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Five Tribesmen Name

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Wright. English, Wentzel, Brady and Wallace Henored Brewers Als 0 Well Represented

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Although the American not stage its midsunumer

All-Star board of directors and members of the A. A Chapter decided to select ‘a squad and pastimers honored: The league and writers oers selected also will receive a certificate of merit As was to be expected, t apolis Indians and the Brewers dominate the All-Star] mythical team. Members the Danneker, Minneapolis writers’ chapter, who made the se- Nance, Milwaukee lections, voted five places each to Zak, Kansas City the Redskins and Brewers. | English, Indianapolis The Indians chosen were Pitchers LaForest, Louisville Ed Wright and Jim Wallace, Out-| Flick, Milwaukee fielder Stanley Wentzel, Catcher Wentzel, Indianapolis Bob Brady and Utility Infielder Gil|Rebel, Columbus English. The veteran English also|Genovese, Louisville is a capable outfielder. | Reinhart, Toledo Freshman Award Next | Scheetz, Milwaukee The league and writers’ chapter Wright, Indianapolis also made a freshman-of-the-year Wallace, Indianapolis award, a $100 war bond. The name! Weaver. St. Paul of the lucky rookie is to be an- Speer, Milwaukee nounced by league headquarters to-| Root. Columbus morrow, Savino, Minneapolis Milwaukee All-Star seléctions Stephenson, Milwaukee were Pitchers Owen Scheetz. who Brady, Indianapolis paced the hurlers in the voting, and — Floyd Speer. Catcher Joe Biephghs Outfielder Lew Flick, top

Longson Winner chaser, and Third Baseman Py Nance. Bee club in the league landed In Avehi Tus isle

Every one or more plavers on the All-Sta squad. After Indianapolis and Mil-| “Wild Bill” Longson thre waukee, honors were spaced Eckert Two places each went the St.|_ .. . Paul Saints, Louisville Colonels, '&.° 7 Minneapolis Millers, and Columbus last : Red Birds. while the Toledo Mud Wrestling aassociation Hens and Kansas City Blues placed championship before one man each on the team. | approximately A ‘Star’ at 46 |

game this year on ‘accou el restrictions, the league's

of -Baseball Writers,

20-plaver award $25 war bonds to the

chapter will purchase t! The play-

The A. A..Team

Schoendienst, St. Paul

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heavyweight a crowd of 2800 mat addicts. : Although Eckert gave a good acSt, Paul nominees were First| count of himself he could not match | Baseman Paul Schoendienst and the salt Lake City athlete's ring | Pitcher Buck Weaver, while Min-!|gre as Longson took the first fall | neapolis placed Second Baseman after 35 minutes with a body slam! Frank Danneker and Catcher|and press and thén put on his George Savino. Outfielder Chick|favorite “pile driver” hold to end Genovese and Utility Infielder By-|matters after 10 minutes of the ron LaForest made the grade from! second session. Louisville, while the Columbus, In other bouts choices were Outfielder Art Rebel weight bill and Pitcher Charlie Root, manager waukee topped Cherry of the Birds. who is 46, New Orleans, la. in

on the all-heavy-

Vallina of 15 minutes

Shortstop Frank Zak of Kansas with a headlock and Finus Hall |

City ghd Outfielder Fred Reinhart newcomer from Kansas City,

and of Toledo complete the team.

{Ralph Garibaldi |sled to a 30-minute

of St. Louis

Three in Majors dian : of the players chosen have

already graduated to the major

leagues, namely Wright of Indian- Clow ns s to Oppose apolis, LaForest of Lousville and Bombers Tonight

Rebel of Columbus. Medi Indianapolis only placed a players on the 1944 A, A. All- ¢ Squad. Outfielder Wayne Black-| burn and Catcher Hugh Poland, both now in military service. game was played a year ago,

Three

| Lazarus na is expected to

two!,

when Brown Bombers

Clowns meet Chicago in a double header at Victory fisld The The Clowns be bolstered by

late the addition of two stellar performin July, against the Brewers at ‘Mil- ers, Reece Tatum et Henry

waukee, and the two Tribesters 8! Smit Bt rloug helped the All-Stars maul the host Smith, Who 8 . on friough team by getting two blows apiece | On Sunday the Clowns will op5 ap * |pose the Birmingham Black Barons

Horseshoe Meet [In a Negro American league game

Qualifications will start next Sun- contest day for a city singles champion- | ship horseshoe tourney. Players| interested in entering are asked to contact Arlo Harris.

———————————————— Practice Called Gold Medal Beer of the Municipal Mac 1h 3 league will hold a practice : : tomorrow at 5:30 at Rivers Manas r Norm Beplay pl vers be present,

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The Tribe's series opener with the!to the staff.

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chance slender They are booked for a double-

header out at Lexington park while

the Brewers play a single tilt with |

the Red Birds at

Milwaukee.

| sfretched their

tallied one marker and St. Paul imtied it up and then lead in the second the fourth the lead to 5 to I and the Indians reduced it to to 2 in the fifth and 5 to 3 in the sixth. -In the top half of the seventh the Redskins chalked up one marker and it was 3 to 4, St. Paul Shemo Called Out

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| English and Wentzel, combed Tom Earley {lace serving as pinch hitter, 12 blows,

to 4. The Indians were the eighth but the and brought the game to 4.

the

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ninth the Indians last desperate bid but 11 one of tying. With one out, Gil English and Stan Wentzel singled and Sunkel was relieved b: Tauscher on the home rubbei Wallen beat out an infield hit fill the bases, but Steve Shemo, who ran for him, was called out interference with he attempted

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Harry MacQuinn, former, 500mile race driver, again has succumbed to the lure of the “doodle bugs” and will be behind the wheel of a midget racer Friday night at the Speedrome for the first postwar program, MacQuinn won the national championship at Chicago for three years through 1940 and won 62 of 73 feature events in which he competed during 1938.

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Durheim En Route to Repor To Tribesters in St. Paul

Harry Durheim, the right-h for the Indians this season en plant is going on a full-time basis the season. He departed for:St Burwell and 1s expected | He has won seven games two. He 29 and is a local amateur ball.

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program Presentation of awards President Georzep M: Trautman the five Indians named A. A's mythical All-Star 1945 A commuhity sing with Bob Kirby at the microphone and Connie €Cnhnnaughton at piano with several lead singers to assist. A huge fireworks display des

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‘Birds

program will be first tilt, schedsecond, nine

in C ellar Last time the Columbus Red Birds finished last in the American association was in 1927 id after 18 years of the cellar they are in again and apparently destined to wind up the 1945 there Kansas City crawled out of the coal hole {ast night although losing Toledo. The switch in positions occurred when Columbus dropped a double-header the Brewers in Milwaukee fore 10030 fans assembled welcome home Brewer President Bill Veeck from the marines,

‘Ripple Cubs Take Measure of Aces

The Junior baseball league cham{pion Broad Ripple Cubs triumphed {over the Irvington Aces, 8 to 1 | yesterday at Riverside and thereby earned the right to advance to the finals at Victory field Aug. 30. The Cubs were sparked by the six-hit pitching of Dickie Woods who helped to win his victory when he smacked a double and two singles to drive in three runs

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2

CHICAGO, Aug. 22 (U, P.).— Four girls from the Pacific coast threatened today to turn the 45th annual Women's Western amateur golf championship into a tournament of all western players, These four stars, their extra-long drives an added advantage over the heavily trapped, 6700-yard Knollwood club course, were the kgy performers in the eight second round matches. Heading the quartet was America’s greatest all-round feminine athlete, Mrs. ‘Babe Didrikson Z&harias, the Texas-born lass who smacks the longest ball in the business. Dot Kielty, Los Angeles, was the second most dangerous, while Carol (Babe) Freese of Portland, Ore., and Betty Jean Rucker of Spokane, Wash,, stood as the game's two brightest newcomers. Alice O'Neal Loses Zhharias teed off a heavy, to oust Peggy Kirk of Findlay, O. in their second round match, while Miss Kielty was expected to stop Phyllis Otto of Atlantic, Ia., runnerup to Dorothy Germain for last year's championship. Miss Otto eliminated Alice O'Neal of Indianapolis yesterday, and 2 Splashing through a drenching downpour, Miss Freese ran up yesterday's most decisive score in win- | ning her first round match from { Mary Conwell of Cleveland, 9 and {7.. Miss Rucker wasn't far behind her, blasting Margaret Muench of Chicago out of the rinning. 6 and 5.

ANDERSON, Ind: Aug. 22 (U. P.).—Mike Stefanchik of Gary, who won the Indiana open goll crown in 1943, today attempted to recapture the championship title as the 2d round of play opened in the state's 20th annual open tourney. Stefanchik and Anderson's Bill Knick. both amateurs, led the field of “some 100 entrants at the end of the first round yesterday. Both carded 66's—four under par. : George Shafer, host professional at the Grandview course, scored a 67 along with three other topranking favorites for a four-way tie. Professionals Wayne Timberman, Jim Morris and Chuck Garringer, Indianapolis, were the other 67 shooters & Bill Heinlein, defending champ, carded a par 70 after previously going four under par with a 66 in a preliminary pro-amateur event Only 16 contestants scored par or better in yesterday's opening round. Tied with Heinlein at 70 were Maurice Feeney and Bob Tinder of Indianapolis and John Watson, South Bend, all pros. and Amateurs Joe Gautheir, Gary, and Bob Blake, Anderson Cards of 68 were held by Harter, Indianapolis, and Carithers, Logansport, beth teurs, and Pro Joe Van De South | Bend Bill Train, Haute, was alone with a 69. *

3 Gathes Carded

In Softball Meet

. Only three games are on tonight's schedule of the annual metropolitan area men's softball tournament at Munieipal stadium. Four games a night have been played each night since the event opened In tonight's opener at 7:10, Mit-~chel-Scott, winner in its initial test, will clash with R. C. A, the eighth seeded team, which playing first tourney contest Speedway All-Stars, seeded team, which won

Mrs. favorite

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Stages Late Rally Meanwhile, Mrs. Zaharias was forced to stage a iast-nine rally to nip Jean Hutto of Kansas City, Mo., on.the 17th green, 2 and 1, Miss Suggs also” had to come from behind. One down at the end of nine, she won five of the next seven holes with brilliant golf for a 4-and-3 victory over Rena Nelson of Chicago. ! Dot Kielty ousted Mrs. Hilda L { : Llewellyn of Champaign, Ill.. 3 an | the 1op- 2 while Miss Germain won fou } ; an easy straight holes, from the 132th victory in its opener, will take on through the 15th, to nudge Polly Camp Atterbury Reception center Riley of Ft. Worth, Tex.. 5 and 1 at 8:20. The soldiers copped their ire

itial game d progressed through aI a biel iy Corier Completes Tomorrow's Card

uled affair, The evening's tween Allison Ewart at 9:30 Final arrangements for tomorrow registered two night's five-scrap pro mitt bill at competition the Sports Arena were completed nlast night's Kir A. today with the signing of #Woody A. won over Bethel A. C. El Green. Indianapolis middleweight, Lilly swamped Allison Tool .Jets, for action in the opening four-round {13-3; U. S. Tires nosed nut Meeker bout against Jim Jordan, Chicago Music, 11-10, and Moose Lodge wal- 160-pounder loped Allison Experimental, 9-0, Local fistic followers will see a [12-round rematch in the headline {battle ‘when Sparky Reynolds, rugged Indianapolis challenger, meets Bob Simmons, also of this ity, for the state welterweight title.

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have tourney

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games

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7 TO SET INT BOWLING MEETINGS TONIGHT ¥:30 -P M. —Ladies Handi cap at Dezelan alleys TONIGHT 30 P. M.—Thursday night Moonlite ladies at home of Vivian Par- ¢ ons, 2301 N. La Salle «t Simmo J 8 TOMORROW, 7:30 P. M.—Pritchett mixed 2 nis Way * Late Lrown by utpointing Reynolds over the 10-

league at Pritchett alleys (Openings for two men’s teams. League (no bowl round route at the arena three weeks ago >

heen a Stewart

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Thursdays at 5:30.) Bill TOMORROW, 8:00 P. M.—S8¢{. Catherine's v . Catherine's church hall, : staff. TOMORROW 8 P. M.—Roberson Coal lameme dies captains at West Side alleys. ye { FRIDAY, 6 P. M.—Construction at PritchW ins | ett's alleys scored a field ve

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ywerworged v . > Wakeman Triumphs akeman General hospital blanked the Fort Harrison nine day Rights at no oi +P yesterday, 4-0, to annex the Indiana RY ar: at Fr hap re ” istrict service title. Wakeman meets Camp Atterbury Sunday for

SATURDAY, 7:30 P. M.—Dezelan mixed Yezel in . 0 for Dezelan alleys (Openings fg the Fifth Service command CrOWT

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