Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1941 — Page 24
ia Oregon U. over Idaho, Santa Clara over Loyola of Los Angeles.
SPORTS.
By Eddie Ash
. MAJOR COLLEGE elevens are active on all fronts ‘this week and the menu also contains intersectional attractions that promise to produce competition of midseason class. « s + For instance, Southern Methodist vs. - Fordham in New York . . . at the Polo Grounds. . The Rams and Mustangs meet on a World Series day but the . Yankees and Dodgers will be in Brooklyn Saturday where seating capacity is short and the grid teams are not worrying about patronage. Southern Methodist is supposed to be the favorite but this corner is picking Fordham. Big game in Hoosierland is Indiana at Notre Dame and the Irish are our choice. . . . Tomorrow night at the Butler Bowl the Bulldogs tackle Western State of Michigan and while the local warriors are determined to break into the victory column, we'll | suite slong with the Michiganders. Purdue journeys to Pittsburgh to meet the Pitt Panthers in a Saturday skirmish and this writer’s choice is Pitt in a close one. . , « Tenriessee at Duke is sure to pull the spectators out of their seats, » « » This rivalry battle rates a toss-up but give us Duke by a thin vote. Jowa at Michigan opens the Big Nine championship race and we'll take Michigan. . . . Also Wisconsin over Marquette, Northwestern over Kansas State, Illinois over Miami and Southern California over Ohio State, - STATE COLLEGES : Western Michigan over Butler, Notre Dame over Indiana, Pittsburgh over Purdue, DePauw over Carleton, Franklin over Earlham, Valparaiso over Central Normal, Ball State over Northern Illinois Teachers. Louisville over Evansville, Rose Poly over Austin Peay, Illinois Oollege over Hanover, Indiana State over Eastern Illinois, St. Joseph over Loras. Marietta over Wabash.
MIDWEST
Michigan over Iowa, Northwestern over Kansas State, Wisconsin over Marquette, Illinois over Miami of Ohio, Nebraska over Iowa State, Detroit over Wayne, Missouri over Colorado, Toledo over Detroit Tech. Kansas U. over Washington (St. houis), St. Louis U. over Preighton, Baylor aver Denver, Drake over Grinnell, Western Reserve over Ohio U. ’ EAST
Dartmouth over Amherst, Penn over Harvard, Princeton over Williams, Colgate over Penn State, Fordham over Southern Methodist, Virginia over Yale, Cornell over Syracuse, Columbia over . Brown, Navy over West Virginia. Holy Cross over Providence, Temple ove Virginia Military, New York U. over Lafayette, George Washington over Manhattan, Cincinnati over Boston U., Army over Citadel, Villanova over Centre.
SOUTH
: Duke over Tennessee, Tulane over Auburn, Alabama over Missis_sippi State, T. C. U. over Arkansas, Florida over Tampa, Georgia Tech over Chattanooga, Clemson over North Carolina State, Tulsa over Duquesne. : | Maryland over Western Maryland, Georgia over South Carolina, Kentucky over Washington-Lee, Mississippi U. over Southwestern, Texas over Louisiana. Vanderbilt over Tennessee Tech, Georgetown over Virginia Poly, Wevas A.-M. over Texas A.-I., Wake Forest over Furman, Texas Tech over Oklahoma A.-M., North Carolina over Davidson.
FAR WEST
;, Southern California over Ohio State, Washington over Oregon tate, California over Washington State, Stanford over U. C. L. A,
Records Can't Approach Days of Ruth, Gehrig
By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Corgespondent NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—There should be several records set in the Dodg-ers-Yankees World Series but there is a flock of marks which cannot even be approached. These are records set over several series by Babe Ruth, Frankie Frisch and Lou
shrig. Ruth hit 15 homers, ran a total . of 96 bases and batted in 37 runs to , set a standard practically unapproachable, just like Frisch's 50 games, 58 hits and 10 doubles or Gehrig’s 35 runs batted in. But if Charley Keller did not set some sort of record for outfielders, then the books must be wrong. He caught four successive fly balls, three to retire the entire side in the third Inning of the first game and another for the first out in the fourth.
in four trips yesterday, it was no surprise to the statisticians. Dickey is the most destructive perfomer, on the records, in this fall's series. In his 23 series games he has scored 14 ‘runs, batted in 19 tallies, made 24 hits for 38 bases andd‘'belted four home runs. And all of that before he went to bat against Curt Davis, Hugh Casey and Johnny Allen, Incidentally, when the portly Casey replaced Davis, it marked his 46th appearance in the box for the Dodgers . this year. Like the hot dogs and soda pop, Casey has almost become a guaranteed part of every Brooklyn ball game. When Joe Gordon belted his home run, he collected a pretty good corner on series “firsts.” Among other things, he scored the first run and was credited with the first run-batted-in. He also gave DodgWhen catcher Bill Dickey of the Yankees clouted a double and single
winter goose-pimples.
Faker Joo Goto crosses Home Jiats. snl sete amiiuet. Tom Phil Rizzuto after hitting first home run of World Setes. Umpire McGowan and batboy also shown,
Whirlaway, War Relic Race Postponed
NEW YORK; Oct. 2 (U. P) —Al8d G. Vanderbilt's attempts to arg a three-year-old match race sen Sam Riddle’s War Relic Warren Wright's Whirlaway 2 been thwarted by Wright's deon to rest Whirlaway until the inter Santa Anita meeting. When Vanderbilt’ first suggested ce for the current Belmont aeetins, Wright agreed for away to meet War Relic at
Squirrel Season Squirrel hunters will end the 60day open season in the Southern Zone, south of State Road 26, next Wednesday, but the open season
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First Day
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New York........... 010 101 00x—3 . Summary Runs batted in—Owen, Riggs, Gordon 2, Dickey. Two-base hit— Dickey. Three-base = hit—QOwen. Home run—Gordon. Left ol, bases —Brooklyn - 6, New York 8. | Bases on balls—Off Davis 3, Allen 2, RufStruck out—By Davis 1, Ruffing 5. Hits—Off Davis, 6.in 5% innings; Casey, none in 2 inning. Hit by pitcher—Sturm (by Allen). Double plays—Rolfe to Rizzuto; Gordon to Rizzuto to Sturm. Losing pitcher — Davis. Umpires — McGowan (A), plate; Pinelll (N), first; Grieve (A), second; Goetz N), third. Time—2:08. “Attendance—e8,540,
Bowling Notes
Leo Ahearn paced the Falls City quintet to a new game record for the season last night and in so do-
ing rolled himself to the top spot among the local bowlers. Rolling in the strong Indianapolis League Ahearn hit games of 217, 235 and 235 for a 687 total. The Falls City five’s best game was 1177. Again it is Bertha Urbancic who leads the feminine field. The Johnson Coal League star toppled the pins for 639. 122 5% nights leading bowlers:
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Rocket Harriers
Open Season
The Broad Ripple cross-country team begins its seaSon’s competi~ tion today at Lawrence. The team has been working out in time trials all week.
best time for the two-mile course
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all right— either in their hands or on top of the head. For they were seated in the lower left field stands and
Joe Medwick
the ball park—except one— thought the ball was going to plop down among them for a home run. The- lone dissenter was Ducky Medwick, left fielder for the Beloved Bums. He turned his broad back on home plate as soon as he peered through the sun and saw the arc of the ball. Ducky is not a guy who will ever imperil the world record for the 100-yard dash, but nobody ever saw him leg it faster than he did, straight for the yard-high green fence that bounds the lower grandstand in left field.
“I Got It”
When' he got there, he whirled and searched in the sun for the ball again. It was beginning to come down now, and Brooklyn’s auxiliary outfielders in the stands were screaming, “I got it, I got it.” DiMaggio rounded first fast and then slowed down to the dog-trot that ball players use for locomotion when they know they have belted one out of the reach of any man on the field. Back behind home
Write the Name Joe Medwick
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catcher, nose diving into third on hig fifth-inning triple in first game of World Series won by Yankees, 3-2. Owen's. smash scored Reese. Spectator is New York third baseman. Red Rolfe.
Great Plays
plate the. crowd was yelling to DiMag for getting one of his straight-eight, 17-carat, all-wool-and-a-yard-wide home runs. Medwick’s back was right against the fence now. Down, down, down came the ball. It looked like it was going to land in about the fifth row of the stands and the lady in the blue felt hat was an evenmoney ‘bet to make the catch.
One of the Great Plays
Medwick crouched and then made a mighty leap into the air. High above his head he thrust a brown glove. He must have been at least
he came down he came down hard. He rolled .over on one shoulder, turned a neat somersault and thrust his glove up from the ground for four umpires and 68,540 persons to see. Tucked inside that glove was a white baseball that a few seconds before had “home run” written all over it. It was one of the great fielding plays of all time. It will go down in song and story with Bill Wambsganss’ unassisted triple play and all the other miracles that have been performed in the long history of the World Series. The Dodgers paid approximately $100,000 to the St. Louis Cardinals last year for Medwick. There have been many times since then that Ducky has looked like a lemon in the orchard of baseball. He didn’t hit like he used to hit for the Cardinals and time is slowing him down and dulling his batting eye. Many times the Dodger fans referred to him as a Bum and they didn’t mean a Beloved Bum, either. But yesterday in the fourth inning, before the greatest crowd ever to see a World Series game, Medwick gave the Dodger fans and management value received with accumulated interest for their $100,000. As a matter of fact—who called
that Brooklyn Bum a Bum?
Pug Manders Takes Lead Among Pro Plungers
Times Special CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—Clarence
(Pug) Manders, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ fullback, has taken an early
aining championship of the National Football League, piling up 132 656 yards in two games, official statis-
The last of ay ‘athletic Manders family remaining active in the league has averaged six yards per attempt against Washington and 1{philadelphia to lead Clarke Hinkle, 630 |the Green Bay Packers’ veteran full back, by 37 yards. Hinkle has appeared in three games. His total of 95 yards against Cleveland, Detroit and the Bears gives him 3762 yards
record.
ers and scored two touchdowns. Don Hutson, holder of most of the league’s all-time receiving records, increased his advantage over pursuers with ten receptions in three games for 135 yards and one
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with two touchdowns, two fleld goals and an extra point for a total of 19 points, and is tied with Bob Snyder of the Bears and Ward Cuff of New York, in field goals. Each has Suecesviully executed two placemen
Golfing Oldsters To Play Oct. 11-12
Times Special FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, Ind.
Oct. 2.—The state’s golfing oldsters |
will compete here Oct. 11 and 12 in the Indiana Seniors Golf Association championship. : The first tournament was played here in 1928. Thirty-six holes will decide the winner. All golfers 50
years of age or older are sligivle to
compete.
Canadian Title
VANCOUVER, Oct. 2 (U. P)— Al Delaney, Windsor, Ontario, retained: tke Canadian hea t boxing title here last: night in a close 12-round decision over Eddie Wenstob, Viking, B. C. Wenstob conceded. the, champion 20 pounds -and lacked power to weaken Delaney although he outboxed him throughout. Delaney seemed slow, out of SuRieon, and missed Tepegted
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Bulldogs Seek First Victory
The prestige of Butler University football in 1941 hangs in the bale ance out the Fairview campus tomorrow night. The Hilltoppers from Western Michigan State will descended on the Bulldogs at that time. Coach Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle’s men will be striving for their first victory in a hitherto disasterous season. Coach Hinkle sefit his men through long, grim workouts this week. Passing was stressed and scrimmages were held against the freshmen using Hilltopper plays. But injuries stalled any ‘attempt to line the club up in tip-top condition for tomorrow night.. Fullback Elwood Norris and ace ball carrier Boris Dimancheff have been relegated to the sidelines by injuries and Capt. Bob Roberts and Zane Powell, defensive stars of the first two games missed the early week drills because of injuries sustained at Cincinnati. It would be possible and very plausible for Coach Hinkle to start a sophomore backfield: Joe Rodick, quarterback; Billy Howard, right half; Norman Williams, left half, and Tom Sleet, fullback. Sleet has been showing enough drive to push the veteran members of the backfield while Howard's speed and Rodick’s signal calling ability has shoved them to the foreground. : Twice this season the Bulldogs have bowed tq the opposition. Eoth defeats were derrific blows to Butler football. The first was the initial Indiana Conference defeat in eight years. St. Joseph did it, 13 to 6.
The second was the worst defeat since 1926 when the Minnesota Gophers romped over them, 81 to 0. The score was Xavier, 40; Butler, 7 Now comes the bad news from Kalamazoo, Mich, that the Hilltoppers have a powerhouse. The team upset a supposedly powerful Western Reserve eleven, 7 to 0, last Saturday. (B. F.)
Doctors Triumph Over Dentists
The doctors pulled one on the dentists yesterday. Led by Dr. Ray Heater with a score of 70 the medical men scored a five_stroke triumph over the dentists in the annual MedicalDental Golf Association tournament at the Highland Golf and Country Club. Dr. Walter. F. Dean was elected president, succeeding Dr. Cleon A. Nafe., Other new officers are Dr. R. R. Hippensteel, vice president,
Brooklyn’ s Leading Hitters, Camilli in Particular, Fail Miserably With the Stick
Yanks Didn’t Have Their Home Run Suits On, But Still the Brooks Were Beaten
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—As one who laughed at form in its very molars and picked the Bums to win the World Series, we wish to speak sternly to the young ‘men from Brooklyn before it is too late. The gods can’t do it all. They must ‘have a little cooperation. They've been in your corner for weeks now and our psychic sense tells us they aren't yet ready to give up but we have a feeling that, after yesterday’ s’ ‘game, they,
the becoming slightly irked. After all no announcement has been made that these unseen forces which have been so consistently favorable to the gallants of Gowanus have
swag.
. Not even the coy Mr. Leo Durocher would deny that the gods gave the Bums plenty of chances to beat the brilliant ° Yankees; gods are supposed to do—write the lines and set the stage.
* This was a game the Bums should have won if they are to go places. It isn’t often the Yankees limit their scoring to one run an inning.
they get a pitcher, or pitchers, going, they turn .it on in the Joe Louis manner.
Never Far Back
The Bums were never more than two runs back and that only for the space of one inning. They never did Lave far to go to draw
even or go out in front. That won't happen often against a team like the Yankees. They hit too hard and too often. The Bums can hit, too, but they don’t rate with the American League champions for sheer homicidal qualities. The Yankees weren't putting their big hits together yesterday; in fact, in only one inning did they get as many as two hits and both were singles. That's why we say the Bums blew a juicy chance to win; it was the kind of game they must win if they are to dress up in tails and white ties and smoke 25centers when the shooting ceases. They’ve got the kind of hitters who can do it, but the devil of it is they aren’t or weren't.
The first six men in the batting order had 21 official chances. And out of all this group swinging and straining and grunting only one hit developed and it was the most anaemic, undernourished contribution to the science of batting the
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ductive but at least he met the ball and once Ruffing lost him on a walk, Nevertheless the cold figures
show the two best hitters in the N. L. went 0 for seven. Spiritually and psychologically, Reiser looked all right. It just wasn’t his day. But Camilli looked tense, uncertain and overwhelmed by it all. Maybe this is what happens to a former Philly when, to his surprise and shock, he finally finds himself in a World Series. The Yankee hitters were swinging for the long ball all afternoon. Gordon put one in the stands in the second with nobody on. Di Maggio was robbed of a homer in the fourth when Medwick jumped into a startled spectator’s lap and pulled down the ball in the same stands, completing a spectacle that would ‘challenge the garish imagin-
ation of a Billy Rose. Walker backed up to the concrete barrier in -.
brilliant in the beginning and efmit it is extraordinary when your
foul and your bottom hitters do all the heavy work. Camilli, the N. L. home run king and leading run
he was pitching to some hay shaker from the brambles; he fanned him the first three times—once when a real Camilli base hit would have torn the game wide apart. This was in the sixth when there were two on and only one out. Reiser, the
sport has known in years. Medwick half topped a pitch and it spun crazily out of everybody's reach and went for a single. This was in the ninth when the Bums had another of their several chances. Reese came along with his third hit of the day to keep the rally alive but a double play presently , killed. it. That’s another thing, incidentally; those Yankees can murder you with double plays. They're just the best, the best in both leagues, and maybe the best ever.
‘The Hiss Hifters
Well, you know what chances you've got to win games when your first six hitters can scarcely get the ball out of the infield. Of course, the 35-year-old Red Ruffing who was in the process of winning his sixth World Series game, may have had a lot to do with that. Undoubtedly did. Still he couldn't get the little guys out—the hiss hitters, as they are cohtemptuously called in dugout argot. Reese hit him for three, Owen rapped him for a triple,-and Riggs, pinch hitting, nicked him for a single. That's five of the Bums’ six hits and they were distributed among the last three men whose very position in the batting order denotes hitting futility. Without meaning to take anything away from Ruffing who was
right to pull down a Dickey smash: Rizzuto didn’t miss by far from getting himself a round tripper. But in the end it was the pitching lapses that set up the Yankee win. A walk to Keller by Davis with two down in the fourth led to their second run. A walk to the same gent by the same pitcher in the sixth was promptly converted into the winning run. What's that? A walk to Keller is a moral ‘victory for the pitcher? Well, maybe you've got something there at that, Buddy. But that Camilli! and in spades, too.
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