The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
By Eddie Ash
His Dad Was Man on the Flying Trapeze
SchOoIbOy Scars TO Baseball Heights

NEW YORK fans saw one of the greatest one-day pitching
exhibitions in the history Of baseball yesterday. First,
Vernon Lefty Gomez Of the Yankees shut out the Tigers,
, to o, with eight hits, and then in the second half of the twin
bill Lynwood (Schoolboy) Rowe Of the Bengals reversed the
order and BANKED the Yankees, 2 to O., with three hits. Maybe
if the boys had played a third game some chucker might have
pitched a no-hitter.
1t was victory No 90 for ~southpaw Gomez and victory
No. Is for Rowe, a Highlander, who stretched his consecutive
winning streak TO fourteen. Says Mickey Cochrane, Tiger
manager: The SchOolbOy is the greatest pitcher to come up
from the minors to the American League since Lefty Grove
and Gomez. He's just % and has the poiSe and confidence of
a seasoned moundsman.
when Rowe reported to us this spring l feared that the
shoulder he injured in 1888 would bother him, but it hasn't.
He's much faster than he was last summer and he certainly
could burn EN- in then. | know, because | batted against him.
INCIDENTALLY. Mickey Cochrane was indirectly responsible for thu.
Il injury suffered by Rowe last season Cochrane. then with the Phladel-
pha Athletics. dropped a bunt down the third base line when the Mack
schooIboy went over to cover the bunt, picked up the sphere and threw
putting him on the sdeEnes for the rest of the 1888 season.
When COchrane took over the management Of the Tigers he S cautioned tmed
spring training. It responded to treatment and now Rowe is famous mo In
KEGS holding the Ruppert, Rifles to a total Of seven even hits 1bs IN Id TWO b games 46e
Arkansas phcnom knocked of the Yankees two times N a single series
u OWE was born 1t Waco. Tex. Jan. H. 1912. but was reared in E
N Dorado. Ark He stands 9 feet a. inches M u %el art aI3ue z fr t [e
earned The name OF schooI6oy seven years ago wm Dod pHcmm nna i' T Te
Bapusts were batting in their half of the ninth inning their heaviest
Sc all could hear: Don't let that schoolOoy strike you out" But the
village Sugger was famed by HOW ~ INT MCKAaHe oChU"J H""y
was attached TO the l5-year-od lad VINO a oeSuheu 10 o@| d pau" ="
glory to the big leagues.
Shortly after that Nethodst-Baptst thriller. won by the Methodiss
4 10 3. Young Rowe became an active and prominent figure in Arkansas
athletics. In high school he hung up the following records for future
Arkansas boys 20 shoot at:
Al-state football player three years in succession.
An-sate basketball player for two years.
State interschOlaSic golf champion.
High point track mar in eleven meets.
Baseball pitcher and hitter extraordinary.
Best boxer at his weight in the community.
THIS is only the third year for Rowe in professional baseball. He was
i with Beaumont in 1881. his first season out, and won nineteen games
and lost seven. Immediately after shutting on. the Chicago White Sex
in his major league debut last year Rowe wired Coach Bill Walton ms
high school mentor at FL Dorado:
Dear Coach-Beat Chicago, 3 to 0 Allowed six hts. A ever enc
boy"
The Young hurlers father is a former circus trapeze performer and
Schoobov Is nearly a foot taller than the old man."
THERE'S an interesting batting race going on between the two catcherS
4 of the Indianapolis club. Joe Sprinz and Johnny RIDDLE. Ihey nave
-ae-r,ued all season and are still neck and neck starting down ne sueUn
Tbav sbara the backstop work. each catching every other game, ot mere
e some warm rivalry existing from the batting STANDPOINT oprm1 w@S
+-T.~ pi5dle W many points at one period, then pulled up ano graspeu
10 .Ie,J% Now the are about even. Joe wa clubbing 291 today ana
pt5d1o 9O The former had collected siXty-hve hits and INT latUe Sixty
t1rse ovever Spnnz was at bat six more lines. Us a sne feature
ard MANY fans are keeping close watch on the tWo-man race
1-HE urotest filed by Manager Ownie Bush OF n Minneapolis oilers III
the gam with the Indians at Perry stadium lastS SUNDAY mas o pee"
1,novod nv President Thomas j. Hickey Of the American ASSOCIATION
ard Inc contest will stand as played. 7 to 6 Indianapolis ter innings innings
- tUh.ev announced the decision today. Pilot Bush protested an
@r,Gsld n" ruling by plate umpire c. E. Johnston dispute arose
oer = short nv hit over and a little to the left of the pitchers ox by
catcher Pmkie Hargrave of the NineTs The bases were tned at the ue
and Harrave was declared out, automatically.