Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1948 — Page 16
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Ind ians In Rush Act To Sew Up The Flag
, Tribe Pounds Out Three pt i Ov Hens, Malloy Gains No. 20
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"Redskins were idle today to get their second wind and tomorrow when they battle third-place Co-
142 Fleming also poked out three|
Gutteridge played second over the week-end as Jack Cassini en-
joyed a rest, Jack is pointe ing up to runn opponents Tagged in the post-season play-
oo Redskins garnered nine hits in yesterday's seven-inning
|contest pond Ted Beard led the
with three blows.
| Bince the Mndians batted in only
= innings, ‘that nine-hit total
Field total to date is 452,282 with five more
crowd will turn out tomorrow for the “big night” when all members of the squad will be showered with gifts, Gates will
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Ti Hollywood, Cal.; Victor Seixas of{Iaria Bowling Alleys, which were 4 it £ lame) Bacena Game) Philadelphia; Richard Gonzales of | completed last spring, will be ABR MH A OLEDO R HOARE Los Angeles; and Earl Cochell,|open for their first full season. 1 : : $§ 0 o 1 1 1/Harry Likas Jr, and Sam Match,| They will also act as host to ¢ 1% “3 4 1 2 0 Sail of San Francisco. section of the women's city il 333483 rive Be yy 0 1 t2 0 68 13° .{ Out in Beech Grove a new set 4 : - a 3 4 : 1 0 8 Tri Batting Pet of lanes is being rushed to com0.0 0 el 31) Uheanm io ‘337/ pletion, The new layout, which is 0 1 0 wlio ° o| Fleming 317lowned jointly by Dewey Byriet 0 0 0 «0 0 0 0 1 ofTurner .. 311 y by y ) a = I 5 - — 1 0 0 0 0 0 Sastighione 308 Doh ith aud pred Fallender, oe ‘ 306 open by third week of t Brown in nlath, | Totals ......... Saffel POLIS Eder’ singled for Becknaus in. Sixth. : Beard ‘200| the month. They have a full R. ¥ ‘0 Fy B| Palmer grounded out for Ross In Weatherly 204 schedule of leagues lined up. ¢ 1.1 . . Antlers has openings in a Subday eve ita TNDIARMOLIEE © A Fiona auaans 17/3ing’ mixed lenge which wil roll at 4.30 233 21113 Sa ae | rats an “4 387 josams are needed for three Sunday 3 33 $0833 8 bf Tw. JHits_Castigliane 32% neapd | abuse which will bowl at the, Broud 11 “3 2 : y 3 a By ikard mm Flem 26, Cassini 24,15 “my 3 And 8:30. Teams are also needed 3.34 . ner Gutteridge 14. |For a m. Thursday ladies’ 1 nh Rx nn wi nai} 0 9 1 3 Weatherty ose 3 Kili 3 Lape 3, mn Brovd "mooie. Call BR. S01 age 4 . a here are open ve To oN Eid {ahi * 3 1 i i : 0 16, Saftell "1, Oneeint TH orang 5 Hane Founiain “Square. | rn For "ornate eal A La neCastigiions 3 3 y Bdn Sr — Hy Tamer 6, Peters 3, Radin 2, Gutteridge Deze Fg has SI us in Peters, on 5 Fleming 3 Malloy 3. A A A at ThenA league which will bowl , bh Te iy vd ITolete LL 000 003 0 3| Home Runs ming 34, Rikard 11 | guile EHC To 20, Wednesday utteridge Biouiyiooase hits. Rikard, INDIANAPOLIS ov’ ihn 020 011 x— 4 Beard 7. Kal “Smell 5, Quiteridge 81TH" Non Rai Wednesday league. fetta HINES SHEE mene al poe nue SERS, pig oT LR siete BE @ TU en - ase. olen Bas yeb-—Cassini 33, Seffell 20, »- h sa pt 2° pay "i Regma at Bi Sat Pai Gutengees meet Su Marion Team Wins, n — a nks Lope: a { iinings, dnd. 3 batters in our own Bes a ootitee Mie Casal, 17 Riana State Softball Meet in Be dt Beard 3, Turner, Peters, Ganss. } 3 5 } and Tobin: Time 318 ain, Sil hai. © Umpites--Clogs, 3 Tobin and | Tribe Pitching LOGANSPORT,” Ind. Aug. 29 ” AL y i Ti w 5 L (UP)~The Draper Dodgers from| Neg : 'ussle n % | Maney NEE 20 Johnson - .u.vs 4| Marion, Ind, won the Indiana Vi Field 1 Alli Captures Times Hujohings’ +110 Sean Ni%3 3|State Softball championship toAE . Bahr ivvev..10 BINagY® sesreen dO The Chicago American Giants Golf Tourney With 76 Mo preci Tune siasaan 3 aight when vr rested a will meet the Birmingham Black! Phil Allio, with a four-over-par| ‘Released. ay to 0. » ’ Barons in League tus ie 5 Negro 76, won The Times first golf Wins Dirt Track Ra k R Marion will go to the Midtory Field. League tournament yesterday at Speed. ' QGC@ western regional tourney at Milwill twirl for the | way. Leon Hubble of Linton, Ind, waukee, Wis. starting next Fri‘Gentry Jessup . captures first place in the feature day. “Giants and Bill Powell Powell will be on Second and third places were dirt track event yesterday at § the mound for the ng. won by Harold Erner 81, and] Bloomington. Second place went ; Jl Wendell Nave 87. Erner alsoito Joey Ray of Practice |won a flag tournament on the 16th Bears [green when his tee shot landed nine feet, one inch from the cup. Thompson, assistant Speedway professional, haiped stage the tourn in
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Was Tait attendance Baturday was 7371 and yesterday it was 8111 despite the torrid heat. The Vic
playing dates, Sullivan, be business
The American Association second division teams moaned over a disastrous week-end toda; were unable to win a s Saturday or Sunday. Pace-setting Indianapolis pinned defeat on Toledo twice yesterday, 12 to 3 and 4 to 2; second-place Milwaukee beat Minneapolis, 3 to 0 and 11 to 6; Columbus ~~ measured tail-end Louisville, 6 to 5 and 5 to 0, and Paul completed the sweep apis. Kansas City, 14 to 9 and to 4. Veteran Al Epperly blanked Miliieapolis on four safeties at
raiser. Outfielder Nanny ¥Fernandez homered with two aboard fo clinch the second game for Milwaukee. Columbus came from behind in eighth inning to whip the at Louisville in the first hind the one-hit twiring of Ray Yochim, the Birds won the second contest] easily, Blues manager Dick Bartel) let. Pitcher Dave Madison
nthe third f of the first game and Madison stayed through it all to finish the game, The Saints: clinched the second ie with four tallies in the th inning.
Davis Cuppers Open Practice
NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (UP)— America's Davis Cup team and six ‘of the nation's best young players will begin p g today at Forest Hills, N. Y., where the U. 8. will defend the ‘world's top amateur tennis trophy, against Australia, Sept. 4-6. Gardnar Mulloy of Miami, Fla, and Bill Talbert of New York, who won the national doubles title for the fourth time Saturday, and the pair they defeated, Ted Schroeder of La Crescenta, Cal, and Frank Parker of Los Angeles, appeared to be in top form for their matches with the Aussies. They battled through five sets of sparkling tennis. Joining these seasoned players in the five-day practice. session will be Robert Falkenburg of
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Oh My Achin’ Back— Bowling Season’s Here
K WILSON are very much in vogue for 20,000lis this week. The summer layoff
the swift Indianapolis
Wednesday night. Also gett Red| started Wednesday is the
from in under his hat.
OUT AT THIRD—This Toledo player didn't have a ghost iof a chance to reach third base as the Indians Third Slacker Russ Peters put the ball on him a good five feet from the bag, in the first game of the double header
yesterday. Peters added to
Hens in the second game by stealing second.
AND HE'S OUT—Indians First Sacker Les Flem- ' ing (left) wins the race to the bag to put out a Toledo player unassisted after picking up @ hot grounder in th first game of yesterdey's double header. * Pitcher Bob ‘Malloy, who won his 20th game moves in'on the play. The Vribesters took both ends of the double header from the Toledo Mud Hens, 12-3 and 4-2. SLIDE, MOE, SLIDE—And First Baseman Les Fleming hit the dirt at second base (below) and was safe by a mile. In fact the Toledo second sacker didn't even get into the picture. Fleming slid in so fast he sid right out
the downfall of the Mud
MONDAY, AUG. 30, 1048
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30—Brooklyn’s surging Dodgers breathed
after a 58-day climb from
ie
as an even greater feat than that of the olden day Braves under George Stallings.
Aching arms and Fr odd men and women in has taken its toll of the Those creaking deliv
Some leagues go
of the city,
had better get back in shape in a curtain| hurry, for the 1948-49 kegling season gets its start this week. into action tonight, but the major part of the
For the Dodgers achieved their present-lofty status in the face of numerous injuries, a managerial shakeup at mid-season, and a roster so hopelessly tangled at first that few players knew where they wquld be stationed from one day to the next. The 1914 Braves, with SUeH diamond immortals as Johnny Evers, Hank Gowdy and Rabbit Maranville, were 141; games be-|S hind first on July 4 when they launched their drive that carried them to the league lead on Labor
pin-busters of yr Hoosier city will wait until after Labor Day to start knocking ’em down. Notable exceptions to this
Fox-Hunt Sponsor's Classic whet will include some of the bes women's teams of the city.
Thursday, Sept. 2—Bowes Seal Fast Ladies at West Side and the Delaware Major. Friday, Sept. 3—Fox Hunt Classic. : i Tuesday, Sept. 7—Pennsylvania |de Recreation, West Side Classic and the Stegemeier's Grille La-|s dies at West Side. a Friday, Sept. 10 — Pritchett's Sponsor's Classic for Ladies and the Washington League, one of the city's oldest, which will roll at the Illinois. Monday, Sept. 13 — Fraternal League at Illinois and the Indianapolis Ladies’ Classic at Penn, Some Changes Personnel changes in some of the leading teams are few but there are some notable ones. The former Mechanics Laundry Ladies’ quintet is now under the sponsorship of Hickman Oldsmobile with former national champ Sally Twyford and 15-year-old Lila Littrell added to the staff. The team will be known as the “Whirlaways.” The Yaver Men's Shop squad finds Louanna Early, former Mechanics star, rolling in the No. 3 spot. - Two new bowling establish
the city’s ‘ten-pin artists. The
oe! P. day and si day 1:
ited Auto Sales 1-0.
Sewn hiuanint ne
320 Tufly and -Brown;
and £5 ved incy, 8 to 3 and 10 » ha at Quincy. Kuiney s to 2 th Bill House hurling a no-hit y Acton Merchants Vein iaed rer bu 16-0, Saturday in an In-
Laundrymen Win League S0ftball Title
which will hit the Pritchett lanes| ne Marion County Softball? championship was won last night won 39 games and lost 16 for a by Mechanics Laundry when they drubbed the Bethel A, C, 15-5 at Municipal Stadium. In the preliminary, Auto Bales shut out the
Keeten
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All-Sta dent ‘Softball Tourney title.
Fountain Square A. CO. has secured k rmit to next month and are m. ight games for any le or doubie-nesders for Sun0 6 Teams interested
write
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Johnson, 8.
George Shafer Wins
Hole-In-One Tourney George Shafer, Batesville, Ind. professional golfer, day that his victory in the Indiana Open golf tourney at La Porte Wriday was no fluke. Shafer, one of 105 entrants .in the annual hole-in-one tourna-|' ment, dropped one of his drives 10% inches from the pin. One of Shafer’s pupils, John Currin, Batesville, won the
showed to-
Mrs. |.
Day. Ten Games Behind Brooklyn, in last place, 10 games behind the leader on July elimaxed a surge in which it
709 percentage by beating the St. Louis Cardinals twice yesterday, 12 to 7 and 6 to 4, to move into first place, three percentage points ahead of the Braves. The Braves were dumped into g|second place when they dropped 2/both énds of a double-header to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6 to 1 and Rookie Bob Chesnes yielded only five hits as he chalked up his sixth straight victory in the first game as Dixie
ting atmosphere of first place in the National League
the cellar like the historic drive
Boston Braves’ 1914 “miracle team.” Bums may not win the pennant, but if they can-hang on lead, their spectacular drive may go down in baseball
Major Leaders
> AMERICAN LEAGUE G AB R H Williams, Boston ..105 385 95 142 Boudreau, Cleveland 119 444 90 162 Mitchell, Cleveland 108 450 61 159 .346 Appling, Chicago ..100 393 47 12% .32 McCosky, Philadel'a 108 406 77 130 .330
NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R
Musial, St. Louis .. 123 495 111 Slaughter, St. Louis 133 466 86 Ashburn, Philadel'a 117 463 78 Chicago ....111 424 64 139 ton 134
Pet. 369 .365
H Pct, 8 .382 156 .335 54 333 338 323
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RUNS BATTED IN DiMaggio, Yanks 1 Wiliams, R. Box 102 R. Sox Gian
48 Jie 99 Musial, Cards .. 2 ty Kiner, Pirates ...35 DiMagsio, bua 29 Musial, Cards . +3488 versie 29 Mize, Giants .....
drove in two runs. Lefty Vie Lombardi set Boston down with seven hits in the second game as the Pirates came from behind with a four-run seventh inning. The Boston Red Sox clung to their lead in the American League by dividing a double-header with the St. Louis Browns, winning the first 10 to 2, and dropping the second, 12 to 4. Joe Dobson scattered six hits to win thé opener with thé help of a grand slam homer by Birdie Tebbetts and a three-run circuit blast by Ted Williams. The Browns clubbed four Red Sox pitchers for 20 hits in the second game to gain a split behind young Ned Garver. A two-run homer by Billy John-
Dodgers End 58-Day Drive for 1st Place
Beat Cards Twice, 1210 7 and 6 to 4,
“To Climax Historic Climb from Cellar RMAN MILLER, United Press Staff Writer
son in the seventh inning of the nightcap enabled the New York Yankees to gain a split with the Detroit Tigers and maintain sec ond place a game-and-a-half behind the- Sox. Dick Wakefield's pinch home run off relief pitcher Frank Hiller in the eighth inning of the first game climaxed a fourrun rally that boosted Detroit to a 9-to-6 triumph. In the second contest, the Tigers overcame a nine-run deficit, thanks to three-run homers by Pat Mullin and Hoot Evers, only to have Johnson's homer off Virgil Trucks |give the Yankees an 11-to-10 win. | Cleveland held third place two games behind the lead by dividing a twin bill with Washington, winning the first game, 6 to 0, as Bob Lemon gave up three hits for his 18th victory, and losing the second, 5 to 2. Athletics Fall
Philadelphia's Athletics failed to gain ground on the three frontrunners when they lost the second game of a double-header to the Chicago White Sox, 7 to 2, after winning the opener, 5 to 4. Carl Schieb held Chicago to nine hits and rapped out a triple and two singles in winning the first, The Cincinnati Reds whipped the stumbling New York Giants twice, both times by a 3 to 2 margin. The second was called in the fifth because of rain.
The Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Subs divided a twin bill, .. The. first, 1 to 0, on Walt “Dublels eight-hit shutout pitching and Del Ennis’ double in the eighth. Chicago collected 14 hits, three by Eddie Waitkus, to win the second game, 10 to 4, on a good relief pitching job by Bob Rush.
Walker and Clyde Kluttz each
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women's section of the meet when one of her drives up six feet, 111% inches from the cup.
O'Halloran, Force Are ments will receive the slants of Midget Race Winners
Ill, won the 30-lap feature at W. 16th St. Midget Speedway last a|night after starting in the sixth position.
who won the pole position, led for 24 laps. Mel Hansen and Potsy Goacher collided on the 11th lap ‘and spun out. Koube of Seattle, won the semifinal event.
ner at Force of Richmond. Frank Til-
Yland Tom Cherry of Muncie
{|placed third. Jim Reid of Miami took the 15-lap consolation race.
Amateur Baseball
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GAMES TODAY
AMERICAN ASS No games scheduled.
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only games aie
NATIONAL | Brooklyn at St. Loui Boston at Pittsburgh Only games schedule
RESULTS YESTE
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