Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1943 — Page 16
By Eddie Ash
_ WRITING in the Minneapolis ‘Morning Tribune, George A. Barton said the sale of Howard Schultz, youthful first baseman, by the St. Paul club to the Brooklyn : Dodgers, is a tribute to the baseball judgment of Lou McKenna, late business manager of the Saints. pointed out that “McKenna, always on the lookout for young ball players, saw the possibilities in Schultz while personally Scouting him in games played with the Hamline (Minn. university nine; ‘Lou signed Schultz and saw to it that the youngster was given every opportunity to prove his mettle.
“The rest is history. Schultz, in his first year as a regular on -
the St. Paul club became the outstanding 1943 rooki® in the American association. The kid will make good on baseball's big time, 100, because he has the flelding and hitting ability; is surprisingly fast and. agile for a fellow 6 feet and 6% inches tall and weighing 800 pounds. Moreover, Schultz is & boy of perfect habits.”
‘Play and Get Paid for It, Too’ THE FACT is Schultg likes all types of sports and has been’ pare
Heularly marked for stardom in both baseball and basketball ever
since he first set foot on the Hamline university campus. “Boy, pley baseball all summer and get paid for it, too,” a state ment Howie made a little more thgn a year ago prior to leaving for the Northern league, reveals his love for the game, » » o # # » A BIT AWKWARD at first, Schultz wasn't slow in learning coordiration onthe basketball floor and, in his first year, he was nanied to the Minnesota state college conference .all-star quintet. »« « In the 1941-42 season, he not only won all-state conference honors in Minnesota, but at the national collegiate tournament at Kansas City also was named to the All-America. team after he played a big role in leading Hamline to the championship. . . . He Was a big factor again in Hamline’s state conference title march again last winter.
Slated to Return to the Campus SCHULTZ was a regular from the start on the Hamline baséball: team, where he also annexed all-state honors. ... From his Northern league start in the summers he progressed to St. Paul. _ Bince Schultz's towering height keeps him out of the armed service, he is expected to return to Hamline to complete his schooling when his season’s stay with the Dodgers is completed. . . . He ~ still will be eligible for the next college basketball campaign, since ~ the Minnesota state conferences permits its athletes to play proe fessional baseball during the summer, However, the’ Brooklyn management probably will try to keep - him off the basketball court, fearing injuries which might hamper his big league baseball career.
Indians Sound Warning to A.A.
Western Baseball Teams
Times Special ST. PAUL, Aug. 18.~The Indianapolis Indians -have sounded a warning to the American association's western clubs to the effect they intend to keep their chins up on this last 1943 swing around the . area which has been a rocky road for them in the past. ‘The Redskins “said it” with two close victories over ‘the St. Paul Saints last night, 4 to 2, and 2 to 1. And it’s an encouraging sign when ‘a ball club wins the tight - ones. On. their previous journey west the Tribesters were on the “wrong end of the baseball breaks
and dropped the close games. :
“Last night's mound victories were turned in by George Jeffcoat in the game and by John Hutchings in the second, . The Indians now have won four
straight as they annexed the last two at Indianapolis over Kansas QOity before departing on this long trek.
"Gain on Brewers, Birds “The Redskins gained on both le league-leading Milwaukee Brewefs and the second-pldte Columbus Red Birds.
They now stand only 2% games|
ind Milwaukee and only onehalf game back of Columbus. In a . single game at Milwaukee last night e Brewers edged the Red Birds, 8: to 2, after holding the lead for en innings. {The first half of last night's uble-header here was seven innings by agreement, and Jeffcoat, fle Tribe's slow-ball righthander,
~The Indians’ seventh-inning, game-winning splurge was launched by Jeffcoat who smacked a single.
_|English, Pike and Morgan ac-
counted for three runs before the side was retired. In the second half of the twin attraction at Lexington park, Hutchings pitched a five-hitter for his 11th victory of the season. It put him even with the board as he has lost 11 games. St. Paul used Otho Nitcholas, righthander, against Hutchings, and he was tough to: beat, allowing seven hits. The Indians also won behind Hutchings in the last inning, the ninth. St. Paul grabbed a 1-to-0" lead by scoring in the ‘second stanza, after which Hutchings goose-egged Manager . Salty Parker's team the remainder of the way. ; The teams are to meet in a second double-header tonight, and a single tilt tomorrow night, after which the Indians will move over to Minneapolis for four games,
starting Friday.
Columbia Club To Close Season
The annual championship tournament of the Columbia club and the Calcutta will close the club's summer golf season at Broadmoor Tuesday. To be eligible for the Calcutta, members must have played in the club's tournament which was held at Meridian Hills July 9 or they may mail ‘their entry card to the club in advance so that a handicap
. may be set before the night of the
Calcutta buffet dinner, Bernie Lehman is chairman of the arrangements committee and he will be assisted by Bill Van Lan-
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Mentor Given Wartime Post
Harry C. Good, basketball coach of the Indiana Central college Greyhounds, today became acting basketball coach at Indiana university. He will fill the war-time vacancy on the I. U. athletic staff resulting from the leave of absence granted Branch McCracken to accept a lieutenant’s commission in the navy. With the departure of Good, there was speculation on the campus of the, University Heights school whether it would have a basketball team next season. One spokesman for the college said it was extremely doubtful. Coach Good, nephew of Dr. I. J. Good, president of Indiana Central, assumed his duties on the Bloomington campus today and was faced with the task of building an entire new team. : All members of last season’s team which finished. second in the Big Ten were either graduated or have entered military service. Coach Good, a native of Marion, Ind, graduated from Central High school of South Bend. He was a four-letter man at Indiana Central where he graduated -in 1925. He did graduate work at I. U. where he received his masters degree in 1932.
Record Stands High
A recognized authority on the floor: game, Coach Good attended coaching schools at the University of Illinois, Notre Dame and Springfield college. ; Since taking over the ~voaching reins at Indiana Central in 1928, his teams have won 190 games and lost only 52 and in the past 11 seasons have not ended below ‘fourth place in the Indiana conference. Coach Good’s most famous teams were in the period which began in November, 1940, and racked up 30 consecutive victories. His 1941-42 five was undefeated and was given ninth place in national rating, the only small school to be listed in the top 10 teams of the country. Last season's team lost only three games.
Allison Defeats Stout Field, 10-3
Allison's baseball team of the ' Manufacturers league hammered out a 10-3 decision over the Stout Field nine yesterday in an eightinning tilt played at the airmen’s diamond. Jim Buell led the Allison hit ters with three blows in four trips to the plate. Catcher Harris of Stout Field blasted out a home run in the fifth inning with none of his mates on the base paths.
Negro Nines Clash Tonight
Another outstanding Negro paseball attraction is on tap for tonight at 8:30 at Victory Field, bringing together the Baltimore Elites of the Negro National league in the East
of the Negro American league in the est. The inter-league contest promises to be one of the best of the season as both clubs have stacked up potently in their respective league championship races. At the moment the American Giants are leading and American circuit and Baltimore is high up in its loop.
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Only once since donning Don Barnes’ s Carolina “loudspeaker” act like a man fueled with sufficient fodder-—and ther briefly. That was on July 24, at Boston, when struck by Oscar Judd’s line'drive. Dauntless
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(8) Six St. Louis pitching defents, and (b) $985.
BOBO, THE mieanderiig monologist,” hasi’t won game since his stormy transfer from Brooklyn to the Browns on July 18. His mound record with St. Louis dicates that he is lacking in vitamins, calories and kin energy—that he is weaker than a dieting angora.
debility, H. J. Redfi of
Hartsville, S. C. (Bobo’s hone town), is suing the old right hander on a $935 grocery bill on this y Counsel for Grocer Redfearn certainly wi any prospective juror who has seen Newsom
did the’
anil dentless Bobu Kept right on pitehing for the est.of that fifth inning. Only the fact that the ball struck him in the head prevented serious injury. However, his valor
* went for naught, because the Red Sox immediately banged
> him for another single and a home run, wrapping up his second American leaghe defeat of the season. Bobo’s failure with St. Louis was unexpected. He was the Dodgers’ leading pitcher, with nine victories and - four defeats this season, when booted out of Brooklyn by Messrs. Rickey and Durocher for insubordination. Moreover, he announced upon reluctant arrival in the Missouri metropolis, “I'll pitch the Browns to the pennant.” » o » 8 » “ HIS TAILSPIN could not have been caused by the mere shift to a Brownie suit, for Louis Norman Newsom already had a leg on the game’s uniform-changing cham-
pionship, having made 19 transfers since entering organ-
ized baseball in 1928. He had traveled about like a oneman road show. * But slump he did. In his first game at St. Louis, against the Indians, he was combed for six hits and seven
to the showers in the a ince t lost five.of six starts and failed to finish t}
was. lost ‘by a mound ‘mate,
On Monday, the Red
tagged him with his sixth American defeat, y Perhaps Blustering Bobo should have returned to Hartsville on July 14. That was the day when he be : to New York reporters, “I'll go back to my South Carolina farm and dig worms before I'll go to St. Louis.”
THE BIG FELLOW was distraught becatisd Brooklyn
had traded him to the Browns aftér his feud with Manager Leo Durocher almost caused a player-strike at
Ebbets field. Bobo insisted:
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“They gave me the rawest
deal in baseball—me with nine wins this season.” . However, after those six St. Louis defeats, it appears that maybe Don Barnes, who gave up two pitchers
for Newsom, got the raw deal. Yes—Bobo should hava returned to Hartsville.
No—
that’s wrong! We forgot about Grocer Redfsam and that
$985 suit.
Benefit Game at Victory Field Friday
Victory field will be the battleground for a big double-header benefit game Friday night in which city teams from Allison's and E. C. Atkins will oppose nines from Ft. Harrison and Camp Atterbury. Allison's and Ft. Harrison will tangle in the opener at 6:45 p, m. and the other teams will meet in the nightcap at 9 o'clock. Here, Pvt. Earl Reid (left), former pitcher for the Indianapolis Indians, who will hurl for Ft. Harrison Friday night, checks over the soldier nine's record this season with Pvi. Bob Peterson, Cpl. Frank Percick and Pfc. Lawrence Biskey. Oh, yes! The pretty WAC in the center is Cpl. Veronica Wonsil, scorekeeper for the Ft. Harrison boys.
7 Qualify in Junior Baseball
Riviera Club to Defend Its Team Title at Shakamak
Armour Nine Gets 6th Spot In City Series
Bunching five of six hits in the first two innings, Armour’s baseball team shut out the Edgewood Mer-" chants in the playoff of a postponed :
‘|game at Garfield park yesterday,
5-0, and qualified as the sixth team to participate in the city series at Victory field Sunday, Gerald Lambert, hurler for the Meatpackers, kept four Edgewood hits well scattered while his mates played errorless ball and . found Edgewood pitchers for six blows and
innings. The tilt was halted at the end of the fifth frame because .of darkness.
To Elect Officers.
Officers of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball association for 1944 will be elected tonight at a meeting of the organization following a chicken dinner at 7 p. m. at Fox'y Steak House. Retiring officers of the association’ : are Clyde Hoffa, president; Hop Howard, secretary-treasurer; Del" Giffin, first vice-president, and O. P,/
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Nineteen national senior and junior titles as well as the team, title now held by the Riviera club will be at stake in the national senior . A. U. women’s swimming and diving championship at Shakamak state park Aug. 27-29. Riviera Coach Bud Sawin, disregarding any thought of jinx, has unofficially listed 13: performers who will attempt to make it three
Seven more teams qualified for the final round of district compe- | | tition in quest of Junior Baseball |A championships by scoring victories yesterday and the winners will resume play Thursday and Friday,
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according to the {following schedule: THURSDAY
EAST DISTRICT-—Spartans vs. Fast | Side Dodgers for district class “B’ Son Ellenberger park, 1:30 m., any Cross Crusaders vs. Brookside Capitals A district class “A” title at Brookside park,
WEST DISTRICTS way vs. Broad Ripple Cubs for district class 2 Hie at Riverside diamond No. 5 at e and Eagles vs. Riverside Hawks { — trict class “B” title at Riverside dismond No. ¢ at 6 m.
FRIDAY SOUTH DISTRICT—Rhodius PAL club vs. Tiolene for district class *“‘A’ title at Rhodius diamond No. 1 at 6:15 p. m. Art Cook and Charlie Maas hurled Tioline to a 9-to-0 triumph over Beech Grove and Johnny Sanders twirled a one-hit game to give the Eagles a 12-t0-0 decision over the Riverside Orioles in the feature games yesterday. Other scores follow: Broad Ripple Cubs 6, Riverside Cardinals 4; Speedway 12, Panthers 3; Holy Cross Crusaders 3, Irvington All-Stars 2; East Side Dodgers 4, Warren Wonders 3, and Riverside Hawks 9, Riverside Robins 0 (forfeit).
To Coach Peru
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 18 (U. P).—Paul D. (Pat) Malaska,
Eagles to Meet Membefs of the Eagles baseball team will hold a special meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the temple,
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even if she was able to participate.
ing crown she won at Shakamak
straight team ' championships for
the Indianapolis: aggregation. But Riviera will be without its top performer—Betty Bemis, who Is a member of the WAVES and would have to compete against Riviera
Softball Schedule TONIGHT
Softball Stadium Curtiss-Wright vs. P. R. Mallory. Allison Gauge vs. Kingan Knight.
Speedway Stadium Libby«Lathe vs. Indiana Bell.
; ectronic Laboratories vs. Speed: way A.
However, Sawin still can count on two defending title-holders in the women’s senior meet to provide Riviera with team points, Pretty Patty Aspinall will defend her 200
meter breast stroke crown, and 15-year-old Joan Fogle will try to retain honors in the 300-meter individual medley.
Nancy Merki Enters
Perhaps best known of the defending champions is Nancy Merki,| : pride of Portland, Ore., Multnomah club, who won the 1500-meter event last year and who was indicated she will be on hand to defend her title in the mile swim, substituted this year for the 1500 meters. Margaret Reinhold, Lakeland, Fla., now stationed’ at Memphis as a member of the WAVES, has mailed her entry and will defend the national senior women’s platform dive
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platform diving contest.
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WE FIX
Louis Opens Ring Training
. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U. P). ~—8gt. Joe Louis, world’s heavyweight boxing champion, opened training at Ft. George Meade, Md., today for his forthcoming tour of army camps in this country, and abroad. The tour, scheduled to start last night, was postponed for two weeks when Louis requested additional time to get back in shape. Regularly assigned to Ft. Riley, Kas, Louis will remain at Ft. Meade until the start of the tour, now scheduled for Aug. 30. Accompanying the champion on the trip will’ be Sugar Ray Robin son,
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