Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1944 — Page 20
As They Drop 12th Straight
By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor Indiana Indians now have reached the stage where they a es Lefty Bob Logan, the old reliable, a veteran of many seasons on the diamond, has lost his noodle. Ball players get that way when their team ifs in a prolonged slump and Lefty Bob is no exception to the rule. Although he pitched winning ball last night, he pulled a colossal blunder in the fifth inning. The Minneapolis Millers won again, ! s 8
8 to 3, and it was the Indians’ 12th, Pi P L § straight defeat in the current home ity oor Le ty stand. But a dozen setbacks won't stop MINNEAPOLIS sters. They have become ABR HO AE the Tribesters EE d will be out Cookson, of .....ceu. oOo 0 0 0 © calloused to losing an h tne | Bettencourt, 110008 1 1 0 8 0 night meeti e Todd, rf .. ....euvnes 4 . there again long Ne A Vaughn, 2b ........ 4 2 2 4 6 0 sixth-place Millers in a u Blaso, $b... 3 11 o 2 ° : is Danneker, 88 ....... 4 header, hi game at 6:45. t Aragon, € ...i.evees 3 8 8 7 3 : ladies’ might. {Ebranyl, 1D se.vennss 4 14 Ollie Byers, righthander, and Wes Curtis, p cesseenese 4 o o o * 0 Flowers, lefthander, are slated 10 Totals ........... 3 5 6 271 15 1 toil on the mound for the cellar-| INDIANAPOLIS dwelling home boys. The fuLgvs AB R " 0 A E 51 , - tomorrow - | Burns, 2b 2 will have an off -day v th day | Sabena, 3b 3111 2 0 fore they enter the heavy three-day gackvurn, 0 tr 3 0 0 OT: Y 3 1glish, 1 0 holiday program, two games with Zogien. [o 0 8% 0 0 Louisville at Victory field Sunday organ, i. 0 0 3 0 0 " Ie | Clemens, If ,. 0 2 oO afternoon, a single game Monday | Clement. ss .. 0 0 1 2 1 night and a double-header Tuesday, Logsn, p 0 0 0 3 1 twilight and night. ey. poli 30313 Curtis Subdues Our Boys {Lyon 101000 Totals . 3 T2171 8 2
orn urtis, ace of the Millers’ Vernon co der with a lot of Rich batted for Logan in 7th. staff, a righthand ne eg Lyon batted for Kelley in 9th. speed and a good curve, OPPOS€Q yp, ne.anolis o......... ier...010 130 000—S the Redskins last night. He held Indianapolis ceiee.....000 201 000—3 sastimers seven hits! Runs batted in—Danneker, Aragon, Engthe home pastimers to .. |lish 3. Two-base, hits—Blazo, English, and chalked up eight strikeouts. |Lyon. yonIee-basy bA-Vaughn, Stolen dian . 1 itless the! bases—Vaughn, Blazo, 8Sacrifice—S8abena. The Indians were held hitless Left on bases—Minneapolis 8, Indianapolis first three stanzas and NO man 7 Base on balls—Off Logan 2, Curtis ched first base |8truck out—By Logan 2, Curtis 8. reached Trst . Off Logan, 8 in 7 innings; Kelley, 0 in 2
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The breaks started working innings. wid pitehes—Logan 1. Losing ie i) ; itcher — Logan. mpires — Peters and ggainst the hapless Redskins in the {i fien. Time 1:49.
second inning. Fred Vaughn, first Miller up in that round, hit an easy | fiy to center. Blackburn got set for, who was injured ir Wednesday's it only to loose it in the lights. The game probably will be out of action time was “betwixt and between” 10 days. Ed Morgan was injured twilight and darkness, and the ball again last night when re made a fell safely far beyond “Blackie's” one-handed diving catch in the position, and it went for a triple. seventh. He remained in the game, The Tribe center fielder had no however, after taking time out for chance on the ball. It was just one repairs. of those things and the Millers happened to be at bat during the “strange interlude.”
Service Men's Tourney Set
Entries for the service men's clay courts tennis tournament to be held at the Highland Golf and Country club starting tomorrow, will be accepted until 2 p. m. tomorrow by Frank Dowling, in charge. The tournament is sanctioned by the United States Lawn Tennis association and is open to all men and women in service uniforms. Play will continue Sunday and the finals will be held July 8. Prizes will be awarded.
Notre Dame Star In Tennis Finals
Danneker Delivers
Mike Blazo, next up, walked, and Vaughn scored on Frank Danneker's single. There was no further scoring in that frame. in the top belf of the fourth the visitors scored one marker on a double by Blazo, an infield out and sg fielder's choice, when Aliperto fielded Aragon’s grounder and threw home too late to nab Blazo. The Indians knotted the count at 2-all in their half of the fourth on a single by Burns, a two-base error by Danneker and Gil English’s double, In the fifth the Millers received some help on the part of Bob Logan and put the cuntest oeyond the Tribe's reach. After one out, Bettencourt singled and was held at second on Todd's single, English cuffed down Vaughn's single and held it to an infield hit, filling the bases. Blazo hit a sizzling ground drive)
¥isets to 8-6, 4-6, 15-13.
those who know golf best, namely the professionals, Mrs. Babe Didrickson Zaharias, begins to loom
as the greatest woman player of the Jim Thorpe of distaff athletes. all time. They are about ready to ® & = larger cities and after she turned rank her ahead of our Glenna FOLLOWING THE Olympics professional she disappeared from Collett and Britain's Joyce Weth- she was persuaded to turn pro- the headlines almost completely. ered. fessional and capitalize on her ss 8 = On one point, they have no press clippings, which she did. “YOU DON'T get the money in doubt “at all. Unanimously and She played baseball, soft ball, ran the larger cities” she informed. emphatically, they agree she hits races and, in due course, turned “You get it in the smaller cities. the longest golf ball the woman's to golf. It can scarcely be said It doesn’t come in big amounts game ever saw. They go even she was a sensational box office but your field is unlimited and in further: They insist there aren't attraction, yet she tells us she did the end the total is well worth more than a dozen strong-arm better than all right. while. Ask George. He had the pros who can pass her off the tee. “I read one of your columns,” same experience.
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Kovacs, Tennis Clown Prince,
Vows He'll Be Worlds No. 1
FOREST HILLS, N. Y., June 30 (U. P).—Frankie Kovacs, irrepressible “Clown Prince of Tennis,” said today that he intends to prove himself “the No. 1 player of the world,” and offered to “lick anybody to prove it, and that includes Don Budge.” Recently returned from 15 months’ duty in Australia as an army | private, the “Peck’s bad boy” of the courts reported that his checkered {career as a tournament playboy is ; over, that he's fired with ambition land purpose, and that he already has proved part of his claim. “I licked the entire Davis Cup championship team in Australia,” he said. “I beat Adrian Quist in Sydney, 7-5, 6-4 and Jack Crawford many times anywhere from loveOn Dec. 26, 1941, I won from Don Budge in Madison Square garden. In 1941, I played Jack Kramer seven times and won all matches, and Don McNeill four times and won every time. “I'll take 'em all on, and they can name the place and the date, and the type of court,” Kovacs reiter= ated, “and 1 don't think I'll lose many matches.”
Goeg For Tilden, Too
Asked if the challenge included William Tatum Tilden II, the old master, Kovacs gulped thoughtfully before answering: “Yes, that goes} for him, too.” The clown's hesitancy could be at=tributed to the realism of immi= nence, for he tangles here with ten nisdom’s venerable shot artist Sunday, the feature match of the Red Cross exhibition program. Kovacs, who turned professional in December of 1941, said that he took a realistic view of his future, and that the inevitable athletic “boom” following war's end would find him firmly entrenched as the shining star of the tennis firmament and thus assured of bountiful financial returns. The European war, he said, would be over this year, “but the Japs won't be dislodged from China “before 1946, unless there's negotiated peace in 1945.”
~ Frankie Kovacs
Crawford would be a tossup,* but Quist would beat Hunt; then, Quist would beat Kramer and Crawford has a slight edge over Hunt, In doubles, Bromwich and Quist, the Likes Australians defending champions, would be Australia, Kovacs warned, willl much too good for our doubles comdominate Davis cup tennis for many | pination, years to come unless the U. 8. de-| “That is the outstanding doubles
to Logan who made a great stop, velopes somebody now to beat team in the world,” he added. “I but instead of trying for the easy| EVANSTON, Ill, June 30 (U. P.).| Adrian Quist. “Everyone down-|teamed with Crawford against them double play, home to first, he|—Francisco (Pancho) Segura, Mi- under plays tennis, and it's amaz-|not many months ago, played the turned and tried for the hard ami university tennis star, and|ing" he said. ’
double play, second to first, and his | Joseph Willett, Georgia Tech, meet throw soared over second and|today in the semi-finals of the Nalanded in center field, allowing | tional Collegiate Athletic associaBettencourt and Todd to score and tion tournament with the winner
best tennis of my life—and CrawHe said that “Australia would| ford is without a peer in doubles beat America if the tournament | play—and yet they took us, 6-4, were held today. Kramer and|6-8, 6-4."
putting Vaughn on’ third. Thereupon, Vaughn and Blazo worked the double steal, the former scoring. The nextytwo hitters were easy outs. One Run, Three Left
fighting it out with Charlie Samson, of Notre Dame, tomorrow. Samson, captain of Irish’s tennis squad, ddvanced to the finals yes-
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terday with a 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 victory over Harry Likas, of Gonzaga. Samison came from behind to win all
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
The Indians picked up a run in W L Pet) W L Pet. the sixth on an infield hit by Burns | three sets. In the first set he Milwaukee 3 28 061 St. [Paul ..30 27 526 Blackburn's safety over second and| trailed Likas 4-2 and then won the| goi%Sh, 30 33 “G00 ROTRos 10 18 +300 English's single. The Redskins left|next four games. He repeated the|Louisville .38 28 .576 INDPLS. ..17 47 .226 three runners stranded in that!|same routine in the second set then — canto. overcome a 5-4 lead to take the AMERICAN LEAGUE Logan retired for a pinch hitter} final. } WL Pet. W L Pet in the seventh and Harry Kelley| The doubles combination of GAary|{gs yponis 38 29 .547 Wash'gton 31 34 .437 finished the Tribe mound toil and|Ruby and Nick Buzolich, of Los Ne Workli3130 pot DStrol +31 33 A erased the Millers in order in the Angeles, representing Pepperdine| cui i¥, “35 29 ‘508 Cleveland .30 36 455 eighth end ninth. |college, deefated Richard Warner The Millers won on six hits and and Robert Lewis of the University were very happy about gettinglof Utah, 3-6, 7-5, 10-8, 5-7 and 7-5. NATIONAL LEAGUE away with ft. The contest was|Earlier they pulled a three-set en- W L Pet. W L Pet.
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Phils Plague Cardsand Beat Them 3d Time
NEW YORK, June 30 (U, P).— The bale of hay is biting the horse at St. Louis where the sixth place Phillies—supposedly welcome fodder for the Cardinals’ length National league lead—have tagged the pennant defenders with three straight defeats on their home grounds, The first of the losses was a carry-over from May 16, in the completion of a suspended game, but with that out of the way the Phillies proceeded with the business at hand and administered two shutouts to the league champions? Lefty Ken RafTensberger applied the first coat of whitewash Wednesday night and Big Bill Lee, on whom the Cubs once placed a sixfigure asking price, wielded the brush yesterday. Of the six shutouts suffered by the Cardinals this season, the Phillies have been responsible for three and Lee personally took charge of two. His first was a two-hitter ih the nightcap of a double-header on May 4, and yesterday the big righthander spaced six hits to gain a 1-0 triumph. Lee, who has allowed an average of less than six hits per game this season, was opposed by Cardinal ace, George Munger, who also gave up six hits to be charged with his second defeat.
Pirates and Giants Even
In the only other National, the Pirates drew with the Giants, their game being called at the end of the fifth inning with the score tied at 1-1. Rain forced the postponement and the game was scheduled as part of a double-header today. In the American league the Yankees whittled the lead of the Browns to two and a half games in one of the best games played this season. With brilliant fielding and pitching exhibited by both clubs, the Yanks won out, 1-0 with the winning run coming in the ninth inning after two were out.
Hensley Ends Duel
Catcher Rollie Hemsley ended a pitching duel between winner Walt Dubiel and Sig Jakucki with a single that scored Bud Metheny. The tally halted the consecutive scoreless inning streak of Jakucki at 26% innings, he previously having pitched two five hit shutouts against Detroit. Dubiel adowed but two hits. Allie Reynolds pitched and batted Cleveland to a 6-0 shutout over the Athletics as he got as many hits as he allowed with two doubles and a single, A five-run rally in the second inning clinched the game for the tribe, The “A's” suffered a serious blow when their hard-hitting first baseman, Dick Seibert, received a severe spike wound in a pile-up with Cléveland manager, Lou Boudreau, and had to be carried from the field. The Red Sox scored their ninth straight victory against the White Sox when Manager Joe Cronin homered to start a four-run rally in the second inning which led to a 5-4 win. Lefty Hal Newhouser scored his 11th triumph of the season with a two-hit performance against the Senators that gave Detroit a 4-0 shutout. .
Pollikan Hurls 6-0 No-Hit Game
Another no-hit game was registered by a softball pitcher last night as Paul Pollikan, Lukas-Harold ace, blanked Curtiss-Wright, 6-0, in a Bush - Callahan Manufacturers league game at Softball stadium. In other league contests, E. C.
schedule at Speedway stadium is as follows: . 7:00 Lukas-Harold vs. Cleaners. 8:00 Fisher Engineering vs. Brownsburg. 9:00 Allison vs. Lukas-Harold.
Tonight's Bush-Callahan Commercial league schedule at Softball stadium follows: } 4:00 Stout Field Snipers vs. Kingan 1 nights,
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Golfers Return to Home Links After Series of Club Meets
Local golfers will be back on their home courses over the week-end following a strenuous two days of firing in a sextet’ of private events. Wednesday, the Indianapolis Athletic club, Inter-club and state seniors staged tournaments while yesterday the Columbia club, Traffic club and Optimist club were in action. : W. H. Atterbury became champion of the Columbia club when he carded a 39-37—76, two strokes better than Cliff Wagoner, 1943 champion, who had 40-38—T78. Mayor William Hemphill of Franklin placed first in the net division, but failed to win a prize for his efforts. He toured the course in 80 and after knocking off 15 strokes handicap, netted a 65, five strokes under Highlands par 70. Tournament rules specified that players finishing more than four strokes under par would be disqualified from the prize-winning list. Billy Meyers halted at four under with a gross score of 77 and an 11 handicap to take the prize. Runnerup Has a 90 H. C. Thomas turned in a 90 and deducted a 23 handicap for a net 67 that was good for the runnerup prize, The 88 members who participated wound up their day’s activities with a dinner at the Columbia club. In the Traffic club's tourney at Lakeshore Country club, Lewis B. Alexander won the Silver Fleet trophy when he turned in a low gross of 83. Darrell Thompson was runnerup with an 82. Alexander was also winner of the hole-in-one contest. His tee shot from on the ninth hole fell seven feet short of the pin. Johnny Long carded a 72 to take net honors, while Knute Jennings and Walter Lang were tied for sec-
ond with 73's. A field of 69 competed in the event which was climaxed by a dinner last night. A card of 70 gave Jack Thibodau low gross honors in the Optimists club meet at the Inidanapolis Country club. T. O. McConnell won net honors when he carded a 90 and
tied for blind-par honors with 76's.
monthly tournaments planned by the club.
Ring Fans Get New Deal Pledge
A “new deal” for Indianapolis boxing fans will be inaugurated at Sports arena next Thursday night when the Hercules Athletic club will present a professional boxing card featuring “fighters that fight.” Tentative plans call for a card of 30 rounds of milling with clashes of four and six rounds making up the program. No bout will carry a “main event” label and the boys who make the best showings will win places on future bills here.
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CHICAGO, June 30 (U. P.).—~The cream of the nation’s wartime golf ing talent dotted the fairways of Edgewater Country club in the second victory national open tourna ment today, as the colorful field became interspersed with war's gift to the sports world—the “handy talkie.” ? ' The “handy talkie” is a pint-sized imitation of the army's famous “walkie talkie” and its purpose on a gol course is to provide the “talkie” without so much “walkie.” It looks like a telephone with a goiter with a fishpole sticking out the top, but Victory tournament officials used it to phgne in the ane ticipated sub-par scores as they were being compiled by the 57 pros and amateurs who teed off in hopes of inheriting the title won last year by Sammy Byrd, former New York Yankee slugger, who preferred to be a regular on the golf links to being a substitute for Babe Ruth in Yankee stadium, Defending titlist Byrd completed 36 holes of foursome play yesterday with a 70-72-1423 in a tie for eighth place with Joe Kirkwood for medal honors. Today he found that his crown is threatened not only by the remainder of the “big four” money winners, Byron Nelson, Craig Wood and Jug McSpaden, but also by Lt. Ben Hogan, Johnny Revolta, Ky Laffoon, Jim Foulis and Jimmy Hines, who bettered his score during the two days of complicated {team play which decided four | championships.
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