Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1944 — Page 22

‘SPORTS... §By Eddie Ash

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. THE American association's leading clubs, Milwau‘kee and Columbus, lock horns in Milwaukee Saturday ‘and in a double-header Sunday. . . . Although it's a Ebrief series, it probably will give some sort of a line ton the strength of the pennant favorites. | Columbus has won nine games against only three defeats to 5 { its pre-season rating as the best club in the league's fern group. . . . Likewise, Milwaukee has done all right against Western rivals by winning nine in 11 starts. * s ” ” » . JIMMY AUSTIN, former third baseman for the Yankees and ; owns. and later coach and manager for the latter club and "coach of the White Sox, was elected mayor of Laguna Beach, Cal, ; recently. . . . Laguna Beach also is. the home of Judge C. C. (Cactus) Cravath, former home run star of the Philadelphia Nationals and once manager of that club.

Lane’s Former Prospects ‘Catch Up’ - BACK in 1837, when Frank C. Lane was vice president in charge of Cincinnati Red farms, he made an offer of $7500 to ‘Sam Chapman, a young outfielder who was breaking down fences _ for the University of California team. . . . However, Ty Cobb, who had Chapman in tow, persuaded Sam to sign with Ty's long- . time friend, Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. z s sz = s 8 = CHAPMAN, who now is lieutenant (j. g) and a flying instruce tor at Corpus Christ{, Tex, is playing pall for the Waldron field . team in the Air Center league. 2 Lane now is a lieutenant commander and in charge of athletics ~ of seven air stations, including Waldron field. e Thus Sam, who turned down $7500 to play for Lane at Cine cinnati, is now performing for Cmdr. Lane at Corpus Christi for

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That old athletic rivalry between Manual and Shortridge high schools will be renewed tomorrow when the track teams of the South side and North side schools vie in a track meet at the Shortridge stadium at 2 p. m. Here are some of the athletes from Manual

Redskin squad who will meet the Blue Devils. At the left is Roland Scholl. He's a 100-yard dasher, runs in the 220 and is a member of the mile relay team.

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At the right is Harry Nahmias, broad jumper, 100-yard dashes In the center are (left) Ray Raker, a half-miler and member of and member of the mile relay team.

Trainers Say Stir Up Is Horse To Beat in Kentucky Derby

LOUISVILLE, Ky. May 4 (U. P.).—Stir Up, the charging chestnut gelding from the Greentree stable, may not be a great race horse, but a majority of the trainers who will contribute candidates to a mediocre field in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby figured today that he was the “one”

BACK in 1937, a high school hurler, Jimmy Sexton, then at Middletown, O., also attracted Lane's eye. . . . Young Sexton agreed to sign with the Reds when he finished his schooling at Ohio State “university, where he later starred as a pitcher and quarterback, “In 1040, John Warner, who is a graduate of Miami university

of Ohio, where he was an outfielder, was signed by Lane for Cin- ! a Cordele farm club, but the war caused Warner to enter

"naval aviation as a gadet. So what would be more natural than that Warner and Sexton, | both now taking flight training at Corpus Christi as aviation cadets, * should ask Cmdr. Lane for a chance to play on the station team?

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EDDIE STUMPF, former White Sox catcher who managed the . Rockford, Ill, club in the All-American Girls Professional Ball Jeague last year, will be general manager of the Milwaukee club : of the same loop this season. . , . Minneapolis also has joined the

circuit.

Up-and-Coming Phils Slug Into 2d Place Tie With Reds

| NEW YORK, May 4 (U.P.).—The Philadelphia Phillies, doormat of | {he National league for so long that it caused considerable surprise last . year when they rose to the “heights” of seventh place, were the talk : st Bh Phillies have been winning with heads-up baseball—a good | enough brand to put them into a second-place tie with the usually | Good pitching has been the key- . word to the Phillies’ success against the eastern clubs of the senior cir- . cuit. In the eight games the Quak3 have : 53 bate a bina gn hits! the Bruins off to a two-run lead in : game, and of the four they have | the first inning, but they were un3 pet game. by one-run margins and able to protect it and lost their 10th : tra innin the have | Successive game, : dats in el one a Titehed The Dodgers scored three runs in © pall game, The hurling department | the ninth frame to beat the Braves, : has, indeed been a credit to Man- | 4-3. Two errors by Boston infield-

ager Pred - ons. {ers in the ninth and Augie Galan’s Sie Fitssimmnns | double tied the count. Lloyd Waner's Jump on Ace Adams

pinch hit squeeze bunt brought Yesterday the Phils defeated the home the winning run. Giants, 7-1, behind the five-hit| Harry Gumbert limited the pitching of big Bill Lee. Lee had a Pirates to four hits as the Cardishutout until two were out in the nals regained their winning ways ninth, when Manager Mel Ott of Bucs last year, allowed six hits, two . the New Yorkers connected for his{of them homers by Whitey Kuthird home run. The Phils trumped | rowski, to suffer the loss. Ace Adams, the first of four Giant| In the American, Mel Harder ac- ~ hurlers, for five of their runs. quired his 199th major league vicThe debut of Roy (Hard Rock) [tory and second of the year as the * Johnson 4s manager pro tem of the| Tribe trounced the Chicago White Chicago Cubs was disappointing to| Sox, 8-4.

Bruin fans, as the Cincinnati Reds laid down a 17-hit barrage against three Chicago hurlers to win, 10-4. Johnson, acting manager succeeding the resigned Jimmy Wilson, got

letics, 3-1, behind the six-hit hurling of Hank Borowy. 30th and ‘Hardivg four triump! as the Browns I as S V INDIANAPOLIS vs, LOUISVILLE | J 05 PC , 7es, —— Red Sox with an 11-10 victory over {the Senators in a slugfest. 4 FRANKLIN, Ind, May 4 (U. Use SEUR-DETH ret P.).—Franklin high school basketfor Quick Results ketball fortunes for ‘the Grizzly Cubs under a new coach, assist-

The Yankees gained their suc—BASEBALL— Righthander Jack Kramer beTONIGHT — 8:30 P. M. Manager Joe Cronin's home run . | slugfest. BED * BUGS Campbell Named ball fans today looked forward to Arnott Exterminating Co. ant coach and athletic director.

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School Superintendent Ralph Sheek announced yesterday that the new net coach would be Thomas H. (Tim) Campbell, -former Indianapolis Tech and Shel-

be Herman (Doc) Smith, who piloted the Whiteland five through sectional and regional play in March.

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ELKHART, Ind, May 4 (U. P).— former New Paris coach and last season at Argos, has been named basketball coach at Wakarusa high school, Wakarusa

NL AND | officials said today, e : to P BAD SMe STV. Eator succeeds Amold Felkner, {Sam to 1 P, M.~3on. to 9 P. 8g, || W1O has given up coaching but will

to beat. Testimony that this fleld will available in that practically all of the men readying other horses were confident that theirs would be the one to beat the Greentree favorite in the run for the roses. With 17 or 18 horses still expected to start, 14 trainers were willing to Of this number, eight picked Stir Up as the toughest opponent. Three others placed him second and only three saw him finishing out of the money. The rest of the strength was for Sky Tracer, the M. G. Goff entry, with show honors to Mrs. George Poulson’s Broadcloth, the Derby trial winner. Kind words also were spoken for C. Emnst’s Alorter, Warren O. E. Breault’s Challenge Me and Mrs, A. J. Abel's Gramps Image. The trainers, however, were speaking without considering their own entrants and all of them informed the poller—confidentially—that their individual color bearer was just the one to whip the 8-to-5 favorite, Stir Up. Robert B. Livie's Gay Bit was the #® o ”

Arcaro Preferr

MIAMI, Fla, May 4 (U. P). — When the favored combine of Eddie Arcaro and Stir Up bound out of the starting gates at the Kentucky Derby Saturday, the little Italian jockey will be astride a horse he didn’t want to ride. Arcaro, when he rode Stir Up to victory in the Flamingo stakes at Hialeah last February, thought he was killing his chances of a Derby

victory. He knew that if Mrs.

be an ordinary one, however, was

only Derby candidate to work yesterday, romping a mile and an eighth in -1:542-5. George Morris, trainer of W. C. Davis’ Rockwood Boy, third in the Derby trial, announced that the colt would go in the main event if it came up mud. Completing the list of 18, all of which still may go to the post, are A. A. Baroni’s Autocrat, Dave Ferguson’s Bell Buzzer, Joe Goldbrand'’s Shut Up, Robert Dienst’s Brief Sigh, Philip Godfrey's Comenow, W. €. Hobson's Diavolaw, J. V. Magglo's American Eagle, Mrs. Ruth Collins’ Kope Kona and B. R. Paton’s Valley Flares. Derby developments of the day, a light one as far as activity for the potential starters, saw two rider changes. Leonard Bowers, who rode Gramps Image to victory in the Chesapeake Stakes, was unable to obtain a release to ride Saturday and Trainer Whitey Abel signed Otto Grohs to handle the grandson of Man O' War. Jimmy Lynch was signed. as Comenow’s pilot.

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Payne Whitney entered Stir Up for the Churchill Downs classic, he would have to ride the horse. And Arcaro admitted then that he didn’t think Stir Up had a change. That, of course, was before Stir Up improved to the point where he was considered the class of the field. Meanwhile, Platter, Arcaro’s Derby choice was withdrawn from the Derby and is training for the Preakness.

Baseball Calendar

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Louisville at INDIANAPOLIS (night, 8:30) Toledo at Columbus (night). Milwaukee at Kansas City (night). St. Paul at Minneapolis,

AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at Cleveland. Detroit at St. Louis. Only games scheduled.

NATIONAL LEAGUE New York at Boston. 8t. Louis at Pittsburgh, Cincinnati at Chicago. Only games scheduled.

RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (First Game; 7 Innings; Agreement) Milwaukee av 400 010 0—5 35 2 Kansas City .......... 000 101 4—6 10 1 Scheetz, Bowman, Gassaway and Pruett; Davis, Singletcn and Bates, (Second Game) . 010 200 200—5 12

Milwaukee

Cesena 1 Kansas City ........ 000 000 011—2 10 2 Caldwell and Pruett; Debiasi, Unisk and Taylor,

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WL Pet. WL Pet. | Toledo . 000.000 1—5 12 2 Milwaukee . 9 2 .818 Louisville .,.4 6 .500 | Columbus +200 002 000 000 0—4 11 2 Columbus ..9 3 .750 Minneapolis..3 6 .333 | Goedde, Bickaus, Kimberlin and SerToledo .. 6 4 .800 INDPLS...... 2 8 .200 | tich; Creel, Herr, Barrett and Heath. Kansas City 8 4 .420) St. Paul ...... 14.200 , Louisville at Indianapolis, postponed. AMERICAN LEAGUE WL Pet. WL Pct Minneapolis at St. Paul tponed. St. Louis ..11 3 .786/Cleveland .. 6 7 .462 P + Pistpe New York .. 7 4 .636/ Phila. ...... 5 6 .455 Washington 6 5 .545| Detroit ..,. 5 8 .385 AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston .... 6 7 .462/Chicago .... 4 8 .333 |New York ............ 100 000 O11—8 7 1 Potiadelphia raralunis 000 01. +1 6 : _ orow and Hemsley; Hamlin an NATIONAL LEAGUZ Haynes, ys St.1 1 L Pet ul WL Pet. St. Louis ..10 3 .769 Brooklyn .. 7 6 .538 Cincinnati 8 4 .667 Pittsburgh. 4 6 .400|Chlcago ,............. 000 200 002—4 7 1 Phila. . 8 4.867 Boston .... 8 10 .281 Cleveland ............ 000 002 52x—0 14 2 New York . 7 5 .508| Chicago .. 1 10 .091 guboss, Speer and Castino; Harder and usce. GAMES TODAY Detroit ............... 020 010 001—4 8 2 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St. Louis , ............ 000 500 11x—7 11 IT Trout, Orrell and Richards; Kramer,

Hollingsworth, Caster and Hayworth.

Washington ......... 102 202 201-10 16 1 Boston .............. 020 044 Olx—11 15 1 Leonard, Candini, Wolff, Ullrich and Ferrell; V. Johnson, Bowman, Ryba and Partee.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston ............... 010 100 010-3 10 3 Brooklyn .............100 000 003—4 12 1 Andrews, Barrett and Masi; Ostermueller, Gregg and Owen.

Cinelnnatl .......... 012 320 020-10 17 © Chicago ............. 210 100 000— 4 8 3 Delacruz and Mueller; Derringer, seau, Vandenberg and Holm, :

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Philadelphia ......... 002 500 000-7 13 © New York .... ...... 000 000 001—1 5 0 Lee and Finley; Adams,” Pelli, Seward, Ockey, Brondell and Lombardi,

St.Louls ............. Pittsburgh... TYE . Gumbert and O'Dea; Sewell and Lope:. ergs hee

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LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 4.—Nothing has developed here to change the status of Stir Up as the horse to beat in the Derby. It seems there must always be a big horse in the Derby, even a mediocre Derby, as this one threat-

ens to be, and the Greentree stable gelding is it. There isn't much to tell you about Stir Up you don't already

know. He won the Flamingo and the first division of the Wood, two fairly important Derby tests. There were an even dozen such tests this spring. Only one other Derby entry managed to repeat. That was Broadcloth who took the Count Fleet mile out here and came back to win the Derby trial the other day. . . . And looked mighty good in doing it, incidentally, a mile in 1:37. s ” = f J t 4 s

Can He Go That Long Distance? YOU MAY OR may not be intestered in breeding but if you follow the turf you should be and for at least two reasons. (1) It is the most fascinating part of racing, (2) It is often a reliable guide to the pay-off window. The rap against Stir Up is that his daddy is Stimulus, and it's hard to remember when a Stimulus ever cared for distance. This breed tunes energetically up to a mile and then fades. The fact that Stir Up is so bred accounts for the probable big fleld. We look for at least 16 starters. You can see what the other owners and trainers are figuring; they are figuring Stir Up will call its quits shortly after he's made the last turn. ., . And then anything can happen. They could be so right, too; at least one of them, the lucky one. (We'll tell you about him tomorrow.) i In this connection, an informative incident was the running of the Chesapeake Stakes at Baltimore last Saturday. Our favorite Brooklyn Norwegian, Whitey Abel, won that one with his Gramps Image. At approximately $30 to $1, and Whitey had so little faith in the colt he didn’t bet a quarter. Yet Gramps Image beat Pensive who is out of the fashionable Calumet stable and is trained by Ben Jones, widely accepted as the best trainer on the turf. o 2 o 8 . s

Jones Makes Final Decision

OFF HAND, you'd be disposed to say that should be enough for Pensive, wouldn't you? As a matter of fact, immediately following the race, that is exactly what Calumet decided. At 7:30 on Sunday evening Warren Wright, the owner, told us definitely Pensive wouldn't go. “He had an awfully tough race and we don't think he can stand the shipping here and be strong enough to run a winning race.” At 10 o'clock on Monday morning Pensive had been re-entered. Wright explained Jones, the trainer, had changed his mind. This was the final, clinching tip off as to the class or rather lack . of class, of this Derby field. Jones still thinks he can win with a horse that couldn't beat a 30 to 1 shot, There can be no other deduction. Why else would he ship? There is no vanity in Jones, He's in racing to win purses and bets. Besides, he’s had two Derby winners, Lawrin and Whirlaway. Also he must be thinking, as all the others are, that Stir Up, son of a Springer, can't go a mile and a quarter which is the Derby distance. What does John Gaver think of this? John is Stir Up's trainer, and he happens to be very much on the intelligent side, despite the fact he is a graduate of Princeton, a reformed school. teacher, an authority on Spanish and an ex-wrestling coach. “I'll admit the book is against us,” he tells you, “but Stir Up has done everything we have asked up to now, and until he shows me he can't go a distance I'm not going to believe it.” Thus, by inference, John is telling you to bet on Stir Up to win the Derby.

Tribe Departs After Tonight

After tonight's game with the Louisville Colonels, the Indians will be away from Victory fleld until May 18, when they return to meet the first Eastern invasion of the American association’s four western clubs, . 8t, Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Milwaukee are to appear here in that order. : Huge John Hutchings is expected to pitch against the Colonels tonight. The contest is scheduled to get under way at 8:30, Last night's scheduled game was postponed on account of rain and wet grounds. It was the Tribe's sixth home postponement. The Indians will have an off day tomorrow and they will use it trav-

a series with the Baints Saturday. At the moment the Indians and Apostles are “sharing” the. league basement. After playing in St. Paul the Tribesters will visit -Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Kansas City to complete the Western swing. All Eastern A. A. clubs head for the West tomorrow and there will be no more games played in the eastern half of the circuit until after mid-May.

Meyer Signs New Contract

CHICAGO, May 4 (U. P.) —Ray Meyer, recently chosen “coach of the year” by the Chicago Basketball Writers association, was under a new three-year contract today as athletic director and head basketball ccach of DePaul university, Chicago.

eling to St. Paul, where they open

Amateurs End Registration

Discussion of the operation of the annual city series, scheduled to be the main subject befors the Ine dianapolis Amateur Baseball ase sociation at its meeting at City Hall last night, was when most of the evening was taken up with registration of players. Arrangements for Sunday's opens ing games in the Manufacturers’ and Municipal leagues were come pleted. Two of the openers will be staged at Victory Field as a benefit for the association and Junior Baseball, Inc. Kingan Reliables and Lukas-Harold clash at 1:30 and Stewart-Warner meets P. R. Mal. lory in the second tilt. Both are Manufacturers’ loop nines.

Two Players Reinstated

Two players, both prospective members of Kempler Radio Reds of the Municipal league, were res instated to thelr amateur status, ‘They were Ross Van Antwerp and George Seal.

Bill Deem, 15-year-old pitcher for Kingan Knights softball team, turned in a no-hit performance og his aggregation swamped LukasHarold, 13-to-0 at the latter's diamond last night. Deem also his a double with the bases loaded,

It was announced today that the 40 & 8-Mitchell and Scott Municipal league game, scheduled Sunday as Riverside No. 4, would be played at Garfield No. 3.

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