Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1944 — Page 14

Silent Hoosiers Expect Season

stroit and St. Louis Enter Final Week of Pennant Drive

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U. P) —The final week of the 1944 major a : Ln bi ; | jeague baseball season opened today with Detroit and St. Louis em-| : EB J broiled in a last-ditch struggle for the American league pennant—only| : : : i 3 : bitterest fight in the loop's history, assured, the favored to win their first flag since 1940 because

The American league race at a glance: s . Ww. L. Pet. G.B. Detroit .. 84 63 S71 “ St. Louis 83 oh 565 1 New York.79 67 S541 49% Games left to play: : / A 2 Detroit—At home: Three with a | Na LM Ln Camp's offerings for a homer with Philadelphia, 4 with Washington. 4 ; 4 ; Sele soliowed Away: None. § Pa § ; g 4 St. Louis—At home: Three fay 5 bat . . - with Buten, 4 with New York. | |seven series between the two teams y: . {will meet the winner of the Inter - New York — At home: None. national league playoffs in the Away: Four with - Chicago, 4 “little world series.” ge with St. Louis. y

|Bisons Beat Orioles

_ The magic figure at this stage of the campaign is seven. Any combination of seven Detroit victories or seven St. Louis losses gives the Tigers the bunting. For New York, who dropped four and a half games off the pace in losing to Cleveland yesterday, any combination of four} sends them home talking about next

year. . Yankee fans were resigned to the fact that nothing short of a miracle could help their club.

Newhouser Wins 27th

.. The maintained their lead yesterday when southpaw Hal Newhouser accounted for his 27th win of the year with a 9-5 job against Boston. Three runs in the first two

innings made Newhouser’s task seem easy and by the end of the fifth he had a4 7-1 lead. Yank Terry, the loser, was the first of four Boston hurlers to wilt under the 15-hit Tiger offense. St. Louis stayed on Detroit's heels hy scoring three runs in the last half of the ninth inning after two were out to beat the Athletics 3-2. ‘The Yankees all but bowed out against the four-hit pitching of veteran Mel Harder, who beat the 1944 champions, 4-1. Harder allowed Georgie Stirnweiss an inside-the-park homer for the only New York run in winning his 209th major league decision and 12th of the year. In the American league's only double-header the White Sox eliminated any mathematical possibility of the Senators escaping the cellar py winning twice, 8-3 and 9-0,

Cardinals Set Redord

In the National league the Cardnals set a record by becoming the first senior circuit team in history to win 100 or more games for three éonsecutive seasons by taking two one-run decisions from the Phillies. Mort Cooper and Ken Raffensberger dueled 16 innings in the opener with Cooper gaining his 22d win when George (Whitey) Kurowski hit a homer in the sev- . enth extra frame for a 4-3 edge. Ted Wilks gained his 17th triumph when Charley Schanz walked the game's only run acros the plate in the ninth inning for a 1-0 squeeze. “Pittsburgh and New York split. . The Giants won the first, 5-4, as gookie Bill Voiselle recorded his 21st triumph, and the Bucs took the 10-inning nightcap 3-0 when Prank Gustine’s single drove in the winning run. i Chicago and Brooklyn divided, the Dodgers walking away with a|._Sgt, Frankie Parker went back 10-3 margin in the first game and! to soldiering today carrying with the Cubs gaining & 4-3 edge in the him the men’s singles honors for finale, | the Pacific Southwest tennis tour- . Cincinnati won two from the | nament after “sweating out” a 6-4, Braves, 2-1 and 1-0. Harry Gumbert|6-8, 8-6 victory over Bill Talbert achieved the opening win and|of Indianapolis at the Los Angeles Arnold Carter recorded the shutout.' Tennis club.

The Baseball Calendar

AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. 84 68 571 Clev. ... wis #3 64 .565| Chicage N. Y. ... 79 67 .541 Phil. Boston .. 74 73 .503) Wash.

Ice Skating at

Coliseum Begins

The first indication that the start of the hockey season is just around the corner was provided today when Dick Miller, general manager of the Coliseum, announced plans for the resumption of daily ice skating next Saturday at the Coliseum, The Capitals will start practice this week but their daily sessions will not conflict with activities at club again will train with the parent Detroit Red Wings at Windsor, Ont., before coming here to open the campaign Oct. 19 against Buffalo. Skating sessions are planned daily at 2:30 and 8 p. m, except on Monday nights, “and a special “owl” session is included on the opening day, schedule, starting at 11 p. m.

Jake Caskey, coach of the Silent Hoosiers, looks forward to a successful season, His ee opened the season’ Friday With a victory over Lawrence Central. They meet Howe next Saturday. Some of Caskey's stars are shown above. Upper left is Roy Marks, senior, halfback; lla Walker, junior, captain and fullwith ball while the tackler is Wayne Walters. Upper right is Frank Kaiser, sophomore, halfback. Below, throwing a block on two of his teammates, is Donald Perry, senior guard, The teammates are, loft, Frank McCrea, senior, tackle, and Max Johnson, junior, center. : Marks hails from East Chicago, Walker is from Ham. mond, Walters is a local product, Kaiser lives in South Bend, McCrea is from Shelbyville and . Perry and Johnson make their homes in Terre Haute.

Haag Beats Finn HELSINKI, Finland, ‘Sept. 25 (U. P.) —Gunder Hagg, apparently back in the form which carried him to several world running records in the past two years, held another international triumph today following his defeat of the Finnish ace, viljo Heino over the 5000 meter route,

Running at Helsinki stadium yesterday before nearly 20,000 fans, who turned out despite a cold win ‘and evacuation proceedings, Hagg was clocked in 14.24, four tenths of

Gold Medal and Reliables Win

P. R. Mallory Co. was eliminated and Stewart-Warner lost its first series game as Gold Medal Beer and Kingan Reliables emerged victorious in yesterday's city amateur baseball championship tilts at Victory field] before 3500. The Medals won over Mallory 4-2, staging a four-run ninth-ining rally after the losers had broken up a pitching duel between Johnny Twigg and Ralph Gatti with a tworun splurge in the eighth. Prior to the eighth, Mallory had but three hits off the offerings of Twigg, while Gatti had limited the Beermen to six, one in each of the first six innings. Then Homer Stull, - Mallory catcher, rapped a homer. Gatti singled and Bill Layton sacrificed him to second. He scored as Manager Frank Baird slapped out another hit. Twigg then halted the rally. Beplay Hits and Scores George Coffman led off the Medal half of the ninth with a two-base smash and crossed the plate when Woody Peyton singled. Todd Wilbur grounded to short, sending Peyton to second. Forrest Higgs then sent Peyton across with the tying run with a single. . Manager Norm Beplay followed with a double that plated Higgs, and Gatti was removed from the mound in favor of Carl Rearick. ‘Twigg greeted Rearick with a single that scored Beplay with the final run. Kingan had little difficulty in pounding out a 9-4 victory over the previously undefeated StewartWarners. They stacked up an eight-run lead, with five tallies in the third and three in the fourth, before the Stewarts broke into thé scoring column, with a cluster of three, in the fifth. Lou Cato started the Kingan third inning rally with a single. He stole second. Charley Uhlir walked and Lowell Young singled to fill the bases. After Butch Isenberg struck out, Fred Cato hammered out & single that cleaned the bases. He NATIONAL LEAGUE advanced to second when Dave (First Game) Shaw let his drive to left get 100 100 110— & 11 3%} through him. Powers singled, plat- ... 000108 001— 5 11 0 jo Rp Cato, Powers stole second ler and Lopes; Yaisllp and; 1d scored on Casier Schwartz’ (Second Game) | hit, 100 100 000 1— 8 13 1 000 020 000 0— 2 7 2

the finals of the Governor's cup . playoffs. : The Bisons took a 3-2 advantage in games played in the best-of« seven semi-final series against Bale timore yesterday by beating the Orioles 4-2 before 32913 fans, Feeord crowd for a baseball game

"South Bender Signed by Cubs

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 28 (U. P.) ~The Chicago Cubs again raided South Bend for a baseball pitcher with the signing of Phil Macy, righthander and member of the Knights of Pythias team here, Macy announced today that he had been ordered to report to Portsmouth, Va, in the Piedmont league, next spring.

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Junior Heavies Meet at Armory

Junior heavyweight grapplers who are touted for their skill and experience in the ring make up the three-bout wrestling card for tomorrow night at the Armory. Maurice Les Chappell, who is out of Canada, meets Frankie Hart of Chicago in the main event. It is for two falls out of three, or 90 minutes and is a return. Red Dawson, husky Minneapolis matman who features aggressive tactics, goes against Rene La Belle of Canada in the one-fall semiwindup. The program opens at 8:30 with Gil La Cross and Angelo Martin elll, both from Boston, coming together in a one-fall match.

Bill Talbert Loses

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 (U. PJ).

Minneapolis Heavy Will Box Soldier

Frank Androff, 200-pound Mine neapolis heavyweight, and Pvi Gene Mickens, 205-pound soldiers boxer from Baer Field, Ft. Wayne, have been signed for headline ace -4tion in the six-event pro mitt bill next Friday night at the Armory, & Androff boasts an impressive record in the heavyweight ranks. including recent divisions over Coe lion Chaney, Indianapolis heavy, and Dan Merritt, Chicago. He holds two decisions over .Lee Savold and knocked out Dave Mason of Cleves land on his last trip to the ring. Mickens has a good record bee fore Indianapolis fans, having won three out of four starts, two by knockouts. He stopped Bucky Lewe is, Columbus, O, and Lefty Nichole son of Indianapolis, and handed Buddy Paul of Philadelphia, a sixes round lacing before bowing to Sgt, Willard Reed, Indiana heavyweight champion, before the latter was sent abroad with the armed forces,

Phil Weintraub Is Suspended

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U. PJ. ~Manager Mel Ott of the New York Giants said today that he had suspended hard-hitting first baseman Phil Weintraub for the balance of the season because of “indifferent playing.” Weintraub, out of several games this year because of injuries, began the suspension yesterday,

Pep Defends Title

In Week’s Feature

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (U. P).— Willle Pep defends his featherweight title (New York, version) against ex-champion Chalky Wright at Madison Square Garden Friday night in the feature bout on this week’s national boxing schedule. Pep took the crown from Wright in November, 1942.

8 Big Ten Teams in Action; Notre Dame to Open at Pitt

CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (U. P.).~—After two moderate football weekends, Western conference teams throw off the wraps next Saturday when eight of the nine squads see action as two Big Ten games monopolize the spotlight. Only Slip Madigan’s youthful Iowa squad will ride the bench another Saturday when Michigan opens defense of its Big Ten cochampionship against once-beaten Indiana at Ann Arbor. In the other conference clash, Coach Harry Stuhldreher breaks’ his green Wisconsin team into the 1944 football wars against Northwestern at Evanston. Although two football week-ends have passed, little has been decided except for Illinois and Michigan. The Illini, riding a great second half rally sparked by Paul Patterson, freshman Negro halfback, came from way back to defeat Indiana, 26-18, Saturday in the first Big Ten game of the season. While Michigan, which holds victories over Iowa Pre-Flight and the Marquette Hilltoppers, whom the Wolverines defeated, 14-0, Saturday night, has gained a strong early season reputation.

12 Teams Take Field

In all, 12 major Midwest teams take the field Saturday. For Wisconsin, Michigan and the Northwestern Wildcats, who opened with a 62-0 victory over DePauw Friday night, Saturday marks the opening of the Big Ten campaign. Many Midwest football eyes will be on Notre Dame when Coach Ed McKeever’s Fighting Irish open defense of their mythical national championship at Pittsburgh, where Clark Shaughnessy introduced his 1944 T-formation for a 26-13 victory over West Virginia Saturday.

Another spotlighted non-confer-ence game will be at Columbus where Carroll Widdoes will unveil

his highly-touted Ohio State Buckeyes against Missouri, which was upset Saturday by Arkansas, 7-6.

Illinois Meets Sailors

The Illini, who still must prove they have a line strong and smart enough for championship play, run into the Midwest's current No. 1 team, Lt. (j.g) Paul Brown's Great Lakes Bluejackets, The Bluejackets, with Jim Youel—former Iowa halfback and quarterback—playing one of his greatest games, defeated Purdue, 27-18, Saturday. _ Minnesota makes its second try of the season against untested Nebraska at Minneapolis, where the Golden Gophers disappointed championship hopes Saturday by losing to Towa Pre-Flight, 19-13. Cecil Isbell, his debut as a Big Ten head coach marred by Great Lakes, returns home "Saturday for Marquette. Purdue gave Great Lakes a tremendous scrap Saturday and Isbell’s question mark line gave Big Ten warning by fighting it out with a Bluejacket line which ranks with the best. Lt. Cmdr. Jack Meagher's PrePlighters round out the day's schedule by playing their first home game against the Olathe, Kas., air base team.

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RESULTS YESTERDAY

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GAMES TODAY

ASSOCIATION PLAYOFF St. Paul at Louisville (night).

. AMERICAN LEAGUE oo! New York and Chicago (2). Philadelphia at Detroit. Boston at St. Louis (night). Washington at Cleveland (might).

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Kingan wound up its scoring with 1a tally in the sixth. Isenberg doubled and scored on F. Cato's single, his third hit of the game. Stewart added a run in their half of the eighth without the aid of a hit. Bob Hildebrand reached first on Isenberg’s third error, went to third on an infield out and scored as Tutt grounded out.

F. Cato Is Hitting Star

Kingan’s, his three hits accounting for five runs. Young also had three

hits and L. Cato and Powers, two each. Harry Durham, who in his first four tourney games, had 49

{ Nliinois, 26; Indiana, 18. | Great Lakes, 27; Purdue, 18. { Bunker Hill, 33; Western Michigan, 1. | Wabash, 7: Illinois Normal, 7 (tie). | Central Michigan, 25; Indiana State, 0. Arkansas, 7; Missouri, 6. ! Baldwin-Wallace, }3; Bowling Green, 0.

Case, 19; Wooster, 0. Coast Guard Academy

Coll flight, 6. Connecticut, 27; Norwich, 0. | Cornell, 39; Syracuse, 6. nison, 40; Ohio Wesleyan, 6. { Duke, 61; Richmond, T. | Franklin and Marshall, 26; Ursinus, 0. { Barvard, 43; Dates, 6. t 18; Minnesota; 13. : 27; Mississippi, 7. yrquette, 0.

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strikeouts, added but five in yesterday’s contest. “He walked five. Ochell Tuck whifled six opponents and walked one. In a draw held after the games, Kingan Stewart were again paired in Rext Sunday's game, which wiil be played at Victory Field. Gold Medal drew a bye and will meet the winner of the next Sunday's game on Oct, 8 for the champion-

Kingan's . Stewart-Warner .... Tuck and Young; Durham and Heydon.

F. Cato was the hitting star for win

The Green Bay Packers, favored by many to be the class of the National Football league this year, scored their second triumph of the season with a 42-28 triumph over the champion Chicago Bears in one of the two games scheduled for play-for-pay fans. In the other the Cleveland Rams came back after a year's lay-off to a see-saw battle from the merged Pittsburgh Steelers-Chicago Cardinals, 30-28, in’ the season's opener for both elevens. In losing their first game of the season and their first since 1939 at Green Bay, Wis, the Bears staged a thrilling last half fight that brought them to a 28-28 tie in the fourth quarter, but the Packers ex-

last four minutes to clinch the game. The winning counters were made by Halfback Lou Brock, formerly of Purdue, who ran 42 yards around end for the first, and by

return of an intercepted pass, / End Don Hutson, who adds a new record to his list every time he catches a pass or converts from placement, added all seven points after touchdown to run his string to 60 consecutive ponversions, Sid Luckman, quarterback of the famed Chicago “T” formation,

scores and egineered the fourth. Two of the Bruin’s touchdowns climaxed

drives of 83 and 87 yards.

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