Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1927 — Page 18

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Playing the Field - With Billy Evans

IWENTY years ago, after I Southpaw “Doc” White of the ■ * I Chicago White Sox had whiffed Ty Cobb on four successive trips to the plate, Freddy Payne was substituted for him as the hitter in the ninth.

White had Cobb’s number that day but as White often said, “I suffered plenty for those four strikeouts later on in Cobb's career.” “Payne batting ' for Cobb” looked mighty funny in print 20 years ago for there probably never will be a better all-round

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batsman. However, the box scores of this year have several times carried a line that is almost as ludicrous when you consider past performances. “French running for Cobb” is the line in the summary that I have reference to. In his prime, there never was a better baserunner than Cobb. Age, however, exacts its toll from the legs of the athlete first. Cobb says this will be liis last year and he would like to make a good one of it. He’s got away to a pretty good start. GREATEST OF ALL THRILLS ~~~i ELEASED athletes take great I? pleasure in trimming the pro‘■l teges of some manager who once decorated them with the royal order of the tin can. “Bing” Miller and Wally Schang o£ the St. Louis Browns, recently enjoyed that thrill at the expenseof Connie Mack. Schang made liis debut as a big league catcher under Mack in 1913. He played under the colors of the Athletics for five years and was then traded to Boston. Three years with the Red Sox followed, then five with New York. He was sent to St. Louis in 1926. Miller was secured by Mack from Washington in 1922 and stuck around until 1926, when he was also < sent to the Browns. In the first series between St. Louis and New York, the Yanks took four straight. Philadelphia followed and expected soft picking. Mack’s team lost three out of four. It was quite a jolt. "Bing”, Miller and Wally Schang were largely responsible for the Ihree wins scored by the Browns. Schang won one game with the bases filled, while Miller's batting virtually decided the other two. EDDIE COLLINS ON ZACHARY N the Philadelphia Athletics is “Lefty” Grove, who probably has more stuff than any southpaw since the days of “Rube” Waddell. On the same team is Eddie Collins. When Collins was with Chicago, he had no great difficulty hitting Grove, despite his great stuff. Collins likes to face pitchers who have something on the ball. On the St. Louis club is Tom Zachary, a left hander, one of the smartest pitchers in the game, yet having just ordinary stuff. As he pitches, the rival team moans at its inability to hit him'. The opposition doesn't give him credit for his uncanny control and a little bit better stuff than it seems. Collins says Zachary is the toughest pitcher in the American League for him to register basehits against. As Collins in a recent game at St. Louis was returning to thd bench after having popped up following everal other failures to hit, he shot his one at Zachary: "Why don't you try pitching with your right hand—you might then have ejiough stuff for a fellow to hit the ball out of the infield."

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LOCKHART, DE PAOLO, OURAY IN FRONT ROW; MILTON MAY DRIVE

They Earn Choice Positions

No. I— Frank Lockhart

The three drivers reproduced above are the gentlemen who demonstrated this speed idea to 15,000 persons at, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Thursday, where the first day of qualification trial* for race positions were held. Lockhart smashed all previous records with a mark of 120.100 for the four laps. De Paolo was but a few hairs behind with 119.510, while Duray had 118.788. Lockhart takes the pole, De Paolo, second and Duray, third.

FAIRGROUND DIRT TRACK RACES HAVE 21 ENTRIES Prominent Short-Course Pilots Have Mounts in Three Events Saturday—Trials in Morning.

When the entries closed Thursday at midnight for the dirt track races Saturday at the State'fairground, twenty-one cars had been nominated, and the list of drivers several prominent pilots in the shortcourse sport. The official list, as issued today by Secretary Glende of the Monument Racing Association,

TRACK MEET Intercollegiate Eliminations Today at Philadelphia. Bv United Press PHILADELPHIA, May 27.—The elimination events at the intercollegiate track and field meet this afternoon were to be held in this order: HELD EVENTS—Shot put. javelin, pole vault, discu*> throw, high Jump, liroud jump, hammer throw. .... . TRACK EVENTS —120-yard high hurdles. IDO-yard dash, 880-yard run. 440qard daali. 220-yard low hurdle*,, 220-yard daah There are no qualifying run-offs in the mile and two-mile events. Six men will qualify in each of the field events and twelve in each of the track events. Finals will be held Saturday. HERMAN MERRITT DEAD Former Detroit Player Succumbs After Much Suffering. Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 27 After suffering several years as a result of paralysis which set in after his back had been broken, Herman Merritt, former member of the Detroit American League baseball club died here. Merritt was injured in a motor car accident while a member of the August (Ga.) South Atlantic League clab. BRITISH PLAYERS DUE Bu United Press NEW YORK, May 27.—The British Ryder Cup players were due this afternoon aboard the Aquitania. They were to be taken on a short sight seeing tour before attending a dinner in their honor. Saturday j the visitors will begin shaping themj selves for the International matches at Worcester. June 3 and 4.

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No. 2—Peter De Paolo

which is holding the meet,-is as follows: Car— - Driver. We-Do-Do-It Special . . .Ira Hall Miller Tin: Special . Bill Kaiser Doe Special Dick Boles Kajo Special Mark Billman Chaney Fronty Ford ...Bill Cummings De Luxe Special Benny Benfeld Elliott Fronty Ford . . . ,A1 Gully Partner Special Frank Swiegart E. R Special Howdy Wilcox McCoy Special BUI McCoy Barber-Wamock Special .Charles Crawford Huff Special loe Huff Wiggans Special Ted Everroad Kincaid Special S. E. Bone Fronty Trey of Hearts. . Ralph Biddle Fronty Ford Ken. Holdaway Ace of Hearts Homer Dueslng Butcher Special Eddie Metrler Bluebird Special Noble Krom Power Special Earl Power Drivers in Monday’s 500-mile race have been invited to be guests of the Monument association at Saturday's dirt track contests. There will be three races, the first at 2 o’clock. Very few restrictions are placed on the cars entered in Saturday’s races, the most important being that cars must be of less than 283 cubic inches piston displacement. Qualification trials will start at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, and at that time cars must turn in performances satisfactory to the officials and pass inspection. Gil Anderson will act as pacemaker and will drive the Stutz machine which won the Atlantic City stock car race with an average speed of 89 miles an hour. KELLY ON MEND Bu United Press NEW YORK, May 27.—GeorgeKelly of the Cincinnati Reds, who was operated on Tuesday for appendicitis. was reported rapidly recovering today.

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No. 3—Leon Duray

DE PAUW BEATS MUNCIE Bu Times Sverial GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 27. De Pauw batsmen cut loose late In the game here Thursday against Muncle Normal and won, 10 to 3. Score: Muncle Normal . 0.10 000 000— 3 2 De Pauw 000 021 430—10 18 O V. a, . t . erip ? —Grinic. Smith and Clancy; McCullough. Pferiok and Schiner

How They Qualified Thursday First Row Driver— Car— M. P. H. 1— FRANK LOC KHART Perfect Circle Miller 120.100 2 PETER DE PAOLO "Perfect Circle Miller 119.510 3 LEON DURAY "Miller Special 118.788 Second Row I—HARRY' lIARTZ ‘Erskine-MlUer 116.731 >—RALPH HEPBURN Boyle Valve Special 114.209 ft—CLIFF WOODBURY Boyle Valve Special 113.260 Third Row ’.—BOB McDONOGH ‘Coopf Special 113.175 ?—DAVE LEWIS ‘Miller Special 112.275 '•—BENNIE HILL ‘Cooper Special 112.013 Fourth Row IC—NORMAN BATTEN Miilcr Special 111.940 11— lACK PETTICORD Boyle Valve Special 109.920 12— PETE KREIS ‘Cooper Special , 109.900 Fifth Row 13— FRANK ELLIOTT ‘.Junior Eight Special 109.682 lI—CLIFF BERGERL Miller Special 108.820 15— EARL DE YORK Miller Special 107.497 Sixth Row Ift—Dß. W. SHATTIC Miller Special 107.060 17— “DUTCH” BAUMAN Miller Special 106.078 18— EDDIE HEARNE ’Miller Special 105.115 Seventh Row 19— WILBI R SHAM .lynx Special 104.415 ' 20— AL MELCHER Miller Special 102.918 21— L. L. CORI'M Ducscnberg Special 94.694 ‘Front drive. Cars qualifying today take place behind Thursday's qualifiers.

Records Go Flying in First Day's Qualification Trials — Twenty-One Cars Make Good. Thursday, first day of qualification trials at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for positions in the annual 500-mile gasoline classic Monday, was record day, and a quartet of drivers joined hands in the merry game of “I make the record, you break it.” /

I First, Ralph Hepburn started his shiny Boyle Valve Special on his l'our-lap qualification trial and when he was finished anew record for the I four laps was standing. Harry Hartz I was the next to join the band of record makers, with his Erskinej Miller Special, breaking Hepburn’s ; new mark and the old track mark. | Pete De Paolo was the next to apI pear pn the scene with his Perfect j Circle MHler and he was on the re- ' eeiving end of a great ovation after | shattering Hartz's new mark with a j four-lap (ten miles) time of 119 miles an hour plus, and anew track record iof 120.546. After waiting vainly for the high headwinds from the north to let ! down, Frank Lockhart, daring young i coast flash, took the track with his l Perfect-Circle Miller and flashed around the two-and-one-half mile brick oval in 120.100 miles an hour for the four laps and 120.918 for a new local lap mark. Leon Duray was the next to appear and he turned In a speed of 118.788, not sufficient to break the record just set up, but enough to give him third place in the frontrow. Lockhart's amazing performance gave him the coveted pole position \shile De Paolo's time placed him second in the front row. 1 Twenty-one cars made the qualifyJ Ing speed of 90 miles an hour Thursday, all but one exceeding the

100-mile-an-hour mark. L. L. Corum, co-winner with Joe Boyer in the 1924 race, was the sole one to drop under the century mark. He was driving a Duesenberg. Milton at Wheel Aside from the records set up In the trials, one announcement made was sufficient to surprise the entire racing clan. Cliff Durant has taken sick, threatened with pneumonia and it is a rumored possibility that Tommy Milfon will drive the Detroit Special In 'the race Monday. The car to have been driven by Durant was built by Tommy, only two-time winner of the local grind and is said to have all the features of Milton's thirteen years racing experience Milton, retired two years ago at the age of 33, regarded by many as one of the greatest drivers of all time declared he never would drive again in competition. Thursday found Tommy behind the wheel of the shiny Detroit Special buzzing around the track at a fair clip. W. D. Edenburn, A. A. A- contest board representative, informed Milton that should be qualify the car it would be necessary for him to start in the race. It is believed Milton will drive. It also was announced that Ralph De Palma would not drive in the race. Ralph, selected to pilot one of the new Duesenbergs. backfired and said he did not believe it fair to the manufacturer to take the wheel at such short notice. George Fernlc, Roumanian driver of the French Bugatti, which was said to have been damaged too badly to start in the race, has leased George Abell s Miller Special for the event and was to attempt to qualify today. Buddy Marr. Fernic's relief driver has taken over the Bugatti and will attempt to get it in shape to make the qualifying speed. Fifteen thousand persons crowded into the grandstands for Thursday’s trials. ILLINOIS SHOOT Bu United Press CHICAGO. May 2T.—Opening events of the Illinois State trap ihoot were to be started today at the fcoutb Shore Gun Club.

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THIRD OF SENATOR BATTLES Indians Continue Series at Columbus —Tribe Wins Thursday, 8 to 5. Bv Times .Special COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 27.—Baseball fans of Columbus are beginning to enjoy the battles between Indians and Senators. The Thursday contest was another thriller, the same as Wednesday's struggle, but with the I-loosiers winning. 8 to 5. The victory boosted, the Indians into third place. The Tribe got nosed out Wednesday, but played better ball in the second fracas of the series at Nell Park and emerged the victor. The final inning was filled with excitement. however, as Columbus rallied, scored three runs and had two runners on base when the game-ending out was made. Byron Speeee went the full route for Druno Betzel's pastlmers and Dyer and Birmtller operated orv the Senator mound. Anderson for the Indians and Leibold for the home team crashed home runs. The teams played errorless hall and there were some sparkling plays, despite frigid atmosphere. The third fray of the series was to be staged this afternoon and on Saturday the wind-up struggle will be fought out. The Indians return to Indlaffapolis Sunday to meet the Louisville Colonels In a single game Sunday and a double-header Monday afternoon. Milstead, pitcher for Toledo, broke up a twelve inning contest Thursday aijd won his own game by cracking out a two-bagger and scoring Mnrriott to give Toledo a 3-to-2 win over Louisville. The Colonels had tied the game In the ninth. . St. Paul outhit Kansas City more than two to one, but Kansas City won behind good fielding. 10 to 8. The Saints hammered Wannouth and Zlnn for eighteen lilts, while Kansas City made only eight. Hauser hit a home run.

MAY 27, 1927

Just Too Much Speeee

INDIANAPOLIS AB R H O A r. Voter. 3b .... 4 0 1 0 2 0 Anderson, cl ... ft 1 1 8 0 0 Wyatt. If 4 1 0 2 0 0 Walsh, rs ft I 1 3 0 o Snyder, c 1 1 1 1 0 o Holke. lb 3 1 0 10 0 0 Kopf. 2b 4 2 2 3 ♦ 0 Miller, sh 1 1 0 2 4 0 speeee. p 2 0 1 0 1 0 Totals 20 S 0 27 11 0 COLUMBUS AB R n O A K Leibold, of ... 5 1 3 1 0 O Nicolai, ss it 0 0 I t 0 Kirkham. rs , . . 4 0 1 4 1 <• Strinn. 1b t 0 0 3 4 O Sullivan, If .... 4 (1 1 l 0 o Sk-hllebner, lb . 4 1 0 h u 0 Oeyirsn. :1b .... 3 2 3 I 1 0 Ferrell, c 2 1 J 3 I O Dyer, p 2 <1 0 O •' U Birtniller. p .. . 1 0 1 O O Wifliro 1 0 | 0 II 0 Totals 3?) A 10 27 !•: 0 Wln*o batted for Bit-miller In ninth. Indianapolis 181 111 009 * Columbus 100 mo 003 A T'vo-base lilts—Voter, fieygan Letbold. Home runs—Anderson. Letbold, Slnlfi) has*e—Kopf. Specre. s.'-riA'-e:' Voter. Ilnlke. Miller 2, Speeee Ferrell. Double plays—Kirkham to Ferrell to Schliebner: Dyer to Stripp to Sehliebm-r. Left on bases--Indianapolis, j; Columbus, 0 Base on halls—Oh Ppeee.-, 2; on Dyer, ft; off Blemiller I. Struck out—By Speeee, 1; by D*er, 3. Hits-—OO Dyer. 0 In ft'- Innings. off Blemiller 0 tn I " Innines Wild niteh—Pyr, 2. Losing nitc'i* er Dyer. Umpires—Johnson and Lortr. time—l :t? IN BIG TEN New Marks Expected in Conference Track Meet. C ' United Prt-ss MADISON. Wis.. May 27.—EstateUshment of new Wet tern Conference • records in a number of events scents probably at the Big Ten track and field meet opening hero today with finals Saturday. Three of the present conference marks have been bettered earlier In the season by contestants entered in this twenty-seventh annual affair. Other records have been all but broken. The polo vault, shot put. and 220yard dash murks nre those already surpassed and therefore most likely to be replaced. , The University of lona shows the best promise as a maker of new records. PITCHER KALLIXA .SOLD. Bu United press BLOOMINGTON. 111.. May 27. Edward Kalllua, pitcher, who was turned back this spring by the New York Giants, has been sold by Bloomington to the Wichita Falls (Texas) club.