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Green Bay Press -Gazette SPORTS AND MARKETS GREEN BAY, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1942 Running Minor League Chain Is a Headache It's Bad Enough in Normal Times; War Finds New Troubles Bluejays Face in First Ladies' Night Tilt Stocking-Footed Hudson Perow Breaks Tape in Fast 40 tstt Essex Assigned to Pitch Final Of Series; Smithmen Lose, 5-2 Tonight's Contest Will Start at 8 o'Clock; Henrichs, Former University of Wisconsin Hurler, Shows Class in Brief Relief Spell By KAY PAGKL Green Bay's Bluejays will seek revenge for their 5 to 2 setback Friday evening, their first defeat in six starts of the Wisconsin State league season, when they play another game with the Wisconsin Rapids White Sox before a Ladies' night crowd here at 8 o'clock tonight. Except that Green Bay was on the short end, Friday night's game was" St7 Leading WISCONSIN STATE LEAGUE Pet fiRKKV BAY Apiilt-lnn 4 6 WisKinsin Rapids 3 MirhuvKan ...3 Oshkovh 3 Konrt du Lac 2 I.tt Crime .033 .667 .500 .429 .288 223 Friday's Kesults WIS. KAI'ins r.REEN BAY 2. Miphoyjiun 9. I.

a Crosie 2. 3, ApplHlnn 2. JjihsvIHb 2, I-ond du Lac 0. Tonight's Gamrs WIS. riS AT GREEN BAY.

Osliknsh Applrlun. Mieboveaii at La f'rnsr. I uuil du Lac at Janesville. Sunday's Games filtr.KN BAY AT JANESVILLE. Applrlun at Oshkmh.

Mirhovican at lVirnln Rapldl, Konii du Lac at La Crosse. Hudson Perow captain of the championship Fort Howard team, is showing breaking the tape in the 40-yard dash during the all-city grade school track meet at City stadium Friday eve ning. Perow ran all of his races in his stocking feet. The picture shows (left to right) Donald Fisher N.colet; Bob O'Conncll, Howe; Perow; Bruce Shaha, Norwood; and Warren Vanderleest, Whitney. Jim Noaglund, Llmore, who finished second ran the inside lane and is not shown.

Rapids Batting CHICAGO PV One of the American association's hardest-hitting infield trios in years was leading St. Paul up the ladder in statistics compiled through Thursday noon. First Baseman Thil Weinlraub, Second Baseman Frank Drews and Third Baseman Jimmy Grant were running one-tvvo-three in the batting race, just as they were a week ago, but were not hitting as high as last week. Weinlraub slipped from .397 to .385 with a total of 37 hits in 96 trips to the plate. Drews fell from .391 to .369, and Grant from .378 to .364.

The combination also helped make Taul the second best fielding team with a .971 percentage. Milwaukee and Kansas City were tied at for third. Weintraub also was first In doubles with 12. The home run lead was held by Hub Walker, of Minneapolis, with 10 while Joe Bestudik, of Indianapolis, claimed the triple perch with six. Russ Meers, of Milwaukee, neither won nor lost during the week to maintain his pitching record of four triumphs and no defeats.

Fights Last Night By the Associated Press NEW YORK Bob Pastor, 183' 4. New York, drew with Tami Mauriello, 17734, New York, (10). HOLLYWOOD Jimmy Garrison. 145, Kansas City, outpointed Rodolfo Ramirez, 1444, Mexico City, (10). mmmm wMWM il in Hinkle Is lieutenant I UP in u.b.

uast buard The Box Score: wis. RAi'ins An po A Sirnrlrh, 3b 2 2 0 0 3 I'rlrhc 4 1 0 0 I ShlrliH, rf 4 1 2 2 0 Slantlrrd, ct 4 12 3 0 oinlnskv, 4 0 0 4 0 li'ske. If 4 2 0 MrCarthv, lb 3 0 0 10 touts. ii 4 0 14 4 3 0 0 1 4 'intern, 0 0 0 1 1 Totals 32 5 5 27 13 OUFXN BAY AB TO A Oildo. 2b 3 0 2 1 2 PiTthi-1, cf 4 1 0 1 1 Kl'lant 10OOO (iilli-Milp, lb 4 0 lo I rdmaii, rf 4 0 0 0 0 Tlmm, If 4 1 0 0 Swittel, 3h 4 0 10 1 Kiiinlr.

ks 1 1 0 1 4 Hausman, 2 0 0 13 Tl'atnrk 10OOO Itaridant, 0 1 0 Murlciier, 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 4 Toiala 32 2 7 27 12 By HUGH Fl'LLERTOX JR. Hide World Sports Columnist NEW YORK Think you have headaches? How'd you like to trade for the job of running a chain of minor league clubs for some big-league outfit? Be sides the normal supply of hold outs, sore arms, injuries, this season you jwfwyf have players taking defense jobs where they can make more dough, night games being ruled if your park is too near the coast, customers from out of town staying at home lo save their precious gas Fullerton and tires, that new ruling against chartering buses and maybe six patches on the right rear tire of the bus your Class team owns, a lot of hurry-up calls to replace players who were drafted or enlisted and on top of all that, you don't know whether to go out and sign up a lot "of promising 16 and 17-year-old kids for next year because you don't know whether you'll have any clubs operating. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: In three years as a member of the Temple U. track team, Johnny Lupoli never was able to win a race Last spring he derided to rail it quits and play baseball instead But when examinations kept him from taking: a southern trip with the ball team, he asked to go along with the track squad on a shorter jaunt Johnny won both the 100 and 220-yard dashes against Buck-nell, and now he swears he'll never again train for sprinting. SERVICE Lieutenant George (Blitzkrieg) Barr, one of the Yanks who bombed Tokio, got his nickname when he was a member of the Northland college basketball team at Ashland, that ran up a great winning streak a few years ago And two of his flying mates, Lieutenants Howard A.

Sesslcr and Gene McGurl used to play a lot of hockey around Boston Sessler played for a while with the Boston Olympics. Fans at the Polo grounds are eliminating the middle man by grabbing baseballs hit into the stands and tossing them to the nearest service man. CALLING THE SHOTS: Playing golf in a friendly foursome at Chattanooga, the other Sunday, Harry Odom and his partner were one down at the last tee. Both their rivals made good tse shots for easy birdies on the short hole and one of them kidded: "Well, boys, nothing but a hole in one will save you" The challenge couldn't be resisted; Odom whacked his shot right into the cup. li il ll ack ONE YEAR AGO TODAY May 23, 1941 The Bluejays again beat Oshkosh, 11-8 here last night, with Bud Herman the winning pitcher, and by so doing moved into the first division of the Wisconsin State league Ordie Timm and Dick Ronovsky hit home runs for Green Bay Le Roy Floriano has been named St.

Norbert college's most valuable athlete Johnny Lakars, bean-ed Bluejay catcher, is recovering at St. Vincent hospital East and West athletes compete at the 46th state track meet at Madison tomorrow. FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY May 23, 1937 The Green Sox scored six runs in the first inning but lost a Northern State league game to Two Rivers, 12 to 6 Aupielon's Terrors won Hie Fox 31 Si iS tm sssaa 3 Set Star Fullback of Packers Is 112th Man From '41 National League Roster to Enter Armed Services; Veteran of Past 10 Seasons Here Clarke Hinkle, star fullback for the Green Bay Packers during the past seven seasons, has been sworn into the United States Coast Guard as a lieutenant, according to an announcement from the Chicago office today. No details were available, but it was believed that Hinkle thoroughly enjoyed by the 520 fans. It was the largest home crowd of the season so far, and it also was the warmest night the weatherman has provided.

Appleton was defeated by Oshkosh, 3 to 2, so Ihe Bluejays managed to protect their first place margin of one game. Bob Kssex, a veteran from last year's championship team, is to pitch tonight. Wisconsin Rapids scored two runs in the first frame and the other three in the third, all off Les Studener, rookie hurler from Milwaukee. Masterful relief ball was pitched by Bob llcnrichs, a Door county youth who was signed up only Friday morning by Manager Red Smith. Not satisfied with a good pitching performance, he also clouted two doubles, one of them good for a run.

llenrichs was a star on the University of Wisconsin nine during his undergraduate days. During summer vacations he played with amateur clubs in this section, and Green Bay teams frequently faced him with disastrous results to themselves. Last year llenrichs played with Clinton of the Three-Eye league and Fort Smith, but his arm went bad and he was forced to take a rest. Manager Smith is convinced that he is back in shape again, and believes he will be a valuable addition to an already strong pitching staff, llitless Until Fourth The Bluejays didn't get a hit off Max Patkin until the fourth inning, and then their two bin-gles were ruined by an infield grounder and a double play. They scored one run in the sixth and the other in the seventh, getting a hit each time.

It was a fine ball game for the Bluejays despite their defeat. They got seven hits off Pitcher Patkin and Relief Hurler Teagen, who took over the hill duties in the ninth when Patkin showed signs of weakening. Simcich, first batter up for the Rapids in the initial frame, took a pass to first. Shields followed with a single, and Standerd gained life on an unsuccessful play on Simcich, who crossed the plate with the first tally. Shields went all the way lo third, and scored when Cominsky grounded out to short.

Safe On Bad Throw Studener struck out two batters in the second, and the other grounded to shoit. In the third, however, Simcich walked again, and Friebe was safe on a bad throw by Tom Swittel, the third baseman. Shields brought Simcich home on a flyout, and Standerd singled, scoring Priebe and going to second on the throw. llenrichs relieved Studener at this point, but Standerd stole third and counted Wisconsin Rapids' fifth run when Cominsky ground ed to the second baseman. In the sixth inning, with one away, Bob Perthel walked for the Bluejays, and Earl Gillespie also received a pass.

Mel Erdman was safe on a fielder's choice that nabbed Gillespie, Perthel ad vancing to third base. Ordie Timm's double to center, on the first ball pitched, scored Perthel. llenrichs' Double Counts Nick- Kamzie led off the sev enth inning for Green Bay with a walk. Catcher Joe Hausman struck out, but Pitcher Ilen- Nova, Savold Hope To Fight Monday WASHINGTON (U.R) The Lou Nova-Lee Savold heavyweight fight, postponed Friday night because of weather for the second time, will be held Monday night, with officials hopeful the delay will boo.st gate receipts. A large percentage of the receipts will go to navy relief and early ticket sales indicated the navy's share will reach $20,000.

If Nova, who is rated a 2 to 1 choice, beats Savold he probably will get his second shot at Champion Joe Louis sometime this year. Louis beat him in six rounds last fall. A victory for Savold would probably mean his first bout with Louis. The Des Moines fightef has won 18 straight in his campaign for a title bout. Jays to Battle Brewer Lineup Milwaukee Team of AA To Play in Exhibition In Green Bay June 1 The Milwaukee Brewers, currently leading the American association race, will meet the Green Bay Bluejays in an exhibition battle here at 8 o'clock Monday evening.

June 1, it was announced today by Manager Red Smith. A huge crowd turned out for a similar exhibition last year, and the Bluejay management, despite the fact that tne new park is much larger, is anticipating a 1 capacity attendance. Ticket Distributed Tickets were distributed today, and may be purchased throughout next week at the Gordon Bent and Bertrand sporting goods stores, the Congress, Club Dash-nier, Sthweger's West Side Drug store, and the Shaughnessy Drug store. They also Will be available tonight at the ball park, during the game with Wisconsin Rapids. Fans who do not find it convenient to call for their tickets may telephone the Bluejays office at Howard 4259.

The office is in Room 507 of the Northern building. Prices for the Brewer exhibition are 55 cents for general admission and 75 cents for box seats. Season boxes or Bluejay ticket books will not be honored. Manager Smith expressed the belief that the fans will welcome a game with the Brewers, with whom the Bluejays have an informal agreement. The Brewers have many followers in Green Bay, and interest is particularly great this year because of the team's success in the association race.

Play At Following the game tonight the Bluejays will take their first extended road trip of the season, playing at Janesville Sunday and Monday, at La Crosse Tuesday and Wednesday, and at Wisconsin Rapids Thursday and Friday. ti, winninv will return home on Memorial day, Saturday, May 30, for a game wun ppieion in the afternoon. That night they are billed at Appton. Sunday, May 31. there wilt be two games with La Crosse, at 2:30 in the afternoon and 8 o'clock at night, in order to provide an open date for the Milwaukee exhibition the following day.

East, West In Net Meet Jake Zilber Heads Red Devil Lineup in Finals at Manitowoc Green Bay East had three men and West one in the semi-finals of the Fox River Valley conference tennis tournament at Manitowoc today after opening matches Friday afternoon. Jake Zilber, East reached the semis of the singles while the Red Devil doubles team bf John Fon-ferek and Jim Gunn was in the semis. Gene Mathews was West's only representative in the semifinals events. Zilber eliminated Roy Dorn of West. 6-2, 7-5 and then stopped Bill Zimmerman of Manitowoc, 6-3, 6-4.

Mathews eliminated Everett Schlader of East, 6-3, 6-1, after dnnninK Mever of Manitowoc, 8-6, Schlader trimmed Luedt- nchWnch fi-3. h-z. ann i.mn- bcrg of Appleton, 6-3, 6-4, before losing to Mathews. Zohlan vs. Zilber Dick Kramer of East, after beating Geidel of Central, 6-0, 6-1, handed Carl Keip of Fond du Lac his first defeat of the season, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1.

Kramer fell before Zohlan of North, 6-0, 6-1. Zohlan is booked for finals with Zilber. In other singles matches, Al Gillis cf West beat Krueger of Fond du Lac, 6-2, 6-3, but lost to Dahl of Oshkosh, 6-2, 6-3, before losing to Zilber. The East doubles team defeated Manitowoc, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2, while West's doubles team, Don DuBois and Warren Cartier, lost its first match to Appleton, 6-2, 6-2. Glove Is Lost A member of the Wisconsin Rapids baseball team lost his glove during the game with the Bluejays Friday night.

Anyone having found it is urged to contact either the lost and found department at the police station or the Bluejay office in Room 507 of the Northern building, Adams The player is anxious to recover the glove, since it represented a $9 investment. Railed for Prrthrl In 9th. rlt.it I cd for llau-iman In 8th. Score By Innings Wisconsin Rapids Green Hay 203 000 OOO 000 001 1002 The Summary I rrnrs Shields. Oddo, Swittel.

Runs batted In Standerd 2. Shields 2, Tinini. Ilenrjchs. Two-base nils llenrlrhs Timm. Lamed runs-Wisconsin Rapids ft.

Green Hay 2. Stolen base Standerd. Double plays Patkin lo Kouts lo McCarthy, Teagen to McCarthy. Left on base Wisconsin Rapids 3. Green II.iv 10.

Bases on balls Patkin 7, of Studener 2. off llenrichs I. Struck out bv Patkin 5, br Studener 2. bv llenrlchi Hits off Patkin. in I Innincs; off Teagen 1 in I innlni; off studener 2 in 2 1-3 innings: nlf llenrichs, 3 in 8 2-3 Inn-Iiirs.

Winning pitcher Patkin. Losing pilrher Sludener. l'mpire La-fond. Smogoleskl, Rowe. Time Attendance 310.

Janesville Defeats Fondy by 2-0 in Hour, 33 Minutes Janesville turned back Fond du Lac, 2 to 0, on John Warsaw's three-hit hurling in the Wisconsin State Baseball league Friday night. The game was played in an hour and 33 minutes, believed to be a new league record. Sheboygan combined 10 hits and 11 walks off three La Crosse pitchers for a 9 to 2 victory. Oshkosh edged out a 3 to 2 win Aver Appleton when Santo Filip-po, Appleton fielder, dropped a fly ball which led to the tying and winning markers. richs, connecting on the first ball pitched to him, doubled Kamzie home.

llenrichs started the ninth with another two-bagger, but died on base after Teagen relieved vmia mm mmwm wmt Pastor, Louis To Fight Again Draw With Mauriello Won't Stop Plans for Summer Title Battle By SID FEDER NEW YORK P) The understatement of the year would be to fay today that the look on Joe Louis' face was one of simple surprise when he heard the announcement that gave Tami Mauriello a draw with Bob Pastor. And since Promoter Mike Jacobs felt the same way, Uncle Mike said today he "didn't see why" the outcome of Friday night's ten-round thriller in Madison Square garden "should change whatever plans are in the making" for a late-June or early-July tussle between Rapid Robert and the Bomber. Depend On Army Of course, everything still hinged on whether Uncle Sam's army would give Mike and Private Joe the green light for that fight. It the okay comes along, Mike indicated he would go ahead, despite what happened Friday night. The chances are, however, that for various reasons the fight will go to Cleveland or Chicago, instead of New York, with the Ohio city in front just now.

Those at ringside came pretty close to being unanimous that Pastor had whipped Mauriello, in fpite of the Fordhnm flailer's fast start, and a finish in which he and Bob stood head to head and banged away for minutes at a time. A crowd of 11,327 customers chipped to a gross pot of $22,972. Of 25 boxing writers polled, 22 thought Pastor won, two agreed with the draw decision and one believed Mauriello finished on top. This corner gave Pastor six rounds, Mauriello two and called two even. "I Think Pastor Won" Joe was with the majority.

Louis remarked to the fellow next to him, "I think Pastor won." And even Joe's customary deadpan popped in astonishment when Announcer Harry Baloch broadcast the "draw" verdict. Judge Charley Draycott called it for Tami, Judge Marty Monroe balloted for Pastor and Referee George Walsh voted a draw. Cleveland loomed as a likely spot for the Pastor-Louis shindig largely because of blackout regulations here, and because Manager Jimmy Johnston said Pastor wuuid never light here again. There was a rumor that the irmy had okayed the fight for July 7, but Jacobs and the army denied this. Titleholders Low In Bowling Event MILWAUKEE IO The Rov-ick Bowling Shoe squad, of Chicago, which won the team title last year's International Women's Bowling Congress at Los Angeles, fell far below in this year's competition as it totaled 2514 Friday night for 15th place in current standings.

The Rovicks hit" 2611 at Los Angeles. A similar score this year would have placed them no higher than fourth. Fifth spot in team standings was taken over by the Goranson 20 Allev team, also of Chicago, with 2635. Helen Rickey, Denver. rolled 602 to go into a 10th place tic in the singles.

In booster team competition, Fruit Industries, Chicago, totaled 2310 to take second behind the Miller High Lite team, of Kenosha, which posted 2326 Thursday night. L3 will be assigned to physical training duties. He recently was reclassified from 3-A to 1-A by his selective service board here, but he applied for the coast guard commission instead of waiting for army induction. Hinkle is the 112th man from the 1941 National Football league roster to enter some branch of the armed services. Coach E.

L. (Curly) Lam-beau was out of the citv todnv Hinkle and could not be reached for comment, but football fans have come to regard Hinkle as one of the outstanding players in the entire circuit. Hinkle was the league's leading field goal kicker, and in 1941 he was named all-league fullback for the fourth time. He previously won the honor in 1936, 1937 and 1938. Star at Bucknell The veteran fullback was a star at Bucknell university, where in his last year he scored 128 points to make him the nation's leading poirrt-getter.

During his years with the Packers he established himself as an all-around fullback line smasher, distance runner, passer, punter, place-kicker, blocker and powerful defense man. During the off-seasons, Hinkle was employed at a Neenah paper mill. He is a native of Toronto, where he was born April 10, 1910. Springfield Beats Evansville, 6-0; Holds Loop Lead CHICAGO Springfield bunched all its runs in the last three innings Friday night to blank Evansville, 6-0, and retain the Three Eye league leadership. In hanging up its 12th victory in 16 games, Springfield collected eight hits from Pitcher Siders, touching him for four runs in the ninth.

Yelkin whitewashed Evansville with a six-hit job. Cedar Rapids held second place although splitting a doublehead-er with tailender Madison. Cedar Rapids won the seven-inning nightcap, 9-0, with six runs in the third and the two-hit work of Pitcher Stroupe. Madison captured the opener, 5-2, getting its runs in the fifth and sixth frames and battering two Cedar Rapids' pitchers for six hits. Waterloo pulled up to the ,500 percentage mark by taking its eighth victory of the year from Decatur, 5-3.

Two runs in the seventh and another pair in the ninth sewed up the game. The winners pounded out 13 hits from three pitchers while Decatur could muster only seven scattered ones from Moundsman Mouledous. In games scnenuied tonight, Waterloo will be at Decatur and Springfield at Evansville. How Is A Good time To Establish A Permanent Credit jRiver Valley relay carnival WITH By KAY PAGLL Press-Gazette Sports Editor DICK DAVIS, sports editor of the Appleton Post-Cres-eent, plans on taking his cribbage board and a couple of the wife's good blankets if he has to cover many more games like the Papermakers had with La Crosse the other night. He said the game ran so long that he hardly expected to get home before sunrise.

All of which quite naturally caused Dick to make some remarks. "There is a general criticism of the Wisconsin State league that games run too darn long," he asserted. "That 214-hour affair was an A-No. 1 example. They're going to have to do something about this.

And do it pronto lest they scare off the fans at the outset. Many's the person I've heard say would go out to the games if he could get home at a reasonable hour. Players Can Sleep Late, Others Can't "The players can sleep. late the next morning. But the spectators can't.

Beginning the games at 7 o'clock the balance of this week will get the people home earlier, but still anything over two hours is a long ball game and I think the clubs should make every effort to keep within that limit." Taking two hours as a standard, let's see how the Green Bay Bluejays fared last season. A check of the files shows that the time was listed for 78 games. Fifty-three of the games ran two hours or over, and 19 of them were two and one-half hours or more. Three of Green Bay's games last season required at least three hours to play. The longest, of three hours and seven minutes, was a 10-inning endurance grind on Aug.

10, when the Bluejays beat Janesville, 7 to 3. Another, of three hours and three minutes, was played on June 21 with the same club, and the Bluejays won that one by 12 to 7. Here's Davis again: "I can hear the managers saying, 'Don't pay any attention to that stuff, fellas. Take your time. You got all Sure, take your time, whenever necessary.

Don't mess up things by hurrying. "But the pitchers don't have to practice every time the teams change sides. And they don't have to make goo-goo eyes at men on base. And the boys can snap it up when taking their positions. And there's no use protesting ball and strike decisions.

"There are a lot of other ways to save seconds which would shorten the game considerably and make it more enjoyable for the fans. They like to see good baseball, and good baseball means fast baseball." Thanks, Dick. Saves me saying something. ROCK FINANCE CO. OFFICES AT STONE MOTOR CO.

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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY May 23, 1932 The third and final qualifying tests for the Press-Gazette city swimming meet were held at the Vocational school last night Every member of East's golf squad broke 100 yesterday as the team beat Shawano at Oneida Louis Straubel shot 90. 15 YEARS AGO TODAY May 23, 1927 Verne Lewellen, Packer football star, has signed to pitch with the Green Sox The second round in the Diamond Ball league, which includes a number of industrial teams, is about to start. 23 YEARS AGO TODAY May 23, 1917 Battery baseball players and the Neidle Moose ball team will clash Sunday afternoon for the benefit of the battery mess fund Lieut. T. A.

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