Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1947 — Page 8

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Brewer Lead Cut

To 13 Games in

3-2 Legion

Babe Ruth Sits In on And Sees Kid Teams

Night Tilt

Proceedings Play Close One

By BOB STRANAHAN

Third place in the American association race Is the Tribe targe( tonight at Victory fleld when the Milwaukee Brewers will be met in a

double-header,

Manager ‘Jimmy Brown's charges pared the Brewer lead to a game and a half last night by taking a 3-2 decision before an enthusiastic

American Legion night crowd of 81 Babe Ruth sat in on part of the proceedings as- an honored guest and saw the Legion Junior all-stars win a 4-1 contest from Acton’s 1946 champions. The ailing Bambino spoke briéfly in a ceremony at the! plate, but was forced to retire be-| fore the Tribe game was over, Slender Royce Lint, making his third start since coming to Indianapolis from “Albany, stopped the Brews with five hits, but he was

forced to share the hero role, Catcher Roy Jarvis clouted a seventh inning-homer and Pete

Castiglione came through with a ninth-inning clutch single to drive in Lint with the winning marker. Pitcher Walks The Tribe pitcher walked to start to third on a hit by Gene Mauch.

Milwaukee played in close on Cas-|o9n bases—Milwaukes

the ninth All-star pitchers limited Acton to seven blows in the well-played jurifor tilt the victory and contributed a double to the all-stars’ seven-hit attack off Dwight Swails. Blues Strengthen Lead

Kansas City strengthéned its lead to 5% games last night after whipping Louisville, its nearest pursuer, twice. The Blues shut out the Colonels 4 to 0, in the first game at Louisville and then beat them, 6 to 2, in the nightcap. Columbus edged St. Paul, 2 to 1, and Toledo measured Minneapolis, 6 to 3. Marius Russo fashioned a five-hijt job in blanking Louisville while Kansas” City hammered a pair of pitchers In the first game for nine

the inning and was moved Gillenwater

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Tribe Box Score

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B R 1 O A Kj 55 £0 1 3 3 '6 | Marian h, 2b 3 1 1.3 "2 "O Neth if 4 0 § 3 9 4 eck hy 4 1 I 6 0 0 | PhiTlips Bo ‘ Nn 0 1 } 0 | Gillenwater: of ., 1 0 1 6 0 n Roberge. 1f 4 0 6 1 0 0 Schuleter, ¢ 3 0 4 3 Qf Ross, p 3 dP 4 0 0 0 Totals 32 3 3" 1 #4 *One oul when w un scored INDIANAY oLis BHO A. RB Mauch. 2 b 5 4 2 4 0 Castiglione, as 5 0 1 0 3 a Morau, Ih 4 1 1 R 1 0 Weatherly, of 3 0 J 3 06 4 | Rosenthal, rf 3 0 3 3 0 0 Guintini, If 4. 4 0.3 0 08 Andres, 3b 4-4 41 1 6 Jarvis. ¢ 4 1 i 6 0 6} Lint, ¢ } aro 4 | Totals 3 12 2.9 8 {Milwaukee 00010001 0-2 | Ingianupolis 0 » 000 J 2 A Ju<3

Runs batted In-Becker 2, Jarvis, Castiglione Two-base hid ath. Hoe runs—Becker, Jarvis, Double fisys—Murtaugh to Dark to Rocks Phillips to Murtaugh to Becker dcker, 1a Kom 3 “Birike:

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ases on balls sg Lint 3

Cuintinl 3, Mauch 4. Andres. Brown’ Two-bass hits—Moran 21, Weatherly 19 Castiglione 17. Andres 14. Quintin

Wentzel 13, Mauch 10, Riddle 6, Brown 4 Jarvis 2, Willaims eres Stolen bases—Brown 8, Wentzel 4, Moran 4, Weatherly 3, Andres 3, Jarvis 32, Top. llone 3, Mauch 3, Rosenthal, Mal-, t

blows, Cal McLish, Blues' pitcher, extended the Colonels’ string coreless ‘innings until the ninth of | the nightcap. Then, with a 6-0 lead, McLish, who pitches with | either hand, yielded a pair of runs. | Kansas City made all of its runs in the sixth Inning. | With Jerry Witte and Dick | Kimble sparking the attack by hit-| ting home runs, the Hens dfew within a game of seventh place at Toledo. Witte got his with a man on base in the first inning and Kimble tallied the eéventual winning run in the third. Ray Shore

was the winning pitcher, allowing the Millers seven hits, ! . . . Tribe Pitching Ww i IP HW BB SO Malloy 4 9 6 128%; 138 55 4 Nagy 11021; 81 36 94 Tos 1 TMT IM HTS Perez 5 5 90% 90 51 40 Fieteher 7 6 118%; 118 65 65 Rarreft 4 3 0 84 28 0) Hallett 4 10 83% 103 00 78 Ferek ' 1.401, 51 26 2» Lin 1 Im 19 10 16 Ex Inhans "Bor ano won 2; Woods won | lost Wilkie lost 1; Gornicki lost 1; Gables Ya 2. lost 8.

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JOHNSON'S FOE—Sylvester Perkins of Chicago will meet | Al Johnson, Indiana light heavy | champ, in the top [0-rounder on tomorrow night's fistic headliner at the Sports Arena. Per kins won from the Indianapolis scrapper in a previous meeting | in the Windy City.

Replay for Benefit NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (U P)Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers announced today that the voided game of July 20: with the St. Louis Cardinals will be replayed on Monday night, Aug 18, with all proceeds to go to the Brooklyn War Memorial fund.

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Mize Ahead of Ruth's

[it was Mize's 96th, |* Ruth,

2, Rosenthal 2, Nagy, | probably was safe “because there's

too much of-the element of luck in hitting so many.” “Mize has the best chance. He has| everything a great slugger needs,” the Babe said. “But he'd have to go like hell to hit all those homers.”

Each Two Games

In that statement Ruth was right, ! To break the mark, Mize must hit one home run each two games for, the rest of the season, Ruth set the mark with a tremendous burst of 17! fourbaggers in September, Mize's two blows and Willard Marshall's 28th homer last night {brought the Glant season total to 1151, just 30 under the Yankee alltime mark of 181 for a season, and indicated a new record of more than 1200 will be set, The Giants play the {last-place Phils six more games in {the next nine days, Mize had a third “homer” last night, In the first inning he singled to center field and Harry Walker let the ball roll through him to the fence as puffing Johnny: came alll {the way home. Dave Koslo held the | Phils to three hits for his 13th win. | 8t. Louls, still doggedly chasing | Brooklyn, finally made some head{wa trimming the Dodger lead to

mightily at bat, stopped the Dodgers as he took his 15th triumph. Sain | batted in the first Boston run snd [ scored the second himself, and Hank |Camelli's two-run double in the | sixth sent Hal Gregg to the with the loss. Brooklyn got nine hits and Boston five, but the Brook bingles were scattered. Hank Greenberg paced Pittsburgh ito & 12-to-4 victory over Cincinnati, |

* batting in three runs and scoring | [Rhody 3

twice. Dixie Howell got three hits jand tallied twice as the Bucs bat-

| tered four Red pitchers,

The American league race became

even more of a runaway as the Yanks trimmed Philadelphia, 8 to 5, . NATIONAL A GUE H Av | Walker Phila So AB » 123 145 | Cooper, New York. 84 328 57 1086 323! j Galan, Cincinpati 89 208 30 85 3171 { Gustine, Pitts 104 406 50 128 315 Walker, Brooklyn 103 350 S50 111 309 AMERICAN LEAGUE G AB R H Ay Boudreau, Cleve 90 321 50 108 33 | Kell, Detroit 95 J64 44 122 138 | DiMaggio, N. ¥ MM In 73 121 33% Williams, Boston 100 iN % 108 32 Appling, Chicago . 07 379 50 120 .317 HOME RUNS , Glants J4! Cooper, Giants 25 Marshall Giants 28) Willlams, R. Sox 24 Kiner, Pirates 2 RUNS BATTED IN Mize, Giants 89 Williams, R. Sox 4 Marshall, Giants 85 Kiner, - Pirates 2 Cooper, Giants (1) RUNS Mize, Giants 93 Henrich, Yanks . 78 Robinson, Dodg. 91 Kiner, Pirates 7 Williams, R. Sox 79 Baumholts, Reds 120 Walker. Phillies 123 Gustine, Pirates 128 Kell, Tigers 122 Pesky,

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urrounding the Bambino at Victory field are Gene Stinger, Bobby Riley, Darrel McFall, James Twigg, Dick Ehlert, t, Frank Bradford and Jerry O'Brien.

commenting at Indianap-| i + lols, said yesterday that his record] defeated the Bosox, 3 to 1, with a a

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In Fie For 2:

Hoot Mo

At3to1 By R GOSHEN, N. its: onion crop Hambletonian stal Rodney, R. H big horse for th 4000 souls far bey However, any of th year-old trotters w of an upset. The price quote: dropped to 8-to-5 Derby of harness chief rivals for strong support. | entry of Hoot Mc still were held at 3 ay Farm's Way" 4-to-1, The entry and Buckshot B. porters at 5-to-1, 1 Stable’s Grand Pa 7 and the Lone L. B. Sheppard's was 10. Tyson Hanover, "Duer, was 15 witl Farm’s Joe's . Pric Short’s Patrick

The famous Ruth autograph goes on ie album. SAFE AT FIRST —Don Shimer of Acton beats Don Campbell's throw to Joe Pirtle at first by a whisker to get on base but the all-star Legion team went ahead

to win the tilt from last year's district champions, 4-1, at Victory field last night,

Ruth Is Given [Raburn Takes Wilkams Holds

Records Fall At Speedrome

Mat Feat

; 'H Production Mark Homestead Stable in ni En Homer Production Mark 1 Eso Naw Golf Clubs |Lsmstsses cx w= Bove’ Links Lead ~ [Ebene went over Carden Gillenwater's Tribe Botting NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—Given a little luck and a whole lot of books at the Indianapolis Speedrome Jot Hise alls ivi Al Pan, he at 40 to 1. Ri , { y , . ! i { ets head in center field, OA BWR M Philadelphia Phil pitching, big John Mize of the New York Giants may today following some fast midget When Babe Ruth YeCovers suf- lon - the wrestling show at Sports | Additional entries in the city ne oi Heinz Becker looped a homer |Riddie #1 156 15 3 20 345 break Babe Ruth's home run record of 60—although the Babe doubts it.{auto action at the East side track ! ar Rodney g te wall for the Brews in the| Ma h 32 196 21 4b 10 : Fans who saw Mize clout his 33d and 34th homers last night to lead |last night. ficiently to again play his Tavorite Arena ast night. y teen-age golf tournament were exe Hoot Mon when | Yar | Weathers 108 380 63 117 86 i the Giants to a 5 to 2 victory over the Phils weren't so skeptical.| ‘Bob Breading of Indianapolis 8ame of golf hell swing some new| Raburn took the first fall In 17! 0 eq today as the field moved to were drawn for th third, but the Tribe came back 10}5h, 43 Tow 21 62 id Prk | clubs provided by Indianapolis Ford minutes with a jack knife. He los for he drew the tt square it In the sixth. A single by|Guiniini #8 307 41 95 41 ‘sos Georgia Johnny, who has none of Ruth's color and most of his power, broke his own 25- lap feature mark (the second to Pasha in four ites | South Grove for the third qualifye black colt from © ran 2 5 Buch ‘Moran, walk 10 Jarvis and| Ai he ad far 4 ed Bert ne an rd rahe to stretch their lead to 14 games TR gprs The Bambino was presented a on a Boston crab, but captured the ing round. next-to-last posit " ol | base hit ro- Gastigliona, a8 408 15 108 20. 264 1 | t A , " mays ; Jarry aX aniare P mown Yo iu fa wm 33 257 Blix Donnelly in the sixth inning 71% Basion na Detroit Jost inning | OTe auser, set a new 10-lap rec- certificate for the clubs yesterday at deciding fall in nine minutes with! Other qualifying rounds will be looking for his fi v Lh hth | Jarvis... 12 117 14 18 Ho and Schoolboy Rowe in the eighth,| : ord at 2:21, and Johnny McDoweil. a luncheon in his honor at the Indi- a-cradle hold. played tomorrow -at Riverside and victory, was slated ed A Bly ano binun | adm une Weatnerly 1. Gunuin 31 ug wert” ated of the pace Ruth |S8'e New York its victory over "helt Los Angeles turned 15 laps in anapolis Athletic club, ° | Martino Angelo of Toledo and another 18-hole test Friday at Cof< . while Sep Palin of ndres» n i LR | oran | ’ ’ - . oo ree Helder’ | Wentrel 4 tn 3. Haters osstiglions 3,| marked out in 1927. Ruth got his| Qo each bated nwo Yank|® 328 for another new record. | Ruth is consultant of the Ford Frank Talaber of Chicago went to a fin, The best two rounds of the won with Greyhot mn } d the winning run in! Three- base "ila Castiglione 1, Weatn- | 34th four-bagger. in his 98th game; | B Breading edged out Hansen in company for the American Legion draw in the 30-minute semi-windup. week will qualify 32 boys for the Hoot Mon, + 1hen he score le winning erly 6 Kalin 4, Wentzel 4, Moran 4, runs.

ithe feature with McDowell Anishing| Junior baseball program, | Silent Rattan of Warsaw beat | championship match play flight a close third. . J. O'Neil, district manager for George Strickland of Columbus with [that will begin next Monday. at . Fred Roessler of Indianapolis won Ford, acted as master of ceremonies a flying head scissors in 18 minutes pleasant Run. a 15-lap race for Fords and. Roy for the affair and introduced Gov- to open the card. All are junior| Eis Brown, Butler university

Several other d ward to a second, the case of the ve who drives Deann

Walter Masterson of- Washington |

|seven-hit pitching job. Dave Ferriss gave the Nats only five hits, but

|Graham of Buffalo, N. Y., took the ernor Ralph Gates, Mayor George heavyweights. (student, grabbed medal honors yes victory in the race [seven Walks and two hit batsmen consolation event. Denny, Paul V. McNutt, first am-| sei nema terday at Sarah Shank with a one Tom Berry; whi [ruine § periormance, m——— bassador to the Philippines; Frank | J par 71. Other 70 shooters In a twilight game, Cleveland Ruth Man Nev. Visit C. Lane, president of the A. A. and] All Tickets Sold for | were Dick Eennedy with.a 73-ind : came from behind to trounce De- | y- {Harry Geisel, the former American Notre Dame-Navy Game robert Spear with a 74. Field for {troit, 8 to 4, as every starter but| Hometown Ball Park league umpire. All paid tribute to; NOTRE DAME, #Ind., Aug. 6 The five low scorers for the first GOSHEN, N | pitcher Bob Lemon joined in the el BALTIMORE, Aug. 6 (U. P.) — the Babe, his accomplishments and (U., P.)—All tickels for the Notre two days were Gerald Williams, th Hambletonia: |13-hit attack. Lou Boudreau of the Babe Ruth may soon return to his his work for the good of baseball. | Dame- Navy game, to be played in!70-80—150; Brown, 80-71—151: Bob . { Indians hit two doubles to regain Ba home town for a Visit. In a press conference Ruth nom- Cleveland, Nov. 1, have been sold,| Buchanan, '73-79—152; Kennedy, HORSE [the league batting lead from George © TE 0 on, chairman of the inated Johnny Mize of the Giants as|Herbert E. Jones, business manager 81-73—154, and Spear, 81-7415, Joe's: Pride

Kell of Detroit with a .336 mark, |

| Chicago's White Sox defeated the | { American Legion: pageant schedules|the player -most likely to succeed of athletics, announced today. { aScotch Thistle

Entries will be accepted tomorrow

| Public sale of tickets opened at at_ Riverside from 8 a. til Rodney Aug. 26, said Ruth has been in- him as home run champ. Mize made c sale o s ope a verside from m. un 3% Louis Browns. 3 1 1, bering Ed; or 2 o: return to the spot where he [the Babe look like a seer when he Notre Dame on Aug. 1. This was noon and each entrant must play bYololons B. bopats Jour. hit iirling. Ones he started on the road to baseball glory clouted two four-baggers last might|preceded by an alumni preference at least 18 holes on two different ABushot To Chae's, ree hiis, le b his total to 34. [sale from July 1 to 2, “I municipal courses to qualif Chicago attack on Sam Zoldak, (and take part in the show. wo Ting 4s ———————— com p 9 Y. Grand Parade

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Servo Kayoed In First Round

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Aug. 8 (U bHoot Mon P.) ~The comeback campaign of Black Key Marty Servo received a severe jolt a~~Ervine-St;

last night when the former welterweight champion was knocked out by Joe De Martino, Bridgeport, in 1:28 of the first round of their scheduled 10-round bout. | Servo, a top-heavy favorite, hit the canvas three times before De | Martino finally knocked him out of the ring.” De Martino weighed 148,

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