Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1942 — Page 6
SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
WITH FOUR former champions already in the fold, the 11th annual Midwest amateur golf tournament to be played over the Hill and Valley courses at French Lick Springs, Ind., April 10-12 stacks up as one of the most wide-open events of the past few years at the Hoosier spa. Defending Champion Gus Moreland, Walker cup star from Peoria, Ill, who won permanent possession of the latest Thomas D. Taggart trophy by winning the title for the third time last spring with a record score of 215, even par for the 54-hole route, has notified officials that he will head a delegation of some 20 Peoria sharpshooters who seek the crown. Charles (Chick) Evans of Chicago, winner of the title in 1932 and again in 1936, has his sights trained on the newest Taggart trophy, and Evans is passing up the Masters’ tournament in Augusta, Ga., this year in favor of the Midwest. . . . Jack § Hoerner of Chicago, champion in 1938, also has forwarded his entry to tournament officials. Gus Novotny of Memphis and Cincinnati also announced his intention of being on hand for the
spring classic. .
. . Gus won the title in 1940, and
the diminutive star is expected to make a strong : bid for his second win in the spa event.
Henry Timbrook Jr, Indiana state champion
Chick Evans
from Columbus. Ind., and former state junior champion, cannot be
counted out. .
. . A senior at Indiana university, Timbrook has come
along very fast in the last two years, and won his state championship over the same Hill course there that has proven too tough for many
a crack golfer.
Jack Purdum of St. Louis, winner of four invitational tournaments last year, will make his first try for a Midwest title in this year's tournament. . . . Purdum has qualified for the national amateur three times and has competed in both the Canadian and Hershey
opens. . 1940.
. . He was runner-up for the Metropolitan district title in
May Be the Year for Hoosiers
PERRY BYARD of Terre Haute, Ind, also has signified his intention to be on hand, and this may be the year for the Hoosiers to break through the monopoly that Illinois golfers have held on the Midwest tournament. . . . Thus far, every winner has been from Illinois, even Novotny being a transplanted Chicagoan. Hoosiers have battled hard but usually fallen just short of the
title in the past two years. .
. . John David, former Indiana ama-
teur champion, finished in a tie for second each of the past two years, once with John Hobart of Moline, Ill, and last year with
Tom Sheehan Jr. of Detroit.
. . . Charles Harter, who, like David, is
an Indianapolis product, finished fourth last year at French Lick.
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CHICAGO, as usual, will have the powerful entry of Evans, Hoerner, Johnny Lehman, Art Sweet and Russell Martin, while from downstate Illinois will come the pride of Taylorville, Jimmy Frisina, former central states champion, who has been high in the running every year, but has yet to snare a win. In addition to the Taggart trophy, there will be prizes awarded in three handicap divisions: Class A, for golfers with handicaps renging from 1 to 10 strokes; Class B, for handicaps from 11 to 20 strokes, and Class C, 21 to 30 strokes.
Broadcast Intercity Golden Gloves Results
RESULTS OF the intercity Golden Gloves bouts—Chicago vs. New York—to be held tonight in Madison Square Garden, are to be broadcast by WGN and the Mutual network from 10 to 10:45 p. m, (C. W. T). ... The broadcast will give results and highlights of the action in the final bouts of this climaxing night of the 1942 Golden
Gloves competition.
It is the 15th annual intercity match and 16 bouts are to be held. . . . This year’s show is sponsored by the New York Daily News.
. . . Receipts above expenses go to the USO. . .
. A capacity crowd
is expected to watch the amateur boxers perform.
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SWEETEST WIN in the world for a pitcher is the 1-0 decision. . . . Toughest spoonful to take for a twirler is the short side of a 1-0 ball game. . . . When you hold the enemy to a single run, sometimes a run that gets booted across by your infield, then lose! Johnny Vander Meer was the only National league twirler twice tasting the sweet side of the 1-0 chocolate bar last year. . . . The Dutch Master tossed the National league's first 1-0 kalsomine of the year April 22; he hurled the 16th and last Sept. 17. . . . In between
14 other aces each had a day.
On the bitter side Hal Schumacher and Manny Salvo had double
doses, twice finishing second in a one-run game. .
. . Schumie had a
1-0 win in August to soothe him for the ones he lost in May and June.
“WEAKNESS” of Manager Mel Ott of the New York Giants is
apparently three-baggers. .
. . In his 16-year National league career
Melvin has collected 415 home runs and 415 doubles, exactly the
same number. .
. . But only 66 triples!
The Yankees Haven't Shown Too Much Bat Authority
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ST. PETERSBURG, March 30.—The Yankees still are the class of the tom every time he is scored upon. American league but they aren't ready yet to defend their laurels. Lately And the crowd kept still because
they've been winning games on balks, tipped bats, wild pitches and errors. They haven't shown too much authority at bat and their pitch-
ing has been only so-so.
The Yanks might go on to win the pennant by as many games as
they please but there is some reason to believe they are going to
behind in their training and some of the stars appear to be taking too! much for granted.
Atley Donald, who had a sore have some early trouble. They are|y op this time last year and looked cerned, the game really started
like he was through, is the best
{looking pitcher on the Yankee
Manager Joe McCarthy, even as staff this spring. Behind him are
any other manager, has his prob-|jikely to come Ernie Bonham and him to make the score, 2 to 3. Roy | 3 § {Marius Russo, who pitched master- Sawyer and Gus |pieces in the world series. Spud] assists on the goal. | Chandler and Marvin Breuer will | At the beginning of the second!
lems this spring. First base is still unsettled. Buddy Hassett, the National league cast-off, may not be the an- § swer to the first base vacancy. Big Ed Levy is hustling for the job but hes a right - handed
hitter and Mec- McCarthy
Carthy would prefer a left-handed Borowy, bothered by one. Gerry Priddy, booked to play his finger, looks like third because of Red Roife’s poor ape] Queen, a fast
health during the winter, still has to prove he can hit major league pitching. Ruffing, 37 Years Old A few of the Yankee stars may be over the hill. Bill Dickey is coming on to 35. He can’t go at top speed any more. Red Ruffing is almost 37. Lefty Gomez is another in the question mark class. The strength of the Yanks is their pitching, the second base play of Joe Gordon and Phil Rizzuto, the hitting of Joe DiMaggio and Charlie Keller. No team can come
close to the Yanks in pitching
depth. Granted that Ruffing and Gomez, who won 30 games between them last year, may slump to the low 20s this n, the Yanks still
do not have to Wr about pitchine.
contribute anywhere from 10 to 15
Ri victories each if they get the work.
Johnny Murphy and Red Branch
L:|are back for the relief jobs.
Lindell Looks Good Of the rookies Johnny Lindell,
i who won 23 and lost four for New-
ark last year, looks like he might
| be the American league's rookie of
the year. He has everything. Hank a blister on he'll beat out baller for the other job on a 11-man staff. With Hassett or Levy at first, Gordon at second, Rizzuto at short and Priddy at third the Yanks will have half a new infield. The outfield is set with Keller in left, DiMaggio in center and Henrich in right. Henrich’s draft status is uncertain and he might be classified into 1-A.
No Club Skating
In order to have the ice in good shape for tomorrow night's CapHershey hockey game, the Cheep Skaters club will not be allowed to
alty right wing, scored the fourth goal .| for
Caps 9000 Fans Get
Hockey Fever
Same Two Clubs Play Here Tomorrow Night
By EARL RICHERT
One down, two to go. \ That was the war cry of our battling Caps today as they advanced
first American hockey league championship by trouncing the Hershey Bars, 5 to 4, here last night in the first game of the Calder cup finals. The Caps will play the Bars again at the Coliseum tomorrow night in the second game of the best three in five series. The third game will be played at Hershey, Pa., Thursday night, and if fourth and fifth games are necessary they will be played at Hershey Saturday night and here Sunday night, respectively. Nine thousand fans—1000 more than on last Thursday night and the largest crowd to see a hockey game here since the sport was launched at the Coliseum three
Caps defeat their arch rivals in the first encounter of the all-important series. Fans in Razzing Mood
Although the game was not as exciting as the victorious overtime struggle with the Springfield Indians last Thursday night, the
had caught hockey fever and that it didn’t take a decisive game to
face. They centered their attention on Referee Ag Smith who, according to their point of view, made several unwise decisions. They cried “robber” when he didn’t give Connie Brown a penalty shot when he was “muscled out” by a couple of Bars in front of the Hershey goal and they threw hotdogs and folded programs at him when he sent Hal Johnson to the penalty box for hooking Phil Hergesheimer only a few minutes after Hal finished serving a term for interference.
Speed on Display
*Many hockey fans regarded the game as one of the best that has been played on the Coliseum floor all season. It was exceptionally fast most of the time, there were few penalties and no fist fights and there were fine demonstrations by both squads of both team and individual play. The crowd watched hopefully for a possible scuffie between Hec and Ken Kilrea of the Caps and their brother, Wally Kilrea, captain of the Bars. But although all three were on the ice frequently at the! same time, they treated each other as brothers should. The Caps scored first at 5:07. Ken Kilrea got possession of the disc, brought it down the ice, passed to Joe Fisher who in turn batted it to Connie Brown. Brown shoved it through Goalie Nick Damore.
Jenkins Sinks Long One
Then came a trio of events that made the Caps’ partisans wonder if the night wasn’t destined to be a tragic one. From behind the blue line, Roger Jenkins, Hershey right defense, let a right one fly that went right through Goalie No! No! Turner. Four minutes later, Jenkins took the rubber on a pass from Phil Hergesheimer, right wing, and put another one by No! No! It just seemed to the crowd that it was too much to bear when only a minute later Wally Kilrea shoved one through a host of players in front of the Cap cage for the third Hershey score. No! No! couldn’ see because of the gang in front of him and he had to turm around and look in the cage before he knew the worst had happened. : The crowd felt sorry for No! No! {because it knew that he drags bot-
(it knew that things like that hap{ren to a goalie, no matter how good (he is, every once in a while, Hgme Boys Get Going As ar as the Caps were con{then, Hal Jackson, Cap right de-
|fense, started firing the oval bullet[like at Damore and finally at 17:22
A Good Dose of |
a good distance on the road to their|-
years ago—turned out to see the] j
Caps’ fans showed they definitely] |
bring their enthusiasm to the sur-| ®
Take First Bi
American league Calder cup three member. Last year he was called from the Capitals to Detroit when the Red Wings went into the Stanley cup playoffs (they lost to the Boston Bruins in the finals) and this year he is with the Capitals, who are well on their way to their first American Hockey league championship. “I guess I am just lucky,” Hal remarks casually.
From Defense to Offense
BUT HIS FANS, who in the two years he has been here, have grown into the hundreds. think otherwise. They think Hal has a good deal to do with making a club a winning one. In addition to being an excellent defensive player, Hal can and does take the offense whenever the opportunity presents itself. He demonstrated his offensive ability last night by scoring two of the five goals made by the Capitals to defeat Hershey, 5 to 4. And he pounded Goalie Nick Damore- several other times with long ones.
Like Him ‘Right Off’
A FAST SKATER for his 190 pounds, he has a hard, accurate right hand shot that makes him an offensive threat at all times. Hal has one of those types of personality that makes a movie star go over. The fans see him and like him right off. He works hard every minute he is on the ice and he isn’t one bit squeamish about roughing it up (he got sent to the doghouse twice last night). Hal has been married two years
the got one from deep center by!
Geisebrecht got!
|period, Doug McCaig repeated his score-tying performance in the crucial fourth game with the Springfield Indians last Tuesday night. He got the disc in the Cap end zone, skated down the ice, dodging |every objecting B'ar player, and {shoved it by Damore unassisted to! {tie up the game. From then on, the Caps found: {the way fairly easy. Connie Brown scored his second goal of the evening at 3:11 on assists from K. Kilrea and McCaig and seven minutes later Jackson gave the Caps a comfortable lead by scoring his second goal on assists from Roy Sawyer and Jack Keating. The crowd, remembering the unhappy events of the first period, gave Turner a big hand when during a scramble in front of his cage in which the players were kicking the disc around with their feet, he reached out with his stick and pulled the disc to him.
Visitors Get Fourth Goal
Just as Hal Jackson was leaving, the penalty box early in the third after serving his second penof the game, Harry Frost, Bar
assists from Wally Gracie. tried hard from then
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and in the summers he has charge of one of the stock departments
of the Ford Motor Co. His home
is in Windsor, Ont. He was acquired from the Providence Reds two years ago in a trade—a transaction for which the Indianapolis hockey fans right now aren’t one bit sorry.—(E. R) n ” ”
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFF —Championship Series—
(Best in Five) Won Lst. Pct. Indianapolis (west).. 1 © 1.000 Hershey (west) 1. 000 First game score—Indianapolis, 5; Hershey, 4. Next game—Hershey at Indianapolis, tomorrow night.
on but neither was able to put one through the opposing goalie. When only two minutes remained, Coach Cooney Weiland of the B’ars pulled out Goalie Damore and put in Bob Gracie in an effort to tie the score and force a overtime period. But although the B’ars kept No! No! busy for awhile the Capes finally got possession of the oval and the Bars were hard put to keep the Caps from scoring without the presence of Damore as the game ended. “It was a good game,” commented Manager Herbie Lewis of the Caps. “It’s not often in a playoff that you will see a team come from two behind to won.”
Hal Jackson
Lucky Hal Jackson Always Has Been on Winning Club
IN THE SIX YEARS he has played professoinal hockey, 23-year-old Hal Jackson, Indianapolis Cap right defense, has been on four teams that split playoff pots—some of them rather large ones. He was with the Chicago Blackhawks when they won the Stanley cup five years ago and with the Providence Reds when they won the
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2
years ago—as Capital fans well re-
Bogue Joins Purdue Clinic
Times Special
LAFAYETTE, March 30.— Out-
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N.Y. Duo Team Rolls 1331 For ABC 5th
1941 Team Champions Make Poor Showing
COLUMBUS, O, March 30 (U. P.).—Two changes were recorded to day among the doubles leaders in the American. Bowling congress
tournament. Edward Copenhagen and Frank Falzone, Rochester, N, Y., went into fifth place, with 1331, and Art Cumming and William Kites, Minneapolis, took sixth place, with 1292. Last year’s five-man team chamepions, Vogel Brothers of Forrest Park, Ill, rolled only 2839 last night and finished far below the current leaders. Standings: FIVE-MAN Budweiser, Chicago Schlitz, Milwaukee Bowling Association, Bakersfield, Cal. 3001 Pepsi-Cola, Dayton, O. 2988 Hanna Grill, Cleveland DOUBLES Walter Rosncik-Harry Hedtke, Angeles John Paul-Oscar Ericson, phia Walter Selle-Joe 'Spannich, Rock Island, Ii Harvey Braatz-Louis Strizzi, land Ed Copenhagen-Frank Falzone, RooMester. Nu Yu o.c.ciiinviniiernvens 1331 SINGLES Robert Tritschler, Norwood, O. ..... June McMahon, Lodi, N. Y. ......... Anton Bevsk, Milwaukee Lawrence Jensen, Woodstock, Ill. ... Emil Nagelson, Cincinnati ALL-EVENTS Walter Frey, Cleveland ........... . Willard Reinke, Sheboygan, Wis. . August Ehlke, Milwaukee Oscar Ericson, Philadelphia Charles Zeman, Chicage
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Golf Personnel
Saturday is “play ball” time at the Speedway golf course. Club members have inspected the links and agree that fairways and greens are in shape for the opening day. Kenneth Loucks, club president, has appointed the following committees for the year: District and state tournament in-ter-relations: Ray Roberson and Ray Jones. Greens: Jones, Jack Fortner. Membership: J. Allen Dawson, chairman; Earl Breech, Al Rickenbacker, John Brower, D. D. Dimick, Dr. T. V. Petronoff, George Horst, Dr. E. A. Gall, Dick Mohr, Charles Boswell and John Baughn. Finance: Ken Amick, chairman; Max Blackburn, Charles Merz and Breech. Club championship: William Reed, Paul Sparks, Howard Ely, Hank Kowal and Roberson. Entertainment: Paul Blackburn,
chairman, and
standing high school coaches will join with Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson, professional football’s most feared aerial combination, and Burt Ingwersen, Northwestern line coach,
| Rosasco.
Spud Spaulding, Jones and Count
House: Robert Potter, Wally Sparks, Ben Sapperstein and Pete Ernst. Tournament: Charles Brockman,
in conducting the eleventh annual Purdue football clinic to be held here on Friday and Saturday, ac-
cording to the complete program announced today by Guy Mackey, athletic director. Virtually avery phase of football, including the six-man game, will be covered during the comprehensive two-day session which is expected to attract between 300 and 500 high school and college coaches from all parts of the Middle West. The emphasis will be placed on practical instruction, with ample time for field demonstrations of various grid techniques.
High School Coaches
who will appear on the program will be Charles Baer, Lew Wallace, Gary; Paul Jenkins, Male, Louisville, Ky.; Bernie Witucki, Washington, South Bend; Henry Bogue, Washington, Indianapolis; Dan Howard, Central, Evansville; Alvin Franklin, Rockville, and Robert Nulf, North Side, Ft. Wayne, The clinic kickoff will be provided on Friday morning at 10 o'clock by Baer, whose Lew Wallace eleven was crowned as Indiana state champion last fall. Baer, whose teams have dropped but one of their last 20 games, will discuss “Deception in Football.” Continuing the opening morning | session, offensive strategy will be outlined by Paul Jenkins, present mentor at Male, Louisville, Ky., who has had eight undefeated teams in 14 years of coaching and has been credited with six Kentucky championships. Prior to the noon recess, training techniques will be described | and demonstrated by Lon Mann, veteran Purdue trainer.
SECOND GAME Final Championship
HOCKEY
Indianapolis Capitals
— VS, —
Hershey B’ars TUES. 8:30 P. M.
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Among the high school, coaches |
Tom Ferguson, Herman Kramer, Kenner Palmer and Boswell. Prizes: George Loucks, O. A. Lancet, John Walsh and Vaughn.
Fruit of Victory
Joe Louis
Small-time fighters get paid in cash. Big time fighters are paid by check. All Joe Louis got for blasting Big Abe Simon Friday night was—apples. Louis’ share of the gate went to army emergency relief fund.
Proposes Louis
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Boxing Tour
By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. March 30.—A free
. ride on the sport merry-go-round:
The week’s brass ring goes to the National professional football league for its intelligent and altruistic adaption of the 1942 schedule to the war. Working smoothly and surely under the direction of Elmer Layden, the coaches and owners adopted a series of proposals designed to raise more than $100,000 for the army and navy relief organizations and almost as much for other charity groups. Compare this action with that of the race track operators who met a few days ago in Chicago, filled the horizon with stirring affirmations of good faith then adjourned without voting a single penny to anyone. Unless racing men as a group arrange some positive action quickly their arguments will sound quite feeble when the reformists start moving in.
Exhibition Tour
Joe Louis isn’t scheduled to fight again before June but Joe Williams of the Erie Pa. Daily Times suggests that Camp Upton’s most famous private could earn the army as much as $4,500,000 within a year if he were relieved of routine driliing and sent on an exhibition tour of the nation. Williams estimates that a Louis appearance in Erie alone would net $45,000. . . . One of the most notable musical events of the spring was the rendition of the “White Cliffs of Dover” by crooner Jock Sutherland and pianist Jim Conzelman, a couple of gents more often associated with football. Incidentally, Conzelman — whose first job was that of selling art in Greenwich Village and who has no college degree—will deliver a gradu-
Handicap: Amick and Vaughn.
ation address at Dayton university.
Former Yankee
Fielder Wins First Golf Meet
Posts 279 Ahead of Hagan and Mangrum
GREENSBORO, N. C, March 30 (U, P.).—The story behind Sammy Byrd's switch from a baseball oute fielder with the New York Yankees to a professional golfer among the big-time linksmen must be an ine teresting one but he won't talk— yet. Byrd won the Greater Greensboro open tournament yesterday with a
i |five-under-par total of 279 for his
four rounds. He shot 69-67-75-68,
a consistently good performance, but he was too modest to talk about it today. “That might only be a flash in the pan,” Byrd said, “wait until I start winning a few in a row and keep on knocking down par for keeps—then I may have something to tell you. But not now—not now.” Hard Luck Nelson
Byrd's total was nine strokes over Ben Hogan's record 270 of two years ago. On the last 18 holes, he settled down, after carding a 75 on the 18 holes played in the morning round, and sank 12-foot putts on holes number one, 10 and 12, 'Hogan and Lloyd Mangrum die vided second and third money with 281’'s. Clayton Heafner and Byron Nelson split fourth and fifth money with 282’s. The day’s toughest luck belonged to Nelson on the 17th. With a chance to tie for first, his tee shot hit a spectator and rolled down the hill into an unplayable lie in a creek. He took six on the hole. Lawson Little posted a 283 and Sam Snead, a one-over-par 285. Jimmy Thomson, tied with Byrd for the lead at the half-way mark, also carded a 285.
Knothole Gang Revived Again
Yeah! kids there will be a Knote hole Gang this year for Indiane apolis baseball games. And the more the merrier for already the ball club has printed in advance 25,000 tickets according to Tribe Secretary Al Schlensker. Girls are just as welcome to join as boys. The age limit is 10 to 16 years inclusive. The Knothole Gang lost interest in recent seasons because parents refused to allow their children to witness night games. This season the ball club will allow the Knote hole Gang members to witness nine afternoon games, all to be played on Saturday afternoons. And the first Knothole Gang game will be April 18. Any youthful organization may sign or any individuals may join at the park, April 18. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Catholie Youth organization, Camp Fire Girls, English Avenue Boys’ club, city and county schools, accident prevention bureau of the Indiane apolis police department, city rece reation department and the Flanner
House already have pledged their membership.
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