Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1942 — Page 20

Match Roce At Speedramel

Bus Wilbert, local midget pilot, has & double role on tonight's spe-. ¥

Unpopularity of Dodgers Stems {From Office of Unpredictable

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Veteran Field Expected for Vacated Title

‘1 you so much as address the ball} at next week's annual Indiana ama golf tournament at the West Lafayette Country club you one of the prizes, according I Wagoner, state golf association sdcretary, = | For Q'liff has announced prizes for men 50 \to 60 years of age; men over 60; father and son combination and prizes for the best four-man team from any, one club. Presenfation of these priwes, with the exception of the flight! awards, will’ be based on wo day's 36-hole gualify‘The state champion will get a gold, diamond-studded medal, the Indialia Golf association’s championship cup and will share in

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent : NEW YORK, J talk about the New York Yan“collapse” and make up your mind that the Brooklyn Dodgers’ gefing 8%.game lead in the the war stamps and bonds. league will get bigger. Be- Wanit Field of 200

| eause as the majors go back to work| wagoner is. looking for a starting is today after their all-star holiday, fleld of 200 anki if you care to enter both circuit champions are better|the phone musinber is Market 4512

than at the same time last year.|and 'the address is 1108 Merchant

| over the rest of the American league| A new champiin is certain this field, a margin that is a half game year for Henry 1imbrook, Indiana better than they had at the 1941 university golfer wi1o won last year's midway mark. Sox Replace Indians At this point last season, the nkees led by only 3% games and then short-circuited the opposition

East and can’t find the time to leave. But you may’ still read)the

id he plays a flag by a 17-game margin—an “mean” game. }

that won them designation as baseball's super tea. : 36-Hole Final Round ‘The rest of the junior circuit is| wgonday and will be used @lmost the same as last season.|so the 36 holes of (ving. Match Boston's red-hot Red Sox have re- play will begin Wednesday with two | the Cleveland Indiansas the|, . 4c that day “and | two more challengers but the separating mar- Thursday. Flights under the cham-

are almost the same. The Red |... oy Smplle play | Tauistay

Tam O'Shanter national open July ington Senators, both hopelessly|9.26 if his game, shows real ¢omeep in the second division, will be|petitive strength in the state ama- ] of a three-team cellar fight.|teur. fcago is sixth, the A's 2} games| png Talbot, Bloomington, is anback—and the Senators are last, 8lotner veteran entered along With » and a half behind Philadel-l1ye Cummings, Indianapolis Coun-

Last year at this time, Brooklyn] The Cincinnati Buckeyes and the eve.on tel own ball game Birmingham Black Barons of the

advantage over the Proceeds of the games, sponsored i glipeeie O I the Federation of Associated the race: got closer, turning the

‘most cliffe, Al Gipson, Diamnod Pipkin, Paul Hardy and Tommy Sampson.

Dodgers have the pnt plate-power in the league ‘may have trouble in their twone set with the Reds, who have n to third from last year’s rth place. Three games each with the Pirates, Cubs and ) » dond-place St, Louis plays the h-place New York Giants toand Chicago, which has climbed

Latins Near

Net Finals

ORANGE, N. J, July 9 (U. P)—

VU! less Streak | a of Ecuador deICAGO, July 9~Eddie Miller,|feated x L Smith and aves’ shi , went into thelof New York, 6-1, 8-1, entering the llistar! game with the ‘distinction |doubles semi-finals: having played 39 consecutive pes without an error, gi

.teur golf tournament Monday

When state amateur golfers begin play in the annual Indiana amamorning at’ thé West Lafayette club four men shown above will be there as definite contenders for the title.

1. Henry Timbrook, last year's winner, will not defend his title because of his work in the East.

2. ‘Charles Harter, Speedway’ par equslr, will seek bis first state title.

2. Pll Tel, Blovsibigion, always poles fasorite Sasiking wien geile

4. Dale Morey, local district champion from Martinsville, wishes to improve his game in the state amateur, then proceed to the, Tam O'Shanter national open July 20-26 at Chicago.

5. Ike Cummings, Indianapolis Country cldh, always gives the. leading shooters a run for their prizes.

“SPORTS. . By Eddie Ash

AMERICA’S college golfers will be well represented in the all-American amateur tournament to be held at the Tam O’Shanter country club, Chicago, from July 20 to 26, in conjunction with the $15,000 Tam O’Shanter national open. MORE THAN 40 of the country’s leading collegiate players, most of whom participated in the recent national intercollegiate tournament at South Bend, Ind., have already filed for the Tam O’Shanter

event, according to the club pro, Bill Gordon, who is in charge of entries.

Among the campus golf experts who will be seen in action are

: Manuel de la Torre, the Madrid-born Northwestern university sopho-

more who entered the South Bend tournament as an unknown and displayed a consistently brilliant brand of golf that carried him to the runner-up position; Earl Stewart, 21-year-old Louisiana State university student who held the national intercollegiate title last year, and James McCarthy, University of Illinois student and current Big Ten golf champion. Among other college linksmen. who will participate are Dick Haskell, Northwestern university; Dale Morey, Martinsville, Ind, Louisiana State university teammate of Stewart; John Holmstrom, from the University of Illinois and president of the natiomal collegiate athletic association; Dan Cravens of Indiana university, John Williams of the University of Minnesota, Charles Lind of the University of Denver and Harold Paddock of the Universify of Southern California,

College Golfers Are in Expert Class

IN PAYING his respects to college golf in general, Pro Bill Gor-

don of Tam O'Shanter said: “The brand of golf played on America’s college courses can stand

event against the best competition the country hés to offer. EE EY eo atiumioe are unable to compete here because of summer school commitments, The army and navy have taken many college golfers already and will take a great many more in the months to come. Nevertheless, colleges will be well and even brilliantly represented at the all- |. = America.” t

Notre Dame Gridders Attend Summer School THIRTY-TWO MEMBERS of the Notre Dame football squad are

on the Irish campus for the summer semester, which means they will be graduated at least one semester earlier than if they studied

| only two terms a year. ... The third 15-week semester was added at

the request of the government in order to make it possible for college and university men to complete their studies before joining the ‘armed forces. .. . They can now attain degrees in two and two-thirds years insteaa of four. Included in the 32 are 20 freshmen who, as a result of the acoelerated program ai Notre Dame, will have only two years of varsity football competition. To. = ® ‘se ONLY THREE daylight games are on in the big leagues today, the others (five) are scheduled at night. . . . The day games happen to be in parks that are not equipped with lighting systems, Yankee stadium, Fenway park and Wrigley field. . . . The American ‘associa-~ tion schedule ealls for six night tilts, with double-headers st Colum: bus and Milwaukee,

Week-day daylight baseball is gradually fading out of the picture, 1 and afternoon baseball “extras” are a thing of the past. . . . You ye-. :

member them, don't you . . . box scores and everything?

ENT NOVI formes plliher x the BE Tous Corlinele aid JES their farms, is in the army because he lost a fosu of a con... , He |" and his brother, John, pitching for Atlanta in the Southern associa-

tion, supported their family and one of the two was scheduled fo go ta the army.

They agreed to toss a coin to decide the question snd Henry Bow I tha mainsiey Soundsman of We WSOEL Seam #4 Camp

en, Va.

" ‘{Tipton, ' 201; | (amateur), Gary, and Harold Sm:

Hamilton Win: State Open

ELWOOD, July 8 (U., P)~" 74 records fell by the wayside yesiciday as Bob Hamilton, 27-year: 1 professional from Evansville, on his second Indiana open golf ch: pionship at the Elwood Courii club. i Hamilton carded a 277 for the a holes, supplanting the old op on record of 278 set by himself 3rd Bill Heinlein, Noblesville, in the 1 a8 tournament at Lake Wawassee. [nn the playoff match of that yer

MacPhail, Napoleon Durocher

Writers Hold That Pitching Is Too Good to Be True and That Team Is Due for Slump

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent J CLEVELAND, O., July 9.—Whenever and wherever the a young and intermediate men who make

thrown together in a strange city

hours talking shop. They discuss this pitcher and that shortstop and

they heatedly belittle or praise some

The excursion of these itinerant Boswells to this bustling, lake shore

metropolis was no exception. There was only a slight change in fhe rcutine. In previous years, conversation was dominated by the New York * Yankees. This ‘season the team under the microscope was Brooklyn and the question was “do the Bums really rate their lead?”

‘Riding High and Wide The facts of this case are evident.

As the major leagues resume play

the Dodgers hold an 8!-game lead over St. Louis and one of a dozen games over Cincinnati. This margin is almost historic in an organization famed for its stretch battles. And as far as the Dodgers are conceimed, the margin borders on the sheerly impossible. The Bums lead the league in games won and lost, in batting and in fielding. :

Individually, they have virtual

strangle-holds in the batting and||

pitching races. To a man, they are riding high and wide. Yet, a surprisingly large number of the writers who gathered in Cleveland for the second all-star game are convinced a reaction soon will be noted. - The reporters acknowledge that

’ Brooklyn is blessed with tremendous

power and that the power was imported by Larry MacPhail. They admit that the Dodger infield is so tight that it is hard to drive a pill through it. But they also hold that the Dodg-

,|er pitching is too good to be true

and that a serious slump is in im-

mediate prospect. ‘The Brooklyn twirlers are so well seasoned that they are over-ripe. Possibly. the patting will carry them through to the pennant because there is no other contender with enough power

8 to develop into a serious threat.

But the .supposed experts, while almost conceding the Dodgers ‘the flag because of the lack of opposition, .are all but certain that’ the same National league kings will fall again into the pitfalls of the world series and that alfhough they may be a good team for their circuit they ‘are not a good team, as good

MM teams are judged.’

Hamilton In the somite wom yee ¥

holes Was 66, lowest in the mee: Five strokes behind Hamilton i

in the final round, shooting 69. is total for the tournament was | ‘2, {six under par. It Other high finishers were Wai Th Timberman, Indianapolis, 284; Tinder, Elwood, 287; Harold Wi: Terre Haute, and Fred Grons i: 1 Indianapolis, 200; Floyd Hambizn, Mike Stepan: |

Crawfordsville, 203; Larry Imb: (f, Hartford City, and Dick Tay n,

Frank Leahy to Address Club

The Notre Dame club of Ind: i= apolis will hold its annual golf ti - inament and dinner July 14, at !:.e Indianapolis Country club, Thou 1s

y| short time.

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The lack of balance between the offense and the defense is the major argument the writers advance. But there is another reason, too, which must be recognized as the offspring of the theory that wishing will make it so. For the 1942 Dodgers are to the writers perhaps the most un-

| popular team of the last 20 years, °

Unpleasant to Work With

This unpopularity doesn’t stem

from the ‘bottom—it seeps down from above. The reporters have no fight with the players. But they do have a surprisingly bitter argument with the management, meaning MacPhail and Leo (The Lip)

11! Durocher. Both men are loud, arro-

gant and selfcentered, and they rapidly are becoming much foo unpleasant to live and work ‘with. ‘MacPhail is an unpredictable sort. At times one of the most forthright men in baseball, he is at other times given to the sort of

| tantrums for which junior is sound-

ly pummeled with a razor strop.

a writer is critical in the slightest , he finds We) Brooklyn clubhouse barred. An Old Bromide The number of sport writing friends’ now by the

Brooklyn club may be counted on the right hand of three-fingered

Brown. The, situation has become; men who|

so critical that even tabbed Brooklyn as the National league winner are sitting back and

summoning all the jinxes the've|

ever heard of. Barred dressing rooms and tan‘trums io gotrd ‘egocentric poses. are novelties for a time—but only a y the universal attitude of the v is summoned

in that old bromide—whatever hap-/

pens fo Brooklyn, evs ‘hope it is nothing trivial.

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| TOPPING THE FEATURE ) WEDNESDAY NIGHT

baseball writing their business are they invariably spend their leisure

particular team.

Ward Carries Off Medalist Honors

SPOKANE, Wash. July 9 (U. P).—Corp. Bud Ward, Seattle, national amateur champion and defending titlist, carried medalist honors into the first round of the Western amateur golf championship today. : Ward's game suffered from lack of practice but he scored a four-under-par 68 yesterday with a 36-hole . total , of 141. He shot eight birdies to forge ahead of his fellow~townsman, Marsh Hammond who placed second in the trials with 143. : Wilford. Wehrle, Racine, Wis, and Fireman Bruce McCormack

cial racing program at the Indianc, apolis Speedrome. ; In addition to seeking nonors tn the 50-lap championship race, wil bert has been

‘{hamed as one of

the four Hoosiers

against a quartet of out-of-state

of Indianapolis,’ Kip Young of Muncie and Bob Breading of

Greenfield have been named: along with Wilbert, to carry the colors of : the Indiana team against “Lucky” Purnell of Birmingham, Ala.; Bill Brereton of San Diego, Cal.; Elmer Selfrick of Vineland, N. J, and Andy DeVercelly of New York. A total of 110 laps of racing: makes up tonight's program. ° Fole lowing the time trials at 6:30 p. m, all qualifiers will compete in the \ elimination contests starting at 8 p. m. The special match is scheduled at 9 o'clock and is fol« lowed by the 10-lap Class B feature at 9:15 p. m. and the 50-lap head-

Wilbert

of Los Angeles, tied for third. :

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