Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1927 — Page 10

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-With Billy Evan*-

I 'iO a majority pf the presentI r T I I day fans, Kick Altrock is 1 * | known only as the baseball cloWh who makes the folks laugh with, his pantomime comedy. Years ago Nick was one of the game’s greatest southpaws. There never was a more serious pitcher.

He took to clowning after he lost his effectiveness. After passing from the majors, Altrock took a whirl at the American Association with varying success. When I asked him why he quit the minors and went to coaching an 1 clowning, he replied, in his char-

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acteristic manner: “The bats they used in that league were simply too big for me. I couldn’t throw the ball past ’em.” Altrock, as a star, was known as a smart pitcher. He didn’t have a world of stuff, but he used every ounce of it to advantage. He worked much after the manner of Herb Pennock of the Yankees and had about the same repertoire. Nick will neither affirm nor deny a story that in the ninth inning of a tight game he passed three batters rather than give them a chance to hit, and in turn picked each one of them off first base to vetire the side. ASSETS OF GREAT PITCHER j - I N Aug. 2, the day WashingQ ton fans paid tribute to the Lj£J twentieth anniversary of Walter Johnson as a big league pitcherand a member of that club, I sat on the bench with Altrock, discussing Walter and his remarkable career. Naturally, we talked of the great speed Johnson had when he broke in, of his uncanny control for a fast-ball pitcher, as well as many of the remarkable feats he had performed, such as shutting the New York club out in three consecutive games, pitching fifty-six consecutive innings without being scored on, registering more than 100 shut-outs, and so on down the line. These things brought up the question as to what makes a great pitcher—which is the most important asset? Some argue that natural ability Is the greatest asset, others will insist natural ability means nothing without control; many wi’i tell you a good fast ball is most important, while quite a few rate a good change of pace is most necessary of all things. Nick listened to the discussion of several of us and then in one of his serious moments, which are few, now that he is supposed to clown it for the edification of fandom, he threw new light on the pitching situation. ALTROCK GIVES VIEWS “f\v/l ALTER JOHNSON ls the Yy greatest pitcher the game has ever known, because he possesses the ideal disposition for a hurler. “True, Johnson has a world of stuff, but the proper mental attitude is what enabled him to reach the dizzy position he now holds in baseball. “One cannot be a great pitcher unless he has the right disposition. No player who ever wore a Washington uniform can recall the slightest criticism from Johnson no matter how poorly he played. No umpire can ever remember his protesting a decision. “Johnson throughout his career has accepted the good and bad breaks in the same methodical manner. Nothing has ruffled him. No matter how things were breaking he always continue dto give his best.” Altrock’s theory that a proper disposition is a pitcher’s greatest asset is something new, but J. am of the opinion that Nick has hit the nail on the head.

NOTES AND GOSSIP PICKED UP ON CITY LINKS

BY DICK MILLER Golfers of various city clubs have accomplished noteworthy deeds the past few weeks. First of all, Dr. M. E. Clark, of Highland, failed to get proper credit for winning at the Indiana State Amateur Association tournament, Terre Haute, last week. 41 D0c,” a man over fifty, had the lowest score for the two-day qualifying round and he is senior champ. The prize- fund at Avalon has been increased through the efforts of the watchfob wearers in defending their honors. McConnell defended his against the attack of Nessel, and one more dollar reached the fund. Miss Buff Abbott and Herman Sellken won the mixed foursome tournament at Avalon. The second nine at Avalon is now in use. The layout looks fine. It will not be long until the turf is heavy enough to discard winted golf rules. We note that, in addition to crowning a boy champion at Avalon, they are going to crown a girl champ. Both meets got under way last Monday. Boys’ match play will continue until Aug. 29. The girls will play their final matches Aug. 25. Age limit in both classes is 20 yean. improving his

N. Y. Star After Worlds Swim Record At Ripple Pool Tonight

Battle For Golf Crown Next Week Bobby Jones_Heads Field in Quest of National Amateur Title. Bu United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Aug.. 17.—Early next Monday morning, along about the time the sun—if any—is due to do away with the dew on Minikahda’s rolling fairways, the first of a field of 166 amateur golfers will go whacking away in quest of the national "Simon-pure” championship. There will be many familiar faces among the starters. The first is that of “Ducky” Yates, the wealthy young New Yorker, who will go forth with Paul Haviland of the Brooklawn Country Club as early as 8:40 a. m. The champion, George Von Elm, starts at 9:20 a. m., playing with Fred Steele of Baltusrol, the New Jersey club at which the Californian beat Bobby Jones for the title in 1926. “Jimmy” Johnson, best of the homebreds, starts at 9:40, followed by Dexter Cummings in the ensuing pair, and then, at 9:55, Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., partnered with Jimmy Manion of St. Louis. Even after this long list of stars, late arrivals at Minikahda can watch Bill Fownes, Watts Gunn, Max Marston, Ducky Corkran, Dave Herron, Fred Wright and others among the ranking amateurs of the land.

Teams Move Up In Typos 9 Games

By Times Special CINCINNATI, Aug. 17.—Washington’s defeat at the hands of Chicago, 12 to 7, in the Union Printers’ national baseball tournament in progress here, was one of the features of the tourney play Tuesday. The Washington aggregation, champion several times, was the favorite for the 1927 title, v The Indianapolis nine was dropped out of the title fight Monday when it lost its second game. Two defeats eliminate. Other results Tuesday were:, Cleveland eliminated St. Paul, 17 to 9, Boston eliminated Detroit, 9 to 6, and Pittsburgh eliminated Cincinjiati, 16 to 1. Washington still is in the running. JERRY DENNY PASSES He Was Indianapolis’ Home Run Hero Years Ago. Jerry Denny has passed on. The one-time famous big league ball player, who performed in the majors with New York and Cleveland, died in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, age 71. Denny was a home-run hero years ago when he was a member of the Indianapolis team, and many veteran local fans recall his remarkable fileding and batting skill. He was an Indianapolis star during the days when the local park was located on the site where the Methodist Hospital now stands. He played here with Basse#, Esterbrook, Boyle, Buckley, ' Healy, Glasscock and others. WIGGINS STOPS NEGRO B GRANDERAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 17. —Chuck Wiggins, Indianapolis, knocked out Charley Anderson, Negro, in the fourth round of their bout here Tuesday night. OPERATE ON ACOSTA Bu Times Special LOUISVILLE, Aug. 17—Merito Acosta, Louisville outfielder, who suffered a fractured skull when hit by a pitched ball Monday, • was operated on here Tuesday night. There was little change in his condition.

he counted up he had used but seventy-five strokes, a vast improvement in his game this year.

The bowlers of Avalon are going to have a golf tourney next Saturday. Entry is limited to players, who bowled in the club league last winter. First round matches in the club championship are carded for next Sunday., / * The new score card at Avalon, shows the completed 18-hole course to be 6,450 yards. Par is 71, 36 out and 35 in. The yardage is divided 3,235 out and 3,215 in. There are only two par s’s on the course. The Printers and Paper Merchants golf tournament is the latest. We are informed that it is not new, however, because the invitation states it is the second annual. Play will be at Avalon Aug. 25, starting time to 1 p. m. No entry or green fee will be charged. The firms behind the guns seem to be Century, Indiana, C. P. Lesh and Crescent Paper Companies. The Sahara Grotto will hold its second annual tournament at Riverside course Aug. 31. The invitation calls for more frolic than golf. Whether yi,u shoot 70 or 120 you are in the running for a prize. To verify that, each entrant is requested to send his handicap. Orville Wise, 204 Indiana Trust Bldg., and Ray Roberson, 430 S. Harding,'are the • arramrpments. Send '

Martha Norelius to Try for 1 //00-Yard Freestyle Mark. GOOD RACES TUESDAY Agnes Geraghty Sets Up New World Time. Martha Norelius, free style swimming marvel, representing the Women’s Swimming Association of New York City, tonight will make an attempt to establish a world's record for 1,000 yards in the 880yard free style event, carded on the second day’s program of the In-diana-Kentucky A. A. U. swimming championships being held at the Broad Ripple pool. A great field of star swimmers will compete with Miss Norelius in the event. The New York aquatic flash is to continue after the race distance is completed. Entered in the race are Eleanor Holm, Lisa Lindstrom and Ethel McGary, also of the New York Association, Emma Shemaitis, of Chicago and Doris Dunham of Detroit. Events on tonight’s program are expected to furnish a number of thrills. In the order they will be run off are the Girl Scouts State championship. 100 - meters free style; National Junior 300-meter medley, for women; 115-pound city championship, 100-meters free style; Indiana-Kentucky 100-meters back stroke, for men; Indiana-Kentucky 50-meters back stroke for women; Middle States 100-meter breast stroke, for men; Middle States 50meters free style, for women; open 100-meters free style for men; and the open 880-yard free style for women. - Plenty of Action Action galore was dished out on the opening nigh*; of the meet, Tuesday. The weather was a trifle chilly and the stands were not as well filled as they should have been. One world’s record and two national marks were knocked down a peg by members of the famous New York swimming association. Agnes Geraghty, a special entry in the 100-meter breast stroke event for the Indiana-Kentucky championship negotiated the 100 meters in the fast time of 1:51.6. Time for 100 yards Miss Geraghty clipped a good portion off her own world’s record of 1:27.2 She swam the distance Tuesday night in 1:26.4. Martha Norelius set up the two new National records while swimming in one event the 400-metcr free-style. Miss Norelius cracked the former record for 300-yards of 4:186 by doing the vent in 4:15.6. Clocked for the 500-yard distanfte Miss Norelius made it in 7:06 flat, breaking Helen Wainwright’s old mark of 7:09.4. SUMMARY Boy Scouts State Championship. 100Meter Free Style—Won by Dudley Jordan (unattached); Francis Poucher (unattached l, second; Le Roy Clouse (unattached) third; Gene Bisinger (Ravenswood A. C.), fourth. Time—l:23.6. Girl Scouts State Championship: 50-Me-ter Free Style—Won by Lois Jordan (Indiajiapol.s); Mffry Esther Brooks iNoblesvilfe, Ind.). second; Helen Root (Indianapolis), third; Jane Wand3 (Indianapolis), fourth. Time—:s2.4. National Junior; 880-Yard Free Btyle for Men—Won by Raymond Ruddy (New York A. C.); Frank Kennedy (Indianapolis A. C.), second; Bob Zaiser (Indianapolis A. C.), third; Walter Thayer (Cincinnati Y. M. C. A.), fourth. Time—l2:ll.4. 100-Pound City Championship. 100 Meters. Free Style—Won bv Dudley Jordan (unattached): Albert Bonnett ißavenswood A. C.), second; Jack Matthews (unattached), third; Arthur Wilson Jr. '(Ravenswood A. C.), fourth. Time. 1:27.4. . Indiana-Kentucky. 00-Metersf Back Btroke for Men—Won by Henry Churchman (Indianapolis A. C.); Randal Willis (Indianapolis A. C.), second; James W. Hall (Indianapolis A. C.), third. Time, :37.4. Indiana-Kentucky, 100-Meters Breast Stroke for Women—Won by Agnes Geraghty (New York W. S. A., special entry); Thelma Darby Willis (Indianapolis A. C.), second; Colleen Utter (unattached), third. Time 1:26.4. Middle States 200-Meter Free Style for Men—Won by Samuel Shields (Louisvil.c Boat Club): Frank Kennedy (Indianapolis A. C.). jccond; John M. Dithmer (unattached), third; Bob Zaiser (Indianapolis A. C.), fourth. Time, 2:40.6. Middle States. Ten-Foot Fancy Diving for Women—Won by Ruth Elberfeld (Birmingham A. C.); Jane Fauntz (Illinois Women’s A. C.), second. (Only two entrants.) Fifty-Meters Open Free Style for Men —Won by Marion Mecurio (Roney Plaza pools, Miami, Fla.); John Dithmer (unattached), second; James Hall i Indianapolis A. C.), third; Foster Holt (Louisville Boat Club), fourth. Time, :29.6. 400-Meters Open Free Style for Women —Won by Martha Norelius (New York W. S. A.); Lisa Lindstrom (New York W. S. A.), second: Eethel McGarrv (New Ycrk W. S. A.i, third; Eleanor Holm (New York W. S. A.), fourth. Time, 6:9.6.

Title Conflicts Among Amateurs Backers of the Indianapolis Power and Light baseball team are predicting another Class AA city championship for their team in its coming three-game series with the Capitol Dairies nine. The first of the series is to be played Saturday at Washington Park. The winner will represent Indianapolis in the national industrial meet at Akron, Ohio. The Capitol pastimers aft not downcast, however, and are confident of springing an upset. Other city championship games Saturday bring together contenders for the Class A title. Zion Evangelical and Rockwood Manufacturing will meet at Riverside No. 3, Omar Eakin? and First Baptist will tangle at Riverside No. 1 and St. John’s Evangelical and Illinois Central are td play at Rhodius No. 1. I

Baseball Big Five

Babe Ruth’s thirty-seventh home run of the season was the longest drive ever made at Comiskey Park. Ruth also made a double in his three trips to the plate. Rogers Hornsby’s twentieth homer of the year was his only safety in three times up. Lou Gehrig’s only safety in four attempts was a double. Ty Cobb made but one hit, a triple, in nine times up. Speaker %vas idle. S —Averages—--1 AB. H. Pet. IT. It. Gehriz ...Jt 431 165 .383 38 Speaker 387 142 .367 1 Ritih ;..7m 391 141 .360 37 ” “ i7 143 .343 20

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Major League Comment

Bu United Press Babe Ruth hit his thirty-seventh home run of the season, and incidently one of the longest hits of his career, as the Yankees defeated the White Sox, 8-1. The Babe’s blow, coming in the fifth inning, cleared the roof of the new doubledeck in right field of Comiskey Park and was without a doubt the longest hit ever recorded in the field. New York had little difficulty in subduing Chicago. Pennock —held the Sox to nine scattered hits. The New York Giants ran their winning streak to six straight when they defeated Pittsburgh, 8-4. It was a late inning victory, ~ the Giants had difliculty with Aldridge up to the seventh inning. In the seventh and eighth inning they scored five runs for the victory. The first game of the Chicago Cubs’ eastern invasion was successful when behind the steady pitching of Charley Root they defeated Brooklyn, 3-0. It was Root’s twentysecond victory of the season, and gave the Cubs a six-game advantage in the National League pennant race. An eleventh-inning rally, which included a double, single, two walks and two sacrifices, gave the St. Lodis Cardinals two runs and a 5-3 victory over Boston. Wertz and Alexander had staged a close pitching battle up to then. Detroit won its sixth consecutive game by defeating Boston, 10-7. Gehringer and Heilmann hit home runs. Fred Hofmann, catcher 1 for the Red Sox, was carried from the field unconscious in the sixth inning after a collision with Johnny Nevm. His injuries were found not to be dangerous.

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AUG. 17, 1927

Huge Crowd Expected at Ring Feature Wiggins-Stribling Bout Hero Aug.2s Stirs State- ' Wide Interest. The largest crowd ever gathered in Abashin, on Park, to witness a fistic encounter was a number -of years back when Jack Dillon met Frank Klaus. It was estimated 10,000 witnessed the battle. According to the promoters of the Chuck Wiggins-Young Stribling scrap, to be staged at the ball yard Thursday, Aug. 25, the indications point to a crowd that will run the oldtime record a good race. Interest in the coming scrap is not confined to Indianapolis alone. Fight fans from Terre Haute, Muncie, Fort Wayne, Evansville and smaller surrounding towns havd sent in requests for tickets. Stribling, who has a record ofl having engaged in 180 battles, with 73 of the number knockouts to his credit, is one of the few fighters irt the country who never has been knocked out. The records of both Stribling ancf Wiggins for last year show that thal visiting boxer has the edge on his Indianapolis opponent.

Shar<ey-Dempsey Fistic Films at Colonial

Official motion pictures of <tha Jack Sharkey-Jack Dempsey heavyweight bout held in New York some) time ago are scheduled to be shown at the’ Colonial Theater starting Sunday. The fistic films are booked here for an indefinite run, the Colonial representatives announced today.

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