Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1941 — Page 22

By Bld: neh Co 1 |His Strategy Enables Phils By, E 9 18 Ash | |To Take Second From Dodgers |And Knock Them From Lead

McGraw’s Pupil Brings Back Good Old Days and His Boys Run Bases as in the Gay Nineties

THIS YEAR'S pennant is the second for Columbus under the management of Burt Shotton, an old Philadelphia Philly skipper who escaped to the St. Louis. Cardinal chain after absorbing a lot of punishment in the National League trying to make the hapless Quakers function like a ball club. y ” : Shotton took over the Columbus reins in 1936 and the Red Birds finished sixth. , . . That year was Burt's warmup and the next season he piloted the Flock to the American Association championship. . .. The 1937 Birds, having climbed from sixth to Arst § in a year, also won the post-season playoff. 2 ‘Over the regular season the 1937 Birds won 90 games and lost 64, beating aut second-place Toledo by a single game. . , . With five games to go this year Columbus has won $2 games against 56 setbacks. In the 1937 playoff the Birds defeated thirdplace Minneapolis, four games to two; fourth- _ place Milwaukee trounced Toledo, four games to ‘two, and in the finals Columbus eliminated Milwaukee, four games to two. In the 1937 Little World Series it was a horse of a different color. . . . Playing the Newark Internationals, the Birds thought they had the title in the bag: . . . Action opened at Newark and Columbus won three straight. , . . It was easy pickings for the Birds. But Lady Luck said no soap and Shotton’s -Birds were plucked for four straight by the Bears in the Columbus park. . . . Needing only one more victory, the Birds didn’t get it and lost the Series. The mourning and moaning around Columbus carried over into the next season and the 1938 Birds finished seventh. . . . And they again floundered in seventh place in 1939. . . . But last season Shotton led his team into second place, four games behind first-place Kansas = City.

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By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—The Brooklyn Dodgers, after a brief whirl at first place in the National League, trailed the St. Louis Cardinals by .004 points today. The Brooks could do no better than split a double-header with the last place Phillies yesterday. In the second game they couldn’t cops with the Old John McGraw type of -baseball taught by one of the dise ciples of the late former manager of the New York Giants. This McGraw pupil is Hans Loe bert, coach of the Phillies who has been directing the club since Mane ager Doc Prothro hit the road on the ““lookout for talent.”

He’s Next Manager

Lobert, according to sources close to the Philadelphia front office will succeed Prothro as manager next year. They certainly are not the same old Phillies under Lobert's guidance. This 59-year-old native of Wilm= ington, Del, was a major league third baseman for 13 years and learned most of his baseball from the masterful McGraw. 'It was old “Iron-Jaw” John who took Lobert on two world tours—in 1914 and 1924—and the ‘cunning instilled in him by McGraw is reflected by the kind of baseball - the Phillies are playing today—the devil-may-care, Gay Nineties kind where hits were scarcer and a runner had to cut loose with all the speed and daring he had to steal his way around The Phils are running wild on the bases just like the oldtimers used to.

Stop the Thieves!

On Aug. 14, the Phils had stolen a total of 36 bases but since then, led by rookie Danny Murtaugh, who steals his bases with a head-first Pepper Martin slide, they have com= piled a league-leading total of 57 stolen bases. :

In 60 games Murtaugh leads the league with 17 stolen |bases. Run-ner-up Lonnie Frey of” the Reds has pilfered 15 in 126 games, Murtaugh and Co. gave a brile liant exhibition in yesterday’s dou | ble-header. Brooklyn won the first game, 4-1, and was in first place briefly, the game between the Cards and’ Cubs having been rained out, Whit Wyatt held the Phils to four hits and drove in two runs with a double as he registered his 19th victory of the year. Murtaugh stole two bases in this game and Benja-’ min ran his season total to 11.

Murtaugh stole his third base in the nightcap as the Phillies bounced the Dodgers back into second place with a 4-1 triumph. Left-hander Frank Hoerst limited Brooklyn to four hits and did not allow a safety until Walker and Reiser singled in the sixth. Benjamin singled home one run in the third and doubled ‘| home two more for the Phils in the fifth: Litwhiler’s 16th homer ace counted for the fourth run.

Riddle Tough, but Loses

Pittsburgh defeated Cincinnati last night, 3-2. Elmer Riddle held the Pirates to six hits but lost when singles by Stewart and Martin and DiMaggio’s infield hit filled the bases. Baker then came through with a single to drive home two Pittsburgh runs. The Yankees moved to within one victory of clinching the American League pennant by defeating the Red Sox, 2-1 in 11 innings. Charlie Wagner limited the Yankees to seven hits but lost the game in the 11th when, with the bases full, Skeeter Newsome fumbied Rolfe’s double-play grounder long eno, B for Selkirk, who started the ra with a single, to score the a run.

Riges Tce Rocky Road

FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Sept. 4 (U. P.).—Bobby Riggs matched his tennis skill against the mechanical game of Frank Parker in the quarter-finals of the national championships today, and he wasn’t cheered a bit by the knowledge that even if he won he faced a mighty rocky road ahead. The dark-haired ex-Californian, who won the national crown in 1939 and blew it a year ago, met Parker in the best ‘of the four battles for semi-final positions, He was a hot favorite to’ win. Bitsy Grant of Atlanta facéd young Ted Schroeder of Los Angeles in the other quarter final. It wasn’t so much Parker that worried Riggs as the formidable displays of stroking given yesterday by the first two men to move into the semi-finals—defending champion Don McNeill of Oklahoma City and Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Cal.

McNeill at Best

McNeill, playing the best game he has shown all year, cuffed Wayne Sabin of Reno, Nev., about by a 6-2, 7-5,23-6, 6-3 count with a flat backhand shot which counted for dozens of placements.- Only in the third set did he weaken and then he worked his way out of trouble | by. steadying and riddling Sabin’s service in the fourth set. . The Oklahoman’s comeback; d the flashy manner in which Kovics eliminated Jack Kramer in stra ht sets, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5, was pretty pertinent evidence that the one who wins their semi-final match tomorrow is going to prove stern opposition for Riggs. In the women’s tournament, the competition today was between Mrs. Sarah Cooke of New York and Hope Knowles of Philadelphia in one match and Dorothy Bundy of Santa Monica, Cal, and the former champion, Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Cal, in the other.-

State Shooter Finishes Third

YORKLYN, Del, Sept. 4 (U. P). —Joe Hiestand, the sharp-shooting Hillsboro, O,, farmer, went after his third. straight title in the 21st annual Marshall Trapshooting Tournament today after winning the 500-shot marathon at 16-yard targets with 498 breaks. Hiestand was two breaks . better than Karl Maust, Columbus, O., and Ralph nkins, Orleans, Ind., in making hi# successful title defense yesterday. He earlier won the 50target - introductory shoot. Third place went to E. L. Hawkins of Ft. Wayne, Ind., with a 494 score. C. E. Huber, Tiffin, O., finished second in

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St. Paul One Up In Pennants Won '

AND THIS YEAR the Birds are in the driver's seat with the _ pennant wrapped up four days in advance of the campaign's end. "American Association pennants, including 1941, have been distributed as follows: St. Paul, eight; Columbus, seven; Louisville, six; Minneapolis, six; Kansas City, five; Indianapolis, four; Milwaukee, ~ three; Toledo, one. 2 Indianapolis’ favorite finishing spot is fourth, landing there eight ~ times. . . . The Indians have been second six times, third five times, fifth three times, sixth six times, seventh three times and last four times. : : " Toledo holds the coal hole championship, ten times last, and Louisville is runnerup in the cellar finish by trailing the league seven times. . . . Minneapolis has never finished last and its favorite spot : is third, in there eight times.

Birds Cop Flag As We Lose

It’s the 7th Time Those elles : HOPE CO wt THE WORDS = Times Special . COLUMBUS, O.; Sept. 4—Waiting until the eighth inning to spring the trap, the Columbus Red Birds trounced the Indianapolis Indians here last night, 5 to 3, and put the|. clincher on the pennant, their seventh since 1902, the year the American Association entered the field. For seven innings last night, the ee ; Heosiers functioned like a winning ONE ANY FANCY, team as Glenn Fletcher, the young re yy - AROUND TE FIRST Tow righthander, scattered the Red Bird a e CEC —— A” (BAC THAN DOLPH — safeties. The Tribsters scored in the Sais first, second and third off Johnny Grodzicki and were out in front, 3 to 1, entering the eighth. In that stanza Fletcher ‘lost his bearings and the Birds forced him to take an early shower. ' He was relieved by Lloyd Johnson, but the home boys got four runs out of the ray. ana that was the ball game.

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= ene C. Pritchett Sr. DEATH HAS REMOVED another leading figure from Indio apolis sports circles and the sympathy of the City, State and Nation ~ goes tb the. family of Jesse C. Pritensts Sr., for years one of Amer- |, | ~ ica’s top flight bowlers. : He was a great competitor over a long span of years and won countless honors in City, State and National competition. . . . He was an authority on bowling and was free with advice to persons _ niew at the game. . . . He saw the tenpin sport grow into a national ~~ recreation and from competitor he entered the business field of the " game and helped "the sport flourish locally and nationally. Active in the sport all his life, Jesse said years ago that bowling _ was just in its infancy and he set out to prove it by becoming a leading proprietor. : Jesse Pritchett also was an accomplised baseball player in his youth and used to spend the summer on the diamond after tossing the bowling ball all winter. . . . He played in the little minors and at one time performed for St. Paul of the American Association.

Ben Hogan Favored to Take Cops Beat |The Marines

Golf’ S Richest Tour nament CAMP PERRY, O. Sept. 4 (U.

CHICAGO, Sept. 4 (U.P.).—The richest golf tournament of 1941 |P.).—Detroit’s sharp-shooting poopened at Tam O’Shanter Country Club today with little Ben Hogan in [lice team risks another title here the familiar role of favorite and many 20 URsung nero in an unfamiliar today in the National Rifle and position within striking distance of a fair share of prize money. From a total of $11,000, tournament sponsors created a fund to pay Pistol Matches as. the pistol experts off the first 30 finishers, a break for lesser known golfers who make big |tackle a full program of six .38 caliber events and one .45 caliber

money tournaments possible by their mere presence and seldom Clayton Heafner, Lloyd ‘Mangrum, match. pocket a quarter for their efforts. |Horton Smith, Lawson Little and] The Detroit Police team fashThe entry list of 187 read like a|Ghezzi, ranking in that order be-|ioned an easy victory in yesterday’s roll call of high finishers in the|hind' Hogan as money winners, |49 caliber four man team chamU. S. Open, including champion |strung in the same order as gallery |Pionship when Harry Reeves, Al favorites. Hemming, Maurice Lalonde sand

Craig Wood, P. G. A. champion Vic Al Shapiro totaled 1106 over the 25

Grab 16 in 20

It was Columbus’ 16th victory in 20 clashes with the Indians this season, a record indicating that the| Hoosiers do not belong in Red Bird company. The Tribsters got to Grodzicki for - nine hits but he clamped down on them after the third and waited for his mates to do something about it. And they jumped through for him in the eighth.’ The Birds won on eight hits. The Indians played errorless ball, while the Birds, some1|what jittery, miscued three times in toe field. The Indians perform here again tonight and tomorrow, after: which

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Sammy Snead, Lawson Little, : V Johnny Bulla, Hofton Smith and a ow Detroit's winning score of 1124 last year, it was still 23 points

host of others attracted by the extra bundle of cash 5 higher than the second place score of 1083 turned in by the U, S.

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‘NATIONAL LEAGUE Prize Is Tops

Only games scheduled.

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they will travel to Toledo for a single tilt Saturday and a doubleheader Sunday to drop the curtain on the campaign.

Despite the huge prize total, first money of $2000 is considerably less than Bulla picked up by winning the $10,000 Los Angeles Open or Snead

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New York at Boston. Cleveland at Detroit. Philadelphia at Washington. Only games scheduled.

Kautsky’s Win z| The Indianapolis Kautskys defeated the Indianapolis Firemen last ight at Perry Stadium in an Indiana Ohio League game, 12 to 5. Johnny Logan, on the mound for the winners, held the Firemen to .|seven scattered hits while the

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Move Into 3d Place

Kansas City - beat Minneapolis, 7 to 5, and moved into a third place tie with the Millers. Minneapolis lead until the sixth, when the Blues got the range on Milt Haefner and pushed across four runs. Walter Tauscher relieved him, but the Blues touched him for two runs in the seventh and he was relieved by Bob Kline. Kansas City’s Paul Sullivan tired in the seventh and Minneapolis made three runs, but Don Hendrickson took over - and held the Millers scoreless for the remainder of the game. Kansas City made 12 hits, Minneapolis, 8.

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The other two games scheduled were rained out. ©

Since it is Hogan’s last opportunity to add a major sum to his earnings which already have reached $13,933 for the year, Blazin’ Ben was the unanimous choice to win. He is at his best when greenbacks are thickest and indicated he is in rare form by sweeping last week’s Hershey Open on his own course at Hershey, Pa., with a 17-under-par total of 275. Ben had two 69's,.4 67 and a %0 for a total three strokes better than | Mc his winning score in the recent | pa $5000 Chicago Open. He has been in the money for 54 consecutive tournaments, but his string began so long ago even he can’t remember the exact date.

Snead, Wood, Bulla, Byron Nelson,

strong as ever this season.

bining games of 214, 230 and for a 676 total.

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By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Sept. 4—The boys are trying now to drive the last -| nail into the coffin of the rest of [the American League, and the man who would be the biggest help to them is not around to lend a hand. That wouldn't be Joe DiMaggio, either—who is being treated here in New York for a sore wrist while his teammates on 3 the Yankees batfle in Boston to clinch the American League pennant. Valuable as DiMaggio is to the Yankees, there is another guy : named Joe who is even. more valuable. He is a mediocre second Marse Joe baseman who never’ was good enough to make the big leagues but who bloomed, by some miracle, into the most consistent and Jest manager in

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that sweeps everything before it. When the Yankees were driving for the pennant a few days ago in Washington, McCarthy came down with a gall bladder ailment. He was placed in the hospital, and kept there until today when he is due back in New York. His condition prohibits him from going to Bdston for today’s game. + McCarthy’s first whirl at the big leagues came in 1926 when he was brought up to manage the Chicago Cubs. He finally got them inté the World Series in 1929, but he took a bad pasting from the Athletics. Nobody would have given much more than a thin dime for McCarthy's future when he was signed by the. Yankees and told to go to town. - He did. Chiefly. because he walked into an ideal set-up. = The

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won the pennant, defeated the Cubs four straight games in the World Series and started the skein of victories that never had been equalled. ‘Part of McCarthy's secret lies in

changes in his team gradually and) swept to World Series. triumphs in 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939. 'He has|. never lost a World Series since. he took over the Yankees and his record in the autumn classic with the New York team is 20 games won andy three lost.

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