Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1950 — Page 33

Boston's Wizard Team Had Little Chance in "48 And '49 Despite Writers’ Talk

! of the National Football ._ Klein, an end, is a native of Elkhart, Ind. ‘and a June graduate of the Madison, Ind. college,

: to a contract the Los {signed to a act by the

AVOID HURRY-SCURRY and Final Disappointment

BUY NOw!

dnl

LIFE SIZE! AAT CONSOLE!

01 TR 4

NEW YORK, June 20—Was Joe McCarthy 1 a failure in Boston? First, let's check his over-all major league record as a master mind. He inherited a last-place club in Chicago, {won & pennant and was never out of the first division in four years. In New York he had eight winners in 15 tries and they beat him only once in World Series as a Yankee.

The testimony is overs

whelming., It describes the Buffalo Irishman as a spectacularly successful manager. Yet, when he was lured out of re-| tirement to. take over in Boston Carthy a savage going - over. he failed to win in 48 and '49 {Trailing 1-0 in the final game, Williams: R. Sox 23! Stephens, R. Sox 11 with clubs that were generally| McCarthy sent Tom Wright, a Riser R rated as the strongest in the! league—and this year when the club, again the favorite, began hel ZH brilliantly. stagger and falter nearing a physical crack-up, had| to bow out,

McCarthy, |

If the Red Box of '48 and '49|

actually were the best clubs in! those two races, then McCarthy {did fail in Boston. But were they? In my opinion they weren't. How a club looks on paper and how it

shots at the championship in

The Rams also signed Rookie

End Jim Maloney, great offensive star,

RE last day. The Red Sox had two losis: neinnati $1

NATIONAL J5 AGUE Brooklyn &

AMERICAN am

Yankee Stadium and blew both, Kell. Detroit es

ERE AA 7 Lt “xin 2 ai

As was the case the year before,

iid

Fordham's

Pat.

ers, HH the second - guessers gave Me- Zari. Boston... RRA: / HOME RUNS

kie (.250), up to pinch-hit for

lis Kinder who had been pitch-| Williams. R. Sox 74! rope. tephens, R. Box un War Tigers

NOTHING happened. But in the Miller, {ninth the Red Sox got i& Vie | Gray, "Tige

{Raschi for three runs. This was to have no bearing on the result,’ since the Yankees had combed! Kinder’s replacement for 4 in theif half of the 8th, Why didn't Me-| {Carthy let Kinder stay in, his|

Pan Ft RUNS BATTED IN

rico

ers

—

Ww Li w Phillies 68 0. Byrne, Yankees 8 3 RB8x.5 1 Sanford, Yanks 4 8 2 Liéde, Cubs 4

ed Box 16

n Dndisns 84,

| BUDNIC TERI

Eight members of the Town Club of Chicago girls swimming team. will compete with Coach (Bud) Bwain's Riviera Club swimmers in a “Twilight Swim Meet" at 7 p. m. Saturday in the Riviera pool, The Chicago team won the national indoor championship meet at Palm Beach, Fla, in April Jackie Lavine, who was a member of the 1948 U. 8. Women's Olympic swim team and winner of the 440 and 220-yard freestyle events in the indoor meet, is the Chicago club's star, “A program of six events is scheduled.

leg Gustine Back With

Pirates as Coach PITTSBURGH, June 29 (UP) Infielder Frankie Gustine, who “retired” from baseball after be-| ing traded and sold four times’ within a year, was back with the

Pittsburgh Pirates today as af

coach, Gustine, 30, will replace First

Base Coach Goldie Holt who am ;

named a Pirate scout.

The Pirates traded Gustine to] ]

the Chicago Cubs in mid-1948 in’ the Cliff Chambers-Clyde MeCul-| lough deal. The Cubs sent him to! Los Angeles, called him back and sold him to the Philadelphia Athletics, The A's sold him to the St. Louis Browns last year. Gustine played the earlier part of this "season ‘with the Browns

CHICAGO, mune “The Chi-! {cago Bears of the National Foot-|

and Jimmy Glisson. Roof, former {Oklahoma A & M performer, and { Glisson from Tulane, are ex- | pected to add needed speed to the Bears’ attack.

Bears Sign Speedsters dels

ball League have announced the paper with the REAL ESTATE signing of Halfbacks Kenny Roof ADS! Turn now to the classified

then announced his retirement! opened a restaurant in . burgh near Forbes Field:

The Times is now the news-

{columns for a BIG SELECTION of homes for sale, farms, building | lots, doubles, duplexes, apartment buildings, business and Industrial

property.

"A Million Dollar's Worth Of Talent"

11:00 P. M.

WFBM

1260 On The Dial

Presented by the brewers of

TERRE HAUTE BREWING CO.

Terre Haute, Ind.

AT BUDNICKS"

A TERRIFIC A IERRHE

_ OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAY TILL 2 P. M,

"THEA4TH! |

*x Xx |

ee SALE Is Sill On! | 2

% OFF

Blass os 8

With Case

Reg. Price Sale Price) 7 2 | Perfect ______ $20.00$12.00 | American Ranger . $5.00 $3.00

as0 210] 22.50 13.50

~ Champion ___. 16.00 9.00] American Whippet Raider _____. 1095 6.75 Dynamic rena 150 4.50] Professional ____.

Reg. Price Sole Price

plays on the field are two widely critics 'different and detached things.| Here's ie In “the 1-0 situa | oo the past three years the Red tion with time running out Me-| Sox have started out with the Carthy had to play for a run.| BUYS EVERY DAY {paper championship, a dubious] {That was his only immediate; CARA A 4 distinction conferred upon them chance to get back in the ball {by baseball writers whose reputa- game. It's elementary that you, tion for infallibility is scarcely can’t win until you, have first} .|astounding. {tied. And how was “McCarthy to | McCarthy carried the Red know his slothful hitters were | Sox into a record- ~breaking tie [suddenly going to become induswith the Cleveland Indians in [trious.in the ninth? ; "48 and was beaten in the sub- Once again the Red Sox were sequent one-game play-off for beaten by the "better team -— the league title, Yes, that was [specifically by a team that had| close, but still he didn’t win. [the stronger bench. Had the cir-| You may say, okay, let's look cumatances been reversed, the at it another way. Perhaps no [Yankees could have called on a = Li _other manager could have much more reliable pinch hitter § ~ : made it as close as McCarthy [John Mize, for ‘instance, Mei : did. Carthy had to go with the best mt £12.78 | The Indians were the best club he had, which, unhappily for him, | me $32.95 ye % {in the league that year and|was not very much. But that he Th ¥ should . have won by open day-|played it right no knowing base- | - $8.95 {light. They led in hitting—in-|ball man will ever protest. hss cluding home runs. They were] No, McCarthy was not a failure | ns $12, 95 F tops in field — with 183 double|{in Boston. No other manager on $6 565 ee “[plays: And they had the best could have got mere out of the | “ee . pitching staff in the league—a clubs he had there—very Htkely | staff that permitted 199 fewer not as much. hits than the Red Sox corps. (This is the second of a series" LOWEST PRICES! All things ponsidered, I believe! on Joe McCarthy by his long- SAVES ON SUB- PAR vaLugs | HIGHEST QUALITY! "48 saw Mefartny at his mdn-{ time friend, Joe Williams, fri o : ] agerial best.\I rate it as his top| Scripps-Howard sports colum- ro =} mh $8.60 FREE HOME DEMONSTRATION] ob of all time. The Red Sox mist) Complete $13. i9 1 should Hk Er higher | Here is the lowest priced 16”_console : A $30.59 Ea TR EL than third. Still, McCarthy came Taube to Coach : They're NEW! y it's ALLNEW within one single game of put- hs ur $4.98 - ting them over the op ze was| Carleton Cager: $ + Cl h : “Everyone Wants One a-Art $1 85 145 Square-inch Screen! criticized for trying to win the NORTHFIELD, Minn., June 20 £ u 4% = . Seavitful Mhegeny Weed Cabinet) [play-off with the 36-year-old (UP)—Mel Taube, ‘former. head] | Famous YANKEE $8.30 Bult-in Antenne! Detiny Galchouss, 2t 30 Duppened basketball coach at Purdue Unitos Soper-Simple Tuning! ] » versity, has been signed to lead Wp $8.95 poise and courage, was all Mc-|,, 0 Carleton College net squad an a | — Carthy had left. This is the sort|, 4 baseball for the next two , & HOE H 90 fof criticism that confuses thelye,., Se RODS : TABLE T0P$ McCarthy picture. ; Taube quit as Purdue basket-| | t $5.45 Only — Now let's consider the '49 |p.) mentor last winter, but kept| Phil Thompson i pe race, Again we look at the ro che asetal post aia spring. A), homp: 1 : ) cords, o Carleton he'll succeed Joe Plat wa : i il 4 " ee . \ © Built-in Antennal basic categories did - Hod | a former Indiana University star. ST rr Set 5 nl x oi $11.95 Sox top their league, and that |piatt left Carleton to coach at ube 87 95 was in hitting where admittedly (Kokomo (Ind.) High School next og. $43. 85 Value 3 . they had a substantial superi- season. re- £11.95 : : ority. But, again, the Indians | It was ring-around-the-rosy for a led in the field and in the more the coaches. Taube succeeded > - $16.95 important department of pltch- [Platt who succeeded Ray Eddy at ; $15.95 ing. These items tell their own | Kokomo, with Eddy going to Pur- Sole 9 ie . story. The Red Sox lacked all- (due to micceed Taube, Eddy guid-| Price i lar $20.95 4014 Southeastern Ave. IR-0937| around balance. ed the Madison High School Cubs foe 2 { Nevertheless, McCarthyito an Indiana high school basketGLASS {brought them down to the veryl!ball championship last winter, ® 2 Woods No M —— er em orcury _-_.. ‘RODS ® 5 Irons : 24.95 y " $13.20 | esi 2 adie Yimmed = 249% hs $14.45 a 9 ——— $20,565 Total Value ...... $43.85 jal 45. Compar e Wild you 00 in $30.60 up $1.95 Nylon Bait » i ane. Casting Reel Casting Line "> $8. 49 Water Repellent, Fly Rod $4 98 & : Neo. 2300 = Rod Resistant -. OM : : Reg. Price, $2.00 b- Jon Our Sale Price "... $1.68 Our Sale Price 50-Yd. Spoo 08 Joint =i A Reg. Price, $1 $ as $6.95 $1.39 ’u | r ” . * $17.95 “Experienced smokers have always | LL... 29e said: “There's no cigar like 1. C ¢ H ES 98¢ PHILLIES” —and their preference I Nationally Advertised DuPont Nylon ane . * . 6 { ad ba gs made it America’s largest selling ci- | Casting Plugs Leader Mercury. . : Fo No. 2850 - 98¢ gar. Today those same experienced Regular Price Regular, 15¢ ad. $5.50 98¢ up smokers are saying: “The New | 90, $1 0081.10 ava. b Lb. Test . Sqle Fries 0c up PHILLIES is better than ever.” | rr $1.89 | = Tackle Boxes Snelled Hooks 8. TYPES Reg. Price, $1.19 Regular Price STOCK € an c . - -. . 8 CINE =n Our Sale Price Our Sale Price OLS ne 1 69¢ ——— 19¢ i 89¢ DE LUXE — 95¢ 12¢----$L10 3 FOR 35¢ | : : nki Bo -8l28 | Bobbers ; Yaki Soy ---$1.3% - Regular Price 400-F1. DuPont Nylon Baseball Suits mg = ‘ | 10¢, 15¢ and 19¢ Fishing Line ; a : : \ : ; ft i Lb: Test $1.00 : : : } | Our Sale Price 25-Lbi Te TAORE RICH HAVANA *rINER WRAPPER | 1% $9.95 Extra Havana gives PHILLIES richer, Smooth, good looking, easy smokRe more satisfying flavor, ing. Gives new fragrance and en- $ ent. love S $9.95 joyn $8.95 up | SMILDER SMOKING *SEALED FOR FRESHNESS Hunting Is Three patented curing and mellow- PHILLIES boxes of SO are sealed in Leather Case B to $5.95 : ing processes make the New for freshness. When your dealer gegular $1.98 " - . PHILLIES milder and mellower. No opens the box you can be sure the | Traffic othei cigar can use these processes. PHILLIES will be FRESH. | OF | +4, AoW MORE THAN EVER

$9.99

« for Your Boy

Regular Price 35¢ fo $1.00 Our Sale Price

15¢ ..

Rod & Reel

Rod No. 411

$11.00

Bronson Mercury 5.50 . $16.50

Our Sale Price

Both

Level Fly Line

25 yds. 19¢ up

Gloves

| JOINTED CANE POLES- - -29.

Poppers, Flies Craws,

Army lr Force

Our Sale Price

19»

Sectional Plastic Fly Boxes

Reg. Price, $1.49

Reg. Price, $5.95

Our Sale Price

3.95

Fishing ow

-o hod

hel Ee no

a 4

Sun Glasses