Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1944 — Page 22

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THE hometown Indians haven't won a game since

April 28 when Bob Logan received credit for defeating the Mud Hens at Toledo, 6 to 4. . .. Their only other victory was achieved on opening day, April 19 when J ohnny Hutchings held the Mud Hens to three hits at Victory Field, the Indians winning, 4 to 0. The Indians now are 131: games behind the leading Brewers and badly mired in the cellar 4's games behind seventh place Louisville. . . . The history of baseball proves that teams which are buried

in the second division on Memorial

Day seldom finish in the first

division. . . . If this holds true in the A. A. this season the Tribesters won't be around when the post-season playoffs are staged in Sep-

tember, Since the American association

was organized in 1902, the In-

dians have finished last only four times. ... Last time they trailed was in 1930 when they were playing at old Washington park.

Three Games in One Day in 1931 AFTER an absence of nearly a dozen years, Nemo Leibold is back in the American association hs manager of the Louisville Colonels. . . . Nemo's return recalls to fans the time when he was pilot

of the Columbus Red Birds at the

same time Larry McPhail was

president, under Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Nick Cullop, at the helm of Columbus now, was his star slugger. Leibold was a vigorous battler in disputes with umpires. . . « One incident at Columbus’ old Neil park with Larry Goetz, now in the National league, resulted in three games bring staged in one

day with Minneapolis in 1931.

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DURING the closing innings of the first game, Nemo had a lot

of arguments with Goetz and when

another dispute started at the

beginning of the second contest, with Leibold standing at the plate telling off the umpire, Goetz whirled, jerked off his mask and belflowed to the stands: “I hereby forfeit this game to the Minneapolis

ball club.”

Fans Force Teams to Play

FANS, who had paid to see two games, staged a near riot and MacPhail and President Mike Kelley of the Millers got together and agreed to play a third game that day, which Columbus

won.

T. J. Hickey, then president of the league, upheld Goetz on the forfeit and tossed out the third game of the day under a league * ule that forbids more than two. ,.. However, the league directors finally overruled Hickey and slapped Goetz on the wrist for his

precipitate action.

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LEO NONNENKAMP, former major league outfielder and last with the Kansas City Blues, Freddie Shaffer, who was with Louisville, and Carl Fiore, third baseman from Scranton of the Eastern deague, now are in New Caledonia. . . . They were teammates on Lt. Cmdr. Mickey Cochrane's crack Great Lakes Naval Training Sta-

tion team last year,

Deferment of Most Men Over 26 Gives Baseball New Hope

WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P).—Baseball, a “No Man's Land” of selective service, took a new lease on life today as result of Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's new draft order. Club owners took comfort in Hershey's statement that few men over 26 were likely to be called into the armed forces in the next few months. Professional baseball clubs, the majors particularly, are studded with players over 26. Most of the 18-through-25 professional athletes already are in the servjce. Physically fit young men

still left, however, face induction in the normal course of events, since the new draft regulations made no provisions for deferment of athletes. Since the yardstick of essential industry does not apply to sports, men 26 and over could be called up, but the new regulations presumably would not apply to such athletes until’ after the draft first has absorbed the over-26 men not in essential industry who are volunteers, draft delinquents or who leave agricultural jobs without permission of their boards.

Hinkle to Be 3-C Meet Host

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 12.—Lt. Cmdr. Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle, athletic director at the Great Lakes Naval Training center, appropriately will be host to the Central Collegiate conference track and field championships at Great Lakes, June 3. Cmdr. Hinkle, while at Butler university in 1927, was co-founder of the 3-C meet along with Knute Rockne, Notre Dame; Ralph Yeung, Michigan State, and Conrad M. Jennings, Marquette,

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One-Armed Star Clouts Homer

MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 12 (U. P).—Pete Gray, Memphis’ onearmed outfielder, held a singlehanded victory over Birmingham in the Southern association today. Gray with his one arm hit a fifth inning home run with one man on base to give Memphis a 2-to-0 victory.

Handball Tourney Reaches 3d Round

Eight survivors in the singles division of the handball tournament at the Central Y, M. C. A. prepared for third-round matches this weekend after winning their second con-

Pairings for the third round follow: { Cohen, Ken Vogel vs Pvt. Joe James. {Norman Brodey vs. Harry Fitch, and {Irving Sachs vs. Gus Grenz. | Third-round matches may be |scheduled at the convenience of the (players any time prior to 8 p. m. {next Wednesday.

Archers to Open

Season Sunday

William Cooper, president of White -River Field Archers, invites archers throughout the state to participate in the organization's open-

range at 38th st and Arlington ave. The event is scheduled at 10 a. m.

A national field round composed of 28 ends of four arrows will Le

field.

prizes.

John Bretinoiu vs. Sydney

ing tournament Sunday on its new]

shot at varying distances at the 14 straw targets throughout the wooded

William Ashby, vice president, is in charge of ribbons and Hartman Egger, secretary, is in charge of

Another ‘Bow’

Lose to Brewers, 6-0; Hutchings Hurls Today.

dianapolis Indians “greeted” New Manager Mike Kelly by absorbing a shellacking in the .series opener with the league-leading Milwaukee Brewers yesterday. They were held to seven scattered hits by Charlie Sproull and the league's galloping pacemakers won, 6 to 0. The Tribesters tried to do something about snapping out of their losing streak but Sproull:had too much on the ball for them and dished out nine large goose eggs. It was the Indians’ 12th straight defeat and the Brewers’ eighth straight victory. Woodie Rich opened on the Tribe mound and in the sixth inning, with two mates on base, Herschel Martin, Brewer outfielder, walloped a home run. The Milwaukee pastimers also had a three-run eighth inning. The home team collected 12 hits off Rich and Harry Kelley. The Indians played errorless ball and the Brewers made one miscue.

Big Day for Martin

The contest was an interesting struggle until Martin belted the ball out of the park. He also hit a triple in the eighth off Harry Kelley. On account of a shortage of longball hitters the Indianapolis team requires a lot of hits to score and the Brewers’ Sproull was in no mood to be generous yesterday. The teams were to meet in the second of the series this afternoon and the finale is to be played tomorrow morning, after which the Tribesters will head for Kansas City. Johnny Hutchings was slated to pitch for the Indians today and Julie Acosta, a Cuban, was scheduled to work for the Brewers.

INDIANAPOLIS R HO AE Farrell, 1b 0 0 8 3 0 Blackburn, 3b 3 0 0 0 4 0 Bums, 2b .... ‘ 0 2 3 2 0 Rhabe, cf 0 1 0 0 oO Morgan, rf 4 0 0 1 0 oO Cotelle, If ,.,, .4 0 2 3 1 0 Heltzel, ss ., .4 0 0 3 3 0 Schlueter, ¢ .3 01 5 0 o ICh, P iiieiennnsee 3 0 1 1 0 0 Herndon 1 0 0 0 0 © Kelley, p 0 0 0 1 0 Lehman 0 0 0 0 © Totals ..........233 0 7 24 14 0 Herndon batted for Rich in eighth, Lehman batted for Schlueter in ninth. MILWAUKEE AB R HO A E Culler, 88 .......... 4 0 2 4 868 0 Peck, rf ...... .4 1 1 2 0 oO Binks, 1f v 4-3-3200 Becker, 1b 4 1 2 14 1 0 Martin, cf 4 2 2 1 0 0 Nagel, 3b ,,, .4 0 1 1 0 © Nelson, 2b ,,. 4 0 2 1 7 1 { Pruett, ¢ ..,, 3 00 2 0 O {Sproull, p ... .4 0 0 0 2 0 Totals ....eee....35 6 12 27 16 1 Indianapolis..,... «es 00000000 0-0 Milwaukee. ..... sees. 00000303 x—6 Runs batted in—Martin 5, Nagel. Two-

base hits—Culler, Nagel. Three-base hit— Martin. Home run—Martin. Double plays —Nelson to Culler to Becker, Culler to Nelson to Becker. Left on bases—Indianapolis 8, Milwaukee 6, Base on balls— Kelley 1, Sproull 2. Strikeouts—by Rich 5. Sproull 2. Hits—Off Rich 8 in 7 innings, Kelley 4 in 1. Losing pitcher—Rich. Umpires—Donovan, Fenton and Allinger. Time—1:40,

League Leaders

AMERICAN LEAGUE

G AB R H Pct Etten, New York.... 15 50 10 21 .420 Tucker, Chicago...... 9 3 8 15 .405 Myatt, Washington... 17 73 10 28 .384 Swift, Detroit ....... 13 40 2 18 .375 Boudreau, Cleve. ..... 14 51 10 18 .353 NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct Walker, Brooklyn .... 17 65 13 26 .400 Musial, St. Louis..... 19 65 10 24 .369 Wadsdell, Phild...... 18 57 4 21 .388 Medwick, N. Y....... 18 71 15 366 Holmes, Boston ..... 21 87 10 31 .356 RUNS BATTED IN

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brought to the Cubs' dugout, h losing streak yesterday.

CHICAGO, May 12 (U. P).— Charley Grimm, never a disciple of a defeatist policy, had only one comment today after his Chicago Cubs had shaken off their 13game losing streak: “Well, we gained a full game on the Cardinals,” he said. After watching his team rattle 11 hits off two Philadelphia pitchers, Grimm was his old smiling self again. “This is what we needed to give the boys their confidence back,” he said. “We won't stay in the cellar long if we keep hitting like this.”

s ” ” IN ADDITION to ending the humiliating losing streak, the Cubs 5-3 triumph over the Phillies revealed three other happy conditions to the newly-installed Chicago manager. 1. Phil Cavarretta, playing his first game as captain, celebrated his new job by driving in two runs with a double and single and scored a run himself. 2. Bill Nicholson, runs-batted-in king last season who has kept Cub

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Breathing Down Cards Neck, He Says After Club Wins One

fans worried for fear he was slipping, found his form as he clouted his first home run of the season, as well as a single and two fly balls that traveled 369 feet before falling in outfielders’ gloves. 3. Ival Goodman and Dom Dallesandro, outfielders and lefthanded hitters, performed well, confirming Grimm's decision to use his portside hitters against right-handed pitchers. 2°88 n ALTHOUGH THE Cub losing streak has dropped the club deep in the cellar, it was far from setting a new major league record for consecutive setbacks. The modern mark for straight defeats was set by the 1943 Athletics who lost 20 in a row. But Grimm isn’t thinking about setting new records for losing streaks. He has his sights on those Cardinals, who now are only nine (instead of 10) games ahead of the Cubs.

“We're practically breathing down their necks,” he said jubllantly.

Baseball Calendar

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W L Pet! W L Pet. | Milwaukee 16 2 .889 Toledo..... 8 9 .471 |Columbus 11 7 .611'Kansas C.. 6 8 429 | Min'apolis 9 7 .363Louisville.. 6 10 .333 St. Paul... 5 5 .500/indpls..... 215.118

INDIANAPOLIS at Milwaukee. Toledo at Minneapolis. Columbus at St. Paul (night). Louisville at Kansas City (night).

AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at New York. Cleveland at Boston. St. Louis at Washington (night). Chicago at Philadelphia (night).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston at Pittsburgh. New York at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at Chicago. Brooklyn at St. Louis (night).

RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

21' Myatt, Senators . 14 Weintr'b, Giants. 18 R. Johnson, R. Box 14

Stephens, St. L.. 17 Seerey, Indians.. 14

Lombardi, Giants 18} HOME RUNS Spence, 8enators. 5'0tt, Giants ...... 3 Seerev, Indians... 4/Lindell, Yankees . 3 8chultz, Dodgers.. 4 Kurowski, Cards... 3 Litwhiler, Cards.. 3 Hayes, Athletics... 3 Adams, Phillies.. 3' Stephens, Browns. 3 Etten, Yankees... 3 Trosky, Indians .. 3

Toledo . ..... crueres 001 101 060— 9 11 3 Minneapolis v. «.. 000 000 000— 0 3 7 Seinsoth and Cogswell; Bain, Johnson and Aragon, Lonisville ...,....... 102 012 101— 8 12 0

{Kansas City ....,. ..000 012 000— 3 8 3 Partenheimer. Byers and Walters; Uniak, Clark, Goff and Taylor, McNulty.

{ Columbus at St. Paul, postponed.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

(Sixteen Innings) Chicago... 100 100 000 000 000 2— 4 10 © Phila.. .... 200 000 000 000 000 0— 2 14 © Lopat, Maltzberger and Tresh; Flores, Christopher and Hayes.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland ........... 010 002 400— 7 12 2 WL Pet. W L Pet. [goston ............ ..102 000 120— 6 8 1 {New York 10 5 .667 Chicago.... 9 9.500, Reynolds, Heving, Klieman and Susce; |St. Louis 13 7 .650'Phila....... 7 10 412 Bowman, Ryba, Johnson and Wagner. |Wash’ton. 10 7 .571'Boston..... 6 11 .358 — Cleveland 10 9 .526 Detroit.... 7 13 316 petroit irieeiescesss100 000 001— 2 7 1 |New York ....... uc004 001 00s... § n 1 T v Overmire, Gillespie an chards; BorNATIONAL LEAGUE | W L Pet! w L Pet | O%7 and Hemsley. St. Louls. 13 6 .684 Brooklyn... 52 . "000 101 * 7 4 Cincinnati 11 6 647 New York . 8 11 .421 St Louls ©...........000 101 990— 2 § & Phila. 10 6 625 Boston .... 812 400 Wor toon to Cehultz; Haefmer and Pittsburgh 8 7 .533 Chicago.... 2 13 .133 | Guerra. ; GAMES TODAY NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION New York ..e........000 000 021—3 6 0 ever niey 000 000 13x 4 11 1

Cinéinnati | Fischer and Lombardi; Delacrus, Shoun,

#% Junior baseball plans for the summer will be explained to managers and captains of the Rhodius and Garfield park districts by William E. Kuebler, secretary of the South-West district ¥. M. C. A.

Kuebler will be at Rhodius park community center from 2 to 4 p.m. tomorrow and at. Garfield park community center from 5 to 7. Organization of PAL club teams is already in progress in the two districts under the supervision of Forrest Higgs and Larry Hilton. A meeting is planned to perfect organization ‘of leagues in three age groups. Class C's age limit this season is 13, Class B 15 and Class A 18. The Ellenberger and Brookside park districts have already started their organization work, while meetings will be called in the near future to form leagues at River side park and 49th and Arsenal diamond.

Lukas-Harold

Fishermen Win

Lukas-Harold fishermen won two of the three awards in the Big Six spring fishing contest, according to an announcement by John L. Turner, East district Y.M.C.A. secretary. The winners were Warren Cohen of E. C. Atkins, eight pound, nineounce large mouth bass, 23% inches in length with a girth of 18 inches; Harold Horn of Lukas-Harold, fourpound large mouth black bass, 21 inches in length, and Van J. Miller, Lukas-Harold, two-pound crappie, 16 inches long with girth of 13% inches. The next contest is planned with the reopening of the fishing season, June 16. The summer awards will include prizes for the largest small mouth bass and the largest blue gill.

Zarilla Waits Call

8ST. LOUIS, May 12 (U. P.).—Al Zarilla, outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, was waiting a call from the navy today. Zarilla was accepted for duty after a second X-ray examination at Jefferson barracks and

Ferguson and Mueller.

| Brooklyn 000010 100— 2 8 1 St. Louis ............ 000 000 100— 1 8-1 Dlvis and Owen; Gumbert, Wilks and O'Dea.

Boston ......e..0....100 012 111 7 18 © Pittsburgh ......... .010 000 010— 3 10 1 Tobin and Masi; Butcher, Gee and Lopes, Philadelphia ........101 001 000-8 7 © Chicage ............. 001 210 10x— 5 11 ©

Barrett, Covington and Finley; H zewski and Holm,

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Open at Elwood

The Indianapolis Black Indians baseball club will open its season Sunday at Elwood. Games are wanted by the Indians. Highbaugh, 612 W. 24th st, or call WA-6239.

Write Ray |i

assigned to the sea-going forces. He {left for Washington to stay with

Jack Goes to * a. Service May 30 AUGUSTA, Ga, May 12 (U. P.) —Beau Jack, former lightweight champion, New York version, has been ordered to report for army induction on May 30. Jack, whose real name is Sidney Walker, lost his title to Bob

Montgomery of Philedlphis March 3.

Five Bouts at Armory Tonight

Boxing at the Armory tonight will feature heavyweights from’ Kentucky and Indiana when Johnny Denson, former state champion, and Bob Garner, top-ranking Louisville slugger who has forged to the front through recent victories over Nate Bolden, Jimmy Reeves and James Fitzjames, collide in the 10-round main event, It will be a third meeting between the pair with previous bouts here resulting in a draw and a shade 10-round verdict for Denson. The complete card follows: Main Event—10 rounds—Heavyweights: Bob Garner, Louisville, Ky., vs. Johnny Denson, Indianapolis. Semi-Windup—8 rounds—Heavyweights: Colion Chaney, Indianapon vs. Leo (Red) Bruce, Indianapolis. Prelim—8 rounds—Middleweights: Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh, Pa., vs. Rolland Hopp, Indianapolis. Prelim—6 rounds—Lightweights: Frank Rand, Indianapolis, vs. Mike McKessick, Indianapolis. Prelim—4 rounds—Lightweights: Tommy LeFever, Indianapolis, vs. A. C. Lee, Indianapolis. Two of the maulers on the pro-

{ fighting here for the first time tonight. The opening bout is slated to start at 8:30 o'clock.

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. Three members of the Moon Lite Ladies loop passed 500, Ruby Fields getting 533, Judy Hindel 525 and Betty Collins 518. Harold Harvey led Moon Lite Major soloists with 587; C. Kester was best in the Building Trades with 575, Mullindore was high in the Sears men with 483 and Opal Taylor led Sears women with 382. The Uptown Ladies league, which finished its regular schedule last week, staged a head-pin tournament. Leona List won with a 281 score. A ladies spring league is organising at the Illinois alleys. The loop will consist of 14 teams and four are needed to fill the quota. Interested parties are requested to get in touch with Hallie Striebeck, CH. 7061 or LI. 0740. Harper's Grocery was the winner of the Thursday Night Mixed league at Speedway which closed last night. Honors at the final session went to Leroy Suiter with 614 and Eula Holliday with 455,

Supporting Mat Card Arranged

Three supporting bouts will be

{offered on the Armory mat card

next Tuesday night where the | feature is a heavyweight title match between Lou (The Great) Plummer, challenger, and “Wild Bill” Longson, champion from Salt Lake City. Young Gotch, a newcomer from Woodriver, Ill, will appear in the semi-windup and Matchmaker Lioyd Carter plans to obtain a formida< ble opponent for the Ilinois grappler, He is a heavyweight, .

Fountain Square A. C. softball team will play a double-header Sunday at Eagle park, Speedway City. The A. C.’s split a twin bill] with V. P. W. last Sunday at| Pinch park, winning 3-0 and losing 12-2. Players are requested to meet at Finch park at 1 p. m. Sunday, where transportation will be furnished to Speedway City. Games are wanted for May 21 and 28.

Cherry Vallina, New Orleans, and Jim Coffield, Kansas City, heavyweights, have been paired for one of the supporting tussles. Coffield went down before Plummer here last Tuesday. Plummer, a powerhouse from Baltimore, features the same kind of wrestling as Longson, Both are aggressive and dish out punishing holds at every opportunity. Lou has been here four times and won

[he Browns until called to service.

Contact Hyatt Johnson, MA-3075.

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