Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1929 — Page 15

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Veteran Favorites Set Early Pace for Major League Swat Artists

Babe Ruth Says: •Lou Gehrig , Tony Lazzeri Have Chance for Swat Marks.’

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The reason I haven't had much to say about Gehrig this year is that Lou can usually for himself. And he'll be speaking out there on that ball field. Two years ago. when I was answering some questions about home runs. I made the statement that there were only two men in the big leagues today who have any chance to better my home run record.

One of them I named wan Lou Gehrig, the other was Tony Lazzeri. That still goes. And Lou, because he's bigger and heavier and stronger and because he's a lefthand hitter who pulls his shots to right field, has a better chance than Tony. You know after you've been around baseball a lew years you sort of quit kidding yourself. A fellow may be right up at the top while he's in there, but after he's been out a few seasons some other fellow' comes along to take his place and he's lost, in the shuffle. I'm no different from the others. It. probably will be just that v.ay with me when I’ve slowed up and quit the "Big Show ’ And I’ve got a sneaking hunch that the man who makes them forget Babe Ruth will be either Lou Gehrig or Tony Lazzeri. I hope I'm right. When I get out of the game there's nothing I’d rather see than some of my former teammates breaking the records that I set. Don’t misunderstand me. I'm not through yet. But what, I was trying to do was answer the questions

Baseball Calendar Games Today—Results Yesterday

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Clubs W. C. Pet Kanoas City ........ I .HT7 Indianapolis f '* .114 Minneapolis 5 *! .11l Toledo I 3 ..>7l St. Paul * .121* Columbus *2 5 .28f> Louisville i 5 .IH7 Milwaukee I . .167 NATIONAL LEAGt’E W. L. Pet W. I . Pet Boston. •• 3 1 .750 31. Louis.. 4 3 ..571 Chicago . 4 2 .667 Plttfibßh... 2 .3 .400 Nex York. 2 1 .667 Cincln. .. 2 4 333 Phila. ... 3 2 .600 Brooklyn.. 1 5 .167 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Clevci. . 1 2 .667 805t0n..,. 2 2 .500 St Louis. 5 3 625 Wash 2 3 400 Phila . . 3 2 .600 Detroit 3 5 375 Nov York. 2 2 'OO Chicago... 2 4 .333 Results Yesterday AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kan .t City 402 010 100—- B S 0 Columbus . ..010 010 000— 2 7 2 N-lson and Peters; Miller, Wvsone. Harris and Shlnault. S' rail 000 000 000 081 Louisville . 000 031 no* 4 0 2 Brtn,. Oiard and Tesmer. Welzer and Thompson. Milwaukee 012 000 .100 6 10 2 Toledo 600 010 00X— 7 13 0 Oral n. But id. Mclntyre. Eddieman and jlcMfi’tmv I‘almero McNamara, Pfeffer. Wingard and Heyworth. NATIONAL LEAGUE St Louis 003 010 060— 9 IS 1 Chicago 100 000 122- 6 5 0 Bherdel and Smith: Blake. Carlson. Cveng:os and Gonzales. Grace. Angley. lE.even Innlncsi Philadelphia 100 000 000 02— 3 in 1 New York 000 000 100 00— 1 7 0 W.iloughby and Succee; Benton snd Hogan. O Farrell. (Eleven Innings' Eoeton 000 002 000 00— 2 6 0 Brooklyn 000 001 010 01— 3 12 3 Jones and Spohrer, Colllfls; Vance and Deberry. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, not scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 001 100 000 Boston 030 100 00n 4 8 1 Plpgras. Hetmach and Grabowski; Morris and Heving. i Eleven Innings Washington 200 000 000 02— 4 10 0 Philadelphia . . . 010 000 100 01 3 7 1 Hadlev. Braxton and Rue!; Walberg and Ctxihrane. Detroit 320 000 000 5 11 2 St Louis 001 045 10x- 11 12 O Carroll. Smith and rhillips. Crowder, B'aeholder and Manion. Chicago 100 003 OOP 4 7 1 Cleveland . .. . 020 000 201 5 10 3 Adkins and Autr\. Miller. Ferrell and Mvatt. L Sewell.

COLLEGE BASEBALL TUESDAY

Wisconsin. 10: Bradley Tech. 5. Indiana. 8; De Pauv. 0. Chlo State. 6: Minesota s Butler, ♦: Indiana Centra',. 3. Fordham. 1. Columbia, o. Penn. 4; Rutgers. 1. Lafayette. 6. N. Y U. 2. Georgetown. 10 Western Maryland, 2 Harvard. 5: Bates. I. IN THREE WAV MEET The Shortridge high school track team will compete in a trangular meet with Morton of Richm ,nd and Kentucky Military Institute at Shortridgc field Saturday afternoon.

Next Sunday EXCURSIONS $2.05 LOGANSPORT and Return $2.75 CULVER *wl Return $3.00 SOUTH BEND and Return Leave Indianapolis 8:05 \. M. $1.75 RICHMOND nnd Return $2.75 DAYTON and Return Leave Indianapolis 7:30 A. M. Ticket* good >n conches only on trains shown. t ITV HI RET Os! HE. lIS Monument Place, rhone Kt Icy 7353. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD BASE BALL April 25-26 INDIANAPOLIS vs. MINNEAPOLIS Game Called 3 P. M. MONDAY AND FRIDAY LADIES’ DAY

BOSTON, April 24.—A1l spring long I’ve had letters from lans over the country asking me about Gehrig "Do you think Lou will beat you in hitting home runs this year?” one fan writes. Why don't you tell us about him when you write?"

about Lou. He's a great ball player. He's getting better each year. And he’s young enough that he ought to be able to set a few marks that, no one can touch before he’s through with the big leagues. Now about the league in general. With bad weather ail over the circuit and games called ofl here and there, it's hard to get any line on the other clubs. Thus far the thing that has impressed me most is the fact that the St. Louis Browns’ pitchers seem to have started in right where they left off last fall. The Athletics are powerful and the thing I like about the As as a bail club is their punch. They can hammer that ball. And they ought to have the pitching to back up their wallop a little later on. You know you can't tell much about pitching this early in the season. Seventy-five per cent of the games this month and in early May are apt to be decided by hitting. Cold weather always slows up the pitchers, and you can’t expect the fellows to be up to real form for at least another month. tCopyrlght. 1929. by The Timesi

Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St Paul at Louisville. Milwaukee at Toledo. Minneapolis at Indianapolis. Kansas City at Columbus. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at st. Louis. Chicago at Pittsburgh. Boston at. Brooklyn. Philadelphia at New York. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Boston. Washington at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Chicago. Cleveland at Detroit.

Local Bowling Gossip BY LEFTY LEE

Prize checks for the bowlers of the Indianapolis League will be issued at the Pritchett alleys at 8 n. m. tonight. A singles sweepstake, will be rolled on these drives, by members of this loop, after the cash has been distributed. link Bolt, A. C. W. of A. Martin-Parry, Indianapolis Power and I ght Company, Robbins Body and Citizen., Gas were the winners in straight sets over the G. J. Mayer Cos . Marmon Motor. Jewel Tea. Holcomb <t Hoke. Triangle M. k T. and Crnne Cos. as the Ballard Ice Creams de-

HOME RUN CLUB

American Association High. Columbus 5 Cooke. St. Paul 2 Shirley, Minneapolis 2 Emmer, Minneapolis 5 National League O’Doul, Phillies 3 H. tey. Cardinals 3 Hornsby, Cubs 3 Grimm, Cubs 2 American League Blue. Browns . 3 Gehringer. Detroit 2 Averhill, Cleveland 2 Totals American Association 28 National League 23 American League 20 WARREN EASY WINNER Warren Central was an easy victor m the Marion county high school track meet at Willard Park Tuesday afternoon, scoring 63' t points. Southport took second honors with a total of 22 points. New Bethel scored llu points and Beech Grove 3 points. Danner, Prange, Brewer and Borgman starred for the winning Central team.

Fights and Fighters

CHICAGO —Clyde Chastian. Dallas welterweight. defeated Bobby Tracey. Chicago. ten rounds Tuesday night. Tony Herrera Ft Worth, knocked out Eddie Nemo. Chicago, fourth round. DENVER—Tori Morgan, champion junior lightweight, and Eddie Mack. Regis college student, fought a terrific ten-round draw here Tuesdav night. The Judges and referee were unanimous in their decision. MINNEAPOLIS B.g Boy Peterson. 196po.mder of New Orleans, outpointed Harry Dillon. 181-pounder of Winnipeg in ten rounds Tuesday night. Mike Mandell. St. Paul, he?'yweiglii. defeated Tommy Havel. S' Paul. Technical knockout, sixth round Ervin Pitman. Terre Haute, outpointed Rough House Cook. Fresno. Cal., welter, four rounds.

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Few Newcomers Show Up Among Leading Hitters in ‘Big Show.’ YOUNG TIGER STEPS OUT Lefty O’Doul Clouts Pill at Terriffic Clip. BV GEORGE KIRKSEY l nited Pros* Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK. April 24. Old ! favorites are setting the early pace i for the major league hitters. 1 Only one newcomer—Ed Phillips, | Detroit catcher—has broken into | the charmed circle in the early ! games. Lu Blue, St. Louis Browns’ first baseman, and Charley Jamieson, Cleveland outfielder, are tied I for the batting lead in the American League along with Phillips. Each j has an average of .500. Lefty O Doul, who was traded to the Phillies'last season by the New York Giants, and George Harper, who was shunted to the Boston Braves by the St. Louis Cardinals are tied for the lead in the National League, each batting at an even .500 clip. The leading five hitters in each league follow: V American League AB R H Pet I Blue. St. Louis 30 11 15 .500 I Jamieson. Cleveland . . 18 2 9 500 j Phillips, Detroit 12 t 6 .500 Fonseca. Cleveland ... 23 3 12 .402 I Hale. Philadelphia . 1!) 1 3 .421 National League I o Doul. Philadelphia.. 20 6 io .500 \ Harper. Boston IB 4 8 .500 : Herman. Brooklyn ... 26 3 12 .462 Hornsby. Chicago .... 20 6 9 .450 : FriSCh, St. Louis ... 27 5 12 .444 O’Doul, who was up for a trial ! with the Yankees as a pitcher several years back, but who is only j in his second season as a major i league outfielder, is fast making | .John McGraw sorry he let him go i because he couldn’t play left field. | The Lanky Irishman from the far 1 coast clouted a home run—his third j of the season—on his first appearj ar.ee at bat Tuesday against the i Giants and added a double and a ! single before the day was done. IRISH SWIMMERS LOSE The Columbus high school swimming team defeated the Cathedral high school pacidlers. Tuesday night, at the Butler pool, 30 to 28. Strack was the outstanding performer for the Indianapolis Irish. Du Shane, Bass and Wright showed well for I .the visiting natators

. seated the Buschmann boys two out. of i three iu the Commercial League series a’ ; the Capitol alleys. Earl Patterson of the I Robbins tram was high scorer in this i loop with a 843 total. McKinnon had 617; ! Hamilton, 82!: Field. 602: Kellum, 603. : and Mounts, 619. Hare Chevrolet took ti c lead in the Ini riuslrial tourney at ihe Elks Club alleys I when they roiled a total of 2.805, three i pins over the I. U. Railway's 2.802. Third place is held by the Reo Indiana Sales with 2.778. Tonight’s play will include eight five-man teams and one squad of ! doubles and singles. I The Fountain Square Outlaws turned I in a dandy series to win first place in I the Uptown handicap sweepstakes, getting a count of 3.038 and a handicap of 226 to total 3.202. The Recreation five was I second with 3.236. In the doubles event. | Thibodeau and Baders topped the field with 1,355. These boys turned in a total of 1,295. actual pins. Dorev and Kirki hofT with 1.351 are in second place. The j singles event showed M. Moller in first Rlace with 719: Frieje second on 692 and . Fox third with 682. i The Baby Ruth Candy team of Chicago I composed of Pehrson. Bishop. Luecher, : Stewart and Gratz have set a world's rec- | ord in their last five series. Starting ! March 13th, these bovs rolled total of 3.097. 3.386. 3.386. 3.103 and 3,246. for a total of 16,218, an average of 3.244 per | series or 1.981 per game. Hal Stewart I made this record possible by rolling series of 635. 779. 759. ,35 and 710. during this wild streak. Stewart average for the fifteen games was 241 1-5. R. Welch and R. Manion of Terre Haute turned in the feature of the state I meet. Tuesday night when tiev rolled a ; total of 1,201 to land in seventh nlace in the doubles event. Manion gave his partner a real ride when he crashed the maples for a total of 682. Last year’s champions, the Rose 4Walsh Jewelers of Ft. Wayne, failed m their attempt to repeal in the team event, at Terre Haute. These boys threatened at all times, however, and rolled into a tie for second place with the Furnace Ice Cream getting 2,993. J. Melsheimer and T. Sharkey of South Bend still lead the doubles event, with a. total of 1.222. H. Telliga and R. J. Stirk of Ft. Wayne are in second place with 1.214 and W. Barnum-J. Batchelor of Hammond third with 1.212. Frank Coval of Indianapolis aropped to fifth place in the singles event. J. Whelan of Whiting nov' is leading with 677. F. Carr of Ft. Wayne reached second with 672. This score put Carr in first place in the all-events, his total over the ninegame rout- showing 1,882. Indianapolis and Terre Haute bowlers are scheduled for play tonight. HOOKER SIGNS CONTRACT Bn Times Special NEWCASTLE Ind.. April 24.—Orville J. Hooker, former Butler athlete, has signed to coach football, basketball and baseball here for two more years. Hooker has been here four years.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Clark Shh.es in Swimming Meet James Clark was the outstanding performer in the first annual swimming meet held at the Kirshbaum center Tuesday night under the auspices of the Jewish Community Center Association. Clark was high point man of the meet with a total of twenty-four points, made on four firsts, a second and a third. Betty Lutz proved the star of the girl swimmers, scoring sixteen points in four events. The meet was witnessed by a large crowd. HELEN IN FRANCE B‘l I nih.it Piena CHERBOURG. France. April 24. Miss Helen Wills arrived aboard the Aauitania today to fulfiull her European tennis engagements and to be presented at ‘he British court on May 9. She proceeded to

Babe’s New Series! ON Thursday’s sport pages. The Times will introduce the first of Babe Ruth's series for amateur baseball players. Ruth's regular articles on every Wednesday and Saturday, which are published exclusively in The Times, will be ecutinued as usual. Ruth's series for the sandlotters is of interest to every amateur baseball player in Indianapolis. Babe’s first article will be in Thursday's Times.

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GIRL STARS SET SAIL Edith Cross, Morjorie Morrill Leave Tonight for Europe. ! LiII t n ited l‘ri NEW YORK. April 24.—Edith Cross of San Francisco and MarI jorie Morrill of Dedham. Mass., two of America's ranking tennis play- ! ers. will sail tonight on tne Beren- | geria to join Helen Wills for international matches in Europe. Miss ; Cross will pair with Miss Wills in the doubles.

CAMPUS COMMENT BV KNUTE ROCKNE

OACH HOUCK'S Penn State boxing team pulled a surprise in the eastern intercollegiate boxing championships by winning from the Navy. The Navy had won in

their dual meet, but the results of the tournament shows t h a tit takes a different type —a more rugged athlete—to go through a tournament than it dees to be able to box just one match in a dual meet. Boxing is a popular winter sport in the east and far west, but

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owing to some mistaken prejudices the sport has not taken hold in the colleges in the middle west. A.s a matter of fact, we at Notre Dame had to drop boxing as an intercol-

WITH THE BIG LEAGUERS

Barney friberg. Phils' second string shortstop, was the big league ’hero" in Tuesday's contests. smashing a triple with two out and two men on base in the eleventh inning to give the Philadelphia National Leaguers a 3 to 1 victory over the New York Giants in the opening game at the Polo Grounds. Pounding Blake. lari.on ami Cvengros for M-tecn hits, the Si. Louis Cardinals broke (he Chicago Cubs’ siring of four

legiate sport because we had to travel too far for competition Athletic folk in the middle west tell me that boxing is too rough for an intercollegiate sport—another indication that as a race we are getting softer. While we were training young men in 1917 and 1918 for the army and navy, boxing was a great thing. But now that there is no immediate war in prospect, the mollycoddles control the situation and we have no boxing. I have attended coliege boxing matches at both Penn State and the Navy and it is really an inspiring show. As far as I could see, boxing is the most popular pastime at- such colleges as Penn State. Navy, Syracuse. Army and others. Some folks like to generalize on the slightest, provocation and because the crowd that follows professional boxing is not always particularly refined, gentlemanly and sportsmanlike. they take it for granted that boxing as a sport itself is to blame. (Copyright.. 1929. by The Times*

! straight victories with a9to win The Cubs made fifteen hit* off Slier lei. but were unable to buorh them until the Isle Innings. j Daw Bancroft’s single in the eleventh : scored Flower.- with the run which gave the Brooklyn Robin • .r fir ' 0 ! the season, over the Boston Braves. 3 to 2 ; Dazzy Vance held the Brave, io w-. hits With Big Ed Morris pitching brilliantly the Boston Red Sox beat | tlie New York Yankees. 4 to 2. Morris allowed but six hits, three of them by Durocher. Hits bv Goslin. Judge and Ha.es enabled ihe Washington Senators (o lake an eleven-inning game from the Philadelphia Athletics, I to ... M Simmons made his first appearance of ihe season in Ihe Mhleties' Mne-up as a rinih-hitter in the clevtnih. drawing a walk. Lu Blue :wo home runs featured the at. Louis Browns' 11 to 5 victory over the ; Detroit Tigers. Gehringer and McManus : of the Tigers also hit homers. Ear! AveriH's triple in the seventh scored two runs and tied the score and the Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox in the ninth. 5 to 4. The winning run was 'Drought in on a sacrifice fly. The Reds and Pirates were idle. ANNEX EASY VICTORY Washington Continentals Thump Broad Ripple in Orvf-Sided Fray. The Washington high school baseball team handed Broad Ripple a terrific thumping Tuesday afternoon in a seven-inning contest. 27 to 0. The Continentals scored in every inning but one. They were aided by sixteen Broad Ripple errors. Score: Washington 792 243 4- 27 18 2 Broad Ripple 000 000 P 0 316 Reed and Cook. Elliott, McNeiley. Etokcs and Marcus.

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N. D. Folic wers to See M’Grath in Cadle Ring ! Notre Dame akimni and local friends of the South Bend institution are expected to sec Jack McGrath. ex-Irish football player, in action Friday night at Cadle tabernacle when he meets Eddie Slake, Niles, Mich., over ten rounds as the feature bout on Promoter McLemore's card. McGrath is managed by Captain Earl Meyers ot Culver military academy, formerly of Indianapolis. He is a heavyweight. Slake has appeared here once before, going ton rounds with Benny Kruger. McLemore believes he has lined up a strong supporting card to the McGrath-Slake main go. There will be a "six" and three prelims of four rounds each. Jackie Coogan and Tommy Brown, each 120, this city, meet in the six-rounder. ANOTHER DROPS OUT jin r niu and COLLINSVILLE. 111., April 24. C C. Pyle's plodding marathoners left for St. Louis today without Harry Rea of Long Beach. Cal., who developed fallen arches a few hours out from Vandalia Tuesday. John Salo. Passaic, won Tuesday's race, tearing off the 59.8 miles from Vandalia. here in 8 hours 12 minutes. Peter Gavuzzi. with 157:02:87, held a lead of nearly four hours over Salo in lapsed time. Salo was second with 160:49:30.