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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Papish Tests Arm Against Blues

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Can Yankees’ Mickey Wear Joe DiMaggio’'s Mantle?

Rookie Leads Grapefruit League Batters With Fantastic .571, Clipper Hitting .111

By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Mar, 23—Could there be something to this talk about Mickey Mantle being the next Joe DiMaggio for the New York Yankees. A United Press survey disclosed today that he is the Grapefruit League's ‘top hitter with a fantastic 571 average. SA Not bad for a young man who doesn’t think he’s “ready” for| Fe

Is Back in Form Today: Toledo Beats Indians: |

Hope Star Tribesman

Mud Hens Catch Indianapolis Off |

In Handing Locals Their First Defeat | By EDDIE ASH |

Times Sports Editor KISSIMMEE, Fla. Mar. 23—After having their Florida exhi-|

bition reputation blotched by the Toledo Mud Hens here yesterday, the Indianapolis Indians were to take on the Kansas City Blues today at Kissimmee Park to see what could be done about recap-

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the major leagues yet; in fact, it wouldn't be bad for DiMaggio, who is batting a puny .111. Come September, of course, it’ 8

far. more likely DiMag’ will top|

the list and Mantle be far down

- the line, but until now the young-

|teading pit cher h Toledo, used three hurlers to El | Yank outfielder, veteran Hank, MIAMI Pt Mur, 2i—The ATOLEDOB n 5 0 A E last season and . tame the Tribe, Aridy Prieboy, Baier So 4 belting 3, | Brool Ho Sickey to hi So Hageeriyt 5. idan : i i i 1 : $i a page : ben | Bi Briggs? -and"’ Ralph Pooie. 'W Yorkers wer one ’ ‘ 1 1} u er e igRs is a ¢ ery ae a ONL of 10 no) spring exhibition games under Atkins, ‘ib 23213 dlanxious to" find Priehoy, pe was th rely p h a Naw bas Sullivan, cf 4 FT 100 5 Eddie Ash as the ers now hitting at .500 or better. the lights, wi ing baek to rice, et... s§111.0.00ut how ready winning pitcher. He: gave up but | Twelve more major-leaguers day contests next week in an {iff ©, 8 21 0 2 othe big fellow is for a new cam- one hit. Briggs was solved for were walloping the apple at .400 effort to jack up their attend- Humphiay Jf -- 531142! 0paign, Earl Turner was booked five and Poole hurled hitless ball or better, including defending Na- nce. tisBed with the ¢ ‘ Psutka, . 2 180130 8 to perform behing the plate’ this in his three innings in the box. tional League batting king Stan Ssatlshe 18 LUFNOULS | Lr Oy er 1 00 0 o oafternoon. A baseball oddity occurred in Musial with .423, Bent GaN omdals Nf he Brises. P 19 100 0 The Hoosier Redskins mauled the Toledo sixth when a runner Ted Williams, getting his once- ames Letwe the D d are Pi saws n dies 1.1 1900 the Blues at Lake Wales Mon- scored all the way trom second broken: elbow back into working gar jib re ane Totals 46 14 17 27 12_1,day, but that is no guarantee they after the catch when Atkins order, was at .328 while home run Tuesd pg nec 8S nex pun sartner reached base on error for would repeat in this return en- drove the horsehide to deep-center king Ralph Kiner was at .341, Eh Ry an ecnescay as aye Campbell singled for Riggs in seventh. |gagement. against the fence. GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE STANDINGS | J ey tans. web. in the DIANAPOLIS © A Bl The Indians got a dose of their Fiscalini made a startling play ; NATIONAL LEAGUE E Pet | stad at Tost Tht LL th Fiscalinl, of 3 ! 1 8 0 llown medicine yesterday and and nabbed the ball on the run. Philadelphia a Dod hi gh P ® € Pratt, rf’ ©3013 0 0Toledo scalped them by the one- He almost fell down, however, and 8 Lote 1 { Dodgers whip the, Philadelphia klix, Io © 149188 8 idea score of 14 to 4. *' was delayed in making the throw PIASHUTER | «canes 7 3 say Phillies, 8 to 3. Jackie Robinson Phillips, c 1 ilk. 0 Cominit Four EXrors in, ‘which explains the oddity. | New York 5 5 500 paced Brooklyn's attack with a Hedrick, ss ... 4 01 907 ¢ L But everything h d to th Borie’ INLIND 8. 3 gsathree-run homer in the third |Umiman p 1004 oa Itsnapped the Tribe's, winning = ee oppetled 10 the) Cincinnati 3g 10 33 inning. Turner 1.00 0 0 0streak at three straight and the ni ans yesterday and it was an AMERICAN LEAGUE - o However, the highlight of the Ling, p>. >... 9 0.0 0 1 o/Mud Hens made it look easy. Ee : : Rilwed aan. 000 oo ¢ Gotan ¥ ob Sem. wae " The gar. zo LTT datlineir thers Sieh, Ao. by, gathering ip seen pukonte Washingtan 5.000000 3, gin 1 into, ‘force ‘out for Uhiman ne ei SREER 2 PURER. il vid woah 2 brisk. RA Boadelphiy 3 4 Brooklig-born. right-hamide" sain’. om ) - SrA oe dba wd? had, Soon § | 2%, out the -Phillies with Zheee. | hits Tojgdo,, aig . 31. ong.ont Ee 7s 3. ne fed bringing _— er time fudging Yigh, avec. © Bt Touts 3: 322 Syer the, first SIR ie a @ mans asaviets am ei ri NMordarskl, | dig miscue record tq fifteen. in Bath AL *hampered.by tho.-8un|

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ster has looked at the plate every

inch what the Yanks say he may be-—-the guy to take over center

top grapefruit honors by’ another |

Balks at Crring To Indian Berth :

- “Times Special : SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Mar. 53 ~The Indianapolis Indians, in spring training “at Kissimmee, Fla, had a first baseman today, yet they didn’t have him. The parent Pittsburgh Pirates| yesterday cut 10 men from the] squad, including first sacker Eddie Stevens. But Stevens re-| fused to report to the Indians’ wigwam. The 25-year-old, 195 - pound Stevens makes up part of the] help the Indians have been plead-] ing for, since they have been using outfielders on first base in the first four exhibition games. |

” s 8 | STEVENS BATS and throws from the port side and hit .263 in 61 games with Indianapolis last season in spite of injuries that kept him out of action most of the season. The other player ordered to report to Kissimmee-is Pitcher Joe Stelmack, who had a 4-2 record with Waco last year. He is a

Poor Attendance

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- field ‘when DiMaggio finally quits. . Rookie Mickey was pursued for -

| lough and Dale Long paced the

, turing their prestige. {Training Camp Briefs— : ‘five innings, after which Frank

- Fred 8trobel was slated to open on the Trive mound and work|

, # . Papish, veteran southpaw, was to and Hedrick accounted for wel gers Ig INDIAN SIGN—John Fisca. take over and finish if ‘all went Tribe runs, but the Redskins were |

well with his

lini, newest Tribe outfielder, lathe back.

sparkled in center field yester- [t's the first day, although the Hoosier Red- time Papish has skins had their Florida winning been called upon

“streak snapped by Toledo. to test his arm in Hemrumeustape i mm— a regular game fthis . spring. “He . |was the Indians’

Boom, 14 Times

From Night to Pay

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eam [ey ‘Deiewar sa Krk Waesthort,

tyy. Hedrick 2, Campbell. -2, Lund |! four contests.

Emre FRANCISCO; Cal, The. eee Pale 4 SMone BO thes “other hand: Toledo: “world champion New York Yan- Humphrey. Triple—Delagarza. Homers— pounded out 17 hits to send ifs

Atkins, Wuesthoff

kees, headed by hometown hero, pon Sioien Base-izagqerty

7 Plays—Delegarza. Haggerty and 14 Tuns over the plate andl got oO i 0, i ow Atkins; Delegarza, Stone and Atkins; oO h e DiMaggi hit t n today Fo ary poaa Stone and Sans: through the nine innings wit for a scheduled night game dianapolis 6, Toledo 10. Base On Balls— only one error.

with the. San Francisco seals. Qf Uhlman 2, Prieboy 3, Briggs 3, Lint 3.| The Indians were held to six

Struck Out—By Prieboy 2, Briggs, UhlDiMaggio got a single in two’ map, Jools 3. Lint. Hits— Off Prieboy 1 hits and not a single member of - Br efforts yesterday as the Yanks i fruichings 5 ih 3. Lint’ 60in 3. Pools the squad got more than. one snapped a three-game losing none in 3. Wild Pitch—Uhiman ~ Balk—*blow. Longest Tribe drive was

Hutchings. Winning Pitcher=-Prieboy. Losstreak by whipping the Sacte- ing Pitcher—Ubiman. Umpires—Fette and Bob Wuesthoff’s home run with

ménto Solons, 11 to 0, at Sacra-/¥are. ~~ none on in the fifth. The rooxie| mento. outfielder sent a 345-foot wallop Sern Morris-Henderson lover the left center fence. . SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. — Other extra-base hits by the InThe hitting of Clyde MecCul- Billiard Mach Set eke) {dians were doubles, by Bill Phil-

Do H Kk. sticks against Lloyd Henderson! tire and nald Hegrie y in state three-cushion billiard] The Mud Hens combed Tribe

tournament at the Board of Trade Pitching for 12 singles, three douparlor at 8:30 tonight. Hom oollevica 4 gi bi | Dave Klapper downed Al fb Ralph Atkins. homer, while Long clouted a |1oof, 50-49 in 88 innings in last The homer was made off young homer and a triple. {night's match. Each had a high Fred Uhlman’s lefthanded pitchrun of four. {ing and the drive bounced over {the right field fence. Since .AtFrisch has launched an early war, Wampler Goes East kins, up from Little Rock, is a on umpires this season. | Fred Wampler of Indianapolis lefthanded swinger, all greeted The rough-and-ready manager is to be the assistant pro at the his homer as an extra special of the Chicago Cubs disputed a Fresh Meadow Country Club, poke. decision by umpire Bill Grieve Great Neck, Long Island. Wam-| Ken Humphrey, outfielder, paced during yesterday's game with the pler has been on the staff atthe Toledo artillery attack with Cleveland Indians and was the Lake Worth Golf Club in four safeties, including a double. promptly ordered to the dressing Florida. He will report at Great | All Suffered room. Neck Apr. 1.

Pittsburgh Pirates to a 13 to 4 victory over the St. Louis Browns yesterday.

LOS ANGELES — Frankie

Ibles, one triple and a home run

eld, with an

(retired in order In the seventh, (eighth and ninth. Apparently Fernandez, ‘the tn |dians’ star third sacker, is in a

{spring batting slump. He hasn't]

gat ane safe in the last three | games, . or ¢ since. last. Sunday! when he collected three against. {Pengacola Navy,

‘more than-the other fly chasers:

Whitey got-one hit -but-atso struck

out twice. ~

Smoke Signals

SYRACUSE of the Internation= al League plays the Indians here tomorrow and Bill Rose and Paul LaPalme will share the Tribe mound toil against the Chiefs on Sunday. Also "in-Kissimmee, Elmer Riddle and Johnny McCall will be sent against the Minneapolis Millers.

td 2 ” BRANCH Rickey Jr., Pirate executive, and Ben Tincup,

scout were among the visitors and they watched the. entire game,

Young Rickey indicated the

Indians can expect to receive |

player help from the main Pittsburgh squad most any time. He sald some good rookie talent probably will arrive in Florida from the West Coast by this week-end. Rickey didn't talk much but Manager Gutteridge seemed to feel that some of his problems soon will be solved. After looking over the Tribe inoutfielder, Kalin, playing first base and rookies sta-

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a = BILLY Xvons general manager of the Detroit Tigers, was on hand and looking sharp. Since Toledo is a Detroit farm, Tribe President

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{inning without a hit. But the Hens rallied for three imarkers in the second and were never headed. The visitors made the eighth their best stanza when they tallied six times as 11 batsmen faced Lint, who gave up six

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