Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1952 — Page 12

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Roundup

By EDDIE ASH

Gavila

I Bookies Move

Above Ground To Quote Odds

By JIM HEYROCK . WORLD '& Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan bes came a 3-to-1 favorite today,

even before he arrives in Indianapolis, to defeat Fitzie Pruden in their 10-round television bout Wednesday night in the Fairgrounds Coliseum, The city’s bookmakers came above ground long enough yesterday to make their quotations on the fight which will be seen by more people from coast to coast than than any {other sports event that has originated from Indianapolis. x

Skowron; Ex-Purdue, Is Labeled Future Yankee

CASEY STENGEL, manager of the New York Yankees, is keeping a sharp eye on the American Association's weekly batting averages nowadays. ... He's watching the record of young Bill (Moose) Skowron, Kansas City’s slugging outfielder. . . . The Yanks own the Blues. . . . The former Purdue athlete has already hurt the Indianapolis Indians and other AA clubs this spring with his potent | power at the plate. . . . He's one of the

best hitters seen at Indianapolis’ Victory Field this season. . . . And when the Indians played in Kansas City the muscleman kept right on bruising the Tribe's pitchers. . . . The stocky Polish lad is out of Chicago, where he was a threeCasey Stengel sport star at Weber High School, playing baseball, football and basketball. . . . He was lured away from Purdue University by the Yankees despite protests from the Big Ten. . . . Scout Joe McDermott signed the lad by handing over a $30,000 bonus. . . . In 1950, when Scowron was signed away from Puritie, E BOOKIE ol the 3 to 1 3 i £ ON i sa e ' where he was Big Ten batcing champion price was established on past and a star halfback on the football team,

performances of the fighters the Western Coniference lodged a charge and the Jact that Gavilan ia Jhe of “raiding tactics” by the Yankees, but preferred to remain anonymous. nothing came of it. . . . Last year Skowron DO Shvious ay ’ i re batted .334 for Norfolk to capture the te 3 50 Hm ume next, Class B Piedmont League hitting title. . . The 25-year-old French Cana-| Thé player turned pro after his sopho-“-more year at the Boilermaker institution, George Selkirk “where he also was a member of the basketball squad. . +. Put on the trail by Skowron's Big Ten batting average, Scout McDermott tailed the collegian to Austin, Minn., and watched him play semipro ball. . , . The deal was made there in the summer of 1950... . George Selkirk, the Blues’ manager, a former Yankee star, says [no time to rest. if hustle is the answer, along with consistent hitting, eA. . ‘ then S8kowron is laying the foundation for a major league | AFTER THE session with the career. . . . In American Association averages, published in The Times today, you'll note the ex-Purdueite is batting .328 with 36 runs batted in. . .. His extra-base hits include seven doubles, three triples and nine home runs,

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Dick Wakefield, the wandering ball player who has been going ‘from league to league the last couple of years, finally hos landed in the American Association with the Minneapolis Millers . . . He's been with two big league clubs, Cleveland ond the Giants, so for this season . . . He's the former star outfielder who was paid a $50,000 bonus by the Detroit Tigers for signing @ contract while a student at the University of Michigan . . . Wakefield will be in Indianapolis with the Millers for a three-game series June 3, 4 ond 5,

THAT RECORD-SMASHING inning exploded by the Brooklyn Dodgers last week certainly was a thrill-pro-ducer for the home fans , . . Fifteen runs in the first inning . . . Some years ago, at old Washington Park, the Indianapolis Indians put on a ninth-inning show that had the fans in a state of exhaustion . . . Because this splurge occurred in the last stanza it probably created more fireworks than the Brooklyn episode. The Indians went to bat in the final frame trailing |Cen% of the net. If the Coliseum by nine runs . . . The Tribesters caught fire . . , At first nobody got excited . . . Accepted it as a belated rally that soon would sputter out .... Too little and too late, the crowd and visiting’ team thought . . . But the Indians kept getting on base by hits or walks . , 4 They began closing the gap.

3 The visitors’ manager begen to squirm , , . Chonged © pitchers . . . It didn't work , , . Changed agoin . , . Still the _ Tribesters hammered the ball to the safe spots . . . The fans "were almost out of their minds and were dancing inthe aisles and throwing hats . . . There was no stopping the Indiand . mow . . . One out, two out, but never the last out , , , The _ home boys amassed 10 runs and finished the winner in a game * which seemed hopelessly lost before their bats suddenly roared i in volcanic fashion. ! ¥ ” ¥ » a » ® .

Heyrock

months ago and has been eager

by plane from New York yester-| day and his first stop was the office of the Indiana Athletic Commission. There were forms)

little more strenuous than yes-| terday’'s, was slated for today. | Gavilan was due today and also]

will train at Farb’s although at different times than Pruden, | | Network radio and television officials were scheduled to move| into the Coliseum to begin setting up equipment for the fight.

} ”» 8 8 ACTUAL CAMERA work on

nicians from Indianapolis station WFBM-TV. : The price of television went up for this fight, Ordinarily the

champion and $2000 going Pruden,

gate would be $49,000. ” » ¥

ACCORDING TO officials of the International Boxing Club, which is behind the local Hoesier Boxing Club in prometing the card, Indianapolis may beeome a part of their national television fight program if this scrap goes over well, Bob Wormser, president of the Hoosler Boxing Club, said the present gross on the advance sale of tickets is about $13,000.

p. m. tomorrow, which will be teleYised over WFBM-TV.

IU Loses 2, Ends Season in Cellar

BLOOMINGTON, May 2¢ (UP) | — Indiana University closed out |

3 JOHNNY HOPP, who was given his outright release iby the Yankees the other day, was one of the club's three former National League castoffs who were taken on to aid “the Bombers’ championship cause . . . Johnny Mize in‘augurated this policy—a successful one—in 1949. Then it was Hopp in 1950 and Johnny Sain last year ... The 'Yankees got Hopp from the Pirates early in September {of '50 . . . It was reported the Bucs received four times ithe waiver price . .. The Yanks needed a replacement for “Tommy Henrich, who broke down . . . Hopp helped clinch

ference baseball season since 1912 | today by absorbing two defeats! from its interstate rival, Purdue, ! 9 to 3 and 8 to 2. | The losses left the Hoosiers in | the conference cellar with a sea-! son record of one win and 13 losses. Purdue boosted its stock above the 500 mark with a record of seven wins against five defeats. The double-header closed | out conference play for both|

be jive pennant and then saved the opening World Series Jgame with a great defensive play. «° ’ "teams. 3 uw Ze "oy. Indiana's most disastrous sea- § son occurred in 1912 when the

? Dale Mitchell, Cleveland left fielder, continues to make Hoosiers wound up with a 0-8)

# the Cleveland officials thank their stars they didn’t trade him |" o "off . .. A deal involving the current heavy hitter was in the (fugdue ............. 108

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{ cards at one time . . . Fearless Jim Fridley, who was tagged | weber. French ) snd Cambiese. "mi ? to take over Mitchell's job, now is riding the bench with a .247 | purdue hans 4 Gamole 303 1— $1 3 . ‘average while Dale is leading the club and the league. In unks Re oboe ol

: Parade, a complete picture appears in each issue gr Sunday Times.

GOOD SEATS AVAILABLE

{ Coliseum—May 28th 8:30

All Star Boxing Card KID GAVILAN

World's Welterweight Champion vs.

FITZIE PRUDEN

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aso in 0: Doby, Easter Homers ann tao Help Cleveland Win

to be filled out there and questions Doby and Luke Easte to be answered, but Pruden had home runs to lead Cleveland fnisn the game behind the plate.|the lead changed hands between

to a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Browns today. 3 | 4 Bobby Feller had a shutout go-| commission, he was taken to/jng into the ninth inning, al-| Farb's gym for a workout to take though the Browns had been hit-|

: iting him freely. He allowed 1 . out the kinks ot the Hane SIP pita in all, two Ye than the In-|/ Hospital where doctors said he. | diana State Another workout, “Which will be a |... ot "or three Brownie hurl-/ would remain “two or three days.” none:

the television end of the fight, early whem Bob Avila and All res which will be carried from coast Rosen singled in the first inning to coast, will be handled by tech- 3,4 scored on Doby’s fourth home

run of the year.

circuit, his fifth of the season, in

fighter's cut of television rights | the fourth. The Indians scored Beate YS

on a t of s ki {another single run in the sixth|pesing 2, $3000. hgh! for this ind a on a double-error by Third Base-|Dyck's err

principals will cut up $5000, the Man Jim Dyck. Ray Boone sin-

end of $3000 going to the Sled to open the inning. Dyck big joing to fumbled Jim Hegan's grounder, heskl , oo o.cp Cleveland 7) St. Louis Champship yesterday

{then threw past first base for hisin In addition to the television second error on the play, Boone pearden 2. rights, each will pocket 25 per scoring from first. > | 3: Phadisen

at the prices scaling shutout of the season when Pinch- ON eT The from $10 down to $2.50, the gross hitter Bob Nieman opened then ninth with a single. {tered his only strikeout against Pinchhitter Tommy Byrne, but Softball Notes Bobby Young singled. °

‘fiy after Jim Rivera advanced

Gavilan and Pruden will have a preliminary weigh-in at 5:30

its most disastrous Big Ten con- |

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1952

To Win Here

Indiana Wins Big State Track Meet

9 By Unitéd Press BLOOMINGTON, May 24 —Indiana University track-

n Is 3-to-1 Favorite

[track meet. | were smashed and the big sch [continued their domination of the! lafrair. | IU compiled a total of 112%; [points to defeat a strong finish-|

Dame. TC. |

~ DENIS JOHANSSON, Purdue's Finnish star, won the mile in 4:20.9. The Hoosiers practically iced the meet when runners Lowell Vellers, George Branam and Jim| Lambert finished one-two-three; : . in the two-mile event for 15 HOOSIER WELCOME—Fitzie Pruden gets a welcome from points. : oii | Bob Wormser (left) as he arrived yesterday at Weir Cook Munici- | They were aided in their bid pal Airport. Looking on is Pruden's manager. |for the crown by Jay and Stan

{Huntsman of Wabash who upset {favored Notre Dame "in the {javelin by winning firét and second places respectively. | The Irish took the mile relay event for the meet thriller. | Hughes Wilcox of Notre Dame { |

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went into the final lap with a 20-yard lead but IU’'s Mel Edwards gave him a run for it and Wilcox broke the tape just inches ahead of Edwards.

_By United Press * HEGAN and First Baseman During the course of the meet

ST. LOUIS, May 24—Larry | Kryhoski collided on the wild play r hit In the sixth inning. Hegan was knocked out but recovered to

Kryhoski had - taken Hank Indiana and Notre Dame several

| Arft suffered a concussion in pre- threaten. game practice. A liner from| Wabash was fourth with 20

Young's bat hit Him on the right Points followed by Ball State

3/temple and he was sent to Jewish 15%; Hanover 13; DePauw two; {Rose Poly two; Butler one, and-

on ater 1-1). Rapp lined out for Cain in 4th. roit (Stuart 1-3 snd Trout 0-4) at Senmees flied out for Bearden in Tih, Chicago (Holcombe 0-4 and Plerce 3-4) Nieman singled for Marion in Sth (2 games). Byrne struck out for Madisen im Sth. | eveland (Gromek 3-0 and Jones 1-0) (BY

{ ( Cleveland 300 101 000— 5'at St, Louis (Byrme 3-3 and Pillette 4-2) t. Louls ..............0%

000 000 003— 3/2 games). Luke Easter also hit for the Yous: Delat and Nieman.

yek 3. " RUNS—Avila,

Diek, (Boone scored in 6th on ir). * Two. Bak HIT—Delsing. HOME RUNS—Deby, Easter, DOUBLE FLAY —Dyek to Young te Kry-

A near-record 308 gave Anderison the State High School Golf

‘Feller 1, Cin 3, Golf Course. The 308 mark, which Madison 2 earden 3 in tied Shortridge’s 1950 total, was

INNING pin har (oo. shot. by Jos Campbell, medalist Kinley 8 ad MoGow- Of the meet a two under par yy Tm lam |70; Don Granger, Ivan Geiger, land Theodore Boots. Granger carded a 78, Geiger an 84, and Boots shot a 76. South wm. H. Block Co. and L.8. Ayres con- Bend Central came in with 317 Jim Delsing collected his |Khibicioal soflbell’ Diamonds st ¢-1s in to take second with Indianapolis third hit, a double to left field, “fn ths feminine same at 1:30 the stana. Shortridge third with 322. #i°! Other scores were: La Porte,

4 ard Machine Works girls, holders of scoring two rums. He scored [Coiniy championshin, meet the State Que arion, i ol the final run on Dyck’s long LRN, IDM. oF Gow: Shae Crawfordsville, and Logansport, tioned at Camp Atterbury will lead Com B team against the CIO Neo. 933 of Allison in the nightcap feature at 8:45.

Teams interested in playing Friday, May 30, call Harold Engelhardt, MA-0910,

STRUCK OUT—By

Feller was shooting for his first

TIME—2:15. ATTENDANCE—5047.

He regis-

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him to third on a single, the 15th hit off Feller.

336; Columbus, 340; New Castle,

BIG LEAGUERS AT THE HIGH LEVEL—These you will see at Indianapolis’ Victory Field to. morrow night when the parent Cleveland Indians move in to tackle the Hoosier Indians in an exhibition attraction. Key figures with the American League pace setters above are (left to right): Ray Boone, the agile shortstop who combines fielding skill with potent batting; Manager Al Lopez, former Indianapolis skipper for three years, and Harry [Suitcase] Simpson, the versatile .300 hitter who performs skilfully in both the outfield and at first base. Senor Lopez has announced he will start his regular lineup against Gene Desautels' Redskins, Cleveland's TripleA farm affiliate. -

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hind, the Sox gave splendid sup-| ss » | . {port to elderly Ellis Kinder who ‘men today won the Big State was turning in his third victory

Two records | of the season against one logs ools | and his second win over the Yankees.

struck out seven batters including

ling Notre Dame squad which ninth with iwo on base.

bert Andercon Wins H. S. Golf Tifle

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Red Sox Come From Behind to Beat Yanks

By United Press

BOSTON, May 24—A trio of veterans; Dom DiMaggio;

|Clyde Vollmer and Billy Goodman, led the Boston Red Sox in an eight-inning uprising today to beat the New- York | Yankees 5-2.

{plate on -Irv- - Twice forced to come from be- S208. 2.3 Bauer Irv-Noren-Yogt

. : Goodman then doubled center scoring Stephens and Vollmer before Dropo rounded out to end the inning. The win The 37-year-old right:| kept the Red Sox in third place hander seldom was in trouble and a game and a half ahead of the Yankees who now haves lost three games at Fenway Park. Gil McDouugald was the batss ww ting star of the game with four

BIG WALT DROPO of Boston hits in four times at bat to break

nearly became the goat of the Out of a batting slump. game when he dropped a foul by| NEW YORK BOSTON

the last man to face -him in the|

Hank Bauer who then homered pguer.rt i 1a i masetaet *§ 174% on the next pitch to give New Siatiese 3&1 Ehiat, 1411 York a short-lived one-run lead, |Cerv.of 3.4 3 0 Lenhardi,lt 1008 But in the Boston half of the |Hebeid.ss & & 6 3Velmerss 4 11 8 seventh inning Goodman NERR, 0g oBremers . 4 118 4 walked and scored in front of |Martin3b 2 0 & TIWhies 3 323 Dropo who hammered his fifth Mize = 10 0 0 - ies | Hogue,» 0001

homerun of the year over the | | — oe pe left field wall. | Totals 30 724100 Totals 28 $2713 Mize flied out for Raschi in eighth, In the eighth ‘Woodling opened |y a _. 000 001 910—3 for the Yankees with a double, [Boston ©... .". 000 900 3x5 was sacrificed to third, and scored sighene Voller, Sotintn, Bropetie on pinch-hitter Johnny Mize's fly RRQ ADS: IN--Bauer,

to center, Then came the Red Sox mize. Vollmer, oodm

an 2. winning rélly. | DIM ask i ea atch, . | HOME RUNS-—Bauer, Drope. ‘2 8 | SACRIFICE HITS—Martin, Lenhardé. DIMAGGIO led off with a

ita ly} rl at Bag HA double off Bob Hogue who had ten 5. : oe come on in the eighth to relieves, Jase BALLE~Oft Raschi 3, Rindey starter Vic Raschi. Johnny Pesky| STRUCK OUT—Raschi 3 Kinder was hit by a pitch and both run-| 3 SITp--0n Raschi 3 in 7 Innings, Hogue

RUNS AND E! S—Raseh| ners advanced on Don Lenhardt’s el He foamed. Kinder and ’ I

sacrifice bunt: Vern Stephens Bila; HeURE Mt oH: walked to load the basés and Vol-| C dor

13 ING 5 TTCHER-Hogus 1h mer singled to right scoring Di-|Nawp. Te RW, Heys * Syren, Maggio but Perky was out at the! JIMEGRN.. ooo

Bosox, Yankee Players Get in Fight at Boston

By United Press jdugout seconds before their scrap. BOSTON, May 24 — Shortstop The first indication that trouble

Drope % Wooedling,

Arft's place at the first sack after times but the other schools didn’t Johnny Piersall of the Boston was brewing came when Martin

Red Sox and Second Baseman was seen walking quickly toe Billy Martin of the New York ward the runway that leads from Yankees engaged in a brief fight'a point near the Red Sox dugin the dugout beneath the Fen-/out te ‘the dressing rooms-under way Park stands today prior to the stands. the opening of a three-game Bse- Started Quickly

ries between the teams. Dickey and several players

|ers, but went all the way to win/' CLEVELAND ST. LOUIS . Rh at { his fourth game of seven deci-io = ABHOA oo A3%% A Probable Pitchers e scrap, resulting from aifrom both teams hastened after sions. [Aviladb 5 3-1 AiDelsinget & 3 I 0 By United. Press feud which started when the Red yartin, put were too late to pre- . Rosendh 5 2 0 ORiveract 5% 0 NATIONAL LEAGUE Sox played in New York, wasiy..4 an exchar t The loser was Bob Cain who Debuef =~ 4 3 4 8Bsekih, | § | 3 §i Boston, (Donovan 0-0) at New York broken up by Coach Bill Dickey sige of gumcheg, bested Feller 1-0 in their last po. ier.ih $27 sweet 4 1 3 8 Brookiyn, (Erskine 3-0) at Philadelphia of the Yankees and Starting However, Dickey and Kinder manmeeting hers Apr. 28 whon both eit {| { SNAIL" 8 § 3 Bick wown 1 at Pusucen coc. Pitcher Ellis Kinder of the Red JEU 2g Gilat air eller,» 8 Th. 3 | 3 3 : | SCuss e a . : matie pitching duel. hor 188 8a i Clacinatl (Blaiven T4"end, But before they had pulled the Members of both teams" said : " =» = Beardens 2 o ¢ 5 Vehmeler 1 ¥ I¥Aaue \two hot-headed youngsters apart, that the Martin-Piersall feud comCAIN, HOWEVER, was reached Magisony $ 8 § 2) New Yak A 3-0) at Boston Piersall had received two punches menced -in New York in a game STR Tesh BRE (Shants 6-1) at Washing-'and had the back of his shirtiin which Boston Manager Leu

\ripped. {Boudreau protested an umpire's Plersall was taking fielding deeision at first base. |practice at shortstop and Martin, Pijersall was chased from the {was warming up near the Yankee! game for jawing at the umpire and during the remainder of the series received considerable needling from the Yankee bench by Martin, who once was an amateur 846; Mater Del, 347; Vincennes, boxer appearing in CYO tourna- | 350; Bloomington, 352; Marion, Joes

357; and Elmhurst, 369. Campbell's 70 on the par 72 course is one of the lowest indi|vidual totals in history. A 186-year-old junior, Campbell and; |Granger will have another year.! {Geiger is a senior, but Boots, | {Anderson's fourth man, is a fresh- |? {man. Herman Uebele of La Porte! {took second place in individual {honors with a 38-34 for a par 72, {one more than Ed McCallum of

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