The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-09
Indians Clash
With Brewers
in Night Fray
Lights Go On at Stadium
This Evening; Tribe
Moves Up.
BY EDDIE ASH
Times Sports Editor

indianapolis baseball fans will
get their first peek at the 1924 Mil
waukee Brewers and also their first
1884 glimpse of night baseball to-
night when Allan Sothoron brings
his Cream City crew to Perry sta
dunn to engage the indians. Action
will begin at 8:15, and it will be
the first of a three game series.
Workmen brushed of the lighting
towers yesterday and adjusted the
lamps that will flood the field with
artificial daylight.
Perry stadium has one of the
best lighting systems in the country
and the ball players are expected
to display as much class and hustle
as in other years when night games
were the vogue. Weather permit
ting, nocturnal contests will be
staged here every night except on
Sunday during the Indians home
schedule.
Blues Follow Brewers
After Friday, the Brewers will
move on and the Kansas City Blues
will open with Red Killefer's Tribes
men on Saturday night. The In
dams night arrangements list Mon
days and Fridays as ladies night"
On other nights, and on Sunday,
grandstand admission for women
will be so cents and IS cents in the
boxes.
The Indians were idle yesterday,
and sc were the Minneapolis MlllerS,
st. Paul Saints and Louisville Col
onels. The four clubs performed in
double headers last Sunday and used
yesterdays tits to supply the bar
gain attractions.
Owing to. the defeat of Kansas
City by Columbus yesterday the
Hoosiers slipped into third place,
ahead of the Kawtown pastimrs.
Louisville is second and the Maui
ing Millers are parading out in
front. The Colonies threaten to
spring an upset in the league and
apparently have stronger team
than many experts estimated be-
fore the current campaign got I'M
der way. Bruno Bethel, Louisville
pilot, is happy to be listed as the
dark horse entry.
Wingard Changes Uniforms
In a Milwaukee uniform at Perry
stadium tonight will be Ernie Win
gard, the Indians former first sack
er. He was sold to the Brewers on
Monday and is slated to supplant
the veteran Dudley Branom at first
base for Manager Sothoron's club.
The Brewers are loaded down with
new faces this season. The club
directors made wholesale changes
over winter. Their chief sluggerS
are Sullivan, Kloza, Webb and
Guile.
Judge K. M. Lands, baseball
commissioner, has ordered a change
in the stipulations of the Louisville
Philadelphia Athletics deal involv-
ing players Radchff, before and
Erickson. In the original agree
ment, the Colonies received out
fielder Ray Radcliff and infielder
George before, with $4,000 to fol-
low on Oct. l and catcher Hank
Erickson to join the Athletics in
the spring of 1885.
Valuable Deal for Colonies
Judge Lands ruled that the
Athletics could only obtain an OPP
ton on Erickson and that the
$4,000 must be paid to Louisville
by Sept. l, if the Mackmen wished
to exercise the option. The Colonies
have decided to keep Radcliff and
before and, unles Connie Mack
forks over the fifteen grand" by
Sept. l, they also will have Erick-
son.
Experts around the American AS
ISOLATION are wondering what kind
of gas the Colonies used to hypnotic
the Athletics. Erickson does not
measure up to the value of $4,000
in cash plus two players of the
caliber of Radcliff and before. Rad
cliff hit 1854 with st. Paul last year
and before batted 1852 for Toledo.
Erickson's average with Louisville
was .298.
1t is said the Athletics closed the
transaction for Erickson last fall
when they were making arrange
ments to sell Mickey Cochrane to
Detroit.