Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1949 — Page 38

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oe By Eddie Ash +. Times Sports Editor ng, SOME MARCH snd the basebll bos wi start throw

ing, running and swinging. It won't be long. . . . , this is an opportune: time to point out that Fn a dearth of catchers in the National pastime, . . . ds sort of shy away from learning the backstopping ney + » » Last year, the American Association was short of 3 talent behind the plate. . . . Indianapolls got by well enough, some of the other teams were far below triple-A standard in

recelying - department. . . . Carl Hubbell, one of baseball's ‘pitchers, commented recently on the increasing scarcity

timber. . . . He directs the New York Giants’ huge

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‘ ‘base in Flor- = | card ,.. Galento still is getting tryout camps| by on his clowning and the cusof 20 young| tomers seem to like it ., His wanted any part of work-| stuff probably will go over big at, e +s “And! in television. me,” sald the screwball. “By A. catcher becomes the chief] ‘on the field. As a can’t help but absorb -overall baseball knowledge! ny other player. And if a half smart he not only the important duties of , but. familiar. with just every debig or small. “That's why you'll find so many and managers around who were catchers,” conHub, “Of course, one can #0 long as a player, But , because of his knowa 2-to-1 better chance) 6 gob than, say, a passe ider, or outfielder. In short, you just learn more of what catch” oor bbell doesn’t believe that ys naturally shy away from catching because it's supposedly dangerous . position. “Any ood athlete could develop into a star catcher if he would

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noticed Coach Frank Leahy's pic-|

upon investigating noticed that it was the which appeared on the football tickets . Their little girl had decided to cut up the precious cardboards and then dispose of them . . , Just a little innocent scissors practice, that's all , . . Robert Cahill, Irish ticket] manager, issued Suplicatam, =

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the. St. Louis Cardinals’ manager, Tommy Glaviano will get much work at decond, third and short this yeat ; , ., The Cards recalled Glaviano from the Columbus AA club, where he starred at third base last sea som,“

MANUALS first home foot: ball game next fall will be against | Beech Grove and will be played| under the new lights at Delavan Smith Athletic Feld . » Manual supporters will be present in large numbers to celebrate the arc inaugural on the South Side . « + The Manual Roines Alumni Association aopes to include a public address system for the field and an electric scoreboard .ladaptable for both football and basketball.

WILLIAM EGGERT is back ‘on the St. Paul Saints’ mound roster for the 1949 season . . . The Saints sent him away last year for additional seasoning he won 19 games while losing only four for Newport News . . . The Saints picked up a rookie outfielder who goes under the handle of Eugene Depperschmidt .. . . It's going to make rough going to get that name into =» “halfmeasure” box score.

r ¥ ” GIVEN to boasting, especially after they bumped off the Indianapolis Indians in the first-round playoff last fall, the St. Paul Saints really have something to} shout about in a young infielder who threatens to burn up.the bage. paths, . . ., Their rookie Don Nicholas stole 82 bases in 95 games for Cambridge in the Eastern Shore League in 1948. . . He ‘also led the league in walks {with-130. +... But "bat. ting average of .264 doesn't look too hot. He'll find Amal: can Association pitching a lot tougher.

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a. “Personally, I believe the shortage of catchers is an eco-| nomic one. Did you ever stop to

Hoosier Sandlotters to Get. Lowdown on Pro Baseball

, and right now is looking over young players at the i

£ 8 =» | LAST ' FALL, before one of-@

&| ccotch tape . . . His wife had tire in the waste basket and °

AC CORDING to “Eddie Dyer, |

{time trainer when Dr. J. T. C.

{looked at the Indianapolis In-

With Skill Learned in

Jim Moris Butler's Madwoing Winer, applet a i 3 bandage # to ob Mail

Aches and Pains of Butler Athletes Soothed by Trainer Jim Morris -

Master of Arnica Room Applies Bandages

Pre-Medical Courses

By BILL PITTMAN

“Oh, my aching back.”

On off days, when the team, doesn’t play, he manipulates they gang of training room apparatus to take care of the sprains, strains, sore muscles and aching] (joints, He tapes and bandages

That isthe ory common to athletes, and the one heard most the various contusions, abrasions,

Who listens to the moans of

woe? Butler athletes are lucky,

- loften, with several variations, in the Butler University training room. | bumps and bruises, .

!they have Jim Morris, who not only Natens but does something QUALIFICATIONS for tha

about it. Jim has been trainer at Butler since 1937 when he was graduated from the: school as an’ economics major. While in Butler, he courses and night school work preparing for a medical career, In the summer he worked in‘ the General Hospital physiotherapy and fracture wards, .

" ® » See IN 1938 he took over as fullMcCollum quit to take up his: private practice, Morris had already spent his two years apprenticeship required by the American Trainers Association for a license. He was ‘all prepared to start medical school at Indiana University in September, 1941, with the prospect of returning to Butler when he was graduated. But he was drafted in March, 1941. After spending 69 months In both theaters of war, in the Pacific as an enlisted man and in Germany as an officer, he was| discharged n 1940.

question.

Complaints Few At Victory Field

By EDWIN CO. HEINKE Ownie Bush rested during 1941 after leaving the hospital. Then his thoughts turned toward baseball again anil. naturally his eyes

Indiana's ambitious amateur baseball players are going to get their lessons straight from the shoulders of the men who have|

made names for themselves in major league baseball over a long

"dent; John

| Ooers h 7 Parl Sexson, president, Perme| The WINTERGARDE Maran, oy dent and Troy | Indianapolly’ M The tracks will, operate on ’ BAR-RESTAURANT

“tracks for the coming ragpg

Kurtis Kraft Fords will operate

day . Haute,

span of years. . Thirty-eight pro baseball men in two-man teams will spread| ‘our over 13 our over 13 states es starting | Saturday in Detroit. They will lecture,

Auto Racing Group Busan eo] digs Track Pacts

in a professional manner, The idea germinated in the fertile migd of George M. Traut-| “Officers of the Mid-West Car] Owners and Drivers Racing Association today announced the sign-

man, president of the National] === Association of Baseball Leagues. ing of contracts for 43 Class "A"

The state of Indiana will have two two-man teams operating. Team No. 1 is. Henry (Hank) Gowdy and Ralph (Buzz) Boyle. They are Cléveland| Indian coaches, Team No. 7 is] made up of Olle Vanek and Limi Lucadello of the St. Louls Browns. Clinics booked. for Indiana include: Team No. 1 (Gowdy and Boyle) ~Feb. 15—Peru; Feb, 16-—-Gary; Feb. 17—South Bend; Feb. 18—F't, Wayne; Feb. 18-—Muncie. Team No, 2

season, ‘At the same time, the officers “announced they had signed a ~with--racing associations in the Great Lakes area, Kansas City and St. Louis for the interchanging of cars and drivers.

Some 30. Offenhausers.. andl

Feb, 15-—-Batesville; Feb, 16-In-dianapolis; Feb. 17—Terre Haute; Feb, 18--Bloomington; Feb, 19 Evansville,

on the Indiana-Ohio tracks on the following schedule: Monday night, Richmond Speedway, Frank Martin; Tuesnight, Fast Track, Terre arl Undersaw; Wednesday, Dayton Speedway, Frank Funk; Thursday, Jeffersonville Midget “Speedway; Bob Fisher; Friday, Indianapolis Speedrome, 0}: Earl Sexson; Saturday, ArmsAlexandria;

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ot Speedway, Charles McKinley, a Kokomo Speedway, John Rose, Chicago. «.\ rere 78 a0 | and Lafayette Speedway, Robert p: tie] pr Dexter, ’ INDIANAPOLIS .. 13 30 303 18 Officers of the Mid-West Assd-| = bd as 1. I : elation, with headquarters in Chi-| Raltmore 31, INDIANAPOLIS 78 ogo a am Sikh, presi- Chica 0 on IRIN " : pplett, vice presi- i Ashington 13. Erte Thigpen secretary- AMES Yo! NS os Tr. representatives of the association are E. D. Kendrick and Tommy Grey,

Quan Wash Higlon AL Wayne. st Minneapolis, Philadelphia al Bt. Louis.

(Cucadello and| Vanek) «Feb; 14 «= Richmond:{0bsession isn't in making money .. si sight. I'll never. interfere.”

dians. He and Frank McKinney purchased the club in December. of . 1941 and the record since Is known to every Indianapolis baseball fan. Bush®s ‘success with the :lub was climaxed last year when the Indians won the American Asso{elation pennant under the intel-

Last of 1 a Series

ligent field leadership of Al Lo{pez.. But more than that, Bush had given Indianapolis- a hard fighting, scrappy ball club. Owinlé" would tolerate no other. . The fight that marked him diamond in that first season with Detroit still is the dominating force in Ownie's makeup.

spent most of. his elective

By Following Motto:

strode —onto—-the —

Jim Morris . . . patches broken "Bulldogs. Incidentally, Morris is the guy

{who is off the bench as much of}

HE IMMEDIATELY returned the time as Tony Hinkle. “When | to Butler and got the training there is a scramble and one of [talents in another direction, room gears in motion again. The the Bulldogs winds up on the medical career was out of the floor Morris is the guy who leapsihave been to the rescue.

Tn T930 Ownie Bush man front of the Sox dugout pose land Indians’ ball hawk, Walter

association and very few open-

od the Chicigs™ White Sox. —In

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49% training room job include a back-| CRAWFORDSVI

ground in anatomy, physislogy, physiotherapy, first-aid and a lot! of psychology. A good percent-| age of injuries are mostly mental. There is: no school -where one!

learns to be a trainer, there is nO! minutes of the first half but] Jaientes :

set curriculum with which to establish a school. . “A guy just has| to have a combination love for athletics and medicine. There are few jobs for a man just starting! out to be a trainer. There are only about 360 members of the,

ings are created,” said Jim, Jim's love for athletics is cen-| tered on those athletics practiced) at Butler, He became so wrought, up over the recent clash with Cincinnati University here that he became {ll in the training room following the game, ~ H MORRIS' spring from the time he was a| stellar 135-pound guard for Ca-|8 thedral High School. found himself stacked against| the behemoths of Butler's team, in 1933 he decided to turn a

et ic inclinations!

A lot of Butler's Yeutermen) thankful

change in Morris’ Plans,

Larrupin’ Lioyd Mangrum; 111, who went out In front at the

Mangrum, firing today with a. 36-hole total of 130, shot a two-under-par 68 for a three-round total second was a duo

with B4-hole totals of 200, 1, who ' shared" the lead gel; who at the end of the ‘second round

{troubles on the back nine today,

the 18th.

amateurs, Frank Stranahan, To-|""

|coupled with a 133.

1 Ametous Run Second!

* As Open Goes Info ~ 3rd Round of Play

TUCSON, Ariz, Feb, 5 (UP)— Niles,

of the $10,000 Tucson Open

at the end of the third ; who opened .

of 198. In amateur

yesterday, had-his

and came in with a par 70. Smith picked up five strokes on Riege}! when he carded the best 18-hole round of the day, a five-under-par 605. Misses Putt

The mustached 1947 U. 8. amateur champ from Tulsa lost an opptrunity for outright possession of second place at 199, ‘when he missed a 20-inch putt on

Trailing at 201 ‘were two other

ledo, O., and Eric Monti, Santa Monica, Cal. Stranahan shot one-under-par 69 to add to a 132 previous total, while Monti styled a two-under-par 68 which he

Wabash | Loses To Ball State

Times Special

writers stick out their collective necks

Put Team in Line for Top Honors, By JM SMITH" THIS 18 just about the time of year when sports and. attempt —— the state high school basketball champion. With all due respect to the rest of the teams in the state, this corner picks the ‘Hot Dogs” of Frankfort to away the laurels at Butler Fieldhouse March 19,

ca Why pick Frankfort? new 10 cage. teams trom Pram:

" Well, there are a number

of good answers to that mo 34-20, In 1020 downing question. The ‘Dogh have| OOS = anapolis 29-2% in

three exceptionally. good shoot- | 1936 handing Ft. Wayne Central . ers, Dick Ricker, six foot, one| lacing, and the last time

inch center; Eddle Baer and ® 50-24 John Toeppe, both six-foot for-/1n 1939 beating Franklin 36-22. wards. These boys can hit from any place on the court and have been largely responsible for the

fort, High schol. J y. won in 1925 defeating

|North Carolina State,

run with the best of them, work » the. ball into the basket an FROM er ro have a variety of good set plays. |, om ther ry oviting they a n.8 ithe regional meet at the PERHAPS the most important Fieldhouse in Latayette, thing 1s the fact that winning where things are Sone state te championships is nothing|rough. Probably the ~wmee iwvill ‘have to beat will be

Park Drops 17th 53 so Sui In Stats eu

even the score, CULVER, Ta, Feb. 5-—Park School of Indianapolis lost its 17th game in 20 starts by

Hot Dogs’ season record to date I a of 13° victories against four de- THAT the willl be. hay. 0% ® i tough is an . fact. The NEXT, Coach Wilbur Cum- | Hot Togs shes t have any mins’ boys play a ahilting mie }- own’ sectional meet; THe" thelr defense and it's one the | est team they will. Soughs is om, Wn St | lh TREAT i # the offensive; the Hot can-| In-Sng-oul basketball this sea- ! {

Ind. Feb. 5--Ball finished strong in-the-second ha

State's’ net team py Mt aliman (58)

|dropping a 58 to -24 decision to *Pullman Tech of Chicago here afternoon. rw

Park Sehiool oh T At present the Indians toad ©

to score a 59 to-52 decision over) fg 1t pt] 1g ft pf {Wabash here tonight. | Traverso,f 2.0 ORaganf 31 Po the North Central Conf Ball State held the lead for 15|ree! ¢ : 3 ner Y 3 3 with a record of seven vietories | Prigo.c 73 Si i 5 3 and two losses. Frankfort has [Wabash went ahead at the half Vers 2 0 ojwillamsg 0 0 9 undisputed possession of a - ieee | SOIAPLE, B 0 0 nJohnstong 023 1 with NEXT OPPONENTS Boruskig 3 2 1|Hallg o o 1 piace a record of sevem Ball State vs. Manchester, Feb. 12, Ruhnkeg . 1 4 1.DeVons 20 0 victories and three losses. Wabash st Canterbury, Feb. 13. “wotals - 35 BIN Totals » 513) The Frankfort basketeers time, 29 to 22. The Muncie “team Halftime score: Pullman 41, Park 9. have three games left in reguwas paced by Floyd Reed, wilh park 12. throws missed: Pullman (10)i| Jar season play two of which {20 points, and Marvin Heaton, Sie: Relores—Greiwank; Umpire—| shouldn’t give them any trouble, | with 18. Eight free ¢hrows each | ——————————— Tipton. and Marion. The Shise, by Reed and Heaton provided the, uncie tral, wo ), winners with the margin of vie. Franklin Twp. Downs any pushover, > # = =

tory. Gene Cloncs paced his mates)

Ownie Bush Assures Indianapolis of Quality. Baseball “Keep 3 Good Club on the Field’

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to right}—Tris Speaker, CleveBig Train) Johnson, a comedian

“I guess T'm the luckiest fellow Ownie couldn't identify. and Manager Bush,

said Ownie, . . ” MONEY HAS accumulated in

in baseball,”

expected and- demanded when he managed teams: He was in the {Indians’ clubhouse twice last year, |

be hurt. High schools and col|leges don't pay much attention {to baseball any more. The boys

Ownie Bush's pockets since the! once on “Al Lopez Day” and the feel there isn't much percentage

{first day he was handed $3 for a | semii-pro game, But his main

“You run the club and if you

~ft's producing a good ball club ‘he told Lopez, who incidentally

for the public, “Keep a good club on the field”! Is his motto, Ownie has always believed in {the principle of keeping the base[ball public happy. BR “We seldom get complaints, but| {when we do, the public is always] , | right as far as we're concerned. *| That's the rule of our office. Why | |get into an argument with a fan | jwho believes he is. right? If he [says he reserved a seat and didn't ® get what he thought he was supposed to get, why of course we + believe him, “I'd rather have the guy go out and fell his friends that. the Indian management is swell rather than have him go out as a sorehead. That doesn't do us any good,” sald Ownle. ” " » | BUSH LETS his managers run ____Ithe ball club the same as he

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|will be back at the ‘helm this year. As he settles Into the twilight of his life, Ownie believes that there is definitely a shortage of

good baseball players.

“We've been lax in developing chances even though some ' of | Wplayers,

We need a program and | we need it quick or we're going to

City, County Basketball TUESDAY . Shoririd bh.

Deaf School at Sacred Neart. Franklin Townsl t Sihiteiand.

Decatur Ceniral at Cathedral Zionsville at Pike Township.

Broad Ripple st Warren Oeniral.

Washingion at Crispus Attucks hedril at Teoh,

Manual at Southport.

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|day the. ¢lub won the pennant. in starting a sport in college dur-

ing April, then giving it up when school ends in June.” .... Ownie considers ManagerShortstop Lou Boudreau of the champion Cleveland Indians the greatest ball player he has seen in 30 years. Like the old Tiger infielder, Boudreau moves around, isn’ afraid to get in and take

them result in errors. { “And on op of his fering

Schedule This Week

at Sacred Heart, Greve,

SATURDAY .

Warren Central, 58-50

BUT IT’S tournament time. Any-

Instills Indians

With Fighting Spirit

ability, what a hitter that guy is,”

sighed Bush. oom om» ‘THE “NICEST” guys in base-|

ball as far as Owrie was con-|

cerned were Babe Ruth, Pitcher Walter Johnson and Tris Speaker, | ex-Cleveland outfielder. “Those guys would have done | anything for the public, especially |

for kids. They would reach into) their pockets for anybody who | ‘asked them to. They were just |

good guys and the public loved | .them for it.”

Ownie’s plans for the future | revolve about his beloved Indian-|

apolis Indians.

“We're ‘just going to keep on trying to give the fans the ball]

club that they deserve,” he said:

And Ownie and Frank McKin- | ney, who has much the same fire| and driving force that possesses

Bush, can't bear to look at a bad ball club.

Ownie . isn’t going to retire live among his souvenirs in the)

game room at his home on N. Walcott. "You may rest assured that! when Kansas City engages the)

game, will be out |

Ownie Bush there. ” T

THE (E_END

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9. turlongs) —Kit Ca 6.60, 3.40, 3.40; De son), 2.60, 2.40; ( Batcheller):, 5.40. Kid, Outland, Jal Shot, Great Issue, ($3500; a 6 furiongs)—aCoalt , 2.40, 2.10, 2.

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EAST LAN 5 (UP)-—Miech tracksters do annual Michi tonight, romp eight events, onds and takh The remain "divided among ticipating scho from Illinois,

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Don Gehrm Wanamaker ] smashed the house record time of 4:15.2 Michigan St five relay eve m and fie the? distance co the shattering the set last year Other reco: mark in the ] Washing, Or! the old tim» tenths of a pole vault ma by lllinois ac

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