphia, surprise conqueror of seventh-seeded Mary Arnold, Los Angeles, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. The quarter-finals will be rounded out tomorrow with Grant against. Ted Schroeder, seeded fourth, in the men’s division and Miss Jacobs vs.

third-seeded Dorothy Bundy, Santa

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Times Special

... FRANKLIN, Ind, Sept. 3—An BaririG 5.H8 EBLA open competition midget auto rac- : : Vv. ing program will be staged herg Besiadik” 368 113 ie. 10 348 he Sunday afternoon under sponsorship 191 1 3 3 1 x 1d of the Mid West Racing Association. E $1113 13 & 4 56 488 The events will be held on the Mazgay «es 178 49 4 - 1 3 = half-mile tair grounds track and Zientars .... STL 185° 33 19 3 8 5i1|will be the first time the midgets “Ambler”... .. 515 12 10 3 2 43 .245 have gone on a track of.that length kabaker --- 137 % 1 4 © as .2s|in this section. Sheker visss 254 5 9 2 2 25 .282| [Entries have been received from ] cerees 85 1 0 0 0 0 200143 Grivers and 10 to 15 more are PITCHING cted. Under the open competiRT Ww L IP H BB SO0:tion feature, any midget car of any | Star o.oo 30012 18 18 6 i3|class that can qualify will be eligible EEORAR sees 46 58|/to compete in the five events of 10 33 Slaps each. There also will he a 2580 38|lap feature. $2 $1] Association officials said they ex-

pect Ted Harplay, Roanoke, Ind, holder of the Eastern A. A. A. midget car championship, to enter.

Christman Waits Call From Navy

CHICAGO, Sept. 3 U. P.).—Paul

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Christman, the University of Missouri for three years, joined the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League today 4 tor ill in U. 8. Navy hii as a chief | petty officer. Christman enlistéd at Great Lakes Naval Training Station as a reserve yesterday, but the date of his call was indefinite. He said he will play with the Cards until ordered to re-

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the opening 50 target introductory shoot with 49 breaks. Other scores were: E. 1. Hawkins, Ft. Wayne, Ind., Karl Maust,

Columbus, O.; C. E. Huber, Tiffon,

O., and F. H. Woodcock, ‘Atlanta, Ga.,. each 46; H. L. Worthington,

: Baltimore, Md, 42; and G, L. Hight, ; Rome, Ga., 40.

Uncle Sam Has A Crack Golfer

Of all Uncle Sam’s mail clerks who play golf, Bill Russell, the Speedway shooter, is tops. The local linksman, who won the medal in the recent city amateur tournament, proved that yesterday in the National Federation .0of Post Office Clerks’ tournament at St. Louis. He fired rounds of 74 and 80 for a low 36-hole total of 154. Second place was shared by Curtiss J. Matthews of Indianapolis and Bill Knox of Detroit, both of whom finished one stroke behind Russell. = °

West Side: Tennis Club is sixth- : |seeded Wayne Sabin of Reno, Nev.,

Angeles, meets Barbara Krase, San|

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Another Team

Faces Bench

At least one ‘more team is sure to be eliminated Saturday when competition is resumed. in the annual City amateur baseball series. Both -P, R. Mallory and Leonard Cleaners, who /are matched in one of three games, already have lost one game and will bow out after another defeat. Their game is scheduled at Riverside No. 3. Gold Medal and Baird Service, both undefeated, will cross bats at Garfield No. 3, while U, S. Tires and Falls City will play at Rhodius 1. The brew boys are unbeaten, while the Tires have lost one. game. Empire Life, loser of one game already in the series, will be idle this weekend.

600s Early

The 1941-42 bowling season still is in the cradle stage, but 600 scores are beginning to pop up at the various alleys. Last night the most accurate pinsmashing was conducted at the West Side Alleys, ‘where Bill Tarrant posted, a 680 in the Classic League for high honors in the City. Other Classic pinmen and their high scores: Larry Cobler, 647; Glenn Campbell, 623; C. Wood, 613, and Paul Moore, 614.

League openings scheduled this week, along with the times and alfeys: Alpha League, 6 p. m. to-' morrow; Indianapolis Dairy League, 6 p. m. today, Illinois Alleys. Related Foods League, 6 p. m. today, Central Alleys, d Allison No. 1 League, 6:15 and’8:30 p. m. tomorrow, Pennsylvania Alleys.

The Indianapolis Allied Bowlers will meet at 7:45 p. m. next Monday at the Claypool Hotel.

24 In Auto Race

Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., Sept. 3—The 24 fastest cars from an entry list of 57 will race Saturday night in the 50-lap midget marathon at the Greenfield Midgetdrome. Time trials will begin at 7 p. m., with the heat

rages beginning an hour later.

By UNITED PRESS The Columbus Red Birds today

can Association pennant if they don’t win any of the six games remaining on their schedule. They edged Toledo last night, 7 to 6, and extended their lead to six

on Cotymius schedule. ad Indianapolis beat e, the Birds would have t Jone: pennant last night, but that game was rained out. Columbus had to score thee runs in the last two innings - beat Toledo, Harry Breechen, who iia

nine hits, while the Hens Fourth place Kansas City e its berth a little “more secure’ by defeating Milwaukee in a doubleEis oo to 2 sen to 2 nel lyes ppod of the runs st game, in

were certain of a tie for the Ameri-

games. There are six ‘more games ;

Red Birds Certain of a Tie: Tommy Reis Hurls 5-Hitter

Tommy Reis , stingy finger.

‘Wensloft setting credit for the victory.

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thing approaching a two-minute will be Earl’s Moody Guy, an Ohioowned entry that flashed through a 2:02 heat last week at Syracuse, N. Y. The favorite’s competition . will come from Milestone, who has sev-

‘|eral records to hisicredit, and Java-

dale, who will be reined by wily Sep Palin. If it’s color you want, there will be bewhiskered Pat O’Connell of Coshocton, O., in the sulky seat behind Kelly.

Dozen in This One

The day’s other trotting event, the Commissioner of Agriculture Stake for 3-year-olds, is expected to draw a field more than a dozen. If he starts, the favorite will be Fast Train, a New York owned colt that won a chunk of change in the Hambletonian. A field of not more than four are likely to go in the free-for-all pace, with Dusty Hanover, Blackstone, Fearless Peter and Callie G. ranked

in that order. The other pacing event, the Indiana Stake, should This bay gelding stepped to victory over a half-mile track recently in 2:04%, and this ought to be bettered on the mile oval.

Still Talk of Bill

Stable chatter today still centered on Bill Gallon’s ' record-breaking performance in taking the Horseman Futurity yesterday. Lee Smith steered the Hambletonian winner through the last half mile of the first heat in 59% seconds for ‘a / represented by the best time for any 2-year-old this year ‘and also was a new time for the 34-year-old race. The rich Horseman Stake for 2-year-old trotters, which was run when most conscientious motorists are driving with lights, went to Colby Hanover in straight heats: Cannon Ball should have been there to push the winner, but he broke gait in both miles. This, along with|WV the fact that the horses weren't under Dp. during the first part of both heats, was responsible for

| the slow times of 2:08 and 2:05%.

- Nine Rehearsals

Incidentally, the field of ‘nine 2-year-olds ‘was somewhat frisky’ at the starting line, and on the first heat didn’t get away. until the ninth attempt. : A bro galt cost any ‘chance for winning the Horseman Punts, a 3-year-old pace, in straight hea After the colt led his three eats opponents to the wire

in’ tne ‘opening mile, Cita sRoutor misstep to the. second. But}

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They're Expecting a Trotter To Go a Mile in 2 Minutes

By J. E. O'BRIEN

The Grand Circuit crowds who are missing supper these days because of their taste for keen harness competition can expect another dish of speed tomorrow afternoon at the Fair Grounds. The feature’ will be the L. S. Ayres Stake, a 2:08 trot carrying a value of $1500, and it’s quite possible that the. winner will show somee.

. Wilmington ;

contested race of the afternoon. Lit-|g tle Lie won the first heat, coming

The horse to<*beat, they say,

front, both in this heat and the third. Jake Mahoneys’ whip brought Betty M. under the wire first in the initial heat of the 2:11 pace, but-the mare couldn’t repeat. The next two heats went to Doctor B. Grattan, a Hoosier owned gelding. Throdgh all three miles Doc Parshall was having his trouble with Symbol Prince, who just wouldn’t keep step.

Par Challenged At Speedway

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Sept. 3.

—More sub-par golf can be expected when the pro-amateur nomads

course’ in Indianapolis next Monday for their weekly session. Yesterday’s tournament at the Crawfordsville Country Club saw two teams share the booty after firing best balls of 65, five under regulation figures. In one team was Marion Smith, host pro, and amateurs Bob Stafford of Indianapolis and George Everson and J. A. Miller of Crawfordsville, The other winning team, paced by Wayne Hensley, Anderson tutor, included amateurs Gene Pulliam Jr. of Lebanon, Lawrence Laughlin of Indianapolis and M. A. Mahoney of Crawioevile.

Pros Open $11,000

Meet Tomorrow

CHICAGO, Sept. 3 (U. P.)-—~The 95 top-flight professionals admitted on their records to the $11,000 Tam O’Shanter Open Golf Tournament were joined today by 78 of their less noted brethren, survivors of a special 18-hole qualifying round. The cha nship field starts tomorrow mori, on a four-day campaign for the year’s richest purse. First prize will be $2000. Medal honors in the test round— and $100 in cash—went to Herman Schariay, Bloomington; Ill, who

fostes back. ‘was He J. Kais ai enry er, ‘| Racine, Wis. , With. 36~34—1T0-

misso, Rr! N.Y.; Al Favelli, Chicago; * Eddie ‘Williams, Chicago, and Tommy Wright, Dyer, Ind. The _ free pass Sicrue numbered

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NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (U. P)— President: Larry - MacPhail ‘of the Brooklyn Dodgers today. declared that if his team should win the

National League pennant, all Dodger home games in the world series would be played in Ebbets Field, Brooklyn.

of persistent reports that Brooklyn would transfer its games—in event of winning the pennant—to the Polo Grounds or to Yankee Stadium to take advantage of their larger capacity. MacPhail released the statement jusi before meeting with Commigsioner Iandis and oth majo: league club officials to discuss World Series plans. “The advisability of transferring any games in the event the Dodgers win the pennant has never been under consideration by the club and will not be submitted to Commissioner Landis nor to anyone else for an opigion, ” he said.

Spit, Spat--And Out

DURHAM, N. C., Sept. 3 (U. P.). —Player Frederick Shoemaker of the Oil City baseball club of the Pennsylvania State League was under suspension today for one year for spitting in the face of an official | scorer, Jee Szarfan, Oil City newspaperman. President W. G. Bramham of the Natiénal Association of Minor Leagues said the suspension from organized baseball is retroactive to "Aug. 8, date of the “incident.” Shoemaker questioned the judg{ment of Szarfan in ruling an error rather than a base hit on a play and

|the following day Szarfan wrote an

open letter to the Cleveland Indians in his column, advising them Shoemaker was eligible for membership in the “Royal Order of Cry Babies.” | The next night Shoémaker went to the :press box and spit in Szar-

fact in a written statement. 10 Bouts Tonight End Outdoor Cards A 10-bout card this e ab Washington Park, 34th and Rural Sts, will conclude, the free out-

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And They Meet Phillies. As Cards Face Cubs

By PAUL SCHEFFELS = United Press Staff Correspondent : NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Only 002 points separate the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers today in their battle for

the 1941 National League flag and, if all goes according to script,’ Brooklyn may bounce back into thé lead. The Dodgers play the Phillies— whom they have, beaten 12 times in 13 games this season—in a double= header while the Cards engage the Chicago Cubs in a single contest. But the Dodgers have been having trouble recently with Eastern” second division clubs. They split’ their four-game series with the Giants and the sevenih-place X Bos ton Braves didn’t turn out to push-overs. The Dodgers had —. 15 out of 19 games with Casey" Stengel’s crew but Brooklyn went

115 'innings before eking out a 6-5.

victory, in the first game of a Labor Day doubleheader. Then they were held to a 2-2 tie in the night« cap. That standoff forced the Dodgers to assemble their weary ‘outfit yesterday—a scheduled day. of rest—to club out a 9-2 triumph ‘over Boston,

Koiby Is Great

+ Kirby Higbe became the first National League hurler to win 19 games when he curbed the Braves with six hits and pitched the .

W, Dodgers within elbow distance of

the idle Cardinals. He had a nohitter until the sixth when West doubled and Rowell singled for half the Boston runs. Third Baseman Lew Riggs led the Dodgers’ 12-hit parade with a double and two singles. Brooklyn will send Whit Wyatt, winner of 18 games, and rookie southpaw Ed Albosta, who won 15 and lpst four at Durham, against the Phils, who will counter with southpaw Frank oerest and Pighihander Rube elton. ' The Cardinals : “scheduled -southpaw Max Lanier.to protect their seven-game winning streak against the Cubs. ° Freshman southpaw Johnny Schmitz, up from Milwau= kee, will pitch for the Bruins. Cine cinnati invades Pittsburgh in a night game to round out the National League card.

Yanks Near Record

The New York Yankees, needing any combination of three—Yankee victories and Red Sox defeats—play Boston in a two-game series beginning today. If the Yanks clinch their fifth American League in six years in this series, they will create an all-time high for pennant-win-ning margins» The Yanks, winners of six of their last eight, lead the Red Sox by 18% games. In 1936, when they won the first of four successive flags, the Yanks beat out the Tigers by 19%% games and, the day they clinched, that pennant, their edge was 18 games.

201 For Old Charley

Philadelphia plays at Washington in ne other American League cone Ss In the only other game pla; ed in the majors yesterday, re old veteran Charley Root hung up the 201st victory of his 17-year career when the Cubs defeated the Reds, 3-1. Root allowed only five hits. AltHbugh his mates garnered only four safeties off GenexThompson, they scored two runs and enough to win in the third on Stringer’s double, a walk, Hack’s single and Cavaretta’s long fly.

Defense Spurs’ Pistol Shooters

| phasis on nationa] preparedness be|gins shooting here

y for the largest stakes in the and pistol sports on a mile long stretch. of range as competition officially opens in the 68th National Rifle and Pistol Matches. fo More than half of ‘the record field of 1400 Yegistered shooters go into competitive action: in seven scheduled events. Three matches were slated “for the rifle field, two of thém: count ing in the Critchfield Trophy: Na tional * -Championship Aggregate, More than 500 small bore coms petitors were expected to pour nearly 50,000 rounds through the paper targets in the quest for the small bore title. The Lyman trophy doubles. match < will wind up the activity of the smalt boré sharpshooters. This event, won last year by Billy Patriquin, Cleveland, and .C. F,- ‘Rider, Newkensington, Pa), is fired at 100 . iy 20 shots per Han; with iron

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