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He’s Four-Sport Athlete £3l22jjJ By Eddie Ash will be a big hole in the athletic Indianapolis THEREranks at lowa U. when Christian G. 4M Sports graduated | Times is this Doyle Schmidt spring. Schmidt 9 f Scout Praises Three Young Cubs is a four-letter man, having won monograms 19 E umm in football, basketball, baseball and track. He W| plays half back, is a catcher, pole vaults and jmm Red Grange’s Town Is Back on Map INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933 PAGE 11 plays guard on the hardwood. m m m Sports Sidelights Picked I p at Random Weak Field Baseball Folks Debate Honus Wagner's Coaching Qualifications Tribe Boss 'VV/’JIEN a veteran baseball man like Jack Doyle, Chicago , BY CHARLES E. PARKER flabbergast their foes, those who j stars in sport, he never played the Honus first made his appearance in New York World-Telerram Sports Writer believe bock, Cub scout, becomes enthusiastic over the prospects of in he will communicate to his game by and, perhaps, never that community. And a majority of 2 Handicap ANTONIO. Tex., March 28. charges the skill and cunning and knew just way so often he did the the assemblage moved over to that Uses Lasli a trio of rookies, it is almost certain that those rookies are too SANAmong baseball folks there is the dynamic force that made him right thing at the right time. section of the grandstand near the the ranking good to be true. Diamond scouts work up cases of enthusiasm debate as to Honus Wagner's coach- shortstop of all time. They hold that, even if he were of third base coaching box to be as Gallant Sir 1 -to-3 Choice in ing qualifications. There are those There is another group which a pedagogic turn, he would be un- close as possible to the hoary hero Killefer Drives Squad at when they are searching the sticks for talent and too often who predict he will prove a genius opines otherwise. They contend able to transplant the secrets of his of pre-war times. $25,000 in developing young success. the objects of their enthusiasm turn out to be just some other Caliente players and a that intuition and instinct plus tt tt n Ft. Worth to master at dictating policies by inborn assets, made Honus the They point out that when, shortly Build fellows after nPHERE are a million stories to in uniforms. Event. means of which the Pirates will great artist he was—that, like other his retirement as an active Up Hitting. Rut Jack Do’ lc knov< s his baseball and Prcsidrnt William Veeck and player. Honus was given an oppor- be had from thus grand old BY THOMAS H. NOONE, Manager Charlie Grimm of the Cubs are willing "to go along" with his tunity to coach, he proved no ball figure and he needs no prompting B 7 7 ime* S'/ir- nl United Press Racine Editor of fire and they argue that, Judgment. During the recent stay of the National League champions at were he as he tells them easily and interest- FT. WORTH. Tex., March 28 NEW YORK, March 28.—Gallant Battery Warms Up—by Bonfire the coaching genius some now claim, | Double-time their Catalina Island training camp. ofT the coast of California. Doyle ingly. was the order given Sir, Norman Church's stalwart baseball would have clung to him the Indians by sat down one day and began to extol the baseball virtues of three young "It wasn’t like this when I broke Indianapolis Man- Cubs—Tut Stamback, who will be delivered to the Cubs by the Los 4-year-old handicap performer, to- j during the past decade or more. ! ager Wade Killefer as the squad But. whether or in.” Honus said to me as we stood •Angeles club next year; Bill Campbell, young catcher, and Roy Henshaw, not he is a success opened its second day of practice day ruled a 1 to 3 favorite for the | in the role assigned him, behind the portable backstop during I southpaw hurler wnose training consists of three years of varsity throwing the gray- the Pirates' batting practice the here today. After a two-hour drill mile and a quarter Agua Caliente haired. good-natured will Monday, shortly for the University of Chicago. Dutchman other day. Ke had just seen a after arrival from handicap that fcaturees the final earn his salary several times over Memphis, Killefer informed Os Stainback, Doyle said, "He’s the greatest ball player I ever saw. 1 rookie step in between the Waner his day of racing program at the Mexi- ! before the National League T mean he's the greatest player I ever saw go up from the minors. He's schedule brothers to take a regular turn at crew that two sessions would be can race track Sunday, and indica- is completed. held ready now and he’s going to improve with experience. He can run like the bat. indefinitely. tions are that he will go to the post A Los Angeles practice opens a deer. He has a great throwing arm and he can hit Like a gallery, triple the "It was three before I took Morning at 9 anything. at even shorter odds. The field in size of any weeks lot fine hitters, of bad but he does other to respond to an a cut at the ball in my first year o'clock, and after a two-hour pause of Stainback swings at plenty ones, this $25,000 added classic undoubted- ! exhibition game, turned around for swing, and that’s why I like him. He doesn’t wait out pitcher." out the day with the Pirates,” he went on. "The noon lunch, the Indians a ly will be small and weak. will resume labor p. Os young Campbell, Doyle said, "Bill Campbell will make a great regulars wouldn't give the young fel- at 2 m for at With the defeat of the imported least two the skipper c .-her. He can hit, has a fair and a good disposition. He’ll be the and lows a break. Every time I tried to hours, avers. arm Pillow Fight in a mile twenty Batting practice most of < 4bs' regular backstop in a couple of years.” allowance event Sunday by two get to the plate, some of them would consumed yard the two-hour frolic Monday, and The matter of Henshaw is a bit different, according to Doyle, but he platers, the half-brother to the im- Links Stars step in front of me and, after two weeks of that, I gave up trying. was again to be prominent in to- has plenty of confidence in the collegian. "If he ever gets control of his mortal Phar Lap has lost many sup- day's drills, lire he'll ball Fight is "The owner came to the camp on punchless attack curve, be a great pitcher. He can toss his knuckle through a porters. While Pillow con- of the Indians against Memphis knot-hole and his fast one goes in there with a load of smoke. His curve sidered a certain starter in the big Open Action the third week and asked me. batting?’ Sunday has sent Killefer to pulling is a little wild. Roy is little and he’s light but he has heavy underpins. stake Sunday, he is conceded small Honus, why don't 1 see you You're supposed be pretty goed.' his hair. "Some of 'em don't seem And there have been pretty good left-handd hurlers.” chance of beating the son of Sir j/>;/ 7 / mm Special to some little the regulars wouldn't to know what a bat is for.” the Gallahad 111. PINEHURST, I told him N. C.. March 28. let me.” fiery leader exploded Monday. N()T11K RK( ORI) last race at Agua Caliente, ninety A ItATON " R BR KAK EFt FROM VH In his A brilliant field of top notch •Well,’ he said, ‘you’re a good Ideal weather was offered for the r I ''HAT litllc Illinois town of Wheaton, Chicago, that produced Red Gallant Sir carried 130 pounds to an pros and near 1 amateurs teed off today in strong boy, why don’t you make Tribe Monday, with warmer days -* collegiate easy victory, whereas he is assigned Grange of football lame, has sent out another athletic 1 the North and South open golf : forecast. Outfielders Fuzzy Huffi 124 in the Handicap. i them let you?’ luminary to catch the headlines in the person of Keith Brown. Yale's | only pounds championship play, with Craig ! and Pid Purdy, who have been latest, excel- tt tt a in a long series of premier pole vaultcrs. Brown captured the world ! Should he retain his present Wood, New Jersey ace, and Paul j working out with the Ft. Worth indoor title for the vault at the Knights of Columbus games in New lent form he has to fear in Runyan of White "That was all I then, a | little Plains, N. Y„ as wanted ! Panthers at Mineral Wells lor a York this winter, when he cleared the bar at 14 ft., I'i in. Another Yale! that rich stake. There are many the favorites. little support. So I marched out to week, joined the club Monday. star Kabin Carr, of Dubuque, la., set the old record. who believe he is capable of eclips- They fired 68 and 69. respectively, the plate and, when the man at The Tribe chief said today that he With spring on hand and warm days ahead.