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Indians, Reds In 3d Effort To Play Game
r Meer Hopes 4 Face Redskins On Mound Today PROBABLE LINEUPS Hatton, 30 Platert Wyrostek, cf Conway, &s Litwhiler, rf Coogan, 1b Sauer, If Rikard, If Kluszewski, 1b Saffell, of Bloodworth, 2b ' Gutteridge, 2b Stalleup, ss Peters, 3b H. Howell, ¢ Kluttz, ¢
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Denied from playing on two occasions, Friday and yesterday, by winter's return engagement, the
.. Indianapolis Indians and the Cinciunat Feds will thy It agatn to
day on the Victory Field greensward at 2 p. m, Every effort will be made to salvage the finale of the scheduled
three-game , series. The playing |
field was drying out and the diamond was fairly firm late yesterday as sunshine and wind gave the grounds superintendent, Jack Miley, a double assist. Today's contest will wind up the spring training exhibition
.schedule for both clubs.
Johnny Vander Meer, once an Indian, is slated to open on the mound for Bucky Walters’ Queen City Redlegs. The Cincinnati skipper said Vandy will be his choice if the famous no-hit southpaw “is able.” He's Anxious to Work Johnny pulled a leg muscle about: 10 days ago and the injury
‘retarded his conditioning. How-
ever, his leg has responded to rest and' treatment and he’s anxious to toe the rubber today to please his old Indianapolis friends. He won 17 games for the Reds last year despite the fact they finished seventh. Tribe Manager Lopez said Jim Walsh will be sent against the big leaguers at the start and then give way after about three innings to Forrest Main or Joe Muir,, a rookie left-hander. After this afternoon’s contest, the Reds will return home te open the National League season
* against the St. Louis Cardinals
Tuesday. The Indians will have one more practice, tomorrow, before. taking on Kansas City in the American Association ' lid-lifter Tuesday night. Ceremonies
Opening Game Tribe Business Manager Sulllvan last night announced the Tuesday pre-game - ceremonies. Mayor Al Feeney, pitch, and Charles Fleming, secretary of state, catch, will form the hon-
- orary battery. Governor Schricker
will be unable to attend because of a previous engagement. A defail from the Army reeruiting station will raise Old Glory and Frankie Parrish will sing the National Anthem. Ted Campbell's 24-piece orchestra will furnish the pre-game music and Bob Kirby, representing the CHamber of Commerce Athlétic Committee, will be master of ceremonies: Ted Sullivan will deliver a brief speech of welcome and introduce members of both teams and the umpires, who will give the “play ball” signal at 8:30. The Indians trimmed one more player off the squad last night by sending rookie third sacker Reno DeBenedetti to Bill Burwell's Davenport club of the Three-I League. E. A.
Opening Games Probable Pitchers
(Last years 3 s won h and dons records
NATIONAL LEAGUE Tomorrow : Philadelphia (Heintzelman 6-! 11) at Boston (Sain 24-15). Tuesday Philadelphia (Meyer 10-10 and Roberts 7-9) at Boston (Spahn| 15-12 and . Bickford 11-5)—two| games. New York (Jansen 18-12) at Brooklyn (Branca 14-9). Cincinnati (Raffensberger 11-
12) at St. Louis (Brecheen 20-7). 3 13-3) at drafted by the Boston Braves. He caught for the Braves until June,
Pittsburgh (Sewell Chicago (Leonard 12-17). AMERICAN LEAGUR Tomorrow
Know Your Indians—
Klutz on 3 Clubs All on Same Day
Tribe Catcher
Holds Distinction
By JIM HEYROCK Clyde Kluttz, the Indianapolis Indians’ husky, graying backstop, is the only player in major league history to be owned by three different clubs in a single day. Kluttz, who is mystified as to ‘why he was sent out of the majors this year, has only one goal in mind—to get back to the big
At 30, Kluttz is working with the Indians just as hard as any of the youngsters. He is determined to have a good year here and to uphold his lifetime hitting average of 275. The deals that gave the good humoréd catcher his claim to fame were made in 1946. Kluttz had gone to the Giants In 1945. On May 1, 1946, he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. . Traded to Cards “But before he could get his gear together and catch a train for Philadelphia the Phillies had traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals. Thus, he had been the prop-
Cards on May 1. Born in Salisbury, N. C., Kluttz started his baseball career in the Cardinal chain. He first went to Johnson City, Tenn, for one season and the following year—in 1939—he moved to ‘the Class C Kilgore, Tex., club. In 1940 he moved to Decatur, Ill, Ciass B, and it was there that he received his “break” that led to the major leagues. Suffering from an old knee injury, he had a bad year. On to Sacramento He wasn’t catching regularly andiwas thinking of dropping out
erty of the Giants, Phillies and|
Name Big League Betting Favorites
8T. LOUIS, Mo., Apr. 16 (UP) —0Oddsmaker James J. Carroll today installed co-favorites for the pennant in hoth major leagues in his final revised pre-season betting line, naming’ the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians at 8 to 5 in the American and the Boston Braves
Indians Face New
The Indianapolis Indians will
doubtful quality.
With Some Positions Still Unsettled
By EDDIE ASH, Times Sports Editor
tion campaign against Kansas City Tuesday night with a few experiments in their lineup and with pitching still iinsettled and of
Association Is Classed As ‘You Never Can Tell’ kosh
Campaign
start the 1949 American Assocla-
of baseball. He asked to bas sent and Brooklyn elsewhere, Officials of the Deca- Dodgers at 8 to 5 in the National. tur Club informed him he would| Earlier, Carroll had established! be sent to Sacramento in the Pa-|last year's flag winner, Cleveland | cific Coast League, which was/and the Braves as favorites, but! then in Class AA, {outstanding play by the Red Sox Kluttz frankly admitted heland Dodgers in spring training) hadn't been able to make the De- prompted him to revise his fi-, catur Club and he didn't see how gures. he could possibly make a club in| The revised a much higher league. But he was! league: iforced into action when the first] Amer. League National League
line for each
| But the club execytives have said time and again that as weak- | nesses crop up the-holes will be plugged up if the parent Pirates can {turn the trick, either from within) {their own organization or by! AA Openers Tuesday | deals outside the Pivurgs sys-| [Kansas City at Indianapolis tem. | (8:30 p. m.). However, other clubs in the AA Minneapolis at Louisville (night). |are in about the same fix as In- St. Paul at Columbus (night), |dianapolis as the official starting, Milwaukee at Toledo. {time appfoac It's a str. . 8 gue. All mem-| | (Watty) Watkins. |bers. depepd upon major leaguel,......q in 1908 under Charlie affiliates for talent, In 1947 the) |Carr, in 1917 under Jack Hen/Kansas City Blues finished first, ; i, 1 1928 under Bruno Betlast year they dropped to sixth. [oo " 04" 10st season under Al
The Indians
two Sacramento backstops were!Cleveland 8-5 Boston 8-5 j sidelined with injuries. Boston 8-5 Brooklyn 8-5 In the first game at Sacra-|New York 3-1 St. Louls 4-1 imento he blasted out a homer to Phila. 10-1 Pittsburgh 4-1’ win the ball game. He had a Detroit 10-1 New York 10-1 terrific year and finished to lead!St. Louis 60-1 - Chicago 25-1 the league with a .336 average. |Chicago 60-1 Phila. 25-1
Drafted By Braves At the end of the season he was
15, 1945, when he was traded to the Giants for Joe Medwick and
Philadelphia {Fowler 15-8) at Ewald Pyle. In the fall of 1946,
Washington (Scarborough 15-8).
Washin, New York (Lopat 17-11). Cleveland (Feller 19-15) at St.! Louis (Garver 7-11).
he became Pittsburgh property. Married and the father of a
Tuesday gton (Hudson 4-16) at!six-year-old girl, Kluttz expects
{his family to arrive in Indian-| lapolis within a few days. Thus far, he likes the Indian-
Chicago (Judson 4-5) at Detroit|apolis Indians and intends to do}
" Newhouser (21-12).
his best with the club. But he’ll
Boston (Hughson 3-1) at Phila-/be working to go back Wpstaies,
delphia (Brissie 14-10).
to the majors.
Providence Ties Up Playoff, Whipping Hershey, 2 to 1
HERSHEY, Pa., Apr. 16 (UP)—Johnny Chad’s goal three min-
utes after the final ‘period
started enabled the Providence Reds to
eke out a 2 to 1 triumph over the Hershey Bears before 8115 fans tonight and tie up the American Hockey League championship Play-in North-South Amateur
off series at three games each.
The Reds, who at one time trailed the Bears 3 games to 1, now
are favored te clinch the Calder Cup because the two teams move to Providence for the seventh and deciding game Sunday night.
|the closing stanza. He took a pass| lar millionaire from Toledo, O., |
field of top nonpaid this st center will lend a off Monay in the! lownership and the Mud Hens are
North and South] (starting from scratch under
{from Danny Summers {ice, outskating the Hershey de-|
|
‘Coach Don Pennistfn’s Hershey | right side of the cage.
club missed ‘numerous easy
at the twine during the first pe- 5
tightened thelr defense. Eddie Kullman
igdle apts,
dae Hershey attacked deepetatel ten. goal for thé Reds at 11:03 of the jate in the game trying to get the South in 1948 and did not vom- | equaliser i
| fense and then netted from the 49th annual
Phil Maloney accounted for! pv ershey’s lone goal which came top pros and gives them a run Si. ‘ riod and after, that the Rett a: mine and a half after Chad's for their money, holds the British, Browns kept Toledo's anadian and Mexican amateuriers and sent them to other),
titles.” He won the North and leagues.
Washington 60-1-Cineinnati 60-1
‘My Request Wins
‘Excelsior Handicap NEW YORK, Apr. 16 (UP)— Ben F., Whitaker's My Request turned on a brillant burst of speed in the stretch at Jamaica today to win the 424 running of | the $20,000 Excélsior Handicap by two and one-half lengths, After taking the lead on the {backstretch, the chestnut colt {staged a duel with L J. Collins's {Vulcan Forge rounding the turn into the homestretch and had more than enough power left to pull away from the Santa Anita {Handicap - ‘winner ‘in the final eighth. ’ " C. C. Turner's Nearway was third in the mile and a sixteenth
Sanchen Entered
PINEHURST, N. C., Apr. 16
f (UP)—Frank ahan, musecu-|
| golfers teeing {amateur championship.
pete here in | overseas team.
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In 1947 the hometown Indiansi, finished sixth, the next year they won the pennant.
From First to Last American Association races down through the years are packed with oddities. In 1923 the Blues captured the championship and the very next season they finished in the cellar. It's a You Never Can Tell League. But 1949 is a new campaign and at least five teams think they have it in them to battle for the flag all the way. These are Indianapolis, St. -Paul, Milwaukee, Columbus and Kansas City. : The Minneapdlis Millers also feel they have an outside chance when and if their parent New York Giants get around to shipping some Triple-A timber.
Colonels Promised Help Only Louisville and Toledo appear hopelessly out of the pioture at the start and the Colonels’ parent Boston Red Sox have promised they will take care of {the situation at a later date. Toledo is the leagiié’s infant year. The club changed
the wing of the Detroit Tigers,
Jouis Browns,
The American Association was
1947 because he was organized in 1902 and Indianapwith the Walker Cup olis won the first pennant = ithe management WwW. K
{Eddie Mayo, Toledo.
who,
Lopez. Leader in Pennants
St. Paul is the leader in pennants with eight, closely pressed by Kansas City, Louisville and Columbus with seven apiece. Toledo has won but one flag, in 1927, under Casey Stengel, now at the helm of the New York Yankees. Minneapolis is the only team in The AA that has never finished last. “ There are four holdover and four new managers in the AA this year and Nick Cullop, Milwaukee, holds the distinction of being the dean as he begins his fifth season as Brewer chieftain. Other holdovers are Hal Anderson, Columbus; Walter Alston, St. Paul, and Lopez. ‘New pilots are Fred Walters, Louisville; Bill Skiff, Kansas City;! Tom Heath, Minneapolis, and
Tells "Em Off - Mayo said; -*We'ye.-besnt consigned to the cellar by a large majority of AA writers, but you
Tribe Starts Defense Of AA Crown Here Tuesday With The Blues = Pe
Leafs s
Toronto Grabs ith Stanley Cup
Detroit Loses - To Leafs, 3 to 1 TORONTO, Apr. 18 (UP)—The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup for the third straight time tonight by defeating the Detroit Red Wings, 3 to 1, to com. plete a four-game sweep ‘of the final round of the playoffs. A crowd of 14544 at Maple
Braves Meet Phillies; Nats -
Face Athletics
Other Teams Scheduled for Action Tuesday By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK, ‘Apr. 16-—Life bee gins again Monday for baseball's - legion of loyalists after a long empty winter of hibernation. For them the opening of the
{major league season is like New
Year's day-it's the beginning of that fascinating 154-game grind for their favorite ball team and it is a time of hopefulness even for those who support the perennial second-raters. Everything in baseball looks good in the spring. They're the ved Americans who think there is no. sweeter sound than the crack of the bat, no prettier pigiure than a pitcher burning in that fast one, and’'no more wonderful food on earth than a mustard-saturated hot dog in a bun. Their favorite literature is the prose of the sport page and . to them there are no greater orators than baseball broadcast ers and no gypsy fortune teller was ever more fascinating than the gents who compile “tomor« row's probable pitchers.” °
Truman to Pitch
With President Truman throws ing: out the first ball, the season will be officially inaugurated at | Washington Monday when the
Day in a holiday opener at Boston in which the pennant-defending Boston Braves play the youthful Philadelphia -Phillfes. The rest of the show goes on De-| Tuesday. In the American League it will be Washington at New York, Boston at Philadelphia, the World Champion Cleveland Indians at Bt. Louis, and Chicago
Leaf Gardens ardently cheered the Leafs as they rallied from a 1+0 deficit in the first period to
third
finished fourth during the regu-
Jar season. : yr hind ry
Hockey League modern records: (1) Three straight cups; (2) |sweeping the final round two years. in a row, and (3) a grand
total of six Stanley Cups won down t the years, Veteran Lindsay got De-
troit away to a 1 to:0 lead at 2:50 of the first period but that was the Wings’ last gasp. Rookie Ray Timgren and Cal
Purdue Sweeps Big 9 Twin Bill
LAFAYETTE, Apr, 18 — Purdue’s baseball team swept a Big Nine double header with defending ‘co-champion Michigan today. 5tol and 2 to 1. Pitcher Mel Henson scattered five hits to Michigan in the first game while the Bollermakers bunched the same number of safeties to score their runs. Jack McDonald's home run for Michigan prevented a shutout, A long triple by Kenhy Gorgal in the eighth inning set up the winning marker in the nightcap. Gorgal scampered home on John Chinewicz's long fly to: left to break a 1-1 deadlock. The game was called at the end of the eighth because of darkness.
nm Game Michigan sana 1% 30 001 i 3 1 Purd 20 00x Menon’ snd Aders; mith, Rankin # ym Second Game Michigan .......... a 1 0
Purdue 00 600 0 Harcman and Aders: art ng Raymond.
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Billy Talbert Upset
in Florida Tourney .
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Apr. 18 (UP)—Young Buddy Behrens of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., today scored] ——— the upset of the Good Neighbor tennis tournament and of his career by beating top-seeded Billy Talbert of New York, but lost a shot at the title to his Rollins Jollege dotibles partner, Behrens bounced Talbert, fourth ranking U. 8. tennis star, from the tourney, 2-6, 15-13, 6-1, in a/
from yesterday because of rain. Gardner > Larned of Chicago {then eliminated Behrens, 2-8, 6-0, 68-3, to go into the finals tomorrow against Earl Cochell of San Francisco.
Dinner Gong Wins Golden Gate Mile
win or lose out there on the diamond and not in the press box. We'll give 'em a battle.” The league also has a new president this year, Bruce Dudley of Louisville, a former baseball
Sang, in that order, before hitting the
NRasH AAS 2004 SWINE Summ the half of the eireuit.
western
| Dinner Gong,
ALBANY, Cal, Apr. 18 (UP) ‘co-holder of the world's record for the 7% mile, |came from far behind today to iwin the $15,000 added Golden
writer in Derbytown. Later, helGate Mile, feature of the day’ 8|
iserved as the Louisville ball club’s| card at Golden Gate Fields eh Stranahan, who tours with the purchased the franchise [om mel executive manager and president,
1948 play-
124,074 looking on. With. Jackie Westrope in’ the saddle, the even money favorite! ‘was off seventh ini a nine horse The field and wore down -Argentine-
under the wire by a length. Cover Up was third with Pretal
Gardner scored Toronto goals in the middle session and veteran Center Max Bentley upped the Leaf total in the final period. The rampaging Leafs scored three times in every game against the Red Wings as the Detroit team went down, 3 to 2, 3 to 1, 3to1,3to1.
Arkansas Dominates Southwestern Relay
LAFAYETTE, La, Apr. 16 (UP)~The University of Arkansas dominated the college division in the 21st Bouthwestern Relays
at Detroit. In the National League it will be New York at Brooklyn; St. Louls at Cincinnati, Pitts.
tally twice in the second period|burgh at Chicago, and Philadeland add a clinching goal in the{phia in a Patriot's Day double
header at Boston.
The, victory capped a tremen-| With a good break from the dous comeback by the Leafs, who | wea
weather department the opening day attendance should be substan-
EE Ca~
t Yankees prim. a mob of oe tween 50,000 and 60,000 in the American with a full house also forecast for Mr. Truman's little affair In Washington and goodly gatherings at Detroit and Bt, Louis, However, the threat of rain and cold ‘weather hung over some of the baseball belt and that could cut down attendance considerably,
Red-Hot Races
Once again there is the pros. pect of red-hot pennant scramse bles with the World Champion Indians and Boston Red Sox bate ting it out in the American and with Brooklyn favored to oust the Braves from their pennant perch in the National. Pittsburgh as a dark horse also drew respect.
1ful consideration in the National.
The teams will be showing off
{what looks like the best crop of
rookie bail players since before the war, The best of these appear to be Walt Dropo of the Red Sox, {Johnny Groth of the Tigers, Gene
same time the patriots of old New England will Paul Revere
quarterfinals match continued
bred Miche in the stretch to go
tpday as over 800 high school Woodling of the Yankees, Gus and college athletes revived the Zernial of the White Sox, Cal once-famous annual eévent at Abrams 6f the Dodgers, Eddie Southwestern Louisiana Institute. Kazak of the Cardinals, Bill J. D. Adams of Arkansas won|Werle of the Pirates, Lloyd Mer. the J. Otto Broussard trophy for riman of the Reds, and Stan Loe outstanding performance in thei pata of the Phils. field events. Adams’ high jump; But as of yore it will be the of six feet, four and three-eighths old established stars—the guys inches broke the previous South-|like Ted Williams, Bobby Feller, western relay record of six feet, Stan Musial, Lou Boudreai, {four and one-eighth inches set in Johnny Mize, Ralph Kiner, Harry |1947 by Knecht of Louisiina State Brecheen, Hal Newhouser, Peewee
University. Reese, Johnny Sain, and Tommy Se {Henrich who'll get the most re. {On the Ice™ {sounding cheers. { aM RICAN LEAGUE JLayorry Fs nal Series (Bes)
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Mayor Feeney's Golf Swing «Is First In 15 Years:
Despite wintry temperature that/tendent of public. goif courses; made many golfers curl up ih a Earl Ensinger, club soft chair with a good book in-| Bob Yohn, representative of the stead of venturing to their favor-|course, and Jim Vaughn, profes. ite course, three of the city’sisional. public courses had their official] Pleasant Run plans an ABCD opening yesterday. i match and a blind par session And some strange things hap- today. pened. For example, at Pleasant Sarah Shank course was offie Run, Mayor Al Feeney stepped up cially opened when Ed and slugged the first goif ball, club president, hoisted the It was the first time hizzoner has An opening foursome had planned swung a club in 15 years. to play 18-holes, but because of The last time the Mayor went ithe cold weather, settled for nine. a round of golf, he sank a hole-| Low man in the first nine was in-one at the Highland course. Ralph Jordan, former club cham He promptly turned his clubs over pion and former city amateur to the course's professional and/champ, who carded 37 didn't lift another club until yes- par 35 nine. Russ Rader, member terday. {of the Publinx team ve ABOD Tourney Today |times, and Carl Smith, club | Also Hitting the “frst” ball at champion, posted 38's, while Paul Pleasant Run was Sama Cup “Cuné ninghas. arion County sheriff As with 39,
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flag.
for the .
Gross, prominent amateur, fae