Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1947 — Page 11

_ Saturday, Nov, 15, 9 p. m. that evening. Third and

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. §, 1947 Pin Patter WITH the launching of the first annualpPritchett's Five-Man Classic Sweepstakes on Nov. 15 the city of Indianapolis will make its bid to become ane of the top bowling centers of the nation. The tournament will include 96 of the leading teams of the country. A $1000 first prize will go t0 the winning combination, making the event one of the richest ever to be i in this city. Second 3 plate will pay $700; third, $500; fourth, $400. The prize fund will total $5000.

= » » 5 ACCORDING to Paul Stemm, |W tourney secretary, entries have al-|; ready been received from teams in Chicago, Oleveland, Detroit and Cincinnati, This gives further as- |i surance that some of the best bowl- |S ers in the country will be present. | Stemm will accept entries until the limit of 96 is reached, or until midnight Sunday, Oct. 26. Each of the competing teams will roll four games. The tourney will take place across eight alleys at the E. Maryland St. establishment. The first shift will roll at § p. m. the second at

By Frank Wikon

$5000 CLASSIC Paul Stemm (left) is tournament manager for the rich Pritchett's Five-Man Classic Sweepstakes. . to be held next month at the Pritchett alleys. Tournament

= Brooklyn’ hrs Situation Stays All ‘Snafu'f.

Bums Don't Know Who's Their Manager

Rickey Faces Toughest Problem

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (U, P)~In contrast to the sudden and sharp ¢hanges in the New York Yankee set-up, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ situs ation today was more muddled and puzzling than ever. The Yankees, at least, know who their bosses are; but the Dodgers ww find themselves with two man-

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Topping, Webb Buy L

NEW YORK, Oct,

There was evident relief In faces MacPhail's complete severance

‘rom the affairs of the club. |

P).~Alvin Q,

Peace, Quiet Return To Yankee Stadium

As MacPhail Departs .

arry's Interest

For An Estimated $2 Million

w By OSCAR FRALEY, United Press Sports Writer 8. — For two men who had just spent an = estimated $3 million Dan Topping and Del Webb were very happy. They stood side by side in Webb's swanky suite at the Waldorf~ Astoria and the dark-haired Topping announced, with the Arizona millionaire smiling agreement, that they ‘had bought Larry MacPhail’ one-third interest in the New York Yankees.

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as they announced Race Driver Dies

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Oct. 8 (U, (Jeep) Colkitt, 30,

secretary is Ted Wessell (right). Earlier Agreement one of the leading auto drivers in

The dapper Topping revealed that the East died . yesterday of injuries w and Webb, who now become i ' received Monday night when his ‘qual Suptmers, pod ajfecd y¥en bes racing car smashed into a guard | «ore. the serie P rail during the 100<lap feature race

fourth will roll Nov. 16 at 2 i Jour 3 Shifts wil Nov. 16 a The $5000 tourney will open

i.» Nov.

THE entry fee is $65.50, which In- {last n on with Stivers coming out cludes the cost of bowling. All tour- on top by five pins.

gers, Burt Shotton and Leo Du‘ocher, with Club President Brangh YUckey facing one of the toughest llemmas in his career as a major eague executive.

ston and ner Mare

of Toledo tag-team e Armory of Birme ‘eidner of

) recently Billy Ra~

anted the d at the . won by th a roll« Schultz, r to even [ the secthe vice - Weidner a Boston

an news honors by of Boston ng tackle

, manager.

Les Lau William

ney expenses will be absorbed by |

From the entry fee $5750 will be games of 267, 179 and 224 for 670.

placed in the prize fund. Entries Pritchett, who bowls for the Sola-|Ajrlines that Durocher and his wife,

should be sent to Pritchett Recrea- taire team in the West Side Classic, tion, 37 E. Maryland St. Ted Wessel is the tournament | second «place 665.

ran a close race for the top honors dependent League.

Last Night's Bowling Leaders

600 BOWLERS (MEN) [Hazel Jordan, Meadowsee Harry , Stivers, Rennsylvania Rec.... Joe Britohett, West. Side C Inssic...... das Jessie inner, Prit Jim asy, est Sh e Classic Bill Abraham, P. L. Jacobs e3pjdean Case, “britiahe

Mary Dunbar ‘Antlers. . Otto Gray, Sportsman's Store 634 anor r Kottkamp, i 3 spon.

Bove her, von meier’s Gril . i Siue Ri b.

John McGrew, West Side Classic Luke Switzer, West Side Classic..... Earl Fegan, West 8ide Classic Ito Jenkins, Pennsylvania Rec aul Day, Pennsylvania Rec. . Bi McGregor, Commercial. .... Rudy Kempe, Indiana Recreation..... Virgil Patton, Funbowl Social. “ay Allen, Pennsylvania Recreation. . Sous Mascari, Pennsylvania x Shaw, Pennsylvania Recreation. an’s ore

Herb Hohlt, Bt . Ed Erler, Br, o Bus. M. Classic. . Class

1 carts, per, Joke ‘arner Mixed Ra Bailey, Jadiane lis Life In. al Parsons, Priehofe Mix .

i ae Puysand, TrBotes Sond Mise. sn Bulldog Harriers Beat Greyhounds

Coach Galvin Walker's

Pennsylvania Recreation. . urrle, Sportsma Artiedge

D. Adams . Joe Danna, Pennsylvania ‘Rec... er OTHER LEADERS (MEN) Louis Kossman, Dean Pump. .

Rolling for the Sugar Creek ButPritchett’s, and the event will be ter team in the Pennsylvania Rec-

open to spectators free of charge. reation League, Harry put together

{had scores of 256, 227 and 182 for his

| Leading the women's division was Harry Stivers.and Joe Pritchett Dorothy Erler with a 574 in the In-

Lending weight to the belief In jome quarters that Rickey may al‘eady have reached a solution was the announcement by American

RIVAL CAPTAINS—John screen actress Laraine Day, have| booked passage on a plane leaving | at midnight tonight for Los An-| geles. Fans wondered whether Durocher |. record turnout for the game.

High School football captain paid a visit to Warren Central's camp, but it was only to shake hands with Irven Waterman Warrior pilot, in interest of their game Friday night at the P ren Central has installed additional bleachers and expects a near-

Manka (left), Lawrence Central

ost Rd. school, War-

was leaving town because he had

an impasse. . Letter From Chandler There was no report that Rickey

and Durocher had gotten together ch of the Washington Senators,

$03 for a conference. But Durocher In-|,,ssibilities to succeed Ossie Bluege, so0| dicated that he expected to talk to the Washington club's President Clark Griffith of the Nats admitted he was considering It was said that Durocher has in| “three or four men,” but said he probably would not announce his choice :: 4aa| his pocket a letter from Baseball for at least 10 days.

farm system. the Dodger boss sometime today.

| Commissioner A. B. Chandler to the| Ferrell, one of the most popular]

his original status effective with the | uniform, was believed by many

47 75| final out of the World Series, But|have the inside track on the job deal for Lou Boudreau. 70| Rickey was maintaining ; 44% had received no official notice of the club's strategy. He has been : 3 Durocher’s reinstatement,

that he | because of his close association with

| with the Nats off and on since

Rickey did spend some time yes- 1937, and is regarded a8 a superb

60 . handler of pitchers... te ith Burt Shotton; the man ga Others mentioned prominently

and guided the young team to the|fOF the post were Coach Sam West,

who replaced Durocher as manager

National League pennant. Rickey

Butler and Shotton were closeted for sev- McKechnie Denies

coat he wun vin ele) Rick Ferrell in Line for Bluege's Job With Senators

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P).—Rick Ferrell, veteran catcher and

Ralph Ittenbach, Robert

3 cross-country squad won its open- eral hours, but Shotton indicated 38 ing meet of the season yesterday, that the conversation had been con-

He Has Resigned

CLEVELAND, Qct. 8 (U. P).~|peague pennant were playing man-

today topped the list of managerial who has been appointed director of

Second Baseman Gerry Priddy, and {Joe Kuhel and Buddy Myer, former | Washington players. Griffith said he tried to make a manager {of the Cleveland Indians. “Bill Veeck (general manager of the Indians) told me he'd consider a good shortstop in exchange for Boudreau,” said Griffith. course, lets us out.” The Nats’ president traditionally has chosen his managers from within his own organization. only two men ever to pilot the Washington club to an American

what MacPhail received but added:

“That, of| ly, even though the Yankees “made

The|mote so much.”

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Louis Taylor, ..5821Greyhounds, 19 to 44. Wayne Ross, Allison Ofifes Mixed ... 571) Butler's captain, Jim Cline, won| Ray . ar exsuee eee 30 first place and was clocked at 12:52 Cet laa OWA... 363 for the 2% -mile course. Second was Vie Forman, Indians Bleach, . Mixed Jim Langford, Indiana Central, | Stewart-Wagner Mixed... while Jim Mitchell of Butler was third. Butler won the remaining!

Harold unt, Naval Ordnance Cleat Helms, McQuay Mortis basse 328! places down to eighth. The runners were:

Myron Starn, Internal Reven Barney Walker, Friehofer Bond Mixed | Jim Parker, Holiday Mixed.. Mel Zimmerman, Ind. Emp. Sec. Mix. Stanley Rosenstein, RCA Mixed

\Tsarefl and Haydn - Parks.

500 BOWLERS (WOMEN) n Dorothy Tangy dependent. Sam Stone and John Larsen of

Robert Colver, Howard | Sutherland, Richard Cassidy, Gene!

downing Indiana Central College’ ; i to player personnel.

Holds Strong Hand

|to make one, for the Dodgers man-

{agership as a result of the World|a move. Despite the Bums four to {three loss, Shotton emerged with |from Pittsburgh that Cleveland re- place. He said the

| | Series.

lincreased. stature as a strategist.

two games.

Such an outcome” was not. ex-|true. pected after.the Bums had played like: amateurs in losing the first{Boudreau does, and that still goes" Shotton’s deft juggling | McKechnie said.

he had no intention of making such |fault with Bluege's handling of the

Bill McKechnie, coach of the Cleve- agers — Bucky Harris and Joe|dered MacPhail out of baseball. Yet

Shotton was believed to hold a|land Indians, today denied that he|Cronin,

| stronger hand in a bid, if he wishes had resigned his position and said| Griffith said he had found no happy over the change.

Phail's one-third interest. “We didn't know he was going to resign as Yankee general manager, because his contract had three more years to rug at $50,000 per year,” ‘Topping explained. “But when we turned down an offer of $3 million for 50 per cent of the club 10 days ago MacPhail asked us to buy him out.” Topping refused to state Just “Mgure it out for yourself, We were offered $3 million for 50 per cent, Well, we settled with MacPhail on the basis of that offer for one<third of the stock.” He said that the payoff “was a very definite increase over what MacPhail put up when we bought the club.” Weiss Moves Up Topping, who now takes over as president, indicated that he and Webb were against taking the team to South America for spring training. But he called for George Weiss, veteran baseball front office man who becomes general manager and will direct the world champions. Topping told sportswriters that he thought MacPhail could have handled the club more economical-

money” this year. “He was a great promoter,” Top-| ping said, “but you can only pro-

But he insisted he knew nothing about persistent reports that Come missioner A. B. Chandler had or«

at Candlelight Stadium.

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it was clear that he and Webb were

club, despite the fact that the Nats

McKechnie sald by telephone fihished the season

ports of his resignation were not director of the farm system was a

“I said I would get-out when{job: in our organization.”

“I wouldn't take

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restored ‘respect for his manageri bail ‘magic. pee fmanagertal| | Association will hold its first meet} His surprise

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| selection of wild! | ing of the current year tonight at 8' ; oo . Iyoung. Rex Barney to start the in the masion picture Bojgetion| [fifth game also redounded to his|T00m of the fieldhouse, Andrew Boa

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Motion pictures of the Butler Ohio University game ‘will be shown and refreshments will be served. |

were stymied by Frank Shea and | lost, 2 to 1. Rumors were a dime a dozen, in- i cluding — “Shotton really doesn’t want to manage the Dodgers in '48;” “Rickey feels honor-bound to

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