Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1942 — Page 16

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"ASSEMBLED by the United Press for baseball's re filberts are the statistical comparisons of the 1942 Id’ series rivals, the New York Yankees, the perenchamps, and the St. Louis Cardinals, the team that finished the regular season hot as a firecracker. This department is stringing with the Yankees to win in six ‘on the theory their world series seasoning and’ poise will over- . “the dash ‘of the spirited Cardinals. .. . However, in the event the trend of play in the 1942 hig minor playoffs extend to the world Series the chances of an upset by the underdog National leaguers

3 All ‘pennant winners in the. big minor leagues were defeated in eir, respective playoffs, Kansas City, American association; Newark, tional league; Sacramento, Pacific Coast league; Little Rock, ‘Southern association; and Beaumont, Texas league. "It will be “batter up” at Sportsman’s park, St. Louis, tomorrow atl 30 p. m. . For the statistically-minded fans a complete table ‘of regular season n figures on the teams and players is presented: CLUR BATTING G AB R H cesenses 154 5296 801 1429 veeesess 156 5411 75% 1485 CLUB FIELDING

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Bierman May Break Gophers’ Victory String at 18 Straight

CHICAGO, Sept. 29. (U. P.).—Bernie Bierman today set about to wreck a great string of football victories that he spent two years in helping to build. Under Bierman’s direction the University of Minnesota won the final game of the 1939 campaign, added eight more triumphs in 1840 and then swept through eight more contests a season ago to Jun the string to 8 ‘With Bierman now in the military service, Dr. George Hauser took over the Gophers’ head coaching ‘job. Last week-end Minnesota opened with a 50-to-7 victory over Pittsburgh to run the triumphant gkein to 18 in a row. ‘In the Midwest's we game turday, Bierman, now eui et tone) in the marines on loan to the navy, takes the powerful ova City naval pre-flight team o Minneapolis to face Minnesota.

Red Birds atPeak Strength

F or Tomorrow

By. ToMMY DEVINE ’ United Press Staff Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo. Sept. 29.—Pitch-

that carried the New York Yankees

the past six seasons—make the Bronx Bombers the favorites over the St. Louis Cardinals in the world series opening tomorrow at Sportsman’s park. " The clubs will lead with their right-handed pitching aces, Ernie Bonham of the Yanks and Morton Cooper of the Cards, in an effort to grab an early advantage. A

Series Lineups ST. LOUIS ‘NEW YORK Brown, 2b Hassett, 1b Moore, cf Rolfe, 3b Slaughter, rf Cullenbine, rf Musial, If DiMaggio, cf W. Cooper, ¢ Keller, If Hopp, 1b . Dickey, ¢ Kurowski, 3b Gordon, 2b Marion, ss Rizzuto, "ss M. Cooper, p Bonham, p

sellout crowd of 34,000 fans was assured for the contest which starts at 1:30 p. m. (CWT.. All reserved and box seats have been sold for a week. Bleacher tickets will be sold tomorrow. While the Cardinals captured the fans fancy with a great stretch drive that brought them 43 triumphs in the last 52 games, gamblers who aren’t swayed by sentiment have installed the Yanks as the 2 to 1 series favorite and Bonham as a 6 to 5 choice to best Cooper in the inaugural contest.

Yanks Are Experienced

Bonham defeated Whit Wyatt of the Dodgers, 3 to 1, in the fifth and final game of the 1941 series. The veteran Charley (Red) Ruffing, winner . of his last four series efforts, Rookie Hank Borowy and Spud Chandler probably will start in the succeeding games for the Yanks with Johnny Beazley, a first year man, Ernie White and Max Lanier following Cooper as starters for the Cardinals. The Yankee foursome has an aggregate season’s record of 66 victories and 21 defeats as against the four Cardinals’ mark of 63 victories and 26 setbacks. The simple won and lost figures alone don't swing the pitching balance to the New Yorkers, however. Experience acccmplishes that. Bonham, Ruffing and Chandler all have been tested under world series fire, while this is the first classic for the “big four” of the St. Louis staff. Joe McCarthy's 1942 Yankees aren't the powerhouse outfits of the

Joe Gordon, Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller, they still hit the “long ball” that so often is a telling series factor. The Yankees this season as a team slammed 108 home runs to only 60 for the Cardinals. In poise, there’s a sharp difference in the two clubs. The Yanks are cool methodical and drably efficient. The Cards do everything with dash and a spectacular touch. In only one department—speed— do the Cardinals appear to have a clean cut edge.

At Peak Strength

The teams go into the series virtually at their peak strength. Terry Moore, St. Louis’ center fielder who was on the sidelines the last two weks of the championship campaign as the result of a leg injury, played in the pennant clincher Sunday agains tthe Cubs and

Ruth and Gehrig days, but, led by|

ing, power and poise—three factors|: :

to the baseball peak five times in|§

Fall Trackmen Report at I. U.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Sept. 29.—Four lettermen and seven numeral winners from the 1941 freshman squad will compose the Indiana university cross-country team which is scheduled to open its fall campaign Oct. 10 against Purdue at Lafayette. Lettermen are Paul Kendall, Petersburg; Harry Price, Monticello; Howard Henry, Knox, and Robert Benckart, Bloomington. Among the}” numeral winners is Earl Mitchell, Anderson, Indiana intercollegiate cross-country champion two years ago as a member of the Butler university squad. The other sophomores are Lester Tolbert, Bloomington; James O'Dell, Buffalo, N. Y.; Charles Kelsey, La Porte; ‘Cletus Kruyer, South Bend; Tom Judge, Mansfield, Pa., and Charles Smith, Kokomo, Charles Labotka, Hammond, a two-miler from the varsity track team, and Clark McClure, Bloomington, complete Coach Billy Hayes’ Hoosier cross-country squad. - . Indiana's 1941 hill-and-dale squad won two dual matches and lost the same number, finishing second in both the state and Big Ten meets. Fred Wilt, Pendleton, former Indiana running star, captured “th the Western conference and national collegiate individual titles. The 1942 schedule follows: Oct. 10, Purdue at Lafayette; Oct. 17, Illinois at Bloomington; Oct. 24, Michigan State at Bast Lansing; Oct. 31, Towa Cadets at Bloomington; Nov. 7, State meet at Indianapolis; Nov. 14 or 16, Ten meet at Chicago; Nov. 23, N. C. A. A. at East Lansing.

Laughing Larry MacPhail, Baseball's Greatest Loss

room apartment has plenty of ventilation.

Lucky Jack Cuddy of United editor, by 44 percentage points.

and Tennessee played tie games. The “expert” trio all went

last week and leads Red Grange and our Eddie Ash, Times sports

Grange and Ash picked 15 winners in 25 games. Notre Dame

Temple and Texas A. & M. Grange, the smartie, picked Michigan over Great Lakes and Georgia over the Florida Fliers for his upsets. Ash and Cuddy pulled their quickies by stringing along with William and Mary over Navy. ; The boys will be back again this week with predictions. Their scores: Cuddy, 696; Grange, 652; Ash, 652.

Press picked 16 football winners

down with Penn, Holy Cross,

AA Champions Hold 3-1 Edge

SYRACUSE, N. '¥., Sept. 20 (U. P.).—The Syracuse Chiefs are expected to call on either Charley Barrett or Ewell Blackwell for mound duty tonight against the Columbus Red Birds of the American association in the little world series. Manager Ed Dyer of the Red Birds, who now hold a 3-1 edge over the International league representative, has selected Ted Wilks, Columbus scored its third straight victory over the Chiefs, 10-5, last night before about 5000 fans. The Red Birds collected 13 hits off the combined offering of Clayton Lambert and Tomas De La Cruz. Syracuse made six errors. Ken Burkhart took over the Columbus pitching with his club trailing, 3-2, after starter Preacher Roe was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the fifth. He was credited with the victory. Roe and Burkhart allowed 10 hits. Lambert was charged with the loss. Columbus 000 202 213—10 13 2 Syracuse’ ........ «ov. 001 200 011— 5 10 6 Roe, Burkhart and Hoary; Lambert, Delacruz and Bottarini.

Howe's scores Arnold Koehler and Joe Wilson, 87,

Hanafee Wins

Golf Tourney

Bill Hanafee, Howe high school

golfer, shot a 78 yesterday.to win first place in the low gross division

of the invitational tournament at

Pleasint Run.

Fred" Fitchey of Shortridge was second with an 83 and Toni Messer

of Southport took third with an 85. Shortridge and Howe tied for first place - in team scoring with 342 strokes and will participate in a shoot-off later to determine win-

vers of individual medals.

Other scores for Shortridge members were John Smith and Dick Gilchrist, 86, and Jim Spoon, 87. were Hanafee, 78;

and Robert Stanfill, 90. Southport and Cathedral tied for third and fourth places with 355

strokes. Forty-two boys competed.

Butler Gridders

Nurse Injuries

Six Butler university football

players are benched and probably will miss the Big Ten tilt with Illinois Saturday at. Champaign.

Three of the regulars, Babe Di-

mancheff, Billy Howard, backs, and

He May Start

Ast Cooper

By LEO H. PETERSEN By United Press Sporis Editor

EN ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS, Sept.

29.—The New York Yankees headed

west today in quest of their seventh

world: championship in 11 years. This time they facesthe rags-to-‘riches Cardinals of St. Louis. They figure the trip will turn out to be

a golden one if they can win one of the two games which will open the

1942 world series at Sportsthan’s

§ park Wednesday and Thursday.

The aristocrats of baseball were

i murder for American league teams

The early bird at the warld series this year is Art Felsch (above), Milwaukee baseball fan who wanted to be first in line for the opener tomorrow afternoon at Sportsman's park, St. Louis. Felsch has prepared living quarters at the general admission gate. His c one-

CUDDY GETS KUDOS

Garner to Be

Sheridan’s Foe

Bob Garner, hard hitting Louis ville light-heavyweight, has been

signed to box Al Sheridan, former local midleweight, in the six round semi-windup on the professional mitt bill at the Armory next Friday night. . Garner is a youngster who started punching for money the first time out. He never has had an amateur battle and has lost only one fight in 20 trips to the ring. Sheridan recently passed the 160-pound middleweight limit and will move into the light-heavy bracket for the first time Friday night. The Louisville slugger will come in at 170 pounds. The featured battle of the evening will be a 10-round heavyweight scrap between Johnny Denson, of Indianapolis, and Al Globe, of San Francisco. Denson is in intensive training at the Westside A. C. and expects the stiffest test. of his pro career in Globe: The Californian is working out at Trafton’s gym in Chicago and will arrive here by train on Thursday afternoon. Another . six-round scrap on the bill will pit - local - welterweights

‘Arnold Deer and Robert Simmons,

in a return fight. Simmons shaded Deer here recently.

The ‘Blind’ Men

CHICAGO, Sept. 290 (U- P).— Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landis announced today the umpires for the world series between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. They are: William R. Summers and Cal Hubbard with Steve Basil as alternate from the American league; George Magerkurth and George Barr with Thomas Dunn as alternate from the National league.

at Yankee stadium this season and .

are confident they will polish off .

the greatest stretch team in base-

‘ball history on their own grounds.

Manager Joe McCarthy was cautious, as ‘usual, but the: Yankee players were not as conservative. They can't see the series going be-: yond the threé games which will be played at Yankee stadium Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Might Start Chandler As usual, McCarthy refused to

reveal his pitching selection for the

opening ' game, but indications mounted that he might not call on ’ Charles (Red) Ruffing, the Yankee reliable rated as the best spot pitch-

.|er in the game.

McCarthy held Ruffing, Ernie » (Tiny) . Bonham and Spurgeon Chandler in New York when the Yankees finished their season at Boston Sunday-—a pretty good sign that they are the hurlers fe will start in, the first three games. There was a strong belief that the Yankee skipper might select Chandler, the only hurler to lose last year in the series: opener against Brook lyn. Chandler, with a season's. rece ord of 16 victories against five de- ° feats, has the equipment to handle the St. Louis batting order, McCarthy is sure Billy South worth of the Cards will shoot with Mort Cooper in his drive to bring the Mound City its first world title since 1934. ‘And he expects ‘the Cardinals to be tough.

Winners to Get $4000

“We're in fine shape and ready for them,” McCarthy said. “You can count on the Yankees PUUing up a real battle.” If the two ay rest doesn’t cool oft the Cardinals, the Yankees feel St. Louis will put up a real fight in this first shot for world series dol lars in eight years. The Cardinals, ' while not the lowest paid club in the majors, aren't the highest either. ‘They could use that extra $2000 of ° 80 that makes the difference between the winning and losing end. The Yankees, under McCarthy,

end of the series split. They don’t intend to this time as it may be the last of the big money classics because of the war. Although the United Service Organizations will: the chief béneficiary this year, '

pool of the first four games. The Yankees ‘expect the winning split to be about $6000. The losing cut probably will be about $4000.

Well Acquainted

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20.—John

Creagan, Pittsburgh welterweight, has boxed close to 200 rounds with

Billy Conn in three years as a spar~ - Ting panner. ;

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BUY “NEW FEET’ TODAY . . . Feet feel "good as new" In lively FREE-FLEX SHOES

e players still will share in the

never "have had to take the short ¢

End Andy Williams, missed last week’s game at Indiana. After the game which the Hoosiers won, 53 to 0, three more Butler gridders were benched. They are Norman Williams, Indianapolis halfback, and major ball carrier; Guard Bill Horvath and End Harold Miller. All this leaves a lot of experimenting for Coach Frank Hedden this week. Sophomores Elmo Tanner and Kenny Geiman may play at one end with Knute Dobkins hold-| ing down the other end. Quarterback Jim Gilson will get a try at guard and Leslie Dold may be shoved into Gilson’s former berth. Jim = Mitchell, former - Shortridge player, probably will take Williams’ place at left half,

Angott Wins Dull

By JACK CUDDY . United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—8inging songs of praise for a particular individual in sports has never been my special forte. But as Larry MacPhall sings his baseball swan song and enters the army, let me say that the red-headed former president of the Brooklyn Dodgers leaves ‘behind a stronger single impression than any one man ever connected with the game. I know they call the Yankee stadium the “house that Babe Ruth built” and classify the . 8. great slugger as “Mr. Baseball.” That is all well and good, for I have no wish to belittle the Babe. But to my mind, when the complex, volatile MacPhail bid goodby to Brooklyn, he left baseball men with a definite sense of loss. Laughing Larry has been—will be again, we hope—one of the keenest, most complex—yet clears headed—most intense and talented personalities ever associated with ‘the national pastime, Indefinable Something

The naval cadets trampled Kansas, 61 to 0, in their inaugural Ser het to To That wea rthwestern, 2 rman the distinction of being the winning coach in 20 consecue games and now either his perstreak or that of the Minnesta team that he steered into najonal prominence will come to an} shortly. die e cadets boast some ot name stars to play for Midestern colleges in recent seasons on the basis of early season howings rank as the section's No. d combination. fore the Northwestern game, n said he regarded it as the important on the cadets’ dule and that he was planning “throw the book” at the WildThe gray-thatched mentor,

participated in practice sessions yesterday and today. He'll start the series. The only Yankee star missing is Outfielder Tommy Henrich who left the team two weeks ago to join the coast guard. Most of the profits from this waryear world series will go to the united service organizations. If the series goes the limit of seven games, the proceeds to the war agency will total approximately $679,000. As usual the players’ pool is made up of a pefcentage of receipts from the first four contests, but the shares of the competing clubs, the rival leagues and the office of Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis have been cut sharply. The clubs profit will‘ be the smallest in modern. ser‘ies history. The first two games, Wednesday

Dr. Hauser . .. Minnesota's coach.

last season, ‘loose against Pitts burgh and the big fellow counted four touchdowns in the rout of the de-emphasized Panthers, Bierman will -be able to battle Minnesota with some of Je grid ders who helped the. Gophers pile up their long winning streak. ‘Six members of the Cadets squad played their collegiate ball at Minnesota. They are Gene Flick, a guard from

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Wer, couldn’t really rate North- ; stern above Minnesota in imance either to himself or to the hawk team.

last -season’s perfect record eleven; tackle, Johnny Kublitski; ends, Judd Ringer and Ray Antil; tackle, Charley Schultz, and center, George

and Thursday, are scheduled here. Friday will be an off-day for travel with play resuming Saturday in New York for the next three games.

¢, Brooklyn lost the National league pennant to the St. Louis Cardinals. But even had they won and progressed to an eventual

Bout From Spoldi

NEW ORLEANS, La. Sept. 20

If the issue is stlil undecided the clubs will return to St. Louis for the final two games.

Roche Wrestles . O'Mahoney Tonight Main go action on tonight's! wrestling card at the Armory will send Dorve Roche against Danno; O'Mahoney in a tussle calling for two falls out of three. O'Mahoney is from Ireland and formerly ' was heavyweight chamall “Irish

world series victory in a return meeting with the New York Yankees, Ebbets field and the Dodgers would never have seemed the same without MacPhail. ‘It wasn’t how many pennants Larry actually won or 10st, nor the money he. spent in acquiring new faces for the Brooklyn album. Tt It was instead that indefinable some-

Svendsen. While the Cadets attempt to pro long their unbeaten record another ostvice Yam, Died Laks, seks 10 a bit of lost prestige when it University of Iowa. Great was toppled, 9 to 0, last week ino as pie; 9 to 9) top upIowa won from Nebrasks,

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