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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SATURDAY, JULY 8, 19.3
SPORTS... ‘ly By Eddie Ash
HURRY HOME, INDIANS! . . . The 1943 Tribe team evidently isn't built to withstand the pressure of a road journey, particularly that part which limits a team to 20 minutes batting practice a game. . . . This is one club which requires unlimited hitting drills to prosper. The Redskins wiil be back at Victory field next Wednesday for a home stand calling for 17 games with the American association's four western clubs . St. Paul is to be the first invader and will be followed in turn by Minneapolis. Kansas City and Milwaukee. A twilight-night double-header is to lead off the St. Paul series on July 7. ... The home stand includes two Sundays, July 11, with Minneapoiis, and July 18, with Milwaukee, both afternoon twin bills, The Milwaukee series here opens on Friday, July 16, with a fwilight-night double-header. . . . The series with the Brewers calls for six games in four days. On Tuesday, 13, Indians Kansas City, benefit, St. Margaret's Hospital Guild night. The Tribe's next home stand schedule: July 7, Wednesday, St. Paul, double-header, 6:45 p. m. Julv 8, Thursday, St. Paul, single game, 8:30 p. m, July 9, Friday, St. Paul, single game, 8:30 p. m. July 10, Saturday, Minneapolis, single game, 3 p. m. July 11, Sunday, Minneapolis, double-header, 2 July 12, Monday, Minneapolis, single game, 8:30 July 13, Tuesday, Kansas City, single game, 8:30 (St. Margaret's Hospital Guild Night) Wednesday, Kansas City, single game, 8:30 p. m. Thursday, Kansas City, single game, 8:30 p. m, Friday, Milwaukee, double-header, 6:45 p. m. Saturday, Milwaukee, single game, 8:30 p. m, Sunday, Milwaukee, double-header, 2 p. m. Monday, Milwaukee, single game, 8:30 p. m.
July Vs, it will be a
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July July July July July July The July 17 with Milwaukee will be association Saturday night game of the season at Victory field. . . Ladies’ day dates during the Tribe's home stand are Friday, July 9; Monday, July 12; Friday, July 16, and Monday, July 19. Feminine fans get break on July 16. . . . The Indians and Milwaukee Brewers are to play a double-header on that night.
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George Diehl Rejoins Indians Tomorrow GEORGE DIEHL, Indianapolis Indians’ right-hander, dav was rejected for army service and will be back in a Tribe uniform at Louisville tomorrow. He took his selective service physical last Saturday and was sent to Rillings hospital, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, for further medical examination. Tribe Secretarv Al Schlensker said he was told that young Diehl was rejected because of high blood pressure. . . . ! After coming down from the Boston Braves, George won four games against only one defeat as a Tribester. Tribe Pitcher Ear! Reid, also a right-hander, was due to take his selective service final physical today. . . , He passed the army preliminary physical some time ago.
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Norfolk Ball Players Want Sea Duty HUB WALKER, former Minneapolis outfielder, Is in service at the naval air station, Norfolk, Va. . . . He said the station has a mighty powerful ball team and is loaded with big leaguers from both major loops, including Phil Rizutto, Don Padgett, Dom Di Maogin, Benny McCoy, Hugh Casev and others. . . . According to Walker, the ball players there are itching to get in the big fight and recently the whole ball club volunteered for sea duty. Walker was one of the Millers’ best fiv chasers and hitters for
several seasons.
Hombletonian Will Be Back And Goshen Will Be Waiting
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Presc Staff Correspondent
GOSHEN. N. Y.. July 3.—The sleepy little village of Goshen nestled in the green hills of the Poconos. is blanketed with gloom today, for ruddy-faced Bill Cane has failed in his struggle to retain ithe Hambletonian, trotting Kentucky Derby. Peace and quiet—but not always prosperitv—prevailed in this town of pre-revolutionary vintage for 365 days a year before Cane brought
the harness racing classic here in 1930. The result was a saga of the sulkies, with Cane becoming the “Godfather of Goshen” as he turned the race into a national institution that paid off many a mountain mortgage.
Crowds of 40,000
Gander Hagg Beats Dodds
CHICAGO, July 3—(U. P).— Gunder Haggz. the "Hurrying Swede" who has given two of America’s swiftest distance runners a rear view of his fleet heels, entrains tonight for Los Angeles where he will make his third American appearance on July 10,
Hage's
On Hambletonian day crowds of 40.000 flocked to the little town where Gen. U. S. Grant watched trotting races after the Civil war. Townsfolk were quick to take advantage of the one-day-a-year influx amd reaped a golden harvest. Reversing the usual procedure, if was the eountrv cousin who outslickered the smart money boys from the city. Despite the outbreak of war, Cane held the Hambletonian last year with 2s great success as ever for both his race and his town. He was all set to go again this summer, but transporttaion problems developed and Cane began a losing fighting to retain the race for the people who had backed him during early and less profitable days. He builied and cajoled, offering to eliminate mutuel betting and threatening to take the event out of the state, back to Lexington, to Cleveland or into New Jersey.
long stride clicked as he defeated Gil Dodds, the Bos-
ton preacher. Dodds pushed Hagg
STOCKHOLM, July 3 (U. P.).— Citizens of Gaevle, home town of Gundar Hage, world-record-holding distance star, have formed a commitiee to raise funds for a monument in his honor, it was reported today. Hag is now touring in the United States under sponsorship of the Amateur Athletic union,
| eight-lap contest, but a trem finishing kick gave the Swede” a 20-vard margin at the tape. It was his second victory in two American starts. He outdistanced Greg Rice bv 40 yards at New York June 20. “He's the greatest runner Uve ever raced against.” Dodd: panted after hiz defeat. “But I did think I had a chance to beat him until I saw him pull away on that last turn.” The Hagg-Dndds race. the feature event, on the Central A. A. U. program before 10,000 fans at Soldier knowledge that some day Bill Cane field, was strictly a two-man end the Hambletonian will be back affair. The Swede maneuvered and Goshen will be waiting—flies | into a front spot just before the and all | five-man fie’1 finished the first lap
|and Dodds glued himself in Hagg's Keller Is Spiked
| wake, By Lou Boudreau
CLEVELAND, July 38 (U. P).— The New York Yankees’ drive to stave off the challenge of the! Washington Senators was seriously handicapped today as Charlie Keller, slugging outfielder, headed for home with four stitches in his left knee. Keller was injured vesterdayv in the first inning of the New York-| Cleveland game when he was spiked by Cleveland Manager Lou Boudreau on an attempted steal of second base.
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State Opposition
Finally, however, state opposition forced him into a coalition with other harness racing groups and they all agreed to race at Empire City race track in Yonkers, New York. It's a vapid vista for the people of Goshen, for the hot August day they loved well —Hambletonian day—is For a while there will b8 ne more crowded tables lcaded with chicken, coffee and pie. because the city slickers are taking over. Their only solace is the
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Clowns, Buckeyes ‘Here Tomorrow
The Cincinnati Clowns and Cleveland Buckeyes, two outstanding Negro baseball teams neither of which has been defeated in Indianapolis this season, will clash in a double-header at Victory field tomorrow beginning at 1:30 p.m. The game will be supplemented by the Clowns’ comedy stunts which feature King Tut, Reece (Goose( Tatum and Pepper Bassett,
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Columbus
Rowe Came In On A Sore Wi
Mr. Harris snapped. How did Mr. Harris “His arm's a bit stronger and his control
By imes YORK, July 3.—They It's Schoolboy Rowe
NEW Quaker town. ing comeback. | the other day. The Pirates didn't The Schoolboy we don't still called “The Schoolboy.” | enough to be a college dean. | sports custom. They were still calli | the “Bov Wonder” after his hair silver.
Anyway, the Schoolboy has covered a lot of We remember him the spring of 38 down in Florida when he couldn't
ground on his way back. | raise his arm above his head. It | on him and he was in a panic.
time the Schoolboy was either on | returning from some specialist. tried everything except Yogi. He wound up with Beaumont
where he won 16 and dropped nine.
the following season, but it was then on it seemed just a question
Brooklyn and from there he moved to the Phillies.
he came in on a sore wing and a
Not a whole lot was expected of him, but he has been the s=urwas mentioned Harris, who manages the Phillies, that Brooklyn could still use him.
prise of baseball. It
Indians Drop Fourth in Row
In Bird Series
| COLUMBUS, O., July 3—-A fourth straight defeat handed them | last night cost the Indianapolis In!dians the undisputed lead in the | American association and today they were sharing the top spot with the Milwaukee Brewers. And gaining ground are the Columbus Red Birds, third, and Minneapolis Millers, fourth, The Birds are 2's games behind the doleaders and the Millers are 3: behind. Having lost the last tilt in the series at Toledo, the Redskins now have dropped five in a row
JOE WILLIAMS Special have a new
He won his seventh game for the hopped-up Phillies
Actually Perhaps it's an old
Our paths must have crossed a dozen times that spring and each
“Any club could use him.” explain his comeback? is great.” The Schoolboy alwavs had debut in '34 against the Cards and give a base on balls. The Cards they didn't beat him on wildness. in that one either.
Writer sports hern over in who's in the midst of an astonish-
get a hit until the seventh inning. know why he's he's old
ng Willie Hoppe
had turned to the zoot mouth
the comic with game. and I couldn't grip the ball, the in that if the Schoolboy was trying league he more than succeeded.
had gone dead
his way to or
He must have Schoolboy Rowe
correspondingly long
before the batter realized it. season
He came back to the Tigers evident he didn't belong. From of time. Finally he landed with It might be said
in the Texas league that
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close out the Columbus series tonight. after which they wiil depart for Louisville to meet the Colonels in a double-header tomorrow afternoon and in a single encounter Mondav night.
Three Won, Seven Lost
The Indians have won only three games and lost seven on this trip. Last night the Tribesters “hiew” a 4-to-0 lead and the Red Birds
(wou, 5 to 4, by coming from be{hina in the late innings
The Tribe tallied one marker in the first, one
Lin the second and two in the third.
The outlook for the Hoosiers looked rosy unti] the fifth when Jim Trexler lost control and forced in a
| Columbus run on a base on balls.
In the sixth the Birds scored two
' runs without a hit on two walks. an
infield out and an error by Morgan. In the fourth stanza Trexler hurt his hand knocking down Young's in the
and shaken up when he eollided with a runner while covering first base. Trexler was in no condition to pitch after being injured twice and Manager Bush sent Hutchings to the mound in the seventh. | Four Hits By Pike |
In the eighth, after one down, the Birds got busy and registered two runs on three consecutive singles and a scoring Jong fiy. It was enough and the Birds won by a one-run margin. | The Indians collected 12 blows to | seven by the Birds and had 10 runners stranded to nine by Columbus. Willard Pike led the Tribe attack | with four hits but he was caught napping off first in the ninth, ending the Indians’ last threat. It was the game-ending out. Stewart Hofferth smacked Columbus pitching for two doubles and batted in one run. The Tribe infield took a nap in the sixth and permitted Jack MecLain, a pinch runner, to score all the way from second on an infield out, McNair to Morgan, ! u x » | Box score:
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COLUMBUS AB
Bergamo, cf Antonelli, 3b Sturdy, 1b If Cullop, McClain Scoflfic,
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Totals cues 38 3 27 Timko batted for Burkhart in fifth, MeCiain ran for Cullop in sixth.
Creel ran for Heath in eighth.
INDIANAPOLIS 112 000 ano . 000 012 02x
{| Runt hatted In-—Blackburn, Trexler. Hofferth, Sturdy, Verban, Garagiola, Ber- | gamo. Two-base hits _Hofferth, 2, Sac- | ritice—McNair Double play—Verban to | 8turdy. Left on bases—Indianapoliz 10, Columbus 2. Base on balls—Off Trexler 3. Hutchings 1, Burkhart 3. bars 3, Bar. |
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Trexler 3, Hutchings 1, Burkhart 2, Barrett 1, Beckman 1. Hits—Off Trexler 4! in 8 innings, Burkhart 8 in 5, Hutchings 3 in 2, Barrett 2 in 3, Beckman 1 in 1.|
Winning pitcher—Barrett. Losing pitcher] — Hutchings. |
Umpires — Oppegard and | Wiethe. Time—2:08.
Extra Hole
After tying for first place with a 70 with a quartet consisting of, Howard Kennedy, Sonny Broden,' Victor Vaughn and John Hanafee,! the combination of Lyn Lee, Tom! Connelly Jr., Larry Babbitt and’ Frank Rexroth won a pro-amateur golf tournament at Pleasant Run yesterday. Play was decided on the frst extra hole when Lee fired a par| four, He also took scoring honors! with a 73. Another pro-am will be neld at 8 a. m, Friday.
{nine in the loop's feature game RY | Brookside
Pro-Am Goes 13
Frank Parker will be in the outfield tomorrow for the 40 & 8 team when the leaders of the Big Six league meet the Edgewood Merchants at Brookside |.
Gold Medals Face Challenge Of Eagles Nine Tomorrow
Gold Medal Beer, city baseball champion for the past {wo years and the only undefeated nine among the 19 teams in the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball association, faces the challenge of a strong Eagles 211 squad in the feature tilt of the association's schedule tomorrow.
The Eagles, mahaged by Hop Howard, currently are riding in third played at Finch park tomorrow aft- stake.
place in the Municipal loop with five victories and three defeats. After
the failure of the second-placel— — = Pure Oil team to gain an even and one loss while S-W has copped break with the Beermen in last five victories while losing two. Sunday's double-header, followers, p R. Mallory will face Allison. of the league feel that if any team gingan battles U. S. Tires and will beat the Gold Medals this Curtiss-Wright will cross bats with season it will be the Eagles nine. The two teams will meet at Riverside No. 4. | The other scheduled tilts in the | league brings together Pure Oil | and DeWolf News at Riverside 3.!| The Edgewood Merchants, pacesetters in the Big Six league along with the 40 & 8 team until a defeat last Sundav dropped them
to third place, will test the 40 & 8 |
scheduled. ” The standings:
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1. Armour & Co C. A. at Riverside 1 will out the league's schedule for morrow as the Southport Merchants have received a bye. Stewart-Warner, hot on the heels of the pace-setting E. C. Atkins nine, will engage the Sawmen at | Rhodius 1 dn the main attraction | Forty & Eich! in the Manufacturers’ league. Atkins Edgewood Merchants hold the league lead with six wins | Southport Merchants ...
VK, E CC Atkins Stewart-Warner Allison Lukas-Harold FP. R. Mallory U. 8 Tire Kingan . Curtiss-Wright BIG SIX Pet. 667 .60 571 .250 .250
around 240 pounds.
100 003 210— 7 000 D060 1060— 1 Passeau and MeCullough; Odom, Salve, Martin and Kluttz,
14 0 1 Andrews,
: Chicage Boston INDIANAPOLIS Milwaukee Columbus Minneapolis .... Toledo . St. Paul Louisville Kansas City
... 000 010 0I0— 2 KX 0 . 000 000 010— 1 5 3 Kraus, Dietz and
: Pittsburgh Bani Philadelphia Sewell and Lopez; Livingston.
Cincinnati L300 220 100— R 10 0 Brooklyn .. | 00 000 MN— on 3 3 | Riddle and Mueller; Highe, Webber and Moore,
AMERICAN LEAGUR (Eleven Innings) . BLO NOD 001 NI 8 #1 Chicagn . NOD DOD 200 M— 2 4 | Candini, Carrasauel, Mertz and Earls: Humphries, Maltzberger and Tresh,
| Phila 000 104 101— 7 1t St. Li
delphia ouis 100 000 124— 8 8
NATIONAL LEAGUE
| Owen, St. Louis Brooklsn Pittshurgh Cincinnati Philadelphia Bosten Chieagn New York
84 Washington
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Flores, Fagan and Wagner; Galchouse, |
New York | McKain and Schultz.
Washington Cleveland Bo:
538 .500 | Boston 000 000 200— 2 R 1 492 Detroit... ... 301 000 22x— 8 10 1 492 | Terry, Lucier, Woods and Partee; Bridges .483 | and Richards. 483 | 448
| New York 000 000— 0 2 Cleveland ........ 000 “12)00 00x—12 11 © Wri Turner and Sears; Reynolds and osar,
RESULTS YESTERDAY
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Milwaukee ,.. ....... 220 000 000— 4 11 0! St, Paul ........... 000 000 102— 38 9 0} Livengood, Caldwell and Helf; Strince-! vich, Hewette, Belknap and Blaemire. i
GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Columbus (night), Louisville at Toledo (morning).
Milwaukee at St. Paul (night).
Kansas City 021 020 000— 5 12 1 Kansas City at Minneapolis (night).
Minneapolis .. .... 100 041 01x—10 11 4 Johnson, Tinecup and Smith; Clark, Mos- | ley and Rolandson. | NATIONAL LEAGUE | Cincinnati at New York (two). 1. Chicago at Philadelphia. 000 10] 000— 2 4 3 Pittsburgh at Boston. an, Brown and Doyle; Whitehead,' St. Louis at Brooklyn. in and Hayworth. — IS chr AMERICAN LEAGUR NATIONAL LEAGUE New Jork at Detroit (two). St. Lonis 010 201 100— 5 | Phila ii at Chicago (two, twilight New ork ia and night).
Bua fe RE Ades RE Si,
Louisville 000 101 n02— 4 13 Toledo Bowm Kimber!
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control.
But he did have an extraordinary alibi.
That was the year the Schoolboy was at his best. games for Mickey Cochrane, 16 in a row, to tie the A. L. record. those days he had a fine fast ball and a tremendous curve. another advantage that wasn't generally appreciated. 4'4 inches tall (still is, presumably), and with his long stride and reach he had the ball en the batter almost
as he lifted a glass of milk to his lips. was no surprise he pitched erratically and was beaten. Still it was something to win 16 straight. pitchers have achieved the distinction,
Lukas-Harold in other circuit games!
3 French-Canadian
He made his world series beat them in 12 innings. He didn't beat him in his second start but The Schoolboy didn't give a pass
He just didn't have it that day.
It seems that Joe Brown
congratulated him after his first
“He shook hands with me so hard he hurt my fingers
Schoolboy moaned. It was agreed to top the comedian in the laugh
He won 24 In He had He was 6 feet
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THE ATHLE11CS. on their home grounds, stopped the Schoolboy's bid for victory 17 and outright ownership of the A. We had lunch with him that day.
L. record for His hand shook The tension had set in. It Only three other A. L. They got to 16 but that was
Billings Keeps Record Clear In B-F Loop
Billings hospital retained its perfect record in the Bush-Feezle Commercial Softball league at Softball stadium last night by turning back the challenge of Indianapolis Raiiways, 4-2. Other results at the stadium included Moose T, Internationa! Harvester 1 and Zionsville Merz Engineering 3. | Billings’ margin of victory came in the fourth inning when the fort hospital pushed across three runs. They scored another in the fifth while the transit team crossed the plate in the first and sixth innings. Each team rapped out seven hils and were guilty of two miscues each.
| The Rexall Drug Co. ten, Elwood. Ind., and Allison Patrol, city 'and county softball champions, will tangle in the featured game of a twin bill to be played under the lights at Softball stadium tomor‘row night. The two clubs will meet in the nightcap, a nine-inning tilt slated for 8:45 o'clock, while the Kingan Knights and the Bethel A. C.s will open the action in a seven-inning encounter booked to start at 1. | ‘The curtain raiser will be a return tussle between the meatpackers and the Bethel aggregation. a fast, all-Negro crew which lost to Kingans earlier in the year by a 6-3 count.
| The Peru naval base men's softball team will play an exhibition | contest. with the Marilyn Fur ten | tomorrow night at Speedway stadium. The game gets underway at 8:30 p. m., with Adam Walsh on the mound for the Indianapolis team. Logansport girls will face the Pepsi-Cola girls in the first game beginning at 7:30 p. m. Martha Caskey will hurl for the Colas while Nellie Wells will be on the mound for the Logansport team.
Three softball games are to be
ernoon. In a prelim, Fountain Square Juniors art to meet Finch | Juniors at 1:30. In the first half of a double-header at 2:30, Fountain Square A.C.s are to play Bethel 'A.C’s Second half of the twin bill will start at 4 p. m.
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BASEBALL
Pitching no-hit ball in a seveninning game, Kaiser of the Big Four baseball team enabled his mates to drub the C. Y. O. Blues, 12-2, in a junior game at Garfield park. Errors paved the way for the Blues’ runs.
Polish Wrestler To Tackle Davis
John Grandovich, known in mat
0 circles as the “Polish Giant,” will
tangle with Big Boy Davis of Memphis in the semi-windup on the | Sports Arena wrestling card Tues- | day night. They are heavies, each scaling Davis tossed minutes here
is from
in 18 Grandovich
| Dorve Roche last Tuesday. New York. Rival junior heavyweights meet in a “rubber” match in the headliner. They are Rene LaBelle, from Toronto, and Billy Thom, head mat mentor at Indiana university. LaBelle has appeared here 12 times within the past 14 months and has dropped but one engagement. That was a close verdict to | Thom early last May. In a return | two weeks ago, Rene came through 4 a victory over the I. U. coach.
Local Boxers Win ‘Bouts at Dayton
| DAYTON, O., July 3.—In a main
(80 boxing bout here last night, | Johnny Denson, Indianapolis heavy- | weight, flattened Kid Roper of | Oklahoma in the second round of a scheduled 10-rounder. In other bouts Arnold Deer, Indianapolis middleweight, decisioned Lawrence Cartwright, six rounds; Jimmy Gust, Indianapolis middleweight, decisioned Herb Jones, six rounds, and Al Sheridan and Gene Simmons, Indianapolis middleweights, boxed a six-round draw.
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as far as they could go. And they were great pitchers, too, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove and Joe Wood. You've got to he a great pitcher to put 16 wins together and Rowe was a great pitcher that year, In putting his string together Rowe did something none of the other co-champions was able to do: He beat each of the other seven clubs one or more times, illustrating that Cochrane never picked spots for him. This wasn't true of all the others. For example, Conni4 Mack wouldn't start Grove against the Yankees during his streak in '31,
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IT'S A CURIOUS fact that no A. L. pitcher ever held undisputed pos= session of the title, Johnson and Wood made it a tie in '12 and so it has remained through the years. Incidentally, there is no telling how remarkable a pitcher Wood might have been if he, like Rowe, hadn't Bill Carrigan, who managed him with the Red Sox, said he was about as fast as Johnson. Yet vou seldon hear Wood's name mentioned when the conversation turns to fire? ball pitchers. There is impressive evidence to support Carrigan's stand, Wood pitched a no-hitter against the Browns in "11. He led the league with 34 wins and five losses in ’'12. He had one game in which he 4 struck out 15 hitters. And he fanned 118 in winning his 16 straight; in this detail he topped the three others, Johnson, Grove and Rowe, Wood turned to outfielding when the zing left his pitching arm. He was a substantial citizen with a bat in his hand. He helped Cleveland win its pennant and world series in 20. As far as we know he was the only girl player to make good in the majors. This needs a bit of explaining. Wood started out as a pitcher for 'the original “Bloomer Giris.” Wore a blond wig with long dangling curls. His curves were authentic, though.
developed arm trouble.
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Wins 1-Up Surge Back to
In Tourney ry - ie GLEN ELLYN, Ill, July 3 (U, 7 Third Position >
—Patty Berg capitalized on her own | “dufier's mistake” to another golf | By PAUL SCHEFFELS championship to her lengthy string] United Press Staff Correspondent today. | NEW YORK, July 3.-—Sharpest | The 25-year-old Minneapolis red- improvement in the major leagues head defeated Dorothy Kirby of today must be credited to the Atlanta, Ga., one up in the 36-hole Cleveland Indians who, under the finals of the Women's Western hever-say-die leadership of Laughe Open to signalize a brilliant com- ing Lou Boudreau, were back in petitive return after an absence of third place in the American leagua 18 months because of injuries re- under the momentum of an unceived in an automobile accident. ustal mid-season drive, Pattry trailed Miss Kirby from The Indians, with Jeff Heath the eighth hole through the 33d. in a slump and Roy Cullenhine on The margin of the deficit varied the injured list for a time, found from one hole to three. The latter their big trouble at the plate, Buk was reached on the 30th hole where spearheaded hy the amazing Oris Miss Berg pulled the “duffer's spe- Hockett thev have surged into first cial” that proved the pivotal point place in club batting and experiof the match. enced a defensive uphft that put [them into third place in team fielding. Pitching Was Problem
Unpardonable Sin | She was in a trap to the right, lof the green with her second shot . lon the 387-yard dog-leg. Instead 10p problem for Boudreau on ‘of attempting an explosion shot out, {he eve of the invasion of the Fastshe took a putter and committed ©M Junior league clubs was his | the unpardonable sin of looking up Pitching, but that difficulty ironed 'as she hit the ball. It trickled just itself out somewhat when five a couple yards up the side of a moundsmen turned in full-time bunker and Patty took a bogey five 10bs in seven games, including yes ‘to lose the hole. |terday’s 12-0 shellacking of the | “That was the turning point of New York Yankees. ! the match,” she said, because after| Veteran Tommy Bridges of De= |I looked up I gave myself a pep | troit handed out an assist to the talk and determined to keep my Tribe by beating the Red Sox, 8-2, head down and hit into the ball like to slide the Bostonians into a you're supposed to do.” fourth-place tie with the Tigers, | After the costly mistake she set- | The Senators moved up to mithin tled down for a brilliant stretch 1'¢ games of first place by shad run that netted the victory. {ing the White Sox, 3-2, in 11
C wlumbia Club | innings. Play Is Set
| Columbia club golfers will play | © Win. . on the Meridian Hills Country club! In the National League, the St, course Friday in their first golf Louis Cardinals ran their margin tournament of the season. Two [0 One game by whipping the cups, the low-gross and low-net | Gants, 5-3, while the runnerup ‘honors, both which were won last|P0dgers slipped before the Reds, | year by Dr. M. E. Clark, are at Both trophies along with | ‘numerous merchandise prizes will be awarded at the dinner to be held at the Columbia club in the evening. | The success of this first tournament will determine the possibility of other tournaments for the summer, according to Wallace O. 'Lee, chairman of the club's golf committee. Should the interest and attendance be good, there is a possibility of another one in August and the championship flight and Calcutta in September, | Due to gas and food rationing, the | club was compelled to forego the Babe Dahlgren, Philadelphia Phils |elub’s 15th annual family outing ang lies’ third baseman, retained his golf tournament at Lebanon for this lead in the major league batting {vear, When the war is over it is race the past week with a figure of hoped that this popular annual 352 for 63 games, official averages event at Pop Ulen's club in Leb- revealed today. anon may be continued. His average dropped from the 358 | In charge of arrangements for the clip he registered last week, but ha meet. at Meridian Hills are C. E. still managed to stay ahead of Vern Wagoner, Frank H. Davis and Henry Stephens of the St. Louis Browns T. Davis. (who led the American league with | The club's 1943 handicap commit- | .344 for 51 games. tee is composed of C. E. Wagoner, | Guy Curtwright of the Chicago . chairman; Prank H. Davis and White Sox has an average of .363 Vance Oathout. [but lacks eight appearances at the Se —— | plate to be counted among the
Two Tournaments | official leaders. At Pleasant Run
Two tournaments are on tap at Pleasant Run over the | week-end, Tomorrow, a blind par tourney
Make Eight Hits
| St. Louis’ Browns made eight hits good for as many runs and. ale | though they committed four errors, nipped the Athletics, 8-7. The A's held a 7-4 handicap going into the | last of the ninth but the Browns | belted out four runs in their half
The Cubs continued to win at the expense of the Braves, downs ing the Boston outfit for.the eighth straight time, 7-1. Rip Sewell notched his 11th triumph as Pittse burgh defeated the Phillies, 2-1,
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‘South Grove Tourney Qualifications for South Grove's holiday annual golf tourney will start toe (day and continue through the next three week-ends. The winner of will be open to all players including last year's tourney, Bob Salge, now those participating in the 36-hole is in the army. finals of the city amateur tourna-!' wo —— ment in class C. These players may turn in the scores they shoot in the amateur tournament. On Monday, a pro-am tourney, (will get. under way for club members only. Entries will close at 8 a. in. and golfers will tee off at 9 a. m. Members of the American Red Cross will be on hand both days to | solicit blood donors, t
Rodeo, Horse Show West of Speedway |
A rodeo and horse show is to be held tomorrow, starting at 10 a. m. | at the Morgan & Park stables, | 32 miles west of Speedway on! road 34. : | On the program are 25 events, with an intermission of 45 min-| utes after the fourth event. Lunch! is to be served om the grounds. | Eleven events are on the rodeo pro-| gram,
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