Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1952 — Page 29

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Big Bats Bounce Red Birds 3 Out of 4

By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Apr. 11—Having gained a split in 10 games in their regular spring training games against Triple-A opposition, the Indianapolis Indians return to training camp inter-squad action today before breaking

camp Saturday. It was only Wednesday that the Tribesters finally found the key to the winning touch and they completed their schedule of training - time

ternational League American Association by winning two in a row. All of which ignited addition-|

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the “rejuvenated” Indians’ camp today. And there was extra enthusiasm to furnish a mild celebration when Bobby Wilson, the season's Triple A second baseman, checked in at the Indianville quarters last night and was ready to join the Tribesters in practice 4 this morning. ” s ”

WILSON SAID his pride was"

hurt when the parent Cleveland club sold his contract to Indian-

apolis because he thought every effort had not been made to place}

him with another major league club, But the player was mistaken. Cleveland had asked and obtained waivers on him and eventually the agile player realized Indianapolis was his best bet. Then when Cleveland offered = raise in pay Bobby cancelled his retirement threat and decided the Hoesler Indians were worth playing for after all

He will put in only two days of;

training here and two at Indianapolis before the American Association season opens next Wednesday. However, Wilson said he will be all set when the championship bell rings because he spent a long period of training at the Cleveland varsity camp in Tucson before being demoted to the Hoosier Redskins. With his second base problem solved by the addition of Wilson, Manager Gene Desautels mulled over - different puzzle today. He has ro competent talent available to serve as utility infielders. . . .

MEL RUE and Bob Prentice are slated to come north with the Indians as of today, but Desautels hesitates to go along with either or both as his spare infielders. He thinks Prentice is too young and inexperienced for the utility role and that the veteran Rue is over the hill as a Triple A competitor. “The Cleveland farm system scouts know this,” said Gene, “and are keeping their eyes peeled for a replacement.” By winning again yesterday, 8 to 8, the Indians made it three out of four In exhibitions against the Columbus Red Birds. The Tribesters collected 10 hits, including a two-run triple by Herb Conyers and a home run by Al Smith. The latter also poked two singles, batted in two runs and scored two. Conyers got a single in addition to his three-bagger. The score was deadlocked at 2 and 2 when Conyers tripled to the left field fence in the eighth, @ By holding the Red Birds to four hits and one run in six inn. ings, Johnny McCall just about wrapped up the opening day pitching assignment against’ these same Birds in Columbus on

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HE DISPLAYED a dazzling fast ball and his curve broke low and true, much to the dismay of .the Columbus swingers. Johnny fanned two and walked four. But one of the walks brought loud] complaints from Catcher Earl Turner, who said it was right over with the count three and two. Another pitching item which ‘ cheered ‘ Desautels was Jose Santiago, who took over the mound toil in the seventh. It was the Puerto Rican’s first game action for the Indians and he uncorked a blazing fast ball. He held the Birds to five hits and two runs in three innings, fanned two and issued no walks,

One of the hits off Santiago

and which developed into a run: was a gift double when Dave

Pope collided with Paul Lehner in the outfield. Neither player was injured but Lehner felt he barely escaped a bad fall. Ralph Beard, tall right-hander, and Ed Ludwig, southpaw, worked on the Columbus mound. It is sald Beard is slated to pitch the Red Birds AAA opener against the Indians. Ca

Tribe Training Notes

AS OF TODAY, 22 players are ‘booked to go north with the Indians. Pitcher Stanley Milankovich will be left at the Indianville camp to be assigned elsewhere by the Cleveland farm system chiefs. The Tribe’s traveling squad follows: Pitchers—Johnny McCall, Lloyd Dickey, Frank Papish, southpaws; Jose Santiago, Ray Narleski, Jim Vitter, Charley Sipple, Inman Chambers, and Charley Harris.

Catchers—Ear] Turher and Joe|

Montalvo. Infielders—Herb Conyers, Bobby - Wilson, Al Al Smith, Harry

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MANAGER DESAUTELS today announced a change in plans for playing his outfielders. He said when the regular season gets under way he will alternate Nielsen and Kalin in left and Pope and Gearhart in right depending upon the type of pitching used by opponents. Lehner will hold down center against both left and righthanded pitchers. OWEN J. BUSH, the Tribe's part-owner, left Indianville at dawn today on the long drive to Indianapolis. He was accompanied by Coach Johnny Hutchings and Johnny Moorman, Indianapolis lad who took a full course of training at the Cleveland farm base. os ” »

SMITH’'S HOMER in the sixth yesterday soared over the left field fence at the 330-foot mark. The drive still had plenty of carry when it left the park. Kalin hit one even farther in the second and Manager Desautels tore his hair when the umpire ruled the drive curved into foul territory. Kalin then flied out to center, The Indians were to play the Reading, Pa., Eastern Imsague club today in an inter-camp game. Tomorrow, which is get-away day, the Tribesters will work out in the morning, have the afternoon off to pack up, then depart for Indianapolis at 5:20 p. m. on the Southwind “going north.” » ” =

MILT NIELSEN, outfielder, is leading the Tribesters at bat for all spring games played to date, including both inter-camp and regular exhibition contests. The left-hander’s average is .391. Others include: Kalin, .357; Malmberg, .348; Lehner, .348; Turner, 313; Conyers, .271; Smith, .238; Gearhart, .229; Pope, .214; Prentice, .137; Rue, 130, and Montalvo, 100. Smith is leading in homers with two. Nielsen, Conyers, Gearhart and Pope also hit homers. In the triples department: Nielsen, 2; Pope, 2; Kalin, Conyers, Gearhart and Rue, 1 each. Doubles: Malmberg, 4; Smith, 4; Nielsen, 2; Gear‘hart, 2; Conyers, 2, and Kalin, Runs-batted-in: Nielsen, 13; Malmberg, 12; Pope, 11; Conyers,

Prentice, 3; Rue, 3; Turner, Lehner and Montalvo, one each.

| MAY PITCH HERE — Bob Feller, beginning his 14th ma. | jor league season with 230 vietories, is due to complete his

spring training here Sunday when he toes the rubber for the Cleveland Indians against the v York Slants an Jie geme at 1:30 at Victory Field. His spring n

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intra-city series with the Phillies opening tomorrow after their most successful barn - storming trip since the world championship team of 1930 won 13 of 16 games| en route north. Including yesterday's 9-6 victory over the Greensboro Patriots of the - Carolina League, the Athletics had won 11 of their {last 12 games—the 12th game having ended in a tie. Manager Jimmy Dykes, however, pointed lout they had been playing minor !league opposition most of the [last two weeks and was eager to |see “what we'll do against ‘major league pitching now. — Little Bobby Shantz, an 18-| game winner in 1951, is expected to be Dykes’ mound choice against the Yankees next Tuesday. Shantz beat the Yankees four times and lost to them twice last season. GREENSBORO.

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i Coleman, Hoyle (5), Shantz (9) an Murray: Vines, Gargensen _(§) Batchelor, Bartz (7). Home Run--Cole-man. Winning Pitcher—Coleman. Losing Pitcher—Vines. .

Red Sox-Braves

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The Press Box--

By Joe Williams

Cleveland Needs Better Hitting

NEW YORK, Apr. 11—Not the least important item to consider in estimating the pennant chances of a ball club these days, with Uncle Whiskers on the prowl for young warriors, is the depth of its bench, the number and competence of its reserves. With this in mind I see the American League race as follows: 1—New York 3—Detroit = 5—Chicago ~ 7—St. Louis 2—Cleveland © 4—Boston 6—Athletics 8—Washington The Yankees have the best front office in baseball. George Weiss stands alone. He has had a knowing, enterprising and shrewd hand in the production of every pennant the Yankees have won since the early Thirties. In Casey Stengel he has a resourceful, seasoned and co-operative manager who is unafraid of untried youth. : s 5 o w #® s THE YANKEES have lost DiMaggio to the calendar and Coleman to the Marines. Because he still could play ball, Coleman will be missed more. DiMaggio was through. As an inspirational force he had a certain value last year; as a regular he was often a handicap.

Losing the DiMaggio of, say, ‘41 would have been a shattering blow. Not now. Jensen, the likely starter, won't look as graceful in center, but he'll get balls DiMaggio ‘could no longer reach and he'll outhit the DiMaggio of ‘51.

The Yankees will have no outfield problem comparable to that of the Red Sox due to the loss of Williams; and Mantle, his leg well mended, may make his press notices authentic. Despite the inroads of time, the pitching is solid enough. I look for Raschi to have a remarkable year. Morgan should be better. There are impressive youngsters in Miller and Schaeffer. Stengel didn't have Kuzava or Sain to start with a year age. Berra is the league's top

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MOST OF the scholars are making Cleveland the choice. But to win they » must get hitting to match their pitching. Last year the Indians were good pitch, no hit. Only the Browns swung a more feeble bat.

The Yankees, for instance, scored some 100 runs more than they did and had 28 more homers. It takes an awful lot of pitching to offset such a disparity.

Easter, Rosen and Doby are the Indians’ big bats. Last year they fell behind their '50 figures, driving in 51 fewer runs, 18 fewer homers, and Doby’s batting average dropped from .326 to .295. Easter’s trick knee kept him out of 29 games of which the Indians lost 17. That's how important his bat is. And you never can tell about a trick knee. One of the raps against the Yankees is that their pitching is growing old. Well, Reynolds, 34, Lopat crowding it and Raschi, 32, the big three no longer tote Hopalong Cassidy’ s guns, but Cleveland's Feller, Lemon and Wynn are in their early 30's; only Garcia, 28, is below the mark. cn » ” " ” . IT LOOKS like 4 two-horse race, Yankees and Indians. I can't spot a sleeper to bracket with the Phillies in the NL. But I do look for the Tigers to climb back in the first division now that Houtteman has returned from the Armed Forces.

A resurgence<by Evers can help. He's the Tigers’ big bat but he plunged from .323 to .224 last year.

It would seem the Red Sox still have enough able players left to stay in the first division even with Williams gone. Doerr’s retirement leaves a hard-to-fill hole at second and imposes further burdens on a spotty pitching staff. Niarhos improves the catching and Wood, a St. Louis acquirement, hitting right, may do well in the home park with its short left field fence.

Remembering how the White Sox faded after July last year I’m inclined to take that as a truer measure of their form * than their early season rush. '

There isn’t much else in the league. The Browns, under Hornsby, will try to play’ good ball with bad ball

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By United Press

PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 11—The Philadelphia Athletics, {fastest finishers in the American League last season, appeared set today for a fast start in the 1952 race.

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home to prepare for their Race May 30 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today though two games remained to be/climbed to 55 as six cars were played tomorrow and Sunday. named for the event. The Braves made it three straight over the Red Sox yesterday as Warren Spahn went nine innihigs for the third time this spring in a 5-4 victory.

The Braves battered Randy Gumpert and Bill Wight for nine ‘hits, including two by First Baseman George Crowe. Vern Ste{phens, playing third base, hit a ftwo- run home run for the Red X.

tion owned by Roger Wolcott of Indianapolis and is similar to the one driven to victory last year by Lee Wal« lard. Johnny McDowell of Santa Monica, Cal, I” has been named pilot. cco sd McDowell has three years exMcDowell 0 jence at the Speedway and has been Tacing {since 1932.

Only other driver named today| was Neal Carter of Detroit, a {rookie who will be in the cockpit lof the second Automobile Ship-| pers Special, now being built for Eugene Casaroll of Detroit. The other Casaroll entry will be driven by Jimmy. Jackson, who

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Pirates

PITTSBURGH ~~ The Pittsburgh Pirates released Infielder Monty Basgall to Hollywood in | the Pacific Coast League today and optioned Pitcher Bill Koski to Burlington, N, C., in the Car. olina League. Basgall hit 209 for the Pirates In 55 games last season. |. 004 gecond in 1946.

Tigers The other new entries today — still were without drivers, making COLUMBUS, 0A late spring| total of 12 cars not yet ashome run splurge may earn former Yankee Cliff Mapes a start- signed. Fourteen of the 43 drivers

,jnow assigned have never partici. ng Depth In the Detroit Tigers pated in a 500-Mile Race, Mapes hammered his third ..z.n home run in two games, a three-| ENTRIES MADE today without run blast, yesterday although the/drivers were by F. T. Merkler of Tigers lost to the Chattanooga Ft. Wayne; Francis Bardazon of Lookouts of the Southern Asso-|Detroit; Vincent Granatelll of ciation, 6-3. Chicago, and Pat Clancy of MemVeteran Fred Hutchinson al-|phis, 0 all’ the minor leaguers’| Only supercharged car among runs while Billy Hoeft, 10-year-|the six is the eight-cylinder Merkold southpaw still on the Buffalo|jer Machine Works Special, Granroster, pitched shutout ball in the|atelli's Grancor Special is a V-8 last three innings. without a supercharger and the Detroit (Ar ATTANOO As 000s 8 o other four cars are powered with 8A) 0 S10 00x--6 dad 0 {four-cylinder engines of 270 cubiec1 (4), anielson oh and. Sack. s. Inch piston Jspiscement, Burda: nn cher— zon's en e the Lutes Fitcher—Hutchinson. |. 14 Clancy's car will run under

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Senators-Dodgers WASHINGTON -— Washington Senator fans were delighted today with their first peek at the “new” Bobo Newsom. ‘The 43-year-old right-hander,| baseball's most traveled man, made his first appearance last night since signing with the Sen- | ators as a free agent. He pitched| the last three innings of the exhibition game against the Dodgers and retired all nine men he faced. He fanned one and walked none. Newsom's fine effort came too, late to save the game for the! Senators, however, The Dodgers! won, 4-3, with the help of three, unearned runs in the fifth inning set up by errors by Pete Runnells and Irv Naren. AT WASHINGTON, D. ©. D. ©.

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| Phillies-Cards BALTIMORE, Md.—The Philadelphia Phillies parted company with the St. Louis Cardinals 'today for a single game with the Baltimore Orioles and two with the Athletics before opening their National League season. The Phillies won a “gift” finale from the Cardinals yesterday when the game Was calléd with the Red Birds in front, 9-8, in the top of the seventh inning to enable both teams to catch trains. The score reverted back to the last completed inning after the, Phillies led, 8-7. AT RICHMOND, VA.

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