Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1943 — Page 14
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By Eddie Ash
- CLUBS in the American association go to the post ~hursday in the league’s 42d campaign and it will be the “Surth wartime season in the loop’s history, 1917, 1918, 1942 and 1943. ... The A. A. failed to last out the 918 schedule and abandoned play July 1.
However, Frank M. Colley, the
“ints. out that this year the A. A. is confronted by more question
orks than there have ever been Cart:
“Will baseball survive the entire season? The recent stateent of Paul V. McNutt, war manpower chief, that he believes base-
league's press relations chief,
before. . . . Quoting Colley, in
N.Y. Pitchers Show Form
In 3 Contests
By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 26—The New
York Yankees, last in spring train-
ing, league pennant race today and the
|only leagues.
were first in the American unbeaten team in the big The recent northern spring train-
y Unb
They Played the Game... No. | 8
Black Sox Expunged From Recordy But How They Could Play the Game
?| utility material as he can play short,
a airly May Open Season At Shortstop
By EDDIE ASH Carl Fairly, infielder, is to be’retained by the Indianapolis Indians and his presence won't hurt their chances in the American association championship ‘race. He's valuable
second or third. . And he'll probably open the
| {[No Reason |For Alarm
In Crowds
By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 26—~Re-
flections of the new baseball sea~ son: Despite the early general alarm over poor attendance at major league opening-day games, attendance during the past week end should prove particularly en-
“all will continue throughout the war, has provided club owners ling grind played havoc with the ou g to the boys mm ithe & :
‘ome degree of confidencd and an increased optimism.
“Will the teams be riddled by the draft? The answer to that vould seém to hinge primarily on when the taking of pre-Pearl arbor fathers begins. If that should not come for six months .aen it is likely that the personnel of the clubs may not be changed
J radically.
“Four of last year’s A. A, managers again will be at the helm. “hey are Bill Burwell at Louisville, Charlie Grimm at Milwaukee, shnny Neun at Kansas City and Tom Sheehan'at Minneapolis.’ he quartet of new skippers are Nick Cullop at Columbus, Ownie ‘ush at Indianapolis, Francis (Salty) Parker at St. Paul and Jack
.‘ournier at Toledo.
“Of the four, only Fournier is a stranger in the A. A. Bush is sally one of the veteran managers of the league. .ullop as a player both in Columbus and Minneapolis is too well inown to require comment, while Parker, who led Shreveport to the
“‘exas league flag last year, performed capably as a player for both
“oledo and . Indianapolis.
“The league has only one umpire who started the 1042 season, nd two more who were in the circuit at the close of last year’s
;ampaign. Jim Boyer is commencing
‘ollins Fenton and George Murray joined the staff of 1942 arbiters 2 mid-season of 1042. : “All of the others will be officiating their first American associa‘on game, with the exception of Ray Snyder who worked in the spent the last 10 years in the e other’ newcomers are Rollie Naylor and e from the Texas loop, Ray Oppegard from the
sague from 1929 to 1932, “acific. Coast. league *lilton Steene,
The prowess of
his third year in the loop while
| Yankees’ conditioning routine and
they wallowed through a ‘brief exhibition schedule with their poorest performance in yegrs. Joe McCarthy’s squad has not only won all three of its games but has a pitching staff that gives definite promise of being the most formidable mound unit in the circuit. Ernie Bonham held Washington scoreless for six innings in the Yankees’ first game, Spud Chandler hurled a one-hit shutout against the same club Saturday and Hank Borowy let the Boston Red Sox down with only one run as the New York-
Niggling Hurls 4-Hitter A crowd of 16,177 watched Borowy
register his initial 1943 victory as He scattered nine hits while his mates || piled into Ken Chase and Lou Lu cier for 12 hits, salting the game away with a four-run fifth inning. | Thirty - seven - year - old Johnny |{
lorthern and Ira Gordon. from the Three-L
“PRESIDENT GEORGE TRAUTMAN has announced Thurs ay’s opening game assignments, as follows: . Indianapolis at Toledo, © 3oyer and Gordon; Louisville at Columbus, Fenton and Naylor; Zansas City at St. Paul, Snyder and Oppegard; Milwaukee at
Minneapolis, Murray and Steenegrafe.” Indians Are Smacking 1942 Pill
THE Indianapolis Indians have been: using 1042 balls in their The 1943 pellets have yet to be
-eceived at the park. ... The Minneapolis Millers slammed out three extra-base blows yesterday and the Indians one, a triple by
Victory field exhibition games. ...
- Wayne Blackburn.
On Saturday Fred Vaughn cleared the scoreboard with a home ..It isn't often that a drive clears that distant spot. However, the first home run hit in the park was over the score- . It was belted by Ray Fitzgerald, former Indianapolis
‘board. . .
“outfielder. & #8
Zientara Slams Four-Rua Homer
‘ - BENNIE ZIENTARA, former local second sacker, hit a home run with the bases loaded to help Ft. Benning, Ga. defeat Johnny ‘Riddle’s Birmingham Southern association club in a recent exhibition ‘game. . . . Kermit Lewis, former Indianapolis outfielder who starred ‘for San Francisco in the Pacific Coast league last year, has been
summoned into active service with 2 #188
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Roy Hartsfleld, 17 years old and just out of high school.
By OSCAR
FRALEY
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 26—The outdoor track and fleld season was sheduled to go ahead “as usual” today despité the war, but if the Drake|na Penn relays can be accepted as an indicator, there will be no sweep-
g changes among existing records.
Both week-end meets were packed with competitors, but the reting sub-par performances gave startling evidence of the war-time
Baseball . Calendar
ain on college manpower, : Mid-West almost swept both sts, Illinois * garnering major 2 honors by copping five of leading championships and an and Notre Dame each ning two top titles at Philahia’s annual carnival. individual honors for the weekend went to a towering Texas Aggie hlete, Pete Watkins, who high ped six feet eight inches at Des hes to smash the 21-year-old 2 record by two inches. Com-|. tion in the Mid-West also furid the only double winners— ard Debus of Nebraska capturLhe javelin Iph Tate of Oklahoma Aggies friumphing in the broad jump and 120-yard high hurdles.
Rice Shines Again
Penn standard—sa 9:12.32 clockwhich bettered . the . invitation
mile record by 5.4 seconds. ral Phila
e of Notre Dames highly-ra
ortstep for Atlanta in the Southern association is
| War-Time Drain on Manpower Is Seen in Drake, Penn Relays
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Niggeling, whose knuckle ball was
turned his butterfly pitch loose for the first time this year and hurled
5-1 win over the Chicago White Sox.
‘was pared to seven innings by the weather, while the nightcap was postponed. % The Washington Senators put some life in the dead ball by beating the Philadelphia Athletics, 12-2 and 5-0. The Senators riddled three pitchers for 19 hits in the first game and sewed up the night cap behind Alex Carrasquel’s two-hit tossing with a five-run burst in the second. .Jim ‘Bagby, bell-wether of the Cleveland mound corps, turned in his second triumph by pitching the Tribe to an eight-hit, 4-1 decision over the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader. Rookie Southpaw Stubby Overmire outclassed six-foot eight-inch Mike Naymick and Allie Reynolds in the nightcap to gain the Tigers an even break, 4-1. Overmire fashioned a. five-hitter. Braves Whip Giants
A Brooklyn castoff came back to haunt: the Dodgers as Jack Kraus cut the Dodgers down with six hits, pitching the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 victory. * Kraus was peddled to the Phillies only a few weeks ago by the Dodgers and was responsible for his former teammates’ first defeat of the National league season, Ron Northey, Earl Naylor and Merrill May coupled hits with a pass to Danny Murtaugh to produce the winning runs in the sixth. Howie Pollett restricted the Reds to five hits as the St. Louis Cardinals whitewashed Cincinnati, 1-0. Johnny: Vander Meer, who southpawed a shutout against the Cards Wednesday, allowed only four blows, but lost in the fifth when Walker Cooper tripled and squeezed home on Buster Adams’ sacrifice. The Boston Braves whipped the New York Giants, 8-3, for their first triumph. Chet Ross doubled home the tie-breaking run in the seventh and the Braves clinched it with four runs in the eighth.’ Pittsburgh coupled 10 hits with two Cubs’ errors for a 6-2 win over the Cubs. Rip Sewell notched his second triumph by spacing 10 Chicago hits.
Favor Bivins
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 (U. PJ) ~—Jimmy Bivins of Cleveland, N. B. A. duration light heavyweight champ, ruled a 2-to-1 favorite to defeat Coast Guardsman Pat Valentino of San Francisco in a 10-
round bout tonight.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE No games scheduled.
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ers registered a 7-1 triumph yester- |f day.
By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor You won't find the records of Edward Victor Cicotte, Claude P. Williams, Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver, Fred McMullin, Happy Felsch and Joseph Jackson in the books, but they were among the more remarkable players of the game. They were the notorious Chicago Black Sox who threw the world series in 1919. With Eddie Collins and Ray Schalk, they were the backbone of what many baseball men consider the most formidable ball club that ever took the field. The White Sox who changed
.| the color of their hose were dan-
gerously good. They. bounced down in front in 1917, repeated in °19 and were about to win again in ’20 when stocky Eddie Cicotte’s confession cracked the scandal wide open. t J 8 8
THEY STOOD out when base~ ball playing was at its peak, and, for at least two years, mind you, while performing according to the price and watching the scoreboard for the next move. They could pick up a cluster of runs whenever . they wanted to, and there was the peerless righthander, Cicotte, and Lefty Williams to stop the other side. No pitchers were more adept at slamming the door in a8 batter's face. Gandil had everything required of a first baseman except the physical advantages enjoyed by a left-hander at the position. He was rough and tough. Weaver was one of the more accomplished shortstops, but could not play shortstop for this outfit. The slambang Risberg, brought in from the outfield, chased Weaver to: third base where he was top man in his profession. McMullin, who could have made any other infield, rode the boards.
Felsch could do Just a little bit better and threw strikes from center field. Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth call Joe Jackson the ’ most Batural, ‘hitter they ever saw.
No-Hitter; Ties
1-0, but dropped the nightcap, 5-2.
Conl Grid Tilt. .
, PITTSBURGH, ApH 26 (U. P.).—
Bison Pitcher Hurls 11-Inning
By United Press
year-qld Rufus Gentry of the Bisons was 1-A in the draft and A-1 in Buffalo today after tying a 27-year-old circuit record by pitching an 11-inning, no-hit masterpiece. Gentry accomplished his feat in the first ubleheade; that Buffalo split with the Bears at Newark. pte a do
Swede Risberg ... slambang shortstop. threw s
Shoeless Joe Jackson, so called because as a kid he once played for Greenville of the Carolina association in his stocking feet to spare a sore heel, matched his 10-year American league batting average of 356 as a strongarmed outfielder. A left-handed batter standing an even six feet and weighing 1756 pounds, Jackson hit 408 in 1911, his first full campaign in the big show. He batted .395 in 12, 373 in '13, 341 in ‘16, 354 in '18, .361 in ’19 and .382 in '20, the year he was given the boot, yet never led the league. He never was below .300 in his life, Jackson was the one swatsmith' Cobb had to talk out of the championship, and the Georgia Peach did just that on more than one occasion. Jackson batted .375 and fielded faultlessly in the series for which he was barred for finding $1000 under his pillow. Shoeless Joe smacked the ball savagely and on a line. One hundred and sixty-eight triples give you a rough idea. Shoeless Joe could get around with his brogans on. He swiped 41 bases in ’11. Cicotte, the ' spitballer, could make a baseball sing, at the end was pitching with the cunning that came with 15 years of experience. Cicotte required a long time to get going, and never divulged the pitching secret that suddenly brought him to life in ’16, after
27-Year Mark
Bisons won the opener, Gentry fanned 10 and walked only
Relay Honors Won by Tate = DES MOINES, Iowa, April 26 (U.P) ~Pvt. Ralph Tate, lean Oklahoma A. & M. track product, held. honors today as the “out-
standing performer” of the 1943 Drake relays, in which he won the
lin Non-Title Bout _
Happy Felch . ..
Shoeless Joe Jackson, left, was ‘considered the most natural hitter who ever stepped up to the plate. Buck Weaver, center, was a remarkable shortstop who had to play third base for the Chicago Black Sox. Eddie Cicotte, right, was the slickest of the spitball Bitshers who called his shots.
4 | tion, two catchers, seven starting
Chick Gandil . .. trikes. rough ‘no’ tough.
which there wasn’t much the opposition could do to or about him. “I'd watch Eddie’s hand closely to see how he held his spitter,” says Frank Shellenback, surrent coach of the Red Sox. “I'd grip the ball the same way, but my pitch would be as straight as a string. I'd watch him again. His ball would hop in all directions. I'd try again. Nothing happened.” When he discovered his secret in ’16, Cicotte was second only to Ruth of the Red Sox in effectiveness. ” » 8
THE FOLLOWING year he
- pitched the White Sox to the
pennant, winning 28 and losing 12, yielding no more than 59 earned runs in 346 innings. He led the circuit in strikeouts with 150 and only 70 bases on balls and but one wild pitch were striking evidence of his near perfect control. There were excuses made for Buck Weaver, otherwise a classy fellow, and many were inclined to lessen Shoeless Joe Jackson's culpability on the grounds that he was illiterate and easy going. The Black Sox’ acts were as reprehensible as they were criminal, however, and they are object lessons, tragic examples. But the fact remains that as a group baseball has had no brighter stars than those who wrote the
NEXT: Hale Chase, another . darkest chapter in its history. sad story.
3 Mat Bouts Are on Tap
Rene La Belle, the rugged Toronto wrestler who has been a consistent winner here, will clash with Joe Ferona of Boston dn opening action on the Armory mat card tomorrow night. They are junior heavies and meet for one fall. Ferona has been here twice, winning each time and using aggressive tactics. Farmer Jones, the “hill billy” grappler from Arkansas, who has gone undefeated in local rings, is in a rematch with Coach Billy Thom of Bloomington, ind, for gu. |
NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P.).—|mei
:|A 12-round Sorb-itls bout Jatvetalx
season at shortstop as the veteran Eric McNair is not quite ready to cut loose. Eric is plagued by an ailing wrist, lame shoulder and bruised leg. Fairly filled in at short yesterday in the exhibition game with the Minneapolis Millers and handled six chances without a miss. He is a light hitter but is a ball hawk on the defense and covers a lot of ground. Although held hitless yesterday he sacrificed once to keep a Tribe rally going and drew one walk
} Give Cash for Morgan
About 10 days ago the Tribe management traded Fairly to Montreal for First Baseman-Outfielder Eddie Morgan. No cash was involved in the transaction. Morgan reported to the Indians but Fairly refused to join Montreal. The’ infielder said he would return to his shipyards job in Jacksonville, Fla., rather than tackle another problem in moving his family, from Indianapolis to the Canadian city. Tribe Manager Ownie Bush decided to do something about it. He removed the rubbér from the club bankroll, got together with the Montreal management and made a proposition on a straight cash basis for Morgan. The Royals accepted | the offer and now Indianapolis has both Morgan and Fairly. This successful maneuver boosted the Ihdians’ pennant stock another notch and now all Skipper Bush has to worry about is the weather. He has infield and outfield protec-
pitchers and a relief hurler. He has a 20-player squad and the Boston Braves owe him ‘a couple of players in the Johnny McCarthy deal of last fall. It probably will be some time before Boston can deliver, however. The Braves have been pretty well thinned out by selective service and enlistments.
Tribe Jolts Millers
The Indians spanked Minneapolis for the third straight time yesterday and this time the score was 8 to 3. On Saturday it was 3 to 2 and in Terre Haute early last week it was 6 to 3. THe Indians have won their last five exhibition games. The Millers departed Indianapolis this morning grumbling about dropping three in a row to the Tribesters and they were supplanted by the St. Paul Saints. Saints and Indians were scheduled to meet in’ an. exhibition tilt at Victory field this afternoon at 2:30, “weather conditions permitting” The game scheduled here tomorrow was canceled by mutual agreement and the Apostles will leave tomorrow morning and head for home, The A. A. season opens in the Twin Cities Thursday with Mil-
City at St. Paul. Eastern openers
waukee at Minneapolis and Kansas’
Thursday are Indianapolis at Toledo and Louisville at Columbus. Indianapolis slammed out 10 hits off two Miller hurlers yesterday, Vallie Eaves, righthander, and Wilbur Lefebvre, southpaw. The Tribesters ganged up on Lefebvre in the sixth and broke a deadlocked 3-to-3 score by rallying for five runs on five hits, two walks and a sacrifice. The : Redskins batted around and Mickey Haslin, who touched off the uprising, batted twice.
Hutchings Bounces Back
Huge John Hutchings, Tribe mound starter, got off to a shaky start and the Millers nailed him for three runs in the first stanza on a double by Skladany, a triple by Danneker, a single and stolen base by Rolandson and a single by Blazo. Hutchings pulled himself together and only allowed two hits and no runs in the next five innings. He pitched great ball after that first round and probably is in the best shape of all the Indian moundsmen. Lefty Bob Logan worked the last three innings, blanked the Millers and allowed only two blows. Hutchings and Logan look like they're ready. Chief Hogsett was slated to open against the Saints today and Al Bronkhurst was booked to finish. In Saturday's game Jim Trexler and Earl Reid shared the Tribe mound toil and both were impressive. Pred Vaughn won that one for the Indians by belting a 390foot homie run over the scoreboard in the seventh frame. It was a mighty poke.
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A total of 84475 spectators.
helped the turnstiles spin in eight big league parks yesterday, with
45,785 and the National league 38,690. The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Athletics divided individual laurels, the Yanks drawing 16,177 for its game with Boston and the A’s around 17, 000 for a twin-bill with the Sen
ators, r
THE BROOKLYN Dodgers, with the full consent of National
« League President Ford Frick, have
been using the 1942 ball until the manufacturers of the 1943 “deadwood” can replace it" with a new “rabbit” ball. It seems only fair to clubs in the American league
the American league ' pulling in
and the remaining squads in the
National who are using the rent lifeless sphere that Dodgers’ games—with their own:
ball—be voided, .The American’," .
league has recalled all such balls and it seems time for .the tional to follow suit. # » »
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WHILE WERE on the subject of the dead ball, it must be ad« ' mitted that all the brilliant pitch
ing we've been witnessing couldn't be due to the half-hearted horsehide alone. The one-hitter turried in by Spud Chandler, Johnny Vandeer Meer's two brilliant jobs against the Cardinals and Alex Carrasquel’s two-hitter against the A's yesterday are offered in evidence. It looks like a hot year for the hurlers. 8 ” .
IT GAVE US a quick wrinkle of pleasure to see Jack Akrus tame Brooklyn for the Phillies. Bill Cox’s club has little to boast about so being able to wink an eye at astute Branch Rickey after
a trade is one of the books, Kraus,
a rookie, was sold to the Phillies
.
a couple of months ago and °
turned up like a bad cent to hold his former mates to six hits. 8 ” »
SPEAKING of rookies, Ellis baseman—as a prospective. .300 swatter., Clary was the object of
tab
. Clary—Washington third °
seyeral bids during the winter
but Clark Griffith turned thumbs;
down and the kid repaid his cons
fidence yesterday by slamming out four hits—three singles and a double—in as many trips for a perfect day at the plate.
Kelly, Paul On Mitt Bill
Bud Kelly, clever Cincinnati southpaw, and Earl Paul, Indianapolis lightweight puncher, have been signed for six-round action on the professional boxing card to be staged at the armory Friday night by the Hercules A. C, Kelly is well-known here for twe rousing battles against Jue Yee Kong, Chinese 130-pounder. Johnny Denson, Indianapolis heavyweight mauler, and Young
Harry Wills, hard punching Cif cinnati 196-pounder, will square off
in the 10-round main event. The Queen City heavy will come hers with an impressive record. He is
a defense’ worker at the American °.
Oak Leather Co. in Cincinnati. A rematch between two Indian
apolis . light-heavyweights will og-
cupy the semi-final spot when Al Sheridan and Gene Simmons get
together over the eight-round route,
They fought a six-rounder recently with Simmons gaining the nod after a close battle.
College Polo Survives COLUMBUS, O.—Polo remains on
the athletic calendars of Ohio State . and Michigan State. The teams .
will meet in an outdoor match,
Recruit is Iron Man -
CINCINNATI, —Rocky Stone, Cifi=
cinnati recruit, pitched five games in three days for the Ogden, Utah, club. He won the first, third and last.
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