Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1943 — Page 27
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87 Track Stars a Wiley Tops List With 16;
Mile Run Mark Expected to Fall as Corridan, Hawk Meet
:. _ By DICK WYATT : © With 387 of America’s finest young men participating, the 40th annual Indiana interscholagtic outdoor track and field championships will be t& tomorrow on the cinder paths of Tech high school’s athletic field. * The <inder carnival will begin at 10 a. m., With the trial events. At 1:30 p. =m. the fdhals will be run off. £ : ‘Wiley of Terre Haute, coached by Vage (Rusty) Rutherford, tops the] Hawk will meet his stiffest oppolist in the number of athletes sition when he clashes with Terre entered. The Red Streaks, Wabasn Haute Wiley's Jack Corridan in the valley champions, qualified 16 for mile These two sensational milers the finals. Hammond is right be- were thrown together in the draw bidd Wiley with 15, Tech of In. yesterday and both boys have indisnepolis has 14 men entered, and (dicated that the mark of 4:26.3 set 4g Side of Ft. Wayne. defending |By Tommy Deckard of Bloomington 8 LHampions, comes in with in 1934 is within their stride. Given hire. {the breaks, a good track and decent Of the 102 schools qualifying]weather the keen competition is (tUNetes for the classic, 38 quali-| very likely to end up with a new a : only ofie and 21 schools ‘only | Indiana mile king. . The balance of the schools] Many of the railbirds believe Corq from three to 13 meh each. | ridan 1s capable of defeating Hawk. "a H The Terre Haute flash has run the Expect Capacity Crowd [= in faster time than Hawk . V. Copple, athletic director of throughout the year and the boys Teh, announced this moming, with figure he will win this one the big enthusiasm at a high pitch for track; one. However, Hawk must be rated a this season, a capacity] the favorite. ; CrOWC 18 expected. ‘If this exvecta-| pinoardaner will clash with the tion holds true, some 7000 einder| jays state champion low hurdler in
agnor will Pour nto the East side {the 120, Herb Packwood of Salem.
The athletes from the 102 schoots| TT Salem Proved yo Wi will eat their meals in the Tech! : ry ye >
{although Longardner has been sendining hall. However, due to food r rationing, spectators will not be fed Shuonal this season, Packwood must
: (be considered a distinct threat in thi} year es in the past. the event.
Rolla Chamber's North Side Red- | Low Score May Win
gkias of Ft. Wayne come to Indianapdis tomorrow seeking their third | North Sides chances of walking off with its third track crown in
corsecutive Indiana high school! tratk and field crown. Chambers ‘ has two of the states most out- °5 Many years depend almost enstadding athletes in Ashley Hawk Uirely upon Hawk and Longardner. and Freeman Longardner. Both of With the talent evenly divided this thete boys won double victories in year theré is a strong possibility ther sectional meet and rank as that a low seore will take home the favirites to duplicate the feat to-|championship. If Hawk and Lonmofrow. Hewk qualified for the gardneér win first place in the four hall-mile and mile race and/events they enter, those 20 points Lowgardner in 120 and 20-yard can conceivably be the size of the huxiles, championship.
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A Typhoid Spine to Stage Comeback in the Box
By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor JOHN WESLEY COOMBS is best remembered as the strongarmed pitcher who did not lose a world series game in three editions. . Following Sept. 1, 1908, toward the fag end of his initial campaign with the Philadelphia Athletics, Colby Jack was Iron Man Coombs, having outlasted Joe Harris to win from the Boston Red Sox, 4-1, in 24 innings the longest American league game on record. Coombs was the shutout king prior to the world series of 1910, when he became Jack the Cub Tamer by thrice beating the vaunted Tinker-to- Evers-to-Chance Chicago club, and his Iron Man reputation was enhanced as he worked two games in succession. There is vastly more to the story of Jack Coombs, however, than that of a strong-armed pitcher. He was a grand allround player who beat a typhoid spine to stage & grand comeback in the box after being on the
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Stretched Spine
PLUCKY COOMBS was left with the back ailment in the spring of 1918 following an attack of typhoid fever. He licked it by stretching his spine with weights on his neck and feet. Tom MeGillicuddy, who ran a hotel in Worcester, found Coombs for his brother, Connie Mack. Coombs had pitched four years at Colby when Scout Tom saw him with the Barre-Montpelier club during the one summer he spent in the independent Northern league, where he came in contact with such able citizens
as Eddie Collins, Larry Gardner, | Jack Murray, Birdie Cree and Ed |
Reulbach, Mack didn't have the highly intelligent Coombs long before he realized he had someone who
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good switch hitter.
Coombs was so formidable at |
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the plate, as a matter of fact, that when he appeared to have lost his stuff as the result of injuring ®& tendon in what had been a mighty right arm, Mack started him in the outfield in 1908, where he led his fellow flychasers in batting and made only one error
is 47 engagements. ‘Coombs did not get going again as a pitcher until mid-August of
that year, when he repulsed the
Cleveland club “with a dinky little curve that broke no more than six inches,” recalls Manager Mack. “I told him that he could win if he could keep breaking off that curve. He got so he could break : it all the way to the ground.” : Colby Jack: stood six feet onehalf inch, weighed 185 pounds: He was a sidearm pitcher who, at
his peak, threw a fast, heavy ball.
with plenty on it. Although born in Towa, Coombs Was raiséd at Kenebunk, Me, and was a typical “Down Easter,” twang and all. He was extremely popular, an entertaining conversationalist, pleasant company. Once he found himself, Coombs was a masterful performer until stricken—31 end 9 in 1912, 28 and 12 in °11, 21 and 10 in 12. He had 13 shutouts in ’10 to set an American league record, and in 12 other starts rivals settled for one run. One calcimining was a 16-round runless duel with Big Ed Walsh of White Sox. Coombs won 10 straight and had skein of 53 scoreless innings before being repelled by White Sox in the second of a doubleheader after relieving Eddie Plank and pitching six innings of the
curtain-raiser, Sept. 25 of that year. “peg Colby Jack toiled 353 innings, 56 in June, 90 in July, 88 in Au-
gust, 74 in September. The average pitcher would have been thoroughly whacked out -under the circumstances when struck smack dab in the face by a world series, but the robust Man from Maine handcuffed the celebrated Cubs, twice beating Three-Fingered Brown and then Big Ed Reulbach. Coombs pitched 337 rounds in "11, topped Christy Mathewson and the Giants, 3-2; in 11 innhihgs in. the third game of the world series. He was.on his way ‘to victory over Rube . Marquard in the fifth of the set when, in the sixth inning; he slipped and pulled a ligament 'in his ‘back while working on Josh Devore, The Polo Grounders tied the seore in the ninth, Coombs retiring ‘in ihtense pain after batting in the .10th. k = 2
Finished With Bums
COOMBS won 2! of 31 and got in 40 games in "12 despite the fact that the world series injury cropped up again to keep him out a month in the spring. Mack carried Coombs the two years he was out, but a slight disagreement led Tall Tactician to make him a free agent. Coombs was without his swift one when he came back to win 15 games for Brooklyn in ‘15 and help Dodgers to pennant with 13 more in ’16, but he knew how to piteh. ' He beat the Giants three in a row in ’15, six straight in '18 and
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Bill Cox’s Army Stages March Toward Top of National Loop; 32 Games Behind the Dodgers
By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 21.—The front-running clubs.in the National league today had an unexpectedly difficult problem to contend with in the unlooked-for potency of the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies have never been taken seriously by anybody in the senior loop, but Bill Cox's army now is staging a march toward the top of the National league that has been gathering speed at an almost fantastic pace. . Right now the Brooklyn Dodgers’ lead over the Phils stands| who defeated the Red Birds in the at only 3% games. opener of the set, came back again Whatever formula Cox has used|to hamstring St. Louis with seven to mold the Phillies into a contend- [scattered safeties for his second
the other side was entirely out of it when he was all in one piece and in possession of anything at all,
ing club should be recorded with the bureau of vital statistics, because he apparently has succeeded where dozens of others failed. His club now has won five in a row, a feat unique in the Quaker City's National league history, but yesterday the Phillies performed in a fashion almost without parallel in the dismal annals of these perennial doormats by whitewashing the Chicago Cubs, 3-0 and 2-0,
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Matched Again
Farmer Jones, the bearded “hillbilly” from Arkansas who has/ Charley Fuchs and Al Gear(heauser fashioned twin four<hit-
beaten every top-ranking Junior garg as the Cubs got only one man heavyweight sent against him, as far as third in 18 innings. Not takes on Coach Billy Thom in a a single Bruin reached third, and
return match to feature the wres.|it was Pinky May's long double— " d next Tuesda nt at|On® Of nine hits off Bill Lee—that Hing: Sry Toe y ne provided the deciding run in the the armory. opener, : At the request of Thom, the bout| Only Stan Hack hobbled as far will be for the regulation two falls|as third in the nightcap as the
out of three, but will not carry a|phillies combined two of their four time limit. Billy is head grappling hits off Dick Barrett with a walk mentor at Indiana university. and Ed Stanky's wild heave to garThom was defeated, two falls to|ner their two runs in the third one, in a tussie with Jones several inning. weks ago. It was a closely con-| The Dodgers . defeated the Cardtested encounter and produced an|inals, 5-2, for an even division of
victory, Mort Cooper was nailed for eight blows, Billy Herman solving him for a pair of doubles that sent three runs home. : The Boston Red Sox sliced out a pair of victories over the Cleveland Indians, 2-1 (10-innings) and 7-4,
Held to Seven Hits
‘Oscar Judd unloosed an effective assortment of southpaw slants that held Cleveland to seven hits for his second victory in the first game. Johnny Peacock pushed home the winning run with a single after Johnny Lazor had walked ahd moved up on a sacrifice,
The Indians used 20 men in the | nightcap, including a sextet of slingers, but the Red Sox broke a 4-4 tie with two runs in the eighth and another in the ninth. Pinch«hitter Dee Miles’ two-run double off Mike Naymick sewed up the contest in the eighth as four Boston pitchers allowed a total of eight hits.
The weather man again hacked a wide swath in both leagues, wiping out Cincinnati at New York and Pittsburgh at Boston in the National league and double-headers between Washington and 8t. Louis,
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