Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1942 — Page 14

. concluding series to be played at Toledo.

SPORTS

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WRITING in the Columbus Dispatch, Russ Need-

“ham, sports editor, asks the ‘Red Birds win the pennant?

question “can or will the ’ + « « Then he answers it

himself in this fashion, “considering their position in the race and their tenure in first place, we say yes.” Expert Needham is not overlooking Kansas City and Milwaukee but the Birds still are in front by a point and he sizes up the dash

to the wire, in part, as follows:

“If things were to move along as they have recently there would - be little reason to question the possibility. But there still is that

- the four games when the Hens were games which they had no business to win, incidentally, and lost the one Toledo took on pure luck. In Toledo things easily could go quite differently. : Another factor against the Red Birds is that Minneapolis, which might reasonably be expected to lend a helping hand with some . victories over Milwaukee and Kansas City, hasn't produced often. : “In that regard Columbus has the tough end of the schedule. ' The late season has developed strength in the east—Louisville and § Toledo hoth striving desperately to " apolis still cherishing some small hope. For that reason Columbus x 32 has encountered a battle wherever they've gone all season. Kansas .

City and Milwaukee haven't.

‘Columbus won three of. in Columbus recently, won three

make the playoffs and Indian-

“Columbus has gone through the season with fine pitching as

"its main stock in trade. The hitting

2 ~ fielding has been generally weak and . ever, there are signs that all these may pick up during the waning

or days of the race.

~ Birds Pick Up in Batting

has been a little below fair, the the base running erratic. How-

“THE HISTORY of Eddie Lukon through the season is that he’s 1 belting home runs one week and popping up or striking out he next,

. He connects in streaks.

“Only recently he showed signs of snapping out of the habit of _ hitting too hard and swinging at bad pitches. This might mean an-

~ other of his sprees is in the offing.

better and so has Jimmy Gleeson.

slump, undoubtedly is out of it and,

. stay out for a while, “So it’s possible the hitting department will be able to produce "a little help for the pitchers. The fielding and base running are a little doubtful. Lulu Klein hasn't adjusted himself to his glasses : yet, and George Myatt’s vulnerable knee has been giving him trouble.

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Floyd Young has been hitting Johnny Antonelli, after a long on the previous record, Joule

“DURING THE closing days of the season it may be a lifesaver

that the infield is as adjustable as shortstop, and Myatt, by one means

it is. Young can play a lot of or another, can find more ways

to break up a ball game than anybody on the ball club, short of the

pitching staff.

«As for the hurlers, they look as capable as they ever did, for which Ted Wilkie and Kenny Burkhart can be thanked for the manner in which they stepped in when things looked darkest and set

the rest of the staff to rights.

“If Tommy Heath could have a rest it might help, too. He's completely fagged out, but fortunately it comes at a time when Rae . Blaemire is about ready to step in

and take the Ssiching load off

_ Papa Tom's shoulders for a few days.” White Sox Rule Over Rival Cubs THE WHITE SOX triumphed over the Cubs in the 1941 Chicago

city series in four strdight games. . .

. Out of 25 city series that have

been played between the Windy City’s big time clubs, the White Sox have won 18 and the Cubs six with one tie. The clean sweep of the series by the south side club last fall,

marked the sixth time the Cubs wer

e unable to win a game.

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BOB BAUMANN, letterman tackle who will be back for his final year of competition when the University of Wisconsin football squad assembles for its opening day of practice tomorrow, did a good job of punting for the Badgers last fall, averaging 36.2 yards per kick. But ‘he still remembers the day in his high school career when he punted

nine times for a total of 540 yards formance sometime in Cardinal togs.

and hopes to do a repeat per-

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Team to Face

For Last Time

Tribe Drops Two Tilts “To Hens, 2-1 and 1-0.

HARTFORD, Conn,, Aug. 31 (U. P.)—Jim Steiner, catcher for Hartford of the Eastern league, has been sold to Indianapolis of the American Association, it was announced today. Steiner, who, has been with the local nine for two seasons, will report to Indianapolis tonight at Toledo.

Times Special TOLEDO, Aug. 31—Evidently the Indians are in the process of having their goose cooked insofar. as their chances for a post-season playoff berth are concerned. They are not hopelessly out of the running for fourth place—last position that counts in the American association playoff—but that double defeat suffered at the hands of the Toledo Mud Hens at Swayne field here yesterday was a bitter blow. The schedule is running out on the Indians as well as for all clubs and the curtain falls on the regular season a week from today, Sept. 7. Ten games remain on the Tribe's docket, one - here tonight in the series finale with the Mud Hens, five in Columbus and four in Louisville, The Redskins trail fourth-place Louisville by three and a half games, fifth-place Toledo by three and sixthplace Minneapolis by one-half game. In the league’s pennant fight, Columbus and Kansas City are neck-and-neck and with third-place Milwaukee only one-half game behind. Incidentally, the Indians are nine games off the pennant pace.

Bats Muffled in Clutch

After the Tribesters won Saturday’s game here, 5 to 0, behind John Hutchings, they fell into one of their famous batting slumps yesterday and the Mud Hens defeated them in both ends of the bargain attraction, 2 to 1 and 1 to 0. The Indians actually outhit the Hens in both games but were woefully weak when hits meant runs and were held to one run in the 16 innings played, the second game being seven innings by agreement. Ray Poat for the Tribe and Loy Hanning for the Hens hooked up in a swell mound duel in the first tilt and it was one and one as the Hens batted in the ninth. Byrnes led off the Toledo ninth with a single and Bell bounced a high sacrifice bunt in front of the plate. Hartnett, Bestudik and McCarthy all charged for the pellet. Hartnett snatched it and threw Bell out at first but the Tribe infield was caught napping and third base was left unprotected. So Mr. Byrnes kept running, giving him the distinction of going from first to third on a bunt.

Squeeze Play Works

Stevens drew an intentional pass and then the Hens crossed up the Indians by working the squeeze play, Byrnes racing home on Parrott’s bunt to Poat’s left. Poat’s throw to the plate was too late to prevent Byrnes from chalking the winning run. The Indians muffed an opportunity to get a flock of runs in the first inning. They loaded the bases with none out but got only one run out-of it. McCarthy grounded into a double play and that ruined the rally. Blackburn scored from third on the twin killing and it was the Indians’ only run of the afternoon. The Hens got their first marker in the second stanza of the first game on a walk, an infield out and Parrott’s single. In the second game George Gill and Johnny Marcum waged another mound struggle, the former allowing

»|0nly two hits, the latter five in the

abbreviated nightcap. One Walk Beats Gill

A base on balls beat Gill. It was Gill's only walk of the game and Byrnes drew it after two down in the fourth. Bell then lined a double to right center and Byrnes scored all the way from first. And that was the ball game. Gabby Hartnett caught both games and unless help arrives he’ll have to go it alone in the Tribe's remaining games. Catcher Norman Schlueter was put out of action for the season in Saturday night’s game when, in the fourth inning, a fast pitch by Hutchings struck him on the bare hand, fractured the first two fingers and also split the second digit. Yesterday's seven-inning second tilt was played in exactly 49 minutes, shortest game for that distance go record in the American associ ation.

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Isbell’s Pass Beats Brooklyn Gridders

~NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (U. P.).— Cecil Isbell’s touchdown pass to Don

| Hutson in‘ the waning minutes of

the game brought the Green Bay packers a 21-16 victory over the

field yesterday before 11,083 fans. Merlyn. Condit’s- first period, 37-

Toledo Tonight

Players who usually shoot in the low 80’s have been posting some high scores at the Wildwood, N. J,

golf club lately but the golf officials are not the least bit puzzled. -

They've been experimenting with girl

caddies and the results are, left to right, Joyce Yoder, Jean Wheaton, Gertrude O'Farrell, Jane DeHaven

and Amanda McVey.

Tommy Henrich, Baseball's ‘Golden Boy. Plays His Last Game With the Yanks

By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (U. P.).— It was just another big-crowd dou-ble-header at Yankee stadium until the white-uniformed player wearing

No. 7 walked up to the plate in the| :§

seventh inning of the nightcap.

Then the loudspeaker bellowed to] |

the 50,398 fans:

“Ladies and gentlemen—this will F be Tommy Henrich’s last game. with |'

the Yankees until the war is over!” This briet statement was electrifying. Like a bolt of lightning it hit every individual in that vast sweep of humanity—right in the heart. And like an electric im-

pulse, it expleded a terrific, thun-|

dering of voices that shook the concrete and steel horseshoe to its bedrock. Advertising experts will tell you that it takes a bit of time to sell

50,000 persons on an idea. That’s|

a lot of people. That's a city in itself. But this particular idea was sold in a fraction of a second—and tremendously. If was sold to 49,221 civilians and 1177 service men— who for the brief interlude of the Tigers-Yankees twin. bill, were forgetting that anything existed but our national pastime. Off to War

Tommy Henrich, baseball’s “golden boy,” was off to war! Young Henrich, who galloped across the righfield where the immortal Babe Ruth once cavorted, and who had endeared himself not only’ to the Ruthville fans, but to the rest of the baseball world, was going out to fight—exchanging his bat for a gun. The war had come even to.the world champion Yankees—the first prominent member of that notable band was joining up. The guy who was going in was Young Henrich—unquestionably the most popular member of the Yankee squad, possibly esgepling Bill Dickey. No wonder baseball was forgotten. No wonder the crowd roared and women wept. And many of the men “got things out of their eyes” with kerchiefs. That solid pillar of

Happy Smile

Tommy Henrich

sound probably still would be rising from the Yankee stadium, had not the umpires and moist-eyed Henrich taken things in hand. After four minutes of bedlam, Henrich went to bat, with two out and with Buddy Hasset aboard at first base. Blond Tommy knicked pitcher Dizzy Trout of the Tigers for a

‘single to center—his last hit for the

duration. But it gave him a perfect game at bat in the night cap— three for three—because he had been walked once, and he was to walk again in the 10th inning when he made his fifth and last trip to the plate.

Eyes Got Wet

In the dressing room, after the game, Henrich said, “I didn’t know they were going to make that announcement in the seventh ‘inning. The coast guard told me they didn’t want any publicity, and I told them about it. But at least .the ane nouncer didn’t mention the coast

Only three teams were left in the city amateur baseball series today as St. Roch’s, Capitol City cham-

|| pions, bunched hits for three runs

in the fifth inning yesterday to eliminate the Bix Six titleholders,

4| Schwitzer-Cummins, 3-2.

. fending champions,

Eagles 211 were outhit by the de‘Gold Medal

i | Beer, yesterday but they managed

to take a 2-1 victory to keep their slate clean in the series with four| y.

triunfphs against no defeats. Along

with St. Roch’s and the defending champions, they are the only clubs left in the title play. Walks and errors helped the cause of St. Roch’s, a team which

‘has shown. unlooked-for power dur-|

| Kennedy, Dillon

Brooklyn Dodgers in a National] Football league exhibition at Ebbets] i

Sign for Bout

. Irish Jack Kennedy, Dallas, Tex,

and Jack Dillon, Memphis, have}

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guard. But when that crowd started to yell, I just didn’t know what to do. I guess I took off my cap to answer them, but my eyes started to get wet because it was awful touching—awful touching. I'll swear I don’t know how I hit what

Trout was throwing, because I was

still wiping my eyes at first base.” Henrich, who at 26 still reminds one of a college freshman because

{of his blond, clean skin and his

youthful figure of 170 carefullymolded pounds on a six-foot chassis, declared that he was the luckiest fellow ever to come up to the big time. “Think of it,” he marveled, “three for three in my last game.” ‘Golden Boy’ : Yes, Hendrich has been lucky— declared a free agent by Commissioner K. M, Landis on April fools’ day, 1937, virtually every club in the majors were bidding for his services, and he finally accepted a $20,000 bonus offer for signing with

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent * NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (U. P.) Winners in 23 of their last 26

Pirates.

the St. Louis Cardinals, took a day off today: to. root for the Pit!

The Cardinals, trailing the pace-setting Dodgers by Sy ganies, enjoyed an open date and a chance to re-arrange their ing ‘staff as Brooklyn engaged the Pirates at Pistsbursh,

Pittsburgh ordinarily wouldn’t be a tough nut for the Dodgers but Manager Frankie Frisch has sched= uled Hank Gornecki, a young righthander who has taken his last two games—one a two-hitter against the Braves—for mound duty against Brooklyn’s southpaw, Max Macon, loser .of his last two starts. Adding : to Brooklyn’s troubles, they have lost their leading hitter, Outfielder Pete Reiser, who was sent to Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore last night for examination and treatment of his injured left leg. He pulled a muscle in his thigh about two weeks ago and has been unable to play regularly. He was hitless in hig last 15 times

at bat.

Braves Lose Two

The Cardinals now have a winning streak of five straight after clipping the Braves twice, 8-3 and 3-2 (11 innings) yesterday, and paring a full game off the lead of the Dodgers. who split the Pirates, winning the opener, 3-1, but dropping the nightcap, 9-5 (eight innings). . ‘Vince DiMaggio ruined Brooklyn's day by hitting two doubles and two singles and driving in five. runs. He paced a 12-hit assault on four pitchers in the nightcap. The Pirates kayoed Larry French in the first’ inning for his third straight loss and his fourth of the year. Rip Sewell ‘held Brooklyn to two hits until the eighth and then gave up four runs on four hits. It was his 15th win in a game. called because of the'Sunday law. ; Whit Wyatt won his 16th victory for Brooklyn in the opener, holding the Bucs to one run and seven hits in seven innings. He tired and was removed in the eighth, Curt Davis holding the Pirates.

- Slaughter Gets Four

Enos Slaughter’s triple with the bases loaded in the sixth, climaxed a five-run rally that broke a 3-3 Cardinal deadlock with the Braves. Harry Gumbert blanked the Braves for the last three frames after Beazley was yanked for a pinchhitter. Slaughter collected four of the Cards’ 13 hits and drove in four

the Yanks. His salary for that] Tubs

year was around five grand. And his cut of the world series that season was $9836, bringing his total earnings to more than $30,000 for his first season in the majors—at the age of 21. That's why they called him the “golden boy.” Henrich was married a year ago last July—before Pearl Harbor but after the selective service act. Three weeks ago his wife had a baby girl. He is in class 1-A of the draft. He applied for enlistment in the coast guard on Aug. 17, and was accepted last Monday. He will remain in New York for two days, completing personal arrangements, and then report to the coast guard at Buffalo, N. Y. He goes in as a boatswain’s mate, first class. There'll be no baseball for me until this war is over,” he concluded. “We're at war, and I'm looking for action. That's way I joined the coast guard. I'll get fast action there. You're the first reporter who interviewed me when I came to New York six years ago, and the Jast now. Maybe that’ll bring me uck.”

Only Three Teams: Remain In Amateur Baseball Series

hit in the game-winning fifth but managed to capitalize on the loose playing of the Big Six champs. Hop Howard, pitcher for the Eagles, scored the winning run in the fifth after he singled. A blow

and he scored on a high throw from the infield to second. :

The Schedule in the American LegionMa C, A. league for y is Bruce 5 ey Ss. " Big Four at Garfield 3 od] Broad Ripple vs. Irvington at Brookside } Rom games will get underway at

A a4 forfeit was vas claimed

Blue Caps yesterday when the latter failed to arrive for the contest at Riverside. The Fall Creek Jarsity and Jookies substituted. The Athlet. will the ainfield Comet 3 Plainfield Sunday.

Elson Scores Ace

Dr. W. D. Elson, 3819 College ave., Joined the ranks of hole-in-one

ing the series. They made but one|

by Woody Litz sent him to third|

by the : k Athletics from the New 7, the Fall

Gumbert also patticipated in the nightcap, relieving Ernie White in the ninth and delivering the gamewinning blow for the Cards. doubled to right centerfield after Johnny Hopp had singled and advanced on a sacrifice. The Reds scored their 10th double victory of the year at Cincinnati, taking two from the Phils, 2-0 and 8-5. Johnny Vander Meer won his 16th and his fourth shutout in the opener. Ray Starr, with some hélp from Joe Beggs, achieved his ‘14th victory in the nightcap.

_ Giants Win, Tie

The Giants won the opener of a} double-header from the Cubs, 8-6| =

and then tied 5-5 in the nightcap called at the end of the ninth by darkness. . In the American league, the Yankees belted the Tigers, 7-1 and 4-3 (10 innings). Red Ruffing scattered five hits while winning his 12th in [Reise the first game. George Selkirk pinch singled with loaded bases. in the 10th for the winning run in the nightcap. The Red Sox divided with the

Browns, Sombandiig: four pi for 18 hits and a 12-6 victory the nightcap after losing the er, 4-1. Johnny Niggeling kn balled his way to his 13th win. the first game with a seven hit Ted Lyons outlasted Roger V and won the first game of a bill from the A's, 2-1, for the Sox. It was his 12th win and 257th of his big league career. A’s broke a nine-game losing stre: with two runs in the ninth w defeated the six, 3-2. ‘The Indians divided with Senatars. Five double plays he

broken leg and won a ei ; ih the nightcap for Was

Service Stars

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 1 ? (U. P).—If the year’s first football game on the Pacific coast is a indication, a banner season | ahead. 3 The largest sports crowd the war began—50,000 fans—wat the Washington Redskins defeat Western All-Army team, 26-7, terday at Memorial coliseum. Sammy Baugh, the Redskins’ p ing star, and Dick Todd, Ws ton’s trickiest runner, almost the soldiers to rofit. : Baugh accounted for two touck downs with short passes to Bo Titchenal and Todd. Todd sc another on an 18-yard jaunt Bob Masterson, Redskin end, eight points by kicking two goals and two points after to down. _Jarrin’ John. Kimbrough, the. mer Texas Aggie All-American, ried more of the load for the On the second running play game, he sped through left g reversed his field and ran 58

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first score. The Redskins. came back the Army 14 but Kimbrough j cepted Baugh’s pass on the s Washington took the ball on 19 and whisked to the Army as the quarter ended. On the play, Baugh whipped an eight-yi toss to Titchenal for the first

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