Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1952 — Page 30
Little In Wins, 64,
Here but Locals Know : They Aren't Forgotten |
By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor
It was like starting a new season at Victory Field today. The management felt better, the ball players felt better, and the fans felt better. And you can add that the directors of the parent Cleve-
\ 1]and club felt better. They fina \Ke 2 stepped aside fof .
ly got around to getting acquaint- : pinch hitter in the sixth, wound ed with Indianapolis, Victory op as the losing pitcher. Jim
Fisle yd 4 o[Fridley led off the Cleveland ‘with members ninth with a single and Pistol the Indlan- Pete Reiser, next up, blasted a of the Indian-i ering homer over the right apolls Indians, ingq wall, That was the ball
their Triple - A game, h break for the Cleve-
farm pastimers. To So look for the! jand Indians. Although they hometown Indi-| won last night it didn’t count ans -to cast off| for them. Second-place Washthe feeling they! ington won and shaved Cleveare ‘forgotten| land's American lead ball players”| to two and one-half games. and to step out| Manager Al Lopez looks to be and launch a I the how: Ay realh, however. n streak. The occasion was § grea ‘be out in front. i Hing streak. game last night Still, the Senor said, he still between Cleveland's American gets butterflies in his stomach
League leaders and the seventh- in close games.
Eddie Ash
Cleveland's winnin the Indianapolis |
LESSON IN FITPNQYISM- Spellbound by sweet talk from !coast to coast. manager, Al ians' whi per, visions and depicts how he would look and feel if his own Tribesters would emulate the To win would be wonderful, thinks Gene, as Senor him the old cheerio. The occasion was a managerial chat hel fore last night's exhibition game at Victory Field.
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By JIM HEYROCK
A BOUT FOR the world's welterweight title was uppermost in the mind of curly-haired Fitzie Pruden today as he fin|ished his training for tomorrow night's battle against welter king Kid Gavilan ig [the Fair Grounds Coliseum, Gavilan had his last rounds {of boxing yes{terday in preparation for the {10-round, non(title, overweight, bout, which wil {will be televise {locally and from
Pruden, - the Heyrock 23 - year - old French - Canadian, wouldn't say that he would win tomorrow night as he dug into a thick Steg last night. “I can't the Kid or not, but I'll be in there
oper (right), Gene Desautels, arent club. opez gives
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» Ww place Hoosier Redskins, won bY| yom MEMBERS of the Indi. the major leagyers, 8 to 4, whichianapolis 1948 pennant winners were on the flel New Catcher? namely, Lopes, has Shs A United Press story out of Tony Cueccinello, Indianapolis Cleveland Joparted today Coach Johnny Hutchings and Catcher Quincy hat
Tribe Catcher Earl Turner. been opfloned To the Tndianap-
Al Lopez didn’t “bear down” olis Indians from the parent | ¢,, much on his former Indian-
Cleveland _ club, bat ck Apolis team. Still, the home a id othing def- ‘boys got only four hits, They
also got nine walks. Lopez used a “kid” pitcher fresh out of high school for five innings. Bobby Leach, 17, a southpaw,
inite” has been received today.
is not hard to take locally. The fact a crowd of 8082 (paid)
bull
Reliefer Relaxes To Halt ‘Bums’
" By. CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK, May 27—Because Leo Durocher blew his top on the pen telephone and told George Spencer to “sit down and
trying,” he said between bites. “But I'l tell you one thing, I'll be in there trying my best.” Gavilan boxed two fast rounds yesterday with Walter (Hatchetman) Haywood, former Golden Gloves Champion who will be in one of the preliminaries on tomorrow’s card. Haywood, who
even for Durocher. Spencer took will be making his first profes-
over in the second, ended the only Dodger rally of the night with a/*°"% pearance, looked good double play and blanked the'®8%IN8 champon, Brooks with three hits the rest of 8 A 8
the way. Meanwhile, Bobby! GAVILAN INTENDED to
showed convinced the Cleve- quit throwing,” the Giants in- Thomson drove in three runs with/lounge around his room at the land ra it would pay to go Me. ¥ i: 95104 iy gn stead of the Dodgers were in first|a homer and a fly, and Whitey| Severin Hotel and Pruden intend-all-out to give Indianapolls a oop" oo 0" i» PL at place today. Lockman smacked a homer anded to stay close to his room in
first-division contender, Ellis Ryan, who is president of both the Cleveland and Indianapolis clubs, said Cleveland had no intention of forgetting it had a club in Indianapolis and was
mound. He held. the Tribesters hitless until the fourth, issued four walks and fanned one.
» " :» YOUNG LEACH worked like a
Spencer last night pitched a polished relief job, holding the Dodgers scoreless for 73; innings "oo. as New York won the first of a vital three-game split-park series, to 2, on homers by Bobby
triple to provide all the offensive fireworks necessary.
the Lincoln. Both said they would take walks and possibly take in a show.
The fighters will have the offiIN THE AMERICAN League, cial weigh-in at 1 p. m. tomorrow
the Red Sox and Senators who|in the office of the Indiana Ath-
y whether I'll beat
making every effort to buy players in the tight triple-A player market.
HANK GREENBERG, general manager of the Cleveland club, farm system and all, spoke with more force. He got down to earth and announced that the weak
independent ball during summer
pro. Apparently played a lot of
vacations, It is said his agents want a $100,000 us for his signature to a contract. However, he didn't show too much on his fast ball last night and the Cleveland directors were hesitant, The lad’s curve was fairly good.
Dick Rozek pitched the last four innings for the major leaguers. He seldom sees action with Cleveland. The lefthander issued five walks and fanned
spots in the Indianapolis lineup will be plugged to the extent that he could almost guarantee the Hoosier Indians will qualify for the American Association's post-
Thomson and Whitey Lockman. The victory was the fifth in a row for the Giants and it snapped an eight-game winning streak for the Dodgers. But if Durocher hadn't sounded off on the telephone, Spencer might not have had the strength to come in and pitch his first victory of the year in relief of Jim Hearn. Giant games, when the tall and powerfully built right « handed relief expert from Columbus,
For
are tied for second place, each gained a half game on first place Cleveland with victories which put them 24 ganies out of the lead, Boston made it two in a row over the Yankees with a 6
ta 3 victory in which Don Lenhardt batted in five runs, while
letic Commission, in the Statehouse Annex. They had a “dry run” last night at the WFBM-TV studios, which was carried on the Sports Caravan TV show. » » o AFTER THEY were weighed, members of the Athletic Commission discussed various rules with
in previous
0, The White Sox picked up two
Washington edged the Athletics,/the fighters and their handlers. 5 to 3, as Archie Wilson, a former| Four preliminary bouts will be Yankee, drove in three runs with/on the card, starting at 8:30 p. m. a triple and two singles. | {begins at 9 p. m.
season playoffs, Now seventh, three. He had a rough sixth, | Bob Wormser, president of the| they'll have to reverse form and| his first inning. That's when va te bul pen tHe go Ap Saliios Fathot: Joo much hy Rott, Hoosier Boxing Club, said tickets climb at least three notches t0| the Tribe splurged for three his mates might be In trouble a game suspended sien Apr. 20 will be on sale at the Ross-Bab-| make Greenberg's prediction| runs. But he didn’t allow a hit Lo 8 " | then winning, 6 to 3, in the |°0¢k Agency in the Claypool HoL _ | after that round. “HE DID IT on his own and| regular contest. tel until 5:30 p. m. tomorrow and So let's go boys. Now is the Several fielding gems high- he kept w himself out”| Elsewhere in the National the ticket office at the Coliseum ¥ time to begin the ascent. lighted the contest, with both Durocher said, “I called the bull|Le e, the Pirates Pos the will open at 6 p. m. - Doubleheader tonight with the |5i50¢ contributing, The three In. pen and said that guy quiet Bap 8 to 3, as Ralph Kiner EE last-place Toledo Mud Hess dianapolis errors were on wild| we would need him later on,|blasted a 3-run homer to start/Rushville Gets New first game ab GiB. re heat |{NTOW®: The one Cleveland miscus|probably when we played Brook things off, and the Cubs blanked por Geno | po a was on a high foul dropped by|jyn» the Cardinals, 4 to 0, on a Basketball Coach Jeat out his tWo new pitchers she qatcher, “% know we'd need him and this|6-hitter by Bob Rush, who scored] RUSHVILLE, Ind, May 27 rink. It's the first twi-night [Tribe Box Score was the time” Durecher said. his sixth victory. Boston at Phila-|(UP)—Paul G. Weaver of Fairtwin bill for the Tribesters this ye And wasmt:-he 3 dandy al the deiphia was Fained out gad Cleve: mount signed 8 two-year contract war? and an 0) ay as head basketball coach oe» rT That was an understatement—|date in the American League. (at Rushville High School in the THE BIG CROWD that turned
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Hutson doubled and tallied on Jack Baumer’'s double in the fourth. Bob Kerrigan, the Hoosier Redskins’ starting pitcher, turned back the American League leaders with but one hit and no runs in five innings. He lost control in the sixth, however, and an error, along with four walks and three hits accounted for four runs for
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|The main event and TV program
By BILL EGGERT It isn't stupid to ask today whether it's the equipment or the driver that has made this,
year’s 500-Mile Race starfing| lineup the fastest ever. Friday's 200-lap chase for a pot o' gold that probably will] top $200,000 again, got to be the fastest ever with a thrilling final-qualification show yesterday when five race cars were bumped from the lineup and Chet Miller zoomed to a new fourlap record. Miller, whose Speedway history dates back to 1928, pushed the four-lap qualification record up to 139.034 with his No. 21 Novi Pure Oil Special. He already owns the one-lap record of 139.600 in the same car.
Four-Cylinder Cars
With the 33 cars averaging an| all-time. record of 135.504 miles an hour, it was most important to learn that: ONE: Twenty-three drivers qualified faster than Walt Faulkner's 1050 qualification "record of 134.343 and four (Miller, Freddie Agabashian, Bill : Vukovieh, Andy Linden) were quicker than Faulkner's 1951 record of 136.872, TWO: Faulkner did not qualify a car. THREE: Eight rookies, including - Alberto Ascari of Italy, crowded into the starting lineup. FOUR: Fourteen drivers belittled the word “exclusive” when they added their mames to the 135 MPH Club. Only five did last year. FIVE: Twenty-nine 4-cylinder race cars monopolize the starting Mield. Therelll be two 8-cylinder cars -(Novis), one @6-cylinder (Cummins Diesel) and one 12-cyl-inder (Ferrari).
Faster ‘500’ Expected
How do they go so fast? Miller, who spans the longest, active Speedway years, says it's the equipment and the psychological assurance drivers can go faster and be safe. Jack McGrath, who will start in the race from the outside position in the front row, believes it's the driver, who is “working harder, driving deeper into the| turns.” Whatever the reason, drivers, {have tossed aside pre - race, strategy as a method of winning the “500” and will go all-bore, Lee Wallard, last year’s winner, disrupted strategy with the notion that the way to win is get in front and stay there. He did it with a 126.244 average. An indication of what it might take to win this year's classic is revealed in the 131 and 132 averages McGrath and Linden were doing yesterday between qualification attempts. The tragedy of yesterday's final speed trials was the mainstraightaway wreck of rookie Allen Heath in the Engle-Stanko Special. Heath, North Ridge, Cal. was making his second attempt and had been forewarned by . friends not to drive “too hard, there are a lot more races,” Heath, coming out of the north turn, raised his
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another official attempt. Ob-terville, Ind, in the Brown Motor |servers believed he signaled too Co. Special. Force got #ff on his soon. |speed run just a minute before The car came > out of the turn qualifications ended. His time of
too high and swerved. Heath {4:20.08 for the four laps was a | over-corrected, »hit - the outside {shade below bumping rookie Jim |fence twice and spun four times| |Rigsby whose 4:28.85 time was i—all within 1170 feet. The im- next on the “bump list.” pact wrecked the car. Heath cut| sa a = his lips-and sprained a wrist. | BETTENHAUSEN, who surThe Engle-Stanko Special orig- vived a wreck in No. 89 Belanger inally was to be driven by Gor- |Special last Saturday, was first ‘don Reid, who was killed earlier'to qualify yesterday. His 135.384 this month in Dayton, and-*had was the fastest he has ever quali|given Duane Carter hectic mo- fied and it put him behind the iments last Saturday when a left-iwheel of the same car he drove [front brake got loose and locked here last year. It also marked the wheel forcing Carter into a&/the first time since Lou Moore [long skid through the south turnipuilt the twin front-drives for short stretch. the 1947 race that one of the cars s =x =» |failed to get in the lineup, ALTHOUGH five cars were, waulkner never had the new “bumped,” two of the drivers, giq Street Motor Special near
Spider Webb and Bob Sweikert qualifying speed because of shock imade remarkable recoveries in| troubles:
other cars and got back in the : other Miller, more intent on getting
Sweikert’s Pat Clancy Special iP the race than doing a 140-lap, was first to be nudged when had carburetion miseries again; Johnny McDowell qualified at but his crew had made enough 133.039. Sweikert, 10 minutes Progress to risk qualifying. later, qualified the McNamara) Owner Lou Welch, who said in Special at 134.983, almost two 1949 that Novis some day would and one-half miles an hour do 140 mph here, believes the faster than his speed in the|cars eventually will do 149-150 Clancy car. {mph on the Speedway track. Webb's speed of 132.660 in the) » = = Blue Crown Spark Plug Speciall ONE of the very rare times that had been driven by Bill Hol-\a woman ever has been permitted land to three seconds and Onelon the track was when Speedway “500” victory, was ousted by president Wilbur Shaw led Mrs,
Sweikert's tour in the McNamara Chet Gertude Miller to the Special. But Webb, who had qualifying apron so she could driven race cars for the last pugs her hubby. ph
two years until this week be-| (patig qualification was worth cause of a hand injury, climbed g1000 “as the fastest over-all
into Te Grantor Eniesnises SpPe-| qualification speed, $500 more for He bumped Jimmy Jackson and the fastest speed yesterday and the Auto Shippers Special after" got $1000 bonus from Welch Manuel Ayulo had done the same ‘°F Setting the records. thing to rookie George Tichenor 8:5. 8 2 and the No. 88 Peter Schmidt; THE track will be open -teday Special. Ayulo also topped the and tomorrow from 10 a. m, 135-average. juntil 6 p. m. for qualified cars 8» land drivers to practice. The anMILLER'S record-run, although |nual drivers’ meeting is scheduled the car wasn't in peak condition, Thursday at 2 p. m. near the sidelined the John Zink Special P280da. Mike Nazaruk had -qualified at| 133.844. Nazaruk placed second last year and probably will be! available for relief driving Friday as will Walt Faulkner. Unlike recent years when there was a last-minute rush to qualify, ! {the only dramatic moments were {provided hy Gene Force of Cen- |
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By Jack Welsh
Hank Greenberg, In town last |} right with the Cleveland In- |i dians, likes to tell about the |: first time he proposed to Gim- |; bel's daughter and she refused. The box score read no hits, no runs, no heiress, 2 » ~
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