Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1928 — Page 10

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P laying the P ield

SWITH BILL! EVANS 1

* / T'HE Yanks arc coining! The x Yanks are coming!” So ran the opening words of a popular song written some ten years ago by George M. Cohan. The late President Wilson said no one other influence did as much to keep up the morale of the Amer-

ican soldiers in the World War as the inspiring Cohan tune. '‘The Yanks arc going! The Yanks are going!” Those are the words of anew song American League players other than New York are now chanting. Music and words have

been inspired by the terrible showing the Yankees made in the spring training games through Florida. Major and minor league clubs kicked the Yanks around in a most unceremonial manner. Probably no major league club ever made a more sorry showing in pre-season exhibition games. The admitted greatness of the Yanks has made this reversal of form all the more surprising. tt a a While it would be a great thing for the American League race if it were true that the Yanks were going, I will have to have more conclusive proof than the mere inability of the club to win in the South. tt tt tt

THOSE familiar with the New York club know that despite its greatness the Yanks are a careless team. To them the winning of exhibition games means less than any other club in the majors. A great many of the veteran stars are inclined to be nonchalant m the spring merely taking the games as a workout rather than inter-league battles. For that reason, if there was no other one, the atrocious showing the Yanks have made in Florida shouldn’t be taken too seriously. In some way I would prefer to see the Yankees mowing down the opposition in the south without exerting themselves. Such a showing would have a tendency to make the club even more careless and breed overconfidence. tt tt tt I fear that about Wednesday the Yankees will resume their winning ways and a month later will be going at top speed, showing the way in the American League by a comfortable margin. tt tt tt THOSE who are inclined to believe that New York will have difficulty in repeating offer these reasons for such a belief: A catching staff that is none too strong and contains several “ifs as to whether it will be as good as last season. The fact that all the veterans are just one year older than- last season and it is known that added age doesn’t help the old-timers. The belief that Pennock and Hoyt will not be as effective as last season. The hope, as well as the belief, that neither Ruth nor Gehrig can be any better at the bat than last season. It is contrary to all precedent to think they will be more troublesome at the bat. Each had a banner year. The opinion that two successive pennants with the attendant prosperity may cause the club to lose some of the enthusiasm always so helpful in putting over a pennant winner. tt tt tt Tossibly (he Yanks are not going to run over the field as they did last year, but I can't win myself over to the belief that the Yanks are going, based merely on spring training results. AWAIT GOOD CONDITIONS Hough Beach Monday Forces Postponement of Attempt for Record. r.H Vvital Press DAYTONA BEACH. Fla.. April 10. —Two racing cars w'ere here today, awaiting favorable beach conditions for attempts to set new world’s speed records. A rough beach Monday forced postponement of Ray Keech’s attempt to lower the speed record *in J. M. White's 36-cylinder racer.

NEGRO PUGS READY Fighters on Thursday Night Card Tune Up for Scraps. Light workouts, shadow boxing and general tuning up was today's program of the boxers who will park • ticipate in the all-Negro fistic show Hkfiyromlinson Hall Thursday night, complete card: Calloway vs. Gcoraie Smith, ten Hannibal vs. Batt'.inn Randolph, rounds. kgjpMHl Sunshine vs. Buddy Bov Swanasan. oUn Lcwi.s vs. Sonny Oliver, four VSj Mickey Dillard vs. Kid Owens, four VaK'Ounds. ¥ AGAINST CENTER JUMP Officials’ Association Lines Up With Sam Barry’s Proposal. k CHICAGO. April 10.—President \ John B. Kelly of the Athletic Ofli- \ rials’ Association, today placed his 'organization on record in support of the elimination of the center jump in basketball, proposed by Sam Barry, head basketball coach at University of lowa.

Down Through the Years

PREVIOUS A. A. WINNERS 1302—Indianapolis 1915—Minneapolis 1903 St. Paul 1916—Louisville 1904 St. Paul 1917—Indianapolis 1905 Columbus 1918—Kansas City 1906 Columbus 1919—St. Paul 1907 Columbus 1920—St. Paul 1908— Indianapolis 1921—Louisville 1909 Louisville 1922—St. Paul 1910— Minneapo'is 1923—Kansas City 1911— Minneapolis 1924- St. Paul 1912 Minneapolis 1925—Louisville 1913 Milwaukee 1926—Louisville 1914 Milwaukee 1927 —Toledo

First Big League Tilt Carded at Washington; Red Sox vs. Senators

Weather Forecast Unfavorable as A, L. Teams Prepare for Action. MAY DELAY CEREMONIES Remainder of Major Clubs Open Wednesday. B.u t nilal Press WASHINGTON, April 10.—Rain threatened postponement of major league baseball's formal season opener here today. Bucketfuls of icy drizzle were dropping from the skies before and shortly after dawn, and the weather man’s continued forecast was ‘‘rain and cold.”

Officials of the Senators and Red Sox were to confer at 2 p. m. to decide whether the game scheduled for 3 p. m. would be played. If not, the season's opening would be deferred until Wednesday with all major league clubs getting into the fray simultanoeusly, including Washington at Boston. Postponement would mean a shifting in plans for thousands, ineludi ing sundry grandmothers and com--1 panionate hot dogs and peanuts that are expected to perish for the benefit of small boys today. It would mean, also, that President Coolidge would have to keep his arm limbered up for ten days more to make the ‘‘first pitch." stamping the season as ‘‘official.” Today’s game was arranged a dayearlier than the opening elsewhere so that the President would throw the starting ball. If the game fell through, “opening ceremonies” probably would be starred here April 20. with Boston still Washington’s opponent. lOWA NINE WINS r.n l'u iivii i’n .*< ST. LOUIS, April 10.—University of lowa defeated University of St. Louis, 3 to 2, in a baseball game Monday.

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Marmon Enters Two Racing Cars in 500-Mile Speedway Classic Earl Cooper to Captain Team: Cars Constructed at Local Plant: Front-Wheel Drives.

Two Marmon speedsters have been entered in the sixteenth internatioal 500-mile classic at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway May--30. it was announced today. The two special “hurry-buggies” which will vie for the highest motor racing honors of the year on the local Purdue Defeats De Pauw Outfit IJ)/ Ti.ms Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 10.—I Purdue made a clean sweep of its 1 series with DePauw by nosing out the Tigers. 9 to 8, in the last of ; three games here Monday. The teams were handicapped somewha: by poor weather. Harmeson and Eickman starred at the bat for the locals. Wabash was to meet the Boilermakers here today. Payne Holds to One-Hour Lead P.n Uni ltd l'iras SAYRE, Okla., April 10.—Andrew Payne. Claremore, Okla., held a time lead of slightly more than one hour over his nearest rival, Peter Gavuzzi, England, when contestants in C. C. Pyle’s cross-continent foot derby left here today for Clinton, fifty-one miles distant. Gavuzzi gained more than an hour on Payne Monday by winning the 32.2 mile lap from Texola in 3:53.30. TOO MUCH FOR MUNN Stasiak Gets Toe Hold and Wayne Quits Bout h\ii I iiiti'd Prow KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 10.— Wayne “Big” 'Munn, Nebraska heavyweight wrestler, was thrown by Stanley Stasiak with a toe hold and refused to continue his scheduled finish match, at Convention hall. They wrestled 41 minutes, 30 seconds. Joe “Toots” Mondt, Denver, defeated Ivan Lazzgoff, Russia, in 16 minutes of a scheduled one hour match. Mondt won with a series of headlocks. SHIFTS BATTING ORDER fin United Press CINCINNATI, April 10.—Jack Hendricks, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, has shifted his opening day batting order. The Reds will lineup against the Cubs here Wednesday as follows: Dressen, 3b; Allen, cf; Purdy, If; Kelly, lb; Walker, rs; Critz, 2b; Ford, ss; Hargrave, c; Luque, p. Karl Finke, club auditor, has announced 23,171 tickets have been sold for the opening game. MONDAY’S EXHIBITIONS Yankees, 3; Brooklyn, 2. Giants. 16; Army. 4. Athletics, 8: Phillies, 7. Baltimore. 10: Washington, 1. Braves. 22: Wilkcsbarre, 3. White Sox. 9; Springfield, 4.

BASEBALL

Indianapolis vs. Minneapolis TODAY, WED., THURS. AND FRIDAY Game Called 3 P. M.

bricks are of the front-wheel drive design. Earl Cooper, veteran pilot and racing car builder, is captain of the two-car team and will supervise the mechanical adjustments to the gasoline speeders. The cars, which have been under construction at the Marmon plant here, will be ready for the track within a few days, it was said. The first 500-mile race here in 1911 was won by Ray Harroun in the Marmon “Wasp” No. 32. It made an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour, then regarded as an astonishing speed. The 1911 Marmon had a piston displacement of 447.1 cubic inches and was a six-cylindered creation compared with the tiny 91.5 cubic inches piston displacement in the eight-evlindered Marmon special. Col. Howard C. Marmon, designer of the first 500-mile victory car and famous for his part in the development of the wartime Liberty motor, is cooperating with Cooper in the construction of the front-wheel drive busses. EDDIE HELD IS LOW First Round of North-South Amateur Scheduled for Today. Pel I nili and Press PINEHURST, N. C„ April 10.—The first round of the championship flight of the North and South an?&teur golf tournament was to •gfet under way today with a score of prominent golfers contesting. Medal honors went to Edddic Held of St. Louis, who shot the 36 holes in 147. •STAN’ SIGNS CONTRACT Coveleskie to Perform on Mound With l’anks This Season. I'll I nitcii I’ei ss NEW YORK. April 10.—Stanley Coveleskie, veteran spitball pitcher, has signed a one-year contract with the New York Yankees. Coveleskie went South under an agreement whereby he would get a contract if he could convince Miller Huggins he wasn’t through as a major leaguer. BAN ON BOXING~ Following death of a student in a boxing contest recently, University of California officials banned boxing and wrestling as an intramural sport.

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Tonight’s Armory Boxing Card

Trn Rounds—Jack Kane, Chicago, vs. j Tony Ross, Pittsburgh; 138 pounds. Ten Rounds—Babe Keller, Toledo, vs. Kid Lcneho. Mexico; J 8 pounds. Six Rounds—Timer Rezenah. Cincin- • nati. vs. Howdy Stout, Indianapolis; 135 pounds. Six Rounds—Kid Nacho. Mexico, vs. i Tddic Roberts, Indianapolis; 118 pounds. ! Four Rounds —Jack Simms. Pittsburgh, vs. Chuck Templeton, Sullivan; 116 Schwartz Beats Chilean Fighter I'n United Press NEW YORK. April 10.—Izzy Schwartz today retained the flyweight championship title awarded him by the New York boxing commission, after his decisive victory over Routier Parra, Chilean flyweight, Monday night. For fifteen rounds the east side New York midget dazzled his game South American opponent. Parra was willing but green. Schwartz hit when and where he desired, danced in syid out and had the visiting boxer completely mystified. The fight was greatly one-sided. Favorites Win in Tennis Meet Rll I nitrd Press PINEHURST, N. C„ April 10.— Favorites, including George Lott, John Doeg and I’rank Shields, advanced through the second round of the north and south tennis tournament. Lott defeated Malcolm Hill, Harvard, in straight sets. Doeg, Stanford University star, beat Brainard Whitebeck, Harvard, I 6-0, 6-4. Shields defeated Arthur Ingraham, Harvard, 6-3, 61.

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APRIL 10, 1928

Giants’ Pilot Likes Looks of N. Y. Club McGraw Thinks Team Will Make Trouble for Favored Nines. (Copyright, 1928. by United Press) NEW YORK, April 10.—John J. McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, likes this year's combination about as well as any he has put together in his twenty-five years at the helm of the club, he told the United Press today. “The Giants will be up there all the way,” McGraw said. “They’re hustling and playing heads up ball which means trouble for the Pirates, Cubs and Cardinals. “Barring accidents, this year’s team will be immeasurably stronger than last year’s outfit. It has made the best spring record of any team I have ever had. The spirit of the players is as good as I have ever seen. Lefty O’Doul has plugged the left field hole. Andy Cohen is going to surprise those who say he won’t hit major league pitching. Defensively, he's better than Hornsby. “Benton, Fitzsimmons and Henry : are going great, and in Walker Cantwell, Faulkner and Chaplin I have four of the best young pitchers on any club. Walker may be the sensation of the club if he continues his spring work.” McGraw looks for a very close race in the National League and does not expect the winner to have a very high percentage. “I never pick winners, but the Giants are going to be a very hard club to beat,” he said. “Any club | that can hit like they can is going 1 to make trouble.”

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