Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1943 — Page 16

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

THE all-round ability of members of the Columbus | ed Birds which helped the club over rough spots in 1940, 1941 and 1942, when the Flock outstepped American association rivals. in the late weeks of play, will again be in evidence in the 1943 edition of the Columbus outfit. Of the twenty-odd players on hand, at least half have played ‘more than one position. ... Two of the handy men are favorites from last year’s club, Johnny Antonelli and Pep Yoling. . . . Antonelli has played all infleld positions, starring at thifd base for the Birds last year. ,.. Young has played: second, shortstop and third base, all in acceptable fashion. ~The other two members of the prospective infield are also versatile. , . . Jack Sturdy, first baseman, is equally adept at third, where he played part of 1940 for the Birds. . . . Emil Verban, presently listed as a second baseman, was the leading third baseman in hs sins league last oar gat Sovmerly Ylayed, siorigioy. «+ « Walter listed as an infielder, is by JEhoics a first baseman, but, has

* = # » » . . IN THE Columbus outfield, Augie Bergamo subbed at first base during the early part of 1942. ... Chet Wieczorek, on the roster as an outfielder, was first string catcher at Houston last year and also starred behind the bat at Sacramento, ~~ Lou Scoffic, algo listed as an outfielder, can play second or third base, while Jack McLain, former Ohio State university athlete, has played first base and pitched as well as having played in the outfield. ~ sy. And when the chips dre down and a base hit or a long fly is ~ needed, Nick Cullop, Rew Red Bird Manage”, will be ready to swing a dangerous bat.

; Hockett Gets an ‘Assist’ on Heath x

NOW THAT Outflelder Oris Hockett, the vanishing Indian, has made his peace with Manager Lou Boudreau, members of the Cleveland club believe their team will be a contender. . . . Outfielder Jeff Heath, the power hitter, is to report before the American league ~ season opens, . , . It was reported that he received a contract calling

He advised the club management that he had been working out and would be ready to play on opening day. ... An outfield consisting of Heath, Hockett, Hank Edwards and Roy Cullenbine is better than fair this wartime year. . Hockett is given an “assist” on getting Heath into the fold. "4 ++ By going AWOL over the week-end, Oris put the Cleveland elub in a bad fix for outfielders and negotiations with Heath were reopened. , . . The guess is that Hockett also received more money " to end his walkout . , . or an advance pay check. :

. Cleveland, Cincinnati Move to Richmond

THE Cincinnati-Cleveland game scheduled at Ft. Benjamin Harrison yesterday was cancelled on account of weather conditions, « « Cincinnati was to have been the “home” team. . ,. The major Jeaguers departed Indianapolis yesterday afternoon on a barnstormtour that'was booked to open in Richmond, Ind., today. . . . The ‘Reds won the first two, played in Indianapolis, the third was canceled snd six remain to be played in the all-Ohio spring series. ot 8 = o o 2 2 MEMBERS of the American association board of directors assembled in Indianapolis today for their annual spring meeting. + » George M. Trautman, league president, called his directors to discuss new problems which have come up since the December ses-

Lefty Logan Gets Starting Post at I. U.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 13.— The Indianapolis Indians were to go collegiate today after playing four games against major league teams. & Tribesters were booked to meet e Indiana university nine this afternon if the weather was right. It wasn't yesterday and the Indians were held indoors. They went through a two-hour workout in the

practice, batting practice in the two

Lefty Logan was slated to start on the Tribe mound today and Coach Paul Harrell of the Indiana U. team planned to send Dale Boehm, righthander, against the leaguers for the first three Harrell had three hurlers ready for the occasion. -

Invade Louisville Next The Indians’ next action against league opposition will be on Saturday and Sunday in Louisville, playing Bill Burwell’s Colonelss Workouts here will be stepped up tomorrow, Thursday and Friday to put the Redskins on edge for their Kentucky American association rivals. Jim Trexler, the southpaw pitcher purchased from Little Rock, hardly will be ready to take a regular turn for about two weeks. He did no training before checking in and was late in reporting. The veteran is accustomed to southern weather and this “frigid north” is hampering his style. Frank Staucet, who played shortstop for the Indians against the Chicago White Sox in Lafayette last week-end, returned to St. Joseph's college to continue his schooling. He will not be available to the Indians for American association games until after the close of the current college semester. He'is enlisted in the naval;reserves. Manager Ownie Bush thinks Staucet is a siufe-fire future great on the diamond.

Bush Willing to Deal If Bush lands the players he is eyeing, by purchase or trade, he believes the Indians will measure up stronger than at the start of the 1942 A. A. race. He expects better team hitting. However, much depends on the brand of weather between now and April 29, A. A. opening day. The players feel the need of daily out door batting practice. After today, the Indians have eight exhibition games, all with A. A, teams, Louisville, Minnea and St. Paul, and if all are played the players will be in good shape to answer the opening bell. / Shortstop Eric McNair, Third Baseman Mickey Haslin. and Pitcher Trexler are the only team members Slow in rounding into form. 7 Willard Pike, tHe new outflelder,

fleldhouse and indulged in infield} cages, pepper games and running.| }

Fidiarns Go Collegiate Tc

Harbinger of Spring

mate, Devil's Thumb.

Less than two weeks ago, while spinning through a five-furlong workout at Belmont, The Devil

It's Too Early to Count Out A Colt With Skde Rule’s Class

By CHARLES MOREY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 13.—For most of the 11 months since he first came to the races, W. E. Boeing’s Slide Rule has occupied the No. 2 barn in the Boeing stable, yielding the top slot to a flashier, showier stableSlide Rule was a double stake winner last fall but it was the Devil that the Boeing camp pitched its hopes high on for the $75,000 Kentucky Derby when the snows broke this spring. :

ranking as a top-flight juvenile. In his next race—the Cowdin—he ran

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Paddle Stars Await State Table Tennis Tourney Here

Big Leaguers Show Lack of Tropical Sun

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, April 13.—~Wartime baseball has been previewed in some of the bigger parks and as was to be expected the play has not been uniformly brilliant or consistent. It seldom is in the spring even in normal times and it just had to figure to be more spotty and, less impressive than ever this year You simply cannot play great baseball without great players and most of the great ones are gone, The wartime clubs would have had a chance to get away to a . more authentic start if they haa °° Viliams been permitted to train in the South or on the West coast, as is their custom, but the ODT developed a

mileage and Landis hastened to co= operate. There is no substitute for the tropical sun in spring training and any manager who tries to tell you different is either a supreme comico or just plain dumb. Even the pres ence of a spacious field house doesn't add up to the difference, The New York Yankees blew three in a row to the Dodgers and one look at the A. L. champions was all any one needed to tell what was wrong with them. They simply aren't in shape, Indeed, they look to be two or three weeks away.

Salt Water Taffy

The Yankees are less advanced physically than either the Dodgers or the Giants and that too had to be. When they elected to train on a northern seashore in March they did so with fingers crossed and in a prayerful attitude. They could have done just as well maybe bete ter, if they had stayed home and worked out under their own stands, Still, as Joe McCarthy said, you couldn't beat the place for salt water taffy. If you studied the scores of the Sunday games around the country you couldn't escape the overall impression of slip-shod play as ree flected in the error column. A game which produced only four errors was well played. Most of them produced five or six and Washington was in a game that produced seven, We don’t believe this reflects the admitted lowered standard of play so much as lack of realistic training, good hard workouts conducted under actual playing conditions,

very MacTavish attitude toward *

3 4 gion held in CBicago. ! reported in shape and banged out three hits in his first game, He is a big fellow and looks the part of a hitter. As Pilot/Bush sizes up the situation, he’ could use two more dependablé pitchers, another infielder and Ope more outfielder,

down the fleet Occupation in the stretch. to win handily and was given consideration for the 2-year-old crown with he rich fall stakes on tap. But his ankles betrayed him and a well-beaten fourth was his lot

Luck at French Lick

You could always be reasonably sure of such conditions in South or on the West coast, where as you have to be lucky to get them, anything approximating them, in

came down with a dread quarter crack—an injury which- will keep him on the shelf for 60 days. This caused Trainer Cecil Wilhelm to declare him out of the Derby.

Left as the principal Boeing hope,

Paddle stars from South Bend, Terre Haute, Brazil, East Chicago and Hammond, along with the Indianapolis champions, will represent their respective cities in the Indiana state table tennis meet scheduled for April 17 and 18 at the Athenaeum club here in Indianapolis. South Bend holds the strongest list with Jogn Varga, a defense plant worker, defending his state title in the men’s singles division,

MEMBERS of the Chamber of Commerce Athletic committee will be luncheon guests of Al Schlensker, secretary of the Indianapolis Indians, tomorrow noon at the Indianapolis Athletic club, Al will tell about his plans for the Indians’ home opener, May 5.

. Committee members: are to discuss their own plans for the

‘opening night “show” at Victory field.

HORSE PLAYERS at the Pimlico, Maryland, race meeting will

‘have to adjust their sleeping hours to the track’s new program.

« « The session opens Friday. . at noon. ...

The last race will be off at 3:30 p. m., ..

. . Post time for the first race will /

These’

hours were decided on to keep the horse addicts from Srowding yar workers off the streetcars in the late afternoons, :

Detroit Tigers Eliminate Four Players; Sunkel Takes Physical

By UNITED PRESS EVANSVILLE, Ind. April 13.—Steve O'Neil of the Detroit Tigers

today had eliminated four men

‘Second Baseman Adam Bengoechea and Pitcher Murral Hewitt were Id outright to Buffalo of the International league. Catcher Al Unser sent to the Bisons on a 24-hour recall basis and Infielder Bill McClaren, wha left the club to return to his Dallas, Tex., home, was

d on the voluntarily retired He has accepted a war plant

eather Cancels Tilt

RICHMOND, Ind, April 13.— de Shoun goes to the hill for Cincinnati Reds today against ‘Bagby of the Cleveland Inns in an exhibition game. The weather caused cancellation : yesterday's game at Ft. BenHarrison.

BAT

) kel Takes E: Exam ‘CAMP UPTON, N. Y,, April 13.— uthpaw Pitcher Tom Sunkel of s New York Giants undergoes his minary army physical examinatoday as First Baseman Mike hemer, who will be inducted April was removed from the roster. : r Maynard; Giants’ outfield1 ursed an injured right knee sufin a collision with Catcher Moore of the Brooklyn Dodgers erday at Ft. Dix, N. J. The extion game between the two clubs called at the end of one and a innings with the Giants lead-

n will hurl for the Giants.

S VS. Braves -

/ YORK, April 13—Rookie » Wensloff and Veteran Jim

2 fhe windup, sending Al heavy from In

ailing. Russo and Breuer have

| stiff arms, Dickey has a balky

knee and Keller has a pulled tendon in his leg.

‘Release 5 Rookies

NEW YORK, April 13.—Release of five rookies to Hartford of the Eastern league today pared the Boston Braves’ roster to 25 men. Outfielders Tom Neill, Nick Rhabe and Bill Reardon, Infielder Charley

‘Aickley and Pitcher Hatfield Mc-

Croskey were dropped.

Jones, Thom Scrap Tonight

The popular Farmer Jones, 8 bearded “hill billy” performer from Montgomery county, Ark., and Billy Thom, one of the best skilled matmen in the business, clash in the main event to feature tonight's grappling program at the armory. Jones has annexed all of his local tussles, but gets his biggest test when he takes on Thom who had issued a challenge for the engagement. They meet for ‘two falls out of three. . Jones’ easy-going style has won the favor of armory patrons who turned out to,.the tune of 3000 to see the Ar here several weeks

Indiana university where he has turned out many championship teams and he was chief coach of

|the United States wrestling squad

to the Olympics in Berlin in 1936. - An over-weight match serves as £ jun-

ago. Thom is head mat mentor at|

he RS

League Plans:

Split Season

BIRMINGHAM, Ala,, April 13 (U. P.).—Baseball honors for 1943 in the Southern association go to the winner of a special, post-season best-of-seven playoff between the two survivors of a split season. Association officials have eliminated the Shaughnessy playoffs and substituted a schedule arrangement whereby the winner of the first half.of the season—which will end on July 4—will play the winner of the second half, which begins the next day. Both champions will be given bonuses of $1000, with the eventual survivor receiving another $1000. If one team finishes first in both halves, that club would receive $2000 and no playoff would be held. Other legislative action banned pooling of players and prohibited options by one member club to another. Players may move from one club to another only on outright assignment. :

North-South Golf

Tourney to Begin

PINEHURST, N. C, April 13 (U. P)—Play in the qualifying round of the 43d annual NorthSouth ' amateur golf championship opens today following a one-

weather. : Among the leading contenders in the 18-hole opening round are Corp. Ronnie Williams of Camp Butner, N. C., recent North-South open amateur runnerup; Harry Offutt, Phoenix, Ariz.; Ralph T. Strafacl, New York, brother of former North-South champion Frank Strafaci; Edward Abotn, Cranford, N. J., and 8S. B. Car. diner, Plandome, N. Y.

Amateur Association Meets Tonight

"A meeting of the Indianapolis

league night's Meeting. The Fountain

day postponement because of the }

Slide Rule went to the post last week in the Experimental handicap at Jamaica an uncertain factor in the Derby figures. True, he had worked fast. But was he ready for racing? And did he have the style and stamina demanded of a8 Derby horse? Meets Count Fleet

‘The first question he answered with a brilliant late run between horses that carried him from fifth place at the 16th pole to a neck victory at the wire. The second will be answered Saturday when he meets Count Fleet, Blue Swords and Bossuet in the mile and onesixteenth of the Wood Memorial. Last year, as a 2-year old, the Boeing colt was a hard runner at times and a disappointment at others. He was raced sparingly, being a chronic sufferer from weak ankles, although making his debut in May and racing until October. He made but nine starts and won three, including the Babylon handicap and Cowdin stakes. Slide Rule was considered a sec ond-class colt until early in September when he surprised an Aqueduct crowd by ripping home a neck winner in the Babylon fo gain

Amateur Baseball association will} be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight in|

Atkins Square es

in the Belmont futurity and again in the Champagne. Then the Boeing youngster was retired for the season and was shipped to Aiken, S. C., where he spent the winter. It's going to take a tough horse to stop Count Fleet in the Wood and again in the Derby. But it’s just a little too early to count out a colt with the class and breeding of Slide Rule. His sire Snark was a good router and he may turn out to be one, too. Hell have cool, cocky Conn McCreary in the saddle and if he can spring the upset of upsets at Churchill Downs he’ll never have to play second fiddle to a stablemate again, Slide Rule is 10-to-1 in the winter book.

Bulldogs Change

Baseball Schedule

Two changes in the baseball schedule for Butler university were announced by school officials today. “The opener against DePauw, carded for yesterday afternoon, will be played Monday, April 19, and the game with St. Joseph’s was set back oo S57 ® Ape) 7, lead of April 20.

Hi Yah, Pal

ranked 6th in the nation in the boy's singles, will attempt to recapture hi state boy's crown with strong opposition coming from Dale McColley and Leslie Levieton of South Bend and Stanley Webley of Indianapolis. Matt Fairlie of Hammond will be on hand to take on all comers in the veterans division and will be closely pressed by Don Wilson of Indianapolis a former city men’s champion. Sally Green, national women’s champion, will team with Dorsey to attempt to take the mixed doubles crown, Top contender for the veterans doubles will be Fosdick Goodrich and Don Wilson. The tournament is sponsored by the Indianapolis Table Tennis club and ip sanctioned by the state association. Entries will be accepted by phone, Mr. Goodrich Jr. (RI-5461) or by mail (222 E. Ohio st, Wulsin bldg). The public is invited to] §

Daffy's Back

Plan Formation

Of Junior Loops

A meeting to outline plans for

charge of the local P. A. L. clubs, Mr. Luzar and a system of joint| EC 6

| American league by July 4.

Following comeback in the Texas league, Paul Dean tries big: time again as member of St. Louis Browns. Although hit hard in exhibition, Brother Dizzy says Dafly will be hottest pitcher in

the North. Jimmy Wilson and the Chicago Cubs seem to have been fairly lucky at French Lick. He got in 18 straight days of outdoor drill, Beams Mr. Wilson, “I've seen all sorts of training places but this is the one for me from now on.” . This has been one of the strangest manifestations of the wap training period. We mean to say the way the club owners, the mane agers and even some of the veteran players appeared to go overboard for the Northern bases. And the ironic thing about the situation was that usually on the day the club. owner, the manager or the old time player would be extolling the hitherto unrevealed glories of frigid air training, it would be either raining or snowing or sleeting outside, and a 50-mile« an-hour wind would be howling through the ice-coated trees. Baseball clubs have been going

be a fine commentary on the ine telligence of the club owners if they had to wait all this time to discover they were doing it wrong,

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