Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1922 — Page 8

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BastianLOCALEXPERT PLAYS EASTERN STAR IN MEET Fritz Earns Way to Chance With Strong Entrant From Pittsburgh. EIGHT LEFT IN SINGLES Tilden and Shimizu Continue in Easy Victories Over All Opponents. By VEDDER GARD. Gradually the field is narrowing In the fierce competition of the national clay court championships being held at the Woodstock Club until today’s play found only eight net stars left in the running for the men’s singles. Much Interest centered In the Gar-land-Bastian tilt today. Fritz has been playing splendid tennis and many of the local net fans expected him to defeat the great Pittsburgh performer this afternoon. The contest was scheduled for 4 o’clock. Bastian's service is much improved over last year. The local player put out a good man Wednesday when he defeated Parks of Ardmore, Pa., 7-5, 6 4. Jap Star in'Form Westbrook, Conference champ, and Hubbell of Chicago were to get together in a match today in which the . collegian ruled favorite. Shimizu was expected to dispose of Drewe6, as the Jap is playing an accurate game. Tilden, who appears easily the class of the meet, today was to play Wray Brown, who disposed of Hennessey Wednesday. Two Indianapolis players went down In Wednesday's play. Burdick lost to Hubbell of set match and Hennessey was given a beating by Wray Brown, the St. Louis ) collegian. Johnny was not in the! form of previous seasons and sue-! cumbed after winning the first set, 8 to 6. , Hennessey Off His Game Brown kept plugging away and Johnny simply did not have the endurance to keep up to his game. The, last two sets went to Brown. 6-0, 6 0. j The story is told simply by saying that the State champ was through aft- j er the first set. He has not been play-. lng much this season and was not ready for the grind. Tilden and Shimizu again showed their class in the Wednesday games, each putting his opponent away with all the ease and grace of past masters of the tennis art. Tilden was in great form and de- * seated Adoue of Dallas, Texas, in straight sets, allowing the Texan only One game. Adoue is no mean performer and the ease with which the world’s title holder won simply shows what a great player he Is. The Jap star, with his well-placed returns, surprised the spectators by winning from Bettens, the Californian, with less trouble than he experienced with Sanders the day before. Westbrook continued his good play by defeating Ed Haupt of Cincinnati, 6-2, 6-1. Garland was given a battle by Kuhler of Cincinnati, whose smashing drives ran the first set to deuce. Garland's steadiness finally counted however, and he won the first set, 8-6 and then came strong in the last to win, 6-2. Tilden Fast in Doubles In the doubles Wednesday Tilden and Weiner featured with a three-set victory over Garland and Hardy. Tilden played the whole court, w hile Sandy helped occasionally. Sagalowsky and Dixon, the local pair, met Til-den-Weiner today. The Bastian-Burdick team won from Hubbell-Lott of Chicago without much trouble, 6-1, 6-3. George Lott of Chicago went Into the finals of the junior tourney by defeating Rosenberger of the same city In rather easy fashion, 62, 61. Another semi-final match was to be played today when Sagalowsky, the local player, met Reed of Pittsburgh. The winner will meet Lott in the finals tomorow. The Boys’ tourney which is also in progress was to continue today with three matches. Two upsets Wednesday scrambled things up somewhat. Vonberg. the local dark horse, defeated Carter of Chicago and Christina of this city wen from Bud Markey, who was being touted as a coming star. In behalf of Bud it must be said that he had a hard fall that Jarred him considerably and may have hurt his chances in the match. Weiner and Strachan, Tilden's proteges from Philadelphia remained in the running. Results of the afternoon play on Wednesday follow: MEN S SINGLES Frits Bastlan. Indianapolis, defeated Beniamin K. Parks. Ardmore. Pa.. 7-5. 6-4. William Tilden 11. Philadelphia, defeated fj. B. Adoue, Dallas. Texas. 6-1. 6-0. Wray Brown. St. Louis, defeated John Hennessey, Indianapolis. 6-8. 6-0. 6-0. Walter Westbrook. Detroit, defeated Ed Haupt. Cincinnati, 6-3, 6-1. Arthur Hubbell. Chicago, defeated Ralph Burdick. Indianapolis. 6-3. 4-6. 6-3. Zeczo Shimizu. Japan, defeated Phil Bettens. California. 6-0. 6-3. Charles Garland. Pittsburgh. defeated Louis Kuhler, Cincinnati. 8-6. 6-2. MEN S DOUBLES TUden-Welner defeated Hardy-Garland. 6-3, 2-6, 6-1. Worthwein-Frambles defeated Grenz-Hoar. 6-1. 6-3. Sagalowsky-Dixon defeated Crane-Crane. 6-1, 7-5. Carter-Carter defeated Whitman-Ward, by default. Mc-Ksy-Kipp defeated Lunn-Dosenbergrer, 6-0, 6-3. Heurman-Brown defeated WhitakerAnderson, by default. Fulton-Keith defeated Adler-Rafert. 6-2. 6-4. Buschmann-Hare defeated Eag-lesfie'.d-F rederick. by default. . Wrirht-Stumizu defeated Hutchinson-San-Bders. by default. Marks-Halloway defeated by default. Bastian-Burdick defeated HubbeH-Lott. 6-1. JUNIOR SINGLES i —Semi-Finals—-"■George Lott. Chicago, defeated Mol RosChicago. 6-2. 6-1. Vet ran Pitcher Going Good Herman Schwartje, veteran pitcher of- the Saginaw staff, was beaten 3 to 0 in his crucial game against Ham ilton. It was his second defeat of the season in a dozen starts. Wild Throw Costs SIOO CHARLOTTE. X. C., July 6.-01-Hn Perritt, pitcher for the Columbia team of the South Atlantic Association, who hurled a bottle into the grandstand at the ball park here three weeks ago, hitting and injuring a small boy, was fined SIOO and costs in police court today. i* i_J'

Garland Match Provides Big Feature in National Net Tourney

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Jess wyiard, former heavyweight champ, skipping the rope in the American Legion stadium, Hollywood. Cal. The b.g Kansan is training in hope that he can obtain a return match with Jack Dempsey.

WESTERN MAJOR LEAGUE TOWNS BEST FOR CROWDS Yankees Return Home and Tell of Great Attendance. NEW YORK, July 6.—The flood tide of baseball's prosperity has been reached in the West, according to j Miller Huggins, who arrived here toj day at the head of the Yankees. Rec- : ord crowds greeted the Y'anks everyj w'here to say nothing of verbal raspi berries in large red numbers. In spite of the fact that the team I has been patronized largely by hear- : say at the Polo Grounds, it drew more I customers in the land of the setting ; sun, says Huggins, than ever it did in the free spending days of 1320 and 1321. ' “I never saw such enthusiasm as was displayed, particularly in St. Louis and Detroit,” Huggins declared. This is In pleasing contrast to the downright apathy with which the East is viewing both races. Judge Francis X. McQuade, of the Giajits. 1 is authority for the statement that National League attendance figures at. the Polo Grounds are far beiow those of the last two years. Maxie Seeks Mason Match Mgxie Epstein, local bantam, knocked out Battling Attell In a bout at Oxford, Ohio. He wants a match with Frankie Mason. Farb and Davis are handling Epstein. Break Even Again FIRST GAME. INDIANAPOLIS. AB. R. H. O. A. E. Baird. 3b 4 0 0 0 0 I Sicking. 2b 4 0 1 4 4 0 Covington, 1b.... 5 0 O 13 0 0 Brown, cf 5 O 0 1 O 0 Rehg, ls-rs 3 0 12 10 Krueger, c 3 0 0 4 1' 0 I S"br*iber. m 4 O 2 3 7 O Whelan, rs-ls 4 0 1 3 0 0 hiu, p 4 0 2 0 6 0 Totals 36 0 7 *29 19 1 •Two out when winning run scored. LOUISVILLE. AB. R. H O. A. E Massey, cf 2 O 0 1 0 0 Ballenger, ss 4 0 1 5 o 1 Comb*. If 5 1 1 3 0 0 Kirke. lb 4 0 0 13 0 0 Eiiis. rs 4 0 1 2 1 l I Betzel. 2b 5 O 1 4 2 O Sehenner. 3b 4 0 110 0 Meyf. c 3 0 3 1 2 0 Koob. p 2 0 O 0 4 0 Totals 33 1 8 30 14 2 Indianapolis 000 000 000 o—o0 —0 Louisville 000 000 000 I—l1 —1 Two-base hits—Meyer, Betzel, kehy. Three-base hit—Combs. Stolen baseBetzel. Sacrifices—Baird, Massey. Schepner, Koob. 2. Double play—Ballenger to Botzl to Kirke. Bases ou balls—Off Kooo. 3: off Hill. 6. Struck out —By Hill. 2. Itm pires—Murray and Freeman. Time—l*4s. SECOND GAME. INDIANAPOLIS. AB. R. H. O. A. E Baird. 3b 6 2 3 1 3 0 Sicking. 2b 5 1 33 0 1 Covington, 1b.... 6 2 1 11 0 0 Brown, cf 6 3 4 1 0 0 Rehg, rs ..4 2 4 3 O 0 Krueger, c 3 1 2 6 2 O Sehreiber. s .... 5 0 1 1 2 1 Whelan. If 2 2 1 1 0 1 Cavet, p 1 0 1 0 O 0 Petty, p.... 1 O 0 O 2 0 Bartlett. p....... 0 0 O 0 0 0 i Shea, p ....1 O 0 0 O 0 i Seib. p. O 0 0 O i 0 •Purcell 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 Total 15 23 27 15 31 •Batted for Petty in seventh. LOUISVILLE. AB. R. H. O. A. E Massey, cf 4 33 2 0 0! Ballenger. so-2b. .4 0 0 4 3 1 | Combs. If 5 1 1 2 0 0 | Kirke, lb 3 1 1 12 0 01 ! Ellis, rs 6 1 3 1 0 0 I : Betzel. 2b 3 0 1 5 3 0 i Gaffney, ss 2 1 0 1 0 © I Schepner, 3b 5 l 2 0 1 0 j i Brottem, c 3 2 1 O 1 0 Deberry, p 3 O 0 O 3 0i Long, p O 0 O O O 01 Estell. p 0 O O 0 O 0 King, p ....0 0 0 0 0 0 Baylin. p 0 0 O 0 1 0 Cullop, p .0 0 0 0 1 0 •Meyer 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 10 12 27 13 1 •Batted for Baylin In eighth. Indianapolis 010 000 1400—15 Louisville 031 100 230—10 Two-base hits—Ellis. 2: Brottem. Baird. Covington. Three-base hits—Schepner. Ellis. Combs. Rehg. 2: Krueger. Sacrifices— Brottem, Sicking. Rehg, Krueger. Sehreiber. Double plays—Sehreiber to Sicking to Covington: Ballenger to Betzel to Kirke: Betzel to Ballenger to Kirke: Baylin to Ballenger to Kirke. Bases on balls—Off Deberry. 4: off Long. 1; off Estell .1; off Cavet, 1; off Bartlett. 1; off Shea. 2; off Seib. 1. Struck out —By Seib, 2: by Bartlett. 1: by Petty. 2: by Cavet, 1. Hits—Off Deberry. 10 In 6 innings: off Long, to three batters, two hits: off Estell. 3 in 1-3 inning: off King, 4 in 2-3 liming: off Baylin. 1 in 1 inning: off j Cullop. 2 in 1 inning: off Cavet, 5 in 2 2-3 innings: off Petty, 3 in 3 1-3 iunings; off : Bartlett, 2 in 1-3 inning: off Shea. 2 in 1 ' inning: off Seib, none in 1 2-3 innings. Hit by pitcher—By Cullop (Kruejer). Wild i pitch—Cavet. Winning pitched—Petty. Los- . ins pitcher—Long. Umpireo-f-Murraj' aud 'Freeman. Time—2:3Q. J

WITH THE LEAGUERS Rogers Hornsby got within nodding distance of the National League home-run record when he crashed one of Markle's fast ones out of the park as the Cards were beating the Reds Wednesday, 11 to 4. It was Rogers' twentieht circuit hit. That blow tied Kenneth Williams of the Browns for the major league leadership. The Tigers pulled out an eleveninning victory, 6 to 5, over the Cleveland Indians when Stephenson kicked Ehmke's tap away and Blue followed' with a triple. The Pirates once more hobbed up with a seance of bad pitching and lost to the Cubs, 11 to 5. Bad weather kept the Yanks and Athletics idle, also the Phils and Braves. BUI Guthrie. Southern Association umpire, will get a chance In the American League, it was announced by the president of the Southern Association. Arnold Statz, Chicago National outfielder, received a fractured wrist when hit with a pitched ball the first time at bat in the Pittsburgh game Wednesday. Carlson was pitching for the Pirates. In the Association the Millers went down another notch when Merritt of St. Paul turned them back with seven hits and two runs. Daniel Boone hit a homer that helped in the victory. Milwaukee hopped all over Wilkinson of K. C. The result was a 9 to 4 win. There were fifteen hits mixed in the performance. Brief hit one far and checked up his nineteenth home run. Columbus finally managed to beat Toledo. The Senators did the business in the eighth round when three runs came oyer. They were just enough to get the verdict, 3 to 2. Sharkey vs. Dundee NEW YORK. July 6. —Johnny Dundee will defend his junior lightweight title against Jack Sharkey, former bantamweight, in a fifteen-round bout at Ehbetts Field tonight. Leading Major Hitters American G. AB. R. H. Pet. Slsler. St. Louis..7s 363 73 133 .440 Cobb. Detroit 62 238 93 93 .357 Heilman. Detroit. .69 268 63 98 .366 Sneaker, Cleve.. 64 238 494 87 .366 Witt, New Y0rk..83 224 39 80 .357 National Hornsby, St. L... 74 288 S5 113 .389 Bigbee. Pitts 71 289 61 104 .360 Miller. Chicago... 63 193 24 69 .359 Daubert, Cin 75 293 69 104 .355 T. Griffith. Brkln.sl 174 22 61 .351 (Includes players at bat 150 times or more.) AMUSEMENTS. TONIGHT UIIDAT MATINEE rclUiiHl TODAY JThe Stuart Walker Company in “CORNERED” • A Thrilling Melodrama —NEXT WEEK—“SEVEN CHANCES” 1 MOTION PICTURES

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EASY FOR YANK SCULLER Hoover Shows Lots of Speed tn Henley Event. LONDON, July 6.—Walter Hoover, of Duluth Minnesota, the American singles champion, won his heat in the Diamond Sculls championship at Henley today by a length and a half in the time of ten minutes, forty-one seconds. Hoover's opponent was R. Tweed, a collegian, who fumi&hed little opposition to the American after the first half-mile.

INDEPENDENT AND AMATEUR BALL The Em Roe Cubs have organized and fast State clube are requested to get in touch with the manager, care of Em-Roe Sporting Goods Company. Lebanon, Frankfort. Tipton. Shelbyville, Rushville, Batesville, Martinsville. Noblesville, Lafayette, Kokomo, New Ross, Vincennes. North Vernon, Bedford, Seymour and Columbus take notice. The Indianapolis Stars, a colored team, have lost only two out of sixteen games this season. A game is wanted ’for Sunday. Fast State teams, such as Greenfield, Fortville, Martinsville and Rushville, take notice. Address William Thomas. 567 Edgemont Ave., or call Kenwood 1715. Th St. Pnul team of the Church League holds a permit for a diamond Saturday aft ernoon and would like to arrange a game with some strong city team. Call Randolph 0500 and ask for Owen. The Arsenal Cubs will play the Central Juniors Sunday at Riverside diamond No. 10 at 3:30. All players will meet at Eddie's house at 1 o'clock for practice. For games with the Cubs write Eugeue White. Times Building. The Minute Men will play the Dawson A. C. at Garfield Park Sunday at 12:30. The Minute Men will practice at Brookside Park Saturday afternoon, and all players are expected to be on hand at 3 o’clock. For games call Webster 2495 and ask for Orval. The Riverside A. A. team defeated the Seal Fast club. 10 to 1. and the Elletteville (Ind.) team. 14 to 6. The Riversides desire games with local and State teams. Address Rip Turner. 437 West Thirtieth St., or call Randolph 1681. BATESVILLE. Ind.f July 6.—Batesvllle defeated the Greensburg Eagle* tn thirteen innings. 10 to 9. RUSHVILLE. Ind.. July o—Greenfield defeated the Tail Lights of this place. 14 to 5 The locals used three pitchers in an effort to stop the scoring. CARMEL. Ind.. July —The Favorite A. C.s. strong colored team of Indianapolis, play the local nine Saturday.

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American Association Won. Lost. Pet. Indianapolis 47 30 .610 ! St. Paul 44 30 .690 ; Minneapolis 42 33 .060 , Milwaukee to J* Louisville 37 4- .468 Columbus 34 44 .436 Kansas City 34 47 .4-0 Toledo 28 48 .308 American I.carue W. L. Pct.i W. L. Pet. St Louis 45 30 .600 Wash. ...85 37 .486 New York 44 33 ,571jCleve. ...34 41 .463 Chicago . 39 35 .527 Boston . . 32 4t .438 Detroit ..35 37 -507|Phlla. ...28 11 .400 National league YT. L. Pet.| W. T*. Pet. New Tork 44 24 .57:> Clncla. ..36 38 .486 St. Louis 42 32 .568,Pitts. ... 34 38 4.2 Brook. .. 40 32 ,643'Phila 26 40 .394 Chicago .'so 30 ...26 43 .3. < ftfVHES TODAY fudRK AN ASSOCIATION. Toledo at Indianapolis. Columbus at Louisville. #t. Paul at Milwaukee. Minneapolis at Kansas City. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Chicago at Philadelphia. Cleveland at New York. <2 games.) St. Louis at Eoston. <2 games.) (No other game scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE. New York at Pittsburgh. Brooklyn at St. Louis. (No other games scheduled.) YESTERDAY’S RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St Paul 012 000 HO—s 10 0 Minneapolis 020 000 000—2 7 0 Merritt. Gonzales Mangum. Mayer. Kansas City 030 001 000 —4 5 3 Milwaukee 100 400 31 —9 to 0 Wilkinson. McCarty: Ltiigrel. Myatt. Columbus 000 000 030—3 7 0 Toledo 100 001 000—2 9 2 I Burwell. Lees; McCullough. Glard. Kochcr. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Detroit. 6: Cleveland. 5 (It lniffngs.) New York-Philadelphia; rain. (No other gaiqes.) NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago. 11: Pittsburgh. 6. St Louis. 11; Cincinnati. 4. Philadelphia Boston: rain. (No other games scheduled '

BASEBALL-Washington Park Indiap.apolis vs. Toledo —July 6,7, 8 and 9 Games Called 3:00 P. M. Sunday Tickets On Sale at Claypool Drug tore

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RICKARD PLANS RIG BOUT FOR JULY 4 NEXT Tex Wants to Hold Proposed Wills-Dempsey Match in Jersey Arena. HARRY AGREES TO TERMS BY HENRY FARRELL. United Press Sports Editor. NEW YORK. July 6.—Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills In Jersey Oity for the world's heavyweight championship around the "Fourth” next summer. < This is the plan of Tex’ Rickard, and he may put It through before the end of the week. Rickard has agreed on terms with Wills, but has talked with the Dempsey side only In an Indefinite way. “Wills is willing to work for leas than SIOO,OOO. showing that he is willing to take a gamble for the title,” Rickard said. “Dempsey says he wants $500,000 for his end, but that is absurd, and when it comes to real business he will have to put a lower estimate on his value," Rickard said. Jersey City is the logical site for the fight, according to Rickard. On the Grand Circuit At North Randall Wednesday 2:16 Class Pacing; Purse. $1,200 (second division i Sun Flash, br h. by San Francisco (Coxi 1 1 ro ! Fagan, br g, by Walter Direct (Palin) 33 1 j Esta G. b m. by Nutsford (Mor- [ rison i 2 2.3 The Sherwood, eta g. by Norchen (Murphy) 8 4 2 Buddie Mi#r, b g. by Wilson (Wickersham l 4 5 4 BMP. Mary Coffee and Rambler also started. Time —2:04 44. 2:05*. 2:05%4. 2:10 Class Pacing; Purse. $1,200 Jessie Riggs, b m, by Argot Hall (McMahon i 1 ! ro ! Billy Wilcox, b g, by Wallace Me- | Kinuey (Garrison) 5 5 1 Abiiedale. blk h. by The Abbe I Cox) 2 4 3 J W S. b r. by J S G i Ray>.... 3 2 6 Lawyer Swift, br g. by Heir at | I.aw (Valentine) 4 3 2 Celeste McKinney also started . j Time—o:o7 Is. 2 .06 >* . 2:09*4. i The Ohio. 2.08 Class Trotting; Purse. $5,000 | The Great Volo, b e. by Peter the Great (Cox) 1 1 ro i Prince Loree, b g. by Prince Me* Kinney (MoLevitt) 2 2 1 I Voltage, br g. by Manrlce (Egan). 6 4 2 King Watts, b b, by General Watts t McDonald i 3 4 3 ! Herbelwyn. br g. by Manrlce (Erwin ) 8 3 6 | Walter Sterling and JU3t David also : started. Time—2:os44. 2:04*4. 2:09*4. 2:12 Class Trotting: Purse $1.200 The Triumph, b b, by The Exponent (Childs) 5 8 1 1 Alice G Forbes, br m. by J Malcolm Forbes (McMahon) 12 2 3 Amarillo McKinney, b g. by McKinney (Erskine) 7 1 7 2 Lady Bennett, b m. by Lord Roberts (Stout) 2 7 5 ro Captain Mosby. br g, by Colonel Mosby (Allen* 3 4 3 ro *Jovolo, The Proof. Alta Evans. Admiral Harris. Steiner Simpson and Eelani' also :07 V. 2 .09 08 *4. 2.10*4. 2.18 Class Pacing: Purse. $1,200 Arrowhead, b g. by Beiwin (MeDonald) 6 1 1 Janet Helen, ro m. by Peter the Great (Taylor) 1 6 7 Demore. b m. by Dromore I (Hickok) r 2 3 4 Teddy Todd, b h. by Guy TotW (Stinson) 4 4 2 Jane A hr. b .m. by Tregantlo (Bolby i 8 33 Tulbucane and Ditty McCamm also start ed Time—2:oß*4. 0:08*4. 2:08*4. A. R. C.s Rally to Win The A. B. C.s counted six runs in the last three innings against the Cubans Wednesday and nosed them out. 6 to 5. The visitors staged a big sixth and scored all their counters in that frame. Jeffries stopped them, however, and the locals pulled out a victory. Day delivered the pinch blow in the ninth with the bases loaded-that brought over two runs and won the tilt.

Willard Apparently Sincere About Wanting Title Bout BY EDDIE ASH. V Jess Willard, former world’s boxing champion. Is sincere about Iwant* ing a return match with Jack Dempsey, his conqueror, but he’s going to put the acid test to himself before entering into an agreement to battle. Jess is well along in years, and the public won't stand for him trying to regain the crown unless he can prove he can get in proper shape. The big Kansan understands the public view and he is now in training in Los Angeles. He has mapped out a schedule of light exercise and is doing his best to work off some of his surplus weight. Tex Rickard has promised to promote a second Willard-Dempsey bout, but he must be convinced first that Willard meanS business and is sincere in his ambition to regain the title. Jess didn’t offer any alibi for his defeat by Dempsey in Toledo, but said if he ever fought again he would change his system of training. At Toledo Willard did not do any road work, and he had inefficient sparring partners. He was badly advised and was led into the Dempsey trap with ease. But all that was Jess’ own fault. He wouldn't spend the money for high-priced sparring partners and trainers, and as for cutting out road work he did so because it was a grind, and he did not think it necessary. Needless to say, if Willard gets another crack at Demon Jack he will t not train like a lazy man and use broken down sparring partners. He has taken on much weight since he lost to Dempsey, and there Is some doubt about his ability to get back in form. If Jess is successful and is able to trim his huge physique down to fighting weight there will be plenty of boxing fans on the short end of the betting if he obtains a return match. There are still many ring followers who think Jess would have a chance to regain the crown. Tex Rickard holds that opinion.

GAME FOR RELIEF FUND City Hall Team and Maroons Play July 22. A baseball team has been organized at the city hall formed of city employes to play the Indianapolis Maroons July 22 at Washington Park. The money raised is to be given over to Mayor Shank's relief fund. The city has a number of former diamond stars in its employ and expects to have 'a good team. The Maroons have made a good record in city baseball circles. Womet's Clay Court Meet BUFFALO, July 6.—Tennis dope was upset again here Wednesday in 1 the women's national clay court tourney when Helen Hooker of Niagara Falls defeated Katherine Gardner of Boston, former national junior title holder, 6-3. 4 6, 6 2. The semi final round was to he played today. Miss Bancroft meeting M fs Hooker and Mrs. Bickle and Mrs. Godfrey playing in ,the lower half of the draw. Cooler Wins First Block Harry Cooler. State champion threecushion billiard player, won the first block of the 150-point match with Walter Ramsey, challenger, Wednesday night by a score of 50 to 46. The match is to be played in three blocks of fifty points each.

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Weather Halts Play in British Net Event Bu United Press WIMBLEDON, England, July 6. Poor weather conditions, which have made perfect tennis impossible all week, caused a postponement until tomorrow of the semi-final rounds of the British national championships. Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, Mrs. Molla Mallory, Mrs. Peacock and Mrs. Beamish, the four semi-finalists In the woman’s championship, win not get into action until Friday. Randolph Lyoett of England Thursday entered the men's semi-final round, conquering P. M. Davison, also an Englishman, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4. 8-6. Jockey Byers Hurt AUEDUCT. N. Y.. July C.—Tha veteran steeplechase jockey, Dallot Byers, one of the leading American riders over the Jumps, went down with Joseph E. Widener's Vigilant in the Glendale Steeplechase Handicap on Wednesday, and was carried of? the field suffering from a broken collarbone and minor Injuries. Thomas Scores K. 0. AURORA. 111., July 6.—Ted Thomas, Gary featherweight, knocked out Tony Darcy of Chicago after one minute and fifty-six seconds of fighting in the first round of their scheduled ten-round bout here.

JULY 6,1922

TRIBE RETURNS RIDING OUT IN FRDNTOF RACE Hendricks Brings His League Leaders Back to Take on Hens. : DIVIDE WITH ' COLONELS Leaders “If” Today Pet. Win. Lose. Indianapolis 610 .615 .603 St. Paul 595 ' .600 .587 Minneapolis 560 .566 .553 Milwaukee 549 .554 .543 jack Hendricks and his band and league leaders were back in town today after a swing around the eastern half of the A. A. circuit. The Indians visited Columbus, Toledo and Louisville In order, and although the opposition proved stout, the Iloosiers managed to cling to the flag position The Hens will be the visiting attraction at Washington Park four days, and lots of excitement Is profit ised. The Hens are not the lame ducks of the early season. They have bolstered under the management of George Whitted and no more are they easy to turn back. The Indians got an even break in the double-header in Louisville yesterday. making it fifty-fifty for the series with the Colonels. , In the first contest yesterday Koob and Hill engaged in a mound duel and the Colonel won in ten innings, 1 to 0. It was a thriller all the way, the Colonels getting eight hits and the Indians seven. The game was dotted with fielding features and tight pitching. The lone run came when Combs tripled and scored on Schepner s sacrificefly. The second contest was marked by a run storm staged by the Tribe in the seventh, fourteen tallies scoring in that inning. It was the wildest inning of American Association history and tied the American League scoring record made by the New York Americans in 1920. Harry Purcell placed a bid for a record when he pinch hit twice In that big inning and got a safety each time. The Indians used five pitchers and the Colonels six, making eleven pitchers in a nine-inning game. The Hoosiers got twenty-two hits in the contest and the Colonels twelve.