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i'AGK TWENTY-TWO i THE MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE: FRIDAY JUNE 14 1940 A fl J.J. pens JL lor li OJILIL 1 I 1 ija i IWBDOWN FOR THE CHAMP SPORTOGRAPHS By Bob Consdine li3. Russ Ford, Noted Mill City Hurler, Prospers in Ar. I'. Kimberlin Nips Louisville, 3-0, In Four-Hitter Also Drives in a Run as Toledo Triumphs; Fans Sinpton Thrice Rice Hurdler's Coach Seeks to Loosen His Hips Brunson Expects Sensation in Highs Army, Navy Send One Man Each Med wick and Davis Holster Brooklyn In Pennant Drive -By GEORGE 1 THE ACQUISITION of Joe (Ducky) Medwick, slugging outfielder, and Pitcher Curt Davis from the St.

Louis Cardinals, will increase immeasurably the Brooklyn Dodgers' chances of winning the National League pennant. The Dodgers were formidable enough before Larry MacPhail dug into the Brooklyn club's coffers for an esti A. BARTON- George Barton 4 h- I til mated sum of $100,000 in cash and four players to obtain Medwick and Davis to round out an already powerful and well balanced team. It was common gossip during the baseball meetings last winter that MacPhail stood ready to pay Sam Breadon, owner of the Cardinals, $100,000 in cash for Medwick. MacPhail has been hot after Medwick ever since.

Breadon and his general manager, Branth Rickey, preferred to keep Med no one had eyes for him. They were watching that haunting caricature of the "tiger man," struggling in the background trying to control the frisky bag. Tho bag insisted on going east and west when Dempsey was trying to hit it north and south. Irked and winded, he finally caught up with it and hit it with a baleful left hook that made it give oft the sound of a bass drum. Then he stopped.

"Quittin' e'ready?" taunted Al Weill, the fat manager of Godoy. "I'm a ten second man, now," Dempsey smiled. He climbed through the ropes again and took his place in his corner and watched Godoy, who was a child of six or seven when Dempsey won the championship put on his helmet "Introduce them, like a regular fight Al," somebody yelled, sr Al came over toward where the newsreel mikes were planted, cleared his throat and bellowed, "This afternoon's contest is the great Jack Dempsey." Unmindful of the hoots of the English scholars in the little audience, Al struggled on manfully, introduced Godoy and finally yelled "time!" Tico Good Maulers Dempsey shuffled out of his corner, ducked his head, put up his left arm and began to plug away at Godoy's hard middl with easy body punches. Godoy, a good mauler, did the same. It went that way for a minute, with Godoy occasionally slipping away and popping Dempsey easily, but decisively, around the head.

After a minute, Weill called again, and the listless but some how facinating exhibition eem ed to be at an end. If any entrant In the NCAA meet merits the appellation of "the champ" it's Freddie Wolcott, the great Rice hurdler, champion for the past two years in both the highs and lows and a strong favorite to complete a three-year grand slam next Saturday. Wolcott also was the first of the stars to arrive, pulling into town yesterday and taking a workout at Memorial stadium. Here's Freddie getting a rubdown from Trainer Lloyd Boyce of Minnesota after his session on the track. Toledo, June 13.

(JP) Harry Kimberlin, veteran right-hander, pitched a masterful four-hit game tonight and the Mud Hens won the series opener from Louisville, to 0. The Brood rapped 10 hits off Wes Flowers and Montie Weaver, and backed Kimberlin with flaw less fielding. The Brood flinger fanned nine Colonel hitters, getting dangerous Freddy Sington three times. Kimberlin also drove in the third Toledo run with a single in the eighth, plating Mark Christman. Louisville I Toledo tb do a ab do Brrnra cf 4 0 10 Williams.

ss Morgan.cl Parks.lf 3 0 3 8 111 1 Dwver.rf 3 0 4 0 dello lb 4 14 0 3 13 0 a 0 0 Ltndrum Jb 1 0 1 0 Payton.c 1 3Talor.lb 4 4 Kbrrlin.p 0 It 0 0 Sirxton.rf 1 Lacr.e i Jordan 3b 3 Andres 2b 3 Plowerj.o I xNon ktmD MWeaver.n 3 19 1 Total 19 4 IT Totals 31 10 11 It) I Batted lor Flowera In alihth Louisville ouo 000 000 0 Toledo 001 000 1U 3 Frrurt None, Rhus batted In lindrum. Lucadtllo. Kimberlin. Two base hltj Wineiarner. Stolen base Dwver.

Sacrifices Taylor. Payton. Double play Landrum and Taylor. Left on bases Louisville Toledo 10 Bases on balls Off Flowers 3, off Kimberlin 4. off Weaver 1.

Struck out By rioweri 1. by Kimberlin a. Hits Off Flowers In 1 inninis. off M. Weaver 1 In 1 Innim Balk Kimberlin.

Losini pitcher Flowers. Lee Sherrill Stops Hoosiers WithTwoHits Columbus Hurler Allows Only Scratch Blow Until Homer in Eighth Columbus, Ohio, June 13. (TV-Lee Sherrill pitched a two-hit masterpiece tonight as the Columbus Red Birds defeated Indianapolis, 3 to 1, in the opening game of the American association series. The stellar right-hander allowed only one scratch hit until Legrant Scott homered over the right field fence in the eighth to rob him of a shutout The Red Birds tabbed Pete Sivess for six hits, including a home run by Coaker Triplett in the first inning. drove over the two other-Columbus runs in the sixth.

Indianapolis I Columbus po a Oaiateer.rf 0 1 0 Trfolett.rf an do a. 4 13 0 4 0 13 4 12 0 4 6 6 Bucher.Jb Mark, If 3 0 0 Walker West, 44 1 Jonen.lf Newman.lb I 0 8 4 14 0 3 19 0 Lang, 3b 1 0t3 BOiilni.10 0 0 3 13 0 Coorier.c I 1 6 1 3 4 1 1 1 3 0 1 Srot.t.rf Richarnj Ssvess.p 1 0 i KDR.5..!0 IHiU 1 0 0 0 Sherrill. 0 0 French, 0 0 0 1. Totals 37 3 24 14 Totals 30 6 37 Batted for Siveaa In S'h. OW 000 010 1 Columbus 100 003 OOx 3 fc.rrirs Richardson.

Blvess Runs batted Scott. Trlolett. Hitch cock, 3, Two base hits Walker. Home runs Triplett. Scott.

Sacrifices Sivess. Boiling Double pley CooDer to Repast. Left on bases Indianapolis 3. Columbus 7. Bases on balls Oft Sivess oft Sherrill 3.

Struck out Bt Stress br 8herrlll Hits off Sivess In 7 inninis, Tench 1 In 1 Inning. Passed balls Newman. Losini Ditcher Sivess. Joe Davis Wins 7th in Kow, Duluth, June 13. (-TV-Manager Joe Davis chalked up his seventh consecutive mound victory here today, a 5-1 triumph over the North ern league's leading Grand Forks Chiefs.

The Duke pilot had a shutout up to the ninth, when a double and single the visitors' only tally. Orand Forks I Duluth ao po a1 McNalr.ss 4 0 1 0 Oehler.cf sb no a 9 12 Ollx.cf 4 1 1 Cr ford. 4 0 3 3 Cearly.rf 4 13 0 Hennlnir.Jb 4 10 4 Bluer. 3 1 0 Wilson. lb 4 3 13 0 Wiirm.vlO 4 0 Witham.if Orand.

3b 4 0 0 2 nharUb 4 110 5 3 13 4 Belknap. 2b 4 3 0 Krueiter.ri 3 2 Blackman.e 3 i 1 Parker, 0 0 0 1 I xoches 0 0 Davts.o 3 0 0 3 Totals 35 1 34 8' Totals 3S 10 27 11 Ratted for firhremser In ninth Orand Forks 000 000 0011 Duluth 300 010 Olx Errors Belknan. Williams. Runs batted In Wilson. Wltham 3.

Belknap. hits Belknan. Puchleltner. Wilson 2. Three-base hit Bauer Sacrifice hit Krueger.

Stolen base oehler, Barnhart. Left on bases Grand Forks f. Duluth 14. Base on balls Off Parker 3. Bchremer 4, Davis 1.

Struck out Br Schremser 4. Dsvia Hits-Otf Parker 4 In 3-3 Innings, Schremser In 7 1-3. Wild nilch Schremfer. Hit bv pitcher Bv Schremser. iwilsoni.

Loslnt pitcher Parker. Umpires Allenger and Ridder. Time New York, June 13. (INS) Return of the valiant: The pit where the most abysmal of all the fighters of the golden era was to make his "return" was a grassy little terrace, off the road at the Carmel, N. training camp of Arturo Godoy.

The audience was composed of reporters and cameramen, a few curious natives and a little band of New Yorkers in whose eyes you could see a curious, fretful kind of nostalgia as Dempsey dropped his old gray robe and stood there in his fighting clothes. We say it was a fretful look because this was not the Dempsey they had fondly preserved in their minds the lean half-brute who knew the "jungles" of the tramp circuit and who fought like a man who had never heard of a sporting dilettante named the Marquis of Queensberry. Or ever wanted to hear of him. The memory of Dempsey grows more awesome with the years. The Gibbons, Brennan and first Tunney fights fade in the rush to remember the Dempsey of the Willard and Firpo fights.

The Dempsey who dropped that old gray robe at Carmel was a nice soft-spoken man of nearly 45, with a gentle bulge where once heaved a flat iron-hard stomach. His legs were white and soft looking and it seemed to hurt some of the old fans around the ringside to remember what they once were. Gone were the heavy-cords of muscles that were the girders of his back, and in their stead were the pink and white curves of his inactive forties. His hips and beam, once the keen base of a magnificent triangle whose upper points were the tips of his shoulders, had become broad and thick. Some Old Sign The only thing the years had left him was the jut of his old blue-black jaw line.

That and the practiced way he moved through the ropes of the ring, the way he hitched his red knit training trunks, the way he began to breathe with whistling vigor through his nose after he got through with the photographers and went to work clumsily on a punching bag that hung from a nearby support Godoy, young, strong, willing, hungry for dough and fame, was huffing around the ring, shadow-boxing from the crouch he'll use again on Louis next week. But One sip of this superb bourbon and you 11 never be satisfied wittony other Proudly tlgned by monfer dUdller JUNE 16 IS FATHER'S DAY The best It none too good for him and that means Old Taylor lottlod In lond Kentucky Straight lourbon Whiskey, of course. MntMl ttSTUOt NOMICTS T. fxcuirVe Dlttributor ID. PHILLIPS I SONS CO.

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r. Cltar lac, T. By LIONEL VAX DEERUX Fresh from his record-wrecking exploits at Princeton university. Fred Wolcott arrived in Minneapolis yesterday morning. Within three hours, he was soaking in the sunshine at Memorial stadium, opening drills for defense of his two-year high and low hurdles laurels in the forthcoming N.CA.A.

meet Accompanied by Coach Emmet Brunson, Floating Fred is Rice institute's sole N.C.A.A. entrant, but if past performances particularly those at Princeton last Saturday-are criteria, he'll do mil right as one-man team. Hips Weren't Loose Enough Wolcott tied Spec Towns' American high hurdles record, at 13.9 seconds, then breezed through the 220 lows a tenth of a second faster than Jesse Owens, present world record holder, ever ran 22.5 seconds. The low hurdles mark, run at Princeton on straightaway, can hardly be expected to fall here, with the race being run around a turn, but Brunson spoke optimistically of what he expects in the highs. "Fred had a little difficulty with his hips down at Princeton," the Rice coach explained, "I noticed all through that race in the highs which Fred barely won, incidentallythat he wasn't relaxed and loose.

He ran all right later in the lows, as the new record indicates, but rm satisfied that Fred can do something sensational in the highs before he's through. That's why I brought him up here so long before the meet He's going to work hard." Wolcott and Brunson parked their bags at the Leamington. Auburn Hurdler Also Here Another hurdler ot considerable respectability reached town yesterday Chuck Morgan, Auburn's Southeastern conference champion, who's staying at Sigma Alpha Ep-silon fraternity, on the campus. He vill work hard for a couple of days. and probably run a time trial against Wolcott Sunday or Monday.

Morgan won the Southeastern high hurdles crown in 14.7 seconds, but can do better. Army and Navy last night com pleted arrangements to send their top stars. Entries of one man each were received from the service schools, along with that of Fresno State. Both Had Been In Doubt Ralph Ross, one of the East's outstanding pole vaulters, will be the Army entrant, while Ed Hahn-enfeldt, versatile javelin, discus and shot-put performer, will come from Annapolis. Their entries had been doubtful, since Ross Is to receive his commission in the army as a second lieutenant and Hahnen-feldt was to have taken the regular summer cruise with the Midship men.

Ross is IC4A indoor champion in the polt vault with a best performance of 14 feet 2H inches. Hahnenfeldt tosses the shot 51 feet 7 inches; the discus 157 feet and the javelin 203 feet 2 inches. From Fresno, where the national A.A.U. championships will be held June 28 and 29, will come a four-man entry of champions of the Far Western conference and the West Coast relays. Tommy Nelson, Far Western 100 and 220-yard sprint champion and listed on the select all-American honor roll of track athletes, finished sixth in the 1939 NCAA century.

Bob Madrid is California conference champion in the two-mile, where his best time Is 9 minutes, 25 seconds. Seeks Peoples' Spear Title Len Sundahl, titleholder in the javelin with one of the best competitive records in the nation, will be on hand to try for the national javelin title left vacant through a recent accident to Champion Bob Peoples. Sundahl has tossed the spear 222 feet 94 inches. The fourth Fresno entrant will be George Hoffman, a 14-foot pole vaulter. Kizer, Purdue's Sport Head, Dies Lafayette, June 13.

Noble Kizer, who had put a successful football coaching career at Purdue university behind him although only 40 years of age, died today of a kidney ailment and high blood pressure. He was taken to a hospital only last Monday. The same Illness forced Kizer to quit coaching in July, 1937, and take a vacation of a year and a half. He resumed his duties as ath letic director at Purdue in 1939 but relinquished the football coaching position to Mai Elward. Kizer was a guard on Notre Dame's national championship "four horsemen" team of 1924.

The team was coached by the late Knute Rockne. Purdue teams played 88 games and lost only 13 in the seven years that Kizer was coach. The 1931 eleven tied for the Weslern conference championship. Kizrr's team was unbeaten the next year and won the Big Ten title. Staff oboto Indians Demand Vitt Be Fired as Cleveland Pilot (Continued from Preceding Page) are a good ball club and we've got a chance to win the pennant but if he manages the team all year we'll be lucky to fin ish fourth." Several incidents on the recent eastern trip were reported to have brought the protest to a head.

On Tuesday, Bob Feller, ranked by many the best pitcher in base ball, was being hit hard by the Boston Red Sox. The Plain Dealer quotes players as describing Vitt's verbal reaction thus: "Look at him! He's supposed to be my ace! I'm supposed to win a pennant with that kind of pitch ing." Feller was reported to have heard the comment as he stood on the pitching mound. Vitt became manager of the team in the spring of 1938 after the dismissal of Steve O'Neill, now pilot of Buffalo's International league club. The team finished third that year. Vitt clashed frequently with his players during the 1939 unrest his troubles with Julius Solters (now with Chicago), Jeff Heath and Roy Weatherly becoming known publicly.

According to players much of the friction was caused by Vitt's open criticism of the three to writers, fans and other players. Browns Trounce Muncie Club, 7-2 Muncie, June 13. VP) The St. Louis Browns hammered out a to 2 exhibition baseball victory over the Muncie Citizens of the Indiana-Ohio league tonight before 6,000 fans. St.

Louis (AD JK 001 5007 10 4 Muncie H-O 1,1 02O OC0 0007 10 3 Batteries BUd.lll. Kramer. Cox and Orace. Susce: Braun. fimlth, Archlnskl and Rot Brann.

Savold Kayoes Bruce in Fourth Waterloo, Iowa, June 13. CT) Lee Savold of Des Moines knocked out Red Bruce, Pittsburgh Negro, in the fourth round of their sched uled 10-round heavyweight fight Umight wick as they, too, realized they would have to produce a pennant winner in St. Louis this season in order to increase their attendance over last year. They learned to their sorrow they made a mistake in not letting Medwick go because he has sulked since joining the team. Breadon and Rickey had many a headache signing Medwick to a contract for 1940.

They haggled with him until the season opened before bringing him into the fold. Having heard MacPhail would pay him a salary of $25,000 a season if he could get him from St. Louis, Medwick no doubt has "soldiered" on Breadon and Rickey after being forced to sign for an estimated salary of $15,000. Dissatisfied Players a Liability KNOWING THAT a dissatisfied ball player is of no value to a team, Breadon and Rickey decided the only sensible thing to do was sell Medwick to Brooklyn. Ducky not only failed to put out 100 per cent effort himself, but his loafing tactics caused dissension, among his teammates.

Unless we are vastly mistaken, you will see Medwick perk up more than somewhat and fairly play his head off for Brooklyn, what with a substantial increase in salary and an opportunity to get a slice of world series plunder next fall. Certainly, Medwick is a far better ball player than he has shown with the Cardinals this season. He happens to be one of the best outfielders and hitters in the major Jeagues. Ducky never has batted under .300 since joining the Cardinals in 1932. His best year as a hitter was in 1937 when he slugged the old apple for .374.

He hit for a total of 406 bases and drove in 154 runs. He won the National league batting championship and was voted the league's most valuable player that year. Medwick batted .332 last year and drove in 117 runs. Ducky is only 28 years old, is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds. He bats and throws right-handed.

Curt Davis, a right-handed pitcher, won 22 game9 for the Cardinals last year. Like Medwick, he has sulked this season because his salary didn't meet with his approval. He'll be in a happier frame of mind with Brooklyn, where his salary will be upped substantially. Russ Ford Heard From WE LEARN from a mutual friend that Russ Ford, former Minneapolis pitcher who gained fame with the New York Yankees when they were known as the Highlanders, is residing in New York, has prospered, and is the father of two married daughters. Ford, who was graduated from college as a civil engineer, has been associated with a large contracting firm in New York city since his retirement from baseball in 1916.

Russ, pitched for the Highlanders from 1908 until 1912 during which he was one of the leading hurlers of the American league. During the years Ford was active, pitchers were permitted to resort to the spitball. Ford perfected the "emery ball" which made his delivery virtually unhittable. Ford learned that by roughing one side'of the ball with a piece of emery paper, which he kept concealed in his glove, he could make the pellet break in a manner that completely baffled opposing batters. Use of emery paper and sandpaper was illegal, but Ford got away with it for years under the pretense that he was throwing the spitter.

While on the mound, Russ would go through, all the motions of rubbing saliva on the ball, meantime roughing it with emery paper. Russ is a brother of Gene Ford, who pitched for Minneapolis and Indianapolis of the American association. Both were graduates of the Minneapolis sandlots. Ted Toimcman Erstwhile Mat Star ED TONNEMAN of Chicago, who refereed the wrestling match between "The Angel" and Alford Johnson the Minneapolis auditorium last Tuesday night, was an outstanding middleweight wrestler in a day of great grapplers. We'll name some of the 160-pound wrestlers Tonne-man matched skill, strength and stamina with: Jimmy Meyers, Mike Yokel, Walter Miller, Chris Jordan, Joe Carr, Waino Ketonen, Gu3 Kallio, Ralph Parcaut, Johnny Fischer, Ed Adamson, Charley Postl, Fred Eartl, Harvey Parker and Ed Atherton.

"What a lot of great wrestlers they were!" Tonne-man mused, while he and your correspondent remjnisced in his dressing-room before he went into the ring. We nodded our assent because we had refereed for all rthe middlewcights Ted named. Cubs Nose Out Cooperstown Cooperstown, N. June 13. JP The Chicago Cubs scored six runs in the seventh inning today to defeat the Boston Red Sox, 10 to 9, in an exhibition game played on historic Doubleday field, birthplace of baseball Rain halted the contest at the end fthe seventh.

The Cubs' nine hits included homers by Stanley Hack, Bill Nicholson, Jim Gleeson and Bob Collins. Ted Williams hit two home runs for the Red Sox and let a 13-hit assault on Jake Mooty and Ken Raffensberger of the Cubs. Bob Grove, Herb Hash, Fritz Os- termueller and Emerson Dickman toiled on the mound for the losers. Dominic Di Maggio of the Red Sox suffered a bruised face when he crashed into the seats while catch ing a fly in center field. 1 Chicago mt 301 000 Boston (Ai 030 100 tC.ttWpA aeventh pain 10 1 9 11 4 Batteries Mooty.

Raffensberter (9 snd Todd. Collins tSi; Grove. Hash (3), Olter-muelier 16; and Gienn. Joe Armstrong Wins NW Boy's Tennis Crown It's little Joe Armstrong again. The peewee back-hander from St Paul Central high school won, asJ expected, in the Northwest inter-scholastic tournament at Minneapolis Tennis club yesterday, defeat ing John Chapman of Cretin high, 8-4, 8-2, 8-1.

Chapman earlier had gained the final bracket with a 6-4, 6-1 conquest of West's Don Gunnar, the last Minneapolis boy to go out Finals in the doubles will be played today, with McGee and Geist of University high opposing Adams and Moore of St. Paul Wash ington. The latter pair pulled real upset yesterday by overcom ing Armstrong and Mel Mark of St. Paul Central, 6-1, 0-8, 6-2. The results: SINfilKA ISeml-flnala John chapman, faul Cretin, defeated Don (Junnar.

west. -4 iFlnalu Joe Armtron. Jr St. Paul CentrtL aeieatea coapman. n-v -i.

DOVBI.F. (Reml-tlnall McClee and Oemt. Universlt itr hirh. de- tested Bwanson ana peck. Mtnneapolls, e-ii.

-i. Adams and Moore, n. Fau wash nton defeated Mark and Armstrong. At. Paul central.

u-s. e-s Powdcrhorns Win Playground Title The Powderhorn Juniors won the South District Playground baseball Title by defeating Lake Hiawatha 8-4 yesterday. The Lorlng teams defeated the Peavey Field clubs in two divisions, the Midgets winning 14-4 and the Juniors 13-3. Today, at 3 p. the playground teams tangle again to decide the Central District TiUisla with the Midgets playing on Parade 8 and the Jun iors at Peavey Field.

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