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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1942

How About A Blitz Finish Caps?—3 Straight Over Hershey

SPORTS By Eddie Ash

WHILE dwelling on ice hockey for the moment as they root and toot for the agile Caps, Indianapolis sports goers also are looking ahead to the baseball season and opening day, April 16, at Victory field when the new deal Indians trot out on the greensward to tackle the Columbus Red Birds. Starting time on opening day will be 3 p.m. (CWD). ... In past years the lid-lifters started at 2 p. m. but the extra hour of daylight under war time will permit a 3 o'clock start and without the hazard of darkness cutting in if the contest goes extra innings. Secretary Al Schlensker has set 3 p. m. as starting time for all week-day afternoon games this year, 2 p. m. for Sunday doubleheaders and 8:30 p. m. for night games. . . . The American association schedule calls for a double-header every Sunday the Indians are at home The Tribe's first twin bill will be on Sunday, April 19, playing the Todelo Mud Hens, or Fred Haney & Co. from the banks of the Maumee, The painters are about ready to move out of Victory field and that will clear the decks for the finishing preparaticns for opening dav The huge lettering on the ball park scoreboard now reads “Victory Field” instead of “Perry Stadium.” The Indians will arrive from the South on Tuesday April 14 and the new uniforms in a dress rehearsal and light limbering up . On Wednesday. April 11, the boys will go through a Jast hard workout prior to the league inaugural on Thursday. . . . fans will be invited to witness the Wednesday, April 15, workout without charge. The Redskins will pull out of their Cocoa, Fla, training camp in the early morning of April 13 and travel to Indianapolis by Pullman,

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Box Seats Sold Out; Others Going Fast

INDIANAPOLIS BASEBALL FANS made short work of the hox seats for opening day . These have all been sold, total, 2108. . Box ducats are priced at $1.25. The eight rows of reserved seats (priced at $1.00), back of the boxes, also are meeting a ready sale . Only two sections remain unsold. . . . These $1.00 grandstand seats total 2240. . . . The general admission grandstand seats (priced at 80 cents) total 5583 and the fans are grabbing ‘em at a fair rate of speed. Even the 80-centers will be reserved on opening day. . . . Total grandstand seating capacity is 9941 . Bleacher capacity is 2200, all seats unreserved and priced at 45 cents. . . . Bleacher ducats will be sold only at park on opening day . Total capacity of Victory field (seated) is placed at 12,141.

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2 n 2 2 s WAYNE AMBLER, the Indians’ 1941 shortstop, may solve the team’s second base problem in the event he changes his mind about passing up baseball this year. .. . And he's beginning to weaken, it is said. Ambler fell into permanent employment in his home town in Pennsvivania following the 1941 American association campaign and at one time announced he was through with the diamond profession, Ambler prefers second base to shortstop and this may be the factor that will lure him back into the game. . . . He was a second gacker in college when he played at Duke university but was switched to the shortfield after becoming a leaguer , The Indians tried Wavne Blackburn, outfielder, at second yesterday in their game with Buffalo at Cocoa, Fla.

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Colonels Bolstered by Red Sox Gifts

SMILING BILL BURWELL did just that today as the Boston Red Sox unloaded three plavers and directed them to join the Louisville Colonels . In the ax-swinging by the big leaguers Manager Burwell landed three men for his Louisville Colonels, who are owned by the Red Sox. Sent to Louisville are Eddie Pellagrini, a shortstop, a classy fielder and a long ball hitter; and Pitchers Nelson Potter and Andy Karl . Potter is an American league veteran and Karl is up from Scranton Pellagrini will plug the hole at shortstop , Burwell used Johnny Pesky there last season Now Pesky is understudying Joe Cronin at shortstop for the Red Sox. . . . As a matter of fact, Cronin thinks the voungster will make the big league grade if he isn't drafted ahead of the opening of the season

No Expensive Rookies This

Year for Boston Red Sox

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent SARASOTA, March 31.—The days of lavish expenditures for ball players in an attempt to make a pennant- -winner out of the Boston

Red Sox are over. Tom Yawkey spent some $4,000,000 trying to buy a pennant and all he ever got was second place. Yawkey has changed his tactics and probably will have just as good a ball club this season as he's ever had during his nine-year regime. There are no expensive rookies in| the Red Sox camp this spring. The Charlie Wagner, who won 12 each, are largely voungsters' will be the leaders. Big things are developed in the Boston farm expected from Yank Terry, who svstem or ‘won 26 games for San Diego, and bought at mea- aT. W. O. Judd, a lefty who's back gre prices. For from Louisville with a fine record. instance, one of jl Ken Chase, a lefty obtained from the best looking g | Washington, can be a winner if his rookies in camp icontrol improves. is Catcher Bill Bill Butland, Herb Hash and Tex Conroy, picked Hughson, all of whom had tryouts up in the draft before, are back battling tor pitcnfrom the coast ing jobs. Norman Brown, a youngleague for just ster from Greenshoro, has looked under £5000, especially good. Mike Ryba, last Missing from V year's fireman, and Mace Brown, the Red Sox j bought from Brooklyn, will be the lineup this sea- relief men. son will be two Croan | Foxx Has Trained

of the standbys of the Gold Sox | Although Foxx was ticketed for davs—Lefty Grove and Joe Cronin. the bench, he is likely to be at first Grove has hung up his spikes and|again. Ulysses Lupien, the Harvard Cronin will manage from the bench |boy, was given a shot at first but this season, making only occasional his hitting left much to be desired. appearances as a pinch-hitter and Foxx, despite a broken toe which utility infielder. The dugout gossip |held him back, has trained hard is that Grove's absence will help | and is in good shape otherwise. the Boston pitching staff immeasur- Bobby Doerr will be at second and ably. |John Pesky, who hit 325 at Louis- ; |ville and was voted the American Ph Felon Ing on the ned jassociation’s most valuable player, ox staff. He was a pal of Yaw- il tak v Cronin's ShOFtSto key's and could pitch when he ter or Over ‘runing IMNrwswop like it. His whims caused the en- or tire Red Sox staff to be pO out re, os iin I of gear, so the story goes. At any ng apparently set for a big year rate that's the theory of some of] |despite the early furor over his Fhe Strand Bibews. | reclassification from 1-a to 3-a in The Red Sox were hard hit inthe draft. Dom DiMaggio will play the draft, losing Pitchers Mickey | center and Pete Fox and Lou FinHarris, Earl Johnson, Larry Powelljney will divide the right field job. and Emerson Dickman and Al Flair,! paul Campbell, a converted first who had the inside track for Jimmy baseman, and John Welaj from xx’s first base job. Harris, John-| Washington will be the outfield refon and Dickman were all con- | serves. sidered regulars. Frankie Pytlak, classified in the On the records the Red Sox pitch-|1-a group, will be the first-string ing last season ranked fifth. There catcher until he’s called up, with is some me pope that itl be better|Bill Con oy, the hard hitting rookie

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They'll Gun for Second Playoff Tilt Tonight

Our Boys Aren't Worried About Going Stale

By EARL RICHERT Tonight's game at the Coliseum between the Capitals and the Hershey B'ars may be the last chance this season for the thousands of hockey-fever stricken Indianapolis fans to cheer for and groan for our Caps. It will be the final game on the home floor this season unless the best three-out-of-five series between the two squads for the American hockey league championship goes to the fifth game. If a fifth game is necessary, it will be played at the Coliseum Sunday night. And our Caps, with one game already under their belts, aren't intending that the series shall go the full limit.

Quick Finish Forecast The more cautious ones are hopeful that they can win two of the next three games, thus ending the iseries at Hershey, Pa., Saturday |night, and the more optimistic ones are saying they will win the Calder cup in three straight, winning again tonight and in the first game at Hershey Thursday night. But they know the road to glory won't be easy. Out of the seven games the two teams have played this season, the Caps have won four and the R’ars three Winning the Calder cup, the trophy that goes to the league champion, means $2500 more to our Caps on top of the $5000 pot which they got for beating the Springfield Indians in the first place playoffs. If they should lose to Hershey they would get only a $2000 pot.

Injured Player Recovers Vie Lofvendahl, Hershey left defense who received a deep gash over the eye when he fell to the ice in Sunday night's game, will be back in play for the Bars tonight. Rabitt McVeigh will serve as referee and Ag Smith, the Indianapolis’ fans favorite target for booing, as linesman in tonight's game, reversing the positions they held in Sunday night's fray. Our Caps are still in top form despite the hard schedule they have been through during the past few weeks, winning 21 out of 23 of the last games of the regular season to lead the league in total points and beating the tough Springfield Indians in the firstplace playoffs which went the full five-game limit,

Look Ahead to Vacation Some Caps’ rooters are afraid that after turning on the steam to compile this fine record the Capitals are bound to go stale. But, with only to cop their first American hockey league championship, our Caps are not worried about going stale. “We'll go stale in Florida after this thing is over and not before, declared several of the Caps who are planning short vacation trips south before taking their summer jobs or going into the Canadian army

City Net Champs Receive Awards

Nine members of the R. C. Cola city championship basketball team and Manager Leo Ostermeyer have been honored by the team’s sponsor. Richard Wenning, Jim Evans, Robert Gray, Don Glenn, Joe Blasingame, Eugene McCarty, Robert Wolf, Jim Tolin and Robert Timmons have been awarded engraved belt buckles. The Colas finished their season recently winning 30 of 41 games. They were undefeated in the BushFeezle Friday league. Evans, former Tech player was high scorer for the year with 288 points.

Hoosier Wins Gloves Crown

Gloves team championship today for the first time since 1935 thanks to the pugilistic ability of chunky Jimmy Carollo, a hammering young factory foreman who blasted his way to the heavyweight title, Eighteen-year-old Carollo won a three-round decision over rugged Hubert Hood, a powerful Negro from Chicago's South side, before 16 Al fans at Madison Square Garden last night, giving the New York Daily News team its triumph. Twice since it last held the championship the New York team has tied for the crown and it was leading, 8-7, when the final bout came up last night. A victory for Hood, 20-year-old laborer, would have given the Chicago Tribune team an- | other deadlock. Champions crowned in the inter. city finals were: 112 Pounds—Ralph McNeill, Newark, N18 Pounds—Jack Graves, Bismarck.

128 Pounds—Temmy Rotolo, Ro 135 Pounds—Morris Corons. Port Arhuy,

ex. oo Pounds—Bobby Burns, Ft. Wayne, 160 Pounds—Joe Carter, Utica, N. ¥

175 Pounds—Clent Conway, New York. Heavyweight—Jimmy Carollo, New “York. ——————————

Baseball First

NEW YORK, March 31 —Johnny Lasplaces, City college of New York

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man in the Hershey offense.

GOALIE JOE TURNER, Mr. No! No! of the Caps, is the Hamlet of hockey. He carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders whenever an opposing team

puts the disc past him. And while an occasional No! No! is his only audible comment when things go wrong he deliveres all sorts of not-very-nice mental soliloquies to himself. The nice thing about Joe, according to his teammates, is that he never blames anyone but himself when the enemy scores. It is never the fault of the defense. It’s all his. And he never alibis. The Indianapolis fans have learned all these traits of Joe's during the year he has played with the Capitals and they love him for it.

Best In the League

IN THE STANDS, you can often hear Cap fans criticizing members of their own team but you never hear a word said about No! No! even when he has a few bad moments and lets a couple past him within the space of a few seconds such as happened in the game with Hershey Sunday night. The fans know how Joe feels about such things.

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Purdue Clinic

Not Abandoned

LAFAYETTE, March 31 (U. P).— Purdue university athletic officials, who almost abandoned their 11th annual football clinic because of the war emergency, today rushed final plans for the event with deserved satisfaction— Between 400 and 500 coaches from high schools and colieges in the middlewest were expected to attend. And Ceeil Isbell and Don Hutson, the beginning and the end of many forward-pass touchdowns for the Green Bay Packers, will highlight the session. The clinic will be held Friday and Saturday at Purdue—the result of pressuring by Orville J. Hooker, president of the Indiana coaches association, who urged the clinic as “a swell thing for our football men.” Reconsider Plans

Guy Mackey, new Purdue athletic director, and Elmer Burnham, new head football coach, reconsidered the plan to drop the clinic, and scheduled addresses, discussions, demonstrations and roundtables on the gridiron game. Announcement of the Isbell-Hut-son. appearance assured the clinic's success and drawing-power, as the

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to demonstrate the use of the forward pass as a program highlight. Hutson is the peerless pass catcher who was named the National football league's most valuable playa former Purdue star, threw at least one touchdown pass in every game last fall, They will supplement their discussion of aerial strategy with a field demonstration of the tactics employed when they add up their pass touchdowns. Isbell scored a new league record last year in completing 15 touchdown passes in 11 games to bring his four-year total to 34 touche down passes. Hutson last year broke five marks for scoring and pass receiving, making 12 touchdowns, 10 on passes. He scored 98 points and tied the record of 58 passes caught in one season, to give him a seven-year total of 57 touchdowns and 386 points, both new league records.

FIGHT RESULTS

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That gentleman on the left above is one of the Kilrea skating demons. and center of the Hershey B'ars who are one down on the Capitals in the Calder cup hockey playoffs. On the right is Harry Frost, a right wing and a key Hershey and the Caps play here tonight at the Coliseum at 8:30 o'clock.

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they just feel badly, too, and don't say anything, While not as flashy as some goalies, Joe is so consistent and so rarely caught off guard that he is regarded by many followers of the ice sport as the best goalie in the American hockey league. And certainly if the Caps win the Calder cup this year there

Honor Capitals

Hoosier hockey fans will have a chance to honor the Indianapolis Capitals for their performance of the past season at an appreciation dinner to be held at 6:30 p. m. next Monday at the Columbia club. Tickets for the affair will be limited to 450 and they will be sold for $2 apiece on the firstcome, first-served principle, The ducats will be on sale at the Coliseum during and after the game tonight and will be on sale at IL. Strauss & Co. tomorrow. The appreciation banquet is being sponsored by a number of hockey fans and the Coliseum management is handling the ticket sales for them hecause they have a ticket sale setup in operation. The dinner itself will cost $150 and the 50 cents extra charged for the meal will be used to buy presents for the hockey players and Manager Herbie Lewis,

Ind. Quintets Split In Chi Tourney

CHICAGO, March 31 (U. P).— The international invitational Y. M. C. A. baskethall tournament moved into the quarter-finals to-

day with only four invading teams still in the running. Winners this afternoon will meet in semi-final matches tonight. Quarter-final pairings today: Flint, Mich,, vs. Chicago Clippers: Davenport, Iowa, vs. Portsmouth, O.: Anderson, Ind, vs. North-Lar-rabee (Chicago); South Chicago vs. Wabash (Chicago). First round results: Portsmouth, O. 45, Lincoln-Belmont (Chicago), 37; Anderson, Ind, 58, St. Paul, Minn, 23; Davenport, Iowa, 31, Auburn, Ind. 25; Flint, Mich. 47, Hyde Park (Chicago), 41; North Larrabee 43, Bay City, Mich, 31; South Chicago 42, Bau Claire, Wis., 20; Wabash 55, Pittsburgh, Pa., 35; Clippers 38, Canton, O., 26.

Loebs Joins Navy Times Special ST. LOUIS, March 31.—Frank Loebs, former football coach at Washington university, and a Purdue university graduate, was commissioned by the United States navy yesterday as a lieutenant, junior grade.

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Goalie Turner, Hamlet of Hockey, Plans a Vacation; After That It's the Army

will be very good basis for that opinion, Joe's record as a goalie is outstanding, particulariy when one considers that this is his first year in professional hockey. He played goalie with the Holzbaugh Ford amateur hockey team in Detroit for two years and was signed by the Capitals last summer. In the ’'39-40 season the Holzbaugh Ford team won the U. 8. amateur championship.

Studied at Detroit U.

JOE IS A native of Windsor, Ontario, and is 23 years old. He celebrated his birthday last Saturday. He has lived in Detroit for the past several years, however, and studied commerce and finance at the University of Detroit for two years, prior to turning pro. His hobby is boating and he has a boat and a cottage on the Canadian side of Lake Erie where he likes to spend every possible spare moment. After the end of the series with Hershey, he and several other bachelors on the Cap team plan a vacation in Florida. After that, Joe says, it will probably be the U. S. or Canadian army for him. (E. R)

No Buses Keep Tribe at Camp Today; Beat Buffalo, 7-3

Times Enecial COCOA, Fla., March 31.—Due to] transportation difficulties brought X about by the rubber situation, no bus was available to cart the Indianapolis Indians to Hollywood, Fla., today to play the Baltimore Ores and the game was called off.

Hollywood is 190 miles from Cocoa and it was deemed unwise to make any effort to press local private autos into service for the trip. It would have been like asking too much from Cocoa’'s loyal baseball boosters, who have their own problems in conserving tires.

But the cancellation of the Baltimore game didn’t hurt the morale of Skipper Gabby Hartnett's Red- |S skins. They still were gloating over their feat of yesterday in bowling aie 8 over the Buffalo Bisons, 7 to 3, on| mq, the Cocoa diamond. Galatzer batted for Hildebrand in fifth.

The Indians went for that “big 1000000 20-3 inning” and they accomplished in 060025000 *—7 the fifth by plating five runs, in-| Runs batted in—Heller, Rocco 2, Skelley, cluding Johnny McCarthy's two- | bac sniihphcGarihy 3, Galaizer 2. Twos run homer. The circuit wallop fol-

Three- “Base lise eli0Y, Galatzer. Bi 9 runs—McCarthy 0CCO t on ASE Be lowed Joe Moore's double, his third safety of the game.

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Two Triples Smacked Then after two out Bill Skelley( "Peters and Henime. Time]. belted a triple, Johnny Pasek drew a walk, and Milton Galatzer, batting for Pitcher Oral Hildebrand, smacked out a triple. Galazter also scored on a Buffalo error on Wayne Blackburn's grounder. The Indians collected 11 hits in the fracas and six were for extra bases. That's power personified. The spring debut of Hildebrand, the Hoosier stringbean, was an elegant success. He worked in regular game action yesterday for the first time during the training trip and turned back the Buffalo Bisons with one run and four hits in five innings. George Gill, also right-handed, and also lanky, took over the Tribe mound toil in the sixth and was solved for two markers in the eighth. He allowed four blows over four rounds. The victory evened the series with the Bisons as they beat the Redskins, 2 to 0, at Ft. Pierce last Saturday.

‘Hildie’ Takes It Easy

Hildebrand nursed his arm through the five rounds and had the situation under control most of his tenure on the mound. He struck out three and walked three. A walk and two singles accounted for the Bison's first-inning run. The Tribesters pounced upon

cuit. The Tribe's record in Flore ida is now three won and two lost, With Outfielder Jake Powell ene tering game action for the first time, Manager Hartnett changed his lineup. Powell was assigned to right field, Moore was shifted from left to center and Allen Hunt from right to left. With Powell available, the way was opened for Hartnett to experi ment. He moved Wayne Blackburn from center field to second base, displacing Packey Rogers. But “Blackie ” retained the leadoff position in the batting order. He's always been better than fair in getting on base. Blackburn, who is a former ine fielder, got two hits in four tries, including a double and one run batted in; and in the field accepted four assists and one putout. If it's in him, “Blackie” will solve that second base problem. He's 100 per cent in hustling and aggressiveness, ” 2” n (Pitchers Not Included) AB 2B 3B HR RBI Pet, Hartnett .... 0 1.000 Moore .381 Blackburn 371 Pasek .358 Skelley .318 Powell 250 Galatzer 250 Rogers 231 McCarthy 200 Floyd Giebell, the former Detroit Bestudik 130 Tiger hero (1940) and plated twolSunt. 3 runs in the fourth and five in the |

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Franklin Out In 3 Minutes

heavyweight boxing crown by knocking out Lem Franklin in less than three minutes. It took the “Peabody Paralyzer” only two minutes and 40 seconds of the first round at the Gardens

and blast the hopes of the Cleve-

his hands of Bob Pastor last month. The bout was scheduled for 10 rounds. All three hooks and crosses used by Bobo to chill his opponent had telling effect 6n I ammin’ Lem, who hit the canvas for counts of seven and nine before he was downed for good. But Bobo, too, had a vertical round trip when he apparently slipped while stepping back from a Franklin uppercut earlier in the round. Bobo Caught One

After backing away from Lem’s wild lefts and rights for a half minute and coming up at the count of three, the Pittsburgh fighter unleashed his heavy artillery. Breaking from a clinch, Boho cut loose with his right—then left—for Franklin's first trip to the canvas. As Franklin regained his feet, the same whirlwind caught him in the head for the second trip down. Tne third and final barrage caught Lem as he staggered backward toward his corner and rolled him half way out of the ring. For Bobo, it was his 20th knockout in 33 engagements. He had a 13-pound advantage at 200% over Franklin and towered 2! inches over him at 8 feet 4 inches.

SECOND GAME Final Championship

HOCKEY

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PITTSBURGH, March 31 (U. P)). —A left hook and a right cross (repeated rapidly three times) was all the description needed today to tell how Harry Bobo, Pittsburgh Negro, advanced his ambitions toward the

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