Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1931 — Page 8

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Talking It Over BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, March 30.—1 don’t know what’s coming over me here lately. I almost went fishing with a fellow down in Florida a few weeks ago. And the other night, in a mind no more irrational than it usually Is, I went to see a ping pong match. I suppose the next tiling you hear 111 be sitting on a park bench feeding pigeons. And cooing at ’em. a a a StUl I’m not roillr In rath an awfoUr bad way after all I didn’t to fishing that time, and the nine oonr I raw was played In the third round of the men’s national single* championship. Guffaw that off. - Geoff cry. The men's national •ingles championship! a a a You see they’ve taken pine pone out of the sororities and made it over into a heman’s sport, teeming with virility, robustness and primitive emotion. Os course there mav be some who will argue that masculinity is not what it used to be back in the rugged pioneer times and that many strange trivalitles pass for he men's sport in this day and age. But aa to that I would not know. a a a I simply wish to report that the national ping ponr championship is in session In the ballroom of the Hotel Pennsylvania and that when I dropped in on the raring athletes, they were swattinr the little celluloid balls about with great earnestness and power, and at frequent intervals there would come from the gallery, grouped around the long row of green and white tables, ear-piercing shouts and booming salutes attesting both to high excitement and unstinted appreciation. ana To a number of people who may be heathens or scoffers, or both. I realize that whoopi.ig things up at a ping pong tournament is akin to tendering a thunderous ovation to a lady tight rope walker in the flea circus, but such blasphemy is Ignored by the true believes, the dyed in the wool, the blown in the bottle plngpongolst. a a a Hasn't It been that way down through the ages? Didn't they laugh at Fulton, sneer at Marconi, ridicule Edison and yell ‘Yoo Hoo" at the first bird that ever walked down Main street with a tennis racket or a golf bar. a a a “f\NE of these days they will be playing ping pong in the Yale bowl,” prophesied Leonard Hall, an authority on the subject of domestic pings and pongs. Some crude person, suspected of Harvardiar. leanings piped up to say he had been under the Impression that was all they ever played in the bowl, a remark that was promptly stricken from the records as irrelevant, unimportant and pretty sour, anyway.

xt an Tbe current tournament has ail the trappings and setting* of an authentic championship, including hish chair* in 'which elum faded referee* it and record the ecores, and a pres* box where bright •yonnr men smoke elgaret* and banftner away at typewriters. Anybody with a ping pong paddle—an instrument resembling a small sired waffle Iron—was eligible to enter, and the entrance fee was only sl. An added obligation was that all players had to wear colored shirts. It’s hard to follow the night -of the little white balls against a white shirt background. a st a One young man appeared In a white shirt on opening night. ‘'You can’t play with that on” the officials ruled. "What am I going to do. it’s the only shirt I’ve got.” he pleaded. And I am happy to say that in this tremendous crisis the spirit of tolerance and sympathetic understanding ruled. Johnny Layton Performs Here Johnny Layton, former threecushion billiard champion, opposed Harry Cooler this afternoon in the first of two exhibition contests at Cooler’s parlor. He will meet Harry Rubens in a fifty-point match at 8 p. m. tonight. Layton still is ranked as the best in the three-cushion billiard business. despite the recent loss of his crown.

Rookie Huriers May Shine in Spring, Vets Are Dependable

BY BABE RUTH ST, PETERSBURG, Fla., March 30.—1 t takes a training camp to make even a ball player realize what a difference there'is between young and old pitching. You see young fellows report when camp opens, get into shape quickly and show an amazing lot of speed or a wonderful curve. Then you hear that they have been sent back for more experience. Some of them you never hear about any more. The answer is that all the stuff in the world is no guarantee that a pitcher will make the big league grade. The woods are full of young pitchers who seem to have everything they need to win success. We had a fellow with us one time who had the greatest curve ball I have seen since I joined the Yankees, but it did him no good. He stuck around for awhile, then went back to the minors, came back again and finally was turned loose. He couldn’t control it and he did not know how to use it, anyway. It LOUGHRAN SEEKS BOUT Tommy Confers With Garden on Sharkey Scrap. By United Press NEW YORK, March 30.—Tommy Louglrran, who defeated Tuffy Griffith in Chicago Friday night for his seventh consecutive heavyweight victory of the year, was in New York today to confer with Madison Square Garden concerning a June match with Jack Sharkey. Loughran was knocked out by Sharkey in his first start as a heavyweight and is anxious for a second chance with the Boston sailor. HONOR NATE LEWIS By United Press CHICAGO, March 30.—Nate Lewis, matchmaker of the Chicago Stadium and for thirty years a figure in Chicago’s sporting world, will be guest of honor at a testimonial dinner Tuesday night at the Sherman hotel. Jack Dempsey and Max Schmeling are expected to attend along with many other sporting, theatrical, business and political leaders. Ax Attack Victim Dead By United Press HONOLULU, Territory Hawaii. March 30.—A triple funeral was planned today for Dudley W. Wallace, New York stockbroker, and his two sons, Dudley Jr., 13, and Donald, 9. Wallace attacked his sons with an ax. then shot himself with a rifle.

CARDINALS LATEST BIG LEAGUE VICTIM OF TRIBE

1 our Home Runs Help Indians Trounce Birds

Narlesky, Walker, Montague and Andrus Connect for Circuit in 12-to-3 Triumph Over National League Champs Sunday; Daney Shines. BY EDDIE ASH * Times Sports Editor SARASOTA, Fla., March 30.—Knocking over the big leaguers in Florida is a cinch for Johnny Corriden’s Indians, if you take the spring training statistics and sum up the figures. They have been doing verywell in the grapefruit league, and on Sunday the upset the dope by trouncing the St. Louis Cardinals, National League champions, 12 to 3.

The contest was staged in Sarasota and the Hoosiers were at their best on the home lot. It was a home run barrage with the Tribesmen doing all the shooting for distance, and they made the short right field fence appear as though it was just beyond second base. Narlesky, Walker, Montague and Andrus cleared the barrier with drives and the Cardinals were very much put out by the fact they were outhit, 15 to 7. Manager Gabby Street roared in his customary manner and there ,as no denying that he lost his pepper after the Indians rallied for eight runs in the second inning. Thirteen batsmen faced Paul Derringer in that stanza and the action was wild and wooly as the Corridenites walloped out hits that; meant runs. The big feature in that rally was Bill Narlesky’s home run with the bases loaded. Bill Burwell and Lee Daney operated on the mound for the Indians and the Cardinals scored in only the first and sixth rounds. Burwell was touched up rather lively at the start, but after four innings he retired with a big lead and turned the game over to Lee Daney, who proceeded to the mound and turned in

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a high class exhibition of twirling by allowing only two hits in five stanzas. The chief was at his peak of form and looked the part of the best hurler on the lot. The real Redskin fanned three in the five innings and retired the side in one-two-three order in three of the stanzas.

Eight League Presidents to Attend Rites By United Brett CLEVELAND, March 30.—Baseball leaders of the nation were assembling here today to pay final tribute to Ernest S. Barnard, late president of the American League and former president and secretary of the Cleveland Indians. Barnard’s body arrived here Sunday night from Rochester, Minn., where he died suddenly Friday. Funeral services are to be held here Tuesday afternoon at the Masonic Temple. The eight presidents of the American League will be pallbearers as will be K. M. Landis, commissioner of baseball; General Manager William Evens of the Cleveland Indians; Walter H. MachNicols, business manager of the Indians, and John A, Heydler, president of the National League. En Route to Spencer By United Press ST. LOUIS, March 30.—Accompanied by L. C. McEvoy, vice-presi-dent of the St. Louis Brown, the body of Byron Bancroft Johnson, founder and former president of the American League, today was en route to Spencer, Ind., for burial Wednesday. Johnson died here Saturday after a long illness. LOCAL NETTERS TRIUMPH By Times Special LOUISVILLE, March 30.—Indianapolis Athletic Club and Louisville University Club combined strength to defeat Pendennis and Wynn Stay clubs of Louisville in squash racquet matches here Saturday, 7 to 0.

w r as a pity that such a w’onderful curve got away. We have young fellows with the club who can throw faster and curve a lot better than Herb Pennock. But I guess they will be showing that speed and curve for some minor league club this summer while Herb will be winning games for the Yankees. IT is the same in every camp, I guess. The day we played the Cardinals in Bradenton I saw a couple of young pitchers who locked wonderful. Later when I was talking with some St. Louis veterans about their chances—and they surely expect to win—they did not mention these youngsters at all. They talked of what Grimes and Haines woulS' do and both o* them are old-timers. It takes years to learn pitching. Infielders, outfielders and catchers make the grade to the top much faster. Some of the best pitchers I have known were up and sent back three or four times before they finally got on to the tricks of the trade. We see it right along in the playing season. We face pitchers who haven’t near as much stuff as they had a few years back, and still they are’ harder to hit. They know how to pitch and what to do in a pinch. The young fellow with the great speed and the sharp curve blows up at the wrong time. I would say that the average pitcher has to be around the league four or five years before he really knows how to pitch. Now and then some young pitcher comes through fast and becomes a consistent winner, as Wes Ferrell of the Cleveland club has done in his first two seasons. But this is an exception. Most pitchers have a slow time getting near the top and holding a place up there.

Satisfied By Times Special Greensboro, n. c., March 30.—Connie Mack, here with his second Athletic team, was quick to deny a report that he would succeed the late Ernest S. Barnard as president of the American League. "With Mr. Barnard lying cold in death, I regret even to have to discuss the matter, but I am not a candidate for the office and neither would I accept the position were it offered to ire. The only position in baseball I want is the one I hold today.”

Eddie Montague looked better than Gelbert in the field and got three hits, but there’s no denying that Gelbert is the class in the short field. It was interesting, however, to watch Montague snare the ball in a style easier than the fashion of Rabbit Warstler. The contests Sunday probably broke a record for fast time for exhibition games in Florida. It was run off in one hour and nineteen minutes. * **s. > the Cardinal* substitutions. Gabby Street wanted to win and there was plenty of "singing” after the Derringer won many games xor Rochester last year. St. Louis news* paper men says the Cards were over conThe ebamos wiU get another chance at the Hoosiers Wednesday. According to conversation heard on the St. Louis bench, the Cardinals’ officials are very close to closing one of the biggest deals of baseball, a transaction that will bring Chuck Klein to St. Louis and send a flock of players to the Phillies.. The Cardinals’ officials refused to talk, but a prominent player said the deal is under way. Governor Harry G. Leslie of Indianapolis and Owner Norman A. Perry of the Indians and other Indianapolis vacationists will reach Indianapolis today. They left Sarasota Saturday night.

All Look Alike to Tribe

INDIANS .. , AB R H O A E Montague, is 5 2 3 0 4 0 Fitzgerald, cf 5 2 2 2 0 0 Monahan, lb 3 1 0 15 1 0 Walker rs 5 1 2 2 0 0 Koenecke. If 3 1 0 0 0 0 Narlesky. 3b 5 2 3 0 0 0 Andrus. 2b 4 12 16 0 Angley. c 3 1 2 3 1 0 Riddle, o 1 o 0 3 0 0 Burwell. o 3 1112 0 Daney. p 1 o 1 0 3 0 Totals 38 12 15 27 17 ~0 CARDINALS . ABRHOAE Martin, cf 3 1 1 1 0 0 Douthit. cf ......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 Watkins, rs 4 114 0 0 Frisch. 2b 3 1 1 0 0 0 High. 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 Bottomley. lb 3 0 011 1 0 Orsattl. If. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Hunt. If 10 12 0 0 Gelbert. ss 4 0 2 33 0 Deiker. 3b ;... 2 0 0 O 1 0 Adams. 3b 1 0 0 0 2 0 Wilson, c 2 0 1 1 1 o Mancuso. c 1 0 0 1 0 0 Derringer, p 2 0 0 0 3 0 Kaufmann. p 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals ...32 3 7 24 11 0 Cardinals 200 001 000— 3 Indianapolis 082 200 00*—12 Two-base hits—Martin. Frisch. Gelbert, Angley. Three-base hits—Fitzgerald, Watkins. Home runs—Narlesky. Walker. Andrus. Montague. Runs batted in—Frisch (2). Gelbert. Angley. Montague (2). Fitzgerald. Walker (3). Narlesky (4). Andrus. Double uiays—Angley to Monahan: Montague to Andrus to Monahan: Gelbert to Bottomley. Base on balls—Off Burwell. 1; off Derringer. 3: off Kaufmann. 1. Struck out—By Burwell. 2! by Derringer, 1: by Daney. 3. Hits—Off Derringer. 14 in 5 innings: off Kaufman. 1 in 3 Innings; off Burwel. 5 in 4 innings: off Daney. 2 in 5 innings. Left on bases—St .Louis, 3: Indianapolis. 6. Time—l:l9. Umpires—McGrew and Kopshaw.

Ft. Wayne Shooters Cop State Indoor Honors

By United Press CULVER, Ind., March 30.—Ft. Wayne shooters captured a majority of awards at the annual indoor event of the Indiana national guard and Indiana State Rifle Association, firing at the Culiver Military academy galleries Saturday. The Ft. Wayne club led with a score of 918 in the civilian class rifle team match. Culver Military academy No. 3 was second with 910 and the Hoosier Rifle Club No. 2, Indianapolis, was third with 896. In the pistol team match Ft. Wayne No. 1 scored 413 for first place, outscoring Hoosier Rifle Club by a single point, and was second. HOLD HOCKEY EDGE By United Press NEW YORK, March 30.—Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks today held the upperhand in the Stanley cup playoffs for the hockey championship of the world. Canadiens, leading two games to one in their best there-out-of-five series with the Boston Bruins need but to win on their home ice tonight to insure their presence in the final round. Blackhawks took a commanding lead over the New York rangers in their semi-final two-game series by winning, 2 to 0, in Chicago Sunday night. KOZELUH TRIPS TIL DEN By Times Special BERKELEY, Cal., March 30. Karel Kozeluh, Czech pro tennis star, defeated Bill Tilden for the third time in seventeen starts, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2, here Sunday. 33 ENTER MEET BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 30. —Entries for the first annual indoor track and field meet to be held under direction of the I. H. S. A. A., here Saturday, have been received from thirty-three schools. 86 G** ID MEN RE T Eighty-six grid aspirants answered Coach Lon Goldsberry’s first call for football at Shortridge Thursday, lour lettermen, Mann, Kesselgrave, P rid win and Captain Thompson retorted. Spring workouts will begin on Monday, April 6, after spring vacation.

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Others May Doubt It, But Harris Believes His Tigers Title Threat

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Editor’s Note—This Is the srrenth of a series dealing with 1931 prospects of the various major league baseball clubs. • .■■■■■■ NEW YORK, March 30.—The rest of the world may not share his belief, but Buck Harris, dynamic manager of the Detroit Tigers, is confident he has a first division club and one which will make a determined bid for the 1931 American League pennant. The youthful boss of the Tigers, whose teams finished sixth and fifth, respectively, since he took

Sarazen, Golden Battle for Links Money Winning Honors

By United Press AUGUSTA, Ga., March 30. America’s winter golf caravan stopped here today for the $5,000 Southeastern open, which drew more than a hundred stars for the seventy-tw r o-hole medal play. Gene Sarazen, Great Neck, L. 1., who won the recent $15,000 La Gorce open at Miami Beach, and Johhny Golden, co-victor in the $25,000 Agua Caliente classic, were among the starters. Between them they are expected

Women’s Golf Event Carded By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 30. Tournament dates of interest to Indiana women golfers were announced today by Mrs. J. E. Neff, South Bend, member of the executive committee of the Women’s Western Golf Association. The schedule: Women’s western open championships for all women players from public and private courses with handicaps of fourteen or less. Midlothian Country Club. Chicago. June 22 to 26. Women’s Western Junior championship. LaGrange Country Club. Lagrange. XL.. July 27 to 31. Women’s Western championship. Exmoor Country Club. Chicago. Aug. 25 to 30. Women’s Western 72-hoie medal play, Derby. Wanakaha Country Club. Buffalo. N. Y.. Sspt. 14 to 16. Women’s national championship, Buffalo. Sept. 21 to 27. Heavy Title Scrap Talked By United Press CHICAGO, March 30.—Developments are expected this week in the proposed heavyweight title bout between Max Schmeling and Young Stribling. William Carey, president of Madison Square Garden, and Damon Runyon, matchmaker for the New York milk fund, were expected here today to look over Chicago as a site for the bout. Joe Jacobs, manager of Schmeling, also was due here to confer with Carey and Runyon. June 19 has been the date tentatively agreed for the match. CAPTURE CAGE CROWNS City Free-Throw Champs Are Named in Tourney, City free throw champions were crowned in the second annual city tourney at Brookside Saturday. Richard Dununger of Rhodius won senior honors with 27 in thirty-five attempts. Sidney Levi of Kirshbaumn was second with 26. Ray Kirkman caged 30 out of thirty-five to win junior honors. Harry Dible of Englsh was second with 28. Approximately 300 competed, with gold and silver medals going to the winners.

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Mohicans are ready to schedule games in the 16-year-o!d class. Call Cherry 0984-J. between 6 and 8 p. m.. ask for Ralph Elers. KOKOMO —Kingston A. C.. 1930 seml?ro champs of Kokomo, will put another ast nine on the diamond this season, playing all home games on Sunday and traveling on holidays. Kingston club will open the first Sunday in May at their new park here. Past clubs desiring games, including the opener, write George L. Doyle. 1313 North Armstrong street. Kokomo. BASKETBALL NOTES English Avenue Boys’ Club Midgets defeated Station Y. 33 to 9. in a fast game to bring their season's record to fortythree wins in forty-four starts. For games in the 12-to-16-year-old class, call Drexel 4647. ROLLER POLO VICTORS In one of the fastest roller polio tilts ever seen here, All-Stars defeated Riversides for the OhioIndiana championship, 14 to 12. The score was tied three times. Team work and defensive play of the Stars featured, with Roy Jennings and Elmer Lombard performing best for the losers.

charge in 1929, Is certain the club will move up to bigger and better things. Harris’ optimism has been increased by the team’s performance in spring exhibition games. With the exception of seven games in San Francisco when Bucky used pitchers borrowed from Beaumont of the Texas League, the club walked through their Coast and National League opposition. The Tiger’s main strength lies In their pitching staff of Whitehill, Sorrell, Hoyt, Uhle and Bridges.

to settle finally the 1931 big money winner, with Sarazen now in the lead with more than SB,OOO, while Golden has passed $7,000. All of the other headliners, including Horton Smith, who won the first prize in this event last year, although Bobby Jones won the medal, were included. The lowest sixty cards and ties in today’s thirty-six holes of play will continue on for the final thirty-six holes Tuesday.

Big League Camp Mews

SUNDAY EXHIBITION SCORES Atlanta ISA). 1: New York (A). 0. Cleveland (A). 7: Louisville (AA). 1. Philadelphia (A). 12: Jacksonville (SL), 2. New York (N). 15; Chicago (A). 8. Boston (N). 9; Cincinnati (N), 3. Brooklyn (N). 12; Toledo (AA). 11. St. Louis (A). 10; Buffalo UL). 5. Indianapolis (AA). 12: St. Louis (N). 3. Washington (A). 11: Baltimore (IL). 4. By United Press FT WORTH, Tex., March 30.—New New York Giants and Chicago White Sox met here today in the ninth game of their exhibition series. The Giants, thanks to a 15-to-8 victory Sunday, lead five games to three. Out of respect to the memory of Ban Johnson and Ernest Barnard, the games scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday have been canceled. 9 9 9 AUBURN. Ala., March 30.—The PhiUtes engaged the Alabama Polytechnic nine here today. The Phillies have but two more stops before reaching home. Asheville, N. C.. and Chattanooga, Tenn. 9 9 9 BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March SO.—Fresh from a 1 to 0 whitewashing by the Atlanta Crackers of tbe Southern Association, the New York Yankees arrived here today for an exhibition game with the Birmingham Barons, NEW ORLEANS, March 30.—Joe Vosmik sensational rookie outfielder, seems destined to land a regular job with the Cleveland Indians. The Rookie, who has been hitting at a fast clip all spring, was the batting star of the game Sunday in which the Indiana defeated the Louisville Colonels of the American Association 7 to 1,

MIAMI. Fla.. March 30.—Brooklyn Robins were en rente to Macon. Ga., today where they will drop half a dozen or more recruits. Tenth inning singles, by Warner. Boone and Cohen enabled the National leaguers to defeat the Toledo Mudhens, 13 to 11. here Sunday. TAMPA. Fla.. March 30.—The Cincinnati Reds closed the Florida end of their exhibtion game season here Sunday by losing to the Boston Braves. 9 to 3. LOS ANGELES,*March 30.—Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs open a three-day exhibition seiies here today, after which Chicago "rill play two games each with the Los Angeles Angels and Hollywood stars, winding up the spring training season here, Pittsburgh, after dropping three in a row to the Detroit Tigers, came back to win, 4 to 3, in their final ga me Sunday. George Grantham’s home run in the third inning was the deciding hit. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 30.—Brilliant fielding by Rabbit Warstler, the young shortstopper* who came up from Indianapolis to finish the 1930 season with the Red Sox, featured Boston’s 6 to 2 win over Chattanooga here Sunday. MacFayden and Wiley Moore turned in stellar mound performances. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.. March 30. St. Louis Browns wound up their Florida series with a record of nine victories and four defeats bv trouncing BuCaio Bisons here Sunday. 10 to 5. George Blaeholder. Brownie right-hander, celebrated his last day in camp bv poling a homer with two on in the second. Lin Stortl, infielder, also homered with one on. a a a JACKSONVILLE. Fla_. March 30.—The world champion Philadelphia Athletic* beat Jacksonville, 12 to 2. here Sunday. Lefty Grove cut loose and pitched five hltless innings, which included nine strikeouts. SAN FRANCISCO, March 30.—Chicago’!'. Cub 6 broke even in their last two tilts here Sunday, defeating San Francisco Missions of the Pacific Coast League in the afternoon, 13 to 3. after dropping a morning engagement to the Seals. 5 to 3. a a a GULFPORT. Miss.. March SO.—Washington’s Senators, pounded out an 11-to-4 triumph over Baltimore Orioles hers Sunday. Rookie Tanscher laid the Orioles to fo&r hits sad no runs in-five Inniaga.

Supporting this main cast are Sullivan, Cantrell, Hogsett, Herring and Wyatt. These men form a staff of quality and quant ty and Harris is quoted as saying he wouldn’t swap it for any in the league. The Detroit infield will consist of Alexander at first; Gehriner at second; Akers at shortstop, and McManus on third. If McManus is not ready to start because of a leg operation, Marvin Owen, a rookie with but four months professional experience, will play third. The tiger outfield will see four recruits in action. Shiver, Doljack, and the spectacular Walker brothers. With the regulars, Roy Johnson and Johnny Stone, they will form two sets of outfielders, one for left-handed pitching, one for right-handed. The veteran Wallle Schang and John Grabowski have added a world of strength to the Detroit catching department. Schang is in perfect shape and has been fielding and hitting at a remarkable pace.

Jones, Diegel Lose Match By United Press AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, March 30.—Robert Tyre Jones, champion golfer, and Leo Diegel, professional at the Agua Caliente course, lost Sunday to Mortie Dutra, Lang Beach, Cal., and George Von. Elm, 1 up, in a charity match. Dutra shot a 70, one under par, and was largely responsible for the defeat of Jones, who carded 72. Von Elm turned in a 70 score and Diegel, on his own course, shot a 77. Women Start Links Battle By Times Special PINEHURST, N. C., March 30. Play opened today in the women’s north and south golf championship minus the defending champion, Glenna Collett, and Helen Hicks, the young Long Island ace. Virginia Van Wie and Maureen Orcutt topped a brilliant field which started on the qualifying round. Wiffy Cox, brilliant Brooklyn pro, won the men’s crown Saturday by defeating Joe Tumesa in a playoff after they had finished the seventy-three holes tied at 288. They split $2,500 prize money. Four Bouts on Montana, Beers, Card Tonight Four bouts will top the weekly wrestling program to be staged at Tomlinson hall tonight by Promoter Jimmie McLemore. The bill will get under way at 8:30. Bull Montana, ugly man of thtf movies and a leading light heavyweight wrestler, will appear in the feature event for the best two of three falls against Coach Leslie (Red) Beers of Purdue. Three supporting bouts made up of main event performers will round out the bill. Merle Dolby, former mat coach of Ohio State university, meets Don Cortez, Spaniard, who lost to Jack Reynolds last week. Jack Domar will oppose Jimmie Chanos and George (Grandpa) Baltzer will tackle Charlie Bobo, local heavy'. FUQUA BREAKS MARK By United Press BLOOMINGTON, March 30.—A track record of 50.8 seconds held by Jack Wilson, Notre Dame, at the Indiana university fieldhouse fort the 440-yard dash, was broken Saturday by Ivan Fuqua, former Brazil high school star, now running on the I. U. freshman team. Fuqua made the quarter mile in 50.6 seconds. Divich, of Gary, made anew freshman record when he > pole vaulted 12 feet, 6 inches. FROEBEL THINLIES WIN By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 30. Froebel of Gary won the invitational high school track meet Saturday at the Notre Dame fleldhouse here. Froebel scored 47% points by taking five first places, three second places and three third places. Emerson of Gary, with 231-5 points, was second and Technical of Indianapolis was third with 23 points. . Twelve schools competed.

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Baseball Loses Two Leaders in Few Hours Death for Ban Johnson Comes as Merciful End L Unceasing Pain and Hopeless Struggle; Barnard Expires at Height of Career. BY JOE WILLLAMS New York World-Telegram Sports Editor NEW YORK. March 30.—Their lives inseparably intertwined, their destinies ultimately one, Byron Bancroft Johnson and Ernest S. Bernard died within a few hours of each other. For Johnson the final moment came as a merciful end to pain unceasing and a struggle which, for months, liad been hopeless. For Barnard death was as sudden as it was shocking to his friends. He had the unwavering confidence of his club owners They had voted him anew tenure of five years, with the assurance that in reality the office of president of the American League was to be his for life. It was Barnard passed out Friday in the final full flush of success, with many interesting plans before him. His friends were numerous, his enemies practically nonexistant. Johnson said good-by Saturday, almost forgotten. Even those whom he had befriended and put on their feet in baseball had neglected him. The American League, which he organized and nursesd through years of uncertainty, had yet to make recognition of the fact.

For years Ban Johnson was the American League. When in full stride, he overshadowed every other one person ever connected with the sport. He was a strange character. He started out to be a lawyer, turned to writing of the game he loved and knew so well, and became the outstanding figure in it. That sharp forcefulness of speech and action in later years became a baffled, beaten irascibility which fought off sympathy, and left Johnson brooding over the past in an angry lonesomeness. Built $25,000 Crypt As he lingered over the triumphs of other years, and the ingratitude of the present, he gave a thought ip the future. Several years ago he built, near his rural home at Spencer, Ind., a $25,000 mausoleum for Mrs. Johnson and himself. To this cold granite crypt, which on Wednesday will become his home everlasting, Ban made periodical visits. There he would sit for hours, the old storm petrel at peace. The grand disdainful gesture of Johnson’s career came in the fall of 1927, when he resigned the league presidency, and turned the office over to Frank Navin, Tom Shibe, Bob Quinn and Clark Griffith. At t meeting here the year previous, Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Griffith tried to get him to step down. They told him the league would take care of his salary, and advised him to go on a tour for the remainder of his term. “When I quit, I’ll quit, and I won’t want any of your money,” he shouted. He was placated, and induced to take a leave of absence. Ruppert and others were alarmed over his health at the time. 1 am no Pensioner* When Johnson turned in his resignation in 1927, he tossed away $320,000 with a scribble of a pen. He had eight years to go at $40,000

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a year. It was merciful to force him to retire, but he couldn't see it that way. “I am no pensioner,” he said. As he surveyed his office for the last time. The old fighter was beaten. His voice quivered. “What I do not earn, I do not want.” Barnard, whom he brought into the sport and who turned out to be his successor, also was a genius in baseball. He lacked Johnson’s showmanship and flare for the spectacular, but in him was found a combination of executive, rules expert and public relations man which baseball too seldom develops. His was an exemplary viewpoint which took cognizance not only of the owner, but of the players and the public. Only recently he exposed the “new” ball hoax, and pressed his crusade for screening the stands. “I believe IH put it over yet,” ho laughed. But the game has been called—by darkness. Risko Choice Over Poreda By United Proet NEW YORK, March 30.—Stanley Poreda. New Jersey’s current heavyweight "hope,” will make his first start against a big-timer tonight when he meets Johnny Risko of Cleveland in a scheduled ten-round bout in Madison Square Garden. Poreda, a strapping youngster with plenty of punch, has lost but once in his twenty-five professional starts, and is rated by many as the most promising heavyweight youngster in the country. Despite Poreda’s youth and strength, Risko i§ an 8-to-5 favorite.