The Grand Island Independent from Grand Island, Nebraska • 13

GRAND ISLAND DAILY INDEPENDENT Vr Thirteen Dodger Rookie Blanks Giants With 2 Wins 4-0 Thursday An trust ft 1042 In the Same League Now Legion Baseball Game Rained Out Just Between Us By RED ROBERTS Card Pitcher Silences Reds With 3 Hitter Chicago Iiite Sox in 1 to 0 Derision )vrr Detroit Tigers Star-Studded Field Floors Press Agent Ex-Ball yhooer at University of Connecticut Has Plenty of All-Americans BY LOU BLACK New Haven Conn Aug 6 (IP) Tarry friends for a moment and give ear to the plight of First Lieutenant Harold Freckleton who once upon a time would have given his right arm for an all-American football player and who now has so many at his disposa 1 that he's having difficulty deciding on which to concentrate Thirty-one year old sandy-haired soft spoken Freckleton isn't coach of the eastern all-Army football squad assembling here for practiec The coach is Col Bob Neyland Freck is just the press agent or to give him his official and more dignified title the public relations offi cer of the squad But call him what you will th job is no new one for Freck whd only a few' years ago w'as laboring in the not too productive football vineyard of the University of Connecticut looking vainly for top-names and lads with box office appeal to lure in Call to Paradise Freck worked his way through school as a student newspaperman and never played the game himself but when the call came to him at Washington to hustle up to Yale bunny We and see that the army football team any meat short- got off to a good start it in SPORTS ROUNDUP By FULLERTON BY HUGH FULLERTON JR Wide World Sports Columnist New York Aug Short ration so many high school coaches have left Oklahoma for the armed services that the State High School Athletic association has put intended for women One big prep last all its two months they made special the annual football school superintendents for coaches instead at spring meetings Football Officials was off 20 per cent -Wild word of the Arizona for this one: Seems Genung Arizona plays during the El Centro Dons of semi-pro league noticed ambling across the night he forgot all and made a div- Line Up Talent For Screwball Game Righthanders Will Run ases in Reverse in Clash With Southpaws Money Where Your Harry- Smith and McPheeters were busy today assembling their teams of assorted and dubious talent in preparation for the screwball southpaw-righthander exhibition softball game to be presented tomorrow night at Burnett park The league leading Greenbergers and the CYO will clash at 7:30 in a regular league game with the feature attraction following at 9 o'clock All proceeds will go into a special fund to be distributed to city league winners at the end of the season The himself a southpaw will manage the port-siders while McPheeters will have charge of the right-handers Smith must use all of the lefthanders in the league but can recruit outside talent if he complete his team roster from wihin the league Smith probably will do the hurling Evening Things Up McPheeters may choose any righthander in the league and since this gives him an obvious advantage an attempt will be made to even things up by making the right-handers run bases in reverse When they are at bat third base will be first an first will be third Teams rosters will not be announced until game time although both managers deny that they are planning to run in any sleepers Several names for the two teams have been suggested the past few days the best of which seems to be Crooked Arm Mighty for Smith's club and the for McPheeters crew All team managers are requested Pros See Blessing Paul Blessing former Ord high and Kearney college all-round star athlete now employed in construction work at the ordnance plant by the Guthrie-Tipton company has received so many offers to play pro football to coach or to work for his living that he know which way to turn Nearly every team in the National Professional Football league has tendered him offers The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants seem particularly anxious to obtain his services and almost daily Paul gets another telegram quoting a better price than the last one His latest offer from the Dodgers is a honey In addition to all expenses it quotes a weekly cash stipend that runs into three figures Because he is more interested in a permanent coaching job than in a few years of pro football Paul recently tentatively accepted an offer to take an assistant coachship in the Kewanee 111 high school It is interesting to note that the Dodgers offered him far -more for three months of football playing than Kewanee offered for a whole coaching But beside the point Since the Kewanee deal came up Paul received tentative bids from several Nebraska high schools Two or three of these are from large schools that offer a fledgling cocah plenty of opportunity to build up a good reputation And to top it off Paul's present boss likes his work so well that he is urging him to stay with the Guthrie-Tipton company Players at Premium Blessing tried to sign a contract with Uncle Sam at $50 a month and for the duration but was rejected for military service because of a punctured ear drum that slightly affected hearing of the ear The impairment was so slight that Hugh Mulcahy left is greeted by Hank Greenberg on arrival at Air Force School at Miami Beach Mulcahy former pitching star of Philadelphia Nationals and the big boy who hit home runs for the Detroit Americans are in the same league now either Star Cleveland News: comforting to the to have historians the Dodgers blew 17-game lead and the Cards back in 1930 be very comforting management to 1930 players no with Brooklyn" officers and men camp at the Lincoln base Coach Glenn have nothing but for his Nebraska fall There alumni or amateur colleges on hand West Virginia plays this fall it will be Future Farmers of East Lansing threat to players assignments of the Giants who his weight picked paper the other that a horse named entered at Rockingham The hunch looked but Dick forgot bet so when Slump for $2 Dick could 30 to 1 Through Score Tied Between Islanders and iking When (tame Galled Hastings Neb Aug 6 fp The finals of Nebraska's American Legion junior baseball rhampionship were just getting under way last night when with the Omaha Vikings leading Grand Island 2 to 1 in the fourth inning weather conditions called a halt to the affair The contest will be played tonight The Vikings' 2 to 1 lead however was not so significant as it seemed as the Islanders had one unearned run and a man on first base when the game was called And observers said Pitcher Huck Johnson of Grand Island would profit bv the rest Meanwhile State Chairman Chip Bowley announced arrangements had been completed for holding the regional contest between champions from Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma at York Neb Aug 14-16 The regional held the last two years ai York heret ofore have sent the Nebraska champions against winners from the Dakotas and Wyoming Whether the three-team affair afc York next week would be one or two game elimination or a round robin was still not determined Bill Munroe manager of the Grand Island team today appealed for support from Third City fans Hastings fans seem to dislike us and both in the McCook and last games pulled hard for the he commented "I know the boys would appreciate a Grand Island cheering This is the first time that a Grand Island team lias gone to the finals of a state tourney Munroes club is well balanced both in fielding and hitting and if Pitcher Huck Johnson is in form will give any Legion team in the state a good game Wetzel the shortstop is one of the best Infielders Munroe ever has developed' I HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM LADY JANE Chattanooga Tenn (-Pi It was one of those things which just happen but did Ann Yates 8-year-old daughter of Tom Yates a Chattanooga stock breeder had been promised a horse to raise and train as her very own The next foal of Lady Jane a brood mare was to be hers Lady Jane's foaling time and Ann's birthday were approaching so Ann thought it w'ould be wonderful if the colt were bom on her birthday Her parents conceded it was possible though not probable Ann went down to the pasture and took it up wdth Lady Jane Then she included the request in her prayers The day came Ann was eight and sure enough Lady Jane's foal was born that morning The name? Happy Birthday of course MEASURING METHOD When determining the limits of Albany New York in 1652 Peter Stuyvesant fired a cannon ball north and another south Then ha declared all land in the space between the cannon balls to be within the limits BY JUDSON BAILEY Associated Pres Sports Writer Pitching always is the mainspring of baseball but yesterday It was almost the whole works in the major leagues In the greatest one-day concentration of pitching prowess this season five of the seven games played enried in shutouts and not a single home run was produced in the entire card In fact there was only one triple Rookie Max Macon pitching his first complete game since joining tired on regis-the Brooklyn Dodgers several weeks I tering for tne ago muffled the New York Giants just in to two hits in winning 4-0 and for case And the first five frames had a no- word from the hitter south is that John Beazley of the St Louis Cardinals and Cecil iTcxi Hughson of the Boston Red Sox each hurled three-hitters tire former trimming the Cincinnati Reds 5-0 and the latter stopping the Philadelphia Athletics 7-0 But Hal Newhouse pitched five-hit ball and lost' in the rarest game of all as Don Kolloway stole home to give the ChicagoWhite Sox a' 1-0 decision over the Detroit Tigers Outstanding Hurler Tlr is was the second start for Lefty Thornton Lee the outstanding hurler of the American league a year ago and it apparently proved that the mysterious arm ailment which kept him out of action for more than half the season has vanished Lee allowed only seven scattered hits and fanned six With the help of four double plays Newhouser matched his opponent's shutout pace until the sixth It was the fifth straight triumph for the White Sox Tire Red Sox backed up fine hurling with a 14-hit offensive spread over every inning and gained half a game on the New Yankees who were kept idle by weather at Washington Tire only other American league game was the one contest that developed into a batting melee Cleveland curbing the St Louis Browns 8-5 in a night tilt with a six-run rally in the fourth inning after being held to one hit for three stanzas by Denny Galehouse Tire Browns outhit the Indians 12-11 but couldn't bunch their blows Night Affairs In the National league the Dodgers and Giants finally turned in a complete twi-night game at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn after having been halted twice by the dinrout deadline while playing across town in the Polo Grounds With Macon pitching swiftly as well as expertly the contest was finished in one hour and 51 minutes Tire Dodgers made good use of eight hits All the other National league activity also was at night In one of the best games Truett 'Rip Sewell blanked the Chicago Cubs 3-0 The Pirates put an end to a scoreless pitching duel between Sewell and Les Fleming by getting all their runs in the seventh on a walk and four singles after two were out Each tea nr made six hits The Cardinals collected four of their five runs in the first three innings off Bueky Walters and the Reds never had a chance against Beazley who struck out eight Although he didn't get a shutout Tommy Hughes pitched five-hit ball at Philadelphia to lead the Phils to their second straight victory over the Boston Braves 5-2 the help of Danny Litwhiler who hit a triple and double good for three runs ing catch of the heard about out a manual on how to coach league there has ball coaches in And in Texas arrangements at clinic for looking of trying to find they may even run out of foot- ball officials since attendance of the Southern association Cotton Tale We have the press bureau that when George outfielder who summer for the the Tucson a wild rabbit outfield one about the game age down there Today's Guest Howard Preston "It must be very St Louis Cardinals recall that a late season pennant to the And it must also to the Dodger recall that those longer are playing Recovered Fumbles Because 16000 soon will be in Neb air Presnell plans to secret practices footballers this might be some scouts of rival When Michigan State "4-H Club and America" day at Sounds like a miss their Whiffed Again Dick Bartell been hitting up his morning day and saw was Park too good to miss to "insure" his came in at $111 only collect at By The NATIONAL Boston Philadelphia Earley Sain Hughes and National with St Louis Cincinnati Beazley and Thompson and he know it existed until he t0 3 sPecial meeting at the took his physical examination He park niht Promptly at hopes that one of these days the army will waive the disability With that exception he's in top physical condition The war has cut deeply into pro football ranks and because of this Paul and other available small college stars are finding good markets for their wares In normal times they would have trouble getting a tryout at their own expense let alone a lucrative contract I am not inferring that Blessing and numerous other small college athletes possess as much ability as the boys who star on major college teams But until they demonstrate their ability they are poor for a pro team because they and their schools are unknown to the cash customers many of whom apparently believe that good players come only from major colleges I doubt if more than a small fraction of the millions who follow the pro game in the east ever heard of Kearney college or Blessing 7 o'clock to discuss the possibility of a district tournament Games rained out last night will be played at a later date The Greenbergers have booked a game with the Kearney Midway hotel team at Burnett park Sunday night in connection with regular league playoffs RED BIRDS TAKE BREWERS 8 TO 4 By The Associated Press The eastern members of the American association all still in the title running get their chance to overhaul three western representatives beginning tonight when they open long home stands However one eastern club jumped the gun last night It was Columbus the only eastern member now rating a place among the association's first four leaders The early start almost proved costly too even though it was against Milwaukee a team the Red Birds have fattened their win percentage against all a gridiron sense like a call to paradise For here at Yale where the big-name squad is just getting down to work today under the tutelage of Col Bob and a batch of topflight assistants Freck finds himself literally surrounded by football stars of eminence Or as he puts it himself: "Nothing seems to be the same since the war Once I would have gone into ecstasy at the sight of one potential all-American today got so many I feel like the woman who lived in the shoe fellows up at the University of Connecticut who used to hear me groan for all-Americans should be getting a big kick out of my headaches he grins Wants Publicity With such names to play with as Corporal Norman Standlee of Stanford and the Chicago Bears Private Nick Basca of Villa-nova Pvt Vic Spadieinni of Minnesota and Cleveland Pvt Jackie Hunt of Marshall college Lieutenant Roy Bucek all-American from Texas A and Lieutenant Dave Allerdice of Princeton and Pvt George Cafego of Tennessee and the Brooklyn Dodgers to mention only a few Freck has almost too much of a good thing Few if any of these lads really need a press agent but the army is taking no chance that its opening game on September 12 against the NewT York Giants at the Polo Grounds will be underpublicized and that's where Freck comes in For a fellow who once would have whooped with joy at the sight of a near all-American at Connecticut hard put -to know where to start extolling the wares of current galaxy are co many of he moans with almost convincing sincerity "and all so Navy flier may find himself in sea covered with flaming gasoline or oil so navy prepares cadets at pre-flight schools to get through and swim under fire This cadet rehearses in University of Georgia swimming pool GIVEN PROMOTION Central City Neb Aug 6 (Special) Staff Sergeant Leo Armatys of Central City received a noteworthy promotion in the army of the United States He is now warrant officer in the adjutant gener and Under al's office 135th Infantry division He is at present stationed at Los Angeles He and his wife have an apartment in Pasadena This newspaper serves more than 15000 paid subscribers Starring Popeye POPEWE (HANTS THE SHIP CAMOUFLAGED HOLD (DILL (-OU DO IT? I'LL KIOBODV season It was the Red 13th in 18 games with Milwaukee leaving them just a single game behind pace setting Kansas City and dropping Milwaukee a game and a half behind the leader In last contest Milwaukee got to Bill Crouch for four runs in the second inning but Columbus rallied for three runs in the seventh and got two more in the eighth to clinch a victory schedple: Milwaukee at Columbus (2) Kansas City at Toledo (2) St Paul at Indianapolis' (2) Minneapolis at Louisville 2) STOLZ TANGLES WITH RIGHT New York Aug 6 Silly as it sounds Newark's Allie Stolz takes on Featherweight Champion Chalky Wright of Los Angeles in Madison Square Garden tonight with the lightweight title as his goal championship recog- nized by the New York State Athletic commission but not by the National Boxing association will not be at stake But a victory for Stolz virtually would assure him a shot at the 135-pound crown worn by Sammy Angott Stolz has met Angott once and lost to him by a decisoin so close that the Newark battler figures the title will be his the next time he can qualify for a bout with the champ The columns of The Dally Independent are the meeting place of all Central Nebraska Americas BEST BUY in BONDS Associated Press LEAGUE 000 100 5 0 100 001 30x 5 10 0 and Lombardi Masi Bragan at Cincinnati 103 001 000 5 7 0 000 000 000 0 3 4 Cooper Walters West National at Brooklyn New York 000 000 0 Brooklyn 101 000 4 Sunkel Feldman Lohrman Danning: Macon and Owen National at Pittsburgh Chicago 000 000 0 6 0 Pittsburgh 000 000 30x 3 6 0 Fleming Olsen Pressnell and McCullough Sewell and Lopez MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS Bv the Associated Press National League Batting: Reiser Brooklyn 343 Runs: Ott New York 77 Runs batted in: Mize New York 75 Hits: Medwick Brooklyn 127 Doubles: Hack Chicago 28 Triples: Slaughter St Louis 15 Home runs: Mize New York 19 Stolen bases: Reiser Brooklyn 13 Pitching: French Brooklyn 11-1 American League Batting: Williams Boston and Gordon New York 343 Runs Williams Boston 91 Runs batted in: Williams Boston 101 Hits: Spence Washington 140 Doubles: Doerr Boston 32 Triples: Heath Cleveland 12 Home runs: Williams Boston 24 Stolen bases: Case Washington 26 Pitching: Borowv New York 10-1 TODAY'S GAMES By the Associated Press American League New York at Washington (night) Philadelphia at Boston Detroit at Chicago Cleveland at St Louis (2) National League Brooklyn at New York (Only game scheduled) Opponents American League: Cleveland at Chicago (night) Detroit at St Louis (night) Boston at Washington (night) only games scheduled National League: Boston at Brooklyn (twilight) Chicago at Cincinnati (night) New York at Philadelphia (night) St Louis at Pittsburgh (night) Henry Ford was born on a farm near his present office at Dearborn Michigan The mountainous Caucasus Isthmus slightly smaller than Montana contains 16 separate states of the Soviet Union Seek Games for Thursday Nights Cornhiisker Plant Baseball Team Going To Two a eek Schedule Starting next week the Cornhusk-er Ordnance plant's baseball team will swing into a Thursday and Sunday schedule with the Thursday games starting at 5:30 The club will play the Bluff Center team at Burnett park next Sunday afternoon with the game starting at 3 o'clock and a Thursday night opponent will be booked the latter part of this week Bluff Center managed by Doc Vavrina is leading the Mid-State league with nine wins and two setbacks Wood River is in runner-up position in the league with six wins and four defeats and Boelus is riding in third place with four and four Games may be booked with both Wood River and Boelus later this month The Kearney city team will play here Aug 16 and the Cornhusker team may play at Hastings some night next week Manager Clarence Mitchell had a good turnout for last workout and predicts the club will show improvement in next game A GOOD TRICK IF YOU CAN DO IT Pueblo Colo JP) An elderly woman was telling police about the gunman who had held her up "He was armed with threfe guns" she said excitedly "He held one in each CANADIAN OPEN GETS UNDER WAY Toronto Aug 6 The Canadian open golf tournament started today with the first-round gallery debating a question as old as the meet itself whether a Canadian could beat the top-notch imported talent to the SI 000 first prize and the Seagram gold cup Opposing such professional stars from the United States as Ben Hogan Clayton Heafner Craig Wood and Paul Runyan was a battery of capable Canadians headed by Stan Leonard and Gordon Brydson among the pros and Phil Farley in the amateur section The Baseball Standi -g- LEAGUE Pet Pot New York 70 34 673 Detroit 51 57 475 Cleveland 50 47 557 Chicago 45 55 450 Boston 58 47 555 45 61 408 St Louis 54 53 305! 43 68 387 o- NATIONAL LEAGUE Pct Pet Brooklyn 73 30 Pittsburgh 46 53 465 St Lotus 65 30 61 1 Chicago 18 58 153 Cincinnati 55 47 530 Boston 13 til 405 New York 34 50 510 Phlla phia 30 70 300 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Straight Bourbon Whiskey 100 Proof This Whiskey is 6 Years Old Schettlry Distillers Corporation Sosa York THIMBLE THEATRE AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 000 000 0 7 0 Chicago 000 010 00X 1 5 1 Newhouse and Parsons Tebbetts Lee and Tresh Philadelphia 000 000(XXh-0 3 1 Boston 010 400 7 14 0 Wolff Fowler and Wagner Hughson and Peacock New York at Washington postponed American at St Louis Cleveland 000 601 8 11 1 St Louis 000 201 5 12 1 Eisenstat Ferrick and Desautels Galehouse Caster Ostermueller Appleton and Ferrell AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus 6 Milwaukee 4 Only games scheduled ELM CREEK TEAM WINS OVER KEARNEY 8 TO 1 Elm Creek Neb Aug 6 (Special Tile Elm Creek sof (bailers Monday night downed the Hirscli-field clothier team of Kearney by an 8-1 score in a game played on the Elm Creek field Use The Daily Independent to reach over 15000 Central Nebrasks home CHANGE HER NAME-THEN UJILL KNOUJ UDHAT SHlP SHE IS.