Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1952 — Page 12

‘Guessing’ Weather Is No Good, Hank Learns

wi SOME PERSONS identified closely with outdoor ___ sports events never learn it doesn't pay to “guess” the ... weather, regardless of the official forecast. .. We learned >= about it early in this business, which was some years ago. * Hank Greenberg, the Cleveland Indians’ general man- .»: ager, tried it last Thursday and called off a day game 3." with the New York Yankees as early as 11 a. m, “because "of threatening weather” ... The press wires carried it + “inclement weather,” ? But less than an hour after the announcement ws made, the skies cleared and the playing field began to + dry ... By scheduled game time it was a perfect day for < baseball . . . Hundreds of fans showed up at the park ‘and were mystified and angry when they were turned away from the locked gates.

bombarded by irate fans, explained Greenberg reasoned that the fans would have been irate, too, if he had not called it off when he did and the skies had not cleared .". . * “I thought I was giving the out-of-town fans a break by calling the game early,” Hank said . . . But one fan who 7 drove about 100 miles to see the game went so far as to Threaten the Cleveland club with a lawsuit.

' The baseball writers in Cleveland said- the general man-

bleheader could be scheduled later in the season . . . It is said Greenberg admitted, however, that there was a personal motive in postponing the game . . . He explained that “with three players on the injured list we would have been foolish to try and play the game on a wet field”... As it.turned out, the

eeesplgytry-coutd-iare performed witheud-sisking “rain jurp vv +... They were in Cleveland's next game, on Friday.

# 8 8 AS THE Cleveland Plain Dealer put it, “From the public relations point of view the Thursday postponement was bad. From the financial standpoint it probably was good” . ..It's a cinch to be... From a day game, which would have attracted no more than 10,000, it is quite probable it will be played as part of a twilight - night doubleheader in July before about 40,000. ¢ ® No, it isn’t safe to “guess” the weather . . . Some years ago in the Twin Cities; a radio announcer in Minneapolis thought that because a game in St. Paul had been called off by weather he assumed the game in Minneapolis . also had been called off and announced the postponement on the air, ,. But it hadn't, . . The shower in St. Paul had not spread bo the Minneapolis ball park area.

” . Mike Kelley, “the then Miller owner and president, was in his office when he was startled to hear his radio blare out that ~ his pwn game had been postponed . . . Manager Tom Sheehan "had just left Kelley after the pair had conferred about the Millers’ lineup for the doy . . . Tom walked across the street to a restaurant and was set back on his heels when the proprietor asked, “Why did you call off today’s game? It isn’t raining” . . . The astonished Sheehan replied it couldn't be, that he'd just left the park and Kelley and nothing had been said about a postponement . . . “It’s on the radio,” the restaurant man replied . . . Tom retraced his steps and returned to the park, where he found an enraged club owner phoning the radio slotion bd a correction,

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. ANOTHER THING, you can't “guess” the umpires «+ « We recall a pre-war game at the Indianapolis ball © park . .. The Indians were trailing in the early innings . by a sizable margin when a rainstorm drenched the field : and chased players and teams to cover . . . It really : poured and the diamond soon was unplayable, at least . tentatively. & There was no letup in the hard rain for a spell and, - after quite a wait, an announcement came over the public address system to the effect the game was called off . . * The fans and baseball writers departed and most of the Indians changed clothes and left the park . , . Announce: ment of the postponement was sent out over the press wires. » “ But afte hy rain ceased the visiting plovers were sottied easing back into their dugout , . . Then the umpire-in-chief appeared and glared up at the press coops . . . He also glared across at the Indianapolis dugout, which was virtually unoccupied . . . It suddenly dawned on the few persons left in the stands that the game was not officially called off, which accounted for the visiting team’s reappearance in its dugout « + « Only the umpire-in-chief has the authority to coll a game once it has started . . . This umpire felt his authority had been usurped and he was determined to restart the game if at all possible . . . He went on a tour of inspection around the diamond . . . There was too much mud by that time, however, and he finally gave in and called it a night.

- . . s » HAD IT BEEN possible to resume play, the Indians would have had to forfeit . . . Not enough of them were still on hand to field a team .. . A forfeit of that type . would have cost the home club a $1000 fine. The man behind the unofficial announcement of a . postponement was the Indianapolis manager, who slipped : the word to the announcer without consulting the umpires. | «+. The Indians were so far behind thie manager decided to get out from under before enough innings were played to make the score stand up as a completed game. : Said he “guessed” the rain would continue . . . Luckf ily, the mud took him off the spot.

s 0 =u, . Wo.» A new record has been set . . . This department yesterday 5 received its first request for 1952 World Series tickets . . . . Usually the impatient fans wait until at least after July 4 * before they start their October baseball shopping . . , Only

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burgh Pirates are unlikely to be in it.

The Cleveland newspapers, whose switchbeards were -

= ager denied the game was postponed so that a lucrative dou-.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

an Takes Preakness Classic |

SPEED PLUS—Ralph Potter at the wheel of the worl

Hoosier race fans may not know it but Indianapolis is the home of the world’s fastest Class C roadster. Eu “Owned by Ralph Potter the 28-inch high, 103-inch long

mph last year, ° Classed as a: “modified _ roadster,” the car was built up from a 1927 Model T by Fred Carillo and Bob Betz of Monrovia, Cal. It is pow-

speedster was clocked in the ered by a Mercury loNational Speed Trials over the cated behind the driver's Bonneville salt beds at 178.78 seat.

‘Lockman Hits Clutch Homer

One Count

By OSCAR

SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1952

Jampol Runs 2d,

Is 3d

FRALEY

United Press Sports Writer

BALTIMORE, Md., May 17—Arthur Warren Abbott's

For Giant Win

By United Press NEW YORK, May 17— Whitey Lockman hit his fourth home run of the sea-

son high into the upper right field stands with Davie Williams aboard in the eighth inning today to enable the New York Giants] to beat the Chicago Cubs, 9-8, and remain in a first place tie with|

the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Giants once trailed by 8| to 4. Lockman’s blast - off relief] Pitcher Bob Kelly came with two out and capped a free-hitting game in which Bob Ramazotti, Dee Fondy and Hal Jeffcoat of the Cubs also hit homers. It also presented Max Lanier, fifth of six Giant pitchers, with his first! victory in a New York uniform. Trailing 8-4, the Giants routed starter Paul Minner with a three-run rally in the

d's fastest roadster.

The car is entered again in the speed trials and will be driven by Bob Betz. Prior to

leaving for the salt beds, the

car will be on display at the Indianapolis Custom Car Show in the Manufacturers Building, State Fair Grounds, May 24th trough June 1,

Millions Will See

Pruden-Gavilan Bout

_ By JIM HEYROCK NETWORK TELEVISION and radio officials, fight fans and the elite of the professional boxing business are slated to arrive here this week to begin making ready for the

Hoosier Capitol's biggest boxing show. When World's Welterweight Champion ‘Kid Gavilan of Cuba goes against Fritzle Pruden of Toronto, Can-

already have been sizing up

thing we know about the 1952 World Series is thet the Pitts-

the Fair Grounds Coliseum, scene of the 10-round non-title bout, for camera locations, lighting and other items that will best send the fight in both directions across me nstion, ents for tele8 arrangem Wy the fight had to be made by the sponsor, Pabst Blue Ribbon, before the program could go coast to coast. One leg of the micro wave relay between Indianapolis and Dayton, O., had to be reversed.

THIS TECHNICALITY, which involves some delicate engineer- , was accomplished for the television of the Derby early this month. American Telephone & Telegraph, which handled the reversal, will change the relay after the fight here. Harold Holland, chief engineer at WFBM-TV, sald additional lighting will. ba: installed in the {iseum. The telecast will not

* ‘Ibe blacked out in the Indianap-

olis area. Announcer Steve Ellis

tary.

olis next Friday. It is not deflinitely known when Gavilan will

arrive, but he is expected several °

days before the fight. Bob Wormser, ident of the Hoosier Boxing Club, said both fighters will hold workouts here which will be open to the public. Although the Indianapolis .bout is a non-title scrap. The Cuban Hawk still stands to lose a big chunk of his reputation while Pruden has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

GAVILAN ALREADY is signed to meet Gil Turner in Philadelphia for the welterweight. title next month, but should Pruden win here it would automatically put him in line for a shot at the title. Both fighters probably will be a few pounds over the 147pound welter limit for the Coliseum battle. The TV audience in the Indianapolis area will get its first look at Gavilan and Pruden at a weighing-in ceremony May 26. The ceremony will be carried on ~/& sports program in the afternoon, The official weigh-in, however, will be held in the office of the Indiana Athletic Commission on the day of the fight.

” - o PRUDEN, ALWAYS considered a dangerous opponent, will leave for Europe immediately after the bout here to meet British Welterweight Champion Eddie Thomas. The 25-year-old Pruden has been training in Greenwood Lake, N. Ju where Sugar Ray Robinson is

probably will do the TV commen-

PRUDEN “AND his manager are slated to arrive in Indianap- |

Kid Gavilan

Fritzie Pruden

It will be the first time In history a coast-to-coast telecast has originated in Indian. apolis. Cameramen and techniclans from WFBM-TV handle all of the sending.

now training for his coming fight against Joey Maxim. Wormser said ticket requests have been received from as far |p away as Canada, Texas and Florida. Gavilan and Pruden will ap r on a percentage basis an ill share some $3000 in television rights. Four local fighters are being matched for preliminaries. They are Walter Haywood, former Times-Legion Golden Gloves champion; Joe Sgro, former Indiana welterweight champion; Andy Anderson, state middle weight champ, and Colin Chaney, Is heavywaignt.

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Cleveland Wins Behind Lemon, 9-2

By United Press CLEVELAND, May 17—The Cleveland Indians finally scored some runs for Bob Lemon today

and he won his fourth decision of the year with ease over the Washington Senators, 9 to 2.

Prior to today, the Indians had made a total of seven runs all year for Lemon, and the most in any one game was three. Today they clubbed Julio Moreno out of the box with five straight hits in the first inning, good for four runs, and finished up with five more hits good for three runs in the eighth off old Bobo Newsom. Sandy Consuegra worked the innings in between and escaped with relatively little damage; ” ® -

THE VICTORY evened the series between the teams and stretched the American League lead of the Indians to two and a half games over the second place Senators. i It was a costly victory, however, for the Indians lost the services of Al Rosen, league's home run leader, for an undetermined time. He pulled a musle in his right

1thigh running out a single in the Serena nt

first inning.

game with a double aad this

Avila, Rosen’s single, Doby’s fourth home run of the season and a single by Dale Mitchell, which routed Moreno. ” © -

MITCHELL GOT four hits in four times at bat and Avila got three for seven of the Indians 16 hits. Mitchell's perfect day hiked his average to .382, which is tops in the league. Doby doubled, Mitchell singled and Luke Easter hit his fourth homer of the year in the eighth|{m off Newsom. Newsom also allowed two more hits but no runs.

Lemon allowed only. six scat-|ee tered hits to the Senators who scored in the fifth and again in|% the ninth when Lemon wild pitched a run across the ho plate. WASHINGTON : eT] $3

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TIGKETS NOW, BUREAU . . . cLiYPOOL

soventh inning, but appeared to be beaten when Kelly came out | of the bullpen to retire Alvin Dark on an infield out for the third out. Bn 8 lB KELLY EASILY irbosed of pinch-hitters Bill Howerton and George Wilson in the eighth, but Williams hammered his fourth hit and second double of the game to left field and Lockman followed

Twith his towering shot into the

stands. “Lefty “Mofite "Rennédy started his first game of the season for the Giants, but two singles and two walks, which produced two runs, chased him after one-third of an inning. Ramazotti's ‘ first home run of the year off George

Wilson valuable players were’ Carl Lasi.

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Blue Man got revenge for his daddy today when he came roaring out of nowhere to win the 76th running of the Preakness at Pimlico by a rowing three and a half lengths before 29,345 screaming fans. The favorite in a neld of 10! classy three-year-olds, the Ken- Wi { T tucky colt who was a distant § son ops third in the Kentucky Derby charged out of the ruck under 3 o4 d A o chill cloudy skies to finish going ar war S away from the longshot Jampol| Jack Wilson, versatile South. and the third place One Count.|port High School athlete, stole (It way payment in full for the honors at Southport’s annual (day at old hilltop nine years ago Awards day Friday. ‘when the mighty Count Fleet| He was selected as most valu. humbled his sire, Blue Swords, |able player in football and basFor there were three of Count [ketball and was Fleet's sons in the pack that [awarded a medal he bested as he covered the |&8 Southport's | mile and three-sixteenths in best all-round 1:57.2—one and two-fifths sec- |athlete for the onds off the track mark (current school chalked up by Capot in “1849. ye ar.- He is aa, | Southport’s only | HE WAS 10th at the start, and four-letter winnb better than ninth at the half- MSF this year, mile mark. But then little Conn| Winning mono[McCreary began one of those late grane in footrushes for which he is famous oy t Daseball and Blue Man stormed up to my . take the lead at the top of the ermost {stretch and blast them all in the! (long run to the wire for a $5.20, $3.40and $2.60 payoff, Jampol, a big, rangy colt who was lightly-regarded; paid $12.00 .land $7.60 as he held on for the place and One Count returned!|g $4.00 for show, The chunky horse full of run and heart as the 33-year-old McCreary, who was so disgusted with his riding performances in 1950 that he quit the saddle, asked him -to-run—at- them and over them. McCreary, who won this race with Pensive in 1944 and rode Count Turf to Kentucky Derby glory in his comeback last year, nudged Blue Man with the whip and they were a dark streak

as they pounded for home. Swiftly they ran by Sub Fleet, collared One Count, surged past Count Flame and then looked the longshot Jampol in the eye and fled past. It was over then, and/the roaring crowd—. which included President Truman’s wife and daughter, Margaret—Kknew it. So they boomed the big horse home with their cheers as he scored the first major racing triumph for Arthur Warren Abbott, Rye, N.Y. ice cream manufacturer and former minor league ballpiayer. And Blue Man, winner of the Experimental and Flamingo Stakes, never. faltered as, with the tiny McCreary hunched up over his powerful shoulders, he romped down under the wire.

Spencer put the Cubs ahead 3-0 in the second inning. But the Giants struck’ back to take a 4-3 lead in the third. " With one out Spencer and Williams singled. Lockman flied out, but Bobby Thomson singled to drive in Spencer. Williams scored on Bob Elliott's infield hit. Willie Mays then rifled a line drive to right field on which Frankie Baumholtz tried to make a shoestring catch. The hit went for a triple, scoring Thomson and Elliott.

M » EJ BAUMHOLTZ FELL heavily on his right shoulder and was forced to leave the game, Fondy's second homer of the year drew the Cubs even in the fourth inning and Chicago went

Harry Simpson opened the |p followed by a triple by Bob [Rmasti

All Star Boxing Card KID GAVILAN

World's Welterweight Champion

vs.

FRITZIE PRUDEN

Leading Centender ‘10 Rounds

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DAK TRAVEL

ahead with a run in the fifth on Eddie Misksis’ double and Gene Hermanski's single. The Cubs added three more tallies off Hoyt Wilhelm in the sixth on a double by Ramazzotti,

three-run homer.

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Softball Notes

Mechanics Laundry will clash with the

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Minner 1, KenWilhelm 2, Leonard 1,

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¥ Golfer's ‘Dream Shot’

/Goes In on Fly

Jim Lawlor, 1919 N. Talbot, had his shot of a lifetime last

hole-in-one on the 153-yard No. 3 hole at the Coffin golf coure And to make the “dream shot” even more spectacular, the ball went into the cup on the fly, didn't

"0.4 leven touch the green. He did it

with an eight iron. Playing with Lawlor were Mike Pollak, Coffin pro; Charlie Schumate, and George Dougherty.

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Columbus Defends

Track Laurels

BLOOMINGTON, May 17 (UP) —Columbus defended its regional high school track meet crown today, posting 35 noints and qualifying five nen and its 880-yard relay squad. Five meet records were set, all in running events. They were by Jerry Kerr, Bloomington, in the mile run, in 4:20.2; John Howe, Columbus, 440, :50.3; Jim Ely, Evansville Bosse, 880, 2:00.4; Evansville Bosse, mile relay, 3:84.4; Columbus, half-mile relay, 1:33.1,

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place winner in the "00-yard dash and broad jump, also anchored

lio! the winning half-mile relay team,

Evansville Bosse repeated as second : place winner with 25 points. Qualifying three men and its mile relay; Bloomington, third, 17%, five; Evansville Lincoln, fourth, 16%, five, and Evansville

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