Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1923 — Page 6

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BASEBALL STANDING " : AND -7= CALENDAR

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pot. Kansas City ..._.. 24 6 .800 St. Paul 23 12 .636 Columbus lit i5 .569 Louisville 10 38 .514 Milwaukee .14 20 .412 Minneapolis 15 22 405 Toledo 13 23 .361 INDIANAPOLIS 11 22 .333 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct.j W. L. Pet. New York.2B 10 ,737|3t. Louis .16 20 .4-ta Phlla 20 18 .5561 Wash ...14 21 .41* Cleveland -21 17 .563|Chicago .14 21 .400 Detroit ...19 20 .475|Boston ..13 20 .394 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet New York. 29 11 .725 Cineinti .18 19 .486 Pittebrh ..23 10 .590 St. Louis. 18 23 .439 Brooklyn .20 18 .526 Boston ..16 22 .421 Chicago ..19 19 .600 Ph.la ...12 27 .308 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Louis, at Indpls.; Col. at Tol. (No other games. AMERICAN LEAGUE Oleve at Chi., St. L. at Det. (No other games.) NATIONAL LEAGUE Brklyn at Bos.: N. Y. at Phila., Chi. at CSn.. Plttsb. at St. L. Yesterday’s Results AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (Morning Games) St. Paul. 6: Minneapolis. 0. Columbus. 8 Toledo, 1. (Afternoon Games) 6t. Paul 000 002 030—5 12 1 Minneapolis 000 000 000—0 6 4 Merritt. Allen; Erickson. Grabowski. Columbus .. 410 202 000 01—10 16 3 Toledo 015 030 000 00— 9 12 1 Sanders. Gleaenn. Snyder. Weaver. Elliott; Bedient. Gland, Anderson. (First Game) Kansas City 102 203 100 —9 12 2 fUwaukee 000 000 021—3 6 3 Schupp. McCarty: Lindsay. Shinault. (Second Game) Kansas City 300 000 020 —5 9 2 Milwaukee 000 000 210—3 11 2 Zlnn. Skiff: Geam. Gossett. AMERICAN LEAGCE (Morning Game*) New York. 6: Washington, 4. | Boston. 0: Philadelphia. 6. St. Louis. 10; Detroit. 2. Cleveland. 7; Chicago. 0 (Afternoon Games* New York 003 213 000—9 12 1 Washington 200 000 030—5 9 2 Bush. Ben go ugh: Mogrldge. Warmouth. Zahnlzer. Gharrity. Boston 000 202 110—6 10 2 Philadelphia 010 000 001—2 9 2 Ferguson, Walters: Rommell, Perkins. St. Louis 100 010 001—3 7 2 Detroit ...It 000 010 003—4 8 0 Van gilder, Collins: Dauss, Bassler. Cleveland 010 000 001—3 9 0 Chicago 102 130 00*—7 15 1 Uhle. Edwards. Boone. O’Neill: Leverette, Schalk. NATIONAL LEAGUE (Morning Game*) Brooklyn, 5: New York, 2. Pittsburgh. 5; Chicago. 4 Cincinnati, 4: St. Louis. 2 Philadelphia. 5: Boston. 3 (Afternoon Games) Brooklyn 010 301 001 —6 10 2 New York 000 520 11*—9 11 2 Dickerman, Decatur. Cadore. Deberry: J. Barnes. Jounard. Ryan, Snyder. Chicago 100 010 000— 2 9 0 Pittsburgh 300 112 03*—lO 19 0 Aldridge. Dumovich, Keen. O Farrell: Cooper. Schmidt. Cincinnati 000 100 022—5 13 0 St. Louis 000 000 000—0 6 2 Rixey, Hargrave: Haines. Barloot, Ainsmith. Philadelphia 020 000 400—6 11 1 Boston 000 100 000—1 7 1 Weinert. Wilson: Oeschger. McNamara, O Neill.

Split Double Bill

FIRST GAME INDIANAPOLIS AB R H. O A E Christenbury rs.. 4 1 1 2 0 0 Sicking. 2b.' 4 1 0 6 0 1 Rehfr, If 5 2 1 3 0 0 Brown, of 2 0 1 1 O 0 Krueger. c 4 1 0 1 O O Janvrin, ss. 4 O 2 3 6 1 Whelan, lb 2 1 1 11 0 o Campbell. 3b 3 1 ' 0 0 3 O Burwell. p 4 1 2 0 3 0 Totals 32 8 8 ,27 1R 2 LOUISVILLE AB. R H. O. A E. Acosta, cf 4 0 2 2 O O Betzel. 2b 4 O 1 6 4 0 Covington, lb. ... 4 0 0 3 0 0 Combs. If 3 0 1 3 0 0 Shannon, ss 4 O 1 1 3 1 Hamel, rs 4 0 l 3 0 1 Sehepner, 3b 4 0 0 3 0 1 Brottem. e 3 0 1 3 1 0 Sothoron. p 0 0 0 0 0 2 Estell. p 3 0 0 0 1 0 Totals 33 0 7 24 0 5 'Louisville 00° 000 000—0 Indianapolis 330 000 20*—8 Two-base bit—Whelan Three-base hit— Burwell. Stolen base—Rehg Sacrifices— Stoking. Campbell. Whelan. Double plays— Janvrln to Sicking to Whelan, 3. Left on bases —Indianapolis. 7: Louisville. 7. Bases ,on Mils—Off Burwell. 1: off Estell. *4. I Struck out—By Estell. 3. Hits—Off Sothoron. 5 in 1 inning (none out in second); off Estell. 3ln 7 innings. Losing pitcher— Sothoron. Umpires—Landry and Connolly. Time—l:27. SECOND GAME INDIANAPOLIS AB R. H O. A E. Christenbury. rf..4 0 2 1 0 0 Sidling. 2b..... 4 0 0 6 2 0 Rehg. If 4 0 0 3 0 0 Brown. cf...... 4 0 0 4 0 1 Janvrin. a5.....3 0 0 1 2 0 Whelan, lb 3 0 0 7 1 0 Campbell, 3b ... 8 0 0 1 3 J) Dixon, o ....... 1 l 0 3 1 O •Krueger ....... 10 0 10 0 Cavet. p 2 0 0 1 B 0 Bono. P........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 20 1 2 27 14 1 •Batted for Dixon in eighth. LOUISVILLE AB. R. H. O. A. E. Acosta, cf 6 2 2 B 0 0 Betzel, 2b 6 1 2 1 6 O Covington, lb ... 5 1 3 14 0 0 Combs. If 4 2 3 1 0 0 Shannon, ss ..... 4 0 1 2 5 2 Hamel, rs 4 0 0 0 0 0 Schemer. 3b....4 0 1 0 2 0 Brotbsm. c 4 O 1 4 0 0 Debe-ry, P 4 0 2 0 8 0 Totals 39 6 16 27 10 2 iLc,u4svU> 100 POO 014—6 bmhanapolls 001 000 000—1 I Two-base hits —Combe. Deberry. Brottem. fAreata. Betzel- Stolen base—Shannon. Sacrifice hits—Cavet Shannon. Double play— Betas! to Shannon to Covington. Left on 1 isw Tiffinn-r'li 3; Lcui*vU>. 10. Bares ou baJl*—Off Caver. 3; off Deberry, 1. Perorlc out—Br Caret. 1: by Bonn. 1; by LDeberry, 4. Hits—Off Caret. 15 fa *H tnjmnrsueff *tn. man* in £-3 mmng Lestev ■gtchf—Opvet, Umpirae—Connolly and fcnil Time—l:2S.

Division of Spoils Is Only Thing Left of 500-Mile Speed Classic

MILTON IS ONLY MAN TO REPEAT AS WINNER ON BRICK TRACK HERE Cops Off Capital Prize and SB, 500 in Lap Money Hartz Drives Pretty Race —The Henry Rambled in Hitting on All Four,

Winners and Prizes

(Official) Ml. Pos. Driver anil Oar. Time. P. H. 1— Milton. H. C. S. Special 5:29:50.17—90.95 2 Hartz. Durant Special 5:33:05.90 —90 06 3 Murphy. Durant Special 5:40:36.64 —88.08 4 Heame, Durant Special 5:46:14.23 —86.65 5 Corum. Barber-Warnock Special (Ford) 6:03:16.81 —82.58 6 Elliott, Durant Special 6:04:52.87 —82.22' 7 Durant, Durant, Special 6:05:06.30—82.17 K—Sailer, Mercedes 6:11:49.60 —80.68 9—De Cystria, Bugatti 6:26:24.78 —77.64 10 —Morton. Duesenberg 6:40:04.98—74.98 Speedway prize money to winners: 320,000. first: SIO,OOO. second; $5,000. third; $3,500. fourth; $3,000 fifth: $2,200. sixth; SI,BOO. seventh; $1,600 eighth; $1,500 ninth; $1,400. tenth. prize winners: Milton. $8,500: Wilcox, $2,000; Murphy, $1,100; Durant, $400; Hartz, SIOO. BY BLYTHE HENDRICKS To the victors go the glory of success and the spoils of war. Today Tommy Milton stands in the high position of speed king of the motor world following his hard fought, well earned victory Wednesday in the eleventh annual 500-mile race at the. Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Milton won in 1921 and is the only driver with two victories at the track.

The prize money will he awarded to the winners of the ten places In the great event at a drivers’ banquet. In addition to the $50,000 in purses to be divided. $12,100 in lap prizes will be given to the five drivers who headed the race at different times. Accessory prizes will bring the total amount to approximately $75,000. Milton Grabs Prizes. The official count announced by race officials today showed that Tommy Milton in his 11. C. S. Special won 1 $8,500 in lap prizes. His teammate, i Howdy Wilcox, was second with $2,000. Jimmy Murphy, last year's winner, will receive $l,lOO, while Cliff Durant and Harry Hartz complete the list with S4OO and SIOO respectively. The race itself was one of the hardest fought ever seen on the Speedway. Milton's victory was thoroughly deserved, his white Miller-motored H. C. S. special, was forced to its Lmit for half of the race and was not out of danger until the last mile of the long race had been run and Milten had received the checkered flag of victory front Edie Riekenbacker, j official starter. The winner's average

How They Went Out

No. Car and Driver. Lap. Cause 21 — Bugatti. De Alzaga 8....8r0ken connecting rod. 14—Mercedes. Lautenschlager 16 ...Hit wall on south turn. 22 — Bugatti, Riganti 19:. ..Broken gas tank. 29—Durant. Cooper Alley 22 .... Through fence on back stretch 27 Bugatti. Zborowski 41. .Broken connecting rod. 25 H. C. S., Wilcox. . . 60. . Broken universal joint. 4—Packard. Boyer 59....8r0ken differentia!. 2 Packard. De Palma 69. ..Blown cylinder head gasket. 35—Miller. Hill 44... .Connecting rods wrecked motor 26 Durant. Fengler 69.. Broken gas tank 3 Packard, Resta 88... Blown cylinder head gasket. 28 — Special, Duray 13u... Broken connecting rod 18—Bugatti. De Vizcaya 165.. Broken connecting rod Eleven of the twenty-four starters finished the race.

was 90.65 miles an h'our, almost four miles an hour behind the record set by Jimmy Murphy in a 183 inch car. This year's motors measured only 122 cubic inches. Harry Hartz in a Miller-motored Durant repeated his last year's per I formance of finishing second. He was I about two and one-half laps behind | Milton. The Durants also captured j third and fourth places, the honors goling to Jimmy Murphy and Earl Cooper, | the latter driving Eddie Hearne's car ; during the latter part of the race, j To the fifth car, the Barber-Warnock | special, a Ford in racing trim, went j the real honors of the day. L. L. (Corum, the pilot, received applause almost equal to that fiiven Milton when he finished his little car. He drove a hard, steady race against great odds, am! his game uphill fight won the admiration of the packed grand stands. Then came the Durants of Frank Elliott and Cliff Durant. Eddie Hearne at the wheel of Durant’s car at the finish. German Beats Frenchman The first foreign car to finish was the German Mercedes of Max Sailer, who took eighth money. Ninth place went to Prince De Cystria in a French Bugatti. De Cystria did the up-from-nowhere stunt and won his place by consistent, steady driving. Not heard of for the first 400 miles he got in the money in the closing laps. The fight for tenth place between the Duesenberg and Werner's Mercedes was one of the features of the race. Werner’s car climbed steadily curing the first haif of the race, finally reached third place and looked like a dangerous contender when it began to fade with troubles of all kinds. The Duesenberg. on the other hand, ran far behind at first, and got better as the race proceeded. ' With only ten laps to go the Mer- ! cedes was two full laps ahead, but Red Shafer had his cat going and snatched the lead from Werner on 199th lap. •

The great battle for the lead started on the very first lap. It generally was conceded that Milton, because of his pole position, would take this lap, but to the astonishment of all. Murphy jumped from his position in the third line to the lead, with Ralph DePalma in his Packard, coming from the fourth line, almost abreast of Milton for second place. Murphy led for two laps and the lead alternated for five more.. Milton then lead until the sixteenth lap. when Murphy jumped to the front for five lap*. All this time Wilcox in his H- C. S. was closing the gap which separated him from the leaders, and on twenty-sixth lap he went t* the front to the great joy of the crowd-

It then became a three-cornered battle, hut Murphy never was able to get back in the lead, although he rode In second place for many miles. Close Finish So close was the finish between Murphy. Wilcox and Milton on the thirtyeighth lap that it was announced that the result was a triple tie. The tinting machine which records down to the 100th of a second, gave the lap to Wilcox (Tiff Durant brokp into the lend on tlte sixty-third lap and took four lap prizes. Harts not the lead for one r.rlef lap on the 104th lap, Gut astir that Milton's car never was headed. I'p to this point the <-ars had teen ahead of tbe old record, but as the terrific pace cut the field down and Milton got a lap lead on the field he slowed down and took things easier. From here on the average speed I ogan to fall and soon dropped behind last year's mark. Howdy Wilcox did his full share toward the H. C. H victory. Milton's hands blistered from the .strain of driving and he was relieved for about fifty laps by Wilcox, whose oar had

gone out with a broken clutch on the sixtieth lap. Wilcox drove a great race and held the lead in fine fashion. Milton's hands were bandaged and he went back for the last iOO miles. The great disappointment of the day was the failure of the Packards to show anything. By sheer desperation De Palma went into third place on the first lap and Boyer held onto that position at twenty five miles, but it was plain the cars were not working properly, carburetion seemed to be the great trouble and by the time the 125-mile mark had been reached one of the greatest racing teams ever assembled —De -Raima. Boyer and Resta —was on the side lines. It was a great triumph for Harry Miller, the Lis Angeles, Cal., designer of racing motors. His motors took the first four places and swept the field down to eighth place with the exception of the fighting fifth-place flivver. Mercedes in 111 Luck The Mercedes crew had tough going. Max Sailer fainted, Christian Lautenschlager hit the wall, his mechanician, Jacob Krauss, was cut up slightly; Karl Sailer was blown out of his car by backfire at the pits and thrown to the bricks, and their cars began to go to pieces in the last 100 miles. The French-Argentine Bugatti team say they will be back next year with faster cars belter suited to the Indianapolis track. Benny Hill's Miller special looked like a porcupine after the race. It went to pieces with Alsaga, the Argentine driving relief for Benny. Dike the one hoss shay it went to pieces simultaneously, and looked like a porcupine with connecting rods and pistons protruding from all parts of the motor.

State Baseball

Madison, 7; Salem, 4. Frankfort. 3; Lincoln Highway (In dianapolis), 0. Seymour, 2; Leo Krauss (Indianapo lis), 1. Batesville, 13; Greensburg. 3. I. U. Railway, 11; Maywood. 4. Association home runs Wednesday Riggert, Morrison and Dressen, Saints •Lober. Brewers; Zwilling, Blues; Pech ous, Hens. *

Babe Climbs Babe Ruth was prominent with his long hat Wednesday anti two home runs by the great slugger helped the New York Yankees down the Washington Senators twice. Babe hit one for the circuit In each game of a doubleheader, bringing his total for the Jkaxon to eleven.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The Finish and the Victor ■ . ■ .... ■

The upper picture shows Eddie Riekenbacker. official starter, flagging Tommy .Milton on the last lap of the race at the Speedway Wednesday. In the lower picture the winner. Milton, is shown being congratulated on winning <>n his left is Harry Stutz, who bought the Miller-motored car and raced it as an H C. S. Dpecial.

A. B. C.S WIN DOUBLE BILL FROM MONARCHS Local Team Continues in Great Form and Takes Two. By Time* Syrrinl KANSAS CITY. Mo.. May 31—The A. B. C.s of Indianapolis improved their hold on first place in the Negro National League by winning two games from the Kansas City Monarehs here Memorial day. The .Monarehs are in second place in the race. The scores of the games wore, 6 to 1 and 2 to 1. The visiting pitchers, Newsom and Corbett, were in splendid form and the K. C. team could do nothing with them. CAL CRUM RELEASED Tribe Sends Pitcher to Tulsa (Western lAiague) (Hub. Pitcher Cal Crum of the Indians today was released outrigiit to the Tulsa Club of the Western league, He is a former jumper, who was reinstated last winter. Cal’s throwing arm has heen both ering him and he hits not heen of much service this season His home is in Tulsa and the Tribe team of ficials made the deal with that club a.s a favor to the player.

INDEPENDENT AND AMATEUR BALL

The Acme Juniors won their fifth straight ranw ,M;iy 30 when they defeated the Trader Point Juniors. 11 to 2. Daly pitching for the winners allowed but two hits and had fifteen strikeouts to Ills credit The Acme will practice Sunday morning at 10 a. m All players intending to play )>e st practice The Junior A Us are asked to call Belmont 36-47 and ask for Winily before Saturday. The Indianapolis Mon archs defeated the Carmel Reserves. 13 to 3. The Monarch* play at Hazelwood Sunday They have open dates June 17 and 24. For games address Blzie Moßeynolds, 1431 Columbia Ave. Jewells A B. C.s will play at Marlon Sunday, and June 10 will meet the Linton Giants. June 17 and 24 and July 1 and i are open dates For games address Warm r Jewell. 1728 Northwestern Ave. The Coca-Cola club would like to hear from soma out-of-town team for arr me for next Sunday. Call Ilrexel 2941 or write manager, 310!) Singleton St. Moomsiille and Hazelwood take notice. The Arsenal Deserves will play the Y. p. C.s at Pennsy Park next Sunday at 3 p m Rain last week prevented the V P. C. contest. A good crowd is expected as both teams have a following. The Champaign Velvets a colored team want games with fast State teams. Cali Lincoln 0311. or address Virgil Torrence 3144 E. Minnesota St The St. Philip baseball team will meet the Eastern Cubs Sunday because cf last Sunday's postponement the St Philips would like to book the Eemdale Triangles again and want to hear from them The Saints practice Wednesday and Friday evenings each week. For games address Walter Cress 807 N. Gray St., or call Webster 6003. The 1900 Cataracts took a double-header from the Capitol City K of P P 7 team at Brookside Park. Wednesday by scores of 6 to 0 and 17 to 0. Henson pitched both games for the winners Berry's honmr and the heavy hitting of Dickinson featured the contests For games in July, address H. (i Johnson. 411 Harlan St.

College Baseball Michigan. 12; Notre Dame. 4 . Georgetown, 11; Yale, 3. Colgate, 11; Princeton. 3. Harvard, 5; Brown, 0. Pennsylvania,, 7: Cornell, 3. Holy Cross, 5; Boston College, 2 Williams, 9; Amherst, 5. Navy. 13: Sl4 Johns, 3. Dartmouth, i:• Vermont. 0.

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Speedway Casualties Year. Injured. Killed. 1909 10 6 1910 1 0 1911 8 1 1912 9 0 1913 10 0 1914 6 0 1915 0 0 1916.. ~rr 4 0 19i7—No race held. 191S —No race held. 1019 2 3 1920 0 0 1921 3 0 1922 0 0 1923 4 1 Total 67 11

TECH AND MANUAL IN IMPORTANT GO Game Friday May Decide City Baseball Title, Technical high school and Manual meet at the Tech diamond Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock in one of the most Important games of the city series. Tech by winning the contest can tie Manual for the lead in the series, it is the last game for Tech. Manual has one more on June 6 with Short ridge. If Manual wins they will cinch the city title. The standing at present is as follow: Won Lost Pet. Manual 2 0 1.000 Technical 3 1 .667 Shcrtridge n 3 .000 S. S. LEAGUE STANDING Downey Are. and Omtermary Held for !,ead With Three Wins. The standing in the East Side SunGay School Baseball League is a.s follows: Won Lout Pot Downey Avenue . . 3 0 1 .000 Ontennary ...... 3 0 i non Heath Memorial .. . . ] 1 .500 Rutler Memorial 1 2 333 Englewood .1 2 333 Wen; minister .0 4 000 Saturday's games. June 2. are Centennarj vs Englewood. Riverside. No. 8; Westminister vs. Downey Ave.. Riverside. No. 2: Heath Memorial vs Cutlet Memorial. Brookside. No. 3 (two games).

THURSDAY. MAY 31,1923

SLUGGING BLUES FOLLOW COLONELS AT TRIBE PLANT Final With Louisville Today, Then Comes Wilbur Good's League Leaders, Louisville again today in the series wind-up with the Indians. On Friday the famous slugging Blues of K. C., league leaders, will hit the town with plenty of strong arms and bats. Local fans are anxious to see Wilbur Good's topnotchers in action, because at this stage of the race they look like the pennant team. When the Tribesmen met the Blues in Kansas City the Kawtown brigade was given the hardest kind of opposition and critics there said the Indians had a good ball club. You Never Can Tell. Perhaps the Hoosiers will do something in the series with the leaders here and if they do the Tribe fans will feel like celebrating. The K. C. series calls for four games. With an oven split of the doubleheader with the Colonels Wednesday the Indians hoped to grab off the rub game this afternoon. In the conflicts Wednesday the Tribe annexed the first tilt, S to 0. and Louisville took the second fracas. 6 to 1. Burwell hurled the shut-out for the Hendricksmen and Deberry went big for the visitors in the wind-up affair of the afternoon. Only two hits were obtained off Deberry by the Indians, Christenbury getting both. Four runs in the ninth by the Colonels put the game out of reach. Kirke Becoming Restless Steve Yerkes appeared in the city Wednesday ami he donned a Tribe uniform in practice. He will be used for utility purposes. Jay Kirke is still bothered some by injured left ami, but he is anxious'to return to the line-up and he may be given the opportunity shortly. The Indians don’t like the job of holding down last place and they mean to extend themselves in an es fort to get out of the rut during this present stay at the home lot.