Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1927 — Page 17

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Local Amateur Baseball Fans Enthused Over Titular Battles Saturday

Local Golf Gossip

By DICK MILLER Oolf exhibitions, tournaments and clulj championship matches will crowd the last week of this month and the first week of September. QUIT Wagoner, Eddie Zimmer and Bernie Lehman, officers of the Indianapolis District Golf Association, are working zealously to make the annual city tournament, Aug. 29, 30 and 31, the best event of its kind ever held in Indianapolis. For the first time in years the event will be held over three private club links, due to the efforts of the association. Jhe first day will find play at the Indianapolis Country Club, the second at Meridian Hills Country Club, and the final day at Broadmoor Country Club. Wagoner states the prize list will be large. The game returned from Terre Haute last week-end tired and golf weary. A two weeks’ rest will pjjt them in nice shape for the big ctiy event. Labor day finds a big exhibition on at Highland. Tommy Armour, national open champion, will team with Bobby Cruickshank. Highland will offer as opposition Neil Mclnityre, the club pro and state open and Leonard Schmutte, fc/mer State open champ, now the pro at the Miami Country Club at Dayton, Ohio. , Certainly the four will deal out some shots that the local gallery fans have not witnessed since the western open here last August. Most of the local club championship finals will be played the first week of September. The Indianapolis Athletic Club championship play will be held at Highland Sept. 8. Freddy McDermott and Neil McIntyre, who handle the workings of the professional and amateur tournaments, announce the next meet at Coffin course Monday. Mclntyre, president of the State Professional Golf Association, announces a change in the P. G. A. tourney, originally planned for Highland, Aug. 30. A pro-amateur event will be played at Long Beach course, Michigan City, Aug. 29 instead of Highland. The next day, Aug. 30, the pros will play 36 holes over the same course to determine the State P. G. A. champion for 1927. Also to determine the two players who will go to Texas this winter and play in the National P. G. A. championship. The Long Beach Club posted a S2OO cash prize. Canadians Split With Jap Stars Bii United Press MONTREAL, Que., Aug. 19.—Japan and Canada split the two opening Davis cup singles matches here Thursday when Jack Wright, Canadian champion, beat Takeichl Harada of Japan, 6-3, 6-3, 8-6. Earlier Thursday Yoshiro Ohta, Japan, beat Willard Crocker, Canada, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8, 6-3. The doubles match was to be played today. The winner will meet France for the right to challenge the United States.

Willard and McCarthy

Fifteen years ago today, Aug. 19, 1912, two of the world’s leading “white hopes” met in New York in a ten-round no-decision bout when Jess Willard and Luther McCarthy fought to determine who was the’ most formidable appearing candidate for the crow", of Jack Johnson, the Negro champion. Willard was given the verdict of the newspaper scribes. In the following year McCarthy Was killed in a Canadian ring by Arthur Pelkey, while Willard rose to the heights of a world’s heavyweight champion when he conquered the Negro title holder three years afterward. L Yale plans to build a field gymnalum for use of its athletic teams ■uring the winter months

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! Power and Light Clash With Capitol Dairies Feature Contest. THREE CLASS A TILTS Action Expected in First Round of Games. East side, west side, all around the town, amateur baseball fans are stirring up plenty of enthusiasm over the titular battles, the first of which will be played Saturday, to decide the city Class AA and Class A champions to represent this fair Hoosier city in the national tournaments. Heading the list of four conflicts Saturday is the Indianapolis Power and Light-Capitol Dairies tilt scheduled for Washington Park. Finalists in 1926 The Power nine last year romped through its league schedule with apparent ease, experienced trouble from Capitol Dairies in the threegame series, but emerged triumphant and proceeded to Philadelphia to win the National industrial crown. This year, as last, the Dairies nine is to face the Power team. The Dairies, remembering well the l-to-0 and 2-to-l defeats administered it last August, are in high hopes and show promise of giving the Powep team a terrific battle for the city title honors. Three Class A Games The three other games Saturday bring together Class A teams, compting in the elimination series. Zion Evangelical will meet the Rockwood Manufacturing nine at Riverside No. 3 while Omar Baking will be taking on the strong First Baptist nine at Riverside No. 1 and the Illinois Central team is tackling the St. Johi.’c Evangelical club at Rhodius No. 1. PAOLINO TO FIGHT Rji T'vitcd Pr*** NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Paolino Uzcudun will fight in Madison Square Garden Nov. 18, probably with Tom Heeney, New Zealand heavyweight, but no definite announcement of the Spaniard’s opponent has been made. HOOSIER GELDING SHINES. Bii Time* Special MONROE. Wis., Aug. 19—Lafayette, property of W. W. Marvin of Lafayette. Ind., set a world’s mark for two-year-old geldings here Thursday, pacing the distance in 2:12, one-half second faster than the old record.

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Sharkey-Dempsey Fight Pictures Lead Some to Suspect Phony ‘Battle’

BY EDDIE ASH After viewing the Sharkey-Demp-sey fight pictures at the Colonial Theater Thursday night during a private showing. The Times observer is inclined to the opinion boxing fans are out of their minds when they pay big prices to see Tex Rickard’s heavyweight menagerie perform. Whenever Tex Rickard promotes anything big the betting takes such peculiar angles that the scrap between Jess Willard and Louis Firpo always is recalled. Many sports who saw that contest allege Willard took a dive in order to build up Firpo for Dempsey—and Rickard promoted both shows. And then, last September, Dempsey, though ill, permitted thousands of people to back him against Tunn?v when he was in no condition to defend the title. 1 The films at the Colonial apparently are subtitled in a way to make them a choice piece of advertising for Dempsey and his Chicago scrap with Tunney Sept. 22. The Sharkey-Dempsey movies are entertaining, but leave the audience in doubt about the knockout in the seventh. There was much wrestling throughout, with Dempsey boring in always and centering his attack on Sharkey s body. The seventh round body blows are indistinct. The Dempsey punches look foul to some and fair to others. The last blow’, a left hook to the face, was struck when Sharkey’s arms were down. The wind-up appeared pre-ar-ranged to many onlookers. The wrestlers get away with it, therefore why not the boxers? Seats for Rickard’s heavyweight scraps are priced out of reason, and the bet-

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The Referee

What is George Harper’s average for the eight years he has been in the major leagues? D. B. M. He has an average of .301 in hitting. Os what minor league is Kent Greenfield a product? D. B. Greenfield broke in with the Portsmouth club in the Virginia league, but spent a season with New Ha' r cn in the Eastern League under option to the Giants. Did Jess Petty ever pitch in the Southern League?. T. S. W. Yes. He was with New Orleans in 1917, but stayed there only long enough to participate in seven games.

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Meet for Junior Golfing Crown a Bu United Pres* WINNETKA, 111., Aug. 19.—’Two young school boys were to meet here today to decide who shall wear the crown of Western Junior golf champion the 1 coming year. ’’’he two, Albert Hakes of New Vork, and Pat Ennis, Chicago, were to play 36 holes in the final. Hakes won the right to enter the final round by his victory over Lawrence Moller of Quincy, 111., while Ennis was defeating Paul Jackson of Kansas City, Mo. A Desire to Shift to Texas Loop Bu United Press DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 19—A conference Thursday between owners of the baseball teams of Tulsa, Okla., and Oklahoma City and President J. D. Roberts of the Texas League, with a view toward joining the latter organization, failed to develop any definite action. Tulsa and Oklahoma City would resign from the Western League, it v/r.s said. MOLLA IN ACTION RYE. N. Y., Aug. 19—Mrs. Molla Mallory, national and defending j champion, was matched against | Mrs. Lillian Scharman Hester in j the feature match of the Women’s Eastern tennis championship i tournament today.

Fights and Fighters

PINE BLUFF. Ark—Joe Coffman, Jackson, Tenn., won a ten-round decision over "Stinger” Steel, Ft. Smith, Ark. NEVf YORK—Tommy Freeman. 146',i. Arkansas .won Judges’ decision from Harry Mason, 145 Va, England, ten rounds. Farmer Joe Cooper, 145. Terre Haute. Ind.. won decision from George Levine, 147, Brooklyn, ten rounds. Billy Alger. 143. Poenlx, Ariz., won decision from Jimmy Finley, 144'.a, Louisville, ten rounds. Clyde Hull. 147, Dallas, Texas, knocked out Tommy Jordan, 149'i. Brooklyn, second round. WICHITA. Kans—Law suits appeared a likely result of young Strlbllng’s failure to appear here Thursday night for a bout with Mike Arnold. Denver. The American Legion post, however. Insist a misunderstanding was the reason. MONTREAL GETS FRANCHISE Bu Times Special• NEW YORK, Aug. 19—Montreal will replace Jersey City in the International League next season, It was announced with the sale of the Jersey franchise. It has been known in Montreal for weeks such a plan was being considered. Contracts were let in the Canadian city for a new $500,000 baseball park. Frank Welch, Boston’s new outfielder, was a member of the Athletics a few years ago.

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Opening Legion Boxing Sept . 20 The first boxing show of the indoor season at the National Guard armory will take place Tuesday night, Sept. 20, it is announced, and fistic cards will be presented each Tuesday night during the fall, winter and spring, under auspices of the American Legion posts of the city and county. Between four and five hundred season seat reservations already are reported by the Legion boxing committee, indicating a bright outlook for the service men’s promotion. The Ft. Harrison outdoor fistic programs will close In September, probably one week previous to the first Army show. APOSTLES TRIUMPH Bu United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 19.—1n a muddy five-inning game, St. Paul took the long end of a 7 to 0 score in the opening game of the series here with Toledo. The game was called in the fifth during a St. Paul rally that counted for four runs.