Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1941 — Page 6
SPORTS. ‘By i die Ash
“Chances are that, in a
way, the worst thing that
could happen to the Brooklyn Dodgers—as a business institution—would be to win the pennant,” says Bob Con- ~ gidine, writing in the New York Daily Mirror. “It they win, and let’s hope they do because we'd like to see - such old Bums as Wyatt, Walker, Fitz and a few others get a hunk
of that World Series money, there in the history of baseball.
will be the dangdest ticket row
“When Larry MacPhail gets through taking care of his friends, Brooklyn's ‘must’ politicians and their friends, and a few other favored cliques, there are going to be no tickets for Moe and Joe, Brooklyn's typical fans, and their 100,000 counterparts. “They are going to be turned away at the door, and they are . not going to bc able to afford to buy tickets from the ‘specs’ who, we think, will get an all-time racketeering price for pasteboards if Brooklyn wins.. Brooklyn ‘specs,’ for reasons never fully explained, always seem to be able to get tickets, even when the regular Dodger * fanatics and good providers can’t get them. “By the time the favored few are taken care of by MacPhail,
the heirs of Ebbets and McKeever
and the controlling bank, there
will be so few tickets left that only a tiny percentage of the faithful horde which congregated for Dodger games to the extent of almost:
a million and a quarter this season park.
will be: able to squeeze into the
“This, inevitably, will lead to the most rabid kind of squawking :
which would carry over into next season.”
Now It’s Bums Turn to Gain
BY DEFEATING the Cubs yesterday while the Dodgers were idle, the Cardinals kept their pennant hopes alive. by moving within .
half a game of the National League
leaders. . . . Now it's the Brook-
lyn Bums’ turn to gain . . . in a double-header with the last-place
Phillies today while the Cards took
on the Cubs again in a single,
A week from tomorrow the campaign ends. . . . Both clubs have nine to play. . . . Time is on the side of the Brooks. ~ Brooklyn has knocked off Philadelphia ‘13 times in 15 clashes
this season and figures to continue
rolling
The Dodger-Cardinal season’s table to date:
DODGERS
Record » Games Left So Far Opponent Home Away Won Lost St uis 0 0 11 11
Cincinnati ..... 0 Pittsburgh . New York ... Chicago .
14 12 14 13 16 13
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CARDINALS
Record Opponent me Aer Won Lot rooklyn .. 0 0 11 1 12 14 15 9 14 17
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Today's National League schedule presents a quantity of “ifs,”
what with the Dodgers playing two for the “ifs” in figures:
and the Cardinals: one....Now
Brooklyn (.641)—Win two, .646; split, .639; lose two, .633
St. Louis (.639)—Win, .641; lose,
634.
St. Joe Jolts Experts First Week
WHOOPS! . . who said St. Joe was “little?” , "a mighty win for the Pumas. . , .
. A football upset in our own back yard....And « A tough lid-lifter for Butler but
Nice going, Joe Dienhart, for
scrambling the dope. . . . It was an interesting college: grit: opener
for Indianapolis fans.
Coach: Dienhart outfoxed’ the grid experts who swallowed his bear stories. hook, line and sinker in their warm-up week selections.
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ALREADY THE Columbus Red Birds have earned a bonus pool of $6000, of which $4000 cames for winning the A. A. pennant and the other $2000 for winning a first playoff. . . . Louisville also received $2000 for winning a first playoff. ‘Winner of the second playoff, now under way between Columbus
~~ -and Louisville, will receive an additional $4000. . . . players are paid -
regular season salary through the playoff. In the Little World Series, the goal of the winners in the Col-
-umbus-Louisville series, the only pay
received by the players is com-
i from 60 per cent of the Teceipts from the first four games,
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Baseball At
NATIONAL LEAGUE : 93 641
4 | Columbus
18 241% 2513 26 31 32 3B _ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF (Four Best In Seve)
Louisville RESULTS YESTERDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE No games scheduled.
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GAMES TODAY
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn at Philadelphia (two). Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (two). Boston at New Jork (two). Chicago at St. Louis
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York at Boston. St. Louis at Cleveland.
Philadelphia at Washington. Detroit at: Chicago.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF Louisville at Columbus. (night).
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Here's Jud Haggerty grabbing a pass from George Bridges for Southport’s only. fouchdown against Tech yesterday afternoon, Tech defeated the Cardinals, 13-7,
Ted Williams May Miss 400
Red Sox Slugger Loses Eight Points
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (U. P)— Ted Williams may miss that golden batting average of .400 for the season. : The lanky outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, who has hit over .400 since almost the start of the year,
slumped in the last week and made only five hits in 20 official times at
: bat; dropping his average from 413
405, figures released today and 's games revealed. “Big Poison” of the American League is sure to drop below .400 if his slump continues through the Red Sox’ eight remaining gaines, -Pete Reiser, big gun of the Brooklyn Dodgers who is hitting 335, extended his National loop batting lead to 18 points as last week’s run-ner-up, Johnny Hopp of -the Cardinalss dropped out of the running with a slump of 14 points to 311. Johnny Mize of St. Louis now holds second place with 317. Lefty Gomez of the Yankees retained his lead over the American
|League’s twirlers with ‘15 triumphs
against five losses. Howard Krist of the Cardinals leads the senior circuit with 10 wins and no defeats and virtually is certain to win the National League hurling: crown. Leaders in other departments: Runs—(A)—Williams, Red Sox, 129; (N)—Reiser, Dodgers, 110. ‘Hits—(A)—Travis, Senators, 205; (N)—Hack, Cubs, 1 Doubles—(A)—Boudreau, Indians, 41; (N)—Reiser, Dodgers, 39. Triples—(A)—Heath, Indians, 18; (N)—Reiser, Dodgers; 16. Home Runs—(A)—Williams, Red Sox, 35; (N)—Camilli, Dodgers, 33. Stolen Bases—(A)—Case, Senators, 28; (N)—Murtagh, Phillies, 18. Runs Batted In—(A)—Keller, Yankees, 122; (N)—Camilli, Dodgers, 113. ; Club Batting— (A)—Boston, .283; (N)—Brooklyn, .274. Club Fielding—(A)—Indians, 976; (N)—Reds, 976. The 10 leading hitters in each league: - . AMERICAN LEAGUE
G AB R H RBI Pct. 35 431 129 173 116 405 3 3813 1% 0 116 1354 2 85 187 111 .340 467. 334 473 81 155 93 . . 137 526. 93 172 104 . 128 486 7 157 90 323
. 118 458 173 148 . 11 349 52 111 57.
NATIONAL LEAGUE 385 kl 30 514 110 172 66 .. Reiser, Brool ayn. 30 51s. 120 13 80
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The five leading pitchers: AMERICAN LEAGUE |
New York New York > Boston oe
Detro : Bellon, reverand cecnniens NATIONAL LEAGUE Krist, . Sf
; Louis Riddle, Ci inamnati te, St. Louis .
Gomez, iffing
Higbe, Brooklyn Highe,, Broo St. Louis.
"You Can Toss Gomez in River,’ MacPhail Once Said; He'll Probably Wish They Had
(Last of a series on the American Bi, champion Yankees).
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK; Sept. 20.—Lefty Gomez is the comeback kid of baseball this year. Last winter the eccentric lefthander was just about washed up with the Yankees. ‘They had waived him out of the American League and were trying to peddle him, along with Monte Pearson, to the National League. A rumor got around that the Dodgers were going to buy Gomez. When. Larry MacPhail was asked ‘about it, the Brooklyn boss exploded. “You can take both Gomez and Pearson and throw them into the river. I'm not buying ‘em.” That remark turned out to be no ordinary blunder on MacPhail’s part. The Dodgers have no southpaw
2 greater lung power. decided to hold a contest and keep the affair on the level each |
y dunked his head in the bath-
‘Gomez claims that he was on his way to 8 toon when phone rang an ving a skness for phens calls,
ailierpeil to answer it. It was a
calls, be
wrong number and Gomez claims to this day he was fouled.
Repl
It takes 5 geniiis.tovnake an umpire laugh when trouble’s afoot on the ball field but Gomez did it this season. He had’ everybody in the Boston ball park holding their sides early in September. The umps had chased Lefty off the Yankee bench and as he started to walk across the field to the players’ exit he picked up a, fungo stick, Feigning blindness, he tapped his way along until he stumbled into the Red Sox dug-
be called “El Goofy” because people who don’t know him might think he’s a crackpot. But when the skin-
8
- against any opponent.
Purdue Faces
Blitz by Air
Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, Sept. 20— Coach Red Sanders’ prediction “we'll have the best pass-catching team in the history of Vanderbilt,” has done nothing to ease the pressure’ in Purdue’s football camp where Mal Elward has been directing intensive drills in preparation for the season’s opener with the cagy-pawed Commodores here next Saturday. Sanders freely has admitted that Vanderbilt will “toss the ball around plenty this year,” and practice reports from Nashville indicate that his contention that the Commodores are unusually well provided with adept pass receivers is more than justified. : The performances of sophomores
the Vanderbilt speed combination. Jimmy Webb, a rangy wingman despite the fact that he has yet to see varsity action, already has been called the. greatest. pass-catcher in Vanderbilt grid annals, while John (Red) Burns, sophomore triplethreat halfback, has set a standard for passing accuracy that more than matches Webb’s receiving ability. Another 190-pound sophomore halfback, J. P. Moore, who has been coupled with Tennessee’s Bob Cifers as one of the two most promising new men in the South, is a triple-threat performer who fits in well with Sanders’ aerial theme. Moore, who has a mark of 9.8 for the 100-yard dash, was popularly credited with being the man responsible for the defeat of Tennessee’s yearlings last fall. Although the sophomores have been attracting considerable attention, Vanderbilt's veterans are far from being overshadowed as far as the aerial offensive is concerned. Among the veterans are Binks Bushmaier, streaky wingback who gained All-American mention last fall; Jack®Jenkins, husky 200-pound Texan halfback who excells as a blocker, and Art Rebrovich, junior letterman back who has shown con-
have added to the aerial hopes of | day
siderable promise as a pass receiver.
Sixt) perso; pr n A Joris of Joon al Suiets By DR. EDWARD N. ANDERSON University of Iowa Football Coach
IOWA CITY, Ia., Sept. 20 (U. P.). —Some good football players are members of the 1941 University of Iowa squad but there may not be enough of them to cope with. the schedule which includes six Conference games and Nebraska. It appears we can develop a first team which will put up a scrap And if some of the reserves come through,
¢|We might be more dangerous than
some of the experts now believe. In the line, we will depend on Bill Burkett, who improved fast as a defensive end last season as he gained experience; Jim Walker, who does a good. job on defense; Capt. Bill Diehl, the center who is always consistent; Gene Curran and Ross Anderson, the guards who came forward in November to play smart football.
Yep, Green Is Back Bill Green is our best running back and we are looking for him to carry the attacking brunt just as he did last year. Perhaps he can learn to pass a little this season. Jim Youell looks better as a punter
his sophomore season. We have experience at. quarterback—Al Coupee and Jerry Ankeny —and at left halfback Tom Farmer may make good on the promise he showed as a runner late in the 1940 season and his passes may hit their {mark more consistently. It would be fine if Bus Mertes
p|showed the hard running he did
against Illinois in the final game a year ago. Jack Kennedy is a sophomore right halfback who is fast and may come through as a
in- | spot player.
A Problem at Tackle Some of our other backs are Bob
{Bender, a good passer and fair
runner; Art Johnson, with slight experience at fullback; and Bill
back and fullback last year.
“Bergstrom” to imitate that: ls who rose to a 60-minute man
A n
1939. “Some. of the ‘better guards are
and his passing is improved over |
Stauss, who was used .at quarter-| The tackle situation is somewhat]
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Is Everybidy Happy? All City |
Prep Grid Teams Should Be
Shortridge, Tech and Broad Ripple Open 1941 Season With Impressive Victories
Indianapolis’ high school football teams had no complaints to make today after their first night and afternoon of 1941 action. Until now, four have gone to the wars and four have come back victorious, and if Washington’s Continentals can operate their new Model-T Successfully in Kentucky this evening, tHey will be batting 1.000.
Mr. Par Bows To Mr. Snead
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20 (U. P). —The field in the $5000 Hurst International Golf Tournament set out after “Slammin’ Sam” Snead of Hot Springs, Va., to-
Putting together an eagle, six birdies, nine pars and two bogies, for a course record 64, sixunder par, Snead held a strong lead over Terl Johnson. of Norristown, Pa. as the 71 pros and amateurs teed off ; in the second & Regt qualifying round. Sammy Snead The low 48 and ties will meet in the 36-hole final tomorrow.
. Three strokes off the pace with
a three-under-par 67 came Billy Burke of Cleveland and Tony Penna of Dayton, O. A stroke behind, four players toured the ForresdaleFrankford course in one under regulation figures—Ky Lafoon, Horton Smith, Harry Cooper and Jack Patroni. Five came in with par 70s, including Frank Allan of Pittston, Pa., to take the lead among the amateurs. Marvin (Bud) Ward, the amateur champion, shot a 73. Tied with Allan at 70 were the veteran Gene Saragen, Bobby Cruickshank, Bruce Coltart of Absecon, N. J., and Dick Renaghan of Haddonfield, N. J., who
after going out in 31 came back in
39.
Reserves Are the Big Need Aft lowa, Dr. Anderson Says
Twedell and Bob Penaluna. George Frye, a senior, can take over center to relieve Capt. Diehl without
‘| greatly weakening the team.
If we uncover a pass catcher or two, our attacking problems will be much simplified. Bill Parker has a lot of natural ability and we hope he can avoid the shoulder injury which kept him out of most
-|games a year ago. Henry Miller is
one of the most promising new ends and Jack Maher is a returning (c. veteran. However, we expect to deal our share of the Big Ten surprises before the 1941 suicide schedule Is
over. Defender
Coach Bob Nipper’s Shortridge Blue Devils opened their season yesterday with a 19-0 victory over Orawionisville: and Tech succeeded in getting over its first hurdle by downing the Southport : Cardinals, 13-7. What promises to be a strong Broad Ripple eleven thumped the Silent Hoosiers, 19 to Tech suffered a severe blow, however, when, on the second play of the game, Howard Beeson, fullback: and co-captain, broke his collarbone crashing into the line. He probably will be lost for the remainder of the
season. Continuous gains by Jack Hanna and John Dobkins brought Tech to the Southport 12 in the first quarter, but - Dobkins fumbled, ending the threat.
Dobkins Scoots 65 Yards Midway in the second period: a
| pun ints theiend sone gave the Big
Green the ball on the 20. went to the 33 with Volk gh na through center to the 35. Then, Dobkins broke tackle and ran 65 yards for the game’s initial touchdown. Dick Hennigar’s dropkick for the extra point split the uprights. " A few seconds later Bridges, the Cardinal left halfback, pitching passes, moved the ball from the Southport 44 to the Greenclad’s 28. Here, he fired ene lo the. lott snd rty who gral Hagesy for the Red Bird's lone touchdown. Chew added the extra point by a placement. The Green Wave's margin of victory came in third stanza. Having driven to the Cardinal 44, Hanna scooted around end to the 30. About to be tackled, he lateralled to. Jim Stahley, who wasn’t stopped until he-had hit pay dirt. A quarterback sneak for the conversion failed.
Shortridge Scores Early
The Nippermen made their first score about midway in the first quarter, after driving deep into Athenian territory only to loose the ball ony downs, and regain it in an
|exchange of punts. In a series of
ground gaining plunges the Blues brought the ball into ‘scoring distance of the Crawfordsville goal, where Bill Kerbox, Satan lefi-half, plunged through the line to chalk up the first tally. Don Rogers, left end, converted the goal. The third period was marked by an early score. The Blues drove toward the Athenian goal in the start of the second half, but punted the ball when a 15 yard penalty set them back. - Crawfordsville started an aerial drive only to have the first pass intercepted by Bernie Casselman, co-captain and fullback of the Satans.
Casselman carried: the ball 49 yards to deposit it on the Athenian one-yard marker. The Crawfordsville line held firmly while the Blues inched the ball over the pay stripe in three center plunges. Cassélman made the points. Rogers’ attempt at conversion failed. . . | The third Satan counter came in
I was pao lke dhs hat brought the Bi Green vier. On this play Bill Volk ripped Sa the Southport Sefense for a yan gain,
Half Buck
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 20.—Army, Navy, and Marine soldiers will be admitted to Indiana’s first two home football games with Detroit and Texas Christian at a special reduced price of 50 cents, Athletic Director Z. G. Clevenger announced today. Clevenger said other Western conference schools are showing the same consideration to service men. Indiana opens the 1941 season against Detroit here Saturday, Sept. 27, and plays Texas Christian here Oct. 11, The service men must appear ‘in their official uniforms and will be seated in special sections.
Birds One Up On Louisville
By UNITED PRESS John Grodzicki’s third straight playoff victory today gave the
-|Columbus Red Birds a one-game
lead over the Louisville Colonels in the - American Association’s final series. Grodzicki allowed eight hits and permitted six walks last night but he held the Colonels to a lone tally and won, 8 to 1. The game score in: the playoff finals is Columbus one, Louisville none. Bill Sayles started for the Colonels and the loss was marked against him. He was taken out after walking six and allowing five hits and five runs in three and twothirds innings. Owen Scheetz. relieved him and thereafter held the Red Birds to three hits but Ray Sanders boosted the Columbus cause with a sixth-inning homer that accounted for two runs.
Riggs Due for a Licking—Kovacs
‘L.OS ANGELES, Sept. 20 (U. P). —A re-enactment of the National Tennis Championship finals at Forest Hills two weeks ago was in prospect today as net clown Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Cal., swept into the final round of the Pacific Southwest Championships. Kovacs halted lefthanded George Richards of Montebello, Cal., 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 yesterday, and now it is up to national titleholder Bobby Riggs to dispose of poker-faced Prankie Parker to set the stage. Kovacs let it be known today that Lie is out to avenge his former defeat at the hands of Riggs, who took little more than an hour to beat Kovacs and win the national title,
Twenty-Five Cars In Final Race
Times Special . COLUMBUS, Ind., Sept. 20.—Dirt track auto racing for this territory comes to a close here tomorrow afternoon when 25 cars compete in the
= sixth and final program of the sea-
son on the half-mile oval at ig
,| fairgrounds.
The Mid West Racing. Association is in charge of the program and officials announce that they have lined up the fastest field of cars ever to try for honors here. There will be & total of 75 laps of raring. Buck - Whittmore. ‘Los Angeles: Harold Shaw, Indianapolis, and George Lynch, Detroit, three previous winners on' the local track this year. are amone the established favorites. Another is Carl Scarborough of Pontiac. Mich.. who recentlv was crowned the 1941 dirt track champion in Ohio.
Thom to Grapple Lord Lansdowne
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| Loss to St. Joe - Perils 8-Year
Reign in State Puma Backs, End and Tackle Get the Praise
FLEETWOOD at Hinkle built
By BO ; The house
‘latop the Indiana College Con-
ference is trembling—trems-
bling after eight happy years.
Since 1934 when Paul D. Hinkle became master of the Bulldogs’ football destiny they had not suffered a Conference loss, but the earthquake came last night, 13 to 6, from St. Joseph’s Pumas at Butler Bowl. Fairview may retain the crown this year—that is possible. But the record is broken. You have to go back to the days of Fred C. Mackey as pigskin instructor to find the last major mishap. That was 1933and Franklin College did it, 16 to 2, Wabash College did it, 12 to 0. Valparaiso did it, 20 to 7. Michigan
Iwas football in those days.
To avoid arugment let us supe pose it was an upset. Then honors should go to the: clever ball-han-
‘Idling of the backs and to a giant
235-pound tackle named Arthur Gil=pin who as a sophomore is already All-Conference material, and to AllConference end Nick Scollard of Indianapolis. Butler won't forget these boys even if Gilpin was playing on an injured leg.
Bulldog Stars
The Bulldog salute goes to Capt. Bob Roberts and Dan Zavella. Both combinations cover the flank of the left side and their brilliance was testified by the refusal of both quarterbacks to run plays their way after a few disappointing experiments Scollard threw in a touche down with his great tackling and pass catching. Both squads battled evenly through the first quarter. Two bad fumbles by Boris Dimancheff (who, . as ‘a sophomore looks very good) - kept the play in Butler territory, fi Shifting with precision from a “T” into their Notre Dame offense, the Pumas were constantly threatening the Bulldog pay land, A punt early in the second quarter started the first Puma drive, Stan Wisniewski caught it on the 32-yard line and danced through half the Bulldogs forward wall before he was nailed on the 25. From here Steve Theodosis (the starting line-up of St. Joseph contained 11 different nationalities) drove off tackle to the 14. A fumble, recovered by. Butler, along with a short punt to the 37 was merely a breathe er. Wisniewski passed to Stan Lapsys who trotted to the eight yard line. Fullback Peter Varini ed the line twice for no gain to pull in the Butler defense and then it happened.
An Old One
From out of the ancient trick bag of Pop Warner the boys of Coach Joe Dienhart pulled an old one—the end around. Wisniewski, with his back to the line, handed the ball to Theodore Swierczek who in turn gave it to Nick Scollard coming around. And there stood Nick all alone. He stepped over. Now Elwood Norris took over and by line bucks alone, he moved the ball to’ the St. Joseph 38. ‘Butler had failed to try the ends throughe out the entire half. . During the half Paul D. Hinkle
| gave Butler the good word and
it was mix ’em up and run the ends and tackles. Back came the Bulldogs doing just that. Norris and Dimancheff swept the ends, pounded the tackles and once in awhile stepped over center for 15 —and Butler moved to the one-yard line. But the Pumas’ big line held. St. Joseph punted but back came Butler. Billy Howard moved to the one-yard line on a reverse from Norris. Dimancheft went over, Stye ko’s kick was blocked. Wisniewski returned the kickoff from 10 to the 49. A few moments later Lapsys tossed to Scollard 29 yards away and Varini drove to the 10 as the quarter ended. Lapsys scameperd to the eight yard line and Varini powered his way over for the second touchdown. It was all over. Scollard missed his try for the extra point. The remainder of the quarter saw only a lot of substitutions, For the statistically inclined Bute ler gained 160 y by ‘rushing while their rivals secu 145. The winners broke even on fist downs Hh 10 apiece. The crowd was
Ted Hartley Wins Times Special MUNCIE, Ind, Sept. '20—Ted Hartley of. Roanoke, Henry Schlos« ser of Cincinnati Se Ben Emerick of . Germantown, O., finished one-two-three in the “feature 25-lap midget auto race here last night,
Little Bo Peeps
Bo McMillin will tell all—well, nearly all—about his Indiana Unie versity football team, its schedule, opporients and chances at a meeting of the Indiana University Club of Indianapolis Monday. The time is noon; the place, the Columbia
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