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SDAY, MAY 2, 1048

Indians Await 2d Miller Threat fcr 7-3 Win In Opener,

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

A DECISION by the official scorer, Irving Vaughan of the Chicago Tribune, crediting Gordon Maltzberger with the White Sox 3-to-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on May 9 at Comiskey park, was upheld by President William Harridge of the American league. After allowing three hits in three and one-half innings, and with the Sox holding a 3-to-0 lead, Bill Dietrich was injured and replaced by Maltzberger, who yielded five hits and one run in five and two-thirds innings. Earl Hilligan, American league service bureau manager, reports that Vaughan pointed out: That Maltzberger entered the game without any chance to warm up. That he pitched as effectively as had Dietrich. That had the rules been interpreted to award Dietrich the victory when he left the game because of injury, Maltzberger would have stood every chance to lose the contest with no chance of being credited with the win. That a 3-to-0 score could not be considered a commanding lead at that early stage of the game. Vaughan’s decision was preceded by an amiable discussion as to which hurler should be awarded the victory, but there was no protest over the official scorer’s ruling, and the league office was not asked for a decision.

Homesickness Gets Huck Geary Down

ALTHOUGH Huek Geary, former Minneapolis shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is frequently tabbed as an eccentric, a fellow who jumps the team, and is always hurt, Geary’s real trouble is homesickness, reports Harold Parrott of the Brooklyn Eagle. “He has two baby daughters back home in Buffalo, and he’s the lonesomest 25-year-old in the world when he's away from them and his wife,” says Parrott. Geary was late in reporting to the Pirates last season, after being sent up by Minneapolis, and went home a few days after that. . . . He could not bear being away from the tots who used to watch his every move in the Minneapolis park when he played for the Millers . . . and shout to daddy every time he went to bat.

Wanted Him Home for Supper

“THIS SPRING, Huck reported late to the Pirates at Muncie, Ind. The first or second night he called Buffalo long distance. Huck came out of the phone booth with a wild look in his eyes. They thought he was going to pack up and hop home again. ‘What happened?’ he was asked. ‘I was just talking to my daughter,’ he said. “What did she say?’ the bystanders asked. “She said, ‘Daddy, will you be home to supper?’ he explained. “They practically had to sit on him that night to keep him with the Pirates.

Giants Guessed Wrong On Mize’s Status

JOHNNY MIZE, the first sacker who is to perform in Indianapolis Saturday afternoon with the Great Lakes nine against the Indians. is the cause of a lot of woe in the ranks of the New York Giants. . . . They banked on him for first base this year and the big fellow's power at the plate is badly missed by Manager Mel Ott’s club. During the winter the Giants’ top bosses took a chance that Mize would not be accepted in the draft. . . . They guessed wrong and found themselves with a weak-hitting™ first baseman. While other big league clubs were snatching all the experienced minor leaguers and stray talent in sight, the Giants were caught napping. . . . Evidently the Giants appeared wary of war conditions and did not care to take the gamble and splurge. . . Now they are in seventh place, nine and a half games behind the leading Dodgers.

Yankees Lose Old Power at Plate

THE YANKEES are back home and glad of it. . . . In addition to the bad weather encountered on their recent trip to the Middlewest. the McCarthymen failed to hit the ball. . They are not like the old Yanks. ... Also, Joe Gordon, key man at second base, flopped in hitting and he is not the great fielder of other years. Here's how the Yankee regulars batted on the trip that cost them the league lead: Keller, .308; Etten, 308; Lindell, .296; Stainback. 250; Dickey, .167; Gordon, .167; Johnson, 136; Weatherly, .125;

Hemsley, .125; Sternweiss, .113.

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Shoved Into 4th Position

By EDDIE ASH

The league-leading Indians met the challenge of the Minneapolis Millers by galloping to a 7-to-3 vietory in the series opener at Victory field last night. Now the Millers are fourth instead of second in the A. A. race, as the Toledo Mud Hens advanced to the runnerup spot by defeating Milwaukee at Toledo and idle Columbus took over third. Be that as it may, the Tribesters have been weakened by the temporary loss of a star pitcher, Earl Reid, who was forced to retire after working one inning last night. He was injured in practice recently and a kink in his right shoulder made his arm lame. Therefore, it was no soap for him after toiling in the first stanza against the Millers.

Millers Lose Danneker

Minneapolis also lost a player in the first canto. Frank Danneker, left fielder, was injured sliding into third when his spikes caught. He was carried off the field and sent to a hospital for an X-ray. His right ankle was turned and a chipped bone is feared. At any rate, he’s out of the current series, perhaps longer. The second of the series tonight will be a special ladies’ night attraction and Woody Rich is slated to work on the Tribe mound. Game time is 8:30. A walk and two hits got the Milers a run in the first frame last night. Then the Indians splurged for four runs in their half of the first on a walk, five hits and an error. One of the hits was a double by Joe Moore. Owen Scheetz was the victim of the Tribe's “quickie” attack. A walk and four hits accounted for three Tribe markers in the second. After that the home boys were handcuffed by young pitchers Mosley and Rudolph.

Checked After Second

Of the 11 hits obtained by the Tribe, nine were obtained in the first two innings. In other words, the Redskins were held to two blows and no runs in the last six stanzas. But the seven runs registered in the first two frames were enough. Al Bronkhurst took up the Tribe mound burden in the second and pitched four innings, allowing four hits and no runs. He walked one and struck out two. But a sore arm forced Bronkhurst to the sidelines after the fifth and Jim Trexler fin ished, working the last four rounds. It was Bronkhurst’s first action during the regular season. He developed a lame arm in spring training. One Hit Off Trexler

Trexler held the Millers to one hit, a roller, in his four innings on the mound. The Millers scored two unearned runs off him in the sixth as a result of two errors by Carl Fairly after one out. Then Trexler lost control for a spell and forced in two runs on walks. Southpaw Jim was himself in the seventh, eighth and ninth and the Millers were through for the night. Trexler fanned four and walked three in the four innings and received credit for the victory. Maintaining their practice of hitting in the clutch, six of the Indians’ seven runs were batted in, two by English, two by Haslin and two by Hofferth. Paid attendance was 2253, total attendance 2435. As usual, during the 1943 Hoosier monsoon, threatening weather prevailed and a light rain fell a couple hours before game time,

At Camp Croft

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 26.— If Camp Croft, in South Carolina, comes up with a football team this fall, watch out. Billy Hillenbrand, Lou Saban and Chuck Jacoby of the Indiana university backfield that last fall scored 256 points have been sent to Croft.

Johnny Lindell Provides Silver Lining In Heavy Clouds Over the N. Y. Yankees

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, May 26 (U. P.) — The old power has gone and the old double play skill doesn’t come up any more to pull New York Yankee pitchers out of tough spots, but Johnny Lindell has provided a silver lining in the heavy bank of dark clouds that has gathered over Joe McCarthy's club. Lindell is a converted pitcher. Because of such illustrious predecessors as Babe Ruth, George Selkirk and Tommy Henrich, Lindell faced one of the toughest jobs in baseball when he was given a shot at the right field job in Yankee stadium, but he’s made good. * = = IT MAY BE the magic of the Yankee livery—a uniform that's made sluggers of weaklings and successes of failures—but Lindell today boasts an average of .322, the lone Bronx Bomber to look at all like what the name implies. Charlie Keller, another Yankee outfielder and the one figured to wear the mantle of slugger discarded by Joe DiMaggio, is batting a mere .281, 41 points back of a man who was a greenhorn at the position. 0 McCarthy, author of several sensationally successful expeériments in his long career as one of baseball’s most brilliant pilots, was dubious about switching Johnny from the mound to the

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picket-line when the squad met at Asbury Park, N. J, this spring. He was forced into the experiment by a dire shortage of ou'fielders, but even at the last moment had the big moundsman working out around first base, Today, ‘McCarthy forgot the myriad worries occasioned by the Yankees’ lapse into second place in the American league—following four straight defeats and seven losses in eight starts—to express satisfaction over Lindell

“Certainly, he has a lot to learn,” McCarthy sald. “There are some rough edges that need polishing, but to date that boy has done as much and yes, even more, than I expected of him. Keep your eye on him, buddy, because he looks like he’s going places.” Lindell’s arm is, of course, strong enough. In fact, it's a little too powerful. He must learn to peg his throws accurately as they now soar a little high and wide of the plate. His fielding is a little on the rough side, but the skilful McCarthy can make a fielder of a man with his talent. He took George Selkirk, who made a hard job of catching the easiest fly ball, and converted him into a good ball hawk. n ” ”

IT'S AT THE plate that a player really shapes his career. If he can hit, he’s given a chance to iron out his other faults. Lindell can hit—but good. Lindell displays his wares at the stadium again when the Yankees take on the Detroit Tigers, first of the invading American league contingent from the hinterland. St. Louis plays at Washington, Chicago at Philadelphia and Cleveland at Boston. The National league resumes after the two-day recess with Naw York at Chicago, Brooklyn at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia at Cincinnati and Boston at St. Louis.

32 Honored At Shortridge

Shortridge high school was to honor 32 varsity athletes at the annual awards day program in the school auditorium today. Winners of letters in spring sports were five members of the track team—Dan Pratt, Cecil Freihofer, Bruce Christie, Bruce Hilkene and George Lewis—and Charles Tichenor of the tennis team. The “Jim Mitchell’ relays held at the school—the final competitive event of the season—produced two “double” winners in the third annual staging of the contest. They were Larry Stuart, who won the

100 and 440-yard sprints and Pratt, who annexed the half-mile and mile runs. Other winners included: Ben Boleman, 220-yard dash; Ray Stone, low hurdles; Ralph Carter, shot put; Bill Kegley, pole vault; George Lewis, broad jump; John Hull, high jump; Ralph Thompson, Reiman Steeg, Don Ambuhl and Ben Boleman, half-mile relay; George Keller, Ralph Carter, Dick Light and Bill Blackburn, mile relay. Because all entrants in the events were barred from the contests in which they competed during the regular season, times were not announced. Acting officials were Dave Decker, Jim Cooley, Bob Klein and George Finney. Also to be honored on the program today were members of the varsity football and basketball teams whose awards were announced several weeks ago.

Industrial League Schedule

The schedule for tonight's games in the Bush-Feezle Industrial Softball league, which will start at 7:10 p. m. at Softball stadium, is: Capehart-Packard Mfg. Co. vs. R. C. A. Allison Red Wings vs. Metal Auto Parts. Kingan Knights vs. Motor Armory.

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Wood Was Among the Top Pitchers and He Starred in The Outfield and at Second

By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor POPULAR STORY on Joseph Wood is that a Kansas wind blew the famous all-around star into professional baseball. The yarn has a team of Bloomer Girls playing a town team. The gale was not strong enough to blow away the smoke that enveloped the ball thrown by the beautiful young woman on the slab, however, and the townies struck out with disgraceful regularity. The yarn goes that enthusiastic local sports risked considerable sums that the record of the villagers would remain untarnished the short end of which wagers were taken by the manager of the girls’ team. Imagine the excitement when, during the last half of the eighth inning, with the score 6-0 in favor of the Amazons—four of the runs having been scored or batted in by the pitcher—a gust playfuly carried away the cap of the pitcher and “her” lovely blond wig.

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Called ‘Little Joe’

THE CLOSING chapter has all records for running the distance to the railroad station being irreparably shattered, and it is related that shortly thereafter a mere boy in a Hutchinson uniform was setting down the best hitters in the Western association with the same ease as the Bloomer Girls’ hurler had treated the Kansas farmers, They called him Little Joe Wood. At his peak, Wood stood six feet, weighed 190 pounds, but was so symmetrically built that they called him Little Joe until his blazing speed earned him the appellation, Smoky Joe, in 1912, when he powdered the Boston Red Sox to three world series victories over the New York Giants after bagging 34 while dropping no more than five for a winning percentage of .872, the highest in the majors until '31, when Robert Moses Grove copped 31 while losing only four for the Philadelphia Athletics. Wood actually made the ball look like a pea. He threw a heavy ball, and a peculiar twist of the wrist made it impossible for him to throw it straight. To this twist of the wrist easily could be traced his comparatively short life as a pitcher. Because of it and his blinding swiftness, his curve exploded like a giant cracker, broke like a ball rolling off the end of a table. He had excellent control and knew all the tricks, when to hitch his belt, ete. “I rate the Wood of 1012 with the five top pitchers of all time,” says Andy Coakley, the old mound luminary who has been coaching Columbia for 30 years. “Once while his arm was being treated in New York, he worked out with my boys indoors. I couldn't catch him when he was throwing easy. The ball jumped all over the place.” Wood established an American league record for consecutive victories in 1912—16-—which he still shares with Walter Johnson and Schoolboy Rowe. He struck out 15 St. Louis Browns, July 7, 1911, and turned in a no-hit, no-run game against them 22 days later. Wood was not yet 19 when he first showed up with the Red Six in 08, only 22 when he had his tremendous year in 'l12. He won 11 and lost 7 with an earned run average of 237 in ‘09; won 12, but dropped 13, despite & remarkable earn run mark of 191 in 10, and while he won 23 in ‘11 he was charged with 17 reverses despite an earned run average

Smoky Joe Wood

ing his big year trying to put the breath of life back into a dead arm. Illness kept him out altogether in '16. Tristram Speaker, who 80 greatly admired Wood in Boston, hoped that one of the finest arms he had ever seen would mend when Cleveland paid $15,000 for Wood in 1917, but Spoke also knew the Indians had insurance in the way of the Kansas City product's other capabilities.

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A Natural Athlete

SPEAKER REALIZED that

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power hitter, batted .296 in 119 games and was so superlative in the outfield that he took the veteran Jack Graney's job. When

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the army, Wood played second base like Napoleon Lajoie. Four times he beat the Yankees at the Polo Grounds with home runs, manufacturing two in a 19inning fray. Alternating in the outfield, he helped the Cleveland club to a world championship in '20, hit 366 in such a role the following campaign and .297 in 142 games in 22. In an old-timers’ game as recently as '40, Wood was about as good as ever. He kept in shape coaching and pitching to buliers at Yale. Wood could have been a chain. pion pocket billiard player. Smoky Joe Wood had a steady hand and knew how to put english on the ball

NEXT-—Wild Bill Donovan.

Little Resting

NEW YORK, May 26 (U. P.).~— Lou Little, veteran Columbia university football coach, continued to rest comfortably at the medical

center's Harkness pavilion follow-' his second throa t operation

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Lou Novikoff On the Spot With Chicago

By TOMMY DEVINE United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, May 26.—Lou Novikoff sets out today to make the reluctant inanagement of the cellardwelling Chicago Cubs “eat crow” on its assertion that he isn’t a major league outfielder, Novikoff, victorious in a prolonged holdout battle, is scheduled to make his 1943 diamond debut as the slump-ridden Cubs open a home stand against the New York Giants. The burly 26-year-old outfielder sat tight for the first month of the campaign on a $10,000 salary demand, and his absence, coupled with the rapid descent of the club, resulted in Owner P. K. Wrigley stepping into the picture and authorizing a compromise settlement. Novikoff reported here Sunday to await the return of the Cubs from an eastern road trip during which they won only two out of 11 games.

Outsfanding Gate Draw

Novikoff was the Cubs’ outstanding gate attraction and one of the National league's eight 300 hitters last season. During his holdout seige, however, he was subjected to some blistering criticism by his superiors and on one occasion General Manager James T, Gallagher said: “He hasn't yet proved himself a major league outfielder.” That's one of the challenges Lou accepts as he makes his 1943 debut. The heat also is on him from the spectators and his teammates. A majority of Chicago fans pulled for him during the holdout battle, but to retain their support the “Mad Russian” will have to produce base hits regularly. Lou wasn't wellliked by other Cub players last season and his successful fight for more money isn’t likely to increase his popularity among squad members, several of whom failed in pre-sea-son bids for higher salaries.

Track Meet Is Held at Park

A feature of Field day at Park school which was rained out this year—the Lower School track meet—was held at the school yesterday. Jimmy Courtney led the 8 and 9-year-old class with 15 points. Others who finished behind him were: Lowell Johnston, 14; John DeVoe, 4; Richard Holler, 2, and James Millikan, 1. Otto Feucht was named champion of the 10 and 11-year-old class, scoring 13 points. Others who finished were Stephen West, 10; James Hogshire, Robert Bowes and Billy Landers, 6 each; John Nelson, 3, and Bobby Whyte, 1.

Hayes Nominates 7 For Milwaukee Meet

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 26 (U.P) —Billy Hayes, veteran Indiana track coach, said today he would take a small squad to Milwaukee to compete in the Central Collegiate conference carnival Saturday. Runners accompanying Hayes include Larry Falwell, Robert Midkiff, George Tipton, Clark McCure, Richard and Frank Steel and Frank Jones. They will compete in the

Thom Shatters Farmer Jones’

Record Here

Approximately 3000 tussling fans attended the last indoor mat pro= gram until next fall staged at the armory last night by the Hercules A, C, and saw Farmer Jones, who had been unbeaten here, go down to his initial defeat as Coach Billy Thom annexed a savagely fought three-fall main event, The scene of mat activity will shift to the Outdoor Sports Arena where wres{ling under the stars will be inaugurated next Tuesday night. The Indiana university grappling mentor gét off to an early lead by taking the first session in 13 minutes with a body slam and press and grabbed the third in 13 minutes with the same tactics, but only after the Arkansas hill-billy mat had injured himself in a fall from the ring and was an easy prey for Thom's attack. Jones won the second fall after 19 minutes with a flying head scissors. Semi-windup laurels remained in doubt as Morris Shapiro, New York's Jewish star, and Babe Kasaboskl popular Toronto ringster, wens through 30 minutes of fast action to a draw. It was a slam-bang tussle which furnished plenty of whirlwind action from bell to bell, Pierre De Glane, another Canadian grappler on the bill, flopped Nick Billins of Birmingham, Ala., to win the opener in 20 minutes with a flying head scissors.

Navy, Tribe to Honor Fathers

It will be “Navy Dad's Day” at Victory field May 29th when Lt. Gordon “Mickey” Cochrane leads his Great Lakes naval Bluejackets on the diamond to battle the Indianapolis Indians in an exhibition tilt, Over 1000 fathers who have sons serving with the United States navy will be guests of the Indianapolis navy recruiting station and Indianapolis Indians at the game. Fathers of navy men are requested to call at the navy recruiting publicity office, fourth floor, Federal building, for their tickets. Invited by Lt. James Weber and Ownie Bush, manager and president of the local ball club, many prominent navy and army officials will be in attendance. = With five ex-major league stars in the regular batting order and a hurling corps that includes three former big league aces, the Blue~ jackets will present a powerful lineup for the battle with the Tribe. The Great Lakes nine has trimmed the St. Louis Cardinals, Louisvil Colonels and several strong semi pro and college teams this season and are expected to give the Indians a tough battle,

Proposes National Baseball Day

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P.. —Rep. William J. Miller (R. Conn.) has proposed that June 26, birthday of Abner Doubleday, be designated by presidential proclamation as national baseball day in honor of the game’s founder. Miller's resolution provides that baseball games be played in all parts of the nation that day, with free admis

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