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AR————————_ Av boop : ’ NEW YORK, Sept. 7—That man's back again. Meaning y : Joseph Vincent McCarthy and, as usual, he is accompanied by a will Clash for group of very able ball players. The Boston Red Sox, the team [ Tith iaht at fra oe mre nn 1 1 uo th Ai i Tonighy . t i WICHITA, Kas., Sept. 7 (UP) “ PETRAPS It 8 more Accutate to say the Yankees are the team | The defending Ft. are, Ind. 1a hes i” y are ® setting the pace. But that it will | General Electrics handed the : ne or the other is pretty generally conceded. although the Golden, Colo., Coors Brewers their Jury is still out on Cleveland. They have seven big games left {first loss of the National ‘Semihurweus them, the first of whichis up for grabs in the Stadium Plo Baseball Tournament last n and sen e tourney into ‘an extra play-off round. y !

Incidentally, this is probably the most attractive ball game that has ever been scheduled for the Stadium. It has been a sell- | The two teams, each with one out for weeks. : : loss, will play for the championObviously, a great deal of significance is attached to the seven ship tonight. games the Yankees and the Red Sox still must play against each | Ft. Wayne out-hit. and out. other. It goes without saying that the team which can take a played the Brewers to squeak majority of the seven will strengthen its position in the pennant [through with a 5-to-2 win. The race—and dtrengthen it in direct ratio to its success. . defending champions scored for, Ao. ou. [the first time last night ‘in the HOWEVER, the Yankees carry a distinct tactical advantage {third Inning and then built up a as they advance to the firing line. They not only are on top but (three-run lead in the fifth when| they lead the Red Sox by four in the all important “games lost” (they tallied two more counters. ' | column. Which is to say they have lost four fewer games than In the seventh inning the Brewtheir rivals from the home of the sacred tod, the articulate bean |ers opened up thé only run scorand the Harlow spinner. Thus the“pressure is heavier on the vis- | {Ing barrage they had all night.| itors than on the locals. Another encouraging ifem is that the {Coors relief hurler Don Straub Yankees have had a relatively easy time with the Red Sox this slammed a two-run homer over year. They have won 10 while dropping only five. the right field wall. Nevertheless, this sort of thing is at best a form of meta- Negro righthander Bill Ricks got’ credit for the win by holding

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Coach Ralph Johnson and his 1949 Speedway Sparkplugs display a jersey with a No. 18 on it | to signify they'll be after their 18th straight victory when the Plugs dedicate their new football

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Photographer physics. You do not win pennants banging away at an old type- vo pad . : . . {al (second), writer. And it does not necessarily follow that a team which field Saturday night at 8 p. m. against Brownsburg. Front row. (left to right) Jim DeMoss, quarter- the Brewers to seven hits over ent went to has made a habit of beating another team will continue to do s6 = back; Ralph Potter, left tackle; Coach Ralph Johnson, Dick Boles, right end; Harold Kuykendall, full- the nine-inning route. Coors iol eel interminably... Also. it.is. important. to. note that the Red Sox . back. Second row: Bud Hughes, left end: Charles Martin, right tackle, and Don Crawford, left starter Al -Cicotte allowed five are sharper, keener and tougher now than they have been at any | g,,d Third row: George Vance, right halfback; Bob Coiahlin. right guard; Ronnie Bland center; ‘hits that-gave the Electrics three.

other time during the season. runs before he was replaced by

and Ray Smith, left halfback. The county champipns in 1947. and 1948 have won 26 out of the last

v To get back to that man—meaning Joseph Vincent. By now y Straub who allowed th {ORROW ft must be recognized that ae is something extra special as a 27 games since the 1946 season. blows. ‘ ee’ buse “Big Five manager. It seems to me that he's always the man you must ; a FN 3 Golden. Colo. Coors. 000000 200 2-7 2 : beat. That was the case wnen he was with the Yankees. It is | ' . ° . t= Wayne, Ind: -001-020-03x-— 3-3-1 (Overnight), the case now with the Red Sox. I thought he did a remarkable S d 4 h od { Y : " . ~- ‘ - job with the Red Sox last season when he came from far back | ee wa t v e ica es Krall Joins Lions NOT BITTER! s f he Indi into the first play off in the history of the Times Special (Overnight), to force t ndians in e first play o Or} DETROIT. Not The Detroit] NOT SWEET!

league. ) SEVERAL days after McCarthy was lured out of retirement $8000. by the Red Sox 1 happened to Le on the radio in Buffalo. The TT. announcer asked me just how much McCarthy's presence figured wv to improve a club's. standing. 1 said 10 games: I don't believe ) PW ‘that's an exaggeration. There are good managers and great | ©. * managers. MeCarthy plainly belongs in the latter category. | Oh, sure, he has had some fine material to work with. But im name me one winning manager who didn’t. It is absurd to suppose Football Ex»

Lions today signed Rudy Krall, Gary, Ind, former University of| New Mexico fullback and an-| nounced the release of Jim Youel, veteran quarterback |

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New Grid Field Saturday

Special Program Arranged Before Sparkplugs Clash With Brownsburg

By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS It'll be kinda like a homecoming out at Speedway's new football field Saturday and that’s the time the high school Sparkplugs will want to sharpen up their football points. The Sparkplugs are meeting Brownsburg Saturday night at 8 o'clock. But a half-hour before that, they're going to dedicate the

Mogus to Warriors PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7 (UP)| {—The Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Associa-! tion today announced the signing’

that ‘any manager can win withéut fine material. Some managers simply get a great deal more out of the material than others. Connie Maek- will surely. go down in history as one of the

e to be spon- most illustrious managérs of all time. Yet look at his strange |jights and new football field Speedway High School will have for {of - Leo Mo, y : XLW. { 7 . > “ 7 gus; veteran profess - ation WXLW- record, Nine times Xe finished on top—16 times he finished in the first time. : Steric gep—— Isional player who ee the rning at 11 the clammy confines. of the cellar, When he had the material The place holds about 1600 but Coughlin and Don Crawford, ‘ 4

uraled Sature there's going to be room for all. guards. and Bland. center.

they couldn't béat him; when

Indianapolis Jets last . he didn't he was strictly a patsy ! po st year |

it was ans in spades. It'll be a special occasion for, Dick Boles, at right end, is the A PE | : : : : m : » . 8. “48.8 , . mild-mannered “Ralph Johnson, only nonletterman in the line Th ateur Baseball - “el duled from 11 JIMMY DYKES called McCarthy a “push button manager.” I his football team and the alumni. that includes five of seven A re hi magting ul_the Indianansiist will feature - think Dykes said this more in levity than in contempt. He's, 100 |(voach Johison’s team will be. seniors. : Bernle Harmon, secretary (Said today.

ike Dunn as Promising ends are Bill Gross day's city series games, which were

Suis smart a baseball man not to: recognize McCarthy's superior playing on their own field for the city : %,_Highlight. bilities. first time after using facilities/ and Jerry Long. sophomores, and Saturgay. “Teams: elyminated wii receive! and county vg Nevertheless, it is true that a great number of people seem .; or the county for. games Dave Beck, a junior. Charles forfeit refund checks by mall, Harmon | games each to believe McCarthy's extraordinary success has been due mainly 4 the infield of the W. 16th St. Woodruff, ‘a junior, will be a - rise cn. will include a if not wholly—to the material which was handed over to him. | A fOr , strong tackle “candidate, and Softball Not lies each Fri- / i): BO § Midget Speedway for practice : Be : Fi otes inning with A » = =» a w 8 t sessions in past year. sarry son, a junior, an wd = SWEET 16 TOURNEY “WHY SHOULDN'T the guy win" the scoffers say. “He Seek 18th Straight Racer, a sophomore, are trying Henzie Druls ... 1018121 11 1

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le first city for guard berths John Rikhoff, 8

a sophomore, is at center In the backfield. Billy Toole, a sophomore, and Fred Wingert, a junior, are getting competition from Dick Stump. Tom Hanpa

b ; b 1 always works for millionaires. ’ In spite of the hit-and-miss and Haynes. Royer and Marchetti; ps

What's wrong about that? I'd say it's good work if you can the inconvenience of inadequate get it. But McCarthy isn’t the only manager who has worked “| practice facilities, the ‘Plugs and for wealthy club owners. Consider the Wrigleys of Chicago. They |Coach Johnson can get the bigbrought McCarthy in to the big leagues. This was in '26. Four gest bouquet after the dedication ” years later McCarthy had the Cubs in the World Series. ceremonies.

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Fullback Harold will be_the chief offensive threat

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18. WXLW, - as : Sm ———— —— So — This year's team has a big job is a sophomore aspirant, and Ger-- City Ameren Lesion rl saunoare | it the mike, 9 to do Saturday. The present ald Endrie, a junior, wants to {or the Sparkplugs this season. Go Metchants; 8. Best Coal vs. Body| ollege games, Mallory Bowler S AR9 Sets _ |squad will be trying to win the play quarterback. H + rr ne 9 d di TS rave. 3. Ald Viet wn. Mat] Purdue, two 4 . {18th straight game for Coach The backs will average more e a $ pounds and is 8 F ht Re ol Notre Dame , ; Johnson in a victory skein that than 150 and the line about 185. . junior letterman. ight Results e road, Indi Fast Pace for New Season i." oles ois in bo ier TiOl Resilis 3. ey : [that year, the "Plugs lost a 12-10 Gojng Home, Never fo Return— |Apgries Sipcinied Ricoare” Hasan. HF — First Full Evening of League Activity 0 decision to Beech Grove: i 3 Ini whl ; : . | NEWARK. X. J (UP. _Geores in - : : § oe pgs wnier coin Nob. Star Sturaess Cl RE tveaenteiatieet a] Johnson, haven't been defeated e ’ ar ur ess aims Woods. 140. New York ii" “0 0 Starting Brewers; try Evansville, 4“

Shows Keglers Starting in Good Form ’ By GENE LAWSON ‘since. Their predecessors have William Brown, representing P. R. Mallory in the Social Men's compiled a record of 26 victories League at the Fun Bowl, registered the highest three-game set .in in 27 games, and any way you’ Jeague competition to date, by rolling a sizzling 689 last night. look at it, that's nice going. And Brown achieved his figure on games of 244, 203 and 242. they won two straiglit county Don Woodard and Jim Blake, both bowling in. the Penn Recra- tjtjes, ation League, fell only four mins short of Brown's. total with sets 1t won't be easy Saturday of 6R5, . night. Some pretty good boys However, it was a feminine keg- 600, eight rolled in the Penn Rec- ve kept a ri oye ler who grabbed a great deal. of reation League at the Pennsyl- splendid record, won't be around.

the evening's glory. Bonrle Wik vania alleys. ooo | Lett Halfback Konnie King and.

He Got 'Bum's Rush'in U.S e Uo ums Rush In V.o. By OSCAR FRALEY, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, B8ept. 7—EKric Sturgess, the slender South African stylist who came to the United States by special invitation to compete in the National Amateur Tennis Championships, charged today that he had been given the “bum’'s rush” and never would return, | “The favorites get everything @nd the rest get nothing, or what

; : iv i re . they do. receive-is-in..the .naty they: didn't. like him. personally

sey howled the infant season's top Jack Mayhugh are freshmen at of a handout,” Sturgess com- # single game by registering a. 255 I some of the leagues around Butler. Kine had the speed and plained as he bitterly rapped the and ‘that he was winning too count. Although her three-game "= ,.° ., Uptown alleys, two Mayhugh, as the coach says it, hospitality of the United States much prize money — for barring total added up to only 505, her , oo iy an average of 875 or Was “the best passer around any- Lawn Tennis Association. him from future U. 8. tournaperformance certainly stole: the, i... are.needed for the Thurs- where.” In ‘three years of T- Found Wanting ments. show among the ladies. It was just one of several re- Maybe they did. But they:

day Men's Scraich League. For quarterbacking the Speedwaymen, details call HU-2638. At the' Ant- Mayhugh completed 53 per cent of lers several teams are needed for his passes, not bad either. the Sunday night Mixed League “End Alan Wiechers 1s at Indiat’ 8 o'clock while the Ski-High- aug and so is Tackle Ted Lawson. 200. She bowled with Mike Ha- League, a ladies league wish re Bill Long is at Purdue and Dave ney’s team in. the: Tuesday Night quires & BE Boyer joined ‘another team, the League at the West Side Alleys. least 5 teet 9 inches “tall needs nou “canter Ronnie i is : : four girls to fill its team rosters. yi Next in line in the ladies class For information, call CA-3536 or back; he's rough. Fullback Harwas Dolly Rudebeck, who bowled HI-2054 ' oo old Kuykendall, a junior, is back, fn the same league with Peroy «Ue. 100, and he’s getting rougher "and

cent cases in which American should have given a better reason hospitality -and sportsmanship for barring him “than the. curt have been found wanting. statement that he didn’t keep his Consider the ‘case of Richard tournament commitments. Too (Pancho) Gonzales, who defeated many of our own pros are prone Ted Scliroeder on Monday for the t4 do the very same thing -withNational Amateur tennis title. In out penalty - as-any tournament other years the winner was feted! .ommittee will tell you. at a post-tournament dinner, | But. the scar-faced Pancho is. a kid from the other side of the complaint

LaVerne Biers turned the eve- - ning's highest three-game figure among the ladies with a 598. LaVerne ¥olled games 164, 234 and

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|. Coach Johnson is fairly opti- room after his victory. And even Sie mistic but says he'll miss the in this hour of triumph nobody 590 weight of last year’s line. “The stopped at their table .to offer backs,” he says, “won't be as fast congratulations. They left quickbut they won't be far off.” « ly afterward. . George Vance, a right halfback =~ Our golfers, both pro and ama-

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