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SPORTS
Borger, T»w«*
Monday April
1943
Pag* 4
Camilli and Vaughan
To Join Dodgers
Matly Was Tops
In Pilching As
None Hi! Him
By HARRY GRAYSON
NBA Sport* Editor
•hi
the
New York'
is the
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number <
il fire-engin
Budge's Two-Handed Grip
Chopping and cutting in tennis is quite different
from methods used on battlefield. • D*>n Budge
learns grim art of handling fixed bayonet at Army
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command's
Sheppard Field, Tex, Basic Training Cent* a. where
former Davis Cup star is taking r mbat .chooling.
Cullenbine Rides Anchor
In Cleveland Outfield
Trade Winds End
After Ten Years
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., April 5
—(/pi—Those gusty trade winds
have quit blowing, temporarily at
least, in the direction of Roy Cul-
lenbine, who no wis riding anch- ,
or in the Cleveland Indian’s out-
field after cruising through 10
diferent clubs in as many rea-
sons.
“I’ve changed uniforms as reg-
ular! yas I’ve shaved,” laughed
the 28-year-old vagabond, “and
I’ve been in more deals than a
pawnshop broker. Just as ; >on
stand still for awhile.”
Cullenbine was with three
clubs last year. He played 38
games W'th tb»* Si Louis Browns
and batted 193; then he went to
Washington, where he clipped
.286 in 64. The New York Yan-
kees pounced on him next in a
move to strengthen their outfield
for the coming World Series. He
swatted .364 in 21 contests for
them and starred in the series as
a replacement for Tom Hen rich
Last winter he went to Cleve-
land with catcher Buddy Rosar in
exchange for Oscar Grimes, and
Roy Weatherly.
With veteran Jeff Heath still
an absentee and Fabian Gaffke
suddenly announcing his retire-
ment, the Indians have only three
outfieldrs: rookie Hank Edwards,
of Baltimore, who has been re-
classified 3-A. Oris Hockett and
Cullenbine.
Cullenbine came up through
the Detroit Tigers farm system,
playing in successive seasons for
Shreveport, La , Springfield, Ohio,
Beaumont, Texas, and Toledo,
Ohio. He joined the parent club
in 1938, became a free agent un-
der Commissioner K. M. Landis’
ruling in 1939 and signed with
the Brooklyn Dodgers the follow-
ing winter for $25,000. He was
traded by the Dodgers to the
Browns early in the season and
stayed there through 1941 to en-
joy his best year with a .317. He
is the only switch hitter on the
Oklahoma Aggie
Wrestlers Will
Thumb' To Meet
STILLWATER, Okla., April
5—(/Pi- Three Oklahoma A.
and M college wrestlers, head-
ed for the National AATT tour-
nament in New York, will get
their roadwork all the way.
They’re hitchhiking despite
the hazard of gasoline ration-
ing.
They are Bill Lundav, Paul
McDaniels and his brother Joe
Joe, three-time National cham-
pion when he was an Aggie
squndman, got a furlough
from his army post in Arkan-
sas so he could go along.
Their dogs can rest on the
way home, though. A former
Aggie athlete. Lieut. Phillip
Adair stationed at an eastern
airfield, wants to send his car
back to Oklahoma. The boys
will deliver it
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
Swimming
Gunder Hogg
* *
Too Many Stars
By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.
NEW YORK. April 5—■Im-
probably you’ve heard about the
mythical four-minute mile, but
how about the two-minute 220-
track of his victory string some
lime ago. .
Today's Guest Star
Les Goates. Salt Lake City
Desert News:
“Trainers in the northern
spring baseball camps are be-
ginning to realize more than
ever that a pitcher is no
stronger than his weakest
kink."
TRAINING
CAMP BRIEFS
BROOKLYN, April 5.....UP)-
Dolph Camilli and Atky Vaughan,
the California ranchers, are
scheduled to join the Brooklyn
Dodgers late today and Manager
Lee Durocher probably couldn't
be any happier to see them if
each brought a suitcase filled
with sirloin steaks
After three weeks of training
the Dodgers’ infield still is as
; much of a puzzle as it was the
i: day the club reported. Durocher
has known all along, of course,
that Camilli and Vaughan would
be available and would fill two
of the regular infield roles when
the season opens April 21.
But their absence, even though
necessary because of personal af-
fairs. has represented a tremen-
dous handicap to any attempt to
organize the Brooklyn inner de-
fense. The late appearance of
Vaughan, particularly, has kept
three positions wide open.
Arkv. who was a shortstop for
fen years at Pittsburgh, played
third base for the Dodgers last
year. Now he probably will
hav to move back to . h-. rt. fill
ing the void left by Peewee
Reese’s enlistment in the navy.
This involves second baseman
Billy Herman switching to third
base and depends on Albie Gins:
■up oi Alex Kainpouris making
good at the keystone position.
Service Dept.
Lieut. Jesse Hill, former Yan-
kees, Senators, and Athletics out-
fielder, has been appointed base-
ball coach at the navy’s Del
M o n t e , California, pre-flight
school. But so far no ball field
yard swim.
That’s one the. has been built on the campus.
swimming coaches argue about,
and what brings it up now is that
Joe Wheatley, a coach whose op-
timism is shown by the fact that
he once tried to make a swimmer
out of this columnist, argues that
Ohio State’s Billy Smith is the
boy who’ll do it, . . “He has the
stroke to do 2:02 or 2:03,” says
Joe. “and if he keeps on in com-
petition a few years, I wouldn’t
be surprised to see him do 220 in
two minutes,”. . . Bob Kiphuth
Other recent officer arrivals at
Del Monte include Ensigns Art
Mahan, Villannva and Phillies;
Parker Hail. Tennessee a n d
Cleveland Rams, and Jack Baer,
Oklahoma baseball coach, and
Lieut. Albert Humphries, Buck-
nell coach, who will head the
football department. . . Tarrant
Field, Texas, has so many go -d
baseball players, including Dutch
Meyer from the Tigers, that the
left-overs may fill in the lineups
By The Associated Press
BLOOTVWNGTON, Ind., April 5
—</P)—Gene Walker, Cincinnati
Red outfielder who didn’t sign his
contract until last weekend, in-
formed Manager Bill McKechnie
today that “Your worries about
left field are over.”
MUNCIE, Ind.—With their sec-
ond game against Cleveland can-
celled because of weather condi-
tions yesterday, the Pittsburgh
Pirates today planned an intva-
squad game before entraining for
Indianapolis and a resumption of
their series with the Indians on
Tuesday.
of Yale, agrees that it’s something of Fort Worth amateur teams this
like a l'our-minute mile, “Some- summer.
body will do it some day,” and i -
Mike Pepe, Smith’s coach at Ohio
State adds that Bill doesn’t have
that much speed, though Mike fig-
ures he’ll reach 2:05 some day.
Customers Too
When, and if, Gunder Hagg
gets here next summer Asa Bush-
nell has no in-
tention of trying
to match him
against Greg
Rice in a revival
of the Princeton
Invitation track
meet.
Hearing a ru-
mor that he
might try it.
Bushnell w i s e-
cracked, “When
v o u have one,
Gunder Hagg >'ou hav<‘ t0 in-
vite a few customers, too.” . . .
A1 Tiedemann, who is trying to
Cleveland roster, and holds a five make the grade as third baseman
year major league batting average with the Baltimore Orioles, al-
Quick Exit
Pvt. Edwin Meyers, army M.
P. was given a four-day leave
to compete in the A. A. U. swim-
ming championships. . . He start-
ed in the first heat of the 220,
opening event of the meet, and
ASBUPY PARK, N. J.—
George Stirnweiss, who swiped
73 bases in the International
league last season, opened his
career as a New York Yankee
yesterday by working Ken Hol-
combe of Newark for a walk
and pilfering second in the
opening frame. The Yankees
mastered their farmhands. 10 lo
1, to avenge Saturday's 3 to 2
setback.
Masons Open
Spring Drill
FORT WORTH. April 5—UP)—
The mighty Mites return to 1he
I gridiron today and Texans will
! be happy about the whole thing.
The Mighty Mites are Masonic
Home’s colorful footballers.
Several months ago it was an-
; nounced the Home would not be
a gridiron entry in the schoolboy
race next fall. A big drop in en-
rollment and boys considered too
small for football were reasons
for the decision.
But the fans and the boys them-
selves flooded officials at the
Horne with requests that they re-
consider. They did and today
spring training starts with 35 of
the 40 boys now enrolled in the
high schol division of the Home
| out for the team.
Charles Romine is the coach.
He takes the place vacated by H.
| N. < Rusty Russell, who went to
i Highland Park ‘Dallas' last fall.
Crane, baseball writer, wrote:
Mathew-"ti is certainly the Big
Six of pitchers " He was. and the
name stuck.
Matty had au imperturbable
and unshakable air in the box.
There was a contemptuous 'look
in his pale blue eyes. He despised
the opposition in a big, indolent
ort of way.
It rather annoyed Matty to
think that a batter suspected that
he could hit him safely, and gen-
erally he was right. The batter
couldn’t.
Because the incomparable right-
hander spent practically his en-
tire career with him. it was to be
expected that John McClraw
would call Matty the greatest
pitcher who ever lived
But Connie Mack saying the
same thing is the finest compli-
ment ever paid a ball player
Mack is as much an American
Leaguer as McGraw was a Na-
tional Leaguer, and had some fair
to middling pitchers down
through the years — from Wad-
dell, Bender. Plank and Coombs
to Robert Moses Grove. The Old
Man also saw a lot of a few
others, including Walter Johnson
No Pitcher Had His Stuff
“With Johnson, it was brute
i force,” explains Mack. "With <
Mathewson. it was knowledge
and judgment, perfect control
i and form It was a pleasure to
| watch him pitch when he wasn’t
. pitching against you."
Andy Conklev, who opposed
Matty in the World Series oi
1905 and later many times in the
National League, agrees with Mr-
Grav and Mack.
“Mathewson developed his own
stuff,” asserts the veteran Col-
umbia coach, “and had stuff no ,
other pitcher ever had.
"He was the greatest guesser I
j ever saw. He was fast enough. >
and at his best threw a beautiful
curve and what I would call a
fa! la wav. The latter was almost
a straight drop which broke
around the knees. He threw this
ball three out of five times, yet
a hitter would never get it when
he was looking for it,
“Mathewson did not develop
the fadeaway for which he is re*
j membered until he was almost
through. It was the opposite of
the screwball thrown by Carl
Hubbell, a southpaw It required
a twist of the wrist, and conse-
quently was hard on the arm.”
Control Unbelievable
Matty was a straight overhand
pitcher, so true that batters liked
m<,ie (oi 12 straight He b
I 27 games in 1908. when
Ik'xl only 42 in 416 inning-
Three Shutouts In Seri**
’he greatest pitching feat of
\ bv Mat tv
i urn
And hh i
-.red Brown
lc*f| glorio
.ail history
itty had
1st pitching
r pitched or
ns1 Mathew
-11 idol lie
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I game
rl Series when
ude his famous
els with Three
f the Cubs roll
chapters t'1
hone scruples
-n Sunday, and
the Sabbath,
m was more
is an ideal
'Baby Of All Rookies'
Younn Frank Zak Impresses Manager rrisch
And He's Only 19 Plus Being 4-F In vkaft
By DILLON GRAHAM
AP Features Sports Editor
MIJNCIE, Ind. The army’s
need for teen-aged boys has just
about eliminated the usual crop
of wet-behind-the-ears kid rook-
ies at the maim league training
camps this year.
But here at the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates’ camp there’s one who may
be the baby of 1943’s small bunch
of youngsters.
He is Frank Zak. a Polish hoy 1
of l*i from Passaic, N. J.
Zak is a shortstop and his flair
for fielding soon caught the sharp
eves of Pilot Frankie Frisch The
bey can really go arid get 'em.
He can stan quickly and pivot
on a dime He's a little on the
short side and thin, weighing
around 150 And, as one tellow
remarked meaning it ,is a < - m
plimtril, Zak is a hungry looking
ball playei That’ the kind who
are hustleis, who haven't tasted
success.
Quick Starter
Frank played on the Passaic
American Legion baseball team,
and on the high school nine. He
had to leave school after tthree
year s and bring in some money
to help support his mother. So he
entered pro ball two years ago
with tiie Class D Tarboro club
of the Coastal Plain league in
North Carolina.
When that league folded, Pitts-
burgh offered him a job with
their Hornell, N. Y., farm team
in the Pony league. He hit around
.280 and was boosted up the lad-
der t<- Har i«biirg. Pa for this
Then come the break that may
cut several years off Znk's ad-
vance to tile majors, The Harris-
burg club withdrew from the lea-
gue and the Pirates ordered him
to report for training here
The- kid has drawn early praise
from Frisc h.
Geary’s Loss Hurts
Pittsburgh's pennant hopes took
a nose dive when shortstop Huek
Geary elected to continue his
work in a defense plant and the
army called Ditcher Ken Hoint-
zeiman. Geary was expected to
add much strength to the infield.
Now Frisch h.e hi d to reshuffle
he infield nUne ind ha- come up
wit! ; n expenmenl switching
frank Gustiue irmn second to
ho rt and Pete t -scarart from
short to seeono it nun . n may
not work, but Pete was originally
a second baseman and Gurtine
was a shorn to > until he came
to the Pirates
X k probab.lv will tie retained
a a utility infielder--he’s 4F in
the di it! and Ft >eh can count on
having him all season James Cul-
linanc from Albnnv is a nice look-
ing pmspc; t but he niav he army-
bound. Film.* Fletcher at first and
Bob Elliott at third round out tthe
infield.
Hemt/.elman’s loss was a blow
out o , n v. uli .ut him the I*irates'
I o.rhinr is better than fair Frisch
l ,.s Truetl Sew- , John banning,
t: i Khngi ilank Gomicki.
LVvd Diet- , ud Albeit Max But
clu i Rio - 1 tan-o and Aid*>n Wil-
kie may be available1 Best among
e r- .kit nr- poets are Wallace
Andrew Hebert, a 35-year-old
thins1 vclm won !” games for
S n Dies, Xavier Frederick Res-
ign* . v ho c pped 33 for Al-
banv and had an e xcellent earned
run average of 1. 6; Jack Hallett,
il;ir- v Soman and Bill Brandt
from To «ato Hebert looks like n
sure1, shot
Vince DiMnggi" is slated for
, eni- ■: >» i again with John Bar
ett Frank ( vlman. Jim Russell.
Jim Wasdell, Maurice Van Ro-
i v a: l .! an Wvrostek battling
ice ■ * n • Th*1 presence
• t the veteran Ai Lopez guaran-
tees goon catching.
“Net a aari club," Frisch con-
cedes.
CRONIN LONGEST MANAGER
BOSTON. Mass oPi—-Joe Cron-
in, starting his ninth season as
manager of the Red Sox has held
th* mb longer than any previous
mentor Bill ( origan the old
catcher, had ix full seasons and
part ->! another season to be run-
ner-up.
CAIRO, 111. — Walker Cooper,
St. Louis Card catcher, won the
halfway down ihe course he lost $5 offered by a club follower for
his trunks and had to quit racing
to dive for them. . . “Oh, well,”
he commented as he climbed out
of the pool, "It’s a change from
riding trains and checking up on
passes.”
.274.
GRID HEADS TO MEET
CHICAGO, April 5—(ZP)—Exe-
cutives of the National Football
league- meet tomorrow to plan for
the professional game’s opening
kickoff of 1943.
ready is a big leaguer. He's a
star performer on the Baltimore
American., Soccer club. . . When
Aggie Nine Opens
Defense Of Tiile
Against Rice Owls
COLLEGE STATION, April 5
—UP)—The Texas Aggies begin
defense o ftheir Southwest Con-
ference baseball championship
here tomorrow when they open
a two-game series with Rice.
The Owls started the race last
week by dropping two tilts to
the first home run hit in a camp
game this season. He turned the
trick yesterday but his brother,
Mort, could have collected the
prize three innings earlier if he
had shown the same speed on the
paths that he displays on the
mound.
Mort lashed out a long hit but
jogged only as far as third base.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — After
the weekend series with Ihe
Chicago Cubs, Ihe Detroit Tig-
ers settled down today for their
final week of drills here. Yes-
terday's game was the 1943 de
but of Tommy Bridges and al-
lowed the National leaguers on-
iy ihree nils in four innings.
Elaborate Racing
Program Planned
DETROIT. April 5—UP)—With
state sanction for a 73-day meet-
ing from May 22 to Aug. 14, the
Detroit Racing Association today
proceeded with plans for its
most elaborate program since
horse betting was legalized in
Michigan in 1933.
A purse distribution of $920,000
is planned.
WILMINGTON. Del. — Frankie
Skaff. rookie infielder from Vil-
Adolf Kiefer finally was beaten Texas. 7team’the Aggies meet at j Ionova college, may be the sec-
ALL NOT ALWAYS HONEY
SOUTH ORANGE. N. J. (/P>—
Honey Russell who has had sen-
sational success at Seton Hall
College didn’t always have it nice
j and pleasant. When he first took
the coaching job there was no
j gym and no place for the basket-
i ball team to practice. AH games
were played away in his first sea-
son. Then came the $750,000 gym
and success.
in a backstroke swimming race
Saturday, it was his first defeat
in something like 250 races.
Adolph admitted he had lost
Austin Friday and Saturday.
Mary Baker G. Eddy was born
July 16, 1821.
NIGHT GAME CHAMPS
ST. LOUIS, Mo. /Pi—The St
Louis Browns won the night game
honors in 1942. The American
Leaguers won 16 of their 23 aft-
er-dark contests.
Question Of Draft More Important
Now Than Boy's Athletic Ability
AUSTIN, April 5—f/P)—'When
a coach goes after ari athlete
these days he doesn't bother too
much about the boy’s ability. The
prime question becomes:
Is he over 18 years of age and
how does he stand with his draft
board?
In other words, sports in war-
time will be taken over by the
accomplishment brought the high
school division of the relays
country-wide publicity for the
first time.
The only records broken were
in the schoolboy class. Thomas
Jefferson (San Antonio) ran the
440-yard relay in 43.4 seconds,
just one second over the Nation-
al mark, in addition to Coulter’s
schoolboys and there was no bet- j feat.
ter illustration of that fact than The Texas relays arc not run
the Texas relays here Saturday. j on a point basis but a recapitula-
Iligh school participation in the tion by counting first places five,
relays was as heavy as usual, with second place three and so on
more than 300 entries. But the would show that the University
colleges, universities and service of Texas topped the university-
ond baseman for the Philadelphia
Americans for some time to come.
He got into yesterday’s brush
with the Phillie because Irving
Hall complained of a sore arm
and slapped out a homer, double
and single and handled eight
chances without an error.
RISKS TITLE BOUT
PHILADELPHIA. April 5—(VP)
—Bob Montgomery risks a title
bout with Lightweight Champion
Beau Jack in meeting Roman Al-
varez of New York in a 10-round
b*ni1 here tonight.
FRENCH LICK. Ind.—The Chi-
cago Cubs, who defeated the De-
troit Tigers yesterday by a 7 to 5
score on Charlie Gelbert’s fluke
three run homer, today awaited
the arrival of the Cincinnati
Reds for a game on Tuesday.
The cauliflower is a modified
flower bud.
THEY'D KNOW HIM ANYWHFRE: Ensign Cornelius Warmerdam, greatest of pole vaulters is spot
ted by youthful admirers at North Carolina Navy Prc-Flight School, and oblidges with an autograph.
OUR BOARDING HOUSE wifh MAJOR HOOPLE OUT OUR WAY
E6AD SAKE.' AFTER. SUCH T
LONG IDLENESS IT'G —^
By WILLIAMS
Manpower Chief Paul McNutt
predict* our armed forces by
the end of 1943 will total 11,-
000.000 men, including 10 out of
•very 14 able-bodied men be-
tween 18 and 28.
teams combined had only 200.
The schoolboys took advantage
of their increased importance and
put <>n quite a show. Headlining
their feats—and in fact head-
lining the entire relay carnival
—was the great throw by Dewitt
Coulter, giant Masonic Home
* Fort Worth' shot putter.
Coulter pitched the 12-pound
ban 59 feet IVfe inches to smash
the National scholastic record by
three and one-half inches. This
college class with 28 points. Okla-
homa A and M., principally
through the efforts of the brilliant
Ralph Tate, was second with 23.
In the service team class the
Hondo Navigation school scored
ten points to lead the field.
In the high' school division the
Thomas Jefferson team made 23
points to finish ahead by a wide
margin. Austin was second with
13 points and John Regan (Hous-
ton » was third with 12.
EXPERT ADVICE FOR HAAS
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. f/P)—
Bert Haas, the Cincinnati Reds’
third baseman, is showing great
improvement this season. He has
been getting special attention
from Coach Hans Lobert and mus-
cle magician Bill Miller. Lobert
has been showing Haas how he
used to handle the hot corner, and
Miller is teaching Bert to relax
as he goes to field the ball.
TOO BAD SOU BECAME
SEASICK NOUR FIRST
ON THAT FERRY-
BOAT JOB / — CAN
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CHAMPION EATER
NEW YORK, f/P)—Ball players
are always talking about their
steaks and “big eaters.” Many
claim that Shanty Hogan, the I
Giants' big receiver was the «king
nf plate cleaners but a restaurant
man here, who has seen them all.
says big Jim Weaver, former
Yankee pitcher, was the cham-
pion.
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