Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1942 — Page 9
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t year, was the last important holdout; - on- the i Dodgers’ ter today. Regular | right felder: Dixie) Walker," latest | to come to terms for 1942, expect1 ed to arrive today and ‘may pare ticipate in Bréoklyn's rgd intra- | Squad-game,
MIAMI—One of 1941's - most . | stubborn holdouts whert he was with the St. Louis Cardinals, Johnny Mize, now the regular first baseman of the New York Giants, has signed his contract for 1942, it was announced, today.
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Mize agreed to a reported salary |
of $18,000 after a conference! with Bill Terry.
ST. reTERERURGE Oly 12. signed players. were on the field for today’s second spring traine ing drill of the New York Yank< ees. It was one of their poorest in 18 years of conditioning here. Unsigned’ players @ include Red Rumney Johnny Murphy; Marius dohnny Lindell, Atley : Ponatd, Spud Chandler, Marvin Breuer, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, stan Bordagaray, Joe Gor= don, Frankie. tti, Red Rolfe, y Priddy and Charlie Keller,
IRMINGHAM— Dixie Walk4 - outfielder, Er ey snough gates this sea« ‘of more money fver earned in a regular e contract he received ‘from Larry MacPhail calls for a bonus: if he plays 90 ; an- - onus‘ if he completes 115
* “The straight salary part of my i ‘Sontract calls for just abou} the #ame money,” the outfielder said. | “But if I earn oth the bonuses, - it will make my saigsy the best I've. ever had.”
ST." LOUIS. — The St. Louls Browns, - who may annoufte & financial reorganiza tion later: this week, will begin: sjring training in - Deland, Fla, next Monday. Only pitchers and catchers will be on hand to work out with Manager Luke Sewell at that time, but the remainder of the squad: will be on hand a few days later, Gieneral Manager Don Barnes sald today. The reorganization deal would concern a transfer of stock by six stockholders and according to sources close to the Browns’ head office may affect the entire fu ture of the club.
EL CENTRO, CalThe vanguard of the Pittsburgh Pirates arrived here today for preliminary workouts ‘before going on to the regular spring’ training camp “at San: Bernardino two weeks from now.’ A'squad of 25 players headed By Manager Frankie Frisch tomped through limbering up ex#roises’ ‘before getting down to perious business. - Pitchers Truett swell, Lloyd Dietz and Luke ‘Har joined the squad yesifsat_El Paso.
FAnaEDE L With the training season ‘only a few days old, the Philadelphia Athletics already were bogged down today with player injuries. Pitcher Phil Marchildon was ‘threatened with blood poisoning of his right hand which was caught in a closing automobile door a month ago. Catcher Frankie Hayes is treating a ‘bad knee. Infielders Mickey Blair and Jack Wallasea also were suffering from similar ailments and both. wi e Pogue by Mack to “take i easy”
Zollners in Playoff
PT. WAYNE, Feb, 24 (U. P)— By defea the Sheboygan Redae night for the fourth
Straight this season, It.
. {to buy defense bonds.
Trail Hershey
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| The Indianapolis hockey club's
propaganda man, Dick Miller, wants
Caps win tonight they move into
|undisputed possession of the Amer-
ical hockey league's Western division. And he’s right; for tonight's clash
{with Providence is the only league
tilt to be played in either division. Herbie Lewis and the squad returned home this. noon from New Haven where they dropped a 5-to-2 game - Sunday night.
and placed them in the same spot
Hershey and /Cleveland. Playoffs Are Near The situation has changed significantly, however, since Cleveland and Hershey now are tied with 60 points for first place and the (Caps are “breathing on’ their necks” with 59. A triumph tonight over Providence - will give the Hoosiers 61 points. - And fans, league officials are whispering preparations for the playoffs and the leading team in each division (aets ‘the hetter break. A Indianapolis - players . get a rest after tonight until Sunday hen Philadelphia comes here. nwhile Hershey and Cleveland return to ice wars playing two games each this week, the Barons hosting Philadelphia and Providence while the’ Bars welcome Springfield. and New ‘Haven, ‘the ‘one-two clubs of the Eastern division :and a couple of toughies at that. . Including tonight’s. clash on ‘the Coliseuin’s slippery: boulevard, the
|Caps have nine games to play, one
each with Cleveland, Springfield, Philadelphia and W: and two" with Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Cleveland has’ nine to play while Hershey has an added advantage of 10 to play. Two Hat Tricks Before last- Sunday’s tilt with New Haven, the Caps had lost to Washington, 3 to 1, and had won from Providence, 7 to 4, and Springfleld, 7 to 5. In the Providence game, last Thursday, ‘Brown fired the puck in the cdge “four times, one better than the “hat trick.” Two nights later against Springfield, Les Douglas turned in the “hat trick.” The Caps and Providence. have met five times this season, splitting two games and tying one. Each club has won and lost on home ice, the tie game being played at Providence. The Reds last played here,
{Jan 8, winning 4 to 3.
Three former Cap players will be
in’ the ‘Reds™ lineup tonight, ~ Buck
Jones and Bob Whitelaw probably will start at the defense posts with Jamie Jamieson coming in the sec ond front line as a wing. Probable lineups are:
PROVIDENCE DIANAPOLIS
Drop Mino:
Boss, Texar
DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 2¢ (U. P.).— J; Alvin Gardner, president of the|® Texas baseball league, advocated today abolishment of the office of president of the National Association of Professional (Minor) Baseball Leagues. Gardner said the office was unnecessary in a baseball world streamlined by war, It duplicates many of the functions of the office of Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landis, Gardner said, and spends large sums of money that could be better used
An unneeded drain, said the blunt-speaking Texan, was the $25,000 annual salary of _ Minor League President W. G. Bramham. Gardner’s statement came in an exchange of words with Bramham over the minor leagues’ contribution to the war effort. Bramham replied that both major and minor leagues were “going beyond their financial abilities in an effort to give full support to their government.” He said baseball was “not crowing” about: its results and called Gardner's. remarks “ill-advised and not founded
That defeat | gave the Caps an even break of two and two for its Eastern invasion :
as when they left, third behind |}
Place for ‘aps 1]
‘onight
‘Gary's a Hero; Breaks a Window
And Cleveland | By One Point
it known emphatically that if the &
Gary Cooper, shown learning to bat for his role as Lou Gehrig in the movie honoring the former Yankee by chopping lefthanded under the tutelage of Lefty O’Doul, learned foo well. On location yesterday, he swung so beautifully, he drove the ball through the window of Tyréne Power's home.
Football to Go AtN.Y.U?
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (U. P)—New York university, the country’s largest educational institution with some 35,000 students, may formally announce the abandonment of foot ball today. An informal meeting two weeks ago first disclosed plans to discontinue the sport that once returned $700,000 to the university treasury, but at that time, the athletic coun= cil—governing body of the school— decided to review the entire inter collegiate setup. Since then the students have conducted public protest campaigns and Dr. Mal Stevens, head coach, has offered to take a sizable salary reduction in the five-year contract he signed two years ago. Several years ago, undér- Coach Chick Meehan and with several outstanding football players such -as Ken Strong, the Violets weré a topranking team. But in 1931, it was decided to be de-emphasize footba]l at: N. Y.U and in November of that year, Meehan resigned. Since 1931, football has deteriorated steadily there and during the last two seasons, teams have won only four games and: last 14.
Net Scores
STATE COLLEGES . Iowa, 55; Indiana, 5 Purdue, 56; Northwestern, 40.
OTHER ..COLLEGES
Milman a By , 48. Army, 46; hc 3.
; Wofford, 34. Tu] 31; Oklahoma A&M, 29.
Lawrenc Ar s Mexico Giy'y FRc XA. 18; Newberry
4 Forrest, 52; Clemson, 87, ba j Coll of Cha ricsion, 28. b Bs
ERA GE % Si
arsons, Ft. Monmouth, 60: Panse celle, a Ynesbiirg, 45; Indiana "Pa
"ras 36; Ie xasiitute, a: eral Va.) Whitewater Teach-
Steyens Point. Iss: Bohne (Md.) Teachers, 44; Poto-
mio Sta “West Virginia Tech, 50. Weer ve 74; T 82 Morris irginis, , 86; Bia d, gh,
Duke, 64 4; Macria ‘ech, 5 st. ’ Mary's (Mich),
Lawrence Illinois State Normal, 74; Western Tllinofs Teachers, ED: 66; Columiia, = Lake Fore ; Carroll, 43.
21. 29. at ie Megs St. . Worcester Tech, 55; Clark, 40.
NATIONAL, PRO LEAGUE Ft. Wayne. 46; Sheboygan, $80.
Elwood Coach Quits
ELWOOD, Ind., Feb. 24 (U. P.. —Paul Caldwell, grid coach at Elwood high school, resigned his post today. Caldwell came to Elwood. two years ago from Huntingburg where he had coached basketball, In 1937
tet, starring the Menke. brothers, Bill and Bob, to the final$ in the
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Those Cubs Have Been Having A Full Life Look at the '‘Dont's'
By JACK GUENTHER nited Press Staff Correspondent MacPhail was on
big dippermouth sounded jubilant, He had just Walker and Koiby Higbe and ‘was ready to st enemy. He insisted, in tones best described as sten team was the Natonal league $hamp and desérved full ay ay, a
NEW. YORK, Feb. 24.
as such. “We are much. shronger than last year,” he rasped. with volume sufficient to shatter the receiver. “No matter what anyone says, we are strictly the team to beat. The addition of Arkie Vaughan has more than compen-
sated for any subtraction of in- | field strength. And as for pitch-
ing, we had the lowest earned run average in the league last year. ”» MacPhail figures that the pitching will repeat, an optimism which other baseball men ‘do not ‘share.
Whit Wyatt, for instance, is ‘far 3 past 30 and isn’t growing any
fresh hair. It may be just a wild guess, but watch for a trade in
‘which the Dodgers acquire an-
other starting pitcher who can
‘be relied upon for his regular:
rk. ® a JIMMY WILSON has completed his list of “don’ts” for the Chicago Cubs and his compilation makes me wonder what he could have overlooked save smoking
share of
opium and robbing banks. -Ap-. parently, the Oubs have spent |g
the last year indulgifig in almost every other pastime known to modern man. For instance, Wilson has prohibited poker, bowling, late houts smoking on the playing fiel wrestling in the club house, hors race betting, copying of o players’ techniques and throwing of ice water on nude men in the showers. Personally, this reveldtion saddens me. Until now iI thought I was living a full life. Now, I know only the Cubs cah do that. ; ” 82 '» . THE ST. LOUIS Cardinals opened spring training last season minus Ducky Medwick but plus thousands of vitamin pills. The St. Louis Cardinals are opening spring training this season Ducky Medwiek dnd Jehnny but plus thousands of vi pills and a brand new type sponge = rubber arch suppon guaranteed to provide a pennant. Just how far this practice may be carried is: a moot point dt the moment but I can-well imagine the Cardinals coming to camp in 1945 sans Pollet, White and Slaughter but replete with merit badges, oxygen tents and personal citations of bravery signed by Branch Rickey. Not to mention those promises of bonuses in event of the pennant that never materializes.
DON'T LOOK NOW, bit that old debbil, Jimmy Dykes, has more than a passing chance of steal-
ing the American league pennant this season. At the last count,
For years Dykes has been a dealer in second hand material and he has done a little better
be nothing less than poetic justice if his thoroughly aged ma“terial were to come up with one ‘spéetacular effort this year and bring .to the Chi Southside the
Bowling Scores
- Leading bowlers... in tat Night's
H Teena Crvanennsesson 643 “ives “ba weawassedes: 640 . ny a Puy see veaven
weeievve 636
Sota Hi at 0 Lid 9 un; a! Howard ing: Ww. John Fraternal
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Paul Sylvester, Hol
i. 600 Wayne Clarkson, . 8. tien | « 600
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GHIGAGO, Feb. 24 (U. P.)y~Indiana loét a:ball game last night and nobis won one, se that the best Indiana can do now is tie the Illini for
‘place in the Big 10
race.
0 Aud three oftier teams voll do the same Shing, including Purdue whiéh Iast night beat Northwestern, 56 to 40
"' But it looks like for Hiinois has won 11 and lost one game and would have to lose its re- > have “The Hoc
. Capt. Don Blanken and Frosty Sprowl led the Boilermakers to victory at Evanston. They passed and to the discomfiture of the Wildcat five and at the half were leading, 28 to 17.. They built that lead to 43 to 17, before Northwestern could score
Tlinois’ 45 to 43 victory over Wisconsin was tied seven times during the contest. Illinois led at half-time
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27-25, but a blazing Wisconsin rally in the last five minutes almost overcame a T-point lead. The conference leaders held the ball in the final seconds of play and won by a two point margin. , Chicago's hopes of ending its string of conference ‘defeats were smothered under a withering Michigan attack at Chicago. The Wolverines . scored 61 points to the
'Maroon’s 37. It. was Chicago’s 30th consecutive conference defeat.
|Ex-Grid Stars \Win Wings
Three former midwestern football stars have plunged through the navy’s advancement line for first downs, the navy department announced today-—Nile Kinnick of Iowa, Bob Saggau of Notre Dame and Dave Rankin of Purdue now are aviation cadets, : The trio was Included among 386 men who have completed prelim-
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