Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1948 — Page 18

ribe To CI Hoosiers Even Series Score With Memphis

Nagy Back With Club On Pirate Option

Times Special LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Apr. 8— The Indianapolis Indians arrived here today for a pair of games to close their southern tour. The Tribe was fresh from a victory last night over the Memphis Chicks, 8-1. The Tribe will play here tonight and tomorrow night and will then leave for home to arrive in Indianapolis Monday _after-

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Indianapolis’ Man About apolis historian, Town, conducted the Fight Speto/cial to the banks of the Maumee. do a research. .. Although the genial Harter’s job to come up health is not what it used, to be, with all the facts/he plans to head a delegation of in Ashburn'sifight fans from the Indianapolis ascendency to the|Athletic Club on the upcoming| big show, , . ./trip to New York. r McGinnis avers 8's = Eddie Ash that the “Let's|] HIGH AND FAR AWAY,..,. Sign Ashburn” chase began in Duke Snider, outfielder up from August, 1944, when the school- St. Paul, hit one “a mile” for boy, then a catcher, made a the Brooklyn Dodgers in Dallas brilliant showing in the closing the other day. . . . He blasted innings of the Esquire Magazine's| the pellet over the right field boy baseball game held that year wall. . . . This homer put him in in the Polo Grounds, the New| Such company as Babe Ruth, York Giant¥ home grounds. . . .| Lou Gehrig and King Kong big league club representa-| Keller. . . . The distance, more |.,,, The first practice at Vietives claimed Mel Ott, the Giants’| than 430 feet. =~ tory Field is scheduled for Tuesskipper who was the manager of da, Esquire's West team, intentional-| LIKE A LAWN ... Rain, sunly kept Ashburn in the bullpen, shine and wind have combined to far out in ‘right field, for five, make the green grass grow all innings, in order to hide him for around at Victory Field and it's the Giants. , , . Immediately in swell shape for the Indianapafter the game, the Giants at- olis Indians’ homecoming. . . . tempted to sign Ashburn, but The Tribesters will practice there Richie had been promised he'd Tuesday, Apr. 13, play the New start the game, and he wanted| York Yankees, Wednesday, Apr. po part of the Giants. . . . On|14, afternoon, and open the AA the trip home from New York, a season Thursday, Apr, 15, at Brooklyn er scout eased night, vs. Kansas City. ... These aboard and hounded the boy like dates are repeated here to a bird dog. « . . But the Dodger straighten out some fans who fvory hunter got nowhere. . . . neglected to “jot ‘em down.” ... Richie paused in Chicago and There will be a Sunday sale of was a guest of the Cubs. . . , Still opening game tickets, 10 a. m. to the lad wasn’t in a mood to sign 2 p. m., at Victory Field. a pro contract. . . . At home, in ss u Tilden, the scouts staked out the UNWANTED NICKNAME Ashburn home. . . . A persistent! . . . Shortstop Lennie Merullo Cubs’. scout out-talked his breth-| of the Chicago Cubs is called ren and the boy signed. . . . But| “Boots,” and he'd rather forget a. clause in the contract was| how he came by the label... .: ruled illegal. . . . Finally, scout| Merullo got the name after Ed Krajnik of the Phillies used| establishing a new record for the right bait and signed the shortstops by making four eryoungster. . , . With Utica in the| rors in one inning against the League last season, the| Boston Braves on Sept. 183, 1942, Nebraska native batted .357, hit| . . . Merullo had an excellent 92 doubles, 11: triples and three| excuse that day, however. . . . homers. . +» « He also stole 23) It was the day he became a bases. father for the first time.” a ————

Tribe Box Score

CHAMPION HERE — Gus Lesnevich, world's light heavyweight titleholder, will appear at the Armory tonight in a fours round exhibition bout against Sheldon Bell of Columbus, O., as pro boxing moves back into the N. Pennsylvania St. arena.

. » - Tonight's Fight Card Four rounds — “Wild Man” Martin, Charleston, W. Va., vs. Jimmy Chaney, Indianapolis, welterweights. Four rounds—Gene Davis, Jeffersonville, vs. Art Arbuckle, Indianapolis, lightweights. Four rounds — Howard Eldridge, Indianapolis, vs, George DeFabius, Indianapolis, welterweights. Four rounds— Doyle Upchurch, Muncie, vs. Torpedo Tinsley, Indianapolis, welterweights. Eight rounds—Bob O'Bannon, Jeffersonville, vs. Bill Davis, Indianapolis, light-heavy-weights. y Special four-round exhibition --Gus Lesnevich, Cliffside, N. J., light-heavyweight champion of the world, vs. Sheldon Bell, Columbus, O. Eight rounds — Jorge Ortiz, Mexico City, vs. Reggie Martina, Pittsburgh, bantamweights. Opening bout will get under way at 8:30 p. m.

Franklin Hurler * Twirls No-Hitter

. 15th Triumph Rookie pitchers teamed with veteran fielders to give the Indians their 15th victory of the training season yesterday as the Tribe evened the score with Memhis. The regulars went all the way aided by the pitching of Bill Sweiger and Lee Howard. Sweiger allowed five hits in six innings, and Howard gave up only a double by Buck Behie, in three frames. Pete Castiglione made his first appearance of the season in an Indian uniform yesterday, replacing Ray Scott in the seventh inning. The slender shortstop chipped in a Texas League single in the ninth to drive in a ceuple of runs,

Nagy Returned Another addition to the pitching staff has been announced. Steve Nagy, who worked with the {Indians last season, is being sent back on option from the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was one of the mainstays of the Tribe through the early part of last season, but faded in mid-season, winning no games r July. : Hugh Mulcahy, Memphis twirl: er, limited the Redskins to only four hits in six innings after a pretty shaky start yesterday. Tom Saffell opened the game with a double to left, followed by Jack Cassini who was safe on an error by Fred Hancock. Saffell scored on a long fly by Ted Bead. Les Fleming walked, Cully Rikard singled and Cassini was scored as Charley Letchas forced Rikard at second. Mulcahy then put the brakes on ‘the Indians’ hitting and they didn't score again until the eighth when Les Eisenmann allowed a pair of runs. Hit With Ball 3 Ray Poole replaced Eisenmann in the ninth and proceeded to blow up what had been a pretty tight ball game. Howard led off the inning for the Tribe with a single and the next two fanned out, then the party was over for Poole and Memphis. Beard was hit with a pitched ball and Poole issued successive walks to Fleming, Rikard and Letchas forcing in two runs. Ray Burnett took the mound Novi for the Chicks and Castiglione hit(xoV! &- T- Sp. for a single, but was thrown out Novi G. P. Sp. trying to stretch it. Sanamed Sweiger's performance yester- Faname ri s—q day set him up for a berth as one|. = Engines nag sn cahy, 2 runs, four hits in 8 ann the Tudian i potential 3 tasting Kurtis-Kraft Sp. . 5 3-runs, ! +t hurlers, an e three-inning con- | runs, 3 hits in 3; Poole, 4 runs, 1 Bit Belanger Motors Sp.

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Pacific Coast League

San Francisco 11, Jioiiyvood 9. 0!

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FRANKLIN, Apr. 9—The first no-hit, no-run game of the state high school ‘baseball season was

led Franklin to a 9-0 victory over

Backed by good hitting and Freidersdorf blanked the Cardinals with a sizzling perincluded 12 strikeouts. Only twice did Southport players reach first base,

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Lou Moore Lou Moore Lou Moore Winfield-Welch Winfield-Welch H. C. Henning H. C. Henning Dick Cott Dick Cott ° E. J. Walsh Murrell Belanger Murrell Belanger Leo Dobry Louis Bromme Charles Bowes Loral Tansy

Edgar Baldwin Walter Redmer Lou Fageol Lou Fageol

Les Anderson Ralph 8,

Joe Lencki Joe Granatelli

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Chicago, had the Indian sign on the rest.

“Sure I'm playing a good game,” said the slender lion of the links. “Right now, there's not a herve in my body.” Mangrum showed it yesterday when he breezed through nine holes in three under par, then ran into just about every kind of trouble in the book. Instead of blowing his advantage, he settled down to preserve it. He overcame two bogeys with birdies and shot himself out of trouble on three other holes to make them in par, Admits Bonus Mangrum frankly admitted that May, ring-master of the Tam O'Shanter antics, has guaranteed him handsome bonus money for winning the Masters, the National Open, or the PGA. He also is writing a book about golf and stands to bolster his income from that source. Mangrum, incidentally, holds the course record for one round of the Masters, having shot a 64 —a pair of 32's—in 1940. He finished second to Jimmy Demaret that year. : Derharet racked up his second Masters title last year but he got only a 73 yesterday in opening the defense of his title. The leading threats to Man-

on May 31.

ed to approximate $160,000 this year. Latest entries have boosted the field to 33 cars. Two Chicago owners and a West Coast operator are the lat. est to make double entries. y Joe Lencki of the Windy City has nominated four-cylinder and six-cylinder entries known as the Lencki Speedway Cocktail Specials. The six will be piloted by Mel Hansen of Los Angeles. Drivér of the other car was not named. \ The other two Chicago cars were entered by Joe and Anthony Gratanelli, one to be called the Grancor Werner Special and the

Early 500-Mile Entries

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With Dough on Mind, Mangrum Takes Lead In Masters Tourney

AUGUSTA, Ga., Apr..9 (UP)—Liloyd Mangrum, while he can get it, showed a 69 Masters Golf Tournament and told the rest of the field to shoot at it. leven other competitors were as leading money winner of the year and shooting for big bonus money from his fabulous boss, George May of

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only a stroke or two behind him.

grum’s lead were a quartet grouped to 70. They were Herman Keiser, the 1946 Masters] ner, Claude Harmon of amoroneck, N. Y., Ed Furgol of Royal Oak, Mich, and Ben Hogan, the leading money winner

of 1946, Grouped at 71 Seven others hit the 71 bracket | and were still very much in the running. Africa's Nelson of Houston, Tex., National Amateur Champion Skee Riegel of Glendale, Cal., California Open Champion Art Bell; Dick Metz of Arkansas City, Kas., Chick Harbert of Northville, Mich., and Jim Ferrier of Chicago. Of the 57 players who teed off in the first round, 40 shot 75's or better, Bobby .Jones of Atlanta, famed king of the links who helped design the Augusta national course, was just outside this circle with a 76.

College Tennis

Duke 6. Yale 3. North Carolina 15, Williams Purman 2

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On the Ice

AMERICAN LEAGUE 3, Buffalo 1 (Cleveland leads final Calder Fu series, 3-0). UNITED STATES GUE Minneapolis 1, Houston 0 (overtime, Minneapolls leads series, 1-0).

Cleveland

3 More 2-Car Entries Hike 500 Field to 33

Lou Moore's feat of directing the Blue Crown Spark Plug Specials to one-two positions in the 1947 500:Mile Race apparently has inspired other owners to seek a “team victory” in this year's race

Acceptance of three more two-car entries makes a total of 10 “teams” to shoot for the big chunk of Speedway gold—expect-

Romecevich of Gary as the pilot for the four-cylinder Grancor Werner. : Enters Two Ofiys Bayard Sheffler of Los Angeles has entered two Offenhauserpowered jobs with Bill Sheffler and Jack McGrath listed as the probable drivers. It will be McGrath’s first start here, and he of course, will have to pass driver's tests. Sheffler finished ninth in 1946 by the expedient of traveling at a comparatively slow rate of speed just outside thé track

JYLS. 4/ing his first Indianapolis start 4 although he served in his own pit 4 last spring with Romcevich as his | 8 driver. |

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apron when his car lost most of its oil supply early in the race. Such a practice no longer is per-

reanseats +24 000 000 0— 0 0 8 other Grancor V-8 Special. An- mitted under AAA regulations. thony Gratanelli was named as| Hansen is a veteran of five the driver of the V-8 and Pete/races here and made his best

showing in 1940 in eighth place. Served in Pits Romcevich took 12th money last year. Granatelli will be mak-

{sociation today sanctioned a 100-

4 [mile National Championship race 4/to be run at the Indiana Fair4/8rounds, Suhday, Oct. 3.

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4 end of the racing season, “could a/help decide the National AAA| or g|driving champion. The Indianap-| 4|0lis Auto Racing Association will 6!sponsor the event. Ted Horn Is

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