Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1952 — Page 24

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Ol Satchel Paige, whose glory years in baseball were spent in the obscurity of the Negro leagues, made a brilliant bid today to become one of the pitchers for the major league

All-Star game next month.

By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS Tech's Joe Sexson and Southport’s Jack Wilson, city and county Times Athlete of the Year award winners, will

be honored in dual ceremonies tonight as ‘The Times’

school year. Sexson and Wilson will cited by The Times at a banquet

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Following the dinner, the two outstanding athletes, their par-

The rail-thin righthander, who is believed to igo than 50 ©f the Giants by beating. the years old, stayed up way past his Pirates, 6 to 4, after the Giants bed-time last night to pitch and pummeled the Cubs, 17 to 4. ms hit the Brownies Tie Reds edgéd the Phils, 2 to ’ to a 17-inning, 1, and the Braves cooled off 3-to-2 ‘Victory the Cardinals, 3 to 2. over the hot Washington Sen- their first shut- § ators. out at home in i He brought tWo years as home the Cleveland rewinning run gained first with his third place. Cleveland, straight single. shaking off a Then he com- batting slump, pleted 53; in- made 13 hits— nings of score- including a less relief ball homer by Luke in which he gave up just four FEaster—as Garhits. cia pitched 7-hit = Jim Rivera started the 17th ball. Two of the with a double and went to third new Red Sox

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Garcia on an infield out. He was caught players, Hoot. Evers and Johnny el] Young, #f'ech Coaches Herman

‘n a run-down going home and|Lipon, broke into thrown out after Joe Demaestri lineup and got a hit apiece. grounded to Pitcher Tom Ferrick. | a x» Buf Deméaestri went all the “way|

Paige, getting tired} of all the |

Masariu, George Shaner, Fiancls Sheppard, and Montgomery, |

FIRST AWARD

In the 1951

‘Garcia handed the Red Sox,

the starting Hinshaw, Charles Maas, Howard [Longihere and Jim Stewart, ant... Southport Coaches Ray Linson THE ATHLETICS gained their and Jack Morgan. , to second on the run-down and victory over the tattered Tigers on| homers ‘by Hank Majeski and department aleo_will attend. Allfe Clark and a triple by Billy

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

held Belgium by the Institut International d’Alimen-

and coaches will be guests of the Indianapolis baseball club. Presentation of The Times’ 33inch trophies will be made by Times Editor Walter Leckrone in pre-game ceremonies of ‘the In-

dianapolis - Minneapolis game starting at 8:15 p. m. ” “" - LUKE WALTON; veteran

WISH and Indianapelis Indians sportscaster, will introduce Mr. Leckrone. Attending the banquet will be: Mr. and Mrs. Ward Sexson, and Mrs, Cecille Wilson, parents of the honored athletes; Tech Prin{cipal Hanson H. Anderson, South-

“ lport Principal Charles C. Leedy, ' |Tech Athletic Director Charles

iDagwell, Southport. Athletic Di{rector and Basketball Coach Jew-

Members of The Times’ sports

SEXSON and Wilson were se-

Times Honors Two Athletes

top all- | around Marion County high¥: school athletes for the 1951-521

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GHT SOE SEXSON, | OF TECH WILL ENJOY A HEARTY MEAL AT THE HOTEL LINCOLN, AND HEAR HIMSELF LAUDED ALONG...

Will Remain at Head Baseball Po ot Successor Unnam

POPULAR Frauk Baird, who lus directed Broad Hippie High School's basketball fortunes o 17 Season, today stepped out as head cage coach of the Rocke 3% Baird asked to be relieved of his basketball coaching job and to retain his post as

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head baseball coach. Announcement granting his request wa: made today by Dr. H. L. Shibler

public schools. - * “ A SUCCESSOR has not yet been named, Two names, however, Baird, = They are Gene Beaman, who has been an assistant the past 10 seasons, and Bob Brown, freshman cagé® coach three years. “I decided in July of 1951 that I wanted to be relieved of the basketball job,” Baird said today. “At that time I talked to Mr. Murphy (Principal J. Fred Murphy. of Broad Ripple) and he asked me to continue through the

the end of this past season my decision still was the same and I again asked to be relieved.

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I “I've enjoyed the work,” Sad ‘continued, “but I believe I've held

“sald. “He is a high type. gentle man with excellent boy leader-|

Correction, Please The city junior tennis tournaoe; sponsored by the Central ndiana Tennis Association, will

(Trursdiy) siond of today as was erroneously reported in The

the job long enough.” e » ” » { PRINCIPAL Murphy had only | praise for Baird. “We appreciate | the splendid work of Mr. Baird “tm~his double responsibility,” he

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ly drove him home with his third Hitchcock. Walt Dropo got one hit| - Times yesterday. ship.” hit. - yand Don Lenhardt went hitless as (lected by the writer from a panel _ a #4. best. ‘Season. as heath Entries for the tourney, . lof 10 Marion County athlet : which opens at Riverside Park, {they made their Detroit debuts! ya es, one PAGES ‘ater the "big deal with Roston, from each high school. The third mentor of the Rockets was in| wij) be taken until 8:30 p. m. chore in which he tantalized the| Kellner won his fourth game, © (annual Times award winners 1945 when he led them to the| tomorrow, it was announced by Nats with his slow, breaking" gp.) Bones “with ninth.in. |Were chosen for year-around ex- semifinals of the Indiana hight Frank Dowling who is: in ‘stuff and his wind-mill windup,| yo relief, gained his third vie- cellence in athletics, academic school basketball tournament.| charge of the tourney. ’ now has a season record of five! y,ry of the year for the Dodgers Proficiency and mental attitude '|fhey were. beaten by Evansville - - \ wins and one defeat. at Pittsburgh as Gil Hodges hit bAnging honor and distinction to Bosse and piled up a record of Roadster Racing In 29 innings he has given up 40 eighth homer, und Carl Fu-- their respective schools. 27 wins and only two defeats for Times State Service : , 5 but 20 hits, 12 walks and has | pile and Jzckie Robinson also | Sexson; one of the most publi- that season. WINCHESTER, June 4—One struck. out 20. As a showman, Dasted round trippers, George | Cized athletes in ° state prep i A graduate of Tech High hundred laps of roadster racing d_be a great. attsaction. land and =Ed FitzGerald: ‘history -fompléted--one of ~the ii 2 den I SOEENG {- School, Baird starred in basket. are hoster. Bb ay Tbe pro 5 5 2 Eadie Por Piet Garph ~~ Rest adh -agouseathistio-oareers. eta : JIRCK-WILSON= | | balt-.at. Butler. University. tor Winch as So he also would belong there on | The Giants pounded out 17 hits In City history yesterday. His 13| Southport in 14 yeais to receive OF SOUTHPORTAYT | | three seasons Ni ot] 'gram, scheduled for 2:30 p. mi. merit alone—if he keeps up his including three triples, three Wards in football, baseball, the Dr. Harry Meyer trophy for THE 3RD ANNUAL | ated in 1934. In his senior year |(CDT) includes two 25-lap tea present pace. -- * doubles and a homer in their rout basketball and track set an all-|a)) around excellence'in athietics, TIMES SENIOR he was selected a member of |‘Ures. Wi Nats Si lowes rere 't of four Cub pitchers. [me Judiapapolis high school top scholarship and mental attitude. Lins RS EOF THE He Helms Foundation All Softball Notes. e only “nig owls.” e 5 = merica team. - Yankees went 13 innings and al-| WHITEY LOCKMAN, who got, as = | HE WAS PRESIDENT of the YEAR BANQUET AS : * » Bush-Callahan Manufacturers twilight - most four hours to top the White two singles and a double, he sot THE TRESTER Medal winner senior class and ranked 31st of |THE CITY AND COUNTY BEFORE going to B tpl |isague games A OP 3 iroluday at River: Sox, 4 to 3, in a weird battle of his league-leading average to .346 "25 named “Mr. Basketball” in|150 pupils, with a “B” average. TOP ATHLETES going to Broad Risnle a NL i eat Club. vor Parke, I 24 one-base hits, 12 for each side. Wes Westrum got a two-run diana this spring and was| Wilson hopes to enter Purdue RESPECTIVELY, i= ade of 1035, Baird Fiuchid' Freswyierian at Brooksia enier 1: Pinch-hitter Johnny Sain got the homer while Bob Filliott and| {graduated 168th in a senior class next fall. Sexson has considered s L pe rid nkle with the But- 8% Callahan City Yeague games at Olymp longest blow of the night when Bobby Thomson drove in three °f 610. He was cited on the Tech Indiana and Butler, among other > er basketball team for g halfs 8 p.m. Regal 8 Stores RL Sam's Tavern last Satu he broke up the game in the 13th runs aplece and Chuck Diering hit Legion, honoring the top 10 per schools. a year, | Williamson Poli fishing a “Garfield o. cap at Bi with a slash that might have a triple, double, and single, Jim|Cent Of boys and girls on the Previous Times trophy winners He plans now to help with jz fail fie ys Kiotnan Ser tit on H basis of citizenship and mental were: Jim Nyers, Manual, and other Broad Ripple sports in ad-| Bush-Callahan Big 6 les games at Traine been a double or triple; however, Hearn breezed to his fifth Victory, p. m.: Vonnegut vs. Blue Cross at ® i* went Iv nz} t attitude. Gaton Allen, Ben Davis, 1950-51, dition to coaching baseball. Rhodius No, 1: American ted Life vs. C. V. W nt oply for a single as | Wally Post drove in both Wilson was a four-letter win- and Dick Campbell, Broad Ripple ——————————————— State Life at Rhodius No. 2; Morris Jus will t brought home "Mickey Mantle runs with a homer and single |ner this year and became the first and Ulyss poe e. De Rp : taa® . Th Caliasan tek at Deurborn: a from third with. the winning run.! off _Philly Ace Robin Roberts four-letter-winning senior atCentral ye 0. we Satur Take District Entries AW a3" Allied Florists 0 Sarat 3 re e bases were loaded at the as Ewell Blackwell and Frank : . Entries still are bein taken; Heights i1. "Mechanics Laundry 9. ‘Tonight: t dg time. Lefty Bill Pierce, who had) Smith collaborated in a $-hit for the Indianapoli a t gol 8 Dog AE Va. 1 Belt Ewart; pk ve pitched scoreless 3-hit ball from! win. Smith pitched 1-hit ball t ay apo 3 ct golf ii Westinghouse vs. Block : Belmont. the third through the 13th, thus| for the six final innings after QUFRaMent, 10. be played Monday, Here's Tuesday and Wednesday, Cliff ig En-Roe loop results ab Beech Grove tarte suffered a heart-breaking defeat. Blackwell, went out with a y Ys stadium: Proquciion. Tool 12, enn Alr 8 rs : ‘| tightening of his shoulder | Wagoner, who is handling ent [rodugts, Si Ko OER nan Tt ARMA . . nips. for th IN OTHER American League| muscles. 15 She opus] Svent, mad 2 Io Games tonjeht: 7 Ce Berton J ics vs son of A games, the Indians topped the Jim Wilson held the Cardinals! be taken for both 8 | Soto; oiantey 39. Huth dunes: 9.50, Stable a Red Sox, 6 to 0, on Mike Garcia's to just two hits and kept them ft. eh for Doth MOFRINg. 2nd nee " York. I« 7-hitter, and the Athletics downed scoreless until the eighth as| Sflerngon sisting umes. Entries Aient, Jeagye 200188; i whers 1a the Tigers, 3 to 1 as Alex Kellner George Crowe hit a Boston homér, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE rE san ade With WaSOHer at gles Bu 1; In ; A ? Kiefer: pagne § pitched 6-hit ball. and the Braves made five extra Lost Pet. -GB| New York at Chicas : 1108 Merchants Bank building. Siovais, i ppudians, 10. a ih Withers In the National League the base hits off Rookie Willard! wage Brea 10 38 3 Beads: %i ,Slocinnau mesh, : He. was Dodgers stayed a game ahead ‘Schmidt. { Kansas City oe 30 383 2'a) boston at St. Louis (nignt), ny G- A=R-= A=G=E=S NO DOWN Preghkne; SE XSF. RNR (SE pan I oa 3 RESULTS YESTERDAY Elephant Boy “4 |2 Purdue Players PAYMENT won {iv INDIANAPOLIS 25 432 9%! AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Signed by White So and HOME MODERNIZING BLEN( arl Vestal Named |= EE es wg igned by White Sox £2 renus AMERICAY, LEAGUE | Toledo 030 000 J00— ky | B¢ k 3 11, owne |cieveand n Lost Pet. a | pester, Liddle (7) and Unser; Sure ips 17y eC er CHICAGO, June 4 (UP)—The SPECIALISTS rid i antarons 18 378 1’ '|Kansas City .......000 000 100—1 8 1 Chicago White Sox have signed «+ Raced o m beur a ed er Looms a 3 3, |Columbue nis oy 990 Sat 1 8 A back Sip and press ended the two Purdue baseball players, the told has |eRiEnES 22 500 4 Pariee: Meiliere and Rind main event of the Armory wres-| player four—th Ehiladelohia ataaets 17 19 412 5 {8 wt . 200 000 000— 2 9 0 tling program last night as Ele- ‘Big Ten leading hitter, id Bel t. By JACK LSH Louis .... 31 35 457 6 |Loutsville 002 022 00x— 6.13 1 mon y WELS a0 . 13 28 317 11%] Mossor, Epperly (1) and Cash; Brow- phant Boy, 219, Africa, defeated Harold Hanes, and the fourth AMATEUR BASEBALL, a sport holding the ra est NATIONAL LEAGUE | dowski ‘and Evans. Izzy Becker, 215, New Y. : : Wood pe 8 reir wen Los” per. 08 AMERICAN LEAGUE By ea ew York. lleading hitter in the - league, with a g of rookies and never-say-die old hands, will have its day New" Vor. ER bo Pistons eras 00 001~3 3 Sin an OY totk Te fs: ful Catcher-Outfielder Harold Wal-, the mile. July 6 at Victory Field. inciau 27 488 in Trucks, Hutchinson (8) and Batts; Kell- BLUE srranses a 3M ner (4-4) and Astroth. Home Runs—-Ma-'and then lost the second .in three lace. ! : Sn Earl Montgomery, president of the ‘Indianapolis Philadelphia Travia 8 2 430 104 tui. Clase, Losing Pichon cues a minutes on a back breaker. | Both were signed to contracts © Attic Rooms Shathpio Amateur Baseball Association, Pittsburgh “11 35 239 20% Boston 000 000 000— 0 7 2; Georgous George Grant was dis- with the Gastonia, N. C. club .in Finished INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Garcia (7-3) and Hegan; McDermott, ] ridden in announced at an organization ny Won Lost Pet. op Gumpert (3, Seathorousis 181 and Niar- qualified for unnecessary rough-'tne Class B Tri-State League. ® Insulated ness, by meeting last night the date has Montres) 28° 18° 836 hos, Home Run--Easter, Losing Pilcher pegs jn the third fall in his match However, Hanes was optioned w= Siding, Roofing Conn Mc be cleared With the adie Toronto 3 a Is % Chicago‘... 000 111 000 000 0— 3 13 o 282INSt Carlos Mendosa of MeX- jmmediately to Wisconsin Rapids’ last five apolis Baseball Club who will be Ottawa 25 444 By, New York 003 000 000 000 1— 4 12 1 iCO. in the Cl D Wi PIVEY BROS. ROO t Be . 8 i * Plerce (5-5) and Loilar; Raschi, Me- n e ass sconsin State 3 he traveling on the July afternoon. Buffalo, oid fo 3% 4% 3 Donald (7). Hosue (13) and Berra. Win. Johnny Harmon of Tampa took League, while Wallace was opun Baltimore ... 11 17 <8 11 [bins Pltcher—togue (3.14 the opener from Bert Silver in 17 tioned to S ior, Wi t FOR FREE Sun." & A DOUBLEHEADER is the ; PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE th Innings) = ned to. Superior, Wis, in. the ESTIMATES ID. 3224 [Eves. GA. 1942 * GA. 1942) principal “attraction which will San Diego wi MI Th 9 Wail i ig} os bo (By 30 $0 wd il ig Te Class C Northern League. Notion 3 ob id include the strongest powers in oakland 3 3 ‘338 Tw Courtney’ Porteriieid, Ferrick 2h o four IABA leagues. Teams which 2 32 it 1 Paige (5- 1 Losing Pitcher— Ferrick ST, me leading Site Svmol), Manu- : 3 3 433 13 “ NATIONAL LEAGUE : acturers an g x Leagues Beatle lite Ey 34 4 i. New York 201 660 200—17 17 1| Ec + Amators Dy: Eames sig Teka JY, on (WE fh Rpt | Jon os c { 19% Oklahoma City 28 26 .519 -—— Hacker (8) and Atwell, Bons (8) » 3 rith v . 4 w— 1 50 — — : le Twilight Histon nose =| istien Ta. “Losing Pitcher | - 2. eader In the Municipal BE Hor Hou mm BER Get La Palina—a Really Good Cigar for Only 10¢ League will meet the pace- fhreveport 2% 47 3 [walker; Munger, Man “(1) and Qara-| Y g setter in the Manufacturers ia 8 asi 3 gels Home Tums —~"Robigson. Purille. ; ; 7 National Xeague. The yg Six League - aE TODAY Winning Pitcher weet 3-2). Losing clubs. ; the Twhignt League. The first Nifpsociation | lugs." Soy ip tee 3 3 | qQ= ame will Mart at 1 o'clock esses, st SRO, an. | Rovghl,, (1.3 and Buses. “miter edly 5 > " . 8 Kansas City at Col bus. | Post “Winning Plicher—Smith (3-1) 1 Carl Vestal, long active in the St. Paul at isv ho NEG. Leaour {Boston .. , 000 110 010— 3 8 2 me ru city’s amateur program, has been, Carl Vestal 8 Lo a SeinadEA (St Louls 000 000 0203 2 0 inning | appointed general chairman of Mont, pro, Tiiisdsinhin = ah) | epson th B. Rics. Pusselman. 19). team? the program. A permanent ad-| ontgomery is also chairman eveland th Sei DEAGU Some Run_—Crowe. hr Pitcher— A—In visory committee includes Vestal, of the publicity committee. Brooklyn NP ur AGUR INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE tional Frank Sigafoos, Del Giffin, Carl George Shaner, will be chairman Boston ai Bt Lo cinnatl (night), Montreal Jo. Buffalo ). New Yo! Callahan, and Joe Kelly. Giffin of the grounds committee and N°" YO'* t Chicago. Rochester 1, Baltimore 6 (lst), the reco Is chairman of the committee. |pnge Sloan will assist him. GAMES TOMORROW gah Bve, ati Springfield at Toronto: stponed, rain. gains LUKE WALTON, Indianapolis Bill Wertz has been named Ay Tes LATION PACIFIC COAST hn ry B SEF scaster, wil serve as Masthr) chairman of the ticket committee | HE 8:18). | Sacrameny X o, Oacland 1. the reco: - |with assistance from O. P, Smith,| st Paul a aR nbus, | rant into ar Samiile: postponed, rain. #ftin will also head the Norman Pflumm, Do ICAN special gifts committee, Ralph D BIACK: | petrort ot POCSNEACUE TEXAS LEAGUE ; ! . Harry -Hirschberger and Edi Chicago st New York. Dallas 4, Houston a (Buck) Adams has been ap windham. Cleveland at Doston. J QHiah 3, shisveport pointed chairman of the ad- : sm———— ames Scheduled) Worth 5. Sad Betum ors. vertising and program ocommittee -with ,h assistance from ” Paul Moxley, Ralph Gatti, John tp

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