Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1942 — Page 20

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By Eddie Ash

THE hit-or-miss league in football prognosticating

pens up in a big way this week as the majority of cole elewens swing into action. . . . There are major mes scheduled in all parts of the country. Last week this department made selections on 15 games and picked 14 winners. . .. The other game ended in a scoreless tie. . .. ‘This week presents a different setup with additional” games and

ye information to go on in many grid areas. .. . But the guessing ‘and “experting” must go on. ... Our selections:

STATE TEAMS + Fordham over Purdue, Indiana over Butler, Notre Dame over Wisconsin, Rochester over DePauw, Ball State over Central Normal, Shurtleff over Franklin, Rose Poly over Evansville, Indiana State ver Illihois Normal, Manchester over Eastern Hlinois. '

MIDWEST

Minnesota over Pittsburgh, Iowa naval cadets over Northwestern, Great Lakes over Michigan, Ohio State over Ft. Knox, Mar- . Quette over Kansas, Nebraska over Iowa, Kentucky over Xavier of . Oincinnati, Missouri over St. Louis, Illinois over South Dakota,

Cincinnati over Louisville.

EAST

~ Cornell over Lafayette, Princeton over Lakehurst’ naval station, Columbia over Ft. Monmouth, Temple over Georgetown, William and Mary over Navy, Holy Cross over Dartmouth, Colgate over St. LawYence, Pennsylvania over Georgia naval cadets, Maryland over Cone Decticut, North Carolina air cadets over Harvard, Duquesne over Waynesburg, Syracuse over Clarkson, Amherst over Hobart.

SOUTH

: . Duke over Davidson, Tennessee over South Carolina, Alabama ~ Over Southwest Louisiana, North Carolina State over Richmond, ° _ Jacksonville navy fliers over Georgla, Virginia over HampdenSydney, Georgia ‘Tech over Auburn, Mississippi State over Union. 5 Mississippi U. over Western Kentucky, Clemson over Virginia Military, Texas Aggies over Louisiana, Florida over RandolphMacon, North Carolina over Wake Forest, West Virginia over Washtngton and Lee, Virginia Poly over Furman. :

‘SOUTHWEST

: Texas over Kansas State, Baylor over Hardin-Simmons, Arkansas . over Wichita, Rice over Corpus Christi air cadets, Texas Tech over West Texas Teachers, Southern Methodist over North Texas Teacher, Oklahoma over Oklahoma Aggies.

: FAR WEST Washington State over Stanford, California over St. Mary’s,

Oregon State over Idaho, University of Washington over College of

~ Pacific, Southern California over Tulane, Iowa State over Denver,

‘Texas Christian over U. C. L. A, California Cadets over Oregon,

Utah over Santa Clara, Colorado over Colorado Mines,

| Baseball

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GAMES TODAY AMERICAN LEAGUE

Chicago at Cleveland (twa, Only Sames cheduled

TIONAL LEAGUE Boston at

Brook! Cincinnati at Ly Vion is. Philadelphia at New York (two). games scheduled.

LITTLE WORLD SERIES Syracuse at Columbus (night), YESTERDAY'S RESULTS

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AMERICAN LEAGUE 000 001 000— 1 § 1 ough Kinnsdy i Early: Bo ham and Dickey, y oy on

Only game scheduled.

Major Leaders

NATIONAL LEAGUE ig AB R H Pot. 102 205 29 07 .329 121 462 97 147 .318 316

Lombardi, Boston . Reiser, Brooklyn Slaughter, St. Lovia,, Musial, 8t. Louis .... Mize, New York

AMERICAN LEAGUE

G AB R H Williams, Boston ... +413 519 141 185 Pesky, Boston

48 013 105 204 . Spence, Washington.. Hr 94 208 . Gordon, New York... 146 538 87 171 .320 Case, Washington... 125 515 100 164

' HOME RUNS

Williams, Red Sox Keller, Yankees... Ott, Giants 28| Mize, Giant Laabs, Browns ... 27

Way to Find Out

Dodgers...

;:|. TUCSON, Sept. 24.—Answering a

sports writer’s query as to what type of team Arizona had to open train-

.|ing, Coach Mike Casteel replied:

“Come out tomorrow and we'll find

out.” ‘

. Will the hundreds of men who came to our store Monday evening between 6 and Jo ‘clock . « . only

to find it closed . . .

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Monday evening stn 6 and 10 P. Unavoidable circumstances caused us to be over an

We advertised a A Hiour

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‘|day after the St. Louis Cardinals

oi five hits. It was his 21st victory of

French Keeps Bums Going

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—~The hopes of the battered Brooklyn Dodgers to retain the National league pennant grew dimmer by the hour to-

staged ‘another spirited rally to come from behind and hold their two-and-one-half-game lead. . The Red Birds rallied last night, behind the superb hurling of Rookie Johnny Beazley, to’ defeat the Cincinnati Reds, 4-2. The Dodgers had slashed the Cardinal lead to two games earlier in the day with a 6-0 shutout win over the Phils, but stood helplessly by as the Cards regained their edge.

THE NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT RACE AT A GLANCE W. L. G.B. ToPlay St. Louis...103 48. ... 3 Brooklyn ..100 50-- 2% 4 REMAINING GAMES St. Louis Brooklyn Sept. Sept. 24—Cincinnati 24—Boston 25—0Open 25—Boston 26—Chicago 26—At Phila, 27—Chicago 27—At Phila.

Any combination of two St. Louis victories or Dodger defeats now will put the flag on ice for the Cards. Beazley allowed only two hits under the St. Louis lights to score his 20th triumph of the season.

comeback attack on Bucky Walters with three and four. The Reds went in front in the first inning but the Cards hammered back with three runs in the third and one in the seventh for their 103d win of the year. The Cards now need only two victories in three starts to clinch the pennant and replace the Bums as National league champions—even if the Dodgers sweep their remaining four games. Southpaw Larry French revived Brooklyn's pennant hopes briefly when he hurled the Dodgers to victory over Philadelphia. He allowed the Phillies only one hit, singularly enough to a left-handed hitter. Nick Etten bounced a single through short in the second inning, but then was erased on a double play. French faced only 27 men, striking out six as he chalked up his 14th Weiumph) of the season.

Bonham Wins Ne. 21

Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser led the Dodgers’ 13-hit attack on three Phil hurlers with three safeties each. Only one American league game was played, the New York Yankees scoring their 103d triumph of the season with a 4-1 victory over the Washington Senators. Big Ernie Bonham pitched the Yanks to their win, allowing only

the year and ended the Champions’ home season. Phil Rizzuto, Red Rolfe and Bill

Yankees’ seven-hit attack.

Eastern Hockey

NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Eastern Hockey league will operate as a five-team circuit. Clubs are the New York Rovers, Boston Olympics, Washington Eagles, Baltimore Orioles and the Curtis Bay, Baltimore,

Stan Musial sparked a nine-hit|

Dickey each got two hits to lead thes

Beazley . .

. the rookie tossed a two-hitter.

ly. He said, “Thanks very much,” and hung up. Then he repeated the phone message to the reporter, “The Cards beat the Reds, 4 to 2.” Rates Cards Evenly

He did some lightning calculations on his pad. “Well,” he said, “that almost puts St. Louis in, It makes the price 10 to 1 against Brooklyn winning the pennant. These closing games are awfully important. If the Cards had lost tgnight, the price against Brooklyn would be only about 3 to 1. “The price will be 1 to 2 against the Yankees winning the series, whether they play the Cards or Dodgers,” Doyle said. “And it'll be 8 to5 qi either St. Louis or Brooklyn winning The reporter "interpreted these ‘book” prices to mean, in tHe language of informal street betting, that the Yanks will be’ what is familiarly known as “16 to 5 favorites” against either National Jéague outfit. Of course, you can’t get a price like that against a book. But, how come Doyle rates the Cards or the Dodgers on a par as a series opponent? The pricemaker explained: Even Strength

* “Regardless of what the Cards or Dodgers have done at various stages of the campaign, they are at potentially even strength, now, just as they were at the beginning of the season. As I recall, my opening pennant prices in April were 6 to § against Brooklyn repeating for- the flag, and 13 to 10 against St. Louis winning. Those were mighty close es.” If the Cards take the pennant, as they now seem destined to do, Doyle said the bookmakers probably would offer 6 to 5 against St.

station of the coast guard.

Louis winning the opening game

Yankees in that department.

Cards Can Hit, Don't Boom Like the Yanks'

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (U. P.) ~The power of any ball club is measured by the hitting ability of its outfielders and there isn’t any combination in the major leagues this year that compares with the New York

but Their Bats

Of course, they won’t be liabilities that Enos Slaughter, Terry Moore and Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals or Pete Reiser, Joe Medwick

and Dixie Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers will be lugging up to the plate, but their bats don’t have the all-round authority of the Yankee

arm has not been so good this year as previously, but it’s still good

Broadway's Price-Maker Rates Yankees as Series Winner

‘By JACK CUDDY United Press Stafl Correspondent

| NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Ancient Jack Doyle, a bespectacled, semibald little man, was almost engulfed by the huge, brown leather chair as he sat in his hotel suite, waiting for the phone to ring last night. Doyle, Broadway's price-maker on sports events for 36 years, had a pad of paper in his lap, and he drummed a freshly-sharpened pencil the chair arm. The phone rang. The withered little man listened attentive-

|S. A. Playoff

from the ‘Yanks, and that the bookies probably would take 7 to 5.

He said the opening-game price against the Cards naturally would be shorter than the series. price be-

cause of the virtual certainty that

Billy Southworth would send big Mort Cooper to the mound in the initial contest. The price will be about 5 to 1 against the Yanks winning the series in four straight engagements, and about 12 to 1 against the Cards doing likewise.

RAINCOATS FINGERTIP

‘|desired to continue play in the as-

armed services. ; St. Louis May Enter

Miller said tnat no definite action had been taken concérning the ad-

American league franchise there. He also said tkat after the war he would like to see Cincinnati or Louisville come into the league. At present the American league is an eight-team circuit. Philadelphia withdrew from the loop last week and Springfield combined with Buffalo earlier in the year when the U. 8. army took over the springfleld arena for military purposes. St. Louis, Omaha and St. Paul

sociation this year but were out voted by Minneapolis, Dallas, , Worth and Kansas City.

Nashville Wins

NASHVILLE, Ind, Sept. 23 (U. P.) ~The Nashville Volunteers tonight won the Southern association playoff by taking * the fourth straight game from the pennantwinning Little Ro¢k Travelers by the score of 1 9. The Vols six runs in the first inning, one in the second, three in/ the seventh and one in the eighth. Little Rock scored twice in the second and once in each of the

four

; United Press Staff NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Leland loquacious Barnum of baszballs whi

‘continue as a director of the ‘Dodgers “for the present,” alother members of the board indicated his Joslin would be an honorary on “I've quit,” MacPhail said last night. “I've totally and comtely resigned—effective at the end of the season on Sunday.

| ‘The Thing to Do’ No successor was named and ‘board members said none would be considered until the close of {the season. | “I tore up a new five-year contract signed last spring to take this step because I feel it's toe thing to do,” MacPhail said. Tears, streamed down his cheeks as he added: “I've never had e& job in which I was happier.” Baseball thus lost one of its

through five fabulous campaigns, headed for the army today resigning as president and general manager of the beloved Bums, MacPhail, 52, a captain in the artillery during World War I, said he hoped to be in the army Saturday as a Hetrienant colonel. He will

McPhail Drops a Tear as He| | Leaves "The. Beloved Bums'

By OSCAR FRALEY

Correspondent » ord (Larry) MacPhail, the guided the Brooklyn Dudgtss

Lieut. Col. MacPhail

shrewdest and most dynamic executives, whose innovations lifted two clubs out of the doldrums and made them pennant winners. It was MacPhail who prevailed upon the majors to try night ball; who formed the “knot hole club,” which admitted boys free and made sure of future fans; who started track and field events for players, installed an organ in Ebbets field and was one of the first to aid service relief.

He Made the Reds

MacPhail, a ringleader of a soldier expedition which attempted to capture the kaiser from his Holland retreat after the last war, entered the National ‘league picture as a general man‘ager of the Cincinnati Reds. He made the Reds a going concern and started them toward two pennants and a world champio! p. He left Cincinnati for Brook= lyn, then on the veige of bankruptcy, and built it into a big money proposition. Under his direction the club climbed into the top division, won the pennant last year and currently is involved in a stretch battle with the St. Louis Cardinals. MacPhail was the man who made the Brooklyn club the daffy, dizzy Flatbush flock, fighting all

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the war. “No successor to MacPhail has been named and no “particular person is under consideration. There probably will not be an announcement until sometime during the winter.”

MacPhail added that “changes

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to produce in 1943." ferring to his attempted kidnaping of the kaiser in the world war, he said he didn’t think he would attempt to kidnap Hitler should he be assigned to overseas servide again,

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powerhouse outfield. Joe DiMaggio’s hitting has fallen off this year and so has Charley Keller's but they have batted in 110 and 109 runs, respectively. Ray Cullenbine is not in their hitting class, hut he’s definitely dangerous.

_ Yanks’ Chief Weapon

DiMagyio has hit 20 home runs, Keller 26 and Cullenbine six. Slaughter, Musial and Moore have ND ane them, Bod Beaver), Medwick and Walker 20.. Those figures, based an games played up

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