Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1949 — Page 16
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Cassini Is Sent Southport Gridders Face Manual Friday
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i Awards will be - ° Jetchea hi by Pi Jate Jake pr Righty to Ki insnted_1o Ase : : ; open tart 3 farm letes at a banquet slated at the x : | the Rickey formula. Some of the Aner How EA at the wd 5¢ DEALERS: Write Hoosier Petroleum Co., P, 0. Box 836, Indianapolis, for Agency Proposition - past Winners be neo ‘professional basketball team also : : : \ pe s - almost exclusively of Weiss will be "present at the dinner CLARKE AUTO WASH “THE HOUSE OF CRANE” . : : _ hom np And the which is to start at 6:30. i 33 inoril tesytiin Distributors, Indianapolis
* [_ 4 Games Remaining : Rack Up Five Straight and Total of 115 |
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Jack the Scat Cassini, the Indianapolis Indians’ regular, Qosterbaan Hints second baseman the past two seasons who was recalled by Ny ipa: 3 ; : ew Tactics the parent Pittsburgh Pirates recently, won't return to the’ North es Tribesters in 1950, it was learned today. Ahi Tes ” a ane . hh By . cn., . ‘ Roy Hamey, general manager of the Pirates, an nounced (UP)—Wounded Michigan's hopes _ that Cassini is being used in part payment for Dan O'Con-\y \ . (nirq straight Big 10 footnell, youthful third base star 'ball title hinged today on Coach with the St. Paul Saints the Bennie Oosterbaan’s battle _a
t campaign. against time to remold the pas. Aig chisel 0'Con- crumbling Wolverine passing atA : : tack. i nell from the Brooklyn Dodgers, Oosterbaan had i # just four who own the Saints lock, stock f days to put the aerial game in and barrel. The purchase was & lorder before opening conference amnquiiced ot 10 a ago. 1 play against Northwestern Saturccording amey, the price in | day. cash was $75,000. 4 In snapping Michigan's 25Picks Jack
Rickey |game victory streak, Army unBut Branch Rickey, Brooklyp
jarihed § pussing weaknesses in! ident, also de d a player {the olverine offense and de-| President. also Sema ade aap ayer 7 |tense. Close-mouthed Oosterbaan, | sini ‘was selected. ry however, . didn't give an inkling! Under baseball rules, the deal &&
lof what ‘new tactics he might! calls for the assignment of Cassini {throw at ‘the Wildcats, He said to the Baints but this can be
{he didn’t contemplate any lineup changed next spring.
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In Purchasing Young O'Connell
Points Compared With 20 for Opponents By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS . E They aren't getting cocky out at Southport High School. Nor | are they likely to get illusions of grandeur. : : The Cardinals have been playing good, scrappy football and they know it's only the beginning because they're heading into the fat part of their acheduyle. | They've got four games left. It's Manual Friday, then Cathediral, Columbus and Decatur Cenjr. rence had wos re a us But Coach Kenny Wasson’s Cards had = ra point total o hoys have had ting more 115 and the Bears 100, standard than their share of luck to rack equipment for no Sounty losses, up five straight and a total of 115 The Bears lacked rating po because their victims—Franklin points to their opponents 20 to] dat K 11 tell vou: {Township, Pike Township and rae Huy ea {Speedway—were winless in the | “This is the scrappiest bunch county. Southport has defeated I've seen since I've’ been down|Ben Davis and Warren ‘Central, here. The boys want to play,” he picking up 20 points from Warren |adds. and 10 from the Giants. Wasson first came back to| Southport and Lawrence now {Southport in 1944. He was in|have three county triumphs but service in '45 and then was an pdiSsutiport has 113.3 rating points, |de camp on the coaching staff having picked up 10 more bonus luntil he took over the top reins'points by defeating Beech Grove last year. (40 to 0), a team that pas a Sie It was slow moving last season, tory over county riv ran n like the gait of a nag. Then this/Township. The Bear still have season, with eight lettermen in 100. the fold, the Southport mentor In the Bears’ next three es, bridled his spirited proteges. Lawrence could pick up sidThey've been running ever since. erable bonus points should the The current crop of Cards has Bears defeat Warren, Decatur been able to keep pace with the and Beech Grove. Southport undefeated-but - once - tied South- could only reap a harvest of points |port team of 1933, “when I was, from a Decatur victory. just around,” reminisced the| Wants Redskins’ Scalp {Cardinal alumnus. | Righ now, Wasson wants the Wasson played under Coach A. Redskins’ scalp, heretofore, a de'E. Pitcher during the latter's long ceptive target this year for Mantenure as conqueror of the city ual opposition. Southport’s Cards and county teams. The '33 team aren't heavy, but are stacked well. won nine and was tied by Colum- There are a few No and ge i : to, . bus. sizes, ranging, from Quarterbac Tribe's slugging third sacker. Ificlinched the junior classic title. ah Yimes Photographer sls Wallace caught the high-flying Southport Cardinals clustered under |" ry ee years ago the Cards won Bob Emmett's 5-6 mark to End Totained. Muni is. expected to,Jack beat out two bunts to help One of Oosterbaan’s problems; their sesevelt Hadium archway which Sour port fans hope will be the arc de triomphe for the Cards 5 slice of the county title, divvy- Dave Bertram's 6-5—“and oneedge out O'Connell with the Pir- upset the Montreal pitchers. is to ind a way to relieve Leo this season. (Left to right) Linemen—Right End Gene Kirby, Right Tackle Bob Henry, Right Guard ing up with Beech Grove. eighth,” reminds one of Coach i 3 ! i blemished record this season but of strength. |slightiy and-shake him loose 25 a End Walter Schaler. The four backs are [left to right) Fullback Don Kortepeter, Left Halfback Lee they ight be no little concerned| The line averages under 160 lpass target. Last season the McGathey, Right Halfback Jack Hall and Quarterback Joe Blazek. Coach Kenny Wasson (left) and ¢ ’ 3 [little halfback equalled All-Ameri-| Assistant Coach Chauncey McDaniel are kneeling in front. The Cards are unbeaten iffifive games three county games and have De- Don Kortepeter, 180, does the U er ISS {can Dick Rifenberg’s record of 22 and face Manual in their stiffest test of the year Friday night. lcatur Central to play and defeat|triple-threating; Lee McGathey, ® : son has made only three catches. . J ™ SF rt d 4 A | [county title with a 4-0 record. on a basketball floor, passes; Aided Stengel Last year bicnigan Jacked up Ric ey on dy ans “ e or nnua Up north, Coach Bill Smith's | Quarterback Joe Blazek, a wres-
Face “Lot of Work” “We've got a lot of work to do! and not much time to do it in,” Pacific Coast Leagul, Tre Siem / J |Oosterbaan said. “But we're still, 5 a . i - Triple-A classification and wil Jack Cassini or Th pa Joa bel perform for one of the Dodgers’ ates, since Danny ig believed too, “It doesn't do any good to cry three top farms. {young to make the major league over spilled milk,” Big Bennie Chance for O'Connell {grade until 1951. added, “so we're just going to Hamey also intimated that| Although Cassini was not as point for every game as we come there is a bright chance that fast this year as in 1948, he to it.” i young O'Connell will be turned hustled and his all-around play! Part of Michigan's dismal over fo the Indians for further/was a factor. in the Indians’ fine record of three completions in 23 seasoning after he is given pre- showing in regular season com-tries against Army was caused. liminary training in the Pirates’ petition, playoffs and Little World by second-rank passers, but the 1950 spring camp, | Series. {receivers also bobbled several diThe Bucs also have their |
| In the very last game at Vic-irect hits. . | clutches on Nanny Fernandez, the tory Field, when the Redskins| Seeks Relief for Koceskl !
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; . . ) ys ’ |Koceski of his ball<carrying duties Gerry Grummel, Center Jim Whitaker, Left Guard John Hurrle, Left Tackle John Martin and Left They don’t care about that un- Jewel Young's basketball towers Joe Williams Says later. The Red Birds have won and the backs about 155. Fullback {catches, but in games this sea- EE —_,. before they can lay claim to the another young Jewel that sparkles {Lawrence Central Bears, too, have |tler, alternates with Emmett, and
2 Joa] S10 yards thivied he, Gr {ed their first three county games Right Halfback Jack Hall leads alr for a » Gl T won their firs g| ac ; Put Winner To ether per gs 1522 vores 3 Q en. oves ourney land also boast a five-nothing the county in scoring with 49 La g Wx Wolverines have averaged only 0 on | dy Plans for the 1950 Times-Legion Golden Gloves Boxing Tourna- TIE to date. Lg End Gepe Kirby is only a Before Casey Arrived 76.3 yards for their first three! ment to be held in January were started last night at the first meet- Dut the Bears have three more & 2 Be ry oy
i ; county teams to go—Warren Cen-|5-8, Left End Walter Schaler is soltesta, |. NEW YORK. Oct. 11 (UP)-|ing ok the Dew Soiden Gloves Comin fee. tral Friday, Decatur Central and 5-11. Then there's Bertram, a
NEW YORK, Oct. 11—In all the lyrical hoopla ovef| Such rival powerhouses in the Branch Rickey, president of the The meeting in The Times offices was in charge of Paul J”¥c- Beech Grove before they can stake 195 pounder, Tackles Bob Henry the stran -than-fieti dri the Yank de t i» [Western Conference as Ohio State Brooklyn Dodgers, today called Duff. who has been renamed chairman. The committee, which in- ) ! 4d 145 ger-than-fiction drive the 8 made to win... \innesota st 4 Michigan’ 18 3 C clud t be a d : any titular claims. Should both and John Martin are 185 and 145, the '49 flag under the able direction of C St i, oppe gan's Burt Shotton “a sound manager” cludes veteran members and new additions, consists of the following: 'teams go through undefeated, respectively, and Center Jim Whit- ' SAV Ww : | rons or Casey Stenge € ground game cold last year and'phyt refused to say whether he For the Robison-Ragsdale Post| somebody isn't going to be happy aker is 164. McGathey is 6 feet most important figure in the stirring success story seems/!f it hadn't been for the Wolverine would be retained as the Dodgers’ Of the American Legion, Mr. Mc- Times, Eddie Ash, sports editor; ir tne title is won on the basis of and only 150. to have been overlooked. passing attack their victory pilot in 1950. Duff, Stewart W. Maxwell, new Victor Free, managing editor, Jim the county rating system begun | Tom Riggs, another tackle who , a over : string would have been broken Rickey made the statement in Commander of the post; Dr. Frank Heyrock and Art Wright. Also at-\ipree years ago. wants to be an iceman, is packed 1 refer to George M. Weiss, 54-year-old, moon-faced, long before Army did the trick. the face of much “second-guess- ¥ Long. Raymond ~ Oo an Lending the meeting as ye Des Ten Bonus Points Given |well at 192. Riggs, Bertram, Hall, soft-spoken, self-effacin fy eT ——————————————————————— i: 3 ling” over Shotton's direction of | ise, NOdWAr Cwbank, Borde, representative of the Ama-| The gystem calls for 10 honus Emmett, Blazek, Kortepeter and Polen, g 8¢ current champions have a sharp, Williamson S Charles A. Kirkpatrick, A. W. teur Athletic Union. points to be given for each game Schaler are the senior lettermen
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eral manager of the new ,. cent bucolic flav-- Excep- . bi the New York Yankees in the Lockhart, Paul Gary, W. O. Aplan for a vigorous campaign a county loser has won over an-|and Kirby is 4 junior monogram world champions. Like Sten- tions: Allie Reynolds, Eddie Lo- Grid Ratings World Series. BR Fram Wolf, Tom E. Mil- Jo train new fighters in addition other county rival during the sea- winner. The rest are chiefly jungel he didn't catch a ball or swing Pat. Gene Woodling and John BEST. AV | “Burt is a sound manager,” ok on noc ees, Al Lotz, Rayilo those Who participated .lastison, iors. i ERAGE 100.0 Parsons, Ray L. Wilson, Glenn winter, received committee ap-| Before last week, Southport had!
It could be Southport's year
a bat all season and in that sense Mize, a last-minute pickup 107 Kentucky 99, 1.3 Rickey said, “and I'll go along itel. Homer Asher: i contributed nothing to the club's ®Mmergency Purposgs. ois om Oma : i fd witn ue first guess.” 3 Spelt teh GER ASher; JOT The provel. TREE i won two in the county. and law. around the calenqer. < CLAN { " mne A 7.% | h kly dmitted, | toe De i 3 pa, eT RO oT _ - Bear hat "l* 98.1 g dnowarer, sae of ing Hi _— 3 ugouts: anesota 96.0 87 7 ” Welss not only ‘had winning “What has happened to the|S3 Cel =~ 381 SH OPIOIENts way tint preacher material ready for Stengel, Who yankee farm system?” Nothing, |NOTRE DAME 94.5 J 30R0€ did not Riton the last game. had been away from big time really. There was a period when |g i? "3 367i: Roe suffered a painful Auger baseball for five years and had the banks took over following!h. Car. U. 840 ta. {injury While pitching the Dodgers had no prior contacts with the Ruppert's death, that operations iijhisan 931 Jit their lone vistory over the Amercian League whatsoever— were curtailed and production |8MU 238 St Mary's Cal. 80: Yankees, 1 to 0, last Thursday. § not eveh as a player—but he had/slumped, but enough talent still Misouri $31 Ses Francisco go3 He Would have been the logical a blueprint of operations all trickled through to keep the var- Mich. State 030 Clemson 860 choice to pitch in Sunday's final worked out for the manager's Sty club close up—and this year Villanova 9 Texs Nan gants. i Spas passed up I fever consideration. fit was good enough to Win. IiW\’ & Mary 317 Rene states g33/Of Rex Barney because the in- : t » 5 i lan ink 8 ils Sa Msume that) fie" 7 gues Co RiTred ger Fained him loo Muen. ° IT IS taking nothing from arms will continue to pro-| Maryland 91.3 Davidson 84. . Stengel's achievement to reveal duce authentic major leaguers, Sianiord, Ni. Qos Site 5 Cleveland Pitcher Hurt that he followed the blueprint even if there are no embryoni¢|Ga. Tech 920.6 Auburn 4 NEW CASTLE. Ind. O . faithfully most of he way. And Ccnrigs, Kellers and Rolfes ready Bike. 03 So Gorest 845 Mike Garcla rook 4 vig r : : for immedi. 4 ennsyl DE roAv An ¢ why not? Who would know more," g . a IIe abht axe Northweciorn 800 ami O. ou. $33 Indians baseball pitcher, was bad- ov nig about the Yankee personnel and: : { Winots U, 89.9 VMI 838ly shaken up and his automobile \ {ponents of the farm system have Wisconsin 899 San Jose 83. its t y potentials than Weiss, they... the St. Louis Cards and the Biincetog 802 Colorado U is badly damaged when his car left ”~ squad builder? Besides, Working yanks. Between the two they | oer” arate ft Wt nia R3U. 8. Route 40 near Dunreith. in closé association with Weiss > | Yale 88.3 Nevada 831 Garcia was alone and apparently have accounted for 18 champion-|pacitie col 882 Louisville 83.0 was no new experience to Sten-|shing. (Editor's note: This does Drs A&M #87 Hawai ayo fell asleep at the wheel. He did! gel. On a past occasion Stengel not include pre-Weiss Yank cham-| Aten" NB: Fas, lb. NSmot remember any details of the
'accident. He was en route from | Cleveland to his home in Los Angeles, Cal, !
had handled a Yank subsidiary pionships.) Since Rickey's been! for Weiss. in Brooklyn he's naturally stressed
-* From the start, Weiss—who 1s the farm system and it's interest- Runaway Scoring
no romanticist, by the way—felt ing to note he’s won two in the
. the Yanks had a solid chance last three years. Is any further Race Unlikely
- testimony needed - SE n r see ro ee cacy of the farms? '0 the MW) The way it looked today, the DETROIT. Oct, 11 (UP)—Talreir nS Sapte 849 Indiana college football Madge Bussey, 26-year-old Dehis confidence to the manager.| .._ H oothall i roit Hhtweig / : |scoring race, unlike last year, 'TOft lightweight, was in critical
The day before I left the Yanks' : {won't be a runaway affair. condition today after an operation mpires £ ec | After four weeks of campaign- to remove a brain blood clot suf. | i
Florida spring camp Stengel sald to me: “I've seen enough of these , fered in a bout last night. fellows to believe they can win. | . DE. there still was no sole leader "pg ccov was refi out by Don't sell 'em short,” At that! | land any one in today's top 10 F Jme the Boston Red Sox ‘were ICeI'S or winning the flag by acclamation.
suill had a chance to outrun his Luther Rawlings, Chicago, at tix To win, Stengel had to depend
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on lineups adjusted to right and sociation today announced the, Sehoe. Ball State. H 38 Webster operated within two lefthanded pitching. Something election of officers for 1950 as Treesh.! Hanover © HB 30 hours, like the two platoon system now -0llows: Harry Gould, president; sii" Vafharaise . iB NT — _—_ Tp in vogue in football. According- °° L. Lathan, vice president; Raker, Ball St QB 1
| ale ly, the blueprint called for reg- Wiliam Wyss, secretary, and NEG Tach nd: Con HR ular shifts in the outfield and the Faul Kramer, treasurer. SR Ekin 2 HB infield. This was an element of | All officers except Wyss were Oracko Notre Dame G 31 0 strength the experts undervalued, '®-¢lected. He succeeds Don i Stengel had at his command more Teaver pau meetings are to Ex-Coach Macklin over-all, or squad class than any eld during the off season the Dj i other manager in baseball—in- Best Thursday of each month, i of Yoon Aik : . starting Nov. 3, at 7:30 p. m. : : cluding, as the series was to dem 8 Pen John F. Macklin, 85, the foot-|
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" State Callege from obscurity to with the flower and chivalry of Uous operation. Harry C. Geisel, : y y former major leaguer, Is super. national prominence, died of a organization's heart attack at his apartment : . vesterday. >
the famed Rickey farm system, as @ - visor of the AN IMPORTANT move in the umpires, Yankees’ ultimate success was the
z Mass, and one-time star halfin Sogt Berra a an ousmaet ONQrP Gets Crack woe wt ie Coiersy or A ennsylvania, became head coach | &ealiher. + Gucin wnin was AF Title Tonight [ccna vas then sicngus ag : e . made long before Stengel arrived! Big Mike Sharp, 230-pound his five pare ar rine i A aye saw Canadian challenger, will get a‘'his teams lost only three games | . + the crack at the world's heavyweight and ch i Yanks lost out by 24 games. wrestling crown tonight in the in ) Shalkel BP Unbeaten Toca: Berra, who looked about as nat- Armory ring when he tangles) Sar——————————
ural in the outfield as a bull ele- with Lou Thess, titleholder from phant daintily balancing a tea St. Louis, in the headline vate Fight Resu Its cup in a Mayfair drawing room, of a three-event pro mat card. | NEW york Rastern, irkw y)-—Joe prowled the pastures in 50 games.. Two supporting bouts complete we k, aa" couthor Ha RR Shuck Y ©
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if, A conservative estimate is that the lineup, ‘with Ben rp. | ARK, N. J.—Bernie Reynolds, 1864. | the earnest but woefully inept Mike's i tacing Thar farsa, Con, outpoinied Vera Bulchel |
¥ young man cost at least half a Fred Blassie, of St. Louis, in. the ESE}
ITY, N. J.—John De Patio. 40 : _dozen gamés. But worse yet he semi-windup. SE Loe groe ow iad Va. Ave. and South St. 42nd and Fall Creek Blvd. 1 Kentucky Ave. was making no progress at all The first event pits Whitey Youngstown. 0 stopped Preddic “Addss.
as an outfielder and wasting Whittler, of Springfield, IIL, | BROVIBENCE K” 1 Rocks Marelano ||
whatever chance he had to de-'against Bobby Nelson | 180. Brockton, M : ! 3 s , of Mil- hy oC on, Ass, outpointed Tiger Ted * velop into a catcher. You. may waukee, and will star RICA Ores Tadford. Mass. (10. 4 have heard, incidentally, that he at 8:30 p. m. tthe ACHON cago outpomied g Te Fr. Ha, & re f caught errorless ball in the series. | p— ——
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Mayor Al Fee Union Station p.m. for Cine thmediately a Home 0) After Satu Springfield, th to Indianapoli prepare for tl the Coliseum, Cincinnati. It's a 70-gan with a better five in each div Cincinnati, Cle and St. Louis western half a ern member | with Springfiel Haven and He Eastern Divisi Bisons in the more rugged Providence, C pions. With the e: Podolsky, left charley horse, fine fit for its Detroit Red V has passed dc the organizati all positions ar sive players w club. Clancy C Cincinnati, in the AHL, veterans and by Frank (Ki mer Toronto f League referee include Eddie Phil Hergeshe Wally Stefani Joe Bell. Fou turned pro for will be a farm treal Canadie and Paul Bibe the goaltendin understudy. M an understud; past six seasc in Montreal. McNeil has Quebec Senio all-star goalie years. He tur ‘year to step i tition and get netminding jc ‘ ham is 35. Ret Clancy is ti in the AHL. has returned tion he forme recting the H holdover coac ler,” Indianapo Providence; 1 Haven; Ebbi Louis; Gordo burgh; Earl Bun Cook, ( Penniston, of the exception former Natio: players.
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