Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1942 — Page 10

ague All-Stars To Give "Ball 1 Ri

Lineups ps Sipe Tilt as Closest One in Series

Hitting Power Equal For Game Monday.

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 3.—The first all-star major league baseball game * for the sole benefit of the nation’s armed forces will be played at the Polo Grounds on July 6 and according to the [starting "lineups announced today, it shapes up as one of the closest in 10 years of interleague competition. Although all prices have been doubled, the game should intrigue both the players and the fans. For the players, there is the added inducement that the winner will speed out to Cleveland to play an all-service team the following evening. For the fan, there is the comparison of batting averages, which show the American league team as a whole ranking only .004 points better with .296. Probably Cooper vs. Bonham Four members of the champion Brooklyn Dodgers are included . among the probable starters for the National league. The American league choices, announced by President William Harridge after a long distance telephone conversation with New York Yankee Manager Joe McCarthy who will handle the squad, include five performers from the junior league’s current pacesetters. Neither Manager Leo Durocher of the National leaguers or McCarthy disclosed their pitching choices but on the basis of won and lost records, Mort Cooper of the St. Louis Cardinals, top pitcher in his circuit, will start. Cooper has won 11 and lost 3 and probably will be followed by Chicago's Claude Passeau

who has won 12 and lost 5. Cliff}

Melton of the New York Giants, who has southpawed his way to 10 . wins, mav be the Nationals’ third . moundsman., Cooper and Passeau are righthanders.

American Lineup

Ernie Bonham of the Yankees has the best record in his league—9 and 83—and may warrant the starting post. Jim Bagby of the Cleveland Indians, comes next with 9 won and 4 lost and Spud Chandler, also of the Yanks, ranks third with 8 and 2. Although a capacity crowd of 50,000 is expected to pack the Polo Grounds; President Ford Frick of the National league, announced that several hundred unreserved seats will go on sale the day of the game. The. American league gains its slight batting edge from the four batters now over the .300 mark in its starting lineup. Joe Gordon of the Yankees is top man with .363 and Ted Williams of the Red Sox, 336, Bill Dickey of the Yankees, .318, and Dom DiMaggio of the Red Sox, 301. The lineup that will start for the American leaguers is—Dom DiMaggio, - rf; Lou Boudreau of Cleveland, ss; Williams, If; Joe Di- ~ Maggio of the Yankees, cf; George McQuinn of the Browns, lb; Gordon, 2b; Ken Keltner of Cleveland, 3b; Dickey, c The National league boasts only two hitters over .300 and they are both Brooklyn ° outfielders — Pete Reiser with .348 and Joe Medwick with .342, The batting order will be ~Jimmy Brown of the Cardinals, 2b; Arky Vaughan of the Dodgers, 8b; Reiser, cf; Johnny Mize of the Giants, 1b; Mel Ott of the Giants, rf; Medwick, 1f; Walker Cooper of the Cards or Mickey Owen of the Dodgers, ¢ and Eddie Miller of the Braves, ss. Both all-star games will be broadcast on the coast-to-coast network of the Mutual Broadcasting system. The Polo Grounds broadcast will begin at 6:15 p. m. (EWT) and the airing of the Cleveland contest will . start at 8:45 p. m. (EWT). Arrange- » ments are being made to short wave the contests to American forces all over the world.

Indians-Sox Draw Large Relief Gate

CHICAGO, July 3 (U. P.).—The Cleveland Indians-Chicago White Sox night game at Comiskey park, played last night for the benefit of army-navy relief, drew the largest gate in an American league re- - lef game so far—29,062 fans who paid $33,352. Cleveland beat the White Sox, 7-5,

' and the Great Lakes naval training

station team, with Johnny Rigney ‘and Freddy Hutchinson pitching

four-hit ball, defeated Chanute

field, 7-1, in the twilight opener.

The Rough Irishman

Bill Conroy

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Cronin Believes Bill Conroy Responsible for Boston Rise

By HARRY

GRAYSON

Times Special Writer

BOSTON, July 3.—Joe Cronin was asked to.put his finger on the player most responsible for the rapid rise of the Red Sox.

“Bill Conroy,” replied the fighting manager of the Bostons.

“He's

the first rough Irishman the Red Sox have had since Bill Carrigan and the first big catcher since Carrigan and Forest Cady.

That's a fine compliment for a rigan, great catcher-manager of the Hub’s matchless pre-world war I world champions. A tousle-haired Mick standing an even six feet and weighing 190 pounds, Conroy is a slambang ball player after Cronin’s own heart.

A’s Let Him Go

Conroy joined' Connie Mack as a batting practice catcher in 1933; was farmed out. Slow-to show progress, the Athletics let him go. Landing with the Oakland Coasters in ‘38, he found himself there last term, with a total base mark of 121 and a .292 batting average in 89 engagements, Beantowners moaned when little Frank Pytlak was lost to the service last spring. Johnny Peacock lacked polish behind the log and who was Conroy? But Conroy has done everything well enough for the ‘Red Sox except hit. Has 3 Homers

“And be hasn't been so bad in that department,” observes Strategist Cronin. “He gets a hit when you need it and can blast the big one. He has three home runs. “The main thing is, however, that Conroy, a remarkable throwing catcher, pulled our pitchers together. They love to pitch to him. “The result is that we have solid pitching for the fifst time since_.I came to Boston. “We're strong where a club has to be strong when it is thinking about winning a pennant—straight through the middle. Conroy catching, a capable hand in the box at all times, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr on either side of second base and Dominic DiMaggio in center field. Steadying Influence

“Ted Williams isn’t hurting us|Min any blasting the ball’ out of the|iND

park and hitting those runners home. “But Conroy is the steading influence we needed.” © William James Conroy, 27, | and a right-hand hitter, is also considerable additional evidence that stars can still be picked up in the draft. That's how the Tom Yaw-

keys got the Illinois Wesleyan alume | St. Louis and they didn't have first|y

nus,

choice. Not by a long shot.

Cc It pays baseball people to keep |Boston

their eyes open. Someone of worth is always being passed up.

Heinlein Tops Pros

ELWOOD, July 3 (U. P)~—Bill Heinlein, Noblesville, today topped the list of more than 100 professional golfers expected to attend the annual three-day state open tournament which opens at the Elwood

recruit—being compared with Car-

country club course Monday. A pro-amateur tournament will be played Sunday” prior to the open meet.

Follow the Crowd to

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Local Boy Gets Rifle Medal

Times Special WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3.— Young Gayle Crow of Indianapolis can now take his place with the finest rifle marksmen in the country, it was disclosed here today by the junior division of the National Rifle association. The 18-year-old boy has just been awarded the Expert Rifleman medal. So far this year Gayle is one of only 260 junior rifiemen to gain this award; although the competition for the N. R. A. medal series attracts thousands monthly. The majority of those shooters - win awards for the thirteen progressively harder qualification tests which must be passed before a shooter even becomes eligible to compete for the Expert medal. To earn the Expert medal the junior series entrant had to prove his ability in the standing position, most difficult of all. Using standard N. R. A. 50-foot targets on which the bullseye is actually smaller than a 22-caliber bullet, Gayle had to average 90 per cent accuracy for 50 shots. |

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

etchings of what the Elizabethan writers used to call a flopperoo.

lows the next night in the Cleveland stadium, have a * definite tie-up with the war. All the ‘dough goes to buy balle and bats and associated ecuipment for ihe men in service. And don’t let anybody tell you this isn’t an important contribution. There are men in Ireland today—members of the second A. E. F.—who are pounding catchers’ gloves and swinging bats that were provided by baseball’s bat and ball fund. # ” ”

AND NATURALLY THERE HAS been a somewhat steady flow of sports equipment into the camps on this side of the Atlantic, but the flow must continue and it must grow in volume to keep pace with the rising dimensions of the armed forces. Scarcely a day goes by that this department doesn’t receive letters from men in the camps requesting sports equipment. Mostly it’s bats and balls. One letter we received the other day disclosed the camp, which shall be charitably unnamed, has just begun to get the baseball fields in shape. It’s one of the older camps, too. These conditions must not be permitted to exist. When you yank a youngster, yours or ours, out of his normal routine and put-him in a severely disciplined training camp you can’t expect him to be happy—or any too patriotic, either—unless something is done to ease his loneliness, make his period of readjustment less awkward and abrupt.

NEW YORK, July 3—Up to now the all-star game, set for Monday at the Polo Grounds, has had all the ear-

This shouldn’t be. The game, and the game that fol-

al ¥ 1 AT'S WHERE WE CAME IN. We can support these spor: shows that are geared 100 per cent to war. None of tl\~ others matter greatly. We were unthinking when we vote the other day baseball isn’t trying to do its best. Base all is. And we were probably wrong when we wrote base, : -11 was lagging behind the race tracks in its help. Base} all needs no apology. No matter who wrote that gree:i-light letter out of Washington the sentiments were corzei; baseball is the national game. Racing could end ama and only the professional gamblers would screa n—and we write this as one who has a high esteem for ricing as a sport and a stirring spectacle. We can ever: see romance in it at times. But if either of the spots is an essential in these times it’s baseball and the inargin isn’t even close. sust the same we have fears that the all-star game here isn’t going to go over. If it doesn’t baseball itself wins se forced to shoulder part of the blame. No organfzed) effort has been made to promote it. True, Ford ! president of the National league, and head of the ht and bat fund, called a meeting of the .writers and urge support yesterday. This move would have carried gree jer vitality if it had been made earlier. ” ” n LT THE SAME TIME WE readily admit the writers shot 'd not have waited or had to wait to be urged. To a degize their responsibility to the success of the game is as subs antial as that of baseball itself. One of the functions

newspaper today is to go all out for victory—and § Huds of this sort are a part of that general

ut the writers can’t do it all. Besides they have no machinery for organization. Very few of them are in a

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position to pick up the phone and rally important citie zens, demand radio time and devise inventive promotional

~ stunts. And while the attitude would hardly be generous.

it would be understandable if they groused: “We get no’ help from baseball, yet baseball expects us to put their own show over for them.” Frick was the only important member of baseball present at Wednesday's too-little-too-late rally, The American league wasn't represented at all. Even the ubiquitous Larry MacPhail was not on hand—but it turns out he was busy doing missionary work in behalf of his

"beloved Bums over in Brooklyn.

From the start this figured to be a tough game to sell. Apparently not much thought was given to the date, Monday, July 6, which comes after a long week-day holi= day. Experienced promoters could have told 3 pasenall such a date is seldom attractive.

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THE ULTIMATE COMPOSITION of the two all-star teams didn’t help matters much, either. As to this we are theorizing. There are 20 players from the big town, nine Yankees, seven Dodgers, four Giants, Admittedly they belong, otherwise the all-star teams would not be repre- | sentative. But they aren’t exactly novelties around here and that may be a handicap to the box office. We hope we are wrong but we have a feeling there would be more. excitement if there was no such preponderance of locals. It’s not too late to put the game over with something resembling a mild roar, but it’s. going to take a lot of work both on the part of the writers and baseball. A real flop here might have a diseeuraging effect on the Cleveland game the next night. To Gus H. Fan we say this: Nobody tried to steam you up about this game so do the boys in the service a good turn and steam*yourself up

Cardinals Pare Idle Dodgers’ Lead to 73

NEW YORK, July 3 (U. P)—~— Weather cut major league competition to three games yesterday but the St. Louis Cardinals took advantage of the lull to beat Pittsburgh, 3-1, and pare the idle pace-setting Brooklyn Dodgers’ National league lead to 7% games. Johnny Beazley limited the Pirates to fixe hits for his seventh victory and the Cards’ fourth in a row. It was the first time Beazley had gone the route since May 10. He had a shutout until the ninth but Johnny Barrett's triple and Elbie Fletcher’s infield out gave the Pirates their first run in 21 innings against Red Bird pitching.

Tigers Shade Browns

Cleveland defeated the Chicago White Sox, 7-5, and Detroit shaded the St. Loui$§ Browns, 5-4 in the other games. The White Sox knocked two pitchers from the box

{in a vain rally that netted four runs

before Harry Eisenhaut put out the fire. Chubby Dean held: the Sox to one run until that inning and was credited with his seventh victory. It was the Indians’ fourth straight. Al Benton registered his fifth in a row and sixth of the year, scatitering ‘12 St. Louis hits. Pinky Higgins homered for Detroit. New York =- Philadelphia and Washington-Boston in the American league and Boston-New York in the National were postponed.

Selkirk Injured

The slumping Yankees = were plagued by another headache today when utility outfielder George Selkirk remained in New York to treat his injured back. Selkirk said he was hurt in a night game at Cleveland. The Yanks welcomed the postponement to rally their strength before their important series beginning today. with the runner-up Boston Red Sox, who now trail by only three games. Manager Leo Durocher of the Dodgers nursed a pair of pitching problems as Brooklyn opened at Philadelphia today. He left Curt Davis behind for treatment of a lame back and Whit Wyatt, unable to finish in his last two starts, re-

portedly has a kink in his arm.

Baseball at a Glance

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GAMES TODAY

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (All games at night, Toledo at Columbus. Milwaukee at Kansas City. St. Paul at Minneapolis. Only games schedu ed,

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RESULTS YESTERDAY

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Milwauk 001-2 4 2 Louisville 04x— 6 10 : Vandenberg, Sayles and

St. Soo 00 000 20 101 3 1. 6 i 0 wit, Martin and Andcous: Co! Bare no XO and Keller

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Minneapolis Columbus 000 000 11x. LY in Mungo and Linton; Wilks and

AMERICAN LEAGUE St. Loui 001 120 — 412 1 Detroit 00

Xo py geling, ‘Caster, Galehouse and Hayes; Benton and Tebbetts.

Cleveland 010 un 303 : 13 : Chicago 000 0 1

Dean, Heving, "Eis 00 W- Rear Humphries, Haynes and Turner. Washington at Boston, postponed.

New York at Philadelphia, . postponed.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

300 909 201 15 2 — 3 1

Boston at New York, postponed, Only games scheduled.

Vince Schaefer Gets Commission

Vincent Schaefer, former allstate football player from Southport high schooi, has been accepted into the U, S. naval reserve at Annapolis as an ensign with the physical education instruction division. He is 28 years old. For the past twe years Schaefer has been head baseball and assistant football and basketball coach at Miami high school in Miami, Fla. He attended Indiana university for one and one-half years and was

9! graduated from Stetson university

as a three-letter winner in 1940. His parents live here in the city at 1302 Hoyt ave.

‘at New York, Monday,

‘couple of players for Ccoliper.

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SPORTS Eddie Ash

MORT COOPER the St. Louis Cardinals and Ernie (Jumbo) Bonham of the New York Yankees should be the starting pitchers in the major league all-star game July 6, in the opinion of Daniel M. Daniel of the New York World-Telegram.

“On their records, on ‘eir abilities, they are the standout hurlers of the majors and deserv. starting distinctions,” declares Daniel. “The achievements of: Cooper and Bonham this year are all the throw them against the background of physical troubles in 1941. The St. Louis slinger, vou will recollect, underwent an operation for the removal of bone & olinters from his elbow and Bonham suffered kidney attacks and ack injuries early in the training season last year and it was well | nto June before he could throw a ball in pennant. competition. ¢ “The Giants spotted |:jooper for what he was going to be two years ago. They made #orts to land Mort in a trade by purchase, but Branch Rickey still Ke as playing his hunch. Not so many days back, Horace $toneham fas reported tc have offered $75,000 and a 4 ‘Much to Horace’s amazement, Sam Breadon turned him dow; “Bonham’s greatness in major league competition was foreshadowed by his record with ‘Kansas City. Cooper, on the other hand, was nothing remarkable in the minor leagues.”

Gehrig Played in Six All-Star Tilts ALTHOUGH THE !.te Lou Gehrig was one of the greatest

“money” players in the history of the game and an outstanding

world series star, he coribiled an average of only .222 as the result of participation in six ali-star tilts. However, Gehrig shoved the National league pitchers a.sample of his batting punch in ule all-star frays of 1936, 1937 and 1938, after

- failing to hit safely in @ “total of nine times up in the three dream

games of 1933, 1934 and 1935. In 1936, Columbia Leu walloped a homer in two at-bats; in 1937, he had a homer and a dg! ible in four tries and drove home four runs; he had a single in three: attempts in 1938. . So, in the last half of his all-star career, Geh ig compiled a a4 batting mark.

2 x = ¢ 2 8 = AMERICAN LEAGU = batsmen hold an 18-point edge over the National’s swingers in | nine all-star games thus far played. . . . The composite batting = erages show the junior circuit stars batted 261 as compared with [43 for the National leaguers. . . . However, the National has the e ‘e in homers, seven to six. The composite figuiss give the senior circuit a heavy edge in fielding, .948 to .961. . .[| The National players erred only five times in the nine struggles ompared with 14 boots by the American leaguers.

Cleveland Had Lar gest Attendance

A TOTAL of 401,308 spectators paid $470,395.85 to witness the previous nine big league all-star games, two of which have been played in New York and the others in Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Washington, Cincinnati. St. Louis and Detroit. The first game was ~onceived and promoted by Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago "¢ -ibune, in 1933, and players appearifig in the contest that year and the next were the choices of the public. . . . Since then, the squads have been named by the managers. The game in clevel nd, 1935, brought out the largest attendance and receipts, 69,812 cro ding Municipal stadium and paying $93,692.80. The second larges! turnout was recorded at Yankee stadium in 1939, when 62,892 paid $75,701. . . . Detroit was the scene of the third largest crowd, log year, when 54, 674 paid Admissions totaled $63,267.08. & The fourth largest. crowd, 49,200, attended the initial game in Chicago, but the receiys were $51,000, a little lower than the $52,982 paid by 48,363 at the Bd lo grounds in New York the following year.

Gomez Ahead in Ai18tar Victories

ONLY ONE pitehdk—Veinon Gomez—has been able to garner more than one victory in major all-star competition. . . . The New York Yankee southpaw: was credited with wins in the 1933, 1935 and - 1937 mid-summer clas fos and was charged with a setback in the 1938 tussle. Gomez has an imp, essive lifetime all-star record. . .,. Appearing in five of the contests’ he boasts a .300 earned run -average, having allowed only six earne;: runs in 18 innings. . . . He has fanned nine, walked three and dole: out only 11 safeties. Oddly enough, no Oltcher has been charged with more than one all-star defeat. :

“ibe Box Score

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1b Milasevich, 2b . Ardiz ola, Pieeses

Levy. ' Sacrifices—Ardibase Jun Jon harein to Milose-

% Poni y, Skelity to McDowell to Mc. on Dases—Kansas City s—off Poat

: Reid 1 Umpires —Peters. McKiniey. Time—1:55.

3. Hits—o. n 7 i 5 in 2 innings. Posing. Achar Johnson and

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TRIBE BATTING

| three lucky runs in the first inning | before the Tribe defenders were |able to spot the ball properly in the field. The team in the field is placed at a disadvantage just before darkness settles and when the tower lights are blazing in the fielders’ eyes. Ray Poat’s streak was snapped at six straight and Reid was bumped hard in the eighth after taking over the Tribe mound toil. In the ninth, however,

erratic fielding faults and the Blues said farewell by scoring four times in the last round.

Blues Stretch League Lead Kansas City stretched its league

and Minneapolis slipped from third to fifth. The Indians now are nine gamies off the Kansas City pace and three games away from the first division. Incidentally, Toledo has picked up ground recently and now is within three games of the sixth-place Indians. Today is an open date for the Redskins and they welcome the vacation. The home boys are in a team-wide batting slump and a rest may bring them out of it. Tomorrow, the Redskins swing back into heavy duty at Louisville, playing the fast-stepping Colonels in an afternoon double-header. Then on Sunday the Tribesters will be back in their own park with the Colonels in a second double-header. The Indians also will play the Colonels at Victory field Monday night. Attendance Holds Up

Another big crowd turned out at Victory field last night. It was “ladies’ night” and total attendance was 5559, including 500 soldiers from Ft. Harrison who were > guests of the ball club. Kansas City’s Ardizoia was so stingy with hits last night that the Indians only got one in the first five innings, a single by Joe Moore after one out and one on in the second. The “threat” ended as Bill Skelley grounded into a double play. In the sixth ‘Rabbit McDowell got on by a walk and scored on Milton Galatzer’s double down the right field line. In the eighth MecDowell again drew a pass and scored on John McCarthy's double. The Tribe's fourth hit was Norman Schleuter’s double in the ninth after two down. The Indians made four errors, the Blues one. The Blues scored three in the first, one in the fourth, two in the eighth and four in the ninth. "Eric Tipton and Ed Levy belted triples for the Blues, and George Scharein and Ken Sears poked out doubles. Mike Milosevich collected three

the Indians fell back into their|

lead over second-place Milwaukee: to five games, Columbus advanced |} to third in the American association | § race, Louisville moved up to fourth|

about it. That's the best way, anyhow.

Stingy Ardizoia Gives Tribe 4 Hits; Kansas City Wins, 10-2

The Indianapolis Indians were weak with the willow and rattled in the field again last night and the Kansas City Blues made it three out of four in the series by walking off with the finale, 10 to 2. The Redskins were held to four hits by Rinaldo Ardizoia, while the

league leaders collected 12 off Ray Poat and Earl Reid. The Blues again got the breaks on the lights “in the gloaming™ and garnered

pitching winning] ;

Poat . . , Blues Stop. Streak

blows, scored three runs and batted in three. It was a large evening for the Blues’ second sacker. Best fielding play of the game was a diving stop by Johnny MecCarthy on Larry Rosenthal’s drive in the eighth. McCarthy then turned over on his back and tossed the ball to Reid, who covered first, in time to erase the runner. Joe Bestudik has been up 10 times without a hit and the slump has spread to his fielding around third base. He needs a couple of

hits to put him back on his feet. 5

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Midgets Enter Funk Speedway

Times Special WINCHESTER, July 3.—A switch from big cars to midget racers will be made tomorrow for the second speed program of the year at Funk’s motor speedway. i The announcement has drawn full fieid of 35 cars, leading drives in the Midwest fesiring to test t! small racers over the fast halftracks. Six events are on the pro . first full midget card ever offeged here, with time trials to start {at noon and the first race at 2{15 p. m. (C. W. T)).

Athletics to Play Franklin Cubs

Lloyd Cassady and Russ Imbler

will divide the pitching assigne ments Sunday afternoon for the Fall Creek Athletics when they play

the Pranklin Cubs at Franklin in &

a double-header. Players will leave 2530 Park ave. Sunday at 11 a. m.. The Alois have open dates Aug. 30, Sept. and Labor Day. Write Harry - Hershberger, 2530 Park ave. or call

Wa-8028 at noon hour.

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