Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1927 — Page 11

SEPT. 13,1927

Giants , Cards Open Crucial Series at St Louis With Double-Header

Gamblers of N. Y. Appear Active Again Have More Fight ‘lnfo’ Than Chicago; ‘Business’ Talk Crops Out. i; 1/ United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Beyond the lact, as advertised, that Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey are going to meet here Sept. 22 in a return bout for the fistic championship, Chicago doesn’t know much about the fight. The gamblers of Broadway, New York, appear to have much more information. There was the story going around New York Monday that the same men who “fixed” the 1919 world’s baseball series had offered Tunney one million to throw the fight and that Tunney was Incensed. There is still a lot of talk around New York that some "business” is to be done, but such stories always are passed around before a big fight. Personally, the United Press sports editor does not believe there is enough money in the world to “turn” either of the two fighters. Brewers Boost A. A. Flag Lead Du United Pres* ST. PAUL, Sept. 13.—8 y holding St. Paul to eight scattered hits Monday, Milwaukee took another game and increased its lead in the A. A. flag race. Homers by Riconda and Plippin helped in the 6-to-l victory. Eddleman hurled for the Brewers. Kansas City and Toledo, the other pennant contenders, both lost Monday. COLONELS BLANKED Du United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 13.—Columbus shut out Louisville, 5 to 0, Monday and made it three of a four-game series. Louisville’s poor support of Moss mostly was responsible for the defeat, although the sensational southpaw,was wild. WAMBY’S ERROR HURTS Dii United Pres* MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 13. A costly error by Wamby in the final inning broke up a pitchers’ battle between Sheehan and Benton Mon®day, allowing Minneapolis to win, 2 to 1. Minneapolis scored in the first inning and it was not until the eighth that the K. C. Blues rallied to tie the score. Bohne got a homer for Minneapolis.

Title Go Gossip From Chicago

II ii United Prcs CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—The First authentic diagram of seats for the Dempsey-Tunney fight, priced at $5 to S4O each, was published today. It shows sections 49 to 60 adjacent to the ring. The last row of $5 seats is 700 feet from the platform in the center of the stadium. Chicago bookmakers announced today they had $1,000,000 of Eastern money to bet at odds of 7 to 5 on TuAney. Chicago Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist ministers met Monday and condemned the title fight. They praised John Tain, only member of the South Park Board to vote against renting the stadium for the bout. Both Dempsey and Tunney announced they would do some boxing at night under lights between now and the fight in order to become accustomed to the glare they wil'. have to work with in the bout next week. Policy of the Tunney camp against public workouts and exclusion of reporters, reported over the week-end, either was revoked or amended. Another public workout also was promised at the Dempsey camp "as soon as the big boy gets right on the stufT he's working with.” A certified check for $1,450,000 was on deposit at a Chicago bank today as the "pay roll” for Tunney and Dempsey in their championship fight. This staggering sum, promoter Rickard announced, has been agreed upon by all those concerned in new contracts signed this week. It represents $1,000,000 for Tunney and $450,000 for the former champion. Tunney couldn't "practice” for the fight Monday "because of the heat” and the direction of his efforts today was uncertain. Jack hasn’t done any boxing either.

With Semi-Pros and Amateurs

Indianapolis Casting Company defeated Marengo, Ind., Sunday, 10 to 0. Tuxedo Strollers defeated Dodge Motors Sunday, 10 to 3. Brody Wysong, pitching for the winners, struck out fourteen men. Fielding and hlttvng of George Wysong also featured. Strollers desire a game for Sunday to be played at Brookside. Call Tommy Dobson, Irvington 0126-M. QUINCY, Ind.. Sept. 13.—Quincy Ramblers won their twelfth victory of the season Sunday defeating Romona. 19 to 5. Next Sunday the Ramblers will play Cloverda,e and Eminence in a doubleheader here. Indianapolis Triangles will practice tonight at Garfield Park. Triangles have an open date Sept. 25. Write 18 E. Orange 3t„ or call Drexel 6664. Manager of the Universal is requested to call the above number. After a bad first inning the ThirtyFourth St. Giants settled dtwn and defeated Lebanon, 6 to 2. Maddux fanned nine Lebanon batters. Elmer Cassady, Ayrea and Carter featured in the infield. Giants desires a game with the Riversides or St. Philips for Sept. 25. Call Randolph 0710. AMATEUR FOOTBALL • College Cub Flyers will hold a practice ecslon Wednesday night. Sept. 14. at Fall Creek and College Ave. All players and tryouts are requested to atttend. For games call R. J. Cadlck. Belmont 3763-J. 103 YALE GRIDDERS Hy United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 13. On* hundred and three candidates for the varsity eleven at Yale will report to Head Coach Tad Jones Thursday for the first workout of the year.

Twin Bill Scheduled for League-Leading Pirates and Braves. NEW YORK DROPS CUBS Rogers Hornsby Stars as McGrawmen Triumph. With Ownie Bush’s Pittsburgh Pirates out in front by two full games and pacing the National League pennant race, the Giants and Cardinals opened a series at St. Louis today with a double-header. The McGraw clan, on hand immediately after a crucial series with the fourth of the quartet of bunting chasers, the Cubs, arrived in the Mound City today and prepared to do battle with the world champs in anqther crucial series. With the Buccaneers setting the pace, the Giants and Cardinals kept

in step Monday while the Cubs were pushed down a peg by the New Yorkers. Ro g ers Hornsby was the big noise as the Gotham club squeezed home to a 7 to 5 victory. Charley Root started in the box for the Bruins, but was none too effective. Hornsby started the fireworks with a homer, his 24th

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of the season, in the second, and the Giants kept after the Chicago ace until he was jerked. Nehf and Bush also took a turn on McCarthy’s slab. Fred Fitzsimmons was nicked for sixteen bingles, but brilliant work on the part of Hornsby and Jackson helped him. The Cards and Giants were tied previous to today’s games, each with seventy-seven victories and fifty-five defeats. The Boston Braves opened a series with the Pirates at Pittsburgh today and a double-header was scheduled. Wilbert Robinson’s Brooklyn outfit was to play at Chicago while the Phillies and Reds were to clash at Cincinnati. Carmen Hill’s brilliant twirling and a home run by Glen Wright in the eighth gave the Pirates a 3-to-2 triumph over the Phillies. It was Hill’s twenty-first victory of the season. “Sunny Jim” Bottomley was the star in the Cards’ tilt with the Robins. His home run in the fifth with Holm on base gave the St. Louisans a 2-0 win. The Reds beat the Braves in a double-header, 6 to 4 and 3 to 0. Only one game was played in the American League. The Athletics won from the Tigers, 5 to 4. “Fat” Fothergill hit a homer for the Detroit club in the seventh.

1927 Football Captains

By XFA Kerries , COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 13. Quite versatile is this young Teddy “Truck” Meyers, captain of 1927 Ohio State eleven. Meyers, listed as a guard, has

seen service at every position on the line at Ohio State after having entered there from Cleveland as a promising back. He lacks a scant inch of being a six-footer and weighs, when down to playing con and i t ion, 180 pounds. Meyers will lead the Ohio State crew through pra cll cally the same schedule

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they played last year plus a game with Princeton. The schedule, however, pits the Buckeye eleven against Its five strongest opponents on successive Saturdays. The Cleveland youth will graduate this coming June. He is studying in the commerce school and intends being an accountant upon graduation. He is considered one of the best students in his school.

Fights and Fighters

TROY. N. Y.—Tony Vaccerelli. New York, defeated Paul Gulatto. Brooklyn, in twelve rounds. Vaccereill won ten of the twelve rounds, and in one of the other two held Gulatto even. PHILADELPHIA—Lou Tendler won decision from Sailor Darden. New York, ten rounds. Emory Cabana outpointed Johnny de Marco. Bucky Boyle. Allentown, won decision over Joey Hatfield, Const, ohocken. NEW YORK—Tom Heeney, New Zealand heavyweight, who fought a draw with Paolino recently, has been signed to meet the winner of the MonteMunn-George Godfrey fight, set for Wednesday night at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. CHICAGO—Howard Bents, Milwaukee, beat Haakon Hansen, Norway, in ten rounds. Earl Mastro, Chicago bantam, stopped Jackie Stewart, Louisville. Ky.. in the second round. Billv Light. St. Paul, beat Johnny Murphy. Chicago, six rounds. NEW YORK—Frankie Genaro, former flyweight champion, won the first match in his comeback to regain the title abdicated by Fidel La Barba by taking a tenround decision from Eddie Flank. TORONTO. Can.—Young Firpo. Louisville welterweight, defeated Doug Lewis, Toronto, ten rounds. NEW YORK—Jack Britton . former world’s welterweight chap, outpointed Irish Tommy Jordan, ten rounds. B. & O. LINKS EVENT By Times Special WAWASEE, Ind., Sept. 13.—Another golf classic has been added to Indiana events by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, the event to be played on the links of the Hotel Wawasee and Country Club. Announcement of this event and the donation of a handsome trophy comes from VicePresident Galloway of the B. and O. Premier play will be in 1928 and it will be an annual Wawasee affair. TRAINING QUARTERS Hy Times Special \ PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 13. Philadelphia Nationals will train at Winter Haven, Fla., in 1928, it was announced here.

DISCUSS GRID RULES Indiana Coaches and Officials Mtet and Talk Football. Torrid weather was forgotten here Monday night as more than fifty football coaches and officials gathered at the opening meeting of the Indiana Officials’ Association and discussed the forty-four changes in the 1927 rules over 1926. The changes and their interpretations by Big Ten coaches at Chicago were discussed. “Potsy” Clark, new coach at Butler; Pat Page and Zora Clevenger of Indiana; Pete Vaughan and “Gaumy” Neal ol Wabash; John Harmon, Evansville; P. B. Williams, Muncie; Ed Duggan and Griz Wagner, Franklin, and Heze Clark, Rose Poly, took active part in the discussions.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES '.

CHICAGO ALREADY' ‘FED UP ON TITLE SCRAP GLAMOUR Citizenry of Windy City Not Likely to Seek Another ‘Classic’; Fans Yelp About Seats.

BY HENRY L. FARRELL United Frew Stall Correapondent CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—With Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey approaching what the boys call the last lap of training for the world’s heavyweight championship fight, the customers today were beginning to be more persistent in their inquiries as to where and how they were going to be able to see the scrap. There is no lack of customers from S4O down. Tex Rickard, who

is permitting himself to sit back and let his Chicago associates “take the rap” from the mob, predicts he will have 150,000 customers in Soldiers’ Field. And he has figures penciled on a frayed envelope that look very much like $3,000,000. Rickard isn’t alarmed at the demands from his customers to know where their seats are located. The process of buying a ticket has been simply the motions of walking up to the v/indow, putting the money

on the line and taking what Is slipped under the fence. , “There always have been yells in every fight I ever staged,” Rickard said.” The concern being; manifested by the customers Is mindful of the football game last year between the Army and the Navy on the same field. Chicago’s commercial, social and professional leaders raised a mighty row because they couldn’t buy front row boxes unless they went to speculators. Prediction of Writers It was pointed out by Eastern writers when congressional influence was being exerted to get the cadets and the midshipmen out to the lake front for their annual battle that Chicago would be disappointed and would want no more of the nation’s greatest football spectacle. The same prediction is advanced

now about the business of prize fighting. Chicago will not want another heavyweight championship fight. The hotels and the eating places, of course, will profit from the crowd, but the citizenry of Chicago will be forced to take it on the jaw. m BOXERS LOSE PURSES Stribling and Deibel Expected to Sue for Omaha Money. By United Press OMAHA, Sept. 13.—John Hopkins, city commissioner, today announced the amount of the purse of the “Young” Stribling-Leo Deibel fight, stopped as “no contest,” would be turned over to charity. The fighters are expected to sue for the amounts guaranteed them in their bout of last Tuesday.

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Big Ten Coaches Find 'Joker*Rule By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Big Ten conference coaches probably will agree to disregard a “joker” in the revised football rules providing for putting the ball into play at the point of recovery on attempted backward passes under certain conditions. As the rule stands, a backward pass grounded behind a goal line and recovered by an opposing team would be a touchdown, it was pointed out. NEW YORK—Tommy White, holder of the lightweight and welterweight titles of Mexico, meets Andy DiVodi. west side Italian, In a ten-round bout at Queensboro stadium tonight.