Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1941 — Page 6

SPORTS...

By Eddi e Ash

THE REGULAR race is over in the American Asser ciation, its 40th season, and four clubs now bow out until next year. . .. For the other four, the playoff is at hand to determine the loop’s representative in the Little Worlds

Series. Columbus, the newly-crowned

finished eight games ahead of second-place Louisville. . . . The

champ, as .of last Wednesday,

Colonels finished higher than the league’s experts picked them in the

pre-season selections. . . last year, when, they ded fourth.

. The Kentuckians jumped two ‘places over

Columbus moved from second to first, Kansas City dropped from first to third, Minneapolis from third to fourth, St. Paul from fifth to seventh,” Indianapolis repeated in sixth place, Toledo advanced from seventh to fifth and Milwaukee landed in the coal hole again. The Indianapolis Indians trailed leading Columbus by 30 games in this year’s campaign, and believe it or don’t, they finished 30

games behind leading Kansas City last season.

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in the Tribe's life, history repeated and lightning struck twice in the

Same place.

Incidentally, your correspondent picked the Indians where they landed after watching them go through their 1941 spring training paces. . . . also okay on Columbus, Kansas City and Milwaukee, What happened to the Mauling Minneapolis Millers has the

league ‘guessing. . .

. When Uncle Sam called Zeke Bonura to the

colors his absence wast felt for a spell, but it finally. caught up with the Millers along with the failure of Ab Wrfght and Hub Walker to put in their customary big season Ewith the war club.

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THE FOLLOWING table shows the number of times the American Association teams finished in each position down through the

. 40 years:

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Minneapolis .....o000000 Kansas City .....000ic.. Indianapolis ... Milwaukee .

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4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

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WAYNE BLACKBURN, outfielder, led the Indians in batting

percentage this year with a mark of .313. ,

. That's a single point

increase over last season when he batted .312. : Milton Galatzer, outfielder and first baseman, who led the * Tribesters last year with .336, failed to get going this season and

wound up far down at .240.

Bennie Zientara led the 1941 Indians in total hits, 161; in doubles, 34; shared the triples honors with Joe Beptudik, each getting 10; and

batted in the most runs, 64.

The team was short of a potent home run hitter, four being high,

by. Allen Hunt and Kermif Lewis. .

. . The Indians were woefully

weak in the extra-base hit department and opposing teams played

them accordingly to hold down their for the season:

runmaking, . , . Tribe statistics

BATTING

134 117 134 51 58 4’ 9 119 161 78 8

Zientara . Pasek Ambler Brubaker . Galatzer

40 6 63 7 67 3 0

2B 3B 21 4 10 10 14 1 2 3

HR RBI 32 49 62 24 20 59 64 32 43 26 36 28 0

15 34

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PITCHING

Sesvenien

Bastien .. ...

Baseball At

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (Final) ; GB 10% 12 18

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Ip BB 273 163 167

185

63 48 13 83 28 65 21 13

a Glance

(Second Samey Eight Innings; Darkness) Cincinnati 030 00— 5 St. Louis 100 1 00— 2 3 E. Riddle and West; M. Eoopen Tuten inson, Gumbert and W. ‘Coop

114 45 14

45 17

000 130— 6 10. 4 03 322 40x—17 20 0 Boston oh. Grissom, Jones, Masterson and Warren, Harmon; Salvo and Berres, Montgomery. (Second Game) 000 000 010— 1 6 1 Hughes Pod 5 ROT10 15 1 . , Podgajny an vingston; Earley and Bory 2

010 002 000— 3 9 0 gh . 000 000 001— 1 5 1 Eaves and Scheffing; Lanning, Klinger

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GAMES TODAY x NATIONAL , LEAGUE No games scheduled. .

AMERICAN CAN LEAGUE No games scheduled.

RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION : » (First Game)

000 000 104— 5 6 0 003— 4 10 4 Lefe Fleming and Glenn; Gabler and Neidso : (Seco! a Game; i, Agree

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Seven Innings; ment) 5 13 3

1 0 Nahem, Hader

- . S———— : (First Game) . Pa 000 fo 808 Si 002— 2 9 3 Sloat - - Kearse.

"(Second Games Seven Innings;

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| Paul “000 — 010 : Kips City 000 110 v— 8 12 © 22 os, English and Fernandes: Queen

¥ Fyusety, and Rensa; Koslo and Just. NATIONAL LEAGUE

202 Bowman, Wit Second Game: 10 10 Inni Secon > 1000. 000 300 1 3

0 000 oz 1— i : [ a and’ d Hartnett; Wyatt, Allen, Caand Ow ad (First Ga Game) 010.000 510 710 400 200 —11 11 Starr,

AMERICAN LEAGUE

(First Game) Washington 000 000 003— 3 8 3 Phila lefphia fers 001 000 001— 2 6 asterson and Earl y E ’ - hy (9): Marchildon-and rs Yana Bat.

(Second Game) Washin ton Philadelphia Wynn and Evans; Harris and ane. 030 00x— 8 13 § |X — . Ryba, Joh P 3 Gomez, Huron and’ rly ang: Peatork; Cleveland 000 nue 000— 1 6 0

troit 003 00x— 4 6 bean and Hemsley; Bridges and Teb-

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Visiting Postinn To See Wrestling

Dave Reynolds of Boise, Ia. and Milt Olsen of Minneapolis, will open the all-light heavyweight outdoor 3 wrestling show of three bouts tomorrow night at Sports Arena. Pairing the-two completes the bill. Attending the show will be approximately 500 members of the National Association of Postal Supervisors who are attending the organization's convention in Indiap- ) | apolis. Main ‘contestants are The Great Mephisto of - Newark and

Sergeant ‘Bob Kenaston of Chicago. |] Both feature an aggressive style of

o| performance and both are of the

skilled type. It promises an extra

In the semi-windup, Jules la ‘Rance of Montreal, , will go against Stacey Hall, assistant grappling coach at Ohio State UniverI oT Mtn Tors toot hed "0 ement weather moved

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| Brooklyn's -

| Bums Increase

|Lead as Cards °

Stumble Again

Camilli and Reiser Are Flatbush Heroes

By GEORGE KIRKS] United Press Staff Cor )

NEW YORK,

sight. - Tomorrow in Chicago the Dodgers commence an 18-day road trip, in which they play 10 games with the tough Western clubs and then return to the East for seven road games with the Phillies and Braves. When those 17 games are over the

bring either Brooklyn's first pennant in 21 years or a sad tale of “it might have been.” The Dodgers gave 34 361 loyal supporters something to cheer for Sunday when they thrashed the hated Giants twice, 13-1 and 4-3 (10 innings) and increased their lead over the second-place Cardinals to three full games. Leo on Short With Manager Leo Durocher playing shortstop in the first game, the Dodgers shellacked the Giants. Durocher did little to help the Dodger cause but they didn’t need any assistance. Kirby Higbe was in rare form, allowing only six scattered blows, and he became the first National League pitcher to win 20 games. Dolf Camilli hit his 31st and 32d homers and elevated his R. B. I. total to 105. The second game was a different story.” The Giants knocked out Whit Wyatt in the seve and led, 3-1, going into the last of the ninth. Billy Herman led off with a single. Then Pete Reiser hit a double-play grounder to Odell Hale, who booted the ball into center fleld. Herman went to third and Reiser to second. Medwick’s double scored both and the game was tied. In the tenth, Owen's single, a sacrifice’ and Reiser’s single won the game. The Cardinals divided a doubleheader with the Reds. They won, 17-7, in the opener after a seventhinning scare in which Cincinnati scored five runs to tie the score, 6-6. But the Cards came back with five themselves. Harry Gumbert did a swell relief job and also hit a homer with a mate on in the Cards’ winning spurt. It’s Elmer Again

Elmer Riddle turned in his 16th victory of the year, pitching the Reds to a 5-2 triumph in the nightcap,.called at the end of the eighth because of darkness. Riddle allowed seven hits for his third victory of |f the year over St. Louis against only one loss to the Red Birds. In the other National League action the Boston Braves whaled the Phillies twice, 17-6 and 10-1, and Vallie Eaves hurled a five-hitter to give the Cubs a 3-1 victory over the Pirates. 3 The champion “Yankees boosted their season’s attendance at home to over the million mark when a crowd of 22,822 turned out and saw them thump the Red Sox, 8-5, and increase their American League lead to- 20% games. Lefty Gomez, although relieved under fire in the sixth, was credited with his 14th triumph against four defeats. The Red Sox made 13 hits off Gomez and Murplty but left 14 men stranded. / | Cellar Battle

The battle for the cellar continued apace when the Washington Senators took a double fall out of the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-2 and 4-2. Detroit drew within half a game of fourth place by defeating Cleveland 4-1. Tommy Bridges celebrated a day in his honor with a six- hit effort. Ted Lyons failed in his third attempt to win his 13th game and the Browns beat the White Sox, 3-1, with two runs in the ninth. It was the Browns’ eighth victory in their

“beloved bums” headed into the west today with the promised land’ in

Dodgers will come home and they'll |

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By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Sept. 8.— The truth of the axiom that when brains meet brawn, muscles alone seldom are enough was brought home emphatically again today as Bobby Riggs of Clinton, S. C., and Mrs. Sarah Cooke of New York took formal possession of the twe big cups emblematic of Ameriean tennis supremacy for 1941. For, as some 10,000 boisterous and heckling spectators long will recall, it was mental ' adeptness coupled with a stubborn sort of persistency

iwhich carried the two lightweight ‘contenders through six bigger and

stronger opponents in the National Singles championships to the shiny trinkets that are the most important tennis trophies available in the world this year. : Riggs and Mrs. Cooke both are undersized as tennis players go. They haven’t much power and they are shy of reach, but they do have brains and those things called fighting hearts. They used their assets fo good advantage on a wind-shot center court at the West Side Tennis Club yesterday. They battled bigger and more powerful rivals, an unruly gallery and a 40-mile-an-hour wind. Riggs repulsed the challenge 3 Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Cal., 5 6-1, 6-3, 6-3, with a facility "that disappointed the thousands who hag turned out expecting a nip and tuck battle for the crown he had won in 1939 and lost last year. Mrs. Cooke, the tiny brunette formerly known to tennis fans as Sarah Palfrey and Mrs. Sarah Fabyan, was just as impressive in muffling the vaunted power of Pauline Betz of

last nine games with Chicago.

Times Speeial TOLEDO, Sept. 8.—After splitting a double-header with the Mud Hens yesterday the Indianapolis Indians

.|shook hands all around and scat-

tered to their homes for ‘the offseason.

Bennie Zientara, second sacker, was permitted to take off after Saturday night’s game for a flying visit to his Chicago home before reporting to the Cincinnati Reds tomorrow for a “fall tryout” in the big show. With Bennie out of the lineup, Wayne Blackburn, outfielder, held down tHe Tribe's keystone position. Manager Wade Killefer returned to Indianapolis where he’ll spend a

.|couple of days before heading for

his California home. The Indians closed the season a snug sixth, the same position in which they wound up the 1940 campaign. Lloyd Johnson had the honor of pitching the Tribe’s last 1941 victory. It was in the first half of yesterday’s twin bill when he held the Mud Hens to seven scattered hits and beat them, 5 to 1. He was opposed by Roy Parmelee and Ralph Winegarner, who were -touched for eight hits by the Tribesters. In the second game, the season’s finale, the Hens pounded Jack:

and a 10-5 victory, seven innings by agreement. After the Indians splurged - for five runs in the fourth, young BssHen, >. from the Three-I League,

his cunning and the Hens got Ee Pv

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Los Angeles, 7-5, 6-2, after having

So Long, Indians, Who Can Say It Wasn't Fun—for Us?

{box in the sixth when they staged a six-run rally. Gill, who relieved Bastien, was unable to stem the Toledo attack. The Hens used a flock of pitchers in this game. . orelle, whe started, was followed in turn by Biscan, Wirkkala, Bildilli and Winegarner. The Tribe got seven hits. - In yesterday's first fracas Kermit Lewis was the Tribe’s best swatter with a double and triple, followed by Milton Galatzer with three singles.

games to ofie. In the opener, Saturday night, they beat young Ben Wade, 4 to 3, in 10 innings. On the road trip that dropped the curtain on the campaign, the Indians won one tilt and lost five. In the season’s play between the two clubs, Toledo won 12 games and Indianapolis 10. -

w The Hens won the series, two

“The King and Queen

Frankie Kovacs for the title in

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Brains Meets Brawn in Tennis F inals and Brains Wins

reached the finals of the same tournament twice before only to fail in the big test.

Although the loud ‘crowd - booed many decisions, the iiumphis were popular. Riggs gave away the first set trying to feel out his rival's game. Kovacs, tall and strong, whipped over a half dozen of his new “cosmic forehand” drives. This novel stroke lost effectiveness once Riggs geared his game to the, wind in the second set and won out with the loss of only 10 points. Kovaes staged rallies in both the . third and fourth sets, but the parade was on. The forehand crumpled and Riggs—with a change of pace ‘comparable to that of Howard Ehmke of baseball fame— cut and chopped and drove - the lanky Californian dizzy. He outsmarted him at every turn and ran him back and forth from the net to the baseline. Kovacs was tired at the end. Mrs. Cooke missed set point in the 10th game of the first set when Miss Betz blazed over an ace, then she ran out in the twelfth. This set was unusual in that each player held her own service until the final

Nalon, Mays Race At Fair Grounds

Hefty Duke Nalon, one of the entrants in the A. A. A.-sanctioned automobile race at the Fair Grounds next Sunday, won the 25-lap fea-

ture corttest yesterday on the half-

mile track at Dayton, O. Although Nalon was defeated by Rex Mays in a special six-lap exhibition race, he drove the 25-lap event in 10 minutes 9.09 seconds. Mays also will pilot his Bowes Seal Fast Special in the race here. In order that the Fair Grounds

lrace will move along as smoothly as

possible, Ted Doescher, contest board member from Chicago who bosses the 500-mile race, will be in charge of officials. He will bring along a corps of assistants from Chicago and Milwaukee to handle the timing and scoring.

Major Leaders

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Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke and Bobby Riggs stand alone in the tennis world today . . . the queen and king of the courts. Mrs. Cooke who.defeated Pauline Betz for the women’s national singles title, congraduates Bobby who outmaneuvered. F

the mews Hyision at Forest Hills,

Veterans Split Cycle Honors

MARION, Ind., Sept. 8 (U. P.).—Two veteran cyclists split top honors in the National Championship Motorcycle Tourist Trophy races here yesterday for the fourth consecutive year, J. B. Jones, Marion, and Tommy Hayes, Dallas, Tex., pulled their annual “one-for-you-one-for-me” to

Jones won the national title: for 45-inch motors, with’ Hays second. Hays then took the 80-inch motor race and the title with Jones riding a close second. Art Heck, Willard, O., wes third in'the 45-inch race and Ray Tursky, Madison, Wis., took third place in the 80-inch competition.

Buhdy Takes Midget Feature Race

Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind.’ Sept. 8.—

Huston Bundy captured the 50-lap

feature midget car race here last night before a record crowd. Heat winners were Harry Schwimner of Indianapolis, Ben Emrick of Dayton, O., and Kip Young. of Muncie. :

TPasersin Fon |As Pro Grid

|brand of the gridiron game {this week when the Chicago ' {Bears and Brooklyn Dodgers

Eagles on Saturday.

; Akron, 24,720. The Rams were sparked by

[brought the Rams from behind and

‘Chet Adams,

‘ |down march in the fourth quarter

cop the plums from a starting field ing of 63 riders entered for the races.

|about about 120 topflight perform-

Season Opens

New York Teams Get _ In Stride This Week

By UNITED PRESS New + York’s professional football fans get a double dose of the National League's

meet in an eRhibition game at Ebbetts Field Tuesday night and the New York Giants invade Philadelphia to play the

The Cleveland Rams officially opened the 1941 National League

Pittsburgh Steelers, 17-14, in the O., Rubber Bqwl before

brilliant passing and running .by Parker: Hall, Dante Magnani and Johnny Drake. 3 It was Hall's pass to Paul MecDonough in the clear over the goal line in the second ‘period that

furnished the margin of victory. who also kicked a field goal, made his second successful conversion to end the scoring. The Bears staged a 70-yard touch-

to defeat the Giants, 14-8 in an exhibition game .at Chicago. The Giants scored in each of the first three periods on two field goals and a safety while the Bears punched across touchdowns in the second and final periods and converted both points from placement. Norm |Standlee, former Stanford fullback, |plunged across from ° the 1-yardy line ‘and Bob Snyder added the extra point in the Bears’ final period drive. Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson ran the Philadelphia Eagles dizzy with pass plays as the Green Bay Packers scored a 28-21 exhibition game victory at Milwaukee.

Betty Jameson Is Golf Favorite

BROOKLINE, Mass., Sept. 8 (U. P.).—Little Betty Jameson, a smilTexan, was favored to gain her third straight Women’s National golf title as the finest field in the history of the classic started the 18-hole qualifying test today. Miss Jameson’s goal is to become the fifth woman to score a consecutive triple, but she must Jetsay

ers, including three former titlists. The field will be chopped to 64 qualifiers by day-long medal competition. Match play will be in order for tomorrow through Saturday’s 36-hole final.

Out Board Trophy

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. .8 (U. P.). —James W. Mullen; 2d, 23-year-old Richmond, Va., outboard driver, today held the $6000 Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy after winning all three heats in the 14th annual race for the cup on the Schuykill River. Mullen compiled a periect score

Visiting Captain

Co-Capt. Tom Melton of Pur-' due’s football team (above), along with Co-Capt. Jim Miller and 38 other members of the squad, will attend the Purdue Association of Indianapolis’ football smoker on the Hotel Severin Roof Wednesday night. Coach Mal Elward will be the principal speaker, using as his topic “The Inside Dope on the Purdue Foothall Prospects and Other Big Ten Teams for 1941.”

Three Survive

Sandlot Tilts

amateur baseball series—Gold Mede

al Beer, Falls City and P. R. Male lory—will « gather around the cone ference table tonight to make the drawing ‘for next week-end’s battling. Again ‘the series has reached that stage where the bye is all-import-ant, so tonight's session may be a bitter vocal fight. | In the -week-end games, four teams were dropped from the series, and these included the Leonard Cleaners, champions of the Big Six League and the winners of 13 straight games during the season, Others to fall were U. 8S. Tires, Baird's Service and Empire Life. The Gold Medal Beers remain the only unbeaten club in the series, boasting four victories, while Falls: City and P. R. Mallory each have records of three victories and one loss. The unbeaten Gold Medal Beers sent U..S. Tires to the sidelines yes terday with a 6-0 defeat after downing Baird's, 3 to 2, Saturday. Louie Cato led the Beers’ attack with three hits yesterday,”while the Tires’ nine hits were too spread ouf to be damaging Fails City touched a pair of Baird pi hers for 14 hits and administered -4 lacing to the Service Club. Falls City previously had taken its first loss at the hands of U. 8. Tires, 10-to 5. Mallory saved itself until the ninth inning and then blasted home three runs for a 5-to-4 triumph over Empire Life. - It was A-1 pitching that cost the Leonard Cleaners their berth in the series. urday, Carl Rearick ited the Cleaners to two hits and a single run. Meanwhile his mates rallied in the eighth and ninth for nine runs and a 9-1 victory.

Skeet Shoot

shattered 49 targets apiece to share honors in the 50-target skeef shoot

of 1200 points before 20,006 specta-: tors yesterday to take the Trophy.

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