Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1949 — Page 29

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FRIDAY, SuPr: i 1949 _ = 8 | Joe Williams Says— Cerdan’s Legs To Set Pace

Hopes for Title Rest :

Dyer Criticizes morose [HICKS Umpire

» . : either to the boulevards of Paris, Marcel Cerdan has kept Assi nments his legs young. If not particularly alluring, and for that

reason the fistic idol of France must be conceded a solid

chance to regain the middleweight championship when he Objects fo Work comes in for a with Jake LaMotta, the Bronx finan- Of Rookie Warneke cier, at the Polo ‘Grounds, » In Crucial Series

. =» : once the scene of baseball | YOU MAY remember the oc-| ST, LOUIS, Sept. 23 (UP)—St. next week. | casion. Zale looked all right—in- Louis Cardinal Manager Eddie

You may have heard tell from President F k grandpappy that it's the legs that|ti0R developed where it became ague Sden ord Fric

(used “very poor judgment” in asfirst i |advisable, if not imperative, to ! go oot in a Sports, Save Waybe use his legs. Then for the first, Signing a Tookis umpire to the and motor boating Shyuck 5 time, the Midwesterner looked Y!t2 ard-Brooklyn Dodger

. | series. immeasurable evidence to support down and discovered to his hor-| But, Dyer added vehemently,

| this statement, too. And some of (OF Ne hag Degictied fo Dring at that nor the 19 to 6 licking the examples have gone into the om back in his hotel room or | Suffered by St. Louis last night history books of sports so that| hethin Anyway. he couldn't| Will Prevent his team from wincoming generations will know| 20" oh a Sy Ne ored him. |7Mng the National League penNe ns or atiney got up LaMotia is younger by.four LH Rice Protests five years but inconsistent and| from that long count knockdown, . fighting equipment is limited.| “T want to say this and you can In Chicago and backed away| po. =. "win over Cerdan in Quote me” Dyer said. “I think faster than Dempsey could come . & three moriths ago in ‘De. Frick used very poor judgment foreward. Here was foot speed, .. 10¢t a backwash of contro-|in Using Lon Warneke in this plus a mind reeking with frantic " important. series.

|versy. Cerdan injured his supra- : I'm not alibiing discretion. |spinatus — a most calamitous Since we got the hell beat ‘out of AND HOW about Ty Cobb (hing you'll readily recognize— “° But Warneke is just up and

simply doesn’t qualify for a- big job like this one.”

hitting .328 against big league

ohing in his 24th and Anal |early in the affair and couldn't pitching in his 2 an n

use his left, being compelled to

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deed was all right until a situa-| Dyer today charged that National|flat-footed ties both ways, .

year and at a time when he |¢iont one-handed most of the way.

was crowding 42? (The year | personally, I wouldn't be able before he had hit .357 and to recognize a supra-spinatus stolen 22 bases—which just sien if one dropped in on me with happens to be the exact number | redentials from Dr. Kildare, but the entire Detroit club stole |inog5e who know insist an injured last season.) {one never helped a fighter. From ..n jall accounts Cerdan, defending AND RUTH at 40 had every- and attacking solely with his, thing but legs. There need be right, did astonishingly well to no pointless speculation on thejlast nine. Accordingly (it seems subject of his enduring power. reasonable to assume) a twoHe still had it up to the very handed Cerdan will do much betlast. Happily, there are records ter. at hand to silence dissenters, if} i

any. On May 25 when he was Steelers Sign Minini

slumming in the National League, g v , as a member of the Boston CA NR Re Braves he hit three home runs/g Po 8

| Steelers, in a last-minute bid for birgh: Phiaten. oe thin was the 104d strengid. today announced longest ever hit in the history the signing Of Fullback Frank

of Fort Rigld. It “cleared the Minin from the Chicago Bears in

right-field stands ina-soaring arc by more than 100 feet. Nobody |

had ever hit one over the roof} : 21 before. No one has since. Five [PP d U t days later, Ruth, disgusted and ur ue pse

winter.

1 he had been cast 3s a boxomee UJ) to Szulborski's Knee Boilermaker Rocket Unlikely to Start

But Is Expected to See Some Action

By BOB WOODWORTH, Times Special Writer LAFAYETTE, Ind. Sept. 23—Purdué’'s. chances of upsetting Northwestern's Rose Bowl champions in the Big Ten opener in Evanston tomorrow are apt to hinge on Harry Szulborski’'s knee. la. Rocket-starting Harry, who has led the Western Conference in ONE MORE illustration and| 8round gained from scrimmage for the last two seasons, provides the unexpectedly dubious quantity on the roster of a reconstructed

come-on, called it quits. ~ LJ " BUT IN the light of his thunderous Pittsburgh show, who is there to say that even at the finish he wasn’t still the mightiest hitter of them all? Only trouble was he'd rum out of legs.

‘we'll get back to Cerdan who, come to think of jt, must be| Boilermaker squad that departed

pretty lonesome stranded up there| this afternoon for the crucial en-|

in the first paragraph. Gene|gagement with the CaliforniaSarazen was an old geeser as|conscious Wildcats. golfers go in 1940 when he| Coach Stu Holcomb, a football matched the much Law-| realist who knows that one game son Little stroke for stroke tolls not worth a season, has inditie for the open championship over cated that the 169-pound Purdue the customary 72-holé route 'in{vetérin may miss his first game Cleveland,” “~~ Sic in @gir- years of competition...» "But 72 holes was as far as| “Szulborski will “not start” Barazen could go. The playoff says Holcomb, and then looks was at 18 the next day. Normally askance at the rest of a left halfthis would have been just right/back roster that is headed by for him. But the strain of the Neil Schmidt, slim-legged junior championship proper had drained) major letterman, who had his his stamina and while he gave/own share of leg troubles last it a good wrestle—as he always| season. does—his cause was hopeless. Schmidt Gets Call Now about Cerdan. In the be-| Holcomb has definitely - nomiginning I thought I'd have to go nated Schmidt for the left halffor LaMotta. I find veteran back starting assignment, but fighters—and the gold-fanged| certainly has not precluded the Casablanca brawler is 33—ex-| chance of Szulborski seeing some tremely dangerous risks, They action. have an odious way of coming, The remainder of the Boilerapart all of a sudden. Like Tony maker backfield will undoubtedZale the night Cerdan took the ly run true to the pre-season pretitle from him. (dictions. Norbert Adams, a dur- - able lad who, performs both ofAdvertisement {fensively and defensively, is slated for the right halfback berth, while Kenneth Gorgal and Bob Hartman, both senior veter{ans, will alternate in filling’ Bob :'DeMoss’ big shoes,

texchange for a drafi-choice this beat 'em for the seasoff;, 2 ga mes

Warneke, a former star pitcher for the Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs,-was plate umpire in the game last night. He charged 12 walks to the six Card pitchers. Catcher Del Rice protested the fourth balls vehemently and eventually was tossed out of the game by Warneke, Cards Mad The smashing defeat by the] Dodgers seemed to make the Cards more mad than afraid in these final days of the bitter National League race. They still led by half a game in the standings, with seven games yet to play against Brooklyn's six. Dyer said, “I think we are going to win this pennant and my ball club thinks so even after the lousy way we played last night, We're still on and we

to 10.”

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Possibility of Twin Playoffs Mounts as Dodgers Narrow Gap

Cards Now Lead by Half Game After 19-6 Trouncing in Final Game With Brooklyn

' By CARL LUNDQUIST, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 23—Maybe this year there will be pennant playoffs in both big league races. ; Today, as things became tenser than ever between the Yankees and Red Sox in the American and the Cardinals and Dodgers in the National, there were plenty of reasons to think there could be!

In 1946; the Cards and Dodgers / : : made history by finishing in the Joe D oing F ine first tie for the flag of all time] NEw yo Se 3 J and the Cards won the right to y RE ) Ag : — play in the World Series by beat LL .°68i0 Was last repor ing Brooklyn two straight in a| “doing fine” by Dr, Jacques best two out of three playoff. ‘Fischl, but has not yet suffiThey then won the World Series.| ciently recovered from “mild Last year, the Red Sox and Ine pneumonitis” to continue his

dians finished in the first tie in American League history and dally articles on the Yankees and. the pemnant race, which

Cleveland went on to win the sin-| gle playoff game and the World| have been appearing exclusively in the Indianapolis

Series. The parallel today in the Na- Times. So soon as he's up and tional League is almost an exact About the series will resume. one. On Sept. 23 in 1946 the a Cards were in front and the Dodg- that it was the second straight! ers were in second by a half game, ime # had lost the opener of al Things got so serious in Brooklyn op po Sebo, only to bounce) that the Rev. J. C. Benson prayed a th take the next. two, | with a multitude of followers at Dut from now on the Dodgers noon each day on the steps of pl Pave » hgut for Shes x ” aining victories agains e Boro Span for the Success of the frst-division Phils and Braves a} 1 {while the Cardinals have five oaks. in HRvantious Spot the With last-place Chicago and two American League. the Indians with sixth-place Pittsburgh. were tied for the lead with the ot that it mattered much, but Red Sox an a the next day the elsewhere in the majors yesterYankees muscled in to make it a day the Pirates defeated the three-way deadlock. But even Braves, | > 00 om Musey a: though Cleveland pulled away ini, d the Phils 3 to 2°’ and the the waning days, it blew its mar-| PPC a : t a doubl gin at the finish and had to bat-|hants and Reds split a double tle Boston before it could play in _acer, 2 1 ir cr e the series. opener, 4 0X, wu ney won Today, even though the Yankees ie second. gains, gL are two games to the good over)

Boston, and three-up in the lost Skee Riegel Out

column, their position is pre-|

carious indeed. Joe DiMaggio is definitely out of the week-end 2 Of Western Play ries in Boston, Tommy Henrich! ST. LOUIS, Sept. 23 (UP)— 18 stl hurt; Tommy Byrne's pitch Quarter>finalists in the Western ing arm is a question mark, Vic Amateur teed off today minus Raschi has been a hurling ques- competition from the defending tion mark for some time and Yogi/champion and medalist, who were| Berra is still under par with a brushed off in the second and thumb sprain. : |third rounds. | Boston, riding high with 24-| Two Walker Cuppers, Frank game winner Mel Parnell and 22S TIANA I J Mriaie, were {amon same winner Ellis Kinder ready . fourth round today after

to meet the Yankees twice apiece) Ss R 11 , in the remaining five games that| Jenry kee) ge » Jaa years the clubs will play each other, champion, of Tulsa, a., and

also has two full days of rest/Jthn (Skip) Wagner, Wilmette,

Hard*Top Driver

Good Time Rated As Top Pacer

~ Crane Entry Wins Little Brown Jug Race

DELAWARE, 0, Sept. 23 (UP) ~Good Time, a swift bay colt owned by William H. Crane of

as the nation’s outstanding three-{year-old pacer. Good Time earned his ranking yesterday by capturing the Little Brown

$23,313. . A crowd of 27,000 fans watched Good Time take two out of three

opening heat in a snappy 2:04 3-5 end won the third heat in 2:03 2-5. Stormyway, owned by Saunders Mills, Inc., of Toledo, earned second money by virtue of his vic-

Chief, owned by Norman and

enough, is Rrown Jug.

Louise Suggs Heads For New Golf Crown

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heats. He got home first in tne!

tory in the second heat. Golden | Golden of Coshocton, O., was/P@ third. Good Time's owner, {ironically

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Sept. 23

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Another Joe Page ;

‘NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (UP)~ When the New York baseball Yankees are in trouble they call on Joe Page, -and when the Yankees’ football club is ‘in danger Harvey Johnson gets the

| call.

Johnson turned the trick again last night, booting a 31-yard field goal in the last minute of play to give his mates a 10 to 7 victory over the Los Angeles Dons in

Goshen, N. Y., stood alone today|thelr first home game of the 1949

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It was the Yankees’ second victory in three games this year:

ug mile pacing classic|Johnson also accounted for that and, with it, a record purse of first victory with a field goal that

gave the Yankees a 17 to 14 edge {over Buffalo, Sept. 11.

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question mark, with John Keres[tes the probable offensive selec- | tion, and Don Kasperan, a soph- | omore, due to work on defense. | New Forward Look | There. will. be a definite new {look to the Boilermaker forward | wall, which has ‘only Capt. Angelo: Carnaghi, ‘at center, resembling a holdover starter. Two basketball lettermen, Roninie Bland, who played less than 130 minutes last vear, and Andy Butchko, a senior who will be {making his first try in a com{petitive gridiron game, are the leading end nominations, along with Bob Whitmer, who is recov-| ering from a wobbly ankle condition. At the tackles, Lou Karras, in his fourth and final year, and John Beleti¢, fast moving junior, are the offensive choices, while James Weizer and Earl Murray seem-to have the edge at guards. In the final hard workout, as far as the casual observer might be able to determine, there was no -optimismy nor, was there any pessimism, but rather a spirit of calm determination that might spell trouble for the Wildcats.

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