Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1942 — Page 24

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SPORTS . .. By Eddie Ash

. “INSIDE BASEBALL” is how Al Javery got his start. . . . The newest National league pitching phenom, the Boston Braves’ tall young Frenchman, really mastered the inside of the baseball before he ever toed the

slab for Manager Casey Stengel. . His success story in the books bridges from a one-hitter over Bloomington his first start of the 1939 season to a one-hitter over Brooklyn, the peak of his 1942 August fireworks which made him the talk of National league fandom. . . . The “inside” angle goes : further back than ‘that. Before his baseball contracts got big, Al worked in a woolen factory in Worcester, Mass. . . . What did he do? . . .» He was a wool- . Spinner. . . . What's the main thing inside of a baseball? «+ « Wool. - When: baseball fame headed his way “The ¢ Coun ” took over the New Deal bowling academy in Worcester. . Last winter he did war work with the Amerionn Optical Co., Southbridge, Mass. .. His only wool-spinning this year is spinning the leather-covered woolen job past National league bats. . His one-hit shutout of the Dodgers peaked 8 string of five straight games in which the opposition tallied just two runs—three shutouts and "8 pair of one-run games. . , . His 6 feet 3 and his distinguished bearing won him the nickname “The Count,” and with the Count lined up alongside of Jim Tobin, _ the Boston Braves reached September with the strongest two-man . pitching hook-up in the National league. : Besides putting his name in the all-time record book as a . homer-hitting pitcher, Tobin entered September way out in front for the workhorse title, first ace to register 20 complete games, first

+ Claude Paseau, Chicago Cubs, and Ray Starr, Cincy’s seasoned #freshie,” are right on the heels of Tobin in the total-innings depart tment. . . . The fourth man across the line was Javery, the French : Wool-spinner from Worcester.

: Track Ace Joins Michigan Gridders

| FRANK McCARTHY, rangy senior from Birmingham, Mich. pho for two years has been an outstanding star on the Michigan rack team, will be among the 58 football candidates reporting to h Fritz Crisler Monday, Sept. 7, for the opening day of practice. { In high school McCarthy was an all-state end. . . . He also ; starred for a year at Cranbrook preparatory school before coming fo Michigan where he has devoted his athletic interest solely to . rack in which he has performed capably as a hurdler, high jumper - 8nd broad jumper. hp ee. e 8 = { IF Don Buffmire and Dud Kean earn starting roles in NorthWestern's backfield this fall, and indications are that they will, it ‘Will continue a partnership that prevailed for four years at Grand Rapids, Minn., where they played side by side in high school. Both players made impressive sophomore debuts last fall and “how Buffmire is stationed at right half and Kean is at quarterback on the first string backfield.

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Defeat Red Birds, 4-2; Five Games Are Left

Timss Special COLUMBUS, O. Sept. 4.—Big John Hutchings pitched his fourth victory in four starts for the Indianapolis Indians when he turned back the Columbus Red Birds here last night, 4 to 2. Since coming down from the Boston Braves the heavyweight right hander has been a ball of fire on the mound and two of his triumphs were shutouts. He held the Birds to seven hits last night and the series now stands two = victories apiece and with one to go. The series finale is to be played under the lights tonight, after which the Indians will shove off for Louisville to tackle the fourth-place Colonels in four games over the holiday week-end and that will drop the curtain. Three Runs in First In last night's tilt at Red Bird stadium thea Indians got off to a flying start and pasted Red Mun-

"| ger, the Birds’ act righthander, for

three runs in the first inning. They added another in the third and that was their run total for the night, The Columbus boys got to Hutchings for one marker in the fourth and one: in the seventh, otherwise he had the home team well under control. The Tribesters collected nine hits and made two miscues; the Birds played errorless ball. The Indians’ victory knocked the Red Birds out of a first-place tie with Kansas City and the Blues, held idle by weather, today held undisputed possession of the league lead by one-half game. Columbus is second and Milwaukee third. The Brewers are one game behind Kansas City and one-half game behind Columbus, Bunch Their Blows

Indianapolis bunched four hits in the first stanza last night. Rabbit McDowell and Joe Moore singled, Johnny McCarthy doubled and Gil English singled. These blows accounted for three runs. In the third inning McDowell scored again when Joe Bestudik batted him home.

by Hutchings and a single by Harry Davis accounted for a Columbus run and in the seventh a two-base error by Wayne Blackburn and a hit by George Myatt brought in a marker. Probable pitchers tonight are Woodie Rich for the Indians and Ted Wilks for the Red Birds. Ray "Poat, the Indians’ leading pitcher, who was on option, was recalled by Cleveland last night and ordered to report to Manager Lou Boudreau in St. Louis today. Poat won 15 games and lost seven for Indianapolis.

Plans to Retire; Killed in Race

COLLINSVILLE, Ill, Sept. 4 (U. P.).—~Ted King, a veteran middlewestern jockey, who planned to retire to his farm near Kingsley, .,» next month, was killed in a race at the Fairmount track yesterday when his horse stumbled and threw him into the path of another horse. It was the first fatal accident at he track since it was opened here in 26. Race track stewards said that King’s horse, Don Devito, running a strong race, stumbled as it went into the turn before the stretch. King

twas thrown in front of Sphalerite,

a horse ridden by a close friend, Haskell Lasswell. King was struck by the horse’s hoofs and never regained consciousness. He died from a fractured skull at a hospital in East St. Louis, Ill. He was 28 years old and had been a jockey for 11 years. He told friends recently that when the cur-

|rent season at Fairmount was over,

he was going to the farm near His birthplace in Kansas and give up racing.

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SOUTH BEND, Sept. 4—Frank

Leahy, the quick change artist, has

switched to the T at old Notre Dame to take full advantage of the remarkable ball-handling and passing of Angelo Bertelli. Bertelli, as a sophomore, quickly established himself as one of the greatest passers in the history of the game. Bertelli’s running and blocking does not compare with his ball-

handling. Thus the change from the traditional Notre Dame shift to the T, which was used in the early days of the late Knute Rockne,

Tailback in 1041, Bertelli will be at quarterback this trip, feeding the ball to other backs and tossing forwards ang laterals. Leahy is no green hand with the T. He ran plays from a sort of a lopsided T at Boston college and at Notre Dame last fall. But Leahy, the perfectionist, takes no chances. Ed McKeever, his‘ backfield coach, watched the Chicago Bears at work at Delafield, Wis. ‘Leahy engaged Bob Snyder, a good back with the Bruins, as a backfield mentor. This year’s Notre Dame varsity stacks up favorably with last autumn’s unbeaten unit which was tied only by army. Dippy Evans is back at left half, having been at fullback last season, when he led the Irish in rushing and scoring.

Cowhig Looks Good

Jerry Cowhig, fullback, is the only sophomore likely to break into the starting lineup despite outside claims of a great ex-frosh array. If Cowhig doesn’t succeed, it will be because of Jim Mello or Corwin Clatt, also sophs. Veterans have all the other positions nailed down. Stressing the importance Leahy puts on downfield blocking speed, Bob Dove, all-America end of 41, will be at left guard and Harry Wright, blocking quarterback of last fall, at right guard. Wright previously was a guard. These switches also show you to what extent Leahy, one of the brighter football minds, fits his personnel to his system of play.

Jack Barry and Capt. George Eansas |

Murphy have the end jobs cinched. Lou Rymkus has the inside track at left tackle, Bob Neff or Larry Sullivan at right. Wally Ziemba at center completes an all-senior line.

Plenty of Sophs Bertelli, a junior;

Reed Is Signed For Mitt Bill

Willard Reed, four-time Golden

to meet Cowboy Fred Greegs in to-

night’s fight program at the outdoor Sports arena. The last minute change in plans,

as announced today by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter, was made neccessary because Gene (Tiny) Bland, 220pound Allison worker who was originally scheduled to face Greggs, injured his ankle in training. Reed, who outpointed Greggs at the arena three weeks ago, will battle the cowboy in the semi-windup. . The complete card is: Johnny Denson, 187, Indianapolis, vs. Charlie Jerome, 188, Memphis, Tenn., 10 rounds. Heavyweight. Willard Reed, 185, Indignapolis, vs. Cowboy Fred Greggs, 205, Fort Worth, Tex. six rounds. Heavyweights. Russell Whilhite, 132, Memphis, Tenn., vs. Roy Lewis, Muncie, six rounds. Lightweights. Jue Lee Kong, 126, Indianapolis, vs. Jack Sheldon, 124, Indianapolis, four rounds. Featherweights. Clinton Brooks, 152, Indianapolis, vs. Arnold Deer, 154, Indianapolis, four rounds. Middleweig| hts.

award of $70.

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Is Taken Over By Timberman Local Pro Wins, 3 and 2, In Driving Rain Storm

MARION, Ind. Sept. 4 (U. P)— Wayne Timberman, Indianapolis Meridian Hills pro, in a consistant display of golfing control, yesterday won. the Indiana Professional Golfer’s association tournament at the esia country club by defeating Floyd Hamblen, of 1'ipton, 3 and 2, in the 36-hole title play-off. Timberman, with all odds against him, clinched the title during a driving rain storm when he shot a birdie three on the seventh hole while coming in for the last’ nine.

. |His drive, approaching the seventh

green, struck a barn and the ball landed in a pile of junk. While still 200-yards from the “green, Timberman, using an iron, drove to within putting distance of the hole in one shot.

* Defeats Vaughn Timberman advanced to final-

round play-off Wednesday by first| | defeating Johnny Vaughn, Indian-| §

apolis, 3 and 2, and then downing John Watson, South Bend, 1 up in a 19-hole fray. Hamblen defeated Bill Tinder, Elwood, 2 and 1, and eliminated

Bill Heinlein, Noblesville, 1 up in| §

the semi-finals, In Wednesday's first round matches, Heinleili defeated Marion Smith, Crawfordsville, 1 up, while Watson out-played Stan Whitteck, Crown Point, 6 and 5.

Posts a 63

Despite’ Timberman’s “excellent shooting,” his was not the lowest score of the tourney. Fred McDermott, Tippecanoe Country club at Lafayette, made low-score honors by shooting a 63 for 18 holes. First place prize money of $100 went with Timberman’s title and Hamblen captured runner-up’s

The winning cards: Out (Par 34)

In (Par 34) Timberman ...4-3-4-4-4-3-4-4-3—33 4-4-5-3-4-3-4-3-4—34 Out (Par 34) Timberman Hamblen

In (Par 34)

. .4-8-4-4-3-4-4-4-4—35 4-3-5-5-2-3-4-5-4—35

(Fourth nine, seven holes, game

‘called because of weather.)

Third Golf Benefit Planned Labor Day

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (U. .P.)— The third and final nation-wide series of Hale America tournaments for the benefit of the Red Cross, expected to materially increase golf’s already large contribution to war relief, will be held over the Labor day week-end. . The - tournaments are sponsored by most of the 958 clubs, public courses and associations in the United States Golf association. Reports disclosed a total of $61,ls raised to date through the series. :

Baseball at a Glance

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Huber and Paul Limont, ends, and}

Johnny Adams, left tackle. The reason Notre Dame has so many sophomores on the squad is that the Irish have few seniors and juniors. Only four 1942 juniors won letters last year and only three are back. Much shock troop work will fall upon the sophomores, for not even a Prank Leahy is expected to guide his squad through 11 tough games on consecutive weeks with 60-min-ute players. Other leading mid-western independents are Michigan State, Detroit and Marquette,

Michigan State, reconstructing.

banks on good sophomores. Detroit must rebuild the ‘middle

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CLEVELAND, Sept. 6 (U. P).— Three minor’ league pitchers will Join the Cleveland Indians later this month from farm clubs and probably will see action before the end of the present season The players are: Allte Reynolds and Paul Calvert, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,-and Bryan Stephens, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Reynolds tops the

Eastern league in strikeouts and

has won 18 games against five losses. Calvert won 17 and lost five at Wilkes-Barrs while Stepehns led the Three-Eye league with 20 Victaries and no defeats. All three are right handers.

Rommel is hitting hard again,

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Borowy? Ain't it something terrible the way they kicked him around? You know, in that ball} game where he should have had himself a no hitter. “The second guy ‘up, Clift’s his name, hits one down near that Gordon should have fielded with his eyes closed; in fact, that’s how it looks he is trying to field it, and what happens? “The official scorer calls it a hit and that’s the only thing the Browns got all day that looks like a hit, and Dblooie. Yankee kid's spot in the hall of}. fame. For crying out loud.”

” =» ® WE SUPPOSE if the citizens continue to go to ball games there is no law against them getting all steamed up That’s what they did when they discovered the Fordham product had missed a nohitter the other p. m. > They don't have any way of knowing right away at Yankee stadium ' because hits and errors are not designated on the ; we. score board. This Joe Williams. gisputed play came in the first inning. As it stood at the moment it was unimportant. It became a matter of concern and interest only as inning after inning slipped by and 1t remained the only offensive move made by the Browns that was debatable. When the game was over the final figures were posted, showing that instead of Gordon being charged

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ited with a hit. That's when the citizens moved on the press box and gave expression to their wrath. Still in other days quite a few of us would have got excited about the incident. We could have whipped it up into a strring piece. There would have been interviews. with home players, rival players.

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If it means snytbiie to Blow-‘Em-Down Borowy, a lot of adult baseball people would like to have seen him get his no hitter but nous of them are going to sit around and cry about. it. Not in these times anyway. Besides which our automatic reaction would be to score any ball a hit that Gordon fails to handle. He's that: ind ‘of secondbaser. - . w : TO COME right out and say s0 we never could make up our mind just how. much skill and how. much luck goes. into these “mound masterpieces.” In this same game, for instance, Rizzuto galloped far and deep to his right to make a play tnat was on the showy side, even for him. Generally speaking, a pitcher needs plenty of help to rack up a no hitter—and, of course, that’s what the other eight guys are out there in uniform for. But some of ‘em manage to get more help than others, which is another way of saying some are luckier than others, If the no hitter was the pure, direct, consistent reward of pitching mastery the list of such performs ances would be longer, at that. The truth is some of the greatest pitche ers in the history of the game never got a no hitter. There must ba more luck’ than skill to it when fellows like Waddell, Pennock, Grove, Faber, Alexander, Derring= er, and Dizzy Dean couldn’t-do it— not cheap, obvious luck but the kind of luck that blends and merges all the essential forces into the payoff pattern. The list of pitchers who came within one hit of a no-hitter would consume considerable white paper and black ink. Some of them missed more than once, too. It might be of interest to the Borowy cheering and jeering section that the afore= mentioned Alexander missed a nohitter by one hit four different

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