Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1943 — Page 8
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: THE following excerpt is from “The Breeze,” post .
newspaper of Ft. Barrancas, Fla. , . . The statement is attributed to Col. L. B. Magruder, who made it in a letter ~ addressed to Col. Franklin Kemble, Ft. Barrancas, commander,
“You will recall that Wellington said: Waterloo was won on the
~ playing fields of Eton. “A German general staff officer told me. in 1922 upon the Rhine : that, following world war. I, they had a committee study why, in ~ 1914-1918, their best troops were so often defeated in fair combat by
a { less efficient English and Americgn’ troops.
“Their report made after two years’ study was Yo the effect that the cause lay in the ‘superior’ leadership qualities acquired by the
English and American youths in sports and their ‘superior’ physical -
condition. “With German “thoroughness, a campaign of physical culture and mass athletics was started among the German male and female youth. : . “You will note that with characteristic disdain, they made no mention of their other antagonists in world war I, such as the French, Russians, Italians and Japanese. They simply did not count.”
Former Golden Glover at Ft. Sill
EZZARD CHARLES, Cincinnati, former national Golden Gloves and A. A. U. middleweight champion, is in the army and stationed ‘at Pt. Sill, Okla. . . . Ezzard was a leading contender for the professional light Beavyweight title when Uncle Sam called him into service, ® x 8 #8 =’ a ‘ ‘JOE McCARTHY, manager of the Yankees, rates Ewald Pyle,
Washington lefthander obtained ‘from Toledo, as the best rookie :
pitching prospect in the American league: on =» ® = = “HARD-HITTING HALFBACK” is the alliterative label on Tommy O’Brien, Atlanta Crackers outfielder who joined the Pittsburgh Pirates for a tryout. . . . In baseball his hardest hit was just a year ago, a homer over the Cracker left field wall which skipped past a policeman’s ears and bounced into a school yard half a block away, a 500-foot homer, they called it. In football his hardest hits were for-old U. of Tennessee, carrying the ball for the Knoxville thunderbolts until he left college to play pro: baseball,
‘Lost Hit’ Hurt in Gentile’s Case
SAMMY GENTILE, reserve outfielder with the Boston Braves, can boast. a batting championship with a .392 average as the blueribbon accomplishment of his minor league career, but he weighs ~in with a hearty beef. j Youd think .392 would satisfy even the most ambitious youngster. Sammy’s kick is about a hit the official scorer took away from him one day in August, 1939, when he was polishing the pill for dear Danville in the Bi-State league. . . . The hit he didn’t get couldn’t keep him from capturing the batting crown, but it did prevent him
from making the double-century class. . . . He had 199 hits in 113 ;
games. . . . One more safe blow would have done the trick.
Huge Grand Circuit Meeting Set
EVERYTHING is hustle at Cleveland's North Randall mile track, in preparation for the 23-day Grand @ircuit meeting at which $140,000 will be distributed in the biggest meeting in harness horse history. . The meet opens Tuesday, June 29 and. winds up on Saturday, July 24, Already more than 200 horses are quartered at the grounds and by the end of this week this group will be increased to well over 300, track officials announced. The latest arrivals there are the stables of Harry Whitney of New York, Fred Egan of Lexington, Ky., Rupe Parker of Aiken, 8. C,, end Lee Smith of Aiken, S. C. » " td » » » WHITNEY, who is reputed to have one of the best trotting stables of the year sent in 11 head including the great aged trotters, Cannon . Ball, Speed King and Miss Thelma. _ Harry also has Darnley, crack Hambletonian candidate and two great baby trotting prospects in Enac and Empress Hanover stabled at North Randall. 8 = =» ; s = =» FRED EGAN, veteran harness horse trainer, has the smallest stable in years with four head at Cleveland, including the crack trotting baby filly Emily Scott, Morate, Luck Ahead and Dean Sheppard, the last named being a Hambletonian candidate.
Cat by Birds
LaBelle Throws I. U. Mat Coach
Rene LaBelle, the tricky French- . Canadian, upset Coach Billy Thom, Indiana university wrestling coach; to capture the honors in the main event of the weekly mat bill staged at Sports Arena last night before 2600 grappling followers. The program was presented by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter's Hercules . Athletic club. LaBelle avenged a previous defeat at the hands of Thom when the latter became the only matman to pin a defeat on him in Indianapolis, “and at the same time electrified the paying patrons with -another ‘rapid “fire” fall by.taking .the deciding session in 8.6 seconds after the pair “had split the first two falls. LaBelle
threw Ali Pasha at the arena last week in the fast time of 7 seconds. -
Dorv Roche was the semi-wind-up victor by pinning “Gentleman” Joe Cox, Kansas City heavyweight, in 19 minutes. The Decatur, Ill. husky used a flying tackle and press to win. Opening bout honors went to Gil LaCross, Montreal junior heavyweight, who downed Buck Lipscomb, Indianapolis, in 14 minutes with a double bar hold,
It was announced from the ringside that heavyweight. champion “Wild Bill” Longson, N. W. A. mat king, will risk his crown in a championship bout against challenger Jumping Joe Savoldi at the Arena to headline next Tuesday night's
card,”
Tribe's Lead
To 13 Games
By EDDIE ASH
ings were nominated today by Tribe Skipper Ownie Bush to face the Columbfis Red Birds on the mound in tonight's twin bill at Victory field. : It'is a twilight-night atrangement, with the first game at 6:45 and the second at 8:30 or thereabouts, It is a special ladies’ night at the ‘rribe park, declared by the management in appreciation of last night's Shrine Night turnout, 7935. The bargain attraction will close out the series with Columbus and the ‘Louisville Colonels will open a series here tomorrow. * Columbus squared the series last
Indians, 3 to 1, behind Ted Wilks’ fine pitching. The defeat reduced the Tribe's league lead over the boisterous Milwaukee Brewers to 1% games. It also snapped the Redskins’ winning streak at four straight.
Wilks Has Big Night
Wilks had to much on the ball for ‘the Tribesters. He held them to six hits, struck out five and issued only one walk, and that was intentional. The righthander kept the Tribe blows scattered and in five of the nine rounds retired the side in 1-2-3 order. The Indians tallied fheir lone marker in the fourth on Ed Morgan’s triple and an infield out. Thereupon Wilks put on the brakes the remainder of the game and the home boys had only three runners left on base. Glen Fletcher, Tribe starting pitcher, did not allow a hit until after two down in the fifth when the Birds got two but no runs. In the, sixth, however, the visitors knotted the score on Stumpf’s rousing triple and a fielder’s choice. The Birds also got a single in that stanza but a double play held them to the one marker. The Birds loaded the bases in the seventh on two walks and a hit
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batsman. Fletcher. escaped from that jam when Fred Vaughn made a circus catch on Stumpf’s line 2rive back of second to retire the siqae.
Fletcher Removed in Eighth
The Birds refused to lose heart, however, and sewed up the game in the eighth. After one out, Sturdy singled and stopped at second on Weiczorek’s single. Bergamo’s single scored Sturdy and sent Weiczorek to third. Bergamo raced to s d on Moore's throwin to third. Fletcher handed Scoffic an intentionel pass, filling the bases but the strategy backfired. He lost con(Continued on Page Nine)
Bears Wallop Toronto, 11-2
By UNITED PRESS
The league-leading " Toronto Maple Leafs today were in grave danger of losing their one-game advantage over the second-place Newark Bears {following a damaging 6-2 loss to their arch rivals. The Bears unleashed an 11-hit attack last night against Luke (Hot Potato) Hamlin and his eight-inning successor, Sid Goldstein, to forge ahead 'in the later innings after spotting the Leafs to a two-run lead in the first. The Jersey City Giants split’ a double-header with the Montreal Royals, winning the first game, 4-1, behind Bobby Coombs’ sixhit pitching and dropping the second, 10-1, under the impact of a 14-hit assault by the Royals that gave Hal Gregg the pitching victory. . Divide Double Bill
* Rochester divided a bargain bill with the Syracuse Chiefs, taking the opener, 6-4, and losing the finale, 11-2. Kemp Wicker rode to victory on a big five-run first inning handed him by his Rochester mates in the opener. Casimir Konstanty had similar good fortune for Syracuse in the afterpiece. The Baltimore Orioles came up with three runs in the ninth inning to break a 2-2 deadlock for a 5-2 win over the Buffalo Bisons, although outhit nine to seven. Ed
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Yanks, Ossie said:
believe he’s hitting in the .260’s.
field. But even more important. is the inspiration which his hustle and determination has -given the other players.” Johnson, the 34-year-old Cherokee Indian slugger whose triple won yesterdays game after Micky Vernon had set the stage, came to the Senators on March 31 in a deal with{ the Athletics. Bob had played with Connie Mack's Philadelphia outfit for 10 years. And he probably still would be with the A's were it not| for a dispute with ancient Connie over an expected bonus as ‘a result} of attendance at the A's home games last season. Johnson. refused to sign his contract for 1943 because he didn’t receive the bonus. Accordingly, he was traded. to Washington for Infielder ‘Roberto Estalella and Jimmy Pofahl. Pofahl refused to report to the: A's,
Washington gave Mack some cash instead. Reaction Is Excellent
Everyone wondered at the time how ‘Johnson would: react to his first change of uniform since come ing to the majors in 1933. Apparently his reaction has been excellent. He has dsiven in 35 runs so far, to rank fourth in the majors in that department. Last season he drove in 80 with the Athletics, his with the Mackmen, He accounted for 121 in 1936. Manager Bluege is delighted with the Cherokee’s achievements as well as the play of his other performers. Ossie said: “Our boys have been hustling and we've been getting good breaks. I believe we've made more errors than any club in the’ league, ‘but most of those "errors were made when they didn’t hurt us. We've been getting only fair hitting, but our hits ‘were ‘ timely— resulting in runs.. And our pitching has been much better than expected. ' Carrasquel, Candini, Leon-
fine. Pyle was going good until a couple of weeks ago. Also Mertz and Haefner have helped. You
been our strong point.” Leads A. L. Hurlers
Milo Candini, a cast-off of the Yankee farm system, now leads the league with six straight mound victories. He has suffered no-recur-rence of arm trouble this ‘season because, according to Biuege, he has been watched carefully by -Trainer
“nursed him along,” refusing to let him pitch in cold weather and moving him in to a starter’s berth gradually ; :
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Peru Defeats
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hnson Is Key gfon's Lineup
s y By JACK CUDDY: United Press’ Stan Correspondent
NEW YORK, June 23. —Manager- Ossie ‘Bluege rates ‘Outfielder ‘Bob Johnson the key performer iB the Senators” challenge for the American
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Discussing his Washington squad after. yedidrday’s victory over: the “Everyone on the clubis’ playing good ball, but, the standout is Bob Johnson, Bob's’ batting : average is not. sensational;
Stout Field
Eight days ago, Stout field’s - baseball team started a five-game winning: streak at the expense of “the: Peru Naval air base nine. Yesterday, that succession of
hands of the same team, 2-0, in a return game at the Stout field (diamond. Each team rapped out seven safe blows "apiece, including a home run by: Second Baseman Rance. The: Stout _ fielders, however, were guilty of three miscues while the ‘Peru: ‘nine ‘had a pertect; day in
victories came: to an.end at the |
college, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. ‘Downs, who is taking his prelim
inary naval training”at Northwest{ern university, and gained a place
in the tournament through the rule
won the Indiana state championship last season for his only major net triumph. He's ‘playing the best tennis ‘of his ‘brief ‘career and gives .the naval training the credit. Flying Quickens Eye “Flying : quickens your eye tremendously” the diminutive cadet said. “You have to see everything
‘land see it fast when you're in the
air and that’s helped me to size up situations at a glance on the court better than I ever did before.” Downs .is a former nationally ranked table tennis star and for several years teamed in mixed doubles with Sally Green, the Indianapolis girl who holds the national championship. - A junior at the University of Illinois when he enrolled in the navy,. Downs was transferred to Northwestern last winter. Hell enter the pre-flight school at Iowa City upon completion of his work here. : In Cochell he’s :neeting the third seeded star of the tournament. The Southern California ace advanced yesterday by defeating Don Staake of : Kalamazoo (Michigan) college, 6-1, 6-1. -DePauw’s Filer Loses
Francisco (Pancho) Segura, the colorful Ecuadorean representing the - University of Miami, clearly justified his top-seeded position by eliminating Horace Filer of ‘De1| Pauw, 6-1, 6-0. Segura, driving with tremendous power and chipping the baseline repeatedly, took five games at love and dropped only 15 ‘points during the match. Segura meets Walter Driver of Texas in- the third - round. Tom Brown Jr. of California, second seeded, beat Gordon Elliott of Michigan State in straight love sets and opposes Bob Wasserman of Ohio State today. The - opening matches of the doubles were played yesterday, with all 16 remaining tandems in action today.
No Soft Touches
After a spirited touch football game last week, six participants were on sick call the following
day.—Randolph field “Rookie.”
3 ite the fact | he is the ‘Big Ten: champion, fur- ‘| nished the: highlight of yesterday’s ' | play when he rallied . brilliantly to
which . makes service men eligible, |
Last year Vick Costello of Birmingham, Ala., was grid captain
at Alabama Poly, at Auburn.
Now he's showing how he can hit
the line as an officer candidate at the .anti-aircroft artillery school
at Camp Davis, N. C.
Wayne Timber nD Horse In Indiana Open Tournament
GARY, Ind. June 23 (U. P.).— The 54-hole Indiana open golf tournament opens on the Gleason park municipal course today, with Defending Champion Bob Hamilton of Evansville and Dale Morey of Martinsville marked as the men to beat. Hamilton, who played all opposition into the ground at last year’s tourney at Elwood, yesterday shot a sizzling 66, one over the course record, in the pro-amateur tournament, the annual prelude to the open. Morey was only one stroke behind
and .the team of Hamilton, . Morey, Bill* Allen and John Jewett of Gary
‘walked away with top honors yes
terday. A real dark horse threat did show up in the pro-amateur competition, Wayne Timberman of Indianapolis tied with Morey at 67. A feature of this year's’ come petition is the staggered system of opening times. In order to permit local war workers to compete withe out losing any time off the job, teee offs were scheduled over a sevene hour period ranging from 9 a. m,
to 4 p. m. BRE
Sailors Smother Lafayette Nine
LAFAYETTE, Igd, June 23 (U. P.)—Lieut. Gordon 8S, (Mickey) Cochrane's Great: Lakes Bluejackets left today to meet:a Calumet allstar team tonight at East Chicago after. administering a resounding 11 to 1 defeat to the Lafayette Red Sox of the Indiana-Ohio Jeague last night. Bob Harris, formerly of the Philadelphia Athletics and the first
Great Lakes pitcher to go the enitrs route this year, limited the Red Sox to four scattered hits. Eddie Pel- . lagrini, Bluejacket shortstop, thri times nipped Lafayette scoring threats by sensational fielding plays, Dale Davis, Red Sox moundsman, lasted only until the second inning when : Great : Lakes nicked him for five runs. ‘Warren Robinson, Blue
Jacket catcher, spearheaded the ate :
tack by driving in thrée runs.
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