Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1949 — Page 29
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~ MAMARONECK, N.Y, Aug. 18—There have been the fact remains no player who swung from the portside
has ever won a major championship, or come close, This
BACUFMIY prommpta the question: 1s ita. handienp in Soil to be left-handed ?- ia team which faces
Percy Lucas, American forces in competition Artest np Cup beginning ning here
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or mutTowy dosen't think so: Tucas:ia a left-handed golfer...
“Ir 18 "ALL a matter of ability,” the 37-year-old starchily Sorstet Beltishet Who shot Sawn. 4 sedre of Gurney’ planss Gur ing the war, tells you. would the question of which hand used enter into it at all?” I wouldn't know, ave been bicking round since the Invention inven
time Z True, the percen cause he Is enormously outnumbéted by his rightBut this same disparity exists in other sports—notably tennis— and the left-hander has managed to do better than all right. I seem to recall that Australia’s Norman Brookes hit from the wrong side, an idiosyn¢rasy which failed to deny him the English singles championship. And what about Johnny Doeg? He was Food ough to win our national singles this back in 1930,
A CURIOUS thing about the aforementioned "Lucas is that In all activities where it is necessary to employ only one hand-—suck as tennis, bowling, writing ang, presumably, cribbage—he is completely right-handed. There was a time when he swung a malevelent cricket bat and since this is an operation which demands a full quota of hands Lucas swing from the off side. ‘ The gentleman has never tried to explain this peculiarity— if that's what it is—but he does toss in the information that his mother, though a confirmed right-hander in everything else, writes" her letters with het left hand. “I don’t imagine. that disposes of -the subject utterly, does it?” He commented. Well, not quite utterly,
LUCAS. started swinging a golf club as child, | Jathat was secretary of the ultra-uitra Princess Course at which Gene Sarazen won the British Open with 283, a pr at the time which was 1932. The thought of his child, his very own child, growing up as a left-handed golfer in the shadow of hallowed old Princess was too ghastly for words. “Father turned me over to Abe Mitchell, one of our better professionals, with instructions- to make ‘me over into a righthanded golfer,” Lucas recalled. “But it was no use. I simply could not adjust myself to the right-handed action and Mitchell finally gave up in despair if not disgust.”
» ” ” » - [J IF THAT WAR hadn’t come along Lucas might have developed into golf's first great left-handed player. He qualified’ for the British Open (75-74) at Murfield in 1935 and was a resolute contender up to thé final round where an odious 81 shattered his chances. He had started 74-73-72. As it was, he finished only a stroke back of our Lawson Little. For six years, or all durin the war, he played no golf. That would have been the time fo him to bring a sheen to his Perhaps the country’s Da ‘authority on the subject of efthandedness is Johnson O'Connor, the psychologist. Without going
into the technical or medical aspects of the subject, let's consider
some of the gentleman's statistics, x He tells us that there are 35 million Americans whe were originally born left-handed. Presumably an overwhelming number .change over or are changed over early in life. At the end of the shake down, or reprocessing operation, the figure is one to 20. Which is to say that one of every 20 of us is a left-hander,
. - » * ~ . THIS TIME, 1 suppose, would be the mathematical price against a left-hander winning in major golf. Not very inviting odds. Another handicap the left-hander faces is that the manufacturers don’t specialize in clubs for him, for the obvious reason that sales opportunities are limited. Nevertheless, the captain of the British Walker Cup team wishes to repeat: “It makes no difference whether you hit the ball with the right or left hand. The main consideration is: How well do you hit it”
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Fernandez Stars at Bat Again as Lopez Throws Five Pitchers Into Battle
But the Tribesters' finally outlasted the home team and won out by throwing a five i selves in the ninth stanza. Nine pitchers were used in the {Sree- hitting,
Three-base hits—~Beard 11,
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and also six doubles. The In-|~
were issued, six by Tribe hurl- Dslietsandro. ers, eight by Woantipolls mounds-| men. Nanny Fernandez led the Redskins’ attack with two singles Jus"
land a home run, two runs scored a a : Hw and four batted in. Other Tribe 3 3iRiddie
homers were smacked by Les Ted Beard and Jack Cleaning House
were Royce Lint, Forrest Main, Joe Muir, Bob Klinger and Chet|months Johnson. Klinger wound up as
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Times Special MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 18—The Indlanapolis Indiand were feel"Ing somewhat better today a» they journeyed to’ Kansas City" to begin & duurgina sciies With We Blu MAYS. WimGHw 3g,
COLLEGE PARK, Md.
Tribe hurlers who saw service —Maryland’'s married football players are spending the summer
113, Turner #. Scals 8, Ganss 7. Peters 6, {Gutteridge 6, Kluttz 5, Dallessandro 3.
Turner 7.
free-scoring strug-iScala 6, Fernandes §. Conway 5, Kalin 3, | gle, seven home runs were belted Peters 3, Gutteridge J). Cassini 2, Ganss,| " u Heme “tuns—Fernandes 19 Conwiy’ 13. dians ‘collected “12 hits, the Mil lryrner 11, Plenhing 10. Beard 3, Gauss 4} lers nine. Fourteen bases on balls Cassint 3. Gutteridge 3, Scala 3, Peters 2,
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George Herman Ruth | (above), named after the im- | mortal Bambino, has been signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team and farmed out to Salisbury, N. C. Young Ruth, to the former | Yankee great, was named after the Babe by his father, an ad- | mirer of the New York slugger. The young catcher was born in New York and grew up around the Yankee Stadium area.
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| J umper Matin Hurls
Relieves Brozle in 9th and Goes Four Tense
By STAN OPOTOWSKY, United Press Writer
to the National League lead.
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yr Ib wy x i quick to assign : Nadie as a Dyes was 48 8-4 er and Martin as a reliefer and oem nak watch the victories roll in. Vie- ork 113 _ i tories did roll, too, but Martin AMERICAN 1 LEAGUR
and Lanier had precious little ar EAs do with them. Even now Lanier X
haha Sox an Sr . Fr OuDY wn sive. He entered the game in the 30i
third inning but was knocked out RUNS BATTED IN by the fifth—and got credit for jfghens R.Sox 13iiRobinson, Dod.
the win by the skin of his teeth. 'Werts, Tigers .. 1 A Difterent Story 'delplila, hoisted St. Louls Last night sharp-featiiréd Martin ahead of .the Dodgers.
proved himself under the heaviest; “The Brooklyn loss, secon of fire, coming in for Wearied Al'a row, was the result of a
| Smph over the Cincinnati Reds.|
pastors in the hit-happy g He also the Dodgers got 13 safeties the Phils 11.
| only ‘part of his chore. {knocked in the winning run In that 13th, scoring Country
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slashing single to left field.
a 12-inning the tilt at Chicago Phin and went the full 13 last night. days, The Card victory, coupled with] The Pirates ard the Cubs {Brooklyn's 11 to 7 loss to Phila- {rained out.
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- Frames; Wins Own Game, 4-3, With Single
Sports NEW YORK, Aug. 18—For a while it appeared that St..Louls’| yo Jeputiigied Mexican League pitchers would be the light that failed, whi Ys ; ‘runs 10 the National Teague toa | a mowed the WAY DacKiin the last of the ninth to come = 3
ere Wale lot Chaers 2rom the Cardinal batliwick whin Com. : restored the jumpers to baseball
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has not won his first game of the i 18 RAL Zarilla produced the last season. frame runs. Martin won ane ball game, JUlY ner. pirate \. mop Bi Sh. Giants. 3¢| But while the Red Sox surge 4, but that was not very amperes 3 " | was creditable, Cleveland helped
00, Hodges, Dodgers
But last night it was different. |into the league lead, half a game the seventh took care of the sec-
| Brazile in the ninth inning and run Philly explosion in the eighth {lasting out four tense frames for | ning. aust Broke wp a 5b tie; a 13-inning 4-to-3 Cardinal tri-/and co alica his seven 8 {loss of the season. He was the Fountain ‘Wants ‘Games [Yet Martin's tight hurling was [third of four Dodger pitchers to
The Braves hit, too. They un-/son, 725 Shelb: t Slaughter from third base with 8/;,451e4 a 15-hit attack against tain Square roland] rained out the Giants for a.13 to 4 swamp. Tyesda Chapel; play It was a tough ball game for Six of the Brave runs came in iat a yer ST. LOUIS, i, Aug. 18 (UP) the Reds’ Kenny Raffensberger ~The Billikens of St. Louis Uni-/to lose; he had won who. were - among pioneers of ‘after-datk football, will play three night games this {fall; one of which is at home.
the second inning, four of them p m, Call FR-9535 for twil on Fim Russell's second grand | gates. -
slam homer in the last three)
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ingle to cénter Wey Keller with the winner, Anxious to keep apace with h
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56 B) doubles by Birdie Tebbetts
{a bit by dropping two games to i ithe St. Louls Browns, 10 to 6 and 865 to 2, A four-run rally in the eighth won the first for the “Sack! Browns, and a three-run spurt in
Te White Sox got only two hits,” but still beat the Tigers, T to. 0, for the third straight Sox shutout.
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the winner. Ike Pearson, the third of four Miller pitchers, was the
loser. The game was the last between the teams in regular season play, No. 22, and the Indians finished on the long end of the score in 15. § Minneapolis homers were hit
by Chuck Workman, Bama Rowell and Bob Brady. Fernandez now has boosted his
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