Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1927 — Page 8

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Playing the Field With Billy Evans r■ ' ■ ETCHING a brilliant center \X/ fielder of the Tris Speaker VY type roam his territory with ease and grace, makes that all-im-portant job look rather easy. /The lack of a good

center fielder is a terrific handicap to a major league club with pennant aspirations. It long has been an accepted truth in baseball that the great teams are strong on a direct line from the catcher to center field. In other words strength must be had back of the |

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bat. in the pitcher's box, around | second base, meaning the shortstop and second sacker, and in center field The last named position is far from the least important of the fi do I recall a remark that Pitcher George Foster of the Boston Red Sox made when Tris Speaker was sold by that club to Cleve uid. “They ' not only sold the best outfielder in the game but half of the pitching staff as well,” was Foster’s laconic comment. BURDEN ON PITCHERS —s nLY a pitcher is able to realOize what a burden poor out- _____ field work means to his chances to win. When what should be ordinary outs fall safe, because of poor judgment or faulty execution, and go for doubles and triples, it ofterv proves too much for the twirling staff. brilliant outfielders do far 4Mre than hierely handle the j chances that come their way in the ! field or on the ground. Every batter must be properly played. In. other ! words the oUtfielder must know the field to which the batter is prone : to hit and shift accordingly. The truly great outfielders, center j fielders in particular, must know j and do these things as part of their work. Playing a batter properly l often makes an easy out of a chance ; that would have been most difficult. had the batsman been played in- ! correctly. In addition, a good arm is a most, important asset and the proper use I of it in always getting the ball to the correct base, is even more necessary. I I Hughey Jennings once told me he believed more ball games were lost during a season’s play by out- j fielders throwing to the wrong base than through muffed fly balls. * HAVE MISSED SPEAKER back to the imporr\\ tant part of the outfielder plays, ‘ the center fielder in particular, I hav? in mind the Cleveland club. In the spring when I passed socalled expert judgment on the Indians at Lakeland, Fla., I expressed the opinion that the club’s greatest handicap was the passing of Tris Speaker. I stressed the belief that | no club could lose such an outstand- j ing star without suffering. Naturally I had to admire the spirit of the players and officials! when they said the club wouldn't miss Speaker. It may have been real or false enthusiasm. With the season nearly half over, i five players have essayed to fill Tris Speaker’s shoes and none has come ! close to doing it. What’s more, the i experiment is still on. What a great outfielder of the j Tris Speaker type means to a club has been definitely proven in the case of the Cleveland Indians. He’s been sadly missed. It was a tough break for Manager Jack McCallister. Match Play in Tourney Starts i Bn Vnitcd Press BUFFALO, N. Y„ June 21.—Match j play in the women’s invitation golf j tournament at the Buffalo Country Club started today with Miss Vir- I ginia Van Wie of Chicago, and Mis,: Fritzi Stifel of Wheeling, Va., paired in the first flight. The 18-year-old Chicago girl topped the qualifying round Monday when she turnecyn a card of BG. Miss Stifel’s card was 97. The only other entrant to break 90 in the qualifying round was Miss Edith Quier of Reading, Pa., with an 88. The defending champion, Miss Virginia Wilson of Chicago was paired with Mrs. Charles M. Daniels of Buffalo. Miss Wilson went around in 93. One of the outstanding matches of the day /was expected to develop between Miss Louise Fordyce, four limes Olpo State champion, and Miss Bernice wall of Oshkosh, Wis. They qualified with 94 and 97 respectively. Match play was scheduled for the rest of the week with the semi-finals on Friday and the finals on Saturday. —j SANDE MAY RIDE WHISKERY Bn Vnitcd Press LATONIA, Ky„ June 21.—Earl Sande may be astride Whiskery when the Kentucky Derby winner goes to the post in the Latonia Derby Saturday. Whiskery has arrived here from Homewood, wheer he ran last in the American Derby last Saturday.

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Interest at Wimbledon Tennis Meet Centered on Play of Women Stars Helen Wills Meets English Girl in Opening Round —Men Face Easy Opponegts—Hunter Defeats Veteran.

isn Vnitcd Press Miss Nuthall is the youngest woman WIMBLEDON, England, June 21. in the tournament. . —With virtually all the important S.\ B. Wood, Jr., 15-year-old international tennis stars still in American boy who was defeated .. , Monday by Rene La Coste of i hie field after the first day s play Krance> 6 _ l( 6 . 3 and 6 _ L was the in the men’s singles tournament -baby of the tournament,” and the i here, and most of them meeting youngest competitor ever admitted 1 to the Wimbledon matches. easy opponents today, interest in IT . . _ ~ J , Francis T. Hunter of New Rothe second days play centered chelle> Nt Y ., entered the third chiefly in the opening of the worn- round in men s singles p i ay today en’s singles. _ by defeating A. R. F. Kingscote, an Helen Wills of California was to English veteran, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. meet Miss G. H. Terry of England. Jacobs Eliminated Mrs. Godfree Advances Rene Lacoste of France, defeated ! Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree. win-. s M. Jacobs of India, in the second 1 ner of the women’s singles title last, round. 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 6-4 year, defeated Miss william T. Tilden was to meet R i England today, 6-2, 6-2. The match jd. Poland of England todav. and i m the second round and placed seemed unlikely to have difficulty in ‘ Mrs. Godfree in the third round. ■ disposing of him. Both Mrs. Godfree and Miss Trent- I The only big surprise of Monday’s 1 ham had byes in the first round. play was the defeat of Takeichi One of the most interesting of the Harada, the Japanese star, bv H. day’s matches was expected to occur Landry of France, 4-6, 6-4. 6-1. 1-6,' between Betty Nuthall, 16, English 6-2. Harada, unaccustomed to grass i hard courts champion, and Cecelia ( courts, had difficulty in judging 1 Aussem, 18, first German girl who ; balls and was erratic throughout has played at Wimbledon since 1913 I match.

WASHINGTON PARK GOSSIP

By winning Monday, the Indians leaped from seventh place to fifth in the A. A. standing. There is very little difference in points between several of the clubs in the race. Louisville, St. Paul and Columbus were below Indianapolis in the percentage column today. 1 The Betzelites clubbed their way to victory in the series opener with the second-place Brewers, 10 to 3, the home pastimers getting fifteen bingles. Bill Burwell tightened in the pinches and baffled the Brewers,

Baseball Calendar

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won. Lost. Pc f . Toledo 34. 22 <507 Milwaukee 33 27 .Son Kansas City 32 27 .a42 Minneapolis 33 33 041 INDIANAPOLIS 23 32 .437 Louisville 30 3a ,42 St. Paul 28 34 .452 Columbus 21 31 .393 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W f . L. Pet. N. York 39 17 .395 Detroit.. 25 39 .473 Chicago. 34 26 .567jCleve. . 27 32 .458 Phila. .. 31 25 .554 St. Louis 2* 30 .444 Wash... 28 26 .518 Boston . 15 39 .278 .NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct.l W. V Pet. Pitts. . 36 19 .655 Brklvn., 27 32 .438 Chicago. 35 22 .614 Boston... 20 29 .408 St. Louis 31 23 .s*s!Phila.... 22 32 AO, N. York. 28 27 ,509:Clncy 21 37 ,3C2 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Milwaukee at INDIANAPOLIS. Minneapolis at To’edo. St. Paul at Columbus. Kansas City at Louisville. AMERICAN LEAGUE St. Louis at Chicago (both games postponed: rainl. Washington at Philadelphia (two games). New York at Boston (two games). (Only games scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Boston at New York. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. Chicago at St. Louis (two game;'. Yesterday’s Results AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kansas City 620 000 022—6 10 0 Louisville 101 000 102—5 10 1 Sheehan. Peters; Cullop. ’ Wilkinson. Wicker, Meyer. St. Paul 140 020 000- 7 12 4 Columbus 700 101 02*- —11 15 3 McQuaid, Shealy, Gaston; Meeker, Ferrell. Minneapolis 000 202 010— 511 V* Toledo 350 000 20*—10 15 0 Benton, Wilson, Kenna; Palmero. Urban. Having. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington at Philadelphia (rain). New York at Boston (rain). (Only games scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 000 003 001—4 12 2 Chicago .......v:::i 000000000-O 4 1 Meadows. Gooch; Carlson, Gonzales. (Only game scheduled.)

Harrison s Fistic Card Tonight

Main Event (Ten Rounds)—John Risko. Cleveland, vs. Chief John Metoquah, heavyweights. Semi-Windup i Eight Rounds)—Frank Launey, Cleveland, vs. Red Fitzsimmons; light heavyweights. Six Rounds—JChuck Manclla, Linton, vs. Allen Watson. Indianapolis; 126 pounds. Six Rounds—Babe Manella, Linton, vs. Kid Woods, Indianapolis, 120 P° un d?-. Four Rounds- Private Sammy Ft. Harrison, vs. Jack Malone, Augusta, Ga.; 138 pounds. First bout at 8;30. Concert by 11th InsisurA FARRELL HOLDS LEAD Scores Nine Birdies to Top Field in Shawnee Open Meet. Bn United Press SHAWNEE-ON-DELAWARE, Pa., June 21. —Johnny Farrell had a three-stroke advantage over the field as the second and final day s play began this morning in the annual Shawnee open. He made nine birdies on the first eighteen Monday to score a 138 for the first thirty-six holes. Tommy Armour, National Open title holder, was tenth in the list of seventy-seven entries, with a tally of 151. Heading him, besides Farrell, were Willie McFarlane, 141; “Wild Bill” Mehlhorn. 143: Joe Turnesa, 147; Leo Diegel, 148; Bill Burke, 149; Bobby Cruickshank, 149; James Dante, 149 and Willie i Klein, 150.

though they collected ten safeties. Bill walked only one man. and that free ticket was given intentionally. Perhaps if some of the other Tribe hurlers would take a few lessons on control from Bill they would ftieet with more success. Matthews. Anderson and Miller each banged out three hits off Dmty Gearin, Monday. The little Milwaukee southpaw appeared to have his usual stuff, but he couldn't keep out of hot water. Three double plays were executed ! behind Gearin and another failed when I.ear threw low. The Brew- j ers are leading the league in twin 1 killings. The Indians’ fat inning was the eighth, when five runs were scored on four one-base raps, two walks and an error. Bruno’s pastimers batted around. Matty made a great catch off Luce in the first inning and gave 1 the kids in the bleachers a big thrill. He had to go far back to snare the sphere. Elmer Yoter got an unintentional double in the third. He drew away : from one of Gcarins high fast ones, 1 the ball struck Elmer's bat and landed in short right field near the foul line. Gearin wept over that one. Burwell helpec his own case by i poling two sing.es, one a bunt,' which he beat out. Wilson led the Brewer attack [ with three hits. Riconda and Lear each got two safeties. Layne had a peculiar batting record. He forced a runner, was hit once, walked twice and was safe on a sacrifice when Strohm made a bad throw. Layne reached first five times and scored twice. The teams were to battle in the second tilt of the series today. Marathon Golf Keeps 'Em Busy Bn l nit,.l Prms WASHINGTON. June 21.—Three men of assorted sizes were bidding fair today to better the marathon golf record of. 261 holes, set several years ago by Eddie Tipton. The three, teeing off at dawn on the East Potomac course, had each finished 108 holes by 10 o’clock and were going strong. Tipton, rugged ex-football star, out to better his own mark, was still fresh, with a 76 on his last round. Marvin Luctrell, only 16 years-nld, set the early pace, but had an average of 112. Tiny Larry Dey was playing . steadily between those marks. The trio will play until nightfall, then march about the course with ciubs in hand until daybreak Wednesday for a resumption of the lest. WAITED—SALESMEN: Men who can qualify in every sense the term implies. Must be willing to work twelve hours daily, to earn income of SIO,OOO annually. gVoss sales can not fall below' a total of SI,OOO per week. This selling connection is probably one of the best ever offered in this city, and consideration will be given only to men of character and proven ability. Radio Service Advertising Com panv, 510 Illinois building.—Advertisement.

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INDIANS - MILWAUKEE JUNE 22-23 Game Called 3 P. M.

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Hail the 1927 Open Champ!

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Tommy Armour. World War hero and Washington, D. C., pro. is shown in the above reproduction being carried amid cheers to the clubhouse at the Oakmont. Pa., course after winning the highest honor in golfdom, the National Open. Armour wound up his 72 holes of play in a tie w T ith Harry Cooper, young California pro, each having 301 strokes. In the eighteen-hole play-off last Friday, Armour won, 76 to 79, a margin of three strokes.

Two Jacks Set for ‘ Ceremonies ’

Bn I sited Press NEW YORK, June 21.—Jack Dempsey will be given a license to fight in New' York without Jieing submitted to special physical examination by the New Y orji boxing commission. Dempsey late today, if it was not too dark for the photographers, was to accept Tex Rickard's terms to meet Jack Sharkey and to fight Gene Tunney for the championship il he wins from Sharkey. Sharkey was to do the same thing. Those are features of a ceremony that will start Rickard on what he hopes to be one gate of SI.OOO 000 and a second of $2,000,000.

FANS DISPLAY INTEREST IN COMING GRID SEASON

America's public, which worships at the shrine of sport, has its eyes trained on the activities of the professional and amateur baseball players, on the performances in the golfing world and on the latest developments in tennis circles. But thousands are spurning summer sports checking off the days until next fall. It may be true that never before have fans looked forward in advance Xo a football season with as much interest as next fall. The changes In the rules, many quite drastic, promise many innovations in the ’'pigskin” pastime. Brilliant Race Expected Attention of middle Western gridiron followers as usual will be riveted to the Western Conference in which a brilliant race is expected for the championship. Seven intersectional clashes, in which three Hoosicr schools figure prominently, are doped to furnish a lot of color to the ’27 season. The Purdue-Harvard. IndianaHarvard, Notre Dame-Army, Chi-cago-Pennsylvania, Michigan-Navy, Ohio State- Princeton and the annual Notre Dame-University of Southern California conflicts are the games in mention. The Big Ten season officially will get under way Oct. 8 when Indiana plays at Chicago and Ohio State

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Werner Puts Kick in Horseshoes

Shoe tossers of the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company oppose the league-leading Indianapolis Power and Light squad tonight in lie feature tilt of the wee's schedule of the Indianapolis Horseshoe League. The match is booked for Brookside. Other matches tonight; Ben Hur vs. Ir.sley at Brookside. Diamond Chain vs. Robbins Body at River Ave. and Division St. Ed Werner of Robbins established , a mark last week for the boys to shoot at when he snared 99 ringers in 180 shoes pitches. Fluharty and | Leffel passed the 70 mark. League standing. Won. Lost. Power and Light 9 o Robbins Body 7 2 Van Camp 2 7 Diamond Chain it () Inslev Manufacturing Company, n n Ban Hur ... ... 0 9

mixes with lowa at lowa City. On the same day Purdue will make its long trip eastward for a fling at Harvard while Illinois will stage its annual fiesta with Butler's Bulldogs at Urbana. Michigan and Northwestern, tied for the Conference crown last year, are not expected to be represented by as strong combinations on the field this fall. The big loss to the Wolverines was that of Bcnni: Friedman, All-American forwardpasser. place kicker and field general de luxe. Along with Friedman went Bo Molenda, Weber and Lovette. Northwestern's loss included that of the flashy and versatile ‘'Moon” Baker, its quarterback. Two other valuable regulars, Seinenmann atid Johnson, also graduated. Hoosiers to Be Stronger Considerable improvement in the Indiana eleven is looked forward to. The Crimson failed to rise under Pat Page’s direction in his first year at the Bloomington institution, but a much stronger squad -undoubtedly will flaunt the Hoosier school's colors this fall. Led by the brilliant “Cotton” Wilcox, Jimmy Phelan's Purdue aggregation is expected to provide no little sensation in Conference circles. Phelrfn lias several veterans coming back to school this fall.

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Boys, Juniors

The fourth annual Wetern Open tennis tournament for boy and juniors will be held at Culver, Ind., during the week of July 11, according to the announcement of Edw'in J. Wuensch. vice president of the Western Lawn Tennis Association. The meet will be staged on the courts of the Culver Military Academy Tennis Club. Singles entries will close July 8 and doubles entries close July 12. Silver loving cups will be awarded to winners and run-ners-up in all events. Capt. J. H. Bishop of the Culver tournament committee is in charge of the entries and all correspondence should be sent directly to him. Those entering the boy’s class must not be 15 years of age before Jan. 1 and those of the juniors’ class not 18 years of age before Jan. 1.

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Canzoneri 7-5 Favorite to Win Bu Vnitcd Press CHICAGO, June 21.—Tony Canzoneri, smiling New York challenger for the bantam crown, reigned a 7-to-5 favorite over Bud Taylor, Terre Haute (Ind ) champion, today —two days before their title bout, which is scheduled for Cubs’ Park Thursday night. Taylor was reported to have gone stale, following a lengthy training grind for the Canzoneri bout. On the other hand, Canzoneri is reported overweight, and may have trouble weighing the stipulated 118 pounds Thursday afternoon. Tony’s manager said he w r as sure his man would be able to make the weight. Charley Cook, manager of Abe Attell Goldstein, former champion, has posted a $2,500 forfeit with the Illinois Athletic Commission for a match with the winner of the Can-zoneri-Taylor fuss.

Tribe Wallops Ball

MILWAUKEE AB R H O A E Wilson, If 5 2 3 90 0 0 Riconda, 2b 5 1 2 2 7 0 Luce, rs 3 0 0 2 1 0 Lear. 2b 4 0 2 6 2 1 Griffin, lb 4 0 0 10 o o Strohm, 3b,, 4 o l o 8 l Gerken, cl 8 0 1 3 0 0 Orwoll 1 0 0 0 0 0 Young, c 4 0 0 1 0 0 Gearin, p 4 0 1 0 2 0 Total* 37 3 10 24 15 2 Orwoll batted for Gerken In ninth Inning. INDIANAPOLIS AB R H O A E Matthews, cf 5 2 3 4 0 0 Yoter. 3b 5 1 2 0 1 n Anderson. If 4 1 33 1 0 Layne, rs 1 2 0 3 o o Snyder, c 3 0 0 2 1 1 Holke, lb 4 1 2 12 0 0 Brtzel, 2b 5 0 0 2 1 1 Miller, ss 4 2 3 1 4 0 Burwell. p 4 1 2 0 5 0 Total* 35 10 15 27 is ~2 Milwaukee .002 000 Old— 3 Indianapolis 002 001 25*—10 Two-base hit.*—Strohm. Yoter. Sacrifice hits—Layne. Snyder. Stolen bases— Gerken. Double plays—R.conda to Griffen. 2: Luce to Young. Left on bases— Milwaukee. 6: Indianapolis. 9. Bases on balls—Off Gearin, 5; on Burwell, 1, Struck out- Bv Burwell. 2 Hit batsman—Lavne ibv Gearin'. Passed ball—Snvder. 1. Umpire*—Connolly and Outhrie. Time 1:52.

JUNE 21, 1927

Cubs Leave Home After Great Stand Trail Pirates, but Not Far— Meet Cardinals in Twin Bill. But nitaß Press CHICAGO, June 21.—-The Chicaga Cubs have taken to the road after a long stay at home in which they ran their position iu the National League standing up to second place, and are slightly more than two games behind the league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cubs lost to the Pirates in the only major league ball game played Monday. The hero was Le* Meadows, Pirate pitcher, who held the Cubs to four hits and no runs while his own club played well behind him. The score was 4 to 0. Gooch’s home run scored three of the tallies. In their stay at home the Cubs won twelve games in a row, and sent some of the leading eastern clubs down the ladder. In their swing through the East a month ago, the Bruins also had a run of victories which has stamped them as a pennant contender for tha season. The Cubs were to play today against the last year’s champions, the Cardinals, at St. Louis, in a double-header. FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS AT PHILADELPHIA—WiIbur Cohen. New York, Negro featherweight. defeated Chick Kansas, Philadelphia. Gene Morettl, Atlantic City, 143, outpointed Ray Maxwell, Philadelphia. 145, six rounds. AT HOLYOKE. Mass.—Matty Marino, New York, outpointed Freddy Abeam, Fall River, ten rounds Steve Smith, Bridgeport, outpointed Harry Scott, At-4 lantlc City, ten rounds. ( AT CHICAGO—WiIIie Davies, Cleveland flvwelght. outpointed-Alex Hurley. Canaditl ten rounds. Billy Bortfleld, Milwaukee welter, outpointed Billy Hall, eight rounds AT OMAHA—Buddy McDonald, St. PailM 145. won a ten-round decision over Ervdjß Biegs. 148, ten rounds. "Plnkev" RoUtr Ervin s brother, knocked out FranJtFe Roberts, St. Paul, sixth round. jw