Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1941 — Page 30

SPORTS. By Bugis Ash

GRID BXPERTS Red Grange, Bob Godley, yours truly and the well-known “John Consensus” take off today jn the football “pick ’em league” ... In ‘other words they are trying to give you the winners on this week’s col-

lege menu.

Later, after the big fight, Nova vs. Louis, and the World Series

are out of the way a couple more grid

experts probably will be lined up

~ for the Times’ family of guessers ,.. The more the merrier, we say,

Keller, Yanks

in the crystal ball circuit.

This is not an invitation to" gamble on games and the selections are merely the opinions of the authors... This week’s schedule con- ~ tains a bunch of toss-up games and several rousing. battles are sure to occur déspite the fact it’s the first action for the majority

of teams.

Our experts offer you this table as a starter on the Talis

attractions:

Ash Tulane’ Minnesota Ohio State - Purdue Notre Dame Georgetown Temple California Stanford Southern Cal. V.C.L. A. Michigan Indiana Duke Mississippi State Tulsa Hardin-Simmons Navy North Carolina Santa Clara Santa Clara LS. U. L. Ss. U.

Unassisted Triple Play in 1920

Grange Boston College Minnesota . Ohio State Purdue Notre Dame Mississippi Temple - St. Mary's Stanford - Southern Cal. Wash. State Michigan Indiana Duke Mississippi State T. C. U. . Baylor Navy North Carolina

Boston College Minnesota Ohio State Purdue Notre Dame Mississippi Temple California Stanford " Southern Cal. Wash. State Michigan Indiana Duke Mississippi State T.C. U. Baylor Navy North Carolina Santa Clara L Ss. U

Godley Consensus

Boston College " Minnesota Ohio State Purdue Notre Dame Mississippi Temple California Stanford Southern Cal. Wash. State Michigan Indiana Duke Miss. State T.C. U, Baylor Navy North Carolina Santa Clara LS U

Series

LAST TIME Brooklyn was in the World Series (1920) it was a five-best-in-nine event and Cleveland defeated the Dodgers, five games to two . . . Cleveland won the first tilt, played at Brooklyn, the Dodgers won the second and third, both at Brooklyn, and then Cleveland won four straight at Cleveland. : "It was in this Series that Wambsgansas, Cleveland second sacker, made an unassisted triple play . . . Pitcher Stanlef Coveleskie established himself in the Hall of Fame by winning three games, The Dodgers and Yankees will enter the 1941 Series on fairly even terms on games won and lost for the season . . . Brooklyn's Bums have won 99 and lost 53, New York's Yankees have won 99 and lost 51 ... The Dodgers have two to play, the Yankees four. That late-season team-wide batting .slump finally eliminated the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn sewed up the National League flag yesterday . , » The figures on ‘their season’s record:

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Ex-Indians Share in Brooklyn Glory

WITH THE DODGERS are two ex-Indianapolis Indian players, an ex-Indianapolis manager and an ex-Indianapolis umpire , . . The

‘ex-Tribesters in the player ranks are

Fred Fitzsimmons, pitcher, and

Jimmy Wasdell, reserve outfielder and utility first sacker.

Brooklyn tryout schools.

; y Corriden, coach, is an ex-Indianapolis skipper and the ex-Indianapolis umpire is Ted McGrew, scout and director of

Corriden got a break , . . Since leaving his Indianapolis job and until this season he was a Chicago Cubs coach ... When the Cubs changed pilots last winter Corriden lost out, only to sign on with Brooklyn and now he'll share in the World Series financial sugar.

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THE Little World Series opens in Montreal tonight . , . It’s the first time the Royals have represented the International League in the Little Series and it is the fifth time a Columbus team has

played in the junior classic.

Indianapolis was in it twice and won ‘both times, defeating Toronto in 1917 and Rochester in 1928.

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Manager Carlen Wants Lou to Outbox Louis

$By JOE WILLIAMS POMPTON LAKES, N. J. Sept. 26.—kou Nova had just finished his last workout for the most vital test of his career—Monday night's fight with Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion. He lay stretched out on a rubbing table and his trainer, Ray Arcel, was blotting up the glistened beads of perspiration that dappled his strong, hard, sun-burned body with starchy towels.

At intervals Arcel would pause and feed the fighter a beaker of luke warm unsweatened tea. . . . “He’s dry inside now and he needs this,” explained the trainer. We yearned for a beer, the room was hot and close. / We remarked to Nova that he had looked good banging away at the two guinea pigs he used for his closing exercises. - “Thanks,” he replied. “I felt good out there. - I'm ready.” We said we had spent an hour in conversation with Louis the day,

ready, too. We repeated what Louis had told us about his determination to join Uncle Sam’s Army as “The Winner and Still Champion.”

‘Two of Us’

We mentioned that Louis had given us the impression he meant to try for an early knockout. “That makes two of us,” smiled Nova. “I hope to get him as soon as I can.” This pulled us up short. Previously we had talked with Ray Carlen, his manager and he had said, “This is one time Nova’s going to pay attention to his corner. We figure Louis is slipping, that he can’t possibly be ready for a long, tough fight. Our strategy is obvious. We are going to fence around with him, tire him, and then knock him out, or at least be so much fresher coming down the stretch we. can’t lose on points.” Now either there’s some leg pulling going on around here or there is a very definite and serious conflict in opinions and attitudes. Personally we don’t believe there is any leg-pulling. There isn’t a squarer guy in the racket than Carlen. ‘Very likely, the truth is Carlen favors a conservative fight and Nova, an impetuous, head strong, self-re-liant young fellow, doesn’t. At least at the moment he doesn’t.

Unpredictable

Perhaps it is in keeping with Nova’s temperament that he is unpredictable. It could be that he wants to do the routine, the conventional, the practical, but something snaps inside and, even against his own resolve, he finds himself sailing through uncharted planes of thought and action. In both his fights with Max Baer he was practically dumb. He admits this and tells you his hatred for the fellow was responsible, All he had to do against the sadly conditioned Baer was to step around. Instead he elected to trade punches right off with a fellow who can outpunch him—cosmos punch or no— from Monday to Sunday. In both fights he was on the verge of being stopped. All that saved him was that Baer ran out of gas. I was much the same in the Tony Galento fight. Here again hatred and contempt raised their ugly head. This should have been a soft touch for a young, strong, well-conditioned fellow who can box just a little bit. When you sit down and tie all these items up into a neat package you must come to the conclusion that it’s not simple to figure Nova. We wouldn't want to bet a red cent, one way or the other, as to how Nova will fight Louis, that is, whether he will come out swinging or whether he will go on the defense. There's one bet we'd be willing to make, though, and feel pretty sure of winning, and that is Nova himself doesn’t and won't

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.The Brooklyn Dodgers celebrated the winning ‘of the National League pennant in their dressing room at Boston after a 6 to 0 victory over the Braves, Manager Leo Durocher is second from left in front row.

Denson Looks Very Bad

Johnny Denson added his 10th straight victory to his record book today, but he’s chiseling if he puts in an adjective. His latest victim was 200 pounds of helplesness answering to the ring name of Lee Oma, billed out of Detroit with a pair of Chicago handlers. ‘When they stepped into the Armory ring before a capacity crowd for the feature biffing of last night’s card, Oma had his hands at his side. He kept them there, too. And Denting Johnny was free anytime to make the kill. He was unimpressive in dojpg so. His punches, when they landed, were quite tolerable. There wasn’t much zip to them and they carried little punishment. Good Dance Oma gave a fairly decent dancing exhibition, catching blows as he waltzed and all the while brushing the hair from out of his eyes. The fourth round was one minute and 48 seconds old when Oma retreated to the ropes and was floored by a right which connected squarely on the kisser. . He went down writhing in pain. He was in a coma during the count, but the fans’ booing brought him to. Johnny’s performance was none too encouraging to his manager, Kelse McClure. McClure, who has been around the resined front long enough to know, is wondering whether his blond biffer is ready to enter the “white hope” tourney in Detroit next month. The boys in the ‘orchestra pit ($1.50 a copy) expressed the belief that the. Sports Arena (weather permitting) ‘or the Armory is about Jumping Johnny's sphere. Kong Beaten . That six round semi-final was the feature act. Bud Kelly, Cincinnati, 126 pounds of light haired, blue eyed fighting Irish, had a little more than Jue Yee Kong, the Indianapolis chopping Chinaman. As for the other bouts, well, Referee Happy Atherton, who used to do some fancy duelling himself, ought to get a hand. He took a lot of wild pitches right on the chin and kept on arbitrating. . Bob Simmons did the hardest hitting to get the verdict over Hugh Eulen, Chicago, after six rounds. Al Sheridan, a home-grown at 135 pounds, punched out a decsiion over Johnny Williams, Chicago, ‘in six. The opener was sad. Jack Beatty, 147, Cincinnati, got the nod over Arnold Deer, -Indianapolis, after four rounds. ‘Neither belongs in the game.—

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CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Guessing

of 1941. Drawn by an old rivalry with Michigan State and “What will Michigan do ‘without Harmon?” more than 70,000 will find the answer at Ann Arbor, Mich. * Minnesota’s defending’ champions, hailed as a team of even. greater power than last season, play before a sellout crowd of 40,000 at the University of Washington. More mystery at Notre Dame and Ohio State, where Frank Leahy and Paul Brown are new at their coaching jobs, will bring out an estimated 95,000 between them.

No game in the nation holds quite the importance of Minnesota's invasion of the Pacific Northwest. One is the power of the Big Ten, the ‘only conference member, in fact whose true strength has been evaluated. The other, loaded with 25 lettermen and bright sophomores, is rated as a likely successor to Stanford in the Pacific Coast Conference. 2 Although Bernie Bierman carried a squad of 41 to Seattle, fewer than 20 men actually were counted on for service and of the several promising sophomores, Halfback Herman Frickey appeared to be the only one scheduled for much playing time unless the Gophers get away to an early lead. Ohio State’s starting lineup will include as many holdovers from the Francis Schmidt era as Brown can assemble. Sophomores Bob Shaw, an end, and Lin Houston, a guard, will be in at the kickoff, however, and more new men will filter in as substitutions are necessary. Abandoning its passing attack at the graduation of pitchin’ Paul Christman, Missouri has cooked up a spirited running game around Harry (Slippery) Ice and rates as a strong contender for Nebraska's Big Six title. Purdue’s wealth of backfield material suddenly has been depleted and the names of Johnny Galvin and John Petty now are uppermost in Coach Mal Edward's plans for Vanderbilt. A weakness against passes—and Vandy passes plenty— was the only worry. Indiana calls its opener with Detroit a tossup and it. may be because of injuries to Indiana backs. Bill Hillenbrand, Dale Swihart and Earl Doloway all are troubled, although Hillenbrand probably will be well enough to display some of

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By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent

games are over and an estimated

955,000 football fans learn first hand tomorrow how well equipped are Notre Dame and six members of the Big Ten for the hazardous season

the stuff that has: made him the hottest sophomore backfield prospect in the conference. Drake may not be a test of Iowa’s running attack. At Notre Dame, Leahy is prepared to act out an “iron man” stunt if necessary—and it probably won't be against Arizgna.

Robinson Keeps Ring Record Perfect

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26 (U. P.). —The ring record of Ray (Sugar) Robinson, the fast-punching Harlem Negro, remained unblemished today as result of a decision over Marty Servo which was the first setback for the slugger from Schenectady. Robinson, gunning for a shot at the world lightweight title, gained the nod over Servo in 10 fast rounds before 11,000 at Convention Hall last night. It was his 25th consecutive professional victory.

H. S. Football

TODAY Crispus Attucks vs. Roosevelt (Gary) at Shortridge Field. TONIGHT Cathedral vs. South Side Wayne) at Butler Bowl. Tech at Lafayette. Shortridge at Southport. Washington at Shelbyville. Broad Ripple at Seymour,

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League champions after one.

ran one-two’ with the St. Louis Cardinals with never

|more than four games sepa-

rating them from almost the

first putout of the season.

The Dodgers—endearingly known in every hamlet in the land as “The Bums”—celebrated their pennantclinching victory in Boston yester-

|day during a five-hour train ride

back to New York last night.

It was a wild, riotous evening on a special train in which the Dodgers poured champagne, ripped off shirts and engaged in horseplay that kept everyone in a continual uproar, It was a celebration reminiscent of the days when Babe Ruth used to lead those rowdy Yankee pennant parties.

Like Babe Ruth Days

Rud Rennie, veteran New York scribe who traveled with the Yankees in their palmy days, re-

off his back: “I never saw. anything like this since.the Bambino ran wild.” But 21 years is a long time to wait to win a pennant, and that’s how long the Dodgers have had to bide their time before donning the purple robes of champions. They'd had many great players down the years—Dazzy Vance, Babe Herman, Glenn Wright, Jacques Fournier, Burleigh Grimes and others — but they always wound up emptyhanded. That is, until this crew came along. With a motley gang of youngsters and veterans, cast-offs and pick-ups, the Dodgers beat off a season-long threat from the Cardinals to climb the golden stairs The Dodgers had the heat on them from beginning to end, they opened the season by losing three straight to their hated enemies, the Giants, but proved their gameness under fire by getting up off the floor every time they were knocked down. At no time during the season were the Dodgers more than four games in front. Ten times they were on top and the last time they stayed there.

‘Whitelaw,’ ‘He Done It’

The pennant-clinching finish was a combination of a 6-0 Dodger vic-: tory over the Braves in Boston and a 3-1 defeat for the Cardinals at Pittsburgh. Whit Wyatt, the tall Georgian whose life outside of base« ball is devoted to farming, twirled the deciding game, a five-hit shutout which gave him his 22d victory and his seventh shutout. Pete Reiser hit his 14th homer with a mate on base, and the Braves committed four errors to help the Dodger cause. Not only are the Dodger champions collectively, but they are champions ‘individually as witness the following list: Batting Chainpion—Pete Reiser. Pitching Chémpions: (Most Vie-

Manual at Columbus.

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Dodger Celebration Rivals Days When Babe Ruth Sparked the New York. Yanks:

~ Oh, Dazzy Vance and Babe Herman, If You Were Only i in Brooklyn Now That the Pennant Is Won

| By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Look up yonder on the National League throne. Bless my soul, ers, the people’s team—your boys and my boys, a gang that’s far from perfect but so human “you can’t help but love them

if it isn’t the Brooklyn Dodg-

They are the National of the bitterest season-long

struggles in baseball annals—a twe-team race in which they

Come On, Bums

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26 (U. P.) —Billy Southworth, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, said last night he was “proud” of his team despite their loss of the National League pennant, and expressed the hope that Brooklyn would defeat the New York Yankees in the World Series. “We made a gallant fight of it, never giving up clear down the stretch, but we just weren't . good enough and Brooklyn won out. I am proud of the team for its showing and know that - we will make it tough for the Dodgers next year, . “Now that Brooklyn has won the National League championship, I hope they go on to win the World Series—they are good enough to do it.”

tories) —Whit Wyatt and Kirby Higbe, 22 victories each. Most Skutouts—Whit Wyatt. Home Run Champion — Dolf Camilli. Runs Batted in ‘Champion—Dolt Camilli. Leader in Doubles and Triples— Pete Reiser. ‘Most Runs Scored—Pete Reiser. All these added up together tell the story of why the Dodgers finally reached the promised land, in addition, they had some great second base play from Billy Herman, some opportune hitting by Dixie Walker and some gilt-edge clutch pitching by Curt Davis and Hugh Casey, the ,

‘|league’s most valuable relief hurler.

In one stretch Casey pitched in six out of eight games with the.pennant riding on almost every pitch.

Ft. Wayne Pro Scores Grand Slam

LEESBURG, Ind., Sept. 26 (U. P.). —Bud Williamson, youthful Fort Wayne professional, - today reigned king of Hoosier golfers after adding the state P. G. A. championship io ‘his earlier sated State Open: itle.. Williamson completeds his little “grand slam” of Indiana golf at Tippecanoe Country Club here yesterday when he overcame veteran Johnny Watson of South Bend, and ended the final round of the P. G. A. meet two up. Watson, himself a former Open’ had Williamson down one at the end of the first 18 yesterday, but steady putting combined with an all-round good game in the face of high wind and rain, gave the Fort Wayne pro the advantage on the final 18.

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