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21,1049" ff THURSDAY, APR. 21, 1040 Le THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES, iia ier i eacE

| Two Straight Wins Gladden Hearts Of Indians’ Fans

Blues Again Victims, This Is Way Moore Hopes They Finish i in 500 Johnny Groth Insists

This Time by 5-1 Score; On Being Phenomenal Millers Due Tonight _ In Debut With Tigers ov]

Main Slated for Mound Duty; ng Inning _Rookie's Batting Power Exceeds Advance’ . Scoring Splurge Gives Walsh Victory. x " Notices; Henrich Again Sparks Yanks

By EDDIE ASH, Times Sports Editor By CARL LUNDQUIST, United Press ris Writer Last spring, the Indianapolis Indians won their first game and). NEW YORK, Apr. 21-—The Detroit por trying to treat Jos: oe second; This spring they stepped it up by winning the open-| Johnny Groth as just another human being but the kid is making it » impossible. Winning ‘em is wonderful. The Injun wigwam is all aglow with He simply insists on being a’ phenomenon. happy hearts and more handshaking than at a political convention. The rookie snatched up from Chicago’s-sandlots was labeled as

At any rate, that was the Victory Field situation as of today. |

The Redskins scalped the Kansas City Blues last night, 5 to 1, and now they are honing the old tomahawk to try it out on a new opponent, the Minneapolis Millers, in a new series starting tonight. Minneapolis, like Kansas City, is under new management, with the broad-faced Tommy Heath at the helm. He used to catch in the American Association for Colum-! S. Fear No Team

second” on Gene Valla’s single. But Harrist took too many steps off the keystone and a rifle throw: by Kluttz nipped him in a pickoff! {play to Gutterdige. The attendance was 2720 paid] as several thousand fans stayed at home to thaw out from Toes. day's weather. Ten days before the America| Association race got under way| i122 of 29 Baseball Chapter writers!

more than two years ago. . But ™ Tiger General Manager Billy: i {Evans and Wish Egan, the “vet. eran scout who discovered him, polished him slowly and painstakingly un minor league diamonds. Today, it seems, He definitely] has arrived, In just two games| the likable 23-year-old has hit b {three homers, including a bases-| F _ {loaded smash yesterday which ave the Tigers a b to 2 gay the White Sox at Detroit. ton and take the series,

ning run in the ninth in a

a “can’t miss" star, perhaps another Joe DiMaggio or ora Tris Tris Speaker

row over the Red Sox ox when Sam Chapman singled home the win-

3-t0-2

decision. Errors by Johnny Pesky {and Ellis Kinder set up the rally las Joe Coleman got by with a victory on a 10-hit performance. Doubles by Tommy Holmes and hil Masi in the eighth gave the - Braves the two runs they. needed victory to beat the Phils, 8 to 5, at Bos-

three

He accounted for all of Detroit's ames to one. The Phils got most of the hits, Willie Jones rapping out four doubles to tie a major league record‘ while Bill Nicholson hit a homer, Duke Torgeson homered for Boston. Nelson Pot ter »on his second game in relief

3 Re x ue SrA ! . { «01 (runs; also getting a double and Early bird inal at Speedway's Gasoline Alley are fore: one, wo in n the last two races, Moore hopes to wind up one, two, Mingle as y I Touche turned in their eyes. But the Indians are yo... "posi Vv is the toast, Three sleek mounts entered by Lou Moore (left) that will be driven three this year. With Moore are mechanics Charles Marant (cen. | fOUr-hit PIED JOO.

not frightened. They feel real i { In the opener he hit two Bo Hg! le ey ean the Maumee. by Mauri Rose, Bill Holland and Suerge < Conner, or, 3 Sujchine: ter) a and Roscoe Ford. _______momers. giving him seven runs

, Ibatted in for two days. champions and fear no team. Drea. have Don ihown 0 Know Your Indidnses tor wan Nis secon

Forrest (Bridegroom) Main iz pay off and it is said the In- Kept In Buffalo Lasf Year Glant Errors Costly slated to pitch for the Tribesters gdianapolis Indians’ executives Lefty Joe Muir Evans, who ‘says “Johnny will The Doters Tr oS edrmed

tonight. He did right well for are toying with the prelim- take care of Detroit's center field runs as the Giants made four Played Pro Ball

predicted the Toledo Mud Hens, would finish last. But the * ‘early’ foot” displayed by the Hens made Milwaukee's face red. New Hen

The Millers, who dropped two In a row in Louisville, invaded Indianapolis today with blood in

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leaded for Fame

Anderson High School's classy miler Johnny. Stayton, who just set a new state reci ord of 4:28.5, appears to be following in the footsteps of another great miler from Anderson, Earl Mitchell, who won

three innings against the Cin-| jnaries that in the near future £ problems. for® at least the next .... in a 6 to 2 Brooklyn des 10 years” emphasized that he cision on four hits at Ebbets preferred keeping him in Buffalo nly Ralph Branca also gave last season and having the Tigers ,., o,1y four hits for Brooklyn Lfinish in the second division than 0. wo. given better: support | bringing him up and landing In/pan juckiess Sheldon Jones of

cinnati Reds in an exhibition tilt! last Sunday and Manager Al Lopez is-banking on him to throw the Millers for a loss. . ! The Indians emulated the 1948

would mean a grandstand upper deck at Vistory Field,

Tribe President Owen. 5. Bush, ill and at home in bed since Mon-

¢hampionship club last night by day, sat up today. He'll be {the first divison, = \ o 3 # . “a ithe Giants, Sid Gordon hit treating the fans to a seventh- around and about when the; Only Two Years the famed Wannmalu Mie » “The extra experience he gained y J ant he is Our 3 a fnning splurge that sewed up the weather warms up. However, it's % eW Years ag ose lin Buffalo where he led the IIE Bob Rush gave up. only

games at Madison Square

By JIM HEYROCK Garden.

Muir,

a safe bet that he won't defy baseball up at Victory Field until after rookie of the Indianapolis In-|

contest. Peters Connects

Shortly after the fans com-

2 | league ‘in five batting departments!) ..o singles at Chicago in J | will mean more to us in the long shutting out the Pirates, 4 to 0. irun than it would had we hades a1s0 struck out seven batters.

superstition and; show Joe the - soft-spoken

~ “pleted their seventh-inning stretch, the Trives winning “streak” is dians mound Ta men proved nn ? _ ~~ him and landed in tind or fourth The Cubs made all their runs the Redskins went to work. After snappe he had plenty of stuff in the Ali o' N 1 R + E {place,” Evans sai when Murry Dickson weakened one out, Don Gutteridge singled] ack McClain of oH York [lower leagues and now he's out ice ea e urns rom Blue Crown’ $ Due | Egan, convinced that Groth win| in the fifth, Bob Schefling driving

to prove it to bossman Al Lopez. The 26-year-old Muir has been la success in organized baseball

and Russ Peters picked on the

{fice Hank Greenberg as theiin two with a‘double and An first pitch and belted it out of the |

For Ear ly Tests home run hero of Detroit fans, Pafko and Hal Jeffcoat singling Test runs for several 500-Mile| {worries only about “all this wildiin the others.

Giants’ scout, "watched the In- * dians maul the Blues last night.

South to Defend Golf Titles

park for a homer. It was the game-winning drive, | since the score was all square, 1 and 1 at the time. But the Indians didn’t calculate that their 3 to 1-lead represented security. | After a second out, Jim Walsh ,.

He is an ex-Ohlo State University athlete and formerly played for the Columbus Red Birds.

Barney Mike Kelly, former In-| dianapolis manager who is scout-|

Isince he first was snared by a| And if he| it, | he'll be first mentioned when fans to Indianapolis from a winter golfing tour in search of her third | (state and her fourth city golf chanipionship.

A year of golfing experience and the poise accrued in

scout two years ago. has anything to say about

talk of this year’s rookies. . A native of Salisbury, Md, Joe!

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By BILL PITTMAN Alice O'Neal, attractive proponent of putt and par, has returned week.

{race , cars are. scheduled next! | publicity which will be his main| | handicap. " | -An older pro who isn’t disturbed! Lou Moore, ¢ owner of the Blue |by headlines even though he rates, |Crown “Specials, has announced plenty of them is Tommy Henrich several that Mauri Rose, 1947-48 winner, | lof the Yankees, who also used

Cincinnati and St. Louis had an

open date in the National, od

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Butler Trackmen |

annex Will take-out the No, 3 for several {home runs for the second day in| _{warmup laps next Wednesday or {a row as a springboard to victory. { Thursday. Bill Holland, driver for | Henrich’ s homer, yesterday start

Walked, Bil Pats doutied and ling college games in the Hoosier is a: lefthander all the way. He {tourney stints should enable the 22-year-old par-duster to Jac ¥. g area for the Pittsburgh Pirates, pitched four years as a regular both those titles with comparative ease,

bases. f the i his high.school baseball team| She arrived home Monday from Trip Anderson Young Dale Coogan stepped Up eters Has Eo rail Ae Dick oy plo el ho on began Florida, via South Carolina, and off in. Alken, 8. C,, where a men’ 's|the No. 7 Blue Crown, will come ed Vic Raschi off to a three-hit,

and Skipper Lopez called Hime. : _tourney .was fin progress and here Monday after racing Sunday 3-to-0 victory over the Senators, He gave some sothing advice 10 hitting De amend IY Qercul.> She had spent more than spent a week alternately watching in Williams Grove, Pa. George at New York. University track a — the youngest i Bim worked, | knows his way around” saidlthe scouts. They seemed to con- three full months pounding the et Tor pon, and playing got Corinor, qrive; for the third B. C | Yanks Pull Triple [Little State champions, yesterday Coogan lined a long single to cen- Mike, “and almost every evening verge in a body on this light- fAirways with some of the coun ' le 1 IneiANAPOLS SOON His homer ‘the day before in handed Anderson -TCollege a 104-34 ter, good for two runs, and Kan-| sits down to a huge steak dinner haired fast-baller. Talent hunt- try’s feminine golfing greats. This winter tour coupled with{- Moore has housed. his machines | the ninth broke up the ball game, |shellacking. sas City Pitcher Earl Harrist took at the expense of a big-league ers from the St.'Louis Cardinals! In the Tampa, Fla, and Au- her California campaign last falllalong ‘money row” in Gasoline |The Yankees worked a triple] A mixture of sophomores and ent. . Don’t tell me it doesn’t'and the Brooklyn Dodgers as well SUsta, Ga., Women's Open tour- places her in the favorites posi-|Alley after a four and one. half | steal, with Bobby Brown scoring,|veterans took all ‘but. two first

off for the showers and was re-| lieved by Jim Arnold.

Walsh in Rare Form Jim Walsh pitched a marvelous) game. He chalked up 10 strikeouts and allowed no hits in the last three innings. His fast ball had the Blues baffled in the clutches and his control was =o good that not a single visitor worked him! for a walk. Walsh bore down on the Blues’ heavy hitters and fanned both!

Joe Collins and Jack Wallasea olis hockey goalie, practiced at Rehoboth Beach, Del, {second base last night. Switching team

twice.

pay to go to. scofiege

Archie Wilson, Kansas City's rookie left fielder, probably will deny that he ever saw Indianapolis. The lad fanned four times Tuesday, the first time up | last night, and again in the ninth. He sacrificed in the fourth and popped out in the sixth.

» - ~ Terry Sawchuk, the Indianap- was farmed out after a month to!

as the Pittsburgh Piratés rallied |around Joe. { Signs With Pirates ; Pittsburgh seemed to offer the, 'greatest chance for advancement Makes 73 Twice land presented the best proposi-| She also played in tourheys in {tion. He signed with the Smoky | Miami and West Palm Beach. In |City hunter. Muir was sent first to Yor | Pa. {little rich for a newcomer and he’

| opponent to be the same Miss Berg.

k. 2 73 and equaled that score. in

'Itife Palm Beach tilt for her best But the competition was 8) olf of the campaign.

On her way home she stopped

and in Orlando found her tourney again this year,

Coast. Last year she took the eity|Roscoe Ford and Charles Marant|o five hits. | ltourney ‘1-up over Dorothy Ellis|have been working over the cars, The Indians came from behind| {at Highland Country Club and re- six days a week, 10 hours a day (to defeat the Browns, 7 to 3, at| {peated that chore in the state since last July. St. Louis, although Bob Lemon | championship, = defeating. Miss One of the I. R. C. entries, “Old was tagged for homers by Dick|

the Indianapolis Country Club. If experience and tourney wis- thony Granatelll of Chicago is/three hits, Including a.ninth- in-| dom mean anything Miss. Alice planning several laps around the ning double, | will cop them both again. bricks here Sunday. | The Athletics made it two in a

Class D

in the Eastern Shore |

The Blues’ lone run was regis- from skates to spikes makes -a League,

tered in the fourth on a safe bunt,

difference. The Indians are try-

| Near the end of the season, |

a sacrifice and a single. Skipper| ing to find a place for him in a York called him back for the

Lope: went. into raptures over Walsh's pitching and predicted that the righthander is destined to become a season-long star. The fact that Walsh got stronger after the fifth added to his brilliance, It was his first nine-inning hitch since’ the Tribe launched spring training Mar. After the Blues scored one marker in the fourth, the Indians

{league of lower Classification.

A member of "the Indianapolis {Tall Tree Girls Club said Kansas City’s 6-4

Well, chum, Jack has departed for Louisville but Minneapoli& is here

7. |tonight and the Millers" shortstop, {Bill Jennings, stands 6-2, or thereabouts. :

shortstop, Jack Walla-| sea, was ‘her idea of a ball. player.

jnal three weeks. When the sea-|

on ended, he had compiled al on of 13 wins and five losses

at Rehoboth and had won three at York. Muir was sent back to York at! the beginning of the 1948 season | and began burning up the mound. | He won eight in a row without! a setback. Then fate stepped in. {During a warm-up, he pulled a,

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neys she was paired with Patty tion in both the city and state {day trip here from the West ater in the game as ex- “Mexican places and swept the 880-yard run, Berg He and his mechanics, | Leaguer Paul Calvert held them|220-yard low hurdles and the

javelin throw, Carter Byfield |gave the Ravens their two firsts winning both the pole vault and discus throw, Bob White took both the mile

{the Tampa tourney she turned in|Eilis in the finals, 7 and 6, at| Spike,” will be hauled out for Kokos and Jack Graham. Thur+ and two-mile . runs’ for the Bull{several laps next week and An- man Tucker led the Indians with! |dogs while Butler's captain Ira

{Odle, the only other double winner, captured the ‘100-yard dash and the low hurdle event.

matched it in their half on Culley Tribe Box Score

Rikard'’s single and Tom Saffell’s ymuscle in his right side and was |

|sidelined for five weeks.

One place

KANSAS CITY towering triple lo ler center. [valla. 3b AR EH 9 A T But when the season ended his| ; Fatly Mound, ie] Eo 4 0 28 1 8record was still good—12 and 8.| ; Tt was a fancy mound duel be- Garrison. x . *¢ 1238 20 §00C-10 AN PA tween Walsh and Harrist until the Wilson, Xoo : 00 3 0 0 A Veloran SL months service seventh. @he Kansas City hurler Wallasen. fy a3 4 jm x i farine ] ors. ie is marals6 was iWtop form and held the Mufoletto, wl 38 8 1] ame on 1 e Fis oh 3n eight-| Redskins to three hits in six in- Arnold: 8 ...0 10! ‘..0 0 8 o 1 omonths-old ¢ e hopes to ings. But he ked ' Walsh's, T Pi i a bring the family here {or the Sea} "a Lo 2? wg ode Jag ko 9 a vg otals “ votaykro 1s 3 no u ‘4 identified by these eribloms, for complete, » all around spring changewith a bang in theseventh after Piste. rf ....... + 4} % § ‘Through spring training Muir | over service, done with expert know- how. striking out the first hitter. = Coogan, 8 1 3 1 { haslooked good. He undoubtedly Saffell had the distinction of Bogard 1, } 3-19 8 will receive the acid test shortly hitting the Indians’ first triple of Gutteridge 1 231 oin the American Association, the new campaign and Peters, of cuts. o 011 2 0 ar course, Frnoris hunk as “first 1 wah. > es - 2 5.9.9 College Golf to smack a homer.” Agi : Hx Estas 2 500 8 00 on. 1 Perussivania 64, Sazayette %. * The Blues asked for it from 3 ANAFOLIS 000, 100 ‘40x— 5| DELO {Enicagor 8. 8. Lake Forest 4

uns batted in—8Saffell. Peters 2, C Catcher Clyde Kiluttz and they 2 Drescher. Two-base. hits. -Plats. Gutte: | ge Three- base hit—SafTell ome un |

got it. When Wallasea struck out! ters oroncrifices—Valla. Wilson. Doub el HARRY WILBER AE WARDED

in the fourth, Bill Drescher tried fitiirec Arista Go iflsietio’ to "Bolt to steal second and Kluttz's throw Let a

bases—Kansas Cit

polis 68. Bas n balls. Jr cit him down. Arnold 1, Struck ‘out =r Oe Harrie 3 iTis i Of ist § 1 In the fifth, after one down, Arnold 1'in Tig innings "Losing pitcher ' ; rr res — 1 .e i i i Harrist singled and moved to jdris |, Qmpires robin i: . for a complete Personalized Spring Change-over that is

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