Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1929 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Recorder,-Saturday, July 13,1929

THOUSANDS CHEER AS WINKER GETS RACE VICTORT

DARING DRIVERS, PITMEN, CAR OWNERS, ETC., JUST BEFORE TRACK RECORD FELL

BARNEY ANDERSON FINISHES IN FRONT IN GRUELLING GRIND WITHOUT SINGLE STOP AT PITS

There Were Faster Jobs On The Track ' Than One Driven By Detroit Flash, But Heady And Consistent Driving Enabled Him To Lead Fast Field By Three Laps

CHARLES WIGGINS CLOSE SECOND

Local Boy’s Car In Fine Shape—Finished^ Close To Anderson With Final Spurt

ACROSS TOP—Daring drivers, pitmen, car owners and relief drivers, lined up before the start of the 6.h annual 100 mile speed classic at Indianapolis, July 4th. Drivers in order of speed with which they qualified: Drivers: (first row) left to right: Bill Jeffries, Bobby Wallace, Charles Wiggins, Barney Anderson, (winner); Harry Robertson, B. Buckner, Bill Blackman, Ed Grice, fatally injured), Lawrence Dawson, Bill Carson, Gcoe Smith, Bugger Burns, Hugo Barnes, Mark ThreJkeld, Lawrence Wiggins, Brooks, Patterson, a relief driver, Wm. Walthall; Dave Moni'aque, a relief driver; Wilbur Gaines, Bob Bryson. CENTER LEFT— Edward Grice, plucky driver, fatally injured when his car skidded and threw him twenty feet into the air in the 100 mile auto race, July 4th at Indianapolis. Grice died Monday morning at the City hospital without regaining consciousness. LOWER LEFT— Barney Anderson, Detroit, Mich., winner of 100 mile auto race, July 4th, Indianapolis. Anderson pressed his 2 Port Fronty thru the century grind in 1:29:52, a new track record. In no lap was his speed slower than 57 seconds for the mile, his average for the distance being 66.76 miles. CENTER RIGHT— Bill Carson, Cricago speed demon, after his own mount failed him, took Bill Jeffries’ Frontenac and at a hair splitting pace averaging 50 seconds flat for the mile, pushed it frem fifth to third place and brought down the stands. LOWER RIGHT— Charles Wiggins, local boy, driving a Wiggins special, clipped off the Indianapolis 100 winner. mile speed classic, July 4th in second place finishing just 3 minutes and 7 seconds behind the winner.

EDGAR BROWN TO DEFEND TITLE AT NATIONAL TENNIS , MEET, CHICAGO, JULY 27TH

exclusive North Shore Tennis clubs our ov.:\ Douglas Turner, the first race lad to receive his letter at Illinois in eighteen years and whose tennis record in the Big Ten was not marred by the loss

EDDIE TOLAN WINS CENTURY

Before the largrest crowd of fans to ever witness the annual championship auto race, Barney Anderson driving a Two Port Frontenac speed chariot, Hashed across the finish line to receive the checkered flag and cop the 11.200 first prize at the Indiana State Fair grounds speedw’ay todaj’ (July 4th). Barney drove one of the most beautiful races ever witnessed in this city, not stopping even once for oil, tires, gas or anything else he might have thought he needed on his wild ride to fame and fortune.

\ /r ^R»the time trial he was beaten by '►'Mhree heavy foot masters, but in

of a single match, Roger E. Grant,) the western champion of Michigan,:

CHICAGO, July 14.— tSpecial) — [ where alconmrs are welcome is Chicago r-tep, out this summer.j f nr Washington i July 27th to August Sth to be exact , , . . i J park gras » courts in f hicago dur , in the stellar and unique role of I being first again. This time its not) 1 >ir> Wf1 ek of July 27th. ,

in busines

< Spe

and Hr. O. R. Williams of Chicago, I rial)—Seven sprinters— counted suggestive of class of entrants the fastest runners in the country, for the first open Lawn Tennis turned u for the contest at thp championships. ! ^

Philadel- "Orescent stadium of Denver

DASH IN WEST S p EED y DERB y

ON BOARDS AT

DENVER. COLO., July

the Emancipation derby will he the gala event of the present season and a mammoth attendance of both colored and white folks is expect ed.

manding and patiently waiting for the resumption of play between

the main event, the thing that counted, he was not to he headed off, not to he passed and not to be denied what he sought. At ten miles Anderson was leading and the field was never neaded off from then until he received t h e

checkered flag.

Charles Wiggins, local boy in a creation of his own brain and mechanical genius, a Wiggins Special, finished just three minutes and seven seconds behind the winner to cop second money of $500. Bill Carson of Chicago, whose we groomed mount failed him in the pinch and who relieved Bill James who, in turn had wheeled Bill Jeffries FroutenaC'*> twiggy around for three laps after the “Old Master" himself had come out of the race in the 54th lap, clipped off some pretty laps, some less than 50 seconds each, and was successful in

finishing in third place.

Wilbur Gaines. who arrived just in time for the race after a break down of his passenger car. en rou»e from Chicago, driving a Fronty-Ford. finished in fourth I place. Bill Blackman, also from I Chicago, was 5th and Bulger Burns. Washington Court House.

Ohio was 6th.

| Edward Grice. Indianapolis, winner of third prize in the 1928 race, driving a Fronty-Ford at a sixtymile rate per hour, went into a skid on the Northwest turn of the track while doing his 27th lap. closely behind William Walthall, and was thrown twenty feet into the air clear of his car which turn- ! ed over four times a"d smashed through the fence bordering the track. Grice landed on his head, sustained a badly fractured skull and had only a fair chance for recovery at the City hospital wherfe he was rushed by the field ambulance after the accident. He died

church or state, but as Men's singles, Ladies singles,) the host of the fir.^ open National j, ln j or .Angles, M'n’s doubles andi

T *■* xxr *•» T*** rx *% i o si It v-k-i WiiL »-* <-, l* 1 rx 4'Vf‘ri | Mixed doubles,’ will be on the card

Miss Ora Washington

phia: Mrs. Dorothy Ewell, Chicago; Miss Hines, North Carnrlina; Mrs. Seams, the mother of tennis i

AKRON JULY 14

AKRON. Ohio. July 12—In the

Lawn Tennis championship to he held in America. Do

doubt it? Well it’s this way.'Of a " fi Mle nim ‘ P f:rffV ; f velvety courts course there have been tennis , greensward which have been tournaments plaved before. but, uu<U ‘ r daily treatment for three most people will look wild eved at. ,mo, ‘ ,hf1 ,hf ‘ hlW " aml garden you when it is said thus: "Lawn 1 e *P e, ' ,s of ,he P ark corntennis cannot he played on clay.”j misi,ion wil1 bo adequate as The public generally doex<Jt know) "‘‘d us ^ host picturesque. Those anything else about it. Clay, dirt.! who have HPPn Wimbledon and or hard courts is in their mind j ForPSt nills sav ,hp >' arp ,lot comwhen you say tennis. Then, if vou Parable.in beauty of landscape.

want tn get a real rise from them, say all the great tennis lias been

These nine grass courts enclosed | by a horseshoe grand stand and

seen, and the International plaversj sef off wlth hoxos for ,ho distin I have won their world champion-1 finished guests including the Hon.’ sblps.on "grass courts. The famous! , " ouis T '- Kmmerson. governor of lawn tennis shrine is at Wimble-! the State of Illinois, the South don. England, where Helen Wills) Park Commissioners, Dr. John L. recently won, and Tilden bowed to) McfJrifl - President of the American the Frenchman in the semi-finals, Tf>nnia association, and the donors as happened earlier at Paris ! of ' ho magnificent trophies, as France, and it will all happen wel1 as the committee of one hunagain at Forest Hills Ixmg Island dred hostesses headed by Attorney in America, during the month ofI K(li,h Sampson, will not only afSeptember J f° r d an inspiring spectacle and - We must p,.t in capil.l letters I !T nde r?". 5 '.“k play,,rs , or overy

i «.«.««.m t j on> hut j n t h e years to come will

this fact. LAWN TENNIS IS stand out. as one of the great ONLY TENNIS WHEN PLAYED* lawn tennis meccas of the world. ON GRASS (COURTS and thP' George Jennings crowned Illi

is only open when plavcrs 1 "? 1 * R i. al ° champion last week at

p • i River Forest and the Lejeck broth-

and the

event

of every r ltme participate. And the |f! rs of Hamilton Park; Limjoco. prst time in the history of Amer-; perfect, and Gonzolas head the ICll that there evei has been a real rphilippjnes contingent, Sheldon, open “Lawn Tennis tournament Shaw, O’Cownell and others of the

LI neoln 4744 “Efficiency” our motto.

LUCAS B. WILLIS (Licensed) FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER

Indianapolis, Incf =

university last week and Eddie Tolan. the Michigan lad. brought the

in thn f-hirnBo and Miss Cues! of 1 " 10 "'' «' te lo ">« mWd "' w< *‘ fnr nhantpionahip board track Michigan, give some indication of the first time since A. E. Ward’s; colored auto rage of the season. the c lass of the Ladies’ Singles. triumph in 1917, and produced the t b ' s to 1)0 " * llP The total value of the silver lov- flrst Necro winner sinre tho ; develand hoard speedway, Suning cups and prize three leg tro- ' day. July 14, will) a 100 mile race phies if one is to judge b> t h e! CRS8eR ° f Howard nrew - hack in to he known as the Emancipation display at Walgreen’s on South 1912 an d 1913. And George Simp derby, 1 speed demons of all parts Parkway and the Industrial State son, the pre-meet favorite, looked ol t* 1 *' F;ist and Middle-vest vi’.l

vie with the It tie racers o! the

on sadly, unable to start in this , %VOB t in their dash for the purses great field because of ,he recur an d the laurels that go with it. rence of a tendon injury in his first () of (ho first rn iored auto race and only work-out in the Denver drivors to sen(1 in his entry is stadium on the eve of the chain .. Hflsty - Ilahn or Pittsburgh. Pa., pionships. Tolan had beaten Simp ono 0 j America’s leading auto race tbe , 7 e8 i e J n ^ ron f ere nce Stal . s who haf , beeil the hero of

many a tjlt

bank on State St., runs up around a couple of "grand.” if you know what we mean. In Chicago its aj common expression of the gogetters on the southside, who like to

talk in four figures.

The Governor. Louis L. Emmcrson trophy and the Attorney General, Oscar E. Carlstrom’s, chal

Negro Youth Is Barred F r o m Michigan Tourney

Howard and Hampton. No game Monday at the City hospital withhas been abb- to take the place of ou y having rergained conscious-

j this one in the public mind. Hun-j ne ss.

dreds of graduates and fans of Rob Wallacei „ local dr i ve r and these- two institutions, who recall favorite with . race fans at the

the wonderful contests of the past, are already planning to journey to

Hampton on October 5.

wheel of a new- car of Art Chevro-' let. himself a famous driver of the old days, provided the thrill for

St. Paul will follow Howard on , t b P . grandstands. Boby had vowed October 13. Oct. 19 V'a. State will he’d run Jeffries “a curve.” He was meed the Seasiders on Armstrong f orce d to the pits after seven miles Field. State had one of the best j an( t i os t three laps while pitmen

has been barred from participation

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. July 11 iANP) —Roger Grant, one-time

western Michigan tennis champion, j elevens last year, finishing second rus hed repairs on his car. He made '■j * = and IosinK only to Hampton. Thesis up. was in 3rd place at the

coming season they are expecting fifty m ji e mar k an d when Jeffries to have better team. This contest ( went 01 ,t m the 54th lap. was just will he worth journeying a long a half lap behind for second place. Thanksgiving Dav, Hampton ! w1 ^ Jeffries out, Wallace was se-

cure in second place and set out

in the Western Michigan tourna ment, because he is a Negro. The news of Grant’s being bar red has revealed that the youth who won the championship in

1923 had been refused the right to ; and Union meet in Richmond. I fo overtake Anderson . who was

play since that ime. After the first Captain Byrd ami Duke Baker, j seU i n g a dizzy pace. At the 75 mile refusal. Grant stopped applying H arn pf 0n -s reliable punter, will he mark Anderson was just 1 1-2 laps

hut upon the advice of friends attempted to gain recognition again this year. He sent in his entry

lost to the team next year. These ahead of Wallace. But from then

and other gaps will have to be fill-

on Bobby’s car wouldn’t respond to his weighty foot and his vision

fee of $2.00 and showed that he ed but the Hampton coaching of first p lace 'began to fade. Char-

100-yard title in 9.5 seconds. His ""Wu'Tn The”past couple of) ^ mformed'fhaUcofo^^ayers Staff wlth G ^ eon B ’ Smith at the ! |ey Wiggins, who had_ been trail

lengo how, are’the finest'ev^er^ ~ and taking the speed throne j

up as awards anywhere. Edgar G.

fine a performance.

from the many racing stars that] p Pittshuhgh and the district has

Brown, Washington park, Chica- .

go, will find himself in -the role of I There was nothing to the furlong produced in the past, defending champions. after Tolan’s magnificent triumph i .. nasly - vvj ]i n The tournament will he conduct-! 111 thp 19 °- His cannonball drive i bujlt ‘ ■ moi)Jlt o| - t be latest ed on the obi English style. i n , 1,ir O”Kh the last fifty yords opened anjs aI)d wiIt | )P | );l( kcd by one of other words this year’s winner of a eanyon five yards on Wykofi, j j be cby ' 0 f Pilt.shuvgh. This hoy | the National I>awn Tennis erown)" 1111 Leiaud third. Gumming, 4th )bc i arses t automobile dealers in Will play the 1928 champion of the and Howard Jones, schoolboy } a ]argp following in the steel j American Tennis association. 'champion of the New York A. C.. , ‘ t i on am i i 10 j S known for his] . aud Raymond Alf, Denver, A. C.. I da] 4ng and his ability to come out LINCOLN HIGHWAYS TAKE trailing in the fine time of 21.9. | f a criHis unharmed. SERIES FROM BLACK CAPS| Brace y- who thought he haad won „nusml affair at!

the lOfi. had enough of Tolan. He : As th,s 18 an umisual atrajr an

in the tournament.

HAMPTON SQUAD GRID SCHEDULE

helm will be able to weld together | ing Wallace at a safe distance another machine that will have to s J ei:) T >ed on the gas more and mor^

end his mount liked it and moved

schedule

By CHAS. H. WILLIAMS

HAMF’TON INSTITUTE. July 3. The Hampton football eleven

be reckoned with. The

will he as follows:

Oct. 5—Howard U. at Hampton. Oct. 12—St. Paul at. Hampton. Oct. 19—Petersburg at Hampton.

Oct. 26—Not settled.

Nov. 2—Lincoln in New York,

Polo Grounds.

him up beyond Wallace to second place at the 90 mile mark. With hut ten miles of the race to go Bill Carson, now riding Jeffries’ buggy, got after Wallace and in four miles passed him to be secure in third position. Wallace’s car was failing him badly. At ninety-five miles the leads were Anderson. Wiggins.

Jeffries outpitcTied Hudson of dld no( f'Gu-f in the 220. As double 1 tlie . ^P^way it c- which .'' 01 ’ ,hR ! 9 ^ C th ^ ^ the Luisville Blaek Gaps to of also the tltL of

final game of series July 6th at j *'»««««« i-oren Murcnison.;\ , tn : ri „„ r<lin ifv to uual-

who scored double brackets before! an > r sk,, a " opportunity to ojia

Washington park. Jeffries kept his]

ify for the Emancipation derby as

X?, d h "ZIZ York ' many new sUrs arr rxne,,^

V„v 11—A & T in Norfolk fAr-i Carson * Wallace and VElackman. Nov. 11 A. & i. in NorioiK. (Ar The time wag 125;42 Th ^ next

mistice Day).

Nov. 16—West Va. at Hampton. Nov. 23—Shaw at Raleigh.

Iron Men. because 6f their stami- ^ 1T . . dj narvidenced by so few chants- Nor. 28-Ln,on at Richmond in the important games—will have] Thanksgiving Day),

to hurdle even more difficult oh-

flve miles were hair splitting for I the leaders, the average time ^for j the rest of the way being 50 s© onds flat. Four laps before thh enj of the race Wallace’s car stall with carburetor trouble and never

stades this fall to annex a chain- j afd p r i ze the promoters offer.

letics at Yorktown. Tnd. in the land Gus Moore of the! e d and a new flag syst, m is bein j 'nnst impressive e%er a, . rai,kR ‘ i ^ 0fl .. * Q7 qK m n PS

Score by innings

B. Caps 000 020 010—3 7 1 Highways __ _ ill ooo ooi- j t» i Hudson aud Morris; Jeffries and Hawking '

tstoa!;

Brooklyn Harriers was fourth in brought out so that the startei i a Hampton eleven. Jh« season, er’s. 96 miles, 9i miles. 98 miles - _ . . . « I 2 + U. JLI ***1 T If 1 i If rave 11 t __ ^ t a*— —41

the one mile run and finished third mav have full control of the en opens with Howard University at (99 m ji es> —100 miles and that’s all.

. . . . *. jucx.y . » . .« . , w _ rfM. k ir 11 I Kr* 1 H f 1

in Mu* six mile run. He collapsed

in the hitter mid was disqualified Cor being assisted from the track.

Hauls and that discipline will pre

vail at all time.

Tbe management believes tba

i L

HHH

HampUju. Tlus^iU he the finish was. Gaines, fourth; flv^ years! Tbe nubiic baavbaen de-1 Biucaman 5th and Bums,

yA-’. ■... ^

was sent in again. These last few

miles brought forth the finest examples of sportsmanship, nerve and determination ever witnessed here. “Wildman” Gaines had just stolen a march on Blackman, his fellow townsman and rooted him out of fourth place. Now we have it, Gaines, Blackman and Burns fighting it out for the fourth and