Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1929 — Page 15

AUG. 8, .1929.

‘Klein Real Slugger, 9 Says Babe , ‘but He s Not Going to Make Me Second *

Ruth Aims to Head Off Hoosier Kid With Phils Who Leads Him by Five Bambino Only Two Short of 500 Circuit Wallops Since Entering American League and His Record Probably Will Stand Forever. BM Prr*s PHILADELPHIA. Aug. B.—" Nothing would suit me better than to hit my 500th American League home run right in this old burg.’’ announced Baue Ruth today, as he prepared to take the field with the Yankees against the Athletics in the third game of the series that saw the rivals split a double-header Wednesday. "I have only two more to go to the 500-mark for league competition -though if you want to count my eight world series swats I'm quite a few over. I've decided to head off this IndianapolS Kid, Klein, of the Phillies, and any others who want to get into this argument.”

Step Down? Not Yet! As Ruth entered this season with a total of 470 home runs made in league games since he arrived in Boston from Baltimore, ‘‘way back when,” he has 498 today—a record far beyond that ol any other hitter of the past and possibly beyond the reach of home run luminaries of the tuture. Ruth isn’t ready to step down — not yet! ‘‘So they think this Chuck Klein, who has thirty-three circuit wallops for 1929. is going to make me step down this year, do they?” the Babe resumed. ‘‘Well, that may be possible. I grant this kid is quite a hitter, especially in his home park. But this bird is going to take a lot of beating. I am not quite ready to step down—certainly not in favor of a National Leaguer. Some of the boys have been counting me out. A few have been kidding me about a "hollow shell.’ But the Babe still is on the job. isn’t he? Nothing hollow about that one Wednesday, was there?” Klein Big Threat Ruth realizes that Klein, particularly with so many more games in the Philly park, is no mean antagonist in the fight for home run honors. But Ruth is feeling fine again, and figures to hit close to forty-five before the end of the season. He had twenty-eight previous to today’s game. As the Babe pointed out today, he has been headed before, only to come back stronger than ever. He fell down in 1922, when he hit only thirty-five homers in 110 games, Rogers Hornsby relieving him of his title with forty-two. The Babe had another off year in 1925, when he made only twenty-five circuit drives in ninety-eight games, and Hornsby again gained a temporary hold on the leadership with thirtynine. Ruth started with two big sea-sons—fifty-four in 1920, and fiftynine in 1921. Then came an off year and two more big seasons—-forty-one in 1923 and forty-six in 1924. That was followed by another letdown, and then came three years in a row—forty-seven in 1926, sixty and the record in 1927, and fifty-four in 1928.

Baseball Calendar Games Todr.y—Results Yesterday

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won. Loot. Pet. Kuiu City 73 36 > 6 'o St. Paul 68 .613 Minneapoli* 63 AS .583 INDIANAPOLIS 51 59 .464 Louisville 49 60 .4>o Columbus 48 62 .436 Milwaukee 44 66 .490 Toledo 49 66 .377 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Philadel 77 29 .726 Detroit . 50 54 .481 N. York 63 38 .624 Wash... 41 60 .406 ?t. Louts 55 46 .534 Chicago 40 63 .388 Neva... 55 49 .529 Boston.. 31 71 .304 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet' W. L. Pet. Chicago 67 32 ,677 Brklvn.. 44 59 .427 Pftts . 60 39 .606|Cinc.v... 43 59 .422 N York 58 47 .552 Boston . 43 61 .413 St Louis 53 50 .515 Philadel. 40 61 .396 THREE! LEAGUE W. L. Pet.i W. L. Pet. P'-tnS’le 57 41 582 Terre H. 51 49 .510 Decatur 56 44 .560 Sp'gfield 47 52 .475 BTm-lfn 55 48 .534 Peoria * 45 57 441 Quincy. 52 46 .531 Danville. 3* 63 .370 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kansas City at Columbus. Milwaukee at Toledo. Minneapolis at INDIANAPOLIS. St. Paul at Louisville. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis at Pittsburgh. i Only game scheduled.t AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at Cleveland. St. Louis at Co.icago . New York at Philadelphia. Washington at Boston. THREE! LEAGUE Springfield. 9: Danville. 3. Terre Haute. 6: Quincy. 4. Evansville. 4-2: Bloomington, 3-6. Peoria. 6-1: Decatur. 3-2. LUTZE IS MAT VICTOR At/ I'nitcd Pres, s LOS ANGELES. Aug. B.—Nick Lutze. Chicago, took two out of three falls from George Malcewitcz. the Utica panther, to win their wrestling match here Wednesday night. Dick Daviscourt got a draw with George Kotsonaros. Bob Kruse won from Ad Herman. GETS HOLE-IN-ONE Harold Cotton is a member of the Toronto Hockey Club, but he knows his golf. too. Recently he scored a hole-in-one at the ninth hole of the Glen Stewart golf course at Toronto.

Did You Know That— ART SHIRES smacked one in a recent game between the White Sox and the Yankees. . . . He mought it was a home run. . . . And he didn't stop when Manager Blackbume tried to flag him at third. . . . And he was out by a mile at the plate. . . . And he said when he reached the bench*. "That was one time Lena was right.” . . • The Cleveland Indians are one of the hardest hitting /earns in the American League. . . . But they have been shut out more than any other team in the league. . . . The Cube are making so much money they have ten men to manicure the field before game time.

Herb Klein

Colleges Near Water Should Encourage Rowing, Says Rockne Complaint That Sport Hurts Other Athletic Teams Not Right, Notre Dame Coach Asserts.

BY KNUTE ROCKNE, Times Special Correspondent SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. B. I was talking to a football coach the other day. This football coach works in a university where they are doing a lot of rowing, but

Results Yesterday Milwaukee 001 020 212 8 16 0 Toledo 010 130 010— 6 14 0 Robertson. Gearln. Cobb and Young; Ferguson. McQuillan, PfeiTer, Doyle and McCurdy. Kansas City 000 001 000— 1 5 2 Columbus 010 400 OOx— 5 10 1 Murray. Warmouth, Nelson and Peters; Johnson and Devine. St. Paul t 020 010 020— 5 10 3 Louisville 110 000 002— 4 8 1 Poll! and Hargrave; Welzcr, Creson and Tesmer. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 000 000 003— 3 6 1 Pittsburgh 000 120 001— 4 12 0 Benton. Henry and Hogan; Kremer and Hemsley. (Only game scheduled.! AMERICAN LEAGUE (First Gamei New York 3?0 002 001—13 12 0 Philadelphia 100 000 000— 1 7 1 Pipgras and Dickey; Ehmke, Shores, Orwoll and Cochrane, Perkins. (Second Gamei New York 000 010 100— 2 5 1 Philadelphia 000 010 030— 4 8 2 Sherid and Dickey; Earnshaw. Grove and Cochrane. Detroit 010 314 032—14 19 2 Cleveland 210 010 000— 4 13 2 Carroll and Hargrave; Shaute. Zinn and L. Sewell. Myatt. Washington 100 001 020— 4 12 2 Boston 001 100 000— 2 6 3 Thomas and Tate; McFayden and A. Gaston, Berry. (Only games scheduled.!

Big Leagues

HOWARD EHMKE, veteran Philadelphia pitcher and certainly old enough to know 1 better, thought he could sneak a fast one. waist high, past Babe Ruth with the bases filled Wednesday at Shibe park. The ball hasn’t been found yet. The Yankees won that one, 13 to 1, only to drop the second game of the dou-ble-header to the Athletics, 4 to 2. a a a Outcome of the first day'* encounters at Philadelphia left the A's and Yanks as thev were, still separated by HVi tames. Quaker Ctty fans went wild when the Maekmen came from behind to win the night cap. Attendance was 45,000. a a a THE Giants wound up their western tour bv being beaten in Pittsburgh. 4 to 3. which made the count seven victories and seven defeats for McGraw’s club in the west. After scoring thrice to tie the score in their half of the ninth, the Giants saw the game go when Hemsley, Flagstead and Clarke hit safely in the Pittsburgh half. a a a Tiilc Alexander, Detroit first baseman, drove In six runs as the Tigers, on an old fashioned batting rampage, defeated the ambitious Cleveland Indians, 14 t 4^ a a a Myles Thomas allowed the Red Sox but six hits and Boston misplavs paved the way for all Washington runs, the Senators winning, 4 to 2. BETTY IN MOVIES. TOO Betty Nutliall, British net star who is in this country now for tournament play, entered the movies when her father died and earned $250,000 to fortify the family exchequer. She did not lose her status as an amateur.

Tilden, Hunter Enter Doubles Bit t Hitrrl Press SOUTAHMPTON, N. Y., Aug. 8. —William T. Tilden II and Frances T. Hunter of New Rochelle are due to start play in the doubles at the Meadow Club here Friday, having been aw’arded a bye in the first round. No other Davis cup team entries were received by officials in charge of the annual Southampton tournament. The survivors in the singles, which have reached the quarter-final stage, are John Doeg, Santa Monica, Berkeley Bell, Ft. Worth; H. W. Austin. England; N. G. Farquaharson. South Africa; Eddie Jacobs, Baltimore; Julius Seligson, New York; Gregory Mangin. Newark, and Fritz Mercur, Harrisburg, Pa.

Golf Gossip

Ralph stonehouse, young pro at ■ Coffin, added more laurels to his string ttfis week when he set anew course record while playing in a pro-amateur tournament at Bedford. Ralph individually shot a 67 and teamed with George Denny, they set up a 65 as a best ball score, which easily won the first money. In fact, Ralph's 67 was one better than the best ball of E. Leonard of Bedford, and Dwight Mitchell of French Lick, who had 68. Neal Mclntyre of Highland and Everett Agnew of the same course took third place after a playoff. Their best ball was 70. a a a Ralph went one over par on the fourth hole, but scored two birdies on holes five, six and seven. That gave him 34 out against par 35. On the second round he did not get over par once and three more birdies on holes fifteen, seventeen and eighteen gave him a 33. Denny came througn with a birdie 3 on the first hold and a par on the fourth. That cut Ralph's score two strokes and brought about that excellent 65 best ball. a a a The card show's six birdies and two holes of one stroke over par on each. GOLFERS’ HAZARD Golfers must play from a tee fashioned among rocks at the seventh hole of the Oak Bay golf course at Victoria, B. C. A topped ball is usually unplayable among the boulders.

( have hot been doing very much in football. “Rowing is killing football in our school,” remarked this coach, “because they are taking twenty or twenty-five of our big men out of football and we have hardly any big men left for my game as a result. Rowing is a dead sport anyhow. Sour on Crews “These fellows train for seven or eight months for just a couple of races and at these races nobody can tell who has won or lost even when they row in the afternoon and when they row in the dark the officials have a hard time telling who won or lost. They expect football to pay the bill for rowing and yet rowing is a detriment to successful football.” The selfish coach, regardless of what sport he is handling, always likes to imagine that the other sport is hurting him. In any school there are plenty of boys to go around for all the sports. If the football coach isn’t able to make his class interesting enough certainly the big fellows are going out for rowing and vice versa. The ideal program is to get a form of sport where every boy participates, to develop a program so diversified that regardless of a lad’s physical shortcomings, there is a sport for him. Sports for All Today at the average university, besides football, basketball, track and baseball, we have cross country hockey, wrestling, boxing, swimming, gymnastics, tennis, golf, handball, squash rackets and so on. The only man who objects to putting on a program of this kind where the entire student body is benefited is the selfish coach who becomes too self centered on himself and on producing a winning team in his particular sport. Rowing has been a fine collegiate sport for sixty years, if not longer, and fills a distinct need in many institutions. Instead of less rowing, there should be more rowing for those institutions who have sufficient water. FILIPINO IS DEFEATED Joey Goodman IVins Unpopular Decision From Lopez Tenorio. Bu I'nitcd Press CLEVELAND, Aug. 8. Lope Tenorio, Filipino junior welterweight. dropped a decision to Joey Godman of Richmond, Va., in a ten-round bout here Wednesday night. The crowd disapproved of the verdict. Other results: Mike Payan, California Indian, knocked out Tommy Milton, Toledo junior welterweight, in the second round; Gene Stanton, Cleveland, stopped K. O. Blackbume, Louisville heavyweight, in the first; Snowflakes Wright, New York middleweight, stopped Jackie Carr, California, in one round; Billy Edwards, Erie (Pa.) welterweight, won on a foul from Marty McHale, Cleveland, in two rounds. GRID CALL GIVEN Oriental Bulldogs are re-organizing a football team. All former players and tryouts report at a meeting Saturday night at 7:30, at Oriental and Michigan streets. For further information call Van, Ch. 5779.

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THE. INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Benders and Lafayette in Legion Play Junior Title at Stake in Muncie Today: St. Philips Loses.' South Bend and Lafayette were to meet in Muncie today for the American Legion junior baseball championship of Indiana. The winner of the state championship contest will advance to the regional tournament, which will be played at Ft. Wayne, Aug. 13 and 14, with teams entered from Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Lafayette gained the right to play South Bend in the state finals by defeating St. Philips, Indianapolis. in a playoff between four teams, necessitated by the disqualification of Jeffersonville. The latter city had defeated the four teams earlier and legion officials decided to let the four teams meet to select an opponent for South Bend, w'hich already had reached the finals. Playoff games in Indianapolis on Wednesday follow: Huntingburg 301 013 0— 810 8 Shelbyville 503 111 o—ll 9 4 Emmons. Cox and Souders, Frick; Rogers and House. Lafayette 301 001 3 8 6 2 Shelbyville 000 000 0— 0 4 5 Schmidt and Cooney. Phipps, Rogers and House. St. Philips 001 000 0— 1 6 2 Lafayette 000 002 x— 2 6 2 Markey and Wulle; Schmidt and Cooney.

Major Homer Leaders

Klein. Phillies 33 L. Wilson, Cubs 3< Ott, Giants 29 Ruth. Yankees 28 Gehrig. Yankees 26 Foxx. Athletics 20 Bottomley, Cardinals 24 Simmons. Athletics 24 Hurst. Phillies 23 Hornsby. Cubs 23 STRIBLING and sekyra KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. B.—A match between W. L. (Young; Stribling, Georgia heavyweight and Joe Sekyra, Dayton, 0., has been arranged to take place here, Aug. 12. Stribling is barnstorming in the hope of climbing to a championship bout.

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IT isn’t often you hear of a whole family entering a state golf tournament, but that happened in the recent Minnesota state tourney where C. W. Sawyer. Minneapolis grain man, and his three sons, Pat, Richard and Walter, competed. Papa Saw'yer. shbwn at the right, failed by one stroke of qualifying for the event, shooting an 80, but all three boys qualified, and Pat, the youngest, got to the quarter finals. Pat is the state’s champion high school golfer, too.

Comical Weight Angle Attached to Feature Scrap in New York Kid Chocolate Holds Out for 128 I*2 and Singer for 129; They Agree on 128 3-4.

BY HARRY GRAYSON. ' L'ntted Press Special Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. B.—Tom McCardle closed the most attractive match between little fellows since the memorable meeting of Leonard and Tendler, when he signed A1 Singer and Kiel Chocolate to box twelve rounds in New York City, Aug. 29, but the weight hands members of the old guard a laugh. Singer w'as required to post $5,000 that he will do 128%. The fraction is strange enough, but when you know that this practically is the natural poundage of the Bronx boy, the only reason for it seems to be the stubborness of Louis Guterriez, manager of the Patent Leather Kid. He held out for 128’2, the Singer.crow'd for 129, which is exactly what young A1 scaled when he knocked Andre Routis loose from everything but

his featherweight title at Ebbets field recently. Chocolate will come in at about 124. There scarcely should be more chan five founds difference when they square aw'ay. That shouldn’t bother the lad from Havana, if he is half the fighter they say he is.

Hole in One-Plunge! fin Press CHICAGO, Aug. B.—Charles Stumes’ golf game had been terrible recently. ‘‘Keep your eye on the ball at all times,” advised a pro, ‘‘and you won’t have any trouble.” Charles, obeying instructions to the letter, stepped into a mole hole on a local course and plunged head first into a deep ravine. His shoulder was broken.

Smith Triumphs in Open Meet fi’i United Press NEW YORK, Aug. B.—Following a see-saw' battle with Gene Sarazen, MacDonald Smith, veteran Lakeville pro, again is the Long Island open golf champion. Sarazen carded two sensational rounds out of the four, a 66 and a 67, but Smith was the steadier over the seventy-two-hole route and w'on with 286 to Gene’s 288. George Voigt, last year’s winner, finished with a round of 68 to take third money with 293. CHOCOLATE WINS AGAIN Cuban Featherweight Scores K. O. in Bout With Lorenzo. By United Press MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y., Aug. B. Kid Chicolate, Cuban featherweight, 123 Vs, knocked out Tommy Lorenzo. New York, 124, in the sixth round here last night.

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Tommy Gets Chance With Jack Sharkey Loughran Meets Boston Pug Sept. 26: Garden Drops Schmeling. BY FRANK GETTY United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK. A-lg. 8 - Max Schmeling has been turned loose by Madison Square Garden, the corporation w'hich had planned to match him with Jack Sharkey for the advertised heavyweight championship of the world. Instead of Schmeling. the next opponent of the Lithuanian vill be Tommy Loughran, present 175pound title holder, who will meet Sharkey in a fifteen-round bout at Yankee stadium. Sept. 26. The reason for the Garden’s action in abandoning Schmeling was that Max and his manager, Joe Jacobs, are flirting with an offer of $135,000 for the German to fight Jack Dempsey or another opponent at Agua Caliente, Mexico, on Thanksgiving day. Carey Becomes Aroused W. F. Carey, president of Madison Square Garden, w'as preparing, less than twenty-four hours ago, to take the Sharkey-Schmeling fight, barred in New York state by the local boxing commission, to Detroit. Several long distance telephone conversations with Jacobs, who is with Schmeling in Spokane, aroused Carey to realization that the German and his manager were not so anxious to go through with the Sharkey match as they had indicated earlier in the negotiations. Training Plans Loughran will surrender his light heavyweight championship next Tuesday and will go into training Sept. 1 at Harvey's Lake, Pa. Sharkey will train at Orangeburg, N. Y. if Jack Dempsey really intends to return to the ring, a bout between the former champion and Schmeling, even in Mexico, would outclass the engagement between Sharkey and Loughran.