Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 10

1 LAAYETTE JOURNAL AND COURIER Monday Evening September 9 1940 10 ST 4 I Connie A thletics at Park Tonight I ft EXPECT RECORD CROWD OR DIG LEAGUE EXHIBITION TILT ON 7 HITS 3 1 SCHACHT ALSO ON PROGRAM RED SOX and hits i 0 0 LaPorte Eleven Battles lb 0 0 0 3 0 6 0 0 0 3' 0 for 0 0 Turner 3 Umpires Tom 0 0 Moore 8 0 Tur 3 0 ft 4 11 wish you continued 0 0 If cf ft 0 BOBBY ELLER 5 0 0 Greenberg NOW 37 1 8 Three Cf Double Mattick Matti 4 2 ning best 2 Ace 0 0 9 York NATIONAL LEAGUE Rolfe KIEER STEWART CO distributors INDIANAPOLIS to re Brobklyn Bos Loui Sox Boston Johnson the in AV Philadelphia to Results 57 Philadelphia 78 Boston: ASSOCIATION eller work and 596 BOSTON 2 I Does no i nc It: games 3 0 Results (I Philadelphia 0 0 3 Hudson (1st Boston 4 0 PHILADELPHIA! after the ft ft jw 0 4 ft cf 3 0 16 5 0 4 Johnson 4 ft 1 0 0 3 ft (I 0 0 1 4 0 i) 30 A Oftft 00 AB 0 0 0 0 0 hi MiUer ft Games Today 1 0 2ft in Kuns 0 Moses Ch iCAgO By HAM ISHER JOE PALOOKA RM 1 HI MONOGRAM 0 0 at of yesterday by Lawn Tennis 3 4 0 0 3 2 were suspended for of eight week play all air one ever 1 on 1 Pn 0 ft A 4 ft ft 0 4 you city sue 0 0 0Q 0 0 ft 0 0 0 0 0 0 Indianapolis Toledo Newest Men's Wear Store Boston game I ft Minneapolis 0 0 0 0 ft 0 0 PHOTOGRAPHS 0 0 0 Bost on Philadelphia 0 0 3 ft 0 ft 0 0 ft 0 0 0 0 0 75 the o'ns i) 3 1 and the second place Only three 0 0 AP) 4Vern Milwaukee ft 1 Minneapolis EXTRA MILD HAND MADE INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED of Season Paces Win 84 78 ft 0 0 0 ft lo run tan 9 leming Bagbv' 1 PliiladMphia game 12 inni: Brooklyn 7 of this local baseball it may seem a little Purdue football prac but tomorrow is Sept YANKEES BLAST BOSTON OUT HE HASN'T A CHANCE OR SOME'OTHER LAWVER WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE CASE BUT HVE GOT TO GO TO COURT parade for 12 for the pair of it ii will be eligible A sanction on apd after With in the early' for tice the National Grove kept front in the taking i a weatherman cooperates spectacle will be present Columbian Park tonight stadium will be Americans an outstanding sports A personal appearance diamond fans by 7 to see those horsehide a practice Clift lb McQuInn within his ran into Catcher the winning run would be fined if exactly the same base and to suffer the without whimpering ROOKIE OLSEN DEEATS REDS 10 Mai Elward wjll have his Boilermaker gridders on the field to start preparations for another tough schedule be on that football bandwagon soon Athletics leave Cleveland series leaders 1OBK 2b 3I Tuesday AB it 4 36 2 jl ne Standings the former getting two singles while ig in AB 4 ft Home Room for Everybody" Is Promise of Officials Action rom 6:30 On Baseball's Greatest igure 78 Year Old Connie Mack Making irst Appearance in City amous Co median to Perform at 7:30 Plenty of Gen eral Admission Tickets at Gates WINS IN RELIE JOB OVER HOSE 3 AB It 5 0 0 11 2 4 000 1 11X 8 The Cubs ('limbed within a of the Cardinals by taking 3 Ostermupllftr Dickman: i 2 leming 2 erholt ana ed Left Washington Anderson 2 1 Wilil to open another with the faltering on Tuesday i I WAS HAND LING SUCKERS BEORE YOU WERE We advise all real to in their seats tonight want Athletics give that thumping in batting Bob Johnson and Sam Chapman can drive a baseball about as far as any imen living when they connect perfectly Dickman Our Planing Mill Is Cor Your Convenience CHICAGO Sept Olsen prize rookie of the Chi cago Cubs pitched his floundering teammates to a seven hit 3 to 1 victory over the league leading Cincinnati Eeds today before 20 613 spectators The victory was 11th against mine losses The Cubs hopped on Jim Turn er for single runs in the first and fourth innings getting a total of 10 hits off the Tennessee milk man during his six innings on the mound Whitey Moore yielded four in the last two frames Olsen aided by slick (defensive work including three double plays was complete master of the Reds except 'in the seventh when Lon nie single and Bill Myers' double robbed of a shutout Olsen Akmisti Poloists Beat Texas 10 8 WESTBURY IN Sept 8 The Akmisti team triumnh ied over the Texas four in the first round of the National Open Polo championships 'jn Hitchcock ield today 10 8 came from behind to win with a' 4 goal rally in the fifth chtikker Gerry led Aknusti in i scoring with four goals i ffeO 0 0 1 Bush ss Wyss rf Tangeman lb Mackiewicz cf Grieshop 3b Hosinskii 2b Chase If Cato Veller Bailey Allen Casey red' Willis Charley Dienhart Gantenbein 3b Moses rf Chapman cf Johnson If Siebert lb Wagner McCoy 2b Chapman ss Miles Dean Ueusser and banged a double and The score: 000 010 001 420 leming Ob te rm ell Johnson Bagby ARE YOU REALLYt I'LL HAVE TO? GOIN' TO GO BEORE THE COURT WITH WALSH'S VT CASE? A always a for the Tigers St (Louis Bases on Struck By Heckman eighth inning nailed down De 18th victory in 22 games against the luckless Brownies this year The win was the fifth straight and was scored be fore a crowd of 24623 The Tigers had to fight an up hill battle because of an unexpect ed four run collapse by Pitcher Lynwood Rowe in the fourth in ning Rowe" was relieved by Paul Trout starting the sixth The lat ter gave way to Tommy Bridges with two men gone and the bases jammed in the seventh Bridges got out of the difficulty and made his first relief start of the sea son a winning one Johnny Niggeling tousrli customer went the route for yielded eight ST 10 CIS TTcffner 2b USHCO DEEATS MUNCIE OUTIT RANKORT Sept rank Ushco Suburbans trounced the Singer Bakery nine of Muncie 8 1 at TPA park today Toney and Palmer paced tlie local attack a triple the latter a single Singers Ushco Hundley Aders 1 1 er 5 Dost rig1 pi tch Southpaw Turns in Eleventh Win Stanley Hack Offense Saturday ball game the park i was a thriller all the way A 5 4 championship soft ball game and a 6 5 baseball tilt which travels innings before a steal of home decides it is a pretty fair evening of entertain ment i BOSTON' DlMaggi amer rf Detroit 5 St Ioui 4 Cleveland 5 Chicago 4 1MEKICAN' ASSOCIATION Rolfe Selkirk rf DtMa sgio Keller If Rosar cDahlgren 11: Crosetti Chandler COLD BEER By the Case or Bottle resh ish Shrimp 41 Alive and Dressed Poultry IDEAL GROCERY 90) SIXTH DIAL JOUl Hell Left land 10 Mlinar 2 Lvons 3 Off Mlinar in 9th) Dizzy Dean Will Pitch Wednesday CHICAGO Sept Dizzy Dean back with the Chicago Cubs after a three month comeback test at Tulsa of the Texas league will get his first starting assign ment Wednesday against the Brooklyn Dodgers Manager Gabby Hartnett an nounced Diz would start at Brook lyn while the Cubs are making their final swing through the eas tern halt of the tcircuit "Dean rc viincd his teammates today time to appear in uniform at the Cincinnati game Luiher cf Dallpssancho in Schacht gave the local attrac tion a good plug! over the radio Saturday afternoon Al broad cast a "couple of innings of the Cub Reds game 'at Wrigley ield for Bob Elson over WGN Schacht mentioned to thousands of listeners that he would per form "in the new Lafayette sta dium Monday night Ten Years Ago Today: The third place Brooklyn Dodgers beat the league leading cues Giants edged out the Gashouse Gang 2 1 games separated the first ajid the fourth place clues in league race Lefty Philadelphia far in by Earl Whitehill Gene Sarazen had close calls of play of the lit American league pitching (duel from and Detroit 3 1 and Horton Smith in the first round A golf championship tour ney Lyttleton a fighting Irishman unset Ellsworth Vines in the National tennis tourna ment 000 031 Olz5 2 Susce 2 0 i York ellsr 1 Struck out Mlinar eller 3 9 in 8 Inninns (none I bi 2 tnnlnKS Pr III Winning pin her eller new athletic arerja is expected to ibe packed to capacity and offi cials are preparing to handle an overflow crowd Howexer those in charge of the event are guar for at the park as an unlimited number of general admission tickets at cents will be available at "gates WELCOME CONN IE Connie Mack probably the loved character in the history of the great game of baseball is to arrive here with his major league club this afternoon The are coming from Washington where they split a doubleheader yester day Mack 78 years old has been managing big league clubs for nearly 50 years Connie has had his ups and downs He's in the cellar again but believes his young baseball club is on the way to ward better things ans will be looking at some of the finest players in the majors in Bob Johnson Wally Moses rankie Hayes and other members of the Philadelphia club Al Simmons veteran great wjll also see ac tion with the As at tne park night SCHACHT AT 7:30 Action will begin in the dium at 6:30 when '0 bi 11 Tot al Ya 2 Ba 1 1 nd fof Ma si (GVS) A CLEMENS NURSERY Sodding Tree Trimming Nursery Stock All Kinds of Yard Work IIONR 3372 Corner Enrl Ayr mini South St Mj ers base Gleeson it Hack 'Stolen BouUiphu ss 'ampbell rf rf hapinan jtu Hell 11 2 10 1 and Chalsant Allen and and is still a question mark while Tykocki is being shifted to end where his speed and tackling abiN ity can bcst be utilized I In the backfield Byelene re turns' with John Petty Hal Schu rnacher John Galvin and Bob Kersey Sophomores will get am pie chances at starting backfield assignments? and the most pros pective of the entire crop are Red Carter' Junior Brock Tonv Berto Paul Anderson Bill Buf fington rank ijal'a Rocky Sny der and Jim Cary 1 Best sophomore line prospects are King Shimcr O'Brien War ren VanAken Lcugo Hildenbrand and Powers' Gejbert 3 sta the local Red Sox take their batting practice the gates being sched uled to open at 6:15 At 7 o'clock the Philadelphia sluggers will whale away at the distant fences At 7:30 Al Schacht will go through his hilarious baseball comedy acts in one of the highlights of the evening Then comes fielding practice for both teams followed by the ball game tat 8:15 Connie Mack expects to start Miles promising young hurler on the' mound and follow up with Ed Heusser Chubby Dean or a couple of other relief artists BAILEY IS BACK Although nobody expects the La fayette Red Sox to have a chance of winning game the local club is going on the assump tion that anything can happen in baseball With the long los ing streak halted Saturday night the Red Sox hope to show the fans a fine brand of baseball from here on out The return of Bob Bailey yesterday has further strengthened the Lafayette nine and the former Purdue star will twirl a few innings against the tonight Lefty Veller and Mel Allen are the other two hurlers Manager Rosser will call upon IRST BIG EVENT outstanding attraction is the first of a series of big events planned by the newly or ganized Columbian Park Recrea tional Center Advance sales in dicate that the organization will open its program in a successful manner ans are coming to La fayette tonight from miles around to see tlie Al Schacht the new stadium and lighting system and to have an all around good time Be there early HENRY POOR LUMBER CO PHONE 3063 Gene Mako Sabin Are Reinstated OREST HILLS Sept 8 tUP) Gene Mako and Wayne Sabin two of the rank ing players have been reinstated it was announced the United States Association Mako apd Sabin to play in I ed tournaments Dee 1 1940 The two men earlier this year the association's dug rule McCoy 2b Chapma Beck man Divide Twin Bill i tsr With Washington WASHINGTON Sept 8 Washington and Philadelphia split a doubleheader (today the Sena tors winning the first 7 to 6 and the Athletics took the five inning nightcap 4 to 0 Ibehind the threes hit pitching of Bill Beckman Tlie scores: i SHITY GEARS VICTOR AGAIN DETROIT Sept Har old (Shifty) Gears veteran pitch er for the Rochester Ko dak Park softball team burned his baffling smokeball past Buf falo tonight for a 3 to 0 no hit victory which sent Roches ter into the finals of the world championships Oft Turner By Turner 2C Jtits Oft gs Mo re 4 hi 1 au i vi 1 1 a Col li nibus 1 1 wa ke a i ea po 1 1 PROBABLE LINEUPS ATHLETICS PICTURE 9 TO 4 Chandler Js Winning Hurler Joe Gordon Hits for Cycle Plus 2 Walks for Perfect Day BOSTON Sept The surging New York Yankees just about washed up Boston Red Sox pennant hopes and enhanced their own considerably today with (a 9 4 triumph which swept the two game series between the clubs Chandler held the Sox to eight scattered hits while his mates were splattering a of five Boston hurlers hits and 11 base on balls Gordon hit for the cycle Yankees and collected a walks for a perfect day at bati The flaming champions still (a game off the pace by virtue of Indian and Tiger victories head crucial league SEW Drug Store Phone 2653 ree Delivery 1522 MAIN STREET Swezey Journal Phone 289 We certainly give elix Mackie wicz credit for putting everything he has into a baseball game Mack runs everything out even the weakest kind of a poke to the pitcher he runs into scoreboards over stumps and plays the string out in every way Mack was entirely rights when he Reinert to score A major leaguer he failed to do thine Mackiewicz did line belongs to the runner' when a catcher blocks home plate he is taking advantage of the man trying to score the catcher is risking injury and knows it if he can bluff the runner out okeh but if the runner decides to claim his rights as Mackiewicz did the catcher is expected to suffer the conse quences If the a grand ed at i that new jammed with happy Il'S program by Connie Mack would be enough to draw a large crowd in Lafay ette but Connie is bringing all of his major league stars with him and Al Schacht one of the biggest drawing cards in the country is going to put on his incomparable baseball comedy acts Lafayette gets all of this at prices lower than those charged for every day baseball in the ma jor leagues Valiant Tigers ight Back Again Defeat Browns 5 4 DETROIT Sept The fighting Detroit Tigers came from behind for the fourth straight time today for victory conquering the St Louis Browns 5 to 4 to remain less than two percentage points behind the Cleveland Indians American league pacesetters Rudy 26th homer of the year with the bases 'empty in the DETROIi Bartell S3 Cainpbcll Gehringer 2b Senior Corduroy Pants Zipper PO QO ront QtiiJO Singer's Clothing Store THIKD AMI COUMHIA Phillies Get Some Pitching Win Pair Over Boston Bees PHILADELPHIA Sept (AP) The last place Phils handed the Boston Bees a double barrelled setback today going 12 innings to take the first game of a dou bleheader 2 1 and winning the nightcap 3 1 Pitcher Kirby Hig be took personal charge of the first game limiting the Bees to six hits and scoring the1 winning run himself The scores: DON'T YOU THINK I HARDLY I WE'D BETTER NEED YOUR GET ANOTHER A COUNSEL IN SMALL ETA iNERjTHATRESPECT WHILE THE GETTING'S GOOD ootball Season Here Again Purdue Practice Tomorrow Muncie Citizens Bop Gold Medals MUNCIE Sept Muncie Citi zcnj took a handy 5 to 2 verdict over the Indianapolis Gold Medals in an Indiana OJjio league game here this afternoon Mike Balas loafed along with a safe lead after his mates gave him three runs In the second He was tagged for 11 hits and the Cits got 9 off ihefty Munchcl Wilbur Hardin got a home run inside the park for Muncie The score old Medals 000 100 11 2 Muncie 030 001 lOx 5 9 1 Munchel and Sutphin Jones Balas and Crouse O'nl game scheduled AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at Cleveland 0 nl ga ma ach? ul ed AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis at Toledd 1 The Columbian Park Recreational Center Inc tees "off tonight at the new stadium with the most attractive baseball program ever this city the Philadelphia Athletics vs the Red Sox phis a pre game per formance by Al Schacht Prince of The Williams Three base te iriins Gordon and Stewart If ss 9 MONDAY NIGHT'S PROGRAM 6:30 Lafayette Red Batting Practice 7:00 Philadelphia Batting Practice 7:30 Al Schacht Clown Prince Infield Drills Philadelphia Athletics vs Lafayette Red Sox 0 8 2' 012 ftOO 0104 4 Dahlgren 2 Gordon Elward Must Rebuild Team ootball season is officially here! All over the Western conference and more especially at' Purdue coaches tomorrow! begin rebuilding their teams for the 1940 season or Head Coach Mai Elward it is certainly a large scale recon struction jQb since 26 major lettermen were lost front the 1939 eleven It Elward silver anniversary in the football coaching profes sion and his fourth as head coach of the Boilermakers 13 LETTERMEN BACK Elward will find nothing in the way of an anniversary gift as he scans the roster of returning let termen Only 13 1 award winners are back and but three of these played more than 1 200 minutes out of a possible 480 1 last fall This trio includes Captain Dave Rank in Mike Byeleno and Jam Miller In addition' to these Elward will have the Rossi 'clan Italo and Al back at tackles Tom Melton and Jack Winchell guards Ted Axton "center Bill Combs an end and possibly Pete i Timperman and Ted Tykocki in the forward wall Timperman was injured last year Trout Bridges Tdals zBatted fc St Louis Cleveland ast Ball Works Two Innings as In dians Nip Chicago White iox in luin 4 CLEVELAND Sept QrtKhxr TTollnr pnmin? licve Pitcher Al Milnar in the ninth inning with the score ted four all won his 24th victory of the year as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Chicago White 5 to 4 in ten innings today The victory snapping a cTQmo Inintr ctrpnlr nnohlpd Indians to maintain a slight mathematical advantage over De troit in the tie for first place Ray Mack drove in the winning led oft with third on a This is Al's last public appear ance before the World Series Al has been" working every day since spring traveling thousands upon thousands of going to rest up' for a few weeks before entertaining the huge World Series crowds Maybe Al will be good enough to give us a preview of his "series don Boife Gordot Doprr West Side Here on riday 'Coach Gordon Straley has very completed the West jig saw puzzle with a stray piece or two yet to find its place The deadline is this riday night when a tough bunch of Laporte high school gridders invade Meridian field King pin of the jig saw: is Capt King a third termep at center and one of three returning reg ulars Others are Dorsey iMahin and Gabby Stafford Last year Mahin was a guard but this! season he will play ofr fensive quarterback and defen sive tackle Stafford is back at his old fullback berth 5 Around these I three players Straley has hadfhe task qf ar ranging a winning combination from 1939 reserves and sophomore material I PROBABLE BACKIELD With Stafford i at fullback and Mahin at quarterback the most likely lookingbackfield is rounded out by Eddie Mills left halfback and Marshall right Others to see much action include Har old Swank Bruce Comingore and Tommy I Joe Collings and Bill Heath are the leading end candidates while Paul Jaqkson and rank Bart are the pace setters at tackle At guards Dutch Clark Charlie Wol ford and Johnny Guthrie give the Red Devils plenty of protection Laporte lost nine regulars! one more then West! Side from strong club but has an abundance of husky sophomore and junior material Chief holdovers are a tackle and an end If Doerr 2b run after Jeff Heath a'iloube and took passed ball In the two innings ed he allowed one hit one base on balls and! struck out threeMilnar whoi has not won a game since August 4 allowed 9' hits Ted Lyons gave up 14 hits 3 Catcher rankie ytlak went to right field in the tenth inning replacing Clarence Campbell after Umpire William Summers benched the Cleveland gardener for a re mark made from the bench The box score (IIICAGO Webb 7 Ki cf Kuhel lb 'ohprs Appling 33 Wright Tf TTesh Kennedy 4 3b Lyons ive Years Ago Today: Jeffer son's Broncos won their eight eenth straight football game de feating Rensselaer i 8 0 Joe Bordenet galloped 18 yards for a touchdown and Carl Verplank blocked a punt for the other two points The league leading St Doais Cardinals cropped a 4 3 de rision to Philadelphia and Davis game a doubleheader from Boston Car leton and rench being the win ning pitchers Detroit retained its eight and a half game margin in the American ROGERS East Side Square 1 1 Off lift we a Jn SMii i2 1 ssel rTebbetts Win Now York 4: Boston Chicago 5 Cleveland 4 Philadelphia 8 Detroit St Louis 4 0ft Bpckman Gi base Moses 'inTresh Keltner Appling i Solters 2 Mari Holters Tresh nin i Three base AppUn: Welcome to Lafayette Connie Mack' You know nothing at all about yours truly Mr Mack but read about everything that has been written about you We know about the Mclnnis Collins Barry Baker infield we lived in Philadelphia when you were in the midst of that i those were days when Jim my Dykes was breaking in with the Joe Dugan Cy Per kins Tillie Walker Whitey Witt Ed Rommel Chick Galloway and others were around Then came better days we joined the many fans who went goofy over Grove Cochrane Simmons oxx Earnshaw and the rest of those great performers That was of the finest combinations assembled Mr Mack and like to see you stay in the game long enough to assemble just one more great club Remember when you chose Howard Ehmke to pitch that opening game of the 1929 World Series You must chuckle at least once a day Mr Mack about those ten runs the A's scored in one inning during that series taken the bit ter with the sweet for a half ccntury of baseball Through the good and bad eras of the na tional game you have gone along in the same quiet effecient man ner and now the name of Con nie Mack is the greatest in the history of the sport Yes Lafay ette appreciates your coming here Mr Alack we all nope enjoy your short stay in the and we cess W3R uV 17 s' YEAH THAT'S TRUeLthOSE HIGH HOW MUCH WALSH'S SHARE YOU'VE GOT TO AND MIGHTY WAS THE OP THE RIGHT MAKE A SHOW BAR ASSOC1A ACTUAL WAS 5" 620 Ig we're Barely nation guys amountfw and the A Hi I OO ArTir C27 At HA VC I tZN I in I AT TA MCI MT NOW AND WE STICKING ROM RENO IS Mlfnl IT GCT rT Tutiri Mnctc I nn I iu ir IN "s'K il ah "tr 7 DISBARRED AROUND r' looking for PHONEYS XT? innn Oft) 1 L4Ti 1 'lL zafjLL I.