Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1923 — Page 9

TUESDAY, AUG. 28, 1923

Sunday and Labor Day Cards Drawn in Times Independent Tournament

SURVIVING NINES TO STRUGGLE FOR ANNUALLAURELS 3ix Teams Left and All but Two Will Be Eliminated by Next Monday. Competition in the annual Times tournament for the city independent championship has reached the sizzling heat stage. Six clubs remain in the running and every team looks like the goods. Contests will be played next Sunday and Monday (Labor day) and after the battles those two days only two nines will survive. The finals will be played Sunday, Sept. 9, and efforts will be made to obtain an enclosed park for the title tilt. In next Sunday’s outlay of contests, every battle is expected to be a feature, as six red-hot baseball sections of the city will be concerned. Managers Watch Closely and umpires were selected at a tournament meeting Monday night and the manner in which managers “sparred for points” indicated there is going to be something stirring. Two games will be staged at Riverside Sunday’ and one at Spades Park. The winner of the Riverside-Collegian scrap will go to the finals. Due to one postponement last Sunday’ and one tie game, it will be necessary to play one game Labor day’ to decide the other semi-finalist. The schedule for Sunday and Monday: SUNDAY All-Collegians vs. Riversides Riverside diamond No. 2, at 3 p. m. Umpire to be named later. St. Anthony Y. P. C.s vs. Arsenals. Riverside diamond No. 10. at 3 p. m. Umpire Mattem. Militaries vs. Spades, at Spades Park, at 3 p. m. Umpire Murphy. MONDAY Winner Y. P. C.-Arsenals vs. winner Mili-taries-Spade-. Riverside diamnod No. 2, at 3p. m. Umpire Mattem. The annual Times tournament is an elimination affair and a defeat means “out” until the next year. This is the fourth annual event. Eighteen teams started and six remain. Members of the championship team will be awarded individual medals by The Times.

BASEBALL f * STANDING | AND ——— CALENDAR I HUT— Hi AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won. Lost. Pet. Kansas City 60 41 602 6t. Paul 60 42 .656 Louisville 67 59 .532 Columbus f>B 63 .414 INDIANAPOLIS 55 66 .468 Milwaukee 55 67 .434 Minneapolis 51 69 .425 Toledo 42 81 .342 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct.i W. L. Pet. N. York 76 42 644i Wash. . . 56 61 .479 Cleve . .. 05 35 .5421 Chicago.. 55 03 .400 Detroit.. 00 54 .5261 Phlla . .. 61 06 .430 St. Louis 60 57 .513; Boston. . 45 70 .391 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet.! W L Pet. N. York 79 45 .037 St. Louis 59 03 484 Cin. ... 73 47 .609 8r00k... 57 63 .475 Pitts 72 48 ,600i Phila. . 40 79 33 J . Chicago. 00 56 .541! Boston. . 37 82 .311 Games Today AMKR. ASS’N—lnd. at St. P. Col. at R C. (two games). Louisv. at Minne. Tol. at Miiw. AMER. LEAGUE—Wash, at Bet. (No other game#.) NAT’L LEAGUE—Chi. a i N. Y. Cin. at Bos. St. L. at Phila (No ethers scheduled.) Yesterday’s Results Indianapolis-St. Paul. rain. Columbus-Kansas City, rain. Toledo-Milwaukee. rain (Only games scheduled.) IJV ' AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 100 131 013—10 16 0 Cleveland 001 100 010 — 3 8 4 Shawkey. Holmann; Edwards. Boone, O'Neill, Myatt. Boston 000 000 000—0 3 0 Chicago 200 000 00*—2 6 1 Ferguson, Muray. Devormer; Blankenship, Crouse. Philadelphia 200 000 002—4 6 0 St. Lpuls 000 001 000—1 4 0 Hasty. Rommell. Harris. Bruggy; Kolp. Collins. Washington 100 000 040—611 1 Detroit 300104 01*—9 11 1 Zahniser. Gharrity: Dause. Cole. Bassler. ' NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 100 030 000—4 9 1 New York 000 007 01 • —8 10 0 Osborne, Cheeves. Dumovich. Fussell, O'Farrell; Nehl. Barnes. Ryan. Snyder. (Eleven Inning 9) St. Louis .... 302 010 140 00—11 20 0 Philadelphia . . 000 313 301 01—12 15 4 Sherdel. North, Barfoot, McCurdy; Behan. Bette. Head, Glazncr. Ring. Henline. (First Game) Cincinnati 420 003 000—8 11 0 Boston 001 000 010—2 7 3 Rixey, Hargrave; Genewich. Benton. FllUngim, O'Neill. < *econd Game) , Cincinnati “ 000 000 000—0 7 4 Boston .' 804 000 00*—7 10 1 Donohue. Harris. Wingo; Barnes, Smith. Gibsno. (Only games 'scheduled.) Yale Squad Hurt By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 28. Eight of last year’s Yale freshman football team have been disqualified for a year for instigating and participating in a “freshman riot” during the last year's term. Three members were dropped for low scholarship. Cornell Grid Call By United Press ITHACA. N. Y., Aug. 28.—George Dobie, football coach at Cornell, has ordered all varsity candidates to report ready for work on Sept. 11. Freshman stars are expected to take the places of many veterans missing from this year’s team.

Plan to Bring Libel Action

’ •: k *' • ■ ■ : '' y • * Left Fielder Pat Duncan (left), and Second Baseman Sammy Bohne of the Cincinnati Reds probably will institute suit soon against a Chicago sport weekly that charged they had been approached by gamblers during a series between the Reds and

ONLY ONE SERIES GAMESATURDAY Morris St. and Tuxedo Teams Play in Class A, Only one game will be played next Saturday in the City Amateur Baseball Association championship series. The Class AA teams will be idle. The Morris St. and Tuxedo Park teams will play as Penney Park In the Class A series. On the following Saturday the titles in both classes will be decided. Fair banks-Morse and the Brookside Odd Fellows will clash at Washington Park for the AA championship and First Baptist will meet the winner of the Morris St. and Tuxedo battle at Pennsy Park. Schuyler and Sahm are the umpires in the finals at Washington Park. Harrington and Fisse will work at Pennsy In the final contest. Engleking and Smith are the umps this week. Two protests were set aside Monday at the meeting of the association. President Jarvis, after hearing the arguments of all concerned, let the games stand as played. The Real Silks protested because they did not play a full nine-inning game. The score was 7 to 0 against them, and one out in the last of the ninth when the game was called. The Grottos protested the First Baptist victory’ because of a changed decision by’ an umpire. RIVALRY BOYS TANGLE IN FT. HARRISON ARENA Gliok and Dalton Followers on Edge for Night’s Feature Home town rivalry fisticuffs for the boxing fans at the Ft. BenJ. Harrison arena tonight. Sidney Glick and Jimmy’ Dalton, both local lightweights packing plenty of followers, will clash in the main event of ten rounds. Ray Bronson, former local favorite, who saw Dalton box In Springfield, 0., last week, was in the city today and he brought cheer for the Dalton followers when he said Jimmy was the best-looking Hoosier lightweight since the days of Milburn Saylor. Bronson added, however, that he hadn’t seep Glick “go” and that he surely would be present at the ringside tonight. Other scraps on the evening’s program, the first at 8:30, follow: Happy Atherton and Jimmy Sayrers. eirht round®. Eddie Dennis and George Fleshman, six rounds. A1 Flint and Oklahoma Bmlth, four rounds. Fighting' Ferraries and Tony Teague, four rounds. Sam Tracy and Dizzy Baird, four rounds

DUNDEE SURPRISED IN 8-ROUNDER AT PHILLY Feather Champ Is Derisively Outpointed by Junior Lightweight. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.—Eddie (Kid) Wawner, Junior lightweight of Philadelphia, decisively outpointed Johnny Dundee, featherweight champion of the world, in an eight-round no-decision bout here Monday night. Ad Stone, Philadelphia heavyweight, won from Frankie Britton, Philadelphia, when Britton was forced to quit In the third round by a broken hand. Joe Ryder, New York featherweight, outpointed Battling Mack. FIVE PRIZES FOR RACE 100-Mile Hoosier Motor Speedway Event Labor Day. Prizes will be awarded the first five cars to finish in the 100-mlle Labor Day dirt track auto race at the Hoosier Motor Speedway, the management has announced. It will make the prize list the largest ever offered by the local track. Ray Creviston of Marion, motorcycle racer, will drive the Roover Motors entry. Ford Bowling League Ford dealers in the city have organized a bowling league for the season and will roll on the Democratic alleys starting Wednesday, Sept. 12. Barber-Warnock, A. W. Bowen, Carr Auto Fouts Car and Tractor, Olln-Wilmeth, Frank Hatfield, Wan-gelin-Sharp and Smith-Mason will have teams. Haifser hit two homers with one on each time and gave the Athletics a victory over the Browns Monday.

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>:o .'.v.v.Lc ,4/ Ny;:.;W New York Giants. President John A. Heydler of the National League, who exonerated both players after hearing their stories, has promised to back them in whatever action they take. Both deny any offers were made to them even indirectly.

HELEN’S STUDIES FIRST Not Champ’s Father Not Enthusiastic About Trip Abroad. By Unitrd Press BERKELEY. Cal., Aug. 28.--Miss Helen Wills, American tennis champion, will not be allowed to go to England next summer if the trip interferes with her studies, her father ators Monday. She has enrolled at the University of California. LITTLEBILL? DEFEND RECORD Californian Never Has Lost Match in Cup Play, By Unitrd Xrtrs NEW YORK. Aug. 28.—A perfect record in Davis cup play, made by little Bill Johnson, the bantamweight Californian, in twelve matches extending over his three-years’ experience as a member of the American team, will be at stake, along with the cup Itself, when the challenge round begins Friday afternoon at Forest Hills. L. 1., with the Americans again defending the trophy against Australia. Calling attention to little Bill’s record, the United States Lawn Tennis Association points out that only one other Davis cup player in the long history of the tourname'nt has done as well. That was Hugh L. Doherty of the British Isles team, who won all of the thirteen matches he played. But, the association reminds, Doherty played in a day before the development of players of international caliber in all parts of the world. William Tllden, rated the best in the world at singles play, has been defeated only once in thirteen Davis cup matches, and was only partly responsible for that failure. He and Vincent Richards lost a doubles match to the Australian team here last year.

Two players are on the green close to the hole. A is about twelve Inches from the cup while Bis about eighteen A, who is nearest, puits first and holes out. B then calls attention to the iaet that A had erred In putting first, since B was farthest from the hole B claims the hole*because o| this slip on the part of A. What about ft? B has no claim to the hole. He can merely recall the slroke, and force \, who has holed out. to replace the ball as near as &ossible to its original position, whereupon has the right to putt, and A must again go through the formality of holing out. There is no penalty attached to such a mistake. * • • Please state the position in which Bobby Jones has finished in tho various national open events In which he has taken part) Three years ago Jones finished eighth In hts first open tournament. In his second attempt for national honors he came in fifth. Lwit year at Skokie he tied for second. This year having nothing to shoot at but first place he went out and won the championship. The showing that Jones has made in the national open 1* considered most remarkable. • • • Player drives from the tee Into the rough, and after a flve-mtnuto search is unable to find his ball. He elects to consider it a logt ball and again drives from the tee and once more goes into the rough. In looking for tho second ball he finds the first ball. Has he right to play the first ball and suffer no penalty for the second shot? Once a ball Is regarded as a lost ball. It can no longer be considered In play. The player must find his second ball and play it. Big League Liners Seven runs scored in the sixth inning Monday gave the Giants a victory over the Cubs and increased their lead over the Cincinnati Reds to four games. After winning the first game, the Cincinnati Reds were shut out in the second game by Jess Barnes and they lost to the Braves. Ted Blankenshrfp let the Red Sox down with three hits and the White Sox won. Cy Williams passed Babe Ruth by hitting his thirty-third homer and gave the Phils the margin by which they beat the Cards in eleven innings. Behind the good pitching of Bob Shawkey. the Yankees closed their iaat western trip with a victory over tIM Cleveland Indians.

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MATCH PLAY DN IN WOMEN’S GOLF EVENTOF WEST Mrs. Gaute, Defending Title, Paired With Virginia Wilson on Exmoor Links, By Unitrd Press EXMOOR COUNTRY CLUB. HIGH LAND PARK, 111., Aug. 28—Mrs. David Gaute, Memphis, defending the title, led the way in the first round of match play for the women's western golf championship here today. The champion was paired with Miss Virginia Wilson, Chicago. Mrs. Melvin Jones, Chicago, holding the low qualifying card in the preliminary round, started with Mrs Tom Elcock, Wichita, Kan., in ninth position. Miss Virginia Pep. St. Louis, whose score of eighty-eight Monday surprised observers, was paired in fifth position with Mrs. Walter Page, Chicago. Dorothv Klotz, Chicago, tied with Miss Pep for second honor Monday. was to start early after lunch. Thirty-two women, fifteen of them Chicagoans, turned in cards of ninetyeight or better in the qualifying round. The course today was still wet and heavy from over night rain. MURRAY IN LOCAL BOUT > Pliilly Bantam to Box for Steve Harter Sept. 17. Tommy Murray, Philadelphia ban (am. was signed by Steve Harter, Washington A. C. matchmaker, Mon day night to meet a strong opponent here Sept. 17. Murray lost on points to Bud Taylor recently In a thrillef scrap at Terre Haute. Other bouts, with light boxers participating. will perform at the Sept. 17 ring show. The bouts probably will he staged in Tomlinson Hall.

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INDEPENDENT AND AMATEUR BALL The Reo Specials have three victories to their credit in their last three starts. They defeated the Marion Ramblers, 3 to 2; TrlRngle Juniors, 8 to 5, and Jackson Reds, 3 to 2. For games with the Reos call Drexel 6639 and ask for Abe. The 1900 Cataract baseball team wants games out of town for Sunday and Labor day. The Cataracts defeated Hill’s Camp Sunday, 7 to 1. Harmon of the winners allowed only four hits and struck out fifteen. For games address W. Day. 2401 Hillside Ave., or call Webster 1695. The Golden Stars would like to hear from the Triangle Juniors in regard to a game for Sunday. The Triangles are requested to call Belmont 3638 and ask for Morris. INDIANS RESUME ST. PAUL SERIES Teams Go to it Again After Monday Vacation, By Times Special ST. PAUL, Aug. 28. —Indians and Saints were ready today to resume their final series of the year in St. Paul. The game scheduled for Monday was prevented by rain and It will mean a double-header before the Tribesmen finish their farewell here. The Saints did not lose any ground because of the postponement Monday, as the leading Blues also were rained cut at K. C. Therefore, the standing today showed the Blues still clinging to the pennant position by a mere one-half game margin. Manager Hendricks of the Hoosiers was in doubt about his pitching selection for this afternoon and said he would not be ready to name the day's (linger until he looked the stafT over in practice Arlington Organizes By Times Sperial ARLINGTON, Ind., Aug. 28—The Arlington A. C. has organized a football club for the coming season and wants games with fast teams In the State. Address Clyde Miller, Arling ton, Ind.

BIG SEARCH IS STARTED FOR BEST SANDLOTTER City Association to Aid Times in Finding City’s Amateur King of Diamond— Managers Get Busy! The City Amateur Baseball Association will give The Times every possible assistance in finding this city’s best amateur baseball player, President Jarvis said Monday night at the association meeting. With the aid of the local governing body The Times will pick the best sandlotter, 18 years old or over, here and send him to Cleveland, Sept. 24, with all expenses paid to compete in the national elimination tourney.

The winner of the Cleveland affair will go to the world's series at the expense of NEA Service, which, in connection with The Times, is conducting the contest. Weed ’Em Out, Managers! This city has as many good bal! players as any of its size in the Un ted States, and it is up to the managers and players to get together on this proposition and give the best players a chance for the high honor. The player selected must be an amateur in the strict sense of the word. Before the local entry is sent to Cleveland his record will be examined carefully and an affidavit will be required by the Cleveland headquarters in regard to his amateur standing. ■f One or Two From Each Team The Times can select this player from Indianapolis only with the wholehearted cooperation of all concerned. Each team should send in to the sports department of The Times one (or not more than two) eligible men. The managers of the various teams should tajte this upon themselves, probably After having a meeting of the team to consider the ones to be honoredPlans will be announced later as to the elimination trials. Competent i Judges w.ll pass on the players and the final selection will be made only after ; the greatest care has been taken to | find the real top-notcher of the city. MAJOR HOMERS YESTERDAY Cy Williams. Phils 1—33: Hauser. Ath- ! letics. 2— lo. Bottomley. Cards. 2—B: Henline Phi’s 1—0; Ruosch. Reds. 1—0; Waiker. Phils. I—s: Stock. Cards. I—2.

For Managers Get your players together and select the players (not more than two) you think best fitted to enter the Times contest to dei mine the best amateur player in Indianapolis. It means a trip to Cleveland at no expense. It means a chance for the local winner to show his skill before big league scouts and players and a chance for fame and glory should be be selected in the na tional competition. The champ goes to the world series. Managers, call a meeting AT ONCE and send in your selections to The Times Sports Department. Other announcements later.

JACK AGAIN STAYS IDLE Champ Deserts Camp and Takes in the Pony Races. By United Press SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 28.—Jack Dempsey’s training camp was again closed today and the champion was nowhere to be seen. “Gone flshin’ or sumpin',” the colored chef at the camp said, Dempsey laid off Monday and took in the races as the first of a three-day vacation he decided upon as a means j of getting rid of a heavy- cold which j had been bothering him.

OPENING BETTING ODDS ON TITLE BOUTARE SHORT Dempsey the Favorite at 2Vi to 1 as Coin Boys Feel Out Public. By HENRY FARRELL. United Press Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Betting at two and one-half to one has opened here that Jack Dempsey beats Luis Firpo when they meet Sept. 14 for the world's heavyweight championship. One bet of $5,000 to $2,000 has been placed in Wall Street. Another wager of $3,000 to $9,000 has been offered by backers of the Argentine giant. Another one of $5,000 to $2,500 on Dempsey has not been placed. Maybe This Explains It. Considering the fact that practically all of the experts look rather lightly upon the chances of the South American, the odds in the opening offers are considered rather short. Expert opinion, however, has gone wrong so many times on big fights that it may be the public thinks Dempsey is not a sure winner because the experts say he is. While it is to his interest to predict a close fight, Tex Rickard has piaintained since he started directing the destinies of Firpo that the South American is a great fighter and that he has a good chance to win the championship. Examples of the Past “Firpo is a big, strong fellow with a terrific punch and, while he may not know as much as Dempsey, there are examples in the past where a rugged fighter of the type of Firpo did r.ot have a handicap by the lack of boxing skill," Rickard said today. “Firpo reminds me more and more of Jim Jeffries when he came East. They called him a big. slow truck horse and said he would be cut to pieces by a clever man, but he wasn't.”

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