Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1943 — Page 23
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Hutchings Wins 4th im Row as Kelleymen Bow
By EDDIE ASH
United Press
Rookie and Veterans Tiniegh |It Easier This Year to Fill Important Roles in Flag Races
By JACK CUDDY Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, May 28 (U. P,).—Wartime conditions have placed major league perspective slightly out of focus this year, making it a relatively difficult task to classify accurately the “bests” in baseball. Rookies and veterans have found it easier this year to fill significant roles in the pennant races~because of the shortage of manpower. But war or no war, there are several personalities who would have shone in an otherwise normal year. Here is
With the Toledo Mud Hens and Columbus Red Birds too close on their heels for comfort, the pacesetting Indians do not intend fo relax against the Minneapolis Millers in the series finale at Victory
GEORGE BARTON, of The Minneapolis Morning Tribune, the dean of American association sports writers, remembers en John D. Hertz, multi-millionaire who owns the great race horse Count Fleet was a struggling
young manager of prize fighters in Chicago at the turn of the century.
Best fighter handled by Hertz was Benny Yanger, known as the “Tipton Slasher,” a first-rate featherweight, old-time ring fans will ¥ecall, according to Barton? Yanger has been boxing instructor for years at the Chicago dthletic club, one of the Windy City’s most exclusive clubs. " Barton says Heftz gave up management of pugilists in 1908 when he conceived the brilliant idea of forming a taxicab company in Chicago. . . . George recalls that Johnny experienced much trouble obtaining financial backing but finally made it. From the humble beginning grew the Yellow Cab Co.; national bus lines and chain drive-it-yourselt automobile companies. Harvey Woodruff, late sports writer for the Chicago Tribune, Wace made a wealthy man against his own wishes by Hertz. . . . Wood(ff, sports editor of the Tribune when Hertz was handling boxers for a living, gave Johnny a job writing a daily boxing column for the Tribune, together with befriending him in other ways. All because the kindly Woodruff liked the hustling, ambitious and enterprising young man.
‘Made Wealthy by Taking a Chance
WOODRUFF was the first man Hertz approached to invest money in his taxicab company. “I had about $4500 banked away to buy a home with,” Woodruff told Barton some years ago. “Hertz gave me such a convincing sales talk I invested all my money in his company, but much against my will, “I kissed the money goodby when I gave it to Johnny. I never believed in miracles until one happened to me. The $4500 invested in Johnny's company made me independently wealthy.” 8 ” o . ” t J » IN THE first three weeks of the American association season, during which 80 games were scheduled, only 83 were played, making 27 postponements. : The veteran ed Schulte, former American league outfielder, now a coach of the Louisville club, is keeping in condition, as he expeets to become an active player when the younger members of ‘the Colonels leave to join the armed forces.
Harris Nearly Dropped From Baseball
BUCKY HARRIS, who has been providing the Phillies with inspiring leadership, never was closer to being out of the game, in his 19 years of managing big league clubs, than during the 80 days before he signed with the Quakers, reveals John F. ‘Carmichael of the Chicago Daily News. “After leaving Washington, Harris had applied for a commission in the army specialty corps,” says Carmichael. “Before his papers peuld come Ahrough, that department was abolished and the lid ‘elamped on civilian commissions. “Then came the change in Leo Durocher’s draft status at Brooklyn. Durocher, after being named pilot for '43, had been classified 1-A and ordered to report for examination. It looked like Branch Rickey would have to get a new manager and Harris, among others,
applied for the job.
He Was Close to Brooklyn Job
“ONE DAY Rickey summoned Harris to Flatbush. We talked for more than an hour, said Bucky, ‘and if I'm any jutige of conversation, I believe I'd have got the job. Rickey admitted there was only nde nsideration.’ oe i ™ ee: rned out, Duroche» was rejected by Uncle 8am and saved for the dgers. Since Brooklyn is leading the league, it must be presumed that not even Harris could have done better. Bucky was resigned to a season out of the game.
«qr WAS GETTING pretty serious’ Harris said, ‘when the phone rang at home and it was Bill Tox on the wire. “Are you still
{interested in baseball?” he asked me. I told him I was ... and
how. - “Can you come over to New’ York and see me?” continued Cox.’
Bucky could and did. So here he is.”
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ow ball and completed one double play. Hutchings fanned four and walked
the winning path as they trounced Broad Ripple, 13 to 7, in an interscholastic : baseball game at the Broad Ripple diamend yesterday. Maas, who finished the game on the mound after starting behind the bat, led the winners’ attack with a three-ply homer and a siagle.
field tonight and hope to make a sweep of the four-game set. By defeating the Millers, 4 to 0, last night, the Redskins stretched their winning surge to five in a row, and three of the victories were at the expense of Minneapolis. Incidentally, the Tribesters have won 10 games in their last 12 starts, but Toledo and Columbus have not been idle. only two games. back of the Bushmen and Columbus, third, is only three and one-half off the pace.
New Pitcher May Start
For his pitcher tonight (another ladies’ night attraction), Pilot Bush is undecided betwen George Diehl and Al Bronkhurst. Diehl, recently of the Boston Braves, has had no game action and Bronkhurst has worked only four innings.
- Bush nrefers righthanders against the Millers and he’s short of seasoned starters at the moment. Earl Reid is on the shelf with a sore arm and battered nose, Bronkhurst’s arm is none too strong, John Hutchings pitched last night and Woodie Rich dn Wednesday. Huge Hutchings chalked up his forth vietorv in four starts last night bv holding the Millers to four hits and no runs. It was his second shutout triumph of the new season. Lefebvre Bears Down
The hig fellow also won his own game. He was pitted against a worthy foe in Southvaw Bill Lefebvre, who held the Indians to one hit in the first seven innings. The manner in which the Miller twirler turned back the Redskins became monotonous. It was three up and three down through five ininngs before the home boys got a runner on base. Fans and scribes were visioning a no-hitter until Fred Vaughn broke the spell in the sixth. He was first up and belted a 400-foot triple to left center, Center Fielder Rolandson made a frantic effort to snatch the drive but the best he could do was touch it after a long run.
Vaughn Left Stranded
And so the Indians had a man on third and none out. He still was there after the third out. That's how good Lefebvre vitched. Fairly, Hutchings and Blackburn failed to oet the ball out of the infield and Vaughn was left stranded. Lefebvre subdued the Tribe again in the seventh in 1-2-3 order. Gil English, second up. bid for a hit, but his whistling drive struck the mound rubber and was deflected to Trechock at short and English was tossed out at first. In the Minneapolis eighth. Hutchines got into a peck of trouble. The Millers loaded the bases with one down on a single and two walks. But Hutchings hitched vn his strides, struck out Pofahl-and Vosmik was tossed out by Fairly.
Haslin Starts-Rally
In the Tribe eighth the Indisns staged an unexpected uprising. Mickey Haslin, first uo. rammed a single to left, the Tribe's second hit. of the game. Hofferth sacrificed and was safe and Haslin was safe at second when Catcher Blazo’s throw to second was late, or mavbe the shortston had his foot off the bag. It was difficult to tell because the runner, the receiver, the ball and
The Millers howled, and long, but it was no soap for them and the Indians had two on and none out. Vaughn beat out a bunt; filling the bases, and on Fairly’s grounder, Haslin was forced out at the plate, Clifton to Blazo. This brought up Hutchings with the bases loaded. He promptly poked a single to short right center, scoring Hofferth and Vaughn, and when Catcher Blazo muffed the throw-in from Right Fielder Johnson, Fairly also scored and Hutchings went all the way to third
Hutchings Scores After Catch
Then Hutchings scored after the catch on Blackburn's fly to Rolandson in center, Four runs were in. Moore singled and English walked before Lefebvre struck out Morgan to retire the side. Hutchings retired the Millers -in order in the ninth, The Indians won on five hits. They played erroless
five.
Second place Toledo isf
Led by Lt. Mickey Cochrane, inset, the Great Lakes naval training station baseball squad, which will play the Indians at Victory field tomorrow, is on the trail of its second straight championship of the U. S. armed forces. Clockwise around the wheel aré seven mainstays of the Bluejackets—Centerfielder Earl Bolyard of the Dallas, Texas, league club; Vern Olsen, former Chicago Cubs pitcher; Second Baseman Johnny Lucadello of the St. Louis Browns; First Baseman Johnny Mize of the New York Giants; Shortstop Eddie Pellagrini, Louisville Colonels; Rightfielder Joe Grace®St. Louis Browns, and Catcher George Dickey, Chicago White Sox.
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Bluejackets Seek Revenge
Against Indians Tomorrow
There’ll be an old score for the Great Lakes Bluejackets to settle;
when they invade Victory field tomorrow and Lt. Gordon (Mickey) |
Chicago Cubs to turn the trick.
and Vern Olsen, the ex-Cubs, who combined to whip the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals on May 3, probahly will be the pitchers when the ejackets try to reverse a 7 to 1 defeat by the Indians at Great Lakes last season. That particular defeat has been underscored in the 1942 records. It snapped a 24-game winning streak which included an earlier 15-to-1 victory at Indianapolis. The Bluejackets were in Evansville today to play the Shipyard Browns of the war plant league and move to Indianapolis tomorrow for the second game of their Indiana trip. They meet the All-Stars at Muncie on Sunday.
Schmitz or Olsen
~ “Either Schmitz or Olsen or both will pitch against Indianapolis,” Lt. Cochrane said. “We've been averaging only one game a week during this rainy May and all our pitchers need plenty of work. If the men scheduled to pitch at Evansville can’t handle the job alone we may have to use either Olsen or Schmitz Friday night. One of them, though, is sure to go Saturday.” . Between them the two southpaws have accounted for four of Great Lakes’ six victories. Schmitz was credited with the 5-to-2 decision over the Cards and a 19-to-1 victory over Wisconsin's Badgers. Olsen earned credit for two other collegiate victories — against Notre Dame and Illinois. Bach worked four innings against the Cards, allowing one hit apiece.
Two Spare Catchers
Five of the Navy's day-to-day regulars are hitting .300 or better, led by the fat -500 of Joe Grace, a right flelder from the St. Louis Browns. Little Eddie Pellagrini, former Louisville shortstop, has moved into second place with .409 and Johnny Mize of the New York Giants is third with .375. : George Dickey, Chicago White Sox catcher, is hitting .308 and Johnny Lucadello, Browns second baseman, has an even .300. Other regulars are Third Baseman Chet Hajduk, White Sox, with .204, Earl Bolyard, Dallas center fielder, 263 and Glen McQuillen, Brownie leftfielder, 231. Lucadello and Mize are tied with nine runs batted in. In addition to the eight regulars, Schmitz and Olsen, Lieut. Cochrane will have available on the trip two spare catchers, an extra infielder, a spare outfielder and four more pitchers. Two of these pitchers— Bob Harris of the Philadelphia Athletics and Henry Perry of. the Dellas club—will join the squad at Indianapolis.
Others on the squad are Leo Non-
nenkamp of the Kansas City Blues, an dutfielder; Carl Fiore, an infield-
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Ladies’ Night
_ TOMORROW—3 P. M. INDPLS, Vs. GREAT
The star-studded navy baseball team will battle the Indianapolis Indians in a Dad’s Day tilt beginning at 3 p. m. and Johnny Schmitz
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Cochrane is counting on a couple of lefthanders formerly with the 1ace in the American association
The Knot-Hole Gang is invited to attend the Great Lakes NavalIndian game at Victory field tomorrow, the tilt getting underway at 3 o'clock. Al Schlensker, Tribe secretary, announced this morning the Knot-Holers would sit in the bleachers.
er from Cedar Rapids; Catchers Warren Robinson of Rochester and Dennis Gleason of New Orleans and Pitchers Tom Ferrick of the Cleveland Indians and George (Pete) Hader of New Orleans and the Columbus Redbirds.
Nova May Fight
CHICAGO, May 28 (U. P.).—Two Chicago promoters opened negotiations today to sign heavyweights Lee Savold and Lou Nova for a 10round bout here June 28. In anticipation of the bout the promoters, Irving Schoenwald and Jack Begun have leased Wrigley field. |
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how they look to us: Top players: In the * National league it must be Billy Herman of | the Dodgers. This stellar second baseman is playing with all the verve of his halcyon days despite being in his 13th major league year. He has hovered around the .350 mark in batting all year and has been among the pace-setters in runs-driven-in, Vern Stephens wins the American league accolade. Now in his sophomore year, Stephens is not only the circuit's flashiest shortstop but its leading hitter. ‘He has set the pace most of the season and now heads both loops with an average of .371.
Flores Best Rookie
Best Rookies: It's Pitcher Jesse Flores of the Philadelphia Athletics. This talented Mexican moundsman has won six games in a row, his
only defeat coming at the hands of the Boston Red Sox on April 21 by one run after he had given up two hits. Outfielder Dick Wakefield of Detroit, who currently looks like another Ted Williams, ranks high on the freshman list. Jack Kraus of the Phillies, Red Barrett of the Pirates and Nate Andrews of the Braves have all made a close early race of first year honors in the National. Kraus looks like the best of the lot with a more varied assortment of stuff, but Barrett and Andrews have authored some of the best mound jobs in the senior circuit.
Bluege Leads Managers
Best Managers: Ossie Bluege of the Senators and Lou Boudreau of the Indians. Bluege has done an excellent job with a Washington outfit figured no better than seconddivision material for 1943, while Boudreau’s clever leadership has made Cleveland a definite contender. Bucky Harris’ job with the Phillies makes him the National league standout. Berthed in the graveyard of managers, Harris has made the
Phillies a winning club and an ex« i
ceptionally fing drawing card. Standout Sophomores: Whitey Kurowski and Stan Musial of the Cardinals. Kurowski is setting the club batting pace in a close race with Musial and both have been defensive sparkplugs. \
Hockett, Lindell Lead Sophs °
Cleveland's Oris Hockett changed a.
job. This youthful flychasér is belting the-ball at a clip well over, 300 and joins Johnny Lindell of . the Yankees as two of the American league's most potent second-year successes. Lindell, a converted pitcher, has much to learn but has - kept above the .300 mark ever since he took over the rightfield job and looks like a natural hitter.
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WARSAW, Ind, May 28 (U.P) { Carl Burt, 42, athletic director and *
coach at Manchester college for 18 years, has
schools, he said today. Burt succeeds James Leffel, who ¥ retires after the present school term. Leffel has served as eity § school superintendent for 26 years. 3 The new school head signed a five- iy year contract. Burt is a graduate of Manchester & and the University of Chicago and | took special studies at Notre Dame, | Northwestern and the University of hn Illinois. He taught school in Kosciusko 4 county and served as teacher and | coach at La Porte from 1922 to 1925 before going to Manchester where | his 1940 football team tied whith
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conference championship. He formerly was president of/the Indiana Intercollegiate Coaches, as= | socaition, :
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