Elizabethton Star from Elizabethton, Tennessee • 7

jr WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 1 9 1939 HIE ELIZABETHTON STAR ELIZADETIITON TENNESSEE PAGE SEVEN 1939 SEASON FOR SOX OPENS APRIL 27 IN JOHNSON CITY Schedule: Belease This Wrestling Match Really Smelt flJaiOF League By Sid Feder Associated Press Sports Writer Openers and Washington Senators up on am CYCLONES IDLE -AFTER BLASTING 13- Sievenson Hurk Four-Hit Game As Brownmen Count Second Loop Win Tcngra 4-yeftr-old runner is happy j' now withhis new The Cyclones having annexes their second game of the on against conference foes will Roveu to get along without game com petition through the remainder the week it was stated yesterday by Coach Niles Brown No further games havo been scheduled because of the trip to Washington which this morning The Browntnep meet Johnson City there for return engagement with the Toppers Behind the four-hit work Big Hafold Stevenson the 'local dia- mondeers splattered a 13-1 sicn over the Johnson City team-' Monday afternoon marking thoo i second win against no defeats fo5-s the defending ciicuit champs 1 Stevenson fanned 12 walked- two The Cyclones had two big-innings scoring six runs in the -third and feur in the fifth Kasor paced the local stickwork with three bingles for four trips the plate followed by three for five The Cyclones garnered 13 eff three Topper twirlers blasting -out Miller in the third LlruMipn 1 An lb 4 ley 3 4 as 4 won 5 Chambers 2b 5 rf 4 rf 3 Kasnre 4 If 3 el 'W' A his cwn reflection The racer was lonesome without a live You know getting hj you blame an American leaguer for turning up at a National league ball park for a season opener these days The way things are going with pretty nearly every team in the senior circuit sporting at least one ex-American leagujr'the National is getting to be somewhat of an men's for fellows who once drew pay checks in the youngjefloop Take- the way the current 3s started Not that started any too well what with the weather man raining cut one game Monday and five more yesterday But of the three National league games get by the leaky skies so far a drafted American leaguer has been the on the winning side in each case Club Owners Don't Care Of course this matter so much to the club owners They locked over the box office and discovered 118923 cash customers turned out for the four games Monday and Tuesday topped by the 47009 who saw the Tigers wallop the Chicago White Sox 6-1 in Detroit yesterday But on Monday it was Ilainie Manush whose sharp grounder sent the run across for Pittsburgh which tied the Reds in the eighth from where the Pirates went on to win And any kid who can spell C-A-T knows where Heinie came from Then there were terrible Bill Giants yesterday getting very little encouragement from their arch-enemies the Dodgers through the first two innings before 25496 damp fans- in Brooklyn In the third however that playboy late of the American league Zeke the Bananas Bonura came to bat with two on and two St Louis out and parked one-of rookie Rusts special slants among the loyal flatbusliers in the left field1 stands fob three runs and the spark that sent the Giants to a 7-3 decision Zeke also contributed a pair of singles All this from the guy such lewly American league outfits as the Chicago White Sox And St -the nipped the was no (Call Me shoved that Medwick summary "Winning Well this who had American won the last The only to get the 30 far found tenth season some classy He hits fanned man Otherwise opening saw still somewhat the Yankees should get under- promised Chicago Cubs can Reds but Worried the starting Dick ankle is The rest the Tuesday again at and Bees with two Feller and in the GROVE but Trainer Robert Ramsey says the polished plate gluss -lirror soothes his lonehness and appeases his vanity '1- 1 "i Second of Southern League Brackets Gets Good Sendoff Smashing into Tex Hagen one of three opponents in a fishy wrestling bout Speedy Franks Fort Worth Tex grappler hurtles the victim to a mat which resembles the deck of fishing boat: Hagerf won the free-for-all match staged in a ring loaded with two tons of smelt headline feature of the smelt carnival at Marinette Wis the Sports First Game Here Played on Friday April 28 With Cardinal Club The Appalachian league baseball schedule for 1939 long awaited was released for publication today by Ray Ryan president It was adopted at a league meeting in Johnson City last week after weeks of attempting to draw up a slate satisfactory to all clubs -i Elizabethton opens its season at Johnson City next Thursday April 27 opens the season here on the following day against the same team The Sox journey back to the Red Bird camp on Saturday and come home for a fourth joust with the Cardinal club Other loop opsnings take place at Kingsport with Pennington Gap on April 27 and Newport at Greeneville on the same day" I The schedule shows the season closes on August 28 and that the annual All-Star game will take place on July -26 Open dates are June 30 July 3 and July 25 Work On Hitting Manager' Hobe Brummitt said today two men who have been working out with the squad would leave today Newport 1 1 The two named were Grove a pitcher and Susarz 'an outfielder The Sox continued their regular routine of two workouts per day emphasis bn batting eyes being made after Sunday's showing against Saltville Va in an exhibition game Packing more power at the plate than any team in the loop the So were held to a tight three bingles all of which saw them bow 4-3 when the Virginia team pulled a ninth inning splurge The locals take on Damascus a in their second exhibition fracas and on Monday leave for Lenoir where they will spend a couple of days testing Tarheel competition Brummitt said today he was not able to say who would be on the mound fwhep the 'Damascus game ealletf- Sunday -but-addedthat the pitcher would be a regular The choice lies between Parsons Rosenbaum Hart Shope or Patron Patton worked against the Saltville team last Sunday relieving Arvin Myers rookie who had held the visiting batsmen to one hit and one run until benched here Sunday afternoon at 3:15 No Tea Party There ought to be some tall pushing around when Fordham and Tulane meet at New Orleans next October Statistics show the Rams led the country last year -4m rushing- offense with lire Green Wave i second Averages were 472 and 465 yards net a play Scientific names of animals frequently seem cumbersome hard Vo- pronounce and-most difficult to remember but they prevent the confusing of one creature with another Cards Nip Pirates mysterious Car-dihals outfit nobody knows Pirates 3-2 There news in the fact Ducky Muscles) single over two runs You expect sort of thing from the man But the hex score shows: is the same Lefty Bob addresses in half the league's cities Bob has 31-games for the Cards ini two years American league game nod from Mr Weather Tommy Bridges joyfully celebrating the start of his with the Tigers with right-hand hand-cuffed the Sox vvitjt seven five and walk a Rains Play Caesar on the big league program the rains came conquered Things are shaky' today htit and Boston Red Sox their New York op fie? way- since been and fans too are hoping the lift the lid against the Gabby Hartnett too because the longer the delay more chance have of with his regular shortstop Bartell whose ailing coming around of card finds back together along with the Senators Philadelphia the Phillies celebrating day games- in Boston and Bob Buck Newsom tangling Indians-Brownies party in IS EAEY 11 By Gayle Talbot NEW YORK April 19-ot The night porter said Jie'just had collected the last of the cigar butts and wa3 putting finishing touches 'on the lobby floor about daylight when Bub Grove stepped out of tlie elevator picked himself out a chair' Yack in the corner where he could sit and meditatf After a while the porter said he noticed that Lefty opened 'up the breakfast room and thencame tack to try out various 'other chairs Then Tit a cigar and blew a few smoke rings and by this time a few other of the early-risers were beginning to stir about and make quite a clatter in the lobby This evidently interfered with the great mediation for' he stirred uneasily and pretty soon went back up to his room never been a ball player stayed here could get up as early as that Grove or sit steadier after he was up" declared our Hawkshaw admiringly course he went at it extra early today because he's down' to pitch the opening "game but day in and day out average hitting this lobby before 7 put i 1 a good half-day of -and what going to do to TotnN 'is TOPP12U8 AH tn 3 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 13 0 I 0 0 0 Taylor 2b cf-p If Tfiil'Jlvr Wllliuma 3b 3b lb VI lb I year 7231 saw the opener At Knoxville '4468 saw the Smokies slug themselves into a a 12-11 victory over the title-defending Atlanta Crackers The stands held 4761 in 1938 Cold and the weekend wind-ripping which Arkansas suffered contributed in the crowd reduction at Little Rock where only 3809 turned out The hosts bowed to the Felicans from New Orleans 6-2 Turnsttlesr'Tticked 4843 "last year Tremark Makes Sensation CatcH The Little Rock hosts hoped tiylay for better traveling with a clear weather forecast and fans still talking about Hubby Nick scpfationil sent- field nsrrr catch ct I finer Shat Shell Steven Allen Iaws Clark Tipton Kvlo Mi Dunn Nave C'm Miller 0 By the Associated Press Despite chill winds 28832 pay' ing customers favored Southern assodations teams in the second bracket of spring' openers thousands fell short however of the 31082 who attended 1938 curtain raisers in these cities Chattanooga led the parade 'to the grandstands with 12752' a drop from last 14246- Joe showmanship and the classy showing last week could not cope with the weather The Lookouts however coped neatly with the Nashville team 7 to 4 I Birmingham was only city that topped 1938 figures A husky fried watch Mcmphi edge out the 'Barons- 5-4' Last tho3e batters before even up Lefty Must Be Smart got to figure that 39 now-and he can't blow those batters' fowti like be used to got to be Smart as a whip But who does Joe Cronin pick to pitch against tljosc Yankees in the first game with all these great young pitchers supposed to have like Bagby aid Rich? He picks Grove of course how many innings do yon think old Ic-fty hair-pitched so" far this spring? Ten innings and them scattered over three gamps He "cut loose with that arm of his yet to see how much bounce got left in it but that bother-Cron in If Lefty thinks ready to pitch guarantee enough for anybody: bet no pitcher anywheres rear 39 ever worked the opening game for a pennant contender like the Red Sox before especially against the club they need to beat most And how ala ut this cold weathrh? You think Grove Would iK'ed to wait until it got good and hot before he rnkad that soup bone of his but not Lefty in the majors with only six college guys on the club What about Berg a whole collitch in himself lie? Mike Jacobs came out of the Roper-Louis affair with a bigger -headache than Roper Mike make a his arrangement withTom--Galleryr-the-ee-p remoter was that he to cut in until the gate passed the $125000 mark- Chcermg Section Football -coaches are breathing easier again now that Doc Sutherland i is comfortably located in that-state-job-4n-Pennsylvaiiia They hope the got him-tied to a good long contract Joey Archibald studied-for the tpriesthood before before going in for' boxing Quite a to-do was raised when theGtedsand Red Sox up four dozen balls in an ex-hibid'on game last week- nothing Four years ago the Boston Bees and State played in Fayetteville and used up 188 balls before they had tq call the game in the sixth inning 7 Thrill dept: Johnny Revolta says he got his biggest whenTte'wonTthe first big match of his career against Walter Hagen the 1935 A tourney Charlie White the old left-hooker of lightw-eight fame has recovered from a financial Kays and is back in business in loop A In Greencville Elizabethton Robbins if Totft Is A RTIXAHKTHTI JORNSON CITY 23 1 4 ntu oto 'mm 0 Be Jteady South Carolina' football coaches Catfish Smith and Ted Twomey of of and Tatum Gifssette of the Citadel are tak-r dug flying lessjons and -will be set-to get out of town pronto tif-i the going gets too tough 7 -Trade In Elizabethton- START ON ITS VAY! I win Budget Department FOUR-WAY SERVICE STATION 215 Entered in 43rd Marathon at Boston BOSTON April 19 VP i Leslie Paw son the Pawtucket aldermarf who- runs' feigned the favorite today as 215 plodders toed the mark in Suburban Hopkin-town for the start of 43rd annual marathon PawSbn defending champion and holder of the 23:01 3-5 record for the 26-mile 885-yard course dominated the -pack and got the nod from the veteran Clarence 'Demar 50-year-old Keene printer who has won the grind seven times in 20 starts as well as froth other marathon experts Demar wUI have a large number of the expected half million crowd aiong the 'route cheering him on but barring upsets he was given only an outside chance to win again Tremaik hauled down one-handed on the run Catcher Jack 425-foot drive labeled for a triple in the seventh inning for the last otft while three were on Base-This bit of fielding was some eompensafion for the jteltJtT mound wcrk of Bob Katz who let in four runs off six hits and hit Pelican Shortstop Russell Bevell at the plate in less than four innings Pelican Pitcher Floyd Siromme held the Travelers to eight scattered safeties After trailing the Vols into the fifth yesterday? a 1 1 a noogi blasted Ace Adams off the mound and forced ahead with four runs The Vols tied it up in the sixth Then the Lookouts broke loose in the eighth with three tallies Pitcher I)ii Bass was credited with the victory Smokies Collect 18 Hits Ed Heusscr Chick pitcher belted in two runs with a smgje in the second and brought home air-othcr with a bunt in the sixth but Frank Veverka pot credit for winning the game Hemser weakened in the sixth allowed the Barons to tio the score at Veverka finished the last three Lames without donni ng -i siog'e 'bingie Covering By Eddie Brietz PROVIDENCE April 19 jp) They tell you up in New England the -Brown football team will be the class of the east this fall The Brown football team wilt Fight men say the Roper-Louis bout do coming SilhrTonyGalento apygood- I nn liQn Cti1 Itn nonnra ha' Joe had said lin the papers have more trouble with Roper than he would with Galento Dink Templeton' Stanford track coach thinks he has a coming champ in Clyde Jeffrey a freshman who has stepped the century in 98 and the furlong in 208 'JTi- There Tne whispers that Henry Armstrong will leave his welterweight title in Europe anybody do anything about this guy Jupiter Pluvius? One Minute Casey Stengel Giants pr-obabiy have goffive better men hitting in a row than: any other team in the-Natlonal league Fellows like Moore OttBonura Danning and Dejnaree can start a rally and keep it One reason Ralph Guldahl is tops is that he spends hour upon hour drilling while the other boys are playing around in the locker room and elsewhere Keep an eye- on an 18-year-old southpaw named A1 Olsen with San Diego in the Coast league- Umpires say he has more stuff than Lefty Gomez had when he was 18 i Joe Cronin says his Red Sox probably are the worst educated team Kingsport Newport Apr Jun Jul 27-29 4-5 24-25 6-6-21 22 Aug 9-21 Sport Page May 17-18 25-26 Jun 6-7-16 Jul 7-15 16-30 Aug: 27 Mgy 1-2 Jun 2-3 12-13 28 Jul Aug 4-5-14 May 13-14 22-31 Jun 26-27 Jul 4-14 27-28 Aug 12-13 May 5-6 29-30 Jun 18-19 Jul 1-9 Aug 2-3 24-25 Appalachian League Schedule for Season Johnson City May 1 2 24 Jun 12-13 Jul 29-30 Aug 26 23 27 May 3 4 Jun 1 8 Jul 4-13 Aug 6-7 18-19 9 May 5-6 11-12 Jun 14-15 Jul 9-10 10-20 Aug 14-15 Pennington Pennington Gap Watch Star Apr28-30 May 9-10 27-28 Jun 10-11 Jul 31 Aug 1-8-20 Kingsport Mav3-4 21-22 Jun 26-27 Jul 4-5 Aug 2-3 24-25 Newport May 11-12 29-30 Jun 14-15 Jul 1-2 Aug 6-7 18-19 Greene- ville May 15-16 Jun 2-3 22-23 Jul 11-12 23-24 Aug 10-11 Elizabeth- ton May 17-18 Jun 6-7 16-17 Jul 15-16 19-20 Aug 14-15 Johnson City May 7-8-25-26 Jun 20-21 Jul 7-8 Aug 4-5 22-23 21 MayJl12-19-20 Jun 1 1-15 Jul 2-10 17-18 Aug 16-17 May 15-16 Jun 2-3-12 13-28 29 Jul 27-28 Aug 12-13 Mav 3-4-22 Jun 26-27 Jul 4-14 23-30 Aug 10-26 Apr 27-29 May 10 Jun 4-sl 10-11 Jul 5-31 Aug 1-20-21 Flag Race May 17-18 Jun 6-7 20 7-8 15 Aug 24 21 16 25 League" Apr 28-30 May 9-27-28 Jun 24-25 Jul 6-21-22 Aug 8-9 i i i A i psrju: After the make-up fop if all oh' th a of xquiite perfume hav a-1 the newest agrance HARRY BURGIE hucgi -casifwuv Closes August 28 April 27 June 30 July 3-25 July 26 Season opens Open Days All-Star Game.