Show SPEAKING OF SPORTS by ROBERT mcshane released by western newspaper union FEW EW teams in the history of big league baseball have been given so sound a spanking as have the cleveland eveland I indians during the last half of the present season the chastisement been administered by american league contemporaries as much as by the press and radio of the nation nevertheless th their ir suffering Is just as intense maybe more so in that very little sympathy Is offered them early in the season the indians 1 rebelled against their manager oscar vitt details of the rebellion were few and tor for the most part were not substantiated when it first broke out local newspapers made tight light of the insurrection they printed what little they knew of the affair evidently regarding the player dissension as a temporary matter the rebel leaders finally a few facts began to drift on out t of the cleveland dugout A certain number of the who had a mutinous attitude toward vitt were dominated by catcher rollie hemsley He rasley it has never been exactly clear as to what players were under the Hern hemsley sley banner hal trosky was known to be one of the leaders and bob feller was one of the signers alg ners of the original antl anti vitt petition feller since lias has had a change of heart as have mel mcl harder jell jeff heath and ben chapman president alva bradley is receiving a large share of the blame tor for I 1 i MANAGER OSCAR VITT tailing falling to take a firm stand either tor for or against the revolt when it first broke out last june scores score of 0 newspaper scribes have refused to pull their punches in denouncing noun cing the indians for their rebellion sports writers are more or less accustomed to friction between manager and player often the players have a just grievance but usually they are willing to air that grievance in an aboveboard above board manner the indians willing to do that their secretive underhanded attitude irritated both the paying public and the press press flays bradley the extent of that irritation was evidenced by one sports writer when he wrote they the indians are branded from top to bottom from front office to rawest rookie with intrigue false statements and petty squabbles the ludicrous attempts by alva bradley to hush up an anarchistic meeting of players lo in detroit cost the cleveland club caste with the paying public and with the pr press ess whose duty it is to rep report ort facts and not to 11 lie e about incidents n is affecting the indians as a ball club the whole affair has made interesting reading m much uch to the disgust 0 of f cleveland baseball fans but its effect on the indians pennant qu quest e s t is the important factor it may b be e that dissension finally will whip them however that dissension h has a existed all season and cleveland managed to hold bold first place from august 12 22 to september 9 when the erratic white sox removed them from top billing the present status whether or not the team Is completely demoralized as charged by various tons baseball writers Is highly debatable the indians are far from a high scoring team the success Is largely dependent upon tight light pitching supported by tight fielding when their pitching falls fails they lack the run making power to offset pitching weakness therefore they look bad regardless Heg neg ardless of the outcome of the pennant race cleveland can be sure of one definite result of the unsavory revolt in the tall fall somebody will have to go it may be manager vitt or it may be hemsley and trosky there just room on the same club for vitt and the two insurrect zionists sport shorts jim mccarthy sophomore candidate d ate tor for quarterback at the university of illinois was only 13 yea years rs old when he began playing r regularly cegula aly as aaa a freshman in high school captain milt notre dame fullback who led the irish in points and total yardage last fall fail wears glasses off the geld field hes the first back to be elected captain cali tain at notre dame since 1926 three members of the nebraska backfield are wearing special protective helmets |