Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1943 — Page 20
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By Eddie A sh
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WHEN the Churchill Downs track—home of the
Kentucky Derby—was built was “out in the country.” .
back in 1875, its location . « It was well beyond the
municipal confines of Louisville of that era.
Since then the city has
spread in all* possible direc-
tions, and the Downs is practically in the heart of today’s
~ Louisville. =
: Through recent years, when trolley car lines were abandoned int favor of gasoline-driven busses, Louisville followed the lead of all
other cities. . . . But it was decided long ago not to abandon th
streetcar line that runs from the
to the entrance gates of the Downs. 5 This determination came about because of two reasons; that it
~ merved a section of the city where
business part of the city direct
streetcars could move with all
the alacrity of a bus and carry more passengers by adding a trailer; secondly, it was a major means of transportation on Derby Day. For the Derby of 1942, the streetcars carried something like
~ 80,000 to the Downs, the bulk of the human traffic moving between
11 a.m and 1 p. m....TItis quite likely that if the crowd started earlier in the morning, the streetcars could transport at least 50,000. The trip to the Downs from the hotel district of Louisville requires only 12 to 15 minutes, and, often in the past, streetcars have taken their passengers to Churchill Downs much faster than have
+ gutomobiles.
Gopher Grid Coach Makes Own Survey
Jo ACCORDING to Charles Johnson, Minneapolis Star Journal, ‘George Hauser, University of Minnesota football coach, is paying 8 lot of attention to army and navy boys who are moving into various Gopher campus headquarters these days for special training.
The fact is Hauser is carrying
on his own survey among these
~~ tmniformed men to find out if they have any interest in playing foot4 ball... The apswers he's getting es this sport is concerned next fall. 2 Lo “In quite a few cases,” Hauser relates, “the boys come in and | ask me if they can come out.for football in their spare time this. spring. They probably will not be at Minnesota when the season
opens in the fall, but they like the
encourage him no little as far
sport so well that they want to
devote what little spare time they have on their day’s busy schedule
o to grid exercise.
2 Wont Hazard Guess on Talent
“TO ME that means that the servicemen we have around in the fall will not turn thumbs dewn on football. We won't know until July 1 how much gridiron talent we’ll have at Minnesota so far as the military is concerned. At that time the navy’s complete collegiate program will be in operation and the boys will be assigned
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to their respective schools.
“I'm going to haye spring practice whether many boys turn out or not. We don’t know any more about the status of college football
now than we did at the Western conference meetings last fall. I °*
think we'll have a reasonable number playing the game in the fall, but I wouldn’t care to hazard a guess as to what kind of talent we'll
* have on hand.”
Table Tennis Joins War Effort
IT TOOK Pvt. Donald F. Terry, former national professional table tennis champion, now athletic instructor with the California
group of the ferrying division, air
transport command, to put the
celluloid ball sport into the war effort. “Table tennis'is one game,” says Pvt. Terry, “that is of ‘particular value in training pilots. It teaches agility and muscula co-ordination besides being a marvelous eye exercise.” .
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THE Louisville Colonels are doing their spring training at home.
" +..And they will play all of their 11 exhibition games at home.
That solves the transportation problem 100 per cent.
Injuries Strike
> Camp Braves P WALLINGFORD, Conn., April 1 (U. P.).—Manager Casey Stengel to-
day blamed differences between in-
door and outdoor playing surfaces
. for injuries suffered by three mem-
bers of the Boston Braves. | Qutfielder Charley workman pulled a leg tendon and. Johnny McCarthy and Ben Geraghty suffered sprained
ankles. Two pitchers, Kirby Far-
gel and Frank Radler, arrived in camp. : et ‘At the Boston: Red Sox camp at Medford, Mass., Tex Hughson, ace ‘of last season’s pitching staff, was
nominated today by Manager Joe
Cronin to start for the Sox Saturday in an exhibition game with the Dodgers, at Ebbets field. Southpaw Al Olsen and Norm Brown also will work three innings each. ‘Joe Dobson will start Sunday, followed by
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National Hockey Finals Open
DETROIT, Aprii 1 (UnP)— Opening the best-of-seven National
Hockey league final round battle for the Stanley cup, the Detroit Red wings play host ' tonight to the Boston Briuns. . Detroit, victor over Toronto in the semi-finals, also entertains the Bruins in Sunday’s second game. The series then shifts to Boston where the Bruins, conquerors of the Montreal Canadiens, play host in the third and fourth games, Tuesday end Thursday.
Softball Practice
team is to play a practice game at Pinch park, State and Netcher aves. Sunday at 2 p. m. McLinn’s South Siders will be met at Garfleld diamond 2 Sunday April 11, 2 .p. m. Last year’s players and tryouts are asked to report for practice Sunday, H., G. Johnson,
Fountain Square A. C. softball
defensive-minded Bions almost off
Mythical Net Title Contest Fills Garden
NEW YORK, April 1 (U, P)~— The mythical natiorjal college basketball championship will be the prize when Wyoming’s N. .C.. A. A. champions battle St. John’s national invitation tourn{iment titleholders, in Madison Square Garden tonight for the benefit of the Red Cross. :
Two of the countily’s tallest centers and a pair of its best guards will face each other in this contest, expected to attract a capacity 18,000 fans. Wyoming pins its hopes on darkhaired Milo Komenich, 6-foot 7-inch center, and blond K¢nny Sailors, its director. St. John’s banks on Harry (Highpockets) Boykoff, 6-foot 9inch pivot man, ani Guard Fuzzy Levane, who controls the play for the boys from Brooklyn. - Wyoming, victor in 23 of 24 regular season contests, defeated Texas and Oklahoma for ‘western honors and won the N. C. A. A. crown with a final-round triumph over Georgetown, the eastern king. St. John’s, which won 18 and di'opped two during the season, defested Rice, Fordham and Toledo to lake the invitation tournament title.
Training Drill raining Ur Johnny Denson, blond Indianapolis heavyweight who meets Bob Garner, the Louisville knockout artist, in the headline bout of the five-event pro boxing bill to be staged tomorrow night at the Armory, wound up his training chores this afternoon with a brief drill at the Leeper A. C. ' Several times during the past two
years Denson has reached a “make or break” point in his fistic career,
| as far as Indianapolis fight fans are
concerned, and tomorrow night's shindig will be anofher “produce or else” test. | 3 Johnny has worked hard to be in
| shape for the hard punching Ken-
tuckian and for the first time has been going througlh both morning and afternoon drills. Realizing that Garner is capable of rocking any mauler to sleep if he lands solid with either mitt, he Indianapolis heavy has been hitting the road each morning to strengthen his leg muscles and then putting in telling licks with sparmates. Garner will arrive here tomorrow from Louisville where he did ‘his prepping for the encounter. First prelim tomorrow ils scheduled at
le T° * . Breaks Aid Bisons in Series * ° Opener, Says Lewis as His eam Falls in Third Perio Team Falls in Third Period By FEANK WIDNER Times Staff Writer : BUFFALO, April 1—“We'll get em.” That was the word our Indianapolis Caps sent tothe folks back home today after they dropped a heart-breaking 3-to-| opener to Buffalo in the American Hockey league championship series play for the Calder Cup. jot And a heart-brepker it was, for the Indianapolis boys rushed the
the ice in the first two periods last night as each ‘team scored once. Then came the fatal third hegt when the Bisons rapped home ttwo goals to sew up the game. “We could just as well have won it,” Manager Herbie Lewis said, in the dressing room, after the game, “five of our shots struck the post and with a little luck .there was no reason why they shouldn’t have gone’ in.” : Eddie Shore, manager of Buffalo, concealed his elation with this re-
win.” Shore earlier had predicted here that the series would last four
games. Fans Pack Rink
There was 8207 persons in the Buffalo Memorial auditorium when the teams came on the ice. The fans were packed in seats four tiers high and there were hundreds lined up in front of a ticket booth out in the lobby buying tickets for Saturday’s game here. The betting was 3 to 1 (the final score) that Buffalo would win and even money would get you one ond one half goals if you took the Caps. THe band struck up “Back Home In Indiana,” when the Caps came on the ice ‘and the Buffalo crowd cheered lustily when the announcer said that Adam Brown and Hal Jackson should be crossed off the score sheet. - Herbie opened with a forward line consisting of Hec Kilrea, Connie Brown and Joe Fisher, and Sandy Ross and Bill Quackenbush on defense. Shore started with Dede Klein, Max Kaminsky and Bill Summerhill, with Bob Blake and Frank Beisler on defense,
Two Early Penalties Buffalo found itself on the spot
lin the first four minutes of play
when Ross Knipfel was penalized for Kolding George Patterson. But the Caps were unable to take advantage of the shortage of men on the ice for the Bisons and it was but a few more minutes when they found themselves in the same position. Referee Ag Smith called Moose Sherritt “bad boy” of the Caps, during league play as far as minutes spent in the penalty box were concerned, for cross-checking Max Bennett. The Bisons, however, like the Caps, did no damage.
Jennings Delivers
When the clock had hit 6 minutes 24 seconds, the Bisons drew first blood. Bill Allum, coming down the ice fast, fired a hard shot from the blue line which was momentarily stopped by Bill Quackenbush, Bill fumbled the puck in his hands and when it fell, Rimstad came in fast, , whirled and slapped the puck back-handed past Perras. Allum and Bennett received the assists. Our Caps made it up at 13:14. Bill Jennings whizzed a shot by Gordon Bell after the Buffalo goalie was just recovering from a save a short time before. George Patterson qreceived the assist. Right after the score, Patterson received a minor penalty shot after
8:30 p. m.
loaded and Dom Dallesandro fol-
two Louisville rookies, Lew Lucier
and Andy Karl. 725 Shelby st., is manager. ——
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Starr to Start!
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 1 —Manager Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Reds (nnounced today that Ray Starr ahd Johnny Vander Meer would | be his starting pitchers Saturday and Sunday in exhibition games with the Chicago White Sox at Louisville, Ky. General manager Warrgn Giles returned to camp to inspeci the squad.
Rookies Blow Up
EVANSVILLE, Ind. April 1— The Detroit Tiger regulars today boasted an 8-to-5 triumph over the Yannigans in a seven-inning practice game. Rpy Henshaw and Hal Manders pitched for the winners. Tommy Bridges. and Stub Overmire worked for the Yannigans but their work was ruined by seven rookie efrors.. Ned Harris homered for the varsity. Frisch Satisfied MUNCIE, Ind., 4pril 1.—Manager Frankie Frisch e)pressed satisfaction with his squad of Pittsburgh Pirates today after the manner in which it mauled Ilall State Teachers college, 18-0, in an exhibition. Rookie Harry Shuman gave only two hits in five frames as Bob Klinger allowed only a pair of safeties in the Hist four innings. Johnny Barrett hit a home run. |
| Jeff Heath Again
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CLEVELAND, April 1—~A new
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Sox Rookie’s Homer Trips Up Chicago City Rival
: : By UNITED PRESS FRENCH LICK, Ind. April 1.—The Chicago White Sox today held an 8-9-7 exhibition decision over thé Chicago Cubs as result of Rookie
Outflelder Frank Efalin’s ninth-inning homer. The Cubs blasted Edgar Smith for five runs in the first, Bill Nicholson homering with the bases
only Cleveland Indian heldout. Heath earlier snubbed a contract Salling for a 30 per cent reducon. :
Up From Pulaski
WILMINGTON, Del, April 1.— The Philadelphia Athletics today were definitely without the services of infielder Jimmy Pofahl, obtained from Washington in the trade for Bob Johnson. He notified Manager Connie Mack that he would not play baseball this season but om remain at a St. Paul defense ob. The mound corps was boosted with the addition of Everett Fagan, up from Pulaski of the defunct Virginia league.
Bartell Shelved
LAKEWOOD, N. J. April 1 (U. P.) —Dick Bartell left. the New York Giants’ camp yesterday for treatment of an ailing arm. Three Jersey City players, Napoleon Reyes, Buddy Kerr and Gil Brack, were given tryouts.
I. U. Nine Aims To Sweep Series
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 1 (U.
players, with a 9-to-4 victory under their belts, aimed today at a clean sweep over DePauw in, the second
game of the series here Friday.’ DePauw didn’t threaten seriously at any time during yesterday's opener. The Hoosiers pounded out
. |a 13-hit barrage, while DePauw was
held to six safeties. Don Spence,
THD IDIAAROUS TES One Down, Caps
He Brings Winners Home
mark: “We've still got two more to}
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Women Golfers
In Semi-Finals
PINEHURST; N. C., April. 1 (U. P.) —Medalist Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, Ga., meets Mrs. W. O. Boggs of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare of Philadelphia plays Jane Crum of Orangeburg, S. C, in the semi-finals of the 41st annual North-South women’s = golf championship today. Miss Kirby, equalling men’s par on the front nine, blasted an 8 and victory over Helen ‘Waring of Pinehurst in yesterday’s quarterfinals. Mrs. Vare,- former national champion, eliminated Mrs. Edwards Stevens, Greenwich, Conn., 4 and 3. Miss Crum defeated Mrs. J. S. Brown, Sewickley, Pa.,. 8 and 6, as Mrs. Boggs rallied for an upset 5 and 4 victory over Peggy Kirk of Findlay, O., one of the tournament favorites, : 4
| Marshall Flattens:
Ezzard Charles
CLEVELAND, April 1 (U. P).— Lloyd Marshall, west coast light heavyweight boxer, added an impressive technical knockout over Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati to his record: today after his first home town appearance since amateur days. \ J Punching with devastating force, Marshall floored Charles seven times before 10,537 fans last night, The scheduled 10-rounder was Kalted in the eighth. The, winner, at 165, was outweighed’ three pounds. :
Hinshaw Moves Up At Rushville
RUSHVILLE, Ind, April 1 (U. P.)—Omer C. Warneke succ Robert S. Hinshaw today as basketball coach at Rushville high
| school.
Hinshaw resigned his post to accept a position as athletic director of city schools after 14 years at the helm of the cage squad. He said he would continue to coach the football and track teams. Warneke formerly coached second string basketball team.
Notre Dame Nine
the
{Moves Outdoors
SOUTH BEND, Ind. April 1 (U. P.)—The Notre Dame baseball team moved out of doors today for two weeks of intensive practice before its season’s opener with Michigan April 13. The Irish, hampered by heavy losses in experienced players, play
schedule will be crammed into two weeks. :
BOWLING
-Leading bowling scores in league competion on local alleys were:
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. 8. Stock, West Side C. Baker, West Side
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Butch Kemper, El Lilly . S08 sss se tan 579
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In A. A. U. Meet
LAFAYETTE, Ind, April 1 (U. P.) —Elroy Heidke, Purdue swimming star, and his coach, Dick Papenguth, were en route to New York today where Heidke will compete in the National A. A. U. meet Friday.
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1948
Gird to Halt Buffalo Rush
Indians’ Second Squad Due at I. U’s Duplex Spring Camp; Outfielder Moore Checks In
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 1.—By nightfall the Indianapolis baseball squad in training here will be increased by five if the players report
as scheduled.’
Booked to check in to join the advance guard Indians who
been
in training since Sunday are Inflelders Mickey Haslin and Carl Fairley, Outfielder Willard Pike, Pitcher Jim Trexler ad Warren Baker, rookie
candidate for the first base assignment.
Outfielder Wayne Blackburn is to join his mates tomorrow and Pitcher . Glen Fletcher apparently has decided to remain out of baseball this year and continue on his job in an essential industry. At any rate, he is unreported at the Indianapolis Victory field office. Outfielder Joe Moore, best defensive center fielder in the American association, checked in from
. |his Texas home last night. He kept
in shape over winter and appears to be in splendid condition. The
veteran former member of the New|
York Giants is anxious to get going and is enthusiastic about the Tribe's chances this year.
Best After Midseason
Moore got off to a poor start at the plate last year, due mainly to
-|the fact he was short of experience
at playing night baseball. His batting average picked up rapidly after midseason and he still retains his old speed. Moore also has a strong, accurate throwing arm, Big John Hutchings, righthanded pitcher, probably will be an ace for the Indians this year. He finished a winner in four games late last season after coming down from the Boston Braves. Huge John is determined to pitch himself back to the majors and is overlooking no bets to get into early winning form. Ed Ott, 17-year-old southpaw pitcher formerly of Indianapolis’ Manual high school, is here to per-
mit Manager Bush and Coach Wal-
Tauscher to look’ him over. It's going to be a big season for kids and veterans.
Watch Collegians Play
Bush and Tauscher sent the Tribesters through another double drill in the Indiana university fieldhouse yesterday, after which the players took a busman's holiday and watched the Indiana varsity down the DePauw varsity, 9 to 4, on the Jordan field diamond in the affer-
noon. Next Wednesday, April 7, the Indians and Cincinnati Reds are to meet in an exhibition game here. It is said Hutchings will be the Tribe's starting pitcher against his old mates.
him in a deal. Manager Ownie Bush is scanning big league rosters for anything available or that might be later on. He hopes to obtain a pitcher or two from the Cleveland Indians who are to practice and play exhibition games at the Tribe's Victory field next week. Cleveland is one major club that is wellstocked in the mound department, There is a possibility that the Cincinnati Reds will option an infielder or an outfielder to the Redskins. The clubs are on friendly terms at Indiana university’s duplex training camp and Managers Bill McKechnie and Bush are old baseball ‘buddies down through the years.
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