Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1948 — Page 27

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THURSDAY, AUG. 19, 1048

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Dodgers: Boast Best

i Bill Closs Jumps’ To Anderson Packers In Lefty’ Finals

Braves in First Place By 7 Percentage Points|

Rex Barney Hurls Greatest Game of Career Shutting Out Phillies, 1-0, With One-Hitter

By JOHN GRIFFIN, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 13—Around this time of year, the ball play- | ers tell you to watch that “games lost” more closely than * Games] won”—and that's where the defending champion Brooklyn D have the advantage today in the National The Dodgers, who beat the Phillies last night on a brilliant one-hitter-by. Rex Barney, have lost only 47 games. The Boston]

Braves, who took a drubbing; . from. the Giants in a day game, Major Leaders have lost 48 times. 3 The Braves, however, are still] a Pear in first place by seven percentage R Pet points because they have playes Williams, Boston. on 8 19 381 four ‘more games than a MN and won three of them. The ball St. Louls.. 104 n 123 319 players say that those figures| *-Cosky, a - man don’t mean as much as the| . a x sa “games lost” because while you Musial. . Louis . 13 @ 1 1 38 can still win games that are yet Bost * to be played, the games lost are bur Baile... 108 oe 3 lost forever. Slaughter, St. L... 113 410 80 133 318 RUNS BATTED IN Greatest Game DiMaggio. Yanks a igen R. Sox. 92 Barney pitched the greatest Cleve... 92| game of his career in chalking up| Musil ares eH UN Y last ‘night's 1 to 0 win under the 1 goer. Reds...

lights in Philadelphia. The only Musi) Cards. .. hit he yielded was in the fifth| Mize. Clants.... Be inning ‘when Ralph Caballero got

der just failed to snare with a shoestring catch. Brooklyn got its only run in the first inning against Robin Roberts whén Merv Rackley singled, Gene 'Hermanski walked, and Roberts uncorked first a wild

give Cleveland their seventh straight win, 3 to 0. It was at} third straight shutout turned in| by the staff of the American] League leaders, Bob Lemon and| Gene Bearden getting the first!

“ee 5 Wally Returns

single on & sinking line drive lcalled “Sad Sam” when he hurled oe oe Brinig Duke Sni- for the St. Louis Browns, beat his| old mates, 3 to 0, last night ol

throw to second base and then a wild pitch. That win left the] Dodgers only one full game be-| hind the Braves.

two. Red Sox Blast A's The Boston Red Sox moved

into - second place, three games|

The Indianapolis professional one of its tallest players—Bill Closs _ {ball Association Anderson Packers in the National League.

tall, has violated an option in his 1947 contract and that is possible for the local club to enjoin Closs from playing in

BACK TO BUTLER—Hugh (Wally) Middiesworth today was .' named as assistant Butler Uni- | versity football coach. The appointment reunites he and Head

Coach .Tony Hinkle. They coached Blue and White teams to seven state titles.

The local team’s salary efter was reported between $6500 and $7000. Closs said Ike Duffey, Anderson Packers owner, had of-

ey and M. senior, faced Don Bat,

It was an unexpected move, according to Hale of the local team. Hale said today Clots 8 font 7 imencen left-handed golf

"{Kautskys last season and wasfitest, but Jost to Bob. B

basketball team today was short] FREN Clos who “Jumped” from the Basket: (UP) odds’ Kempe. Obisns

Columbus, O . telephone installer, | the 36-hole finals of the nation. tournament

‘then, “went to bat” for Closs today. i d had a life suspension lifted. | Kempe, the tournament medalCloss scored 394 points for/i8t, Was a finalist in last year's uchanan |

INV ‘FEATURE! NYERTED FEA: RE!

asl asrieTACING AsocATION. | py

of the league's most effective °F | Judianapotia rebound players. mpa, 27, easily won his quaror ad semi-final matches yeseliminating Alvan Ever-

Harris Swamped i inet of of Roma, Ga.. and William B.

Horseshoe ® Tourney, colt. sntsred the §

Scott entered the final round’ i aropping Russell Liss, FlushWAUKEE. —_. 19 Ari “A and 2, and Bob MaHarrie: Indianapolis, wus swamp: 1088: Ft. Worth, Tex, 4 and 2, ed yesterday in the National] Yesterday " Horseshoe Pitchers Association Bob’ Romberger, who was. re-

tournament here, by Ted All elected executive secretary of the! Boulder, Colo. Sy ot ofls0 Southpaws' Golf Association, ans,

ting the day’ nounced that next year's tourney | Allen pitched 64 Bhoes. 2 ay will be played in North Chrolina. which were ringers, for a per-| {The definite site has not yet been!

centage of 96.9. selected, he said. Tommy Brownell, Gloversville, N.Y. and Eddie Packham, Santa 18 Teams Entered + held an early per In City Series Play

centage lead "with eight wins and! no losses. Hoosier standings are: ighteen baseball we have

urea Moré than $10,000. e said today that Duffey apWill Help Hinkle parently is playing tit-for-tat wooing away Closs because Black, In Football Anderson player last year, reWally and Tony were a coach-|/cently was signed by Indianap|ing team again today for Butler

{University’s football squad. “I don't thihk Duffey needs Hugh (Wally) Middlesworth,|Closs as a player because I bewho joined the Butler staff thelieve Closs doesn't fit into the

‘olis. Suspended Last Year

Orville Harris, Indianapolis, and Deen entered in the annual city

Ernest Recht, Ft. Wayne, 6.2; Amateur baseball series that will Henry Pergal, Crane, 1-1; Arlo 8°! underway Saturday afternoon. Harris,

Indianapolis, 3-7; Peyton | All Jet done . Prints, Indianapolis, 2-8 [de No. 0} Van anCamp Wgreware vy Round robin play in the 32-man | Merchants vs ui "Na. A: at Riverside

field continues until Saturday. Russet Cafeteria vs. v Cars at Riverside No. 4 ©. Atkins > ¥ Cha Mm Moore ‘Mortuaries va. Soutn Side Sai ve le nis Go mp at Oarfleld No. 3; Armour Social Qiub vs.

DeWolf Brook 3 KOKOMO, Ind, Aug. 10 (UP) cutters Dura at Ferrie Pood at 0 Garfield |

—Former state amateur golf|Ne. P. R. Mallory vs. Boughton Ex |

The Giants flashed their old- behind Cleveland, by blasting the first time in 1934, today was

Ahderson style of play,”

Hale| champion Robert Resener was re- dag at Riverside No

time homer power in whipping Philadelphia A's, 10 to 2. The| Boston, 8 to 2, in the Polo|A's, slipping two percentage Grounds. Round - trippers by points behind Boston, made eight | Johnny Mize and Sid Gordon en- hits off Denny Galehouse while! abled pitcher Sheldon Jones to/the Sox got 17 hits off three Phil-| go the route for his 12th victory, adelphia flingers, on an eight-hitter. Stallcup Is “Goat” The third-place St. Louis Cards win over the Senators in a game moved up only two-and-a-halfiat Washington held to five in-

games behind Boston when they nings by rain. Vic Raschi got his|ago, indicating Wally would re-|

scored two runs in the last of the 16th win. The Yanks got three | ninth inning to beat Cincinnati,iriins in the second inning off | ¢ to 3, in a night game at St. Mickey Haefner without a hit. Louis. “Goat” of the game was Here's how—after two out HaefRed shortstop Virgil Stallcup, ner walked two batters and both who made a wild throw. that al-|moved up on a passed ball. Haeflowed the winning tally to score.\ner walked the next man intenMurry Dickson, relieving Al Bra- tionally. Then he threw a wild zle, won his 10th victory. ipitch and two runs scored. The The Pittsburgh Pirates marked third runner tried to score and up their eighth win in their last/he made it, too, when Haefner 11 games when they shoved dropped the relay at the plate. across six runs in the eighth in-| The Chicago at Detroit game ning to beat the Cubs at Chicago, was rained out. 740 4. Stan Rojek’s double and| : three singles led the Pirate hit-| YESTERDAY'S STAR—Rex ding while Pitcher Bob Chesnes| Barney, who pitched the Dodggot his ninth victory with relief | ers within one game of the ‘rom Kirby Higbe. | league lead with a one-hitter Sam wigan, vio used to be' over the Phillies, 1 to 0.

Baseball Standings, Results

named assistant coach by Dr. M./added. O. Ross, Butler president. Tony| Last year Closs jumped the [Hinkle is head coach and athletic Kautsky team to join the Housdirector. ton, Tex., team in the ProfessionMiddlesworth, a former basket-'al Basketball League. The PBL (ball, baseball and football great|folded after two games and Paul

| The fourth-place New York on the old Fairview campus in/A. Walk, present owner of the {Yankees kept pace with a 4 to 1|Irvington, also will have charge local club who was NBL presi:

of the concession stands. That was made known several weeks

ported in a serious condition here today following an operation at! Frazier, Here Tonig ht St. Joseph Hospital. Midwest drivers, Ba Dick Resener became ill several days Frazier of Muncie, and a group! ago while playing golf at theof West Coast drivers will make local country club, He was rushed up the hot rod racing program to ‘the hospital for abdominal tonight at the W. 16th St. Speed. surgery. way. Racing starts at 8:30. |

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EM-ROE'S

turn. Seven Straight Titles Hinkle and Middlesworth coached Butler elevens to seven straight Indiana Intercollegiate! Conference titles between 1935 and 1941. | In 1942 Hinkle joined the Nav-| al Reserve and Middlesworth en-| tered the Army Air Corps, Both, served overseas. They beth returned in 1946. Middlesworth was gone again last season, en- § tering private business. Middlesworth was graduated in 1924 and later served as an as-| gistant on the Iowa State Teachers grid staff: He. returned to Butler to help Pat Page and then went to Indiana University as head baseball and basketball coach of the IU freshman teams. In 1931 he was named director of the Indianapolis city recreation

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION os RESULTS YESTERDAY

L INDIANAPOLIS 43...667 os nited 8 Milwaukee 54 578 AN Columbus... 6 531 His onisaonni + Je 008 Ol 3 + 3} Minneapolis 80 “3M 1B IT manein B Hereiat Be © n i Scheib, ©. Harris, Savage and Rosar; Sansas City . 80 444 28), |Gaiehouse and Toledo «. s.. 78 386 36 (Caled 5th inning, rain Louisville 84 354 40% Wathington Sa Y vasa eS Re 030 go $ $ ' AMERICAN LEAGUE | Raschi and Niarhos; Haefner, Candini| L Pet. GB and Early, Cleveland 42 632 LIS, Louis VRE 830 b. 00-0 9 2 Bost a 45 505 Cleveland 0 00x— 3 9 ¢ Philadelphia ‘ 503 3 Ostrowski, “Widmar rs oo: Zoldak | New York .. 46 578 5 and an Detroit on 55 AD 14! Chicago at Detroit (postponed, rain), Washington . 67 396 25 Sa ————— St. Li ds” 86 394 thnati NATIONAL TEAGUE J Chicago “ ay 3215 Line phat Vedas 00— 310 1 ¥ us Louis... 0... 010100 002 4 10 1 Pet. lg Gumbert and Lamannoe; Bd Po Brasie” J ickaon and Rice. Boston 8 oni B hry 100 000 000— 1 3 0 Brooklyn ...icbeissh 60 47 561 1 | Phildalp his 000 000 000 0 1 8t. Loui «+. 80 B50 545 2%! Barn and’ Campanella; Roberts, bus Pittsburgh 55 50 534 5 ibiel and Seminick. New York: y.. 55 53. .500 6's Boston ...........i.. 011 000 000 2 8 Philadelphia 52. 58 413 10% {New York .022 000 04x 8 10 Cincinnatt 64 423 - { Bicklord, ‘Barrett, Hogue, White And] Chicago 400 18% | saikela: Jones - and oes | Pittsbur Teh. Aaa ea 000 980-1

| fe cago |“ Chesnes, ‘Higbe and Prtogeraid; ner | Chipman and Scheffing.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION {Toledo visas... 000 000 211-3 9 0 | Minneapolis . ..030 200 + Ls 711 Gerheauser, Brown and Mancuso; Hardy jand Warren.

Schedule Yodo

AMERICAN Assoc ATION

INDIANABOLIS A Kanes City. Louisville 3}; iii vaukse, Toledo at Minneapolis. Columbus” at Bt, Paul,

{Columbus ......... 002 010 100 4 8 0 New JAMBRICAN LEAGUE {8t. Paul ...0....... 000 300 000— 3 8 4] lew Yor shing |” Beers, Hutchinson and Garagiols; aaaugPhiladelphia at Boston, {stad, Romano, Coffman and Ander (Qnly games scheduled.) |Loutsville .,........ 000 000 030— 7 "1 NATIONAL LEAGUE | Milwaukee 100 100 01x

1 0 Griffore and Rail; "Martin, Triner, Pren-

Tk. Boston at New Yo dergast and Ker

Pittsburgh at Chicago. Cincinnati at St. Louis. (Only. games scheduled.

Bowling Notes z * | Members of the Darko & Son Pacers Almost Tie {Cleaners Thursday Night Ladies Bowling Ltague will meet at 4-Heat Record 6 p.m, Aug. in the Antlers) Times Special SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 19—

bowling ov iy Three pacers raced within oneé-| mp. Antlers: Recreation No. 1

twentieth of a second yesterday; ..oue will meet tomorrow night|Mogard, 181% of -the world’s four-heat record| at gus Antlers Alleys, The pb In'the second division of the Anhliaine of last year's teams are ev Orleans,

Rutledge Stake, feature race yes-| asked to be t at 8 terday on the Grand Circuit card) presen.» p.m

at the Illinois State Fair. Brothér Harmony,

won the thitd and extra mile/days at 10:30 a. m. heats “in identical time of 2:01. Poplar Byrd and i D. Owens Rundagar won the first and sec-| ond heats in 2:01.04. The pac-| |at Beech Grove. ing record for four heats was! Sle, CA-0129. set in 1937. Jérry the First ‘won the first, f naif of the Rutledge Stake and| 5, =o ihe following , Isaguen: Egan Hanover, driven by Ralph! |Saturday; Baldwin of Lafayette, Ind., won! (men): the Review Futurity, (3: 30 p. m. Tuesday |Birls) ; {age boys).

teams in an 850-scratch league

DeVoe in Semi-Finals

Charles DeVoe of Indianapolis HI- -3074. entered the semi-final round of the men’s singles division in the! Ohio State tennis tournament today after eliminating Joe Fae of Cincinnati yesterday, 7-5, 6-2.

Amateur, Independent, The 1. Buckeyes ‘want to schedule & game Io tor deh rues. La afternoth at Belmont Park. FRanklin 3653.

AUTO RACES

- INDIANAPOLIS W. 16TH ST, SPEEDWAY

HURRICANE - HOT ROD CIRCUIT

TONIGHT

8:30 P. M. Al Seats Gen. Adu. $1.25 Tax Ine.

SACKS BROS

| The Antlers Hotel Bowling al-|Atteles Col G0). _ owned by leys announced it has an opening Harry Eckert of Mt. Vernon, O, for an eight-team league for Son Dombroski’s S At There are openings for three,

Call Claud Nog-|

The Indiana Alle Alleys has open-|

1:30 p. m. Monday | 8 p. m. Sunday (mixed); (teen-age 10 a. m. Saturday (teenFor information call MIDDLETOWN, O., Aug. 19— Carl or Judy Hindel, RI-8037 or|

department.

Chicago Giants Here Tonight for Negro Tilt

A Negro American League} basebal game will send the In{dianapolis Clowns against the Chicago American Giants tonight at 8:30 at Victory Field. | The Giants are second to Kansas City Monarchs in team batting. Andy Porter is slated to hurl for the Clowns and Walter McCoy is due to pitch for the Giants. The New York -Black

Yankees of the Negro National ol League will play here against the {Clowns in an inter-league tilt | Saturday night.

| Wampler Fails in | National Amateur Bid |

CHICAGO, Aug. 19-—Fred

{Wampler Jr. of Indianapolis, run-|

D HIMSELF FROM THE | “THEN, ASHORT wits R58 x! 1g

nerup in the Indiana state am|ateur this year, lost out in a playloft here yesterday and failed to qualify in the National Amateur golf tournament at the Flossmoor {Country Club. | Wampler, Purdue University’s {No. 1 player, shot rounds of 77 land 72 to tie for the 11th and 12th places with Hal Stone Jr. lot Bloomington, Ill, and Art An{drews Jr. of 8t. Charles, Ill

Fight Results

NEW YORK (Jamaica Aten) ~ Don | . Paterson, N. J, outpointed Yeorge Haywood, 184%, New York (6). | O — Bernard Docusen, 146%, | drew with Gene Burton, i144, New York (101. b MEXICO CITY Luis Reyes, 115, Mexlire City, outpointed Luis Adame, 118, Los

Franklin Sunday i |

Bud Dombroski, of Indianapolis, one of the most popular drivers in the Midwest Dirt Track Racing Association, will pilot the fast Gilstrop Ranger in the second big car race of the season at the Franklin half-mile oval Sunday afternoon. Dombroski, a veteran; now in fifth place in the circuit's pointstanding, is widely known for his take - a--.chance - performances, There will be more than twenty drivers present for the event which consists. of four five-mile! { races and one 10-mile feature, the first heat to begin at 2:30 (CDT). | Time trials start at 12:30 p. m. The Franklin track is located

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