Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1942 — Page 8
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By Eddie Ash
THEY'RE OFF in bowling’s annual classi¢, the A. B. C., .. Starting. toni | plers will be occupi hours a day, seve "attract 28,000 pi and Canada. Nearly $175,000tourney in the Col alleys were installed. just the pins to be us is to extend through
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start planning for next year. J nheralded teams frequently walk off _ lwith the biggest poftion of the prize money, medals and world championships. . . . They are not under the same pressure as the well-knowns, no rep tations uphold and no press clippings to defend. | y They simply “wo e mark and fire and let the wood fall where it may. . . . No eliminations, no finals, merely take your turn at the a fenpins and hope for the best when the tournament, books gre closed,
Local Baseball V guard Off for South
OWEN J. BUSH, president of the Indianapolis Indians, today set out for the Tribe's con Fla., training camp. , . . He was accom. panied by his sister, Mrs. Robert Fessler; Bob Logan, i and ‘|Jim Pierce, trainer, - Tomorrow, Mr, and Mrs. Al Brown of Brockville, Ind. and Mrs. Paul T. Sullivan of Indianapolis will depart for the Florida east coast city to watch the early part of the Indians’ spring training. Manager Gabby Hartnett is scheduled to head for camp Friday, accompanied by Johnny Pasek, catcher; and two rookie pitchers, Ed Dersch and Bill Marcum. , , . Hartnett resides in/ Chicago and will pause here Friday noon for a hello-and-goodby at the Union station. s = l= s & = | : TRIBE BATTERYMEN are under orders to report in Cocoa March 8 and to be feady for first practice March 9. . . .| Infielders . land outfielders are to report there on March 13. ,|, . Twelve exhibition games—all in Florida—will be played. First practice at Indianapolis Victory Field is to bg held on lApril 14, two days ghead of the American association opener with Ithe Columbus Red Birds. . . . By then the Indians will have had more |than five weeks’ training and playing under thes belts, and that’s jmple for any team. ; || The Indians will have 26 players in the south consisting of 11 | pitchers, four catchers, five infielders and six outfielders.
Club Opens Downtown Ticket Office
, Tribe secretary, has opened a | downtown ticket office in the: Strauss & Co. store and opening day tickets |land tickets for ‘other games are available there. . . The supply of | box: seats for the lid-lifter, April 16, is about exhausted, . . . The | grandstand is about one-third sold out but there are plenty of the pasteboards still in the rack. ... All grandstand seats are reserved |with no advance in prices. Opening day is six weeks away and many fans don’t gt steamed ‘up for baseball until’ the boys start banging the ball aroind in the
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would be on deck at the Cocoa camp. . . . Morrie intends to play ball til his marching rders arrive. ¥ No holdout problems are reported. . . . . Arnovich, Outtisiders Jake Powell and Joe Moore and First Baseman Johnny McCérthy wired they would check in with their contracts at Cocoa. Skipper Hartneit’'s training program calls for one long practice a day. ... The big ellow opines he'll have the Rekskins §treamlined physically before they break camp for the trek north.
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Di Mag Is Real Holdout Now
BY UNITED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG—Joe DiMaggio, at the top of the New York Yankees’ hit parade last year, ranked officially as the No. 1 holdout of the club today. DiMaggio automatically qualified as a dollar dissenter when he failed
to show up on regular reporting day yesterday.
AVALON—The Chicago Cubs play an inter-squad game today with all players chipping in one dollar, for stakes. The opposing teams were chosen by Catchers Clyde McCullough and Bob Scheffing, who are anxious to see what the rookie pitchers can do. J. Wellington “Wimpy” Quinn, who was converted into a pitcher after serving in the infield, will see action with the “Scheffings.”
PASADENA-—Manager Jimmie Dykes of the Chicago White Sox shifted Bob Kennedy.to the outfield today in an attempt to relieve a shortage in that department. Dario Lodigiani, stumpy, aggressive infielder, will probably take the third base assignment +icated by Kennedy unless one of the rookie infielders can oust him.
MIAMI BEACH—The feud. between President Gerry Nugent and Manager John Lobert of the Philadelphia Phils, and Larry MacPhail of the Dodgers continued to flare today. The controversy was started by MacPhail’'s cancellation . of an exhibition game with the Phils after Nugent refused to allow the Dodgers to use the Phil’s training camp. “I don’t know what Ill do, but if I see that buckethead and he says anything, I might take a punch at him” Lobert said. “Whoever gave the Dodgers the nickame ‘The Bums’ should have made it singular and hung it on MacPhail.”
CLEARWATER-—Oscar Grimes, an all-round handyman for the Cleveland Indians ever since he Joined the Tribe in 1939, is going to concentrate on just one position this season. And of all the positions to gun for, he picks second base—now held down by Manager Lou Boudreau’s buddy, Ray Mack.
Two Heavies Top
John Grandovich, the “Russian Giant” who has beaten a score of top ranking performers, including Everett Marshall and Danno O’'Mahoney, goes against “Wild Bill” Longson, 234, heavyweight champ, in tonight’s big wrestling feature at the armory.
most ppwerful huskies in the game and is an exponent of the “pile driver” hold, the same type of offense that Longson specializes in. It was the “pile driver” which gained “wild Bill” the title from Sandor Szabo two weeks ago in St. Louis. { Semi-windup action is between Buck Weaver, Terre Haute and Carlos Freeman, of this city, while opening. the bill at 8:30 will be e Alaki, an Arabian, and The Da at Mephisto ‘of Newark. The Riverside Buddies softball team k's 118 p m, tomorro
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FT. WAYNE, March.3 (U. P.).— In a game that was held to a slowmotion pace by a steady parade to the foul line, by arguments between players and officials, and by bickering between the two officials themselves, the Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons finished ahead of the Goodyears of Akron last night, and thereby moved into a final berth in the national professional league basketball playoffs. ! Ft. Wayne will meet the Oshkosh All-Stars, regular season champs and winner of a playoff series with the Indianapolis Kautsky’s, in a three-game set beginning here tomorrow night. The final score last night was 49 to 43, with the Pistons ahead all the way. However, neither team had too much chance to play any real basketball, with the two officials tooting a whistle at every turn, and
‘generally each of them tooting for
a different reason. Fifty-four personals were called on the two teams, and three technicals. At one time play was held up for several minutes to quiet down the crowd, which was throwing pennies and indicating displeasure in general. * George Glamack of Akron continued the fine work he showed in the two previous games of the playoff set, and hit for 14 points, six of them on free throws. tons, Armstrong and McDermott led the attack, with Armstrong also pitching six free ones. :
‘Heilmann Tours MIAMI, March 3.—Harry Heilmann, old American League batting champion, is touring major league camps in Florida in the interests of Detroit radio.
Sox Lose One
PASADENA, March 3.—White Sox have lost only one player—rookie southpaw Walter Navie — to the armed forces.
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Colleges Get An Even Break
Indiana college conference quintets got an even break last night in out-of-state tilts as Indiana State beat Western Michigan, 49 to 46, and St. Joe lost to John Carroll of Cleveland, 55 to 47. It was the second win for the Sycamores over Western Michigan, but they had to go some to make it stick. Indiana State was ahead, 47 to 33 midway in the final period, and a stirring Bronco rally just fell short. Carroll led most of the way against St. Joe. The first quarter was an 11-all deadlock, but Carroll led, 26 to 23, at the half, and 40 to 32 at the end of the third quarter. Bernie Hoffman led the Pumas’ scoring with 14 points. St. Joe will meet Youngstown college at Youngstown, O., tonight.
Corner Cafe al Flashes Play
The strong Corner Cafe team of Brownsburg will defend its title to-
night at the Pennsy Gym in the|
25th annual city = independent tournament against the Indianapolis Flashes at 7:40. The Brownsburg quintet is favored to win the title again this year although no other team has won the title two years in a row, Eastern Coal meets the Allison Patrol Service at 6:50 and Pure Oil will battle R. C. Cola, a former city champion team, at 8: 30. Curtiss-
Wright tangles with Lawrence Tro- |
jans in the night cap at 9:30.
Stewart-Warner Shippers, ied by |
Ed Confield with 15 points, knocked
the Allison All-Stars out of the
tourney last night, 33 to 29. In Sunday tournament games Pure Oil nipped the Cline Lumber of Anderson, 57 to 42, Libby Lathe romped away from Allison U. A.
E. W., 37 to 22, and Pure Pep beat |
the North Side Eagles 45 to 27.
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NEW YORK, March 3 (U. P.).— Terry Young, promising local lightweight, upset Jackie Wilson of Pittsburgl® in the feature eightround bout at the St. Nicholas Palace last night. Young pounded out an impressive decision over Wilson, recognized by the National Boxing association as featherweight champion. He almost knocked out the Pittsburgh Negro in the second, sending him to the canvas twice with looping left hooks. Wilson recovered from that barrage and fought back so desperately in the closing rounds and although outweighed 7% pounds by his opponent, made a game stand before 2500 fans. Dr. Alexander Schiff, commission physician, examined Wilson’s left forearm after the fight and announced ‘that he had suffered a fracture of the left radius. Young weighed 134, Wilson, 1263:.
Says Cincinnati Can Thinks Both Red Sox
turn of the century, thinks the major leagues will have an exciting season and that
the trend of events in the far East and on other battlefronts might possibly play an ime portant role in the flag races.
“Right now the Yankees are a standout and will be a short priced favorite in their league,” Doyle said. “You have to like the Cardinals in the National league. The Dodgers, however, will have to be reckoned with and the Reds could come back just like the Cubs, champions for three straight years, did in 1910 after blowing the pennant in 1909.”
Doyle pointed out that the war's effect on baseball is something that’s in the lap of the gods.
' Picture Has Changed
“No one can tell for sure just how hard any team will be hit,” he said. “I had an idea that all teams would suffer about alike but look at Detroit last season. They lost Hank Greenberg which dealt the Tigers a crushing blow. That almost happened again in the case of Ted Williams and the Red Sox.” But overnight the picture has changed and Williams will be with the Red Sox all séason. I don’t need to say what a difference that'll make in the Red Sox. “Some clubs may not be hit as hard as others. For instance, I understand Cincinnati and Brooklyn have very few key players likely to be called up for service because of dependents. Cincinnati, in particular, is likely to have its full strength all season.” Until Ted Williams was reclassified from 1A to 3A Doyle had the Chicago White Sox tabbed as the second choice in the American league race.
White Sox Better
“Even with Williams I rank the White Sox and Red Sox almost equal in my present calculations,” Doyle said. “You know that White Sox pitching staff could carry them fag. With hitters like=Cecil Travis, Sam Ghapman and Hank Greenberg in the army itll make the Chicago staff even better.
“The Yankees have lost only one regular so far, first baseman Sturm, but it doesn’t make any difference who plays first base for them. They can even lose Tommy Henrich and still not be hurt badly, However, they can’t afford to lose little Phil Rizzuto who really helped make the Yanks last season with his wonderful shortstop play. Detroit without Greenberg, and Cleveland, without Feller, are just shells of the clubs they were. / Doyle doesn’t think the transfer of Johnny Mize to the Giants will weaken the Cardinals. “Arky Vaughn will help the Dodgers but they may not get the results from some players they did last season. The Reds have the same powerful. pitching they've had the past three years and if they can improve “their attack theyll make trouble. I can’t believe that all the Cincinnati hitters be as sour this season as they were last year. It's a dog-fight between the Pirates, Giants and Cubs for the other first division berths.”
Jack Doyle Speaking and He Ought to Know; He's Quoting Odds for 40 Years.
Come Back Like the be 9 and White Sox May Be Ho
| MIAMI BEACH, March 8 (U. P.).—The world pion Yankees will run away with the American
of Jack Doyle, baseball's official pricemaker. Doyle, who's been quoting odds on baseball since che
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Kiggans to Box 3 - On Ring Card
Tiger Kiggans, Indianapolis ads dleweight, has been signed by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter of Hercules A. C. to box Soldier I Pt. Harrison, in one of the fou round SUpDORUng bouts on we ix
~ The ten-round main pve oh match _lightweights Bud. Cot Indianapolis puncher, and Samim Scully of Chicago. The 0 mauler is expected here for a final workout. Heavyweights will feature tk round semi-windup, Jethro Jefe local 188-pounder, meeting Bok Bryant, 205 pounds, of Kokomo, Jef: fers was a standout slugger in Times-Legion Golden Gloves con petition before turning professic Other bouts already arranged wi pit Jue Yee Kong, Chinese feather= weight, against Earl Paul, and Tiny Bland, 235-pound Allison defense wo; ker, against Ernie Maynard, 210, of Villa Grove, Il. ' Paul will his first start as scrapper after winning the Gg Gloves featherweight ‘crown here. last month. He also’ was 1 king in 1941.
Zimmer Zooms BLOOMINGTON, March 3. Andy Zimmer, who led Indians’ basketball scoring with 13¢ 1 in 17 games, hit the nets a4 cent. FO