Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1926 — Page 18

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TIRRIN 7 the DOPE By VEDDER GARD

BOOSTING BASEtJALL ■——IGHT at this. time with naD tional Boys’ day to be ob--1 v 1 served Saturday at Pennsy Park in this city and with the local Amateur Baseball Association making strenuous efforts to put over the diamond sport in Indianapolis with the national Class AA tourfcoy here in September it is interesting to note the report of the National Amateur Athletic Federation on the sucess of its two-year campaign to boost the sandlot sport. It has been said by some that automobiles, golf and other influences have made serious inroads into the popularity of baseball. The Federation report shows that more baseball is being played this year than during any other season since the war. Such decrease as there has been during the' year, where colleges and high schools have dropped the sport, has been more than offset by the increase due to other institutions adding the sport and by the greater emphasis which has been given to the sport in the majority of schools and colleges. Not only have the coaches maintained larger varsity and freshman squads than heretofore, but there has been even a greater increase in the number of men playing intra-mural baseball. Many of the colleges have cooperated in promoting the game by laying out additional diamonds. Outside of the schools and colleges there has been even a greater interest manifested in the sport. Town basbeall is now enjoying a banner year in some fore this year there were but few 1 inter-town amateur baseball leagues, while two hundred such leagues have been formed during 1926. This is an increase of considerably more than 100 per cent. When consideration is taken of the even greater number of new amateur leagues which have been formed in the larger cities throughout, the country, a fairly good idea can be gained s os the large number of new players that have become interested in the game during the past twelve months. The different national organizations holding membership in the National Amateur Athletic Federation have all contributed to the success of the baseball campaign. The American Legion with its 11,000 posts boosting the game for boys has contributed much to the increased interest in the juvenile ranks. In the State of South Dakota alone mo|e than a thousand juvenile teams have been formed under the auspices of the legion to play for the State championship and to qualify for the junior world’s series which the legion will hold for the first time this year. The American Legion’s junior world’s series is to be featured as a part of their annual convention program in Philadelphia this fall. In a number of States special baseball organizations have been formed to create a more widespread interest in the sport. The Texas Amateur Federation s the most outstanding of these - -ranizations, and has been inmmental in making it possible for thousands of additional young men and boys to have high class baseball competition. Perhaps the best index of the growth or decrease in the number of players in a sport is the number of ball® and other equipment which they use. Reports from the manufacturers of baseball equipment indicate that considerable more baseball equipment has been sold thus far this year than for the entire year of 1924 or 1925. It will not be surprising if the total number of baseballs used by the players throughout the country in 1926 exceeds that of the banner years of the past. * • • Maybe Travis Jackson will put the New York Giants back in the race. If the shortstop’s trick knee holds up the McGrawmen may go somewhere yet. His return to the game seems to have bolstered the qjorale of the dub. On Thursday in the Brooklyn game the Giant shortstop handled thirteen chances with- / out a bobble. * * * Tony Kaufmann of the Cubs must have found that kink in his arm and got rid of It. A sore wing has kept Tony out of the box for five weeks with the exception of six innings against Cincinnati on June 20. On Thursday he hurled masterful ball against the Red, allowing only four hits for eight innings before being taken out for a pinch hitter. Kaufmann is sorely needed by Chicago as the pitching staff has been wobbling. "* * • A BLACK EYE m ENNIS Is getting to be a dangerous pastime. It is not only in the boxing ring t*"at the contestants receive black dy-=s. Elizabeth Ryan received a badly swollen and discolored optic in a mixed doubles match Thursday when a ball speeding from the racquet of J. B. Gilbert, the English southpaw, struck her in the eye. It is not known whether the Californian put t any English beef on the eye or not. Beefsteak is supposed to be .good for black eyes. It was English “beef” that caused the injury in the first place —that much is known. At any rate. Miss Ryan, paired with Mary K. Browne, saw well enough to help win the women’s doubles title today by defeating the English team of Mrs. Godfree and Miss Colyer. That ought to make her forget all about the mishap and all scores with the British. v. _ ;• ...

AMERICANS WIN WOMEN’S DOUBLES TITLE AT WIMBLEDON MEET

Elizabeth Ryan and Mary K. Browne Victors—Borotra Defeats H. Kinsey. By Henry L. Farrell United Press Staff Correspondent WIMBLEDON, England, July 2. Jean Borotra of France today won the men’s singles tennis championship on the Wimbledon center court, defeating Howard Kinsey 'of California in the final round. The French ace conquered in straight sets, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3, Kin9ey was too cautious and was beaten because he refused to leave the baseline. becoming helpless against Borova's charging net attack* The American netted continually when forced to return Borotra’s fast overheads without proper timing. Kinsey was at his best in the first set. He held off his opponent’s celebrated attack and deuced the set with a series of clever placements. After the count had come to 6-all, Borotra ran out the set with hard driving that found Kinsey out of position. In the second set Borotra had matters his own way. His service was coming over like a whip and Kinsey was unable to cope with it. The Californian made a desperate bid for honors in the final set, but Borotra’s blinding speed at the net was too much for him. Elizabeth Ryan and Mary K. Browne, both of California, today won the women's doubles championship in the all-England tennis tournament here. The American women defeated Mrs. L. A. Godfree and Evelyn Colyer of England, 6-1, 6-1. Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon won the right to meet Kinsey and Vincent Richards in Saturday's men's doubles final by defeating E. Van Lennet and Baron De Kehrling, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Godfree defeated Vincent Richards and Elizabeth Ryan in a semi-final of the mixed doubles. 7-5, 6-4. T6day was the climax of the Wimbledon ttournament, with Americans assured of places in all but the finals of the women's singles, in which France and England will meet. In the semi-final of the men’s doubles Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon were to meet C. Van Lennep and De Kehrling. The winners of the mktch will meet Kinsey and Richards in the final. •Wimbledon never fails to provide surprises. This year Kinsey, the contributed largely to keeping the competition up to its standard in that respect. On his first visit to Wimbledon he found himself in the final round against a better known player and one picked by the crowd as the probable winner of the championship.

Columbus Takes One

INDIANAPOLIS AB R H OAK Matthew*, cf .. 5 2 4 4 0 0 Voter. 3b 3 0 1 0 2 0 Sicking. 2b 4 0 2 2 6 O Munson. If .... 5 0 1 5 0 0 Shannon, sa ... 3 0 0 0 1 0 Miller, lb 4 0 O' 8 , 0 1 Wyatt, rs 4 2 2 2 0 0 Hartley, c 2 0 0 3 0 0 Ainsmith *0 1 0 0 0 0 Henry, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 Rehg; 1 1 1 0 0 0 Totals 34 ~6 TI 24 0 1 Ainsmith batted for Hartley in ninth. Rehg batted for Hnrv in ninth. COLUMBUS AB R H O A E Leibold. cf . ... 33 2 3 0 0 McCann. 2b 4 1 2 33 0 Kirkham, rs .. . 4 O 2 4 O O Connolly, ss .. . 3 0 0 3 6 0, Oeysran. 3b .... 4 2 2 0 4 0 Schliebner. lb .. 4 1 2 9 3 0 Langford. If ... 4 0 1 2 0 0 Bird, c 4 0 0 2 0 0 Zumbro. p .... 3 O 0 0 3 0 Harris, p 0 O 0 1 0 0 Totals 33 ~7 11 27 19 ~0 Indianapolis 011 000 004—6 Columbus 11l 002 20*—7 Two-base hits—Matthews. Geygan, Letbold. Three-base hits—Wyatt. Matthews. Home run—Schliebner. Stolen bases Sicking. McCann. Sacrifices —Yoter (2), Shannon. Hartley, Connolly. Double plays —Yoter to Sicking to Miller: Shannon to Sicking to Miller. Left on bases—lndianapolis. 7: Columbus. 4. Bases on balls— Off Henry. 1: off Zumbro. 2. Struck out— By Henry. 2; by Zumbro. 1: by Harris. 1. Hits—Off Zumbro. 11 in 8 innings (none out in ninth l : off Harris. 0 in 1 inning. Wild pitch—Zumbro. Passed ball—Hartley. Winning pitcher—Zumbro. Umpires —Johnson, Kuhn and Getz. Time—l:33. NINETY DEPUTIES Bu United Press • CHICAGO, July 2.—A corps of ninety deputies from State’s Attorney Crowe’s office has been sworn in to. prevent betting at the new Washington Park race track which opens Saturday. The track officials may resort to the courts to prevent Crowe's men from interfering.

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TRIBE IN LOUISVILLE AFTER SENATOR FINALE Columbus Series Closes Today—Slight Detensive Slips Cause Downfall of Indians Thursday, 7 to 6.

Bu Times Svceial COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 2.—Third and last fray with the Senators here this afternoon, and after that it's ‘,‘On to Louisville” for the Indians. The Tribesmen will leave Columbus tonight and head for the home of the A. A. champions, where a fourgame Series will start Saturday. There will be single battles in Coloneltown Saturday and Sunday and a double-header Monday afternoon. The Louisville series will wind up the Indians’ long road trip and they will be home next Tuesday to entertain the Toledo Hens. Carmen Hill was slated to face the Senators on the Tribe mound, here "today and the pastimers under Acting Manager Sicking were prepared to make strenuous efforts to win the finale. The Hoosiers felt sheepish Thursday when they permitted themselves t be nosed out by the A. A. cellar occupants, 7 to 6. Rally Falls Short The Thursday defeat put the Indians five and one-half games back of the league-leading Colonels, and the boys under Sicking took the setback much to heart. A wild rally in the ninth scored four runs, but five were needed to tie, and Harris, Columbus relief pitcher, snuffed out Tribe hopes after he went to Zumbro’s rescue. It’s the little things that often lose ball games, and looking back at Thursday’s fray the, Indian? learned something more about the danger of letting down. In the first inning Leibold was on first with one out. A passed ball occurred and Leibold went to second, ■whence he scored on Kirkham's single. Connolly then hit into a double play. There was a case where a passed ball caused a run, for Leibold could not have scored from first on a single. Walk and Steal Costly Lei hold walked to start the Columbus half of the third and that pass developed into a run. In the seventh inning McCann stole second with two out and his theft enabled him to score on a single. If he had not stolen he would have been left stranded. ■ There were three instances where the Indians helped the opposition score, whereas tighter defensive alertness would have cut the Columbus run total to four. As the final score was 7 to 6, it is obvious it was a tough luck fray for the Tribesmen to drop. Dutch Henry pitched for the Indians Thursday and was found for eleven hits. A home run by Schliebner with one man aboard In the sixth was especially disastrous to the Tribe southpaw.

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Around the A. A.

Matty Matthews got back in the Tribe line-up at Columbus Thursday and blew himself to four hits —a triple, double and two singles. His triple came In the ninth and drove in two runs. He scored himself on a sacrifice fly. Oh, well, Columbus must win occasionally to get meal money for the athletes. The Senators played errorless ball. Louisville has an exceptional ball club. It never has a losing streak and its players seldom are handicapped by injuries. The so-called baseball “law of averages” fails to operate In the Colonels’ household. Walter Holke, first saeker. Is still on the Tribe crippled list. The Indians have won fourteen games and lost eight on the current road journey—a very fine record. They have five more struggles In enemy territory before returning to Washington Park next Tuesday. St. Paul got three runs in the first insing Thursday and was the winner in a tight one over the Blues, 3 to 2. Six hits were allowed by Messenger in the opening stanza, and only four after that. He struck out eight. Kolp breezed through for the Saints. Shinault. catcher, poled two triples and a single for Kansas City. Toledo was crippled Thursday and had an excuse to lose to LouisviHe. Catcher Heving played center and Pitcher Maun played right field pprt of the game.. Devormer starred at bat for the winners. Saturday's A. A. schedule calls for Indianapolis at Louisville, Columbus at Toledo, Kansas City at Milwaukee and Minneapolis at St. Paul. The half-way mark In the Hickey doop is 84 games. Indianapolis has completed 73; Louisville, 74; Milwaukee. 73; Kansas City, 75; St. Paul, 74; Minneapolis, 70; Toledo, 71; Columbus, 72. Charley Robertson, pitcher, was purchased by the Milwaukee Club from the St. Louis Browns, It was reported today. Robertson was formerly with the Chicago White Sox.

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National Boys’ day will be observed in Indianapolis Saturday. The Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association has completed arrangements for an entire day of amateur baseball at Pennsy Park tomorrow. The purpose is to promote amateur baseball and to raise funds to send the city Class A champs to Philadelphia for the t national tourney and to finance the Class AA meet to be held here in September. The Class B or juniors will go into action at 10 a. m., to be followed at 12 noon, - 2 p. m. and 4 p. m. by the league leaders in the Class A and Clas3 AA. Saturday's schedule: 10 A. M.—Tartsr A. A. v. Indianapolis Cub*. 12 M.—lmlianapoit* Light and H-nt rs. Ft. HarrUon. 2 P. M.—First Baptists ts. Seventh Christians. 4- P. M —Sahara Grotto vs. Printers, The Indianapolis representative of the national board of directors, J. A. MacCrea and President A. E. Carr of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association will have charge of arrangements at Pennsy Park Saturday. Tickets are on sale at the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company office on the Circle. BUSY SAMMY Mandell to Wed After Title Go Saturday. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 2—Sammy Mandell, challenger for the lightweight boxing title, has more to look forward to than his fight here Saturday with Rocky Kansas, world's champion. After the clash with Kansas is over Mandell plans to be married to Miss Elizabeth Hemming of Rockford, 111., his home. Sammy and his bride-to-be have been sweethearts for some time. Despite his forthcoming marriage, Mandell made It plain that he does not Intend to retire from the ring after the engagement with Kansas. He wants to meet all the challengers, including Sid Terris, Ace Hudkins and Billy Petrolle. •

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FIVE SCRAPS: 36 ROUNDS

Lively action of the "crusher” brand is promised on the fistic program lac Ft. Harrison Tuesday night as a result of the success Captain Clarke, matchmaker, has had In lining up his next weekly card. There will be two ten-rounders, two sixes and a four, and many of LARGE ENTRY Forty in H. A. C. River Swim July 11. A huge entry list is assured for the fifty annual river swim of the Hoosier A. C. scheduled for July 11 morning in White River at Broad Ripple. Some forty swimmers already have turned in their names to E. 8. Hoelseher, director of aquatic spirts at the H. A. C. Many prizes will be awarded. The Lucien King trophy, a beautiful silver cup, is first prize. It must be won three consecutive years by the same person to he obtained permanently. Until this is accomplished it remains in the trophy room at the H. A. C. Other prizes will be a smaller cup to second-place* winner, silver medals to those finishing tfiird to tenth, bronze medals to others finishing the swir. , silver cup to the contestant under 16 years of age who finishes first, silver cup to first woman finishing. Each contestant must supply a boat to accompany him or her in the race.

Wrestle ’Till 2 A. M.

Bu United Press BOSTON, July 2.—A wrestling match between Joe Malcewicz of Utica, N. Y., and Ed (Strangler) Lewis ended here at 2 a. m., today in a draw. During three hours of grappling, eacn won a fall. Lewis threw Malcewfcz in 11 minutes, ar.d the latter duplicated the feat In 11 minutes, 30 seconds.

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GOTHAM GREETS GOLFER —j f , ♦ Bobby Jones, Conquering Hero, Comes Sailing Home. Bit United Press NEW YORK. July 2.—Bobby Joned comes sailing horns today from the “golf wars” of Europa, bedecked with medals and bearing trophies. Some time this afternoon the boat carrying the new British open golf champion was to arrive at Quarantine and from then until Bobby leaves next week for the American open at Columbus, he will be feted by admiring home folks from Atlanta and proud citizens of New York. Headed by Major John S. Cohen, publisher of the Atlanta Journal, a contingent of the home-town folks went out on the revenue cutter MScon this morning to greet the Returning hero and escort him and his medals to the battery, where the official welcoming ceremony will open. Through the streets along which another public hero, Lieut. Commander Richard S. Byrd, swung a few days ago in a similar celebration, Jones will be escorted to the city hall for the popular pastime of meeting the mayor and getting a copy of the key to the city.’ Mayor Walker will make a speech and theij the new golf king will be surrendered to his home folks and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Jones and his wife. This evening Jones will he the guest of honor at an elaborate reception dinner and dance. FAVORITES ARE VICTORS Illinois Tennis Meet In QuarterFinal Rounds. BU United Press GLENCOE, 111., July 2.—Rain today threatened to interfere with the schedule of play in the Illinois hard courts tennis championships, which have now progressed midway through the quarter-final rounds with all the seeded players still In the running. A. H. Chapin, Jr., and B. I. C. Norton ere favorites In the meet. Mrs. Chapin and Clara Zlnkle were to meet today In a semi-final match in women’s singles. DON’T LIKE “SKEETERS" Bu United Preen JERSEY CITY. N. J., July 2 The Joke about New * Jersey mosquitoes has gone so far ,lt Is becoming serious, according to E. C. Gunther of the Klwanis Club, who has asked baseball writers to find some other nick name than "Skeeters" for the Jersey City baseball cluhfln the International League.