Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1942 — Page 16
Minor League Clubs Uncertain About 1943 Baseball Season
3 Twin Bills Face Indians On the Road
Scheduled for 2 Games,
At Milwaukee Tonight
Times Special MILWAUKEE, July 31 —Cgiy "Hartnett, Indianapolis Indians’ manager, is laughing up his. sleeve today. Gabby wak more than pleased with the be’s showing against 8t. Paul and Minneapolis before the team arrived here to play the Brewers. The Indians grabbed the Miller series two games to one and were to play a double-header with Milwaukee last night, but the weatherman said nix.
Cancellation of last night’s games gives the Indians’ mound staff a :
needed rest. Two games are sched-
uled for tonight and tomorrow and| §
another twin bill against the league-
leading Kansas City Blues Sunday.
Brewers’ Aces Ready
Chief Hogsett will pitch one of tonight's contests and Lefty Bob Logan or Woody Rich is due for the other game. Jolly Cholly Grimm of the Brewers has two of his ace hurlers waiting for the Tribe. Ed Hanyzewski is seeking his fourth straight victory since coming down from the Chicago Cubs and Walter Lanfranconi also is due to start one of the contests. The miserable thing about playing in the Beer city is that Indianapolis has won but one of seven games here this season. The two teams, however, have split two four-game series at Indianapolis.
Stiner Appointed All-Star Coach
CHICAGO, July 31 (U. P).~— Alonzo L. (Lon) Stiner, football coach at Oregon State university, has been appointed as the West's representative on the collegiate allstar coaching staff, it was announced today. Stiner was the second of the coaches to be appointed. Homer Norton, football coach at Texas A. and M. accepted the position as the south’s representative on the staff yesterday. The all-stars open training Aug. 8 for their game with the Chicago Bears in Soldiers field Aug. 28.
Cards Have Speed
ST. LOUIS, July 31.—Speed of St. Louis Cardinals is illustrated by the fact that they lead the National
Capital City league at 2 p. m.
Lux.
Amateur Day Sunday
eyed slugger apparently has chosen this famous tandem before even his fourth major league season is completed.
Ruth’s home run standard and Speaker’s general all-around excellence, of course, are in little danger from Williams but the mantle that once covered Babe and Tris is being fitted for this tow-headed kid from San Diego, Cal.
Department Leader
Williams hit 406 to win last year’s major league batting title and at the current stage leads the American league with .350, just .003 points behind Pete Reiser of Brooklyn, the National league leader.
However, toothpick Ted also paces the majors’ home run department with 22 four-baggers, leads in runs batted in with 97 and runs scored with 84 and is just one hit away
League in total doubles and triples.
from the first five hitters with 118.
Baseball
at a Glance
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Minneapolis 56 INDIANAPOLIS .. § Louisville 51 Toledo St. Paul
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn St. Louis Cincinnati New York Chicago yi Soirsh
RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
INDIANAPOLIS at Milwaukee; games postponed. ;
(13 Innings) Columbus 010 000 001 000 2— 4 9 0 St. Paul . 100 000 010 000 0— 2 10 1 Gabler, Brecheen and Heath, Blaemire; Swift, Coffman and Andrews.
(First Game) (7 Innings; Agreement) Toledo 0 Minneapolis 042 000 x— 6 8 1 McKain, Kimberiin and Spindel; Kelley and Giuliani " (Second Game) Toledo at Minneapolis called at end of 2 third inning; no game.
% Cincinnati
AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 202 040 12-11 18 1 St. Louis 012 008 000— 6 8 Newsom, Masterson and Evans; oe mueller, Caster and Sewell, Ferrell.
Boston 200 000 001— 3 7 2 Cleveland 001 000 30x— 4 7 0 Judd and Peacock; Harder and Hegan.
(First Game) 100 002 200— 5 14 ©
White,
Philadelphia Detroit Besse, L. Harris and Wagner; Trout and Tebbetts. (Second Game) Philadelphia 310 001 020— 7 12 Detroit . 000 500 010—~ 6 8 Marchildon, "Wolff he Swift, Wagner;
? | Bridges, Gorsica, Wilson. Newhouser and
Tebbetts. Only games scheduled,
NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago S00 110 000— 2 9 1 Brooklyn 00 062 0lx— 9 14 38 a, Warneke od “MoCullonghs Allen, Macon and Owen.
010 100 000— 2 4 2 020 002 00x— 4 6 1 West; Naylor,
Philadelphia Walters and Lamanno, Pearson and Bragan,
Pittsburgh at Boston, postponed.
GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (All games at night.) INDIANAPOLIS at Milwaukee,
games. Louisville at Kansas City. Toledo at Mineapolis, two games. Columbus at St. AMERICAN Boston at Detroit. New York at St. Louis, twilight doubleheader. Washington at Chicago, tonight. Philadelphia at Cleveland, tonight. NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati at Boston. St. Louis at New York.
two
LEAGUE
Only games scheduled.
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Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, tonight. Only games scheduled.
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'Forget Speaker and Ruth and Watch Williams Set Records’
By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 31.—His popularity may have waned and this may be his last season in organized baseball but Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox’ problem prodigy, seemed headed today for one of the greatest individual batting achievements in baseball. Forget Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth because this flat-hipped, eager-
this year to outshine the deeds of
Stan Spence of Washington heads this group with 138. Williams walloped his 22d homer yesterday with one on but the Red Sox dropped 122 games behind the Yankees with Cleveland when the Indians hung up a 4-3 triumph. The Sox retained a .003 edge in the percentages. A three-run rally in the seventh off Oscar Judd accounted for the win. Ken Keltner singled and then Judd walked three to force in the tying run. Mel Harder singled in two more runs, clinching his ninth victory.
Senators Outscore Browns
Detroit divided with the Athletics, winning the first game, 11-5, but dropping the nightcap, 7-6. Each club made 14 hits in the first game but the Tigers decided the issue with a six-run splurge in the eighth, featured by Pinky Higgins’ grandslam homer. Four singles gave the A's the victory in the eighth of the nightcap after a homer by Dick Siebert had tied the score. Washington’s 13 hits defeated St. Louis, 11-6. Buck Newsom, with ninth-inning relief from Walt 1|/ Masterson} held the Browns to eight hits for his eighth victory. Walt Judnich homered for St. Louis in the sixth with two on and Jimmy Vernon slammed another -with one on for Washington in the third. Brooklyn blasted Vern Olsen from the mound with a six-run assault in the fifth inning and coasted to a 9-2 triumph over the Cubs. Johnny Allen was credited with his 10th win although Max Macon pitched from the sixth inning until the finish. Novikoff Homers
The Cubs collected nine hits including a home run by Lou Novikoff in the fifth. Brooklyn made 14. The Phils broke a 2-2 tie with two runs in the sixth and defeated the Reds last night, 4-2. A single by Nick Etten, Bucky Walters’ poor throw of Ron Northey’s grounder and Pinky May’s fly to center gave the Phils their first run in the sixth. Northey scored when Bobby Bragan tripled to center. Eric Tipton accounted for the Reds’ first run when he hit a home run in the second inning. . Cincinnati tied the score in the fourth but Ike Pearson relieved Earl Naylor and shut out the Reds with three hits the rest of the way. The defeat was Walters’ seventh against 12 wins; the victory, Pearson’s first.
Ft. Wayne Gelding Wins 2:20 Trot
LOGANSPORT, July 31 (U. PJ). —A Ft. Wayne-owned bay gelding; Matt Scott, racing for the Earl Pierce stables and driven by ‘Jack Dispanette, won the $30 2:20 trot at the Cass county fair yesterday. ‘The Indiana Trotting and Pacing Horse association stake for 3-year-old pacers with a purse of $435 was won by King McBay, owned by the Midwest stables of DuQuoin, Iil. Wet track caused postponement until Friday of the third race on the program—a 2-year-old trot.
Major Leaders
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Williams, Boston Gordon, New York . Wright, Chicago .... 63 2 Spence, Vashingion 2:3 rr,
Reiser, Brooklyn Lombardi, Boston .... 74 Medwick, Brooklyn ... Louis .... 84
Musial, St. . 1 Slaughter, St. Louis... . 94 368 61 117 .
HOME RUNS Williams. R. Sox. 22|Camilli Mize, Giants .... 19/York, Laabs, Drowns. DiMaggio, Yanks I
Dodgers.. 1 igers io eller, Yankees...
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Large Variety of Colors
at Victory Field
Playing in the first game of the Indianpaolis Amateur Baseball association’s Amateur day celebration Sunday at Victory field will be Gold Medal Beer of the Municipal league and St. Roch’s of the Schwitzer-Cumnins and Kingan will play the second game at 4 p. m. Gold Medal pitchers shown above are, front row (left to right), Ed Dersch, John Munchell and Sylvester In the back row, left to right, are Joe Lease and Ralph Gatti,
Largest Crowd Ever Expected
The largest crowd ever is expected to turn out Sunday afternoon for the 30th annual Amateur Day celebration at Victory field. The Indianapolis Amateur Baseball association is sponsoring the event and the city’s four leading amateur baseball clubs will clash in a double-header. The first game at 2 p. m. will pit St. Roch’s youthful players of the Capitol City league against the veteran Gold Medal Beer nine of the Municipal league. The Beermen are defending city champions this year. The 4 o'clock game will feature Schwitzer-Cummins and Kingan. A two-inning junior contest between the Rhodius and 49th and Arsenal playgrounds will be played in between the two games.
Soldiers Admitted Free
Each game is scheduled for seven innings. On the free gate list according to Clyde Hoffa, association president, are the Ft. Harrison band and color guard, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, members of the Knot-Hole Gang and all service men in uniform. Luke Walton, WISH sports announcer, will act as master of ceremonies, The four clubs figuring in the celebration have won 41 ball games this year and lost 10. The Schwitz-re-Cummins squad enters with the best record having won 13 and lost but one tilt.
THE LINEUPS SCHWITZER- _ KINGAN CUMMIN 3 Boswel, If Broderick, 2b Dodds, cf G. Hodge, ss Yovanovich, ¢ Smith, 3b Bigelow, 1b Hagerty, rf Shanks, p
Garrick, 3b L. Cato, ss L. Young, ¢ Lady, rf Wilson, 1b F. Cato, If Williams, cf Beplay, 2b J. Lease, p GOLD MEDAL BEER Garrick, 3b Stevenson, cf * Pryor, 1b Lady, c¢ L. Cato, ss Tinker, If Drissell, rf Beplay, 2b Munchell, p,
Trap Shoot
The Speedway Conservation club will sponsor a merchandise and practice shoot Sunday at Vermont st. and Grande ave, Bring your gun the club has the shells.
ST. ROCH
Meyer, ss Riley, 1b Schieb, 2b Smock, rf Hohlt, 3b Bessenbach, If L. Buegler, cf Stull, ¢ Marshall, p
‘Work or Fight’
tinue operation in 1943 on about
For example, J. Alvin (ardner,
next year.” “I recall the ‘work or fight’ edict in the last war which closed down baseball in most areas,” he continues. “Well, that war ¢an’t compare with the seriousness of the present one. That's why [ say if the war continues, a lot of things will be closed, not alone baseball.” Remarks of prexy Geardner are pertinent because he heads an A-1 league which depends upon rail for the movement of its club: rather than bus transportation, used largely by the lower minors.! And Eddie Mulligan, general manager of the Salt Lake Bees of the Pioneer league (Class C) says, “Sure—I'd like to keep going next season, but I don't see what we're going to use for players. | I remember the last war too vividly| to have any false hopes. Some of the other managers in my league hope to keep going, but it sounds like whistling in the dark, because the 18-year-olds will be going into the army soon, and when! they go, there goes our. source of supply.”
business: manager of the Madison, Wis., Blues-—a member of the Chicago Cubs’ farm organizaticn—says, “I don’t think there will be much minor league baseball, as we play
In Non-Title Bout
NEW YORK, July 31 (U. Ray (Sugar) Robinson, Iarlem’s dancing dynamiter, aims at a knockout tonight when he tangles for the second time with lightweight champion Sammy Angott at Madison Square Garden in a nontitle, 10-round bout. The business of extending his rec-
ord winning streak of 121 consecutive victories has palled upon Robinson, the slender, young Harlem welterweight, who wants to garner quick lustre by belting out Angott, the toughest man he ever met, and from whom he barely won their first engagement ai Philadelphia a year ago.
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Pros Seek Open's $1000 1st Prize
ST. PAUL, July 31 (U, P).—A field including most of the nation’s best golf pros tees off today in the $5000 St. Paul open tournarnent. Playing the relatively easy Keller course, the golf stars anticipated low scores in the 72-hole event. Eighteen holes will be played today
{and tomorrow and the 36-hole final
Sunday. Among the 150 golfers competing for the $1000 first prize were: Harry Cooper, three times winner of the event; Johnny Revolta and Horton Smith, each of whom has won the title twice; Bern Hogan, Clayton Haefner, Chandler Harper, Herman Keiser and Wilfred Wehrle, one of the leading amateurs. Smith is the defending champion.
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Junior Tourney
CULVER, July 31 (U., ¥.).—Masj. James Bishop, chairman of the United States Lawn Tennis association, said today that 106 entries had been received for the |INational junior and boys’ tennis tolirnament which opens Monday afi Culver Military academy. Eight Indiana
| youths are entered.
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In similar vein, Rollie Barnum,|
Harlem Dynamiter |
Majors Planning for Coming Season; Little Teams Recall
Edict of 17
When 18-Year-Olds Leave for Army Minor Officials Ask Where Will They Get Players
By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 31--Major league baseball clubs plan to con-
the same basis as this season, if
the government permits, but minor league clubs are uncertain, despite|; assurances from Judge Ww. G. Bramham, the minor league czar. ;
president of the Texas league, says,
“if the war continues there isn’t going to be any organized baseball}
it here, in existence next year. We|: do all of our traveling by bus, and|: next year, I doubt if we will have|: any tires or gas for the bus. Sol
how are we going to get from one league city to another. are we going to get the players fo another year?”
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Minors Aren't Blue
These statements are merely some of the more pessimistic obtained in a United Press survey of the nation. They represent by no means the general optimism that prevails through organized baseball, but they
come as & warning that minor league ball, as presently played, may not be continued on the same basis in 1943. This is true, the survey shows, despite assurance by Judge Bramham, who says, “I want to make it clear that the minor leagues are neither blue, disheartened or discouraged by present conditions.” He added that despite the loss of approximately 1477 players by draft and retirement to take war plant jobs, there are still sufficient men to “present a good admission’s worth of baseball.”
Transportation Question
Judge ‘Bramham explained that the minor clubs, who employ an average of 6500 men and who play to an average of 15,500,000 spectators in a year, “have heard no crying from any of the clubs.” He admitted that about 15 clubs already have gone out of existence because of war conditions and that the gas stiuation in the east is complicating transportation of players. “We'll go just as far as the government will let us,” he said. “If they give us the sign, we'll have a great season ahead.” President Frank J. Shaughnessy of the International league said that the future of baseball in the minors was largely a question of transportation, He emphasized that the three double-A circuits—the International, American and Pacific were fortunate in traveling by rail, as were the Southern association and Texas league of the A-1 group. He concluded, “when you get down into the class B, C and D leagues, where virtually all movement is made by bus, then you have a real problem—a greater problem than is presented by lack of players or attendance.”
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Court Class |No. 1 Twosomes
For Tri-State Golf Named
Dale Morey. Tim David - To Lead Hoosiers
The three No. 1 teams for the Tri-State golf tournament tomore row and Sunday at Highland have j| been selected, according to Clifford Waggoner, secretary of the Indiana state golf association. ; Indiana’s No. 1 team and grand ¢| defending champions will be Dale :|Morey, 1942 Indianapolis District titlist from: Martinsville, and Tim i | David, Indianapolis, - Ohio will send Maurice McCarthy ‘land John Finn. McCarthy, several 2 |times medalist in the national amas *|teur, was teamed last year with
Johnny Fischer. Both of the Ohio teammates are from Cincinnati.
51 Teams Entered
Kentucky will send Bill Duckwall, Louisville, and Vincent Stegeman, Ft. Thomas, as its No. 1 team. Altogether 51 teams will partici pate beginning at 10 a. m. tomore row and 9 a. m. Sunday. Competition tomorrow will be Scotch foursome with players taking alternate shots at one ball. Sunday's competition will be best ball. The grand championship will be decided } on the low score over the 36 holes,” The five low teams from any one state will receive a team placque, saw drivers in the Consolidated | WV 2F bonds and stamps, also ate to
> . A .~"|be awarded as prizes in addition to Speedway circuit bring their racing) miniature replicas of past trophies, season to a close at the Indianap- :
olis Speedrome last night when Huston Bundy of Dayton, O., captured first place in the 100-lap headliner to clinch the class A driver’s championship at the East side track. ; Bundy led most of the way throughout the lengthy feature, but when his last lap spurt carried him across the finish line almost six lengths ahead of Swede Carpenter of Indianapolis he settled the deadlock between himself and “Lucky” Purnell for the driver's crown. Harry Hart rolled into third place in the main event to the amazement cf the fans who had seen his motor catch on fire on the 91st lap. Hart kept his car under | control and was able to stave off LeRoy Warriner’s challenge. Indiana drivers made a clean sweep of the top awards in the class B event. Bob Breading was the winner; Carpenter also won second place in this race, and Bob Wilson was third. The event was marred by Tommy Gray's crash on the south turn. ®*Gray’s car turned over and slid down the embankment before the driver could climb from his seat. Gray sustained only minor bruises. - Complying with the ODT orders to halt speed exhibitions at midnight, the Speedrome closed its gates and will plan no more pro-
Louise Brough
Miss Louise Brough, Beverly Hills, Cal, beat Margaret Donnelly, East Hampton, N. Y., 6-1, 6-0, yesterday in the second round of the Maidstone invitation tennis tournament at East Hampton. Miss Brough is seeded fourth.
Bundy Takes Midget Finale
Ten thousand midget racing fans
Tonight's Fight Card
A top ten-round heavyweight battle will headline the five-pout pro boxing bill to be staged tonight at the open air Sports Arena by the Hercules athletic club. The complete program follows: Main event — 10 rounds— heavyweights. Leo (Red) Bruce, 185, Indianapolis, vs. Roy Tibbetts, 190, Danville, Ill Semi-windup—eight rounds— middleweights. Tito Taylor, 157, Chieago, Ill, vs. Al Sheridan, 159, Indianapolis. Special Prelim—six rounds— welterweights. Bobby Berger, 147, Chicago, 1ll., vs. Jerry (Little Galento) Pittro, 145, Los Angeles, Cal. Prelim—four rounds—welterweights. ‘Jim Tudor, 146, Indianapolis, vs. “Tiger” Kiggans, 145, Indianapolis. Prelim—four rounds—featherweights. Gene Miller, 126, Indianapolis, vs. Charlie Tech, 126, Indianapolis. The first bout will start at 8:30 o'clock.
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