Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1949 — Page 43

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Lov BOUDREAU, “I look for a pretty good scramble until July and then I believe it will resolve itself

into a two-team race with Cleveland winning out. We still have a few problems to be

~ ironed out and it isn’t going to_

be a cinch year. The Red Sox look to be the toughest threat

. BILLY SOUTHWORTH, Boston BILLY MEYER, Pittsburgh — BURT SHOTTON, Brooklyn EDDIE DYER, St. Louis

Braves—“This should be one of the closest flag races in National League history because every club has been : ned since the close of 1948. The Braves are not claiming the flag, but- they certainly have designs on it. The Dodgers, Cardinals, Giants and Pirates will be particularly formidable.”

to us.” .

Yankees—“Our pitching could win the pennant for us. I do

only temporarily,

would terrific blow.” tia

“The only thing I can say positively about the Pirates is that they have improved in several vital positions. Our pitching has the depth it lacked lastseason. Murry Dickson should be a winner. I wouldn't care to predict where we will finish but we'll be in the race all the way.”

Sox-—"“We're a lot better off than we were at this time a year ago and I'm ‘doggoned sure we won't get off to a slow start like we did then, I think

son has shaped up. We'll start with Rookie Walt Dropo on first and that will free Billy Goodman for the outfield.”

Dodgers—“Any one of six, per ginals — “There are no weak teams in our league. I wouldn't * try to pick the first division at all

haps seven clubs, could win depending on which shows the greatest improvement. But I still think we have the best chance because I know of our better equipped to start the seats. From ™ son than a year ago. Brooklyn,

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Cleveland— CASEY STENGEL, New York JOE McCARTHY, Boston Red CONNIE ‘MACK, Philadelphia RED ROLFE, Detroit — “The JOE KUHEL, Washington -— JACK O Athletics—"Four teams, maybe five will battle for the pennant including the Athletics. If only our hitting was a little stronger we'd have a great chance. -As it is we have a chance. Cleveland, New York, and Boston are strong and Detroit may imSt. Louis will

Tigers will play smart baseball, We'll count on the pitchers and good defensive work to keep us up there. With a few breaks we may be a factor, The Red Sox are the best balahiced team in a race that will invalve

Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia and the Tigers.”.

see a good chance. for the first division. “We're much stronger all down the line and we can't be dismissed as just another filler in" the league. Gil Sloan will be the biggest surprise of the year—you watch. The kid has it at last. He's the fastest man in the league and a great outfielder,” >

be no

Car LEO DUROCHER, New York EDDIE SAWYER, Giants — “The chances of the Phillies—"Our club is 20 Giants will depend on how our 25 per cent stronger because pitching develops. We have of spirit, improved power, and power, but need pitching and smarter work on the double play. We also have added speed among the reserves, For the: players have a knack of pickleague race Brooklyn is definite- ing each other up. When one ly the team to beat, but If fails down'in batting, the other figures to be close among four: comes along to pick up the

We're -=gbility to come back and slug

our way out of a slump. The

This Year's Flag Race

Philadelphia BUCKY WALTERS, Cincinnati

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AC NSLOW, Chicago White ZACK TAYLOR, St. Louis Browns x == “Shaqu e pitching __«as for chances come through, this iso't a last 8 tor Sut So, She chan place clib I'm leading in my OF improvement rest our “pitching staff. It looks like

first season. as an American League manager. L like-quite Cleveland, Boston, and New York battling for the pennant

4 few things about this club. My catching is going:to be bet-> ‘with Boston having an outside ter. We added Joe Tipton chance if its pitching comes from Cleveland and we: still through. We'll be in there bathave Luke Appling, the veteran, tling and should finish better in the short fleld.”’ than sixth.” £L

CHA RLEY GRIMM, Chicago

Cubs—"We're definitely strong-

~"Given good pitching, which a er and a cinch to get out of

we may get if Ewell Black_well's arm is okay, we have a chance to be the surprise club of the league, - Aside from pitching the Reds have enough out first line and reserve strength the Pirates likely to horn in just

at six positions right now.” year.” or five teams.”

slack.” to form a successful team.” like they did last year.”

Freezing Weather Forces

Pirate-Tiger Cancellation ‘Eddie Waitkus Clouts Single, Homer, As Phillies Trip Athletics, 4 to 2

PITTSBURGH, Apr. 16 (UP)—Snow flurries and near-freézing temperatures forced the Pittsburgh Pirates tg call off their opening home exhibition game against the Detroit Tigers today.

The teams are scheduled to

Gregg and Cliff Chambers pitching for the Pirates and Virgil Trucks and Marv Grissom for the Tigers.

but the Giants evened the score In their half on four walks and singles by Willard Marshall and Walker Cooper. Joe Gordon also hit a homer for Cleveland,

each, with the be played tomorrow. Waitkus’ infield single in the

contest to

seventh with one on. Robin Roberts, Phils’ hurler, allowed only three hits, while the A's star moundsman, Phil Marchildon gave up six safeties.

BOSTON, Apr. 16—Home runs by Rookie Tommy O'Brien and

Veteran Vern Stephens helped the |

Boston Red Sox defeat their cross-the-way rivals, the Boston| Braves, 5 to 2, today before 17,246 fans. | The two circuit clouts ac-| counted for three Red Sox runs and the other two came by way of Birdi® Tebbetts' double with two men on base. The Braves outhit the Red Sox, nine to eight, and tallied their first run in the fifth when Catcher Phil Masi homered. The - other Brave run was registered in the fifth when Catcher Phil Masi homered. The other Brave run was registered when Stephens fumbled with a runner on third. Bill Voiselle pitched the first five Innings for the Braves and was charged with the loss. Glenn Elliott and Red Barrett finished NEW YORK, Apr. 18 (UP)— Rookie Shortstop. Gerry Coleman’s wild throw in the eighth inning enabled the Brooklyn Dodgers to defeat the New York Yankees,” 7 to 6, today before 12,439 frost-bitten fans. Coleman threw wildly attemptfing to double up Ed (Duke) Snider, permitting the winning run after Pee Wee Reese's single had scored Roy Campanella with the tying marker. Home runs figured prominently in the drawn-out contest although each side countered three times fn the first Inning because of | the wildness of starters” Frank (Spec) Shea and Ralph Branca. Snider's two-run homer, breaking Bob Porterfield’s streak of 18% | hitless frames, gave the a one-run advantage in the fourth

.and the Yankees bounced back saving

into the lead in the seventh on homers by Charley Keller and

the Gianty’' rallies in the seventh

meet again tomorrow, with Hal

Steve Gromek was the victim of

and eighth innings.

Manager Lou Boudreau, Cleve-|

land, sald he planned no disciplinary action against Pitcher Satchel Paige for being tardy for

Browns Crush [If DiMaggio Has to Quit,

Cardinals, 12 to 11°

ST. LOUIS, Apr. 18 (UP)—The underdog St. Louis Browns crushed their city rivals from the National League, the Cardinals, 12 to 1 today in the opener of their 45th spring series Dick Starr, the ex-Yankee

Yankee Officials Silent on Financial Angle but Legally Club Must Pay Off

: By HARRY GRAYSON, NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK, Apr. 16—When important Money is involved, people picture themselves in a spot to collect it. What would happen to them? That's all they can think about. Most everybody likes to spend somebody else’s money. The story has to do with the richest contract ever given a ball-

White Sox Cash In

He's Sure to Get Full Salary sme = ce, oe a. ae ~. wu BN : u - ry Sox spent on a chicken wire fence| Howie Judson did an impressive to cut down the Comiskey Park| outfield paid off today with

city series’ victory dividend.

tion of this synthetic barrier that Mexican Officials Rookie Gus Zernial lifted a three-| Miss

run homer on which the Sox trimmed the Chicago Cubs, 3 to 1.

righthander, went all the way for the American Leaguers, allowing seven hits. The Browns jumped on Jim Hearn, Rookle Cloyd Boyer and Ray Yochim for all their 12 hits before Ken Johnson finally stopped them in the last two innings. Starter Hearn was batted out in- thé fourth after doubles by Jack Graham and Dick Kokos and a walk to Paul Tehher as 11

player. 4 : stricken ‘by fliness after giving Anyway, the fans want to know satisfactory service. That |

if Joe DiMaggio would get the en- . 4 . been a uniform practice down tire. $100,000 if gr Pa B the years,

America’s No. 1} ™ s heel brought to Lou Gehrig was a classic exan end the great mple. The Yankees stayed with center fielder's the immortal Iron Man until he illustrous career - was made parole officer for New with the Yan- te 8% York City juveniles, a position he kees. of 8 could handle and for which Co- ‘| lumbia Lou was so ideally suited.

today’s game and labelled such; reports “ a lot of nonsense.” | Paige reportedly arrived at the Polo Grounds today a ‘few min-

Lutes before game time and hardly had three singles for the Browns.

had a chance to fully warm up. He walked the first four New. York hitters and then was summoned from the mound.

|twice.

E Who'd be . - DiMaggio could turn out to be

Brownies paraded to the plate/stuck witht % 4 " |another striking illustration that

in a six-run inning. whom? - ih g , € b> there really are two sides to a Thi] Baseman Bob Dimger (SoL0 mda @8 baseball contract, and the club and Outfielder Al Zarilla each decline to dis J can be lett holding the bag, too

@iss any finan-

Doyle Lade was th the Zernial wallop, the sixth

the conference here today with a re > i Reels. Coast Leaguer has rapped in| resentative of the National Fri Casting lines, 12 to 25-1b. test spring exhibitions. The win ciation of Baseball Leagues on{] Fly rods refinished and repaired. squares the city series ‘at two protests of alleged personnel]] We olso have boots, motors and wins each going into the Bunday| raids : trailers. (Live bait.)

pitching duel at Wrigley Field be- The meet tween Dwain Sloat (Cubs), and NABL ends i Fred Bradley (Sox).

in Tuesday's opener at Detroit,jof three players it claimed had gave up the lone Cub run on three s seventh-inning- singles, includiiig” fore signing Mexican a pinch blow by Cliff Aberson on tracts,

And don’t feel sorry for the Yankee owners for any other rea{son than that they would be losing the man who has been the

«oA Cardinal Slugger Stan Mustaijcial settlement Joe DiMaggio | drew boos from the crowd of that might ensue with DiMaggio 8214 paid fans after striking out out for keeps. . “Because,” says General Man-

ington Senators. It’s that many years since a

professional ball—-wondering whether he could make good.

The skinny kid of the 1880's was Connie Mack, now beginning his 49th season as the Athletics’ manager. favorite of millions to one more pennant. : 86 Years Ola Connie, at 86, thinks his boys might be up there. The sports writers disagree. Analytical and critical, the writers name lack of reserve strength, lack of power, slowness afield and half a dozen other reasons why the A's can't win.

win—just

But there was a twinkle in Connie’s eye as the Athletics got ready. to go to the nation’s capitol. He remembered last year when the A’s weren't conceded a chance, yet were t contenders- until the last eight weeks of the season.” “Gracious,” the beloved Mr,

65 Years of Baseball Backs = =r Si Athletics in Season Opener

Connie Mack, at 86, Stays in Action Because ‘I's a Young Man's Game’

PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 16 (UP)—A span of 65 years, a generation or so as time goes, will be rolled back Monday when the Philadelphia Athletics open their 1949 baseball season againkt the Wash-

He's the sentimental]

ager George M. Weiss, “any mention of that might be construed)

backbone of the outfit for 10 campaigns. |

Has It Coming from under.” That's not the least reason why The answer in the DiMaggio /D¢l Webb and Dan Topping gave situation is, of course, thatthe DiMaggio $100,000 flat for this princely peon would be paid every Year. | peso. And agother Jenson why ihe - proprietors of the um would | Open and Shut Case insist upon paying him in full| DiMaggio would have to volun- even if they didn’t have to. tarily retire to have it any other| While DiMaggio collected $386,-| way, and that would be extreme- 559.20 in salary and World Series) ly unlikely as the Clipper can gwag in 10 years, the Big Boy use the cash and hired out in good from Fishermen's Wharf was faith to an organization which grossly underpaid until last sum-| paid $2 million to get rid of Larry mer. DiMaggio was paid $8500, MacPhail after two brief years. when he came up from the San! It's an open and shut case. {Francisco club in 1936, and was The New York Americans are Some time reaching $42,500, which technically and morally obligated |!8 What he resumed playing for in| climaxing three championships into recompense DiMaggio in fuil.| 46, When he returned after three a row, The next year, his team Ard any competent lawyer will Years in the Army. He was given was second. From that point on,|tell you they are legally bound, | "0 more in "47, and it wasn't until} it never was better than fifth too, under the interpretation base-| 18 that a $10,000 bonus upped] under last years surge to the ball bigwigs put on the standard-|{him to a respectable $75,000. | first division. ized contract testifying in court.| This in Aays of unprecedented | Connie is confident that there's Always Paid in Full - |attendance in the biggest town of

still an Athletic pennant—elud- {them all. : ing him for the moment—but| Pulling the 30-day release, or| Of the 15 pennants the Bomb-|

definitely in the immediate fu-/termination, clause on a Di-/ers won in 28 years, only one ac-| ture. He promises to be around/Maggio, whose bone spur sprung quired without Babe Ruth or Di-| hwhen it’s won. : fiom SGiERtiNng he did In‘ line o Maggio, and that in a war year. | “This is & young man’s game,|duty, would further accentuale| ys joe DiMaggio doesn't as That's why I's Staking around,” NOW palpably inequitable is even, ,.; a4 take a single cut at a Connie smiles. “Now you take my|the player's contract that was al-yq); throughout the champion-| son, Earl. I had to take him off|tered as recently as two Yearsig, season, he will still have the coaching lines last summer.|880. It would be direct evidence the $100,000—and then some. | Earl's getting along in years, you that there is no mutuality of ob-| erm know. He's 57.” jligation. And, at the moment Golf Meeti . : especially, baseball's main idea is ing The smile and the twinkle gives pecially, to stay out of court. A joint directors meeting of

21-year-old kid cast his. lot with

teams finished last. That happened six times since 1940.

His last pennant was in 1931,

Baseball “we gave them a scare.” Tne scribes agreed. The sigh of | relief when the A's finally moved out of pennant contention was one which comes only from face-

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