Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1926 — Page 10

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EAT PAGE’S recent illness has sorta sot his goat. Pat says it’s the first time he has taken the count for so many years he can’t remember if it ever happened before. The Indiana grid coach was up and around the house a little today for the first time since last week. He answered the phone for the first time this morning and said he thought re'd be all right again by the first of next week. Pat; is so full of nervous energy that somebody better tie him at home the remainder of this week, anyway. Original plans were for him to report at Indiana University on Thursday to take charge of spring grid work. Page said he’d have to consult his doctor and call up Director Clevenger of I. U. before he knew whether he would go to Bloomington on Thursday. He stated that he did not wish to lose any time. The “flu” is not to he fooled with, Pat, and the best way to lose time is to get out too soon. That’s our advice. The new coach of Indiana University football is ever active. And he is never defeated. His present attitude in regal'd to his own illness is a- fine indication of why he is a good coach. He’s a battler and lie’s a winner. * • * mT begins to look as though Captain Rubush of the Manual High School track team has been reading about Paul Harrington of Nose Dame, an Indianapolis youth. Kind readers, probably you know that Harrington is a pole vaulter —that he went a hit higher than thirteen feet indoors this winter. Well, Rubush also is a vaulter. He cleared 11' feet 7% inches at practice the other day. That s getting up in the air for a high school boy. He’s got plenty of time ahead to improve. Harrington did not compete in high school at all. Mgybe Indianapolis has a “leaping” atmosphere. The youths just grow that way in this city. * * SHE seventh annual State high school basketball tournament opened today under auspices of the University of Wisconsin. Sixteen teams, the pick of a similar number of sectional meets, competed. Eau Claire is one of the favorites with a record of sixteen straight victories. Fond du Dae and River Falls also are considered strong entrants.

mHIS .seems to be the open season for jockeys. There are probably several little fellows shivering under their silks these days as the result of the drastic ruling recently by the Kentucky Jockey Club, followed by the action of the New York stewards in turning down the applications for licenses of Clarence Rummer and Lester Mark Fator, star eastern riders. 'TSummer lias never been in trouble before and was considered one of the greatest riders. The Kununer incident was a distinct shock to turf fans. The veteran lias won many of the most famous stake fixtures and was considered peerless in judgment of pace in the distance events. The action of the jockey clubs is a stern warning to other riders. It showed that even a Stutts and a Rummer were not immune. The speculative nature of racing makes it open to much criticism. It is impossible to keep it entirely “on the leva;,” hut more of this sort of action by stewards would diminish the chances for crooked work. If it is made difficult to pull the “funny stuff” there will bo less of it.

Brave Briefs

Bu NEA Service ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 24. —This seems to be a big year for Cuban players breaking into the majors. The Braves’ entry is Oscar Estranda, pitcher and outfielder. It is a rather Interesting fact that a majority of Cuban pitchers double in the outfield. Estrada is a southpaw and can hit. It is possible he can be used in right field by the Braves. * • * If there is one thing that Manager Bancroft is dubious about it is pitching. He would be better satisfied if he had two outstanding veterans to stabilize what appears to be a, promising collection of youngsters. * • • A return to form by Pitcher “Rosy” Ryan, so highly regarded by John McGraw a few years back,, would mean much to the Braves. Ryan is still a youngster, being only 28 years of age. He has a chance. * 0 * The work of Larry Benton and Joe Genewich will probably, in a large measure, determine the standing of the Braves. A good year by these two clever twirlers will he mighty helpful. Also the ability of Johnny Cooney to work regularly is one of the Braves’ question marks. NEW YORK HOCKEY HU United Press NEW YORK, March 24.—Playing under familiar western rules, the Portland Rosebuds defeated the New .Americans in the second game of the series by a score of 3 to 2. The (le iding game for the American hockev championship will be played tonight with split rules. JL NO INDOOR MEET United Press ™?HICAGO, March 4.—There will Hnno C. A. A. U. track and field inERh- games held this year, because want to settle down to training, Charles A. Dean, of the track and field comtoday.

FIRST BASEMAN HOLKE TO JOIN TRIBE AT HOT SPRINGS CAMP

Holdout Wires Bush He Will Report at Once—Sore Arms Bother Players —Exhibition Game Thursday. By Eddie Ash Times Sport Editor HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 24.—Pennant stock of Ownie Bush’s Indians took another jump upward today when First Baseman Walter Holke accepted terms and wired the good mews that he would depart from his St. Louis home at once to join the Bushmen at their Hot Springs training camp. He has been holding out.

Holke was purchased from the Cincinnati Reds In a deal completed the past winter, but registered a grievance when Cincinnati failed to give him part of the money paid for him. It is not known how Holke fared In his argument with the Reds, but the word that he will report to Indianapolis is enough to cause Tribe followers to feel elated. Holke batted .270 in the National League last year and topped the league first basemen in fielding. He is a natural left-handed hitter, hut also can do a good job from the other side of the plate. In other words he Is a “turn” hitter. He throws left handed. When Jack Hendricks recommended Holke to tlie Indians he said the big fellow would prove the best first-sacker Indianapolis has had in years. Walter knows all the inside stuff and is expected to be a consistent .300 hitter in the American Association. It is evident Ownie Bush is rounding out a “sweeßt- hall club, if all the present members play up to expectations and past reputations. Ownie now will go to work and bear down on plans to bolster the battery department. Inline Arms Just after expressing keen delight Monday over the increased hatting power displayed by his Indians, Manager Bush was disturbed during Tuesday’s practice when some of his pastimers complained of lame arms. The peppery pilot thought the boys had passed through the soreness stage and was shocked .by the crippled throwing of Sicking, Hunter, Comello, Klugman and Florence. Infield practice lacked the snap of previous days and Bush conferred with Trainer Pierce about the matter Tuesday night. Sicking, Comello and Hunter plainly were in distress and Florence and Klugman barely lasted through the drill. Schreiber and Yoter held up their ends in fine style, the fielding of Schreiber being positively brilliant. The lameness of Sicking lia-s the little boss deeply worried and the Tribe captain may be sent to a specialist for treatment. Eddie fears lie has a crossed ligament. Walter Rehg donned a uniform for the first time and put in a long workout. He took his regular turn at bat and participated in the fly chasing drill. Walter has not yet conic to terms with the club. Wyatt Hitting Joe Wyatt, former Wabash College star, who is bidding for an outfield job, is starting to drive the ball to distant points and his batting was one of the bright spots of Tuesday's practice. Schreiber and Stephenson also slugged the ball out of the lot. Catcher Ainsmith was permitted

SPRING GRID Purdue Squad, 75 Strong, in Workouts. LAFAYETTE, Tnd., March 24. Winter has relaxed its cold, damp grip for the time at least on Stuart field, and Head Football Coach James M. Phelan Tuesday began drilling some seventy-five football candidates ir. the first spring practice session of the year at. Purdue University. The gaping holes which will be left by the graduation of nine regulars this year are staring at the Purdue coach, and one of the big tasks of the early practices will be developing men for these positions. Wilcox is a leading half back candidate this year and back field regulars who will be on deck for the 1926 season include Letchtle, Koransky, Gladders, Isley, Houston, Wilson. In the line will be such veterans as Deephouse, Anderson, Threlfall, Captain-elect Hogan, Mierau and Spencer. Freshmen numeral winners last year will be looked to for gaps in the forward wall. Hook, Elckman, Hutton and McCarthy of IndianapoUs are among the newcomers.

First Casualty

Bu Times Special ATLANTIC CITY. N, J„ March 24.—The first baseball casualty of the season. William Estergren Jr., 15, was struck on the hpad with a ball during a ‘scrub" game Tuesday. He fell to the ground, but was able to go home. Later lie complained of a headache and was taken to Atlantic City Hospital, where he became unconscious thre hours later and died of concussion of the brain. lOWA TROSH’ CHAMPS Hawkeye Yearlings Win Telegraphic Big Ten Track Meet. Bu United Press lOWA CITY, la., March 24.—University of lowa freshmen won the Big Ten. Conference telegraphic meet for yearling track squads, piling up 52 1-4 points. Illinois was second with 26 2-3 points.

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to untape his injured right arm and the entire squad was awaiting to see how the wing acted. The Indians will be in a bad way if the shoulder injury causes Ainsmith lasting distress. He batted over the .330 mark last season with Minneapolis and is an aggressive ball player. Paul Florence, the other Tribe catcher, has not been doing so well at the plate when the pitchers cut loose. He pulls the ball foul too frequently. The fault appears to be that his strength already has been spent when he connects. \\ id Matthews chased about the outfield Tuesday like a two-year-old, and snared drives low, wide and high, lie has just about reached the point where is ready for tlie season to open. Pitchers Cut Loose Pitchers Bill Burwell and Ned Niles felt so good Tuesday they put on some juice and let out for a short while. Nearly all the hurlers are putting something on l,e ball now. Manager Bush is giving close attention to the progress, Niles is making and he has a hunch the slender flinger v ill make good. Niles knows how to pitch and it Is a question of his arm being able to stand the strain of curves. Tlje Indians go to Little Rock, Thursday, to battle Joe Cantillion’s Southern Association Travelers again. Hill and Reynolds will do the Tribe pitching Thursday, and Florence will catch. Joe Wyatt will be given a chance to perform in the outfield: otherwise the line-up will be about the same as last Saturday. Owing to illness. Lefty Thompson was excused after a short workout, Tuesday, and he has been advised to take only light exercise for a few days.

Mulholland to Meet Walsh

Pat Walsh of New York will be the opponent of George Mulholland in the ten-round main event of the Progress A. C. boxing show' next Wednesday night at Tomlinson ball, according to announcement of Billy Shine, matchmaker. While Walsh, who scales around IRO pounds, has never shown his fistic wares here, the record books reveal the fact that he has met a number of the topnotchers over East, including Stribling, Slattery and Bertenbaoh. Mike Mitchell saw him fight a draw with Billy De Mave in New York last summer and reports him as “plenty good.” Chuck Wiggins has also seen the Easterner in several scraps and declares him to be a high-class boxer with lots of speed and endurance. Negotiations w-ere started last summer for a meeting between Chuck and Walsh at the Fort Harrison arena, hut tl e meeting was called off when Walsh was taken 111. Jackie Reynolds of Muncie and Tate Langford of Louisville will renew their feud in the ten-round seml-wind-up of the Progress show. They have met twice before, and each is credited with a decisive win. The Louisville pug was stopped by Reynolds last summer at the fort, while Langford won by a wide margin in their Tomlinson hall match a month ago. Two six-round bouts and one of four rounds will furnish the preliminary card which is being arranged.

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REFUSE JOCKEYS LICENSES Clarence Kummer, Famous Rider, and Lester Fator ‘in Bad.’ By Henry L. Farrell I nited Frets Staff Uorresvondent NEW’ YORK, March 24.—N0 serious scandal is connected with the action taken by the Jockey Club in refusing licenses to Clarence Kummer and Lester Fator,'d woof the beslknown ruler? in (he East, and the case is not related to recent Kentucky scandal, according to an au thority close to the stewards. The policy of the east* in governing bady is against publicity, and the only details offered were that the application for licenses made by Kummer and Fator were not granted. Time and later developments alone will make known whether this action was a warning gesture or a severe penalty for a serious offense. It has happened in the past that applications were tabled for a time to warn riders, and it may be that Kummer and Fator will he put hack in the saddle before the season oi*ms. Olliers Investigated? There were reports today, hew ever, that several other prominent jockeys were Vicing investigated and that more penalties were to follow. The greatest surprise attended the action against Kuinmer, but Fator was known to have Incurred the displeasure of the stewards last season when he was set down for two suspicious rides on Siren and Euclid which caused a lot of talk at the time. As long as the eastern officials refuse to renew' the licenses of Kummer and Fator they will not be permitted to ride on any track where racing is organized as the various turf bodies recognize each other's rulings. Never in Trouble Kummer had never been in trouble before, and has won more than n. million dollars In stakes and purse's since he became prominent In ITS. He bas w'on 439 races out of 2.233 mounts, a remarkable average for consistency. He has been on the winner of practically every big stake, with the exception of the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Futurity, and has ridden Man-o’-War, John P. Greer, .Audacious and Ijidkin.

GIRLS’ MEET Five Local Basket Teams in Tourney. A girls basketball tourney will be held at IJberty Hall gym on Friday and Saturday nights. Five of the best teams in the city have entered. The schedule: FRIDAY 7 P. M. —Speedway Girls vs. East Side Comets. 8 P. M. —Brightwood Demons vs. Holliday Hot Shots SATURDAY 7 P. M. —Winner 7 p. m. Friday vs. C. C. Club girls. 8 P. M. —Winner 8 p. m. FYidny vs. winner 7 p. m. Saturday. Tlie Hollidays are the favorites in the meet. That club has won elghten out of nineteen starts this season. The girls’ teams will play boys’ rules. The admission is 25 cents. ‘SIONMOITII CAPTAIN B't United Press MONMOUTH, 111., March 24. Keith Moulsworth of Washington, lowa, will captain next year's Monmouth College basketball team.

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At Elks’ Meet

Bemie Maurer Bernie Maurer, dean of the Empire State bowlers, will tie seen in action here tonight in the national Elks’ tourney at the local club’s alleys. lie will captain a Syracuse (N. Y.) tcan.. Maurer is a veteran pin-getter, who once toured the country with Jimmy Smith, i Maurer rolled in the A. B. <’. tourney help. at Tomlinson Hall way Igtck In 1903.

Tourney Leaders

Elks’ National Meet FIVE MAN Ryan Elk* CohmibUß. Ohio ’Tfifi.) Durham Elks. Columbus. Ohio . . \\.V>l Minute Men. Farm 111 *T.44 Carrolls. Columbus. Ohm . . WA-C'. Kauffmans. Columbus. Ohio b DOUBLES Hamg-Ambrog, Columbus Ohio. 1.174 Creator Schenke!. Huntlnjrton. Iml I 125 Ewing: Rose Tulsa. Okla 1.118 Shott Carroll. Columbus. Ohio 1.110 Wis- Will. Columbia. Ofjlo 1.0.92 SINGLES Mcrtd Wig* Columbus. Ohio . 653 D Rose. Tulsa. Okla 622 Carroll. Columbus. Ohio >Ol W Groeninser. Columbus. Ohio . 581 Zuber. Columbus. Ohio . 379 ALL EVENTS Merld Wise. Columbus. Ohio. . . 1.903

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BILLIARD MATCHES HERE Ramsey la-ails Kepner—Spears in Exhibition Today. ! Walter Ramsey is lending Cleve j Kepner, 100 to 93, in the State champions?.ip throe-cushion billiard i match as a result of winning the first two blocks of fifty jsdnts each jon Monday and Tuesday nights. Tuesday night's score was 50 to 46. The final block will be played on Thursday night at Cooler's parlors. Harry Cooler will meet George Spears, claimant of the world’s straight ail billiard title, tonight in an exhibition at Cooler's. Curtis was to meet Spears this afternoon. Spears will play for 100 points or no count. The matches are at 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. LAMB MAY JOIN ‘RED’ iiOinhard Coach Considering Offer to Play With Grange. | Bit United Press GALESBURG. 111.. March 24. j Roy Lamb, assistant director of athletics at Lombard College, may join Red Grange's football team next year according to an announcement he made here. Roy said be is considering an offer from C. C. Pyle, Grange's manager, and indicated that be probuhly i would accept it. it is understood that ! Lamb also lias been considering an j offer to coach at lowa Wesleyan. REYNOLDS HELD EVEN Bn 'limes Sveeial WABASH, Ind., March 24.—1 t was J "even-Stephen" at the completion of the wrestling bout here Tuesday ! night between Jack Reynolds, welterweight, and \V. S. Thom, athletic director of Wabash schools. Each grappler won a fall and the third I was declared a draw.

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Mike, Billy

.Mike Mitchell (above), Billy Sliine. Billy Shine, one of tlie proprietors of the Arcade gym, formerly was city amateur lightweight champion, and when Mike Mitchell, his business partner, challenged him to a three-round boxing match to be staged Thursday night in connection with tlie Arcade’s first amateur boxing show. Billy promptly accepted and started training. In the picture Mike seems to look down on Shine’s earnest efforts. Thursday night’s show at tlie Arcade gym will consist of fifteen amateur boxing bouts, two amateur wrestling matbhes and numerous other features, such as a battle royal and a jazz orchestra. The show will have the sanction of the A. A. U. Happy Atherton, just back from Florida bouts, will referee the amateur bouts.

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PHILLIES MAY DO BETTER Manager Fletcher, Inclined to Be Hopeful, Pleased With Outlook. > Ihl Times Snrr in I BRADENTON, Flu., March 24. Arthur Fletcher, who for three y-ais made the nvist out of u bad job, sees brighter days uhend for his Phillies. The aqua re-Jawed leader of the Philadelphia Nationals is greatly pleased over the outlook for the coining setson, l The Phillies showed flashes of power last season and finished ill a tie with Brooklyn for sixth place. There is reason to believe that the Quakers will land a notch higher this campaign. “Butch” Henline, 1925 captain, and George Harper, who batted .364 lust year, haven’t signed their contracts. Carlson and Mitchell, the southpaw spit halier, are in excellent condition and much is expected of them. Wayland Dean, who was a disappointment with the Giants last year after being a minor league sensation in 1924. Is showing well as is Ernie Maun, another former Giant who won 17 and lost 10 games for In [dianapolls last summer. | Frank Ulrich looks pest of the young pitchers. The Phillies' infield is an improvement over that of last year. Jacl^ | Bentley, who went to the Phillies with Dean in tlie deal that sent Jimmy Ring to the Giants, is valuable for his hitting, and iH a capnble first I baseman. Bayney Friberg, purchased from the Cubs, isn’t the best second base man in the world by any means, but he fills the post very well. Hand at shortstop and Huber at third base takes care of the left side of the in field In a. workmanlike manner. Wrightstone Is a valuable reserve infielder. Fletcher's offensive strength lies with Bentley, Wilson and Henline, and in tlie outfield. In addition to [liarper. Lanky Cy Williams anil Mokan are dangerous batters. Fred Leach, who batted .312 in 65 games hist season, and A1 Nixon, tlie former Brave, nre other gardeners.

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