Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1942 — Page 6

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ORTS Eddie Ash

THE Columbus Red

Birds are shouting for help and

~ the St. Louis Cardinals, their owners, are trying to listen without committing themselves to definite promises. . . . It so happens that the Cards are not getting along any

too well at the moment. The American association

Red Birds were in last place today,

and all this after being named the “consensus pick” by the league's

experts in the preseason poll.

. + » The Birds won the pennant last

year and also annexed the little world series title and their followers expected them to get off winging this season. The team got off winging, all right, but its wings were clipped

like nobody’s business in later down the coal hole. . .

games and now the Birds are holding

. Of course, the Cardinals intend to do some-

thing about it if they can because Columbus fans turn thumbs down in no time at all when their team slips out of the first division. Milwaukee was second choice in the pre-season poll to capture the 1942 pennant and so far the Brewers are making several experts

look good. . ..

. « This department picked the Brewers second (yeah, we . ‘picked the Red Birds first). . . . is first and last year’s first team is last. .

At this writing last year’s last team . You figure it out.

American association races are that way and have beerr down

through the years. . ..

So many changes occur in club rosters from

one season to the next that students of the occult hardly dare make selections on them in the spring before the official starting bell rings. At any rate, here's hoping the Indianapolis Indians don’t come home on May 12 singing the “western trip blues.” . .. But it’s going

to be rough sledding for them.

McCarthy Bats in 21 Runs in 15 Games

ALTHOUGH THE Indianapolis Redskins lost at Minneapolis yesterday, Johnny McCarthy, Tribe first sacker, got two hits—one

a homer—good for two runs batted in. .

. He has batted in 21 runs

in 15 games and evidently is headed for a big season. Wayne Blackburn, left fielder, is leading McCarthy in percentage by a few points, but Johnny is far ahead in extra-base blows. . . .

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PITCHING is really a “chosen” profession for Vern Olsen, lithe

Chicago Cubs’ southpaw. large variety of choices. , . .

. He chose baseball curving out of a At high school in Portland, Ore., he starred in basketball and football. . . .

His two older brothers were

champion wrestlers; tried to tutor Vern as a torso-twister, too. The kid’s left arm packed so much power, however, that finally he abandoned the mat, the court and the grid, concentrating on the

diamond. . .. to him.

Fernandez Picks Batting

Now. the wrestlers come around to his house and listen

Over Running

IF THEY HAD track meets every day from April to October and on the cash-and-carry basis, and you could make a good living as

a one-mile runner, the major

leagues might never have listed the

name of Nanny Hernandez, last year’s Pacific Coast league runs-

batted-in champion (129); this

year furnishing more power from the’

third-base sector of the Boston Braves’ batting order.

After trying all the sports

in high school at Wilmington, Cal,

Nanny finally tackled the track team ‘and found he was the best

“miler” in school. . . .

The coach wanted to appropriate; him, body

and soul, and keep him as a one-mile specialist the year ‘round. , ,, Nanny declined, as it meant giving up baseball. Young Hernandez would rather hit one a mile than run one.

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Baseball

at a Glance

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Milwaukee Kansas City ... Louisville TOLEDO ....... INDIANAPOLIS Minneapolis St. Paul Columbus

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GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION APOLIS a Minneapolis.

oledo at Milwan paul. Ce at Kansas City.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Detroit at New York. St. Louis at Boston. Cleveland at Washington, Chicago at Philadelphia.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

> | Toledo Milwaukee

Yandenbers, Campbell, Geor (Six innings; weather.) Louisville Paul Sayles, Andre

Lucier and Lacey;

| Columbus +052 | Kansas City

+ Blominger, Gettel,

AMERICAN LEAGUE

and Wagner.

St. Louis Boston

Niggelin Butland,

020 100 201— 6 1 . Brown and Peacock.

Cleveland Washington Harder and Desautels, nedy, Masterson, Carrasquel, Cat Early.

Borowy, Lindell and Dickey.

NATIONAL LEAGUE (Ten innin Ss.) 200 § ND

Errickson,

Donovan, Lohrman,

Warneke, Beaxlex and O’Dea.

02 000 220— 7 14 001 000 80x— 9 13

Marcum, Parmelee, Cox and Spindel; sc Lanfranconi and

Herring and

000 100— 5 18 2 EH 300 41x—10 13 1

r, Roe, Wilks, Barrett and Heath, Volpi, Roser and Sears.

3 0 001 000 010— 2 6 © Rigney and Turner; Harris, Christopher

002: 050 003—10 3

and Ferrell; Dobson, an:

401 501 101—13 168 3 220 010 001— 6 12 1

Denning; Keney

013 010 011— 7 16 000 100 001— 2 4

Trout, Newhouser and Tebbetts; Breuer,

5 000 0— 7 12 021 161 00% 1— 8 11 2 Sain and Dickson,

Brooklyn a Pitisburgn. Philadelphia at Sincinaat, New York at Chicago. Boston at St. Lou ax

Tribe Box Score

New York Chicago Koslo, and Panning: Mooty, Pressnell, and McCullough.

Philadelphia Cincinnati Podgajny, Beck, Nahem and Livingston; Riddle and Lamanno.

030 300 300— 9 RE 250 003 30x—13 1 2 East, Feldman, Sunkel, Adams Sehmity

002 000 021— 5 11 000 230 01x— 6 8

Dale Burries Sets New Vault Mark

Tech Tied for Second With Washington

An East side band of boys in their third year of varsity track

high school has done in eight years; Howe high school dethroned Tech as city champions of track and field yesterday at Tech. The Hornets, coached by George Frakas, dominated dashes and hurdle events to score 65% points. Tech was tied for second place honors with Washington. Each tallied 53% points. Shortridge was third with 29%; Manual, fourth, 21, and Broad Ripple’s half-mile relay team finished last in the final event to score the school’s only two points.

5 Firsts For Howe

Art Graham and Ralph Toney were double winners for the Hornets. Graham captured both.hurdle races while Toney flashed to victory in the 100-yard and 220-yard dashes. Dick Eichenauer won the only other first for Howe taking the shot put. Dale Burries, Tech, set a new city record as he was expected to do. Burries pole vaulted 11 feet 10 inches to better Wallace Potter's 1938 record of 11 feet 7% inches. Alan Crapo, Howe's stellar quar-ter-miler, suffered his first defeat of the season yesterday. He was beaten by John Dobkins, Tech, in a close finish. Mike Mascari, Manual, maintained the prestige of the Mascari twin brothers by winning the mile run in 4:40.3. His brother John, a state high school champ, finished fifth. Mike also ran second to Shortridge’s Strawmyer in the half-mile run. Summary; 100-Yard Dash—Toney (H),

Trotter JW. Jacobs (W), Time, :

Volk (T), Scholl (M).

Mile Bam Mascari (M), Stafford (T), Trapp a Mannfeld (H), J. Mascari (M). Time, 4:40.3.

440-Yard oa Dobkins (T), Crapo (H), 33 King (W), Keftlehut (H).

:5. 120-Yard High Hurdles—Graham (H), Petranoff (W), Gilchrest (H), Wyan Morical (M). Time, 16.4. ) youd (Hy, [ oe . M. Mag. , a ’ Russell (W). : Tepe

i 2:05.3. 220-Yard Dash—Toney (H), Volk (T), Imbler 8), Stitt (H). Time,

200-Yard Low Hurdles—Graham (H), Jones (W), Watson ‘1 Horth (8S), Flickinger (S). Time, :24. igh Jump—Pedlow n. two-way tie for second between Wade (H) and Dobbs (H); six-way tie for fourth between Berry wh Clark (T), Schraeder (8S), Miller (T) Nesarston (W) and Jones (W). Height. § feet 8% inches Shot Pht <Ehchenauer (H), Burries (T), Johnson (W), Wyand (H), Harvey (W). Distance, 42 feet 4%a inches. Pole Vault—Burries (T), Scotten (W), tie for third between Lohman (M) and Sanders (M), tie for ah between Phelps (H) and Reider (T). Height, 11 feet 10 inches. (New city record.) Broad Jump—Boyer oh. Smock (W), Crapo (H), Wade (H), Miller (T). Distance, 20 feet 7 inches Mile Relay Shortridge (Pratt, Ragsdale, Capenati, Zaring), Washington, Tech, Manual and Howe. Time, 3:30.8. Half-Mile Relay—Washington (Dunn Jacobs, Jones, Trotter), Howe, Shortridge, Tech, Broad Ripple. Time, 1:35

Amateurs Play Second Tilts

Although the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball association is having difficulty organizing this year because of team shortages it has scheduled seven games for tomorrow afternoon. Municipal, Big Six and Capital City leagues all are booked for action for the second games of the season. , The Manufacturers league was heduled to play its second games this afternoon with Kingan vs. Atkins at Rhodius and U. S. Tire vs. Stewart-Warner at Garfield. Where to Go The Sunday schedule is: MUNICIPAL Leonard Cleaners vs.

City at Brookside No. CoM Medal Beer vs. Allison at Rhodius

Falls

Smpire Life vs. Sods Harrison (game to be played May 10).

BIG SIX

Sacks Auto Parts vs. Room at Riverside No. 1. Eagles vs. Schwitzer-Cummins at Rhodius No. 2. Armour vs. Moose at Riverside No. 2.

CAPITAL CITY

St. Roch’s vs. Keystone Boys’ Town at Garfield No. 3. Southport Merchants x Usher Funeral Home at Riverside No.

The Empire-Ft. Barrison battle was postponed to allow the soldiers to march tomorrow in the gigantic

Boulevard Tap

town. Room for Two, Please A few changes have been made in the amateur leagues. Falls City withdrew from the Saturday Manufacturers league, leaving orie Falls City nine playing in the Sunday Municipal loop. The 737th Military Police battalion at - the fort has

Twilight league. Capital City league officials would like to have two more teams enter by next Wednesday night at the

yesterday did what no other local| 7%

“Vitalize for War” parade down-|°

signed to play in the Army-Navy].

front of Stafford of Tech in 4:40.3. 440-yard finish line. It was Crapo’s first defeat this season. Dobkins was timed in :52..7

Mike Mascari, half of the twin brother team at Manual, is shown (left) finishing first in the mile run yesterday during the city high school track and field meet at Tech. Mike finished a good 10 yards in

John Dobkins, Tech (far right), leads Howe’s Alan Crapo across the

Those buzzing bugs, the midget race cars, will run again this summer at the Indianapolis Speedrome track. Four of the country’s fastest drivers are included in the list of 50 that- will help open the first evening of racing May 12. This quartet includes Lucky Purnell, 1941 Alabama state champion; Rex Woodard, Kansas champion last year; Bill Fry of Chicago and Clay Corbett of Columbus, O. Last year’s local favorites who

Midget Cars Run May 12

have returned to the track are Ted Duncan, Chicago; Al: Momonee, Toledo; Bob Breading, Greenfield, and Swede Carpenter, Indianapolis, who has turned in several practice laps this year under the :15.64 record. Speedrome management announces the completion of two improvements to the track to facilitate additional speed. The entire concrete course has been topped with asphalt and the northwest and northeast turns have been widened for drivers to get more acceleration.

College Baseball

Indiana, 6; Michigan, 4. Purdue, 6; Ohio State, 5. Notre Dame, 8; Great Lakes, 6. Michigan State, 14; Wayne university, 7. West Virginia, 6; Penn State, 4. Swarthmore, 3;: Haverford, 1.

Muncrief Booster

ST. LOUIS, May 2. — Catcher Rick Ferrell calls Bob luncrief of the Browns the best young pitcher to come into the American league since Bob Feller,

Old Marks May|

Go Down at Kokomo Relays

Some Have Stood Up

“For Many Years

KOKOMO, Ind., May 2 (U. P.)— Records in, 24 track and field events were threatened here today in the 17th annual running of the Kokomo Relays, one of the largest high school track events in the state. Some of the ‘relays records have stood for 10 years or more, the oldest being the 100-yard dash mark of 9.7 set by Ivan Fuqua of Brazil in 1930. Fuqua later established records throughout the country as a college star, ~

Chief contender for a new record this year is Billy Moore.of Logansport -in the pole vault. Moore has done 13 feet already. The Kokomo Relays record of 12 feet 9-13-16 inches was set by Brown of Froebel (Gary) in. 1939. Twelve events were to be run in the class A division and eleyen in the class B division. One extra event was to be held for Kokomo grade school contestants.

Keep Left Arm Firm

Sixth of 12 instructive articles; By BYRON NELSON = ° Master of the Masters ga DRIVING gave me mors. than any other phase of the gam vo My first difficulty’ was over-swing= ing. It was so bad I could the clubhead out of the corner o my eye on the back-swing. ba! This is a common fault among beginners who try to murder the ball. As: a result they cut across the ball instead of hitting through, They top, shank or slice. ] To correct this, keep a firm lef$ arm and keep your eye on the ball. I didn't say keep your head down. That's useless if you're noé watching the ball. In keeping your left arm firm, don’t make it so stiff that you're tightened up. I've seen some hor rible golf swings caused by drume - ing “stiff left” into a duffer's ead. Relaxation is essential. , Weight should be well shifted te the right leg at top of the baockswing. Shoulder turn should be complete. Weight should be shifted to the left leg before impact and the wrists uncocked so they can snap the clubhead through. Follow through to insure accuracy, NEXT--Irons.

No Time Limit For Mat Bout

The two chief exponents of the punishing “Indian deathlock” hold will battle it out in headline action on the armory grappling bill next Tuesday night. : They are Orville Brown, Wichita, Kas., and Chief Liftle Wolf, a fullblooded Indian from New Mexico. The two heavies clashed in a 30minute draw last Tuesday. Their second meeting will be for two falls out of three with no time limit as roth have agreed to “have

it out” to determine who is “best man” at the deathlock hold. Ali Pasha, the Hindu, who has never been tossed in 11 appearances | here, will tackle Prince Alki, § Persian matman,

Steeplechasing NEW YORK, May 2. -— There should be good steeplechasing dure ing the Belmont park meeting. No fewer than 160 jumpers are quare tered on Long Island.

ORTH TINIE ERO

am ARISTIDES —WINNER OF FIRST KENTUCKY DERBY, 1875

As winner of the first Kentucky Derby, Aristides stands alone. Yet long before the Derby was [started in 1875, Old Jordan was an established favorite.

A favorite that still stands alone with men who know their bourbon bes}.

Mint Juleps

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Brooklyn 110/100 021— 6 11 Pittsburgh 020 300 002— 7 10 2 Fitzsimmons, Head, French, Alen and Dapper; Heintzelmann and Lopez, Phelps.

City hall. .After that time if no other team has entered the league will operate with four teams.

Indian Lakes Links

Opens Tomorrow

Indian Lake golf course will open %| officially tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock with a mixed two-ball selective blind par medal tournament over 18 holes. Elizabeth Pheilchifter and Jeff Smythe are in charge of arrangements. A breakfast will be held at 11 a. m.

INDIANAPOLIS

"s OLD JORDAN

GENUINE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY —A FAVORITE IN “BOURBON COUNTRY”

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Visi TORS to the Kentucky Derby “Bourbon Country” quickly discover’ this: In mint juleps—in old fashioneds—in any bourbon drink—Old Jordan is a favorite! . Why? Simply because we still make our whiskey the old-fashioned “slow’’ way we started 100 years ago. The way that takes more time, more care=-yet yields such extra richness, such mellow extra smoothness. Yes! That’s why Old Jordan costs more to make—though not one cent

more to drink! That’s why — with men who know their bourbon best —

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gamiilh, Do whiter TP 7, Jap ss Wiliam 3 Sox : 4 Defense Stamp Shoot| -- Sponsored by the Indianapolis Game Club Meets Hunting and Fishing club, a de-

fense stamp shoot is to be held The regular mornithly meeting of tomorrow, starting at 10 a. m. The the Marion County Fish and Game | event is to be staged one-half mile association « will be held at the

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