Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1943 — Page 20

: games played since the inauguration of in 1008, it has been necessary to call off

cause an earlier starting time was ordered after the * "The opening game of the 1907 series between the Oubs and Tigers

“wears Inter the second contest of the Giant-Red Sox series in Boston was called after 11 rounds for the same reason. : "The second game of the 1023 classic between the Giants and ‘Wankees was stopped at the end of 10 innings, . . . The calling of

this game’ by Umpire George Hildebrand of the American league catirred up a Near riot on the field, as it was claimed that nearly half i Fans followed Commissioner Landis across the field with a chorus of boos after the game, being under the impression he had ordered “ _ The commissioner ordered the receipts, approximately $120,500, ‘Surned over to New York charities,

“One Champ in Eight Survives

; IN ONLY ONE of the eight minor leagues conducting Governors’ Cup or Shaughnessy playoff series did the pennant winner during the regular season emerge triumphant in the post-season play. Lancaster, which won the Inter-State pennant by only one game, Was the lone first-place club to capture the playoffs. . . . In the other seven circuits, either the second or third-place teAm won the playoff honors, although in four of the circuits the pennant winner finished

“more than 10 games ahexd of the runner-up.

In the Southern association, whieh returned to the split-season

_ schedule, the first-half champion Nashville Vols annexed their Afth straight title in post-season play by defeating New Orleans, second- " balf winners. .

Stirring Struggle Predicted at Purdue

. THE CAMP GRANT grid team, comprised as it is of college and

Pro stars, figures to give Purdue a lot of trouble in the big ® game at West Lafayette Saturday afternoon. ... The soldier squad is now getting the benefit of efficient coaching from Charlie Bachi man, who turned out many formidable teams at Michigan State until that college abandoned football for the duration. Camp Grant boasts of the biggest and heaviest line in the Mid dle West. ... And it is comprised of experienced players. . . . Mores i over, Bachman has a classy backfield functioning behind the huge t line. . . . Powerful Purdue is picked to win only after a stirring § struggle. . . ” r » » » MINNEAPOLIS® baseball writers are calling on Tom Sheehan, Miller manager/to quit because of the sad showing made by his club this year. . .. If Sheehan follows the hint, Rosy Ryan, Tom's assistant, probably will take over. , , . Sheehan has been at the helm of the Millers for five years. '

. r . . . ” THE Kentucky fall racing will be condensed into a 19-day meet f Ing at Churchill Downs this season, starting Oct. 18 and continuing through Nov. 6... . The first six days will be to benefit the Louisville war fund. .

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Steuber Gives

DePauw Power

GREENCASTLE, Ind, Oct. 7— Paced by all-American Bob Steuber, former University of Missouri halfback, and all-Big Ten Bob Johnson, one-time Purdue university center, Coach Raymond “Gaumy” Neal's DePauw Tigers have taken no rest this week after their 50 to 0 rout of Illinpis Normal in preparing for if opening

Why, Joe! LOS ANGELES, Oct, 7 (U. P).~Jotl Thorne, wealthy sportsman, today was under rentence to five days in jail on a contempt charge for failure to appear on a series of traffic citations. The 28-year-old veteran automobile racing driver re. portedly had received 16 traffic citations since 1938. His recent [allure to appear, he said, resulted from a war production board order to move his Thorne Engineering Co. to Phoenix, Aris, which made it impossible. for him to be present in court, Judge Ben Rosenthal said he had receeived a letter from a "1 | girl who wanted to know why J she had to pay a $20 trafic fine when “my friend, Joel Thorne, Always tears them up.” Thorne denied tearing up any citations,

.tbeaten Army and. Temple. at. West

| Rochester, Coast Guard-Holy Oross ‘{at Worcester, ©

quick-succession fliers in Brazle to the mound.

Little Hasn't Got Granite; He's Got Rock

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (U. P)—

not got any “seven blocks of gran ite” to stir the metropolitan football fans this year, but he has got a Rock, Keystone player at left end in an| otherwise weakling line is Tom | Rock, the kid who used to caddy for him up in his home town of Loeminster, Mass, and who told him one day about 10 years ago: “Mr, Little I'm coming down to Columbia some day to take a premedical course and play football for you” ~The youngster - proved himself an able prophet. and though this year's | Columbia eleven isn't going to ter-| rorize many opponents. a lot of players are going to shake them selves to see if they still have all their teeth after they hit Rock.

“Strong Side” of Line

In Columbia's opening defeat, 26 to 7 at the hands of Princeton, Rock was practically the whole “strong ide” of the Columbia line and Princeton backs simply elected | to go around the other way with | their running plays, which left him | with little to do except take out his man, which he did almost invariably. Rock may get a better chance to

show talents this week inst | show his talents th aga | game ‘and then )

Yale, which probably won't prove as| bothersome as Princeton. However, his work and the game itself will be overshadowed by the Ivy league “game of the year’ between Dart- | mouth and Pennsylyvania, at Philadelphia. : Tae

Will Decide Ivy's Best

The game is almost certain to decide the mythical Ivy championship and it “shares top billing for the Fast with the Duke-Navy night en. counter at Baltimore, also between unbeaten and untied teams, Other eastern games [nclude un-

Point, Colgate-Penn State at State college, Brown-Tufts at Providence, R. 1, Rochester-Rensselaer Poly at

Cornell-Princeton at Princeton, N. J. Harvard-Worces-ter Poly at Cambridge, Mass, and Muhlenberg-Swarthmore at Allentown, Pa.

100 Home Runs

NEW ‘YORK. .—Yankees kept unbroken their 19-year-long string of 100 home runs per season. They went into the final month with 78.

Hialeah Meeting

HIALEAH ~Hialeah park’s winter | race meeting begins Jan. 7 and continues 50 days,

Southworth won against the odds in story-book fashion when he risked the grief-stricken Cooper brothers As his Cardinal

Coach Lou Little at Columbia ‘has g

|.T78, the best in the circuit, Beazley,

x © By UNTYED PRESS ei NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Billy-the-Kid Southworth, gambling fearlessly} for world series gold and glory, completes today two of the most dramatic, | _baseball history, as he sends Rookie Alpha

had humbled him on four previous agcsions. A Big Gamble But Southworth, confident of his judgment of men, took the big gam+ ble and won, as the Cards defeated New York, 4-3, to even the series. Today comes the other scenarioscript venture when he sends to the hill Southpaw Braszle, a 29-year-old

rookie with only a half-season of |:

major league experience ynder his cap. This is a greater gamble than when Southworth, in last year's series with the Yanks, chose Rookie Johnny Beazley to pitch the second game, Beazley had been with the

INDEPENDENCE, Me, Oct. 7. (Uu P)~Mrs. R, J. Cooper, mother of the St. Louls Cars dinals’ brother battery of Morton and Walker, said today that her sons had done as their father ‘would have wished when ‘they stuck with the team and played in yesterday's world series game. “Ad would have been the proudest man in the country today,” she said. She said she expeoied Mort to arrive tonight, He left New York after the game. Walker will eatch today’s

club a full season. He had won 21 and lost six for a percentage of

now in service, won that game and the final fifth contest, Brazle, a willowy left-hander who lives at Cortes, Colo, gained Southworth’s confidence by his exceptional success since he shifted to the Cards from Sacramento of the Pacfic coast league in mid-July. His sudden “heavy sinker” enabled him to register eight victories

sinker, except bounce it around the | infield mow and then—providing | meat for speedy Slats Marion and | Lou Klein, . . Southworth believes that Brazle’s heavy, low pitch is patterned perfectly to prevent home runs from such Yankee stalwarts as King Kong Keller, Joe Gordon and Nick Etten. The pitch also stimulates doubleplay hitting. The Cards bounced back on an equal footing with the Yanks in one of the most dramatic games in world series history yesterday. Slats Marion, the gangling Redbird shortstop who usually is a! weak hitter, showed the crowd and | the Yankees that the Cards were back of the Coopers to the hilt when he belted a homer in the third to put Mort put in front,

Enough for Big Mort

Faces Thomas

Stan Musial, the pelting Pennsyl. | vania Pole, slammed out a single

| | enough.

i [half of the. fourth when Prankie

Then the Cards piled fourth with a three-run

and was sacrificed to second by Walker Cooper. Whitey Kurowski belted a single that scored Musial, Ray Sanders wound it up with a homer that sent Kurowski scurrying home in front of him. That was all they got for big Mort—but it was

The Yanks got one back in their

Orosetti and Billy Johnson singled and little Frankie raced in on Charley Keller's fly. There was more trouble in the sixth, with two Yanks on base and none away, but & doublé play and a fly out erased

Against two defeats, National league |.

ton in the

The Box Office

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U. P.).. —Financial - figures on second game and totals for both games: SECOND GAME Pald attendance Gross receipts. ..... J Player's share ,..... 13547742 Commissioner's share 30,846.30 Each club's share... 2257.57 Each league's share. 22,579.57 TWO GAMES Paid ‘attendance . Gross receipts ,..... 5 Player's share, ...... 271,127.22 Commissioner's share 79,743.30 Each club’s share... 45,187.87 Each league's share. 45,187.87

Last night's leading bowlers were:

Larry Fox, Indians

Al Striebec!

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Phil Klired, Stewatr-Warner ... Ace Borstend, American Legion . Jack Diamond, EN Lilly B. Cullivan, Lukas-Hareld . LADIES Mickey Robert, Johnson Gertrude Coombs, Bale Crea Berni

Green Horned Frogs

FT. WORTH.—Six members of Texas Christian's first string are playing college football for the first time. Sy

{on the Cardinals,

BOWLING

Johnny Mencin, Indiagapelis savasive TH

Alpha Brazile

Bill Jr. Won't Bet on Cards

AU. B A AF. BOMBER STATION, LAND, Oct. 8 (Delayed). —The kid with the bright new gold oak leaves on his shoulders glowered at the

fellow fliers in the barracks and sald positively he was not betting

That rounded strange coming from Maj. Billy Southworth Jr. whose dad is doing his level best to steer the St. Louis Cardinals to their second straight world series title over the New York Yankees. A few questions provided the answer without the aid of Scotland Yard. “It's like this” he said. “I'm superstitious and if I bet I put a whammy on the Cards. I get a lot of ribbing, but no matter how much they kid me around here, it still goes—no bets.” Southworth didn't have a thing to say about the series to date, insisting he was “too doggoned far

“ from home plate to second ‘guess ase It"

{| Angott-White Go ue To Decide Champ

PATTERSON, N. J, Oct, 7 (U. P). ~The National Boxing association has agreed to recognize the winner

5 sei! of the Sammy AngoitzLuther te

match in Los Angeles Oct. 18, as'the lightweight champion of the world. President Abe Greene said he had the assurance of both fighiers that | they would be prepared to meet any | other recognized lightweight. within {a reasonable length of time after the ‘15 round title mateh.

SOMEWHERE ' IN ENG-

dignitaries who will be present at the anniversary game. Also expected to be present are! Lieut. Gov, Dawson, Mayor Tyndall, Postmaster Seidensticker, Police Chief Beeker and DeWitt 8. Morgan, superintendent of public schools,

Harriers to Meet

Between halves, cross country teams from both schools will compete and members of the 1803 Short. ridge team will be special guests. Cathedral's game with Washington is an added tilt to the schedule of both teams as a fill-in

luggers for Cathedral, in the Southport clash

will be at center for Don Tech will be playing i straight North Central

conference foes, losing to Lafayette

_ [Jefferson and Muncie,

But Coach Paul Wetzel is having the samé trouble as Cathedral's

John Janzaruk. Four Techmén—

Bill Mullenholtz and Ed McLean, backs, and Reginald Bowers and Frank Springer, ends—are sidelined with injuries and may not play,

Club Drops Out Of Grid Loop

son, with one team drawing a bye each Sunday, unlesf a replacement

{is found for the Rushville Boys’

club which withdrew at last night's meeting. Rushville ‘ officials” reported that transportation problems and a shortage of equipment made it impossible for the team to carry out its schedule.

| Heze Clark and Harold Geisel are

attempting. to. find another team willing to fill the vacancy, but if they are unsuécessful Holy Cross will draw a bye next Sunday. St. Joseph's will oppose Gold Medal Beer and West. Side PAL club ‘face Pendleton in the other second-round games;

this threat, ; Then in the ninth it almost was

Jdoubled and scored on Keller's

triple with none away. But Mort and Walker renewed their pact in

and the next two men went down on infleld outs, Keller scoring on the second out. Then Walker raced over in front of the Yankee dugout to take a high foul off Joe Gordon's bat for the

against the field -

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