Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1943 — Page 7

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Pa SOMETHING Bas Beet added to the American 8880 ciation’s roll call of managers for 1943. . . . Nick Cullop, She old Hipper Dipper, has been appointed manager of ite Columbus Red Birds, succeeding Eddie Dyer, Who ' moves. on to-St. Louis as “co-ordinator of minor league clubs” in the Cardinal organization. Last. fall, at 42, Cullop gave his glove, baseball shoes and sweat shirts away. .. . He thought he was through with baseball, at least = the duration. . . . Nick, who managed the Pocatello, Ida., club last season figured ‘there wouldn’t be apy - small inov league baseball this year and ‘presented’ star pitcher with "his personal baseball equipment. ; + « « Cullop landed a job with a Co- Eo. lumbus industry “for the duration” , but the St. Louis Cardinal organiza"tion, owner of the Columbus club, didn’t forget the veteran was around.

Best-of- oii ive

|Tilts Starts

At Buffalo

By FRANK WIDNER Our Indianapolis Caps today faced

star players. According to*the United Press Adam Brown, speedy wingman for the ‘Caps, and Defenseman Hal Jackson participated in the Detroit-

that a ruling by the American

participating in both the Stanley cup and Calder cup matches.

Jackson, -

the possibility of going into the: final playoff round of the American |: Hockey league for the Calder cup|i without the services of two of its):

Toronto Stanley cup playoff game|: at Detroit last night. Manager Dick}: Miller of the coliseum said today]:

Hockey league forbids a player from |

The semi-pros scored their three

. uled to tee off today in the quali- } a Lying, round of the 41st annual ® Na lo

« « « About a month ago the Red Bird ‘management signed him as a playercoach under Dyer, then as player=manager late Saturday when Dyer

~dmoved up in the Cardinal ranks.

4 In his younger years Cullop was one of the American association’s most popular - outfielders and slug-

‘gers. . . . He played on three clubs in the A. A, Minneapolis, St. Paul and . +» He specialized in home runs. . . .

umbus. .

¢ Nick Cullop : He does not ex-

ict to do much playing this year except to go. in as a pinch hitter

for the Red Birds. . ..

He will be 43 in October.

The Columbus Citizen described Cullop as the greatest slugger

and most popular ball player ever

to wear a Columbus uniform.

ae . He played for the Birds five years, from 1932 to 1936. Says Yankees Sought Johnny McCarthy

\ DAN DANIEL of the New York World-Telegram said that in the official consummation of the Nick Etten deal with ‘the Phila-~ “delphia Phillies, it 1s disclosed from Boston that before the New York ‘Yankees got a call from Gerry: Nugent, the Phillies’ former boss, on First Baseman Etten, they tried to arrange a deal for Johnny McCarthy, whom the Braves had obtained from Indianapolis.

. & But for word from Max West,

Braves’ first sacker-outfielder,

that he had been ‘warned to get ready for reclassification to 1-A, Casey Stengel would have sold McCarthy to the Yankees, Daniel

declared.

‘McCarthy was the American assoclation’s leading first sacker

last year.

Young Dobkins Signs With Syracuse

TOM DOBKINS, the Indianapolis Indians’ clubhouse boy for the past four years, has decided to play league ball himself instead of

ministering to the ball players. . . .

Tom, 19, is a catcher and he has

signed for a tryout with the Syracuse Chiefs of the International

league, . . .

The Chiefs’ spring training camp is -at Frederick, Md.

Tom’s brothers, John and Newton, played football at Tech high school and Newt also played on the gridiron at Butler university. . Leo T. Miller, former Indianapolis club president and general

manager, signed Tom to a Syracuse contract. .

. Miller is the Chiefs’

general manager and Jewel Ens, former Indianapolis skipper, is the

Syracuse field pilot. .

- Young Dobkins resides at 1414 Rembrandt st.

3 LastPoriod Goals Enable Red Wings to Whip Toronto

DETROIT, March 29 (U. P) ~The Detroit Red Wings came through “Sith three last-period goals last night to whip the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-2, in the fifth game of their best-of-seven Stanley Cup hockey playoff

series.

The victory gave Detroit a 3-2 game lead in the series.

A dramatic finish enabled the

Peters After Regular Berth

LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 29— Possibility that Russ Peters may improve his 1942 batting average ‘of 224 tabbed him today as a likely prospect for a regular infield berth with the Cleveland Indians. . Peters’ 425-foot home run over the centerfield fence yesterday: featured the Indians’ 12-3 victory over the semi-pro Lafayette Red Sox.p

runs in the first inning on the wildness of Pitcher Mike’ Naymick, coupled with errors by Otto Denning and Ken Keltner.

Walsh First Game CIE, Ind, March 29.—~The

regulars licked the rookies, 4-1. freshmen collected six hits and run off Johnny Van- » in the first five innings. held the regulars to four

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National league champions to win by a score identical to those in the other Red Wing triumphs. With 30 seconds to go, the Leafs pulled Goalie Turk Broda out of the nets and sent six forwards upice in a desperate attempt to knot the score. However, Defenseman Jimmy Orlando stopped the rush at the blue line and shoved the puck to Sid Abel, who in turn slid the disc the length of the rink and into the Toronto net for the fourth goal. The Red Wings held the initiative through most of the game, taking a first-period lead at 14:54 on Eddie Wares’ 35-foot shot. Adam Brown, called up from the Wings’ Indianapolis farm: club to replace the injured Syd Howe, drew an assist. Puts Wings ‘Ahead . Toronto roared back in the second period, however, with a pair of goals 59 seconds apart. Mel Hill scored unassisted at 15:12 when he raced around behind the Detroit net and laced home the puck from a sharp angle, and Babe Pratt whipped home a 26-footer at 16:11 to give the Leafs their only lead. “The third: period was all Detroit. + | Abel intercepted a Toronto pass at {the Leaf blue line, flanked Defenseman Bucko McDonald and poked the puck between Broda's feet at 2:18. At 8:13 Mud Bruneteau whacked home a rebound on Jack Stewart’s shot to put the Wings ahead, and Abel completed scoring with a second to go on his freak goal. ; The teams now move te Toronto for the sixth game tomorrow and|, return here Thursday, if necessary, to wind up the series.

Six Heavies on

Wrestling Card

Six heavyweights, including Albert (His Lordship) Mills, a new-

morrow night. . | Mills; balling from Montueal, ig Hlad

The United Press reported that

replace the injured Syd Howe. Jackson, the U. P. said, took Alex Motter’s place.

Open Series Wednesday

The ruling, according to Mr. Miller, was made by league officials a few years back after one of the league clubs took to the ice with

- |several players on its roster from

a National league club that had béen eliminated in the Stanley cup playofts. Buffalo and the Caps will open a best-of-five series. for the Calder

in Buffalo. The Bisons won the “A” series of the American Hockey‘ league playoffs last night by defeating the Hershey Bars, 2-1, before a capacity crowd of 10252 at Memorial stadium ‘in Buffalo. Indianapolis emerged victorious in its series “B” playoffs with Cleveland by annexing its second straight game Saturday night-at Cleveland, 3-2, after two overtime periods. - Burly Bob Blake; Bisons’ right defenseman, slammed in a short shot in the final period: with the score tied at one-all to provide the winning margin which gave the Buffalo team four of the six series games. Allum Opens ‘Scoring Big Bill Allum, Buffalo defense star,. opened the scoring with his fifth goal of the series at 9:36 minutes of the second period, with assists by Freddie Hunt and Hergert, after the teams had battled on the evenest of terms from the opening faceoff. In the final period, Hershey went on the attack and at 11:22 Left Wing Johnny Sorell sent the puck whizzing past Bison Goalie Gordie Bell with Fred Hergert and Virgil Johnson assisting. With the puck against the “boards back of the Hershey niet, Buffalo's Bill Summerhill and Max Kaminsky wefit after it. The disc came sliding out to Blake, who was directly in front of the goal, and he lofted| it over the shoulder of Nick Damore, Hershey goalie. The: play was rough throughout the , contest, with Hunt of the Bisons, and Tony: Graboski and Hergert of the Bars, each drawing two-minute penalties for high sticking. 13 Out of 14

Indianapolis’ victory Saturday night which lifted them into the| final round to defend the cup they won last year marked the 13th victory (in the last 14 ‘starts for the Lewismen' who emerged from a | mid-season slump. to capture third {place at the end of the regular league season. The Caps advanced to the final round by scoring four straight playoff victories, eliminating Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Buffalo won four of six games from the Hershey team which fell apart after losing only 13 gamés during the regular season to win the pennant 15 points ahead of second-place Buffalo. It took a “sudden death” goal by the veteran Hec Kilrea to give the Caps thelr victory Saturday night. The Indianapolis hn had “ to come from behind twice in the bruising battle at Cleveland before Kilrea scored the winning goal at 11:56 of the second overtime after a three-man rush with Connie and Adam Brown. -Connie Brown rapped in the other two goals for the Caps while Les Cunningham and Phil Hergesheimer notched the Barons’ two tallies.

Irish, Miami

Share Honors

today as the team champions of the Purdue relays held - at Lafayette Saturday after each were victorious in the university and college divisions, respectively. The Irish garnered 39% points as [compared with 24 for Indiana, its {closest competitor in team. scoring, while Miami racked up 29% points] - to 16 made by second place Michigan Normal. \ The scoring: gioixty Ly Davis, (Michigan ER Hurdles - = Ohatles

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1). Pe alt — William ‘Moore 18 ft. 6

Adam Brown had been called by the |: Wings, parent club of the Caps, tof

cup championship Wednesday night

Only one ball player went into a base like this—Ty Cobb. Jimmy Austin: of the Highlanders is

Bad Loser: Ty Cobb. Stane ds As the Fiery Geni us

| mainly

5 ~ [indians Watch Reds, Get Taste

|| Of Bloomington Hospitality i in

||First Day at Training Camp |

Times Special = BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 29.—The Indianapolis Indians yess

terday spent their first day

ospitality in the evening. Leading citizens of the college

iltown and I. U. students extended

the glad hand to Manager Ownie Bush by assembling in the field

through their first paces. ; ‘These included “pepper” games,

a infield drill, leg work around the &: ding track and work in the two bat-

ting cages. The Tribesters were being processed for heavier duties ‘to come and Skipper Bush said “it

jj won't be long before I put on the

pressure.” Veterans Are Cautious

Nearly all members of the advace guard are veterans and ‘Bush

| wants them to be careful and not Ei|overdo their “muscle stretching” right off the bat. Other members

the third baseman, Bill Dinneen the umpire. Charles Martin Conlon snapped the picture at the old

By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor

TYRUS RAYMOND COBB stands alone as the fiery genius of baseball, Ty Cobb possessed a. combination of talents that has been found in no one

him the greatest ball player who ever lived. Cobb

was- so sincerely a bad loser that he became a terrific winner. " ‘Cobb was the only player who dominated the ‘game.’ He had the opposition at his mercy. They did not know how to play him. Cobb - did : everything different. Crowding and crouching over the plate, Cobb, a left-hand hitter, kept his hands a few inches apart on the bat, a grip used by no other batter today. The Georgia Peach explained that this gave him more control over his bat. When he hit to left field, his left hand came into play. When he hooked a ball to right, his left hand slipped down as he swung, giving him the leverage of the swinging

pulled it to right, hit straightaway. He could bunt and drag, and was safe with the slightest bobble. Pitchers disposed of Babe Ruth and other renowned hitters simply by walking them, but Cobb

“was even more dangerous after getting on base.

There was g& saying during Cobb’s heyday that the ball was hot when he was on the paths. When Detroit was a run behind in a late inning, and Cobb was the first man up, you could get a price that the Tigers would tie the score. Cobb’ upset infields as he upset ‘batteries—scor= ing from first on singles, going from first to third on. sacrifice bunts, scoring from second on infield outs and sacrifice flies, stealing, making delayed steals, purposely getting himself trapped between

Cobb led the American League in batting for 12 - years—nine in a row. hrice batted .400 or better, -hit 300 or more for 23 Sdight years. His lifetime American league averagc*over a stretch of 24 years ‘was 374. He topped the circuit for consecutive years

in all except home runs, and once showed the way °

in that department. He was the most spectacular outfielder of his

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, March 29.—Second-seeded St. John’s of Brooklyn and fourth-ranked Toledo of Ohio clash in Madison Square Garden tonight in the finale of the national invitation tournament—Afirst of three games that will bring down the curtain on the 1942-43 college basketball season. The National Collegiate Athletic association championship will be decided tomorrow night when Wyoming's band of huskies, Rocky Moun-

else, but it was his burning desire to excel that.made.

slugger of today. He poked the ball into left field,

Toledo’s All-Freshman Squad Will Face St. John’s s Tonight

hilltop grounds in New York late in the summer of 1909, when the Georgia Peach was at the peak of his phenomenal career. It has been called the greatest: action picture ever made on a baseball field.

time; had few peers as a center fielder. One after=noon while playing right field, he threw out three runners at first base in one game. But Cobb is best, remembered as & phantom Hercuy sweeping the base paths. He stole 96 bases n 191 Cobb never gave an infielder or catcher more than the tip of his toe to tag. He developed the fadeaway, fallaway and hook slides. Cobb took the stand that the baselines belonged to the baserunner, that it was up to the man doing the tagging to protect himself. When Cobb first became a menace, several pitchers set about to tone him down. One afternoon a pitch barely missed his head. On the next trip, Cobb was hit on the back of the neck. Instead of hitting the ball as expected on the following turn at bat, Cobb deliberately bunted down the first base line, so as to pull the pitcher over. The first baseman got the ball, and Cobb was out by 10 feet. But that didn’t stop him. Ten feet from first base he deliberately threw himself feet ° forward, spikes shining, and cut through the coacher’s box in time to send the pitcher spinning heels over head, his stockings cut to shreds. “I never deliberately cut a fellow except to protect myself,” he insisted. Catchers actually threw a base ahead of him to head Cobb off. When Lou Criger of the Red Sox threatened to show him up, Cobb made four selfadvertised thefts of second. He stole his way around the bases on such fine throwers as Paul Krichell of. the Browns and Ira Thomas of the Athletics. Cobb, who stood six feet and weighed 178 pounds at his peak, had the greatest respect for Honus Wagner, his foremost contemporary rival of the National league. . . “I was standing on first base during the world series with the Pirates,” he once explained. “Wagner was at at short. I cupped my hands, and yelled: ‘Hey, Kraut Head, I'm coming down on the next pitch!” Honus didn’t say anything, but when I got there he had the ball. He slapped it into my mouth and split my lip for three stitches.” Ty Cobb could take it, too.

NEXT: Honus Wagner.

Indiana Keglers Continue to Roll

SOUTH BEND, Ind. March 29 (U. P.).—Bowlers from Ft. Wayne and South Bend dominated the standings today of the annual men’s state bowling tournament which will be in progress here on week-ends until May 186.

South Bend teams held the two top spots in the five-man event

Notre Dame and Miami stood}

(Deke), |

Buckeyes Seek 3d Swim Title

COLUMBUS, O., March 29 (U: P.) —Ohio State today ruled a heavy favorite to win its third major swimming title at the national A. A, U, men’s indoor championships scheduled ‘for the New York Athletic club April 2-3. The Buckeyes set a hew National Collegiate Athletic association meet record Saturday night when they won their second big-time tank title. The same quintet of stars — two Hawaiian swimmers and three divers—who led the Buckeyes to a Western conference win two weeks

ago, set the victory pace again. Bill Smith and Keo Nakama per-

Charles Batterman and Jim Strong —accounted’ for 25 more. Sally Green Wins

Table Tennis Crown ST. LOUIS, March 29 Q. P).—

tain titleholders, carries the hope of the West against Georgetown'’s Hoyas, champions of the East.

On Thursday night the invitation titleholder and the N. C. A. A. winner will meet in a contest that will benefit the Red Cross and at the same time provide the hardwoodharriers with their closest approach to a national championship in years.

Seek Third Place

Fordham university and Washington and Jefferson match passes for third-place honors in the invitation tournament consolation contest while Manhattan Beach Coast Guard and Aberdeen Proving Grounds fill out the N. C. A. A. program in a battle for the eastern service title. The St. John’s-Toledo tussle may be the most interesting game of the week. It will pit two elongataed, other in Harry Boykoff, St. John's

{pivot, and Jim Glass of Toledo, who|

stretches to six feet, eight inches. The Redmen won their way into the final over seventh-seeded Rice

and sixth-ranked Fordham while

today | Toledo tripped Manhattan, No. 5,

wards, Andy Levane and | Baxter, have made St. John's for-

{and Washington and Jefferson, No.

of able forLarry

8. Boykoff and a }

get the loss of five men to the serv-

ices while Glass and Davage Minor |

and in the doubles, and South Bend’s George Tschida held second place in singles and all-events competition. The ' 669 series rolled by P. Smith of Ft. Wayne was good for singles leadership, and G. Moore

of that city led the all-events with 1887.

Chicago Pug To Face Paul

Earl Paul, Indianapolis lightweight belter, and Young Ted Lewis of Chicago, Ill, who will be making his first ring start here, have

been signed by Matchmaker Lloyd| Carter of the Hercules Athletic club

to battle in a six-round preliminary on the. five-bout professional boxing |card to be staged at the armory next Friday night. Paul has racked up a brilliant

out Berlin Hednott, Chicago's C. Y. O. champion, in the round of a scheduled six on the armory

Denson vs. Garner

@ of the squad will report here on

Thursday. The Indians are sharing the university training facilities with the Cincinnati Reds, who have been in Bloomington since March 15. They are to move out April 10. The National league season opens on April 21, the American association on April 29. The camp's “sharecroppers” are to meet in one exhibition game and that will be on April 7 in Bloomington. Until last year the Reds

in training camp at Indiana university three ay In out for two hours in the spacious {| field house in the morning, watching a. Cincinnati Reds intra-squad i|ball game in the afternoon and getting acquainted with Bloomington

and Indians were hooked up fn & working ‘agreement and several of the current Redlegs formerly wore Tribe uniforms. These are Pitchers Ray - Starr, Elmer Riddle and Johnny Vander Meer; Catchers Dick West and Al Lakemsn: Ins fielder Steve Mesner and Outsiéider Mike McCormick.

Tribesters oh Hand .

The following Tribesters ‘turned out for the first drill yesterday morning: Pitchers Farl ‘Reid, John Hutchings, Chief Hogsett, Al Bronk hurst, Walter Tauscher and Harold : Stewart; Catchers Norman Schleu= ter and Stewart Hofferth; Infielders Eric McNair and Fred Vaughn and Outfielder Gil English. Pitcher Bot Logan missed the practice. He ree ported in the afternoon. : Tribesters scheduled .to check in Thursday are Pitcher Jim Trexler, Infielders Mickey Haslin and Carl Fairly and Outfielders Joe Moore, Wayne Blackburn and Willard Pike. Pitcher Glen Fletcher is undecided about playing ball this year. Both the Indians and the Reds are quartered at the Graham hotel and there will be plenty of verbal baseball bag punching between them: i1y. te. avol of . these; sping

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