Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1944 — Page 18
==
J By Eddie Ash
WHAT would you think if you were the owner of a club in the American association and heard over the radio, while listening somewhere in the South Pacific as a member of the marines, that your manager, whom you had believed was leading your team, was piloting a major league club, instead? That was the predicament in which Bill Veeck, president of the Milwaukee Brewers, found himself a couple of weeks ago, when, in listening to a short wave news broadcast, he heard that Jimmy Wilson had resigned as the Chicago Cubs’ manager and that Charlie Grimm had taken over. . . . Bill thought that perhaps the American association had folded up. Writing to R. G. Lynch, sports editor of the Milwaukee Jourfil, after hearing the broadcast, Veeck said in part: “I know that whatever Charlie did was wise, and that he has safeguarded my interests. It is sad, however, to see in how short a time an organization ean collapse. , . . While I can’t see now just how I do know that Charlie and I will be back together when I return.”
Browns Give Blood in 4-F Drive THIRTEEN members of the league-leading Browns each gave 8 pint of blood at the Red Cross blood donor center, St. Louis, June 8, to launch “4-F Week.” ... During the week, all 4-F's in the St. Louis area are being urged by the newly organized 4-F club to give a pint of blood. The Browns went downtown to the Red Cross from a morning workout. . . . Outfielder Milt Byrnes brought his wife along as a donor, too. Manager Luke Sewell, who is over military age, led his players to the “donating room.” ss =» = ss = = ALL the St. Louis American leaguers who donated blood were 4-F, except three who were over age and Hal Epps and Mark Christman, who are awaiting their call from the army. Donors included Newman Shirley, Don Gutteridge, George McQuinn, Milton Byrnes, Gene Moore, Epps, Myron Hayworth, Albert
Hollingsworth, Tom Hafey, Christman, Coach Fred Hofmann, Manager Luke Sewell, and Secretary Charles DeWitt,
Young Gibson Is Fighting the Nips BOB GIBSON, son of Billy Gibson, who piloted both Benny - Leonard and Gene Tunney to world's championships, is in the army air corps now bringing down the Japs... . Recently, Bob piloted his plane underneath a Jap fighter and sent the Nip down in flames. # " . » - .
BOB HAMILTON of Evansville, Indiana Open and P. G. A. champion and winner of the North and South Open, has entered the Golden Valley invitational best ball twosome tournament July 6-9 at Minneapolis. . . , Hamilton finished in the money in every tournament he entered during the winter tour. He was third in the Miami Open. ~ »” » . . » . J
BUDDY LEWIS, former Indianapolis catcher, has landed his Knoxville Smokies in the first division in the Southern association. + + « Attendance is the best in history at the Knoxville park.
close last night but were outhit and
ninth straight defeat and the hapless and crippled Hoosiers have yet to win a game on this current road trip, Mike Portner drove in all three Blue runs. With the help of a Kansas City error by Charlie Glunt, the Indians scored two runs in the first stanza but were goose-egged the rest of the distance. After Herndon had walked, Glunt fumbled Wayne Blackburn's grounder and Eddie Morgan's single advanced them, Herndon to home. Blackburn scored on Elmo Cotelle’s: single.
Error Helps Blues The Blues picked up a run in the second with the assistance of an error by the Tribe's George Mitrus. It was a high throw to first on Musser’s roller, Musser going to second on the throw and homering on Portner’s single. Portner’s double sent home the run that tied it 2-all in the fourth. The eighth inning was the fateful ome for the Tribe. Rich hit Musser, he advanced to third on a sacrifice and Portner's single scared | him with the victory run. |
held the Blues to eight hits but
trol after the first stanza. Both teams committed two miscues, A double by Ed Morgan in the third and by Rich in the fourth were wasted.
Held to Six Hits
the Blues won the delayed series opener 3 to 2. It was the Tribe's
Woodie Rich, Tribe righthander, : Vincent Debiasi, tall Kansas City,
righthander, held the Indians to six| | safeties and held them under con-| Li:
Indiana university star, and Prank The Baseball Calendar Higgins of Columbia, Dr. Jim Dil
Walter Chapman, Speedway stars,|yn and former runnersup, Johnny MecGuire, Ray Jones and Ray Roberson from Meridian Hills, Russ Rader, the Sarah Shank luminary, Bill Charles, low shooter from Pleasant
Some serious threats are also listed among the out-of-town entrants. Dr. Bob Blake, Mike Bor-, son and Bill Knick from Anderson, Bob Miller and Charley Harrel from Bloomington, Marvin Shaw,
Dale Morey
4
lon of Noblesville, Bob Fehr of! Greenfield and Cpl. Sonny Shelby |
Threatening weather held attendance down although no large
are three and a half games ahead of the cellar-dwelling Indians.
to Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Indians really are mired in last
Dodgers Get Stanky
NEW YORK, June 8 (U. P.).— Ed Stanky, utility infielder and former American association batting day, in a trade that sent Pitcher Stanky, who hit .342 with Milwaukee
and batted .245.
"60 days! I knew that reminded me of something important, George,
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION WL Pet. Louisvitle ea 040 100 0-5 6 2 field, are prepared to scorch the | 500 | Milwaukee 110 x— 7 11
W L Pe Mil kee 35 11 . ee... 500 crowd was expected to turn out to| Milwaukee Praoed and Walters; Speer, Gassaway and | sible winners without much argu-!
; Columbus .25 17 . watch the seventh and eighth|Louisville .24 20 545 Kan. City
placers mix it up. The Blues now|S* Fsul .
AMERICAN LEAGUE
— ment. i (Second Game) Several members of the armed! Milwaukee "77" 00g ope ote 3 § 3[Torces, stationed at nearby camps|
Ww The teams will wind up the se-| St. Louis 7 ries tonight, after which the Tribe petroie ~. will move along on the rocky road|Chicago .
4 and Pruett,
NATIONAL LEAGUE
place, 22 games behind the leading |g. youis Milwaukee Brewers. Pittsburgh 24 16 Cincinnati 24 1y New York .21 23
Columbus ........... 000 000 030— 3 5 | Military atmosphere. " Min lis ........ 201 0 pee pLopaika, Cunningham, rand amd Seat, Closes at Meridian Hills urmeister; Curtis, Hogsett and Ar fy —e * aga The three-day event will open ! AMERICAN LEAGUE as the initial foursome tees off at 2 |New York. ........ ~ 000 000 1001 6 o|the Indianapolis Country club Mon- | Boston 010 052 00x—8 12 0
Tr — and Wagner, round will be played at Broadmoor | RESULTS "YESTERDAY i
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Chicas *everereoeeo- 100 00 St 3 ofthe entrants traversing the Meridian (First Game; 7 Innings) and Tresh. champion, joined the Dodgers to- Jomde He-tn 1 be n and Schultz; Webb, Bob Chipman to the Chicago Cubs, |T*uscher and Padden
T in 1942, went to the Cubs last year|st
—
players that if they expect to name Arr aro) their own starting time, they must NATIONAL LEAGUE : ; | Philadelphia ........ 000 310 002—s 3 o Fegister before noon Saturday. BN eign. onan, 908 W005 1: Wagoner may be reached at MA. ! , Se : - i ton, Frowter aud Owen. ” 152 or at 1108 Merchants Bank | g Boston ............... 000 000 200-2 4 2 New York ... ........001 101 80x—6 9 © alavery and Kluttz; Feldman and J # L Mancuso, unior oops Cineinnati ..,......... 100 001 000—2 7 1 )
Pittsburgh .......... 100 010 02x—4 8
Re Sak Lama and Mueller; Sewell, N ame Leaders
of Lebanon, on leave from Bowman |
(First Game; 7 Innings)
1/courses and could be listed as pos-
Wilson and Walters; Caldwell, Gassaway | and training stations, have forwarded entries, giving the event a |
Borowy, Lyons and Hemsley; Hughson day morning at 8:30. Tuesday's |
and the tourney will wind up with |
Newhouser, Overmire Swift; Grove Hills layout on Wednesday. | Wagoner will accept fill-in at! the first tee on Monday, but warns
—
Only games scheduled.
ttn
Junior baseball leagues, scheduled Only game scheduled. to play at East and North side diaGAMES TODAY * |monds, have completed their organAMERICAN ASSOCIATION izations, (All Games At Night) Ellenberger park leagues, meeting JDIANAPOLIS Mt Kaw City. at the East District Y. M. C. A. last | Toledo at St. Paul. night, elected Ray Guental, Irving- | Columbus at Minneapolis. ton Merchant manager, president; | AMERICAN LEAGUE James Brock, Panther manager, vice Jhifeion ot Philadelphia, president and H. H. McClintie, manNew York at Boston (twilight). ager of the Thunderbolts, secretary. Cleveland at St. Louis (night). Although an eight-team Class Cc NATIONAL LEAGUE league and a six-team Class B| Philadelphia at Brooklyn (two). league are ready to open their | Chicago at Pittsburgh schedules, completion of Class A!
St. Louis at Cincinnati (night). organization is stil in progress.
Only three teams have been en-
rolled. The leagues will play at ElThe Leaders [iemerser pore The North siders, who will play
G AB R H Pet. y Walker, Brooklyn... 44 172 24 72 .424 jotted church, Thomas J. O'Brien Musial, 8t. Louls..., 44 161 31 56 348 president; P. L. Sprecher vice Galan, Brooklyn [vc 4% 184 20 55 .335 |president and Mrs. T. J Hartlet, ptoen, Cincinnati , " ] ; Bordagaray, Bkiyn .. 42 172 39 §7 331 Secretary. Eight Class B teams and
Tucker, Chicago .... 27 110 20 43 .391 Organization wor rogHockett, Cleveland . 34 122 13 43 .353 os k is also in p
Myatt, Washington, 42 161 25 53 .329| ¢58 in the Brookside park, GarHostetler, Detroit ., 37 R. Johnson, Boston.. 36 118 31 38 322 Doerr, Boston .... 45 169 32 54 ,320 side park areas.
at Broad Ripple and the 49th st. By UNITED PRESS and Arsenal diamonds, also elected NATIONAL LEAGUE officers at the Tabernacle Presby-
+33 119 16 40 .331
AMERICAN LEAGUE five in Class C are ready for play.
107 11 35 .327|field park, Rhodius park and River-
en Dutch Nieman poled one over the fence with a mate on the bases
In the Bnly other National league Run, and Arnold Koehler, the Howe fap Soute Suen the Phillies shoved
Out-of-Town Threats spolled Rube Melton's bid for his reiki
—the car needs an oil change!”
Mom's dead right about getting the oil changed every 60 days—or at 1000 miles— whichever comes first. Fresh oil is cheaper
Schultz, Dodgers, . Weintr'b, Giants, , Kurowski, Cards.. 3
RUNS BATTED IN
HOME RUNS
37 Stephens, Browns. 30 34 Galan, Dodgers... 30 0
A Tough One | :
than new bearings and a lot easier to get.
The average car was designed to operate best under continuous driving at high speeds on long runs. That kind of driving helped prevent excessive moisture condensation from getting into the crankcase and staying there to contam-
inate the oil.
That's why—under present driving conditions=oil change is the top item in your Standard Oil Dealer's
Ott, Giants .......14 Cullenbine, {ndians 7 Kurowski, Cards... 8 Nieman, Braves..., 7 INDIANAPOLIS ABR nH S L . o a ti 3 : % 4 * tf. ouis Joins urn, #2500004 1 1 3 1 § kev | ibid oO ‘4.0 0 5 Hockey League 40933} . 1 1 8 CLEVELAND, June 8 (U, P.).— 4 0 1 1 « 0
St. Louis has veen voted a fran- | mew = @@ = m= = — —
chise in the American Hockey THEA ors BaNoay Gi lly I league while action on a fran- ABR HO A = chise for Minneapolis has been Ra, 8 iran is ti 1 deferred, ndrum, *f ........4 0 1 0 0 © Announcement of St. Louis’ ene Zimmerman, 1b .... 1-11 3 : try was made by Maurice Podo- Nl, rl 2 06 0 0 loff, president of the hockey Dotnet, 38 es vid i Jeagus, After a meeting here yes= p ) ives 32.0 0 4 3 0 €rday between official rep- i ral TI I resentatives of the st. Louss od I rin i 2% a0 Soy Minneapolis clubs. KON8a8 CIty ............... 010 100 01x—3
Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo,
Pittsburgh, St. Louis Providence and Hershey, pa. McNulty, Double play ———
The league n Runs batted in—Morgan, Cotelle, Portow consists of ner 3. Two-base hits — Morgan, Rich, Portner. Three-base hi . Stel base—Rhabe.
Debiast Be rennd to on
Base on
six ahead of his nearest competitor. | the Red Sox downed the Phil Weintraub hit his third in as|pions 8-1. It was Hughson's many games and Nap Reyes ac-|victory of the season counted for a pair of runs with his| Yanks’ eighth loss in their last fifth of the season. Harry Feldman | games The ace of the New Y the Domer fourth triumph behind! mound staff, Hank Borowy, . power hitting a oneCharley Harter, Paul Sparks and hit shutout going into the seventh Sheree a 0 dost wri six hits.
eep (00l . one
Ventilated Shoes . . .
6.00 7.30 9.50
Made expressly for us . . . to our specifications, they're the best money's worth you can buy. Cool and comfortable, yet with good locks aplenty, these are the shoes for you, mister, at a time when you need them
most.
—Men's Shoes, Secend Floor.
¥
hl
wher IA
PNA
f i Ed g : g i
S 2 Q B ® os : <
Have The
Do you wa payments? D payments ot your interes Do your principal, fir insurance?
Refina, with CELT] Inte
Marien Co
Corie
aN ay eb DNS
eS WEITERE OER A