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By CHESTER L. SMITH Soecin) Writer

Theres no doubt in the mi the Indians whos going to win American League pennant. dreau, “and why not?

take to lick us?"

Two 20-Game Winners:

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‘Now all Manager

s touting The veteran ; a 20 a first baseman who is an 2 are with the iow. “21 vil ve kept around

3 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Apr. 11—Tribal boss Al Lopez had few moundsmen’

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postponed “scheduled legalize reserve clauses in base-

g will be Scheduled ntet on by Reps. riboth respectable D. Mills (D. Ark) and A. 8. out much punch at the plate, will | County Coroner Paul H. Miller, League, subject to 34-hour re-

TEXARKANA, A Ark. Apr. 11-— nds of

“We are,” declares low Bou“What club has what i Tonia

It was a long time between drinks in Cleveland. Northern

CAN attendance records for both

major leagues dropped overboard. ‘When the Tribesmen came home after cleaning up the’ Boston

repeat. He's on top. If do 18 ne IL the

were concerned as the Indianto tangle for the third time with

velers in a night exhibition contest.

send Johnny Hutchings to the mound

three innings with Royce Lint, and Klinger the assignment for the final

and welcome surprise today when

Forrest Main, 6'3% right hander with the Pirates last year, - d in this morning and reported to Skipper Lopes.

Reconstructed Colonels See

" Fair Season

Louisville improves Team But Shrugs Off

“Pennant Ambitions Apr. 11 (UP) ~~ Completely reorganized from top to bottom, the Louisville Colonels today faced the 1949

: |American Association campaign in a mood of cautious optimism. The management frankly shrugged off any pennant ambitions, but insisted that Louisville fans would not again be subjected to the miseries of watching a fumble-and-bumblie collection such as the one that finished in the cellar last year. It's a new deal At Parkway Field. Bruce Dudley, to whom no

flasco, has givén up his post as president of the club. to become president of the league. In his place is Eddie Doherty, energetic ‘newcomer. up. from. the Scranton. Club in the Eastern League. On the field the boss will be Fred Walters, who already is a top favorite with local fans. Last year Walters skippered Birmingham in the Southern Association, winding up in third place but winning both the playoffs and the Dixie Series. :

“Good Outfield Seen This year the team will heavily on players up from

Boston Red Sox.’

catching. in that outfield will be Tom Wright, who hit .307 here last

the final stages of the campaign; Ed Lavigne, a fair sticker but wobbly fielder who helped Scran-

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spring training.

“the “Box Veteran at First Na-| The Colonels acquired Murrell “Jake” ¥ones from the Sox to hold down first base. He's been a little slow rounding into shape, but he has played big league ball

and should do well in the Associa tion.

Maury McDermott,

Red Box this spring; “Cot” Deal,

to| “Ellis

a remaining berths.

{share the Setching chores,

the §

the

and control. Zoldak, who came

blame was attached for ast year's| , ier traveling more than 2000

season and stuck with Boston in|

of Delano, Cal., Main son and had a 1-1 record.

The Indians, Bama tion game with Waterloo of the

rounding the last turn’ before moving toward Indianapolis to start the American Association season, took

Three-I league, the Tribe was

halted and sent back to their Little Rock hotel because of rain

in Hot

- Bo, neatly a8 a body. the Indians trooped out fo watch the Indians

Trouble Delays Endurance Run

New Engine to Be Placed in Austin

Austin mechanics today were installing a new motor in their stock car which last night was forced to halt, temporarily, its endurance run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

miles at an average of better TREN 70 ‘mite per our, trouble; developed in the cooling system of the car. Mechanics felt it best to stop the endurance run and put a new engine in the car, s “We've come a long way,” sald

ble is one of those things that ¢éan be expected to pop up in an engineering test.” As soon as the engine has been replaced, the crew of three drivers will again start their endurance {run of seven days and nights, Six {crates of spare parts and an extra engine were brought from EngJad 30 enable the crew to make

Toronto Enjoying Two-Game Lead

DETROIT, Apr. 11 (UP)-—The

ton in its pennant drive; Rookie! éo Jim Piersall from Scranton,’ re-|fin garded as a “comer”; George Wil; hockey playoffs.

Bet * py “Milt Byr, a on oa a trek by Rookie Si packets of bills across the smallileave the secluded barn in the

early hours of the There's a reason why they call And you know, too, why their owners are so much like prize fight handlers. All of them are certain that “they can't hurt us!”

up late and missed most of

Mickey Rutner seems set at inird base, and Allen Richter is

“coach of the Wings, on the other regulars and

The pitching will be based on fast-baller Com-/who had a good look from the veterans Jack Griffore and Ewald Pyle, | and Rookie! Hector “Skinny” Brown. Eight Edward R. Bailey, 50-year-old other rookies are trying for the Brewery employee, died late yes-

Tex Aulds and Russ Ronaldson, bedding apparently caught fire receivers with- {from a

Detroit Red Wings today needed A switch version of the “Maple Leaf Miracle” of 1942 to overtheir Toronto foes In the round of the Stanley Cup

who! Smith last night, took the game of the best-of-seven Sesond by a score of 3 to 1 and headed home with a two games to none advantage. In order to win the series, Detrols Would have 10 4G What enly the Maple Leafs have done in playoff history-—come back after losing the opening games at home. In 1942, Toronto dropped the first three games and then swept four straight to beat the

Dapper little Tommy Ivan,

hand, benched some used three farmhands from Indianapolis without success. Nels Podolsky, Fred Glover and Jerry Reid were unable to pick up steam against the Leafs.

Dies of Burns FT. WAYNE, Apr. 11 (UP)

terday of burns suffered when his

within comes a low rumble and the occasional crow of a rampant rooster,

liquor at home.”

tense, tight atmosphere. A hundred men sit on bleacher seats erected around a dirt-floored pit with their eyes fastened on two cocks squaring off in the middle.

been clipped fully in their place are steel spurs, an inch and a quarter long, |shifted with which these fowl, bred for death, slash at each other after springing into the air,

fighters, by their seconds, words leap across the blood-spotted arena:

or “fifty on the gray” .. a lowly “dollar on the blue.”

” » . THERE ARE no bookmakers. vidual breeds, with more than 150° It is a “gentleman's” wager. Bets|cross-strains to be tried, and each are paid off meticulously at the owner has his carefully-guarded end, the loser hunting up the win-| favorite. ner or throwing tightly wadded

Today's Sports Parade—

Cock Fight Admission Fee Ranges From $3 to $5

‘Leave Your Ladies and Liquor af Home)’ Is Slogan Along Atlantic Seaboard

By OSCAR FRALEY, United Press Sports Writer LITTLE GRAY BARN IN THE WOODS, Apr. 11--It might be anywhere along the Atlantic seaboard, or the Pacific, for that matter, when the cock fighting advocates steal furtively to some secluded spot to pit their chickens in a battle to the death. Usually, you drive down a dark lane in the country and come to a group of automobiles parked around a darkened barn,

THE INDIANAPOLIS. TIMES :

ump the Little

afternoon by the

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saa, MAIS arrival chine as & complete. surprise ie Be didn’t expect the pitcher to report on ot native Main appeared in 17 games with the Bucs last sea-

Fock teasis, 16 to 4. The Indians

hope to equa ie eat of the Tigers tonight at the Litle Rock

while, Lopez had the satisfaction of of basebalrs sidsiers that thy Indianapotis class aggregation. 7 yesterday. The assurance came from former New York Yankees’ hurling aboard a bus for Hot Springs, Ark., for an exhibi- ,Sreat Red Ruling. manager of the Muskegon Rine, defeated

being told by one Indians have a first

Sat-

, who has seen a lot of baseball players Some and ge his 24 years as an active,

Derby Victory

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in the major leagues, said Association club.

look strictly like a top American

Eddie Arcaro ; Hopes for Sth

Scores Easy Win In Jamaica Event Aboard Olympia NEW YORK, Apr. 11 (UP)— Banana-nosed Eddie Arcaro glorfed today in the promise of his; fifth Kentucky Derby victory, a most fruitful possibility as long as the mighty Olympia can keep pumping those piston legs in the fashion of his experimental handicap triumphs. - Olympia showed the stuff of Derby champions Saturday as he pranced to a seven-length victory in the mile and a sixteenth experimental handicap No. 2 at Jamaica. He thus wrapped up the experimental honors in one starry lump, for the week before he won

member. There are no

logan is: “Leave your ladies and There's 2 rea-

Alien, Hess, one of the drivers, son. This isn’t a sight for a|stained ax. : “and we don't intend to lie down woman or even, perhaps, for a . =» and quit now. This motor trou- man, THEY SELDOM quit. With a

» . =» \ INSIDE the barn there is a

The bird's natural spurs have off. Fastened care-

As they are faced off, like prize

“Two hundred on the red” ... . or even

dirt patch of death. The blus-gray exhalations of frenzied smokers mingle with the air-borne, steel-scattered feathers as the birds hack, slash and peck at each other, ou the cocks refuse to fight, they

Training Camp Briefs—

training season, Manager Connie said he had the best

the Memphis Chicks to five hits at Memphis, Tenn., yesterday and \led his team to a 5-to-1 victory. Taft Wright and Joe Astroth each homered for the Mackmen.

BALTIMORE, Md. Apr. 11 (UP)~The Boston Braves today optioned infielder Jack

lighted cigaret, Allen

ald today.

‘We'll Win League Pennant,’ Says Boudreau

‘Boudreau says Ray Boone is

from the the first understudy he has had in

#0 | Browns last” season in time to/whom he can place complete con-

toss nine victories.

“|e can crash the gate in company .no one knows.

year, - Veeck dealt Eddie Robinson,

who hit 254, to the Nats for Mickey Vernon, a .242 batter, but|Man in the Amarican Association.

Infield Im

air revives

Will Hafey, fidence. Boone hit .355 for Oklaa likely rookie from Oakland, is homa City last year. And when leading newcomer, .but ROW Ken Keltner tires at third, as a nm | your-cider might, there will be

Al Rosen, who with Kansas City in '48 was voted the best fresh-

ochnny. Berardino as a handy

proved It wasn't long ago that Vernon ation rates Jim Hegan the Close behind is Dale was. the league batting champion. (tanclest receiving catcher in the Kennedy came fron the Woon ves him, league, and the big fellow hits in Sox ]

trade. written about ¢ Boudreau-Joe

runs, He'll have well. Tresh 3

Welsenburger to ‘their Denver farm of the Class A Western

' call. Weisenburger is a former

are placed breast to breast and . the inbred instincts of thousands “19 might cont pou $300 88.40.08. Years send them tearing. into get inside as the guest of a ‘game club” womén, and no “Whisky “for they

each other.

chopping block in the corner ‘of the barn with its waiting, blood-

broken wing or a broken leg or both eyes gone, or all three, instinctively they fight on. Or they lay there, unable to move, until the spark fans into feeble life and they try once again, bleeding and

less after winning. But the owners are fiercely proud.

owner will snort. chickens before I'd sell one. ug

them

Mack staff in the today there was mounting evidence that he is right. Lefty Lou Brissie was the latest member of the Athletics’ pitching staff to turn in a standout performance when he limited

Occasionally one|

Many of the victors are worth“Sell him for breeding” an “ra kill all my

FOR MOST of them are indi-

busi ness is concluded while two fresh Savions. Son facing the Kentucky

battlers appropriate the main pit.

1, at six furlongs, by eight : Poy Ey Winner

already the rider. Tol Dersy winners, did not ha

In faet, his win was so leisurely that he could afford the luxury of a dawdling glance backward at the trailing field midway down the home stretch Saturday. The watch, as much as those seven lengths of daylight, cented Olympia’s victory, and his hopes for the derby. He won un 1:44 2/5, the best time in the HN jet Mstory of the experimental 0. Too, that time compared favorably with victorious efforts in the Wood Memorial, the most

between now and the May 7 Funaing of the Churchill Downs pony pageant. The Wood is scheduied Apr, 27 at Jamaica. Mrs. A. L. Rice's Mode! Cadet was Hk to Olympia in the experimental No. 2 Saturday, just as he won in the No. 1. Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Stone Age was third Saturday.

But one thing you know, as you

morning. “gamecocks.”

Baseball

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attle

third baseman George Kell, already regarded one of the finest hitters in the American League.

Kell blasted a home run yester-

Michigan football -and baseball star. : Cleveland Indians,

that won them the world cham pionship last season,

York Giants today.

Oklahoma

Okla., yesterday, The Giants, meanwhile, were from Larry Jansen,

New Orleans. single

eighth.

Even the camera can't catch what Gene Bearden, Bob Lemon and Bob Feller (left to right) pitch. Then there's Sam

trying desperately to pick up another outfielder. Today, if the airplanes depended on Willie's

business, they'd ground their ships and go on relief. Larry Doby, the Paterson, N. J.,

he'll go no one knows, but as canny a judge as old Tris Speaker swears that the 25-year-old cat can be the king of his day. Since you might say that about Tris,

last summer hi 248 and, ped it to .301. Allie Clark and

need for same to provide their

Negro, is on his way. How far

too, his words carry authority. b

Calder Cup playoff finals.

Much to the dismay of the 6567 / fans, the Bears | went out - out in front front Brooklyn (n)

{in the first 40 seconds of play last, = night on a goal by center Arnie | Kullman, Kullman, the clever center who produced two of Hershey's goals. made the only score of the first period as he sent the Bears rat 40| Pie on a team attack in the fen 40 seconds of play. Phil Maloney scored Hershey's {second early in the middle period" and Jerry Brown and Kullman poked in two more goals within a space of two minutes to give Te Bears their big 4-0 margin. The Reds finally hit their voor. [MEAS TSE} ing stride in the final period as Eddie Kullman averted a shutout at 38 seconds and Jack Stoddard deflected home a pass some five

TEXARKANA, Ark.—The with _ their; pitching staff exhibiting the form

resumed their spring series with the New

Satchel! Paige and Bob Feller each yielded only two hits to beat City of the Texas League, 3 to 0, at Oklahoma City,

also getting brilliant pitching who outitwirled Murry Dickson of the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2 to 1, at Bob Thomson's and Pets Milnes’ triple broke up a 1-1 deadlock in the

day, a grand-slammer, at that, to help Detroit walk over Little! Rock; 16 to 4, at Little Rock.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Rollie Hemsley’s Nashville Volunteers .| sought a measure of revenge | from the Philadelphia Phillies | today following the Phils’ 8-to-6 | triumph over them yesterday. Russ Meyer, aided by homers by Del Ennis and Hal Wagner, went the distance for Philadel- | phia and gave up 11 hits. |

DALLAS, Tex. -<- Southpaw Tommy Byrne was the nomina-| tion of Manager Casey Stengel! to pitch for the New York Yan-! kees against Dallas of the Texas League today. The Yankees split their squad yesterday, one team beating Aus-| tin of the Big State League, 10 tol 7, at Austin, while the other outfit|

MEMPHIS, Tenn. ~The Detroit absorbed a 4-t0-3 defeat at the! Tigers were developing a brandlexpense of Greenville of the Big Exhibition Baseball

Hershey Bears Hold 2 to 1 Lead Over Providence Reds:

PROVIDENCE, R. I, Ape, 11 (UP)—The Hershey Bears ran a! poor second to the Providence Reds during the American Hockey | League's regular season, but they were gradually evening the score

to lift his whip in the most re-|

ac- .

| for a 3-3 tie

today as they assumed a 2-to-1 lead in games over the Reds in the! |Chattanoogs (BA and Pleitas

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Slammin’ Sammy Snead Is ‘Hot C

MONDAY, APR. 11,1049

said bis club is loaded’ with take the Central

Sammy Snead, who won the 1949 Masters golf tournament, is the center of attraction in the press tent at Atlanta, Ga. Snead’s gil fell the story of his six under par 282 stroke victory over the 72 four. *

Capture of Masters Title

Gives Snead Top Ranking Mangtym'’s 3-Stroke Loss on Lake Hole

Gives

hammin’ Sammy Winning Margin

AUGUSTA, Ga., Apr. 11 (UP)—Samuel Jackson Snead, a

changed man with a changed putter, sported the coveted Masters

title today in support of his argument that he is tops among current

golfers.

His supporters have always argued that Whammin' Sammy had

{ And, even more, the power-knock- | |er from White Sulphur Springs, before. He played a dominant

W. Va. carried on | confidence.

RB With a supreme

The result was a total round of

31282, within three

strokes of the

"| tournament record set by Ralph Guldahl in 1939 when the second

man at 280 was Snead. Snead shot o7

one Samuel J. yesterday and

= Connie Asserts Athletics Rank Ace High in Pitchers

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Apr. 11 (UP)—Prior to the spring of the Philadelphia Athletics American League and

new home run threat today in!State League at Greenville, Joe DiMaggio faced the Green-|t!8¢

ville Majors and hit safely once

in two trips to nings,

the plate. He

For the third successive day, played only two-and-a-half in-

the best drives and--sometimes—the best putts. Over the week end, . he had those putts consistently.

he had the same score the day

e throughout, always shootJom for that pin when he was close. enough. With. Snead, 300 yards is close enough. Snead had as his main rival Lloyd Mangrum. But a two-day tangle with the No. 168 lake hole cost Mangrum three strokes—and that was the margin by which Snead won. Mangrum wound up tied for second at 285 with handsome Johnny Bulla of Pittsburgh. The victory was worth $2500 to the balding but still-slim-at-34 Snead and a lot more in pres- . Mangrum and Bulla got’ $1000 apiece. Snead had putts of eight, 13, 18 and 22 feet in the pile of seven birdies that gave him the crown despite two dismal bogeys

ASHVILLE, N. C N. C.—The Brook-| lon the back nine,

{lyn Dodgers were busy on two! fronts today, one squad opposing

Although Snead has been camipaigning with the pros for close

ithe Ashville Tourists here and! to 15 years, this was only his

the other Dodger

team meeti

ithird major title. He won the

[the Greenville Spinners at Greer. | Professional Golfers Association

ville, 8. C.

Both Dedger teams lost Yester-

{day, the “A” squad bowing to At-

lanta, 8 to 4, before 25,221 fans at

Atlanta, and the

“RB” squad los-

{ing to Valdosta, 5 to 3, at Val-

{dosta, Ga,

MON TGOMERY, Ala. — The

Cincinnati Reds

ward home today,

long enough to gomery of the league. The Reds

pushed on tostopping over meet Montsoutheastern had to settle

against Mobile of

the Southern Association at Mobile, yesterday. Herman Weh-

meiler’s wildness was for Mobile’s tallies.

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{title in 1942 and British Open at 8t. Andrews, Scotland, in 1946. Turnesa Ties for 3d Third-day leader Johnny Pale mer of Bddin, N. C., and strongshooting Jim Turnesa of the famous New York State golfing family, tied for third at 2886; picking up $400 apiece. Charley Coe of Oklahoma City and Johnny Dawson of Los Ane geles shared the top amateur honor with 295s.

Title Event Tops Wrestling Card

A lineup of three heavyweight bouts is on tap for the Armory wrestling ring tomorrow night with a battle for the N. W. A. world’s heavweight:. chamionship topping the card. The title duel . will match Enrique Torres, the 235-pound challenger, against Lou Th 238-pound St. Louis titleholder. The semi-windup pairs EI Diablo, masked matman, Al' Lovelock, Canadian, while ijSandor Szabo, will meet Felix Miquet in the first event.

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