Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1928 — Page 11

JULY 30, 1928.

U. S. Piles Up Heavy Lead

American Track and Field Stars Go Big in Olympiad. KUCK BREAKS RECORD Kansan Sets World Mark in Shot Put. . Today’s Olympic Finals AMSTERDAM, July 30.—Three representatives of the British Empire swept to Olympic victories here today. P. Williams, Canada, raced to triumph in the 100-meter dash in 10.8 seconds. O’Callaghan of Ireland won the hammer throw with a heave of 168.57 feet. Lord Burghley, England, won the 400-meter final in 53.4 cconds. BY FRANK GETTY. United i’rers Sports Editor AMSTERDAM, July 30.—With the United St? ,es already piling up u commanding lead, the track and field schedule for the ninth Olympiad today brought many more events in which the Americans were hopeful of adding more points. The United States team was counting on scoring from 12 to 18 points in the 100-meter dash, probably 15 points in the 400-meter hurdles and at least 12 more in the hammer throw. Those were the only events in finals were held today. Three Finals Sunday Sunday’s finals were in the high jump the 16-pound shot put and the 10,000-meter run and the tabulation of points gave: United States, 35; Finland, 16; Sweden, 7; Germany, 6; France, 4; Philippines, 3; England 2 and Japan, 1. Johnny Kuck, the husky Kansan, was the most brilliant performer of the opening day of the Olympiad. The big Kansas lad heaved the weight 15.87 meters (52 feet and 11-16 inches) for anew Olympic and world’s record. The former Olympia record had been made by Pat McDonald in 1312, while the world's record had been held by Hirschfield of Germany. The German could finish no better than third in Sunday’s competition. Takes High Jump Bob King, the United States collegian, had little difficulty in winning the high jump at 6 feet 4% inches. He easily outclassed the field, as had been expected. Paavo Nurmi won the 10,000-meter run after a gruelling race against Willie Ritola. Nurmi and Ritoia raced down the long stretch shoulder to shoulder until the final turn, when Nurmi started sprinting, and his reserve power carried well ahead of Ritola. It was a thrilling sight after the first final when a large United States flag was hoisted on the flagpole, signifying an American victory. A band started playing the national anthem and the great crowd rose, uncovered and paid a fitting tribute to the young United States team.

| With Major Star* Yesterday ———By United Press Babe Ruth—Singled three times and doubled once in four times up, driving in two runs and scoring two. Harry Hellmann—Doubled once in four times up, and scored one run. Lou Gehrig—No hits in five times at bat. Hack Wilson—Four hits in eight times at bat. including twenty-fourth home run of season, scored one run, batted in three runs. Ty Cobb, Frank Frisch. Rogers Hornsby and Paul Waner, idle.

Home Run Club

AMERICAN LEAGUE Ruth (Yankees). 40. Gehrig (Yankees), 19. Hauser (Athletics). 15. Simmons (Athletics), 10. Blue (Browns). 10. NATIONAL LEAGUE Wilson (Cubs). 24. Bottomlev (Cards). 23. Bissonette (Robins). 18. Hornsbv (Braves). 17. Hafev (Cards), 17. Harper (Cards). 16. Hurst (Phillies). 16. YESTERDAY’S HOMERS Wilson (Cubs): Haas (Athletics): Foxx (Athletics). A. L. DOUBLE-HEADERS Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 30.—The American. League office today announced playoff of postponed baseball games In double-headers as follows: Aug. I—At Chicago, Boston. Aug. 22—At Boston. Detroit. Aug. 25—At Washington, Cleveland; at Philadelphia. Chicago; at New York, Detroit: at Boston, St. Louis. Sept. 4—At Chicago. Detroit. Sept. s—At New York, Washington. Sept. 6—At Boston. Philadelphia. Sept. 7—At Boston. Philadelphia. Sept. 9—At New York, Philadelphia. Sept. 10—At Washington, Boston, (transferred from Boston). BURNS BEATS KERST Tommy Burns, Cincinnati, came to Indianapolis Saturday night find defeated Leroy Kerst of this city in a half-mile skating race at the Riverside rink, his time being 1 minute and 43 seconds. It was Burns’ fourth visit to Riverside in the last two years, and on each occasion he has been victorious over a local skater.

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Shortstop Warstler With their league lead threatened by the second-place Blues Sunday, the Indians stepped out and battered their way to a double-header victory. Nearly all the home athletes played great ball to help halt the invading Cowboys, but the fans got the biggest kick out of Harold Warstler, flashy shortstop. In the first tilt he inserted a timely single that drove in what proved the winning runs, and in the second game he set the crowd daffy by crashing a homer with two mates aboard, after the visiting pitcher had walked Holke to get at the kid. Al Foreman Has Turned in Many Worthy Victories The record of Al Foreman, who meets Jimmy Hackley in the main event of Tuesday night’s “Punch Bowl” fistic show, forwarded to Captain Clark, matchmaker, shows the British pug has done exceptionally well since he arrived in the States. His twenty-three matches in this country have resulted as follows: Knockouts—Ruby Stein (6 rounds), Goldie Ahearn (1), Andy Bowen (6). Young Phillips (5), Jimmlg Monroe (2), Carl Tremaine, technical 91. Joe Williams ( 61 . Eddie De Simon (1), BlUv Miske (2>. Kid Julian (5). Billy Hinds (3). Joe Rivers <2). Patsy McNulty (7t. A. Eantlago (71. A. Schekels (7), Babe Pacato 5) and Billy Herald (3). Decisions were gained over Joe Susa, Mike Ballerino and Freddie Jacks, and a win by foul was scored over Jimmy Hackley here last April, while the only loss sustained by Foreman in this country, according to his manager, was a ten-rounder with Kid Kaplan. Hackley was down to such a fine edge that he abandoned boxing Sunday afternoon, and planned but a light workout today at the Atherton gym.

Big League Stuff

Bill Zitzmann’s fourth hit of the game Sunday scored Jake May with winning run, giving. Cincinnati a 6-to-5 victory over Brooklyn. Zitzmann, besides driving in three runs, scored two himself and was the leading figure in the Reds’ attack. The Cleveland Indians gave the New York Yanks the worst beating inflicted on any major league team in several seasons, when they massacred the world’s champions. 21 to 6. George Pi pgr as, who has won 17 victories for the Yankees started the game, but pitched to only six men. all of whom reached first base. Wiley Moore, Thomas. Johnson and Campbell followed in succession. Homers by Haas and Foxx enabled the Athletics to defeat the St. Louis Browns, 8 to 3. JThe victory put the Athletics six and onethalf games behind the leading Yankees. Earnshaw was on the mound for the Athletics while Ogden, Wiltse and Strelecke hurled for the Browns. Hack Wilson’s twenty-fourth homer gave the Chicago Cubs a 3-to-I decision over the New York Giants in the second game of a double-header. The Cubs dropped the opening game, 4 to 3. This game saw the two teams hooked up in the second extra-inning affair In two days. Terry’s hit sent Reese in with the winning run in the tenth inning. The only Giant run in the second game was scored when Andy Cohen singled with Terry on tr.se. The Chicago White Sox broke a losing streak, which has extended for seven games, when they took the second half of a double-header from the Washington Senators, 5 to 1. Grady Adkins hurled superb ball for Chicago and was given brilliant support in tbs Held by Mostll and Metiler. Tae Senators won the opener, 8 to 3. Umpire Hildebrand cleared the Washington bench of ten players in the second game, claiming they were baiting the Chicago pitcher. Ossie Blucge Was hit on the elbow by a pitched ball in the fourth inning and was forced out of the game. Doubles by Sumner and Berry off Stoner in the second inning enabled the Boston Red Sox to score four runs and defeat Detroit, 5 to 2. Billings, who relieved Stoner, stopped the Rea Sox, but Jack Russell kept the Tigers’ hits well scattered, never allowing more than two In any innlng.

Gene Tunney Tells Plans for Future Champion Meets With Scribes to Reveal His Intentions. BY GEORGE KIRKSEY, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 30.—Gene Tunney’s plans for the future, including a rumored announcement of his retirement from the ring, were expected to come from the champion’s own lips today at a formal meeting with newspapermen. The wildest sort of rumors concerning the future activities of the heavyweight titleholder have been circulated since he scored a technical knockout over Tom Heeney in the eleventh round of their title bout at Yankee Stadium Thursday night. Gene Tunney’s sole adviser, manager and confident is Gene Tunney and until Gene Tunney announces his definite plans there will remain some doubt as to just what the champion has up his sleeve. The financial failure of the Heeney bout was a great blow to Tunney’s pride, and with the added prestige and popularity the victory over the Hard Rock from down under gave him, it seems logical to presume Tunney may engage in one more bout before he hangs up the gloves that raised him from the streets of Greenwich Village to millionaire champion. The champion has made all arrangements to leave for Europe Aug. 16 to join Thornton Wilder, the novelist, on a tour of the continent, and there is nothing to indicate that he will not carry out his plans. He will visit the Tailtean games, the Irish Olympiad, the guest of President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State and then go to London, where it is expected he will visit George Bernard Shaw and the Prince of Wales. From there he plans to hike over France and Germany and perhaps other European countries, and return in time to vote for Al Smith. LOOK WHO’S HERE! Ted (Kid) Lewis Battles Maxie Rosenbloom Tuesday Night. Bu United Brest NEW YORK, July 30.—Ted (Kid) Lewis of England, once a world’s champion, comes back to the ring Tuesday night in a bout with Maxie Rosenbloom at the Queensboro stadium. Lewis became famous because of his many battles with Jack Britton for the welterweight title. The crown switched four times between them. AMERICANS LOOK BAD U. S. Polo Stars Play Poorly in Match at Sands Point. Bn United Press NEW YORK, July 30—America’s ■ polo stars engaged in a disappointing contest Sunday at the Sands Point Country Club. Os the United States team that is to meet the Argentines in September, only Tommy Hitchcock, captain, played anything like his best form. WINS 15-MILE RACE Bu United Press STERLING, 111., July 30.—Floyd Bobzien of Cedar Rapids in a Miller Special won the fifteen-mile dirt track race at Speedbowl Park here Sunday in 14 minutes, 38 seconds.

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MARION OPENS AIRPORT. WITH 18,000 GUESTS Score of Visiting Planes Participate in Races and Stunts. BY TOWELL NURSBAUM MARION, Ind., July 30.—Marion’s new municipal airport formally was dedicated Sunday before a crowd of 18,000, with airplane races, parachute drop contests and other areial stunts. William H. Kerchner, Indiana Natonal Guard adjutant general, opened the ceremony at 1 p. m., presenting a good luck horseshoe to Lieut. Paul B. Payne, field manager. The horseshoe, attached to several small balloons, was released to soar above the field. Twenty airplanes from Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Anderson and other cities and Wilbur Wright field, Dayton, participated in the dedication ceremony. Three PT-3 Army planes from Wright field gave an exhibition of formation flying early in the afternoon. Lieutenant Payne gave a demonstration of a dead stick landing. Sig Smith, aerial daredevil, after giving a demonstration of wing walking and hanging from a rope ladder suspended from a plane, attached a rubber automobile inner tube from the plane, from which he hung, holding Miss Esther Wagner, 22, Marion, by a silk stocking fastened to a belt around her waist. The stunt was photographed by news reel men in other planes. Freddie Lund, of Troy, Ohio, was awarded first place in the thirtymile airplane race. Lund flew a Waco 9 biplane powered with a Wright Whirlwind engine. Freddie Cole, Troy, Ohio, was the

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first in the parachute jumping contest, landing in the center of a circle on the field. Marvin Blansett, Anderson, was second, and Oscar Culler, North Manchester, was third. Prizes were $75, SSO and $25. Roy McMurtry, Jr., 32, R. R. 1, New Salem, Ind., won first place in the first annual Pilgrims’ Club twenty-nine-mile marathon from Anderson to the airport, held in connection with the dedication. His time was 3:58:48. McMurtry, who has only one arm, was eleventh in C. C. Pyle’s crosscountry bunion derby. John Stone, Marion, thirty-second in Pyle's derby, was second with 4:14:15, and Harold Smelser, Muncie Y. M. C. A., was third with 4:25:23. Nineteen runners were entered. Fireworks Close Program Night flying and a night parachute jump by Oscar Collier, North Manchester, in the glare of floodlights, and a fireworks display closed the ceremony. During the afternoon several hundreds passengers were carried by the visiting planes. Indianapolis planes at the dedicatoin Included four from Hoosier airport, three Travel Air biplanes piloted by Harold C. Brooks, Orville Grimes and Charles Thompson; a Velie Monocoupe, piloted by Charles E. Cox of Murphy Motors, Inc., and Everett C. Winings in a Waco 10. Attends Boat Races. Lieut. Fred Maibucher, Indiana National Guard, with Colonel Fishbeck as passenger, flew to Culver, Ind., Saturday afternoon in a Curtiss 0-17 biplane for the boat races, returning Sunday. Stops to Fuel Pilot Bledsoe Payne, flying a Waco 10 from Troy, Ohio, to Orange, Tex., stopped at the Indianapolis airport Sunday for fuel. Army Flier Drops In Capt. H. Weir Cook, Army instructor attached to the 113th Observation Squadron, arrived at Indianapolis airport Saturday from Camp Perry, Ohio, where he has

In the Air

CONDITIONS AT 0:30 A. M. (Compiled tor The Times by Government Weather Observer J. H. Armlngton and Donald McConnell. Government aeronautical obser’’er. Celling, unlimited: visibility, 2 miles, smoky; barometer, 30:32; wind, cast, 10 m. P- h. been inspecting the Ohio Nationa’ Guard observation squadron, encamped there. He returned to Camp Perry Sunday in an AT-3 bi plane. Inspect Camp Knox Maj. R. F. Taylor, accompanied by Colonel Fechtman, flew to Camp Knox, Kentucky, today in a National Guard plane, to inspect the camp preparatory to the two weeks' encampment of the 38th Division encampment there starting next Sunday. The division will leave for camp early Sunday by train, truck and airplane. Flies to Dayton Lieut. Matt G. Carpenter, Indianapolis airport manager, flew to Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, today for 113th Observation Squadron, Indiana National Guard, supplies. Comes for Travelair Howard Mayes, Charleston, W. Va., visited Hoosier airport today to obtain anew Travelair biplane he ordered recently from the airport. W. M. Bloyd, Moundsville, W. Va., ordered anew Travelair from the airport Saturday and will go to the factory at Wichita, Kan., to get delivery. Non-Stop Hop Fails DU United Press OMAHA, Neb., July '3o.—Jack Knight returned to Omaha, his home city, Sunday night, following his failure to make a non-stop flight from New York to Los Angeles. Knight encountered engine trouble at Pueblo, Colo. He had i been forced down at Grand Island,

Neb., by a defective spark plug. Similar trouble was encountered at Pueblo. He was accompanied by Ettienne Dornay, designer of the Buhl Sesqui which Knight flew and of the wartime Spad plane. Air Ride Cures Deafness Eu United Press CURTISS FIELD, L. I„ July 30. —Robert Hoffman, 11, who has been deaf all his life, said he partly had recovered his hearing after taking an airplane flight with Capt. William Purcell. Beacon Lighted Bn Times (Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 30. This city’s new beacon for guidance of aviators has been put in service. It is mounted on a twenty-seven-foot framework on top of the old National Bank Bldg., and is 145 feet from the street level. Back Airport Plan Bn Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 30.—Four local organiaztions have voted approval of plans for establishment of a municipal airport here. They are the Chamber of Commerce, Park Place Brotherhood. Southside Community Club and Lions Club. Fly to Work Bu Times Special . COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., July 30. —Kenneth Magley and A. J. Leaman are flying between this city and Lake Wawasee, being employed at the lake in dredging work. Stack to Be Guide Bu Times Special BUFFINGTON, Ind., July 30. The 300-foot stack recently completed at the local plant of the Universal Portland Cement Company, will serve as a guide to aviators at night when flood lights will be directed upon it. Wait Crash Report No report on the airplane accident two weeks ago at Indianapolis airport in which two 113th Observation Squadron fliers were seriously injured and a National Guard

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Curtiss 0-11 plane destroyed wherf the ship crashed into a tree, has been made by the board of inquiry appointed by Adjt. Gen. William Hi Kershner. General Kershner today said hal expected a report from the commit* tee within the next few days. Rapid improvement Is being shown by the two accident victims, Lieut. Carroll D. Doak, 3148 Indianapolis Ave., and Sergt John L. Long, 2103 Allfree St. Long was reported today at city hospital to be out of danger and on the road to recovery. He sustained a fractured skull. Doak is still confined to a wheel chair at Methodist Hospital as a result of a fractured upper arm requiring a. plaster cast around the chest. Parachute Splits Fortune favored Claude Shafer, ‘‘Patent Leather Kid” balloonist, Sunday when one of five parachutes used by the jumper split, as he dropped from a balloon a mile above Riverside Park. “Lucky it wasn’t the fifth parachute that split,” Shafer remarked as he landed. Miss Ethel Pritchett and Miss Hazel Bruce, Indianapolis girlr. will stage a parachute race a c the park next Sunday, each girl catting loose two parachutes. Over 50, Gets License That aviation is not exclusively a “young man’s game” was demonstrated Sunday morning when Elisha Morgan, more than 50 years old, of the Morgan Paint Company, Peoria, 111., took his pilot's license at Hoosier airport, Kessler Blvd, Lafayette pike. Morgan rented a Travelair biplane from the airport for the occasion. The examination was conducted by Howard B. Ruff, Department of Commerce aeronautical branch inspector for this territory. Rout Nude Couples From Pool Bu I nit al Press NEW YORK, July 30.—Four nude couples were routed from a bathing pool at Kensington, L. 1., by police. The couples departed in expensive, motor cars for the exclusive Long Island residential district.