The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 11

0 1 THE CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941 ELEVEN Lowly Phils Present Pressing Problem In National Current Outfit Rates With All-Time Worst But Nobody Knows What Steps Should Be Taken To Bring About Better Days; Only Good Pitchers Missing. By LAWTON CARVER. TEW YORK -The ter doesn't all know existing what records to do for solution after this season. By that have set up a new standard for they call, with high regard for again Wednesday night, the Phillies .250 in wins and losses and at their about 35 victories and 119. defeats, below the cellar.

They never had the remotest chance starting out this year. They won only 50 games in 1940, and Hugh Mulcahy and Kirby Higbe accounted for, 20105 them. to the promptly Brooklyn Dodgers and an unremitting draft, utterly unconcerned the Phils' plight, caught over Mulcahy. That left the club without one top flight hurler, and few ball players of outstanding merit for other positions, excepting Nick Etten, the first baseman and perhaps enough others to make a good duet, Can't Be All-Time Worst, With that the Phils headed straight for the record low in baseball performances. The Boston Braves set the National league 1935.

The Philadelphia Athletics mark at 38 wins and 115, losses in 1916 hung up the record with 36 wins and league 117 defeats. The one record that positively will elude the Phillies, bad as they are, is the one before the turn of the setback to be specific- Cleveland, which then played in the league. The forerunner of the present day Tribe won only 20 games and lost 134 for the all-time worst performance. The Phillies already have forestalled a worse record by winning 21 games so far against 64 defeats. The predicament of that club is as bad as any situation ever to develop in the majors.

Officials of the league frankly don't know what to do about it, although about a dozen suggestions have been made in recent weeks. However, this sort of thing is not entirely new. Braves of the 1930's have caused many a headache, but that has been straightened out and the Cincinnati bounced back from the bottom to the pennant and the Brooklyn Dodgers are about to do the same. How To Help Them? Gerry Nugent, president of the Phillies, who has been in baseball the major part of his life, is and there is a tendency well liked to his aid it the right medicine can be found. Money? Sure, the league has helped clubs RUNS IN FIFTH WIN FOR QUAKERS, 3-2 Bruce Pitches Three-Hit Ball For Victory Over Packing House Nine.

The Quaker Oats nine staged a three-run rally in the fifth inning as support for Guy Bruce's threehit pitching against Wilson's to squeeze out a 3-2 decision over the Packers in an and game on the Daniels park diamond Wednesday evening. Until the fifth, the Quakers were having trouble pushing Red Kenney's slants out of the infield. As a matter of fact, they had counted only two singles, both of which produced nothing, except men left on base. However, the fifth was a different story as Frank Sladek led off with a single to center. Following an infield out, Carl Matter singled, and after Bruce Thenhaus walked to fill the bases, his brother, Jack, pounded a single into center, scoring two At this Freddy Melichar runs.came to Kenney's relief, but Jack Thenhaus scored as George Kraus grounded to the shortstop and lived on an error.

That was the end as the next two men fell by the wayside. Elmer Keith had a good night as he scored the two Packer, runs, stole two bases, and Stepanek of a when he scooped up his blooper while running into short right field the fourth. He first scored after living on a fielder's choice and coming in on Tom Farmer's infield out in the opening frame. In the third he walked, stole second and third, and raced home on Farmer's single to left. Matter and Umpire Savel provided the highlight of the evening with a polite bowing and hat de lifting act in the fifth.

Matter and the ump had been through a terrific verbal round in third after the diminutive second baseobjected violently to a called third strike. However, after his single in the fifth, Matter perched himself on the bag, called to Savel, lifted his cap, and bowed ceremoniously to the ump. Savel rose to the occasion and removed his mask and cap to return the salutation with a low-sweeping bow of his own. Struck out--By Bruce Kenney 4. Bases on balls- 4.

Kenney Runs and hits Kenney. and 5 5 Melichar 0 And 0 in Earned runsKenney 3. Bruce 1. Double play- Thenhaus to Matter to Stepanek. Hit by pitched ball-Ingels 1by Bruce), Wild pitch Savel, Losing Kimball pitcher Umpires and Biggart.

Time 1:22. Wilson's. Quaker Oats. AB A AB Birkicht.If 00 0 Matter.2b Keith. 2b 2 0 0 B.T'haus.3b 0 Farmer.ss 1 J.

Stastny. rf 1 0 0 Moore.cf Frey.cf 0 Deetz.if lb 0 Stepanek. 1b Ingels.3b dek.c Vis.c Bruce.p Kenney.p Totals 21 3 15 5 Totals 22 5 18 8 Wilson's 101 000 Quaker Oats 000 03x- Errors- 2. Kenner, B. Thenhaus.

Runs batted in--Farmer. Kraus. J. Thenhats 2. Stolen bases- Keith 2, Stastny.

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Pet. The Gazette .10 .833 Bupane Gas de .150 Welch's Standard .667 Hail Mfg. Co. we .333 Merchants National Bank .2.50 Har- Mac 10 .167 The Gazette team gained puted possession of first place in the class Industrial league Wednesday evening by hanging a lopsided defeat on the Bupane Gas Co. who last week shared top honors.

Jay Morgan hurled a brilliant game allowing only two hits, one coming in the first and one in the seventh inning. Chris Lund for Bupane failed to puzzle The Gazette hitters as they banged out 9 hits for an 8 to 1 victory. Welch's Standard and the Merchants National Bank hooked up in a slugging match the Bankers made a desperate effort to come from behind by scoring five runs in the final inning but they fell one run short lost to 12. Hall Mfg. Co.

and had a Mac field day at bat as they collected a total of 27 hits between them but the balance of power lay with Hall, 15 to 13. In a Church league game the Westminster Presbyterian outfit, although practically out of the pennant struggle themselves, continue to make it plenty tough for the league leaders as they knocked off Trinity Methodist 12 to 11 to cut Trinity's league lead to only one-half game over Calvary Baptist. Thursday evening in addition to the regular class A and Fraternal league games the La PlantChoate and Link-Belt Speeder class Industrial league representatives play off a postponed contest. INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE The Gazette .301 004 Bupane Gas 100 000 0- Morgan and Blake; Lund and Garoutte, Hall Mig. Co.

345 111 -15 14 Har-Mac 310 107 13 Stover and Snyder; Tschirgi and B. Wood. Welch's 'Standard 340 060 8 Merchants 400 021 5-12 12 L. Phillips and Griffith: Dvorak and Kaplan. CHURCH LEAGUE.

Westminster Pres. 101 143 2-12 16 Trinity M. E. 010 521 2-11 12 Moore and Wing: Leonard and MacNamara, Oelwein Women In Golf Tournament OELWEIN The first matches in the Ladies' Ross company event have been played at the Oelwein Country club with the following results: June Flight 1: Mrs. Art Bennett defeated Bennett: Mrs.

Don Witt Mrs. Fred Ritchie: Mrs. J. J. Duffy defeated Mrs.

M. A. Legg: and Mrs. Harold Lauber defeated Maxine Legs. Flight 2: Mrs.

Art Luthmer defeated Mrs. Eikenberry; Mrs. Mary Olson defeated Mrs. Ed Mrs. Ray Murphy defeated Wilma Zummack: Mrs.

Grant Goodlander defeated Mrs. Harold Ziegler, Flight 3: Mrs. Roy a defeated Mrs. Art Hammond: Anderton, Stebbins defeated Mrs. Morrill Mrs.

Carl Jakway defeated Mrs. B. W. and Mrs. O.

Reynolds defeated Mrs. Howard Wardell. Plan Archery Tourney At Ellis Park Sunday An archery tournament is planned Sunday, starting at 10 a.m., at the Ellis park range for members of the Waltonian Archery club and all students who have been attending the archery schools conducted this summer by the Waltonian archers the playground commission. Competition will be staged in American and Columbia rounds. St.

Louis Cards for Mize -Plus Two Ball Players BY EDDIE BRIETZ. NEW YORK (AP)-Gossipunconfined and unconfirmed: Johnny Mize's price tag is said to be $100,000 and a couple of throwin ball players. Have Barney Ross and his wife called it quits? They say she came back to mother Wednesday to spend the summer and then some. While Crosby's brother, Everett, handles Kimbrough's Hollywood deal, Douglas G. Hertz (John's real boss) is trying to talk Bingo into angeling a club in the American football league.

Tony Zale is campaigning to get all-star game votes for his pal, Tom Harmon, on the map. Frankie Kovacs who also is helping put Gary, a is doing a lot of popping off, but the smart money will be riding on Bobby Riggs to cop this year's national singles title. Arthur Donovan flies to the coast Friday night to referee for Billy Conn and Jack Roper in "The Pittsburgh Kid." Over a six-year stretch, Bob Feller and the Yanks have split even in 26 games. Crain Advances In Iowa U. Net Meet Special to The Gazette.

IOWA CITY--The torrid pace of the University Iowa summer session tennis tournament continued in its second day of and of men's singles, play Wednesday, with the second the second and quarterfinal rounds of ladies' singles and the mixed doubles first round action under way. Earl Crain. Hawkeye net star and one of the seeded favorites, captured an easy third round count from A. McKenna of Iowa City, 6-0, 6-0. Following are the results of Wednesday's matches: SINGLES, Second Round.

Oscar Karch (Rochester, N. defeated Wayne Britton (Winfield. 6-3. 6-1, Bob Basford (Waterloo) defeated Hal Munson (Iowa 7-5, 6-1. John Harold (Oakland) defeated Kenneth McLaughlin (Des Moines), Arnold Christ (Lakota) defeated Jack Brackney (Iowa City), 8-6.

5-7, 7-5. George Pritchard (St. Louis. Mo.) defeated Wayne Smith (Marengo), default. Bob Wollenweber (Keokuk) defeated Dale Hatch (Keokuk), 8-6.

6-4. Third Round. John Ebert (Iowa City) defeated Oscar Karch I Rochester, N. default. Bob Basford (Waterloo) defeated G.

B. Pearson (Iowa City), 6-0. 6-2. George Pritchard (St. Louts.

Mo.) defeated George Fuller (Toledo. default. Eldo Bunge (Rock Island, Ill.) defeated Harold Kiyana (Honolulu), 6-0. 6-1. Earl Crain Iowa City) defeated A.

McKenna (Iowa City', 6-0. WOMEN'S SINGLES. Second Round. Marian McLaren (Omaha, Neb.) defeated Joyce Templin Baraboo. default.

Leila Schmidt (Aberdeen, S. D.I defeated Dorothy Ward (Algona), 6-0. 6-0. Georgia Webster (Houston. Tex.) defeated Rachael Benton (Washington, D.C.).

default. Zora Cernich Mo.) defeated Ruth Buchanan (Springfield. 6-4, 7-5. QuarterMrs. John Ebert (Iowa City defeated Fernetta Preul 6-0.

6-0. Marian McLaren 1 defeated Leila Schmidt 'Aberdeen, S. 6-0. 6-1. MIXED DOUBLES, Louise Kohl 1 Beatrice, Neb.) and John First Round, Ebert (Iowa Oity: defeated Beatrice Baird (Normal.

Ill. and Hal Munson (Iowa 6-0. 6-2. Upset Eliminates Harris Coggeshall From Valley Meet Harris Coggeshall of OF Des ST. LOUIS (AP) -seeded was upset Wednesday in the men's single division of the Missouri Valley tennis tournament, losing 6-4, 6-4 to McLeod Stephens St.

Louis. The Iowan had advanced to the third round on a bye and a de- VACATION DATS. While Larry takes a holiday And hies himself -hunting, The Dodgers are. it's sad to SAY, About to blow the bunting. People and Things Milton Berle, the stage and screen comic, has bought a slice of the Hollywood Coast league club.

Pete Scalzo, dethroned N.B.A. feather champ, will fight as a lightweight from now on. Bill McKechnie says Schnozzle Lombardi throws one of the most tantalizing curves in the majors and could have made good as a pitcher. Patricia Garfield, one of our bestknown glammer girls, has arranged for plane connections every Saturday this fall so she can catch all the U. of Kansas football games.

Mitchell, New York Post: far as the Yanks are concerned when a feller friend the Indians are looking other way- at that third strike." Today's Guest Star Jerry Kovacs Beaten At Seabright SEABRIGHT, N. J. (AP)-Old Man Upset finally hit the Seabright invitation tennis tournament Wednesday and wiped garded Frank Kovacs out of the quarter-finals, although all the other seeded stars had a comparatively easy time getting by. Kovacs, the nation's ing amateur and fourth seeded in this tournament, cracked the pressure put on by unseeded Gardnar Mulloy, the 24-year-old his Oakland, 3-6, 7-5, Florida lawyer. Mulloy, trounced 6-4, marched into the quarter-finals.

Meantime, the three top-seeded racquet-swingers, Don McNeill, Bobby Riggs and Frankie Parker, encountered only mild resistance. The ranking foreign list was split when Francisco Segura of Ecuador bowed out while Ladislav Hecht, former Czech Davis cupper, remained in the running by whipping little Bitsy Grant, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Top-seeded McNeill scored a 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 victory over Seymour Greenberg of Chicago, and Wayne Sabin of Reno won over Segura, 6-1, 0-6, 6-3. The women's singles reached the semi-finals without surprises, although unranked Helen Bernhard of New York still survived, along with the seeded stars-Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke of New York and the Californians, Helen Jacobs and Dorothy May Bundy.

Davenport Juniors Lose To Ottumwa OTTUMWA (INS)-Three Ottumwa American Legion junior baseball players Thursday were recovering from effects 104- degree heat which caused them to collapse while their team hammered out a 5-4 win over Davenport. Lawrence Bradley, catcher on the Ottumwa second district championship team, was revived the winning run in the substate series game. Bob Bates and Bobby Lebow remained lout of the game. FREE GAS! SAT. AND SUN.

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A rapprochement between Carleton college and the Midwest Athletic conference can take place only if the conference reduces its present minimum schedule requirements in football and basketball. Dr. Donald J. Cowling, top's president, told The Thursday morning by long-distance telephone from Northfield, Minn. Dr.

Cowling denied unpublicized reports that Carleton had virtually agreed resume membership in the conference two weeks ago at a meeting of the Midwest President's association in Chicago. "There was some friendly discussion of Carleton's with the conference," declared, "but that was as far as it went." Although Carleton severed connections with the Midwest Athletic conference last its president still belongs to the Midwest administrative group. Refused To Comply. Carleton formally withdrew from the conference on June 14 after serving notice at the meeting of faculty athletic representatives in May that it could not comply with the group's schedule quirements. The conference last November established a minimum of conference games in football and 12 in basketball over the objections of Carleton, which offered a counter-proposal of four and eight.

Carleton would have agreed to 8 a compromise arrangement of five and 10 if the conference had been willing to suggest it last spring, Dr. Cowling said Thursday. If the conference eventually cuts down its requirements, he declared, Carleton may apply for readmission, but not before 1943. Meanwhile, Carleton will continue to free lance, scheduling Midwest conference members as well as other opponents. At the Midwest conference meeting in Chicago last November, Carleton arranged 1941 football games with Coe, Cornell, Grinnell and Lawrence, but later withdrew from its agreement to play Grinnell.

Carleton's only reason for giving up its conference association, said Dr. Cowling, was its desire to maintain a flexible athletic program. However, Carleton was also opposed to the formal recognition of championships, a policy to which the conference has only recently committed itself. Differing with Carleton's attitude toward less rigid athletic schedules are four other colleges which, like Carleton, are situated on the geographical outskirts of the conference. Monmouth and Knox have divorced themselves from an Illinois conference order to compete with teams in the Midwest, while a laissez faire policy would make it difficult for Ripon and Lawrence to schedule more than two conference opponents a year.

Although Coe, Cornell, Grinnell and Beloit are centrally located, all have gone along with the trend toward athletic schedules. Coe, for example, played a round-robin football schedule in 1940 and will do so again in 1941. Raider Records Philadelphia Phillies are about to shatfutility and the National league about it, but will attempt to find a time the Phillies undoubtedly will defeats during the course of what humor, a pennant campaign. Beaten dropped below a percentage of present rate will, wind up with which is the depth of depths even out with loans. New ownership? That has been done too, but a baseball franchise is almost sacred property, and Mr.

Nugent may not be inclined to give up. Bolster his team with players? Baseball club-owners are not giving away anybody they can use themselves. So what? At the end of the season there will be a huddle out of it will come dose of first aid, if not lasting treatment, because a club like the Phils' hits all the rest where it hurts-right 1 in the painfully tender gate receipts. Former Teammates Will Be Coaching Rivals This Year Battisto Saccaro and Wally Schwank, teammates several years ago on the Coe college, football team, will be coaching rivals this fall. Saccaro, who resigned recently as coach at West Liberty.

school, signed a contract at Jefferson high school last week. Moving from Anamosa, where football teams went for three secutive seasons without a defeat, Schwank will become head coach at Carroll high school next month. -nail rivals, Jefferson and Carroll annually play an Armistice day football game. WILLIAMSBURG JUNIORS DEFEATED BY HUBBARD WILLIAMSBURG The Williamsburg American Legion team was defeated by Hubbard 11 to 10 at Hubbard Tuesday in the first of a three-game series in, the substate meet. The winner the series will then compete in the state tournament.

Hubbard will play the second here Friday, Batteries for Hubbard, H. Topp and Maybe pitchers and E. Topp catcher; Williamsburg, Wallace and Bean pitchers and Cranston and Quinn, catchers. FROLIC CLUB GAME. The Frolic club softball team will play the Z.C.B.J.

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