Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1927 — Page 23

SEPT. 23,1927

( Sf. Louis Cardinals Move Up to Menace Pirates in National Race

Mound City Nine Only Three Games Behind in Flag Battle. N. Y. GIANTS THIRD Thursday Twin Bill at Pittsburgh Is Split. The world champion! St. Louis Cardinals appeared today to be a real menace to the pennant aspirations of the Pittsburgh Pirates ap a result of Thursday’s National League games. St. Louis displaced New York as runner-up to Pittsburgh, three games behind the leaders, by defeating the second division Boston Braves, 6-5, while the Pirates and the Giants were splitting a doubleheader at Pittsburgh. Ray Kremer hurled the Pirates to an impressive 5 to 2 victory over the Giants in the first game. Fitzsimmons did the same thing for the Giants in the second, defeating Pittsburgh, 7-1. The Giants-Pirates double-header was featured by Rogers Hornsby’s twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth homers of the season, one in each game. The Cardinals dropped the Brav33 Thursday by a two-run ninth inning rally. Haines and Sherdei held the Braves to seven hits. Hack Wilson’s homer contributed to the Cubs’ 8 to 4 victory over the Phillies. The Cincinnati Reds took tw> games from the Brooklyn Robins, 2-1 and 4-3. The first game went twelve ininngs and was a pitchers’ duel between Petty and Luque. The latter held the Robins to five hits. The Yankees tied the high game record for a single season by winning their 105th game. They defeated Detroit, 8-7. Babe ‘Eiuth's fifty-sixth home run of the year, bringing him within three of his record, was the deciding factor. It came in the ninth with Koenig on base. % " The Athletics virtually clinched second place by caking a doubleheader from Cleveland, 4-3, 5-2. The first game went thirteen innings. Boston de/eited Chicago, 2-1, in len innings and Washington defeated the Browns, 10-7. Week-End Event at South Grove . An invitational tournament open po men and women players will be fitted at the South Grove golf links this week-end. Mrs. A. L. Roy, in cl rgc of the event, said the meet will be eighteen holes, play allowed either Saturday or Sunday and that a lar;;e list of fine prizes donated by local sporting goods houses are at stake. A 50 cent entry fee will be charged, the receipts to go to the South Grove Women’s Club benefit. Players from any club are eligible to compete.

Baseball Big Five

Babe Ruth’s fifty-sixth home run was hit in five times at bat, but it won the game from the Tigers. Ruth must average a homer every other game from now until the end of the ■season in order to tie his 1921 record of 59. • Gehrig hit a triple and a single out of four times up. Hornsby crashed out his twentyfifth and twenty-sixth home runs of the season and two singles out of eight attempts! Tris Speaker failed to hit safely in a pinch hitter’s role. Cobb was idle. —Averages—- „ AB. H. Pet. H.. Oehrtr 560 213 .380 46 Hornsby 535 194 .363 26 Cobb 487 175 .359 5 Ruth 497 174 .350 66 Speaker 518 169 .327 2 JASPER COLLEGE GRID 'To Open With Bosse Saturday— Nine Games Scheduled. By Time*-Special JASPER, Ind., Sept. 23.—Jasper College will open its football season .Saturday at Evansville, where the local eleven will play the Bosse High School team. The locals expect a hard fight. Nine games have been scheduled for Jasper. The schedule: Sept. 34. Bosse (Evansville) .there; Oct. 2. Hunttngburg H. S., here: Oct. 8, Central (Evansville), here; Oct. 15, Bloomington. here- Oct. 22, Spencerian College (Louisville), here; Oct. 29, Kentucky Mtfltanr Academy, there: Nov. 6, Reitz (Evans&uM? u thW. herc: ‘HE’S A REAL Says Commandant of United States Corps After Gene’s Victory. B:< United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—“Tunney is a real Marine; I’m proud of him,’’ said MaJ. Gen. Le Jeune, commandant of the United States Marine jporps. today. “He showed the old Marine spirit, refusing to be licked after Dempsey dropped him for a nine count.” Tunney was a Marine sergeant during the war and now is a first lieutenant in the Marine reserves.

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ROSE OPENS GRID SEASON; OTHER STATE TILTS BILLED College Football Action Opens Over Indiana; Butler Meets Muncie Normal Here Saturday.

College football started to become prominent today, awaiting only the end of the baseball world's series to rule unchallenged the sport world for the fall seasonHere and thete high schools over the state have already played early season games. This week-end finds most of the secondary colleges in action. Purdue, Indiana, Notre Dame, De Pauw and some others, however, do not swing into action until next week. Today, Rose Poly and Vincennes met at Terre Haute. Coach Heze Clark of the Engineers is trying the Friday game idea with * hopes of interesting stronger support. High School Tilts In the high school circles, two Indianapolis teams were in action today. Technical and El wood played a high school “Big Ten” game at Elwood. Shortridge met Lebanon in the second game of the season for the Blue and White. Shortridge lost a hard fought battle to Stivers high at Dayton, Ohio, last Saturday, 12-0. Butler University swings into action Saturday for its first game under the new leadership of Athletic Director George (Potsy) Clark. They meet the strong Ball Teachers College team of Muncie. Reports from

THE BREAKS OF THE GAME

By JOE WILLIAMS Sports Editor, New York Telegram CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Dempsey admittedly got a frightful break as the boys call it, when he scored a legitimate knockout, Thursday night, as knockouts are measured in clock ticks, yet was a loser in the end. It was reminiscent of the first round at Toledo against Jess Willard, when Dempsey won the championship. He had Willard on the floor, the referee was Ollie Pecord. Willard toppled on one side of the ring and Pecord at the time was on the other. Instead of counting when Willard fell, Pecord waited until he hao crossed the ring where the stricken fighter lay before going into the mathematics. Three or four seconds were lost and Dempsey was deprived

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Bu Time Bvecial KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 23.—When the American Legion football team opens its season here Sunday, one of the strong powers in the line-up will be “Big Boy” Cecil, former Butler College star. Cecil will be expected to tear holes in the Waba A. A. line. Cecil will not be the only former Butler player in the local lineup, as the management has “Big” Duttenhaver back at center, Abe Thatcher, “Dog” Summers and others on trial. Other stars in the line-up are “Gaumma” Neale, Wabash College assistant coach; Bernoske, former Indiana star; Harmeson of Purdue, and Jack Singleton of Wabash.

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Camp Crosley, where the Teachers have been in training for two weeks, are that the future school masters are very strong this season. N. A. Wann is coach. Butler is conceded a 12 to 15-point victory. The contest will be staged at Irwin Field here, starting at 2:30. Danville at Wabash Wabash and Danville Normal College meet at Crawfordsville Saturday. Meager dope rolls out of the Little Giant camp about early practice, but such news means Coach Pete Vaughan is probably well satisfied with his prospects. Russell Cook, during the past few seasons, developed' unexpected power in his teams at Danville, and upset some of the leaders. No doubt the craftv Pete will watch them Teachers Saturday. Franklin and Indiana Central clash Saturday at Franklin in their usual early season game. The Baptists, again under the leadership of Eddie Duggan, are not expecting any trouble from the “Greyhounds” who are under anew coach, Harry Good. Hanover, also under new athletic directorship and football coaching, travels over to Oxford, Ohio, Saturday to meet Miami University. Miami, always a strong team, probably will defeat the “Hilltoppers.”

of a legitimate first-round knock out. But, the breaks have not always gone against Dempsey. He had them with him in the Firpo fight, when, contrary to the New York rules, he stood directly over the Wil# Bull, following a knockdown, instead of going to a neutral corner, and socked him the moment his hi nds and knees were off the canvas. And as much as I admire Dempsey as a fighter and like him as a man, I feel he got most of the breaks in the Jack Sharkey fight two months ago when the referee, lacking either keen eyesight or courage, or both, failed to curb his low hitting. A year ago at Philadelphia- the fourth round was the big round of the fight. This was the round in which Dempsey had Tunney on the ropes poised for a knockout punch, but was too sluggish mentally and physically to run in for the kill. For a while it looked as if the fourth round Thursday night would be the “devil” round, and w* iV > Tunney doing the deviling. In this round the champion had Dempsey dizzy from a persistent one-two attack to the head. Dempsey appeared in greater distress than Tunney was last September. The bell saved Dempsey from a lot of embarrassment. This was one break that went against Tunney. The round was nearly over when he unleashed his offensive, or rather when his offensive began to take effect. Had it developed earlier In the round Dempsey might have had trouble keeping on his feet. Tunney seemed uncommonly sure of himself in this flare-up and was exhibiting a savagery not wholly like him. It is reasonable to presume that if he had gotten to Dempsey in the first few seconds of the round instead of the closing seconds he might have flattened him. But to offset this one unfavorable break Tunney got two that were extremely helpful. One was Dempsey’s failure to go to a neutral corner following the knockdown. The other, and equally important, was the fact he was knocked down close to the ropes. Had the knock down occured in mid-ring I doubt that the champion would have been able to regain his feet within twenty seconds. Being close to the ropes he was able to

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Norman G. Wann Coach Wann of Ball Teachers’ College football squad is said to have his grid pastimers in extra good shape for the battle with Butler at Irwin Field here Saturday afternoon. The Muncie warriors worked out at Camp Crosley for two weeks tuning up for the season’s opener, and Butler is reported to be worried to some extent over the outcome of the tilt. For that reason the grid fans of Indian,ipolis exper t to see an ”.n----usually hard tussl ? for an opener. Kick-off time is set at 2:30.

use them as a ladder—and gentlemen— you can take It from me, he needed a ladder. It is a pleasure to report, for once, that there was nothing unsavory about the fight in any respect. From the standpoint of imputed “sordidness” the victory of Tunney was a tonic to the game. Dempsey is the greatest box office magnet in the history of boxing. On four different occasions he has lured more than a million dollars through the turnstiles. He was the card, not Tunney, Thursday night, when the gate broke all records. Had he won and had the circumstances been even slightly off color the game would have suffered a terrific body blow. There were many rumors in advance he was to win; that he was being managed by Tex Rickard; that he was too valuable a card to pass Into the discard; that it was all arranged for him to come back as champion and defend the title a year later against Tunney in London. Luckily the conduct ot the fight proved all these rumors baseless. Here was no edge for Dempsey at any turn. On the contrary, the edge, if any, was all against him. GERKEN IS STAR MILWAUKEE, Sept. 23.—Milwaukee stayed a game ahead of Toledo by beating Minneapolis, 7 to 3, Tuesday. Orwoll permitted only tw>- hits In the first six innings, but was touched for five more in the last three. Gerken led the Brewer hitting with three hits.

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Wiggins Among Prelim Winners B CHIC 23.—Six preliminary bouts of six rounds each were scheduled with the Tunney-Demp-sey fight, although two of them were fought after the main event, all were heavyweights. The results were: Big Boy Peterson, New Orleans, won a decision from Johnny Gross, New York. Chuck Wiggins. Indianapolis, won a decision from Jimmy Byrne, Louisville. George Manley, Denver, won a decision from Yale Okun, New York. Billy Vidabeok, Bayonne, N. J., won a decision over Jack McCann, St. Paul. Armand Emmanuel, San Francisco, won a decision over George Larocco, New York. Martin Burke, New Orleans, won a decision from Benny Krueger, Germany.

Line-Ups for Irwin Field Fray

SATURDAY, 2:30 Muncie. Butler. Thurston (178) L. E • •.•Paul <}§' Wiggins (220) L. T Haggard (173) Shively (175) L. 3..Bauermelster (169( Leaky (195) C Floyd (174) Houston 1190) R. O Hedden (193) Blake (185) R. T Walker (160) R. E Oeisert (167) 3himm (155* Q ..Meeker (168) Shuler (165) L.H. P™ 1 ”} 1 , 111 }}? Toler (160* R.H -Collier Liggett (165) -P Watford (176) Officials—Referee, Morrison, (Kansas); umpire, Hslvte (Valparaiso): head linesman, Julius (Indiana).

CHAMPION OUTPOINTED

By United Pre*3 BOSTON, Sept. 23.—Johnny Indrisano, East Boston, easily won the decision over Joe Dundee, Baltimore, world’s welterweight champion, in a ten-round bout here Thursday night. The title was not at stake, both fighters weighing in over the 147pound welter limit. Each weighed 148. GEHRIG SMASHES MARK By United Prei NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Lou Gehrig smashed one of Babe Ruth’s marks Thursday. He established a new record for runs driven In when .ie tripled in the first inning against the Tigers, scoring Combs. He later added another run to his credit when he singled in the third, scoring Koenig. It was the 172nd run credited to Gehrig this season. The best previous mark was 170, set by Ruth in 1921. ‘VINNIE’ ACCEPTS OFFER Bu United Pre NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Vincent Richards, former Davis cup player who turned professional at the close of the 1926 season, has accepted an invitation from a Japanese newspaper to visit Japan and stimulate interest in tennis by coaching some of the promising Japanese youngsters and giving demonstrations. Richards, accompanied by Mrs. Richards, will leave New York for San Francisco Saturday, and will I sail aboard the steamship President I McKinley, Oct. 4.

He Was Referee of Title Go

Here Is Dave Barry, the man who refereed the Dempsey-Tunney championship fight in Chicago Thursday night. He was selected just a few momenta before the battle. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Crystal Pennant, Pineland stable’s 3-year-old, came in ahead in the Stony Brook claiming stakes and won $3,175 for his owners In one of the racing upsets of the season.

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