Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1949 — Page 25
THURSDAY, MAR. 31, 1949 :
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Alvin Dark Hits Two Homers for Braves A By United Press TUCSON, Ariz, Mar, 31—8econd Baseman Joe Gordon of the | champion Cleveland Indians began a ‘short vacation” today in {order to strengthen his throwing arm which X-rays revealed to be | weak and strained. Team physicians ordered the rest for Gordon and informed | {Manager Lou Boudreau us veteran second baseman would be _gut| lof action for some time. Gordon, = - i peeved to have developed thel reer, eiior BCouning, (07 (0 {arm trouble during recent exhibl-| o illies, Tio 4, ’ [tion games. _— | Either - Al (Flip) Rosen or LAKE WALES, Fla. Mar. 31] Roberto Avila will be at second (UP)--The Phifadelphia Athletics base for the Indians today when were scheduled to begin their the meet the Chicago White Sox northern trek home today with |nere. . . |an exhibition game against Kan-
| The Indians notched their 11th [#8 Oity of the American Associa- | victory in 18 games yesterday | (When they tamed the White Sox, day, the Athletics announced that
8 to 4, as Mike Garcla and Gene pi yor Zebulon Eaton had been Bearden limited the Chicagoans to... ¢. om the squad. He returned
Before breaking camp yester-! Club banquet tonight at
tel, including Dale Mitchell's! other club shortly. fourth home run of the spring.
BRADENTON, Fla, Mar. 31 | —The Boston Braves, who seem to have adjusted their batting sights after a long delay, will | train them today on Chief Allie | Reynolds of the New York (four-hit pitching of Ralph Branca. | Yankees in an exhibition game | Bruce Edwards and Billy Cox here. , each hit homers while Abrams, bidding for a starting {berth with Brooklyn, chipped in with four hits. | The Dodgers will meet {Houston Buffs, a 8t. Louis Cardi-
nal farm club, at Houston tomor-| row. {derson,
PHOENIX, Ariz, Mar. 8le The New York Giants were un-
started their tour through Texas on a triumphant note yesterday | by beating Beaumont of the
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| The Braves, paced by Alvin | Park's two homers, defeated the | St. Louis Cardinals, 12 to 11, | | yesterday as they combed four { Rédbird hurlers for 15 hits. | Casey Stengel's Yankees | snapped .a four-game losing i streak with an 1i-inning 7-to-6 triumph over Cincinnati yester-
Knute Rockne (right) with his 1930 Notre Dame football cap- athletic director. tain, Tom Conley.
Don Barnett,
: ° . day. Joe DiMaggio played six | der contract today to train here Indianapolis; Jim Macholtz, 8t.| The Pels will offer some stiff won the steel city’s indoor meet Dave Martin, high-jump, hurdle 18 Years After His Death innings and went hitless in for the next four years. {Joseph, Mich.; Loren Williams, opposition to the Indians in the for the second straight year, re- and broad jump stalwart in the _ } ad | three trips to the plate. He will agen Horace Stoneham Fummitvile: ao o oaward: form of pitching alone dros $10 |ehined the Driijtant Joe (Pep) indoor engagements. . . | ; . lo e Giants sa ® WAS W Apel, an 3arlan ampbell, i cDonald, the Pirates $10.-/ Gonzales, d Eo olbo Five ret i Co Wreath Placed on Notre Dame Grave; | not play against the Braves to pleased with facilities here and Sheridan. ’ 000 bonus beauty, is slated to hurl/dash champ "the last ee ready to compete Won mo Killed in Air Crash, Mar. 31, 1931 [ J ~ | signed a contract calling for | Numerals were given to Charles for the Pels and will be followed years, a fine half-mile relay They are Jim ‘Altop, 440; Tommy 1 ’ | LAKELAND, Fla, Mar 31—| his club to train in Phoenix Barrett, Charles Harris, John to the hill by Harry Fisher, a squad and George Bell, a threat Graves, 100 and 220; Jack Engle- » SOUTH BEND, Mar. 31 (UP)—The valiant immigrant who y,na0er Joe McCarthy brings! through 1954. The Giants then Horevay, Edwin Sanders, Jack young fireballer. in the broad jump and also a dow, 220 and broad jump; Dave
elevated Notre Dame to national football power was not forgotten i ddenly revitalized Boston today, the 18th anniversary of his death in a flaming airplane pie, po here today for an ex-| crash in Kansas. : o hibition game against the Detroit, Knute Rockne, born in Norway and educated under the migerg the clubs’ second meeting “golden dome” largely by the meager funds gained from manual |, ag many days. labor, was honored in uncounted tn eB Standout pitching by Ellis| Catone Masses for the repose Kinder and Mickey Harris, plus] or ms soul, . Stephens’ 12th-inning home| i The masses were donated by the Red Sox a 1 to ol, ALTIRE, Tex. Mar Te friends who remained anonymous Cubs DE will play nine cago and by the aging priests who games in Texas, brought thei taught Youth Bp Tots 880 and they're buried together, less Fred Hutchinson hurled for the and who later cheered the foot- A ’ | losers. | ball teams he produced and took than 30 - fest apart with their! Saul Rogovin, young Tiger| City of Alpine today. graves in a triangle. | Hank Arft's eighth-inning doufrom coast to coast to display righthander, was scheduled to go| basketball : “ | Jones was Rock's part-time ible off Don Carlsen gave , the grid skills of the “Fighting! i {to Atlanta today to be hospital- j Laurel " ' secretary from 1923 through 1927 {Browns a 5 to 4 victory over the ' Irish,” and Poles and Swedes and lized with an infection of the] Germans when he became ticket manager.| iqdle ear. He was expected to|Cubs at El Paso yesterday. Roy : “I was his part-time secretary. : {Smalley and Hal Jeffcoat) | be able to rejoin the team when pleted today with eight He was the boss, #icket manager, smacked homers for Chicago. Herb Jones, who during his stu- : it starts its trip northward next -—- dent days was a art track coach, equipment manager, week. er —— |" Moorhead. Minn n ye . p and everything else. The only| "miger Pitcher Art Houtteman, Knute Rockne's Son ” ball coach, Keogan. lauto crash was en route to De“I remember his last trip. He troit today for further examina-| 1,0GAN, Utah, Mar. 31 (UP)— Macon, Ga., | The youngest son of Notre rier which somebody gave to him| —— and he had a dog, a police dog.| . ST- PETERSBURG, rolled at Utah State Agricultural
broke Pittsburgh's ll-game . winning streak with an 11 to 4 victory as Sid Gordon walloped two homers and Johnny Mize clouted one. The two teams meet here again today.
liams, Peggy Mims and Sears.
placed a wreath on his grave. (We placed one on the graves of | © |George Keogan, our basketball Vern
leoach, and John Nicholson, our Fun. gave track coach, too. It's sort of a victory over the Tigers at Sara-
trio. They worked here together, gota yesterday. Virgil Trucks and
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tourney,
Md. 66 to 23, initial game last night.
former mentor, and his death. “Thursday is the 18th anniversary of Rockne’s death, isn't it?” he was asked. “That's right, yes,” he replied.
50 to ‘39.
| Annual Mass i | scheduled. |out since being injured in an’ : Goes to Utah College gave me a dog. It was an Irish ter- tion at Ford Hospital. {Dame's famed Knute Rockne en- Add to
Flas,
tone said he known it — [LL CF fic <8Dri 6.3 Club at hy the Sime d had n But I had a two-year-old son Mar 2 Making their final College, school officials revealed WACO, Tex., Mar. 31 (UP) — | eames 1 onde To wilt-Yard Dash—Suck Jankovich, cary Haverford, Pa., will be the scene “We held our annual alumni and Rock gave me the dog. Then| ¥lorida -appearance © ® |today. {Baylor University athletic 0f- 1946 he worked for the Eastern 20; Y41d Low Hurdes—Dick Owarczack, Of the 1949 renewal of the Inter-
he went to Chicago and two days ®Pring, the Philadelphia Phillies B83 ALM aon mon orealiast ater he was Killed. 7" | today were scheduled to meet mnt eran a Be ea oo! “He was a great man,” Jones the St. Louis Cardinals; the country. We've done it every sald. at ame. ko : year since his death, either on to 4 victory over the Washing-
Bend, Ind,
{major from Notre Dame. He said added to the 1949 football
Rockne was killed Mar. 31, IState
Mike Dunn, sports director for radio station WXLW, will act as Hahn, the Shari rookie, and Bill] toastmaster for the annual Cathedral High School Boosters necessary.
ley's restaurant in Cumberland. nine hits. Cleveland collected 12, "yo Buffalo. N. Y. home and Anderson Colle i hits off Fred Bradley and Al Gell) pe ordered to report to anBEAUMONT, Tex., Mar. 31 -H I IS Athletes Burt Shotton’s Brooklyn Dodgers :
ANDERSON, Ind., Mar. 31 Texas League, 14 to 2, behind the even dozen varsity letters have been awarded Anderson College tonight will find Bill Plate lead-|
~a1 basketball players including one ing off and playing right field, stars pole vault champ Eddie h dus nd triangular Cal to Bob Freeman of Indianapolis. Mel Rue at second and John Kel- Brown of Gary Frolbel; shot put scheduled dual a £
Cheer leaders and six freshmen logg at center field. were also included in the awards] the list announced by Frank Heddon,
Major letters went to Joe An-/tg the plate by Left Fielder Culi Warrgn ey Gourley, Merrill Holloway, Paul pit sixth. |O’'Neill, Robert Smith and Johni.gnd Bobby Ganss at the back- | Wilson, all of Anderson; Freeman, stop post will complete the lineup.
Shaffner and Virgil Whitehurst. | Cheer leaders were Herman Har-| well, Richard Harp, Obediah Wil- bat
Greenwood Trounces Laurel, Md., Cagers BEAVER FALLS, Pa. Mar. 31 {traveling road show to the little —Greenwood, Ind., advanced in the American Legion's national
swamping in their
First round play was to be com-
dropped {fending champion Beaver Falls {from the tourney last night, 40 to 37, and Casselton, N. D., defeated
'49 Schedule
John V. Rockne, 22, South ficials announced today that Uni- ghore League and for the transferred as a versity of South Carolina and sophomore physical education | University of Wyoming had been
lhe would finish school at Utah ule. Both games will be played ball player at Tem it | 3 ple, played for, Additional Sports here—S8outh Carolina on Sept. 24 the Baltimore Orioles in 1943. He P !
Pair of Dual
Tilts Among Top Features
Tri-Angular Meet
McKinney to Watch Indians in Game With Pelicans Tonight -
Lopez Plans to Dot Tribe Lineup
- With Rookies; Hann, Swigert to Hurl
By PHIL JOHNSON, Times Special Writer NEW ORLEANS, La., Mar. 31—Frank McKinney, president of, On 1949 Outdoor the Pittsburgh Pirates, will be watching the Indians tonight when P . they stage a battle with the New Orleans Pelicans at Pelican] rogram Stadium. . | By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS McKinney and Roy Hamey, the Bucs’ general manager, arrived]! A pair of dual meets and a
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Swigert are the lads and they'll] be aided by Inman Chambers, if
Buck- | Lopez especially wanted Hamey United Press Sports Writer to see the action of Hahn. He! Indiana's high school trackmen
# in town yesterday and will stay a few days to see just how the three-affair will open the 1049 {Tribe and the Pelicans are doing re .— i outdoor track season for the city and what can be done to make and tourney cinder teams tomore reat rack rear -- The game tonight begins o'clock (Indianapolis Time). |will clash at the Delavan Smith Manager Al Lopez has named a Field and Broad Ripple will go pair of pitchers to take the In- |{to Howe in the top dual meet attractions. The triangular meet nnial Cinder Pere me Cinde , and Deaf School teams compete Powers Strong Again ing at the Silen. Hoosiers’ field. 1 TREFUDENT AXtso— on the docket tomorrow / JUDENTHAL By KURT FREUDENTHAL will be Franklin Township's base ; roy . » game toed the mark today for a spr against Shelbyville. The contest was very promising in the gan i | ay or A spring is the second city-county diamond with Houma last week and looks campaign which promised to be yoo J r to be a sure comer, as successful as-——if not more i of - the year Janual s Also showing his wares for the than—last year's. tedskins were slate
them do it better. Crispus Attucks and Manual dians’ side agiinst the Pels, John] p will feature Carmel, Ben Davis ball opener at 3:30 p. m. at home Sacred Heart's Spartans at Smith
, Rene De Bene- Some of the perennial track »° A ’ frst vime will bt Rene De Beret and field powers—Anderson’s Field this arternon ae 30 p. m, the club vesterday and had a good State champs, Gary Frolbel, The Kooi 4 Ron we one |workout at the far turn. Lopez Hammond and Ft. Wayne North! e broa arm early estie {will use him for the entire game|™ already gave proof in indoor counter hey on teams’ relative tonight to see his reactions under meets that they can be counted Mate 0 se two team : An © among the elite for another cam- strengths in the city competition.
aign. Broad Ripple placed behind Tech Some of last vear's individual in the East Side .sectional meet y last year and won all seven
Starting lineup for the Indians P
meets,
titilist Carl Shields, Hobtra; An-| Howe's cindet fortunes are exe
Coogan In Cleanup derson’s broap jump ace Russ ,.teq to continue on the upDale Coogan will hit from the Smith, and Ft. Wayne Central's g.a4e this season. The Hornets cleanup slot and will be follow=d versatile Johnny Bright—will be|j,reated Hammond Clark two missing this time, but a wealth \..eks ago in a dual meet and will of newcomers appeared ready to ¢nowed strength in the eight team Invitational run at Indiana TUniversity last Friday night. Gary Froebel, which Jast week| The Hornets were paced by
Rikard. De Benedetti i Grady Wilson at short take their places. :
Big Anderson’ Turnout
Weatherly to Play Roy Weatherly in left field will
good hurdler, ) At Ft. Wayne North, Coach | Mile cleanup and Stan Wentzel Rolla Chambers is expecting! Shirley and Pete Kraus. center and right\;ych from bespectacled Archie! field, respectively, will follow for Aqams, who as a sophomore last {the Pels. year cracked the world's inter-
Third Baseman Charlie Glock gonolastic low hurdle and Catcher Tied Mathis will 8 Iark. At Anderson,
|Rouse, and Bob Weigel, and 440. List Other Contenders Other promising contenders are junior Bob Conlon, 100 and 220; sophomores Jack Scott, hurdles ‘and broad jump. and Dee Hughie, pole vault; Joe Clymer, hurdles, veteran coach and Ed Hughie. pole vault.
half
pring up the rear. , ; |" The Birds and the Indians will|CAr! Bonge had the usual tre-| The Howe-Broad Ripple meet have another joust tomorrow aft-| Mendous turnout for track thisiwill get under way at 3:30 p. m.,
games
. : " Even without half-miler th c ernoon at 2:30. The Indians will|% " e Manual-Attucks at 3 p. m. break camp Saturday afternoon Smith and hurdler Ray Ward, the and the triangular affair at 3 and start their long trek home- 1ndians, state champs the last o'clock. ward. : (four years, still are a classy] Eulas Jackson is expected to i} bunch. {show well in the dashes for At- : Leads Shot Putters (tucks. Recurning lettermen for New Umpire Added With both Shields and Muncie Lie Silent Hoosiers are Don Gall, In American: League Central's Bill Brewer graduated, [obert Surowelc, Jerry Moers, CHICAGO. Mar. 31 (UP) .. Hammond's Ernie Blackburn was Don Lavalle, Art Wooten, Ted de- Will Harridge, president’ of the 'N® early front runner among the D Zemeyer, James Stouse, Don American League, announced to- not Juners with a toss of 52 ar forrt an and Paul Hines, day that George “Jim” Honochick '®¢ nohas, : ) has been added to the league Other outstanding indoor per- Haverford, Pa., Gets ; formance r in- 3 staff of umpires, Io Se s turned in thus far in Wightman Cup Dates Honochick, 31, was obtained on Cl e ib , | NEW YORK, Mar. 31 (UP) loption from the Internattonal "sf Athi Adams. Fr. Wayne North, The Merion Cricket at
past , Ao. Fara Rus Keith Zook. La Porte, (National Wightman Cup matches, two seasons for the International Broad Jump—Gene Wilson, Anderson, 21 Sept. 9 and 10, it was announced League. ’ | “Hall Mile Reloy— Gary Froebel, 1:31.8. |today by the U. 8. Lawn Tennis Honochick, a football and base-| — | Assoctation. | The American squad has won {16 of the 20 matches that have been played since 1923.
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lives in Onedia, Pa. | Pages 26, 27
the Sunday before or the Sunday 1931, in the crash of a Fokker| ton Senators yesterday. Bill , after the anniversary. 'tri-motor = plane near Cotton-| Nicholson, with a two-run | Rockne won letters in football and Wyoming on Nov. 12. “Rock was a great man. He'll wood Falls, Kas. According to, homer, and Willie (Puddin’ (Prairie Du Chien. Wis. He hushed never be forgotten at Notre 8 { ; , S. : ; Hewspaper -yeporis- the engines Head) Jones, with three. hits, claims the Skyline Six Confer-
led the Phils at the plate. The Cardinals dropped a 1211 decision to the Braves yesterday with Erv Dusak, Howie Pollet, George Munger and Bob Habenicht hurling for the Redbirds.
lence school had a new star Why | terming himself only a “mediocre” football player.
that.” deep in the earth after a straight] There was no outward com- fall from more than 1000 feet. memoration on the campus to-| From 1918 through the 1930 day. Sunday's ceremonies in trib- geason Rockne - coached teams ute to the great coach fur- won 105 games, lost 12 and tied | nished that. five. } Buried Together “Students now don’t remember 3 Rockne,” Jones said. “But there'll Win 135 be lots of masses said for him|
Blind Par Tourney To Open Speedway 7” ’ TAMPA, Fla., Mar. 31—Bucky | A “Blind Par” tourney will of 141 Walters will attempt to lead his/mark the official opening of
| NEW YORK—The New .York Ceiandti Reds hack on the vic- | Speedway Golf course Saturday. today. By friends and by the old Celtics, famous pro basketball 4, Washington Senators BE ac an erro priests who remember him.” team; during the 1023-24 season,| The Yankees defeated the Reds, | ments. After the breakfast Sunday played 141 games and won 135 7 to 6, yesterday in an 11-inning| Chuck Garringer will serve as we all went to the cemetery and of them. game with First Baseman Charlie Speedway pro again.
Today's Sport Parade—
Putting Back, Snead Sure He'll Win Masters
By OSCAR FRALEY | Sam may have been thinking, He couldn't drop a putt in a] They talked for 15 minutes and -
United Press S ts Writ : NEW YORK, Mar. 31 wWith- of Jat jus a av hmoliths, later bathtub &fd Joe Louis, watching a photographer snapped the picre a ammim Philadelphia needing only a par DIM flinch from virtual “gim- ture. The next day a local newsSammy Snead disclosed today ip rin the National Open. mies.’ asked wonderingly: paper's sports page on one side
He blew'to an eight worrying, net{ ‘Just how much can a man about the guys who had finished take?” : but about the ones who still were! Even Louis, an expert in‘ that Which read: “Hagen Gives Snead» = th capacity, was amazed. Putting Lesson.” On the other rom ere on his troubles! And:8am, as he walked to the 's syndiConsidering “that the high-/started and, in the periods when clubhouse announced that he side of the page was 8am’s syndi pockéted hill billy hadn't won a his putting nerves were under would withdraw from the British cated column: “How to Putt. tournament fQr over a year un-icontrol, Snead was the man to Open. Sam changed his mind, made til he bested Lloyd Mangrum this beat, He had the swing and he “I can’t putt, so why go," he the trip to England—and won the week in the Greensboro Open. had the shots. Mostly he dign't sald. ’ British Open. Snead’s -udden confidence had to have.the putting. i Walter Hagen cornered Sam in But it has been touch and go have a solid foundation. Yet He made a great splurge It did. in 1946. U “ving” Sam won that one, his first tri- again, Until the “yips” hit him umph since the 1948 Texas Open,| At i oh the greens. the time, Sam was playing supért, and for Snead that's just to going to Englan like money in the bank. | British Open. There was a time during the —— past year when Sam was experimenting with 17 putters—all at one time. From green’ to cup he was the worst, Cm A two-footer was as tough for 8am as a 20-footer. He had the shakes and he had them bad. The second.putt was liable to be farther away’ than the first, = | It was this one phase of the game which threatened to ruin one of the finest golfers ever to And it was an old stdry to Snead. When his putting was true, Sam could give them all fits, He, won his share, including the cherished PGA title, but after a brief period of success following his return from the Navy, Snead hit the putting skids, but good. a, | As far back as 1939, when he was in the groove, Snead caught] his tumps. That was the year| he had the Masters all wrapped! up with a record 280. But Ralph ldahl came hammering home with a 33 on the last nine which }
that he had conquered his putting “yips” and was a sitting squirrel cinch to win the. coveted Masters golf tournament, |
showed the picture and a caption
the locker room and stood him on ever since. Those putting “yips” a bench to watch ‘Sam's putting. never stayed away long. stroke. | Now Snead thinks that he has, “Why, there's nothing wrong them licked. And, considering that |
His putting was in the Toledo four ball just prior with you,” Sir Walter said. “Just his trouble is mostly mental, he
d for the hit it at the equator and it goes could be the big man at Augusta | [in."
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