Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1944 — Page 8

Jakueki Draw ° . Pitching Jobs [&=. . ; Sanders. By LEO H. PETERSEN Marion, United Press Sports Editor ST. LOUIS, Oct. 7.—Clear, cool weather prevailed today as the 8t.| Louis Browns and the Cardinals) prepared to take the field for the |Z fourth game of the World Series. 4| The forecast was for fair and 1 |cooler today and tonight, with fair and continued cool Sunday. Meanwhile, a stream-lined lefthander and a big, loose-jointed right-hander picked up from baseball's bargain basement dréw the

starting assignments, with the underdog Browns holding a a edge.

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Southpaw Harry (The Cat) Brecheen was the choice in Manager Billy Southworth’s attempt to get his National league champions |back on an equal footing, while Luke Sewell of the Brows Sulled Lett 3 on Sigmund (Jack) u on he resued from the highways which wilks 3 Jeramer 10 or lead to baseball obscurity. : off— humid They won the games that counted [318 JUES Eh, & in the most in the pennant races—

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Left folder Zarilla scores the fourth run in the Browns’ big third inning yesterday, coming in on Cardinal pitcher Schmidt's wild pitch to catcher Walker Cooper. Umpire Dunn is calling the play as Schmidt (No. 11) scoops in Cooper's retrieve. :

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clinch the third consecutive pennant for the Red Birds while Jakuecki beat the New York Yankees in the final game of the season to

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bouts at the Armory last night with the scheduled eight-round main event between George (Sugar) Costner, Cincinnati, and Danny Freeman, Cleveland, ending with the latter flat on the deck after 2:49 of the secon nd session, Costner, who is being groomed for a crack at the welterweight title, found the range after a fast first round and a series of hard: lefts and rignts to the jaw floored’ the Clevelander for a nine’ count. Freeman regained his feet in a groggy condition and a solid poke to the solar plexus finished him. Freeman was a last minute sub for Bobby Fowler, Minneapolis. The six round semi-final resulted Championship in a win for Bud Hershey, of Ft, |MOTTOW SHSrason 4% Vita) Dela Wayne, over Tito Taylor, Chicago ; 0 si SI | Ma middleweight. Taylor finished |Reliables strong after dropping the first four rounds for low punching. Buddy Maxwell, Indianapolis welter, won a third-round technical knockout ‘over Bill Henry, Indianapolis, and Pvt. Cook, Camp Alterbury, stopped Joe Poindexter, local lightweight, in the final session of a scheduled four, A second six on the six-event bill was captured by Pvt. Jim Crowe, Camp Atterbury, after a sizzler with Mike Edwards, Chicago middle weight. Another four rounder saw Will Rogers, Indianapolis” welter, punch out a decision over Walter Hughes, another local belter.

Walker, Boudreau Hitting Champs

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U. P).—~ Fred (Dixie) Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers, by boosting his batting average 49 points over his best previous mark in 14 major league seasons, captued the 1944 National league championship with a lusty mark of .357, official figures revealed today. Walker's winning mark was 30 points better than the top mark in the American league, made by Manager Lou Boudreau, playing pilot of Cleveland, who had a .327 final figure. The leading American league pitcher on percentage was Cecil (Tex) Hughson of the Boston Red Sox, inducted shortly after mid-

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Local bowlers scoring last night. Three outstanding team totals were turned in, a 3057 by Marott Shoe that set the pace among the male leaguers and a 2789 by Ideal Furniture and a 2771 by Hoosier Coal & Oil in feminine circles. Marott’s had 1030, 984, 1043 in the Fox-Hunt Classic to reach their big series. Oscar Behrens and Harry Wheeler gave the quintet a foundation with counts of. 680 and 659. Behrens had 244, 223, 213 and Wheeler 209, 224, 226. Ralph Richman was the only other Classic leaguer to pass 650. He had 212, 242, 221675 for Barbasol. Misses 700 Series

Dave James missed a 700 series by one pin when he fired 197, 237, 265—699 for Unemployment Compensation in the Insurance league at the Pennsylvania. His series was tops in city-wide individual competition. Others over 650 were Wyatt May with 210, 220, 224—8654 for Stewart-Warner in the Washington league at the Illinois and Bill Brown with 224, 197, 232—653 for Mitchell Cleaners in the Fun Bowl Industrial. The Ideal girls ammassed their big series through 914, 950, 925, while the Hoosiers posted 976, 893, 902 for their huge total. Both series were rolled in the Kernel Optical league at Pritchett's, where two soloists passed 600 and 29 others were over the 500 mark. Nine of the 29 were above 550. Rolls 2d 600 Series Judy Hindel led the field with her second 600 series of the week. She had 178, 222, 234—634 for Tompkins Ice Cream. She gave the same team a 625 in the Johnson Coal session Wednesday night. Gertrude Bradley broke into the 600 class for the first time this season with 226, 191, 216—8633 for Red Rock. The two big series boosted the

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Figures for the first three games of the world series: Total attendance—103,055, * Total receipts—$453,363. Players’ share—$231,215, Commissioner’s share—$45,273. Each club’s share—$25,654. Each league's share—$25,654. War Relief, Inc.—$74,255.

WRITING ‘in Sporting News, the baseball weekly, J. G. Taylor Spink, the editor, said that although this year’s American league race will be recorded as one of the most spectacular of all time, it failed to match the historic windup of the National league chase of 1908 for fury, bickering and lingering bitterness. That was the race decided by the famous “playoff” at the Polo Grounds, New York, Oct. 8, 1908, in which the Chicago Cubs defeated the New York Giants, 4 to 2. 7 The late John J. McGraw, then manager of the Giants, always referred to the 1908 championship as the one “which we won on the field, but they stole from us in the meeting room.” By losing to the Cubs, McGraw's bitter New Yorkers fell back to a tie with Pittsburgh for second-place. . + The championship Cubs, taking their third straight pennant, won 99 games and lost 55 for a percentage of. .643, and the deadlocked Giants and Pirates sach won 98 games and lost 56 for a .636 rating. The race was so close that had Pittsburgh defeated the Cubs, Sunday, Oct. 4, in Chicago, the last scheduled game for these two clubs, the Pirates would have won the pennant. . . . However, Mordecal Brown defeated Vic Willis and Howard Camnitz, 5 to 2. , . Then the two western contenders had to wait for the outcome of a three-game series between the Giants and the Braves in the East.

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give the Browns their first American league pennant by a one-game margin over the Detroit Tigers. Brecheen won 16 games while losing only five this year and Jakucki’s record for his first major league season was 13 and nine, Harry The Cat came up with the Cardinals last year from Columbus of the American association, while the easy-going, good-natured Jakucki was playing semi-pro ball when the Browns picked him up. He probably never would have received a major league opportunity had not the war drained the ranks of professional baseball players. While Brecheen was poison to the National league, Jakucki was doing better than all right in the junior circuit, but hé had one weakness which kept him from being one of the leading hurlers. That was his home run ball. Once he gets behind a batter, he usually comes down through the middle with his hard one and sometimes it isn’t fast enough. But when his control is gilt-edged he has a low slider that gives betters plenty of trouble. Jack Kramer handcuffed the Cards yesterday with seven scattered hits as the Hitless Wonder boys of Sewell put on one of their best displays of what little batting power they possess. The Browns, long on pitching and fielding, needed help from their weakest department to win, for their fielding which stood them in such good stead during their stretch drive for the pennant bogged down once more. : Errors Cost 2 Runs

Infield errors gave the Cardinals two unearned runs—one of them 0g | I the first inning—but they more than made up for that when they eo | Shelled Ted Wilks, Southworth’s rookie star, from the box in the third inning. : Wilks was coasting along under Shi that 1-to-0 lead and, although Fred Mounts, Fox-Hunt Classie 610 troubled by wildness, had pitched Bu Beller: Sesen-by CUPL1210 88 no-nit bail for the first two and gat Mindaeh, Fox-Hunt Classie 9| two-thirds innings. But with two Bill iy ihe, Waste uetion men down in the third, the veteran Boh Walker, Allison. A. Sterner Gene Moore broke the spell with i Sehoel. Sport Bowl Reen.. a single. nn Ro s, i rey a TR A oka Je Ye vat ig oe Vernon Stephens, George McQuinn; Al Zarillas and Mark Christman followed with singles and Fred 834 Schmidt, who relieved Wilks after Christman’s hit, contributed a wild pitch.

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ON TOP of this, the National league was presented with the possibility of a three-way tie after the “playoff.”. . , If Boston had taken one of the three games from New York, and the Giants then had won the “playoff,” New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh would have heen deadlocked for the league lead. Happily for League President Harry Pulliam, he didn’t have to contend with this headache, though brooding over the bickering and bitterness which came as a backwash of the 1908 race, he ended his life the following year. on. s = = THOUGH the Giants swept the three games from the Braves, they had encountered a. peck of trouble the week before when Harry Coveleskie, then a rookie southpaw with the Phillies, beat them three games in six days. It was another sore spot with McGraw, that Billy Murray, the Philadelphia manager, had overworked a young pitcher to such an extent for the satisfaction of knocking the ‘Giants out of the race. Had the Giants won one of these games from Coveleskie, the subsequent loss of the “playoff” would still have left them tied for the league leadership.

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‘Playoff’ Was a ‘Replay’ of a Tie WITH the passing of the years, that Oct. 8 game is called the “playoff,” and many fans and younger writers believe the teams were tied at the end of the season and that this was the game ordered played to decide the pennant. Actually, it was a replay of a tie—of the disputed “Merkle game” of Sept, 23, in which the unfortunate young Giant first baseman, then only 19, neglected to touch second base in a game with the Cubs. There was so much commotion over this disputed game that the National league's board of directors decided to play it over the day following the close of the regular championship season, if the game was necessary to determine the championship. ® =» » ® = THE Cubs struck hard in one inning and brought grief to the biggest crowd New York:-or baseball, for that matter—had known up to that time by scoring four runs on Christy Mathewson in the third, A triple by Joe Tinker, Matty’s jinx, partly the result of Center Fielder Cy Seymour misjudging a liner, was the payoff blow of the inning, the game and the season.

All-Junior Heavy Mat Bill Offered

Junior heavyweights will provide all of the action on the three-bout wrestling card bf the Hercules A.C. next Tuesday night at the armory. Al Bzasz, the St. Claire, Mo. ne Clyde Cox. matman who was here for the first grand ren, passed sway : time last Tuesday and beat Gorilla ——s

Poggi, will be in the opener against HERR—Reba, age 46, daughter of George

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against Tex (Half Pint) Hager in the semi-windup. Hager “looked like a million” in his initial armory match last Tuesday. The headliner is between “Mas rice Les Cha of Montre Hes La Pe tion of Hitler on July 20.

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