Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1948 — Page 28
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Blames Poor Poor Showing
On Team Injuries
_ Return of Reiser, Dt Will Make Club, Asserts Branch in Defending Durother
By CARL LUNDQUIST,
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK, June 25—A lot of so-called“loyal fans have given
up on Brooklyn's aay that the outfit
led Bums but Boss Brafich Rickey insisted ér the fearless leadership of Leo Durocher|
till had a fine chance for the National League pennant.
i Rickey, ‘stages of Reisér and Catcher Bruce wards would “make the club.” Furthermare, Rickey defended Purocher publicly, ¥Leo just got through making a in which he
thought this year’s team was bet- win
ter than the one which won the pennant last season.” : Didn’t Alibi
discounting the team’s pitiful showing in the early pennant race, said he thought the return of Outfielder
hits in winning his ninth game.! Feller gave up only five hits and,
stating that|Struck out eight, but three hits
{were homers so he went down {to his eighth defeat against six
The Philadelphia A’s rallied fof
ays
{four funs in the -eighth inning to beat the St. Louis Browns, 8
to 5, in a night game.
Ferris
i “He isn’t alibing, he had the Fain’s triple was the big blow
tourage not to do it, but I'll do jt for him,” Rickey went on. “He would be in first place right now
in the winning rally.
Washington at Detroit in the
American and Cincinnati at)
if fellows like Reiser, Hdwards, philadelphia in the National were,
Hugh Casey, Spider Jorgensen, Harry Taylor, Jackie Robin86n gnd a few others hadn't been hurt! Rickey, who personally predicted two years ago that the Dodgers would win the flag this year, was on hand yesterday as they trimmed the Pirates, 6 to 2 and 8 to 6, for their greatest day of the year. It was the first time this year they had won a double-header and they did it in fiction Tasnion. Robinson broke up the op! wiith a grand slam homer in fiinth, while inh the second ae. talled after 71; innings, Rex Barney pitched six hitless inni ngs | before weakening. Robinson led the Dodgers at bat in the night«| ‘cap, too, with twe doubles and| two Hingles, getting seven hits) out of nine for the day. " Cubs, Giants Split Whe Cubs topped the Giants, 11 to 2, by capitalizing on errors after New York took the opener, 2'to 2, behind Larry Jansen’s sixWit pitohing for his eighth trismph. He coasted in when his fates rallied for all the New Pork runs in the first inning, two oh Sid Gordon's double. Rookie! clarence Maddern’s pinch - hit} homer spoiled Jansen's shutout | #h the ninth. The Cubs clinched the second game with six runs on four hits and three errors in the second inning as kie Ralph Hamner went on t0 hold New| York to four hits. Gordon hit a second-game Giant homer. The Cardinals moved into second place, a half<game behind the pace-setting Braves by beating the Bostonians, 11 to 2, in a night game. Red Schoendienst hammered four hits to lead the St. Louis attack a8 Southphw Howie Pollet managed to spread around 10 Boston safeties. Ted Williams hit two homers, éfich with a man on base, to give Boston an 8-to-5 victory at Chicago after the White Sox took the opener, 3 to 1, behind the sixbit pitching of Bill Wight. A Feller Loses Eighth “Vie Raschi's strong armed tching plus a home run barige in which George McQuinn, Johnny Lindell and Joe ag-
gio hit for the route, gave the Menominee, Mich. one up.
Yankees a 4 to 0 victory over the great Bobby Feller at Cleveland. Raschi
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Western Open in : Semi Finals Today
CHICAGO, June 25
{flewcomer in women's
clashed today In the semi-finals
of the 10th annual golf tournament. The former titleholders were Mrs, Babe Didriksoft Zaharias, A three-time winner, Patty Berg, {who has won twice, and Helen Dettweller, the 1939 champion. And with them in the final pair of matches was 4 22-year-old |Fargo, N. D., star who will play in the semi-finals for the first time, slender ash-blond Beverly Hanson. n Miss Hanson, never far out of {the running in medal play, but never a challenger for a women's crown in, the match sections of the tourneys, pulled inte the semis with. the éasiest victory of them all yesterday, a 9 and 7 win over Grace Lenczyk, of Néwington, Conn. Miss Berg was three over regi lation figures for the 16 holes she had to go in the quartér finals before she ousted Claire Doran, Lakewood, O., 3 and 2, But Patty was four up at the turn and coasted the rest of the way. Mrs. Zaharias, the star of the tourney, and Miss Dettweiler tangle in the upper bracket Aémifinal. The great Babe beat, Polly Riley, a staunch competitor from Ft. Worth, Tex., yesterday, 3 and 2, fighting for every hole, while Miss Dettweiler came from behind to eliminate Mary Agnes Wall,
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(UP)==|gities in the United Btates some 23 years ago with the organisation Three former champions and one|of the National Horseshoe Pitching Association. Before that time golf | horseshoe courts were relegated to the batnyard, ire station and
Women's in the metropolis—<not by a long
yjcontésts to determin® the na- petween a Roman army oamp
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¥ : PE : ON ITS WAY<<Horses don't fly, but this horseshoe is going by air for a ringer. The man behind the arm is Orville Harris, who pitches in the industrial league for Insley Mfg. Bryant C, Hodgin watches Harris’ follow-through as he awaits his turn at the stake, Hedgin also pitches for the Insley. team.
Horseshoe Game Is No Longer Country Cousin
| By BILL PITTMAN Horseshoe pitching as a potential major sport hit the big
ocolinty fair. This doesn’t mean that the sport had never béfore been seen
shot. In fact throwing iron at a|fecteation directors anud Hotfsehob has been & participant sport shoé enthusiasts in general, In for several centuries in some of particular the founders included the world's largest eities. ryant Hodgins, Payton Prints, 5 & . Robert Payne, Chester Wires, IT WAS the Romans who gave Robert Fl. Meeks and Arlo and us the sport along with Latin and Orville Harris. crapshooting, bit that i8 another story. Even before Caesar took] MUCH oF THE Bulding force his armies across the Rubicon (a behind the Indianapolis league river almost as famous as the came from members of the State Wabash), Roman soldiers were Horseshoe Pitchers ‘Association. pitehing horseshoes. Points were| The 8tate organization has been given for distance instead of ac-|in operation more thah seven Curacy, however, as the soldiers/ years. Arlo Harris, who how were emulating the athletic he- holds a 100-point average under roes of thé time, particularly the city league's handicap sysdiscus throwers, [tem, 1s president of the state asAs the armies moved farther| sociation. from the sphere of convéntional| Present officers of the indus-
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FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1043,
LESSON IN TECHNIQUE~Just as in golf, its form that counts in hotseshoe pitching. Hodgin, secretary of the state Horseshoa Pitchers Association and one of the founding ‘fathers of the Indianapolis Industrial League, hers shows two of the popular reOn the left is the release when pitching a shoe for a 13/4 spin, at right the shoe will spin only H/4 times.
leasas.
ance To Win Flag
MUST BE A MISTAKE—It's isn't often that these men have | to méasure for points, but when they do they watch ‘em closely, J. C. Joseph of Newman Constructions squad medsurss while Herb Thibo, secretary of the league and E. C. Atkins player, checks
within six inches of thé peg.
Heafner, Keiser Leading Inverness
TOLEDO, O., June 26 (UP)— The pacemaking team of Clayton Haefner and Herman Keisét was expected to pick up additional ground today while clashing with Cary Middlecoff and Jim Ferrier in the second round of the unique Inverness invitational ‘best-ball golf tournament. Heafner and Keiser took 4 twopoint lead in the round-robin scoring system yésterday by defeating Dick Metz and loyd Mangrum, 5-up. The second-place téam of Beh Hogan and Jim Demaret, ptretourney favorites to cop the big prize, faced Mangrum and Meétz today. Middiecoff and Ferrier were their opponénts yestérday and they won out, 8-up. Be-knickered Bobby Locke of South Africa and Kd Furgel, three points behind the HeafnerKeiser combine, were slated to tee off today against Johnny Palmer and Skip Alexander. Also
athletic influence, the game grad-| trial group are James Sawyers, ually evolved into a sport based H. O. Atkins Co., president; Rob-| on accuracy rather than strength. jert Thibo, B. C. "Atkins Co., sec: This evolution was aided some- retary, and Walter Showers, Eli what by the amount of trouble it|Lilly Co., treasurer. Members of took to close the mouth of the|the Board of Control are Horace
of a discus. Williams, P. R. Mallory; Joseph | When the Roman armies entered Urbaniak, Stewart Warner; J. C. Britain they took the gamé with!Joseph, W. F. Newman Construethem and it soon bécame a partition Co. and Paul Walters, Naval of the BFitisR sporting sthéme.:Ordnance. From there ‘the game came to 4 4 0» America along th the first MOST OF THE league mem: colonists, . bers will participate in the state tourney here July 31 and Aug. 1. Through the national Organiza. ene wifl be five classes nthe tion the sport has grown untiligisie meet, A, B, G, D, and handi-
it embraces @very state in the| sgn, Anyone who can threw a union. It enjoys nearly as great horseshoe from Ofie peg to an-
a popularity in the summer as siner and is a member of the
bowling does in the winter. state 6 National tournameénts are held a tiation Je hip bl i.
semi + annually with champions| te you think about it, there dofivéning from each state for reilly is not s6 much distance ®
tion's leader. and Brooksi ¢ This year for the first time ookeide Bath, there has appeared in Indianap- Horseshoe Results
G pu Ms, Boston ... 208 N read, Cleve. ... 0 7 i
m | Zarilla, 8t. Louis .
| Evers, Detroit 10 3 { Lindell, New York.. 52
RUNS BATTED IN
Willlams, R. Sox 65 Kiner, Pirates.. | DiMaggio, Yanks Sj caryen, Cleve.. b
6 | Brown, New York .. a 54 1
| Bauer, Reds
HOME RUNS | 22| Keltner, Cleve. Kiner, Pirates... 19 Musial, Cardinals 1 DiMaggio, Yanks, 17 Williams, R. Sox. 15
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Ak and Charles Jackson { The national tournament willl ne 56 and 1:11—James Shipp, Russ Rader | be held July 19 through 24 at the| |p and T18 — « North Fulton course in Atlanta, Brown and Brooks Secrest. iN The sectional 2 Glayien Runoia Raipy | rounds will determine who is to| ATR oa Montfort, Charles {be included in the field of 210 to play in the championship. (orp and 1.46 Reess Berry, Bob Sales In addition to the individual|®nd Bob Ludlow. a CHEESE . OWEN, championship there will also bé Stone. Greenwood and Mike Syllivaf {a national team championship oh 13 an Se Ton Bu tourney July 17 with each sec: 8:42 and | tion represented that has at least + and John Urgquhar
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| Qualifying: rounds will | stroke play over 38 holes, with |
mate M. L. Metzger and ®. L. Hilligoss. {the team championship at stroke Hie: TL, Hetsger Phillips, Anderson; play over 18 holes.
| onlie Hollingsworth and Di Judge John L. Niblack,
: d 2:28—Bruce Poynter, Lawrénce and 5 argo and
Clyde M tire oi locally, ydé MéBntire, Cero;
and 0. Hatfield and Kenneth HOY Jr. { representative of the USGA, has| fill and 2. 56—M%e Borson, Anderson; and Sa Smith. |announced a list of 87 entrants| bik A 3:03—Dick Roberts, son is Brown and William Gunte | from the Indiana district for the Ds, Brown, and William TT nL | sectional qualifications.
{Raiph Mason and Ralph Heinlein. Entries in the sectional tourna-| Cox. Arnold Bodine and ard Boswell
12:87—Keith Lindamood, A
1:30—Arnold Koehler, Bob Mike
nd 2—-Bob Buchanan, George Bees 2:07--Georgs Detighétty, Lynn
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three points behind the leaders were Dutch Hatfrison and Bob |Hamilton, who faced Chick Har{bért and Vie Ghe2zi today. Yesterday, the Locke - Furgol
[team downed Harbert-Ghezzi, 2Shoe into the approximate shape White, Allison Team 2;,Russellup, While Harrison-Hamilton beat
Palmer-Alexander by the same score.
Legion Baseball Today's 5:30 p. m. schedule in American Legion Junior baseball: Indianapolis No, 4 va, Broad Ripple No. 2 at Rhodius No. 1; Robison vs, Harpole at Riverside
> U.S. Stars in Wimbledon Singles
WIMBLEDON, Eig. Juneé 25/ Brown was hard-prégsed to beat meeting of . Australians Jack | | (UP)—After bree#ing through his Bofge Fornstédt of Sweden, 6-4, [Bromwich and Frank Se {early round matches, Frank, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. |and Czechs Jaroslav Drobny nq | | Parker of Los Angeles finally] Parker was alao slated to team | Viadimir Cernik. drew a tough opponeént today in|uyn pig Bob Falkenburg of Los| Mrs. Margaret Osborne Dupont Swedish Davis Cupper Lenhart Angeles against Harry Hopman |0f Belleviie, Del, the defending:
Bergelin a8 play moved ifito the| HD day in Bay Wimbledon ten-| lof Australia and Geoffrey Paish WOMEn’s. singles champion, will’
fils tournament. jot Britain in a mixed doubles clash with Mrs. Petruida Biaisss
Facing slightly less formidable match. Brown &nd Mulloy were Terwindt of Holland. Shirley Fry opposition in the men's singles|to join forces against the Indian ef Akron, O, faced a tough test were Gardnar Mulloy of Miami,/combine of Misfa and Subh|in Mrs. Betty Hilton of Britain, ! fla. who was up against Jack Bawhney. Two of the strongest | Barbara Scofield of San Frans, Harper of Australia, and Tom non-Americafi teams elash in the 'ciseo meets Joan Curny of Britain, | Brown of Ban Francisco, who Soil was matched against Indian Davis Cupper Dilip Bose. Still left in the men’s singles were five Amercians, {Our Australians, two Britons, and one man each from Beigium, Hungary, India, Holland, and Sweden, Competition is also on the program today in women’s singles, and men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles. Also slated to start to-| day is a consolation tournament for singles players eliminated in the first two rounds.
Parker, the tourney favorite,
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Joseph. Three points register for a ringer and one point for a shee
Hardly drew a deep breath yesterday as he troithced Cyril Kemp of Eire, 6-0, 6-1, 8-0, in a 35minute match. Third-seeded Mul-| loy, however, was all out to beat] Siimant Misra of India, 2:6, 6-4, 8-1, 3.8, 6-4, and fourth-tanked|
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