Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1926 — Page 9

APRIL 5, 1926

TIRRIN’ the DOPE By VEDDER OARD liiiiiilirtiiniiriiiiiiuunniriiDHnininiinGifßfliiliHiinnHiininunnTniiiiHiiiißi mT was 0 nnou/iced last week at the Negro tight snow on Indiana Ave., that Chuck Wiggins was going to meet George Godfrey, the Negro heavyweight, out on the Pacific Coast shortly. It looks as though Chuck has to get Into the heavy class before he can find an opponent. The big Negro scales around 220 pounds. Wiggins is so fast he can swarm .all over the: > huge fellows, but he better keep away from some of those sledge hammer fists. The light heavies, apparently, do not care to take on Chuck. There are lots of folks who do not like Wiggins here in Indianapolis. He is not exactly a Boy Scout. We can’t say that personally he appeals to us. but one must give him credit for being an extremely clever man in the ring. His showing here against Risko adds to his reputation since the stolid Cleveland youth’s recent climb to fame as the result of his defeat of Berlenbach. * * * Notice that Firpo was undertrained for Ids tight with Spalla, Saturday night. Now don’t get that wrong. He was UNDERtrained which means OVERweight. Tltey probably wouldn’t have such large catile ranches In the Argentine if Firpo would leave that country. He is one of the chief consumers of pampas beef in the form of thick, juicy steaks. * * * Great Finisher won the seventh race at Tia Juana on Saturday, The turfites did not believe the name and the horse paid sl9 for a £3 ticket to win. On the other hand, Out of Sight, copped the first at Mobile and paid only $3.20 for $2. The thoroughbred was "out of Bight” of the other horses, but tlie plungers never lost sight of him —and had their rolls planted. * * * Did you see the Easier “eggs” and "chickens” strutting around yesterday? A peculiar tiling was that most of the chickens were painted instead of tlie eggs. Oh, boy, there were lots of fine feathers. Easter eggs are supposed to bo liard boiled, but any number looked rather soft. It was a nice day, wasn’t it? • • • Here’s one brought up from the land of “sunshine, grapefruit and high real estate values” by the feminine half of anew race horse betting team: "My daddy bet on the bravest horses, they always chased the others around the track.” (Try and cash in on that.) * * • Somebody called up the other day and asked about Dempsey’s record. We told him that wo couldn’t remember more than three years back. That’s fair enough, isnt’ it?

SWIM MEET National Indoor Tourney Starts in Chicago. BV United Press CHICAGO, April s.—The best ot American ducks were assembled here today for the national indoor A. A. U. swimming contests -which open at the Chicago Athletic Association tank this afternoon. The meet will last through Friday. Outstanding in interest is the pentathlon swim event, which includes the 100 and 500 yard freestyle swims, 100-yard back stroke, 100-yard breast stroke and fancy diving. 'Walter Spence of the Brooklyn Central Y. M. C. A. is the present pentathlon champion. Chief among the performers who will attempt to wrest Spence’s title from him is Wallace O’Connor, sturdy California swimmer, w'ho represents Stanford University. Besides O’Connor, Walter Laufer and Harry Glancy of the Cincinnati Central Y. M. C. A., are entered in this year’s pentathlon.

Amateur Sports i The third monthly meeting of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association will be belli Wednesday evening, at 7:30 in tbc city hall. This meeting promises to be oae of the most interesting the association has hail ana one that should till the council chamber to laoaoity, for it is at, this meeting that the opening guns of the 1926 season will be eut loose and the team manager that is not. present is going to have some tall explaining to do to his team for not knowing things that are of importance. The officers hare met -with the athletic committee of the Chamber of Commerce and will have a report to make that will be of interest to everyone. The Eastern Cubs will hold a meeting at °4;12 Southeastern Ave.. Wednesday evening at 7::S0. All last year's Dlayers and those wishing tryouts'are asked to attend. Ruse. Ellis, busted. Boliver Dailey. Snodgrass, Miuter and C. Ray take notice. 1' or information, call Drexel 0074. The Holy Name Society baseball team will open the season next Sunday against Tlolv Trinity. State teams wishing game®, address Frank Gilbert!. 1129 Finley Ave.. or call Stewart 1158. The Tartar A. A.s will hold an important meeting tonight at 7:30 p. m. at the home oi Maurice Harmemng, 401 St. All players are requested to be present, f With the basketball squad a.s a numleus. eUr. n’H,'-,.sips hone tn build a winntng. bwebaU team for the coming season. They are m-eding the servuvs ol several additional players and interested candidates should attend the meeting this evening at 9; ' Oakland Ave. The Stills will play Sunday afternoon ball and are considering entering one of the proposed leagues. PICINICH CALLED HOME jin United Press . Fla., April 5. vil Picinich, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds was called to Boston from the Reds* camp here today by physicians, who said his wife must undergo a mastoid operation. PURDUE VS. WABASH Bil Times Bvecial LAFAYETTE, Ind., April s.—Purdue and Wabash were scheduled here today in the first of a threegame baseball series. Last week's games were called off on account of bad wether. Five games originally bus scheduled.

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Tribe Leaves Hot Springs Thursday for Oklahoma City—Manager Bush After Hurler From Pittsburgh. By Eddie Ash Times Snorts Editor | HOT SPRINGS, Ark., April 6.—Ownie Bush’s Indisns were booked for another encounter thi.* afternoon with the champion Pittsburgh Pirates, and Bid Burwell and Dutch Henry were slated to do the Tribe flinging against the big leaguers. The two teams engaged in such a thrilling struggle Saturday that Hot Springs fans have become excited over baseball.

Yankees Slug Ball N. Y. Americans Confound Experts by Class After Poor Start in Spring Exhibitions.

Bv Times SoccCal ATLANTA, April s.—The rejuvenated Yankees, resting from their games with the Brooklyn Dodgers, spent a pleasant Easter figuring out Just how good they have been in their victories over Uncle Robbie’s -warriors. After a bad season start when the experts predicted even worse things than their lowly fate of last season, the Yanks have found their batting eyes. Here are the averages of the regulars in the Brooklyn series. Gehrig, .444; Lezzeri, .416; Muesel, .408; Koenig, .357; Combs, .350; Collins, .333 Ruth, .227; Dugan, .133. This array of figures average up to the neighborhood of .350 and that without Ruth and Dugan hitting in their accustomed stride. Lou Gehrig, the former Columbia University student, who had a good season last year, appears to be due as one of the outstanding batting stars of the younger circuit. Ruth has time yet to get his home-run eye and Dugan will do much better when the regular season opens. All of which, if the youngsters can continue to find the ball, offers ths prospect of an approach to the old pennant winning days, with at least a team to make the pace interesting to the other clubs.

“Terrible Right” Is Innocuous Bv Times Special BUENOS AIRES, April s.—There is gloom in the ranks of the admirers of I.uis Angel Firpo in Buenos Aires. The lack of knockouts in the Firpo-Spalla fight Saturday night, and this in spite of the fact that Spalla seemed to be groggy twice, has discouraged the followers of the ’’wild bull,” who still remain faithful to him. Firpo won seven of the twelve rounds, but fell far short of delivering a knockout. Spalla took two rounds and three were draws. His once terrible right failed to terrify Spalla and a great deal of his old steam seemed lacking. Firpo carried the fight to Spalia’s side of the ring for the first two rounds, and the third and fourth were draws. After the sixth, which Firpo won, the Argentinian began to tire, and from that time on ho rarely used his left. The Italian champion held Firpo well in the clinches and evaded many of the Argentinian’s swings. The twenty-five-pound weight advantage carried by Firpo was a heavy factor in his victory. SCHAEFER 18.1 CHAMP Bv Times Special NEW YORK, April s.—Jake Schaefer is the new 18.1 balkline billiard champion as a result of defeating Willie Hoppe, 3,600 to 2,926, in the 3,600-polnt match completed Saturday night. The new title holder won the final block, 300 to 230. His average was anew high mark of 32 72-104 an Inning to Hoppe’s 28 42-103. Schaefer also made a woi’ld record run of 241 on Thursday. COLLEGE BASEBALL Saturday Games I. U.. 3: Louisiana State. 8 (called In eighth to allow Indiana to catch train). Army. 1; Bowdoin. 0 (five and one-half innings). Boston College. 2: Villa Nova. 1. Catholic University. 0; Vermont. 1. Georgetown, 5; Princeton. 1. Georgia Tech 12: Notre Dame. 4. U. of North Carolina. 11: Lehigh. 10. Washington and Lee. 6; U. of Pennsylvania. 4. Virginia, 8: Syracuse. 2. Union. R: Wisconsin. 3. Yale. 18: Navy. 10.

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I The clubs will battle again TueeI day afternoon, In the wind-up of the ■ three-game series. Pirates and Indians practiced on the same field : - Sunday at different hours, but did j not stage a contest because they did ;not care to do anything that would ; hurt attendance at the MilwaukeeLittle Rock exhibition. Good weather prevailed here both Saturday and Sunday and the diamond performers got in plenty of ‘work. There were five ball clubs in | town Sunday, namely, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Little Rock and the Beloit team of the Industrial League. Beloit trains here every spring. Manager Bush is endeavoring to secure a pitcher of promise from the Pirates, and if a deal is made it will be closed before the two clubs leave Hot Springs. Tlie hurler sought is a right-handed flinger. Tlie' Pirates leave here Wednesday morning for Little Rock and the Hoosiers depart Thursday night for Oklahoma City. That Giant Twirler

John McGraw, who was in Memphis over the week-end with his New York Giants, phoned Owner Smith Sunday night and told the Tribe boss he probably would be unable to deliver a pitcher to the Indians until after the season opens, or shortly before. No new information has been received from Cleveland regarding the hurler that club is to send the Indians. This is a deal, however, that is certain to be completed shortly. With the exception of Catcher Ainsmlth and Outfielder Matthews, the Tribe pastimers are progressing very well physically. Ainsmith is recovering slowly from his shoulder injury and will test his throwing arm Tuesday or Wednesday. Matthews was on the sick list Sunday with a heavy cold. Indianapolis offered stout resistance Saturday in the first struggle with Pittsburgh, the champions winning, 3 to 2. One error made by tlie Indians cost them the game as it paved the way for two Pirat© runs. Then In the ninth; Ray Kremer drove the ball out of the lot for % home run, and that waP p beat the Hoosiers. Hill pitched five innings for the Tribe and held the champions scoreless, allowing only two hits, and striking out four men. Reynolds, who hurled the last four innings, was unsteady. He was found for three runs and six hits, and walked three men. Hoik© Stars Walter Holke was the Tribe batting star with two singles, a double and a base on balls. He also played great ball at first base. The Indians got seven hits and the Pirates eight. Morrison, Yde and Kremer, all regulars, pitched three innings each for Pittsburgh. The last-named had the Hoosiers puzzled and he fanned five men in three sessions. Flashy plays abounded on both sides, despite the fact the Pirates were charged with four errors. They had a habit of pulling something brilliant in the pinches. Sunday night In Hot Springs the lobby of the Eastman Hotel was filled with ball players, and of course a practical Joke was sprung. A young catcher with Pittsburgh 'Tell” for the ancient "brakeman’s daughter” hoax, a badger game trick. The Joke proved a perfeot play and the poor victim ran until exhausted. He stumbled once, and was bruised, scared and scarred. Shooting of blank cartridges went with the joke and Eddie Moore, who accompanied the victim, acted as though he had been shot. All of which added to the fright of the kid. Like the freshman in college, the rookie in baseball finds that first year a troublesome hurdle.

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ifiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiinnnnflnioiiiiiniiimimiiiiiiii Brassie] IRDIES By DICK MILLER luuuraiUiiiiuniiiufluiniiiiiiitiUKiiiiiiiiiiiiuitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHnntiiiiflniiiDiiiii; ABOUND LOCAL COURSES WITH THE MAN WHO GOLFS FOR SPORT Traps galore make the second nine of the Improved South Grove municipal course a sporty proposition. We w r ent around the first nine with Harry Schopp, South Grove professional, Saturday. He takes us on in today. Harry Schopp talking:

Tenth hole. Five hundred yards, gently up hill, north. Bunker to left and right of fairway, 120 yards from the tee. Elbow hole. Be careful not to overshoot the green, as there is a ditch just back of It seven feet deep. Drive, brassie, approach and two putts for par five. Eleventh One hundred and thirty yards southeast. A sporty one. Pitch across the ditch

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into a lot of willow trees distributed with utter disregard for the rights of mankind. Mashie pitch onto green and two putts. Par three. Twelfth. Three hundred and thirty-three yards north through easy, level country into a built-up green with sand traps to right and left. Drive, mid iron, approach and one putt. Par four. Thirteenth. One hundred and eighty-seven yards east. Blind hole with built up green trapped right and left. You have to avoid a trap in the fairway, too. Midiron shot and two putts for the par three. Fourteenth. 484 level yards south into a green with circular sand traps. Drive, brassie, approach and two putts. Par 5. Fifteenth. Skitters up north rim bf valley for 425 yards. Green trapped right and left. Drive, brassie, approach and one putt. Par 4. Sixteenth. An elbow 'hole with more joints than the garden hose. 500 yards, the longest of the course. Traps to right and left of fairway, terrace green with traps on both sides. Drive, brassie, approach and two putts for par 5. Seventeenth. 204 yards east. Tee perched on top of hill with fairway rolling gently to it. Midiron, approach and one putt. Par 3. Eighteenth. 434 yards back to the clubhouse with nothing much to bother you but a hedge around the green. Drive, brassie, approach and one putt. Par 4. Thence to the showers. GUN CLUB RESULTS M. C. Lewis and F. Alig, with 90 out of 100 targets, tied for first honors in the singles of the weekly trap-shoot of the Gun Club Saturday. Lewis and Young were tied for first in the handicap event with 17 out of 25. Grinstelner was first in the doubles with 18 out of 12 pair. Lewis was high gun over all with 124 out of 149 targets. A high wind kept the scores below average. BROADWAY WRESTLING Frank La Mark of Chicago and Yankee Roberts of Rockford, 111., will meet on the mat at the Broadway Theater Friday night in a heavyweight wrestling match. The contest will be best two In three falls, with no time limit. Tlie match will follow the regular show. AMATEUR MITT SHOW An amateur bcxlng show Is announced Tor W ednesday night, April 14, at th ©South Side Turner gym. Contestants front the Bud Taylor gym at Terre Hauto, Falr-banks-Morse A. C., A. C., Arcade A. C. will be on the card with Turner and unattached boxers.

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GEORGIA YOUTH VS. GEORGES Stribling and Carpentier Signed for July 4 Bout in Macon, Ga. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 5. Georges Carpentier, French lightheavyweight, and W. L. (Young) Stribling, have signed to fight 12 rounds to a decision In Macon, Ga., July 4, Floyd Fitzsimmons, Michigan City, Ind., promoter, announced today. Jack Dempsey, world’s heavyweight champion, will be Fitzsimmon's partner in promoting the bout. Under the contract which Fitzsimmons says he holds, Carpentier will receive a flat $30,000, v-hile Stribling will get 37H per cent of the gross gate receipts. Dempsey will appear in a sixround exhibition fight. Tlie champion returned to his Pine Hills lodge, sixty miles from San Diego, today, to resume training for another exhibition tour. The champion is to appear in El Paso, April 16. A.A.U. BOXING Two Local Boys in National Tourney. Bv United Press BOSTON, April s.—Th© National A.A.U. boxing championships opened here today with 108 entrants. Bernard Barde of Dartmouth, heavyweight champion, and Henry Lamar of Virginia, who holds the 117-pound title, are among the entries. A team will be selected to represent the United States in an International boxing tourney at Buenos Aires, Argentina, in May. The boxers will sail on next Saturday. Two Indianapolis amateurs will do battle in Boston. They are Cecil Hurt of South Side Turners, a weltenveight, and Howard Stout of Fairbanks Morse, lightweight. Eight boxers will represent the Gary (Ir.d.) Y. M. C. A. Jimmy Dalton, S. S. T. coach, accompanied the two local entries.

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Imperial A. C Fight Card With the announcement today that Joe Dillon and Carl Schmadel, of this city, would meet In one of the eight-round oeml-windup bouts, the Imperial A. C, boxing show to be staged Wednesday night at Tomlinson hall lines up as follows: GHak vs. Lavelle. ligrhtwelrhts, ten rounds. EUraine. Louisville, vs. Bunny Taylor, Terre Haute. 122 pound*. 8 rounds. Dillon vs. Schinaael. (both of this city), featherweights. 8 rounds. Moore, Brightwood vs. Graham. Clinton, middleweight*, six rounds. Four round prelim not announced. The bout between Glick and Lavelle is being billed as for the lightweight title of Indiana. The two boys are just about the class of the State in that division although they do not have to be down to the 135-pound limit on Wednesday. Sidney Glick now is under the management of Ray Alvis of Chicago. Alvis is planning a Pacific ccast tour with Sid —anyway, that’s the story put out. Thsy expect to leave shortly. In an announcement made the other day by tlie Imperial A. C. matchmaker, it was stated that Bunny Taylor, who •is to appear on the Wednesday card, defeated Johnny Murphy of this city. Murphy denies this and has a Erilzil, Ind. newspaper clipping to prove that he shaded Taylor in a good fight at that city. Tickets for Wednesday’s show are on sale at the Claypool drug store. To Parts Unknown ! Bu Times Special TAMPA, Fla., April 5. —Authorities here started a wide search Sunday for thirty-nine employes of the West Coast Jockey Club, who left the city a few hours before or immediately after the abrupt closing of Tampa Downs Saturday and before they were served with warrants charging violation of the State antigambling law. Os forty officials and employes, against whom charges were filed Friday by County Solicitor Chancey, only President Harvey Myers has been arrested. He Is at liberty on $1,500 bail. The closing of the track a week earlier than planned gave the employes, nearly all of whom worked in the mutuel department, an opportunity to leave the city before officers could arrest them.

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SENSATIONAL SHOOTING IN A. B. C. BOWLING MEET New Leader in Five-Man Event and Doubles PairTiesfor Top as Tourney Nears End. Bv United Press . TOLEDO, 0., April se— As the A. B. C. pm classic netted the finish line on Easter anew leader went to the front in the five-man, the doubles were tied, three slipped into the singles' standings, another in the all-events and one more in the five-nutn.

Changes in Elks’ Meet in Week-End Bowling Holders of first place In all divisions of the National Elks Bowling Tourney in progress her© kept their places over the week-end, but teams and Individuals rolled into the first ten. The standings after Saturday and Sunday bowling; FIVE-MAN Pitte -Ind.-Mun 2.748 Buffalo No. 23. Buffalo. N. Y... ... 2.732 Indians. Indian,moll* 2.713 Ft. Wayne No. I. Ft. Wvyri*...... 3.703 Oak uPrk Elks Oak Park. 111...... 2 086 llyan Elk*. Columbus. 0hi0....... 2.683 M&rott Shoe Shoo, Indianapolis,,.. 2.8. W Static Elks, Indianapolis 8.850 Cincinnati Elks No. 8. Cincinnati... 8.G40 F, a. Smith Elk*. Milwaukee ..... 2.537 TWO-MAN Lawlrr-F. Thoma. Oak Park. ni.... LIBO Hwshman-Votcl. Indpl*. -Pitts I.lßft Hare-Milla Noblesvhle. In<j 1.177 Harrla-Ambro*. Columbus. 0hi0.... 1.174 Jonaa-Danileskl. Milwaukee, W 1... 1.168 Inden-Miller. Milwaukee, Wis. 1.16(1 Sa,/er-llarb. I.anslne. Mich........ 1.130 Meadows-Jankowski. Milwaukee ... 1.126 Critror-Schukel. Huntington. Ind... 1,12,> Millen-Smith. Milwaukee ......... 1.122 INDIVIDUALS Merld Wise, Columbu*. Ohio ..... 653 H. Millen, Milwaukee. W1*........ 646 D. Hose. Tulsa. Okla 622 J. l’arslow. Syracuse. N. Y. ....... <l2l H. Mill*. Noblesville. InJ. 613 Charlse Cohn. Buffalo N. Y....... (112 C. Cheney, Indianapolis .......... HOT P. Taylor. Indianapoli* .......... 604 F. Getzler. Oak Park. 111. ......... 603 ALL-EVENTS Mer’d Wise. Columbus. 0hi0....... 1.003 Fred Thoma. oak Park. 11l 1.85.3 H. Votel. Pittsburgh. P.% 1.757 FITCHBURG VICTOR Bv Times Special CHICAGO, April s.—Fitchburg. Mass., won tho national prep basketball tourney at Chicago by defeating Fargo, N. D., in th© final game on Saturday night, 25 to 14. It is th© first time that an eastern club has won the tournament. BOXING RALLY BV r~ n lt~d Press CHICAGO, April 5.—A boxing rally, to create interest In the bill which would legalize boxing in Illinois, will be staged tonight. The boxing bill Will be voted on at the State-wide primaries next Tuesday.

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Cnstanys of Chicago rolled np a great 55,063 to force Port Huron Recreation ten pins to the rear. The Castanys spilled games pi 1,025, 937 anil 1.101. Another Windy City team, Che J. P. Kellys, landed in fourth place with a 8,013. Both teams rolled on the same shift only two alleys apart. Charley Aston and Phil Young of Akron, Ohio, tied Fred Gardella and Fred Toc.co of Detroit, for first place in the doubles with a 1.855. Aston spilled a 650 and Young a 705. In case no others top them in the two remaining days, th© champion, ship will be decided In a three-game match here on Tuesday night. Young fouled in th© sixth frame of his last game. It cost him thirty-on© pins and he and his partner anew aJI-thm© record. ll© had two strikes to work on and spared in his seventh frame. Ills second ball In th© foul frame netted him nine pins. Mike Winters of Chicago went into fourth place in the singles with a 711; T. Pullman of the same metropolis, into sixth with a 709, and Tom Harkins of St. Paul, landed seventh with a 705. Harkins also places third in tho nil-events with a fine series of 628, 636, and 705. Indianapolis bowlers turned in some good scores but could not get. up with the m-il leaders. Jimmy Hurt distinguished himself in tho singles >vlth a. 687 count R. Kemper got a big 674. Schutte totaled 628 and Schleimer 619. Hargltt and Mngel, in the doubles, led the Hoosicr rollers with a 1,196 with English and Ho flatter right on their heels with 1,195. The Roberson Coal Company led the five-man teams with a 2.806 count. Other good ones weres Central Alleys, 2,791; Oddities, 2,784, and Silver Flash, 2,707. CUBS LEAVE COAST Bv Unltel Prims LOS ANGELES, CaJ., April 8.~ Th© Cubs broke training camp here today and started East, their first stop being Kansas City,