Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1942 — Page 16
SPORTS
By Eddie Ash
_ BACK in 1935; experienced St. Louis Cardinal scouts watched a youngster perform in a baseball tryout camp similar to the one which will be held in Danville, Ill, Friday. .', . They liked his actions and signed him to a
contract,
The next year found this rookie playing at Huntington, W. Va. * In the Mid-Atlantic league. . . . Three years later he was playing ~ with the St. Louis Cardinals. . . . He is now one of the leading infielders in the major leagues. . .. ~ Heé $5 Martin Marion, star shortstop of the Nalional league's second-place team that is camping on the heels of the leading Brooklyn Dodgers. © And with the Cardinals, Marion is playing ‘with other men who got their swrts in baseball in a similar manner. . , . In fact, every player on the present Cardinal squad was either developed in the extensive Cardinal farm system or came to the Cardinals in trade for players de-
~ veloped in the farm system.
In the tryouts to be held at the Danville,
111, Garfield park baseball field the Cardinals are hoping to discover other young players who have
Martin Marion
ability eventually to become major league stars... ., The Cardinal organization. extends an invitation to all young players between the ages of 17 and 23 to attend the camp for yous under the watchful
eyes of experienced scouts.
To receive tryouts boys merely have to present themselves at the Danville park at 9 o'clock Friday morning, bringing their shoes, . gloves and uniforms.”. . . The only requirements are that out-of-"town boys finance their own trips to Danville and living expenses
$ while there. . .
. No fee is charged. . . . Players signed to contracts
in the camp will be refunded their expenses incident to Sttending
the tryouts.
Speedway Books Army Relief Golf Event SPEEDWAY GOLF course is to stage a tournament Saturday
“and Sunday, Sept. 5 and 6, for army emergency relief. .
. « The co-
operation of all Indianapolis golfers, men and women, is desired to
make the event a huge success.
Every friend of golf is privileged to sign “his or her name in the Album of American Golfers. . . . Tourney entry fee is $1 and the entire fund will be donated to army emergency relief. : Non-participants in the tourney are urged to sign the album and donate a dollar to the worthy cause. . . . Pages to be signed by the players and donors in their own handwriting are available
at the Speedway golf course.
This Album of American Golfers is to be presented to Gen. John J. Pershing, honorary president of army emergency relief. . . . There will be prizes given in addition to a certificate of award to Jow gross and blind par winners in the week-end tourney.
Admiral King Comes Out for Sports !
SPORTS AND SERVICE teams as a means of upholding public . morale in wartime has received the positive approval of Admiral
Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet. . . .
He
praised athletics in a talk during his “home-coming” at Lorain, O.,
Aug. 30.
Speaking before a crowd of 3000 at a baseball game between the Marion, O., all-stars and the Great Lakes Bluejackets, Admiral
King said, “Baseball has a rightful place in America at war.
All
work and no play seven days a week would soon take: its toll on na-
tional morale.
“You people here today have a right to such events as this baseball game. They will help you better fight the battle on the home front during the Rard struggle ahead.” Turning to Lieut. Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane, director of the Great Lakes training station team, Admiral King said, “I mean
every word. of it.
: Baseball has a rightful place, and your Great . Lakes team is doing a terrific job!”
Baseball at a Glance
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Ww wn 86 eves 19 . 68 . 6% 64 oe 57 ns . 49 88 Pet. +600 .662 546 S504
wh LEAGUE L
. GAMES TODAY
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (All Games At Night)
IANAPOLIS at Columbus (two).
IND t. Paul at Milwauk Stinnespoli at Rensas City. Lo eo at Toledo (two). W AMERICAN LEAGUE 8t. Louis at New York (two). . Detroit at Boston (two).
Chicago at Washington (two). Cleveland at Philadelphia.
RESULTS YESTERDAY
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (First game; 7 innings; a God af iT 8 Louisville :
'oledo 000 -—3 6 Rudd, Deutsch and Lacy; Sanford and Keller. (Second game) 010 4 000 130 02x— 6 12 0 ngton, Deutsch, Rudd and Walters; and Spindel.
don Kimber
Minneapolis Kansas City
9 oo 3 00-~ 3 81 Haefner Y ii Giuitant; Wensloff and Garbark.
xe mn Oe 3 12 2 114 00x— 71 Belknap, Smith nd Andrews; Vena
: berg and Griswold.
AMERICAN LEAGUE (Ten innings) Cleveland 920 S00 010 0—3 9 Washington 000 001 200 1— 410 3 Bagby, Dean and Desautels; Carrasquel
14! and Ear
rly. Only game scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn al1 011 000— 4 10 © Pittsburgh 020 000— 2 5 1 Higbe and Owen: Kiinger, Wilkie (6) and Phelps
(Eleven iD inning) Philadelphia 00-3 8 0 Cincinnati 000 200 001 01—4 9 ©
Johnson and Warren; Thompson, Shoun, Beggs and Laman New York 000 020 5 18 1 Chicago Schumacher, McGee, Adams, Voiselle and Mancuso, Danning; Passeau and MocCullough. .
Boston ..... eveenees 100 101 000-3 9 St. Louls 000 020 1ix— 413 1 win and Lombardi; M. +Couper and
| Sewell.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn ug bCinciunati, Chicas 8,
Bill Johnson Gets Frosh Job at 1. U.
ork at § FHL: a ‘Pittebareh (night).
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 2 (U. P.).~Indiana university athletic
department officials announced last night that William (Bill) Johnson,
Browns Are in
{Veteran Sewell
.They are in third place today play the Yankees.
of a minor triumph. At the very least it represents a moral victory. As far as we know only one seer was able to gaze into the future and see such a position of respectability for them. That was Jack
Doyle, the Broadway price maker. It must have been the same thing that Ed Barrow, president of the Yankees, saw all along, namely and to wit, the presence of Luke Sewell as manager. Mr. Barrow has long contended Sewell had the makings of a first-rate manager. Of course, there never was @& manager who completely made a ball club . . . but a good one can be of great help. Almost without expectation neutral critics say the Browns’ young shortstop, 21-year-old Vernon Stephens, made the ¢lub and there is no getting away from the fact he is: one of the great young players of the year.
First Division,
|Thanks to the Presence of
and Stephens
Although Not a Pennant Threat, the Fact That They Rest in 3d Place Is a Minor Triumph
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 2—Only the gray beards of the press box can remember when it was possible to write about the St. Louis Browns in September without asking the reader's pardon.
as they come into the stadium to
fair shortstop. Joe set some sort of record for making the pitcher get the ball over the plate. When he missed a third strike 3 was an event. Brother Joe is out of basshall
Your sentinel finds it very comforting to join in the plaudits for At the same time it makes him realize how swiftly father time speeds down the stretch of life. We were out in Cleveland when Sewell came up from Alabama to join the club under Tris Speaker. And now we find ourself writing of him as an old-timer, Sewell came up from the University of Alabama with a whole batch of excellent “ball players. Three of them came to Cleveland. His brother, Joe, was a better than
By Red Birds
Times Special COLUMBUS, O. Sept. 2.—The run-hungry Hoosiers dropped another game here last night in the series opener with the Columbus Red Birds, and it was the Indians’ fourth consecutive defeat. The Tribesters lost the last three
in Toledo and were sdaea out of last night's tilt at Red Bird stadium
club splurged for five runs off Al Falzone and Steve Rachunok. The final score was 12 to 2.¢ The Redskins tallied their two runs in the fifth inning after going Rachunok 28 innings without scoring. They lost the last three tilts in Toledo, 2to01,11% 0and 1 to 0 and that Olone marker was scored in the. first inning of the 2-to-1 game and the first 1-t0-0 shutout in Toledo was a seven-inning game.
Easy Game or Brecheéen
Harry Brecheen,: the Red Birds ace southpaw, was solved for 10 hits by the Indians last night, but he was hard to hit when runners were on base except in that fifth frame. On the other hand, the Red Birds made nine hits count as they scored five markers in the first stanza, two
%in the fourth, three in the seventh
and two in the eighth. It was more or less of a cakewalk
|for the Red Birds and it was their
11th victory over the hapless Hoo-
teams will square off in a doubleheader under the lights tonight and the five-game series will be concluded in single games tomorrow and Friday. End It All in Louisville
After which the Indians will shove off for Louisville to close the season and it looks as though they
0lare mired in seventh piace, -
Only change in the American association standings last night was Toledo moving ahead of Louisville 1to take over fourth place. Kansas City retained its one-half-game lead over Milwaukee and Columbus. The Blues beat the Millers and the ‘Brewers downed the last-place Saints. The
Tribe Whipped |
siers in 18 clashes this season. The|
chagrined Indians have
now, retired to his native Alabama hills. That's the way it figured to be, just as it figured to be that Brother Luke would stay in the
aging a big league club, They were exact opposites in temper and temperament. One was destined to be a routine success; the other to be a nervous, restless, ambitious leader.
By. a Head!
Koverly [Is Awarded Bout With Roche
After Collision.
DORVE ROCHE, the rugged coal miner from Decatur, Ill, lost by a “head” last night to George (K. 0.) Koverly, Los Angeles, in
the feature mat tussle of the weekly wrestling bill at the Sports arena. : His loss, in fact, provided one of the most unusual climaxes seen here at the outdoor arena this season. After losing the first fall to Koverly in the first 24 minutes of the scheduled three-fall match by means of a body press, Roche came back for the second fall only to collide head on with the California grappler.
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THE COLLISION knocked both matmen out of the ring and Referee Harry Burris had passed the 20 count before either matman was able to reach the ring apron. Burris’ ruling was that. inasmuch both wrestlers forfeited the fall by failing to re-enter the ring and the clash was slated for three falls only, Koverly was the automatic winner of the hout. In other bouts, 2800 fans saw. Ralph Garibaldi take a rough semi-windup from Ray Eckert on a referee’s decision and Irish Jack Kennedy win the open scrap from Jack Dillon in 13 minutes with a flying tackle.
Mrs. Edith Brower
Wins at Riverside
A card of 99 gave gross honors to Mrs. Edith Brower in the women’s guest day golf tournament at Riverside yesterday. Low net honors went to Mrs. Swallow, who :scored an 85. Marjorie Kahn topped class A in the members net: division with an 82; Marjorie Murray had an 89 to win class B, and Thelma Kelly scored an 89 to take class C.
Pirates Buy Three PITTSBURGH, Sept. 2 (U. P). The Pittsburgh Pirates today an-
baseman
game and one day wind up- man-
nounced the purchase of second Burgess . = Whitehead, pitcher Harry - Shuman and outflelder Jimmy Russell from the Toronto club of the International
True, they are anything but a vibrant pennant threat. But the fact that they are in the first division is something
Only Brother Luke remains in the game and the press box is talking more of him as a manager than it ever did of him as a catcher. . , . And, at that, he was no humpty-dumpty as a catcher: He didn’t have the allround class of ‘a Bill Dickey or a Mickey Cochrane, but he had the ability to make a pitcher work. To
,
keep him in high, to bolster his morale in the tight spots. This is being reflected in his handling of the St. Louis pitchers. Good catchers usually make good managers, Pricemaker Doyle must have been thinking of that in general and Brother Luke in particular when he startled the experts last spring by saying the “Browns
One of the bright spots in the St. Louis Browns a liNeop this year is 2ysoncild Vormon Stephens, whe hails from Toledo, O. Called “one of the great ball players of the year, he hopes to show the New York Yankees today that there's somebody besides Phil Rizzuto who knows something about shortstopping. °
will be the surprise team of the year.” They are all of that, plus, and any day now we fear Brother Luke will be forced to accept one
By OSCAR FRALEY _ ‘United Press Stat Correspondent
~ NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (U. P.
peril to the National amateur tens
: nis championship.
The 23-year-old Cincinnati ne
surance salesman is the next
(Pancho).
who handles a raequet with two hands. And Talbert, ranked 10th
tionals, is rated the best chance
gent to halt the Latin larruper. = Talbert, who takes insulin ac tions daily for diabetes, has strong net game and, tennis : say, this is the only type player who
line player from the Andes. cinnati Billy stopped Ted ; der, top-seeded : such tactics in the recent Newport invitation. : Plays for Fun
“Segura is hitting the ball wi but then, so am I,” Talbert sal “You know I play for fun—and it sure would be fun putting him out of the tournament. Win, lose . draw, I'll be trying.” Talbert and seventh-seeded Garde nar Mulloy, Jacksonville, Fla. led the field into the quarter-finals at Forest. Hills and were joined yess terday by Segura, Alejo Russell of Argentina, Schroeder, and sixthe seeded Seymour Greenberg, Chis
of those silly Sporting News scrolls | cago.
designating him as a success. But even if that comes to pass he will ‘be able to look back on his 1942 adventures with genuine happiness.
Butler Opens Grid Practice
‘Butler university’s 1942 football squad opened its practice Sessions yesterday with Coach Frank Hedden sending the candidates through an extended calisthenics drill. A signal drill concluded the day’s workout. Last season’s backfield will be available to Coach Hedden ‘except for the loss of Elwood Norris and Bob McCalip, and providing Boris Dimarichefl’s knee holds up. Lettermen who reported yesterday were James Gilson, quarterback; Steve - Stoyko, - Dimancheff, Bill Howard and Norman Williams, halfbacks; Tom Sleet, fullback, and Don Kammer, Mel Perrone, Andrew Williams, Harold Miller and Wallace Potter, linemen. Members of last year’s freshmen squad who reported yesterday - were Tom Broden, Knute Dobkins and ‘Kenny Gieman, ends; Joe. Kodba, center; Dave LaVine, tackle; Wil-
{liam Horvath, fullback; Boris Chal-
eff, quarterback, and Paul Ash, Bob Rehl and James Mitchell, halfbacks. Twenty freshmen gridders worked out with the varsity yesterday under the direction of Harold Mossey, assistant coach. They were Tom Costello, Jim Burchfield, ' Robert Boaz, James Moran, Joe Gatto, Vincent Shanahan, Francis Moriarty, Jeke Luther, Bob Rodgers, Don Ashman, Glenn Chew, Sammy Conders, John McKenna, Bob Cronk, Frank Oliphant, Bob Strain, Emil Neeme, Thomas Lang, Gordon Tanner and John Stotler. .
Changes Announced
|At Churchill Downs
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Sept. 2 (U. P.)=Col.. Matt J. Winn, president of the Churchill Downs board of directors, announced last night that the track’s fall racing program had been shifted from Oct 31 to Nov. 14, subject to approval by the Kentucky State Racing commission. - ‘Winn said eight races will be run daily during the 13-day meet, ‘and
for the five stakes.
_| Athletics Buy Olsen LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2 (U. P.)— Barney. Olsen, star outfielder of the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast ‘league has been sold ‘to the Philadelphia Athletics for delivery next spring, Clarence Rowland, club
president, said today.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (U. P).— The hot-footed St. Louis Cardinals hung on grimly today 3% games behind the National league's pace-
setting Dodgers with a string of six straight victories.
The Cards had to drive uphill all the way to defeat Al Javery and the Boston Braves, 4-3, last night, thanks to strong-armed Mort Cooper's nine-hit pitching and fiery Jimmy Brown's clutch hitting, and the Dodgers failed to gain ground with their 4-2 triumph over the Pirates. Cooper won his 18th victory and helped produce the deciding run in the eighth. Johnny Hopp opened the rally with a single off Javery, who gave up 13 blows and lost his first game in seven starts. Hopp moved up on a sacrifice and reached third on Martin Marion's single. Cooper beat out a hit, filling the bases and keeping the rally alive. Brown then came through with a long fly, drivi Hopp home with the deciding tally. Kirby Higbe won from the Pirates for the first time in his career and notched his 14th victory, holding the Bucs to five hits. The Dodgers found ‘Bob Klinger for single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings on seven solid hits and then added another off Aldon Wilkie in the sixth. Dolph Camilli’s double and Billy Herman's single gave them their first run in the third. In the fourth, Dixie Walker's single, Arky Vaughan’s infield out and Augie Galan’s single added : another. Walker doubled and Vaughan singled for
one more in the ath and the fourth
Cardinals Hang on Grimly |Behind First-Place Dodgers
came on a walk, Single and Peewee Reese’s fly. Frank McCormick paced the Reds to their fifth straight win, 4-3, in 11 innings over the Phils, who weré charged with their eighth successive loss. McCormick drove in three runs, the first on a double in the fourth, another with a single in the ninth to send the game into over time, and the third in the 11th, with a drive against the left field wall with loaded bases. Max Marshall opened the 11th for the Reds with a triple and two intentional walks and set the stage for McCormick, who
connected. on the first pitch.
MAJOR LEADERS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Pesky, Bosto, 127 581 “ Spence, Washington | 124 519 75 169. .
NATIONAL LEAGUE
<> AB BR RH Reiser, Brooklyn . 03 394 82 129 . Slaughter, St. Lotis. 1% 501 8 164 . Lombardi Boston ... 30.249 24 80 Musial, St. Louis ... 117 381 75 120 . Medwick, Bn . 125 486 59 151 .311
Henrich to Leave For Duty Today
CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 2 (U, P). ' —Outfielder ‘Tommy Henrich of the New York Yankees was given a specialist, first: class, rating. by the U. 8S. coast guard today and will leave for active duty on an undisclosed assignment this afternoon. Henrich, 26, played his last game for the Yankees in Detroit last Saturday after being a regular with the club since 1937. He was sworn in by the coast guard Aug. 24.
child, the six-foot ball player had been classified 1-A by his draft
enlisted in the coast guard.
Married and the father of one|,.~
Second-ranking Frankie Parken; Los Angeles, meets Bill Vogt, Phila delphia, and eighth-ranking George, Richards, Montebello, Cal, plays Ladislaw Hecht, former Cresh Davi. cupper, today for the right to enter the quarter finals.
Continues Advance :
Segura continued his typhoon-like: advance yesterday with a 6-0, 6-1; 6-2 victory over Harris Everett, seve enth-ranking player from Jacksons ville. Russell's endurance enabled him to come from behind to halt Sid Wood, New E York, the 1931 Wimbledon champion, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. Schroeder stopped Jim Evert, ‘Chicago, 7-5, 9-11, 6-4, 6-4, and Greenberg, national clay court champion, belted over Bob Smidl, Chi 6-1, 6-1, ' O Yond: Talbert Blonde Pauline Betz, scoond-seela ed entrant from Los Angeles, paced
the women’s singles field tio ihe quarter-finals, and was accom
346 by fourth-ranking Helen Bernhard,
New York; fifth-seeded Mary Ans old; Los Angeles; seventh-ranking : Doris Hart, Miami, Fla, and une seeded Shirley Fry, Akron, Oo.
San Francisco, who engages M Andrade, New York, and eighth placed Mrs. Helen Rihbany, New York, who engages Barbara Nields,
‘Miss Arnold halted Barbara B: Pasadena, Cal, 8-6, 6-2; Miss J conquered Mrs. Virginia J Brookline, Mass., 6-3, 6-4, and
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Trailing the field are top-seeded a
scored a total of three runs in their}, 2 ; last four games and it’s evident : ren ay Sie tt a they have dropped into total eclipse v : as base-hit producers when runners are on base.
Peck Watching Negro Players
CLEVELAND, Sept. 2 (U.-P)—| % |Roger Peckinpaugh, vice president|} of the Cleveland Indians, said to-|} day that no definite promises had ; been made to three negro balll] players that they would be given spring tryouts next year. o 11 ‘Peckinpaugh said his attention’ had been called fo wie Mayers Wik that he merely had said he would (§ be Intetesied in seeing te! Negtons
Angola, Ind, high school coach, had been appointed freshman basketball coach. Johnson, a star forward on I. U.|28 teams in 1936 and 1937, was a member of the Jeffersonville high school team which won 35 consecutive games before losing to Anderson in the finals of the 1935 state tournament. He coached one season at Jamestown and has been| coach at Angola for the past two eats. :
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