Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1942 — Page 22
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SPORTS. .. By Eddie Ash
AT THE MOMENT, the Columbus Red Birds, 1941
. American association champions, don’t look the part. ... ' They are to furnish the visiting attraction at local Vic- . tory field when the Indianapolis Indians lift the lid on the __ new campaign April 16, and are already worrying about
their strength, or lack of it. Bob Hooey, Ohio State Journal sports editor, who is in camp ‘with the Birds at Lake Worth, Fla., gives it to you in this ‘fashion: “Entering the second lap of training, the Red Birds miss by miles
‘any resemblance to last year’s crack outfit. Only a few of the old
faces are around, “The hard-hitting Ray Sanders and the drive-’em-in Bert Haas
"are missing. Also gone are Bob Repass and the veteran Jimmy
Bucher. Only young Lou Klein and George Myatt remain on the infield. Harry Walker and Buck Jones are absentees from the outPitchers Johnny Groazicki, Murry Dickson and Harry Brecheen, who won more games among them than the eighth-place Milwaukee Brewers did last year, are performing elsewhere. “So one can see that new Manager Eddie Dyer hasn't much from last year’s championship team to work with in preparing for a defense of Columbus’ laurels. “Dyer has eight pitchers at present. This array includes Preacher Roe (11-9), Red Barrett (7-5) and Frank Gabler (6-6) from last year’s staff. Bill Crouch, down from the Phils and Cards, and Ken Burkhart, recalled from Syracuse, are the other experienced A. A. hurlers available at present. Walter Brown, obtained from the
~ Giants, has not accepted terms.
Infield Material Runs to Quantity
“OTHERS ON the Columbus hill staff are Ted Wilks, who won 20 and lost 10 for Dyer at Houston last year, and Gil Dobbs and Bilt Osborne, two rookie righthanders from the Mid-Atlantic league. The
‘infield material appears to lean to quantity rather than quality at
this time. . . . In addition to Klein and Myatt, Floyd Young and John Burman are on the roster; also Jack Angle and John Antonelli, both
_up from Houston.
“Behind the bat the Red Birds appear to be well fortified. . . .
Tommy Heath is preparing for another good year, . . . As Heath's
assistant, Floyd Beal, up from Columbus of the Sally league, is round-
«ing into form.
“Max Marshall and Augie Bergamo are the outfield holdovers
from 1941. Along with them are Hooper Triplett and Bill Rabe, Red "Bird yearlings, who were farmed out last year.”
f J » # #" t J 2 YOUNGSTOWN AND AKRON have pulled out of league base-
“ball for the duration and this mid-Atlantic league will go to the
1942 post with six clubs. . . . Akron won the pennant last year. . The Three-I league also is on thin ice. . . . It is short two clubs and intends to try it with six. ... The Western league tossed in the sponge. The scarcity of talent to round out minor league teams is becoming acute even in the class AA circuits. .
“A. A. U. Invites Glovers to Compete
AMATEUR BOXERS who competed in the Hoosier state’s eight
: ‘Golden Gloves tournaments are expected to furnish the bulk of the
entries in the Indiana A. A. U, championships event to be held at . A. B, Scott, Hammond's city recreation director, will act as tourney manager. ... No A. A. U. boxing meet was held in Indiana last year.
The April event is open to all registered amateur boxers. . . . Win-
‘ners in the eight weight divisions will represent this state in the National A. A. U. meet which will be staged in Boston on April 13,
14 and 17. Fred DeBorde, 476 S. Meridian st., is chairman of the Indiana A. A. U. boxing committee. . . . He will be in charge of tournament boxers from the Indianapolis,area. . . . Boxers who have fought on professional cards since the 1942 Golden Gloves tourneys are ineligible to compete in A. A. U. competition.
8 ” ” “ov ' ” ” LB THAT 1942 football schedule being rigged up by Notre Dame is an eye-popper: . , . Although some dates are tentative, the plan calls for 11 games, including four with Western conference schools, Navy (Annapolis), Army (West Point), Stanford, Southern California, Georgia Tech, Great Lakes naval training station and Iowa naval aviation training school. Under the arrangements proposed (depending upon certain schedule shifts), the Irish gridders will be host to Georgia Tech, Stanford, United States naval academy, Michigan, Northwestern and Southern California.
2 ” 8 f s » ANSWER to query: The army address of Bennie Zientara, Indianapolis’ agile second baseman in 1940 and 1941, is (or was) Co. B, 702d tank destroyer, battalion, H, Ff. Benning, Ga.
. » San Diego Padres of the Pacifie Coast league has bought three shortstops since last season
in the Cap I % - and all are in the army now. ; ap ledger
"| Saturday night's “must” game at
- 8 Crack College Quintets Battle for National Title
It's a ‘Must’ Game Against The Indians
The Law of. Averages Favor Us—We Hope
By EARL RICHERT
If you're one of the: gentry who bets the ponies on the basis of past performances, you'll put your money
without so much as a second
thought. For, on the basis of statistics
series at ‘the Coliseum. time, 8:30 p. m.—adv.) Here's why:
Indians have played in our Coliseum this season, our Caps have lost only one—Tuesday night's disappointer. Red Hot at Home
Out of the six games the teams played during the regular season, the Caps won four, the Indians two.
at home, the Caps have lost only five and out of the last 23 games they have played both at home and]; on the road they have lost only three. See? And, on top of the law of averages, the Caps’ fan has definitely in his favor the fact that tonight's contest is a “must” one with Manager Herbie Lewis. And he has imparted that delicate information to his boys who realize that losing tonight's game may mean the difference between splitting $5000 and $3000 pots. You guess how delicate a subject that is: Of course, as Manager Herbie admits himself, anything can happen in a play-off game and usually does. : But, he says he’s confident of the outcome of tonight's game. “We've just GOT to win this one,” is the way he puts it. Remember—
And, in the past, when the Duke has said that a game “has GOT to be won” it usually has wound up (Remember last
Cleveland?) “If we win tonight's game, we are a cinch to win at least one at Springfield and then we can win the last one here at home,” predicted the boss of the Caps. The winner of the first three out of five games goes into the Calder Cup ‘series against the winner of the Hershey-New Haven and Cleve-land-Washington playoffs. The third game of the Indianap-olis-Springfield playoff will be played at Springfield Saturday night. And, following Herbie’s predictions through, the fourth will be played there Tuesday night and the fifth, and decisive one, here at the Coliseum next Thursday night. Got your tickets for that one yet?
Hooker to Talk
Before Coaches
Orville Hooker, Marion, will be toastmaster for the second annual Indiana High School Coaches’ association meeting Friday night at the Antlers hotel. Hooker, president of the association, will open the meeting with a brief talk on “Coaching Rewards.” The speaking program also will include Earl R. Irwin, Greentown, “Development of a Winner in a Small Community”; Rollie Chambers, North Side Ft. Wayge, “Developing a Track Champion”; Spike Kelley, Sullivan, “Football”; Arthur L, Trester, state high school athletic commissioner, and Stanley Feezle, Indianapolis, “Proper Technique of
on the Indianapolis Caps tonight}
Out of four games the Caps and
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Those Indianapolis Capitals will be out after the Springfield Indians tonight in the second game of the first-place preliminaries and Rookie Roy Sawyer (center), Cap wing, will be in there as chief tormenter.
At left is Frank Beisler, Springfield
also, can play a
rough side board game.
Kosman Named Frosh Coach
Times Special BLGOMINGTON, March 19.—Appointment of Mike Kosman, former Indiana university baseball captain, as freshman baseball coach at I U. was announced todsy by Athletic Director Z. G. Kosman, a native of Detroit, captained the 1941 Crimson nine. He won three major letters as an Indiana infielder. One of the Big Ten’s leading batters during his three seasons of play, Kosman last spring paced Western conference baseball players with 17 runs. He succeeds William Armstrong, who is now a United States army physical education instructor and coach at Ft. Knox, Ky. Indiana varsity baseball players yesterday elected Charles Shumaker, Dunkirk, as captain of the 1942 team. Shumaker, a senior centerfielder, was chosen after pitcher Don Dunker, Seymour, received his draft papers. Dunker was to have captained this year’s team. Shumaker batted .354 for Indiana last year and led the Big Ten in twobase hits.
Jeff Cravath Gets U. S. C. Grid Position
LOS ANGELES, March 19 (U. P.) Jeff Cravath, 37, former football captain at the University of Southern California, will return to serve as head grid coach during Justin (Sam) Barry’s leave of absence as & lieutenant commander in the navy. Cravath, who piloted the University of San Francisco eleven to the best scoring record on the Pacific coast last year, was chosen because of alumni support. The appointment brings Cravath back to his alma mater for the third time as a coach. After graduation h. served as assistant coach for two years and then returned in 1933 to work for eight years under the late Howard Jones. _ During the interim, he had served as head coach at Denver university. Barry, who succeeded Jones last year, decliped a 1942 contract and entered the navy in charge of aviation cadet physical training at St.
Mary's college.
o ® . © DiMaggio Is in By UNITED PRESS LAKE WALES—Joe. DiMaggio and Charley Keller go into the New York Yankee lineup against the world champions’ Kansas City farm club today. The last of the Yanks to arrive in camp, they aren't in top playing form but were called to action by Manager Joe McCarthy to stimulate the ‘lifeless Yankee attack.
ORLANDO — Three of Bucky Harris’ regulars, Sid Hudson, Alex Carrasquel, and _ : Jack Wilson, E will take the mound for the Washington Senators today against the New York Giants. Harris is somewhat worried about getting some more hitting for his out-
The Yankees Will Go Now,
. “ Uniform LOS ANGELES—Manager Jimmy Wilson advanced his Chicago Cubs pitchers to a four and five inning working shift for the first
time today against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
LOS ANGELE S—The Pittsburgh Pirates broke their San Bernardino camp and came here today for a series of 12 exhibition
MIAMI BEACH—The Philadelphia Phils journey to Lake Worth today to meet Columbus of the American’ Association after defeating Syracuse, 4-3, for the sec-
It’s Washington
By WILLIAM Picking the state winner out of
with a scatterIt will be
slogan of the Hatchets, the defending champions who meet Frankfort at 1:30 Saturday afternoon in the Butler field house.
They Beat Experts
The so-called basketball experts always say that no one team can beat another three times in one season. Washington did it. The| Hatchets beat three teams three
ford and Vincennes, perennial contenders for any tournament.
Saturday afternoon at Vincennes, that gave them the green light for a repeat performance as champions, Central previously had beaten | the Washingtons 32 to 31, in the The first five starters are seniors and played in the last year’s finals here when they beat Kokomo in the afternoon and Madison, 39 to 33, at night. . Equal ’41 Outfit Bill Harmon and Leroy (Relaxed) Mangin aren't with the Hatchets this year but the folks down Washington™ way say this year’s club is the equal to that ’41 tornado outfit. Big Jim Riffey, 6 feet 4 inches tall, has led Washington in offense this season and Charles Harmon, Negro 6-footer, has followed closely with brilliant floor play. . The Washington roster and what
lows. They speak for themselves.
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ASHINGTON all the way. Why? The Hatchets are an all-veteran team unawed by crowds and pressure, Altai of nobody sud Vilng to play savbody. That's the
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Riviera to Hold
Junior Swim Meet
Junior swimmers 14 years of age and under will participate in a three-way swim meet tomorrow night at the Rivieria club. Rivieria, Hoosier Athletic club and the Indianapolis Athletic club will be matched. Ann Schaffner, 14 years old, will lead the Rivieria swimmers. Recently she won the ndtional junior 100-yard free style race af Louisville,
Success Story SARASOTA, Fla, March 19.— Johnny Pesky, rookie Boston Red Sox shortstop, was the visiting clubhouse boy when Joe Gordon played with Portland, Ore., of the
defenseman, who bumps the Caps’ wings on rushes and at the right is ‘ole Man Hockey, Eddie Shore, playing coach of the Indians and No. | receiver of boos. He,
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CHICAGO, March 19 (U. P.). —Johnny Kotz, University of Wisconsin forward who set an all-time Big Ten basketball scoring record this season, was chosen as the conference’s most valuable player today in a poll conducted by radio station WGN. : Kotz received 28 points in the vote of a committee headed by Major John L. Griffith, Big Ten athletic commissioner, Andy Phillip, sophomore guard on Illinois’ title winning team, was second in the ballotting with 23 points. “Frosty” Sprowl of Purdue was third; Andy Zimmer of Indiana was fourth and Tom Chapman of Iowa and Don Smith of Minnesota tied for fifth place.
Butler Nine | Opens April 18
Baseball and tennis squad candie dates are working out daily at Bute ler university for opening engagements. Capt. Guy (Bud) Tex, senior pitcher from Southport heads the baseball aspirants for the opening games, & double header April 18 against DePauw, . Wilbur Schumacher, major letter man, heads the list of tennis candidates. Schumacher will captain the squad of four minor letter winners,
FIGHT RESULTS
By UNITED PRESS OAKLAND, Cal-—Jimmy Florita, 130 Oakrr RTH ge yg 1 Ir 5 9, iachncaly knocked out 0,
165, Los les 200,
Salinas, yagcles out a1 Al Ware, 108, ‘Btocke
ton (4).
KANSAS CITY, March 19 (U. P.).—The big time colleges who usually ~ frown on post-season football games but let their basketball teams compete in an annual tournament which is strictly ufider their own sponsorship, today lined up a field of eight crack teams for the first whirl of the
field, and may C&% shift Bobby Es- £33 talella, present1y sidelined with
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national collegiate athletic association meet. ~ The teams meet on two fronts, here and in New Orleans, with first
| Am Rascher Gets ‘Mat Title Chance
‘(round games scheduled for tomor-|.
row night. The perennially brilliant University of Kansas Jayhawkers of the Big Six are the favorites in the Kansas City meet, despite such outstanding opposition as Colorado of the Racky Mountain Big Seven conference, Rice of the Southwest
j|circuit and Stanford of the Pacific
Coast. : The Jayhawkers meet Colorado in the feature Friday nigth game. Illinois vs. Kentucky At New Orleans, the surprising Illinois sophomores, who dethroned
‘Wisconsin as Big Ten champions,
play Kentucky and the winner is
Decatur Central, sergeant-at-arms, and: Russell S. Julius, Shortridge, secretary-treasurer.
S.H.S. Track
Led by returning lettermen Russel Imbler and Bill Strawmeyer, 37 aspiring trackmen are working out daily on the Shortridge campus under the guidance of Coach Don R. ‘Knight. Fourteen members of this tentative squad are seniors, while the majority is made up of juniors. Those practicing are Russel Imbler, Bill Strawmeyer,
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mumps, back to the garden from third base, when the husky Latin-American recovers. Also occupying Harris’ time is the procurement of an infielder to send to Montreal for veteran
catcher Angelo Giuliani.
ORLANDO —The New York Giants face Washington in an exhibition teday. Mel Ott’s crew dropped a 5-4 decision to Cleveland yesterday on Jeff Heath's homer in the eighth. Russ Peters blasted two round trippers as the Indians outhit New York, 9-6.
ST. PETERSBURG—The Brooklyn Dodgers, smarting from a 6-5 defeat by Detroit yesterday, go against the Cards here today. Rookie Catcher CHff Dapper was outstanding.
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