Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1943 — Page 16
| By Eddie Ash
JACK FOURNIER, new manager of the Toledo Mud
Hens, saw service with four major league clubs, the White
S0X, Yankees, Dodgers and Braves. . . . He retired from
active play in 1927. ., . . In recent years he has served
a scout for the Browns, the Mud Hens’ parent club. Four managerial }ion since last season. . . . In addition to Toledo, other clubs which hanged pilots are Columbus, Nick Cullop; St. Paul, Salty Parker; and Indianapolis, Ownie Bush. ... Holdovers are Bill Burwell, Louisville; Charlie Grimm, Milwaukee; Tom Sheehan, Minneapolis; and Johnny Neun, Kansas City. ‘ . Sunday, in Evansville, the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers played an exhibition game before a paid.attendance of 3900. ... Folks have money to spend for entertainment and baseball probably is in for one of its best years at the box office. In the American association, Indianapolis and Milwaukee club secretaries have predicted sellout crowds for their home openers, basing their opinion on the advance seat sale, Sireatly up §0 per cent I bouheltiss over this datein 1042,
8 » » ” 8 & ANSWER to query: At the time Milwaukee asked waivers on
Ted Gullic, Jan. 6, the Indianapolis Indians thought Babe Dahlgren’ would be their first baseman and they “passed” on the veteran
Brewer outfielder-first sacker.
Cleveland to Work Out Here Next Week
THE Cleveland Indians are to break camp at Purdue university Friday and move to Indianapolis to remain through April 12. ~ «+ « Their Indianapolis exhibition schedule calls for the following games: 3 ; April 6-7, Pittsburgh; ‘April 8-9, Indianapolis Indians; April 10-11, Cincinnati. . . . Also April 12, Cincinnati at Ft. Harrison, - i. Other Cleveland dates within the Hoosier state: April 3-4, Pittsburgh at Muncie; April 13; Cincinnati at Richmond.
: a FR s = = ! WARTIME baseball: The Brooklyn Dodgers learned that a 17-§ear-old bus boy at their Bear Mountain Inn talked a good game of . baseball and boasted of his diamond prowess. . . . They signed him. . «Bill Lillard, Minneapolis shortstop, has been reclassified from ~ 3-A to 1-A and may be inducted by May 1. . . . However, he expects to play for the Millers until the official call 2 arrives. . Owner Mike . Kelley's squad is to pitch camp at Terre Haute next Sunday. . . The hometown Indians and Millers finished in a sixth-place tie last year.
~ Plenty of Free Food in Wisconsin
FRESH FOOD and it’s free! ... you just scoop it up.... If _ you're up around the west shore of Wisconsin's Green Bay and folks ‘display an unseeming nonchalance when you speak of food rationing, _ don’t be surprised. ... They are getting ready to go fishing, and . their catch will be measured in tons! They won't use any bait and their “tackle” will vary from scoop shovels to bushel baskets. . . . They will scoop fish out of the water, as fast as arms can work, and there are no game laws to limit the number they can take. . .. All of which adds up to just one thing: the annual smelt run shouldbe under way any day now, increasing in size until it is at its peak sometime between April 10 and 13.
t 4 » ® ® ” » ~ BASED on estimates of previous years’ catches, approximately 1500 tons of smelt will be taken this year, which is enough to form a substantial portion of anyone’s diet. The smelt run is a phenomena that remains largely unexplained, but each spring they reappear with astonishing regularity. . . . They run only at night, which adds excitement and color to the scene. Flares and bonfires light the river banks as hundreds of “fisher- : men” dip them from the water. . . . The number of fish any indi-
~ vidual obtains is limited only by the ‘containers he has to fill.
Wyoming Cagers Take Hoyas In Game Tied 10 Times ~~
By UNITED PRESS
changes have occured in the American associa-
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Veteran Kilrea.
Sees Chance For Victory LO, Jo TL Ss hockey team arrived in Buffalo shortly after midnight after a nine-
hour train ride to play the first game of the championship series
for the possession of the Calder Cup. ) Bill Jennings, right winger, was unable to catch the train from Indianapolis with the team and
scheduled to arrive here this- morn= ing.
tion of the veteran Hec Kilrea in the absence of Manager Herbie Lewis, who was in Detroit and was scheduled to arrive here .sometime today.
the Indianapolis players but the conversations naturally were all hockey. Consensus among the Caps was that despite the loss of Wingman Adam Brown and Defenseman Hal Jackson, Indianapolis should
won for the first time last year. : It Was a Blow
“Naturally; the loss of Brown and Jackson is a“ big blow to us but we still feel we can trip this Buffalo club even though it may take the full five games to do it,” the boys agreed. Several team members short naps °during the ride but many of them had their noses buried in Canadian newspapers scanning , the columns to see how their home-town teams were coming along. The train was filled with servicemen either en route home or to new destinations. The boys ate a hearty meal while rolling across the Ohio plains outside of Bellefontaine. Kilrea said that the Caps would be on the lookout for every break
planned to leave last night. He was!
The trip was a tedious one for
keep the coveted trophy which they |%
caught |#
that came their way “and if we can take advantage of a few of them: we ought to come out on top,” he said. On the Alert
He said that the boys would have to be on guard for the “screen” plays of Buffalo which aided the Bisons greatly in their victorious march over the Hershey Bears. Then, there is the fact that the Bisons are “hot” and also that they are a hard team to beat on their home ice. Hec gave a good example of the “hot” streak Buffalo: now enjoys. “There’s Bill Allum,” he said, “a defenseman who scored but two goals for the Bisons all season and what does he do against Hershey in the playoffs but ring up five markers.. Buffalo has two potent front
-|lines in Max Kaminsky, Bill Sum-
merhill and Dede Klein and Morey Bimsted, Max Bennett and Carl mi
Buffalo's ace goalie, Gordie Bell, who ‘has blanked every team in the league at least once, “but you've got
NEW YORK, March 31.—The University of Wyoming Cowboys wore to remember,” he added, “that Bell the National college A. A. basketball crown foday as result of a rough- received marvelous support from the
~ shod ride oven the battling Hoyas of Georgetown university.
_ Sparked by blond Kenny Sailors, the Westerners rolled from be"hind in the last four minutes of play before a crowd of 13,206 fans at
Madison Square garden last night for a 46-to-34 triumph. Officials Alter Basket Rules
; NEW YORK, March 31 (U.P)— Defensive domination of basketball . by giant college players—an advan- . tage enjoyed by numerous teams during recent years—was virtually eliminated today following action by the executive committee of the National Association of Basketball eoxgch es. - The committee went on record
rout just before the final gun.
Georgetown,
and six points, respectively.
day at the close of their twoday meeting as favoring imposition of a technical foul on a player who touches the ball above the basket. The N. C. A. A. rules committee Voted Sunday to give the offended team possession of the ball in such ‘instances.
The coaches also voted to extend
board of rectangular shape. Unlimited substitution was opposed.
Links Favorites Pace Tourney
PINEHURST, N. C., March 31 (u. ) —Medalist Dorothy Kirby of Atta, Ga., Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare of Philadelphia and Jane Crum of cburg, S. C., paced a parade E of favorites into the quarter-finals _ of the 4lst annual North-South ‘women’s golf championship today.
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th-south titles, won over Mrs. J. : Hobson, New York, 9 and 8, and Crum, this year’s tournament
rite, defeated Mrs. L. R.| aegis Hohe,
Portland, Me., 6 and 5.
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By their triumph, the Cowboys earned the right to face St. John’s Indians, national invitation -tournament champions, in a Red Cross ‘benefit game at the garden tomorrow night. :
Last night's leading bowlers were: Fred Myers, Commercial Phil Bisesi, Classic Norman Hamilton, West Side Classic . Ott Moos, Recreation Roscoe Ray, John Rancoes Insurasice. 633 Roy Byrd, West S 626 Luke Switzer, West Side Classic Bud Hardacre, Booreaiion Bob Kuszmaul, Speedwa
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FT. WAYNE, Ind. March 31 (U. P.).—City links fans, whose only golfing for the ‘past months was confined indoors with a cotton prac‘tice ball, will have the opportunity to stretch their winier-Hightgned
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Buffalo defenseman.” Members of Squad Team members who made the trip
But that score doesn’t indicate the{on the 2:15 p. m. train out of Incloseness of the game, for the lead |dianapolis. yesterday were Kilrea, changed hands seven times and the |Connie Brown, Joe Fisher, George count was deadlocked 10 times. Only | Patterson, Freddie Weaver, Sandy Sailors’ guidance and coolness in the|Ross, Bill Quackenbush, Joe Brown, fading moments turned it into a|Moose Sherritt, Bill Cunningham, . {Jud McAtee, Floyd Perras, The little guard, voted the game's | Thomson and Trainer Lew Tooke. outstanding player, led his mates with 16 points, while Bill Feeney was|reached the hotel on arrival here top. gun for the Hoyas with eight.|and they were scheduld to “hit the Mountainous Milo Komenich of|deck” at 11 a. m. today. After a Wyoming and big John Mahnken of {[noon-day meal, most of them will -expected to share|take in a motion picture show with scoring honors for their respective|the exception of Perras, who believes clubs, spent most of the evening|that a lengthy period of darkness tying each other into knots, with the|is bad for a goalie’s eyes during a result that they tallied only nine|game.
. Bill
The ‘boys retired as soon as they
Dinner is scheduled for 4. p. m., and after that the boys will just silay around and rest up until game time,
Adam Brown Is Detroit Hero
By UNITED PRESS A pair of American Hockey league
rookies today had clinched final
berths for the Boston Bruins and
Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup championship series starting in
7 | Detroit Thursday night.
Ab Demarco, up from Providence, tallied. the winning goal as the
61. 214! Bruins shaded the Montreal Cana|diens, 5-4, in an overtime struggle 0|before 14,394 fans at Boston last
night as Adam Brown, up from In-
mn dianapolis, scored the deciding goal
for Detroit.
Brown shot a “sudden death” goal
éo0| at 9:20 of the overtime period to
give the Wings a 3-2 triumph over the Maple Leafs at Toronto in the
eos | Sixth game of their National Hockey 1 league series.
Demarco’s snap shot came after
333/3:41 of the overtime. Dit Clapper
started the play ahd passed to Bep
% Guidolin, who centered it to De7! marco.
‘Brown beat Toronto Goalie Turk
Courts Are Ready
Hard-surface tennis courts at seven city parks have been opened
recreation: director, said today. ‘courts Syailable are:
Hec has plenty of reset for|
Bunny Austin
THEY { PLAYED THE GAME. FINE NO: 3
Babe Pk Drew "680.000 a A And He Was Grossly Underpaid!|
with the Buffalo Bisons here tonight |}
The squad was under the direc- {BES
By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor GEORGE HERMAN RUTH is down in history as the Sultan of Swat, but he also was one of the
| greatest left-hand pitchers. Of all his records,
Babe Ruth is proudest of having pitched 25 scoreless innings in the world series—for the Boston Red Sox against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1916 and Chicago Cubs in "18, Most other pitcher-outfielder converts made the change only after their arms failed—Smoky Joe Wood, ete:—but with Ruth that, of course, was no consideration. The Bambino was still the best left handed pitcher in the American league: when Ed Barrow moved to the New York Yankees with him
ing. The Bam played acceptably at first base, was a left-handed catcher in his youth, x. Ruth never made a bad play, ‘such as throw .to the wrong base. He wasn't a long thrower Long Bob Meusel, but was remarkably accurate— a left-handed Joe DiMaggio in that respect. He never played the sun fleld, yet the only work of fiction suggested by his amazing career was written by the late Heywood Broun and called, “The Sun Field.” # » # { ‘In his younger days, Ruth was a crafty baserunner and an accomplished slider. Ruth was baseball's most glamorous figure. - ‘He was the game’s highest-salaried performer—$30,000, $52,000, $70,000, $80,000 in ‘30 and ‘31, $75,000, $50,000, $35,000. Even at $80,000 he was grossly underpaid, for he was the biggest bucks office magnet in the annals of the sport. Only last summer, at the age of 48, he packed Yankee stadium with 80,000 admirers— and hit a home run off Walter Johnson! He re-
was also baseball’s heaviest-fined bad boy and, as time marched on, its forgotten man. Ruth became a home run specialist while pitching and pinch-hitting for the Red Sox. In the days
and made him an outfielder because of his thump-
mains the most popular man who ever played. He
1 Chicken Pox and a Bat ir | Slump Worry Chaugion § 'As They Prep in Camp.
By UNITED PRESS
CAIRO, m, March 31.—Chicken pox and a hitting sluip vied honors today as the chief worry in the camp of the champion. St L Cardinals.
George Munger, rookie pitcher, up from Columbus, was tid his room with chicken pox for a week as Manager Billy Southworth cofte
tinued to lay stress on hitting drills.
Pro Ring Bill Is Completed
| Indianapolis middleweight,” Jimmy Gust and Bob'Kane, have been signed to meet in thé opening fourrount bout on the pro boxing card to be offered local fans Friday night at the armory by the Hercules A. C. The Gust-Kane tilt completes the
fifive-bout mitt menu.
Nobody ever hit the ball quite like Babe Ruth.
of choke hitters, he gripped the bat 'way down at the end. He was the first batter to concentrate on home runs. He shot for the works. He instituted. something new and sensational when baseball was sadly in need of a tonic—following=the Black Sox scandal. Ruth had a double swing, looked good striking out. He had perfect rhythm. It was the power in his wrists at the end of his tremendous swing that enabled him to uppercut the ball and belt it for such remarkable - distances. * ® » 3» The fabulous feats. of Ruth fill a book. Ball players would be arguing about how far the ball was hit by him while it was still in flight, He was the only batter visiting players would watch in practice, I'll never forget the two little Waners watching Ruth and the late Lou Gehrig in batting practice before the world series opened in Pittsburgh in ‘27. Their eyes popped out of their heads as the two giants, who seemed like men from another
©. world, popped one ball after another into and over
the right field stand. There was the world series game with the Cubs. in Chicago in '32, when Ruth pointed to the left field stand, and hit the next pitch into it—smack: dab. He was so good he could call his shots. Ruth was a slender kid when he first came up, stood 6 feet 2 and weighed 215 pounds at his peak. In later years, he blew up until he looked like a balloon on toothpicks. Ruth had a devouring appetite. .Had he been sawed in two on any given playing day, half of Stevens’ concessions would have been found inside .. He is inherently bright, an excellent bridge player and golfer. He remembered few names, called everybody Kid. Here’s the $64 question which keeps bums in saloons up half the night: Who played right field for the Yankees before Babe Ruth? \ Sammy Vick is the stisver, but. nobody believes it. :
‘NEXT: ‘Walter Johnson,
Army to Induct.
LOS ANGELES, March 31 (U. P.). —Henry W. (Bunny) Austin, English Davis Cup tennis star and Oxford group member, will enter the} army April ‘6, selective service officials said today. . Originally registered in New York,
Hoosier Indians Are An¥ions To Take to Big Outdoors
Times Special
. “BLOOMINGTON, nd, March 31.—Meibers of the Indianapolis Indians in fraining at Indiana university are anxious to take to the big outdoors now that spring weather is just right to permit a complete pro-
S13|Broda with the deciding goal on a! 310 pass from Don Grosso.
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‘Austin’ has been ordered to report|: to the downtown Los Angeles. in- |"
duction station, The former net star was one of several Oxford group members active in the morale re-armament movement for whom deferment was sought on grounds they were essential to the war effort. The request was ‘denied.
Amateurs to Open Play on May 2
The city’s diamond sandlotters will swing into action on Sunday, May 2, it was announced at a meeting of team managers last night. Three leagues are expected to operate, on Sunday only. ‘Four were in the field last year. Many 1942 players are in the armed forces and others are unavailable because of defense work. Definite plans for the 1943 season
Clary Leads Myatt In Nats’ Camp
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of the pitchers even tried a curve or two yesterday. Lowell Christenson, Indianapolis, a young sandiot pitcher, joined the squad yesterday for a tryout. He is 22, stands 6 feet 41% inches and throws right-hadned. The second squad is due to check in here tomorrow. ~Scheduled to report are Mickey Haslin, third sacker; Joe Moore, Willard Pike and Wayne |- Blackburn, outfielders; Carl Fairly,
paw pitcher. With the arrival of the second squad the training pace is to be stepped up,
with the Cincinnati Reds, an exhibition io be played ta Hlomingten on April 7, and
the Redskins to be ‘ready for the major leaguers. :
Coach Tauscher sent the squad
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infielder, and Jim Trexler, south-|.
The Indians have an early date]
and Coach Walter a ie Beh ;
The Tribesters completed their third indoor workout yesterday in the fieldhouse and most of them are ready to cut loose to some extent. -Some
room, Food rationing. has not cramped the players’ style to date— good food here and ample servings. Indiana university and DePauw university nines were to meet here this afternoon and the Indians and Reds planned to, watch the collegians perform. '
The spotlight will center on a return clash between Bob Garner, Louisville heavyweight dynamiter, and Johnny Denson of Indianap1olis, when the pair collide in the 10-round main event. They battled to an eight-round draw last month. Many fans regard young Garner, who has just passed his 21st birthday, as one of the hardest punching ringmen ever tg.enter a local arena. Although the Kentuckian failed to stop Denson on their previous meet-
The semi-final tilt will bring together lightweights Tommy Merritt of Union City, Ind, and Gene
# | Spencer of Chicago’ in a bout billed
for eight sessions. Two sixes between Earl Paul, Indianapolis, and Young Ted Lewis, Chicago lightweight, and Gene Simmons, In-
@|dianapolis, and Jack Hill, Bloom-
ington, 111, light heavyweights, round out the program.
Managotf Wins Over Mills
Bobby Managoff, former N. W. A. heavyweight wrestling champion from Chicago, sent. Albert Mills, newcomer to Indianapolis from Montreal, Canada, down to defeat in the main event on the mat bill staged last night at the armory. Managoff won the first fall in 15 minutes with a flying tackle and press, while the Canadian drew even in four minutes of the second session by applying a body slam and press. The Windy City matman then turned on the steam to take the bout in six minutes with a dropkick. The fans were treated to an unbilled prelim due to the fact that Lou Plummer, originally signed to appear, was unable to go’ through with his scheduled bout when his leave from the navy was canceled. Matchmaker Lloyd Carter arranged thé fourth bout at the last minute, as only three clashes had been planned. Other winners were Dorve Rocke, who flopped Al Massey after 18 minutes of rough action; Rene LaBelle, who downed Jack Vansky in 20 minutes, and Ralph Garibaldi, who trounced Fred Balssie in 17 minutes.
Service May Take
More Pirates PITTSBURGH, March 31 (U. P). —The Pittsburgh Pirates announced today that two players, Pitcher Aldon Wilkie of Newberg, Ore. and Outfielder Jimmy Wasdell of Cleveland, may be lost to the army. Wasdell was notified at Muncie, Ind., the Pirates’ training site, ‘to report to his draft board for a first
| examination. If he passes the ‘test
he will be reclassified 1-A. Although Wilkie had been working in a war plant and. previously had announced his intention to remain cut of baseball, he notified the Pirates that he has been reclassified 1-A,
Pure Oil to Play The Pure Ofl baseball team will be back in the field this year, playing in the Municipal league under the leadership of Bob Elliott. Practice is to be held Sunday at 2 p. m. at Riverside 3.. Former players and tryouts are asked to attend.
Second Baseman Jimmy Brown: ‘will take his selective service screen fest in St. Louis rather than return’ to his home in Jamesville, N. Cc.
Walters Is Unréady
day he Bucky Walters would be ready to. pitch when the Cincinnati Reds open the season April 21. Walters, on the injured list with a bad ankle since March 15, took: his ‘first turn on the hill with the rest of the staif yesterday as the club’ held its longest batting drill,
City Rivals Meet
FRENCH LICK, Ind., March 31, —Paul Derringer, Eddie Hanyzew« ski and Lon Warneke were to pitch for the Chicago Cubs today in their first exhibition game against
Jimmy Dykes nominated Smith, Bill Dietrich and Don Han« ski to hurl for the Sox. Rookie first baseman Heinz Becker fea= tured the Cubs’ workout with his’ long hitting yesterday.
Giants’ Pitchers Vie
LAKEWOOD, N. J., March. 31 Recovery of Rookie Johnny Wittig from an elbow operation and .the signing of Freshman Hugh East to= . day gave the New York Giants all the “fixin’s” for a wide-open battle gang the new pitchers for regular
Places already are reserved: for Carl Hubbell, Cliff Melton, Bill Lohr man, Van Lingle Mungo, Ace Adams, Tom Sunkel and Harry Feldman. .
Full Squad Present
MEDFORD, Mass, March 31.—' The Boston Red Sox were to field a complete squad today im traine ing workouts for the first time this spring. Arrival of Infielder Bobby Doerr and Pitcher Oscar Judd brought the team to full proportions,
Dodgers Sell Bonds
lyn Dodgers will lend their talents to selling war bonds in the second national war loan drive dil : April. HE Each player will be assigned an’ individual goal of $500,000 and the drive, labeled the “Dodgers’ spring. offensive” will be climaxed with 'g war bond game on Sunday, April wh
Pirates in Game
MUNCIE, Ind, March 31~The* Pittsburgh Pirates play the Ball State Teachers’ college in an exhibition game today and Manager Frankie Frisch has chosen Shuman, Jack Hallett and Bob Klinger for mound ‘duty. x The keystone combination of Frankie Gustine and Pete Coscar= art came in for special attention. during an extensive infleld dril} yesterday. :
Pitchers Get Workout
LAFAYETTE, Ind. March 31. Cleveland pitchers will be used on both teams today as the Indians. play Purdue university in an exe hibition game. The regulars batted for two hours against seven pitche ers as Manager Lou Boudreau cone
centrated on batting practice oe the squad yesterday.
Butler Announces Eight Baseball D td
Eight games, subject to 24-hous cancellation, were announced
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 3% —Manager Bill McKechnie said tos: did not believe veteran =
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‘The card, 11 games shorter last year’s program, follows: = April 12, DePauw at Butler; & 16, Wabash at Butler; April 20,"8t. Joseph's at Butler; April 28, Butler: at DePauw; May 1, Butler at Ball State; May 5, Butler at St. Joseph's;
May 11, Ball State at Butler, and May 18, Butler ot Purdue. :
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