Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1948 — Page 8

soston Meyer Is Called ‘Miracle Man’

CARL - 1ANDAUIST nited Press

ames out of first place. - ¥ with

NEW YORK, “gent 13Hed

be the first to protest at being called a “miracie man” but what "else is there to sey today about Bill Meyer, the freshman pilot whose . Pittsburgh Pirates are firmly In second place when logic says they should be in the secod

1t isn't in the tea leaves for the Pirates to beat out the Boston! Braves, yet they are closing in re-, lentlessly and after their seventh straight victory were just three

ancient Rip ubs'

|) Illinois, Michigan and Northwest-

Four at Purdue

Are Ineligi Purdue and W ble universities were hit hardest today by a Big Nine athletic purge but the

[housecleaning will not have any

affect on the Boilermakers’ football strength. Eleven Western Conference sophomores were declared ineligible. yesterday by Commissioner Kenneth L., Wilson, who announced that an investigation of

"|scholarships, eligibility and pos-

sible subsidization was being

{pushed in member schools.

Purdue and Wisconsin each will ose four men for one year while

ea NEW BOSS—Ted Board poses » with f Manager Bi Bill Meyer. the) Bg 9 Purge isn't So Rough

ern will lose one. Minnesota, Ohio State, Iowa and Indiana were not mentioned in the ant

" Five Out of School Purdue players ruled out were Robert J. Bhrik, La Porte; Ken-

beat theiwestfall is a basketball prospect, id RAS others are gridiron candi-

W. Janosek of Cleveland, and 1D, W, Westfall of Olney, IiL

Lauer, Frank, Jasinski and Suchy have withdbawn or were dropped for scholastic fail-

lure during or after their fresh-|

The Purdue ineligibles do not alter the t prospect of Coach Stu Holcomb's team. None of

e - jegt| he men was a member of Pur

‘Relief Pitcher credited with the win.

with three singles.

homer in the second game.

son, Won his ninth game, his ninth game.

it Tippecanoe

8 s three-run “homer put the ned ahead to stay. Tommy Byrne was

The Athletics came from beHind at Boston after being held to three hits for six innings, winding up with a. six-run splurge in the ninth to top the Red Sox, 10 to 4. Barney McCoskey led the 15-hit Philadelphia attack

The Cleveland Indians won their seventh straight at Cleve- 4 ® {and, defeating the Browns, 6 to Herman Resi 4, to move within 2%; games of

the lead but had to settle for a

3-t0-8; 12-inning tie in the second 8 game, called by darkness. The S ers Boss tie game was to be played off today. Sam Zoldak’'s five innings of steady relief pitching gave him the opening victory, his 10th. Al Zarilla. hit two doubles for the Browns in the opener -and got a

The White Sox defeated the Tigers, 5 to 2, at Detroit, as Tony Lupien, Aaron Robinson and Don Kolloway provided the offensive punch with homers. Pat Mullin homered for Detroit. Joe Haynes,|P8ck June 20. with relief help from Howie Jud-

State PGA Ope PGA Opens

qualirying round of Indiana’s| Brooklyn Dodgers. A tourney. 3 , * Wayne Timberman, Meridian, Warriors Sign Center

Hills Country Club pro in Indianapolis, is the defending title‘holder, The 32 low shooters today will begin match play tomorrow and the finals are scheduled for

last season and their names were not included on the 1948 football prospectus, A new. rule covering scholar ships will be made public next week and all conference schools will abide by the new regulation under a gentleman's agree“Iment until mid-November when it will be written into the rule book, unless the faculty board of ane or more member schools rejects it. If rejected, the rule would become effective upon passage by a majority vote of the | faculty representatives at their {next meeting, Year-long Probe

former FBI agents. Seventeen

or misunderstanding of rules.

games in London.

Rl A ASSOCIATION Second Game, Seven Janine) Cincinnati <....000 200 1306 8 ny as his team ended the season AMERICA! Standinit Loufsyille | aerr oh. 201 010 1— § 13 4 St. Lous - 950 016 dix— 713 o|ch a double loss to Milwaukee. WL Pet. GB|Toledo ......... 522 070 x18 17 0 Peterson, 'Biackburn and Williams; Herman, 1947 manager of the INDIANAPQLIS L100 B54 648 — na Falmer. and Aulds, Rall; Runey|Dickson. Pollet, Wilks and Wilber. Pittsh h Pi i, 89 8S S18 nn (™ mer Brooklyn ..eiiciiia. 000 010 020— 3 8 urgh Firates, took the helm 88 68 888M lneiukee Lor 108000 0— 713 OI Noe hrskin er Cu at Minneapolis in mid-season, re- Ce bs 81 3 42 B Mitw verre 00 002 030— 5 14 0 5% q Erkin i ne, Palio inte Ros ey placing the ailing Frank Shellen- ‘ed 88 431 38 ght, Grate, Prendergast and Kerr;|Cooper, T dots 61 81 401 38 Clark” Ha ards, Emmerich and Wheeler. (First Ganie) T Loutsville 6 08 364 44 (Second Game, Seven linings) BOON ....vso ree res 900 011 011— 4 14 8 he former National League Milwaukee” Sraaitane sex 400 000 2 ¢ 8 OP Hiadeiphis 200 001 30x— 6 11 3/8 3 Seconds baseman sald he was AMERICAN LEAGUE wy Hine and’ ‘Crandall; Swanson and| Barrett, Shoun, Hogue and. Mas; .1.e0- ’ ner. if 1 id Jecause 1 want to play OBC + «ov i susnns y & To ob (First Game, i Innin yd (Second Game, 1 Innings) “I think I till be of Rew Jotk ood AL aaa ‘300 020 031 01— § 11 dIPHidnhia i 000 500 000 0— 1 113 can s Of serv-{Cleveland .. 53 813 2 oo adison and Dre: cherl Paepke, Samak-| Bickford, Potter and Salkeld; Dobnelly, ice in the big show, possibly as a |Bhiadeiphia non» Eman a Dubiel and Seminick. i part time player-coach,” Herman |8t. Lous 0.38 Uhlansas ony Sean WTP § tl pperLTe SATURD, i seat anhine tan . are a 3 SU said, 1 am mn ~ COMING BACK [Chicago a “or N31 4 [Sto Pew oo 208 000 O47 8 _ URDAY here to manage because I want! Woop, Buker and. Ballenger; Hines, Ro- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION to play if I can.” NATIONAL LEAGUE WARS Wg Awe es INDIANAPOLIS -.--,000 104 300 3 0 3 w Pet. GB AMERICAN LEAGUE | Johnson, Barrett = Wilfred Ryan, general man-ls.on ......... BS OTE INOW YORK rerinies 040 03 230-10 18 Many mao Barrett and: Rurner; Kriegwy ager of the Millers, made no an-|Pittsurgh | 738 88 557 3 Washington .. ..... 300 000 200— 5 6 3 gh oul © 61 537. B5%| Porterfield, Byrne and Niathos; Master. jiwaukee ..........002 300 030-7 7 nouncement as to a possible re- 4 6 33 6 |son, Wynn, Weiteroth and. Bari Orie Minneapolis. - . 010 110 030 8 11 63 833 8 Chic, o 3 tae 131000 000 3 0 whee artin and Kerr; Piogne, Cain : Phadeln hia . 423 21 101 Aa ty played for the Chicago Cubs and |cpicago’ ... | 84 A Haynes. ‘Judson aid. Robinson: Hutch: |Kengss City ........ 901 200 100-32 Cincinnati 78 418 2M%|inson, Trout and Swit. at Seana a0 JI T1R18,18 0 ERadeiphia A 100 900 de—10 15 1 hea Oneth: Toad ad "8 Boston 00 0 1 223 J] Louitville oh An AE 310 101— 9 21 GAMES TODAY Scheib ‘and Rosa Dobson, Ferriss Toledo iil 1 00 100— 4 9 alp

Midgets to Race 15 Laps Sunday

jap feature last night, will comThom-| pete again next Sunday night in| a

Cla special at the W, 16th | Bt. Speedway. The Bloomington, speedert ster won by five car lengths last night from Potsy Goacher of Anderson. - Aaron Woodard of Denver was third after a tlose duel with Mike O'Halloran of Lansing, Ill, and Jimmy Luddington of Gary. O'Halloran finished fourth ang Luddington won the ST fifth spo

won a 15-lap Australian pursuit race, Ten-lap heat winners were due’s powerhouse freshman team iyiongen, Earl Kouba of Denver, Perkins and Kenny Eaton of New|¥ Castle. Hansen also won thei trophy dash.

Wilson sald the ineligibility ruling came after a year-long investigation by himself and two

charges were probed. Some were disproved and others were found to have been a misinterpretation

The housecleaning was hinted a month ago but the official announcement was’ held until Wil son's return from the Olympic

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 13 (UP) ~ Billy Herman resigned as manager of the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association yester-

ON DECK—John

Mel Hansen, who won the 30-

75<1ap midget auto race

Joe Pina of Indianapolis

Warriner Injured Leroy Warriner of Indianapo-|

lis, who was injured during the feature event at Speedrome Sat- | urday night, was reported in fair condition today at St. Francis Hospital. Warriner's midget race car|g turned over three times after

coming out of the northeast turn

on the 23d lap while he was leading the field. The race was

|stopped and the winner was announced as Cotton Mussick of ‘Wichita, Kas. Tom Cherry, Muncle, was second, and Frank Tillman ‘of Alexandria, third, Th c—————————_ a ———— Tar Heels Selected

To Win Conference

paign.

the 16-team league.

ICAN LEAGUE

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10 (UP)| st. routs 3b Slevtlan i ~Ed Sadowski, one of the best| Only same schedul performers in the Basketball As- NATIONAL LEAGU! sociation of America, has sighed! Chicago at Breoklyn

Codi, (Second Game, 12 Aoainge "Hie: le. Darkness) Washi 001 910 100 3 his 1048-49 contract, the Phila- a ach York (night). St" Thuis Sass 308 jt 900 300 3 3 3 © Reyndldy. i and Niarhos; Thompson, Ferdelphia Warriors have an- ee Schwamb Garver. Sanford and Parte] ok And Barly Gamb) nounced. RESULTS YESTERDAY Ren er. Bearden, Christopher and Philadelphia ........ 900 000 100 1 10 A member of last year's all- — AMERICAN ASSOCIATION NATIONAL LEAGUE oMcCanan, Hoiborow. § Kellner and Rosar; league team; Sadowski is & for-iy iia ...00o0ee. 010 001 002 § 11: 0 Pittsburgh Ws de 003 oul 003. 7 #1 AN Sreond. Game) mer Seton Hall (N. J.) College|To ledo ‘va 010 004 O1x— 6 12 2|Chicago .. .... .... 0 000 010— 3 5_ 0/Philadelphia «....... 000 oa 300 1 ! ’ All-American. uber and Rall; Wilson and] Sewell and Klutts; AR Dobernit, [Boston ............. 000 030 je 3 ae. Rush and A, Walker, Coleman and’ Roser; Parnell and Batts

GREENSBORO, N. C,, Sept. 13!

a clean sweep of the poll. All other sports writers tagged North Rochester. Carolina as a sure thing to lead]

Week-End Baseball Results, Standing, Schedule _

Shy Ted Beard Has Taken Hurdle Into Big Time in His Stride

By VICTOR PETERSON

B0X SCORES make for impersonal reading. Listed third in the batting order for the Pittsburgh Pirates is the name, BEARD. Following it is a line of figures showing the times at bat, the hits, the runs, the putouts, the assists and the

errors.

The Beard listed, of course, to the big leagues this year. He

is the Indianapolis | dians’ gift

is Ted Beard, the Mighty Mite/cOmer.” said Eddie \FitzGerald,

who catches every ot gatne. who was voted by Victory Field . fans as their favorite player of| Teds batting averageiwith Pitts Associa-

the champion American tion team.

To see just how Ted is doing

burgh thus far does ! match his American Associati figures. But his fielding is flawless and

in the big time, 1 went to Cincin-|at times spectacular. He still

nati for a Pirate-Reds game. The report: right, mighty all right.

draws the walks which made him

Ted is doing all famous here. Once on base, it

almost is a cinch he will break for a steal.

” # a TAKING THE hurdle into the sn & National League with the pen-| BUT WHATEVER he does, he nant-chasing Pirates hasn't{does quietly. He takes praise as changed the 27-year-old ball though he doesn't believe what player who worked his way into|he hears.

Naptown’s baseball heart.

Of that first day he trotted to

He still is shy, still modest. He|the centerfield spot for Pittswon't admit to himself he is big|burgh, he said:

league timber.

“I was scared stiff. I stood out

Pirate teammates and man-|there and prayed nobody would

agers are more expressive.

hit a ball within a mile of me. 1

“Ted's new and still feels un-|knew for sure I'd boot it.” sure of himself. He's going to| He didn’t. That first game he be a great player for us, Already|not only got his usual walk but the Pittsburgh fans have taken belted a triple. Wire stories made a terrific liking to him,” Man- special. note that the freshman

ager Bill Meyer said.

fielder made several flashy catches,

# » - . “WE'RE MIGHTY glad to have] Incidentally, since Beard joined Ted with us. He's a big help,”{the Priates, they have won eight Coach Bill Burwell, formerly ofjout of nine games.

the Indians, said.

“He's an all right guy and aright

Hopp, Pirate first sacker,

The Mighty Mite is doing all

swings hard ‘as Ted waits his turn at the plate.

IT'S A HIT—Ted's blow drove a hard, fast single to right field.

MERVOUS—Ted gives his nails a hard workeut,

That's the setup in the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association’s city Series.

{decide the city champion. The

(Saints, 8 to 3, to win the City {League crown in a post-season game.

f bases full.

i |Saints scored two in the fifth and

. Nov, 18—Philadeiphia. * . 25—Boston. . 30. 3 e ork; vs, Dee. 17-Chicago. 3 31—Raoehester X

Mallory, 16-1

Ferris Food Wins City League Crown

By FRANK WILSON Two strikes and you're out.

And Kingan’s Reliables admin-

istered the first strike to P. R. Mallory yesterday as the two met in a double-elimination series to

Reliables nine trounced Mallory, 18 to 1, to keep a spotless series record and hand their opponent its first loss in the competition. Also in sandlot action yesterday the Ferris Food Market squad trimmed the South Side

Hurls Four-Hitter

Jack Bradford held Mallory to four hits as Kingans went out in front in the first three innings. After being held scoreless in the first stanza, the Meatmen exploded for five tallies in the second inning. They put even a larger charge into things in the third, when they accounted for six runs. It was absolutely no contest after that and the Reliables team added one run in the fourth and sixth inning® and three in the ninth. Mallory scored in the third. Kenny Williams’ bases-full triple in the third was the big Kingan biow and Bill Wyss took

bingles in four trips. First in Three Years Ferris won its first crown in three years of competition by taking an early lead and then building. The Marketeers scored four runs in the third inning in which Bill Huff doubled with the

They added one run in the fourth, two in the eighth, and a single tally in the ninth. The

one in the ninth. Ed Todd was the winning pitcher for Ferris, allowing only six hits and striking out nine. Wendell Smith was the loser for the Saints.

By United Press

consecutive, season is concluded und four teams—Montreal, New(UP) — e men who annuallylark, Syracuse and Rochester—to-|yyt the remaining posts in that haunt Southern Conference press aay drew a one-day respite before yrder. boxes today picked the University engaging in the annual Goverof North Carolina almost unani-{nor’s Cup playoffs. mously to take the conference] Montreal copped the 1948 pen-jat Montreal, football crown in the 1948 cam- nant—-its third in four years— | Newark. : with a 13%;-game margin over| One: vote kept Coach Carl{Newark. Syracuse. wound up CYCLE RACE WINNER 4Snavely’s Tar Heels from making third, two games back of New-| FRANKLIN, Sept. 13.-— - The meets Karl Davis, Columbus, O., lark, and a half-game in front of five-mile feature motorcycle race/and Ray Gunkel, former Purdue lat the fairgrounds here last|star, faces Don Mcintyre, Otterin other bouts, the first

Montreal Cops Int. League Pennant by 13; Games

2 game,

The International League's 85thlplace, just four percentage points back of Rochester. Buffalo, Jersey City and Baltimore rounded

Toronto, battling for a playoff night was won by Harry Grin- ville, Mo.,

{spot right down to yesterday's! stead of Columbus.

rst Game) 002

dak, Christopher and Heg

Palm

AMERICAN LEAGUE

6 Heavyweights On Wrestling Bill

Six heavyweight matmen are had to settle for fifth |Slated for action at Sports Arena tomorrow night, between “Wild Bill” Longson and {Al Lovelock topping the card. Longson will be making his {first start here since he was deThe opening playoff games to-| {feated at the Fairgrounds Colilmorrow night will ind Rochester |seum in July when he lost his and Syracuse at NWA title to Lou Thesz, {lock has espaped defeat in five

oit 4 1 1, Seixas, and Czech southpaw star it, "Gillespie PN. ieger

4 000 000-— 4 7 oltion today.

/ease, the Long-Brown match 6 oishaped up as a tough tussle.

Long, Brown In Singles Match

FOREST HILLS, N. Y. Sept. 13 (UP)—So far unruffied by any major- upsets, the National Tennis Singles championships moved into the third round today with the featured ' match a possible preview of future Davis Cup batties between the United States {and - Australia.

test match of the day were two of the most promising youngsters in the camps of ‘the traditional cup rivals—Colin Long of Australia and Tom Brown of San Francisco Second-seeded Billy Talbert, third-seeded Gardnar Mulloy, Wimbledon champion Bob Kalkenburg, Philadelphia Flash Vie

{Jaroslav Drobny were other geeded players slated to see ac-

But, while these big-namers figured to advance with relative

Long rated as the favorite off

¢ 2/his seeding as sixth among for?jeign players. But Brown, a Wim-

i Set 15 _o/Long trouble, although Brown ago ois 020-12 14 3 Ches. " Higbe, E. Riddie “ant Kiutts; J. ame Aocatl and te ' Walker,

rm Gui Brasle, K. Johnson, Wilks and

Pyle. and Aulds; Reid, ow and ECL itt 00 = Ariat ganas a 007 gai—13 18 . 000 1800-3 Bickel, ae month. A statement by Director Carl 3 : Bennett dispelled rumors that Hatten and 20, 90 LE al the Ft. Wayne team, title-holder| sen and Cooper, Westrum pscond Game, Six Innings, . 200 00!

ew. York ... oie 021 ae 020 3 14 1 3 irst a, AR Innin «+ 000 001 000 500 Bo 1 13

0 1

\biedon finalist in 1947, owned a {hard-hitting game that promised

was not included among the American seedings.

, , Pistons Won't Defend sua World, Softball Title

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Sept. 13 ¢ o/ (UP)—The Ft. Wayne Zollner 500 Joo 1 7 1/Pistons said today they would BiB And Saikeid; Rowe, Hester and [not defend their amateur soft- , bail association world’s cham3 plonship at Portland, Ore. this|®

(for three consecutive years,

{would reconsider a statement made at Cleveland last year that

et ne.

A Ne

St. Louis First Home Opponent

starting Nov. 1, and according to Manager Coach Payer Bruce

Hale. Jets, formerly the Indianapolis Kautskys, were renamed after the famed engine produced here. Their first home game will be against the St’ Louis Browns. At present, Coach Hale has 10 Playas under contract, and exstart intensive practice the first week, in October. “We will have a young and agHale,

31 on the

pects to

gressive ball club,” “one that will be in there fight8 |ing all the time and that will win E {its share of game : of the best Basketball teams in the country.” The complete schedule:

tucks Beats Beats Spartans, 3-0

eart tans at the Tigers’ gridiron Saturday as both teams opened their

Don Oldham and Jones Taylor shared the scoring honors as two ‘touchdowns apiece in the city series game. Therman Washington and John Wilson scored once each. Attucks failed to score one point after touchdown. Attucks scored only once in the first half. Oldham reeled off a 47-yard trot in the first quarter to give the Tigers what was - to be a winning margin. . Failing to score in the second period Attucks exploded for four touchdowns in the third quarter. Oldham tallied on the first play of the half as he went around end for a 51-yard run. Touchdown Pass - Tigers got ° their hands on the ball aga worked to the Spartan 11-yard line where Oldham tossed a pass to. Washington to make it 18-0. Jones Taylor scored twice in less than a minute as he intercepted two Spartan passes,. one by John Hogan, the other by Bob Hardesty, and returned them for touchdowns. Taylor ran 60 yards with the first, 39 yards with the

i SS

the consistency award with three t

John Wilson scored the final Attucks touchdown in the fourth taking a 7-yard pass from Washington. Score by periods:

Squaring off against each other 8

in what promised to be the hot- iy an. Osis: be ell, man, :

Charles Fights Bivins Tonight

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UP) Highly touted Ezzard Cincinnati, who meets Cleveland’s in a 10-round heavyweight bout Stadium tonight, hoped to prove De is ready to succeed Champion

Charles, rated a 9 to § favorite, . expected to weigh in at 178 pounds Wilke Bivins’ expected to scale .

The 25-year-old Charles, whom Louis called the weight around, has fought the 38-year-old Bivins three times. The Cincinnati Negro dropped the decision in the first fight several. years ago; captured the second . bout*on a decision and kn out Bivins in the fourth round in. i Cleveland 18 months ago.

Wins at Pleasant Run

Run. Schuelter used his 12-stroke handicap to advantage and was credited with a 76 for the honors. Bill Hanafee was second with 50-377, and Bill Hoyt Sr. third,

Maryland High Boys COLLEGE PARK, Md. » Sept. 18 (UP)—Forty-two of the 6 U

3% and _Bd-/the team would retire from the e and West

world tournament.

versity of Maryland football can- . didates are over § feet tall.

1—Indianapolis 3 3—St. Paul ge 4—Columbus = 4 5—Minneapolis -5— 6—Kansas City 6 1—Toledo 7 8—Louisville Re after’ the Birds anr bill opener, 7 to |

with no post-seasor 1928 team. went Rochester in the Series. Blues, Sain

"" The league's” a

for 154 games W Kansas City in 1 Blues won 107 § only 47 setbacks. the 168-game route 117 games, high o history of the AA. By capturing the an 11-game margi also set another re anapolis pennant four previous titles and '28, were won

Bob Malloy, the game winner, is & the opener against morrow. He bea times In regular se once. The Apostles © hurlers rested up offs, Pat McGlot hander of recent n Morris Martin, sc Glothin’s record is tin's, 13 and 11. Apostles Blar But the Indi marked superiorit Saints this year an 17 times in 22 ¢ over, the Apostles a single game ir losing 11'-straight. the Indians won si The law of ave time for the Sain in Indianapolis; bu bucked the law throughout the: reg and came out on | By collecting 13 day’s first game in 12 in the second, t indicated their ba back to normal, Manager Al Lope: ing that his boys tear through the p old pennant stride Les Fleniing b homer in yes and boosted total to 143, best by far. Pete Cas inside - the - park same game, his fif Birds Stop | Cal McLish st: tilt on the Trib Johnny Hutching over the toil in the up as the losing the Birds nailed runs in the eight! In the second eo son’s finale, Colu a couple of rook Ford and Jack

ished the seasor .300, and Tom 8S by a single perce: In the coveéted