Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1927 — Page 10

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PLAYING the FIELD With Billy Evans rpn VERY reform has its good and I 111 I bad features - I 1 Some years ago the pow-ers-that-be in baseball decided on a drastic change in the sharing of the world series receipts. It was

agreed that the first four , clubs would cut in on the melon. Prior to that shift, only the two pennant winning clubs, the real contenders, had any interest in how large the crowds might be. And, if the race was a lopsided affair such as the

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American League campaign has been this year, there was little or Incentive for the other clubs to going at top speed. It was hoped that the rule permitting the first division clubs to get a share, in keeping with their position, would make for continued effort on the part of all the clubs having a chance to finish inside the money. , Since finishing second ordinarily means about SI,OOO to each player and fourth place means about S3OO, it is easy to under stand why the athletes would battle for the money positions to the very end. mN tjhis respect, the rule has worked out fine. It has kept the teams with a chance on their toes while the clubs outside of the money seem to get a keen delight in knocking the others off. However, in another way, the rule has worked to the detriment of the best interests of the game. Ik has, in a sense, retarded the chances and development of the rookies. Since baseball is sadly in need of new material of merit, that angle is unfortunate. In the old days, when only the pennant-winning clubs had any interest in the gate receipts, the moment a club was mathematically out of the race for the flag, it began to experiment with most of the talent the scouts had picked up during the summer. It was not at all unusual for clubs to present an entirely new lineup during the me nth of September. The veteran stars, whose ability was well Jcnown to the manager, would be permittecf to sit on the bench, while the unknown, promising rookies would get a chance to perform. This system had two distinct advantages. First, it g ive the clubs a chance to get u good line on the minor league material purchased,. and second, it provided the fans with new faces, thereby keeping up interest. rr-TIOW it’s different. Even if a IN club ls deflnitel y out "° f the ULU race for first place but has a chance to finish in the first division, the rookies are just out of luck. Rather than throw in a bunch of youngsters, who might jeopardize the chances of finishing in the money, the manager of the clubs having such a chance, stick to their veteran line-up, while the recruits who have reported sit around for a month or less, as spectators. Os course, the new players are looked over in morning practice, but after all there ls no way one can get a better line on a player’s real value than seeing him perform in actual competition. The Washington club is one of the i few in recent years that ls experimenting with 'some of the youngsters on hand. Regardless of what effect it may have on where the club finishes, Manager Bucky Harris is throwing some of his promising young inflelders into the lineup. Drastic action is needed In the American League on this score. If the reign of the New York Yankees is to be halted, a number of clubs must start rebuilding at once.

BASEBALL CALENDAR

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won. Lost. Pet. Milwaukee 93 85 .582 Kansas City 93 65 .582 Toledo 92 67 .579 Minneapolis 86 73 .541 St. Paul 84 73 .535 INDIANAPOLIS 68 90 .430 Louisville 60 98 .380 Columbus 57 102 .358 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. N. York 104 42 ,712'CllicaRO.. 65 78 .455 Ph11a.... 84 58 .592 Cleveland 62 79 .440 Wash.... 75 66 ,532iSt. Louis 57 85 .401 Detroit.. 75 67 .528;805t0n... 47 94 .333 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Pittsb... 87 53 ,621|C1ncy.... 68 71 .489 N. York 84 59 ,587 Brklyn... 59 82 .418 St. Louis 83 59 .585.805t0n... 56 86 .394 Chicago. 80 63 .559!Ph11a 48 92 .343 . INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE * (Pinal) W. L. Pet I W. L. Pet. Buffalo.. 112 56 .667 Baltimore 85 82.509 Syracuse 102 66 .607 Rochester. 81 88 .485 Newark.. 90 77 ,539'lersey City 66 100 .398 Toronto.. 89 78 .533!leading . 43 123 .259 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus at INDIANAPOLIS. Toledo at Louisville. Minneapolis at Milwaukee. St. Paul at Kansas City. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at Boston. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Cleveland at Washington. Chicago at New York (played Sunday as part of double-header). NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. New York at Cincinnati. Boston at Chicago. Philadelphia at St. Louis. -t Yesterday’s Results AMERICAN ASSOCIATION {Tint Game) Toledo M 0 001 Mo—l 11 1 Columbus 001 000 01*—2 9 0 Barufs, O'Neill; Harris, Ferrell. (Second Oame) Toledo 000 050 000—5 1 0 Columbus 000 000 200—2 8 2 Palmero. Kevlng; Lyons, Bird. St. Paul 401 004 000-9 11 1 (Minneapolis ..../... 020 010 000 -3 6 2 Betts, Gaston; Malone, Hubbvll, Spring Milwaukee 000 000 001—1 6 2 Kansas City 000 022 00*—4 5 0 OrwoH, McMenemy; Zinn, Peters. AMERICAN LEAGUE (Ptrst Game) Ohieago 010 000 000—1 4 0 New York 001 001 00*—2 10 0 Thomas, Crouse; Plpgias, GrabowUL

Pittsburgh Apparently Has National League Bunting Cinched

Frantic Race Being Staged for A. A. Top Blues and Brewers Tied, With Hens Close Third; Zinn Shines. One week to go and the A. A. pennant race knotted! Fans of Kansas City and Milwaukee are about ready to submit to baseball insanity tests as Blues and Brewers struggle for an edge in the thrilling race to the wire. And the Toledo Hens, in third place, are cackling along only one and one-half games behind the pacemakers. By downing the Brewers at Kansas City Sunday, 4 to 1. making a sweep of the series of four games, the Blues went into a tie with Jack Lelivelts team for first place in Tom Hickey’s circuit. It was the climax of a great comeback staged by Dutch Zwilling’s pastimers after they had been knocked off the top perch during a slump of five games. An overflow crowd of 21,000 viewed the Milwaukee-K. C. fracas in Kawtown Sunday. Jimmy Zinn, Blue veteran, hurled a fancy article of ball, allowing six scattered hits, and made himself prominent at bat with a single that drove Jn two runs. Ossie Orwoll gave up only five hits to Kansas City) but walks and cracks in his defense ruff Ted him. And so the 1927 A. A. championship continues to remain in the balance, with Toledo standing a good chance to nose out in front if both Blues and Brewers slip. St. Paul invaded Kansas City today, Minneapolis was at Milwaukee and Casey Stengel’s Hens were in Louisville. Shortridge Beat by Dayton Team Ci/ Times Special DAYTON, Ohio, Sept- 19.—Stivers of Dayton proved too strong for the plucky Shortridge eleven, of Indianapolis here Saturday and chalked up a *2-to-0 victory over the Hoosiers. The thermometer was hovering at 94 and the intense heat proved a tremendous handicap to the gridders. Stivers scored in the second and last quarters.

Two Direct Fight Wires at Tomlinson Hall

Arrangements have been completed at ■'omlinson Hall whereby ringside returns by special wire will be received Thursday, giving all details of the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey battle at Chicago. In addition to a winning blow by blow account of the main go, preliminaries and sidelights will be announced. Asa safeguard against ftny possible hitch in wire service, two direct wires from Soldiers’ field in Chicago will be hooked up direct to the Tomlinson Hail stage. One of the features offered at the hall entertainment will be a good account of the Wiggins-Byrne battle, which is to be the semi-windup to the Dempsey-Tunney fight. Wiggins has been Tunney’s chief sparring partner and he has been matched against a worthy foe in Byrne, who gave Chuck an interesting scrap at Ft. Harrison early this summer.

(Second Game) Chicago 000 100 000—1 8 1 New Lyons, Cole, Crouse; Hoyt, Bengough. (Ten Innings) Cleveland 200 000 002 2—6 IS 2 Washington 021 000 100 o—4 12 9 Shaute, Grant, L. Sewell; Zachary, h berry, Braxton, Ruel. (Only games scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE (First Game) New York 000 000 000—0 3 1 Cincinnati 010 300 12*-7 11 1 Cantwell. Johnson. Walker, Taylor, Devormer; Lucas, Hargrave. (Second Game) New York 310 000 000—4 7 1 Cincinnati 000 000 200—2 10 1 Barnes, Taylor; J. May, Jablonowsk,, Piclnlch. (First Game) Philadelphia 210 000 000—3 7 1 St. Louis 200 100 31*—7 10 2 Scott, Jonnard: Alexander, Schulte. (Second Game) Philadelphia 011 000 001—3 11 4 St. Louis 000 103 31*—8 15 1 Perguson, Decatur, Wilson; Littlejohn, Schulte. Boston 003 100 403—11 18 2 Chicago 200 030 200— 7 10 5 Greenfield, R. Bmlth, Gibson; Blake, Welnert, Root, Hartnett. (Only games scheduled.)

Baseball Big Five

Babe Ruth hit Ills fifty-fourth home run of the season and a single out of seven times at bat Sunday. Lou Gehrig connected for a triple and single out of eight attempts. Hornsby’s only hit in five times was a single. Speaker failed to hit safely as a pinch hitter. Cobb was idle. Averages AB H PCT. HR Gehr.'g 552 208 .377 45 Cobb 481 175 .384 5 Hornsby 522 188 .360 . 24 Ruth 487 170 .374 54 Speaker 517 169 .327 2 EXHIBITION GAMES St. Louis, 8; Englewood (N. Y.) Stars, 8. New Haven Eastern League, 5; Detroit Americans, 3.

World Series Ducats Go on Sale at Pirate Offices. ♦ CRUCIAL SERIES NEAR Corsairs’ Clash With Giants Comes at End of Week. Bp United Press PITTSBURGH. Sept. 19.—The Pirates may not yet have won the National League pennant, but you can’t convince any one in this town they won’t. Even such a shrewd and cautious business man as Barney Dreyfuss, who owns the club, seems to think his team “is in.” Last week, when the Corsairs began their final drive pennantward, the office of the baseball club announced that no applications for world series tickets would be received, but today the word sent out: “Let them come.” 14 More to Play The Yankees have the American League pennant safely tucked away, and only a calamity can deprive the Pirates of the bunting of the senior circuit. They have fourteen more games to play, and they can win the pennant by taking nine, if the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals take all their remaining games. Should these two clubs, now in second and third place, respectively, win less than all their games, the Pirates will need less than nine more victories to bring the series to Forbes field. Reserved tickets are being sold on the theory that the world series will open here with two games, the three next being played in the Yankee stadium. The clubs will return here for the sixth game and any other games necessary to determine the outcome. Meet Giants Shortly With a four and one-half game lead and most of their hard games behind them, the Pirates apparently are unbeatable. The pitching staff has been working to perfection and the entire team has played championship ball. The crucial series will come at the end of this week when the Pirates meet the Giants in a series. If the Giants can shut Pittsburgh out, New York stands an excellent chance to win. The Pirates can expect an even break at least in their remaining games with Chicago, Cincinnati and Brooklyn, which should be sufficient to keep them ahead. The Giants could do no betted than divide a double-header with the Reds Sunday, losing the first game, 7 to 0, and winning the second, 4 to 2. Lucas held the Giants to three hits in the first game. In the second, the Giants avenged the defeat by turning on Jakie May. A two-game victory over the Phils advanced the Cards to within half a game of second place. Alexander limited Philadelphia to seven hits in the first game and won, 7 to 3. Littlejohn pitched the second game, and, although the Phils hit him hard, the Cards hit Ferguson and Decatur harder. The result was 8 to 3 in favor of St. Louis. Boston broke a fifteen-game losing streak by beating the Cubs, 11 to 7.

JIM JEFFRIES OF OPINION TUNNEY LACKS SNAP; GREAT ASSET IS MENTAL CONDITION

(EDITOR'S NOTE; This Is the first of a series of articles by James J. Jeffries, heavyweight champion of the world from 1899 to 1906. Jeffries’ article today deals with Gene Tunney. Tuesday he will discuss Dempsey’s condition and form. On the day of the fight Jeffries will tell his choice for the fight and his reasons. Jeffries’ articles are exclusive to The Times and other Scripps-Howard papers.) BY JAMES J. JEFFRIES (Copyright. 1927, by United Feature* Syndicate ( CEDAR CREST, 111., Sept. 19. After migrating out into the Wilderness, fifty miles from the bark of Chicago machine guns, to view the heavyweight ch&mpion, Gene Tunney, in training for defense of his title, I believe I am in posittion to judge his cqndition. I spent two days watching him go through his training activities, and if he works no harder than he did when I was present, there is no question in my mind but what he has not done enough hard work. It is just possible he has been doing some work in private. If he is as smart a man as I think he is, he must have. During the two days I watched him, his training activities consisted of four miles of road work in the morning, a lay-off until three o’clock, when he punched the light bag for two roufid (six minutes) and the heavy bag, one round. He then took on two sparring partners. The first one, a boy named Jackie Williams. Nobody seems to ever have heard of Jackie Williams. However, the fact AS is unknown did not stop him from giving the champion Just as much as he received. The one outstanding thing that Williams did was to prove to the large gallery that Tunney’s defense is not infallible. In doing this he used a straight left and right to Gene’s face to fine advantage, thereby bringing out the fact that Mr. Tunney is wide open lor a straight left-hand. Tunney is not as great a boxer as I expected to see. The other sparring partner—who reminds one more df a page boy than a fighter—did nothing to make the champion extend himself. It is my opinion that Tunney lacka, the snap he should have for such an important battle. And I believe that the small amount of work he has been doing is responsible for this lack of snap. Only One-Half I think Tunney has been doing just one-half the work ha should have don;. If his manager believes that Tunney can condition himself ' ■ • ", )

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Left to right: Worth, I Above are pictured three former Technical High School football stars who are leading candidates for line positions on this year's varsity at Butler. Coach Potsy Clark is elated over the showing of this trio as well as other local boys on the squad. For several years grid mentors

WITH LOCAL BOWLERS 1 "" "" By Lefty Lee

Two-out-of-three games ruled in the St. Philip Young Ladies' League, the Hausser, Withem, Galvin and Scheidegger girls taking the Rickhoff, Behler, Murphy and Brewer outfits. S. Huser had high single game and high three-game total. In the men’s league the Woods team was three-time victors over the Gehl boys while two-out-of-three was the Brewer limit' over the Michaelis crew. O. Mlcrraelis rolled best, having a total of 499 for three games. The Zone Accountants. Beech Grove. Piece Work and Beech Grove Loco won three games from the P. I. Claims, Brightwood Car and Car Service, while the Accountants. Brightwood Loco and .Local Agents Copped two-out-of-three from the Transportation. Beech Grove cars and Majestic in the Big Pour League games as Pritchett’s Recreation alleys. ‘'Flash'’ English was the big noise in this loop with games of 188, 203 and 200 for a total of 591. Despite unfavorable weather conditions last week, fifteen of the local bowlers turned in counts of better than 600; the great 699 of Jerry O’Grady taking down top honors. Goodhue had 632, Coval 630, Schutte 627, O’Grady 625, Conner 624, Mundt 619, Widner 617, Eder 614, Pritchett 613, Lando till, Sargent 606, Goodwin 605, Snyder 602 and W. Moxley 602. Jerry O’Grady has Issued a challenge to any bowler In the city for a match game on any alleys. Jerry surely is crashing the maples In fine style. Paul Kramer seems to think he ls In for a great year, for he already has Issued a challenge to any left-handed bowler In the State. This challenge seems to be personal and we will have to do something about it. Twenty games of better than 230

with that amount of work, he’s been kidding himself. Tunney, to my way of thinking, is in as good condition as he could possibly be, under his method of training. There are two things absolutely necessary to a champion. One is timing, the other is judgment of distance. Gene’s timing is fair but -could be better. His judgment of distance certainly is nothing to brag about. His footwork, is just fair and I saw none of the speedy shifting I have been told so much about. Several

Locals in Good 0 Start at Akron By Times Special AKRON, Ohio, 3ept. 19.—Second round games in the national industrial baseball tourney being staged here were to be played today. Power anc' Light of Indianapolis, defending champion, was not expected to play until Tuesday because of the failure of the Toledo team to report. The Hoosier aggregation encountered little trouble in its first game Saturday and romped to a 10-3 victory over the Scranton Lackawannas. Reno was in the box for the champs and allowed only seven hits. Reno also connected for two hits, a triple and a double. Hinkle and Kelly got three hits apiece for the winners. ORLEANS WINS PENNANT Pelicans Roll Up Big Lead in Taking Southern Association. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 19. A 6-to-3 victory over Mobile gave the New Orleans Pelicans a five and one-half game margin oyer Birmingham in winning the Southern Association pennant. Memphis was third and other clubs finished in this order: Nashville, Atlanta, Mobile, Chattanooga and Little Rock. ALBANY IS WINNER Bii Times Special NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 19. The Eastern League pennant for 1927 went to the Albany club which finished the season Sunday with a two and one-half game lead over Springfield. -

Bauermeister, Glunt. at Indiana colleges were forced to depend on students from smaller towns for much of their material. The situation is different now, however, with Indianapolis supplying its share. Football was resumed as p sport here seven years ago after being banned since 19 7 as a high school sport.

were turned in last week with the 257 of Jerry O’Grady topping the field. Charles Liebtag can be found most any time hiding behi id the Bowlers’ Journal. Charlie declares this is the greatest book published. Frank Hueber is so busy with the shinny stick he ls neglecting nls bowling, with the result his average looks like the skinny man In a circus. Eddie Hornberger is rolling a consistent game, shooting between 580 and 590 regularly. "Flash” Eng-ish waited too long last year to get started, with the result that some of nls "fish” were too hard to overtake. "Flash” says It will be different this year. , Outstanding scores among the women’s teams were the 2,454 total of the Nancy Hart girls. This team also had high singly game, a nice 865 in their second try. Mrs. Fulton was best among the individuals with high single game of 258 and high three-game total of 587.

Saturday Football

COLLEGES Virginia Military Institute. 87; Wofford, 0. HIGH SCHOOLS Stivers (Dayton), 12; Shortridge. 0. Emerson (Gary), 13; Llndblom (Chicago). 0. Horace Mann (Ganr), 13; Mishawaka. 13. Marion. 31; Peru. 0. Monticello, 18; Attica. 0. Frobel (Gary), 30; Plymouth, 0. Huntington. 7; Wabash, 6. South Bend, 25; Dowaglac (Mich.), 0. Elwood, 20; Morton (Richmond),.?. Goshen, 31: KendaUville, 0. La Porte. 19; Rochester, 13.

times, in his sparring match with Williams, good footwork would have taken him out of range of blows But he failed to deliver and consequently Williams hs nmered him before he could get away. As I see it the one great asset Tunney has is his mental condition A more confident champion never trained for a bout. I can’t help but think that his confidence is inspired by something more than he shows in his public workouts. As ' I have said before, I really believe that he has been doing some private training.

ICOMELLOS TAKE TITLE Cincinnati Wins National Amateur Crown With Twin Victory. By Times Special DETROIT, Sept. 19 —The national amateur baseball crown today rested with the Comellos of Cincinnati for the second consecutive year. The Cincinnati club downed the Kennedy Clothes team of Detroit in a double-header here Sunday, 7 to 5 and 7to 2. The two games were are final tilts of the tourney.

Major Homer Leaders

NATIONAL LfAGUE Wilson, Chicago, 27; Wiliams. Philadel--Bhla, 27; Hornsby. New York, 24; Terry. ’ew York. 19; Bottomlfy, St. Louis, 17; Harper. New York, 14: v/ebb. Chicago. 14; Herman, Brooklyn. 14; Haley, St. Louis, 13; Jackson. New York, 12. AMERICAN LEAGUE Ruth. New York. 54: Gehrig. New York. 15; Lazzerl. New York, 18; wlUlams. Sf. Louis. 17: Simmons. Philadelphia, 14; Goslin, Washington, 13; Cochrane, Philadelphia. 12. * GOLDEN GATE SWIM By Times Special SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19. Walter Spence, Brooklyn A. C., won the third annual Golden Gate swim here Sunday. Spence’s time for the mile and a quarter was 51 minutes, 9 seconds. PLITT TO GIANTS Bn Times Special BROOKLYN, N. Y., Sept. 19. Norman Plitt, Brooklyn twirler, has been secured by the New York 6iants over the waiver route. f SUNDAY STATE GAMES Universal, 8; TrlMigles. 2. Vincennes, 7: Mt. Carmel (Dl.), 8. Arkansas Travelers. 10; Edgewood, 8. Keystones, 4:. Nu-Grapes, 3. Merits. 16; Southeastern Cubs, 8. Boonville. 4: Rockport, 2. Betsy Ross (Connersvlile), 4; L. Strauss, I (twalva Innings)*

Indians Take on Senators at Home Lot Tribe Returns After Losing Entire Louisville Series; 1 A. A. End Nears. The belated effort of the Indians to leave a good taste in the mouths of Tribe followers got knocked a twister in Louisville, where the Colonels mopped up on the series of five games, and today the Hoosiers were home for their “last stand.” Ivy Wingo’s Columbus Senators were to open a round of battles with the Tribe at Washington Park this afternoon, and following the stay of the cellar Bucks, the Toledo Hens will perform here to wind up the A. A. campaign. The season closes next Sunday. Three Week-End Defeats The Betzelites lost in Louisville Saturday. 4 to 3, and in the Sunday double-header the Kentuckians annexed both contests, 12 to 11, ten innings, and 6 to 1, six innings, the night cap fracas being cut short by darkness. Koupal, Boone and Leverett pitched the first tilt Sunday, allowing 21 hits, while three Louisville hurlers. Moss. Friday and Deberry, permitted 18. It was an oldfashioned slugging bee and required two hours forty-seven minutes. Connolly led the Tribe attack with two doubles and a triple. Rifle, Ellis and Shannon each poled four hits for the victorious Colonels. Young Hurler Fails Gantz. a rookie twirler from Ohio, was bombarded by the Colonel’ in the second game Sunday and gave way to 3wetonic. Koob hurled for the winners. In this contest Ellis *,nd Riffe of Louisville belted out three hits, giving them seven for the afternoon. The opener Sunday was a scream, for. in addition to thiity-nine hits being made, twelve errors were chalked up, seven agamst Indianapolis and five against Louisville. 15 Colonel Victories During the season’s campaign, club and club battles, Louisville downed the Indians fifteen times out of twenty-four clashes. Paid attendance at Louisville Sunday was 3,493. During this last week of action starting at Washington .Park this afternoon, Manager Betzel will trot out his rookies at different times to give the fans a slant at some of the boys who will strive for Tribe berths next spring. La Coste Again Wins U. S. Title Bp Times Special NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—The fact that William T. Tilden, former king of the tennis world, rapidly is declining, was brought home to even the mosts optimistic of tennis followers here Saturday with the crushing defeat handed the Philadelphian by Rene Ls. Coste in the final match for the national singles championship. The French ace successfully defended his ’iitle, won in 1926, by the scores of 11-9, 6-3, 11-9.

The secret of holding a championship—and that goes for Tunney or any other # champion—may be summed up in four words—hard work, clean living. Tunney certainly exemplifies clean living. As for hard work, I think Tunney is capable of it but there is a question in my mind as to whether he has been doing it. I don’t believe Tunney is deserving St all the trick names heaped upen im. He is a better fighter than he is given credit for. It will take a corking good man to beat him. Whether Demps *y is that man, the night of Sept. 22 will decide.

City Net League to Meet Tonight Members of the City Basketball League will meet at 6 tonight at the Hoosier Athletic Club. The league last season was composed of six teams, Diamond Chain. Hoosier A. C., Big Four, Pennsylvania, Stutz and Power and Light. Power and Light is the only club which has decided to withdraw. Astrong teahi has been formed from the companies at Ft. Harrison to fill the open berth. Officers of the league are to be elected tonight. LOCAL DRIVERS ThINE Louie Schneider Cops Two Firsts at Roby Track. By Times Special CHICAGO. Sept. 19.—IndiaChapolis auto pilots were much in the limelight at the Roby speedway here Sunday. Louie Schneider won both stock car and non-stock car fifty-mile races. He drove an Auburn 8-88 in the stock car race and his Mfiler in the regular event. Wilbur Shayfc Indianapolis, wai second in the non-stock car event with a Frontensc. Dutch Bauman, Indianapolis, led the first twelve miles 8f the race, but was forced out with motor trouble.

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At Louisville Sunday

FIRST GAME INDIANAPOLIS AB R H O A E Matthews, cf 6 12 1 1 2 Haney. 2b 6 2 2 2 3 0 Layne, ls 5 3 2 2 1 1 Ensor, rs 5 1 2 1 0 0 Holke, lb 5 1 3 4 1 2 Miller. 2b 5 113 2 1 Connolly, ss 5 1 3 4 3 0 Tesmer, c 4 1 1 9 3 1 Koupal. p 2 0 0 0 1 0 Boone, P 2 0 1 1 0 0 Leverette, p 1 0 1 0 0 0 Totals 46 11 18 *27 15 7 LOUISVILLE . AB R H O A E Riffe. cf ~..6 2 4 3 1 1 Sicking, 2b., 5 4 2 5 2 2 Ni chand, ls 5 0 2 1 1 3 Eiiis. rs 5 2 4 3 1 1 Shannon, ss p 1 4 1 5 0 Cross, lb 6 0 1 11 O. 1 Funk. 3b 4 0 112 0 Mever. c 3 1112 0 McMullen, c... 1 1 0 4 1 0 Moss, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 Friday, p 0 0 0 0 0 8 Deberry, p... 1 0 1 0 0 0 Lewan 1 o o o 0 o Tincup 1110 0 0 Totals 46 12 21 30 15 5 *Funk out. hit by batted ball, and one cut when winning run was scored. Lewan batted lor Meyer in seventh. Tincup batted for Friday in eißhth. Indianapolis 200 005 120 I—ll Louisville 101 041 030 2—12 Two-base hits —Haney. Connolly (2), Enger. Nachar.d, Ellis. Shannon. Tiiicup, Tesmer. Three-base hit—Connolly. Sacrifice hits—Sickinß. Tesmer. Shannon. Left on bases—lndianapolis, 7; Louisville, 11. Bases on balls—Off Moss. 2; off Boone, 3. Struck out—By Koupal, 4; by Deberry, 1; by Friday. 1: by Boone. 1; by Leverette. 2. Hits —Off Koupal. 12 in 4‘ 2 innings: eff Moss, 12 in 7 innings (pitched to two in eighth); off Boone. 4 in 2 1-3 innings (pitched to four in eighth): off Friday, 2 In 1 inning. Umpires—Goetz and Johnson. Time—--2:47. r SECOND GAME. INDIANAPOLIS. „ . ""AB R H O A E Matthews, cf 3 1 0 0 1 0 Raney. 3b 3 0. 2 2 2 0 Layne. ls 2 o l l o o Enger, rs 3 0 110 0 Holke. lb 2 0 0 4 0 0 Miller 3b 3 0 0 1 1 0 Connolly ss 2 0 0 1 0 0 Tesmer. c 2 0 1 5 1 0 Gantz. p i o 0 0 0 0 Swetonlc. p .1 o 1 0 1 0 Corl i o 0 0 0 0 Totals 23 .1 ~6 15 6 ~0 Corl batted for Hoike In sixth LOUIBVILLE. , ABRHOAE Riffe, cf ....3 0 3 1 0 0 Sicking 2b 3 2 2 1 1 o Nachand. ls 2 1 1 l n n' fM*. rr ::::: 313108 Shannon, ss .. 3 1 2 33 0 Cross, lb 3 0 l jo o 0 f>nk. „3b 2 0 0 0 1 0 McMullen, c 2 1 01 o 0 Koob. p ... l o 0 0 1 0 Totals 22 6 12 18 0 1) (Six Innings; darkness.) Indianapolis ioo OHO—O Louisville 105 00*—6 Two-Oase lilts-Sicking. Ellis. Shannon (2 1. Cross. Sacrifice hits—Nachand. Koob Layne. Double play-Koob to Sicking to tl°5 s ' on bases— Indianapolis, 5; Louisville 3. Base on balls—Off Koob. 1. Struck out—By Koob. I; bv Gantz r by Swetonlc. 2. Hits—Off Gantz. 9 lti J Losing Ditcher—Gantz. Umpires—Johnson and Goetb. Time—l.oo.

City Golf

Don Morrison Sunday scored a hole in one at the eighth hole at the Highland course. Morrison’s drive took two bounces, hit the flag stick and dropped into the hole. Morrison’s score for the eighteen was 103. Paul Shaffer was the first to enter the semi-finals of the Highland Club championship tourney by debating Frank Kissell, 2 and 1, Sunday. The other six quarter-finalists are eHurt. Umphrey, Diddel, Williams, Tuite and Binford. Bernie Lehman will meet Ferd Meyer for the Broadmoor Club title. Lehman entered the finals by beating Charles Raugh, 2 and 1. Roy Robertson wo nthe Avalon Club championship by downing Herman Seilken in the final match.

Amateur Note**

Assumption A. C.s will hold an Important meeting at 7 u. m. Wednesday. All players are requested to attend. Tuxedo Strollers are without a game for Sunday and desire to hear from a fast city or State club. Call Tommy Dobson. Irvington $126-M. Christamore A. C.s are organizing a basketball team. William Beers has requested the following men to report at 7 p. m. Wednesday at the gym: Carl Johnson. Prank Kersev. Joe Sherman. Lon McClelland. John Black and Oscar Jines. Spades football team, playing in the 55-60-pour.d class, desires a game for Sunday. Any team interested call Earl Washburn. Main 4777. during the day. MILLERS, SAINTS EVEN By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 19.—8 y winning from Minneapolis, 9 to 3 Sunday, St. Paul squared the twen-ty-four game 1927 series between the Twin City rivals. The game was the finest contest between the teams thi sseason. Betts held the Millers to six scattered hits. MULE FOR MASCOT. A mule is mascot for the racing stable of E. B. McLean, Washington, D. C. a The Phillies now have with them a rookie hurler, named Boots Alter, from Augusta in the Sally League.

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Mud-Slinging Is Started by Ex-Champion • i Dempsey Intimates Shady Happenings Before Fight at Sesqui Bowl. BY C. C. NICOLET Untied Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. Sept. 19.—The good old cry of “grudge fight” arose today over the heavyweight championship fistic engagement scheduled for next Thursday night. Certain Dempsey-Tunney cone- ‘ spondence published today created a mild furore. Its first result was to make a hopeful public belieye that after all, Jack and Gene might be as interested in knocking each other cold as in the $450,000 and $1,000,000 purses, respectively, they will receive for their public services. Opportune Tir The letters came at an opportune moment when many fight fans were complaining loudly of the too-gen-tlemanly air of sportsmanship which seemed to be surrounding the title dispute, and when Tex Rickard’s tickets were reported to be selling less speedily than he had expected. The expensive seats were sold out days ago, according to official announcement, but it. was admitted the $5, $lO and S2O seats were not in great demand. Dempsey’s letter intimated some fixing happened in Philadelphia just before Tunney won the championship in a ten-round decision fight. The letter said the then champion “was tipped off before I got into Philadelphia that night that ‘there's something phony’ about this fight.” Political “Pull” “I was told,” it continued, “sohiebody with some sort of political power—or power in boxing affairs —in Philadelphia—was going to see to it a referee and ,one of the judges would be in there to assist you; if we were both on our feet at the end of the tenth, I’d lose the decision.” The letter hastened to say that a last-minute shift in referees had put Tommy Reilly in as the third man. “I never fought with a man in the ring better or cleaner than Reilly,” the letter said. “You (Tunney) whipped me fairly and squarely that night. I’ll give you credit for giving me the worst beating anybody ever handed me in my lifetime. But since I’ve wondered what would have happened if I had decisively outpointed you and if the first referee I! heard named as the official for-that fight had been in there.” Clause In Contract The letter referred tq alleged conferences between Tunney, Ab Attell, gambler, and Gibson, Tunney’s manager, and took up the alleged “contract involving Hoff, Gibson and yourself.” The document, the letter said, “stated in substance, Gibson borrowed $20,000 from Maxie Hoff, and that Gibson agreed to pay the $20,000 and nothing else —if you did not win the fight. But it contained a peculiar clause to the effect if you won the fight, Gibson was to pay back Hoff $20,000 and, as a sort of bonus or something like that, that you were to give Hoff 20 per cent of all your earnings as champion. Can’t we have a little explanation about this?” Tunney’s reply, in full, was: “My Dear Dempsey: “Your so-called open letter to me was brought to my attention. While my reaction is to ignore it and it3 evident trash completely, yet I cannot resist saying I consider it a very cheap appeal for public sympathy. Do you think this sportsmanlike?'* (Signed) “GENE TUNNEY.

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