Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1942 — Page 22

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By Eddie Ash

MILWAUKEE'S BREWERS, who are galloping out in front like all get-out in the American association race, ‘received additional talent recently. . . . They bought Frank Secory, outfielder, from the Cincinnati Reds. . . . - With the Syracuse Internationals last year, he batted .329

in 31 games. . .. A fractured leg last- May knocked him

~ out for the season. When Secory used to chase long drives in the outfield for Toledo

he hit one in the Indianapolis park that probably set a local record

. for distance, counting the roll. . . . The ball soared high over the left

field wall, hit near the W. 16th st. pavement and rolled across the .

+ highway and up into the cornfield. ; It was a typical Babe Ruthian home run except that Secory - swings righthanded. . . . What he’ll do to that short left fleld fence in the Milwaukee park is difficult to judge until he draws a bead. : * #8 = : #8 % AMERICAN LEAGUE rookies are doing all right so far. .. . Johnny Pesky, up from the American association, grabbed the shortstop job for the Boston Red Sox; Oris Hockett, from the Southern association, took over right field for Cleveland, and Les Fleming, also up from the Southern association, is. holding down Cleveland’s first‘base post.

Vernon Stephens, up from the American association, is handling |

+ the shortfield chores for the St. Louis Browns, and Bob Repass, another A. A. graduate, is in and out at shortstop for Washington. Yank Terry, ye olde Hoosier, from Bedford, and Oscar Judd have pitched well for the Red Sox, while Hal White, Virgil Trucks and Charlie Fuchs have gone better than fair for Detroit. Buddy Blair is stationed at third for the Philadelphia Athletics and Ned Harris has been performing in the Detroit outfield. |. . .

. . Rookies come and rookies go, ny these new pastimers su are

3 ‘hanging on under the big top.

Dhweitten Rule Bans Female. ‘Expert’

IT TURNS OUT now that the exclusively masculine occupancy of the Minneapolis American association park’s press box remains

inviolate. .

. The United Press bureau there recently announced

that Miss Berneice Schlemmer would report the Millers’ games . . . until Minneapolis newspapermen cited their park’s unwritten rule:

“No women in the press box.”

Miss Schlemmer, as a result, continued working in the U. P.

office and, if she does report the games, it probably will be from some other vantage point than the press box. Seattle scribes in the Pacific Coast league have a strict rule banning all wives and sweeties from the press box in their ball park. . . . They framed it several years ago. . . . But the ban is broken daily now, and there’s nothing the writers can do about it. . . . The female crashing the coop is the Western Union messenger, an 18-year-old, ho picks up the copy to deliver to the newspaper offices downtown.

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: THE baseball-season was opened recently in Northern Ireland by teams of the A. E. F., Corp. Robert Lange of Wilton Junction, Ia., pitched his 2d battalion team to a 14-to-4 victory over the 8d battalion. . . . Lange is the property of the Cleveland Americans. Infielders Bennie McCoy of the Athletics and Johnny Lucadello of the Browns recently were put through whaleboat drills at the

Great Lakes naval training Staion, station’s ball team.

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. Sailors to Play Twilighter Here

WHEN THE Great Lakes naval training station nine plays the Indianapolis Indians at Victory fleld on May 28 it will be the first half of a twilight-moonlight double-header. . . . After the “strange _ Interlude,” the Indians will battle the Kansas City Blues. . . . It all

stacks up as a large evening.

George Edmund, sports editor of the St. Paul Dispatch, has fig-

ured it out that the all-time St. Paul-Minneapolis series,

which began

in 1902, stands 458 to 437 in the Millers’ favor, Red Howell, outfielder, who was on trial with Milwaukee from Baltimore, has been returned to the ‘Orioles . . . following a rumpus

which occurred off the playing field,

THE Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Senators are “sacrificing” and we don’t mean moving ’em up on a bunt, . . , They have lowered their standard of living by using day coaches instead of parlor cars for hops between the eastern American league cities.

9 Bouts on Armory Mitt Card

Tony Vogt, Evansville middie-

weight, and Arnold Deer, local 155-

pounder, have been signed for six . rounds of action on the fight card to ~. be staged tomorrow night at the Armory by the Hercules A. C. Al Sheridan, local Negro middleweight who meets Curly Denton, of ‘Dayton, O., in the 10-round main event, will "complete training today with a light workout at the Leeper A. C. . Other battles listed on the bill [§;

will bring together heavyweights Gene (Tiny) Bland, and Robert Donnell, both of Indianapolis, in a special four rounder, the featherweights Earl Paul, of this city, and Sailor Al Evans, of the Great Lakes naval training station, in another four-round session

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at Frankfort.

Singles Mark Set at ABC

COLUMBUS, O.,, May 7 (U. P.).— A new scoring record was established today in the American Bowling Congress tournament with the posting of the 26th individual series of 700 or better. The old record of 25 was made last year at St. Paul, Minn, The new record was set when Charles Cheavacci of Lancaster, N. Y., rolled 203, 278 and 248 for a 729 total in the singles yesterday. He landed in ninth place in that event and was well up in the allevents money with 1861. The top doubles score of the day was marked up by William Lenz and Leonard ‘Musser of Tiffin, O,, with 1276. Lenz had games of 203, 263 and 193 and Musser rolled 203, 205 and 209. : The Karp Coals of Detroit rolled 2869 to lead last night’s scoring in the five-man event.

Whirlaway Takes

Dixie Handicap BALTIMORE, Md., May 7 (U. P.). —Calumet farm’s Whirlaway, 1941 horse of the year, was a notch closer today to Seabiscuit’s all-time high money mark as a result of yesterday’s three-quarters of a length in the Dixie handicap at Pimlico. Whirlaway’s winning purse of $19,275 raised his earnings to $371, 711, leaving him $5033 short of sec-

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Four Teams Open Softball Stadium

Four teams will lift the lid on the local softball season at Softball stadium next Sunday night with a double-header. ‘Stewart-Warner and the J. S. C. club will pair in the first game at 8 p. m. The nightcap will feature a seven inning tilt between Kingan and Pepsi-Cola, last year’s city and county champions and runner-up for the state championship. The four clubs are affiliated with the Indianapolis Softball association... At a recent meeting of the association the following officers were elected: John Woodruff, president; Hugh (Wally) Middlesworth, treasurer, and James J. Stewart, secretary.

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Tenth of 12 instructive articles.

By BYRON NELSON Master of the Masters

REACHING for the ball is one of the most common faults. It is especially damaging on. iron shots. Player should make certain the blade of the club lies flat on the turf. If the toe is raised, you are reaching too much.

Paul E. Myers, Tech track coach, shows his ace pole vaulter, Dale Burries, where to grip the pole. Dale, city champion and record holder, will compete in the North Central conference meet tomorrow

Tech Tradkmesi In N. C. Meet

The 15th annual North Central Conference track and field meet will be held tomorrow afternoon and night at Frankfort with more than three hundred athletes from the 10 conference schools entered. Trials in the dashes, hurdles and field events will get under way at

2:30 p. m, while the finals will begin at 7:30 with ‘the parade of the queen and her attendants. Tech, with one of its weakest track teams in history, will send an 18-man squad. City 440-yard dash king Johnny Dobkins is on the ineligible list and will not make the trip. Anderson Seeks Crown The Anderson Indians, bidding for their third straight crown, may be stopped by the Kokomo Kats, who have won the conference carnival eight times. The Kats, winner of the Muncie relays a few weeks ago, showed that they may be able to dethrone the Indians, but the Redskins were runner-up to North Side of Ft. Wayne in the Kokomo relays last

/ week.

Striving for their third title the Indians ‘will ‘bank on such men as Stroup in the dashes, Snow in the high jump and Keep in the shot

: | put.

Burries in Pole Vault Kokomo has entered a powerful

i | team around Henry Harris, last year’s dash champ; Bud Denny in| .

the hurdles, and Wayne Crispen

:|and Bill Hudelson in the relays.

- Other star performers will be Billy Moore of Logansport and Dale Burries of Tech in the pole vault,

: | Taylor of Marion, Nugent of La

.(Satans at Manual

Shortridge will meet Manual in a dual track and field meet tomorrow afternoon at Delavan Smith Athletic field. It will be Shortridge’s final meet before the sectional, May 15, at Tech.

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Times Special MILWAUKEE, May 7.~The Indianapolis. Indians arrived in Milwaukee just in time to run into another postponement and there was no action between the Redskins and Brewers at Borchert field yesterday. : The league -leading Milwaukee team and the third-place Tribesters were to try it again this afternoon

lat 8 oclock. Both clubs are well

rested and their mound staffs are on edge. The inactivity is making the players restless but all American

Ae tooms ate In the same

boat as postponements continue to cut into their programs. As a matter of fact, all four games were postponed yesterday. The Indians have only played four games since invading the league’s western sector. One out of three was postponed at Minneapolis, two out of four in St. Paul and now. one here. The Tribe-Brewer series, original-

|1y booked for three tilts, is now cut

to two, with one carded today and the finale tomorrow. Manager Gabby Hartnett of the Indians is anxious to tackle the Brewers to see what is making ’em click as league pacemakers. The Milwaukee park has short fences in left and right and Hartnett believes he can match. power with the Brewers’ artillery. The Brewers have lost only five

|games in 19 starts and four of the

defeats were on the road. The fact that Charlie Grimm’s pastimers have lost only one titlt on their home grounds has excited the Milwaukee natives no end and there is a huge revival in baseball interopt in the Cream City. area.

Nine May Go

In Preakness

BALTIMORE, Md., May 7 (U. P.). —The Preakness field apparently had been narrowed today to nine starters for Saturdays’ mile and three-sixteenths race as a result of the unofficial withdrawal of Foxcatcher farm’s Fairy Manah and the probable scratching of Calumet farm’s Sun Again. Although Sun Again worked a mile and an eighth yesterday in 1:55 2-5, substantially faster than several horses still regarded as

starters, Trainer Ben Jones said he|in

was not convinced that the colt was in shape for a really gruelling race. With Sun Again and Fairy Manah out, the probably field includes Shut Out, Kentucky Derby winner, who will be ridden again by Wayne Wright; his stablemate, Devil Diver; Mrs. Al Sabath’s Alsab, second in the Derby; Requested, Apache, Domingo, Colchis, Fair Call and Valdina Orphan.

Because Buck Tossed One for The Boys Yesterday Limiting

Former Teammsies to One Hit

Senators Beat Tigers, 7-0, and Drop Them " 4th Place; Lyons Loses Hard Luck Tilt

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

suh, and that’s all.”

- The governor of South Carolina was referring to Louis Norman Newsom, that esteemed citizen of Hartsville, 8. C., who calls himself

and everyone else “Bobo” but signs his name “Buck. " The world champion Yankees moved back into the 8 8 = : American league lead yesterday and ; Bobby Doerr, of the Red Sox hit|8 two spectacular home runs and kept up his blistering 463 batting pace |§ but those events and all others had |} to play second fiddle to old Bobo.

For Jack Zeller

Newsom, with his Carolina strut, |g picture-card posing ‘and general as-|§ sortment of grandstand maneuvers, |§ really tossed one for the boys, especially Jack Zeller, general manager of the Detroit Tigers. When the firing was over yesterday in Washington the Senators had licked the Tigers, 7-0, and Newsom had a onehit game to his credit. The only hit off Newsom was a triple by Doc Cramer, former Senator outfielder, in the third inning. On" the next play Cramer was

/ NEW YORK, May 7.—As the governor of South Carolina said 0 : the governor of North Caroling, “You can ignore Bobo jus: so long,

trapped off third on Barney MecCosky’s grounder. Newsom fanned four and walked the same number in his fourth and sweetest victory of the season.

The fact that the defeat dropped the Tigers down to fourth place didn’t make Buck sorry at all. Buck is a likeable, ‘easy-going fellow in his way but he has developed a seething, unquenchable hatred for his former boss, Jack Zeller. Zeller cut Newsom’s salary from $32,500 down to $12,000 and Buck didn’t like that. That's why he’s with Washington now.

A Potent Single

The rumors have been going around the grapevine circuit that Newsom had lost his fast ball and the shellacking Cleveland gave him last Saturday seemed to confirm those tales. But old Bobo probably was just coasting, getting ready to take the Tigers apart for the benefit of Mr. Zeller. In addition to pitching himself a masterpiece Newsom delivered - a potent single off Hal Newhouser with the bases loaded in the six-run seventh.

Ernie Bonham, who pitched the game that clinched the world championship against the Dodgers last fall, twirled the Yanks back to first place with a 3-0 shutout over the skidding Indians. It was his fourth victory without defeat and third shutout. He gave the Indians only five hits and handed Jim Bagby, who had turned in five straight victories, his first defeat.

Hard Luck Ted Lyons, the ma-

jors’ oldest active pitcher, was the

victim of two home runs by Bobby Doerr which cost him another game he should have won. Doerr hit a

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homer in the eighth and tied the score, 1-1, and then homered again in the 10th with a mate on, giving the Red Sox a 3-1 decision and deadlocking them with the Indians and it was Lyons’ third straight loss, and the homer Rookie Leo Wells hit was only the second run: Chicago made for the veteran in four games. : Vernon Stephens’ homer with two mates on base broke a 2-2 tie and sent the Browns on a 7-2 vic tory over the Athletics. Elden Auker won his third game.

With Mort Cooper pitching sixhit ball and Terry Moore and Country Slaughter hitting for the eircuit, the Cardinals lambasted the Phillies, 11-2, in the only National league game.

Yesterday’s Hero—Buck (Call Me Bobo) Newsom, eccentric’ Washington moundsman who held his former Detroit mates to one hit in a 7-0 shutout.

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