Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1941 — Page 23

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NEW YORK, Sept. 18.— Do you mind, pretty please, if we do just one more brilliant piece on the Bums before shifting over to the

. delicate business of tapping Nova’s chest and fingering Louis’ biceps? After moving along with them through Chicago, St. Louis and ‘Cincinnati it is our conclusion they can scarcely be rated as an outstanding ball club; there are ‘too many things they can’t do. We wouldnt say, as has been said, they don’t belong on the same field with the Yankees, but we are forced to admit if you are a form player you just couldn't bet on them, not even with Keller out. The Bums just aren’t that kind of club. They are streaky, slow and inconsistent in the box and at the plate. They lose when they figure to win, and win when they figure to lose. No Yelling ‘Uncle’

THIS LACK of form and unpredictability probably can be traced to their rugged spirit. They won't quit on you. They can be behind two, three or four runs going into their half of the ninth and they will be up there slashing and fighting and quarreling. : They are a lucky club, too—or §8 may be that a club of this gharacter makes its own luck. . "They have won games against unbelievable odds and at times aided by incredible breaks. You've heard of teams of destiny, a vague phrase conveniently used to describe almost anything hard to picture in detail. The _Bums may be just such a team. For instance, it didn’t help the Cardinals any to have Terry Moore, as great a centerfielder as anybody ever saw, on the sidelines when the Bums came into St. Louis. The unvarnished truth is that the absence of Moore gave the Bums a game. they might not otherwise have won. 3 Pitchers Have They NOW LET'S EXPERT them for & little. Behind the bat they have two catchers, Owen and Franks, who have all the defensive skill any team would want, but are

All-America outs. In the box they .

have three pitchers who figure in the form to have a chance, and all three are old men—Fitzsimmons, Davis and Wyatt. Of the three Wyatt could be either terrific or not last an inning. Fitzsimmons’ butterfly ball, so old it’s new, might prove a winner, especfally the first time around, which would be the only time the Yan-. kees would face it anyway. Davis . is what they call a cutie in the dugout; he gives you a lot of va- * riety stuff and if your timing hap"pens to be off, which it might very well be under pressure, he’s .gotta to be tough. On the other hand he's the kind of guy who, might go all of a sudden. Higbe the 20-game winner? He's just a year - back - and - let-’em-have- it thrower, deep dish apple pie for a . team like the Yankees, if form means anything. Besides he is in a slump. He can’t put the cat out these days. At first, Camilli, most valuable ball player of the National League season, and don’t let anybody tell you differently, has it all over

the Yankees’ Sturm. If you are

a Brooklyn fan, just close your eyes and walk softly past the key- _ stone combinations; Gordon and Rizzuto have it all over Herman and Reese, and we hate to say this . because Herman has been playing heroically. It’s one of those things at third base. Take it or leave it. We think Priddy will be out there for the Yankees and we'll take him over either Riggs or Lavagetto, or both, and this is no great boost for Priddy.

Insane? Maybe IN OUR BOOK, the edge in the outfield must go to the Yankees without much debate. Pete Reiser is as nice a young ball player in “center field as you'd want to see, can hit well and throw well, but he’s no DiMaggio. Besides he’s a kid and how can yoy tell what ‘ he'll do when the chips are down? . Medwick is no longer the Medwick he used to be so in the book _ you must take the kome run hit ting Henrich over him; with Kel- . ler out, there is little to choose between Walker and Selkirk. So how can you pick the Bums «if they do make it. You can't. Not in a sane mood. But any one who - tries to evaluate the Bums -‘4n a sane mood is paradoxically ‘insane. Having thus characterized

. ourself we boldly predict the.

. Bums will win both the National * League pennant and the World Series. :

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Look Here!

Dainty is not the word for Lou Nova as he bites into a chunk of meat after a brisk workout at his Pompton Lakes training camp, where himself into fighting trim for his bout Sept. 29 with

will be a new experience for me, hope and enthusiasm.

because as yet I don’t know the

Vitt-rolic

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18 U. P).~—Oscar Vitt, former manager of the Cleveland Indians and now managing the Portland Club of the Pacific Coast League, said today that he had no desire to return to | the American League Club. “I wouldn’t want to go back to anything like that,” he said. Asked about the collapse of the Indians this year, Vitt said he did not know the reasons for the poor showing of the

team. “It's the same team I had there last year,” he said. “Perhaps it’s because there's a team named the Yankees in the | league, and they've just got too much class for the rest.”

Muncie Nine Out To Even Series

Ti.nes Special

MUNCIE, Ind, Sept. 18—The Muncie Citizens will attempt to square things when they meet the Indianapolis Firemen here Sunday in the second game of the IndianaOhio Baseball League playoffs. Carving three runs from seven hits, the Firemen scored a 3-1 victory in the opening game of the series here last night. After scoring one run with his triple in the first, Tobin was brought home by Lawrie’s single for two Firemen scores in the first. They tallied again in the third on a pair of walks and a single. Steve Stanisha pitched for the Firemen, and he also granted seven safeties, while Carl Lipp was on the mound for the Citizens.

Redbird Runners

Southport High School's crosscounty team will open its season tomorrow afternoon at Tech in a meet between halves of the Cardinal-Tech football game. Returning cross-country veterans at Southport are Tom Haynes, Delbert Klies, Carl Tomanachiel and Tom Messer. : The remainder of the schedule: Sept. 26, at Ben Davis; Oct. 3, Howe; Oct. 10, at Ft. Wayne North Side; Oct. 16, at Washington; Oct. 31,

If Fans Are Correct, Brown's

Buckeyes Won't Be Too Hot

By PAUL BROWN Ohio State Football Coach. (Written for the United Fress) COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 18.—Naturally this first year at Ohio State ! but like any other coach starting his first season-at a new school, I am looking forward to it with great

I don’t have any idea what kind of a team we will have this year,

caliber of football played in the Western Conference. But the fans here tell us that we won't be any too good this fall. Right now, the only game on the schedule we're thinking about is the opener against Missouri. We'll play our games one at a time and play them all to win. I am thinking of my new position at Ohio State as simply molding another football team, finding the right combination of players and getting them ready to go 60 minutes

lof good, tough football against

each of our opponents.

Good Sophs Although we don’t have too much veteran material to work with, we have some promising sophomores who may come along to help us out. We have only 13 lettermen back and lack an experienced man at center. We lost a fine center in Bill Bell through the draft along with Emil Moldea, a good looking sophomore tackle, and Guard Earl Carlin. Of the 15 lettermen who were graduated last June, eight were regulars so we will have a comparatively new team this fall, We lost such outstanding backs as Don Scott, Jimmy Strausbaugh and Jimmy Langhurst. On the line we have lost End Frank Clair, Center Claude White, Guards Lenny Thom and Bill Nosker and Tackle Charley Maag.

A Few Return However, we have Charley Anderson back at end and two other let-ter-winning ends in Pete Hershberger and Sam Fox. Two fine sophomores ‘who will help us are Bob Shaw, 221 pounds and six feet three, and Leon Schoenbaum, a 190 pounder. We have two lettermen at guard but may have to start a sophomore at one of these positions. We are pretty well set at tackle with Capt.

Thornton Dixon, all lettermen.

Martin and John Rosen.

and Johnny Hallabrin, two seniors, probably will handle fullback. Dick Fisher, another senior, looks like the best left halfback but will have plenty of competition from - Paul Sarringhaus, a powerful sophomore.

ing candidate for quarterback,

our system. morale and spirit is high and we're

Manual, and Nov. 8, state invitational meet. :

anxious to get started.

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Injured Irish Open Season

Under the Ares|

High School football—1041 fash-

lion, with its new faces, new forma-

tions and new foes—makes its bow

Coun Cathedral will be the first club inside the city limits to see action. The Irish, city champions last year, will meet Noblesville in the Butler Bowl this evening before a crowd expected to be swelled by soldiers, sailors and marines. En

H. S. Grid Card :

TONIGHT . Cathedral vs. Noblesville at Butler

Bowl TOMORROW

Southport at Tech. Shortridge at Crawfordsville, Warren Central at Ben Davis. Broad Ripple at Silent Hoosiers. SATURDAY NIGHT

Washington at Newport, Ky.

A heavier dish will be served tomorrow afternoon, with city and county teams doing battle on four fronts, The main attraction perhaps will be the Tech-Southport gettogether at the East Side field. Shortridge will trek to Crawfordsville and Warren Central will tackle Ben Davis in a bitter Marion County feud. Coach Ed Diederich’s Broad Ripple eleven, reportedly a power this season, will meet the Silent Hoosiers. Washington High School’s new “I” will be given its test Saturday night against New-= port, down in the Bluegrass country. At least two regulars—Jim Muller, center, and Tom Devine, guard—will be out of the Irish lineup for tonight's game. Muller, who suffered a bone fracture in one leg, will be replaced by John Grande.

Third Tussle

Service men at the game will be guests of Indianapolis Council No. 437, Knights of Columbus, sponsoring organization for the game which is to begin at 8 o'clock. Cochairmen for the K. of C. committee on arrangements are Claude Sifferlen, W. Lawrence Sexton and ‘Edward J, Fillenwarth. Smarting under three straight defeats at the hands of the Giants, Warren Central will go against Ben Davis without the services of two veteran backs, Fred Johnson and Richard Fulk, Both suffered in. juries in last week’s game with Noblesville. Ben Davis, however, will have to get along without Bob Stone, hefty center nursing & cold. Already having played to one vi®tory and one tie, Coach Walter Floyd's Southport eleven may make things tough for an untried Tech team. In their opener, the Cards tied Anderson, 6 to 6, and last week they came back to smother Franklin, 33-0. ‘ Coach Bob Nipper’s Shortridge Blue Devils have lost only one game out of 13 played with Crawfordsville —but that 7-6 defeat last year was a hard blow. The Blue Devils seeking revenge will average about 175 on the line and 174 pounds in the backfield, compared to the Athenians’ line that scales 161 and a backfield weighing 137 pounds. The starting Shortridge backfield will include Paul Warren, quarterback; Jim Allerdice, left half; Russell Williams, right half, and Bernie Casselman, fullback.

Bowling Notes

city’s bowlers last night as he rolled: 682 in the Indianapolis League, but Bertha Urbancic stole the show for the second straight week. Miss Urbancic, who regularly does the heavy maple pounding for the White Rock Girls in the John-

feminine bowlers for the second straight week with a 631. Her score was a new high for the year. Leaders in last night’s bowling: Fehr, Indiana

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Three-Eye Playoff

DECATUR, Ili, Sept. 18 (U, P.) — Cedar Rapids and Decatur meet tonight for the fifth and final game of the Three-Eye Shaughnessy playoff series. The Commies stood off a li © ee" an “ series at two-all, : We

I ————— Cross-Country Mee The Warren Central High School cross-country ‘team Tie compete with Ben Davis High School in the opening meet of the season between halves of the Ben Davis-Warren

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Indianapolis, Meet the 1941

But Is Game's

Following is the fourth of a series on the American League champion Yankees,

United Press Statt Correspondent : NEW YORK, Sept. 18.— ‘Yankees’

He's easy

ment, nobody has a better throwing arm for accuracy or power. His main drawback is a weakness against southpaw pitching which he is gradually curing by p regularly. If he ever learns to hit southpaws like he does righthand-

ror hitters of the league. Even now almost every other one of his hits is for extra bases. : No longer are American League pitchers fooled by Henrich’s .270 batting average. All things consid~ ered it's probably the most dangerous .270 average in the majors. Henrich has ‘the best disposition

By GEORGE KIRKSEY

Henrich, the right fielder; i is the answer to a manager's prayto handle, tends , always hustling willing to risk his neck, if

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Hole-in-One Al Schaefer blasted from the I tee of the Hillcrest course yest day’ and watched his ball directly into. the hole 155

ers |aWay. ‘He used a No, 8 iron :

| Henrich signed with the Yanks for

$20,000. The money never furned{

Henrich’s. head like it did sqme of

the other “free agent” crop who got

fl rich overnight, After four years with - the Yanks Henrich hustles just like

the rawest rookie. “I have to keep hustling

| my job,” Henrich says. “If I should

ahead of him in this vital depart- | He's a_ fine outfielder and .

ers, Henrich will be one of the ter- *

Tommy Henrich

which is made up of even-tempered athletes. He is popular with everybody and has a kind word for all. Just what sort of a guy he is can be appreciated by the fact that George Selkirk, the fellow he beat out of a job, is one of his biggest boosters. :

go into a prolonged slump somebody | else would be out there. And I'm} particularly anxious to play in this|

World Series. I played in 1938 but I didn't see 1939.”

75 OCTANE REGULAR 80 OCTANE

of all the players on a Yankee team

Millers Again i Stop Colonels

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Sept. 18 U. P)~—Minneapolis meets Louisville again today needing two more consecutive play-off victories to yeah .the American Association

Amid the welter of errors on both sides, the Millers yesterday defeated the Colonels, 10 to 6, bringing the series score to three for Louisville and two for Minneapolis. The first team to win four games meets Columbus in the finals. With both sides committing nine errors, Louisville outhit Minneapolis 14 to 11, but left 13 men on bases. . Bill Lefebvre pitched for Louisville, with Les Fleming and Owen Scheetz as relief. Chief Hogsett and Bob Kline pitched for Minneapolis. Mike Kash and Oscar Judd were scheduled to work today.

Miss Gorham Takes Meridian Test

Mary Gorham was the most proficient golfing guest entertained by the Meridian’ Hills ladies yesterday. The Highland shooter fired an 87 for low gross honors. In the net division Mrs. Ben Olsen of Highland was tops, with 98-11— 87. Mrs. Walter Brant produced a gross 91 to lead members, while Mrs. R. W. Showalter had a net 115-36—79. .

Central football game tomorrow}

News Each

Day at i

Stonehouse to Play In Pros’ Exhibition

LEESBURG, Ind., Sept. 18 (U.P.). ~—Russell Stonehouse of Indianapolis, defending state P. G. A. champion, and Pug Allen, Ft. Wayne, will meet John Watson, South Bend, and Fred McDermitt, Tippecanoe, Sunday in an exhibition match here as a curtain-raiser to the State P. G. A. tournament scheduled fo open id at Tippecanoe Country ub. One hundred and twenty golfers will line up Monday for a pro-ama-teur meet. Thirty-two will qualify Tuesday for the P. G. A. Club officials, threatened by a scarcity of caddies, warned all players to bring their own. ‘

Record Rhinies

The Shortridge High School freshmen are out to defend their city football title in earnest. A record

Woods on opening day.

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