Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1943 — Page 8
SPORTS... By Eddie Ash
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MINNEAPOLIS base writers named four members of the Indianapolis Indians on their American association first all-star team for the current season. . . . Tribesters honored by the Miller scribes are Jim Trexler, pitcher; Stewart Hofferth, catcher; Joe Moore, outfielder, and Gil English, ° It is a safe gu experts will land on the league's consensus all-star first tegm. . . . No A. A. all-star game is to be played this year on account of the ; jransportation problem but players honored by the league writers will receive some sort of official recognition by league headquarters. Bill Veeck, presidént of the Milwaukee club, hit the jackpot in the “publicity league” this week. . . . He is featured by both Look
magazine and The Saturday Evening Post in current editions. . , . And he loves it.
Works Long Shift to Get Prospect
Brooklyn has a great young catching prospect in 17-year-old Joe Soskovic, because the scouting staff which operated the Holyoke, Mass.; tryout camp was willing to work a long shift. , . Scout Tom ' Greenwade, who was in charge of | the recent St. Joseph, Mo., camp ~ for the Dodgers, tells the story: “When we got into the East we found that most of the boys were working in war plants and that it wasn't convenient for all of them to come out during the day. While it put a burden on the staff, we decided to hold some night sessions. , “It was at one of these that young Soskovic checked in. He proved to be exceptionally fast on his feet and possessed of a great arm.” Boskovic was: subsequently ordered to report to the parent club.
Pre-Season College Football Ratings
MICHIGAN, Northwestern and Purdue are setting the pace in the pre-season football ratings in Western tonference circles. . . . The dopesters are picking them as standouts. , . . Indiana also may fleld a stronger team than close grid observers figured in early summer, | . Southern California is the No. 1 choice on the coast. ..The Trojans are said to be loaded with experienced timber. . . ". Yale, Dartmouth and perhaps Penn and Penn State look formidable in the East and Duke and Tulane in the: ‘South.
lini Coach Assembles His Backfield
COACH RAY ELIOT of the University of Illinois reports his hackfleld is shaping up in good style at this early date in postseason football planning. . . . At this time he has three quarterbacks ~vailable in Mercer Barnes, Chuck Leistner and Theron Bradley;
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the four Redskins, selected by the Minneapolis .
tddie Bray and Don Johnson, left halfbacks; Walter Correll, right
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halfback, and Bill Krall, Tullback,
» ¥ » # » » DON JOHNSON, 16-year-old Portland, Ore., high school pitcher, was signed recently by the New York Yankees and will report to
the Yanks’ Kansas City farm oll next year following, completion of ais high school course.
® » = CR SGT. WELDON PHELPS, former ‘Moline, Ill, Golden Gloves boxer, who recently was awarded an air medal for courageous action as a gunner in bombarding raids on Germany, imine, action, the war department announced Thursday,
Baseball Calendar
RESULTS YESTERDAY
AMERICAN ASSSOCIATION (First Game; 7 Jnnings)
AMERICAN ASSSOCIATION { : L
51 56 56 62 64 67 67
Louisville
ai 1 Glen
* (Second Game; 10 Innings) - Louisville 000 000 000 0— 0
Bevens,
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Columbus t. Paul
Creel, Barrett, Garagiola; Heving and Blaeniire 010 000 010— 2 Minneapolis 000 001 000— 1 >| Sanford and Keller; Pyle and Blaze.
200 000 000— 2 4 003 014 00x— 8 11 8
NATIONAL LEAGUE
be. . Cincinnati -— 8 1
. Krist and W. Cooper; Mueller.
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Chicago
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AMERICAN ASSSOCIATION
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Toledo at Minneapolis. : Only Samey scheduled.
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* New york at Boston. Brook! Chicagy at Pittsburgh. - 8t. Louis at Cincinnati.
AMERICAN (CAN LEAGUE Botton at New Xo otk.
at St. OE iis un (night).
Vaughan Skeds Grid Practice
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland Chicago
Smith and Rosar; Smith and Turner.
Newhouser, Galehouse and Ferrell.
Only games scheduled.
Tribe Box Score
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CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind; Aug. 28 (U. P.).—Athletic Director Robert E. Vaughan announced today that Wabash college’s navy V-12
football team would begin pi Bie ing some time after Sept. 1 for an| ra eight-game schedule with six op-q iin
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By FRANK WIDNER Times Staft Writer
SHAKAMAK STATE PARK, Aug.
defending champion, and Multnomah club, Portland, Ore., into the second day of the women’s
and diving championships today
team title.
new individual champions crowned. Brenda Hesler,
dethroned her teammate, Suzanne Zimmerman in the 100-meter free style event; little - Jeanne Kessler, Lakeside = Chicago took over . the crown in the women’s platform dive which was undefended by Margaret Reinhold, Lakeland, Fla., now in the WAVES, and 13-year-old Flor-
star from the women’s swimming association New York, captured the 1500-meter free style race which saw defending, champion ' Nancy Merki, Multnomah, go down to a crushing defeat in finishing seventh, Joan Fogle Wins
Joan Fogle, 15-year-old Riviera star, successfully defended her title in the 300-meter individual medley while Mary Ann Walts and Ann Hardin of the Indianapolis team finished second and third respectively in the 1500 meters free: style. Riviera, scored its points in the 300 meters individual medley and the 1500 meter free style. Multnomah scored in the 100 meter free style and the 300 meter medley. Miss Fogle was the only member of the Riviera team to score a first and she did it by a close margin. She and Miss Zimmerman came
down the stretch neck and neck and it was just a matter of tenths of second that made the difference in the race. Miss Walts gave Miss Schmitt a battle for first place in the 1500 meter free style, but the youthful New York star was never in doubt as she utilized to her best advantage a tremendous “kick” at each turn in the pool.
Champion Steals Show
The 1500-meter titleholder already has captured the national senior and junior long distance championships and the 220 free style in the last two days and the way she performed in the pool today, other titleholders had better keep their sights on her. - Summary of other events in-
clude: " Shakamak. Opén (Boys u and Under), 100 Meters, Back Stroke— Brown, unattached, Cedar Falls, Towa, Bob 1:29.6. 2. Pose Reser, M. C. incennes, Ind. MoClanek. Ar club, Akron, 0. o in Jack Ritter, Coca-Cola, Cincinnat Aa Open (Girls, 14 and Under), 1. Matera, Back Stroke—1. Marie Schetzer, Y. M. H. A., St. Jorie Mueller, Shaw park, Clayton, Mo. 4, oe Gastineau, veria club, Indian-
is. . Pete Reser, C. A. Vincennes, hy Shakamak * Open Men's 200-Meter Free ~1, Tom Gastineau, Riviera club, Indianapolis. 2." Bob whe
3. Glenn Smith, ¥. M. C. A., Huntington. . Rail Rolfe, Yon park, Clayton, Bio:
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Musial Paces
Major Hitters
NEW. YORK, Aug. 28 (U. P.)— Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals continued to pace major league batters for the sixth straight
from 349 to .351 for 120 games, official averages showed tuday. Luke Appling, Chicago White Sox veteran infielder, remained at the head of ‘the American league with a .331 mark for 120 games. St. Louis held the National league hitting edge with '.279 ‘while Cincinnati retained the defensive lead with 982 fielding average. In the American league, the Philadelphia Athletics jumped ahead of New York and Cleveland with a 975 defensive mark while Detroit's .262 hitting kept it in front. . . Rip Sewell of the Pirates remained the top : pitching winner with 19 won against five lost. Spud Chandler of the Yankees headed the rival American circuit with a 16 and 3 record. The leading batters:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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meter free style junior women's
These members of the Medinah club.of. Chicago won the 400-
relay. Left to right are Dorothy
Ziegler, Rosemarie Voelker, Dolores Campbell and Rae’ Brownell.
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Brewers Win,
Stretch Lead
Times Special MILWAUKEE, Aug. 28.— The crucial series between Milwaukee and Indianapolis no longer is crucial for the Brewers, but it is supercrucial for the Indians. The Brewers edged the Tribesters, 4 to 3, in the opener last night, and stretched their league lead over Columbus to 3% games and over Indianapolis to four games. The Indians muffed a chance to take over second place, and to shave the Milwaukee lead to two games, but it wasn’t in the cards. Columbus lost at St. Paul and remained a half-game ahead of the Tribesters. The Indians lost In agoniiing fashion. ‘The winning run was forced in on a base on balls in the ninth by George Jeffcoat after he took up the Tribe pitching when George Diehl stepped aside for a pinch-hitter in the top half of the final inning.
Brewers Use Three Hurlers
The Brewers scored one run In the fourth, and the Indians grabbed the lead by rallying for two runs in ‘the fifth, Brewer Manager Charlie Grimm derricked Pitcher Henry Oana in that round and
lie Gassaway, southpaw, took up the Milwaukee mound toil in the sixth, In the sixth the Brewers tied the score at 2-all on Tony York's double, an out, and Grey Clarke's single. In the eighth the league pacesetters stepped out in front,
Y.|3 to 2, by tallying a marker on
Hershel Martin’s single, Clarke's sacrifice and Heinz Becker's single. .In the first half of the ninth the Indians received a gift run to deadlock the score at 3-all. Mickey
Haslin batted for Diehl and | walked. Bob Logan ran for Has-
lin. Wayne Blackburn sacrificed, putting Logan on second. Joe Moore was called out on strikes,
Pitcher Forgets to Cover
With Gil English batting, Gassa~ way made a wild pitch and Logan reached ‘third. - English then sent a deep grounder to Becker at first and Logan scored and English was
throw. The hurler was charged with an error. Willard. Pike then grounded for the third out. Jeffcoat took the Tribe mound and Hal Peck greeted him with a double. Don Johnson rolled a safe bunt toward English at third for a hit, Peck moving to third. Hank Helf was walked intentionally, filling the bases with none out. Jeffcoat tightened and struck out both Gassaway and York, then lost control, walked Martin and Peck rolled in with the gift vietory marker. The Indians were held to six hits, the Brewers collected nine. ;
TRIBE E BATTING Pike Css ssessRssS
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Pet. .336 310 308 301
451
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261 257 284 225 171
Chicago Bears
sent in Bob Bowman. Then Char-|
safe when Pitcher Gassaway neg- | Basiedy : and Livingston; Klinger, Brandt| week as he boosted his average lected to cover first on Becker's
Louis Didn't Miss a Thing; Poor Old Armstrong Lost i me igus -. NEW YORK, Aug. 28.~~One of the war department brass hats speak-
ing with valorous swivel chair authority made it clear to Sgt. Joe Louis that he was not to aftend the fights in Madison Square Garden last
night.
“Your presence must not be used to help exploit a purely professional enterprise,” the world's champion heavyweight was told, in words to
this effect. The sergeant must have been bewildered and baffled. ‘ There wasn’t much he could do to help exploit a fight by merely sitting at the ring side and looking at it. And he wanted to look at it. be-
fight and after this fight was to go on: tour with the champion, a tour of the service camps, here and abroad. :
How Do They Figure?
The champion must have said tol’ himself: “My gosh, how do they figure these things out? = Heré’s Robinson who is a soldier just like me and the government -let’s him fight to get himself some dough, but they won't even let me see him ‘because they fear I might hel him get more dough.” : It fsn't likely that these thoughts ran through Louis’ mind but if
they did his process of thinking
would be ‘understandable. At any rate he wasn’t at the ringside and he ‘was in town; in fact, he had spent the afternoon with Rob-
The sergeant shouldn't gripe,
son pes for’ championship over in ‘Jersey City to get a parallel fitting enough in medocrity. ‘At the time we thought that was a stinker to end all stinkers; after last night's offering we aren't so sure, Robinson was fighting old. Henry Armstiong- the former: triple-plated
champion and the word fighting is used advisedly. ' He won every round of the 10. Nothing happened in any of them. The addicts began to boo in the third. The rest of the fight was fought against a mounting crescendo of derision, It was unbelievably bad. Even the officials, the two judges and the referee, agreed unanimously; they gave every round to Robinson. This is unprecedented in itself, It wasn’t anything like a masSacre, as you might expect when everybody agrees almost punch for punch. It was a dainty, gentle, demure thing. Armstrong lost, was beaten but he wasn’t battered. He bobbed and weaved and snorted and frowned and at widely separated intervals he landed a punch. Honestly, we counted only three he danded. Some of the sentimentalists in the press row tried to .discourage the old triple crowner from going through with the fight. He would be murdered by the younger and more- gifted Robinson. He might be blinded. Did he know the story of other old timers who had stayed around too long? They wound up with bells ringing in their ears, they talked baby talk, they walked on their heels. After all, was money everything? We subscribe to the gentle emo- .| tions of the sentimentalists but we fear they are driving up the wrong street. True, enough, Armstrong has announced his retirement, but he’s done that before. We have a deep feeling about. Armstrong's future, too. We want to see him live to be 100 years old. The mere fact that “he stands alone as the only fighter ever to hold three titles at the same time makes him something different.
Slide Rule Derby Favorite
CHICAGO, Aug. '28 (WU. PB) — Slide Rule, overshadowed by the illustrious Count - Fleet and Blue Swords early in the season, bids for his second important turf victory today in the $50,000 added American derby. = The W. E. Boeing color-bearer copped the Arlington classic a month ago to fortify its position
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Nagurski Returns 1 Bears
Frankie Hart On Mat Card
Frankie Hart will return to local mat action Tuesday night at Sports Arena where he will be in the semi-
Cincinnati Reds defeated the St.
‘man homered, his third of the cam‘paign, for another in the fourth.
Hagen Loses Gas Permit
Cleveland Goes Into 3d Place
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (U. P).~— The Cleveland Indians. today had of the American league's rapidly changing third place following their victory over the Chicago White Sox, who yesterday shared show honors with the Tribe. Lefthander Al Smith bested
night’s duel which the Indians won, 6-2~—their 12th victory over the ‘White Sox in 16 contests this season, “The ‘Tribe landed on Ed Smith in the. eighth inning when two singles, a double, a walk and a wild pitch scored three runs to break a 2-2 tie. Three more singles in the ninth added another tally and insurance for Al Smith’s. 13th hurling victory.
Luke Appling, Chicago’s leaguef leading hitter, touched Smith for a
homer in the fourth, Newhouser Loses Again
The St. Louis Brown defeated the Detroit Tigers, 3-1, in the only other American league ‘game scheduled. Denny Galehouse held the Tigers to seven hits in handing young Hal Newhouser his ninth . straight defeat, In the National league Bucky Walters won his fifth consecutive night game at Crosley field as the
Louis Cardinals, 3-2," : “In the only other National league | game scheduled the Chicago Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-2, for their second straight victory over the Bucs that score. Claude Passeau allowed only five hits in recording his 14th victory. Three straight singles scored a Chicago run in the second and Ival Good-
Peanuts Lowery singled and scored on Mickey Livingston's double in the same inning to give the Chicagoans their ‘margin of victory. Bob Klinger was the loser.
DETROIT, Aug. 27. UU. P)—. The office of price administration has suspended the gasoline ration books of Walter Hagen, Detroit golf professional, for 15 days for violating the 35-mile speed limit; at Chile, N; Y,, July. 1. Hagen, the OPA said, was convicted of speeding by a justice of the peace at Chile, and the court records were forwarded to the Detroit OPA office where the hearing was held. He was driving 48 miles an hour, the OPA added, and. told police he was hurrying to catch the Detroit boatyat Buffalo. Hagen holds an A book and a8 Tmited C book.
Homestead Grays
Swamp: Buckeyes
The Homestead Grays swamped the Cleveland Buckeyes, 13 t0 0, at| Victory fleld last night. The Negro league teams weren't at it ‘very long before the: Grays sewed up the contest.
another southpaw, Ed Sntith, in last|
‘While Walker held the Buckeyes } ! to two hits and no runs, the Grays 1 scored 13 runs on 12 a. The | &
War w orker Is a New Trap King
George Gillett, Sturdevant, Wis, was third; Sidney Whelan, Nore wood, O., fourth; Jose Ra Perea finished. ‘afth and H. L. Cheek, Clinien, Ind., was sixth. ; 5
5 Bouts Lure Boxing Fans ans
Plans for the five-bout 3 sional mitt bill to be staged at the
outdoor Sports Arena Monday night have been completed by Matche maker Lloyd Carter and the ade vance sale of tickets indicates one
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