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SPORTS... By Eddie Ash
JOHN TENER, who was the president of the National league in world war 1, celebrated his 80th birthday in Pittsburgh, July 25. . . . A former pitcher, Tener quit baseball to go into the banking business, and later became a congressman and governor of Pennsylvania. While serving in the state house at Harrisburg, Pa, he was elected head of the National league in November, 1913 serving until August, 1918 when he resigned. Comparing the rather smooth sailing during this war year with A the troublesome times of 1918, Tener recalled that “was the first war e had in many years” adding: “most of the players’ difficulties arose over the question of exemptions. In this war, that question was never considered, the athletes were called to the colors from the very start and the public never thought of the players as, slackers.” Tener has not lost his interest in the game, despite advancing vears and sees from 20 to 30 contests each season. . . . He weighed 4 in the neighborhood of 257 pounds while head of the National, but now scales at 190. about the same poundage he carried when a pitcher.
folumbus Outfielder Is in ‘Streak’
CHESTER WIECZOREK, Columbus outfielder, has reached first base safely 10 consecutive times and has been on base 12 times in his last 14 tries. . . . He is one of the big reasons for the surge of the red hot Red Birds. = =. ® ® = = THE Milwaukee Brewers have a mess of games remaining to be played in their own park, a tremendous advantage for a team with power. . . . They make short work of the short left field fence up there and they also do some tall hitting in the larger parks around the league. If their pitching holds up, it's going to be tough for any rival to head ‘em off. . . . They have defensive strength as well as batting punch.
‘ : Alabama Gridders Out of Game
TWO ALABANIA football stars of the 1942 season, Joe Domnanovich and Russ Craft, will not be able to report to the College All-Star squad for the Aug. 25 night game with the professional Washington Redskins at Evanston, Ill. . . . Both were in the army reserve corps and had not expected active service until next month. . . . Their induction date was advanced, however.
= = es ® es " GEORGE STIRNWEISS now of the New York Yankees, pilfered 73 bases for Newark last season and set a hew International league record. . . . It may be topped this year by Roland Van Harrington, Syracuse second baseman and a former Indianapolis shortstop. The American association record is V2, posted by Doug Baird, Indianapolis, in 1921. . . . He took on weight over winter and dropped Lo 29 in 1922.
Former Nebraska Player Dies in Action
LT ROBERT G. BONAHOON, a member of the University of tebraska football team which played in the Rose Bowl, was killed n action in the southwest Pacific on July 14 Nebraska officials have
been advised. . . . He was a sub on the 1940 Cornhusker grid squad.
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ANSWER to query: Battling Nelson, the old lightweight chémpion, is 61 years old. ... He is working as a laborer in Chicago handling odd jobs around a post office.
that threw them Off stride in the
Millers Are First on List for Tribe; Brooklyn Dodgers to
Play an Exhibition Tomorrow
By EDDIE ASH The home boys are home and let's hope they come out of the daze BN
and a few victories under their belts probably will make a big difference. Ball clubs are like that and the time for the Redskins to bounce back is at hand. The home stand, beginning tonight with Minneap- | | olis furnishing the visiting attraction, calls for 16 league games, ex-
west. It's not too late to catch wp
Three Winners Named in B-F Softball Loop
league and Billings
games to dislodge them. The curtain will come down bo-
and Indiana Gear. With nine vietories in 10 starts, Curtiss-Wright has finished their schedule and has already assured itself of the title The games tomorrow night will merely serve to clarify the runnerup. Atkins now resting uneasily in second place must defeat U. S. Tire to gain undisputed right to that perth and could by losing both games, tumble into third place.
Stewart-Warner Wins
in the Bush-Feezle Night Factory league. U. S. Tire fought off a determined bid by International Hare
Billings Hospital bandages and romped home with all that is left to be determined is the third place team. The International league is wide play only Motor Armory who has lyet to win a game is ruled out. Metal Auto Parts holds a slight
four members of the league. The
teams could grab the laurels.
Zoliner Pistons Win
Slowness Can Make a Champ (gx Auison, 1-0
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By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Stat Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 3 —Speed is the essence of American sports so it's something to talk about when slowness makes a champion—as in|
the case of Truett Banks Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Sewell's inertia isn't of the type that makes most of us miss that) 8:15. It has to do with the matter of tossing a spherical object, known | as a baseball, the 60 feet from pitcher's box to home plate slower than
no-hit pitching gave the Zoliner
gin over Allison Patrol at Softball stadium last night. Corgan was effective throughout, whiffing 18 Patrolmen and allowing only one man to get as far as second base. The local nine put up a stubborn defense and it wasn't until Sparks, crack Zoliner third base-
anybody else in the business. The Alabama known to the trade as “Rip, "—and met—and still Sewell
more recently by a lot of other more home a 9-to-5 winner.
emphatic names—has mastered this, Sewell is a team player who loves is credited | to win, and with that 17-and-two / with single-handedly lifting the \ record he’s a right happy guy these) He doesnt even get ruffied National league. On the strength of | when they start to hit his stuff, be- Gi T slow one, cause he always can call on the, t | Its a screwball pitch, 1 y ourncy If majors In 1938. His best previous you need proof, ask the rest of the
<+pitch so well that he Buccaneers into second place in the days. this newly-developed
Sewell at 3¢ is assured of his best blooper. season since coming up to the but dynamite in slow motion.
! athlete, better! for 15 safeties the last time they ballooned
man, connected that they stood helplessly by and watched the mar gin of victory cross the plate. In the curtain-raiser United States Tires blanked Ell Lilly Negro All-Stars, 2 to 0.
With only one of the night softball leagues completed, the BushFeezle Softball association has already declared winners in three of the leagues. Stewart- Warmer copped the Night Factory league and Curtiss- Wright of the Manufacturers’ Hospital of the Commercial league hold margins too great for the remaining
morrow night on the Manufacturers’ league when E. C. Atkins plays a double header against U. S. Tire
[tending through Sunday, Aug. 135. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee
in that order before the Indians depart on the road again. The Tribesters are starting the
ors and 23% behind the second-place Columbus Red Birds.
" Dodgers Here Tomorrow ©
The series with the Millers opening tonight calls for three games, through Thursday. An added attraction tomorrow night will be the Brooklyn Dodgers vs. the Indians in an exhibition svarting in the twilight at 6:30 p. m. The exhibition with the National feague’s third-placers tomorrow is scheduled for nine innings and will pe finished under the lights, after which the second of the series with Minneapolis will be played. The twin attraction tomorrow will be for the price of one admission, but there will be no free gate for “pass” holders. One reason advanced for the Ine
and Kansas City will appear here) |
long home stand 3c games behind| the league-leading Milwaukee Brew-|
Outside Now
football ace at Towa State has been signed to play for Eagles- Pittsburgh 10-year car term shortened for good bevier, the pigskin toter is a qualwelder and intends to get a defense plant job.
Denson Loses As Simmons
Brothers Win
dians’ collapse on the recent road trip wes the absence from the lineup of Catcher Stewart Hofferth and Outfielder Willard Pike, both heavy hitters. Injuries kept them side lined. Joe Moore and Gil English played but were ailing and badly in need of a rest.
The Simmons brothers, Robert and Bugene, Indianapolis pugilists, returned today victors from bouts in the Marigold Gardens, Chicago, while Johnny Desnon, hard-hitting local heavyweight, was losing a major match to Jack (Buddy) Walker, ranked No. 6 duration heavyweight, in a slugfest at Co-
Extra Batting Practice lumbus on a card that saw Earl
Stewart-Warner who lost their last time out to Kingan & Co. after winning its first nine games, held a three game lead over its nearest opponent and easily emerged victors
vester and held on to second place. threw away their knowledge of crutches and
the Commercial league crown. The pill rollers lost only one game and
However, the batting slump that submerged the Redkins was more or less team wide. Now thet the boys are home, the extra batting practice is expected to give the team a lift. . Tribe pitchers have been doing all right and there is no reason to fear that they won't continue to Qeliver. Just get them some runs and watch the Indians regain ground. Ample time remains to return to the thick of the peanant race. But it will have to be accomplished dure ing the current home stand.
Paul of Indianapolis dropped to the
canvas and Al Sheridan hold his
points with Colion Chaney. Denson, 200, was carded even with Buddy Walker as the bell rang for the eighth but he wilted under the fists of the up-and-coming Columsbus lad during the last three rounds and was staggering at the final bell. The Hoosier will make his next ring a week from tonight in a bout with Bob Arthur of Columbus
at the local arena.
Robert Simmons, 148, out-pointed
Johnny Ryan, 143%, Detroit, while
his brother, Eugene, 160, stopped
Let's go, Majuns! Get hot! Mike 158, Bast Chicago, in
Pitching Is The Secret of
Yanks’ Success
By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press, Stal? Oorrespondent NEW YORK, Aug. 3-—Connie Mack, ancient sage of the Philadelphia Athletics, once said that pitching is the cornerstone of every truly great baseball team. The ourrent record of the New York Yan. kees today has made the Shibe
Park tactician look like a major league oracle. The Yankees play two games against the Detroit Tigers todayonly team to hold a season edge over them. It will be their last appearance at the stadium until they return from their final West ern trip on Aug. 28. Of the 57 games won by the Yankees, 25 have been taken by one-run margins, which, in shert, adds up to superb pitching and little hitting. They turmed back the recent invasion of the Western clubs by scoring 10 triumphs in 15 games and, in that streteh, 12 pitehers went the route—nothing too remarkable but still better than anything the remainder of the clubs can show,
Senators Clip Browns Only two games were played injand at one
one in the National league—and all | home in Vancouver, B. C. were night games. The Washing. ton Senators clipped the St. Louis Browns, 4-3, to bounce back into|skull fracture and internal injuries second place, 8's games behind the land died four hours later. Funhees, Wigle We Aaavia Coming to Jndianapolis during White Sox or Bl with Mouse the 1930-40 season as center ice man, Deacon was a member of the
triumph. club that year which copped the
In the National league, Pitts. burgh's runner-up Picates trimmed | Western division championship in
idle St. Louis’ lead to 10’: games by the league. In 1941, the Caps traded shading the Boston Braves, 5-4. him to the Cleveland Barons for Mickey Haefner held the Browns|Bob Gracie and he stayed with that to six hits and personally accounted | team until his induction into the for Washington's winning run as| Canadian army in July, 1942. the Senators made it four in a row| Deacon was a popular player with over St. Louis. Jimmy Vernon's the fans here, both as a member
Ex-Indianapolis Hockey Killed in Fall From Railing
Don Deacon, former hockey player with the Indianapolis Capitals time one of the leading scorers in the American Hockey the American league yesterday and |league, was dead today as a result of a fall from the railing of a private
Deacon toppled 25 feet while sitting on the railing at the H. P. Renwick and struck his head on a cement walk, He suffered a
Don Deacon Dead
Don Deacon . . . fall ends hockey career.
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of the Indianapolis club and with opposing teams. He was well known for his break-throughs down the center of the ice and his solo dashes made him a great favorite with the fans as well as a high scorer. An outstanding player in Sase katchewan he was with Pittsburgh before joining the Caps. During his stay with the Caps he shuttled back and forth several times to the Dee troit Red Wings of the National league where he also held down the center position.
single sent home the first of three Washington runs off Denny Galehouse in the third and Gene Moore's safety prodded home the other pair. Stan Spence singled in the fourth and tallied the decisive run on Liaefner’s triple.
Pilfers Three Bases The Athletics rallied for two runs
To Better Own
33-Year-Old Butcher Plans
Swim Mark
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—John Sigmund, 33-year-old butcher who sells meat to make a living, but swims because he likes to, is planning today to set a new world's record for long-distance swimming.
open and with two games left bo
one game margin over the other
| posse has been hot on Metal Auto's flank since the beginning of the schedule and any one of the five
six-rounder. Johnny Wade, 133, Columbus, knocked out Paul, 134, in the third round of a preliminary. In a fast semi-final, Sheridan, 161, and Oolion Chaney, 158, At-
Seeded Players Set the Pace lanta, Ga, fought to a six-round
KALAMAZOO, Mich, Aug. 3 U.| w— P..—Seeded players, paced by top- Sal Bartolo Is ranked Bob Falkenburg, set the pace for the field as the national junior Ranked Best
the third round of their scheduled
in the eighth to trip the White Sox. The score was tied at 3-all when Johnny Welaj started the drive with a single and scored when Jimmy Grant heaved Jojo White's sacrifice bunt into centerfield. Elmer Valo sacrificed and Dick Siebert’s single | scored White. Wally Moses stole three bases to hoist his season total for the Sox to 33. A ninth-inning single by Frankie Gustine with two out provided the
The present record, held by Sigmund, was put into the book in July, 1940, when he swam 292 miles down the Mississippi river from St. Louis to Carruthersville, Mo, He took the crown from Clarence Giles of Billings, Mont., who did his swimming-—288 miles—in the Yellowstone river two years previous. Goal of the swimming meat cutter now is 408 miles—from St. Louis to Memphis, Tenn. He isn't certain when he'll make the journey, “Con- | ditions have to be just right. A little rain causes floating logs which
water as well as that from the St Louis city water tap in his meat shop. He's made three 23-mile jaunts down from Alton, Ill, to St Louis—in 1938, '39 and '40. Each time he bettered his record, now five hours and 35 minutes, even
Tony Sparks’ circuit clout in the
and boys tennis tournament continued today. Falkenburg, who drew a firstround bye, blanked Henry Goelzer,
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 8 (U. P.).—Sal Bartolo of Boston, New England featherweight champion, today probably ranked
Pistons of Ft. Wayne a 1-<t0-0 mar.
Tex, No. 5, who won over Bernard
Milwaukee, 6-0, 6-00 in a second|,q the pest man in his division since round match yesterday to share the yuepgiger Willie Pep entered the spotlight with Herbert Flam, toP-|eprvice. seeded boys’ star, who won OVer, papolo exhibited a well-rounded, Louis Cross, Chicago, 6-1, 6-2. diversified attack to score an easy, Second-ranked junior, Jim Blank, jo.round decision over Henry Vaswho is Falkenburg's doubles partner,| ques of New York last night at the ot Alex Kaufman, New York, Crescent Kennel club before 2500 of, 6s fans. Other seeded stars to triumph % were Gene Garrett, San Diego, Cal, i. Ye a oe No. 4, who ousted Philip Smith, Cin-| and broke open a slight cut on Bare cinnati, 6-1, 6-4, and Bd Ray, Taft, |tolo's forehead in the eighth, His only effective punch, a blow appar Schrieber, Baltimore, Md., 6-1, 6-2 ‘ently taught him by former ops In other feature boys’ matches, featherweight champion Chalky Erwin Busiek, Springfield, Mo, No.|wWright—-who served in his corner 5, eliminated Jack Collins, Middle-| was a left jab.
ton, 0, 8-0, 6-2, and Bdwin Davis,
Baton Rouge, La, No. 6 won over Richard Norris, Milwaukee, 6-1, 6-2 Chase Reigns as Howe Atwater, sixth-seeded junior from Chicago, drew a first-round Calilginia Champ $ (0. P)
bye and then reached the third round when William Thaler, Balti-| —Jack Chase of Walsenburg, Colo,
Pirates with the winning margin may give a lot of trouble,” says over the Braves. The Bucs spotted | Sigmund. “I don’t know for sure the Braves a 4-0 lead and then put|{the day I'll start. It'll be this over a pair of runs in the fifth and summer, that's for sure.” two in the seventh to tie the score.| Sigmund knows Mississippi river
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though his hands were shackled to his sides by a belt during his '39 trip. Fear of Logs
But he never loses his fear of logs, One sprang from a whirlpocl and hit him on his four-day trek to Carruthersville. He was pulled from the water and treated for minor ine juries. Most dangerous part of the marae thon exhibition, which was timed at 89 hours and 53 minutes, was an alligator gar which tried to be une ruly. A couple of shots from an accompanying boat took care of him. In all his splashing trie umphants, his wife is one of those on the boat. The little woman feeds him chocolate bars and soup. ; “After the first day I didn’t ree member anything,” he tells of his longest trip. “Condition is what keeps me going. I exercise all the time—run about five or six miles & day and eat a lot. But I don't drink or smoke.” Lost 32 Pounds
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year was last season, when he won | National league-—particularly those 'handeuffed Cubs. reigned as California middleweight Included in his diet of such foods
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17 and dropped 15 but with the season only slightly more than half
over he has won 17 against only
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Rip was warming up one day late Honored
Jast season, lobbing them up to the: plate, when the possibilities of the pitch struck him. And now it's the talk. as well as the despair, of the entire league. Labeled a balloon ball, a butter ball, a blooper—and several unprintable ways—its the wackiest thing in baseball at pres ent. Tosser of Year
g #Sewell spent hours learning to Yue it—during spring training. he pitch crawls 15 to 25 feet into the air in an arc that parachutes down through the strike zone in & manner practically impossible to hit. ‘The batter either strains a ligament trying for a “piece” of it or simply stand there open-mouthed and swears it can’t be done. A But, mixed with a respectable fast one, a slider and a sinker, it has made Sewell the top tosser of the \ . They get their share of safeon him, but when the chips are own, Rip comes up with the bloop- 1 er and & change of pace that usual- 3 ly settles the issue. The best eviJ dence is the fact that Sewell has ‘won his last 11 in a row and every time he’s scheduled to climb the hill ,the opposition prays for rain, 17-And-2 Record
The Chicago Cubs have been his Tere victim, losing five in a row to
Sewell’s slants. The last time they| the distinguished
him for 11 hits, but he still ep a 2-to-1 victory. The Phil lie have swung lustily, and useless-
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Frederick W. Hunt, president of the Central Indiana Tennis associa tion, announced yesterday that the
courts Monday. Entrants have until 5 p. m. Satur-
Store, 126 N. Pennsylvania st. There will be no women's doubles this year, but competition will be held in the other three divisions: Men's singles, women’s singles and men’s doubles. Due to the upheaval of wartime living every effort will be made accommodate entrants unable to play except in the evenings. However, tourney officials request that those who fall in that class enter either the singles or doubles—not
Wants Opponent The Elwood city baseball team would like to book an opponent for Aug. 15 at home. Write Jesse Widener, 2124 E. Main st, Elwood, Ind.
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Chicago Cubs
Beat Brewers
CHICAGO, Aug. 3 (U. P).—The Chicago Cubs resumed the business of major league competition today after being forced into 10 innings before defeating the Milwaukee Brewers of the American Associa-
Athletics Get Jimmy Ripple
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—Stocky Jimmy Ripple, former member of two major league clubs, has been acquired from Toronto of the International the Philadelphia Athletics announced today. Ripple, who played for the Giants and Dodgers, was obtained in a straight swap for Rookie Jim Tyack, who had been purchased from Little Rock. Ripple has been hitting .258 for Toronto while Tyack batted .225 for the A's
LaBelle Out
To ‘Get Even’ The Cubs scored the winning run
Rene La Belle will have the when Len Merullo led off the 10th chance of “evening up” with Coach |bY beating out a bunt, advanced to Billy Thom when the rival junior second on Eddie Hanymewski's sacheavyweight stars collide in the rifice, and scored on Eddie Stanky’s headliner on tonight's outdoor grap-| single to right. pling card at Sports arena. The Brewers sent the game into
The second local appearance of | extra innings with a three-run rally | Detroit wrestler |in the ninth after two were out.| level
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as meats, salads and vegetables, is a gallon of milk daily. In spite of the fine fettle of the former boxer and minor league ball player, he takes a terrific beating when in the water. “It took me a year to recover from that long trip,” Sigmund declares. “When I was pulled from the water I was in a daze. My legs were terribly wobbly and my face was severely sunblistered. I was full of sore muscles and had los 32 pounds.”
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