Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1941 — Page 26

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. NEW "YORK, Nov. . 27.—One thing that managing the Cleveland baseball club won't do to Lou Boudreau is to turn the young man gray. At. 24, the short= stop is too young’ even for ‘that. ‘We met . young . Mr. Bqudreau out at the World’s Fair during his

first full season in the majors, . must be a Whirlaway or at least an

1Alsab. From somewhere this sea-

1940. In company with Mr. Rob-

_ert Feller, the fireball man, and

Mr. Oscar Vitt, manager pro tem, the Illinois graduate was demon-: strating: the fine points of the great American game to a lotful of eager youngsters enrolled in Christy Walsh’s baseball school. You will, of course, recall Mr. Vitt, who tripped over too many rattles and teething rings in the Indians’ nursery and was promoted to a job as manager of the Portland Club of the Pacific Coast League. . We are quite serious when we say promoted. After all, if for no other reason than the spiritual beating involved, a transition from the state of managing Cleveland to the state of managing nothing at all, even the grocer’s bill, must incontrovertibly be regarded in: the light of a promotion pure and simple. JFollowing Oscar last season was Roger Peckinpaugh who previously had suffered through a fling at the job. ”» » 2

Usual Flop

CHOSEN BY the majority of the experts to bring Cleveland its first pennant since Tris ‘Speaker’s 1920 consulship, tke Indians made their usual fast

break from the barrier.

But when the Yankees finally Yealized that it was silly te eep Joe Gordon, the best second baseman of his time, on first base, and looked the Tribe in the eye, the Indians made their usual fast fold. They ‘were seven games behind the Yanks when they came into ‘the Stadium on July 22 for a three-game series. They dropped all three, and dropped right out of the race. ! Mr. Jeff Heath symbolized the psychological state of the Indians by walking after base hits that were batted into his right field territory in the third game. We believe it was not so long after this that Roy Weatherly, the team’s center fielder, developed

one of the most artistic pouts

ever seen on the shores of Lake Erie, declaring that he alone, of all the team, was hustling. We laissey faire approach to grqund balls and Weatherly’s declaration of virtue meérely | to ‘point out the: sort of travail, that efery Cleveland manager. since Speaker has inherited.

2 » #” Question Boudreau

© WHETHER YOUNG Boudreau, who, it seems only a winter or two ago, was ‘evoking plaudits from Madison’ Square Garden basketball nuts for his brilliance with the University of Illinois quintet, can accomplish what older and wiser heads have failed " in is questioned by the Old Colonel. Lou’s career in professional ball is only three years old. He was graduated from Illinois in 1938 and served a minor league apprenticeship in Buffalo before taking over the regular shortstop job for the Indians late in the 1939 | séason. Although we were always one to believe that Tom Swift invented everything Victor Appleton said he did and that Frank Merriwell actually did twirl “ar no-hitter against Harvard in the morning and stroke the Eli crew to victory. in the afternoon, despite the presence of a felon on the palm of his right hand, we never quite believed that either Bucky Harris or Joe Cronin was entirely without assistance from the front office in the masterminding department when they led their teams to pennants as boy managers.

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Peck May Help

SPECIFICALLY, Harris and Cronin both had the baseball mind of Clark (Old Fox) Griffith

| /to fall back on. Harris enjoyed

the: further advantage of having

at his beck and call for crackling .

gray mater confabs, Mr. Al Schacht, fhe coach. Mr. Schacht must have been one of the smartest men in baseball history. At least, he never displdyed any interest in becoming a manager himself. Instead, he pointed for a full e career as the first official | Clown Prince of Baseball, in which pursuit he now. does as well if not better financially than the higest paid dugout mahoutsin the game. We see no reason not to think

‘to seek his advice. But the is-so darn. young! a

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3 Berries, Marion

And Dogs Top North Central -

BY DICK RAINBOLT Kokomo: Tribune “Sports. Editor KOKOMO, Ind, Nov. 27. (U. P.). —Will it be a comeback trail or a

~ |blackout tale? That's the question

haunting the basketball-minded of

Stables as the 1941-42 season es into the first turn in it -month bid for fame and glory. the “League. of Champions,” which has produced nine state winners in 14 years, somewhere, somehow, think the rail birds. There

fou

son will: come at least one “dark

N.C. C. to the front. ter dominating the basketball

pion since its organization 15 years

to: show now for two straight years -situation which had not ocrred before in the history of the - uit. Hammond Tech and Washington’s: Hatchets went under the wire, while the Marions, the Muncies, the Logansports, the New Castles, the Andersons and the Frankforts were lost in the dust. en ‘the race for Conference honors ended last spring, Anderson was out in front, but it was the third-place Kokomo team who won the chance in the playoffs and then ended N. C. Cs hopes for a chamionship when the Wildcats were

leut down by the Hatchets.

‘hat’s history—and that’s the fade-out; ‘What is more important is what'll we do in ’42?”

, Three Groups

ust to divide the thoroughbreds stake, handicap and claimers, “boys” are separating the 10

ansport, Marion and Frankfort the number one class of contenders in the Noith Central. ext come Anderson, Richmond, New Castle and Lafayette in a class somewhat equally qualified candis. Tailing the parade to the post the “wise guys” place Kokomo, Indianapolis Tech and Muncie. Marjon, Logansport and Frankfort hold top spots in any doping activities because of their wealth of veteran material around which to build for the new campaign. With: Marion it’s migstly a case of completing the landscape for Pete Williams, one of the new coaches in the league. He retaihs a veteran feam, including his star, Joe Pfeiffer, and a highscoring forward, Jack Bevan, to mention just a. couple. Logansport is more ‘than well supplied with veterans: in Dashner, Moore, Babcock, Fansler, Long and Sweet. They're the giants as well as the Berries, and form one of the biggest fives Cliff Wells has had in almost 20 years.

Frankfort Has Veterans

The dopers like Frankfort ‘bes cause of Coach Case and because

Stine, Hazelwood and Nunnally. The Hot Dogs were the last N. C. C. winners of the state in 1939. They carry again the hopes for a comeback season in some dope books. Mukes, Mathis and Wells form the backlog of seasoned material at New. Castle for Wilbur “Strings” Allen, and the fortunes of: Jefferson ofZ Lafayette will rest heavily on “Abie” Masters’ continued developmeént of a-group of boys who had a bad season last year but finished strong in the closing stages. Veteran Archie Chadd, never to be overlooked in the list of strong contenders, will be pinning responsibility: on Snow and Whitry, the latter developing fast as the ’4\ season ended. Mack Peyton and Davidson will undoubtedly carry much. of the load at Richmond for Coach Elder Eberhart. Peyton was a highscoring forward last season and Davidson one of the mosh promising substitutes.

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Arch Ward, Chicago Tribune sets editor and originator ‘the ‘All-Star football and baseball games, will be. annual Butler University football bal quet, which: will be. held tonight £7 at the Riviera Club. Fs ; Plans for the. banquet are being completed by Herbert Spencer, president of Blue Key, campus senior men’s honorary organization,

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