Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1943 — Page 7
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NEW YORK, June 28—The , Yankees are leading the league "and there is competition in the race for a change and yet- they
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portals these days, a circumstance which seems to be disturbing -tothe earnest thinkers of the press coop . . . and whatever became of ticket scalpers?
' OUR MR. DANIEL deplores the Yankees’ lack of color. The Mirror's Mr. Parker yearns for a standout star. These things would help of course. But we'd like to point out the Yankees, to a greater degree than any other club, are a national institution. They have
ir home grown addicts, to be e, but a very stout percentage of their business’ came from out of town: or did before rationing. President Ed Barrow puts the figure at 30 per cent. Where there used to be thousands of cars parked around the stadium, now i there are virtually none. This is ‘® large part of the answer. Our ‘guess is, in view of conditions, the Yankees are doing better than their rivals. : » ” ” | THE NEXT two weeks promise i to give the “Flatbush Faithful” an | authentic line on their beloved | Bums. | By now it has been pretty well | established most of the strength [in the N. L. lies in the West. | And now. the western clubs, all | four, are poised for an invasion | of Ebbets field. Even the Cubs in seventh place, some 13 games off the pace, threaten to be diffi--eult. They are beginning to play ‘| Up to their capabilities. They i should be in first division before July is out. Indeed, the N. L. is | lkely to see a scrambled race | right down to the wire. | The champion Cards aren't
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| league and the Bums owe their strong contending - position in large measure to the fact they - have kicked the enfeebled Giants around nine times. And speaking of the Giants, it looks as if our old sparring partner, Mr. Bill Terry, knew when to step out, doesn’t it? Well, not even his . 8everest critic ever charged that the cheerless leader was a dope. They put on a tribute to Russia, . (and richly deserved, too) at dall’s island yesterday and special busses ran direct to the ' stadium. One of the main speakers was Butch La Guardia: A week ago the A. A. U. held its ‘track and field championships at the same place. All the receipts Air Forces Aid Sbciety. But on that occasion Butch banned the busses and the addicts were forced to walk a mile or so over the bridge. It may or may not be significant but Butch wasn’t one of the attractions that ‘day. . . . Also, the army had no international implications. It was merely American. There are times y when this seems to make a difference too. ” ” ”
' WE SUPPOSE it was just an oversight that the professional football fellows, meeting in Chicago, failed to announce their war benefit plans. They could have strengthened their good will, too, by taking steps to prevent another such fiasco as developed in their benefit game last winter; the one in which the great Sammy Baugh was advertised to appear and did not, pleading indisposition or something. All the league did about the in- ~ cident was measure Mr. Baugh for a snug-fitting coat of white wash. The effect, sortorially, was pleasing to the eye but did little to down the angry roar of the addicts . Who cried: “we wuz robbed.” * Better not Jet than happen again, chums,
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D Litwk hiler’s Main Reas By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 28.—Citizens of St. Louis, steeped in the rousing traditions of the old “Gas House Gang,” must be bewildered today after finding their Cardinals perched a half game in front of the National league depending on, of all things, the shoulders of a former school-teacher. Nothing so sedate as a schoolteacher has happened to the Cardinals over a decade, not since a school-marm first put a finger in the Red Bird pie by helping formulate the careers of the Cooper brothers. But now Danny Litwhiler, who’ forsook the ruler and text-book for a baseball career, has kept St.
Louis in front of the runner-up Dodgers with his potent bat.
| provide the Cardinals with a 3-2 | decision over the Chicago Cubs yesterday in the first game of a doubleheader and then checked in with a double and single and scored two runs that turned the tide in favor of his mates for a 4-3 triumph in the nightcap.
Krist Turns Trick
Pitcher Howie Krist, who won the first game in a rescue role,
cap. Krist allowed two hits in 1% innings in the opener and gave up only four blows in 5% frames of the finale to share honors for the day with Litwhiler. Brooklyn tripped the Phillies, fed and 620. Cincinnati finally won a doubleheader, 6-3 and 5-1, over the Pirates for the first time in nine tries. The twin-kill landed the Reds in fourth place. Seven of the first game’s nine runs were unearned because of a pair of wild tosses by Bob Elliott and Steve Mesner. Veteran Ray Starr put across a five-hitter against the Pirates in the nightcap as the Reds reached three pitchers for 10 hits.
Braves Trade Victories
The Braves traded victories with the Giants, winning the opener, 10-1, with a 14-hit assault against four pitchers as Charley Barrett racked up his fifth win with a seven-hitter. A pair of three-run bursts, combined with Johnny Wittig’s five hit pitching, gave the
cap. The Yankees hung on to their 112 game American league lead over the Senators by dividing with the Red Sox as Washington Split with the Athletics. . The Yankees took a 3-2 decision in the first game, but dropped a 4-3, 12-inning verdict in the nightcap while the Senators whitewashed the A’s, 9-0, and then tripped in the finale, 5-4. Joe Gordon’s homer, good for two runs, provided the first game’s decisive edge for the Yankees as Spud Chandler checked Boston with nine hits. Bobby Doerr homered in the eighth with one on to tie up the nightcap and then prodded home the winning run with a single in the 12th. Veteran Mike Ryba stopped .the Yankees with seven hits over the last nine and twothirds innings.
Hurls Eight-Hitter
Eight-hit pitching by Alex Carrasquel and Milt Haefner stopped the A’s in the opener as Washing‘ton whacked three pitchers for 12 hits, including three singles by Ellis Clary in three trips. A walk and four singles off Ewald Pyle were good for three runs.and victory for Philadelphia in the ninth inning of the nightcap. Detroit and Chicago split dou-ble-headers with St. Lohis and Cleveland, respectively. The Browns put over four runs in the first two innings. to win the opener, 6-3, but the Tigers had two four-run innings to win the nightcap, 9-5. A two-run rally in the seventh provided the Indians with a 2-1 triumph over the White Sox in the first game, but Chicago won the nightcap, cut to five innings by the weather, 2-0. Roy Cullenbine’s single shoved over the winning run in the opener. Rookie Guy Curtwright of the Sox ran his hitting string to 24 games—tops for the big leagues this season—and his average to .368 by hitting a homer and single in the first game and two singles in the closer.
Track to Bid For Race Dates
MIAMI, Fia., June 28 :(U, P.).— Gulfstream Park today opens its bid to revive racing at the plant closed since 1939 by applying to the Florida racing coramission for hose racing dates for next winter. Jimmy Donn, who heads a group of Floridians backing the track, said the plant will ask for one-third of the 122 days available under the new racing law. may provide trouble for the commission, however, since Hialeah and Tropical have already applied for dates. Hialeah has requested its usual
12 to March 4, while Tropical has applied for a split season—a winter meeting from Dec. 20 to Jan, 11 and a spring session from March §
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They Played the Game . .". No. 42
Connie Mack
Was Half of
The Shadow Battery and He Was Expert at Bat Tipping
By HARRY GRAYSON. NEA Sports Editor CORNELIUS McGILLICUDDY will go down in baseball history as the granddaddy of managers. People forget that he was quite a catcher who got the most out of what he had. Connie Mack—the name was shortened so that it would fit on a scoreboard—stepped out of a shoe factory when the East Brookfield team, with which he played, won the championship of central Massachusetts in 1883. He was 22 when he signed his first professional contract, stood . six feet four, weighed no more than 150 pounds. They called him “Slats.” Old Hoss Radbourne was the great pitcher the year Mack began. In those days, the pitcher stood only 45 feet from the plate and the catcher stood far behind until the last strike. = 2 tJ ' HE DIDN'T WEAR a chest protector. The chest protector came in when Mack moved from Hartford of the Eastern league to the Washington Nationals in 86. The catcher’s mitt was an .ordinary kid glove with the fingers amputated. He was the only man on the club who wore anything on. his hand. Pitchers were allowed eight balls and the batter five strikes. The batter was out if a foul ball was caught on the bounce. At first the pitcher had to throw underhand, release the ball below the waist. The batter could ask for either a high or low ball. It made for big scores. When the pitcher was permitted to change his delivery, he began to throw overhand and the box was moved back to 60 feet. Then the pitcher began trying to fool the batter by soilng the ball, spitting on it or rubbing one side of it with emery paper, which made it take unexpected curves. That gave the pitcher the bulge. They had to put a stop to such practices or games would have gone on forever with strings of goose eggs.
‘Clubs didn’t own their own fields. Players cut the grass around their positions with mowers. : There were no regular umpires. Those who acted as such were almost afraid to open their mouths.
- Mack saw umpires chased off the
field, beaten up. Gilmore and Mack gained fame as the Hartford battery. Gilmore refused to sign with Washington unless his catcher accompanied him. Gilmore fanned more than 300 batters in the Eastern league, where Mack also played the infield. Mack hit timely and was the finest fielding catcher in the circuit. They were both so tall and thin that Manager Mike = Scanlon dubbed them the Shadow Battery, and the monicker stuck. Pitching to Mack, Gilmore struck out 12 in shutting out Kansas City, 1-0, with one hit, and lost, 5-2, although he struck out 16 members of the St. Louis club, Sept. 28, 86. They finished up with Washington that year. Mack hit .361 in 10 games. Never was there a battery which launched a big league career in such dazzling fashion. While with Washington, Mack also caught Hank O'Day. ° . Tall and gentlemanly Mack was an expert at bat tipping when his pitcher was in a hole. He was always apologizing in that soft way. He was a smart backstop. ” » #”
MACK WAS assigned to the Buffalo club of the Brotherhood Players’ league in ’90, setting a record for the time by working in 119 complete contests. . In '94, he succeded Al Buckenberger as the Pittsburgh manager, and has been at it ever since. A broken leg, suffered when Herman Long plunged into him at the plate in '93, hastened the end of his career as an active combatant. He caught his last game—for Pittsburgh in 96. In 664 games he caught in the majors, he had 842 assists. He had a remarkable arm. Connie -Mack’s record doesn't look too impressive on paper, but he was the kind of a ball player he’s been seeking ever since.
NEXT—Jimmy Collins set the style for third basemen.
Patty Berg Begins Comeback Trail in Western Open Today
By TOMMY DEVINE United Press Staff Correspondent GLEN ELLYN, Ill, June 28.— Patty Berg, one of the greatest shot-makers in feminine golf history, begins a comeback attempt today when she tees off in the qualifying round of the 14th annual women’s Western Open golf championship. The Minneapolis red-head, who has been inactive in tournament participation for 18 months because of severe injuries received in an automobile accident, tops a fleld of 88 competitors. Miss Berg former national women’s chamSion, now is a
on a
skimpy war-time schedule where she can mix with a star-filled cast. Patty has played an extensive exhibition schedule through the Mid-West in an effort to bring her game back to the peak. She has been scoring exceptionally well and is the solid favorite to take the championship Betty Jameson, now living at Mexico City, is leaving undefended. The field in the Western is one of the most representative in the tournament’s history. Phyllis Otto, Omaha, Neb., runner-up for the championship in 1942, leads the list of title contenders who figure to push Patty. Other well-regarded entrants include Elizabeth Hicks, Long Beach,
Cal., star who has ranked high in the national picture for several
years; Dorothy Germaine, Philadelphia; Dorothy Kirby, Atlanta, Ga.; Margaret Gunther, Memphis, Tenn.;
Mrs. Opal Hill, the veteran Kansas ; Georgia Tainter,
City er. Fargo, N. Dy; Agnes Wall, Menominee, Mich, and Mrs. C. R. Cleveland,
Watson Takes
Decathlon Title
ELIZABETH, N. J, June 28 (U. P.) —Bill Watson, Detroit -policeman and former secretary to Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, ruled as national A. A. U. decathlon champion today for the second time. Watson won the title with a total of 5994 points as the 10-event twoday competition concluded at Warinanco park yesterday. He also won the title in 1940. Watson might have registered a much bigger total but he refused to compete in the 1500-meter run, final event of the day, after he was practically assured of the title after the javelin throw, next-to-last event. The former University of Michigan star finished second last year. The new titleholder piled up a lead of 513 points over his. closest rival Saturday and needed only a single first place yesterday. He won the discus throw: with a heave of 142 feet, 3 4-5 inches to garner 815 points and then tied for second in the pole vault, finished fourth in the javelin and fifth. in the 110meter high hurdles. Corp. Joshua Williamson, Negro
Piepul Will Leave Cathedral
For Dartmouth
Milt Piepul, coach at Cathedral high school last year and former Notre Dame football star, will serve as assistant to Head Football Coach Earl Brown at Dartmouth college next year, Dartmouth authorities announced today. Cathedral high school authorities could not be contacted on the matter. early today. Piepul, who played with Brown on the 1938 team at South Bend, will serve as backfield coach. Dartmouth authorities also announced that John Dell Isola, former Fordham star, will return to
star from Camp Pickett, Va., and last year all-around ruler, came in
‘|second with 5808 points. He took
firsts in the pole vault and javelin yesterday and had he finished better than fifth in the 1500-meter run heat, Watson would have been forced to compete in the event. Don Wanner of Clayton, N. J, University of Virginia junior, took third with 5614 points. He held second Saturday, 200 points ahead of Williamson, but was unable to win any of yesterday's events.
Coaching Job
the college this fall as line coach. Piepul captained the Notre Dame team in his senior year and was regular fullback on the team for three seasons. He was named fullback on several all-American teams in ’39 and ’'40. After graduation in 1941, he played with the College All-Stars in Chicago and then joined the Detroit Lions. He served as assistant backfield coach at Notre Dame during the spring practice of 1942 and then came to Cathedral.
Wins New Jersey
Tennis Tourney
WESTFIELD, N. J, June 28 (U. P.)—The New Jersey State girls tennis championship today belonged to Betty Rosenquest of South Orange, N. J. Miss Rosenquest, runner-up in last year’s tournament, turned back Defending Champion Lillian Lopaus of Clty Island, N. Y., 6-2, 6-4, at the Westfield Tennis club, which staged the tournament as the 13th annual Cummings memorial cup tourney.
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To See Action
NEW YORK, June. 28 (0. I Only one boxer with any claim to championship recognition—N. B. A Featherweight Titleholder Jackie Callura—will see action this week as six cities share the spotlight for a mediocre boxing schedule. Callura meets Phil Terranova tomorrow night in a 10-rounder at Hartford, Conn. while other feature bouts go on during the week at Philadelphia, Washington, Bos-
| ton, Detroit and Havana.
Only other ring warriors of any
prominence who will fight are Al
Davis, Chalky Wright, Pittsburgh Jackie Wilson, Jake Lamotta, Ray Robinson and Cleo Shans. i The schedule: MONDAY : Philadelphia—Al Davis vs. Al Tribuani; Frankie Carto vs. Ellis Phillips; Washington—Pittsburgh Jackie Wilson vs. Lew Hanbury; West Springfield, Mass.— Johnny Dudley vs. Dixie Davis. TUESDAY: Portland, Me.~Frankie Nelson vs. Willie Hagan; Hartford, Conn.—Callura vs. Terranova; Los Angeles—Jack Chase vs. Miguel Madero; Montreal—Lulu O'Connor vs. Frankie Brant.
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EMPLOYMENT PLAN GHARTED BY C. OF C.
WASHINGTON, June 28 (U. PJ). —The committee oh economic policy of the United States Chamber. of Commerce urged adoption of five measures to insure full employment after the war. In a bulletin on “post-war readjustments” it recommended: 1. Preservation of free competition. 2. Careful attention to wage levels which will allow absorption of all labor power into productive employment. 3. Curbing of increases in hourly rates in order to avoid “inflation, mass unemployment—or both.” 4. More stable wage rates with adequate competition to insure consumer gains from technological advance. 5. Testing of every labor-manage-ment decision by %the following standard: Will it broaden markets and expand output?
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